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Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:43:16Z

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{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
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|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||[[Slash]]'s last set as President of SOTA. Went out with a bang warring all set.
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|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[NightShade|Kabuki]] took over, merged SOTA into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
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|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
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|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
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|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
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|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
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|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
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|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
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|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
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|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
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|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
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==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

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!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|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]||
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|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''
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|3||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||zSOTAz||27||$33,219,663||$1,230,356||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=3]||
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|4||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||32||$94,087,141||$2,940,223||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=4]||
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|5||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA|| -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||Quit midway through set
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|6|| -- || -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||On hiatus
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|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)
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|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]™||DXoSOTA||32||$330,441,472||$10,326,296||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=8]||
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]|| -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=9]||[[NightShade]]'s last set leading SOTA, [[Slash]] returns to SOTA, [[NightShade]] forms '''EXILE'''
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Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:41:50Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:41:31Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
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|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||[[Slash]]'s last set as President of SOTA. Went out with a bang by warring all set.
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|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[NightShade|Kabuki]] took over, merged SOTA into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
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|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
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|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
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|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
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|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
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|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|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]||
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|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
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|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||$10,326,296||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=8]||
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]|| -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=9]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:41:06Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set. [[Slash]]'s last set as President of SOTA. Went out with a bang by warring POTOMAC.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[NightShade|Kabuki]] took over, merged SOTA into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

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|-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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:40:06Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[NightShade|Kabuki]] took over, merged SOTA into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:39:28Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[NightShade|Kabuki]] took over, SOTA merged into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:39:12Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[Kabuki|NightShade]] took over, SOTA merged into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:38:58Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||[[Kabuki]] took over, SOTA merged into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:34:43Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||674||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||Merged into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:33:14Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237 (674)||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||~350||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||Merged into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:32:37Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||674||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||Merged into BOD, broke off the merger mid-set.
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:29:48Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~450||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||674||--||--||--||Warred all set.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~60||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||~150||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||~60||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||0||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

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|-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]||
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|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''
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|3||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||zSOTAz||27||$33,219,663||$1,230,356||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=3]||
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|4||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||32||$94,087,141||$2,940,223||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=4]||
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|5||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA|| -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||Quit midway through set
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|6|| -- || -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||On hiatus
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|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)
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|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]™||DXoSOTA||32||$330,441,472||$10,326,296||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=8]||
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]|| -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=9]||
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Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:19:57Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
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|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred all set.
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|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
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|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
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|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
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|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
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|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
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|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
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|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||--||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
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|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
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|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
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|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
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==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|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]||
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|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''
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|3||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||zSOTAz||27||$33,219,663||$1,230,356||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=3]||
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|4||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||32||$94,087,141||$2,940,223||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=4]||
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|5||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA|| -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||Quit midway through set
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|6|| -- || -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=5]||On hiatus
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|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)
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|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]™||DXoSOTA||32||$330,441,472||$10,326,296||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=8]||
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|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]|| -- || -- ||$ -- ||$ -- ||[http://ffa.www.earthempires.com/topclans?ranktype=tnw&reset_num=9]||
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Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:19:22Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|7||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|8||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|9||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|10||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|11||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|12||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|13||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|14||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|15||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|16||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||--||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|17||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|18||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|19||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:18:11Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|Apr 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-Aug 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Sep 2-Nov 16, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|Nov 17, 2001-Jan 19, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|Jan 23-Mar 31, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|Apr 1-June 6, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|June 7- Aug 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|Aug 6-Oct 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|Oct 8-Dec 7, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|Dec 8, 2002-Feb 5, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||--||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|Feb 6-Mar 31, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|Apr 1-June 5, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|June 7-Aug 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||SOTA's last set in existence in Earth: 2025 FFA.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:17:33Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|Apr 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-Aug 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Sep 2-Nov 16, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|Nov 17, 2001-Jan 19, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|Jan 23-Mar 31, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|Apr 1-June 6, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|June 7- Aug 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|Aug 6-Oct 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|Oct 8-Dec 7, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|Dec 8, 2002-Feb 5, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOLDIERS||--||--||--||--||SOTA tag stolen, used SOLDIERS.
|-
|Feb 6-Mar 31, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|Apr 1-June 5, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||On hiatus.
|-
|June 7-Aug 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:05:58Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|Apr 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-Aug 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| Before 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Sep 2-Nov 16, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|Nov 17, 2001-Jan 19, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|Jan 23-Mar 31, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|Apr 1-June 6, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|June 7- Aug 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|Aug 6-Oct 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-Aug 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:05:13Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|Apr 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-Aug 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Sep 2-Nov 16, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|Nov 17, 2001-Jan 19, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|Jan 23-Mar 31, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|Apr 1-June 6, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|June 7- Aug 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition.
|-
|Aug 6-Oct 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-Aug 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:04:53Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|Apr 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-Aug 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Sep 2-Nov 16, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|Nov 17, 2001-Jan 19, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|Jan 23-Mar 31, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|Apr 1-June 6, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|June 7- Aug 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|Aug 6-Oct 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-Aug 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T04:04:23Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|Apr 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-Aug 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Sep 2-Nov 16, 2001||[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTAxWAR||--||--||--||--||Warred alls et.
|-
|Nov 17, 2001-Jan 19, 2002||[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Merged into BOD
|-
|Jan 23-Mar 31, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™ NBK]]||SOTAxNBK||52||$146,129,000||$2,810,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211536/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-012302.html]||Part of NBKxTC as a subclan
|-
|Apr 1-June 6, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||Suicided on by LOTU.
|-
|June 7- Aug 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|Aug 6-Oct 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-Aug 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:52:27Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|April 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-August 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 7- August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6-October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-August 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:52:10Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|April 5-June 19, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™]]||SOTA||--||--||--||SOTA founded April 19
|-
|June 21-August 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 7- August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6-October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-August 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Directory of Alliances

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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.earthempires.com
|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
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Sons of Liberty
|website=http://sol.ghqnet.com
|tag=SOL
|channel=#sol<br />FA: #solfr
|server=irc.scourge.se
|hfa=Praetor
|hfa_icq=263608351
|hfa_msn=msn address
|fa1=Suni
|fa1_icq=609310758
|fa1_msn=mssuni@gmail.com
|other_title=Head of War
|other=Makinso
|other_icq=258475488
|other_msn=msn address
|other_title1=Head IA
|other1=Steeps
|other_icq1=115531431
|other_other1=Please check #solfr to leave a msg
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Survival of the Fittest
|website=
|tag=SOF
|channel=#sof
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=The Infernal Elite
|website=
|tag=TIE
|channel=
|server=
}}

{{alliancebottom}}

==Free For All Server==
{{alliancetop}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Ares
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/application.php?clanID=AresFFA
|tag=Ares
|channel=#Ares
|hfa=JJosh
|hfa_icq=338351478
|hfa_msn=Wiese-Josh@hotmail.com
|p=RLintz
|p_yahoo=RRHavikk@Yahoo.com
|vp1=Rosco
|vp1_msn=n/a
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=EXILE
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=EXILE
|tag=EXILE
|channel=None
|p=NightShade
|p_icq=3233012
|p_msn=ryuko.kotani@gmail.com
|vp1=Seraph
|vp1_icq=1211929
|vp1_msn=victoria.delacroix@live.com
|p_other=Preferred contacts are AIM, ICQ or MSN.
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=FoCuS
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#FoCuS
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=IMP
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#imp
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Mercs
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Mercs
|tag=Mercs
|channel=#mercs
|p=Azz Kikr
|p_icq=26928957
|vp1=Rockman
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Natural Born Killers
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://nbk.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=NBK
|channel=#nbk
|hfa=
|hfa_icq=
|fa1=Dark Demon
|fa1_msn=biker_psycho@hotmail.com
|p=Qm Diver
|p_msn=buddyferu@hotmail.com
|vp1=Gambit
|vp1_msn=taz_rules911@hotmail.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Pandora's Last Vikings
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://panlv.legendsatearth.com
|tag=PANLV
|channel=#panlv
|fa1=Havoc
|fa1_icq = 283309164
|fa1_msn = trent_bos4@hotmail.com
|fa2=BigWiggle
|fa2_other = [http://forums.earthempires.com/Messages.php?sid=815 forum pm]
|p=Juusto
|p_other=Preferred contact methods are IRC and forum messaging.
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Paragon of Duality
|server=irc.scourge.se
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#PoD
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Revolution
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#revolution
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Soldiers Of The Apocalypse
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=http://sota.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=SOTA
|channel=#SOTA
|p=Slash
|p_aim=Slash of SOTA
|p_icq=97150973
|p_msn=neuroticoutsider@live.com
|p_other=Preferred contact methods are AIM, IRC or Private Message
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=The Kings Order
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=TKOwnd
|channel=#tko
|p=Warster
|p_msn=warrelic@hotmail.com
|fa1=KeTcHuP
|fa1_other='''aim:''' KeTcHuPSoS
|fa1_icq=607156264
|fa1_msn=ketchupsdeadsoul@hotmail.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=SemperFi - Honors Seal Team 6
|server=irc.scourge.se
|website=http://semperfi.ghqnet.com
|tag=SemperFi
|channel=#SemperFi
|p=Walding
|p_icq=412023116
|p_msn=Walding_SaR@hotmail.com
|hfa=galleri
|hfa_icq=13096429
|hfa_msn=gallerias@hotmail.com
|p_other=preferably hit galleri up on irc in earthempires room on earthempires server
}}
{{alliancebottom}}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:48:40Z

Slash:

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We '''''DO NOT''''' recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====
*Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
*Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.

Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====
We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

'''If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.'''

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:48:21Z

Slash: /* Retals On Hits Made By Allies */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We '''''DO NOT''''' recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====
*Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
*Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.

Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====
We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

'''If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.'''

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:47:58Z

Slash: /* Policy Introduction */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We '''''DO NOT''''' recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====
*Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
*Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.

Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====
We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:47:41Z

Slash: /* Retals On Hits Made By Allies */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====
*Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
*Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.

Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====
We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:47:27Z

Slash: /* Retal On Retal Attacks */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====
*Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
*Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.

Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:47:09Z

Slash: /* Spy Ops & Missiles */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:46:57Z

Slash: /* GS/BR/AB Attacks */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====
*1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
*3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:46:43Z

Slash: /* Retal Method */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====
*1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
*2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
*Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:46:24Z

Slash: /* Retal Window */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
*24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
*48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
*72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====

1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:46:07Z

Slash: /* Retal Window */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====
24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====

1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:45:52Z

Slash: /* Policy Introduction */

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====

24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====

1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:45:23Z

Slash:

===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

====Policy Introduction====
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

====Retal Window====

24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

====Retal Method====

1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====GS/BR/AB Attacks====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Spy Ops & Missiles====

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

====Retal On Retal Attacks====

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

====Retals On Hits Made By Allies====

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse Retal Policy

2011-07-10T03:44:19Z

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===S.O.T.A. Retal Policy===

Policy Introduction:
Our retal policy illustrates what should be done in the event that you are hit. We DO NOT recognize land:land retals as a valid method for retals, for any reason. Furthermore, we will not recognize any other alliance's retal policy regarding land:land retals.

Retal Window

24 Hours for untagged countries that tagged up after being grabbed.
48 Hours for all single grabs made by tagged countries.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same country by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if there are 2 or more grabs made on the same tag by the same country within 48 hours.
72 Hours if the attacking country is 3 deep into Diminished Returns for at least 24 Hours of the original 48 Hour window.

Retal Method

1:1 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:1 SS/PS for second hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
3:1 SS/PS for third hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
4:1 SS/PS for fourth hit on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 5+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

GS/BR/AB Attacks

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

Spy Ops & Missiles

1:3 SS/PS for first hit inside of 48 hours.
2:5 SS/PS for second hit inside of 48 hours.
3:7 SS/PS for third hit inside of 48 hours.
Farming and/or Death for 4+ hits on same country by same country inside of 48 hours.

Retal On Retal Attacks

Any country that has made a retal cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Any country that landgrabbed us and was retalled cannot be landgrabbed for 48 hours.
Otherwise the landgrabs will be viewed as over-retalling and will be retalled according to standard escalating policies of 2:1, 3:2 etc.

Retals On Hits Made By Allies

We must follow the terms of the pacts. Nothing should be authorized without checking the pact and/or contacting the alliance's FAs.

If the alliance that landgrabbed us has a Retal Policy that benefits us more than our policy does, we will retal according to their policy 100% of the time.

Directory of Alliances

2011-07-10T03:43:36Z

Slash: /* Free For All 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.earthempires.com
|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
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Sons of Liberty
|website=http://sol.ghqnet.com
|tag=SOL
|channel=#sol<br />FA: #solfr
|server=irc.scourge.se
|hfa=Praetor
|hfa_icq=263608351
|hfa_msn=msn address
|fa1=Suni
|fa1_icq=609310758
|fa1_msn=mssuni@gmail.com
|other_title=Head of War
|other=Makinso
|other_icq=258475488
|other_msn=msn address
|other_title1=Head IA
|other1=Steeps
|other_icq1=115531431
|other_other1=Please check #solfr to leave a msg
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Survival of the Fittest
|website=
|tag=SOF
|channel=#sof
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=The Infernal Elite
|website=
|tag=TIE
|channel=
|server=
}}

{{alliancebottom}}

==Free For All Server==
{{alliancetop}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Ares
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/application.php?clanID=AresFFA
|tag=Ares
|channel=#Ares
|hfa=JJosh
|hfa_icq=338351478
|hfa_msn=Wiese-Josh@hotmail.com
|p=RLintz
|p_yahoo=RRHavikk@Yahoo.com
|vp1=Rosco
|vp1_msn=n/a
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=EXILE
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=None
|tag=EXILE
|channel=None
|p=NightShade
|p_icq=3233012
|p_msn=ryuko.kotani@gmail.com
|vp1=Seraph
|vp1_icq=1211929
|vp1_msn=victoria.delacroix@live.com
|p_other=Preferred contacts are AIM, ICQ or MSN.
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=FoCuS
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#FoCuS
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=IMP
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#imp
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Mercs
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com/public/alliancestart.php?clanID=Mercs
|tag=Mercs
|channel=#mercs
|p=Azz Kikr
|p_icq=26928957
|vp1=Rockman
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Natural Born Killers
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://nbk.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=NBK
|channel=#nbk
|hfa=
|hfa_icq=
|fa1=Dark Demon
|fa1_msn=biker_psycho@hotmail.com
|p=Qm Diver
|p_msn=buddyferu@hotmail.com
|vp1=Gambit
|vp1_msn=taz_rules911@hotmail.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Pandora's Last Vikings
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://panlv.legendsatearth.com
|tag=PANLV
|channel=#panlv
|fa1=Havoc
|fa1_icq = 283309164
|fa1_msn = trent_bos4@hotmail.com
|fa2=BigWiggle
|fa2_other = [http://forums.earthempires.com/Messages.php?sid=815 forum pm]
|p=Juusto
|p_other=Preferred contact methods are IRC and forum messaging.
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Paragon of Duality
|server=irc.scourge.se
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#PoD
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Revolution
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#revolution
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=Soldiers Of The Apocalypse
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=http://sota.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=SOTA
|channel=#SOTA
|p=Slash
|p_aim=Slash of SOTA
|p_icq=97150973
|p_msn=neuroticoutsider@live.com
|p_other=Preferred contact methods are AIM, IRC or Private Message
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=The Kings Order
|server=irc.earthempires.com
|website=http://www.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=TKOwnd
|channel=#tko
|p=Warster
|p_msn=warrelic@hotmail.com
|fa1=KeTcHuP
|fa1_other='''aim:''' KeTcHuPSoS
|fa1_icq=607156264
|fa1_msn=ketchupsdeadsoul@hotmail.com
}}
{{alliancelist
|name=SemperFi - Honors Seal Team 6
|server=irc.scourge.se
|website=http://semperfi.ghqnet.com
|tag=SemperFi
|channel=#SemperFi
|p=Walding
|p_icq=412023116
|p_msn=Walding_SaR@hotmail.com
|hfa=galleri
|hfa_icq=13096429
|hfa_msn=gallerias@hotmail.com
|p_other=preferably hit galleri up on irc in earthempires room on earthempires server
}}
{{alliancebottom}}

Directory of Alliances

2011-07-10T03:43:04Z

Slash: /* Free For All 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
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{{alliancelist
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{{alliancelist
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{{alliancelist
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{{alliancelist
|name=Paradigm
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|name=RAGE
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{{alliancelist
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{{alliancelist
|name=Sanctuary
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|tag=SancT
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{{alliancelist
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{{alliancelist
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|channel=#sof
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|website=
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{{alliancebottom}}

==Free For All Server==
{{alliancetop}}
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|p_other=Preferred contacts are AIM, ICQ or MSN.
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{{alliancelist
|name=FoCuS
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|website=
|tag=
|channel=#FoCuS
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{{alliancelist
|name=IMP
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|website=
|tag=
|channel=#imp
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{{alliancelist
|name=Mercs
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{{alliancelist
|name=Natural Born Killers
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=http://nbk.boxcarhosting.com
|tag=NBK
|channel=#nbk
|hfa=
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|p_msn=buddyferu@hotmail.com
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|vp1_msn=taz_rules911@hotmail.com
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{{alliancelist
|name=Pandora's Last Vikings
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|name=Paragon of Duality
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|website=
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|channel=#PoD
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{{alliancelist
|name=Revolution
|server=irc.gamesurge.net
|website=
|tag=
|channel=#revolution
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{{alliancelist
|name=The Kings Order
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|name=SemperFi - Honors Seal Team 6
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{{alliancebottom}}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:18:53Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|June 21-August 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 7- August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6-October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|June 7-August 15, 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:16:14Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|June 21-August 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 7- August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6-October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||94||$157,782,000||$1,678,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20021006101853/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:10:35Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|June 21-August 31, 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 7- August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6-October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:08:34Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 7- August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6-October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:08:03Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|Jun 7, 2002 - August 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 6, 2002 - October 5, 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:07:07Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|08.06.2002 - 10.05.2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|08.06.2002 - 10.05.2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:06:24Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|08.06.2002 - 10.05.2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:03:40Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|-
|June 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:03:21Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| One month previous to the 302, NORDEN, AEU, SPxSWE, and 1UNITED gangbang.
|June 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T03:00:16Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| warred IMP and lost.
|-
|June 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T02:59:54Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: 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
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| warred IMP and lost.
|-
|June 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS (United We Stand) Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==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]||
|}

Soldiers Of The Apocalypse

2011-07-10T02:59:25Z

Slash: /* Earth 2025: Free For All Records */

{{infobox alliance
| image = [[File:SOTA11.gif|300px]]
| founders = [[NightShade|Kabuki]], [[Slash]] and Tempest
| founded = April 19, 2001
| origins = Earth: 2025 Free For All
| tag = SOTA, SOTAxWAR, SOLDIERS, SOTA1, xSOTAx, zSOTAz
| anw = $17,944,439
| tnw = $1,184,332,988
| num_members = ~6
| mission = Netgaining/War.
| focus = Maintaining a presence in the Top 10, WAR.
| president = [[Slash]]
| vps = Vacant
| vps = Vacant
| hfa = Vacant
| fas =
| hia =
| ias =
| hwar =
| war =
| trainers = Vacant
| 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 his 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, his later took as many members as he could and merged the alliance into SworDxTC, among them a player formerly known as [[NightShade|Kabuki]]. Around seven months later in March of 2001, Unforgiven (known by Slash at that time) left SworDxTC to join the Dragons of Light. Upon his arrival his 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 the leadership of [[Dragons & United Earth Leaders]] for going over their heads and negotiating pacts without their authorization. After being accused of trying to take over DUEL, Slash left DUEL rather ungraciously resigning his position as Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs on April 18, 2001 and formed the tag Soldiers Of The Apocalypse/SOTA on April 19, 2001 as a temporary tag, not intending to get anyone to join.

===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 he had declined his request. Later on Tempest asked if he 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 within 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 his friends (Gunner of SAK) 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 his alliance he removed the spy, and paged all of his members breaking the news to them. Later on working with his contact he set up plans for a pre-emptive strike... the date for their surprise attack was July 11, 2001 at 23:00 Central. he 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 Slash 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 (some named countries in tribute to those lost that day). 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) The ''REAL'' Slash had given them a warning to stop, but even after the warning they still continued hostilities against SOTA. So on September 15, 2001, Slash 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, Slash 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... Slash 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 Slash maganed to find some luck after picking up a friend, Trunks Bu who had played in the Standard Server with him a couple years earlier. After talking with Trunks Bu, he convinced Slash to leave SOTA so after leaving the SOTA tag in the hands of her VP's ([[Nighthade|Kabuki]]), Slash and Trunks Bu had decided to join the Brotherhood Of Destruction where Slash stayed until December 22, 2001. After Slash left BOD he fooled around a bit and joined the Insane Multi Posse (IMP) after almost two years of being away from them, he stayed with IMP until December 30, 2001 and left to play alone in the tag RONINxSF until January 7, 2002 when he joined Law and Order and was appointed as the Head of their Foreign Affairs Department.

===January 2002===

====Kabuki's Takeover====
[[NightShade|Kabuki/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.

===Round Eight: March-May 2011===
A rather uneventful round with SOTA finishing the set with $330,441,472 Total Networth and an Average Networth of $10,326,296 — a mere shadow of the original alliance formed in 2001.

===Round Nine: May-July 2011===
====Deletions and the return of the ''REAL'' Slash====
Roughly two weeks into the set on May 31, [[NightShade|Kabuki]] and [[Seraph]] are deleted for rules violations, seemingly because [[NightShade]] created another batch of countries in an attempt to bolster the SOTA tag, considering that she is utterly horrible as a recruiter, a netgainer and a leader.

====Taking over SOTA====
Shortly there after, a person known as Neurotic Outsider called her out on Free For All Talk, after simply asking for the passwords to his AIM and ICQ accounts back, and receiving them via e-mail, he went about reconnecting with old friends from the game he knew previous to January 24, 2002.

Originally returning to the game in acquiescence to NightShade's request to take over the leadership of [[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse]], [[Slash]] has taken control of the SOTA site and has demoted [[NightShade]] from her position in-site as President and Site Admin, and has already began recruiting old members back into the alliance. It is from here, that [[Slash]] will attempt to take SOTA back in a 180º turn and bring it back as the war clan it originally was as '''SOTAxWAR'''.

====NightShade leaves SOTA, forms EXILE====
Shortly after giving Slash access to the site, and her demotion, [[NightShade]] announced her intentions to leave SOTA, and removed herself from the site. After washing her hands of SOTA, she set about re-tagging her countries and chose the tag EXILE, believing it to be a fitting name, she decided to play through the set quietly and keep to herself. A couple days later, [[Seraph]] asked if she could join her tag as when she needed a tag and didn't like the idea of having to fend for herself.

==Earth 2025: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
|-
|August 2001||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||xSOTAx||237||$105,658,000||$445,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20010801154121/http://e3.swirve.com/cmembers.htm]|| warred IMP and lost.
|-
|June 2002||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||SOTAxU||56||$116,410,000||$2,078,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829211311/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/avg-060702.html]||Member of UWS (United We Stand) Coalition with NBK, GoD, LaO and NEXGEN.
|-
|August 2002||[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse®]||SOTA||92||$152,364,000||$1,656,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030829213611/http://www.esyn.org/SOTA/tnw-080602.html]||Involved in war with LOTU.
|-
|August 2003||[[Soldiers Of The Apocalypse|Soldiers Of The Apocalypse™®]]||zSOTAz||93||$174,817,000||$1,879,000||[http://web.archive.org/web/20030810051354/http://e3.swirve.com/cworth.htm]|| Would have passed USIMP in TNW but lost 57 countries.
|}

==Earth Empires: Free For All Records==

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|-bgcolor="#EAEAEA"
!Set!!Alliance Name!!Tag!!Countries!!TNW!!ANW!!Link!!Notes
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|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
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|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)
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|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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