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GDI

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The Global Defense Initiative (GDI) is an open organization dedicated to the protection of our members. As a member of GDI, you will receive the protection of GDI forces. No country more than twice your size or less than half your size will be able to [[attack]] you without first formally [[declaring war]]. However, we require your assistance in return. You will be required to pay a certain amount of [[money]] per acre of [[land]] you own to the GDI fund as long as you are in GDI; the amount of money per acre per turn is dependent upon the specific [[servers|game server]] that the country is on. In addition, you will not be allowed to commit [[attacking|offensive]] acts against [[countries]] greater than twice your size or smaller than half your size. You cannot join the GDI unless you have not made an attack for at least 18 hours.

After the minimum membership, you may leave us at any time. However, once you do, you will not be readmitted for 72 hours.

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Retal policies

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Category:Illuminati X Members

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Former members of the [[Illuminati X]] alliance.

Xerglacia

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Also known as the Binary Commando, is former and final president of IX. Named after the BC state bird "The big cocked nightingale". Runs too much. Gets attacked by numerous indigenous birds in his area for being too active. Makes soccer games or something. Will be off the market in Oct. of 2010. In which he will not be inviting [[ZEN]] because of obvious debauchery and utensil throwing reasons. Plays in Team with [[Female Body Inspectors|FBI]]. Kicks people in the face.

Prankster

2011-06-23T23:00:26Z

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Warrior

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Kaiser

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Floyd

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Angelous

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Angelous, also known as Angy or Stewy, was the eighth President of the [[IX|Illuminati X]], first serving from 2004-2005 and again in 2007. He also served as Illuminati X Head of Foreign Affairs (2004-2005), [[SOL]] Commander of Foreign Affairs (2005-2006) under the "Stewy" alias, and as Vice President of the Illuminati X (2007).

==Early career==

Angelous joined the Illuminati X in early 2002 after playing some time with the Sons of Liberty. Angelous rose up the IX ranks quickly and became a prominent Officer of Foreign Affairs by 2004. At this time he was also advising [[Militia X]] on foreign affairs. Angelous was later named Head of Foreign Affairs that year.
==First presidency==

Angelous eventually became the eighth President of the Illuminati X, succeeding [[de1i]] in December 2004. Angelous served as an external president along with co-president [[DTA]], who handled internal duties. Angelous served in this office from December 1, 2004, to June 3, 2005.

Angelous was first responsible for organizing the successful Seventh IX-SOL War immediately after IX's two consecutive defeats in the Stooges War and World War IX.

Angelous then worked at gaining allied support for IX and establishing a coalition. He was able to lure MD, PDM, and SoF from supporting ARROW and SOL, and getting them to create a new coalition. This coalition formed during the spring of 2005 just as Angelous was planning a massive war against [[ARROW]] and SOL in reprisal for World War IX. Angelous and his allies then started World War X in April 2005. Project Arcturus won a crushing victory against the ARROW/SOL bloc.

However, Angelous was forced to step down from the IX presidency in the first days of June 2005. He mistakenly sent a message to the membership of IX which showed him coordinating the running of a few multies with another IX player. President DTA removed his account soon after and [[Floyd]] and [[Kaiser]] became co-presidents in July 2005.

==Stewy of SOL==
Angelous continued having a considerable effect on Earth politics by playing his hand at running wars and affecting pacting schemes with his own political clout. Most notably, he did this by using his "Stewy" alias and becoming the Foreign Relations Commander of SOL during the fall of 2005, at a crucial time in which IX and SOL became allied. He also returned to IX as a presidential advisor to Floyd and Kaiser in the fall of 2005. Angelous continued playing as "Stewy" in SOL and advising in IX for nearly a year until he retired again in October 2006. At that point he disclosed on Alliance Talk that Stewy was his alias.

==Return to IX leadership==
Angelous returned to active IX duty in February 2007, becoming Vice President of IX under presidents Floyd and [[Warrior]]. His co-Vice President was Duque. Angy assisted President Floyd during this time in the execution of the Axis Wars. However, IX was defeated in both the Second and the Third Axis Wars of the spring and early summer of 2005.

==Second presidency==
President Warrior retired in April 2007 and Floyd eventually appointed Angelous co-President of IX on June 26, 2007. Angelous then worked with Floyd at reversing the course of the Axis Wars and was able to turn the tide for IX with a victory in the Fourth Axis War. Floyd then retired in August 2007 and Angelous appointed his former co-president DTA as Floyd's replacement. Angelous eventually retired in November 2007 after the Axis Wars had been won.
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Serpentor

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De1i

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de1i was the seventh President of the Illuminati X in 2004. He also served as Officer of Foreign Affairs (2001-2003), Head of Foreign Affairs (2003), and Vice President of the Illuminati X (2003). de1i has been retired from leadership since late 2004.
==Early IX career==

de1i joined the Illuminati X in the summer of 2000. During that time he went up the ranks, despite being expelled from the alliance briefly during 2001. de1i returned and soon after became an FA officer. In fact, de1i served as the longest-running FA officer in IX history from 2001-2004, working as FA in over a dozen sets before taking on higher presidential office. He also took time to lead divisions such as Division X and Maelstrom during 2001-2002, and served as External Vice President of IX during the reign of President Mega in 2003.
==Presidency==

President Mega stepped down in January 2004 and appointed de1i and Serpentor External and Internal Presidents respectively. On his first set as president, de1i faced the daunting task of leading IX during and after the ILS Gangbang of February 2004. His steadfast demeanor during the crisis won him the respect of many in IX. His political maneuverings also permitted IX to escape disaster and establish an allied base with which to fight the Lovehouse Wars. de1i then became the sole President of IX when Serpentor retired in April 2004. de1i was thus responsible for preparing IX's revenge against the ARROW/SOL forces in the early summer of 2004.

His campaigns were successful in the period from April to July 2004, when IX took control of the Lovehouse Wars. He first organized the defeat of the entire ARROW/SOL bloc in the TIS War, and then had IX crush ARROW in their fifth war. However, de1i could not actively lead after July 2004, and IX's campaigns during the period of August to November 2004 suffered as a consequence. This was exemplied by back-to-back defeats in the Second IX-UCN War and in World War IX, which gave temporary momentum to the ARROW/SOL bloc.

President de1i could not continue leading on an active basis and stepped down in November 2004. He appointed Angelous and DTA his succesors.
==Retirement==

de1i has remained retired since December 2004, but has occasionaly advised presidents. In retirement, de1i received the title of Illuminatus and was inducted into the Illuminated Hall in December 2005, a recognition given in honor of his many years of distinguished service and leadership in IX.

Mega

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Scarface

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'''Player''': Scarface

'''AKA''':

'''History'''

Could an old [[EoS]]/[[IX]] please write a history here.

'''Achievements'''

1a (Alliance) - Finished Top Ten 3 times.
Tourny A- Won 2 times
1b Finished Top Ten 3 Times.

'''Alliances'''

[[SHIELD]]

[[EoS]]

[[LaF]]

[[IX]]

'''Leadership, founded Alliances, or Head Positions'''

EoS - Founder

LaF - Advisor

IX - Co-Founder

Duque

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Duque is an IX field marshal who was the third President of the Illuminati X from 2002 to 2003. He is the current Vice President of the Illuminati X, since March 2007. Duque also served as EoS Head of War (1999), Don of La Famiglia (2000), and Illuminati X Head of War (2000-2002).

==Early days==

Duque began playing in Scarface's EoS alliance during 1998 and became that alliance's Head of War. Fighting and leading in failed campaigns against SOL and UCN, Duque learned the basics of war-leading which he would use superbly in the future.

Duque joined LaF after EoS collapsed in the spring of 1999. There he went up the ranks and eventually reigned as Don of LaF for several resets in the spring and summer of 2000. His LaF was aggressive and participated against SOL in the Elitez-SOL War of 2000. Duque then stepped down from the presidency of LaF and joined the rising IX.
==Early IX days==

Duque became a co-Head of War in IX along with Tbody and led several important campaigns in the Legacy and . He again served as a war leader under President DTA in the fall of 2001, speerheading IX's efforts in World War VI. Duque also worked a de facto vice president under the reigns of DeityLord and DTA.
== Presidency==

He was finally asked to lead IX once President DeityLord stepped down in February 2002 and left the alliance. Duque became President of the Illuminati X in March 2002, along with co-President Scarface. Duque immediately worked to establish IX as a superpower and contender for top alliance, defeating RAGE, SOL and Ragnarok in the First LCN-SOL War. Duque then led IX's war efforts during the First Ivy League War, where IX and the rest of the Ivy League coalition defeated the anti-coalition.

In August 2002, IX won the total networth title and Duque and Scarface shifted IX away from The Ivy League. Duque finally pitted IX against the Ivy League by leading a then record-setting attack against PDM during the Second Ivy League War of late 2002. IX joined the anti-coalition and eventually defeated TIL, later becoming a key integrant of the new NATO coalition that formed after the war. Duque then led IX's defense against bots and campaigned IX to victory in the NATO War of February-March 2003. Scarface retired in March 2003 and Duque continued as sole president.

Duque ultimately stepped down from the presidency in May 2003. Mega succeeded him.
==Comebacks==

Duque took a break from the game in 2003 but later returned as a presidential advisor to Mega in late 2003. He also played as a veteran in 2004 and advised President de1i.

Duque returned to leading in major campaigns during 2004 and early 2005, advising many new war leaders of the War Department and being instrumental for the IX cause in conflicts such as World War IX. For those and past services, Duque was given the title of Field Marshal of the Illuminati X, the highest military rank in IX, on February 2005. He also continued his advising services to Presidents Angelous and DTA into 2005.

Duque went on hiatus at the start of Floyd and Kaiser's reign in August 2005. He received the title of Illuminatus and was inducted into the Illuminated Hall in December 2005, a recognition given in honor of his many years of distinguished service and leadership in IX.

Duque returned once again in December 2006 to advise President Warrior. He also took a more active role in IX's wars of late 2006 and early 2007, serving as a field commander in the Fifth IX-SoF War, the IX-IVAN War, and the First Axis War.
==Vice presidency==

Duque was named Vice President of IX on March 13, 2007, marking his return to leadership four years after his prior retirement from leadership. Duque has since then been a major IX military leader during 2007, serving in the Second, Third, and Fourth Axis Wars, as well as the friendly Eleventh IX-SOL War. He has provided policy support to presidents Floyd, Angelous, DTA and Prankster.

Death to All

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DTA, also known as Death to All, was the second President of the Illuminati X, reigning in 2001, from 2004 to 2005, and again in 2007. He also served as Head of Internal Affairs (2000-2001, 2004) and Vice President of the Illuminati X (2004).

==Early leadership==

DTA was an original member of the Illuminati X upon their formation in March 2000. He quickly established himself as an internal leader of the alliance and became IX's first Head of Internal Affairs under President DeityLord. During his tenure, IX went from an original 60 members in early 2000 to a stronger 150 members in early 2001. IX also became a great power contender and a major fighter in the Alliance Server.
==First presidency==

President DeityLord retired in mid-September 2001 and handed the reigns of the alliance to new President DTA. DTA was a transitional president at the time, meanwhile new foreign-minded leadership developed. However, DTA faced a serious task one month after taking office when ARROW attacked IX in October 2001 and started World War VI. IX was hit hard by ARROW and SOL during October and November of 2001 and yet was able to regroup and fight back thanks to DTA's internal organization. IX did not win the war, but DTA was successful in keeping IX in a solid position during both a transitional phase and world war. DTA stepped down from the presidency at the beginning of December 2001 and DeityLord returned for one final set as president.
==Lust venture==

DTA became an advisor to President DeityLord followig his one set as president. In early 2002, DTA also became active in the planning The Lust, a new alliance [[DeityLord]] was creating. DeityLord stepped down as President of the Illuminat X in February 2002 and announced his retirement from the game. Alena and DTA also announced their retirement with DeityLord's. However, DTA and the former IX leaders reappeared in the summer of 2002 as leaders in Lust. DTA was an Internal Affairs officer and worked with the new alliance's organization. Nonetheless, his tenure there proved short-lived, as DTA soon left Lust and took a long break from the game. It is notable that DTA kept his good standing with IX despite his Lust venture, in comparison to DeityLord, whose fights with Duque and Scarface made him an unwanted person in IX.
==Return to leadership==

DTA reappeared in the fall of 2003 and rejoined IX. Mega was President of IX and invited DTA to join IX leadership. DTA accepted and became Head of Internal Affairs by early 2004. President de1i then appointed DTA as the new Internal Vice President of IX during the fall of 2004.
==Second presidency==

President [[de1i]] retired in November 2004 and named DTA and Angelous his successors. DTA became Internal President and Angelous External President. IX had suffered consecutive military and political setbacks in the fall 2004 campaigns of the Lovehouse Wars, and Angelous and DTA went to work to turn the tide in IX's favor.

DTA sought to strengthen IX's internal structures and re-emphasized the chain of command within departments. DTA eventually increased membership to 180 players and helped continue IX's streak as the most powerful alliance of the time. DTA's strengthening of IX also paid off militarily since it helped IX win a hard-fought seventh war with SOL, and later World War X, the war that decisively ended the Lovehouse Wars.

A cheating scandal forced Angelous to resign and leave IX in early June 2005. DTA became sole president and he sought to reorganize IX around Floyd and Kaiser, who he appointed Vice Presidents days after Angelous' departure. DTA permitted these two new leaders to run IX's affairs during the June-July 2005 reset meanwhile he planned to step down.

DTA retired on July 20, 2005 and named Floyd and Kaiser Presidents of IX. DTA later received the title of Illuminatus and was inducted into the Illuminated Hall in December 2005, a recognition given in honor of his many years of distinguished service and leadership in IX.
==Third presidency==

DTA advised presidents Floyd, Kaiser, Warrior, and Angelous from the summer of 2005 until the summer of 2007. Angelous and Floyd were co-presiding IX in August 2007. However, Floyd was on his way to retirement and he eventually stepped down on August 19, 2007. Consequently, Angelous asked DTA to return to leadership and be his co-president. DTA accepted and on August 20, 2007 became President of IX for a third time.

DTA retired from the presidency on December 17, 2007 and appointed Prankster as his successor.

Deity

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'''Player''': Deity

'''AKA''': DeityLord, DL, That asian dude

'''History''':
To be completed...

'''Achievements''':
To be completed...

'''Alliances''':
RAGE, WOG, IX

'''Leadership, founded Alliances, or Head Positions''':
To be completed...

DeityLord was the founder and President of the Order of Druids, the founder and President of Wrath of God, a President of the Cryptic Monks (2000), the first President of the Illuminati X (2000-2001, 2001-2002), and the founder and sole President of Lust (2002-2003). DeityLord also served as Head of War for Omega (2004-2005) and Head of War (2006-2007) for RAGE.

The following is an autobiography by DeityLord, written September 2, 2000.
==The Crash and Burns==

My first reset in Earth 1A began in the fall of '98 where I joined my first alliance ICNxTGA and met my first few friends there. Even with a years worth of previous experience playing this game, I was very much in awe of the 1A environment and I quickly became attached to its atmosphere. William and TheDog were amoung the first few people I enjoyed playing with, along with my leader Crash whom made my stay in ICN enjoyable. But naturally in my youth, my ebullience would prove to be more deceitful than beneficial to my alliance. I asked Crash for his approval to lead a division. I was discontent with the inactivity of the alliance and chipping in seemed like the right thing to do. After 3 weeks past, with still the indecision to remodel teams, assign leaders, and take an active role in leading the alliance, my childish, teenage nature turned me in the direction of SOL; I was invited to join SOL in one of the war chats against RD that reset.

==The Fighter Kindled - SOL==

SOL was the alliance that bred my fighting nature. Being around the jokesters such as Banks, Wanderer, Steam Cat and the quiet KFC made this alliance enjoyable, attacking the enemy 10 - 20 times a day while incorporating SOL's ideals into my Earth religion. Aside of having laughs, killing countries, spamming the boards and making friends, by far, the most priceless friendship gained in SOL was with Crusader.... us hitherto, running around 1A like two mischievious brats that have never found the hidden cookies marked on the treasure map. With the reset drawing near, Banks expressed a novel idea for a fighting division outside the SOL tag. In reality, this division was the Clowns division within SOL. NorCal and Al-Man's presence played an important part in the next couple of events that would have changed history had they not stepped in. Banks was offered the job War Minister of SOL - a job that divorced Banks from Clowns. Under no circumstance was Banks allowed to be SOL's War Minister and also the leader of Project Clowns. The cards were dealt, and I decided to create the new alliance, OD (Order of Druids) with the help of Wanderer.

==Order of Druids==

So here it was, the villian's big chance to lead an alliance. I contacted all those I could on my contact list (very little at the time) and made as many friends as possible. The two SOL branch off's became good friends and allies which will result in the OD/UBN war vs SOL later on. In OD, I filled my lungs the first breathes of being an alliance leader. Roughly 50 members strong, I was very happy and grateful of what was amassed - but in a short period of time. In OD, the word "loyalty" suddenly slapped me in the face. The Loyalty to friends, but by far, the loyalty to those that played along-side me was what drove me to work hard as a leader and devote all my spare time to. I worked hard for the next couple of months training as many people as I knew how to and keeping the peace, all until the OD/UBN vs SOL war. Axil (known as UBer Mute) was accused of spying on SOL while also holding the position of War Minister in UBN (United Brotherhood of Nations). He was also accused of leaking important info to SOL's enemies at the time, LaF in particular. Myself and Wyeme spent hours trying to rectify the situation with SOL, all to no avail. Wyeme, as many of you know, is very protective of his members and sought to protect Axil - (SOL's stance was to either kill Axil's country ourselves or they would do it for us.) I committed to Wyeme in this dilemma and the decision was made to attack or be attacked; OD/UBN launched the first attacks on SOL shortly after SOL's stand on the issue. SOL called in several allies and OD/UBN were crushed. The Druids started to leave, many of them leaving for the new alliance MD that had made an impressive debut in the community.
==reGrouping the Druids==

I asked the remnants of OD to regroup in TIE. In his era, Inferno commanded my respect for what he stood for, and by leading the strongest outcast alliance there was at the time (under no coalition). Those that came with me into TIE as a division were called the "Elite Royal Guards".

* Diamond Dog
* dirty Dog
* Baby Blue
* Guardian
* Rock
* FobBoy
* TheDog
* Vince
* T Bone
* Crazy Horse
* Midie
* Absolute
* Pringle
* Blade
* LoD

Some of these people seem familiar (especially without their makeup on). The Dogs came from CF - the alliance taken over by Lord Detritus, and were my closer friends at the time. Diamonddog and Dirtydog asked a lot of questions and kept me active in teaching and all was going well until TIE got smashed by HAN's first strike. Our group of 16 were by far the most active hitters, successfully penetrating HAN countries and attacking with twice the effort of the rest of the TIE divisions (we followed our own attack strategy). The main TIE strategy was very weak at the time - attack top 10 HAN countries until they drop rank. Not only did 100% of those attacks on HAN's top countries fail, but the military losses had seemingly no effect on the HAN. Top HAN countries would grab TIE acres and increase their land and their military by cashing at the same time, gaining positive millions of networth instead of the contrary. Overall, TIE lost the most that reset, and fell into a severe setback - no longer one of the top 3 contenders as best alliance.
[edit] Birth of WoG

After TIE, I found myself as a ronin. I met up with Crusader that reset and our friends came to MD's front poarch. I compare MD to my 5 hour long programming classes - but what they teach you there is beautiful. - Discipline - - Netgaining - - Dedication - - Networking - , were the skills I reformed myself with and worked on to improve. A reset later, I had fled my classes in MD to meet up with my friends again "Clowns". Banks was back in control and his dreams came true. No longer was he limited to what he could or couldn't do and I was very happy for him. Banks also met up with the "Dogs" earlier and they were also in Clowns upon my arrival ---which I flopped my name into "3d", "D"-"D"ay-"D"og <-- to suit the "Dogs" (I was studying WWII at the time). After my stay in Clowns, Crusader and I met up again to create a small group of netgainers, "WoG" or Wrath of God. (name picked by Valkyrior, my rl best friend).

WoG was a netgainer only alliance, ironically at least 70% of WoG's were newbies to either the game itself, or to 1A. To make this part of the story short, WoG is what tied everything together - consisting of 18 rl friends and later on, 30 of my online friends. **If you are reading this story guys, AYE! HALLO!** =)

The only problem with 70% newbies is that if I got burnt out, it would be hard to find a replacement - which in the course of 2 resets, I was in dire need of a break. WoG spent the next two resets in MD, and I took my break which was that best thing I had in a long time.
==Monks collaspe==

A relentless guy named Cloud messaged me everyother day to join his new alliance "Monks". Cloud and I had met earlier before back in the reset when EoS lost Scarface and on the verge of their breakup. Cloud was very convincing and managed to pull me out of retirement. I was hesitant on making my presence known so I went under the name "Macbeth" and only when I found that my access to MD was removed completely by MD's purge of inactives - did I find myself committing to Monks full time. At the time, Chump and Marty were leaders and within almost no time at all, I was given the internal relations job. Things only started to wear and tear when only 2 retal's were being done out of 50 hits on us and Chump and Marty fighting it out. The funny thing was that it seemed like both were fighting to get rid of Monks than to gain control of it =), but either way, both had stepped down as leader leaving me at the helm with Instigator co-prezing with me. Shortly after, Marty came back and wanted his president status back again after I had reformed Monks back into retal'ing properly, assigning divisions and placing us back into being stable. It was something that I don't blame him for - as it was partly his alliance to begin with, but I wanted Monks to vote on who would be the newly elected Prez. Around half the leaders votes were made and it looked to appear that I would win the election when the thread was suddenly deleted and my access was terminated. The heads in Monks placed me and Instigator back in charge and Marty's account was then terminated and the tragedy of Monks took place.

A lot of people wonder how the Monks vs Clowns war took place as I had my ties to Clowns. The answer can be found in my personality - how I am overly protective of those that I lead than any other. Monks had joined TF not too long before a landfarming incident on Clowns emerged. TF had a conspiricy to farm Clowns because of their lack of power to retal - unfortunately Banks thought I was apart of this operation and ordered retals and LG's on Monk countries, a few cases with over retals. When I asked Banks what happened, he told me that the NAP was now void and it was fair game. We resolved the complex issues in TF and our relations and things went well until the second time Clowns attacked us because the new NAP was terminated. Many of the Monks saw this as a flagrant challenge, and as much as I hated to attack my old friends, I had to decide what we were going to do. The news was obvious, several Monks had LG'ed Clowns - or retal'ed Clown attacks on us. Clowns saw us as the aggressors and we saw them the same (esp. with the newly terminated NAP). Attacking Clowns was the majority confirmation and we rallied.

Silver was in Monks that reset; All the top Clowns countries would have been wiped clean (most of them with 100k tanks MAX, no SDI, no spies, minimal turrets), but the most crucial blunder in the surprise attack was the disabling of ALL the Clown's missiles the night before attack time. It gets a bit more tricky down this road, so the summary would be, Instigator offered to pay reps for the blunder, reps were declared "late" by Clowns when communications broke down, and Clowns attacked Monks on a first strike ---> Ragnarok and MoFoTUSK attacking shortly after. I had made good friends in PoW that reset for assisting us in the war, and it will always be a question for me as to why the war is remembered as Monks vs Clowns and Ragnarok, rather than Monks and PoW --- PoW did an outstanding job taking out 25+ Ragnarok countries and the total kill on both sides were the same.
==Birth of IX==

A man that had once inspired me to mimic his alliance style reappeared in the Earth community. Scarface had always served as one of my role-models in charisma and unknowningly, I think it was my charisma that end of the Monks reset that convinced him not to join Cult and to create the alliance IX with me.

As many of you have heard, IX is not Monks, because in reality Monks was just a splinter with departed members scattering all over. The new IX consisted of 25 regathered WoG, 15 EoS, 10 FBI and 10 Monks. While talking with Scarface and planning for the new reset, Zen and his FBI had also come into the picture. Zen and I had always gotten along and it was about time to test what kind of a chemistry could be unleashed. The first reset of IX was strong and stable. IX's loyalty to specific groups kept the tribe tight - Scar, Zen and myself bringing in the resources we could to help make IX a success. What IX now stood against was an exterior force, rather than frequent internal turmoil of most new alliances. From the factions of IX came our allies and all our enemies, and the phoenix alliance was not popular to begin with. That reset, two of our friends needed our help - Arrow, and Clowns - (that needed it the most). I felt it was my obligation to patch things up for old times sake with my friends in Clowns. Shortly after IX helps Arrow with SYN (Arrow's allies were shortly coming in their support), we turned our attention towards UCN, attacking them alongside the Clowns. That war was close, but UCN prevailed as the victors in it. It only seemed like IX grew stronger because of the war - the victor for us was making the difference and balancing the sides - making the war a close battle. I think the greatest achievement personally was that I could make up with my friends in Clowns and patch up what I had brushed off the previous reset while the victory of IX was that we made a presence.
==Reset two of IX==

Scarface picked up the pace and worked hard during this summer while I kept up. Both of us brought in several recruits and we were 150 members in-site, 125 members tagged up. I took two weeks off for vacation in mid-reset and came back on the exact night that GIM declared war on IX, TIE declaring war on IX one day after. The two first strikes were enough to call in two of our friends, MD and RAGE... and that pretty much ended it. Overall, I'd say that this 2nd reset was more of a bonding and learning reset than anything, and it established IX's position as a power in the community - which now have yet to be written. We brushed out a lot of inactives and FBI and EoN departed us with their own fantastic adventers that now awaited them... they have been missed greatly, and someday our paths will cross again.

I'd like to dedicate the last portion of my history to those alliances that have made a difference in my gaming experience.

Dalyx

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==Accomplishments==

TL of SoL in 2003 or so.
WarMod of SoL in 2004 or so.
War Mistess (Commander) of SoL in Jan 2005 - Blackmailed by the infamous Dragon to be his 2nd for only 6 months that lasted 2.5 years.
War Mistress (Head) of SoL in May 2007.
==Brief Description==

I have no idea what description to give so thought id share one from another Compliments of SiiCK3nt:
"Purring with a slight catlike Meow amidst the shadows, the Lady in red saunters out… Every eye is focused on her as her long lithe legs are barely covered by the short silky dress. Her soft girly thighs are firm and inviting, trembling ever so delicately as the lady climbs down the rocks on her stiletto high heels. The hem of her dress slides higher and higher up her thighs as she struggles to keep her balance but no matter how hard they strain their eyes, the SOLdiers are only teased as the dress slides back into place. As the lady approaches, a small amount of snow starts falling and some snowflakes gently rest themselves upon the quivering bosom of the wonderful lady. Her two tender buds react to the coldness and become visibly perkier" ~coughs~ i'll end the quote there :)
==History==

MoD for a week or two before joining SOL in 2002.
SOL to the day she left for WoG in ~2008. Left Earth with WoG to Astroempires
== Current Alliances==

None - retired Earth
==Contacts==

Dalyx or Dalyx|bedified or Dalyx|Showering are all nicks being used by this very notable earther on psam server IRC
Failing all else, Contact Darkmere beloved missus to Dalyx

Makinso

2011-06-23T22:53:24Z

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== 1a/EC History ==
Makinso joined Earth mid 2000's.

Playing as an untag having no idea what to do were his first 2 sets. Eventually Makinso turned up and got recruited to [[IX]] who was at that moment fighting [[Legacy]]. Having played in IX for a year Makinso retires due to RL. After having left the game for 1.5 years he turns back up and joins [[TIE]] during the first [[TIL]] set.

==FFA History==
Always lead [[AoDT]] into wars.

== Achievements ==

Killed/killing lots of panks

== Rumors ==

Makinso was Rumored to be an [[RD]] color, supossedly, Mr Brown. Rumors also have been floating around about him having an alter ego namingly the old IX Leader Duque. Apparently he also likes cheesecake. He also looks quite fine in a set of slacks. mm mm good.

Illuminati X

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Illuinati X was one of the premiere warring [[alliances]] in [[Earth: 2025]] from around 2001 to 2009. They were one of the major players in both the [[TIL wars]] and the [[SLIT wars]].

Illuminati X, also known as IX, was an Earth Council Server alliance with 70 members. IX was formed in the Alliance Server on March 2000 and enjoyed political and military success throughout its 36 reset stay in the server. IX then moved to the Earth Council Server in February 2007. The alliance would disband in the August 2009 reset, due to a stagnant game. Below are the last public records of this once-great alliance.

==Current overview==

The Illuminati X is an alliance of 70 members ruled by President Xerglacia. The alliance is commanded by an executive team of the President and Vice President of IX and the members of the Heads Council. In turn, the 70 members are divided into five divisions. Six out of the former eight IX divisions were originally independent alliances at some point (ATL, EEVIL, EoS, FBI, Steel, IR), thus making IX a federation of small alliances that have clustered together under one unified command to create a powerful alliance.

Along with the division structure, IX is structured by four main Departments: Foreign Affairs, War, Development, and Divisions. Each department is led by a departmental head that is a member of the Heads Council. The IX Department of FA is renowned for having produced many of the top politicians in the game's history. Furthermore, the Department of IA (now subdivided into Departments of Development and Divisions) has received accolades during IX's existence for being the backbone behind IX's political and military successes. IX's War Department has also been regarded as the best in the game over many periods because of its success in implementing IX policy and winning conflicts.

The IX of the present is also a very aggressive entity which is the byproduct of over seven years of warfare and existence in the Alliance Server. IXers are known to be lethal on the battlefield, but are also laid back within their website and among each other. Demand for war is always high and thus IX only netgained six times in 36 resets of history in the Alliance Server. The remaining resets were devoted to 41 wars over a seven-year period. So far, IX has spent five and one half resets in the Earth Council Server, and waged seven wars.
[edit] Leadership

==Current top leadership (updated June 2009)==

{| class="wikitable"
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! President
| Xerglacia
|-
! Vice President
| Woz and Zen
|-
! Head of Foreign Affairs
| ELApollo66
|-
! Head of Internal Affairs
| Shamrock
|-
! Head of Divisions
| Goat
|}

=President of the Illuminati X=

The President of IX is the chief executive officer of the Illuminati X. This officer holds supreme authority over all internal, external, and military policy. In practice, the office of President of the Illuminati X is one of the most prestigious and powerful ranks in Earth: 2025, based on IX's premier military and political position in the game.

13 players have held this position since the creation of the alliance in March 2000, many of these serving as co-presidents. Usually, the office of President of the Illuminati X is split between an external and internal presidents. Half of the IX presidents have had a dual presidency at some point in their reigns.

Presidents (2000-2008)

# [[DeityLord]]
# [[DTA]]
# [[Duque]] & [[Scarface]]
# [[Mega]]
# [[de1i]] & [[Serpentor]]
# [[Angelous]]
# [[Floyd]] & [[Kaiser]]
# [[Warrior]]
# [[Prankster]]
# [[Xerglacia]]

Historical presidencies
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! March 2000 - September 2001:
| DeityLord
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! September - December 2001:
| DTA
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! December 2001 - February 2002:
| DeityLord
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! March 2002 - March 2003:
| Duque & Scarface
|-
! March - May 2003:
| Heads Council
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! June 2003 - January 2004:
| Mega
|-
! January - March 2004:
| de1i & Serpentor
|-
! April - November 2004:
| de1i
|-
! December 2004 - May 2005:
| Angelous & DTA
|-
! June - July 2005:
| DTA
|-
! July 2005 - September 2006:
| Floyd & Kaiser
|-
! October 2006:
| Floyd
|-
! November 2006 - January 2007:
| Warrior
|-
! January - April 2007:
| Floyd & Warrior
|-
! April - June 2007:
| Floyd
|-
! June - August 2007:
| Angelous & Floyd
|-
! August - November 2007:
| Angelous & DTA
|-
! November - December 2007:
| DTA
|-
! December 2007 - 2008:
| Prankster
|-
! August 2008:
| Floyd & Prankster
|-
! August - November 2008:
| Floyd
|-
! November 2008 - present:
| Xerglacia
|}

== Departments ==

===Department of Foreign Affairs===

The Department of Foreign Affairs is currently presided by ELApollo66.

===Department of War===

The War Department is the institution in charge of coordinating, fighting, and winning IX's wars. The department is composed of the General Staff, the War Staff, the Xintros Intelligence Agency and the DarkRave War Academy.

This department has considerable influence within IX since over half of IX's officers and leaders hold ranking commissions within the Department. The majority of these officers go on to serve in leadership positions throughout IX. The War Department is currently presided by Xerglacia.

* General Staff
* War Staff
* Xintros Intelligence Agency (XIA)
* DarkRave War Academy (DWA)

=== Department of Development ===

The Department of Development is currently presided by Woz.

* Training Grounds (TG)
* Recruitment Staff

=== Department of Divisions ===

The Department of Divisions is currently presided by Goat.

* Division Leader Training Program (DLT)
* Atlantis (ATL)
* Breakers of Worlds (BoW)
* The EEVIL Empire (EEVIL)
* Female Body Inspectors (FBI)
* Steel

== Achievements ==

Total networth victory in the July-October 2002 reset:

Illuminati United IXEPinoy 194 $14,498,000 $2,812,616,000

Biggest first strikes:

10,760 hits and 60 kills vs. ARROW during July 5-6, 2004 (3rd biggest in server history)
8,881 hits and 53 kills vs. ARROW during April 24-25, 2005
8,784 hits and 47 kills vs. SOL during December 29-30, 2004

Most powerful alliance of the Alliance Server:

October 2002 - March 2003 (2 sets)
April 2004 - May 2005 (7 sets)
April 2006 - January 2007 (5 sets)

Notable victories:

IX-Legacy War (2000)
IX-Omega War II (2001)
LCN-SOL War I (2002)
TIL War I (2002)
TIL War II (2002)
IX-RAGE War III (2003)
IX-Ragnarok War III (2004)
TIS War (2004)
ARROW-IX War V (2004)
IX-SOL War VII (2004-2005)
World War X (2005)
Elysium-IX War III (2006)
World War XI (2006)
IX-SoF War V (2006)
IVAN-IX War (2007)
Axis War I (2007)
Axis War IV (2007)
IX-SOL War XI (2007)]

== History ==

=== First Age, March 2000-September 2001 ===

The Illuminati X alliance was formed by Scarface in the spring of 2000, and debuted in the March-June 2000 reset. IX was a federation of several small alliances and rag-tag group of players that bonded together to form a new alliance designed to become a major military and political power. Scarface's former alliance, EoS, had been just as ambitious, but collapsed due to lack of organization. IX would be his second attempt at creating a serious power.

IX was composed of WoG, FBI, EoS remnants, Monks remnants, and players from UCN, CWG and Elitez. The membership ranged between 65-90, but seemed to average around 75 during the first three resets. DeityLord, the leader of WoG, was selected from this group of players to become the first President of IX. Scarface, however, remained a major player within alliance politics.

IX's first three resets included successful attempts to give the alliance recognition. IX made a good performance in a loss against the bigger UCN, a power of the time, in its first set; and then demonstrated newly-gained political support by accomplishing a victory against GiM and TIE with allies. IX then netted successfully as it sought to expand its membership by over 200%, organize, and then engage in a major war to lay its claim to recognition.

IX grew from 75 to 150 members in a matter of weeks and sought a war with which to gain acclaim. This war took place in during December 2000-January 2001, when IX defeated Legacy in a very big war. A babysitting exposure by Omega during that war then led DeityLord and his foreign affairs head Alan to target Omega over the next two sets. IX was defeated in the first war against Omega due to the latter's allies, but IX sought better allied support for the second war and won a decisive victory in the end. These three major wars in a row (between December 2000-June 2001) gave IX a taste of what it meant to be a power within Earth, and served as opportunities to showcase IX's developing military power. IX also established itself as a player within IX geopolitics just as President DeityLord announced his retirement after leading the alliance for over a year.

=== Second Age, September 2001-March 2003 ===

IX's second age began on September 2001, with the alliance at 135 members and under the leadership of new President DTA, and Alena, Head of FA. The age also began with a world war. A major event in IX history took place when the 300+ member ARROW declared war on IX after it had helped LaF against eXist. IX was thrown into World War VI just as the alliance was in transition, and it had to fight an uphill battle against ARROW and SOL. IX's was able to muster some serious allied support which made the war competitive, although the ARROW side seemed to prevail. ARROW and SoF got into a pissing contest, however, and the war ended soon after. This war was critical in IX history because it showed IX leadership that IX had to be both bigger and better supplemented politically since it had fought all its wars against bigger enemy coalitions. Now that ARROW and SOL formed a bloc, and both IX and SoF were enemies with ARROW and SOL, the opportunity arose for IX to develop ties with former enemies in the MD/SoF camp and to participate in the creation of a new coalition.

DTA retired after one set as president and DeityLord returned to be president for one last set. His last actions were to organize a gangbang of FBI and to have IX split into the Illuminati Marshals and X tags. However, his last tenure proved short as he decided to leave the alliance and form The Lust with former IX leaders such as Alena, DTA, and Yheti.

IX was at 145 members just as several major changes took place. IX was finishing its transitional process in leadership and in orientation. Duque and Scarface became co-presidents in March 2003 after DeityLord's final departure from IX, and they presented a serious and solid leadership for the new age. Secondly, IX gained the huge Pinoy merger which gave it 60+ additional players to bolster its ranks. IX was a founder of the Ivy League, a coalition that included other powers such as MD and SoF. Going into 2002, IX now had the membership, the leadership, and the political support to seek domination.

IX won a grand victory against RAGE, Ragnarok and SOL within the LCN-SOL War of the spring of 2002. This war showcased a 225 member IX fighting and winning multiple fronts and becoming a major contender to SoF's solid grip on the #1 position. This war also marked the start of the long-standing IX-RAGE rivalry. To top it off, the 25 member EEVIL Empire merged into IX as a new reset began.

Summer approached and IX participated in the victorious TIL War I of June-July, 2002. IX was one of the coalition's Big Three and was able to contribute heavily to the coalition victory against ARROW and SOL's anti-TIL. IX was now at 250 members and still growing in potential and capacity. However, IX then decided to leave the coalition in August 2002 to go on its own. IX then won the total networth race of July-October 2002, capturing its only total net crown.

Duque and Scarface continued strengthening the IX superpower and positioned it in a position of privilege politically by the time that TIL War II began in November 2002. It could either help the coalition or the anti-coalition forces. IX chose to oppose SoF and side with ARROW, SOL and the anti-TIL. Through several major strikes, IX was able to contribute heavily in turning the tide against TIL and in winning the world war. IX became recognized as the most powerful alliance in the game due to its warring performances, its membership strength, and its political clout.

The end of TIL War II jettisoned the age of the Bots at the start of 2003. This was to be Duque and Scarface's last reset as co-presidents. Firstly, the IX and IM sites were merged to form a single IX website. Secondly, IX was hit by bots and crippled by the time SoF attacked IX. However, IX was now a member of the NATO coalition, the victors of TIL War II, and SoF was crushed by the allied response. Duque and Scarface retired after the NATO War (February-March 2003) and after leading IX to its first peak of power. The alliance became the top power in the game, albeit briefly, and this time of political turmoil and of IX conquest remains a fond time for IXers till this very day. The alliance inevitably declined afterwards, as it was targetted by bots and its membership decreased to 2001 membership levels.

=== Third Age, March 2003-January 2004 ===

The third age of IX was its most trying. This time stands as the shortest epoch in IX history, and yet it was a moment in which IX fought to sustain itself as an alliance during the dark age of the Bot Wars (2003). IX was coming out of a golden age under Duque and Scarface, but the alliance was rapidly declining in strength. IX began the age at over 160 members on March 2003, a considerable decline from the 200+ it had been on the following reset. IX was also ruled by a Heads Council, a first in IX history, since there was no presidential successor to the Duque-Scarface duo. The alliance was botted during this time and suffered massive casualties. Other alliances of the time also sustained similar attacks. At the end of the reset about 130 IXers remained after what had been IX's most unproductive reset ever. Thankfully though, a new leader was on the way.

Mega became President of IX on June 2003, at the start of the June-August 2003 reset. She had been the most powerful head within the Heads Council due to her experience as Head of FA and Head of War for IX during late 2002 and 2003. Mega reigned as a powerful solo president, the first since DeityLord, and sought to stop IX's downward spiral. The 115 member IX was also faced with a war against its RAGE enemy. The 115 member RAGE attacked IX in late June 2003 and the decisive war of IX's year took place. RAGE established an early lead, but Mega was able to rally IX and crush its opponent after a 41 day war. IX was victorious again against its nemesis and for the time being it was faring well despite the bots. It was a top 5 alliance again.

IX looked to netgain during the August-October reset despite the bots. Following the victory in the Third RAGE War, IX was trying to increase numbers and make a solid showing on the networth charts. IX was faring well in this endeavor until 50 Pinoys were deleted after playing from an internet cafe. The incident led to widespread criticism of IX, since some of those Pinoys were actually cheating and it seemed that Mega's successes had been stopped by this event. It was surely the low point in her presidency. Nonetheless, some of these Pinoys were expelled from IX and the others restarted. IX finished with a decent albeit constrained showing in what was a tarnished reset.

The final and fourth reset of this age took place between November 2003 and January 2004. Mega decided to war this set and IX's aggressive politics were reflective of this. LCN and TH first got embroiled in a war and IX intervened in a quasi-war against TH. IX later declared war on CWG and forced them to surrender after 24 hours of bombardment. Mega was bound to retire after the end of this reset and a fourth war against RAGE was planned at this time as her going-away present. IX thus struck RAGE on January 1, 2004 and began the Fourth RAGE War, a conflict which briefly lasted until the end of the reset on January 10. IX crushed RAGE again in a swift victory.

The reset also ended with much promise for the Earth community. Mehul Patel promised security changes to help combat the bot plague which had afflicted Earth since January 2003. Thus alliances expected to be free from the bots and to engage in their usual practices without the robotic intervention. Mega led IX into this new age and helped sustain IX at a time when bots, internal weakness, and foreign enemies were threatening the very fabric of IX. IX survived and was able to soldier on into a new age, which was to be the most cataclysmic and glorious in IX history.

=== Fourth Age, January 2004-May 2005 ===

The fourth age in IX history was its longest and also its most glorious. IX was the game's top alliance for over a year and exercised a level of power it had never held before. This was the Age of IX.

The epoch began on January 12, 2004 with de1i and Serpentor becoming the next co-presidents. IX was now free to do as it pleased without having the menace of the bots. The 130 member alliance participated in the defense of the NATO coalition during January 2004. However, this coalition ended abruptly in the middle of February. IX attacked Ragnarok one night and was surprised to see that ARROW and SOL were breaking pacts and declaring war on IX over the ILS Scandal. MD also broke a pact and attacked IX a few days later. NATO was shattered after this schism between the former allies and IX was gangbanged by ARROW, MD, SOL, and Ragnarok. The gangbang was brief but the action prompted IX leaders to plan a long-term revenge on ARROW and SOL only (relations with MD were rekindled). Also, IX recuperated and was able to defeat Ragnarok in the long run. Serpentor retired from active leadership at the end of this set and de1i took over as a solo president.

It fell on de1i and his FA staff to plan the war of revenge for the following April-May 2004 reset. IX was able to form an anti-ARROW/SOL task force comprised of IX, Steel, TIE, LaF, and MX. IX & allies then attacked and defeated ARROW, RAGE, SOL, and their allies during the TIS War. Most importantly, IX became the most powerful alliance in the game on this set, a 180 degree reversal in light of the previous set's gangbang. IX grew to 160 members and assembled a powerful allied base with which it could project power. IX thus began its long reign at the top of Earth power rankings and continued its wars of revenge on ARROW and SOL.

IX planned a second consecutive set of revenge against ARROW and SOL, which resulted in LaF fighting SOL, and IX fighting ARROW. LaF attacked SOL in June 2004 meanwhile IX prepared to attack ARROW. LaF fought a hard battle with SOL, and won in the end after gaining total control of breaking power. However, the Fifth ARROW-IX War was a blowout. The 195 member IX bombarded the 230 member ARROW with a 10,760 hit and 60 kill FS which left ARROW demolished and mortally wounded from day 1 of the war. IX also established what was then the biggest FS in game history (now the 3rd biggest). IX continued its war with ARROW and won a decisive victory. It also concluded its two-set punishment of ARROW and SOL.

By August 2004, IX was looking to defend some allies after having successfuly pursued its agenda on the previous two sets and having become the top alliance in the game. The possibility of more war with ARROW and SOL remained, but IX chose to defend TSW from UCN (an ancient enemy of IX). IX attacked UCN in defense of TSW, but also went ahead and pre-emptively attacked ICN, Elysium, and SOL, who were all coming in defense of UCN. IX had a stunning offensive against UCN, ICN, and Elysium but suffered irreparable losses once those three alliances were joined by SOL in a major counterattack. IX was crippled and its own mistakes led it to fight a two-fronted war it could not win. LCN and Unknown were called in to defeat SOL, but in the end IX was also defeated by the three enemy allies and the critical support they received from SOL.

Defeat in the Second IX-UCN War/Stooges War led IX leadership to look forward to a netgaining reset for October-November 2004. President de1i was in his last set as president due to a busy RL schedule, and his lack of activity had permitted IX to undergo the failed path of the previous set. More troubles loomed for IX however. ARROW and SOL had planned on their own campaigns of reprisal against IX during the fall of 2004 and gained the critical support of the MD/SoF mini-bloc. Combining the ARROW/SOL forces with those of the MD/SoF group, a massive coalition was formed to combat the IX bloc. World War IX began on October 30, 2004 with a series of attacks on IX and their allies. IX was hit by PDM and RAGE in a massive strike and fought an uphill battle. IX had grown to 230 members with the L2K merger and the alliance was strong enough to deliver a tour de force performance against PDM and RAGE. IX was able to defeat PDM with Ragnarok help, but was not able to kill RAGE. Most IX allies met defeat in their own fronts and thus World War IX was a general defeat of IX & allies. Following this second debacle, new leadership took over IX as President de1i left the stage.

Angelous and DTA became the new presidents of IX on December 2004 and they immediately began working to reverse IX's misfortune in the previous two sets. Angelous envisioned expanding IX power even more and in continuing the victories of de1i's first three sets as president. DTA also wanted to strengthen IX internally for the coming battles ahead. IX thus followed a second set of duels with ARROW and SOL. TIE attacked ARROW, meanwhile IX attacked SOL. TIE fought an uphill battle against ARROW and prevailed in the end, confirming it as one of the major powers in Earth. IX also defeated SOL in a war that was seen as a clash between the two top powers of the time (both at 180 members and leading Earth's two power blocs). It was IX's toughest duel ever and a proper return to form. As IX won the Seventh IX-SOL War, Angelous was already at work expanding IX's political base during January 2005 in an effort to finally crush ARROW/SOL and decisively win the vicious rivalry.

IX's efforts to expand its power continued into the February-March 2005 reset. It was an odd netgaining set for IX, as all the great powers of Earth were at peace. Proxy wars were common between the smaller allies of both sides. Firstly, Sanctuary attacked and defeated ICN with IX support. Secondly, MX was able to defeat TD. Lastly, the ARROW-backed Omega defeated the IX-backed Steel in a memorable war. IX's success that set rested on Angelous' ability to receive support from the MD/SoF group that had been so valuable for ARROW/SOL during World War IX.

IX planned to end the rivalry between its camp and ARROW/SOL's forces. IX thus formed the Project Arcturus coalition, a group comprised of IX, MD, PDM, SoF, and TIE, and set about planning for another world war during the spring of 2005. War plans were already in writing by the start of the April-May 2005 reset, as IX & allies awaited the coming battle. World War X then began on April 23, 2005 with massive coalition assaults on ARROW, SOL, and key allies. The war turned into a one-sided and devastating rout of the ARROW/SOL bloc after just a few days. IX received the majority of the ARROW/SOL side's attacks, but was still able to give the best warring performance of that set, leading all combatants in hits and kills. ARROW announced its departure from the game soon after and SOL asked IX for peace during private talks between Angelous and Dragon.

The 180 member IX was the unquestioned superpower of the game and was at the peak of its power as the age ended. It had won its year-long rivalry with the ARROW/SOL bloc and established itself as the top alliance in the game on the merits of its top war machine and its mastery of Earth politics. IX then marched on into another contested fifth age with a new leadership and in albeit lesser strength after being the top alliance for 7 resets straight.

=== Fifth Age, June 2005-January 2007 ===

The fifth age of the Illuminati X began on June 2005 following the previous age's successful conclusion. The Angelous-DTA presidency was going into its fourth set when things abruptly changed. President Angelous exposed himself coordinating minor multi-running efforts and fellow President DTA had to exile him. IX was also weakening with the summer retirement of players, and its membership went down from 180+ to 160. This decline was furthered by the departure of Angelous and by the collapse of Project Arcturus. IX was not the top alliance after holding that distinction for the previous 7 sets. It was as if the alliance ran out of gas after steaming at full throttle. Nonetheless, DTA named Floyd and Kaiser Vice Presidents and gave them the reigns of the alliance.

IX invested the June-July 2005 set in helping allies. Floyd sought to reassert IX politically by aiding allies and securing a diplomatic end to the IX-SOL rivalry. IX and SOL agreed to an uNAP that ended the 1.5 year-old rivalry. Kaiser then helped Sky and Unknown plan for a war with Exodus and ICN, which ultimately proved successful. IX finally engaged Apoc and Vengeance in quick wars to defend LCN. IX then defended new allies MKR from RAGE in the Seventh IX-RAGE War. IX closed the reset by entering the Second Elysium-MD War and killing Elysium. DTA finally named Floyd and Kaiser Presidents and retired.

IX went into the August-September 2005 reset with a reduced membership of 130. SOL was the top alliance at this point and its relationship with IX was progressing. Project Arcturus was now dead and the slow realignment of alliances began. IX's own partnership with LCN was at an end, and IX refused to pact them after resets of disappointing relations. IX then sought revenge against RAGE for ruining IX's netting in the October-November 2004 reset. IX also had its allies attack some of RAGE's supporters. The vendetta worked well as IX was able to crush RAGE in their Eighth War; meanwhile, IX coordinated the allied defeat of ImagNum and ICN. IX ended the reset by also smashing Citadel.

The alliance grew to 140 members on the following October-November 2005 reset. The realignment of Earth blocs was ongoing with IX and SOL finally becoming allies and IX's relations with LCN worsening. Likewise, MD was increasingly turning anti-IX just as it was fighting wars with SOL, IX's new ally. Kiwi's Suck. LCN's own actions this set led to war with IX. LCN feared an IX attack and lobbied for a military alliance with SOL. SOL notified IX and this led to the destruction of LCN in the First IX-LCN War. IX also attacked Monsters during that war to settle some disputes between Floyd and Monsters' leadership.

The December 2005-January 2006 reset brought upon the culmination of the IX-SOL entente since both alliances signed a FDP. IX and SOL both wanted to kill LCN and had no other plans for the set. Since IX had just killed LCN, IX ultimately agreed to let SOL attack LCN in exchange for a friendly war between IX and SOL, the top two powers in the game. SOL agreed and demolished LCN. The 145 member IX then attacked the 195 member SOL and the Ninth IX-SOL War ensued, where SOL dominated the smaller IX before a ceasefire agreement. The experience cemented IX-SOL relations despite the war game setback. In addition, LCN's gravitation toward a developing anti-IX/SOL bloc led by MD and Elysium led IX, SOL, and TIE, to engage even more in joint planning.

The first true fighting between the IX/SOL/TIE (TIS) bloc and the MD/Elysium bloc, product of the ongoing Earth political realignment, began during the February-March 2006 reset. IX was at 145 members and was struck by the 160+ member Elysium. SOL also had to make a preemptive strike on LCN, Omega, and MD, starting the LMaO-SOL War. IX and SOL coordinated general war strategies to win both conflicts. IX called in several allies and SOL called in TIE, meanwhile RAGE was busy destroying IX allies Sanctuary and Evolution. IX & allies defeated Elysium and their allies in the Third Elysium-IX War, meanwhile SOL and TIE defeated the LMaO triumvirate. With the wars over, LaF joined the TIS bloc, but RAGE and SoF joined the MD/Elysium bloc. The realignment was now complete and this set's wars paved the way for a clash of coalitions on the following reset.

A world war reset erupted during April-May 2006, with the TIS and MD/Elysium coalitions preparing for war. It was the culmination of the year-long realignment and the war Floyd and Kaiser had promised. IX was at 148 members when the TIS bloc made a preemptive attack on Elysium and LCN, starting World War XI. The war exploded immediately as all great powers joined within 48 hours. IX and SOL became the target of the MD/Elysium coalition; meanwhile, IX and SOL fought back and their allies methodically broke each of the 16 alliances and clans on the MD/Elysium side. The war ended in a total victory for TIS & allies with the defeated alliances suing for peace and pact outs.

General peace broke out on the following June-July 2006 reset since many top alliances pacted out. IX and SOL, however, planned on warring. Half of the previous set's enemy bloc was permitted to net meanwhile the other half was left unpacted and targeted. SOL killed SoF and Exodus meanwhile IX began its own wars. IX grew to 160 members this set and warred ImagNum, Ragnarok, MPE, Vengeance, and NeoFederation in consecutive campaigns. IX's coalition held strong throughout the set and IX enjoyed the comfort of controlling the server along with its allies.

IX changed its pace and decided to netgain with a reduced 140 members for the August-September 2006 reset. Nonetheless, it coordinated the outcome of the set with allied wars. In addition, IX and its partners were succesful in inciting internal wars between the enemy camp. IX and its allies lured SoF and ImagNum into destroying Elysium and RAGE independently fought LCN. Ultimately IX & allies controlled the netgaining ranks with TIE, IX, and LaF occupying the top networth ranks. IX finished with a #2 rank in total networth, its second best ever. It also participated in the Axis gangbang on ImagNum at the end of the set. President Kaiser then retired at the end of the reset after a year in power and Floyd remained as sole president.

War began very quickly during the October-November 2006 reset when Elysium circumvented pacts by attacking IX and LaF within RAGE's tag. IX's coalition in turn crushed both Elysium and RAGE in a decisive engagement. Elysium thereafter admitted defeat in its struggle with IX and Hardy stepped down. The reset, however, continued with change and transition. IX's internal power had been declining since July with a decreasing membership that had gone down to 125 members. Many leaders and veterans also followed Kaiser's retirement. General SlagPit, the Head of War,retired from IX in October. President Floyd then retired in early November after 7.5 resets in the presidency. Angelous followed suit. IX thus began November without some of its senior leaders and with a new leadership that was now under the command of new President Warrior.

* Rag/Unknown War
* Return of Duque, Floyd, and Kaiser
* SoF War
* IVAN War

=== Sixth Age, February 2007-present ===

* [[Axis War I]]
* [[Axis War II]]

Moral Decay

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[[Category: Alliances]]
[[Category: Earth 2025 Alliances]]
{{infobox alliance
| image = http://wiki.astroempires.com/images/Moral_decayv1.jpg
| founders = [[Zuul]], [[Tokugawa]], [[Samoan]], [[Reaver]] and [[Havok]]
| founded = 1998
| origins = Moral Decay MUD
| anw =
| tnw =
| num_members = 50-250
| mission = To be the best alliance in the game
| focus = Warring & Netgaining
| president = Various
| vps = Various
| hfa = Various
| fas = Various
| hia = Various
| ias = Various
| hwar = Various
| war = Various
| trainers = Various
| homepage = http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/application.php?clanID=MD
| fbpage = http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_77519762588
| irc = irc.gamesurge.net #md
}}
The Moral Decay alliance started to play in the alliance server for the first time in reset ending in November 1998. The alliance was formed by several MUD players from the popular Moral Decay MUD [http://www.playdecay.com Official site]. Early in MDs life they rose to the top by excellent war performance, eventually becoming the best alliance in the game and dominating the alliance server. After this MD mostly ranked amongst the top alliances in the game, though have lost some influence and strength in the past years.

Moral Decay traditionally favors war over netgaining.

==MD reunion reset==

On Friday May 20th 2011 at 10:36 CET Anticimex posted on the MD facebook group requesting any archive information former MDers had regarding MDs time in Earth 2025. This was prompted after Anticimex had read an article which featured a photograph of someone that reminded him of Samoan, one of MDs founders. At the time of this posting the MD facebook group had about 28 MDers on it and was not actively used at all. 
After Anticimex' post a sudden surge of activity of MD activity started, and not long after on Saturday May 21st 2011 at 18:16 CET, Bombay posted a short message saying 'Reunion set?'. This was something many MDers saw as an awesome idea. Quickly various MDers started to search for other old MDers to add them to the facebook group and plans started to be made for this reunion reset. 
The boxcar site of MD was taken into use again and dusted off. Quickly the MD facebook group grew to over 70 members, recording 72 members on Friday May 27th 2011, 16:19 CET and 85 members on Friday June 10th 20:50 CET. On the 10th of June 66 MDers have tagged up and MD is the biggest alliance in the game in members and networth. The activity is very high and leadership has been establish. 
After about 18 months MD has returned to Earth with a very good showing!

==Presidential elections==
Moral Decay is a republic alliance, which means their president is chosen by means of elections. At first elections took place every reset (i.e., every 90 days), but when earth resets where shortened this period was adapted to once every 2 resets (i.e., every 120 days). Every member with the rank of veteran of higher may run for president. Once all candidates are known a Q&A session is held, each veteran member or higher is allowed to ask the presidential candidates questions, which must then be answered. Once the Q & A sessions have ended it is time to vote, every member with the rank of veteran or higher is given 1 vote which he may cast upon his presidential candidate of choice. After a few days the new president of MD is known and some time is left to make the transition from the old president to the new president as smooth as possible.

==Special teams==

===Munchkin Raiders===

As any alliance Moral Decay has to deal with random hostile countries whom attack the alliance. To easily dispatch these enemy nations the [Munchkin Raiders] where founded. Ussually the raiders would be about 10 to 15 players large. The raiders job was to keep MDs enemy list in peacetime clean of enemies, while still performing their regular duties in their own division. Each raider was still expected to finish with the best country possible, as MD expected nothing but the best. This allowed other MDers to continue to build their countries without having to worry too much about random enemies, in the end MD became a stronger alliance due to this team effort. The raiders therefore wasn't a seperate division, but a cross-division team. Each reset this team was reformed allowing some veteran raiders to stay without question, while newer MDers joined the raiders team to get a taste of what it meant to be a raider.

===Assassins===

The assassins was a special team founded to get the upper hand in land exchanges that often happen between alliances. For political reasons MD and other alliances would sometimes not have any official relations, resulting in countries of both alliances attacking each other for land.

Assassins are MD players whom play countries with a special setup, ussually MD would have an assassin team of about 3 to 5 players. Their countries were all landthin, very offense heavy and low in networth. This setup allowed them to perform their tasks with the best possible result.

The tasks performed by the assassins are two-fold. Sometimes they were used to topfeed target countries, and sometimes they were used to retaliate grabs made against MD countries. These tasks are very different and it is vital they never mix to avoid quickly escalating situations.

When topfeeding the assassin would landgrab a country within the target alliance whom had the most land. Because the assassin carried a lot of offensive military, and was inter-allied with the other assassin countries, it ussually was not a problem to penetrate the target country defenses. By being very landthin and low(er) in networth as compared to the target country the game would give a bonus in land gained from the attack, allowing the assassins to gain even more land. Immediately after the attack the assassin country drops all gained acres to remain landthin, and this also ensures that when the target country attacked back (only 1 retal within 72 hours was commonly accepted) not a lot of land would be gained back, ensuring MD would come out on top in the land exchange. The topfeeding tactic was used as a(n) (aggressive) political pressure device to force the target alliance into signing an official pact with MD for example.

When performing retaliation attacks the assassin can be seen as an extension of regular MD countries. When a MD country was attacked for land, but not able (or allowed to by the leaders of MD) to retaliate, an assassin took the retaliation hit. By letting the assassin take the retaliation hit MD ensured that it would gain the largest amount of land back from the aggressor country. To ensure the 'victim' MD country gained his land back, he was allowed to farm the assassin country for the acres he lost. The retaliation mode was a passive-aggresive political pressure device used to make the target alliance realize it was futile to start a landwar with MD, as MD would come out on top every single time.

Intra alliance farming was not something that was widely used when MD first used the assassins and was somewhat controversial. However by ensuring the retaliation mode of assassins never mixed with the topfeeding mode of the assassins MD was able to maintain such a team, as farming the assassin country after it made a topfeed was not widely accepted and would quickly escalate a situation.

===Spy team===

Each reset MD would have several players play countries built to perform effective spy operations, so that in times of war we had an effective tool to gain detailed country information regarding a hostile alliance. The unique aspect to MD's spy team was that they did not play under the MD tag, but rather under fake tags. This allowed the countries to perform spy operations without fear of them being linked to MD, if they happened to fail a spy operation. This tactic gave MD a little bit more of an edge when about to strike a target alliance, by hiding the approach. It also allowed MD to gather information anonymously when only the threat of war was on the horizon.

An interesting detail is that the spy teams existance was kept as secret as possible, most MD members did not know that it existed and the current MDers playing spy nations were kept an even bigger secret. The less people knew, the better they could perform their tasks.

==Achievements==
===Notable netgaining achievements===

1st place total networth

1999 - October 
2000 - January 
2000 - March 
2000 - August (all time record, see [http://earth2025.gamerwikis.net/wiki/index.php?title=Alliance_Records#Highest_Total_Networth]) 

2nd place total networth

2002 - February 
2002 - April 
2004 - March 
2004 - May 
2004 - July 
2004 - September 

3rd place total networth

2000 - October

2nd place average networth

1999 - October 
2000 - March 

3rd place average networth

2000 - August 
2006 - October 
2006 - December 

===Notable Victories===

[[FoG War (1999)]] 
[[TSA War (2000)]] 
[[IX-Omega War I (2001)]] 
[[Elitez Gangbang (2001)]] also known as 'The Big Six' 
[[TIL War I (2002)]] 
[[ILS War (2004)]] 
[[World War IX (2004]]) 
[[World War X (2005)]] 

==MD and coalitions==
Over the years MD was a part of several coalitions, some secretive and some public, some formal and some informal.

MD participated in the following coalitions, ordered chronologically.

[[The Sovereign Alliances (TSA)]] 
[[Federation of Pornstars (FoP)]] 
[[The Big Six]] 
[[The Ivy League]] (TIL) 
[[Project Arcturus (PA)]] 

==History==

MD's history keeping was extremely well done the first few resets of it's existence, each reset MD played as an alliance in earth 2025 was written down as a chapter.

===Membership overview throughout the resets===
By searching through all of [[Swirve]]'s records, the following overview was generated showing how MD's membership evolved over time. The Titans and Saints alliances are also mentioned in this overview as both alliances were split offs (though short-lived) from the MD alliance. MD's membership decline in the last few years should be seen in context, as the game Earth: 2025 was becoming less and less popular; making membership numbers a difficult challenge to maintain.

[[File:MD-membership.JPG]]

To put the membership numbers into perspective, an overview of the number of total players in the alliance server MD was playing at that time. This data is retrieved from Swirve records.

[[File:Earth-no-of-players-history.JPG]]

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===Presidents of Moral Decay===
Over the course of time MD has been led by various presidents, each president working his or her hardest to ensure MD achieved it goals. Each president brought his or her own qualities to the alliance and used those qualities to lead and guide MD. Being the president of MD is a difficult job, it is very time consuming and can be frustrating at times. However it is not without it's reward, as president you get to lead one of the finest groups of people out there, you'll have their dedication, loyalty and perhaps most rewarding their friendship.

An overview of MD's presidents throughout the resets.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Reset end date
! President
! Number of members at reset end
|-
| 1998 - November
| [[Samoan]]
| 30 *
|-
| 1999 - February
| Samoan
| 50 *
|-
| 1999 - May
| Samoan (First half), [[mags]] (Second half)
| 70 *
|-
| 1999 - July
| [[Diocletian]]
| 70 *
|-
| 1999 - October
| Samoan
| 150
|-
| 2000 - January
| Samoan
| 155
|-
| 2000 - March
| [[Ampy]]
| 184
|-
| 2000 - June
| Ampy
| 196
|-
| 2000 - August
| Ampy
| 187
|-
| 2000 - October
| [[Locutus]], Samoan (First 12 hours, forced to step back)
| 178
|-
| 2001 - January
| Ampy (First half), Locutus (Second half)
| 114
|-
| 2001 - March
| Locutus
| 187
|-
| 2001 - June
| Locutus
| 218
|-
| 2001 - September
| Locutus
| 155
|-
| 2001 - November
| [[Versus]] (First quarter), Locutus (Last 3 quarters)
| 123
|-
| 2002 - February
| Locutus
| 158
|-
| 2002 - April
| [[Lady A]]
| 169
|-
| 2002 - July
| Locutus (First quarter), [[Kalick]] (2 days), [[Morpheus]] (Last 3 quarters)
| 175
|-
| 2002 - October
| [[Iccyh]]
| 128
|-
| 2002 - December
| Iccyh (First half), [[Yuki]] (Second half)
| 50 *
|-
| 2003 - March
| Yuki
| 76
|-
| 2003 - May
| [[Smart Liberal]]
| 89
|-
| 2003 - August
| [[Syris]]
| 105
|-
| 2003 - October
| [[Daren]]
| 108
|-
| 2004 - January
| [[Uber Bu]]
| 115
|-
| 2004 - March
| Uber Bu (First half), [[Jax]] (Second half)
| 163
|-
| 2004 - May
| Jax
| 147
|-
| 2004 - July
| [[Tempest]] (First 3 quarters), Jax (Last quarter)
| 165
|-
| 2004 - September
| Jax
| 158
|-
| 2004 - November
| Jax
| 137
|-
| 2005 - January
| Jax
| 139
|-
| 2005 - March
| [[Toshiro]]
| 144
|-
| 2005 - May
| Toshiro (First half), [[Elrond]] (Second half)
| 90
|-
| 2005 - July
| [[Dukey]]
| 87
|-
| 2005 - September
| [[Azael]]
| 103
|-
| 2005 - November
| [[Arsenal]]
| 119
|-
| 2006 - January
| Arsenal
| 82
|-
| 2006 - March
| Arsenal
| 63
|-
| 2006 - May
| [[Mangler]]
| 64
|-
| 2006 - July
| Locutus
| 47
|-
| 2006 - September
| [[Auto_nut]]
| 24 *
|-
| 2006 - October
| [[Unwanted Soldier]]
| 18
|-
| 2006 - December
| [[Red Devil]]
| 41
|-
| 2007 - February
| Red Devil
| 14
|-
| 2007 - April
| [[slash]]
| 44
|-
| 2007 - June
| slash
| 45
|-
| 2007 - August
| slash
| 41
|-
| 2007 - October
| slash
| 39
|-
| 2007 - December
| slash
| 41
|-
| 2008 - February
| [[randy]]
| 56
|-
| 2008 - April
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2008 - June
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2008 - August
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2008 - October
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2008 - December
| ?
| ?
|-
|-
| 2009 - February
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2009 - April
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2009 - June
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2009 - August
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2009 - October
| ?
| ?
|-
| 2009 - December
| [[Bombay]]
| ?
|}
* means the number is an approximation and not based upon swirve data.

In 2004 Mehul changed the length of each reset to 2 month for a reset. Before this change each reset lasted about 2.6 months. The reset ending in March 2004 was the first 2 month reset. The following table shows how many resets and months each president served for MD, these numbers are rounded off. When two presidents serve in the same reset it is assumed each president was president for 50% of the reset. Exceptions are Samoan's 12 hour presidency in August of 2000 and Kalick's 2 day presidency in July of 2002.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! President
! Month's served
! Resets served
|-
| Locutus
| 17
| 6.5
|-
| Samoan
| 11.77
| 4.5
|-
| Jax
| 9.5
| 4.75
|-
| Slash
| 9.25
| 4.5
|-
| Ampy
| 9.15
| 3.5
|-
| Arsenal
| 6
| 3
|-
| Iccyh
| 3.92
| 1.5
|-
| Yuki
| 3.92
| 1.5
|-
| Uber Bu
| 3.61
| 1.5
|-
| Toshiro
| 3
| 1.5
|-
| Diocletian
| 2.61
| 1
|-
| Smart Liberal
| 2.61
| 1
|-
| Syris
| 2.61
| 1
|-
| Daren
| 2.61
| 1
|-
| Lady A
| 2.61
| 1
|-
| Dukey
| 2
| 1
|-
| Randy
| 2
| 1
|-
| Azael
| 2
| 1
|-
| Mangler
| 2
| 1
|-
| Morpheus
| 1.97
| 0.75
|-
| Tempest
| 1.5
| 0.75
|-
| Mags
| 1.31
| 0.5
|-
| Elrond
| 1
| 0.5
|-
| Versus
| 0.65
| 0.25
|-
| Kalick
| 0.01
| 0.1
|}

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===Prehistory===

During the summer of 1992 two friends, Brapnor and Exedore, were tinkering around with the idea of creating their own MUD in order to have a place where coders (also known as wizards) could improve upon their work and further their programming skills. They were veterans of several MUDs and had a distinct vision for their own game. Instead of being a straight "hack n' slash" style MUD" they wanted something for players to do between kills to heighten the roleplaying experience and create a more immersive environment. This was achieved through the establishment of player-run businesses, which increased the interactions between players. While in a heated argument over whether or not to allow playerkilling (allow players to kill one another) a fierce argument took place between two of the founding wizards. Exedore was direly for playerkilling and Coreal vehemtly against it. There were many reasons against playerkilling and only a few for it. Coreal stated that the MUD would fall into chaos only weeks after opening it if playerkilling were allowed. Exedore disagreed, and as a tension breaker, blurted out "When the world falls into complete moral decay, don't be so old that you can't enjoy it". The name stuck and the MD MUD was born. Two of the original wizards/coders of the MUD were Molnar and Kimo, who both later went on to play in the first reset of the MD earth alliance.

The early days of the MUD were filled with flocks of college students decending upon the game. Individual playerkillers like Tequila Sunrise, Fatal Justice, Femme Fatale and Alazar terrorized the game. Eventually small groups of players started to band together into alliances for safety. The first amongst these were the Mob (mostly canadian players), members of the Velvet Unicorn, and the Demons. As members of these groups began to graduate from college, many lost their net access (private ISPs were unheard of then). This allowed for new groups to take their place, most notably the Danes and the Hawaiians. These two factions engaged in many bitter wars through the years, along with a third group called Darkside, to form a triumverate of bitter enemies. As the web began to grow in popularity in the mid 90's players started turning toward web-based games and the popularity of MUDs started to fall a bit. Eventually by 1998 most of the hostile atmosphere was gone from the MUD (though some of the participants still remained), decreased by a crackdown on playerkilling by the administration and loss of players to other games. Under a revamped administration many of the original Hawaiians and Danes came back to the MUD. By this time many of them had become friends and were looking for new outlets in which to channel their aggression.

The MD MUD is and always has been a very difficult MUD to start out in. Accompanied with the playerkilling and relative difficulty of achieving new levels, the MUD reflected a certain "survival of the fittest" attitude. Only the smartest, most cunning, and most experienced players tended to stick with the game for the long haul. Those with little dedication played for a short time and left for other easier games. This dedicated core of MUD players, many of them having played for 4-5 years together, would serve as the basis for a new alliance in the game Earth 2025. The skills garnered in the MUD would be directly transferred to Earth 2025, as the elements of fighting/war, business/diplomacy, and sense of communion/alliance in the MUD provided a good starting ground on which to base an alliance which has risen to the top of the game.

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===Chapter 1: Birth of an Alliance===

Tokugawa, one of the longtime players of the MD MUD, started playing Earth 2025 during the summer of 1998. He eventually decided to join MI (Mercenaries Incorporated). With the reset coming to a close, he decided to get other Mudders into the game. Among the first few players were Zuul, Mags, Samoan, Zyn, Baatl, Mathalas, Excelsior, Gimli, and Littlegirl...all of whom remain with the alliance today. During the first few days most of the MUD players playing earth (probably between 15-20 people at this time) did so as individuals.

On the 4th day of the reset a fellow mudders was attacked by another country (there were no tags at the time except for those countries which wore a tag in their country name). Our first webpage was created by a member named Torg so that mudders could upload their own country reports and follow each others' progress (and hopefully learn what worked and what didn't). Upon seeing one of the MDers' countries getting attacked, Torg posted the name of the attacking country on his page, along with its spy report and told the mudders all to attack this country as it "attacked one of our group". At the time, being all newbies, the members did not know that this was just a landgrab and all set about attacking this country by any means possible. This country has later been identified as "United Federation of Atlantica". During the assault on this country, one of the members performed an alliance spy and posted the spy reports of his allies. Fearing that they would attack "our group" also, MDers set up a preemptive strike on this country, named "United Federation of Crush". It was generally agreed upon by the members playing the game that this country should not just be attacked, but be killed. Therefore a plan was set up for all earth players to meet on the mud with a full set of turns prepared to kill the seemingly evil foe. As the players began sending their attacks they would tell the others how many units seemed to break through, and this was passed to the other members of the group. Smaller members waited until the defenses of the enemy country were reduced until they started to hit. The method used to kill this country was through population depletion, one that was found out not to work (due to a bug in earth that would not allow a country's population to fall below 7...however once at 7 population a country was stuck there for the rest of the game due to an additional bug and therefore rendered useless). However, this coordinated attack sent a rush through the many MD earth players, as they focused their hostile energy from the mud into Earth 2025. This was effectively the birth of the MD warchat, and the format has remained much the same to this day.

Many of the MD mud players gained crucial experience in the tournament, with Samoan finishing in the top 10 of his first tourney game and Tokugawa and Hal finishing in the top 20 of theirs. In the tourney Hal and Tokugawa perfected an industrialist strat, while Samoan persued a casher strat. Eventually long days of conversation on the MUD over different strategy variations were relayed to the other members of the small group. Eventually everyone in the group caught on to the fundamentals of the game and began to quickly rise in the ranks. Hal, Samoan, and Tokugawa all rose to the top 100 of the standard A game. Meanwhile, Baatl had grabbed a SOL country twice, leading to his being almost-destroyed by a division of SOL. After messaging one of them to please stop attacking him, he was quickly offered membership in SOL. He gladly accepted the offer of protection, and spent the remainder of the reset playing in SOL. At the end of the reset when he came back to MD, his alliance experience and knowledge of alliance structure and policy proved to be invaluable to the formation of the first policies of the soon-to-be-formed MD.

Having discovered the presence of alliances through Baatl's painful ordeal, the other MD earth players decided to form their own alliance. Reaver, Havok, Zuul, Tokugawa, and Samoan were chosen to be the 5 coleaders of the alliance. Zuul in particular had made significant headway in foreign relations, in effect becoming the first MD diplomat. During a squabble between some of the Danes and some players in TIE, Zuul contacted TIE leadership and achieved a peace. Later, when one of the MD countries was being harassed by a rogue country, Zuul contacted MI (Mercenaries Incorporated) and contracted them to help in killing the offending country. This incident however turned for the worst quickly. MI, finding out that Tokugawa was no longer a member and was now playing in MD, quickly went about destroying his country in an act of revenge. Eventually the dispute was settled and Tokugawa was given another MI country as a replacement. At this point nearly 30 members had become part of the group and it was time to settle on a name for the alliance. Among those tossed out were K.A.O.S. as well as some others, but eventually it was decided that the MUD was the common denominator between the members and MD was chosen for the name.

Zuul then went about attempting to secure relations with the other alliances in the game. Amongst the more receptive alliances was the OOA (Obsidian Order Alliance). Zuul quickly became friends with their minister of war, Tirol. Soon the OOA asked for MD's help in fighting an alliance war. The KoH (Knights of Honor), then lead by Cougar, had a dispute with the Avengers. Cougar convinced the OOA to help fight the Avengers and OOA in turn suggested MD also help out in the battle effort. Interested in strengthening the bond between the OOA and MD, MD's leaders agreed to help and took 5 Avenger targets. After a second successful warchat in which the targets were heavily crippled (having learned that killing was not an effective strategy) many Avengers quickly went into vacation. Later, the UCN help the Avengers exact revenge on KoH (but not MD or OOA, who claimed they had been tricked into attacking Avengers by Cougar). This eventually lead to the temporary breakup of KoH. During this time due to inactivity and a need to centralize the leadership, Tokugawa, Samoan and Zuul were elected the 3 co-heads of MD. Samoan had discovered Wufbam's tournament strategy on the boards and used it to win a mid-level tourney game, while convincing Mags and Aladrin to become MD's first techers in the standard game.

Several other MDers were doing well in the tournament at this point, gaining crucial experience in netgaining. At this point, being a fully organized alliance, a web page with bulletin boards and spy reports was needed. Although the MUD proved more than adequate for member communication, it was agreed that future expansion of the alliance to include non-mudders would eventually require a website to be the center of communication. Zuul, with the help of other Danes including Barbie, produced a website, which still exists at http://www.moral.dk/earth. In order to further centralize the leadership Samoan was elected the main leader of MD. Zuul and Tokugawa were made Vice Presidents and performed the roles of foreign minister and internal minister, respectively. During this time LaF was preparing to go to war with RoCK and SOL, amongst other alliances. In an effort to establish further alliance relations MD agreed to team up with EoS, OOA, and TD in helping fight on the side of LaF. MD ended up attacking and wounding several RoCK top countries before eventually being crushed by forces from SOL, Omega, SG, and RoCK. Samoan and Hal had achieved top 100 rankings before this war, which took place 2-3 weeks before the end of the August reset. Despite being on the losing side of the battle, MD had gained significant experience in battle and insight into the world of alliance politics, as well as gained recognition from several alliances.

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===Chapter 2: The First RoCK War===

This reset was to be the first "official" reset for the MD alliance. The prior round had allowed MD to get a solid foundation in the game politically and organizationally. Samoan was elected President for a second term. Zuul remained the Foreign Minister. Tokugawa was Internal Minister, but switched to War Minister, allowing Mags to move into the position of Internal Minister. During this reset MD decided to tag itself for the first time, all countries bearing an "MD" in their names. To this point almost all of the members had come from the MUD. Ls was the first non-MUD player to join the alliance, having been in MI with Tokugawa during his formative time there. He used his excellent oratory skills to become one of the first (and few) MD posters on Alliance Talk, which was one of the centers for diplomacy and 1A politics. The alliance had grown by the start of the reset to 50 members. A significant portion (~15) of the alliance was from Denmark. This closeness enabled new MD members to share strategies and netgaining advice, paying off with a strong showing at the beginning of the reset. For the first month and a half of the reset it was not uncommon to see up to 15 members in the top 100, with a few top 10 showings as well. OOA was carried over as an ally from the previous reset, and a FDP (Full Defense Pact) was signed with EoS, whom MD had helped during the previous reset at the side of LaF. MD did not sign a FDP with LaF however, as a leadership change (Viper's ascension to Gramberto's leader position) left LaF with a leader not familiar with MD. TMA (The Moon Alliance) had broken away from SOL to form its own alliance during the course of the reset. Their leader, a Dane named Hemmingsen, quickly became friends with Zuul and led to an FDP between TMA and MD. In addition, later in the reset a FDP was signed with TIE, then led by Inferno. This alliance was cemented by the relationship formed in the first reset between Zuul and TIE.

During the opening weeks of the reset, RoCK and MD had several run-ins over landgrab disputes. War between the two sides appeared to be imminent until a serious round of negotiations with RoCK leadership led to an easing of tensions. Other problems also developed during the reset with Ragnorak, who used the cryptic tagging system of the letter 1 and the number e. This made finding Ragnorak countries very difficult with such names as 1esbian 1emmings and Cast1e Ragnarok. Disputes between the two alliances were worked out despite this problem. During the course of the reset MD leadership started to converse and work closely with the leaders of Omega. Omega was entering its second reset, having a solid core of 60-70 members with a number of outstanding netgainers. As the MD and Omega leadership grew closer, talks of a merger began in earnest. Omega leaders began playing the MD MUD and the alliances started to get to know each other better. When issues regarding the seemingly opposing nature of the allies of the two alliances (Omega was part of the Rockfamily, composed of UCN, SOL, TGA, and RoCK while MD's allies were termed the "anti coalition") arose, the two alliances agreed to postpone merger talks and sign an unbreakable NAP (non-agression pact) instead.

During the middle of the reset Obsidian, the former leader of the OOA, was growing tired with being grabbed by MD and attacked Samoan's country with his 5 multies (you've, just, been, whacked, hard). MD then swiftly killed the countries by taking their land. 1 week later the MI alliance began a massive assault on Samoan's country. This was later revealed to be the result of a contract being put out on the country by Obsidian in order to exact revenge. MI sent wave after wave of attacks against Samoan, eventually breaking through his defenses after 3 days of fighting. MD then declared war on MI, and with the help of OOA and EoS killed all MI countries. OOA had been under a significant amount of internal stress at this time, and after this incident the OOA fractured into three seperate entities. Zardoz took part of the OOA and formed the new Wolf's Lair Alliance, with which MD maintained its FDP. Obsidian took several OOA members and headed off to become a new division of TIE. Tirol, Halls, and Insanity were invited to join MD with the rest of their followers, but instead decided to try their hand at creating their own alliance, which turned out to be RAGE. RAGE and MD carried over the FDP which had been property of the OOA.

During January TIE had been experiencing problems with HAN. When this eventually led to a full-out war with HAN, TIE requested help from LaF and MD. Both LaF and MD committed their forces to the aid of TIE striking HAN for 1 day. The next day RoCK declared war on MD (RoCK was allied with HAN) and started its assault on MD countries. A temporary ceasefire was arranged with RoCK after half a day of battle. During the ceasefire period, attacks from RoCK by the Liquid division on MD continued (later attributed to the lack of a RoCK division leader to get instructions out to his division in time). As the attacks continued to come in at a slow pace several MD countries were being spied upon by RoCK countries. Taking this as a sign that RoCK was biding their time for another strike, MD gathered up allies RAGE and TMA (who had received an "errant" note detailing RoCK attack plans from a RoCK country ingame) and planned an attack for the next night. The next evening MDers began assembling on the MUD to participate in the first alliance-wide scale warchat. During the next several hours MD and allies unleashed a ferocious first strike on RoCK, crippling many top RoCK countries. During the attack Omega performed a counterstrike on TMA, effectively disabling them and removing them permanently from the war. RAGE proved to be an incredibly dedicated ally, showing through their intricate spy networth and well-placed missiles that impressive damage could be performed by a fledgeling alliance.

MD's other allies, EoS, were at this time embroiled in conflict with SOL. LaF, which had also been allied to EoS, was now sitting on the sideline as the last member of the "anti-coalition" not involved in a war. EoS, upset that LaF was not coming to its side to help, revoked their FDP with LaF. With pressure mounting for action from within the alliance, Viper stated on Alliance Talk that LaF would enter the war against RoCK unless it ceased fire. After the ceasefire ultimatum was ignored LaF came to MD's side in battle and declared war on RoCK. Gramberto, who had left EoS (after being in LaF) offered to help in the war against RoCK due to the excessive farming of his country by RoCK members. By using some very effective landgrabbing tactics he was able to stave off the repeated attempts of RoCK members to kill him, thus deflecting a significant portion of attacks away from MDers. LaF was not able to focus its attention on RoCK for long. Soon Omega and TGA declared war on LaF on behalf of their FDP RoCK. As LaF turned its attention elsewhere, MD and RAGE continued to put up an impressive fight. A second wave of attacks from MD almost equal to the powerful first strike took its toll on many of the top RoCK countries, which at that point were in disarray after being stunned by the violence of the MD attacks. After 3 days RoCK recovered to begin its own brutal counterassault, levelling the buildings of several MD nations. After a bloody couple of weeks of conflict few countries on either the MD or RoCK side still had buildings intact. Omega, sensing that TGA was doing a fine job of fighting LaF, pulled out of the battle and went on to have several top ranking finishers. Eventually, after both sides realized that fighting over empty land was futile, a peace treaty was signed that remained in effect for the last month of the reset. What had been a brilliant start to the war for MD eventually turned into a deadlock as RoCK's superior numbers proved to be the great equalizer in the fight.

After the war was over however, MD had inflicted more damage on RoCK than vice-versa. MD had proven that it was a force to be reckoned with and had gained a great deal of publicity around Earth for its fighting prowess. The summary of the war, in detail can be viewed here. The remainder of the reset was fairly peaceful. Most players began rebuilding their war-torn countries, with Zyn actually placing in the top 100, becoming MD's first top 100 finisher to date. Merger talks between Omega and MD were officially ended, however the two decided to sign a FDP for the next reset to continue their close relations. The alliance website was moved to rockcorps (hosted by RoCK, a sign that the two sides intended to keep the peace). At this time it was decided that the MUD alone did not offer enough expansion possibilities for the alliance, and that outsiders would be allowed into the alliance on a probationary conditions. Among these members was Nu, who would later go on to become a division leader. During the last month of the reset, LaF also had challenged MD to a 15 on 15 duel in one of the tournament games. Despite having a solid lead in networth by the time of the attack (an LaF strong suit), MD came from way behind to post a victory in this friendly battle through some brilliant tactics by Zuul.

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===Chapter 3: World War III===

Starting off the March 1999 reset, MD's ally base had changed somewhat from previous resets. Bolstered by their fighting performance during the previous reset, they had impressed several alliances and had new requests for FDPs, most notably Omega. EoS and RAGE were also included as FDPs. TMA, which had changed its name to FoE (Federation of Empires) and CWG signed LDPs (Limited Defense Pact) with MD. NLS, now its own alliance after spending a reset as a division of EoS, was one of MD's new FDP partners. Continuing on the theme of opening the alliance up to outsiders, several new members from other alliances joined the ranks of MD. Amongst those were 3D and several of his friends who came over from TIE. Iggie also came over from TIE. Gramberto, who had valiently deflected attacks during the previous resets' war was now in MD under an "assumed name" in order to ease his transition into the alliance and prevent potential problems with foreign relations. Loss (who would later go on to be a division leader) and Absolute from LaF came in to bolster the top rankers. Chaos came from EoS and was instantly one of the top players in the alliance.

Diocletian started his first reset after watching from the sidelines on the MD MUD. MD got off to another fast start with regards to netgaining, again placing several countries in the top 100. The alliance now stood at around 70 members, placing it in the category of a medium-sized alliance relative to others at the time. Around Earth several things had taken place. Omega had left the Rockfamily and ventured out on its own. The powerful alliance known as SG, which had a very strong showing in taking 3 top spots the reset before, vanished without a sight and remains gone until this day.

The reset progressed rather peacefully until a small conflict ignited in a powderkeg of tensions. RAGE and Ragnarok started to have difficulties midway through the server. After several hits on RAGE countries by Ragnorak, RAGE lashed out, throwing its full weight at Ragnorak. Rag quickly called in its allies to help, amongst them TGA, TIE, and SOL. The badly outnumbered RAGE called out to its allies for help, including MD and FoE. FoE started attacks on TIE, killing 3 TIE countries quickly. During this reset the population attack bug had been fixed, allowing countries to be killed through Guerilla Strikes and Bombing Runs. War had changed from that of inflicting damage to straight out killing. MD, in consultation with RAGE, and with help from CWG and DSD decided to launch an attack on TIE. Before the plans were finalized, a possible 2nd attack plan was made for TGA but quickly dismissed. Minutes before the attack on TIE commenced, TGA - acting on rumors from a spy regarding the potential attack, commenced attacks on MD. As MD began its assault on TIE, RoCK struck MD. The attack by RoCK was unexpected due to no formal ties between RoCK and TIE, and was later found to be the result of a post made by one of the MD members on the MD private board that he thought RoCK would make a good target for an eventual war.

MD's first assault on TIE resulted in the death of the top 12 TIE rankers, with Inferno's country going on vacation seconds before also being killed. Now being assaulted by TIE, TGA, and RoCK, MD looked to its allies for support. NLS was in the midst of a reset-long quarrel with Resevoir Dogs, while EoS was plotting for revenge with UCN over a conflict that had occurred earlier in the round. MD turned to Omega for assistance. This request put Omega in an awkward position; during the previous reset they had been allied to RoCK and were now being asked to attack them. Despite this dilemma, Omega fulfilled the FDP and came to the aid of MD in attacking RoCK. MD and Omega trained most of their efforts on RoCK (which was the biggest threat in the war) over the course of the war killed off most of the high and mid-ranking RoCK countries. RoCK, not enjoying the action, called in SOL to hit Omega (as well as TIE). In order to try and stall the MD attack, RoCK also requested HAN attack MD. HAN and SOL reverted to the old style of combat by destroying the buildings of MD and Omega respectively, eventually wearing down the two alliances until they succumbed to the force of the sheer numbers facing them. Omega and MD, fighting a strong fight in the early going, eventually crumbled under the combined might of HAN, RoCK, SOL, TIE, and TGA.

Meanwhile, EoS had decided to unleash an assault on the remaining Rockfamily member, UCN, only to be crushed in the ensuing war. This war effectively spelled the end of EoS as an alliance. MD gained several new members at the end of the reset who came from EoS, among them Haderach, Wipeout, and Bigfoot. Eventually real-life concerns led Samoan away from the MD leadership. He was succeeded by Mags, who helped MD finish out the reset and prepare for the upcoming round. Virtually every large alliance in the game had seen action in war this round, which was forever known as World War III. One of the few exceptions was LaF, which easily dominated the round by following an isolationist foreign policy. The reset left an uncertain future for MD. MD had again fought very well, but this advantage was again outweighed by superior numbers on the opposing side. MD had also lost one of its top allies in EoS.

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===Chapter 4: Peace on Earth===

After a reset of turbulence, MD looked towards its 4th reset as a time in which it needed to stablize its foundation. Three straight resets of fighting had allowed MD to gain tremendous respect towards its fighting ability, but several alliance rankings questioned MD's ability to netgain. MD had always started out the reset in fine form, but ended up in conflict at the end. Mags had led MD for the last part of the previous reset, but wished to take back his old role of Internal Minister. Diocletian was elected the new leader of MD and set his sights on leading the alliance to bigger and better things. MD's set of allies had changed again. Now adopting a more isolationist policy, MD signed no official pacts during this round.

This reset turned out to be a difficult one for Omega. A few weeks into the reset their top countries were severely hurt by countries from an alliance named Tiger. Closer inspection revealed that these countries were allied to RoCK and an investigation turned up evidence that a RoCK members was controlling these countries. Opinion was divided in Omega on whether to attack RoCK for this action. Eventually this debate caused enough tension for a pack of Omega members to break away from the alliance, later forming the core of what is now known as SoF. The remaining members of Omega finally decided to attack RoCK, but were no match after losing many of their members and having many of their countries severely damaged by the Tiger bot countries. At the end of the reset information was revealed that several elements of the RoCK leadership knew about the Tiger countries and used them to fight Omega. Eventually this scandal lead to the resignation of several RoCK leaders and the formation of Legion, the successor to RoCK.

Meanwhile, MD was in the middle of a peaceful reset. With no real threat of war on the horizon, MD focused its energy on netgaining. MD membership stood at around 70 members at this point in time, being composed of an increasing amount of non-MUD players. Several of the MUD players had retired at the end of the previous reset. A fair amount of new blood was infused into the leadership with the position of foreign minister being filled by Badcat, and the aid of Slambert in administering internal affairs. Several new members recruited from the tournament and 1a games increased the number of excellant netgainers in the alliance, including Eastern, Western, and Natescape. Several problems started to emerge towards the end of the reset.

Gramberto, who had now been relieved of his assumed name, was in the top 5 with less than a week before the end of the reset. However, he was struck down by a group of multies played by rivals who had disputes with him in the past. Gramberto vowed to run bots the next reset on LaF, whom he accused of harboring the individuals responsible for destroying his country. Despite his contributions to the alliance, he was asked to leave the alliance after making his threat to run multies. In addition, two MD countries were hacked at the end of the reset, including Mags' country. This resulted in warning members to guard their login names more carefully, a move which paid off the next reset when a hacker broke into several countries in order to send a clear message to the game administrator to repair the bugs in the game. The unfortunate experience of having countries hacked during this reset resulted in the good fortune of not having a country hacked during the next reset due to the extra precautions taken.

Despite these problems MD finally came through the reset with an impressive netgaining performance, finishing second in total networth. Western finished 5th in the final rankings, and the alliance place 15 of its 70 members in the top 100. A small test reset followed in which several game changes were made, including the introduction of a new government and a general rebalancing of the game. During this time Samoan returned and was elected leader, taking over from Diocletian who had guided MD to its best reset.

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===Chapter 5: Expansion and Prosperity===

An extensive recruiting drive had been conducted during the test reset in order to complete the final piece of the puzzle for MD. MD had proven it was a very capable fighting force in the past, and had just finished up a very successful netgaining reset. Despite the aggressive recruiting campaign, the alliance stood at only 90 members at the beginning of the reset. Due to the ever-changing nature of earth politics MD's set of allies had taken on a very different look. Omega was again signed as an FDP, along with LaF. MD also took a very definative step in its political development, becoming a member of TSA (which consisted of SOL, BoA, Elites, and AoD). This provided the alliance with a strong set of allies to ensure that it would never suffer through another "gang-bang" as had taken place during World War III. The reset got off to a rocky start, as Gramberto's multies took a heavy toll on ally LaF. A spree of mass hackings also interrupted the start of the game, with many countries in other alliances falling victim to the hacker. Luckily MD's previous encounter with a hacker had proven to be an important lesson, and MD countries were largely spared from the hacker's wrath.

The rockcorps alliance site was merged with the rockfamily site to form Gamerstown, which became the new headquarters for MD. The leadership team of MD included Zuul, Diocletian and Mags as Vice Presidents, Badcat as Foreign Minister, and Slambert as internal minister. One month into the reset MD was approached by the leaders of SOL who informed them of problems inside of BoA. Part of BoA, known as Mirage, had set off on its own in order to try its hand a becoming a seperate alliance. After finding the going difficult without the backing of a large member-base, Mirage came to MD asking for protection as a temporary division. Mirage quickly joined the MD tag, boosting the overall alliance membership to over 115. Soon after, 3D - a former MD member and now the leader of WoG, expressed his desire to incorporate WoG into an alliance due to his lack of time to commit to alliance leadership. His previous ties to MD proved to be the difference-maker, and the members of WoG merged into MD, placing the alliance at upwards of 140 members. In little more than a reset the membership of MD had nearly doubled, finally providing the alliance with the numbers needed to cement its place as a top alliance. This addition of members did not dilute the quality of the membership, as an aggressive mentoring and networth coaching campaign helped turn the new members into excellent netgainers.

The middle of the reset was again marred by trouble as Omega was threatened by another bot. This one however was much less menacing due to new restrictions placed in the game on suiciding and Omega went on to finish 3rd in average networth and 4th in total net. LaF overcame its bot troubles and went on to fight Armada, scoring a big victory. The reset as a whole was quiet for TSA, with the exception of a small conflict towards the end of the round. DaMob had encountered a problem with AForce, which quickly escalated into an all-out war. TSA, including MD, came to the assistance of DaMob. Institution of a series of war drills earlier in the round by Zuul proved to be invaluable, as the greatly expanded alliance showed the same coordination it had during its early days, dispatching 15 AForce countries.

After this conflict, MD settled back into netgaining mode. With much of Earth in conflict (primarily centered around a war between UCN and the Rockfamily) MD was able to take several top spots. Four MDers finished the reset in the top 10: Slambert, Nu, Haderach, and Natescape. In addition, 33 members made the top 100 list. MD finished first in total networth by more than doubling that of the second place alliance and finished second in average networth in a down-to-the-wire finish with New Monsters, New Monsters barely edging ahead on the last day. At 150 members the alliance was exactly double its total from the reset before, with no noticeable dropoff in member quality. MD was now recognized as one of the elite alliances of earth and started to garner some nods as the top alliance.

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===Chapter 6: A Break in the FoG===

The political landscape of Earth would change yet again as a new coalition named FoG charged onto the scene. FoG was composed of several alliances, including Legion, NLS, TGA, Forest and Dragons. Forest, NLS, and Legion merged under one large FoG tag with over 300 members which dominated the total networth chart and total members charts in the early going. MD's leadership team remained fairly constant with the lone addition of Ampy to assistant Foreign Minister. The MD membership increased with the addition of TCR, formerly a division of the now defunct CGS. During the middle of the reset MD also took in DaMob as a division due to the longstanding relationship between Hemmingsen and MD. MD remained in TSA (which had added Camelot, and ICN) and had FDPs with Omega (who joined TSA early in the reset) and TIE, as well as LDPs with Arrow (who had come of age the previous reset) and old friends RAGE.

MD was heading through a rather noneventful reset when trouble with one of its allies started to brew. Due to a bug in the ingame news, several attacks that occurred did not show in the news. This became a problem, particularly for TGA who had a stated 2:1 retaliation policy. During this reset both RAGE and LaF had problems when TGA began overretaliating past their 2:1 policy (retaliations that occured did not always show in the news, and TGA relied solely on the news to determine whether a country was still owed retaliation). Tensions increased between LaF and TGA on the news issue, but TGA refused to budge. When the top ranking LaF country performed what LaF considered to be justified retaliations, it was greated with a flurry of missiles and attacks from TGA. LaF had little choice but to declare war after another of their countries was killed by TGA after it tried hitting the missile launchers back.

Meanwhile, RAGE had its own problems with the news-bug retaliation problems from TGA. After escalation of the landgrab situation ingame, including numerous spy ops from TGA, RAGE decided to declare war. By a stroke of fate RAGE and LaF had each declared war and begun their opening assaults on TGA on the same day (for seperate grievances). The FoG main tag quickly came to the aid of TGA, battling back against the RAGE assault. This skirmish lasted for 2 days before evidence of TGA cheating was discovered, at which time TGA was removed from FoG and a ceasefire signed between RAGE and FoG. In another instance of problems with a FoG member, Arrow had been having problems with HAN. Repeated attempts to negotiate with HAN leaders resulted in NAPs that were not honored and eventual escalation of the problem into a full fledged war. The main FoG tag immediately came to the aid of HAN and commenced attacks on Arrow. This led RAGE to declare war on FoG (RAGE had a FDP with Arrow). However, with RAGE still tied up in a war with TGA, Arrow could only hold out so long against the combined 400+ countries of HAN and FoG.

Arrow called on MD to invoke its LDP, which it did, launching an assault on FoG. In short order SoF, Omega, TFS, and New Monsters also joined in the fight against FoG, leaving the coalition badly outnumbered. MD showed its coordination of the past and excellent war tactics were still strong, dealing out the most punishment of any alliance in the war. Despite being outnumbered by FoG 3:2, MD performed 30% more attacks than those countries under the main FoG tag. The results of this war can be found here. After suffering incredible punishment, and the loss of over 80 countries FoG agreed to a ceasefire with the attacking parties. MD had now shown that it was one of the premiere fighting alliances in the game, and despite its size still managed to lead in average attacks delivered per country. This performance was a testament to the long hours of work by the experienced war leaders and dedication of the members, along with experiences of several training drills which helped prepare the members for a wartime situation. With the war over, MD set about rebuilding its war-torn countries which had absorbed almost 60% of the damage inflicted by FoG. Despite this ferocious war (losing 15-20 of its top countries in the process) the alliance again finished at the top in total networth, winning by 1 billion networth over the 2nd place alliance and producing 8 top 100 countries.

At the end of the reset Samoan and Diocletian announced their retirement from MD. In the subsequent election Ampy was chosen as the new leader of the alliance.

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===Chapter 7: Ampy's Term as President===

Never written.
===Chapter 8: Smoke on the Water===

Never written.
===Chapter 9: When the Thunder Strikes===

Never written.

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===Chapter 10: Contained Aggression===

This reset started for MD with a change in presidency. Locutus took the reigns from Ampy as president of MD. Vice presidents were Balor and Viola. The rest of MD leadership consisted of M_A_C as FM, Mecil as IM(later replaced by Mathalas), Anticimex as Admin, Zuul as General, Cyron as Strategical Advisor and Assasins leader and Diocletian, Samoan and Ampy as Political Advisors. MD's allies consisted of alliances such as Omega, SoF, AoD, RAGE, Armageddon, PoW, TheCult, Clowns, ICN, Elitez, IX, Arrow, Seawolf and Ragnarok. We had signed alot of DPs this reset due to our intent to war.

This reset was a reset where MD would once again show it fighting prowess after we won Total Networth the reset before. This reset would be one were MD would be more prepared for war then ever before, it would be the best war performance we had and we would fight a formidable enemy. One we found in UCN. It was early in the reset when UCN was chosen as the intended target for that reset, something we had not done before(chosing a target a mere few days into the reset.) UCN as intended target had been discussed with the VP's and in a bigger extent with Ampy.

I (Locutus) had to leave for the weekend to goto a concert and left Balor and Viola in control of MD. The events happening in that weekend changed the plans for MD that reset. When I returned from the concert to take back control I was informed by Balor he had a run in with Fingolfin. Apparently Fingolfin caught wind of MD's plans to strike them, and had threatened to war MD. Balor UNAPPED UCN on advice from Ampy, who knew I had planned to take UCN on head to head that reset and that I would welcome these threats of UCN. This backstab by MD leadership caused a complete change of plans for MD. When Balor left the reset after this one, I found out the full truth. Ampy had signed a secret FDP with UCN this reset behind my back. And looking back it was probably she who informed fingolfin, I still believe Balor was suckered in here.

With UCN out of the way as a target, MD continued to prepare for a war, hoping that some of our DPs would pull us into a war, we had signed some pacts with alliances that warred alot, so chances of defending an ally in battle were good.

Early in the reset we got into a topfeeding battle with SoL. MD membership screamed for war with SoL, however MD leadership did not see SoL as a target. They would not provide the needed exposure which this reset was all about for MD. The SoL issue resulted in heated exchange of landgrabs until both sides agreed to NAP eachother and cease the hostilities. SoL and MD had grown apart for several resets due to SoLs refusal to accept 2:1 retals on NAP violations. Since TSA broke up SoL and MD have never been as tight again, but still warring them would not give us the wanted exposure. So MD leadership looked for allies who we could assist in war, so we could crush a few alliances and gain favor with allies.

However during the reset no wars our allies fought exploded into wars where allies where called in. Leaving a MD fully prepared for war without an enemy to relieve it's aggression on. This reset was a reset where MD was more prepared then EVER before for war. MD consisted of OVER 100 dictators, and had the ability to strike anyone down with force. Never before had MD been this ready, each and every MD nation was perfectly setup to do battle.

The reset started to draw to a close and we still had not fought, our networth was below standard due to the EXTREME level of commitment to war ready countries. There was no major focus on netgaining as ussual, we had focussed on 100% war governments and warbult nations. A good networth finish was not an option. Omega was also build for war that reset and had not found a battle, we even considered a friendly 1 on 1 with our close allies The Omega, but MD preceived this as completely useless and it would not advance our goals one bit.

It was a few weeks before the reset ended that RED got hit by a much larger TGA. RED and TGA had been exchanging attacks for awhile now. RED had aggressively topfed TGA and TGA had enough and struck RED. RED died off pretty quickly, since TGA outnumbered them 3:1. MD at that time had nothing more then a NAP with RED. However this would be one of the last opportunities to be able to show our war prowess. A quick glace over TGA's publically posted ally list reveiled they had several allies they could call in on MD, to give us more of a challenge. So MD leadership contacted RED leadership and RED agreed to sign a fake LDP with MD, allowing us to come in. It is also to be noted TGA has 95% of their alliance hiding in GDI.

MD struck TGA fast and very hard. The first strike was the BEST first strike by MD in its entire history, with almost 7000 hits(6.somethingK) in the first 24 hours of the war(with the old readiness values). TGA was unable to defend against MD's attacks, they kept focussing mainly on RED and after most of RED had died they focussed more on MD. Unlike we predicted TGA choose not to call in allies against MD, leaving MD with a war where we killed over 100 TGA nations without much resistance or casualties on MD side. The GDI of TGA hindered out war effort due to the dec war bug(population kills dont let you undeclare war). The public expose from this war however was not very good. MD had made it's best first strike since it's existance and was one of the more effective MD war machines compared to previous incarnations, but our public exposure provided a problem and looking back, we did not use our PR abilities to the best.

During the last few weeks as president I saw how the reset went for MD and I quickly got burned out by the constant warchats and the uneventfull war. In my eyes I had failed MD, eventhough MD had performed better then war then ever before, I felt like I had let MD down. I choose not to run again for president and withdrew after accepting my nomination. I was too burned out and unable to lead anymore. I needed a break desperately. In the following presidential elections the candidates were Ampy, Balor and Viola.

One of MD's best rules during our presidential elections was the NO campaigning rule. I broke this myself, by openly endorsing Ampy for president, a choice made out of resentment towards my VPs due to the fact I held them responsible for the UNAP with UCN, which in my mind caused the failure of this reset. Ampy eventually won the elections, and I let her taken over the last week of the reset, so i could take the much needed break as I hated to login to the MD website at that moment.

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===Chapter 11: The End of a Legend?===

This reset started for MD with a change in presidency. Ampy took back the reigns from Locutus as president of MD. Vice president was M_A_C. The rest of the leadership consisted of Balor as IM, Viola as FM, Chirod as Admin, Waser as General(The successor to one of the best generals in the game, Zuul), Locutus as Politcal and Strategical advisor, Diocletian as Political Advisor and Cyron as Strategic Advisor. Samoan and Mathalas started this reset as political advisors as well but eventually left MD.

MD's allies remained very much the same as the reset before, however there were some noteworthy changes. With Ampy as president the secret FDP from the previous reset became an "open" DP. This means the heads knew about it. This decision was not taken in very well by the rest of MD leadership at all. Since MD had always been distant from UCN in the past, and Fingolfin, UCN's president, was preceived by MD leadership as a leader who did not care much for it's allies and always had a hidden agenda. But Ampy, as president pushed the decision, eventhough other heads disagreed with this. Another VERY interesting FDP was.. TGA.

The previous reset MD had destroyed TGA and Digtek was not, well lets say he was quite pissed off by MD's involvement in the RED-TGA war(I wish I had not accidently deleted my old ICQ database, you should have seen the conversations between myself and DigTek, quite amusing). TGA and Ampy had been talking during the reset change, and TGA threatened to destroy MD with multis to revenge the defeat suffered in the previous reset versus MD. Ampy saw this threat as real and did not wish MD to face this. In her own way she thought she was saving MD from the attack of the multis, perhaps she did. She choose to sign the FDP under the threat of multis. However she did not inform other MD heads about this decision until later. I will continue about how this played down internally abit later. First more on the beginning of this very though reset for MD.

MD started the reset, setting out to netgain yet again. Our goal was to take another networth title home. We suffered from some players who were not fully active, and before I knew it the decision was taken by Ampy/M_A_C to remove ANY inactive membership, instead of giving it effort to get them active again. This MAJOR loss in membership cost MD some 30-40 members if I remember it correctly. To me this was a wrong decision, till this day I believe we should have focussed and worked hard on instilling activity and loyalty into these members and not shoving them out like yesterdays thrash. But it was done. So MD started with a lowered membership. Recruitment was stopped completely so we were unable to replace the lost membership and we kept hovering around the 140 members in the start of the reset. Only people that knew MD'ers were accepted. But we would heavy reorganize and come out this reset stronger, or so was the plan. Quitely netgain and grow stronger.

But that is not how this reset turned out. This is undoubtedly the thoughest reset MD had EVER been through. And this would become evident as the reset progressed. For awhile now, since the previous reset people had began to predict MD's decline. They were right, it did happen, but not like they thought it would.

During this reset the MD heads would totally dissapear from the scene. We had introduced a new concept, called the "State of MD". A weekly report by the president of MD, about the current affairs of MD. Each week Ampy posted this state of MD, however M_A_C wrote them almost each time. The activity from our heads dwindled down at an alarming rate. Not only Ampy lacked the time and dedication, but our total head team did. As said Ampy did not even take the time to write her weekly update, her time spent on MD dwindled down to a weekly sentimental message on the private forum to our membership. Balor, our IM, did near to nothing for his task. Viola, our FM, solely focussed on his FM tasks, having hardly any contact with MD membership, yet doing his job as FM good. M_A_C had spent alot of the reset doing the work of Ampy and Balor. Around the 2nd week of december M_A_C went home from school and had only limited internet time. The time he had online was concentrated on a project I will talk later about and on various contest/coaching. M_A_C became heavily burned out from shouldering so much of the burden, being IM, VP, Pres and FM in one. I had VERY minimal presence on the forums, since I was burned out after last reset. However my joy for the game and MD returned after a few weeks(2-3). Diocletian did his job as advisor, and only advised the heads. Other heads didnt do much of solid work at all. Chirod however did his admin job and took over most of the tasks Balor, as IM, and ampy neglected. He was perhaps the only trully active head at that time and shouldered alot of the burden. This inactivity of the head team resulted in a very bad communication towards our leaders and veterans.

As I said earlier Ampy had signed a FDP with TGA, without informing the other heads, how we found out about it, I am not sure, she might have said so herself or we found out through other means. At first this resulted in a big fight between Samoan and Ampy which was more of a mudslinging fight. This dispute with Ampy caused Samoan to leave MD for good. The other heads however continued this discussion. Ampy explained her actions, and told the heads she did it for MD. However this opinion was not shared at all . We saw it as a sign of weakness, by signing a FDP with TGA because of a threat was NOT how MD operated. MD heads strongly oppossed the decision and told ampy to tell TGA we would break the pact on the spot. However Ampy refused this. The inactivity among the heads caused this to lay dorment for a while as we waited for Ampy to go and break the pact, reminding her frequently. But she refused. So I took it upon myself to correct this mistake she made and went to TGA to break the pact myself. I was told by TGA they required Ampy to say i had the authority to do so, and after talking to ampy she messaged TGA telling them i had the authority to do so. So I approached TGA again the next day and cancelled our relations to them. Finally bringing an end to this very akward situation for MD. We keep the thread up on our heads forum until this day, so our new heads can read it and see how this went down and the mistakes made. (You may read this Wiz room thread HERE)

During all this M_A_C and Ampy had also endavoured on another project. One that would mean the death of Moral Decay. They both saw the dropping membership numbers, the inactive leadership and their solution to this problem was an equal merger WITH our long term allies of TheCult. This merger was seen as a way to bring new blood to MD. To restore MD to power and fix all our problems. The alliance resulting from this would bear the name The Cult of Moral Decay. These merger talks went all the way. Every detail was worked out and it was set to go. Until some other events took place internally.

Around january 1st it was I believe that our swedish division all stood up and left MD, due to discontent with MD leadership. They left to Titans, an alliance Samoan(who had left MD due to discontent with the TGA matter and personal fights with Ampy) had started. Before our swedish division left, various other MD'ers had already stood up and left MD. As said our leadership was running on VERY limited power. After a talk with the swedes, people whom I had befriended in MD, I saw the true seriousness of the situation and knew something had to be done. so I proceeded by making a post to our heads, telling them that this situation could NOT continue. I laid out the fact and the changes that needed to happen. The basic contents of this post(which remains on our heads forum till this day) was that the only active heads consisted of me and chirod, and that the other needed to be replaced. And after I made that post, the changes started to happen. I entered a chat with ampy, where she told me she realized she was not the leader MD needed at this moment. MD was losing members at a rapid pace and nothing was happening. MD leadership was inactive. She told me she was stepping down as per immediatly. And asked me to take over as president. I agreed to this without hesistation. (You may read this post HERE)

After that moment the changes started to happen. MD leadership was consolidating. I became the new president of MD, M_A_C was able to get back and be active again, he remained as VP. Balor was demoted to veteran on the spot. Chirod was convinced to stay(he had already got access to the titans forum and did not believe in the possibility of a revival of MD) promoted to IM. We did not replace the admin position. Waser remained as general, Diocletian remained as advisor, but only until the end of this reset. Because we re-defined what it meant to be a head. If you wanted to be a head, you had two jobs. You were an IM, an admin, but you had a second job, you were a HEAD. This meant that when you see a problem, YOU fix it, it meant you needed to be active towards our members, talk to them, communicate with them. Viola also remained as FM, but would step down after this reset due to the fact he could not live upto what being a head meant, he was an excellent FA though.

It was this moment that changed MD, if we had not undertaken action then, chirod one of the two active heads left, would leave to titans, leaving only me as fully active head. which would not have been enough to restore MD. This was the first step. It was taken on january 2nd and 3rd. It was a proud day, a day where we stopped the decline of MD and started working on improving MD once again.

But it was ONLY the first step. MD had fallen from very high, and very hard. But MD heads BELIEVED we could do it, and that was the key. Alot happened after that, too much to describe to you now. But we also very quickly realized the cult merger was NOT an option for MD. The cult merger was a easy escape from our problems, a misguided direction taken by MD leadership. So it was then that we stopped futher discussing it. Our membership was not for this merger at all, they saw things went wrong, but they felt a extreme loyalty to MD, they would NOT let it die. So we took a vote. This vote was twofold. More then 75% of our members and veterans needed to vote pro this merger and more then 75% of the heads and leaders needed to vote pro this merger. We did not bother to promote this merger to our membership one bit, since we did not see it as a solution, but we wanted our membership to speak up, to give them a voice.The vote did not pass leadership, and it did not pass our membership. Both votes turned out negative by far.

But doing this vote, letting our members feel the end of MD was so very close(A quote i remember was that this merger was "This will be the last nail in our coffin"). The spirit to our membership returned. Leadership AND membership wanted to work for MD and hard. All that remained of MD was a veteran core of about 85-95 members with about 10-20 members. Everyone started to work on MD again. The heads apologized for the extreme level of failure coming from them, which was DIRECTLY responsible for our downfall.

The path of communication from our heads to our members and veterans were restored. We made it a rule no head could hide on invisible when online and encouraged our membership to yet again contact heads whenever they saw us online. We moved all discussions from our heads forum to the leaders forum, re-establishing good communication with our leaders, which was near non-existant before. Our veterans started a recruitment drive. We gathered contacts of all our old veterans and asked them to rejoin MD in an effort to rebuild MD, a project led by Ball, a true MD veteran. Other MD'ers helped Ball, they recruited their friends, they wanted to work for MD. They signed up for any job they coul do. Everyone was willing to help pull MD out of the grave and hole we were in.

This was perhaps one of the best times ever for MD. Knowing MD nearly did not exist as alliance anymore, a threat that was so close to everyone, that the leaving of veterans stopped, that everyone worked for MD. I can not credit the revival of MD to any one person, it was a team effort, one started on 3 january, a massive change for MD, but damn those were the days. Heads spending well over 10 hours day on MD, every member doing what they could. I have one word to describe the resilance MD showed then, AWESOME. It was a great sight to see.

MD ended the reset with only 114 members tagged (from 190 the previous reset), but we had a new sense of direction, new goals and new things to conquer and achieve. MD would never give up.

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===Chapter 12: Illuminated Skies===

This reset started for MD with only a few changes in our leadership. We had already seen alot of changes in our leadership 2 weeks before this reset started. Locutus was elected president again, with as vice president M_A_C again. The other leadership consisted of Chirod as IM, Ozmosis as FM, Mags as admin(later to be PA), Versus as raider leader(later to take over from Mags as Admin) and Waser as general. We had severely streamlined our leadership. We went from 13 heads to only 6 heads, which worked much better. This reset we have 6 heads, 14 leaders, 79 veterans and 68 members. These stats showed that MD had only lost 15 veterans from 2 resets ago(when we were 180 members large) and that 80% of our membership loss in the previous resets were regular members, it proved MD had a solid core.

Our relations remained much the same. Noteworthy were the FDP with SoF and Omega, a LDP with Ragnarok and a FDP with Clowns. At the beginning we were still hammering out the pact details with SoF and Elitez who both introduced land:land retals. These pact types would prevent topfeeding, and let the hit alliance hit back as much as needed to regained the lost land. MD did not favor this approach to retals, but as a test we accepted both pact offers.

The history for this reset is very well preserved, as stated in the previous chapter we started doing states of MD, which informed our veterans on whats going on in MD, and how situations developed. These were all saved and are used as reference base.

This reset was a netgaining reset for MD. We needed to recover from the events of last reset where the MD saga nearly ended. Our leadership was doing very good, communication between leaders and heads was excellent, and the communication from heads to veterans and members was superb, a VERY big improvement from the previous reset. MD was making great strides internally from the previous reset. The coaching program for example which was completely dead the previous reset had been restarted, early reset some 40 members were receiving active 1 on 1 coaching. Alot of projects were restarted everywhere, the revival of MD internally was an amazing thing to witness.

During the first few weeks we grew to 140 members again, and we were going great ingame! We were the most landfat alliance in the game, a tradition of MD :). We experienced some early trouble with topfeeding by UCN and TGA. Ampy had left MD for UCN and wanted a 2:1 FDP with MD, however as you could read in the previous chapter MD carried no love for UCN, so we offered them a 2:1 NAP, this was respectfully declined by their FA Ampy, and we ended up with no pact whatsoever, leading to various exchanges in land between MD and UCN. However we were able to settle our differences and sign a NAP after the early exchanges in acres. The TGA matter was different though. TGA was still somewhat resentfull from the war 2 resets ago and the fact I had cancelled the FDP they got from the previous MD leadership under threats. We had no pacts and we faced alot of topfeeds by TGA. However MD had our assasins in place, a small team of players who play jet heavy dictator farmers, staying at low acres. It is their job to effectively do retals and gain alot of acres back, letting the MD'er they retalled for farm the acres back. This ensured we were superior in the land exchanges when the assasins were put to use. However this situation very quickly escalated when one of our assasins, pepo, did alot of retals one after another on TGA'ers that grabbed us. TGA's response consisted of VERY many attacks on pepo's country. This caused MD to goto yellow alert and prepare for war, even though this was a netgaining reset, we were always ready for war and knew we might have to pick up the arms. I did not call yellow alert immediately, because TGA admitted their fault and seemed more then willing to settle the problems, but the next day we had seen that TGA had only attacked a few times that day, suggesting they were saving turns. MD responded by saving full turns and executing on it its warplans, to take MD from netgaining mode to full war readiness mode in a few days. Our members were instructed on what to do. However in later talks, TGA remained willing to admit fault and we signed a 2:1 NAP, ending the yellow alert and the immediate danger for war, but if war would have come, then MD would have been ready for it. These events all transpired in the fifth week of the reset.

MD continued to grow as alliance but also ingame. We remained the most landfat alliance in the entire game by FAR! as these stats show: Week 6 of the reset(2/27/2001): 1.MD 16,083 2.Titans 13,773 (-2310 acres) 3.Horizon 12,904 (-3179 acres) 4.Omega 12,888(-3195 acres) 5.RED 12,600(-3483 acres) MD was set up for a TNW win, even though we only carried 135 members at the time! We were looking very good! However those plans to take total networth were violently pushed aside. On thursdaynight(march 1st 2001), just after I went to sleep, IX attacked Omega because of a dispute from the previous reset (Omega leader Aphex had revealed that IX babysat countries in their wars by sitting in on warchats). A very silly reason to war Omega, just because IX was caught with their pants down. Also note that Omega was totally geared to netgain, while IX was geared to fight.

Omega had traditionally been MD's closest ally, we had fought together many times. And this reset Omega had totally been geared towards netgaining, they were not prepared for war and had suffered the loss of a large percentage of their top nations in the first strike of IX. So Omega called for MD to assist.

However before the war between IX and Omega began some events happened that are of alot of importance to the story. The day before IX declared war on The Omega, the FA of IX came to me to talk about upgrading our pact (this was on 28 february), we signed a UNAP(Unbreakable Non Agression Pact) and would sign a LDP(Limited Defensive Pact) the coming reset. MD signed that pact wit IX, thinking IX had the best of intentions(like they claimed). However after IX first struck The Omega the following day, it became clear that IX only wanted the UNAP with MD, because it would prevent MD from assisting The Omega in their war.

At first we explored our options for this war, unfortunatly MD was Omegas only backup, I believe SoF was already pre-occupied at the time with killing some alliance. SoF would have been more then willing to take a piece out of IX, if they were not pre-occupied. It became clear that MD was the ONLY and last line of defense for The Omega. If MD did not give up our netgaining chances, then Omega would surely suffer a defeat(if memory serves they had lost near 30 top nations of they 120 total nations in the first strike by IX).

So it was decided, eventhough we had signed the UNAP with IX, we would assist The Omega to defeat IX. IX had betrayed the trust of MD when they signed that UNAP, no way in hell we would honor that pact and leave omega out in the cold.

On sunday march 4th around 5.05PM gametime we went to war against the Illuminati X in defense of our FDP The Omega. (You may read the declaration of war post used HERE) This war VERY quickly escalated and would last until the end of the reset. The war was VERY brutal. MD's activity rate in this war was very high, between 92% and 96%. Early in the war IX stonewalled alot, IX knew our first strike was coming, and they had saved turns to stonewall with, hampering MD's early war effort, also MD did not have enough time to switch from netgaining mode to war mode, due to the urgency of the situation. One of the tactics employed by MD and Omega was targetting the high ranking and active countries ofcourse. But we had the luck to get the membershiplist of IX' site which linked each IX country to it's owner. We used this information to take out the countries of IX' presidents and heads and leaders first. We hoped this would strike their morale. The nations we killed in the first few days of the war belonged to: Deitylord (IX president), scarface(IX vice president), Tbody(IX war minister), DTA(Internal affairs), DrSbaitso(IX foreign affairs), Don Duque(War minister) and abit later we killed Alan (IX Foreign affairs). No heads remained alive. We knew their membership would notice the countries of their heads were killed. In general membership looks upto their heads and they will take the death of the country of the president "harder" then of a regular veteran or member.

In response to MD's involval in the war, IX called in one of it's allies, namely PoW. However instead of PoW hitting MD, like we expected, they hit The Omega, causing more widespread damage there and avoiding MD DP's. But we did not leave it at this, MD and Omega brutally continued their onslaught on IX(our shared warchats ROCKED!), and MD's LDP Ragnarok was willing to assist MD and Omega in our war, by taking some pressure of Omega and striking PoW. The war escalted from that very quickly, and the sides were: 

"-->" denotes attacked: '''A''' attacked '''B'''
* IX --> omega
* MD --> IX (MD defended Omega)
* POW --> Omega (PoW aided IX)
* Rag --> POW (Rag defended Omega)
* FA --> MD (FA defended IX)
* SEAWOLF --> Ragnarok (Seawolf defended PoW)
* CWG --> FA (CWG defended MD)
* ICN --> CWG (ICN defended FA)
* KoS --> seawolf (KoS defended Rag)
* CCSGN --> seawolf (CCSGN defended Rag)
* CWG --> ICN (CWG switched target to ICN, since sof was allied to ICN and couldnt hit them, they could however hit FA)
* SOF --> FA (SoF took over from CWG and attacked FA, SoF defended MD)
* Quebec -->MD(Quebec defended IX)
* CCSGN withdraws at this point and attack TKS(unrelated)

So how does this all even upto the sides:

IX,POW,FA,SEAWOLF,ICN,Quebec vs. Omega,MD,Rag,CWG,KoS,SoF,CCSGN(withdrawn)

So how many vs how many nations is this? 606 nations vs 683 nations At that time(week 8 of the reset, 3/13/2001) we had 68 confirmed kills on IX(this is from Omega and MD hits). MD had lost around 30 nations (this is from hits from IX, FAngels and Quebec). MD was outhitting IX, and we had about 25-28 top 500 nations left (the "breakers") while IX has NO active alive nations in the top 500 left at that time.

FAngels and Quebec were used by IX to break down MD toprankers, also ALOT of MD top rankers were AB'ed by FAngels (my own country was leveled from 34K build acres to 1.5K build acres). This did not deter our hit output much, but it caused our toprankers to slowly drop out of the top 500 and top 1000. FAngels was quickly decimated by CWG and then by SoF. PoW was beating down on Omega, however one Omega country stonewalled 1800 hits from PoW due to their slow warchats.

Seeing how MD's attacks on IX were not stopped by the combined forces of IX, Quebec and Fangels, IX let their ally Seawolf stop from attacking Ragnarok, and Seawolf struck MD as well, hoping to deter the MD warmachine. The Cult and SoF attacked Quebec. Euro defended Quebec and struck The Cult. After the brutal attack on Quebec by mainly SoF Quebec surrendered to MD and they disbanded and merged into TIE.

MD's performance in this war remained excellent, we killed the 100th IX'er on 3/20/2001. We kept outhitting IX each day, and they had only 2 toprankers left, compared to MD's 13(note: alot of our toprankers dropped out of the top 1000 due to loss of buildings and selling tech etc for cash). Our activity at this time remained OVER 90%, this was after 15 days of battle, its impressive to say the least, since ALOT of MD'ers died as well or were leveled. During this time it was also beginning to become clear that IX' had internal problems. We saw very little restarts from them, their hit numbers dwindled quickly, IX members seemed to not believe in the war anymore. The early killing of their leaders nations, hopefully had a little to do with this. (You may read an AT post about IX and their war efforts HERE)

Beside the war MD kept focussing on expansion, we kept recruiting and looking for potential alliances to absorb into MD, merger talks INTO MD were advanced with PSi and OLM, but those were both blown off.

The war with IX lasted until the very last day of the reset, IX had insulted SoF and SoF wanted a piece of the killing of IX. however SoF respected MD and Omega's wishes to finish this alone. IX had been beaten down, at the end of the war IX was putting out like 200 attacks each day, if even, while MD and Omega continued strong each day. There was no sight of IX member restarts when their countries died, while MD'ers and omegans did restarted as soon as they lost their nation. MD and omega had achieved our goal. We had completely annihilated IX, ALL our firepower was aimed at IX, and at the end, no IX remained. Under 11 IX countries remained alive, we had broken IX as an alliance, not just ingame, but much more importantly their morale, which was a great thing to see accomplished. Noteworthy is that SoF (joined by CWG) did strike IX on the very last day to release their anger on IX, they didnt strike earlier, as said before, on the request of Omega and MD leadership. (You can see an overview of killed IX nations HERE)

We'd like to extend our thanks to all our allies who helped MD and Omega this reset for their support, it is good to see we were able to pull out a victory with our allies. The bonds between MD and Omega tightened VERY strongly after that war.

In the end of the reset rankings, we were ranked 3rd best alliance in the game, not quite the best, but we had recovered for being almost dead the reset before to a powerhouse.

We had just finished a very succesfull reset, we have shown off our netgaining ability and crushed our enemies. This reset had it all. I can remember the comments MD got at the beginning of the reset, that MD was going the way of the dinosaurs and that we wouldnt last. At the end we were ranked about 3rd best alliance and were getting nothing but credit for our good performance. This reset was good to accomplish our main goal, to be viewed as best alliance by the general earth public, but alot of improvements remained for MD.

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===Chapter 13: MD's pearl Harbor===

This reset started in march of 2001 and ended in june 2001.

The leadership team of MD looked as following:

President: Locutus 
Internal Minister: Versus 
General: Waser 
Other heads: Chirod & M_A_C 
PA: Diocletian 
Assasin leader: Cyron 
Raider leader: Deltrax 
Known DLs for that reset: 
Hoop 
Ash 
Crazy 
Hurricane 
Avsman 
Morpheus 
MD set out this reset to win the TNW crown, we wanted to netgain this reset and increase our internal stability some more and grow in membership size. After the brutal war of last reset versus IX we really wanted this reset to be a netting reset as we were unable to continue netgaining last reset in order to help out The Omega. We did not have any official relations with IX, as they refused to sign any pacts. MD required IX to pact us and The Omega in one go, or else there would be no pact at all. This led to some early land exchanges between MD and IX.

MD's allies remained mostly unchanged, our closest allies were The Omega and SoF. Relations also improved with Ragnarok as they hit PoW last reset to help MD and Omega. We upgraded them to a FDP and intended to cultivate this relationship in time to come. Interesting to note is the creation of a secret coalition this reset called FoP (Federation of Pornstars) were most alliance leaders used pseudo names of a pornographic nature. This coalition was informal and it's goal was to create tighter bonds between the alliances in the coalition which were (among others) The Omega, MD, SoF and RAGE. It is RAGE whom will play an important role in the later events as you'll come to realize.

As said before MD and IX had no official relations and we entered in some land exchanges with them. Luckily we had our assasin program still fully operational and had anticipated for the need for them and had increased the number of assasins accordingly. The land exchanges between MD and IX are a good indication of the state of the relations between our alliances, it wasn't good.

The following overview gives an insight in the exchanges in acres that took place during that reset. noting the number of acres gained or lost in the exchange for MD.

MD vs IX land war 
Apr/18/01 08:45 PS Tirol is Hairer then a Wookie 9410 MD When Worlds Collide EoS 9910 IX4Life 1121 A 
Apr/20/01 15:56 PS When Worlds Collide EoS (#9910) (IX4Life) Tirol is Hairer then a Wookie (#9410) (MD) 706 A 
+415 acres MD 
Apr/18/01 16:00 PS Locutus of Borg love sheep too 2067 MD ENFORCER Abandonned Hamlet IX 7923 IX4Life 846 A 
Apr/19/01 15:17 PS Jen likes CoCo Pops and Dicts (#14470) (R1VALxTA) Locutus of Borg love sheep too (#2067) (MD) 604 
+242 acres MD 
Apr/18/01 22:36 PS My sheep require your land MD 2692 MD I ENFORCEd Hellfires SisteR 5399 IX4Life 1064 
Apr/19/01 19:55 PS I ENFORCEd Hellfires SisteR (#5399) (IX4Life) My sheep require your land MD (#2692) (MD) 697 A 
Apr/19/01 00:18 PS Nation of Defiance MD (#2959) (MD) I am X man EoS (#1731) (IX4Life) Defense Held 
Apr/20/01 17:41 PS lordgul (#348) (IX4Life) Nation of Defiance MD (#2959) (MD) Defense Held 
+0 acres MD 
Apr/19/01 08:16 PS Roses (#2081) (MD) DoNt HuRt Me Im OnLy TwO (#5197) (IX4Life) 870 A 
Apr/19/01 23:37 SS DoNt HuRt Me Im OnLy TwO (#5197) (IX4Life) Roses (#2081) (MD) Defense Held 
+870 acres MD 
Apr/19/01 10:09 PS SexStarvedSheepLoverZeeMD (#5063) (MD) VS (#6415) (IX4Life) 1013 A 
Apr/21/01 03:55 PS IX in da house without a doubt (#6179) (IX4Life) SexStarvedSheepLoverZeeMD (#5063) (MD) 985 A 
+28 acres MD 
Apr/19/01 16:45 PS Im Just a MD sheep (#6909) (MD) The ENFORCER PowerBOMB X (#4719) (IX4Life) 1196 A 
(not retalled) 
+1196 acres MD 
Apr/19/01 16:45 PS IX sheep dippers live here MD (#6622) (MD) A Gengstas Paradise (#6011) (IX4Life) 697 A 
Apr/21/01 12:37 PS Ask for Austin 404 255 3865 (#8938) (IX4Life) IX sheep dippers live here MD (#6622) (MD) 1097 A 
-400 acres MD 
Apr/19/01 16:46 PS MDs Sheepslayer from Vega (#6169) (MD) Illuminati Super Hydoken Ryu X (#697) (IX4Life) 528 A 
(not retalled) 
+528 acres MD 
Apr/19/01 22:06 SS My sheep require your land MD (#2692) (MD) Ask for Austin 404 255 3865 (#8938) (IX4Life) 598 A 
Apr/20/01 14:30 PS Ask for Austin 404 255 3865 (#8938) (IX4Life) My sheep require your land MD (#2692) (MD) 613 A 
-15 acres MD 
Apr/20/01 04:30 PS MD Sheep trick (#5539) (MD) AtTicaS WoG (#1633) (IX4Life) 833 A 
(not retalled) 
+833 acres MD 
+4064 acres MD total 

Exchanges like the ones above continued for the reset, by trying to win in each exchange we hoped to make IX realize that a NAP was in their interest.

MD was doing very good this reset in terms of netgaining, we arrived at a moment in time where we were all stockpiling like mad and on our way to a TNW crown when something unforeseen happened.

A land exchange occurred between MD and Elitez, it is unclear who started the exchange but massive amounts of land were taken on both sides and overretals occured. At this moment in time Elitez were the closest allies of IX, and MD never was a great friend of Elitez, so you can imagine that any land exchange between our alliance creates a lot of tensions. Diplomatic talks between our alliances failed, so MD tried to stale while we put our alliance on red alert. The onyl reason we stalled was so we had time to prepare for a first strike on Elitez. We had planned on a quiet netting alliance but the inability to reach an agreement with Elitez forced us to prepare for the worse. Naturally we informed our close allies in the FoP alliance, which proved to be a fatal mistake. Unknown to us at the time Daren of RAGE had given vital secret information from the coalition website to Elitez leaders. This enabled Elitez to know that MD was preparing for war and gave them the chance to strike us first. Naturally Elitez didnt hesistate and used the wealth of inside information to strike MD before MD was ready and able to strike Elitez. Elitez said that this first strike would be MD's pearl harbor, referring to the attack of the japanese on the US base of Pearl harbor during the second world war The first strike of Elitez on MD was a massive setback, as said earlier MD was already in full stocking mode and many of our nations had massive food stockpiles. and because we were on red alert each member let those stockpiles return so they could be used in the first strike against our enemy. But our food stockpiles started to work against us as it was still possible to take a huge percentage of bushels each time you GS someone. So Elitez GS'ed most of our top nations to death in their first strike and while doing that taking massive amounts of bushels with increased the strength of their countries a lot. MD quickly countered attacked, but had already lost a lot of nations and Elitez nations had used their own stockpiles and the stockpiles the took from MDers to jump away in networth. MD required assistance to beat Elitez, and our good friend Omega was more then happy to join in and return the favor of last reset, thus Omega struck Elitez to help us out. We again had joined warchats where MD and Omega leaders would lead warchats together. this worked very well last reset and it did again this reset. As i said earlier IX and Elitez were close friends, it wont suprise you that IX took on Omega immediately and released their aggression over the loss of last reset and the babysitting scandal the reset before. MD's and Omegas war efforts against Elitez proved to be futile, every time we struck an Elitez country it would be online within seconds. It turned out Elitez cheated and babysat eachothers countries, sharing login codes and such. Making killing any country extremely difficult.

The war escalated quickly and in the end MD was being hit by the combined forces of Elitez/Camelot and IRON. In the end MD lost the war, mainly due to the fact Elitez cheated their asses off and by the fact they were able to strike us before we struck them. We only found out they had access to the FoP coalition forum posts some 6 months later. Till this day we do not know how many of RAGE leadership was involved, but we believe it was not the entire RAGE leadership, possibly it was only Daren.

MD did not take kindly to losing a war because the other side cheated. MD planned for revenge on a scale that had not been seen before. Elitez rise to power would be stopped once and for all. More on that in Chapter 14 - Elitez' Nagasaki and Horishima (aka The Big 6 reset).

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===Chapter 14: Elitez' Nagasaki and Horishima (aka The Big 6 reset)===

Never written.

===Chapter 15-18===

Never written.

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===Chapter 19: The Legend's Worst enemy is it's own Shadow===

President - Iccyh 
Vice President - Avsman, Daved 
Admin - Yuki 
Foreign Minister – Exodus, Tempest then Elrond 
Internal Minister – Smart Liberal 
General - Daved followed by Chranos 
PA – M_A_C, Kalick, Morpheus 

Following the disastrous intervention of RD in the Ivy League coalition wars MD was in a highly unstable state. Throughought the entire vet and leadership core there was a general burnout. RD- MD relations had been relatively sour for well over a year due to a MD member hacking the RD heads board and a belief that MD had championed directing the firepower of TIL against RD. The prospect of being drawn into a botwar demoralized MD from the heads team down.

With this situation in mind the MD elections for last set had been barely contested. Morpheus had made clear that he would no be seeking reelection due to other commitments. Iccyh ran for election and won easily, even though his support was shaky at best and downright non existent at worst. This problem would come to head later in the set when MD would suffer a near-crippling blow.

A large contingent of old-time MD veterans had come together with a plan to form another alliance; conditions in MD were very undesirable due to the RD problem and the recent gutting of a large proportion of the ‘old hands’. This break off plan was reflected in the attitudes of many veterans on boards; it was obvious sentiment was highly negative towards Iccyh in particular. The heads team became aware of such a plan quite early in its inception, eventually obtaining a definitive list of most of the veterans intending to make the move. The Alliance to be formed would be known as Saints, with its current members taking up aliases along the lines of saints themselves (eg Saint. Joe). The formation of Saints was not an aggressive move against MD, nor were the feelings expressed by those leaving negative towards MD as a whole, it was just felt a change of setting was needed for many people who had been burnt out in recent sets. This turn of events, whilst viewed at the time as being a catastrophic blow for our already diminished membership, probably gave the new leadership the breathing space needed in the coming sets of rebuilding.

Whilst all this was unfolding there was the ever present problem of RD, the issues in which RD had gone to war with MD over in past sets hadn’t been addressed, RD-MD land wars were common, issues of retaliation vs. getting botted were a constant problem as the membership convulsed with utter frustration, morale was low and MD’s membership in TIL came under question. As the older leadership’s dream of a powerful coalition to shape policy in the server faded from reality, it became clear that if MD were to survive a hostile server, the constant threat of botting and the internal meltdown, changes would have to occur. The new leadership team with the tireless assistance of the ‘loyalist’ DL’s and veterans quickly set to work to face this multi faceted menace.

This set was marked mostly by a change in MD’s direction from external control to internal Damage control. The toll of RD incursions, coalition wars and leadership burnout created a highly volatile set. Problems with RD were rife. MD finished out the set with less then 100 members but on a more positive note, things couldnt get much worse.

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===Chapter 20-22===

Never written.

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===Chapter 23: A New Hope===

Things were not looking good 3 reset ago when Saints left MD. We had 65 members left after the split, and MD was considering a merger to stay alive. Fortunately, the merger did not occur, as there were still those amongst us who believed in the dream that is MD. We reaccessed our position in 1a, we looked at the problems that brought us down and we changed in many ways.

This reset, the August 2003 reset, continued to be a growing and positive reset for MD. The elected President of MD this reset was Syris. His leadership team this reset was :

President - Syris 
Vice President - Elrond 
Internal Minister - Daren 
Foreign Minister - Uber Bu 
General - Aniara/Exodus 
Political Advisors - Chranos, Yuki 
Administrator - Gibber 

Division Leadership team : Jax, Seraphim, Seth, Kharn, Duke, Yuanshuo, Pepo, Dragnars, GamerX, nth, Qwoozy, A$$Rammer, SuFFy, Maverick, Face, and Havoc.

This reset was planned to be one of MD's few netgaining resets. The reset before, MD had achieved 7 top 100 countries for the May 2003 Reset, a feat that hasn't been repeated since March 2001. Among MD's FDPs were TIE and ICN this reset, which in retrospect seemed like interesting choices, as many felt that our relationships with these alliances were drifting apart. PDM (Paradigm) was also MD's FDP this reset and we aided them with Foreign Aid during their war with Laf. Omega, a long time friend and ally of MD, was our only other FDP.

Organisational changes within MD were predominant this reset. MD continued using its controversial Strategy Based divisions for a second reset, hoping that this would allow better training for our new members. During the course of the reset, the leadership team worked together to create the New Retal Forum system, MD Profile's Forums, updated our Player's Manual, and even created a new Gamerstown Site called MDTrain. Many of the changes brought a more effective and organised MD.

MD's reset went smoothly, with a planned War Drill on a small 18 member allianced called FARK. The war drill did not produce good results in terms of hits done, as many of the targets were too small for most MDers to hit and were also in GDI. However, we took this oppurtunity to train our new leaders in war chat coordination as well as guide newer members through the basics of a war.

Veterans took part in many discussions this reset, which is many ways helped shape the policies of our alliance for the resets to come. The elections this reset started a week earlier in order to give the new president oppurtunity to prepare for the new reset. The elections ended during the last week of the reset. Many eager MDers were online just before the elected President was announced. It was a much anticipated election and at the end, we collected a total of 42 votes. Everyone was surprised when it was announced that we had a tie. This became the first presidential election tie in MD's history. Out of 42 votes, Daren and Maverick got 15 votes each. A second poll was created to allow MDers to vote between the two candidates. 24 hours later, Daren emerged as the elected President.

MD ended with 5 top 100 countries and rank 6 in TNW this reset. Our performance in terms of netgaining this reset has been below expectations.

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===Chapter 24: The Decay Reborn===

The August reset was viewed as MD’s first chance in over a year to re-assert itself as a power within the game, politically and militarily, after a year of trials and tribulations we as a team finally felt that MD was ready to take the plunge back into the political tangle and come out better for it. Our Membership was the most stable it had been for several resets due to exceptional new members flowing into MD in previous sets, this was also boosted by the return of many old veterans. The leadership team was as follows:

President - Daren Vice President - Elrond Internal Minister - Jax Foreign Minister - Uber Bu General - Kharn Political Advisors - Chranos, Yuki Administrator - Gibber

Division Leadership team: Charlie, Lustwar, Yuanshuo, Hitokiri, Y-Not and Maverick who headed the reborn training division dubbed lil Lambs.

Off the back of a relatively successful Netgaining reset it was felt amongst the heads team that we had proven to any critics in earth that MD was well able to netgain on par with the majority of major alliances, the only remaining front we had left unaddressed was our ability to defend ourselves with force. It was with this is mind that Daren decided that this set was to be a war set, whether of a Defensive or Offensive nature remained uncertain. All members were informed to prepare war ready countries and expect to use them some time during the set. This preparation was widely celebrated amongst the veterans and members of MD alike. For several resets we were forced to avoid conflict in the name of rebuilding, this was no longer the case. If any alliance were to try and take advantage of MD we were ready and willing to take the fight to them.

Surprisingly, the alliance that angered MD to the point where members were openly begging for war on private boards was not any we had expected to have problems with. SoL, who in the previous reset had been a LDP ally, decided to prove to their members the folly of top feeding and left several alliances totally unpacted. MD was one of these alliances and within 3 weeks of the start of the reset we were receiving at least one SoL top feed per a day, often on the same few countries. Early attempts to contact SoL about these hits were bogged down by internal problems within SoL, Daxit; SoL’s foreign relations head was away with a medical emergency and no solution had offered itself in nearly a week. This combined with a very high amount of animosity towards the SoL top feeders led the heads to the decision that MD would settle this dispute at the edge of a knife, red alert was issued and MD prepared for war.

The FS took place on September 21st at 11am GT time, after a frenzied race to complete the target list ( Kharn was away due to a family emergency) MD landed the first blows. The AT War Declaration can be found Here. It was commonly thought that MD would die a quick death to the legendary SoL war machine; it was with this in mind that we went to war regardless. Maintaining the protection of our tag despite all odds was seen as a higher priority then Netgaining in the face of topfeeding. Here are the 24-hour warstats: Alliance Breakdown:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!
! SOL
! MD
|-
! Top 100
| 0
| 2
|-
! Top 500
| 0
| 31
|-
! Top 1000
| 12
| 50
|-
! Tagged Restarts
| 6
| 5
|-
! Total Alive
| 183
| 115
|-
! Total Dead
| 25
| 10
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Attacker
! Defender
! Attacks
! Kills
|-
! SOLer
! xMDx
| 2490
| 8
|-
! xMDx
! SOLer
| 5427
| 24
|}

MD had come off the FS with a 98% participation rate, which came as a large surprise to members and leaders alike due to unimpressive war drills in the previous set. The membership was jubilant and the war chat was a source of great entertainment. MD had proven to itself and the rest of earth that it was well and truly back to play.

In the following days the situation looked more bleak for SoL, MD maintained its hitting ratio and concerntrated on SoL’s now dwindling topranking countries, within 3 days their top 600 was relatively void with the loss of less then a third of MD’s top 500. We had also managed to fool SoL into thinking that we were slowing down our hits when in reality we were saving more turns every day for a second strike to take place on the 28th of September, the Sunday following the FS. This second FS however was not to take place. ARROW, a long-time ally of SoL’s FS’d MD (24th of sept). The reasons surrounding this are sketchy at best. SoL already had an 80 member advantage over MD yet called in a extra 280 ARROW countries. It can only be concluded that SoL leadership did not wish to risk a loss to MD, a loss that would smash the common belief that SoL were the greatest fighting alliance remaining in earth. Earth wide this ARROW intervention was heralded as an act of cowardice on SoL’s behalf, SoL leadership countered by simply saying earth was a game of politics. In the Arrow FS MD’s ability to make war was totally decimated, with odds now 5:1 and it was clear that this war was now over. While it may appear that in reality MD was beaten in fact the opposite had occurred, we had entered the war not to win by tag killing SoL but to show them and the rest of the earth community that we wouldn’t tolerate blatant topfeeding; in this regard our set had been a complete success. Arrow had joined the war expecting us to call in allies, it was for this very reason that we didn’t, we had proven our point to SoL and there was no need to pummel their ally Arrow and give them the war they had tried to start.

Several days after this event a second FS on MD occurred, this time by a bot. SoL and ARROW immediately cease fired on MD and in a stunning turn of events SoL started hitting the bots alongside surviving MD countries. This caused a great deal of fun as both sides took part in joint war chats. Coupled with the assistance of the “Robin Hood” bot all countries hitting MD were destroyed in a matter of days. With only a week or so remaining in the set we opted to just netgain as we saw fit, with several members having landraces amongst each other and generally just having the most fun we could with our second or even third countries. With the twilight of the set before us elections once again took place. Daren, as he had stated before being elected, did not run again for presidency although if he had a win would have been almost assured. Two main contenders emerged to fight it out for the presidency, Uber Bu and Maverick. Havoc also ran for election and provided some of the most memorable election answers produced in a long time, much to the entertainment of the veteran core. Alas the bulk of votes were divided between Maverick and Uber Bu, the election was once again very tight, much like the previous set. In the end Uber Bu emerged victorious, plans for the next set began immediately.....

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== History ==

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| image = [[File:Collab.jpg]]
| founders = [[AxA]], [[MeanKai]]
| founded = Long, long ago
| origins = Merger of [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]]
| anw = $86,346,214 - Apr-Jun '11
| tnw = $3,181,961,719 - Dec-Feb '11
| num_members = 41
| mission = To kick ass and have fun doing it!
| focus = We rock at both netting and warring!
| rpolicy = [[Sanctuary Retal Policy]]
| president = [[AxA]]
| vps = [[Thomas]] & [[fudgepuppy]]
| fas = [[hardy]], [[LD]]
| hia = [[fudgepuppy]]
| hwar = [[Thomas]]
| war = [[Joe]], [[Nole]]
| homepage = [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collab on Boxcar]
| irc = irc.gamesurge.net, #Collaboration
| awards = Best War ([http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508 forum post])
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[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]

Collaboration is an original [[Earth Empires]] [[Alliance (in-game)|alliance]] which was created from a merger of several [[Earth: 2025]] alliances, notably [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]].

In its current form it is run by some of the most knowledgeable and active leaders in the game. Collaboration is a collection of people from all walks of life and is social networking at it's best. When they aren't kicking ass in the game, they're keeping themselves entertained while they wait to kick more ass.

They are built on the principle that their own family comes first: If someone messes with one of them, they're messing with the entire alliance. They also stay true to their friends and are willing to throw away their plans and hard work at the drop of a dime to assist a friend in need. 

They have proven themselves in times of war and in times of peace and are regarded as one of (if not the best) balanced alliance in the game. If you are interested in seeing what Collaboration is all about, please check out their website on [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab boxcar], or chat with one of their leaders.

==History==
[[Sanctuary]] made the transition from the [[1a]] server to the [[Alliance Server]] at the twilight of [[Earth: 2025]]'s existence. The alliance took on a name change during this move, renaming themselves [[Collaboration]], also known as Collab. The name speaks for itself as the alliance was compiled of a large percentage of members from several different alliances (mainly [[Sanctuary]], [[Outkast]], and [[The Cult]]). This newly formed but historically rooted alliance does not fit into a single category. They are neither strictly Netters or strictly Warrers. Collab prefers to remain a balanced alliance and have proven that they are excellent at both. When [[Earth 2025]] shut it's doors, Collaboration made the move to the new version of the game, [[Earth Empires]].

==Earth Empires==
=== First Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 13th - Jan 30th, 2010 ===
{{Main|First Round of the Alliance Server}}
With the transition from one game to another becoming a little chaotic, the plans were for Collab to netgain in the first ever reset of the new game. Most alliances seemed to agree that with the new game came a clean slate, where everybody was starting from scratch. As such, there were few conflicts with other alliances that would lead Collab to believe they would end up in war. With about a week before the end of the reset, Collab was planning on an excellent finish clan-wide when they were FS'd by [[Sons of Liberty]] (SoL). Collab was not prepared for war whatsoever. In fact, they had no war techs, small amounts of military and were not running proper war governements. SoL's reasoning for the FS was retribution for Collab hitting SoL in a previous reset in Earth: 2025.

Regardless of the reasons, SoL came away with a victory, although the war was much closer than many thought it should have been, with Collab gaining more respect from the war than SoL, even though they were the victors. On a special note, news of the FS was apparently slipped a few hours early and caught up with [[AxA]]. In a tricky move, AxA had [[trep]] tag up with [[La Cosa Nostra]], LCN, before SoL's FS. With one minute left in the set, trep re-tagged Collab, giving Collab the #1 overall NW country in Earth Empires' first ever reset [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/35].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 10,539
| 422
| 25
| $196M
|-
| SoL
| 14,534
| 309
| 47
| $348M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[trep]]
| whats this here (#405)
| $105,393,012
| 1
|}
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=== Second Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 1st - Apr 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Second Round of the Alliance Server}}
In the second ever round of EE, it was pretty clear that Collab was coming out of the gates with the intentions of hitting [[SoL]]. In fact, it seemed as though SoL was prepared for it as well. When Collab FS'd SoL, not only did SoL have war prepped countries (which was expected from a war alliance) but they were also saving a large amount of turns throughout the alliance. Most of their countries had at least 70 turns on hand when Collab FS'd them. However, despite SoL's preparation, turn saving and country advantage, Collab's FS was too much to handle and the war was one sided very quickly. In fact, Collab managed to kill 20 SoL countries in the FS.

This set off a chain reaction as SoL attempted to gain the upperhand in this war. Their close friends in [[Survival of the Fittest]] (SoF), broke a [[uNAP]], with Collab by creating an alternate tag, [[Natural Selection]], and immediately FS'd Collab. SoF had come to Collab earlier in the reset asking for the uNAP, which Collab had granted them. SoF's president, [[Ivan]], fabricated a story that there was internal strife within SoF and half the alliance split to create the Natural Selection tag. That proved to be false in later resets, as was expected. Also included in this effort was [[The Infernal Elite]] (TIE).

With Collab now facing 3 separate alliances and severely outnumbered, they were forced to call in the aid of their close friends. The [[Death Knights]] (DK) were the first to come to their aid, even though they were not a defensive pact and were low in membership, and were eager to come to Collab's aid. Collab also called in [[Netters Anonymous]] (NA), [[Imaginary Numbers]] (iMag) and [[Evolution]] (Evo). While this was certainly overkill, Collab felt it was necessary to prove a point that they will not tolerate a [[gangbang]], and that they will fight fire with fire. Collab, DK, NA, iMag, and Evo went on to defeat SoF, SoL and TIE quite convincingly.

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 34,107
| 264
| 129
| $301M
|-
| NA
| 14,665
| 506
| 29
| $2B
|-
| iMag
| 8,973
| 249
| 36
| $32M
|-
| Evo
| 5,248
| 375
| 14
| $1B
|-
| DK
| 3,157
| 287
| 11
| $87M
|-
! TOTAL
! 66,150
! 302
! 219
! $3.5B
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoL
| 29,017
| 299
| 97
| $15M
|-
| SoF
| 7,804
| 355
| 22
| $4M
|-
| TIE
| 7,463
| 267
| 28
| $5M
|-
! TOTAL
! 44,284
! 301
! 147
! $41M
|}
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=== Third Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 3rd - Jun 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Third Round of the Alliance Server}}
After two consecutive wars in the new game, it was looking as though Collab was going to become a predominantly war alliance. However, they seemed to have worked out their issues with the other alliances, or at least cooled down the fire temporarily. Despite this, Collab still started off the set as though they were preparing for war. They ran mostly war strats to begin the reset, as they did not want to be unprepared for war if it somehow found them again. After a few weeks into the set, Collab was able to determine that they would be able to net peacefully and went into full blown netting mode. This was at the cost of their allies as [[Evo]] and [[DK]] were both at the receiving end of a crippling FS by [[SoL]] as payback for coming to Collab's aid the previous reset, despite SoL creating the [[gangbang]] to begin with.

Despite the war prepping start, Collab was still able to put a country into the top 10 as [[Charles]] finished 6th overall [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/83]. As an Alliance, Collab finished 3rd in Total Neworth and 5th in Average Networth, finishing behind the 4th place Alliance, [[EEVIL]], by less than $2M NW despite having more than double their membership [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/83].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $52,468,343 (5th)
| 18,216 Acres (9th)
| $2,833,290,541 (3rd)
| 983,684 Acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[Charles]]
| Charles (#377)
| $136,856,086
| 6
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| she was like no sex axa (#112)
| $105,869,321
| 21
|-
| [[Slayer]]
| Dark Syndicate (#9)
| $104,820,997
| 22
|}
----

=== Fourth Round of the Alliance Server: Jun 3rd - Aug 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fourth Round of the Alliance Server}}
In Collab's fourth reset on the new server, they were determined to prove their netting prowess as they have proved themselves in war early on in the new game. They planned to netgain from the beginning, although there were some roadblocks in the way once again this reset. [[Paradigm]] (PDM), had an issue with Collab's landgrabbing, which turned into a minor war. With land on the server becoming more scarce, Collab became more aggressive and farmed PDM one too many times for their liking, which resulted in a conflict between Collab and PDM. The war was over in less than a week, allowing Collab to continue netgaining as they had planned.

Despite the interruption in their netting, they were still able to achieve a positive finish. They finished 3rd in Total Networth once again, but this time taking 4th place in Average Networth [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/104]. Collab had two top 10 finishers in this set, with [[ley]] finishing at 7th and [[LD]] finishing at 8th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/104].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 14,709
| 409
| 36
| $2B
|-
| PDM
| 3,910
| 1,955
| 2
| $9M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $48,925,454 (4th)
| 24,473 acres (4th)
| $2,005,943,626 (3rd)
| 1,003,392 acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| rLey (#146)
| $153,802,881
| 7
|-
| [[LD]]
| thomas has a spud n his bud (#165)
| $152,769,200
| 8
|}
----

=== Fifth Round of the Alliance Server: Aug 4th - Oct 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fifth Round of the Alliance Server}}
This reset marked Sanctuary's 50th Anniversary. And with that, it saw two co-founders return in [[Bishop X]] and [[Phatjab]], although their returns were unfortunately temporary. Many expected Collab/Sanct to war for their 50th set, like many others do. However, it quickly turned into an odd reset as many of the potential war partners were unavailable. [[SoL]] surprised most of the server when they [[FS'd]] [[LaF]] (and later on surprised just as many when they actually won). An even more surprising outcome was when [[ICN]] FS'd [[SoF]]. SoF was on their heals, backed up against a wall by ICN in what was truly likely to be a shocking victory. However, SoF called in [[iMag]] which quickly turned the tide and put an end to ICN's effort. [[EEVIL]] was also at war with [[The Fist]] (The Fist also warred [[PDM]] at one point) and [[Elysium]] was mustering what they could against LaF.

With all of these wars going on, it really only left Collab with a couple of options: FS [[NA]], an alliance that they have had strong ties to for a long time, FS [[RAGE]], which wouldn't be much of a challenge considering the numbers difference and would have hurt the game more than it helped, or FS a group of alliances. Collab went with the latter choice and FSed SoF, iMag and EEVIL at the same time. EEVIL received their FS because Collab had countries jump tag to EEVIL and war Fist. The reps were too much so Collab decided it was just easier to get Fist's back instead. SoF received a FS for two reasons: firstly, they broke a uNAP with Collab a couple of resets ago when Collab FSed SoL, and secondly, they got beat by an alliance that everybody considered to be inferior and instead of taking those lumps and dealing with it, they called in for the [[gangbang]] by asking iMag for help. And iMag received a FS because, well, they liked to war, were bored after ICN was [[tagkilled]], and Collab wanted to make their war interesting, so it appeared to be a win:win for everybody.

Things quickly soured, however, as within minutes of Collab's FS, iMag contacted [[AxA]] and requested a [[ceasefire]], as they made it clear Collab was ruining their chances to make war with PDM. AxA granted the [[CF]] and Collab's FS went on without iMag targets (the FS list consisted of 90% iMag countries so it quickly ran dry). Three days after the ceasefire, iMag FSed Collab along WITH PDM. After stating they were going to FS PDM, apparently AxA's thoughts on that inspired PDM to FS Collab. Basically, AxA was cool with the idea which is all it took for Detmer to declare war on Collab. When it was all said and done, Collab was fighting four tags simultaneously in SoF, iMag, PDM, and EEVIL. After EEVIL's top countries were killed, The Fist were able to handle their war, allowing Collab to focus on the other three tags. ICN continued to war SoF and iMag but because they were tagkilled, they were only able to finish off the targets after Collab broke them down.

What may have been considered a lost war was actually a victory as Collab took on four tags with over two times as many countries and did not call in any allies, a practice that seems to have been abandoned long ago. SoF and iMag were tagkilled while PDM were left with a decent amount of countries left, since they were the last ones targeted. Surprisingly, Collab survived throughout the set and were not tagkilled, despite organized chats between SoF/iMag/PDM. In the first ever editions of Earth Empires Awards, Collab took home the award for Best War [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 20,136
| 268
| 75
| $53M
|-
| ICN
| 12,493
| 367
| 34
| $20M
|-
| Fist
| 5,770
| 339
| 17
| $121M
|-
! TOTAL
! 38,399
! 305
! 126
! $194M
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoF
| 21,181
| 331
| 64
| $148M
|-
| iMag
| 16,172
| 359
| 45
| $43M
|-
| PDM
| 10,640
| 426
| 25
| $118M
|-
| EEVIL
| 3,697
| 411
| 9
| $550K
|-
! TOTAL
! 51,690
! 361
! 143
! $305M
|}
----

=== Sixth Round of the Alliance Server: Oct 5th - Dec 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 6}}
In the sixth set of Earth Empires, Collab once again set out to netgain. That proved to be difficult though as there were rumors spreading that two different alliances had planned to FS Collab. When both went to war, Collab was finally off Red Alert, after saving turns and blowing stock on War Techs and increased Military. However, one of the Alliance's remained a threat throughout the set due to an early ending to their war which left them bored. Collab spent 6 of the 8 weeks flip flopping back-and-forth between Red and Yellow Alert.

When the round had finally ended it wasn't to their benefit due to the interuptions they had throughout the set. They had hoped to prove what they could do when it came to netgaining. Unfortunately this was not their set and immediately set their sights on the following set. Despite the difficulties trying to avoid a war during a netting set, two of Collab's best ever netgainers managed great finishes. ley finished #6 for his second top 10 finish in EE while trep finished 14th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/143]. Both were crowned Elite by Collab for their excellent play. As far as netting as a whole, Collab set a personal best for average NW with $78,281,594, finishing 4th behind [[Evo]], [[Omega]] and [[Monsters]], as expected, and were also able to finish 2nd amongst all clans in average land with 24,657 acres [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtags/143].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
! Members
|-
| $78,281,594 (4th)
| 24,657 acres (2nd)
| $2,505,011,016 (4th)
| 789,025 acres (5th)
| 32 (7th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| Boobies (#127)
| $180,223,266
| 6
|-
| [[Trep]]
| untz untz untz (#503)
| $150,818,255
| 14
|}

----

=== Seventh Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 4th - Feb 2nd, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 7}}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $79,549,043 (5th)
| $3,181,961,719 (5th)
| 40 (5th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[ley]]
| Thomas The Tank Engine (#106)
| $198,804,130
| 8
| 81,496
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Thomas loves pooper sex by kemo (#20)
| $137,889,793
| 36
| 38,003
|}

----

=== Eighth Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 3rd - Apr 5th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 8}}

Collaboration, [[Monsters]], and [[Evolution]] VS [[SoF]].

====War Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Attacks
! Civs
! Defends (on a single country)
! Restarts
|-
| [[kemo]]
| '''1173'''
| 509,090
| 89
| 0
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| '''993'''
| 272,466
| 210
| 3
|-
| [[ley]]
| '''972'''
| '''647,648'''
| 468
| 1
|-
| [[herbs]]
| 936
| '''1,025,944'''
| 84
| 0
|-
| [[Nole]]
| 811
| 284,288
| 424
| 0
|-
| [[xaos]]
| 764
| '''737,514'''
| 38
| 0
|-
| [[Tross]]
| 477
| 63,072
| '''613'''
| 3
|-
| [[wharfed]]
| 449
| 66,242
| 239
| '''5'''
|}

----

=== Ninth Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 6th - Jun 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 9}} 
President: [[Axa]] 
VPs: [[Thomas]], [[fudgepuppy]] 
Goal: Netting 
This reset saw the (re)introduction of Divisions to the clan, in an effort to generate some healthy competition among the members. With this came the promotion of several Vets to ADL, as well as [[Herbs]] to DL. Other DL positions were taken by leaders. There were a few new members playing, countering several veterans that were MIA/inactive, which, unfortunately, included our two top netters, [[ley]] and [[trep]]. 
Throughout the set, we were able to remain high on the avg land list, with a few countries (mostly Thomas') moving in and out of the top 10 land on the server. Unfortunately, Thomas' chances for a good finish were dashed later in the reset, and his country was offered up as free land. A few other members had become inactive during the reset, so their countries were also offered up for the rest. This brought the membership down to the finishing number of 36. 
By the end of the set, stockpiles were a bit low but respectable, and most were destocking as theo. During destocking, we were able to stay close to Omega in terms of NWs, but their stockpiles stretched longer so we ended up falling short by 9mil ANW. Pulling out our top ANW so far, it was a great effort by all. Divisions were definitely successful, with Herbs' group pulling out the win at 100mil ANW. Special mention goes to Raf for an excellent finish at rank 16, Herbs at rank 24, and CK at rank 40 with an all-explore (0 attacks) country.

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $86,346,214 (5th)
| $3,108,463,717 (5th)
| 36 (8th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[Raf]]
| The Forsaken Rise Again (#372)
| $159,435,387
| 16
| 26,493
|-
| [[Herbs]]
| Braves suck (#336)
| $152,788,408
| 24
| 22,570
|-
| [[CyberKid]]
| Imperialism (#418)
| $125,513,237
| 40
| 20,724 (All-Explore)
|}

----

== Leadership ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Position
! MSN
! ICQ
|-
| [[AxA]]
| President
| thesympathetic1@hotmail.com
| 167324517
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Vice President
| tcollins1984@live.com
| 391657461
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| Vice President
| fudgepuppy@gmail.com
| 123820211
|}

For a list of current and former Collaboration members, see the [[:Category:Collaboration Members| category of Collaboration members]].

== External Links ==

* [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Home Page]

* [http://hosting.boxcarhosting.net:443/Boxcar/public/application.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Application Center]

* [http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/CyberKid Current Adviser Collaboration]

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Illuminati X

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Illuinati X was one of the premiere warring [[alliances]] in [[Earth: 2025]] from around 2001 to 2009. They were one of the major players in both the [[TIL wars]] and the [[SLIT wars]].

Illuminati X, also known as IX, was an Earth Council Server alliance with 70 members. IX was formed in the Alliance Server on March 2000 and enjoyed political and military success throughout its 36 reset stay in the server. IX then moved to the Earth Council Server in February 2007. The alliance would disband in the August 2009 reset, due to a stagnant game. Below are the last public records of this once-great alliance.

==Current overview==

The Illuminati X is an alliance of 70 members ruled by President Xerglacia. The alliance is commanded by an executive team of the President and Vice President of IX and the members of the Heads Council. In turn, the 70 members are divided into five divisions. Six out of the former eight IX divisions were originally independent alliances at some point (ATL, EEVIL, EoS, FBI, Steel, IR), thus making IX a federation of small alliances that have clustered together under one unified command to create a powerful alliance.

Along with the division structure, IX is structured by four main Departments: Foreign Affairs, War, Development, and Divisions. Each department is led by a departmental head that is a member of the Heads Council. The IX Department of FA is renowned for having produced many of the top politicians in the game's history. Furthermore, the Department of IA (now subdivided into Departments of Development and Divisions) has received accolades during IX's existence for being the backbone behind IX's political and military successes. IX's War Department has also been regarded as the best in the game over many periods because of its success in implementing IX policy and winning conflicts.

The IX of the present is also a very aggressive entity which is the byproduct of over seven years of warfare and existence in the Alliance Server. IXers are known to be lethal on the battlefield, but are also laid back within their website and among each other. Demand for war is always high and thus IX only netgained six times in 36 resets of history in the Alliance Server. The remaining resets were devoted to 41 wars over a seven-year period. So far, IX has spent five and one half resets in the Earth Council Server, and waged seven wars.
[edit] Leadership

==Current top leadership (updated June 2009)==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! President
! Vice President
! Head of Foreign Affairs
! Head of Internal Affairs
! Head of Divisions
|-
| Xerglacia
| Woz and Zen
| ELApollo66
| Shamrock
| Goat
|}

=President of the Illuminati X=

The President of IX is the chief executive officer of the Illuminati X. This officer holds supreme authority over all internal, external, and military policy. In practice, the office of President of the Illuminati X is one of the most prestigious and powerful ranks in Earth: 2025, based on IX's premier military and political position in the game.

13 players have held this position since the creation of the alliance in March 2000, many of these serving as co-presidents. Usually, the office of President of the Illuminati X is split between an external and internal presidents. Half of the IX presidents have had a dual presidency at some point in their reigns.

Presidents (2000-2008)

# [[DeityLord]]
# [[DTA]]
# [[Duque]] & [[Scarface]]
# [[Mega]]
# [[de1i]] & [[Serpentor]]
# [[Angelous]]
# [[Floyd]] & [[Kaiser]]
# [[Warrior]]
# [[Prankster]]
# [[Xerglacia]]

Historical presidencies
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! March 2000 - September 2001:
| DeityLord
|-
! September - December 2001:
| DTA
|-
! December 2001 - February 2002:
| DeityLord
|-
! March 2002 - March 2003:
| Duque & Scarface
|-
! March - May 2003:
| Heads Council
|-
! June 2003 - January 2004:
| Mega
|-
! January - March 2004:
| de1i & Serpentor
|-
! April - November 2004:
| de1i
|-
! December 2004 - May 2005:
| Angelous & DTA
|-
! June - July 2005:
| DTA
|-
! July 2005 - September 2006:
| Floyd & Kaiser
|-
! October 2006:
| Floyd
|-
! November 2006 - January 2007:
| Warrior
|-
! January - April 2007:
| Floyd & Warrior
|-
! April - June 2007:
| Floyd
|-
! June - August 2007:
| Angelous & Floyd
|-
! August - November 2007:
| Angelous & DTA
|-
! November - December 2007:
| DTA
|-
! December 2007 - 2008:
| Prankster
|-
! August 2008:
| Floyd & Prankster
|-
! August - November 2008:
| Floyd
|-
! November 2008 - present:
| Xerglacia
|}

== Departments ==

===Department of Foreign Affairs===

The Department of Foreign Affairs is currently presided by ELApollo66.

===Department of War===

The War Department is the institution in charge of coordinating, fighting, and winning IX's wars. The department is composed of the General Staff, the War Staff, the Xintros Intelligence Agency and the DarkRave War Academy.

This department has considerable influence within IX since over half of IX's officers and leaders hold ranking commissions within the Department. The majority of these officers go on to serve in leadership positions throughout IX. The War Department is currently presided by Xerglacia.

* General Staff
* War Staff
* Xintros Intelligence Agency (XIA)
* DarkRave War Academy (DWA)

=== Department of Development ===

The Department of Development is currently presided by Woz.

* Training Grounds (TG)
* Recruitment Staff

=== Department of Divisions ===

The Department of Divisions is currently presided by Goat.

* Division Leader Training Program (DLT)
* Atlantis (ATL)
* Breakers of Worlds (BoW)
* The EEVIL Empire (EEVIL)
* Female Body Inspectors (FBI)
* Steel

== Achievements ==

Total networth victory in the July-October 2002 reset:

Illuminati United IXEPinoy 194 $14,498,000 $2,812,616,000

Biggest first strikes:

10,760 hits and 60 kills vs. ARROW during July 5-6, 2004 (3rd biggest in server history)
8,881 hits and 53 kills vs. ARROW during April 24-25, 2005
8,784 hits and 47 kills vs. SOL during December 29-30, 2004

Most powerful alliance of the Alliance Server:

October 2002 - March 2003 (2 sets)
April 2004 - May 2005 (7 sets)
April 2006 - January 2007 (5 sets)

Notable victories:

IX-Legacy War (2000)
IX-Omega War II (2001)
LCN-SOL War I (2002)
TIL War I (2002)
TIL War II (2002)
IX-RAGE War III (2003)
IX-Ragnarok War III (2004)
TIS War (2004)
ARROW-IX War V (2004)
IX-SOL War VII (2004-2005)
World War X (2005)
Elysium-IX War III (2006)
World War XI (2006)
IX-SoF War V (2006)
IVAN-IX War (2007)
Axis War I (2007)
Axis War IV (2007)
IX-SOL War XI (2007)]

== History ==

=== First Age, March 2000-September 2001 ===

The Illuminati X alliance was formed by Scarface in the spring of 2000, and debuted in the March-June 2000 reset. IX was a federation of several small alliances and rag-tag group of players that bonded together to form a new alliance designed to become a major military and political power. Scarface's former alliance, EoS, had been just as ambitious, but collapsed due to lack of organization. IX would be his second attempt at creating a serious power.

IX was composed of WoG, FBI, EoS remnants, Monks remnants, and players from UCN, CWG and Elitez. The membership ranged between 65-90, but seemed to average around 75 during the first three resets. DeityLord, the leader of WoG, was selected from this group of players to become the first President of IX. Scarface, however, remained a major player within alliance politics.

IX's first three resets included successful attempts to give the alliance recognition. IX made a good performance in a loss against the bigger UCN, a power of the time, in its first set; and then demonstrated newly-gained political support by accomplishing a victory against GiM and TIE with allies. IX then netted successfully as it sought to expand its membership by over 200%, organize, and then engage in a major war to lay its claim to recognition.

IX grew from 75 to 150 members in a matter of weeks and sought a war with which to gain acclaim. This war took place in during December 2000-January 2001, when IX defeated Legacy in a very big war. A babysitting exposure by Omega during that war then led DeityLord and his foreign affairs head Alan to target Omega over the next two sets. IX was defeated in the first war against Omega due to the latter's allies, but IX sought better allied support for the second war and won a decisive victory in the end. These three major wars in a row (between December 2000-June 2001) gave IX a taste of what it meant to be a power within Earth, and served as opportunities to showcase IX's developing military power. IX also established itself as a player within IX geopolitics just as President DeityLord announced his retirement after leading the alliance for over a year.

=== Second Age, September 2001-March 2003 ===

IX's second age began on September 2001, with the alliance at 135 members and under the leadership of new President DTA, and Alena, Head of FA. The age also began with a world war. A major event in IX history took place when the 300+ member ARROW declared war on IX after it had helped LaF against eXist. IX was thrown into World War VI just as the alliance was in transition, and it had to fight an uphill battle against ARROW and SOL. IX's was able to muster some serious allied support which made the war competitive, although the ARROW side seemed to prevail. ARROW and SoF got into a pissing contest, however, and the war ended soon after. This war was critical in IX history because it showed IX leadership that IX had to be both bigger and better supplemented politically since it had fought all its wars against bigger enemy coalitions. Now that ARROW and SOL formed a bloc, and both IX and SoF were enemies with ARROW and SOL, the opportunity arose for IX to develop ties with former enemies in the MD/SoF camp and to participate in the creation of a new coalition.

DTA retired after one set as president and DeityLord returned to be president for one last set. His last actions were to organize a gangbang of FBI and to have IX split into the Illuminati Marshals and X tags. However, his last tenure proved short as he decided to leave the alliance and form The Lust with former IX leaders such as Alena, DTA, and Yheti.

IX was at 145 members just as several major changes took place. IX was finishing its transitional process in leadership and in orientation. Duque and Scarface became co-presidents in March 2003 after DeityLord's final departure from IX, and they presented a serious and solid leadership for the new age. Secondly, IX gained the huge Pinoy merger which gave it 60+ additional players to bolster its ranks. IX was a founder of the Ivy League, a coalition that included other powers such as MD and SoF. Going into 2002, IX now had the membership, the leadership, and the political support to seek domination.

IX won a grand victory against RAGE, Ragnarok and SOL within the LCN-SOL War of the spring of 2002. This war showcased a 225 member IX fighting and winning multiple fronts and becoming a major contender to SoF's solid grip on the #1 position. This war also marked the start of the long-standing IX-RAGE rivalry. To top it off, the 25 member EEVIL Empire merged into IX as a new reset began.

Summer approached and IX participated in the victorious TIL War I of June-July, 2002. IX was one of the coalition's Big Three and was able to contribute heavily to the coalition victory against ARROW and SOL's anti-TIL. IX was now at 250 members and still growing in potential and capacity. However, IX then decided to leave the coalition in August 2002 to go on its own. IX then won the total networth race of July-October 2002, capturing its only total net crown.

Duque and Scarface continued strengthening the IX superpower and positioned it in a position of privilege politically by the time that TIL War II began in November 2002. It could either help the coalition or the anti-coalition forces. IX chose to oppose SoF and side with ARROW, SOL and the anti-TIL. Through several major strikes, IX was able to contribute heavily in turning the tide against TIL and in winning the world war. IX became recognized as the most powerful alliance in the game due to its warring performances, its membership strength, and its political clout.

The end of TIL War II jettisoned the age of the Bots at the start of 2003. This was to be Duque and Scarface's last reset as co-presidents. Firstly, the IX and IM sites were merged to form a single IX website. Secondly, IX was hit by bots and crippled by the time SoF attacked IX. However, IX was now a member of the NATO coalition, the victors of TIL War II, and SoF was crushed by the allied response. Duque and Scarface retired after the NATO War (February-March 2003) and after leading IX to its first peak of power. The alliance became the top power in the game, albeit briefly, and this time of political turmoil and of IX conquest remains a fond time for IXers till this very day. The alliance inevitably declined afterwards, as it was targetted by bots and its membership decreased to 2001 membership levels.

=== Third Age, March 2003-January 2004 ===

The third age of IX was its most trying. This time stands as the shortest epoch in IX history, and yet it was a moment in which IX fought to sustain itself as an alliance during the dark age of the Bot Wars (2003). IX was coming out of a golden age under Duque and Scarface, but the alliance was rapidly declining in strength. IX began the age at over 160 members on March 2003, a considerable decline from the 200+ it had been on the following reset. IX was also ruled by a Heads Council, a first in IX history, since there was no presidential successor to the Duque-Scarface duo. The alliance was botted during this time and suffered massive casualties. Other alliances of the time also sustained similar attacks. At the end of the reset about 130 IXers remained after what had been IX's most unproductive reset ever. Thankfully though, a new leader was on the way.

Mega became President of IX on June 2003, at the start of the June-August 2003 reset. She had been the most powerful head within the Heads Council due to her experience as Head of FA and Head of War for IX during late 2002 and 2003. Mega reigned as a powerful solo president, the first since DeityLord, and sought to stop IX's downward spiral. The 115 member IX was also faced with a war against its RAGE enemy. The 115 member RAGE attacked IX in late June 2003 and the decisive war of IX's year took place. RAGE established an early lead, but Mega was able to rally IX and crush its opponent after a 41 day war. IX was victorious again against its nemesis and for the time being it was faring well despite the bots. It was a top 5 alliance again.

IX looked to netgain during the August-October reset despite the bots. Following the victory in the Third RAGE War, IX was trying to increase numbers and make a solid showing on the networth charts. IX was faring well in this endeavor until 50 Pinoys were deleted after playing from an internet cafe. The incident led to widespread criticism of IX, since some of those Pinoys were actually cheating and it seemed that Mega's successes had been stopped by this event. It was surely the low point in her presidency. Nonetheless, some of these Pinoys were expelled from IX and the others restarted. IX finished with a decent albeit constrained showing in what was a tarnished reset.

The final and fourth reset of this age took place between November 2003 and January 2004. Mega decided to war this set and IX's aggressive politics were reflective of this. LCN and TH first got embroiled in a war and IX intervened in a quasi-war against TH. IX later declared war on CWG and forced them to surrender after 24 hours of bombardment. Mega was bound to retire after the end of this reset and a fourth war against RAGE was planned at this time as her going-away present. IX thus struck RAGE on January 1, 2004 and began the Fourth RAGE War, a conflict which briefly lasted until the end of the reset on January 10. IX crushed RAGE again in a swift victory.

The reset also ended with much promise for the Earth community. Mehul Patel promised security changes to help combat the bot plague which had afflicted Earth since January 2003. Thus alliances expected to be free from the bots and to engage in their usual practices without the robotic intervention. Mega led IX into this new age and helped sustain IX at a time when bots, internal weakness, and foreign enemies were threatening the very fabric of IX. IX survived and was able to soldier on into a new age, which was to be the most cataclysmic and glorious in IX history.

=== Fourth Age, January 2004-May 2005 ===

The fourth age in IX history was its longest and also its most glorious. IX was the game's top alliance for over a year and exercised a level of power it had never held before. This was the Age of IX.

The epoch began on January 12, 2004 with de1i and Serpentor becoming the next co-presidents. IX was now free to do as it pleased without having the menace of the bots. The 130 member alliance participated in the defense of the NATO coalition during January 2004. However, this coalition ended abruptly in the middle of February. IX attacked Ragnarok one night and was surprised to see that ARROW and SOL were breaking pacts and declaring war on IX over the ILS Scandal. MD also broke a pact and attacked IX a few days later. NATO was shattered after this schism between the former allies and IX was gangbanged by ARROW, MD, SOL, and Ragnarok. The gangbang was brief but the action prompted IX leaders to plan a long-term revenge on ARROW and SOL only (relations with MD were rekindled). Also, IX recuperated and was able to defeat Ragnarok in the long run. Serpentor retired from active leadership at the end of this set and de1i took over as a solo president.

It fell on de1i and his FA staff to plan the war of revenge for the following April-May 2004 reset. IX was able to form an anti-ARROW/SOL task force comprised of IX, Steel, TIE, LaF, and MX. IX & allies then attacked and defeated ARROW, RAGE, SOL, and their allies during the TIS War. Most importantly, IX became the most powerful alliance in the game on this set, a 180 degree reversal in light of the previous set's gangbang. IX grew to 160 members and assembled a powerful allied base with which it could project power. IX thus began its long reign at the top of Earth power rankings and continued its wars of revenge on ARROW and SOL.

IX planned a second consecutive set of revenge against ARROW and SOL, which resulted in LaF fighting SOL, and IX fighting ARROW. LaF attacked SOL in June 2004 meanwhile IX prepared to attack ARROW. LaF fought a hard battle with SOL, and won in the end after gaining total control of breaking power. However, the Fifth ARROW-IX War was a blowout. The 195 member IX bombarded the 230 member ARROW with a 10,760 hit and 60 kill FS which left ARROW demolished and mortally wounded from day 1 of the war. IX also established what was then the biggest FS in game history (now the 3rd biggest). IX continued its war with ARROW and won a decisive victory. It also concluded its two-set punishment of ARROW and SOL.

By August 2004, IX was looking to defend some allies after having successfuly pursued its agenda on the previous two sets and having become the top alliance in the game. The possibility of more war with ARROW and SOL remained, but IX chose to defend TSW from UCN (an ancient enemy of IX). IX attacked UCN in defense of TSW, but also went ahead and pre-emptively attacked ICN, Elysium, and SOL, who were all coming in defense of UCN. IX had a stunning offensive against UCN, ICN, and Elysium but suffered irreparable losses once those three alliances were joined by SOL in a major counterattack. IX was crippled and its own mistakes led it to fight a two-fronted war it could not win. LCN and Unknown were called in to defeat SOL, but in the end IX was also defeated by the three enemy allies and the critical support they received from SOL.

Defeat in the Second IX-UCN War/Stooges War led IX leadership to look forward to a netgaining reset for October-November 2004. President de1i was in his last set as president due to a busy RL schedule, and his lack of activity had permitted IX to undergo the failed path of the previous set. More troubles loomed for IX however. ARROW and SOL had planned on their own campaigns of reprisal against IX during the fall of 2004 and gained the critical support of the MD/SoF mini-bloc. Combining the ARROW/SOL forces with those of the MD/SoF group, a massive coalition was formed to combat the IX bloc. World War IX began on October 30, 2004 with a series of attacks on IX and their allies. IX was hit by PDM and RAGE in a massive strike and fought an uphill battle. IX had grown to 230 members with the L2K merger and the alliance was strong enough to deliver a tour de force performance against PDM and RAGE. IX was able to defeat PDM with Ragnarok help, but was not able to kill RAGE. Most IX allies met defeat in their own fronts and thus World War IX was a general defeat of IX & allies. Following this second debacle, new leadership took over IX as President de1i left the stage.

Angelous and DTA became the new presidents of IX on December 2004 and they immediately began working to reverse IX's misfortune in the previous two sets. Angelous envisioned expanding IX power even more and in continuing the victories of de1i's first three sets as president. DTA also wanted to strengthen IX internally for the coming battles ahead. IX thus followed a second set of duels with ARROW and SOL. TIE attacked ARROW, meanwhile IX attacked SOL. TIE fought an uphill battle against ARROW and prevailed in the end, confirming it as one of the major powers in Earth. IX also defeated SOL in a war that was seen as a clash between the two top powers of the time (both at 180 members and leading Earth's two power blocs). It was IX's toughest duel ever and a proper return to form. As IX won the Seventh IX-SOL War, Angelous was already at work expanding IX's political base during January 2005 in an effort to finally crush ARROW/SOL and decisively win the vicious rivalry.

IX's efforts to expand its power continued into the February-March 2005 reset. It was an odd netgaining set for IX, as all the great powers of Earth were at peace. Proxy wars were common between the smaller allies of both sides. Firstly, Sanctuary attacked and defeated ICN with IX support. Secondly, MX was able to defeat TD. Lastly, the ARROW-backed Omega defeated the IX-backed Steel in a memorable war. IX's success that set rested on Angelous' ability to receive support from the MD/SoF group that had been so valuable for ARROW/SOL during World War IX.

IX planned to end the rivalry between its camp and ARROW/SOL's forces. IX thus formed the Project Arcturus coalition, a group comprised of IX, MD, PDM, SoF, and TIE, and set about planning for another world war during the spring of 2005. War plans were already in writing by the start of the April-May 2005 reset, as IX & allies awaited the coming battle. World War X then began on April 23, 2005 with massive coalition assaults on ARROW, SOL, and key allies. The war turned into a one-sided and devastating rout of the ARROW/SOL bloc after just a few days. IX received the majority of the ARROW/SOL side's attacks, but was still able to give the best warring performance of that set, leading all combatants in hits and kills. ARROW announced its departure from the game soon after and SOL asked IX for peace during private talks between Angelous and Dragon.

The 180 member IX was the unquestioned superpower of the game and was at the peak of its power as the age ended. It had won its year-long rivalry with the ARROW/SOL bloc and established itself as the top alliance in the game on the merits of its top war machine and its mastery of Earth politics. IX then marched on into another contested fifth age with a new leadership and in albeit lesser strength after being the top alliance for 7 resets straight.

=== Fifth Age, June 2005-January 2007 ===

The fifth age of the Illuminati X began on June 2005 following the previous age's successful conclusion. The Angelous-DTA presidency was going into its fourth set when things abruptly changed. President Angelous exposed himself coordinating minor multi-running efforts and fellow President DTA had to exile him. IX was also weakening with the summer retirement of players, and its membership went down from 180+ to 160. This decline was furthered by the departure of Angelous and by the collapse of Project Arcturus. IX was not the top alliance after holding that distinction for the previous 7 sets. It was as if the alliance ran out of gas after steaming at full throttle. Nonetheless, DTA named Floyd and Kaiser Vice Presidents and gave them the reigns of the alliance.

IX invested the June-July 2005 set in helping allies. Floyd sought to reassert IX politically by aiding allies and securing a diplomatic end to the IX-SOL rivalry. IX and SOL agreed to an uNAP that ended the 1.5 year-old rivalry. Kaiser then helped Sky and Unknown plan for a war with Exodus and ICN, which ultimately proved successful. IX finally engaged Apoc and Vengeance in quick wars to defend LCN. IX then defended new allies MKR from RAGE in the Seventh IX-RAGE War. IX closed the reset by entering the Second Elysium-MD War and killing Elysium. DTA finally named Floyd and Kaiser Presidents and retired.

IX went into the August-September 2005 reset with a reduced membership of 130. SOL was the top alliance at this point and its relationship with IX was progressing. Project Arcturus was now dead and the slow realignment of alliances began. IX's own partnership with LCN was at an end, and IX refused to pact them after resets of disappointing relations. IX then sought revenge against RAGE for ruining IX's netting in the October-November 2004 reset. IX also had its allies attack some of RAGE's supporters. The vendetta worked well as IX was able to crush RAGE in their Eighth War; meanwhile, IX coordinated the allied defeat of ImagNum and ICN. IX ended the reset by also smashing Citadel.

The alliance grew to 140 members on the following October-November 2005 reset. The realignment of Earth blocs was ongoing with IX and SOL finally becoming allies and IX's relations with LCN worsening. Likewise, MD was increasingly turning anti-IX just as it was fighting wars with SOL, IX's new ally. Kiwi's Suck. LCN's own actions this set led to war with IX. LCN feared an IX attack and lobbied for a military alliance with SOL. SOL notified IX and this led to the destruction of LCN in the First IX-LCN War. IX also attacked Monsters during that war to settle some disputes between Floyd and Monsters' leadership.

The December 2005-January 2006 reset brought upon the culmination of the IX-SOL entente since both alliances signed a FDP. IX and SOL both wanted to kill LCN and had no other plans for the set. Since IX had just killed LCN, IX ultimately agreed to let SOL attack LCN in exchange for a friendly war between IX and SOL, the top two powers in the game. SOL agreed and demolished LCN. The 145 member IX then attacked the 195 member SOL and the Ninth IX-SOL War ensued, where SOL dominated the smaller IX before a ceasefire agreement. The experience cemented IX-SOL relations despite the war game setback. In addition, LCN's gravitation toward a developing anti-IX/SOL bloc led by MD and Elysium led IX, SOL, and TIE, to engage even more in joint planning.

The first true fighting between the IX/SOL/TIE (TIS) bloc and the MD/Elysium bloc, product of the ongoing Earth political realignment, began during the February-March 2006 reset. IX was at 145 members and was struck by the 160+ member Elysium. SOL also had to make a preemptive strike on LCN, Omega, and MD, starting the LMaO-SOL War. IX and SOL coordinated general war strategies to win both conflicts. IX called in several allies and SOL called in TIE, meanwhile RAGE was busy destroying IX allies Sanctuary and Evolution. IX & allies defeated Elysium and their allies in the Third Elysium-IX War, meanwhile SOL and TIE defeated the LMaO triumvirate. With the wars over, LaF joined the TIS bloc, but RAGE and SoF joined the MD/Elysium bloc. The realignment was now complete and this set's wars paved the way for a clash of coalitions on the following reset.

A world war reset erupted during April-May 2006, with the TIS and MD/Elysium coalitions preparing for war. It was the culmination of the year-long realignment and the war Floyd and Kaiser had promised. IX was at 148 members when the TIS bloc made a preemptive attack on Elysium and LCN, starting World War XI. The war exploded immediately as all great powers joined within 48 hours. IX and SOL became the target of the MD/Elysium coalition; meanwhile, IX and SOL fought back and their allies methodically broke each of the 16 alliances and clans on the MD/Elysium side. The war ended in a total victory for TIS & allies with the defeated alliances suing for peace and pact outs.

General peace broke out on the following June-July 2006 reset since many top alliances pacted out. IX and SOL, however, planned on warring. Half of the previous set's enemy bloc was permitted to net meanwhile the other half was left unpacted and targeted. SOL killed SoF and Exodus meanwhile IX began its own wars. IX grew to 160 members this set and warred ImagNum, Ragnarok, MPE, Vengeance, and NeoFederation in consecutive campaigns. IX's coalition held strong throughout the set and IX enjoyed the comfort of controlling the server along with its allies.

IX changed its pace and decided to netgain with a reduced 140 members for the August-September 2006 reset. Nonetheless, it coordinated the outcome of the set with allied wars. In addition, IX and its partners were succesful in inciting internal wars between the enemy camp. IX and its allies lured SoF and ImagNum into destroying Elysium and RAGE independently fought LCN. Ultimately IX & allies controlled the netgaining ranks with TIE, IX, and LaF occupying the top networth ranks. IX finished with a #2 rank in total networth, its second best ever. It also participated in the Axis gangbang on ImagNum at the end of the set. President Kaiser then retired at the end of the reset after a year in power and Floyd remained as sole president.

War began very quickly during the October-November 2006 reset when Elysium circumvented pacts by attacking IX and LaF within RAGE's tag. IX's coalition in turn crushed both Elysium and RAGE in a decisive engagement. Elysium thereafter admitted defeat in its struggle with IX and Hardy stepped down. The reset, however, continued with change and transition. IX's internal power had been declining since July with a decreasing membership that had gone down to 125 members. Many leaders and veterans also followed Kaiser's retirement. General SlagPit, the Head of War,retired from IX in October. President Floyd then retired in early November after 7.5 resets in the presidency. Angelous followed suit. IX thus began November without some of its senior leaders and with a new leadership that was now under the command of new President Warrior.

* Rag/Unknown War
* Return of Duque, Floyd, and Kaiser
* SoF War
* IVAN War

=== Sixth Age, February 2007-present ===

* [[Axis War I]]
* [[Axis War II]]

Angelous

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Angelous, also known as Angy or Stewy, was the eighth President of the [[IX|Illuminati X]], first serving from 2004-2005 and again in 2007. He also served as Illuminati X Head of Foreign Affairs (2004-2005), [[SOL]] Commander of Foreign Affairs (2005-2006) under the "Stewy" alias, and as Vice President of the Illuminati X (2007).

==Early career==

Angelous joined the Illuminati X in early 2002 after playing some time with the Sons of Liberty. Angelous rose up the IX ranks quickly and became a prominent Officer of Foreign Affairs by 2004. At this time he was also advising [[Militia X]] on foreign affairs. Angelous was later named Head of Foreign Affairs that year.
==First presidency==

Angelous eventually became the eighth President of the Illuminati X, succeeding [[de1i]] in December 2004. Angelous served as an external president along with co-president [[DTA]], who handled internal duties. Angelous served in this office from December 1, 2004, to June 3, 2005.

Angelous was first responsible for organizing the successful Seventh IX-SOL War immediately after IX's two consecutive defeats in the Stooges War and World War IX.

Angelous then worked at gaining allied support for IX and establishing a coalition. He was able to lure MD, PDM, and SoF from supporting ARROW and SOL, and getting them to create a new coalition. This coalition formed during the spring of 2005 just as Angelous was planning a massive war against [[ARROW]] and SOL in reprisal for World War IX. Angelous and his allies then started World War X in April 2005. Project Arcturus won a crushing victory against the ARROW/SOL bloc.

However, Angelous was forced to step down from the IX presidency in the first days of June 2005. He mistakenly sent a message to the membership of IX which showed him coordinating the running of a few multies with another IX player. President DTA removed his account soon after and [[Floyd]] and [[Kaiser]] became co-presidents in July 2005.

==Stewy of SOL==
Angelous continued having a considerable effect on Earth politics by playing his hand at running wars and affecting pacting schemes with his own political clout. Most notably, he did this by using his "Stewy" alias and becoming the Foreign Relations Commander of SOL during the fall of 2005, at a crucial time in which IX and SOL became allied. He also returned to IX as a presidential advisor to Floyd and Kaiser in the fall of 2005. Angelous continued playing as "Stewy" in SOL and advising in IX for nearly a year until he retired again in October 2006. At that point he disclosed on Alliance Talk that Stewy was his alias.

==Return to IX leadership==
Angelous returned to active IX duty in February 2007, becoming Vice President of IX under presidents Floyd and [[Warrior]]. His co-Vice President was Duque. Angy assisted President Floyd during this time in the execution of the Axis Wars. However, IX was defeated in both the Second and the Third Axis Wars of the spring and early summer of 2005.

==Second presidency==
President Warrior retired in April 2007 and Floyd eventually appointed Angelous co-President of IX on June 26, 2007. Angelous then worked with Floyd at reversing the course of the Axis Wars and was able to turn the tide for IX with a victory in the Fourth Axis War. Floyd then retired in August 2007 and Angelous appointed his former co-president DTA as Floyd's replacement. Angelous eventually retired in November 2007 after the Axis Wars had been won.
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Category:Retal Policies

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A Retal Policy defines the actions a clan will take when a member country is attacked. Policies should be clear and concise in order to avoid confusion.

Ares Retal Policy

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[[Category:Retal Policies]]

The following is a guide to Ares' retal policy:

Pacted Alliance Retal: Will go according to our pact and FA's must approve these before the hits are taken.

Unpacted Alliance Retal: 1:1, 1:1 on DH 3:2, 5:3. FA contact four or more.

Untagged Countires: 2:1 5:2 7:3 Farm/Kill 4 or more. Farm/Kill RoR. Kill GS/BR/AB.

Sons of Liberty

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[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]
[[Category:Alliances]]

=Leadership=

SOL is traditionally run as a triumvirate, with 3 Heads, 1 for each department (War, Foreign Relations and Internal Affairs). SOL`s 3 heads are often referred to as Reds, due to the color of their nick insite.

Each department has a commander, the commander is the Heads 2nd in command.
These 6, make up the SOL HQ, but the executive powers rest in the Reds

==Reds==
*[[Steeps]] - Head of IA
*[[Praetor]] - Head of FR
*[[Makinso]]- Head of War

==Commanders==
*[[Bart]] - War commander
* [[Suni]] - FR Commander
* [[LittleItaly]] - IA commander

=The Philosophy of SOL=

'''What do you want to Achieve in this game?'''

Our allies to know they can count on us, and for us to know likewise. SoL members to feel the high level of comraderie present within SoL, for those members to enjoy their stay: for the fun of a good war, or at the very least, to feel as if they came away with a better understanding about things in general (better communication, better strategy, organization, structure, discipline, sense of fair play).

SOL as one big Family. A Family that has a many members who cares for each other as they care for themselves. If one member get hurts, the whole alliance suffers and if one member benefits, the whole alliance rejoices. I would like all members to feel they are equal to each other and the only different is the role they play in our big family.

SOL home to Anybody who is willing to be part of our Family, Abide by our code and put 100% efforts, no matter who and what they are.

SOL measure its decisions on the best interest of SOL and the opinion of many not the opinion of few. At the same time, to trust leaders to make a decision during the time of need and war and discuss it after any war is gone and threat is diminished.

SOL family members fulfilling their duties on their own, without having others telling them to do so. If members come short in their duties, then I like to see other SOL members helping them understand the importance of their role and the effect on the whole family.

Leaders to set the example for members -- faster to review their own work before asking others to do theirs

Everybody in SOL know exactly what they need to do before worrying about what others do.

Chain of command work from top all the way down. Exactly the same way from the bottom all the way to the top with no special treatments.

SOL one big community where everybody has a voice and everybody share their thoughts: all members to know that their opinion matters and without it we lose the building bricks of the foundation of our alliance. The more we lose, the weaker we are.

SOL treat other alliances the same way they want to be treated. SOL stands for its members against all odds and as long as it is only in fairness and justice: to be known for its fair playing and just treatment of others, small or big alliances, with no difference.

SOL Code of conduct is reflected in every aspect of SOL Family. SOL action talks much louder than their words.

SOL as a value and way of playing is reflected in every SOLer code of conduct.

== Why is SOL different from other Alliances? ==

Other alliances strive to win, but forget to understand that the path to victory is just as important as the victory itself. Ie, not only are we achieving victory, but complete victory, victory along the path and at the destination.

Other alliances ask you “ what was your last NW and how experienced are you? What?? You've never played the game!? Go to another alliance!“ SOL asks, “Will you be an active member in our Family? And you understand what this means?? Welcome!!” Other alliances would boot you out if you do not pass a specific NW, SOL will ask you “what can we do to help you better your country and be a stronger part of our Family?”

=Achievements=
Top Alliance:
August 2005 - present (5 resets)

==Notable Victories:==
*Coalition War (1998)
*EoS-SOL War (1998)
*World War III (1999)
*HAN-SOL War (1999)
*ARROW-SOL War (1999)
*TSA War (2000)
*IX-Legacy War (2000)
*World War VI (2001)
*TIL War II (2002)
*NATO War (2003)
*ILS War (2004)
*World War IX (2004)
*SoF-SOL War X (2005)
*MD/Rag-SOL War (2005)
*LMaO-SOL War (2006)
*World War XI (2006)
*SOL vs NA/LCN/ZT/Rag (2007)

==History==

Involved in the [[LCN-Fist-Omega vs ImagNum-SoL War (2010) | LCN/Fist/Omega vs ImagNum/SoL]] [[war]] during the [[Fourth Round of the Alliance Server]].

Involved in the [[LaF_vs_SOL_-_Oct/Nov_2010 | LaF vs SOL]] war during the [[Sixth Round of the Alliance Server]].

SOL is the oldest, still running alliance in the game. 
SOL was formed in January 1998. 
 

[[http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/Category%22Sons_of_Liberty_Members Sons of Liberty Members]]

<center>'''Short summary of 65 sets of SOL history''' 
(under construction)</center>

===<center>'''CHAPTER 3: BACK ON TOP''' </center>===
<center>10 Wins | 1 Draw </center>

Reset 26 Oct27 to Jan11 04: Boredom & Bots 
Arrow SoL & MD jump LCN & IX | Sanct 24h war | 2 Month Resets | Daxit leaves SoL 
 

Reset 26 Oct27 to Jan11 04: Boredom & Bots 
SoL takes on Ironic & DU | Bots attack SoL | IX vs Rage 
 

Reset 25 Aug17 to Oct25 03: Deadly Deception 
MD FS's SoL | SoF disbands | 50 IX deletions | Sparta merges with Steel 
 

Reset 24 May27 to Aug15 03: Afternoon Quickie 
SoL Puts TIE & DaneDyn in knots | Rage vs IX | Mick leaves SoL | SoL finishes 5th TNW 
 

Reset 23 Mar12 to May25 03: Multied Peace 
SoL wars GNV for DA | Spam-tag policy | Sparta Reformed | SoL finishes 3rd TNW 
 

Reset 22 Dec31 to Mar10 03: Basking in the Sun 
SoL pounds Teamhunt, LoN & RMxSky | SoF vs IX+5 | SoL finishes 3rd TNW 
 

Reset 21 Oct13 to Dec29 02: Smashing TIL (WWVIII) 
The Second TIL War 
 

Reset 20 Jul22 to Oct11 02: Prelude to the Rising 
RED goes splatt | 10-day SoL/SoF war | Sparta joins SoL 
 

===<center>'''CHAPTER 2: SOL ON DEATH AND DYING''' </center>===
<center>5 Wins | 6 Losses </center>

Reset 19 May3 to Jul20 02: TIL Lashes Out(WWVII) 
CWG rejoins SoL | 1st TIL War Breaks Out | UCN disbands 
 

Reset 18 Feb17 to Apr30 02: Reformation and Trial 
SoL wars LCN | LCN calls in IX | Rage tries to help 
 

Reset 17 Dec3 to Feb15 02: Vingthor Attacks 
Vingthor & other bots attack | Arrow vs SoF | Birth of TIL 
 

Reset 16 Sep13 to Nov30 01: Illuminated Skies (WWVI) 
Arrow/SoL vs IX & co | Sparta forms | AT Archive starts Oct21 
 

Reset 16 Sep13 to Nov30 01: Illuminated Skies (WWVI) 
Arrow/SoL vs IX & co | Sparta forms | AT Archive starts Oct21 
 

Reset 15 Jun22 to Sep11 01: Rest Stop #2 
NLS joins SoL | Mapleson join SoL | SoL finishes 4th TNW 
 

Reset 14 Apr1 to Jun20 01: 3rd Strike 
SoL wars SoF | Massive fa sinks SoL 
 

Reset 13 Jan19 to Mar30 01: Stamina 
Rage FS's SoL then LaF & Genisis FS SoL 
 

Reset 12 Oct30 to Jan17 01: Holiday Massacre 
CWG calls SoL to war The League | TGA calls SoL to war Rage/DA 
 

Reset 11 Aug17 to Oct28 00: Bad Intel & Bad Moves 
Norcal accuses Sof of multies | SoF FS's SoL 
 

Reset 10 Jun7 to Aug15 00: Double Dog Dare 
Elites FS's SoL | SoF & LaF help Elites | TSA disbands 
 

===<center>'''CHAPTER 1: UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS''' </center>===
<center>11 Wins | 1 Draw </center>

Reset 9 Mar23 to Jun5 00: Coaliltion Wars (WWV) 
Conflict with Rage & Arrow turns into TSA vs. TF | IX is born 
 
Reset 8 Jan8 to Mar21 00: The Dogs of War 
The Great SOL vs UCN War 
 
Reset 7 Nov to Jan6 00: Enjoying the Show (WWIV) 
SoL watches the Great FoG war | SoL finishes 3rd TNW 
 
Reset 6 Aug to Oct 99: Target Practice 
SoL defends Forest against Arrow | SoF is born | SoL finishes 2nd TNW 
 
Reset 5 May1 to Jul 99: Vegas Baby! 
HAN FS's SoL | Tiger Bot strikes | SoL helps Elites with RD | TSA forms 
 
Reset 5½ Jul 99: 2 Week Test Reset 
No clue what SoL did this reset 
 
Reset 4 Mar2 to Apr29 99: Rock'n Han (WWIII) 
RoCK Family vs MD/Omega & UCN/SoL vs HAN | Clan Tags Added 
 
Reset 3 Nov22 to Feb28 99: Getting on the Map (WWII) 
SoL wars EoS for a decisive victory | LCN is born | Rage is born 
 
Reset 2 Aug20 to Nov20 98: Let There Be War (WWI) 
MD is born | SG FS's SoL | SOL Omega SG RoCK vs LaF EoS MD OOA TD 
 
Reset 1 May to Aug 98: Birthing Pains 
SOL joins 1A as part of UCN | HAN FS's UCN | ICN, SoL & others leave UCN 
 
Reset 0 Jan to Apr 98: Birth of Legends 
SoL (TSA) is formed in the 1B server. 

=Website=
[http://sol.ghqnet.com Join SOL today!]
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==Past Presidents==

[[Anthony Coilli]]

Paradigm

2011-06-23T21:41:57Z

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{{infobox paradigm
| image = [[File:Pdmlogo.jpg|300px]]
| founder = Comwood
| founded = November 2001?
| origins = Break up of [[PoW]]
| mission = To be fun and stress free. To have a group of friends who are always with you wherever in the world you go.
| focus = Never taking shit from no one. Standing up for ourselves and our allies. To play the game the way we want to.
| director = [[Detmer]]
| ofas = [[The_Arabian_Nightmare]]
| fals = --
| oos = [[Bodyman]], [[YamahaMe]], [[Big_Will]], [[Drow]]
| homepage = http://paradigm.boxcarhosting.com
| irc = '''#'''pdm @ irc.earthtools.ca
}}

==Modern Day==

The modern day Paradigm alliance prides itself in standing up for its principles at any cost. Paradigm boasts that it is the most fun alliance because the leaders do not fetter the alliance with antiquated politics and allow the players to play how they want and to play stress free. Paradigm is currently recovering from an all-time low in membership, caused in large part by our previous website being unexpectedly shut down and losing access to hundreds of previous members.

==Retal Policy==
{{Main|Paradigm Retal Policy}}

Paradigm was the first alliance to start experimenting with mixed country:country and alliance:country retals, based on whether 1:1 or L:L was taken.

==History==

Paradigm was founded for the Month/Year reset of [[Earth: 2025]] by [[Comwood]] after the three way split of [[PoW|Prisoners of War]] (PoW) into Paradigm, The Evil Odyssey and PoW. To be continued...

==Leaders==
<table class="wikitable">
<tr><th colspan="3">Executive</th><th colspan="3">Foreign Affairs</th><th colspan="3">Internal Affairs</th><th colspan="3">Training & Retals</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>'''Princess'''</td><td>[[Tisya]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td>'''Head FA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td>'''Head IA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>--- </td>
<td>'''Head Trainer'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>--- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'''Vice Detmer'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td>'''FA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''MSN'': --</td>
<td>'''IA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>-- </td>
<td>'''RA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''AIM'': --</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'''Head Detmer'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td> </td>
<td>'''FA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td> </td><td> </td><td> </td>
<td> </td><td> </td><td> </td>
</tr>

</table>

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]
[[Category:Netgaining Alliances]]
[[Category:Warring Alliances]]

Sons of Liberty

2011-06-23T21:41:34Z

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{{infobox SOL
| image = [[File:SOL_logo.gif]]
| founders = '''[[Iron Gauntlet]]''', [[NorCal]] and [[Mike1]]
| founded = January 1998
| origins = --
| anw =
| tnw =
| num_members = [[Sons of Liberty Members|75]]
| mission = --
| focus = Warring
| hwar = [[Makinso]]
| warc = [[Bart]]
| hfa = [[Praetor]]
| fac = [[Suni]]
| hia = [[Steeps]]
| iac = [[LittleItaly]]
| trainers = --
| homepage = [[http://SOL.ghqnet.com SOL on GHQ]]
| irc = '''#'''sol irc.scourge.se
| rpolicy = [[Sons of Liberty Retal Policy]]
}}

[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]
[[Category:Alliances]]

=Leadership=

SOL is traditionally run as a triumvirate, with 3 Heads, 1 for each department (War, Foreign Relations and Internal Affairs). SOL`s 3 heads are often referred to as Reds, due to the color of their nick insite.

Each department has a commander, the commander is the Heads 2nd in command.
These 6, make up the SOL HQ, but the executive powers rest in the Reds

==Reds==
*[[Steeps]] - Head of IA
*[[Praetor]] - Head of FR
*[[Makinso]]- Head of War

==Commanders==
*[[Bart]] - War commander
* [[Suni]] - FR Commander
* [[LittleItaly]] - IA commander

=The Philosophy of SOL=

'''What do you want to Achieve in this game?'''

Our allies to know they can count on us, and for us to know likewise. SoL members to feel the high level of comraderie present within SoL, for those members to enjoy their stay: for the fun of a good war, or at the very least, to feel as if they came away with a better understanding about things in general (better communication, better strategy, organization, structure, discipline, sense of fair play).

SOL as one big Family. A Family that has a many members who cares for each other as they care for themselves. If one member get hurts, the whole alliance suffers and if one member benefits, the whole alliance rejoices. I would like all members to feel they are equal to each other and the only different is the role they play in our big family.

SOL home to Anybody who is willing to be part of our Family, Abide by our code and put 100% efforts, no matter who and what they are.

SOL measure its decisions on the best interest of SOL and the opinion of many not the opinion of few. At the same time, to trust leaders to make a decision during the time of need and war and discuss it after any war is gone and threat is diminished.

SOL family members fulfilling their duties on their own, without having others telling them to do so. If members come short in their duties, then I like to see other SOL members helping them understand the importance of their role and the effect on the whole family.

Leaders to set the example for members -- faster to review their own work before asking others to do theirs

Everybody in SOL know exactly what they need to do before worrying about what others do.

Chain of command work from top all the way down. Exactly the same way from the bottom all the way to the top with no special treatments.

SOL one big community where everybody has a voice and everybody share their thoughts: all members to know that their opinion matters and without it we lose the building bricks of the foundation of our alliance. The more we lose, the weaker we are.

SOL treat other alliances the same way they want to be treated. SOL stands for its members against all odds and as long as it is only in fairness and justice: to be known for its fair playing and just treatment of others, small or big alliances, with no difference.

SOL Code of conduct is reflected in every aspect of SOL Family. SOL action talks much louder than their words.

SOL as a value and way of playing is reflected in every SOLer code of conduct.

== Why is SOL different from other Alliances? ==

Other alliances strive to win, but forget to understand that the path to victory is just as important as the victory itself. Ie, not only are we achieving victory, but complete victory, victory along the path and at the destination.

Other alliances ask you “ what was your last NW and how experienced are you? What?? You've never played the game!? Go to another alliance!“ SOL asks, “Will you be an active member in our Family? And you understand what this means?? Welcome!!” Other alliances would boot you out if you do not pass a specific NW, SOL will ask you “what can we do to help you better your country and be a stronger part of our Family?”

=Achievements=
Top Alliance:
August 2005 - present (5 resets)

==Notable Victories:==
*Coalition War (1998)
*EoS-SOL War (1998)
*World War III (1999)
*HAN-SOL War (1999)
*ARROW-SOL War (1999)
*TSA War (2000)
*IX-Legacy War (2000)
*World War VI (2001)
*TIL War II (2002)
*NATO War (2003)
*ILS War (2004)
*World War IX (2004)
*SoF-SOL War X (2005)
*MD/Rag-SOL War (2005)
*LMaO-SOL War (2006)
*World War XI (2006)
*SOL vs NA/LCN/ZT/Rag (2007)

==History==

Involved in the [[LCN-Fist-Omega vs ImagNum-SoL War (2010) | LCN/Fist/Omega vs ImagNum/SoL]] [[war]] during the [[Fourth Round of the Alliance Server]].

Involved in the [[LaF_vs_SOL_-_Oct/Nov_2010 | LaF vs SOL]] war during the [[Sixth Round of the Alliance Server]].

SOL is the oldest, still running alliance in the game. 
SOL was formed in January 1998. 
 

[[http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/Category%22Sons_of_Liberty_Members Sons of Liberty Members]]

<center>'''Short summary of 65 sets of SOL history''' 
(under construction)</center>

===<center>'''CHAPTER 3: BACK ON TOP''' </center>===
<center>10 Wins | 1 Draw </center>

Reset 26 Oct27 to Jan11 04: Boredom & Bots 
Arrow SoL & MD jump LCN & IX | Sanct 24h war | 2 Month Resets | Daxit leaves SoL 
 

Reset 26 Oct27 to Jan11 04: Boredom & Bots 
SoL takes on Ironic & DU | Bots attack SoL | IX vs Rage 
 

Reset 25 Aug17 to Oct25 03: Deadly Deception 
MD FS's SoL | SoF disbands | 50 IX deletions | Sparta merges with Steel 
 

Reset 24 May27 to Aug15 03: Afternoon Quickie 
SoL Puts TIE & DaneDyn in knots | Rage vs IX | Mick leaves SoL | SoL finishes 5th TNW 
 

Reset 23 Mar12 to May25 03: Multied Peace 
SoL wars GNV for DA | Spam-tag policy | Sparta Reformed | SoL finishes 3rd TNW 
 

Reset 22 Dec31 to Mar10 03: Basking in the Sun 
SoL pounds Teamhunt, LoN & RMxSky | SoF vs IX+5 | SoL finishes 3rd TNW 
 

Reset 21 Oct13 to Dec29 02: Smashing TIL (WWVIII) 
The Second TIL War 
 

Reset 20 Jul22 to Oct11 02: Prelude to the Rising 
RED goes splatt | 10-day SoL/SoF war | Sparta joins SoL 
 

===<center>'''CHAPTER 2: SOL ON DEATH AND DYING''' </center>===
<center>5 Wins | 6 Losses </center>

Reset 19 May3 to Jul20 02: TIL Lashes Out(WWVII) 
CWG rejoins SoL | 1st TIL War Breaks Out | UCN disbands 
 

Reset 18 Feb17 to Apr30 02: Reformation and Trial 
SoL wars LCN | LCN calls in IX | Rage tries to help 
 

Reset 17 Dec3 to Feb15 02: Vingthor Attacks 
Vingthor & other bots attack | Arrow vs SoF | Birth of TIL 
 

Reset 16 Sep13 to Nov30 01: Illuminated Skies (WWVI) 
Arrow/SoL vs IX & co | Sparta forms | AT Archive starts Oct21 
 

Reset 16 Sep13 to Nov30 01: Illuminated Skies (WWVI) 
Arrow/SoL vs IX & co | Sparta forms | AT Archive starts Oct21 
 

Reset 15 Jun22 to Sep11 01: Rest Stop #2 
NLS joins SoL | Mapleson join SoL | SoL finishes 4th TNW 
 

Reset 14 Apr1 to Jun20 01: 3rd Strike 
SoL wars SoF | Massive fa sinks SoL 
 

Reset 13 Jan19 to Mar30 01: Stamina 
Rage FS's SoL then LaF & Genisis FS SoL 
 

Reset 12 Oct30 to Jan17 01: Holiday Massacre 
CWG calls SoL to war The League | TGA calls SoL to war Rage/DA 
 

Reset 11 Aug17 to Oct28 00: Bad Intel & Bad Moves 
Norcal accuses Sof of multies | SoF FS's SoL 
 

Reset 10 Jun7 to Aug15 00: Double Dog Dare 
Elites FS's SoL | SoF & LaF help Elites | TSA disbands 
 

===<center>'''CHAPTER 1: UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS''' </center>===
<center>11 Wins | 1 Draw </center>

Reset 9 Mar23 to Jun5 00: Coaliltion Wars (WWV) 
Conflict with Rage & Arrow turns into TSA vs. TF | IX is born 
 
Reset 8 Jan8 to Mar21 00: The Dogs of War 
The Great SOL vs UCN War 
 
Reset 7 Nov to Jan6 00: Enjoying the Show (WWIV) 
SoL watches the Great FoG war | SoL finishes 3rd TNW 
 
Reset 6 Aug to Oct 99: Target Practice 
SoL defends Forest against Arrow | SoF is born | SoL finishes 2nd TNW 
 
Reset 5 May1 to Jul 99: Vegas Baby! 
HAN FS's SoL | Tiger Bot strikes | SoL helps Elites with RD | TSA forms 
 
Reset 5½ Jul 99: 2 Week Test Reset 
No clue what SoL did this reset 
 
Reset 4 Mar2 to Apr29 99: Rock'n Han (WWIII) 
RoCK Family vs MD/Omega & UCN/SoL vs HAN | Clan Tags Added 
 
Reset 3 Nov22 to Feb28 99: Getting on the Map (WWII) 
SoL wars EoS for a decisive victory | LCN is born | Rage is born 
 
Reset 2 Aug20 to Nov20 98: Let There Be War (WWI) 
MD is born | SG FS's SoL | SOL Omega SG RoCK vs LaF EoS MD OOA TD 
 
Reset 1 May to Aug 98: Birthing Pains 
SOL joins 1A as part of UCN | HAN FS's UCN | ICN, SoL & others leave UCN 
 
Reset 0 Jan to Apr 98: Birth of Legends 
SoL (TSA) is formed in the 1B server. 

=Website=
[http://sol.ghqnet.com Join SOL today!]
{{Stub}}

==Past Presidents==

[[Anthony Coilli]]

Rage

2011-06-23T21:41:06Z

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{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:rage.jpg]]
| caption = 
| founders = [[Halls]], [[Insanity]] and [[Tirol]]
| founded = 1998
| origins = Veterans of Obsidian Order Alliance
| num_members = Max: ~500 (in 2002)
| mission = To enjoy the game, stay in touch with friends, and consume more alcohol per capita than any other alliance
| motto = 
| focus = An alternation of Warring and Hibernating
| extinction = 
| merged_into = 
| president = [[Riddler]]
| vps = [[Fail Diego Fail]]
| hfa = 
| fas = 
| hia = 
| ias = 
| hwar = 
| Recruiting Head = 
| trainers = 
| irc = irc.gamesurge.net #rage
| homepage = http://hosting.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/portal/index.php
| fbpage = 
| rpolicy = [[RAGE Retal Policy]]
}}

== Characteristics ==

Rage doesn't possess a holier than thou attitude, nor does it attempt to. Rather, it often goes with its instinct and thus makes it wholly unpredictable at times. One thing that can be counted on though is Rage dropping whatever it's doing to help out an ally in need. Rage is fuelled by emotion and will turn in greatly varying performances depending on the level of passion within the alliance at any given time.

== History ==

'''''Records'''''
* Most members: 500+ for about a year in 2002.
* RAGE holds the largest First Strike in Earth history with an astronomical 13,400 Hits at 111 hits per member. This was achieved against [[Evolution]] and [[Collaboration|Sanctuary]] in the February 1st - March 31st reset of 2006. The First Strike is the initial 24 hour period of a war, so the figure of 13,400 works out to be 558 hits every hour.
* Only alliance to disappear in the game but maintain a functional alliance. During the RD/Bot wars (2004) Rage turned the tables on the bot runners by depriving them of targets. Rage had over 130 members who hid their countries in small tags and established alliances. The bots could not find any targets. Late in the set Rage 'appeared' with over 100 countries tagging up as Rage and suddenly held the #3 spot for Avg NW and in the top 10 for TNW.

'''''Founding of Rage'''''

/---The following is taken from a ramble [[Tirol]] posted when he stepped down from Rage President, probably some time in 2003 or so. This will do until someone writes a real history---/

Tirol, Halls and Insanity decided to start a new alliance. Halls was Insanitys brother, and had stayed on with the OOA, being promoted to VP at this time. Halls pushed for a new alliance, and thought he could get at least 30 guys from the OOA. Insanity eventually got excited, and convinced me it was a good idea. We were going to launch the Glorious alliance "Lords of Mourning" Insanity simply stated that that was "Gay" and that we should be RAGE. The name stuck. RAGE was born.

We only got about 15 guys, but what a 15 they were. Between the time it took for Insanity and I to get a refusal for the MD merger while still in the OOA, and the time we put together the final touches on our new venture, the RAGE alliance, MD had become a major political power. Only having 50 members or so, but great players the lot of them. MD only had about two leaders that used ICQ on a regular basis at that point (that's right folks, a major alliance with only Two ICQ users on daily).

Mid way through the set, RAGE was doing ok. maybe ranked 15th in total net, recruited to 30 or so members, when trouble with the ROCK coalition started to brew.

By looking at the news, and taping my foreign affairs contacts, (all 10 of them??) I was the first to deduce ROCK was about to put that upstart alliance MD back in its rightful place (the ground). Just my luck, No MD contacts were online. So as the somewhat famous story goes, I did know of a place to find MD members. The online MD mud.

Tirol don't do MUDS.

I know one command to this day. SHOUT. I wander into this medieval setting, swords, bows arrows, town folk. And I scream "ROCK IS ATTACKING ROCK IS ATTACKING!!" Well, that just was NOT in character for the MUD it seems. Within seconds a good host of local warriors had traveled to my area, and begun to dissect me, piece, by piece. Until my Hero, Magellan (or was it Tokugawa?) came along, and disarmed/halted all of the attackers. (the flurry of text was nothing short of amazing). He got me on ICQ, and about ten minutes into the ROCK attack (my timing was impeccable as always) RAGE and MD mounted a feeble counterstrike. None the less, it was a counter strike. In the next day, three or four other small alliances, FOE being one of them, perhaps CWG another, joined the MD counter assault.

We were beaten badly in the end, but not a one of our alliances broke. We had our foothold on 1A. And we were going to take advantage. Within a resets time, RAGE had blossomed to about 120 members. A good bud of mine, whom some of you know as GRIN187, Who others know as Drapp, had joined up with RAGE. The guys trouble. Midway through the set, He landgrabed one Ragnarock player. Ragnarock retaliated six or seven times. So, he LG'd em back a few more times. So, RAG laid out a good 20 hits on him, and TGA laid out six or seven, god knows why. Remember my good buddy Cougar? Seems Grinn was messing with his "personal friend". the message Drapp sent about how Cougs freind should be raped like a dog probbably didn't help things much. True to RAGE style, we whacked Ragnarock one day later.

Rag didn't like this very much So they decided to even the field just a bit (we had a very large initial advantage) and called in TIE, TGA, SOL, and Elitez on us. (overkill perhaps?) SOL pulled out two days later, they were prime politicos in those days, and they knew MD was changing the way things worked. Once SOL left, so did Elitez and TIE. Leaving RAGE, TGA, and Ragnarock on the field. Until our old friends MD, FOE, and CWG decided to join in for RAGE. Well, TGA didn't like that one bit, so they called in the old time powerhouse again. ROCK.

It wasn't the same MD anymore, as RoCk was soon a bit Vexed to find out. MD went toe to toe with ROCK near the whole time, until HAN came in and put MD under. HAN had obtained a post from the MD boards where a few members had stated their dislike for HAN. I believe HAN told Samoan something like "MD no like HAN. MD not friend. HAN attack MD". And so they did. This brings us to Tirols second and last major Foriegn Affairs screwup. UCN had engaged EOS, EOS lost brutally. Having my dirty fingers in politics, I had given my UCN ambassadors access to Scarface from EOS. Then got busted by Fingolfin. Captain Truth Honor and Justice Nazar saw it fit that he personally take up my punishment, and LG'd me quite a few times, in the middle of one of our Rock fam strikes. Man did that piss me off.

(EOS, was Never to be seen again. Though they did retain some small form in the shape of NLS, and recently IX, in a very small way.)

RoCk fam was put down in short order the reset after. Being pinned for running the TIGER bot on Omega. The third and final ROCK war was the last one for them, our side prevailed, and did so overwhelmingly. ROCK was no more. This started a host of spin-off wars reset after reset, RAGE had made traditional enemies out of SOL, and Avengers along the way. Twice Quashing Avengers, though neither engagement lasted more than three days. Fighting SOL time and time again. Going after Legionz Twice. (if it looked and smelt like RoCk fam, and if they even snorted at us, or an ally the wrong way, that was excuse enough.) A screenshot from one of the Legionz wars can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/earthwarguide/history/legionwar.html Politics were so simple back then.

*---------------- RAGE DECLARES WAR! ---------------
*----------------- You looked at us funny. -------------

We engaged UCN once in the midst of all that. They refused us a DNH and pulled in the Area of 54k acers off us in just under a month. That was a lot of land for RAGE in those days. Our AB strikes ran strac, doing a lot of damage on the UCN. Kill runs were new this re-set, and we decided to start running them. Time, and time, and time again we were foiled. One day we got fed up and ran a large strike at 4:00am. Stonewalled. By every single country we tried. Ahh, the good ole days when login sharing wasn't an alliance killer eh Grant? ;)

Nazar was still a UCN team leader at the time, and had a few of his friends in the White Council (Azair, Slade). The weekend of the strike (yes Tirol attacked the alliance Naz was in, I was still pissed he had the nerve to LG me) Naz was camping. Just before he left he asked me not to hit anyone from the White Council. As a favor. Though I never told anyone, not even my own war leaders and co presidents, im sure Fingolfin was wondering what kind of Magical flute naz had ramed up his cakehole to take the White through the thick of battle and come out without a ding. Ok, so I nailed Azair a few times.. other than that. One reset or so Later, Naz left the UCN for a bit, and played in a clan called UND. Just a few friends. Clearly stating to me "Its just to mess around, I would never want anything big like RAGE. " Its about this Time our current site master, Inferno wanted to move himself into other areas of the internet. He asked me to Lead TIE. On one small condition. I merge RAGE into TIE.

Well, Im a guy who likes huge honking alliances, but I couldn't do that to our guys. We were, and always will be RAGE. Nothing else. So began our re-ascent to the top ranks. It was long and hard. This is about the time when TSA was begining to surface. I have allergies to large organizations. Especially once that SOL likes to finger. Not a hate, but more of an invitation to play chess. Or in the very least kick the board over. In short order we found ourselves head to head with SOL for a couple of resets. They won. As usual. I've made a career of saying screw who's going to win, and taking rage out for a large ass whooping. We don't win many fights. Ever. But its the principal behind those fights that keeps us in a gel. I find alliances that have to win really go tits up fast when they take a loss. Which is inevitable. Things change.

The reset after, RAGE was starting to bulk the members again, now upwards of 220. We still didn't have a proper structure, but some of the bad apples in RAGE finally fell off the tree. I like community and friends. sometimes to perpetuate that, you have to keep bad leaders. Because their still good people. Its tough for any alliance leader interested in community. Keeping the Community strong is based in some part on success as well. Its such a fine line. So RAGE was running fairly prime for once under the bulk of our guys.

Another alliance, composed of ex Legionz, ROCK, and Avengers was made. Known as Genesis today. Wow, thanx for putting all my old targets in one tag! I giggled. However I stopped laughing when they refused us a DO NOT HIT. 1.5 months into the set and -50+k acers, RAGE declared war on Genesis. An ICQ chat transcript of Genesis complaining can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/earthwarguide/history/firsttrash.html

We used an AB opener and launched hard at their fat tech theos. It was a sound plan on paper, but we paid for not using top down kill runs.

(Its the reason UCN got kicked by Elietez last reset as well. I don't care what UCN said, RaVes working in conjunction with UCN a few days before the strike left them friendly experience based advice to drop the AB's. They didn't, they paid. Initial top down strikes could have left you a DECISISVE victory, not a debatable one.)

So in terms of total net lost, RAGE won vs Genesis. In terms of hits and kills, final ranks, Genesis had beaten us. But once again, we made our point. They have signed with us every reset after. It was near the end of the Genesis war that I came up with the basic foundation for the Outposting system. For a long time I'd known if RAGE pushed the members barrier anymore, we would crumble, like every other alliance has upon hitting 200+. I posted about it, and the response was incredible. Everyone was for it, and the members and other presidents had many valuable ideas that turned the basic outposting foundation laid out, into a workable plan. The plan that's jacked us to near 500 members today. Shortly into the opening of our first outpost, we were asked by many allies to help out in the IX war. We were really split as to whom to help. As per usual, we went after TGA. A sceen shot of the notepad I used to decide our role can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/earthwarguide/history/whos.htm

l A joint RAGE/AOD vs TGA first strike screenshot can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/earthwarguide/history/chat1.html Last re-set, as you all know, I got one of my personal goals completed by winning total net with RAGE. Yeah, MD would have won in the long run, Elietz probably would have passed us as well. But the fact is, they didn't. We picked a great time not to war for once in our 14 or so reset history. A screenshot of our last RAGE netgaining chat can be found here: http://www.geocities.com/earthwarguide/history/net.html

== Leadership ==

[[Riddler]] - President

[[Fail Diego Fail]] (aka FDF) - VP

[[Grimm]] - FA and adviser

== Legendary Members ==

To be completed...

[[Tirol]] 
[[Insanity]] 
[[Halls]] 
[[Garry Owen]] 
[[Dragonlance]] 
[[Diety]] 
[[Ayatollah]] 

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]

Paradigm

2011-06-23T21:40:36Z

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{{infobox paradigm
| image = [[File:Pdmlogo.jpg|300px]]
| founder = Comwood
| founded = November 2001?
| origins = Break up of [[PoW]]
| mission = To be fun and stress free. To have a group of friends who are always with you wherever in the world you go.
| focus = Never taking shit from no one. Standing up for ourselves and our allies. To play the game the way we want to.
| director = [[Detmer]]
| ofas = [[The_Arabian_Nightmare]]
| fals = --
| oos = [[Bodyman]], [[YamahaMe]], [[Big_Will]], [[Drow]]
| homepage = http://paradigm.boxcarhosting.com
| irc = '''#'''pdm @ irc.earthtools.ca
| rpolicy = [[Paradigm Retal Policy]]
}}

==Modern Day==

The modern day Paradigm alliance prides itself in standing up for its principles at any cost. Paradigm boasts that it is the most fun alliance because the leaders do not fetter the alliance with antiquated politics and allow the players to play how they want and to play stress free. Paradigm is currently recovering from an all-time low in membership, caused in large part by our previous website being unexpectedly shut down and losing access to hundreds of previous members.

==Retal Policy==
{{Main|Paradigm Retal Policy}}

Paradigm was the first alliance to start experimenting with mixed country:country and alliance:country retals, based on whether 1:1 or L:L was taken.

==History==

Paradigm was founded for the Month/Year reset of [[Earth: 2025]] by [[Comwood]] after the three way split of [[PoW|Prisoners of War]] (PoW) into Paradigm, The Evil Odyssey and PoW. To be continued...

==Leaders==
<table class="wikitable">
<tr><th colspan="3">Executive</th><th colspan="3">Foreign Affairs</th><th colspan="3">Internal Affairs</th><th colspan="3">Training & Retals</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>'''Princess'''</td><td>[[Tisya]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td>'''Head FA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td>'''Head IA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>--- </td>
<td>'''Head Trainer'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>--- </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'''Vice Detmer'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td>'''FA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''MSN'': --</td>
<td>'''IA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>-- </td>
<td>'''RA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''AIM'': --</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>'''Head Detmer'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td> </td>
<td>'''FA'''</td><td>[[Detmer]]</td><td>''ICQ'': --</td>
<td> </td><td> </td><td> </td>
<td> </td><td> </td><td> </td>
</tr>

</table>

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]
[[Category:Netgaining Alliances]]
[[Category:Warring Alliances]]

La Cosa Nostra

2011-06-23T21:39:46Z

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{{infobox alliance
| image = [[file:LCN.PNG|300px]]
| founders = [[Castejon]], [[The Nihilist]], [[Brink]], [[Mad Hatter]]
| founded =
| origins =
| anw =
| tnw =
| num_members = 50
| mission = Excellence
| focus = Both
| president = [[Purposeful1]]
| vps = [[Assassin]], [[Imperial]], [[MAC]]
| hfa = [[Trife]]
| fas = [[Japri]], [[Heston]]
| hia = [[Naminef]]
| ias = [[deepcode]], [[Zigigy]]
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers =
| homepage = [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=LCNostra LCNostra Boxcar]
| irc = Gamesurge #lcnostra
| rpolicy = [[La Cosa Nostra Retal Policy]]
}}

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]

==Our Mission==

La Cosa Nostra is a clan on the [[Alliance server]] that aims to provide a friendly gaming environment for it's members.
We seek excellence in netgaining and both warfare. We protect our members and our allies. We seek growth in ability
and relationship and strive to get the best out of our family.

==Expectations==

Members have a responsibility to place this alliance first and foremost before individual pursuits and personal gains.
Members have a responsibility to uphold the rules of this alliance and strive toward LCN’s goals as set forth by the leaders of LCN.
Members have a responsibility to contribute and participate in the direction of LCN’s mission of becoming the best alliance on the Council Server.
LCN is a family oriented alliance, and each member is to assist and to respect other members in their goal to accomplish LCN’s mission.

==Some History==

LCN started out of Tourney game G. There were 5-6 original members. Castejon, The Nihilist, Brink, Mad Hatter were definites. I believe Assassin and Ravioli were also original, but they would need to confirm.

LCN was named by The Nihilist. Caste and Nihilist rode the same bus to high school in Ponte Vedra, Florida. History always gives The Nihilist a bum deal.

LCN as 11th was started in our first set, and became undeniable fact in our second set. To this day, LCN is the 11th best alliance in the game. Someday I may come back and expound on that.

LCN joined RoCKFamily in our second set.

The great LCN/HAN wars.

(SO I just typed up a ton of old stuff, and this site didn't take it, and it was lost. I am stopping here, if this takes, maybe I will come back and flesh it out more)

Involved in the [[LCN-Fist-Omega_vs_ImagNum-SoL War (2010) | LCN/Fist/Omega vs ImagNum/SoL]] war of June 2010.

==Contacts==

[[Purposeful1]]: Icq 219186820

[[Naminef]]: Icq 19379031

[[Theseus]]: Icq 75548472

[[Trife]]: Icq 1339765

[[Japri]]: Icq 75671705

Imaginary Numbers

2011-06-23T21:38:42Z

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{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:imagnum_logo.jpg|300px]]
| founders = [[Beltshumeltz]], [[Sir Lukav]] and [[Sir Rufus]]
| founded = September 2000
| origins = Original Start-Up
| mission = Earth's Most Reckless Killers
| focus = Warring
| motto = '''KILL! KILL! KILL!'''
| president = [[Soviet]]
| hfa = [[Tavi]]
| hia = [[BlackSeifer]]
| hwar = [[ibujke]]
| homepage = [http://www.letskillstuff.org LetsKillStuff.org]
| rpolicy = [[Imaginary Numbers Retal Policy]]
}}

'''The Imaginary Numbers''' is an alliance organized to play [[Earth: Empires]]. It was originally founded by [[Beltshumeltz]] to play [[Earth: 2025]] during the September/October reset of 2000. The Imaginary Numbers (also known as iMagNum) are notable for their unorthodox approach to the game, which emphasizes fighting wars in preference to finishing with high scores. This preference has led to the Imaginary Numbers being, by far, the longest lived alliance that has never gone a full reset without fighting in a war.

== Ideals ==

Despite being a purely war oriented alliance, the Imaginary Numbers' ideals have changed several times throughout their history and have often caused controversy. While this controversy never involved cheating, some players have made accusations that the unorthodox retaliation policies and political manipulations that have been used by Imaginary Numbers to cause war are equally reprehensible. Despite having fought some wars to defend allies or to oppose cheating and bottom feeding; the vast majority of the wars fought by Imaginary Numbers have either been justified by intentionally provoked actions or had limited/no justification at all. Of course, some wars have also been the result of legitimate land-exchange disagreements. These ideals, which govern how and why this alliance gets into war, seem to have shifted throughout history as their leadership has shifted although individual leaders have tended to follow the same path during their time running the alliance.

== Name ==

Despite some members' claims throughout its history that the name "Imaginary Numbers" is a mathematical joke, it would seem that the name can originally be sourced to the game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Mission_3 Front Mission 3], released for Playstation in 1999 by Squaresoft. In this game, Imaginary Numbers are a form of genetically engineered super soldiers who are superior to the previous form of soldier known as Real Numbers.

== History ==

=== Earth 2025 ===
{{Main|History of Imaginary Numbers on Earth: 2025}}

From its founding in the September/October reset of 2000 until the end of [[Earth: 2025]] in December of 2009, the Imaginary Numbers have fought a war in every reset. Many records from this period have been lost over time, or have not been compiled and examined. There is very little information available on a reset-by-reset basis of the Imaginary Numbers' history from this period.

=== First Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|First Round of the Alliance Server}}
===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[LaF]] =====

Imaginary Numbers way of saying thanks to the creators of Earth Empires. Sadly, Pangs country was not killed in the FS.

=== Second Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Second Round of the Alliance Server}}
===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[The Infernal Elite]] =====

TIE went to war with [[Collaboration]], stating iMagNum asked Collab not to pact TIE and that TIE is on iMagNum's hitlist.[http://forums.earthempires.com/boardthread?id=UMEarth&thread=2741&time=1268194295954]There has been speculation that TIE was called in on the ongoing war by SoL, though this has not been confirmed. TIE attempted to get out of the Collab war mere days after they have FSed.

iMagNum FSed TIE on Tuesday March 9th 2010 perhaps only because of TIE's wardec days earlier.[http://forums.earthempires.com/boardthread?id=UMEarth&thread=2838&time=1268343874963] The war was expected to be easy, as TIE seemed to be in a poor shape.

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[The Infernal Elite]] and [[Rage]] =====

iMagNum and Rage agreed to a friendly war after iMagNum finishes TIE, but Rage couldnt wait and declared on iMag on Thursday March 11th 2010. [http://forums.earthempires.com/boardthread?id=UMEarth&thread=2905&time=1268437768691].

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[The Infernal Elite]], [[Rage]], [[Rogue]] and [[Elysium]] =====

Following an iMag country grabbing (RoRing) Rogue, galleri, Rogue FA, stated the country will be killed. Soon after that Rogue launched Nuclear Missiles on said country. iMagNum responded by nuking several Rogue countries. On Sunday March 14th 2010 Rogue declared war on iMag.[http://forums.earthempires.com/boardthread?id=UMEarth&thread=3016&time=1268676300526]

Rogue has also called in their ally, Elysium into the fight. Ely declared war on iMag at the same time as Rogue, clearly stating they were called in. [http://forums.earthempires.com/boardthread?id=UMEarth&thread=3015&time=1268693541172]

iMag was now at war with four clans, original sizes:
iMagNum 32, TIE 28 (though some were killed in the Collab war), Rage 33, Rogue 7, Elysium 19.

=== Third Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Third Round of the Alliance Server}}
===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[The Fist of Odin]] =====

On the third set iMag FS'ed The Fist for FA'ing TIE during the previous set's war. War kept on going throughout the set as imag farmed FoO before LCN joined the fun, finally ending with many FoO restarts, rerestarts etc. beeing larger then the newer imag restarts.

===== [[La Cosa Nostra]] vs Imaginary Numbers =====

LCN declared war on iMagNum enforcing it's retaliation policies [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=1658&p=1274983149&z=lcn-declares-war].

=== Fourth Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Fourth Round of the Alliance Server}}
===== [[La Cosa Nostra]] vs Imaginary Numbers =====

LCN followed up on last set by doing an early assault on imag, focusing on making their countries larger by SS and PS rather than increase the advantage in countries that they already had by a ratio somewhere close to 2:1. This left iMag as little more than an really aggressive farm for LCN to feed off throughout the set, at the cost of some LCN countries and their restarts. This was a part of the larger [[LCN-Fist-Omega vs ImagNum-SoL War (2010) | LCN/Fist/Omega vs ImagNum/SoL]] war.

=== Fifth Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Fifth Round of the Alliance Server}}
===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[Infernal Council of Nations]] =====

During the early mid set, ICN attacked [[SoF]]. [[SoF]] used their FDP with iMag to call iMag into the war. [[ICN]] refused to fight back, saying that they had "decided" that they had a pact with iMag, making the war rather one sided for iMag. As [[ICN]] already had lost most of their original countries, the rest was dealt with quickly, and in a few days [[ICN]] was all restarts.

[[iMag]]'s dec: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=3720&p=1283823363&z=dear-icn]

===== [[Collaboration]] vs Imaginary Numbers =====

Collaboration was hungry for a war, offering a bit more of a challenge than [[SoF]] and [[EEVIL]] that they were going to FS, and decided to incorporate [[iMag]] when they were to hit these two alliances. However, before their FS was done with a CF was declared due to [[Collaboration]] being asked to stop...

[[Collab]]'s dec, not including [[iMag]] who they had already CF'ed on: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=3982&p=1284185177&z=sanct-makes-sexy-time]

===== Imaginary Numbers and [[Paradigm]] vs [[Collaboration]] =====

...A few days later, [[iMag]] returned the favour to [[Collab]], bringing in [[PDM]], whom had their own reasons to fight [[Collab]], into the war to make it less one sided. The FS was also aided by [[SoF]], who were already in war with [[Collab]] using their restarts as finishers.

[[iMag]]'s dec: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4056&p=1284451339&z=imag-killed-by-your-own-police-not]

This war was awarded as the the war of the set: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508]

=== Sixth Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Sixth Round of the Alliance Server}}

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[The Fist of Odin|A bunch of leavers]] and [[ICN]] =====
[[iMag]] FS's war on [[The Fist of Odin]] and [[ICN]], but no dec was posted. [[The Fist of Odin]] responds with a seemingly well planned "leaving the game"-cs.

[[The Fist of Odin]]'s announcement: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=5120&p=1289753519&z=the-fist-leaves-ee]

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[The Fist of Odin|A bunch of leavers]], [[ICN]] and [[The Neofederation]] =====
[[The Neofederation | NeoFed]] was called in by [[ICN]].

[[The Neofederation]]'s dec: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=5146&p=1289561605&z=neofed-declares-war-on-imagnum]
Cease Fire: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=5369&p=1290497076&z=ceasefire-imag-vs-neo-icn]

===== [[Sons of Liberty]] vs Imaginary Numbers =====
Not long after having CF'ed [[ICN]] and [[The Neofederation]], [[Sons of Liberty]] attacks. [[iMag]]'s CS gets postponed, and as they hit back 2 days later, all hopes of a "real" war is gone as [[iMag]] has already lost 96% of it's networth.

[[Sons of Liberty]]'s dec: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=5411&p=1290841029&z=the-sons-of-liberty-declare-war]

=== Seventh Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Seventh Round of the Alliance Server}}

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[Sons of Liberty]] =====
iMagNum FSed SoL week 2 as revenge for the set before with 35ish vs 70ish countries.

===== [[Netters Anonymous]] vs Imaginary Numbers =====
Later during the set, things got hot with NA. Being the only alliance open for hits (according to the embassy anyway), NA saw a lot of hits comming their way. The situation became worse after a NA member decided that 2 countries, that retaled the overretal he had made after failing the first one, should die.

NA's terms was that imag could either kill it on their own, or get reps. Imag wanted reps for their losses, aswell as NA killing their own lose end. Imag did kill the country, but decided to wait isntead of FS'ing.

Some days later a hit was made by imag on NA, which was followed by imag putting the attacker into dr. NA decided both should die. Imag didn't like this.

And then there was war!

NA's declaration about being at war (the closest thing to the wars dec): [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=6933&p=1296124907&z=na-is-at-war-with-imag]

=== Eighth Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Eighth Round of the Alliance Server}}

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[Netters Anonymous]] =====
iMagNum FSes NA week 2.[http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=7555&p=1297990049&z=imaginary-numbers-declares]
Fun thread that also attracted attention: [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=7553&p=1297906060&z=a-very-special-valentines-to-our-love-na]

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[Sons of Liberty]] and [[Netters Anonymous]] =====

[[Sons of Liberty]] comes into defense of [[Netters Anonymous]].

===== Imaginary Numbers vs [[Netters Anonymous]] =====
With Imaginary Numbers close to tag killed, [[Sons of Liberty]] leaves the war.

=== Ninth Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 9}}
===== [[Sons of Liberty]] vs Imaginary Numbers, [[La Cosa Nostra]] and [[Infernal Council of Nations]] =====
On April 27, 2011 [[Sons of Liberty]] FS'd [[La Cosa Nostra]] and [[Infernal Council of Nations]], blindsiding both clans. [[Makinso]] finally shows up later with a late wardec [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=9170&p=1304273405&z=dear-lcn] confirming their war.
Approximately 1.5 to 2 hours later, iMagNum comes into to assist ICN/LCN. Imaginary Numbers means the defenders would have a solid member advantage, but would still be soundly defeated.

=== Tenth Round of the Alliance Server ===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 10}}

Imag are happily netting

== Website ==

When originally formed, the Imaginary Numbers website was hosted by Inferno's [[EZclan.com]] service. However, after a war with RD(which Imaginary Numbers won), [[Beltshumeltz]] decided that Imaginary Numbers members would hide in other tags for the next reset and thought that it wasn't safe for members to upload their Status info to the ezclan website for fear that there were spies in the clan and a member/leader, [[White Guy]], offered to develop and host a separate website for the sole purpose of keeping track of members status and coordinating their actions (If memory serves me correctly, QUEBEC was hurt most by our actions thinking it was someone else!) while they were hiding in different clans. [[White Guy]] posted on the clan's [[EZclan.com]] website asking for help in regards to the development and design of this new website and quickly recruited [[Zarcon]] to help.

This new website was not initially intended to be a replacement for the [[EZclan.com]] website; however, in the early infancy state of the new website's development, Inferno shut down Imaginary Number's site without notice (we assume he caught word we were developing one of our own), so [[Beltshumeltz]] quickly fired up the legendary iMagNum Spam Bot and alerted all members to apply at the very rudimentary but functional new website. At this point, the website consisted of a login script with 12 levels of access, basic but secure forums(only high leaders had access to view/post), and each member had their own page to upload status to where only their squad leader and high leaders could access. Thus started iMagNum's love affair with having their own website.

By the time iMagNum rejoined as a clan, the site had fully functioning forums and a method of sharing spyops other than just personal status screens. As the website was getting a lot of traffic from members, [[White Guy]] decided that he would start putting advertisements on each of the pages, and this quickly escalated to forcing members to click 10 ads before being allowed access to the rest of the website. As the advertisers didn't like this, [[WhiteGuy]]'s ISP was asked to shut him down and they did. Shortly before allt his, [[FrostCat]], a professional programmer and veteran member, had joined the development crew and on seeing that the site had been shut down, offered to pay for the indefinite hosting of the website and we quickly voted on what the domain would be. I can't remember all the domain's we looked at, but it was a toss up between [http://www.imaginarynumbers.com ImaginaryNumbers.com] and [http://www.LetsKillStuff.org LetsKillStuff.org]. The membership quickly agreed that the domain of [http://www.LetsKillStuff.org LetsKillStuff.org] was the best and from then Imaginary Numbers have always used [http://www.letskillstuff.org LetsKillStuff.org] as its primary website.

In order to redeem himself, [[White Guy]] attempted to write a script to login to earth and continually fetch news because [[Mehul Patel]] did not respond to any requests to gain access to the same news feeds that other 3rd Party Sites had access to. In so doing, [[White Guy]]'s first attempt caused an infinite loop that created a lot of bandwidth/strain on the Earth 1A Server. Needless to say, that got [[Mehul Patel]]'s attention, but in a negative way... From that point until [[Mehul Patel]] made available the news and scores feeds to all third party sites, our website was blacklisted from connecting to any [[swirve.com|Swirve]] services. Members weren't even allowed to register to play with an email address originating from letskillstuff.org (it let you register, but never sent the activation code). This is also when [[Mehul Patel]] made it so that when searching news, only the first 200 results would show to deter anyone else from trying the same thing.

After this, [[White Guy]] had very little involvement with the design and development of the website and [[Zarcon]] took on the lead role of developing the website while [[FrostCat]] continually paid for and set out an agreed structure to the site's code so that future developers could pick up where others have left off quite easilly.

In the time before the feeds were made available, Imaginary Numbers were forced to always use a different third party website to access News, Scores(scores primarilly because the clan didn't have enough members to keep the scores database manually updated) and other tools relating to land grabbing and war stats.

It was a glorious day when [[Mehul Patel]](i think in 2003?) announced that the News and Ranks(AMAZING!) would be available to all third party sites without restriction. From that day on, [[Zarcon]], [[FrostCat]], and [[Stavros]](a new arrival to the team) worked to phase out the need for third party clan hosts as fast as possible. As [[FrostCat]] and [[Stavros]] quickly became busy with real life issues, [[Zarcon]], while being the president of the clan, took on the task of finishing the overhaul on the website to give it functionality along the lines of news, war stats, country search and other tools.

In 2006, [[Zarcon]] and [[FrostCat]] agreed that the current, level based, permissions were not very practical and insecure as workarounds had been written to allow members of one access level to see content they normally wouldn't. Together, they agreed to move more towards Group Based Permissions but at a much more manageable level than other third party sites. This system consisted of Ranks(color) that did not give permissions, and an infinite amount of groups which offered permissions to different parts of the site. This would make the site still look as clean as it did before but offer much more security and functionality for future developments. It took until mid 2008 for [[Zarcon]] to get off his lazy backside and finish the code for the new system.

Since then, the site has been redeveloped a few times to incorporate many new tools and the switch from [[OMAC]] to [[Earth empires]]. Some of the tools available today are said to rival those of other, more prominent, third party hosts.

Over the years, a few other members have helped in regards to development of the site. To name but a few:
*[[Fooglmog]] designed the original LKS Random Quote Engine and to this day still adds quotes to it. He also designed the original version of our insite ajax chat, which was a shoutbox in its infancy.
*[[Reptile]] designed the look and feel of one of the earliest versions of the website. Some of the graphics and themes are still used today.
*[[Tavi]] designed the current public theme for the website... It's AWESOME!

Others who have made contributions to the website not listed above:
*[[BlackSeifer]] for his many monetary contributions to hosting of LKS
*[[E1M1]] for designing forum polls
*[[Soviet]] his work on alliance matrix
*[[bujke]] for his work on formulas

Very recently, [[Iron Priest]] has taken over as the owner of the website.

== Notable Members ==
Like any alliance, Imaginary Numbers has a large number of people who have contributed to its growth and development over the years. In some cases these players are known outside of the alliance, but in many more cases they're not. This is meant as a list of players who are strongly associated with their time playing as a member of Imaginary Numbers and are notable within the Earth community as a whole. Omission of those who do not meet these requirements should not be viewed as a diminishment of their contributions to the alliance itself.
*[[Beltshumeltz]]
*[[Fooglmog]]
*[[Jon316]]
*[[Scode]]
*[[Stavros]]
*[[WantToKill]]
*[[Zarcon]]
*[[Princess Di]]

== External Links ==

[http://www.letskillstuff.org Imaginary Numbers homepage]
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Evolution

2011-06-23T21:37:56Z

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{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:Evolution.png]]
| founders = Liono, [[Foobooy]], DJ Beif, [[qz-jul]], ??, ??
| founded = December 2004
| origins = Merger of [[RED]] and [[un4given]]
| anw = Max: $107,815,609 (Earth:2025)
| tnw = Max: $5,067,333,615 (Earth:2025)
| num_members = Max: ~80, December 2004
| mission = Earth's Best Netters
| focus = Netgaining
| president = [[Yank]]
| vps = [[qzjul]], [[slagpit]]
| hfa = [[anoniem]]
| hia = [[Mick]]
| ias = [[Kingme]], [[Canterbury Crusader]], [[Rasp]]
| trainers = [[Corfu]]
| homepage = http://evolution2025.com
| irc = '''#'''evopublic irc.evolution2025.com
| rpolicy = [[Evolution Retal Policy]]
}}

'''Evolution''', also known as EVO, is an organized netgaining alliance on the [[Alliance Server]] of [[Earth Empires]]. The alliance was formed from a merger between the [[Real Estate Developers]] (RED) and Un4given during the December 1, 2004 - January 30, 2005 set in [[Earth: 2025]]. Evolution enjoyed a rich mix of netting and warring, dominating the Average Networth charts for over a year straight. Their current webpage & hosting site is [http://evolution2025.com Evolution2025] also known as EvoGT or qzGT.

When Earth: 2025 closed in December 2009, Evolution moved to [[Earth Empires]], and has continued netting and helping its allies achieve total victory in times of war.

== Ideals ==

The ideals of EVO are two-fold: [[Netgaining]] and Training.

=== Netgaining ===

Evolution is primarily a [[netgaining alliance]], and as such desires to spend its sets [[netgaining]] rather than warring. However, in Earth Empire's early development, it has warred on several occasions to help its allies and itself achieve the right to net in peace.

=== Training ===

Evolution prides itself with a sophisticated and involved training program which makes good netgainers out of new players.

== History ==

Before going any further, you, the reader, need to know something important. This section, the History section, is written as if from Evolution's point of view. The events recorded herein are written as Evolution experienced them. You will notice that there is very little mention of external events unless they affect Evolution in some way. If, for example, a war between two distant alliances or coalitions had nothing to do with Evolution's existence, then it did not get recorded here. This section was written with impartiality and objectivity in mind; however, the same events recorded herein may be recorded from a different point of view from a different person or alliance; i.e., what you read here may not necessarily agree with what you read elsewhere. Each alliance will have its "side of the story", so to speak, so it will be up to you to read all accounts pertaining to any particular event in order to determine, to the best of your ability, what really happened.

===Earth:2025===
{{Main|History of Evolution in Earth: 2025}}
Evolution was created in December 2004 as a merger of the [[Real Estate Developers]] and [[un4given]]. RED was an elite netgaining alliance of around 50 members, and un4given was a product of recent mergers with around 40 members who were also doing quite well at netgaining. Given the political scene at the time, it made sense to combine strength to forge ahead with a new Netgaining Alliance.

The name Evolution was voted as the best name for the new alliance when the [[Real Estate Developers]] and [[un4given]] merged. Evolution had been the name of a division in RED. Other names under consideration included other RED divisions such as Divine Retribution and Short Fuse.

After the closure of Earth:2025, Evolution found itself swept into a similar game, hastily built by the players of the old Earth:2025 game. The political structure of the old game was in tatters after the war of Armageddon in Old Earth's last set, and not too many people knew what alliances would start over and what alliances would continue to look for vengeance for the actions of that set...

=== First Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 13th - Jan 30th, 2010 ===
{{Main|First Round of the Alliance Server}}
A new game, a new beginning for the awesomeness that is Evolution. This would be Earth Empire's [[Beta Council]] set; a set where the EC server would be tested, and bugs would be found and fixed. Some uncertainty was present, regarding the relations with the alliances we had helped crush the preceding reset, in Earth:2025. For those of you who've no idea what went down that set, here's a small summary:

[[Survival of the Fittest|SoF]] killed [[Netters Anonymous|NA]]'s topranker the set before.
SoF attacked and crushed [[Infernal Council of Nations|ICN]] the set before and the set before that.
[[Sons of Liberty|SOL]] attacked and demolished Evolution the set before.

Evolution, NA, ICN, and later [[Collab]] and [[Regeneration|Regen]], then banded together and crushed SoF, SOL and their allies, [[Rage]], [[The Infernal Elite|TIE]], and [[Zero Tolerance|ZT]].

Some alliances proclaimed a sort of "tabula rasa" for the new game, declaring a "blank slate" for alliances who had been at odds with them earlier. Others wanted to continue their grudges against their enemies.

TIE, RAGE, and SoF asked for and received pacts from Evolution. SOL once again refused to pact, but stated they had other plans for the set.

In any case, this set would be rather uneventful for Evolution, save for the bugs that would pop up and get rapidly fixed by the new and very active game admins. SOL FSed Collab for Collab supposedly breaking a promise that entailed not attacking SOL last set. LaF got FSed by [[Imaginary Numbers|Imagnum]] and [[Death Knights|Dknights]] (who came from the Earth:2025 1A server because the Alliance server wasn't yet up in EE), which knocked LaF out of the netting race. Other than that, it was smooth sailing for Evolution, who would once again clinch the [[ANW]] crown at $42,837,926.

=== Second Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 1st - Apr 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Second Round of the Alliance Server}}
Evolution set out to once again net to the top of the ANW list, while keeping a wary eye on SOL and SoF. Last set, SOL had once again [[FSed]] a [[netting alliance]] out of the blue, an ominous reminder to Evo members of their past encounters with SOL.

SoF signed a [[uNAP]] with Evolution this set, so Evolution would keep their focus on SOL, who didn't pact, in the first weeks of the set. Collab wanted to [[FS]] SOL for SOL's actions last set, and everyone in the server knew it. So Collab and SOL both got ready for their war.

Evolution was busy netting when, on February 23, at 2:53, a suicider struck Evolution, taking a total of 15,832 acres. It was a country that had detagged from SoF less than 3 days before. It wasn't the best suiciding that Evolution had seen, but it still had to be dealt with. However, most of the members were too focused on netting for Evolution to dispatch the suicider quickly. Only the core membership would put any attacks onto the suicider, which meant it took over 2 days before Evolution was close to killing it. Just before it would have been killed, the country went into vacation mode for just over 3 days, but it was killed soon after coming out of vacation. A couple days later, the suicider's restart tagged up in SoF again.

On March 2, Collab FSed SOL. Both SOL and Collab had been prepping for this war since the beginning of the set. However, after less than a week of fighting, it was clear that SOL was losing the war. Then, it was made abundantly clear to the server that SOL had lost when SOL called in their allies SoF, and TIE. But that was just the beginning.

SoF had also signed a uNAP with Collab, so they weren't supposed to be hitting them. However, under claims of a leadership breakdown inside SoF, [[Ivan]], the new president of SoF, broke most of SoF's countries away from SoF, and formed a new alliance, called [[Natural Selection|Natural Selection]] (or, NaturaLS), and immediately began hitting Collab. They justified their breaking of a uNAP with Collaboration under the false claims that NaturaLS was a different alliance from SoF.

However, Ivan soon found out that justifying a broken uNAP by moving to a different tag works both ways. Since nobody had signed a uNAP with the new NaturaLS tag, then anybody could attack them. And Evolution, DKnights, and NA did that at midnight on March 9, in defense of Collab. They also FSed SOL at the same time. Both NA and Evolution had signed a uNAP with TIE earlier, so they couldn't hit TIE, but TIE cease-fired with Collab immediately after NA and Evolution's first attacks. TIE was then FSed by Imagnum a couple days later, who were then FSed by Elysium and Rage later on in the set.

With the combined might of NA, DKnights, Evolution, and what was left of Collaboration, the forces of SOL and the NaturaLS tag fell relatively quickly. After a couple weeks of fighting, most of the netting tags were unable to hit the tiny enemy countries, due to humanitarians. Some of the remaining larger enemy countries went into vacation mode in order to stall their impending deaths, but once they were booted out of vacation mode 2 weeks before the end of the set, they were quickly killed as well.

However, this had effectively knocked Evolution out of the netting race, so, with so many other netting alliances actually netting, Evolution had very little chance to catch up. So, they used what little stocks were available to send foreign aid to Collab's countries, while netting to the end of the set. Evolution came in 9th place in ANW, with $36,037,715.

=== Third Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 3rd - Jun 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Third Round of the Alliance Server}}
With the easy victory the netters had over the warriors last set, Evolution looked forward to an easy netting reset. We had pacted most of the alliances we had helped destroy, and the members were looking forward to rebuilding Evolution. Even though Evolution had spent most of the past 8 months leading the charge against and demolishing the warring alliances that had been threatening the netters' existence, it was Evolution that had paid the heaviest price in terms of membership lost. Netters do not like having to fight for their existence, no matter the reasons supplied, and during the recent months, Evolution had lost about half its membership. So the membership that was left began cautiously setting up for a netting reset.

Unfortunately, it soon became quite clear that Evolution wouldn't be netting. SOL not only refused to pact Evolution; they refused to even answer the contact attempts from Evo's FAs, and it was made abundantly clear from their country makeup that they were preparing for war. SOL had also gained quite a few members from recruitment efforts from other Earth clone games.

Worse still, the allies that had helped Evolution defend Collab last reset had pacted SOL and their allies, so none of them would be able to come to Evolution's aid when the time came. And Evolution's membership, while being dwindled from the constant war of attrition, also really didn't feel like fighting anymore. Some of the leadership didn't really have time to plan and coordinate a war effort, due to being involved with game development.

So Evolution adopted a 'wait-and-see' attitude. The leadership knew that if SOL were to FS Evolution, the war would be over in a matter of days.

Still, Evolution had a plan for the upcoming war. Since SOL had recruited members from another game to help them fight, it was understood that those extra members were looking for a fun fight. Evolution decided to take away their fun and not offer them a challenge. And when SOL FSed Evolution on April 24, at 2000 hours, the plan was immediately put into effect.

All countries were ordered to go into vacation mode. The speed of SOL's attacks, however, took out most of Evolution's countries before most of the membership got the order. The fact that SOL FSed Evo and [[Death Knights]] (DK) didn't matter much--Evo and DK's active membership only totalled 39, while SOL boasted 70 active members. Since Evo and DK weren't really allies, working together wasn't really an option.

In just one day, half of Evolution's countries were destroyed, most of the rest were in vacation, and what was left wasn't really worth attacking. With the war pretty much over so soon, Evolution membership was forced to wait over a month until the end of the reset.

SOL would go on to break a uNAP with, and FS NA on May 9, at 2100 hours, for one of their leadership's alleged involvement with a cheating scandal in the [[Free For All]] server. This was more than enough evidence of the sheer boredom of SOL's membership at not having anything to kill. Since about a third of NA's membership no longer existed, due to their hosting site suddenly becoming unavailable, NA fell in relatively short order.

All the countries that had gone into vacation mode were quickly killed by SOL when vacation mode ended 2 weeks before the end of the set. That was part of the deal between Evolution and SOL representatives upon signing a 2-reset-long uNAP that would hopefully bring peace between Evolution and SOL. Most of the vacationers would self-delete in order to keep SOL from achieving any sort of satisfaction in killing their countries.

After that, what little membership was left decided to netgain in order to get Evolution off the bottom of the ANW scores list. Evolution ended the set with an ANW of $15,663,941.

=== Fourth Round of the Alliance Server: Jun 3rd - Aug 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fourth Round of the Alliance Server}}
This reset would be the most uneventful reset in Evolution's existence. After getting a multiple-set pact from SOL, and getting a uNAP from SoF, as well as from just about every other alliance, the stage for pure netting was firmly set. LaF also seemed poised to net as well, so Evo members really wanted another ANW victory.

LaF and Rage/Elysium got into a landtrading issue, where LaF, who wasn't pacted to Rage/Ely, would grab land off Rage countries. Then, Rage would grab more land off other LaF countries. LaF then FSed Rage on Jun 20, and, with Rage being much smaller than LaF (LaF's 74 to Rage's 27), LaF easily overpowered them, and Rage would become their farmland for the rest of the reset. This put LaF in a favorable position, due to the ~4k-acre-average-land-lead they acquired for about half the reset.

Evolution netted like it usually nets. Not even a single suicider gave Evo any trouble. However, inadequacies on Evo's part would soon lead to major impacts on their ANW.

First off, general inactivity due to real life meant that some players quit playing over the course of the reset. One of these members had a country that was then set to farm before it was detagged. Another member had a country that wasn't farmed or detagged, and that country would end up on the bottom of Evo's scores sheet, having a major pull on Evo's ANW.

Second, mistakes during destocking would also have an impact. Some members thought that the $2bil bug was removed for the Alliance server, when it had only been removed for FFA and Express. One of these members sold all stock, and reaped exactly $2 billion for it.

Third, a hastily-planned, but inaccurately-predicted amount of downtime resulted in players losing value in their stocks as they put them on the market to sell during the time the server was down. The lost value would never be reimbursed to the players who had lost their stocks. However, the reset would be extended for a day because of the downtime.

Those scenarios combined to give a very close ANW race between Evo and LaF. The last 2 days of the reset were mostly spent watching the stats as both LaF and Evo took the lead from each other, multiple times. When an inactive LaFer detagged his small country about 5 minutes before the set ended, LaF took the lead by about $650k. LaF didn't want to lose face, so their leadership had the country tagged back up mere seconds before the reset ended. Evolution ended the reset with an ANW of $79,243,746--a mere $173,638 over LaF's $79,070,108 ANW.

=== Fifth Round of the Alliance Server: Aug 4th - Oct 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fifth Round of the Alliance Server}}

This would be another mostly-uneventful netting set. Pacts were obtained that allowed nearly-painless netting. Evo expected yet another close race with [[LaF]], so the members steeled themselves for the purest form of netting in the history of existence.

However, events would take place that required Evo's constant attention. [[TIE]], a couple years after gaining total control of the EC server, merged into [[LCN]], mostly due to dwindling membership and feelings of vulnerability. Also, several smaller alliances - [[PDM]], [[Elysium]], [[Rage]], [[Imag]], and [[NeoFed]] - announced the creation of a coalition, presumably to be able to better defend themselves from larger alliances. If anybody wanted a pact with one alliance in this coalition, they'd have to sign a pact with the rest of this coalition; consequently many netting alliances did so. However, the terms of the coalition had apparently been hastily put together, and it fell apart in short order. Nobody was sure whether or not the pact they signed with this coalition was worth the minuscule amount of bandwidth wasted to do so.

Evolution found out that their pact was worthless when PDM began the first steps in a land-trade war with Evolution. PDM saw this as generating land for the server, thanks to the ghost acres. Evolution saw it as an annoyance that had to be kept track of. Even though Evolution would eventually gain over 10k more acres (not including ghost acres) than PDM from the exchange, each [[retal]] used up [[stock]] in buying up [[jets]] and [[oil]], and wasted economic capital each turn from the extra military units.

Evo's expectations for the reset would change as [[SOL]] [[FSed]] LaF on August 25, at 19:00, over SOL's claims of unacceptable landgrabbing/retal policies form LaF (as well as LaF's destructive policy against Elysium, who had started the reset with only 5 of their members active). Since LaF was set up for netting, their lack of war preparation spelled their doom, despite having a [[TNW]] advantage and about 20 more members than SOL. What was left of Elysium joined forces with SOL. Each alliance would fight until the end of the reset, with LaF ending up in ruins.

[[ICN]] FSed [[SoF]] and got smashed when [[ImagNum]] came to SoF's aid, [[Collaboration]] FSed SoF, [[EEVIL]] FSed Collaboration, some other dudes hit someone or another. [[Netters Anonymous]] prepped for war, then went back to netting, which dampened their netting stats. It was a militarily active reset for the most of the rest of the server.

Once PDM FSed [[The Fist]] on August 30 at about 22:00, the landtrading abruptly ceased, allowing Evolution the ability to net without hindrances. With LaF getting pummeled by SOL, Evo figured that the rest of the set would be easy. PDM would eventually ceasefire with The Fist, and they would begin topfeeding Evo again, but Evo would still coordinate retals so that they almost always came out on top in the land exchange. PDM then FSed Collaboration, and was engaged in battle with them for the rest of the reset.

However, about a week before the set ended, [[Omega]]'s countries began their jump, which eventually placed Omega about $12 million above Evo's [[ANW]]. People predicted that Omega would get a double crown by set's end, but Evolution had yet to jump some of its own countries, and what had already jumped was busy reselling. Three days before the end of the reset, Omega's ANW was about $10 million above Evo's.

However, Evolution sported much higher average land than any other alliance in the server, and they used this to their advantage. The order to jump was given, and Evo's ANW shot up above Omega's within a single day. LCN, the only other alliance that could have gotten more TNW than either Omega or Evo, couldn't catch up with Evolution, probably due to their merger with TIE, which happened at the beginning of the reset.

In conclusion, Evolution ended the round in first place with an ANW of $99,479,453, setting a new server ANW record. The Omega finished in second place, with around 7.5 million networth less than Evolution, despite the fact they had dropped their lowest country hours before the end of the set. With a TNW of $3,282,821,956, the highest in the server for the reset, Evolution would obtain its first [[double crown]] in [[Earth Empires]].

=== Sixth Round of the Alliance Server: Oct 5th - Dec 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Sixth Round of the Alliance Server}}

This reset would see some important changes in the game itself. The $2bil cash limit was removed, and the effect of military tech on private market sell prices was reversed (i.e. it went UP instead of DOWN with the presence of more military tech). The reversal of the effect of military tech on private market sell prices meant that the floor price of bushels on the public market was now at $39, instead of the normal $32. This caused farmer strategies to be stronger.

Once again, we got pacts from the important alliances. PDM began its landtrading routine with Evolution, and the membership almost always took more land from them than they gained from us. Ghost acres were the same, so Evolution took the average land lead early on in the reset.

In other news, SOL was looking for a war, and got one. And another one. LaF, still hurting over their defeat against SOL last reset, believed that SOL would once again strike them. So, LaF preemptively FSed SOL on October 24, at 19:13. However, barely 30 minutes into LaF's FS, SOL began their counterstrike, and killed more LaF countries than LaF killed SOL's countries, during LaF's FS. SOL claimed their fast turnaround time to be due to their phone bot alerting their members to get online as soon as LaF's first attacks commenced. SOL would go on to tagkill LaF, in a repeat of last reset's war. After cease-firing with LaF, SOL still wanted war, so PDM obliged them by FSing SOL on November 9, at 22:11, thus interrupting their landtrading with Evolution. Once again, SOL had a quick turn-around time, and decimated PDM's forces during PDM's FS.

SoF was also looking to war. They forced NA to FS them at November 2 at 00:09 by giving NA an ultimatum to either fight or die. NA, merely a shadow of its former self, did a small FS, which was quickly overpowered by SoF's counterstrike a few minutes after the beginning of NA's FS. SoF then crushed NA. Afterwards, they more or less 'netted', by doing several buyouts on the tech market, and sending the proceeds to at least three of their countries, two of which would end up in the top 10. This would also trigger much discussion on the legitimacy and skill taken of those countries' ending networths.

Elysium, a tiny clan of 5 to 6 members, FSed TheFist on November 10 at 19:14, probably due to Elysium's inability to retal TheFist's grabs.

ImagNuM also FSed TheFist on November 10 at 21:09:50. Fist, being much smaller and not prepared for war at all (especially after Elysium's softening-up strategy), didn't put up much of a fight, and eventually announced that this reset would be their last in Earth:Empires. This stirred up much discussion on the forums about the preservation of the game's playerbase, which members from many alliances participated in. Imag also FSed ICN about a minute after they began their attacks on Fist. NeoFed then FSed Imag November 11 at 23:35. ICN, TheFist, and NeoFed would be decimated until SOL, coming out of their war with PDM, FSed ImagNuM on Nov/23/10 21:08:24, crushing Imag.

After the main wars were over, NA and LaF set up 'civil wars' amongst what remained of their shattered alliances. One of the NA war tags also FSed SOL, just for fun.

NeoFed and Elysium announced their intentions to merge into ICN.

Rage FSed LCN on November 28 at 01:12, due to suicides on both alliances by both alliances, and reparations for those suicides being less than satisfactory. Rage would ultimately lose the war.

As for Evolution, the membership was left alone to net, except for PDM's landtrading practices. With PDM's war with SOL stopping the landtrading, Evolution would then have a mostly-uneventful reset. Some late-set grabs by SoF and LaF would go unretaled due to the fact that the countries grabbed were in the middle of converting or had already converted and jumped.

The new game changes, however, would have the most effect on Evolutions's netting stats. With the farmer strategy being so strong, and with Evolution's many cashers and cheaper-than-normal bushels, many members would be able to stock more bushels than usual, and were also able to sell them for more than normal. The members, once again, had to worry about Omega in the rankings, but the average land lead of about six thousand acres put those fears to rest--and Omega in 2nd place in ANW--when the members began their jumping.

Another double crown would be obtained by Evolution by the end of the reset, with a TNW of $3,920,640,168, and an ANW of $122,520,005--$27,076,569 over Omega's ANW. Evolution would be first, and only, alliance to break the $100mil ANW barrier so far.

=== Seventh Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 4th - Feb 3rd, 2011===
{{Main|Seventh Round of the Alliance Server}}

Once again, another mostly-uneventful netting reset for Evolution. The members ran their countries with exceptional precision.

External events: LCN declared war on Rage on December 27, for Rage's suiciding and refusal to pay reparations last reset. SOL declared war on LCN in defense of their ally Rage on December 29.

Rage announced that this would be their last reset in existence for a while, and made plans to merge into SoF at the end of the reset.

SoF announced that they were looking for a war next reset, and was looking for three alliances to duke it out with. Monsters, Collab, and Evolution (us!!) decided to join the war against SoF--Evolution, mostly for the sweet multiple-reset uNAP we'd probably get out of the exchange.

An external event (external to the game itself) also took place. Jared Loughner, a former LCN/Collab/SOLer, went on a shooting rampage in Tuscon, Arizona, killing 6 people, and severely wounding Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, at a small political rally at a supermarket. As news of the rampage spread across the internet, it was quickly determined that the shooter was a longtime member of the Earth community. News and media outlets interviewed other members of the community, as well as the game administrator, Pangaea. Interest in the postings of Jared caused a brief outage in the game server's internet connection.

The end of the reset saw two more alliances join the $100 million average networth club in EE: LaF, with $104,232,217 ANW; and Omega, with $107,165,671 ANW. Evolution, as usual, obtained its ANW crown, with its $128,676,536 ANW beating its prior record by about $6 million.

=== Eighth Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 4th - Apr 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Eighth Round of the Alliance Server}}

We set out to war SoF this reset. Three netting alliances chose to take SoF up on their offer of a friendly war--Collaboration, Evolution, and Monsters (known as ECM). We expected at least 110 SoF countries, as they had just completed a merger with Rage. Evolution also began recruiting for help in the upcoming conflict. Text messages were sent out to the retired vets and other members who were otherwise not playing. We received a very positive response, with the addition of over 10 returning vets.

The FS time was set: March 4, at 23:59:59 GMT. The three netter alliances worked together, formulating strategies and thinking up ways of how to conduct the upcoming war. Everyone more or less agreed to run heavy Dictatorship, as these often made the best breakers, which, against SoF, seemed to be the best choice, given that SoF often ran heavy Dicts during their wars as well.

It was soon apparent that SoF's merger with Rage didn't quite yield the membership everyone expected; they struggled to have 100 countries in their membership ranks. With Evolution's recruitment efforts, the total membership for the three netter alliances came to about 125 by the time the war began. Nevertheless, everyone expected a harsh war between ECM and SoF, despite the obvious numbers advantage. Evolution had the most members in ECM when March 4 rolled around.

The netter alliances took the initiative, and FSed SoF at the agreed FS time. It immediately became apparent that the server's internet connection would not be able to stand up to the large numbers of players all hitting each other at the same time. Hitting became nearly impossible for some due to the lag, but so did stonewalling, and the bad lag became the excuse of many players' inability to keep their countries alive.

There was some confusion all throughout the war between the alliances in ECM, and SoF seemed to target Evolution and Collaboration more closely than they did Monsters. ECM sported a TNW advantage as well, and their FS quickly took down several large SoF countries. However, SoF responded with a devastating counterstrike, and throughout most of the war, SoF's killruns would drag ECM's TNW down with them. It became a contest of who could kill the enemy's breakers the fastest. For nearly the entire war, it was a question of who would win.

Despite SoF's tenacity, they ran out of breakers first, and, coupled with their membership and TNW disadvantages, both of which slowly grew as the war dragged on, their doom was assured when their last original country died in the early hours of March 23. We continued killing SoF restarts until both sides cease-fired on March 29.

Collab and ImagNuM started their own friendly war shortly before the ceasefire with SoF, and continued until the end of the reset.

ECM ended the war against SoF with around $550m TNW and 161 kills, while SoF ended with about $30m TNW and 136 kills. A hard-fought, friendly war by both sides, and each side came away satisfied.

Of course, the war put Evo out of the running for the ANW crown. We then arranged a small civil war amongst ourselves, which ended in the deaths of many countries on both sid...oh wait, nobody really died at all. We ended the reset in 10th place, with $10,859,129 ANW. Omega would receive their first double crown in Earth:Empires, with $4,619,779,482 TNW and $109,994,750 ANW.

=== Ninth Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 5th - Jun 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Eighth Round of the Alliance Server}}

Pending writeup.

=== Tenth Round of the Alliance Server: Jun 5th - Aug 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Eighth Round of the Alliance Server}}

Pending writeup.

== Leadership ==

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<tr><th colspan="3">Executive</th><th colspan="3">Foreign Affairs</th><th colspan="3">Internal Affairs</th><th colspan="3">Training & Retals</th></tr>
<tr>
<td>'''President'''</td><td>[[Yank]]</td><td>''ICQ'': 120713939</td>
<td>'''Head FA'''</td><td>[[Anoniem]]</td><td>''ICQ'': 789248</td>
<td>'''Head IA'''</td><td>[[Kingme]]</td><td>--- </td>
<td>'''Head Trainer'''</td><td>[[Corfu]]</td><td>--- </td>
</tr>
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<td>'''Vice President'''</td><td>[[qzjul]]</td><td>''ICQ'': 46899882</td>
<td>'''FA'''</td><td>[[Jigga]]</td><td>''MSN'': alainvps@hotmail.com</td>
<td>'''IA'''</td><td>[[weasel]]</td><td>-- </td>
<td>'''RA'''</td><td>[[AoS]]</td><td>''AIM'': giovanescuro</td>
</tr>
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<td> </td><td> </td><td> </td>
<td>'''FA'''</td><td>[[Osso]]</td><td>''ICQ'': 635091356</td>
<td> </td><td> </td><td> </td>
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'''Netgainers extraordinaire''' - [[diez]], [[al]], [[florian]], etc 

'''God of Cherrypicking''' - [[Ozzite]] 

=== Members ===

For an ever evolving list of Evolution's members, see [[:Category:Evolution Members | the category of Evolution Members]].

== External Links ==

* [http://evolution2025.com Evolution main site]
* [http://earthempires.com Earth Empires game site]

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| tnw = $3,181,961,719 - Dec-Feb '11
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[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]

Collaboration is an original [[Earth Empires]] [[Alliance (in-game)|alliance]] which was created from a merger of several [[Earth: 2025]] alliances, notably [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]].

In its current form it is run by some of the most knowledgeable and active leaders in the game. Collaboration is a collection of people from all walks of life and is social networking at it's best. When they aren't kicking ass in the game, they're keeping themselves entertained while they wait to kick more ass.

They are built on the principle that their own family comes first: If someone messes with one of them, they're messing with the entire alliance. They also stay true to their friends and are willing to throw away their plans and hard work at the drop of a dime to assist a friend in need. 

They have proven themselves in times of war and in times of peace and are regarded as one of (if not the best) balanced alliance in the game. If you are interested in seeing what Collaboration is all about, please check out their website on [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab boxcar], or chat with one of their leaders.

==History==
[[Sanctuary]] made the transition from the [[1a]] server to the [[Alliance Server]] at the twilight of [[Earth: 2025]]'s existence. The alliance took on a name change during this move, renaming themselves [[Collaboration]], also known as Collab. The name speaks for itself as the alliance was compiled of a large percentage of members from several different alliances (mainly [[Sanctuary]], [[Outkast]], and [[The Cult]]). This newly formed but historically rooted alliance does not fit into a single category. They are neither strictly Netters or strictly Warrers. Collab prefers to remain a balanced alliance and have proven that they are excellent at both. When [[Earth 2025]] shut it's doors, Collaboration made the move to the new version of the game, [[Earth Empires]].

==Earth Empires==
=== First Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 13th - Jan 30th, 2010 ===
{{Main|First Round of the Alliance Server}}
With the transition from one game to another becoming a little chaotic, the plans were for Collab to netgain in the first ever reset of the new game. Most alliances seemed to agree that with the new game came a clean slate, where everybody was starting from scratch. As such, there were few conflicts with other alliances that would lead Collab to believe they would end up in war. With about a week before the end of the reset, Collab was planning on an excellent finish clan-wide when they were FS'd by [[Sons of Liberty]] (SoL). Collab was not prepared for war whatsoever. In fact, they had no war techs, small amounts of military and were not running proper war governements. SoL's reasoning for the FS was retribution for Collab hitting SoL in a previous reset in Earth: 2025.

Regardless of the reasons, SoL came away with a victory, although the war was much closer than many thought it should have been, with Collab gaining more respect from the war than SoL, even though they were the victors. On a special note, news of the FS was apparently slipped a few hours early and caught up with [[AxA]]. In a tricky move, AxA had [[trep]] tag up with [[La Cosa Nostra]], LCN, before SoL's FS. With one minute left in the set, trep re-tagged Collab, giving Collab the #1 overall NW country in Earth Empires' first ever reset [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/35].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 10,539
| 422
| 25
| $196M
|-
| SoL
| 14,534
| 309
| 47
| $348M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[trep]]
| whats this here (#405)
| $105,393,012
| 1
|}
----

=== Second Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 1st - Apr 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Second Round of the Alliance Server}}
In the second ever round of EE, it was pretty clear that Collab was coming out of the gates with the intentions of hitting [[SoL]]. In fact, it seemed as though SoL was prepared for it as well. When Collab FS'd SoL, not only did SoL have war prepped countries (which was expected from a war alliance) but they were also saving a large amount of turns throughout the alliance. Most of their countries had at least 70 turns on hand when Collab FS'd them. However, despite SoL's preparation, turn saving and country advantage, Collab's FS was too much to handle and the war was one sided very quickly. In fact, Collab managed to kill 20 SoL countries in the FS.

This set off a chain reaction as SoL attempted to gain the upperhand in this war. Their close friends in [[Survival of the Fittest]] (SoF), broke a [[uNAP]], with Collab by creating an alternate tag, [[Natural Selection]], and immediately FS'd Collab. SoF had come to Collab earlier in the reset asking for the uNAP, which Collab had granted them. SoF's president, [[Ivan]], fabricated a story that there was internal strife within SoF and half the alliance split to create the Natural Selection tag. That proved to be false in later resets, as was expected. Also included in this effort was [[The Infernal Elite]] (TIE).

With Collab now facing 3 separate alliances and severely outnumbered, they were forced to call in the aid of their close friends. The [[Death Knights]] (DK) were the first to come to their aid, even though they were not a defensive pact and were low in membership, and were eager to come to Collab's aid. Collab also called in [[Netters Anonymous]] (NA), [[Imaginary Numbers]] (iMag) and [[Evolution]] (Evo). While this was certainly overkill, Collab felt it was necessary to prove a point that they will not tolerate a [[gangbang]], and that they will fight fire with fire. Collab, DK, NA, iMag, and Evo went on to defeat SoF, SoL and TIE quite convincingly.

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 34,107
| 264
| 129
| $301M
|-
| NA
| 14,665
| 506
| 29
| $2B
|-
| iMag
| 8,973
| 249
| 36
| $32M
|-
| Evo
| 5,248
| 375
| 14
| $1B
|-
| DK
| 3,157
| 287
| 11
| $87M
|-
! TOTAL
! 66,150
! 302
! 219
! $3.5B
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoL
| 29,017
| 299
| 97
| $15M
|-
| SoF
| 7,804
| 355
| 22
| $4M
|-
| TIE
| 7,463
| 267
| 28
| $5M
|-
! TOTAL
! 44,284
! 301
! 147
! $41M
|}
----

=== Third Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 3rd - Jun 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Third Round of the Alliance Server}}
After two consecutive wars in the new game, it was looking as though Collab was going to become a predominantly war alliance. However, they seemed to have worked out their issues with the other alliances, or at least cooled down the fire temporarily. Despite this, Collab still started off the set as though they were preparing for war. They ran mostly war strats to begin the reset, as they did not want to be unprepared for war if it somehow found them again. After a few weeks into the set, Collab was able to determine that they would be able to net peacefully and went into full blown netting mode. This was at the cost of their allies as [[Evo]] and [[DK]] were both at the receiving end of a crippling FS by [[SoL]] as payback for coming to Collab's aid the previous reset, despite SoL creating the [[gangbang]] to begin with.

Despite the war prepping start, Collab was still able to put a country into the top 10 as [[Charles]] finished 6th overall [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/83]. As an Alliance, Collab finished 3rd in Total Neworth and 5th in Average Networth, finishing behind the 4th place Alliance, [[EEVIL]], by less than $2M NW despite having more than double their membership [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/83].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $52,468,343 (5th)
| 18,216 Acres (9th)
| $2,833,290,541 (3rd)
| 983,684 Acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[Charles]]
| Charles (#377)
| $136,856,086
| 6
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| she was like no sex axa (#112)
| $105,869,321
| 21
|-
| [[Slayer]]
| Dark Syndicate (#9)
| $104,820,997
| 22
|}
----

=== Fourth Round of the Alliance Server: Jun 3rd - Aug 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fourth Round of the Alliance Server}}
In Collab's fourth reset on the new server, they were determined to prove their netting prowess as they have proved themselves in war early on in the new game. They planned to netgain from the beginning, although there were some roadblocks in the way once again this reset. [[Paradigm]] (PDM), had an issue with Collab's landgrabbing, which turned into a minor war. With land on the server becoming more scarce, Collab became more aggressive and farmed PDM one too many times for their liking, which resulted in a conflict between Collab and PDM. The war was over in less than a week, allowing Collab to continue netgaining as they had planned.

Despite the interruption in their netting, they were still able to achieve a positive finish. They finished 3rd in Total Networth once again, but this time taking 4th place in Average Networth [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/104]. Collab had two top 10 finishers in this set, with [[ley]] finishing at 7th and [[LD]] finishing at 8th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/104].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 14,709
| 409
| 36
| $2B
|-
| PDM
| 3,910
| 1,955
| 2
| $9M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $48,925,454 (4th)
| 24,473 acres (4th)
| $2,005,943,626 (3rd)
| 1,003,392 acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| rLey (#146)
| $153,802,881
| 7
|-
| [[LD]]
| thomas has a spud n his bud (#165)
| $152,769,200
| 8
|}
----

=== Fifth Round of the Alliance Server: Aug 4th - Oct 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fifth Round of the Alliance Server}}
This reset marked Sanctuary's 50th Anniversary. And with that, it saw two co-founders return in [[Bishop X]] and [[Phatjab]], although their returns were unfortunately temporary. Many expected Collab/Sanct to war for their 50th set, like many others do. However, it quickly turned into an odd reset as many of the potential war partners were unavailable. [[SoL]] surprised most of the server when they [[FS'd]] [[LaF]] (and later on surprised just as many when they actually won). An even more surprising outcome was when [[ICN]] FS'd [[SoF]]. SoF was on their heals, backed up against a wall by ICN in what was truly likely to be a shocking victory. However, SoF called in [[iMag]] which quickly turned the tide and put an end to ICN's effort. [[EEVIL]] was also at war with [[The Fist]] (The Fist also warred [[PDM]] at one point) and [[Elysium]] was mustering what they could against LaF.

With all of these wars going on, it really only left Collab with a couple of options: FS [[NA]], an alliance that they have had strong ties to for a long time, FS [[RAGE]], which wouldn't be much of a challenge considering the numbers difference and would have hurt the game more than it helped, or FS a group of alliances. Collab went with the latter choice and FSed SoF, iMag and EEVIL at the same time. EEVIL received their FS because Collab had countries jump tag to EEVIL and war Fist. The reps were too much so Collab decided it was just easier to get Fist's back instead. SoF received a FS for two reasons: firstly, they broke a uNAP with Collab a couple of resets ago when Collab FSed SoL, and secondly, they got beat by an alliance that everybody considered to be inferior and instead of taking those lumps and dealing with it, they called in for the [[gangbang]] by asking iMag for help. And iMag received a FS because, well, they liked to war, were bored after ICN was [[tagkilled]], and Collab wanted to make their war interesting, so it appeared to be a win:win for everybody.

Things quickly soured, however, as within minutes of Collab's FS, iMag contacted [[AxA]] and requested a [[ceasefire]], as they made it clear Collab was ruining their chances to make war with PDM. AxA granted the [[CF]] and Collab's FS went on without iMag targets (the FS list consisted of 90% iMag countries so it quickly ran dry). Three days after the ceasefire, iMag FSed Collab along WITH PDM. After stating they were going to FS PDM, apparently AxA's thoughts on that inspired PDM to FS Collab. Basically, AxA was cool with the idea which is all it took for Detmer to declare war on Collab. When it was all said and done, Collab was fighting four tags simultaneously in SoF, iMag, PDM, and EEVIL. After EEVIL's top countries were killed, The Fist were able to handle their war, allowing Collab to focus on the other three tags. ICN continued to war SoF and iMag but because they were tagkilled, they were only able to finish off the targets after Collab broke them down.

What may have been considered a lost war was actually a victory as Collab took on four tags with over two times as many countries and did not call in any allies, a practice that seems to have been abandoned long ago. SoF and iMag were tagkilled while PDM were left with a decent amount of countries left, since they were the last ones targeted. Surprisingly, Collab survived throughout the set and were not tagkilled, despite organized chats between SoF/iMag/PDM. In the first ever editions of Earth Empires Awards, Collab took home the award for Best War [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 20,136
| 268
| 75
| $53M
|-
| ICN
| 12,493
| 367
| 34
| $20M
|-
| Fist
| 5,770
| 339
| 17
| $121M
|-
! TOTAL
! 38,399
! 305
! 126
! $194M
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoF
| 21,181
| 331
| 64
| $148M
|-
| iMag
| 16,172
| 359
| 45
| $43M
|-
| PDM
| 10,640
| 426
| 25
| $118M
|-
| EEVIL
| 3,697
| 411
| 9
| $550K
|-
! TOTAL
! 51,690
! 361
! 143
! $305M
|}
----

=== Sixth Round of the Alliance Server: Oct 5th - Dec 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 6}}
In the sixth set of Earth Empires, Collab once again set out to netgain. That proved to be difficult though as there were rumors spreading that two different alliances had planned to FS Collab. When both went to war, Collab was finally off Red Alert, after saving turns and blowing stock on War Techs and increased Military. However, one of the Alliance's remained a threat throughout the set due to an early ending to their war which left them bored. Collab spent 6 of the 8 weeks flip flopping back-and-forth between Red and Yellow Alert.

When the round had finally ended it wasn't to their benefit due to the interuptions they had throughout the set. They had hoped to prove what they could do when it came to netgaining. Unfortunately this was not their set and immediately set their sights on the following set. Despite the difficulties trying to avoid a war during a netting set, two of Collab's best ever netgainers managed great finishes. ley finished #6 for his second top 10 finish in EE while trep finished 14th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/143]. Both were crowned Elite by Collab for their excellent play. As far as netting as a whole, Collab set a personal best for average NW with $78,281,594, finishing 4th behind [[Evo]], [[Omega]] and [[Monsters]], as expected, and were also able to finish 2nd amongst all clans in average land with 24,657 acres [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtags/143].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
! Members
|-
| $78,281,594 (4th)
| 24,657 acres (2nd)
| $2,505,011,016 (4th)
| 789,025 acres (5th)
| 32 (7th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| Boobies (#127)
| $180,223,266
| 6
|-
| [[Trep]]
| untz untz untz (#503)
| $150,818,255
| 14
|}

----

=== Seventh Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 4th - Feb 2nd, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 7}}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $79,549,043 (5th)
| $3,181,961,719 (5th)
| 40 (5th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[ley]]
| Thomas The Tank Engine (#106)
| $198,804,130
| 8
| 81,496
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Thomas loves pooper sex by kemo (#20)
| $137,889,793
| 36
| 38,003
|}

----

=== Eighth Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 3rd - Apr 5th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 8}}

Collaboration, [[Monsters]], and [[Evolution]] VS [[SoF]].

====War Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Attacks
! Civs
! Defends (on a single country)
! Restarts
|-
| [[kemo]]
| '''1173'''
| 509,090
| 89
| 0
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| '''993'''
| 272,466
| 210
| 3
|-
| [[ley]]
| '''972'''
| '''647,648'''
| 468
| 1
|-
| [[herbs]]
| 936
| '''1,025,944'''
| 84
| 0
|-
| [[Nole]]
| 811
| 284,288
| 424
| 0
|-
| [[xaos]]
| 764
| '''737,514'''
| 38
| 0
|-
| [[Tross]]
| 477
| 63,072
| '''613'''
| 3
|-
| [[wharfed]]
| 449
| 66,242
| 239
| '''5'''
|}

----

=== Ninth Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 6th - Jun 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 9}} 
President: [[Axa]] 
VPs: [[Thomas]], [[fudgepuppy]] 
Goal: Netting 
This reset saw the (re)introduction of Divisions to the clan, in an effort to generate some healthy competition among the members. With this came the promotion of several Vets to ADL, as well as [[Herbs]] to DL. Other DL positions were taken by leaders. There were a few new members playing, countering several veterans that were MIA/inactive, which, unfortunately, included our two top netters, [[ley]] and [[trep]]. 
Throughout the set, we were able to remain high on the avg land list, with a few countries (mostly Thomas') moving in and out of the top 10 land on the server. Unfortunately, Thomas' chances for a good finish were dashed later in the reset, and his country was offered up as free land. A few other members had become inactive during the reset, so their countries were also offered up for the rest. This brought the membership down to the finishing number of 36. 
By the end of the set, stockpiles were a bit low but respectable, and most were destocking as theo. During destocking, we were able to stay close to Omega in terms of NWs, but their stockpiles stretched longer so we ended up falling short by 9mil ANW. Pulling out our top ANW so far, it was a great effort by all. Divisions were definitely successful, with Herbs' group pulling out the win at 100mil ANW. Special mention goes to Raf for an excellent finish at rank 16, Herbs at rank 24, and CK at rank 40 with an all-explore (0 attacks) country.

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $86,346,214 (5th)
| $3,108,463,717 (5th)
| 36 (8th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[Raf]]
| The Forsaken Rise Again (#372)
| $159,435,387
| 16
| 26,493
|-
| [[Herbs]]
| Braves suck (#336)
| $152,788,408
| 24
| 22,570
|-
| [[CyberKid]]
| Imperialism (#418)
| $125,513,237
| 40
| 20,724 (All-Explore)
|}

----

== Leadership ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Position
! MSN
! ICQ
|-
| [[AxA]]
| President
| thesympathetic1@hotmail.com
| 167324517
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Vice President
| tcollins1984@live.com
| 391657461
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| Vice President
| fudgepuppy@gmail.com
| 123820211
|}

For a list of current and former Collaboration members, see the [[:Category:Collaboration Members| category of Collaboration members]].

== External Links ==

* [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Home Page]

* [http://hosting.boxcarhosting.net:443/Boxcar/public/application.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Application Center]

* [http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/CyberKid Current Adviser Collaboration]

[[Category:Netgaining Alliances]]
[[Category:Warring Alliances]]

Directory of Alliances

2011-06-22T21:30:47Z

Dustfp: /* Alliance Server */

This page is intended as a list of [[Alliance_(in-game)|alliances]], their websites, their [[tags]], their [[retal]] policies, and their [[FA]] contacts. To see a list of current and historical alliances, see the [[:Category:Alliances | Alliances Category]].
==Alliance Server==
{{alliancetop}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Evolution
|website=http://evolution2025.com
|tag=EVOwhore
|channel=#evolution
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|hfa=anoniem
|hfa_icq=789248
|fa1=Osso
|fa1_icq=635091356
|vp1=qzjul
|vp1_icq=46899882
|vp1_msn=qzjul@msn.com
|vp1_other=email: qzjul@earthempires.com
|p=Yank
|p_icq=120713939
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Imaginary Numbers
|website=http://www.letskillstuff.org
|tag=iMagNum
|channel=#imagnum
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|hfa=iTavi
|hfa_icq=277635990
|fa1=galleri
|fa1_icq=13096429
|p=Soviet
|p_icq=4793246947
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Infernal Council of Nations
|website=
|tag=xICNx
|channel=#icn
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=KSF
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=KSF
|tag=KSF
|channel=#KSF
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|hfa=toma
|hfa_other=(IRC: toma)
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=La Cosa Nostra
|website=http://lcn.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=LCNostra
|channel=#lcnostra
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|hfa=Trife
|hfa_icq=1339765
|p=Purposeful1
|p_icq=219186820
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=LaFamiglia
|website=
|tag=LaF
|channel=#LaF
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|other_title=Don
|other=hanlong
|other_icq=36923162
|hfa=H4xOr WaNgEr
|hfa_icq=67603487
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Monsters
|website=
|tag=Monsters
|channel=
|server=
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Moral Decay
|website=
|tag=MD
|channel=#md
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|other_title=Presidential council
|other=Locutus
|other_icq=30987524
|other_msn=locutusmd@live.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Netters Anonymous
|website=
|tag=NAxToon
|channel=#xnax
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|hfa=Vic Rattlehead
|hfa_msn=mtwarshaw@gmail.com
|hfa_other=micktheclown2000@yahoo.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=The Omega
|website=
|tag=TheOmega
|channel=#omega
|server=irc.gamesurge..net
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Paradigm
|website=http://paradigm.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=Paradigm
|channel=#pdm
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|other_title=Director
|other=Detmer
|other_icq=74939894
|other_msn=detmer@m0m0.org
|other_other=E-mail is detmer@m0m0.org. ICQ and MSN are by appointment only. IRC and [http://forums.earthempires.com/Messages.php?sid=439 forum messaging] are preferred methods of contact.
|other_title1=Overlord of Foreign Affairs
|other1=The Arabian Nightmare
|other_msn1=arabianknightmare@hotmail.com
|other_icq1=287719359
|other_other1=Preferred method of contact is [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?forumid=6&p=1307998712&z=alliance-talk Alliance Talk].
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=RAGE
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/application.php?clanID=RAGE
|tag=RAGE
|channel=#RAGE
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|hfa=Grimm
|hfa_icq=96199185
|hfa_msn=actual_human@hotmail.com
|vp1=FDF
|vp1_icq=609177689
|vp1_msn=kelleydanny@msn.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Reservoir Dogs
|website=
|tag=RD
|channel=
|server=
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=RIVAL
|website=
|tag=RIVAL
|channel=
|server=
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Sanctuary
|website=http://collab.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=SancT
|channel=#Sanct
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|fa1=Nole
|fa1_icq=99819687
|fa1_msn=nole_icn@hotmail.com
|vp1=fudgepuppy
|vp1_icq=123820211
|vp1_msn=fudgepuppy@gmail.com
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{{alliancelist
|name=Sons of Liberty
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{{alliancelist
|name=Survival of the Fittest
|website=
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|server=irc.gamesurge.net
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{{alliancelist
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|website=
|tag=TIE
|channel=
|server=
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==Free For All Server==
{{alliancetop}}
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|website=
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|website=
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{{alliancelist
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|website=
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{{alliancelist
|name=Natural Born Killers
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{{alliancelist
|name=Pandora's Last Vikings
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|p_other=Preferred contact methods are IRC and forum messaging.
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{{alliancelist
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|website=
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{{alliancelist
|name=Revolution
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|website=
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|name=SemperFi - Honors Seal Team 6
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{{alliancebottom}}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-06-14T21:31:31Z

Dustfp: /* Januray 2002 */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA.jpeg|300px]]
| founders = NightShade, Neurotic Outsider and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10
| president = [[NightShade]]
| vps = [[Purgatori]]
| hfa = [[Purgatori]]
| fas = [[Purgatori]]
| hia = [[Fraz]]
| ias = [[BigRick]]
| hwar = [[Purgatori]]
| war = [[Purgatori]]
| trainers = [[NightShade]] & [[Purgatori]]
| homepage = http://sota.boxcarhosting.com
| irc = irc://irc.scourge.se/#SOTA/
}}

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Free For All Server]]
==Earth: 2025 Free For All Era==
===Origins===

The alliance known as the Soldiers Of The Apocalypse® got its start in late October of 2000, During a period of time when the founder of SOTA was running a tag known as NATADO. The Soldiers Of The Apocalypse name came into existence in the midst of a small skirmish with UPA.
Later during this conflict Unforgiven left NATADO and started the tag SOTA and proceeded to kill UPA's top countries. Later after the killing stopped and Unforgiven and Europa of UPA entered into negotiations, Unforgiven retagged her countries back into the NATADO tag assured that there will be no future conflicts between NATA/SOTA and UPA unaware of what was next.
The next day MPE attacked NATA killing all countries between $1 million and $7 million networth. Unforgiven seeing this as an indication that NATA wasn't ready for FFA yet, she later took as many members as she could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC.
Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon her arrival she was appointed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, things went smooth between Slash and DOL until after the April 5 set when DOL and Leaders of Earth United merged to form DUEL (Dragons & United Earth Leaders). After two weeks of the mergers success, Slash got into some problems with some members of DUEL and after tensions created too much pressure she resigned her position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and subsequently left on April 18, 2001.

===April 2001===

As soon as it was announced that Slash would be starting SOTA, she encountered Tempest who wanted to use the tag to suicide, and she had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if she was serious about starting an alliance and joined. Later on Slash had made him a Co-President and the alliance began taking shape. Slash later applied for an EzClan site and after 24 hours of getting the new SOTA site had been set up, Slash immediately began recruiting. After a few hours some people who would later turn out to become the core members of SOTA applied to the site, later on when the command structure and site layout had been completed SOTA boasted more than twenty members and 300 countries wthin fourty-eight hours of its existence.

By the middle of the set SOTA had grown to become a massive alliance, by the alliance's second set the alliance was rushing head first into the summer of 2001 with 39 members and 597 countries with new members from RA, RAGE, TSE, HARRY, and USIMPxTC, and other alliances who have joined SOTA.
During the June 21, 2001 to August 31, 2001 set things were moving fast with SOTA... As if by some strange twist of fate during the early hours of June 28, 2001 our Internal Affairs department caught a spy within the ranks of our alliance. Slash later got a contact from one of her friends who happened to be operating inside xDoEx, after she had talked with him more it as revealed that xDoEx had infiltrated SOTA and not believing the information she asked to see for herself. After logging into the xDoEx site she later learned that xDoEx was planning a surprise attack on SOTA. Returning to her alliance she removed the spy, and paged all of her members breaking the news to them. Later on working with her contact she set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. She planned SOTA's surprise attack for July 4, 2001 at 23:00 Pacific (which would be 01:00 Central).
Anyways, when July 4, 2001 came SOTA struck xDoEx with all of the forces they could muster (478 countries) completely catching them off-guard, and tagkilled their alliance (278 countries) in less than two weeks. Later on SOTA rubbed it in ZDH's face and after a short time later he retired.

Later after the start of the September 2, 2001 set Mehul started his sweeping of multies and SOTA was hurt badly when more than two-thirds of the alliance lost their countries to Mehul and his sweeps. SOTA managed to make replacement countries afterwards and kept going strong in the game. By this time things were going well until the September 11th attacks had happened, alot of SOTA members were shocked and saddened by the fateful turn of events but they kept going. The next day SOTA members discovered 24 dead countries killed by five tags which totalled 512 countries (302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED), after killing the countries used in the kill runs (105 countries) Slash (now going by Shi) had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Shi declared war on the combined force of all five tags, and with their 449 countries (this was after she had recruited a few new members) they faced off against them. The war lasted until the end of the set where on November 16, 2001 SOTA defeated all but AEU who had surrendered and pulled out of the war. Later on the kills were counted and the end results were amazing.

SOTA lost 292 out of 449 countries leaving them with 157.

3O2, NORDEN, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED lost all 407 of the countries they had*.
AEU having lost 79 out of the 105 countries they had* leaving them with 23 countries, was the only alliance left standing after the entire conflict...
After finishing off the 5-way tag team, ZDH came out of retirement and restarted xDOEx and decided to try and finish what they started the set before. After SOTA got into gear they killed a large number of them, Shi having killed 212 of them adding SOTA's number of kills to 619 before xDOEx gave up.

Later after that conflict ended we were hit unexpectedly by Gateway and xTBRx. xTBRx was only 55 countries so we decided to kill them all, and ended up making the conflict go on for a day and a half before SOTA killed the last of them.

* Aside from the countries killed in the initial war, the countries killed before the war will be listed with the kills from the war (e.g. 3O2: 118 (+31) Kills).

In all these are the kills per alliance along with the kills before the war:

* 3O2: 118 (+31) Kills
* AEU: 79 (+24) Kills
* SPxSWE: 74 (+31) Kills
* NORDEN: 68 (+17) Kills
* 1UNITED: 68 (+12) Kills
* xDOEx: 212 (+0) Kills
* xTBRx: 55 (+0) Kills

Total: 674 (+115) Kills
During that very impressive set SOTA had racked up a total of 789 kills before the set finally ended. Shi would have rounded it off to 780 kills had the set not ended sooner.

SOTA later went on to the November 17, 2001 set where after a significant drop in membership, SOTA plummeted in rankings completely... Shi being determined to hold on to what she had talked with a friend and after a series of chats SOTA had become a subclan of UNIxTC using the tag SOTAxUNI.
Things went well for a while until things started looking pretty bleak. Later on in the set Shi maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with her a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Shi to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's, Shi and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Shi stayed until December 22, 2001. After Shi left BOD she fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, she stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when she joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

Shi stayed with LaO until January 29, 2002 until one of her senior leaders (Ridgeracer Boi) had asked her about SOTA's condition. When told that the alliance had taken a durastic turn for the worst, he told her he would come back from his vacation to help recruit more members and make an effort to get SOTA back into the Top 25 if she would come back. She informed the leadership she would be leaving and with their good blessing they let her go back to SOTA with an FAP. After getting an unused site (because HxDx occupied the old SOTA site on EzClan) from a friend Shi had all of her members join the new site. Later as fate would turn out Shi regained a good portion of her pacts with her allies except DWAR, later SOTA became a subclan of NBKxTC to gain some protection and a good footing in the game.

During that set a small rivalry between BOD and SOTA began and the two alliances traded land for most of the set. During the April 1, 2002 set Shi and SOTA kept a low profile, mainly because the alliance was still recruiting and small in numbers (around 105 countries). At the beginning of the June 7, 2002 set SOTA was declared independent by NBK who had left TC (The Coalition) in the middle of that set. At the beginning of the August 6, 2002 set Soul Stealer without informing Shi had placed the site onto NBKFFA.COM and made SOTA (using the tag SOTAxU for that set) a member of the United We Stand coalition. During that set the UWS coalition came under heavy fire by LOTU, Sphexi in particular after a few weeks Raskalnikov declared war on SOTA and later after maiming a series of countries Raskalnikov ended the war. A day later Sphexi and LOTU declared war on SOTA and killed a large amount of countries until NBK intervened and declared war on LOTU for (not having a concrete reason for a DOW and) killing a UWS coalition member. After the conflict Shi was given some countries from UPxTC and Desert Eagle and later managed to end the set with a Top 25 ranking in Average Networth.
During that set Shi managed to gain two new members who by Shi's standards were novice netgainers. she took them in and helped them through the set with a revised strategy of hers, after some progress the two Ah Jue and Cyberstorm became very good netgainers placing countries in the top 1000 rankings in their first set. Thigs went well for SOTA for that set and Shi with her two newest gainers managed to place SOTA into the Top 25 in Total Networth, this being the first time in over a year where SOTA had placed itself in the Top 25 for Total Networth.

During the October 8, 2002 the alliance had picked up a few new members and things were going smoothly, especially since SOTA had gained a pact with UMPE. Around the middle of November two suiciders one Potomac the other Mr. Bittersweet (Sphexi) had declared war on SOTA, Shi being asleep at the time of the DOW had no idea a war had been going on for the last 18 hours. Later after logging into the site and checking the news she had realized what was going on and began fighting back, However due to her hours at work she couldn't effectively kill countries from either the BTRSWEET (Bittersweet) or POTOMAC (obvious) tag. After asking GPA who had intervened in the war to back off Potomac backed out of the war after about two days, Mr. Bittersweet who had been fighting against SOTA had pissed off PANLVxTC and was summarily tagkilled by them. After the SOTA vs POTOMAC & BTRSWEET war ended a few of Shi's remaining countries were commandeered by a suicider who used them to hit NHDPxTC. After retagging to xSOTAx the same suicider had hacked more of Shi's countries and used them to hit TAKERS, TAKERS not taking any chances had killed all but 10 countries in the SOTA tag.

After sitting the rest of the set out, the December 8, 2002 set started and SOTA picked up where it had left off last set before the SOTA vs POTOMAC & BTRSWEET conflict. Shi not having as much time to play still due to her hours at work didn't get much time to play her countries while the others in the tag didn't get the time to make their countries. Still wary of what happened the last set Shi kept a low profile using the tag SOLDIERS, seeing as the server still showed SOTA's Top 50 rankings from the previous set. Shi playing alone this set managed to play through the entire set with all of her countries intact but didn't manage to break the Top 25 in any category.

===February 2003===

After the February 5, 2003 set started Shi and her existing membership as with some new recruits made in upwards of 600 countries only to have them deleted in the first week of the set. After having her countries deleted Shi, who was planning to sit the set out was told by the manager of the apartment complex she lived in that the apartment complexes were going to be demolished around the beginning of June. After moving all of hers and her girlfriends things to a storage unit, Shi and her girlfriend had moved in with her friend Diana until she could find a place. A week after moving in with Diana, Shi was activated by the Air Force and was sent out, the membership of SOTA wondering where their leader went stayed around for a week after she talked to them last and had posted they were leaving SOTA.

Shi having been gone for the last set finally came back to Earth and SOTA in the middle of the April 1, 2003 set in late May, where upon contacting several of the leaders had been told a large number of SOTA members had left the alliance because hey didn't know where Shi was. Shi sitting the rest of the set out had managed to recruit a couple of those who had dissented plus some new members before the set ended. With the new set on the way Shi had finally left the Air Force after serving for five and a half years at Los Angeles AFB, with her rank as a Master Sergeant (E-7 for those of you with no knowledge of the military) and could finally devote her time to SOTA.

Shi finally having time to play after the start of the June 5, 2003 set made her countries and began recruiting for membership, Having some luck she managed to recruit two new members before the set officially started.

During the June 2003 set Shi managed to place SOTA into the Top 25 in all three categories for the first time in years, surpassing USIMP for most of the set until almost 50 countries were deleted for inactivity toward the end of the set causing a massive drop in rankings. Aside from the shortcomings near the end of the June 2003 set, it was the moment for those who were former members of the alliance to see what it would have been capable of had they not left SOTA nearly causing the alliance's dissolution in November of 2001.

===September 2003===

Things went well for SOTA for the time between May and August of 2003, within time though it had seemed as though the pressures of outside life had taken a hold of her. Within the first week of September she had left for Michigan to help a few of her long-standing friends, Since then she has only been able to use the internet sporadically through the local library. While Shi had lost all form of contact with her friends online, the headquarters for the Soldiers Of The Apocalypse® (SOTA) was given to another party for use as their HQ for a while. Eventually their alliance, the SAINTS of Endless Revolution, which was in another game (Endless Revolution) merged with another alliance and ended up changing sites, and everyone from SAINTS just stopped visiting the SOTA site altogether.

Shi, wanting her site back had finally contacted Ciscosmok through AIM Express and managed to regain ownership of her site... When Shi finally got back into her site she was amazed at the messed up condition the site was left in. Since the end of October, Shi has been working on a major project and hopes to get it off the ground before the summer of 2004.

===January 2004===

After coming back from a long four month self-imposed vacation after her internet had up and died on her, she began a project to rebuild Soldiers Of The Apocalypse® or at least start a new alliance in its place.

Upon returning to Earth: 2025 on January 7, 2004, Shi was told by a friend through AIM to check out the Bugs & Suggestions boards for Mehul's post regarding Free For All, not knowing what lay in store for FFA she checked the topic to find that Earth: 2025 FFA would be deleted permanently at the end of the set on January 11, 2004. So after learning the news of the Free For All Server's fate, she began to talk to the remaining members of her alliance in talks of what road the alliance should take, during a long chat some of her members said they'd stick by her no matter the route she or her alliance took. Eventually the decision came down to taking the alliance to either TEQ or Elite Soldier: Free For All, so after the Earth: 2025 FFA server was deleted effectively killing Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®, and every other FFA alliance that existed in the FFA server. With the end of the Free For All server, the Soldiers Of The Apocalypse® alliance entered into a brand new era stepping into the brave new world of Elite Soldier FFA.

===June 2004===

Eventually after some time, Mehul decided to re-open Free For All again and Shi, coming back under the username [[NightShade]] decided to reform one of her older alliances [[Angels Of Destruction]], managing to achieve Top 25 rankings in Membership, Total Networth and Average Networth in their first set. After the conclusion of that set, NightShade spoke with WarTime, then the leader of Mindless Self-Indulgence also known as MSI, and agreed to a merger. At the beginning of the set the new alliance Mindless Angels of Destruction (AODxMSI) became a massive alliance with a total networth of $775 million, outdoing everything NightShade had previously accomplished with SOTA in one set. After a period of three sets, AODxMSI merged with TAWNN to become Angels & Mindless Tyrants also known as AMT.

===January-April 2005===

After the merger of AODxMSI and TAWNN that resulted in AMT, NightShade went on a sabbatical for a while and left the leadership to Dallas and WarTime to deal with some of the issues she was having in real life, primarily having to move to a new home. Ryuko, being unaware of the events in FFA, WarTime had gone on hiatus to settle some of the issues with his marriage and left the leadership to Dallas and Patriot, who was one of the leaders of TAWNN that came over in the merger. During this time, Patriot took it upon himself in the absence of both to allow Bopper into the alliance and shortly thereafter Patriot and Bopper suicided [[Natural Born Killers]] aka NBK from the AMT tag resulting in AMT's total annihilation by NBK.

After NightShade returned from her hiatus, she found that the tag had been utterly destroyed and made an attempt to regroup the alliance under the AOD tag again with limited success. Seeing that there was too much controversy surrounding the tag, NightShade tried in vain to get the main core of members to come to AOD, and after playing through a set with a handful of members, she decided to wash her hands of Free For All and played solely in the Earth Council server.

==Earth Empires Free For All Era==
===Round One: January-March 2010===
Shortly after the beginning of February, [[NightShade|Murasakiiro Kotani]] was informed by [[Red X]] that Earth: 2025 had been replaced by Earth Empires, and that it had a Free For All server. A natural skeptic, she checked out the site and within minutes decided she should peek around on the forums to see how many people were playing. Seeing that a lot of the old school players were playing the Free For All and Alliance servers, she started contacting a few and was told by a few notable Earthers, namely [[Crippler]] and [[Desperado]] that she should play again and reform [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|SOTA]] in Free For All. So, taking their advice, she made her fifteen countries and tagged under the SOTA tag.

===Round Two: March-May 2010===
After playing through the previous set, [[NightShade]] managed to recruit a fairly decent amount of players from [[Free For All]], [[Alliance Server|Alliance]], and Mars 2025, and obtained a BoxCar site. After getting the core command structure established, the goal was simple: netgain their asses off... and netgain they did. During this set, [[Asylum of Dark Templars]] and [[The Syndicate]] declared war on [[Natrual Born Killers]], while [[Insane Multi Posse]] and [[Death Knights]] declared war on [[Fuck Off Cuz Ur Stupid]] and because [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|SOTA]] was pacted to both sides of each conflict vowed to stay neutral, so as to avoid severing pacts with either side to appease the other as [[NightShade]] believed that honoring pacts meant more than playing to politics.

At the end of the set the results were amazing, with only sisty-six countries [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]] under the tag 'SOTAxDC' to honor Dark Carnage, had attained a Total Networth of $1,184,332,998 and an Average Networth of $17,944,439 being the highest total networth ever attained under the tag.

===Round Three: May-June 2010===
At the end of the second, Gazza` left SOTA under amicable terms as [[SOF|Survival Of The Fittest]] had formed in Free For All, also with [[NightShade]]'s unwillingness to commit [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|SOTA]] to the server-wide conflict previously in the set, they lost their pacts with [[Asylum of Dark Templars]] and [[The Syndicate]], with the membership dropping by nearly half between the end of the set and the beginning of the new set, the alliance survived through diplomacy and with the addition of their Secretary of Foreign Relations, [[Seraph]] playing that set. This set went largely uneventful with SOTA barely managing Total Networth of $33.2 Million, and an Average Networth of $1.2 million with twenty-seven countries, hardly the stellar performance given during the previous set.

===Round Four: June-September 2010===
During this set, with the recruitment efforts of [[NightShade]] meeting with little success, the alliance managed to go through the fourth round uneventfully though this time with a vast improvement in Total Networth at $94 million, and an Average Networth of $2.94 million.

===Round Five: September-November 2010===
During the fifth set, things were plagued with problems from the beginning as [[NightShade]]'s girlfriend, deciding on her own, to help the alliance by creating a second account from a library computer under the user name "Frost", a previous user name of hers, created sixteen countries. After less than twenty-four hours, both sets of her countries as well as those of [[NightShade]] were deleted for rules violations. After appealing to the administrators, [[NightShade]] and [[Purgatori]] were granted the right to play again under the provision that it never happened again or face a delete & ban from the game.

====Restarts and Playing Catch-up====
After the initial frustration of losing her countries when she was playing legitimately, unaware of [[Purgatori]]/Frost's actions, [[NightShade]] and [[Purgatori]] restarted and began the task of catching up to everyone else and doing everything within their power to keep from being considered as farmland.

====Quitting in frustration====

After meeting with the frustration of trying to recruit after being hit with the stigma of being labeled as cheaters, [[NightShade]] quit midway through the set and decided to focus on getting the issues she was dealing with in real life instead of ignoring them through playing the game.

Shortly after quiting, [[NightShade|Murasakiiro Kotani]] and [[Purgatori|Victoria 'Cross']] moved from their scant one bedroom apartment into an honest-to-god spacious two-bedroom apartment (finally a place to put both computers without crowding the hell out of the living room! XD).

===Round Six: November 2010-January 2011===
No real history as no one from [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]] was actively playing under the tag, as [[NightShade|Murasakiiro Kotani]] and [[Purgatori|Victoria 'Cross']] were not actively playing.

===Round Seven: January-March 2011===
Upon returning to the game, on February 4, [[NightShade]] and [[Purgatori]] began playing again, with the [[Masterful SworDs of Justice]] tagged [[MasterC]] in rememberance of one of their founders who'd passed away. During this set, [[Masterful SworDs of Justice|SworDs]] was looking for a war and found it through [[Xtinct]], a seperate tag of [[Sanctuary]] FFA, tagged '''SancTFFA'''. During this war, the [[Masterful SworDs of Justice]] started with a good counterstrike, but after losing all 204 of their original countries, it became a war to keep restarts long enough to get within striking range of their smallest countries. During the waning days of the war, the [[Masterful SworDs of Justice]] and [[Xtinct]] agreed to a cease-fire and all hostilities ceased.

====The Kings Order vs. Masterful SworDs of Justice Conflict====
After hostilities with [[Xtinct]]/[[SancTFFA]] ended on or around March 9, a new conflict arose with [[The Kings Order]] over a members' overzealous retalling, escalating into kill runs against [[The Kings Order|TKOwnd]], resulting in [[The Kings Order]] initiating a devastating kill run on [[Masterful SworDs of Justice|MasterC]]'s Top 50. During this period of time the unity between the membership in the alliance began to unravel.

====The formation of The Infernal Army====
On or around midnight of March 10, [[NightShade]] and [[Purgatori]] mutually agreed to leave SworDs in favor of forming a new ''provisional'' tag, something visibly separate from [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]] to afford a higher chance of surviving to the end of the set as previously in the set, [[NightShade]] had been suicided across the [[Alliance Server]], [[Free For All]] and [[Express]].

====The Infernal Army merge with The Killer Elite====
On March 20, [[NightShade]] and Cheesy agreed to merge their tags to form a merger of their respective tags '''The Infernal Army''' and '''The Killer Elite''' to form '''Infernal Killers Elite Army''' under the tag '''IKEA'''.

====IKEA becomes SOTA====
On March 24, All members playing under the '''Infernal Killers Elite Army''' tagged over to the [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]] (SOTA) tag, as someone had leaked the information to Free For All Talk, [[NightShade]], figuring that since the secret was out, had everyone retag as SOTA.

==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

{|border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center" class="wikitable sortable"
|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|1||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Sic Vis Pacem Para Bellum]]||SOTA||15||$61,983,304||$4,132,220||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=anw&reset_num=1]||
|-
|2||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTAxDC||66||$1,184,332,998||$17,944,439||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=2]||Highest TNW achieved under SOTA tag ''ever''
|-
|3||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||zSOTAz||27||$33,219,663||$1,230,356||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=3]||
|-
|4||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||32||$94,087,141||$2,940,223||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=4]||
|-
|-
|5||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA|| -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||Quit midway through set
|-
|6|| -- || -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||On hiatus
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||48||$354,252,120||$7,380,253||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=7]|| '''TIA''' (03.10.2011) '''IKEA''' (03.20.2011) '''SOTA''' (03.24.2011)
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]™||DXoSOTA||32||$330,441,472||$10,326,296||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=8]||
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]|| -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=9]||
|}

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Locutus

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Hanlong

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Outkast

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[[Category:Alliances]]
Outkast was a clan in [[Earth 2025]]. 
Several Outkast members helped form [[Collaboration]] when [[Sanctuary]] moved from the [[1a]] server to the Alliance Server near the end of Earth 2025.

Outkast

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Outkast was a clan in [[Earth 2025]].
Several members helped form [[Collaboration]] when [[Sanctuary]] moved from the [[1a]] server to the Alliance Server near the end of Earth 2025.

Collaboration

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{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:Collab.jpg]]
| founders = [[AxA]], MeanKai
| founded = Long, long ago
| origins = Merger of [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]]
| anw = $86,346,214 - Apr-Jun '11
| tnw = $3,181,961,719 - Dec-Feb '11
| num_members = 41
| mission = To kick ass and have fun doing it!
| focus = We rock at both netting and warring!
| president = [[AxA]]
| vps = [[Thomas]] & [[fudgepuppy]]
| fas = [[hardy]], [[LD]]
| hia = [[fudgepuppy]]
| hwar = [[Thomas]]
| war = [[Joe]], [[Nole]]
| homepage = [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collab on Boxcar]
| irc = [http://wbeuk.mibbit.com/?settings=4093769ba51860f84e5e0fa3af98f7df&server=webirc.gamesurge.net%3A6007&channel=%23Collaboration irc.gamesurge.net #Collaboration]
| awards = Best War [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508]
}}

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]

Collaboration is an original [[Earth Empires]] [[Alliance (in-game)|alliance]] which was created from a merger of several [[Earth: 2025]] alliances, notably [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]]. 

In its current form it is run by some of the most knowledgeable and active leaders in the game. Collaboration is a collection of people from all walks of life and is social networking at it's best. When they aren't kicking ass in the game, they're keeping themselves entertained while they wait to kick more ass. 

They are built on the principle that their own family comes first: If someone messes with one of them, they're messing with the entire alliance. They also stay true to their friends and are willing to throw away their plans and hard work at the drop of a dime to assist a friend in need. 

They have proven themselves in times of war and in times of peace and are regarded as one of (if not the best) balanced alliance in the game. If you are interested in seeing what Collaboration is all about, please check out their website [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab] or chat with one of their leaders. 

==History==
[[Sanctuary]] made the transition from the [[1a]] server to the [[Alliance Server]] at the twilight of [[Earth: 2025]]'s existence. The alliance took on a name change during this move, renaming themselves [[Collaboration]], also known as Collab. The name speaks for itself as the alliance was compiled of a large percentage of members from several different alliances (mainly [[Sanctuary]], [[Outkast]], and [[The Cult]]). This newly formed but historically rooted alliance does not fit into a single category. They are neither strictly Netters or strictly Warrers. Collab prefers to remain a balanced alliance and have proven that they are excellent at both. When [[Earth 2025]] shut it's doors, Collaboration made the move to the new version of the game, [[Earth Empires]].

==Earth Empires==

=== First Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 13th - Jan 30th, 2010 ===
{{Main|First Round of the Alliance Server}}
With the transition from one game to another becoming a little chaotic, the plans were for Collab to netgain in the first ever reset of the new game. Most alliances seemed to agree that with the new game came a clean slate, where everybody was starting from scratch. As such, there were few conflicts with other alliances that would lead Collab to believe they would end up in war. With about a week before the end of the reset, Collab was planning on an excellent finish clan-wide when they were FS'd by [[Sons of Liberty]] (SoL). Collab was not prepared for war whatsoever. In fact, they had no war techs, small amounts of military and were not running proper war governements. SoL's reasoning for the FS was retribution for Collab hitting SoL in a previous reset in Earth: 2025.

Regardless of the reasons, SoL came away with a victory, although the war was much closer than many thought it should have been, with Collab gaining more respect from the war than SoL, even though they were the victors. On a special note, news of the FS was apparently slipped a few hours early and caught up with [[AxA]]. In a tricky move, AxA had [[trep]] tag up with [[La Cosa Nostra]], LCN, before SoL's FS. With one minute left in the set, trep re-tagged Collab, giving Collab the #1 overall NW country in Earth Empires' first ever reset [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/35].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 10,539
| 422
| 25
| $196M
|-
| SoL
| 14,534
| 309
| 47
| $348M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[trep]]
| whats this here (#405)
| $105,393,012
| 1
|}
----

=== Second Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 1st - Apr 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Second Round of the Alliance Server}}
In the second ever round of EE, it was pretty clear that Collab was coming out of the gates with the intentions of hitting [[SoL]]. In fact, it seemed as though SoL was prepared for it as well. When Collab FS'd SoL, not only did SoL have war prepped countries (which was expected from a war alliance) but they were also saving a large amount of turns throughout the alliance. Most of their countries had at least 70 turns on hand when Collab FS'd them. However, despite SoL's preparation, turn saving and country advantage, Collab's FS was too much to handle and the war was one sided very quickly. In fact, Collab managed to kill 20 SoL countries in the FS.

This set off a chain reaction as SoL attempted to gain the upperhand in this war. Their close friends in [[Survival of the Fittest]] (SoF), broke a [[uNAP]], with Collab by creating an alternate tag, [[Natural Selection]], and immediately FS'd Collab. SoF had come to Collab earlier in the reset asking for the uNAP, which Collab had granted them. SoF's president, [[Ivan]], fabricated a story that there was internal strife within SoF and half the alliance split to create the Natural Selection tag. That proved to be false in later resets, as was expected. Also included in this effort was [[The Infernal Elite]] (TIE).

With Collab now facing 3 separate alliances and severely outnumbered, they were forced to call in the aid of their close friends. The [[Death Knights]] (DK) were the first to come to their aid, even though they were not a defensive pact and were low in membership, and were eager to come to Collab's aid. Collab also called in [[Netters Anonymous]] (NA), [[Imaginary Numbers]] (iMag) and [[Evolution]] (Evo). While this was certainly overkill, Collab felt it was necessary to prove a point that they will not tolerate a [[gangbang]], and that they will fight fire with fire. Collab, DK, NA, iMag, and Evo went on to defeat SoF, SoL and TIE quite convincingly.

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 34,107
| 264
| 129
| $301M
|-
| NA
| 14,665
| 506
| 29
| $2B
|-
| iMag
| 8,973
| 249
| 36
| $32M
|-
| Evo
| 5,248
| 375
| 14
| $1B
|-
| DK
| 3,157
| 287
| 11
| $87M
|-
! TOTAL
! 66,150
! 302
! 219
! $3.5B
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoL
| 29,017
| 299
| 97
| $15M
|-
| SoF
| 7,804
| 355
| 22
| $4M
|-
| TIE
| 7,463
| 267
| 28
| $5M
|-
! TOTAL
! 44,284
! 301
! 147
! $41M
|}
----

=== Third Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 3rd - Jun 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Third Round of the Alliance Server}}
After two consecutive wars in the new game, it was looking as though Collab was going to become a predominantly war alliance. However, they seemed to have worked out their issues with the other alliances, or at least cooled down the fire temporarily. Despite this, Collab still started off the set as though they were preparing for war. They ran mostly war strats to begin the reset, as they did not want to be unprepared for war if it somehow found them again. After a few weeks into the set, Collab was able to determine that they would be able to net peacefully and went into full blown netting mode. This was at the cost of their allies as [[Evo]] and [[DK]] were both at the receiving end of a crippling FS by [[SoL]] as payback for coming to Collab's aid the previous reset, despite SoL creating the [[gangbang]] to begin with.

Despite the war prepping start, Collab was still able to put a country into the top 10 as [[Charles]] finished 6th overall [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/83]. As an Alliance, Collab finished 3rd in Total Neworth and 5th in Average Networth, finishing behind the 4th place Alliance, [[EEVIL]], by less than $2M NW despite having more than double their membership [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/83].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $52,468,343 (5th)
| 18,216 Acres (9th)
| $2,833,290,541 (3rd)
| 983,684 Acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[Charles]]
| Charles (#377)
| $136,856,086
| 6
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| she was like no sex axa (#112)
| $105,869,321
| 21
|-
| [[Slayer]]
| Dark Syndicate (#9)
| $104,820,997
| 22
|}
----

=== Fourth Round of the Alliance Server: Jun 3rd - Aug 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fourth Round of the Alliance Server}}
In Collab's fourth reset on the new server, they were determined to prove their netting prowess as they have proved themselves in war early on in the new game. They planned to netgain from the beginning, although there were some roadblocks in the way once again this reset. [[Paradigm]] (PDM), had an issue with Collab's landgrabbing, which turned into a minor war. With land on the server becoming more scarce, Collab became more aggressive and farmed PDM one too many times for their liking, which resulted in a conflict between Collab and PDM. The war was over in less than a week, allowing Collab to continue netgaining as they had planned.

Despite the interruption in their netting, they were still able to achieve a positive finish. They finished 3rd in Total Networth once again, but this time taking 4th place in Average Networth [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/104]. Collab had two top 10 finishers in this set, with [[ley]] finishing at 7th and [[LD]] finishing at 8th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/104].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 14,709
| 409
| 36
| $2B
|-
| PDM
| 3,910
| 1,955
| 2
| $9M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $48,925,454 (4th)
| 24,473 acres (4th)
| $2,005,943,626 (3rd)
| 1,003,392 acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| rLey (#146)
| $153,802,881
| 7
|-
| [[LD]]
| thomas has a spud n his bud (#165)
| $152,769,200
| 8
|}
----

=== Fifth Round of the Alliance Server: Aug 4th - Oct 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fifth Round of the Alliance Server}}
This reset marked Sanctuary's 50th Anniversary. And with that, it saw two co-founders return in [[Bishop X]] and [[Phatjab]], although their returns were unfortunately temporary. Many expected Collab/Sanct to war for their 50th set, like many others do. However, it quickly turned into an odd reset as many of the potential war partners were unavailable. [[SoL]] surprised most of the server when they [[FS'd]] [[LaF]] (and later on surprised just as many when they actually won). An even more surprising outcome was when [[ICN]] FS'd [[SoF]]. SoF was on their heals, backed up against a wall by ICN in what was truly likely to be a shocking victory. However, SoF called in [[iMag]] which quickly turned the tide and put an end to ICN's effort. [[EEVIL]] was also at war with [[The Fist]] (The Fist also warred [[PDM]] at one point) and [[Elysium]] was mustering what they could against LaF.

With all of these wars going on, it really only left Collab with a couple of options: FS [[NA]], an alliance that they have had strong ties to for a long time, FS [[RAGE]], which wouldn't be much of a challenge considering the numbers difference and would have hurt the game more than it helped, or FS a group of alliances. Collab went with the latter choice and FSed SoF, iMag and EEVIL at the same time. EEVIL received their FS because Collab had countries jump tag to EEVIL and war Fist. The reps were too much so Collab decided it was just easier to get Fist's back instead. SoF received a FS for two reasons: firstly, they broke a uNAP with Collab a couple of resets ago when Collab FSed SoL, and secondly, they got beat by an alliance that everybody considered to be inferior and instead of taking those lumps and dealing with it, they called in for the [[gangbang]] by asking iMag for help. And iMag received a FS because, well, they liked to war, were bored after ICN was [[tagkilled]], and Collab wanted to make their war interesting, so it appeared to be a win:win for everybody.

Things quickly soured, however, as within minutes of Collab's FS, iMag contacted [[AxA]] and requested a [[ceasefire]], as they made it clear Collab was ruining their chances to make war with PDM. AxA granted the [[CF]] and Collab's FS went on without iMag targets (the FS list consisted of 90% iMag countries so it quickly ran dry). Three days after the ceasefire, iMag FSed Collab along WITH PDM. After stating they were going to FS PDM, apparently AxA's thoughts on that inspired PDM to FS Collab. Basically, AxA was cool with the idea which is all it took for Detmer to declare war on Collab. When it was all said and done, Collab was fighting four tags simultaneously in SoF, iMag, PDM, and EEVIL. After EEVIL's top countries were killed, The Fist were able to handle their war, allowing Collab to focus on the other three tags. ICN continued to war SoF and iMag but because they were tagkilled, they were only able to finish off the targets after Collab broke them down.

What may have been considered a lost war was actually a victory as Collab took on four tags with over two times as many countries and did not call in any allies, a practice that seems to have been abandoned long ago. SoF and iMag were tagkilled while PDM were left with a decent amount of countries left, since they were the last ones targeted. Surprisingly, Collab survived throughout the set and were not tagkilled, despite organized chats between SoF/iMag/PDM. In the first ever editions of Earth Empires Awards, Collab took home the award for Best War [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 20,136
| 268
| 75
| $53M
|-
| ICN
| 12,493
| 367
| 34
| $20M
|-
| Fist
| 5,770
| 339
| 17
| $121M
|-
! TOTAL
! 38,399
! 305
! 126
! $194M
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoF
| 21,181
| 331
| 64
| $148M
|-
| iMag
| 16,172
| 359
| 45
| $43M
|-
| PDM
| 10,640
| 426
| 25
| $118M
|-
| EEVIL
| 3,697
| 411
| 9
| $550K
|-
! TOTAL
! 51,690
! 361
! 143
! $305M
|}
----

=== Sixth Round of the Alliance Server: Oct 5th - Dec 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 6}}
In the sixth set of Earth Empires, Collab once again set out to netgain. That proved to be difficult though as there were rumors spreading that two different alliances had planned to FS Collab. When both went to war, Collab was finally off Red Alert, after saving turns and blowing stock on War Techs and increased Military. However, one of the Alliance's remained a threat throughout the set due to an early ending to their war which left them bored. Collab spent 6 of the 8 weeks flip flopping back-and-forth between Red and Yellow Alert.

When the round had finally ended it wasn't to their benefit due to the interuptions they had throughout the set. They had hoped to prove what they could do when it came to netgaining. Unfortunately this was not their set and immediately set their sights on the following set. Despite the difficulties trying to avoid a war during a netting set, two of Collab's best ever netgainers managed great finishes. ley finished #6 for his second top 10 finish in EE while trep finished 14th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/143]. Both were crowned Elite by Collab for their excellent play. As far as netting as a whole, Collab set a personal best for average NW with $78,281,594, finishing 4th behind [[Evo]], [[Omega]] and [[Monsters]], as expected, and were also able to finish 2nd amongst all clans in average land with 24,657 acres [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtags/143].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
! Members
|-
| $78,281,594 (4th)
| 24,657 acres (2nd)
| $2,505,011,016 (4th)
| 789,025 acres (5th)
| 32 (7th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| Boobies (#127)
| $180,223,266
| 6
|-
| [[Trep]]
| untz untz untz (#503)
| $150,818,255
| 14
|}

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=== Seventh Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 4th - Feb 2nd, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 7}}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $79,549,043 (5th)
| $3,181,961,719 (5th)
| 40 (5th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[ley]]
| Thomas The Tank Engine (#106)
| $198,804,130
| 8
| 81,496
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Thomas loves pooper sex by kemo (#20)
| $137,889,793
| 36
| 38,003
|}

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=== Eighth Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 3rd - Apr 5th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 8}}

Collaboration, [[Monsters]], and [[Evolution]] VS [[SoF]].

====War Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Attacks
! Civs
! Defends (on a single country)
! Restarts
|-
| [[kemo]]
| '''1173'''
| 509,090
| 89
| 0
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| '''993'''
| 272,466
| 210
| 3
|-
| [[ley]]
| '''972'''
| '''647,648'''
| 468
| 1
|-
| [[herbs]]
| 936
| '''1,025,944'''
| 84
| 0
|-
| [[xaos]]
| 764
| '''737,514'''
| 38
| 0
|-
| [[Tross]]
| 477
| 63,072
| '''613'''
| 3
|-
| [[wharfed]]
| 449
| 66,242
| 239
| '''5'''
|}

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=== Ninth Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 6th - Jun 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 9}} 
President: [[Axa]] 
VPs: [[Thomas]], [[fudgepuppy]] 
Goal: Netting 
This reset saw the (re)introduction of Divisions to the clan, in an effort to generate some healthy competition among the members. With this came the promotion of several Vets to ADL, as well as [[Herbs]] to DL. Other DL positions were taken by leaders. There were a few new members playing, countering several veterans that were MIA/inactive, which, unfortunately, included our two top netters, [[ley]] and [[trep]]. 
Throughout the set, we were able to remain high on the avg land list, with a few countries (mostly Thomas') moving in and out of the top 10 land on the server. Unfortunately, Thomas' chances for a good finish were dashed later in the reset, and his country was offered up as free land. A few other members had become inactive during the reset, so their countries were also offered up for the rest. This brought the membership down to the finishing number of 36. 
By the end of the set, stockpiles were a bit low but respectable, and most were destocking as theo. During destocking, we were able to stay close to Omega in terms of NWs, but their stockpiles stretched longer so we ended up falling short by 9mil ANW. Pulling out our top ANW so far, it was a great effort by all. Divisions were definitely successful, with Herbs' group pulling out the win at 100mil ANW. Special mention goes to Raf for an excellent finish at rank 16, Herbs at rank 24, and CK at rank 40 with an all-explore (0 attacks) country.

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $86,346,214 (5th)
| $3,108,463,717 (5th)
| 36 (8th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[Raf]]
| The Forsaken Rise Again (#372)
| $159,435,387
| 16
| 26,493
|-
| [[Herbs]]
| Braves suck (#336)
| $152,788,408
| 24
| 22,570
|-
| [[CyberKid]]
| Imperialism (#418)
| $125,513,237
| 40
| 20,724 (All-Explore)
|}

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== Leadership ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Position
! MSN
! ICQ
|-
| [[AxA]]
| President
| thesympathetic1@hotmail.com
| 167324517
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Vice President
| tcollins1984@live.com
| 391657461
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| Vice President
| fudgepuppy@gmail.com
| 123820211
|}

For a list of current and former Collaboration members, see the [[:Category:Collaboration Members| category of Collaboration members]].

== External Links ==

* [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Home Page]

* [http://hosting.boxcarhosting.net:443/Boxcar/public/application.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Application Center]

* [http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/CyberKid Current Adviser Collaboration]

[[Category:Netgaining Alliances]]
[[Category:Warring Alliances]]

Collaboration

2011-06-14T04:55:03Z

Dustfp: /* Ninth Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 4th - Feb 2nd, 2011 */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:Collab.jpg]]
| founders = [[AxA]], MeanKai
| founded = Long, long ago
| origins = Merger of [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]]
| anw = $78,281,594 - Oct-Dec '10
| tnw = $2,833,290,541 - Apr-Jun '10
| num_members = 41
| mission = To kick ass and have fun doing it!
| focus = We rock at both netting and warring!
| president = [[AxA]]
| vps = [[Thomas]] & [[fudgepuppy]]
| fas = [[hardy]], [[LD]]
| hia = [[fudgepuppy]]
| hwar = [[Thomas]]
| war = [[Joe]], [[Nole]]
| homepage = [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collab on Boxcar]
| irc = [http://wbeuk.mibbit.com/?settings=4093769ba51860f84e5e0fa3af98f7df&server=webirc.gamesurge.net%3A6007&channel=%23Collaboration irc.gamesurge.net #Collaboration]
| awards = Best War [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508]
}}

[[Category:Alliances]]
[[Category:Alliances on the Alliance Server]]

Collaboration is an original [[Earth Empires]] [[Alliance (in-game)|alliance]] which was created from a merger of several [[Earth: 2025]] alliances, notably [[Sanctuary]] and [[The Cult]]. 

In its current form it is run by some of the most knowledgeable and active leaders in the game. Collaboration is a collection of people from all walks of life and is social networking at it's best. When they aren't kicking ass in the game, they're keeping themselves entertained while they wait to kick more ass. 

They are built on the principle that their own family comes first: If someone messes with one of them, they're messing with the entire alliance. They also stay true to their friends and are willing to throw away their plans and hard work at the drop of a dime to assist a friend in need. 

They have proven themselves in times of war and in times of peace and are regarded as one of (if not the best) balanced alliance in the game. If you are interested in seeing what Collaboration is all about, please check out their website [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab] or chat with one of their leaders. 

==History==
[[Sanctuary]] made the transition from the [[1a]] server to the [[Alliance Server]] at the twilight of [[Earth: 2025]]'s existence. The alliance took on a name change during this move, renaming themselves [[Collaboration]], also known as Collab. The name speaks for itself as the alliance was compiled of a large percentage of members from several different alliances (mainly [[Sanctuary]], [[Outkast]], and [[The Cult]]). This newly formed but historically rooted alliance does not fit into a single category. They are neither strictly Netters or strictly Warrers. Collab prefers to remain a balanced alliance and have proven that they are excellent at both. When [[Earth 2025]] shut it's doors, Collaboration made the move to the new version of the game, [[Earth Empires]].

==Earth Empires==

=== First Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 13th - Jan 30th, 2010 ===
{{Main|First Round of the Alliance Server}}
With the transition from one game to another becoming a little chaotic, the plans were for Collab to netgain in the first ever reset of the new game. Most alliances seemed to agree that with the new game came a clean slate, where everybody was starting from scratch. As such, there were few conflicts with other alliances that would lead Collab to believe they would end up in war. With about a week before the end of the reset, Collab was planning on an excellent finish clan-wide when they were FS'd by [[Sons of Liberty]] (SoL). Collab was not prepared for war whatsoever. In fact, they had no war techs, small amounts of military and were not running proper war governements. SoL's reasoning for the FS was retribution for Collab hitting SoL in a previous reset in Earth: 2025.

Regardless of the reasons, SoL came away with a victory, although the war was much closer than many thought it should have been, with Collab gaining more respect from the war than SoL, even though they were the victors. On a special note, news of the FS was apparently slipped a few hours early and caught up with [[AxA]]. In a tricky move, AxA had [[trep]] tag up with [[La Cosa Nostra]], LCN, before SoL's FS. With one minute left in the set, trep re-tagged Collab, giving Collab the #1 overall NW country in Earth Empires' first ever reset [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/35].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 10,539
| 422
| 25
| $196M
|-
| SoL
| 14,534
| 309
| 47
| $348M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[trep]]
| whats this here (#405)
| $105,393,012
| 1
|}
----

=== Second Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 1st - Apr 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Second Round of the Alliance Server}}
In the second ever round of EE, it was pretty clear that Collab was coming out of the gates with the intentions of hitting [[SoL]]. In fact, it seemed as though SoL was prepared for it as well. When Collab FS'd SoL, not only did SoL have war prepped countries (which was expected from a war alliance) but they were also saving a large amount of turns throughout the alliance. Most of their countries had at least 70 turns on hand when Collab FS'd them. However, despite SoL's preparation, turn saving and country advantage, Collab's FS was too much to handle and the war was one sided very quickly. In fact, Collab managed to kill 20 SoL countries in the FS.

This set off a chain reaction as SoL attempted to gain the upperhand in this war. Their close friends in [[Survival of the Fittest]] (SoF), broke a [[uNAP]], with Collab by creating an alternate tag, [[Natural Selection]], and immediately FS'd Collab. SoF had come to Collab earlier in the reset asking for the uNAP, which Collab had granted them. SoF's president, [[Ivan]], fabricated a story that there was internal strife within SoF and half the alliance split to create the Natural Selection tag. That proved to be false in later resets, as was expected. Also included in this effort was [[The Infernal Elite]] (TIE).

With Collab now facing 3 separate alliances and severely outnumbered, they were forced to call in the aid of their close friends. The [[Death Knights]] (DK) were the first to come to their aid, even though they were not a defensive pact and were low in membership, and were eager to come to Collab's aid. Collab also called in [[Netters Anonymous]] (NA), [[Imaginary Numbers]] (iMag) and [[Evolution]] (Evo). While this was certainly overkill, Collab felt it was necessary to prove a point that they will not tolerate a [[gangbang]], and that they will fight fire with fire. Collab, DK, NA, iMag, and Evo went on to defeat SoF, SoL and TIE quite convincingly.

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 34,107
| 264
| 129
| $301M
|-
| NA
| 14,665
| 506
| 29
| $2B
|-
| iMag
| 8,973
| 249
| 36
| $32M
|-
| Evo
| 5,248
| 375
| 14
| $1B
|-
| DK
| 3,157
| 287
| 11
| $87M
|-
! TOTAL
! 66,150
! 302
! 219
! $3.5B
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoL
| 29,017
| 299
| 97
| $15M
|-
| SoF
| 7,804
| 355
| 22
| $4M
|-
| TIE
| 7,463
| 267
| 28
| $5M
|-
! TOTAL
! 44,284
! 301
! 147
! $41M
|}
----

=== Third Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 3rd - Jun 2nd, 2010===
{{Main|Third Round of the Alliance Server}}
After two consecutive wars in the new game, it was looking as though Collab was going to become a predominantly war alliance. However, they seemed to have worked out their issues with the other alliances, or at least cooled down the fire temporarily. Despite this, Collab still started off the set as though they were preparing for war. They ran mostly war strats to begin the reset, as they did not want to be unprepared for war if it somehow found them again. After a few weeks into the set, Collab was able to determine that they would be able to net peacefully and went into full blown netting mode. This was at the cost of their allies as [[Evo]] and [[DK]] were both at the receiving end of a crippling FS by [[SoL]] as payback for coming to Collab's aid the previous reset, despite SoL creating the [[gangbang]] to begin with.

Despite the war prepping start, Collab was still able to put a country into the top 10 as [[Charles]] finished 6th overall [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/83]. As an Alliance, Collab finished 3rd in Total Neworth and 5th in Average Networth, finishing behind the 4th place Alliance, [[EEVIL]], by less than $2M NW despite having more than double their membership [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/83].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $52,468,343 (5th)
| 18,216 Acres (9th)
| $2,833,290,541 (3rd)
| 983,684 Acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[Charles]]
| Charles (#377)
| $136,856,086
| 6
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| she was like no sex axa (#112)
| $105,869,321
| 21
|-
| [[Slayer]]
| Dark Syndicate (#9)
| $104,820,997
| 22
|}
----

=== Fourth Round of the Alliance Server: Jun 3rd - Aug 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fourth Round of the Alliance Server}}
In Collab's fourth reset on the new server, they were determined to prove their netting prowess as they have proved themselves in war early on in the new game. They planned to netgain from the beginning, although there were some roadblocks in the way once again this reset. [[Paradigm]] (PDM), had an issue with Collab's landgrabbing, which turned into a minor war. With land on the server becoming more scarce, Collab became more aggressive and farmed PDM one too many times for their liking, which resulted in a conflict between Collab and PDM. The war was over in less than a week, allowing Collab to continue netgaining as they had planned.

Despite the interruption in their netting, they were still able to achieve a positive finish. They finished 3rd in Total Networth once again, but this time taking 4th place in Average Networth [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtoptentags/104]. Collab had two top 10 finishers in this set, with [[ley]] finishing at 7th and [[LD]] finishing at 8th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/104].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 14,709
| 409
| 36
| $2B
|-
| PDM
| 3,910
| 1,955
| 2
| $9M
|}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
|-
| $48,925,454 (4th)
| 24,473 acres (4th)
| $2,005,943,626 (3rd)
| 1,003,392 acres (3rd)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| rLey (#146)
| $153,802,881
| 7
|-
| [[LD]]
| thomas has a spud n his bud (#165)
| $152,769,200
| 8
|}
----

=== Fifth Round of the Alliance Server: Aug 4th - Oct 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Fifth Round of the Alliance Server}}
This reset marked Sanctuary's 50th Anniversary. And with that, it saw two co-founders return in [[Bishop X]] and [[Phatjab]], although their returns were unfortunately temporary. Many expected Collab/Sanct to war for their 50th set, like many others do. However, it quickly turned into an odd reset as many of the potential war partners were unavailable. [[SoL]] surprised most of the server when they [[FS'd]] [[LaF]] (and later on surprised just as many when they actually won). An even more surprising outcome was when [[ICN]] FS'd [[SoF]]. SoF was on their heals, backed up against a wall by ICN in what was truly likely to be a shocking victory. However, SoF called in [[iMag]] which quickly turned the tide and put an end to ICN's effort. [[EEVIL]] was also at war with [[The Fist]] (The Fist also warred [[PDM]] at one point) and [[Elysium]] was mustering what they could against LaF.

With all of these wars going on, it really only left Collab with a couple of options: FS [[NA]], an alliance that they have had strong ties to for a long time, FS [[RAGE]], which wouldn't be much of a challenge considering the numbers difference and would have hurt the game more than it helped, or FS a group of alliances. Collab went with the latter choice and FSed SoF, iMag and EEVIL at the same time. EEVIL received their FS because Collab had countries jump tag to EEVIL and war Fist. The reps were too much so Collab decided it was just easier to get Fist's back instead. SoF received a FS for two reasons: firstly, they broke a uNAP with Collab a couple of resets ago when Collab FSed SoL, and secondly, they got beat by an alliance that everybody considered to be inferior and instead of taking those lumps and dealing with it, they called in for the [[gangbang]] by asking iMag for help. And iMag received a FS because, well, they liked to war, were bored after ICN was [[tagkilled]], and Collab wanted to make their war interesting, so it appeared to be a win:win for everybody.

Things quickly soured, however, as within minutes of Collab's FS, iMag contacted [[AxA]] and requested a [[ceasefire]], as they made it clear Collab was ruining their chances to make war with PDM. AxA granted the [[CF]] and Collab's FS went on without iMag targets (the FS list consisted of 90% iMag countries so it quickly ran dry). Three days after the ceasefire, iMag FSed Collab along WITH PDM. After stating they were going to FS PDM, apparently AxA's thoughts on that inspired PDM to FS Collab. Basically, AxA was cool with the idea which is all it took for Detmer to declare war on Collab. When it was all said and done, Collab was fighting four tags simultaneously in SoF, iMag, PDM, and EEVIL. After EEVIL's top countries were killed, The Fist were able to handle their war, allowing Collab to focus on the other three tags. ICN continued to war SoF and iMag but because they were tagkilled, they were only able to finish off the targets after Collab broke them down.

What may have been considered a lost war was actually a victory as Collab took on four tags with over two times as many countries and did not call in any allies, a practice that seems to have been abandoned long ago. SoF and iMag were tagkilled while PDM were left with a decent amount of countries left, since they were the last ones targeted. Surprisingly, Collab survived throughout the set and were not tagkilled, despite organized chats between SoF/iMag/PDM. In the first ever editions of Earth Empires Awards, Collab took home the award for Best War [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=4508].

====War Stats====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| Collab
| 20,136
| 268
| 75
| $53M
|-
| ICN
| 12,493
| 367
| 34
| $20M
|-
| Fist
| 5,770
| 339
| 17
| $121M
|-
! TOTAL
! 38,399
! 305
! 126
! $194M
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Alliance
! Attacks
! HPK
! Kills
! TNW
|-
| SoF
| 21,181
| 331
| 64
| $148M
|-
| iMag
| 16,172
| 359
| 45
| $43M
|-
| PDM
| 10,640
| 426
| 25
| $118M
|-
| EEVIL
| 3,697
| 411
| 9
| $550K
|-
! TOTAL
! 51,690
! 361
! 143
! $305M
|}
----

=== Sixth Round of the Alliance Server: Oct 5th - Dec 3rd, 2010===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 6}}
In the sixth set of Earth Empires, Collab once again set out to netgain. That proved to be difficult though as there were rumors spreading that two different alliances had planned to FS Collab. When both went to war, Collab was finally off Red Alert, after saving turns and blowing stock on War Techs and increased Military. However, one of the Alliance's remained a threat throughout the set due to an early ending to their war which left them bored. Collab spent 6 of the 8 weeks flip flopping back-and-forth between Red and Yellow Alert.

When the round had finally ended it wasn't to their benefit due to the interuptions they had throughout the set. They had hoped to prove what they could do when it came to netgaining. Unfortunately this was not their set and immediately set their sights on the following set. Despite the difficulties trying to avoid a war during a netting set, two of Collab's best ever netgainers managed great finishes. ley finished #6 for his second top 10 finish in EE while trep finished 14th [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldranks/143]. Both were crowned Elite by Collab for their excellent play. As far as netting as a whole, Collab set a personal best for average NW with $78,281,594, finishing 4th behind [[Evo]], [[Omega]] and [[Monsters]], as expected, and were also able to finish 2nd amongst all clans in average land with 24,657 acres [http://www.eestats.com/alliance/oldtags/143].

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Average Land
! Total NW
! Total Land
! Members
|-
| $78,281,594 (4th)
| 24,657 acres (2nd)
| $2,505,011,016 (4th)
| 789,025 acres (5th)
| 32 (7th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
|-
| [[ley]]
| Boobies (#127)
| $180,223,266
| 6
|-
| [[Trep]]
| untz untz untz (#503)
| $150,818,255
| 14
|}

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=== Seventh Round of the Alliance Server: Dec 4th - Feb 2nd, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 7}}

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $79,549,043 (5th)
| $3,181,961,719 (5th)
| 40 (5th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[ley]]
| Thomas The Tank Engine (#106)
| $198,804,130
| 8
| 81,496
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Thomas loves pooper sex by kemo (#20)
| $137,889,793
| 36
| 38,003
|}

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=== Eighth Round of the Alliance Server: Feb 3rd - Apr 5th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 8}}

Collaboration, [[Monsters]], and [[Evolution]] VS [[SoF]].

====War Stats====

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Attacks
! Civs
! Defends (on a single country)
! Restarts
|-
| [[kemo]]
| '''1173'''
| 509,090
| 89
| 0
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| '''993'''
| 272,466
| 210
| 3
|-
| [[ley]]
| '''972'''
| '''647,648'''
| 468
| 1
|-
| [[herbs]]
| 936
| '''1,025,944'''
| 84
| 0
|-
| [[xaos]]
| 764
| '''737,514'''
| 38
| 0
|-
| [[Tross]]
| 477
| 63,072
| '''613'''
| 3
|-
| [[wharfed]]
| 449
| 66,242
| 239
| '''5'''
|}

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=== Ninth Round of the Alliance Server: Apr 6th - Jun 4th, 2011===
{{Main|Alliance Server Round 9}} 
President: [[Axa]] 
VPs: [[Thomas]], [[fudgepuppy]] 
Goal: Netting 
This reset saw the (re)introduction of Divisions to the clan, in an effort to generate some healthy competition among the members. With this came the promotion of several Vets to ADL, as well as [[Herbs]] to DL. Other DL positions were taken by leaders. There were a few new members playing, countering several veterans that were MIA/inactive, which, unfortunately, included our two top netters, [[ley]] and [[trep]]. 
Throughout the set, we were able to remain high on the avg land list, with a few countries (mostly Thomas') moving in and out of the top 10 land on the server. Unfortunately, Thomas' chances for a good finish were dashed later in the reset, and his country was offered up as free land. A few other members had become inactive during the reset, so their countries were also offered up for the rest. This brought the membership down to the finishing number of 36. 
By the end of the set, stockpiles were a bit low but respectable, and most were destocking as theo. During destocking, we were able to stay close to Omega in terms of NWs, but their stockpiles stretched longer so we ended up falling short by 9mil ANW. Pulling out our top ANW so far, it was a great effort by all. Divisions were definitely successful, with Herbs' group pulling out the win at 100mil ANW. Special mention goes to Raf for an excellent finish at rank 16, Herbs at rank 24, and CK at rank 40 with an all-explore (0 attacks) country.

====Netting Stats====

=====Group=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Average NW
! Total NW
! Members
|-
| $86,346,214 (5th)
| $3,108,463,717 (5th)
| 36 (8th)
|}

=====Individual=====

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Country
! NW
! Rank
! Land
|-
| [[Raf]]
| The Forsaken Rise Again (#372)
| $159,435,387
| 16
| 26,493
|-
| [[Herbs]]
| Braves suck (#336)
| $152,788,408
| 24
| 22,570
|-
| [[CyberKid]]
| Imperialism (#418)
| $125,513,237
| 40
| 20,724 (All-Explore)
|}

----

== Leadership ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! Position
! MSN
! ICQ
|-
| [[AxA]]
| President
| thesympathetic1@hotmail.com
| 167324517
|-
| [[Thomas]]
| Vice President
| tcollins1984@live.com
| 391657461
|-
| [[fudgepuppy]]
| Vice President
| fudgepuppy@gmail.com
| 123820211
|}

For a list of current and former Collaboration members, see the [[:Category:Collaboration Members| category of Collaboration members]].

== External Links ==

* [http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Home Page]

* [http://hosting.boxcarhosting.net:443/Boxcar/public/application.php?clanID=Collab Collaboration Application Center]

* [http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/CyberKid Current Adviser Collaboration]

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[[Category:Warring Alliances]]

Wharfed

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'''History''' 
- Current ADL for [[Collaboration]].

Xaos

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