What is the History of Cyber Nations?

[Aeros]

Ahh, the young one wishes to know the history of our world.

In the beginning, the world was without form and was void; within a domain name registry service that could be hired for a monthly fee. Upon the void came Admin, who having paid the monthly fee declared, let their be HTML. An lo, there was HTML, and Admin saw that it was good. Over a period of many days and many mountain dews, Admin gave shape to the world, but it was empty. And so Admin called out into the wilderness of MPOGD websites, and the players came. And Admin saw that this was good too, especially after he set up Paypal for donations.

And that was how the world began.

[Ardus]

[center][u][b]The Totally Biased and Flippant History of CyberNations, Abridged[/b][/u][/center]

[b]Pt. 1 - The Ancient Era[/b]

CN kicked into existence way back in early 2006. A couple of alliances formed right away, one being the democratic GATO, the other being utterly irrelevant to the rest of history. They fought a "war." GATO, which has discovered the secret to eternal life, went on. The other petered off.

A number of alliances hailing from [i]what is apparently STILL censored on these boards in a totally childish manner[/i] discovered CN and invaded. The first was the Greenland Republic, later known as the National Alliance of Arctic Countries. The largest group, the New Pacific Order, quickly became the dominant power in CN. Others and rivals, such as the Orange Defense Network and The Legion, also formed up with numerous members. The alliances scattered to the different color spheres: NPO to red, NAAC to blue, ODN to orange, The Legion to purple, and GATO to brown, each establishing their exclusive dominance on their respective spheres.

Treaties began to form. The first NAP and later MDP took hold between NPO and GATO. Emboldened by numbers, its treaty, savage NAAC insults, and led by its audacious leader Emperor Ivan Moldavi, the NPO launched the first "midnight blitz" and crippled the NAAC in the First Polar War in Feb. 2006. The NAAC submitted to the Emperor until he mercifully released him from his rule. NPO next launched into the ODN on Feb. 25. While the NPO would again win with an effective and coordinated war effort, the ODN established the first "guerrilla war." Lasting 47 days, The Citrus War would hold the title of "longest war" until 2007. NPO continued the warpath against the first ideological alliance, the communist ICSN, after discovering a spy in their midsts. The affair lasted all of three days in April 2006.

The first counterbalance began to coalesce in May, when the LUEnited Nations forged its first treaty with the ODN and, shortly thereafter, the first MDP Bloc with ODN, the Grand Global Alliance, and UCS, whom you've never heard of. The established powers reacted quickly, nearly forming their own bloc of NPO, NAAC, GATO, and Legion, but GATO ruined it and their MoD Chris Kaos pissed off NPO. He'd spend the next umpteen years of CN history being very good at that. With Plan A scrapped, NPO somehow got into the Independence Council, got everybody worked up at one another, and the bloc fell apart before the end of the month. Nonetheless, the concept of blocs was born, a decision modern scholars still regret.

Remember when bros, current Castellan of the Mushroom Kingdom and admin of countless CN alliance forums, led LUE? Remember when he tried to get NPO and GATO into a war with one another? Remember when Iforget2 of LUE became the first nuclear rogue? Chances are you don't. I wasn't around either. I assure you it was all hilarious.

Some NAAC members lost their nerve and leaked to NPO that the NAAC leader, Arctic, had a spy in the Order. NPO, Legion, and GATO ruined NAAC's day again. In the wake of the Second Polar War, Emperor Moldavi established the New Polar Order to stabilize blue and sap power from their blue team rival. The NpO and NAAC rivalry would be the most heated in CN until the dissolution of the latter. If you ever want details, don't hesitate to ask Polaris to show you their scars; they'll happily do so. Anyway, GATO thought this was ridiculous and cut off relations with NPO. The two alliances would do nothing but hate each other for the years following.

LUE continued its diplomatic campaign in June, signing an MDP with the powerful GATO. Then LUE discovered an NPO spy in their ranks and cut off relations. Yardovich, one of the LUE co-leaders and utterly unamused by all this, decided to post a ridiculously graphic sex story involving officials of the NPO. The Order was pissed, demanded an apology, and deemed the resultant apology unacceptable. GATO tried to cancel their new MDP, but the Emperor of the NpO, Tygaland, went and nuked LUE. NPO attacked soon after. LUE activated the GATO treaty, along with its many others, and so in July 2006 began the First Great War. Sensing a chance to bring down the giant that had run roughshod over CN since its inception, damn near every alliance hopped on the Order-beatin' bandwagon. As the war ground to "a stalemate", the Legion shocked everybody and struck their former friends in NPO for a couple days, crippling the previously untouchable Pacifican upper-ranks. Finished, the NPO submitted to peace with the CoaLUEtion. Tyga resigned as Emperor of NpO, replaced by Electron Sponge, and Moldavi later resigned as Emperor of NPO, replaced by Dilber. The tradition of "if you lose, you're out" in Order Emperors continues to this day.

And so the storylines and rivalries that would drive CN for the rest of time were set. NPO was defeated and hungry for revenge against all those who had risen up against it. The Legion did something incredibly opportunistic. GATO tried to cancel a treaty to dodge a war, but wasn't fast enough. But most importantly, LUE demonstrated that treaties trumped individual alliance strength. Frankly we all hate this fact, but have learned to live with it, more or less.

[TerryTheCollosus]

[quote name='Ardus' timestamp='1321631684' post='2846309']
[center][u][b]The Totally Biased and Flippant History of CyberNations, Abridged[/b][/u][/center]

[b]Pt. 1 - The Ancient Era[/b]

CN kicked into existence way back in early 2006. A couple of alliances formed right away, one being the democratic GATO, the other being utterly irrelevant to the rest of history. They fought a "war." GATO, which has discovered the secret to eternal life, went on. The other petered off.

A number of alliances hailing from [i]what is apparently STILL censored on these boards in a totally childish manner[/i] discovered CN and invaded. The first was the Greenland Republic, later known as the National Alliance of Arctic Countries. The largest group, the New Pacific Order, quickly became the dominant power in CN. Others and rivals, such as the Orange Defense Network and The Legion, also formed up with numerous members. The alliances scattered to the different color spheres: NPO to red, NAAC to blue, ODN to orange, The Legion to purple, and GATO to brown, each establishing their exclusive dominance on their respective spheres.

Treaties began to form. The first NAP and later MDP took hold between NPO and GATO. Emboldened by numbers, its treaty, savage NAAC insults, and led by its audacious leader Emperor Ivan Moldavi, the NPO launched the first "midnight blitz" and crippled the NAAC in the First Polar War in Feb. 2006. The NAAC submitted to the Emperor until he mercifully released him from his rule. NPO next launched into the ODN on Feb. 25. While the NPO would again win with an effective and coordinated war effort, the ODN established the first "guerrilla war." Lasting 47 days, The Citrus War would hold the title of "longest war" until 2007. NPO continued the warpath against the first ideological alliance, the communist ICSN, after discovering a spy in their midsts. The affair lasted all of three days in April 2006.

The first counterbalance began to coalesce in May, when the LUEnited Nations forged its first treaty with the ODN and, shortly thereafter, the first MDP Bloc with ODN, the Grand Global Alliance, and UCS, whom you've never heard of. The established powers reacted quickly, nearly forming their own bloc of NPO, NAAC, GATO, and Legion, but GATO ruined it and their MoD Chris Kaos pissed off NPO. He'd spend the next umpteen years of CN history being very good at that. With Plan A scrapped, NPO somehow got into the Independence Council, got everybody worked up at one another, and the bloc fell apart before the end of the month. Nonetheless, the concept of blocs was born, a decision modern scholars still regret.

Remember when bros, current Castellan of the Mushroom Kingdom and admin of countless CN alliance forums, led LUE? Remember when he tried to get NPO and GATO into a war with one another? Remember when Iforget2 of LUE became the first nuclear rogue? Chances are you don't. I wasn't around either. I assure you it was all hilarious.

Some NAAC members lost their nerve and leaked to NPO that the NAAC leader, Arctic, had a spy in the Order. NPO, Legion, and GATO ruined NAAC's day again. In the wake of the Second Polar War, Emperor Moldavi established the New Polar Order to stabilize blue and sap power from their blue team rival. The NpO and NAAC rivalry would be the most heated in CN until the dissolution of the latter. If you ever want details, don't hesitate to ask Polaris to show you their scars; they'll happily do so. Anyway, GATO thought this was ridiculous and cut off relations with NPO. The two alliances would do nothing but hate each other for the years following.

LUE continued its diplomatic campaign in June, signing an MDP with the powerful GATO. Then LUE discovered an NPO spy in their ranks and cut off relations. Yardovich, one of the LUE co-leaders and utterly unamused by all this, decided to post a ridiculously graphic sex story involving officials of the NPO. The Order was pissed, demanded an apology, and deemed the resultant apology unacceptable. GATO tried to cancel their new MDP, but the Emperor of the NpO, Tygaland, went and nuked LUE. NPO attacked soon after. LUE activated the GATO treaty, along with its many others, and so in July 2006 began the First Great War. Sensing a chance to bring down the giant that had run roughshod over CN since its inception, damn near every alliance hopped on the Order-beatin' bandwagon. As the war ground to "a stalemate", the Legion shocked everybody and struck their former friends in NPO for a couple days, crippling the previously untouchable Pacifican upper-ranks. Finished, the NPO submitted to peace with the CoaLUEtion. Tyga resigned as Emperor of NpO, replaced by Electron Sponge, and Moldavi later resigned as Emperor of NPO, replaced by Dilber. The tradition of "if you lose, you're out" in Order Emperors continues to this day.

And so the storylines and rivalries that would drive CN for the rest of time were set. NPO was defeated and hungry for revenge against all those who had risen up against it. The Legion did something incredibly opportunistic. GATO tried to cancel a treaty to dodge a war, but wasn't fast enough. But most importantly, LUE demonstrated that treaties trumped individual alliance strength. Frankly we all hate this fact, but have learned to live with it, more or less.
[/quote]

All right, we have our first winner!! Congratulations!!

[Wu Tang Clan]

Submit a 1 page document of "No u. No u. No u. No u. No u... etc."

Ta-da.

[TerryTheCollosus]

[quote name='Wu Tang Clan' timestamp='1321632475' post='2846322']
Submit a 1 page document of "No u. No u. No u. No u. No u... etc."

Ta-da.
[/quote]

!@#$% You make no sense.

[Wu Tang Clan]

[quote name='TerryTheCollosus' timestamp='1321633112' post='2846331']
!@#$% You make no sense.
[/quote]

Wow, you clearly DO need a history of CN.

[TerryTheCollosus]

[quote name='Wu Tang Clan' timestamp='1321633155' post='2846332']
Wow, you clearly DO need a history of CN.
[/quote]
I tried to make it fun through a contest, but only one person has submitted a history!

[Wu Tang Clan]

[quote name='TerryTheCollosus' timestamp='1321633271' post='2846335']
I tried to make it fun through a contest, but only one person has submitted a history!
[/quote]

Ardus' history is great.

Mine is more a "CN Politics: For Dummies"

[TerryTheCollosus]

[quote name='Wu Tang Clan' timestamp='1321633353' post='2846336']
Ardus' history is great.

Mine is more a "CN Politics: For Dummies"
[/quote]
I'll look for that.

[Wu Tang Clan]

It's about 6 posts up. Seriously.

[Ardus]

[quote name='TerryTheCollosus' timestamp='1321633497' post='2846337']
I'll look for that.
[/quote]
You seem to have missed his joke, which is that the history of CyberNations amounts to little more than a bunch of people yelling "no u" in succession.

[Wu Tang Clan]

[quote name='Ardus' timestamp='1321634110' post='2846344']
You seem to have missed his joke, which is that the history of CyberNations amounts to little more than a bunch of people yelling "no u" in succession.
[/quote]

That wasn't a joke. I was DEAD ASS SERIOUS.

[TerryTheCollosus]

[quote name='Wu Tang Clan' timestamp='1321634433' post='2846347']
That wasn't a joke. I was DEAD ASS SERIOUS.
[/quote]

oh. That's.. not exactly what I'm looking for.

[TerryTheCollosus]

[quote name='Banksy' timestamp='1321596385' post='2846207']
Day 1: Schatt woke up and looked down upon cyber nations.
Day 2: Schatt became a hidden GOON.
Day 3: Schatt was in the bubblegum war.
Day 4: Schatt formed Vox with his best friend Doitzel and brought down the NPO.
Day 5: Schatt formed a weird alliance that worships a former mod.
Day 6: Schatt brought down some other alliances.
Day 7: Schatt rested and wrote the history of the game.

Man, I can't wait to read this.
[/quote]

That's sad.

[Wishywashy]

Back in Great War III GCN went to war against the NPO but we lost and disbanded.

[Valtamdraugr]

[quote name='TerryTheCollosus' timestamp='1321633112' post='2846331']
!@#$% You make no sense.
[/quote]
You are correct, Wu forgot a few "hurr durrs, and ebil ebils"

[Erwin Schrodinger]

Hang on, after two pages, I'm still not getting it. You're saying you want people to write CN history down... again... for no compensation? For reference, it has been written already here:

http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/History_of_Cyber_Nations

Everything after that time period can also be found elsewhere. Check out the credits section at the bottom - all CN peeps. I just don't understand what you are doing. Please, make me understand what is going on in your head.

[Emperor Whimsical]

You're better off hearing grizzled old guys talking about the unjust war (lol like me)

[Ardus]

[spoiler]
[center][u][b]The Totally Biased and Flippant History of CyberNations, Abridged[/b][/u][/center]

[b]Pt. 1 - The Ancient Era[/b]

CN kicked into existence way back in early 2006. A couple of alliances formed right away, one being the democratic GATO, the other being utterly irrelevant to the rest of history. They fought a "war." GATO, which has discovered the secret to eternal life, went on. The other petered off.

A number of alliances hailing from [i]what is apparently STILL censored on these boards in a totally childish manner[/i] discovered CN and invaded. The first was the Greenland Republic, later known as the National Alliance of Arctic Countries. The largest group, the New Pacific Order, quickly became the dominant power in CN. Others and rivals, such as the Orange Defense Network and The Legion, also formed up with numerous members. The alliances scattered to the different color spheres: NPO to red, NAAC to blue, ODN to orange, The Legion to purple, and GATO to brown, each establishing their exclusive dominance on their respective spheres.

Treaties began to form. The first NAP and later MDP took hold between NPO and GATO. Emboldened by numbers, its treaty, savage NAAC insults, and led by its audacious leader Emperor Ivan Moldavi, the NPO launched the first "midnight blitz" and crippled the NAAC in the First Polar War in Feb. 2006. The NAAC submitted to the Emperor until he mercifully released him from his rule. NPO next launched into the ODN on Feb. 25. While the NPO would again win with an effective and coordinated war effort, the ODN established the first "guerrilla war." Lasting 47 days, The Citrus War would hold the title of "longest war" until 2007. NPO continued the warpath against the first ideological alliance, the communist ICSN, after discovering a spy in their midsts. The affair lasted all of three days in April 2006.

The first counterbalance began to coalesce in May, when the LUEnited Nations forged its first treaty with the ODN and, shortly thereafter, the first MDP Bloc with ODN, the Grand Global Alliance, and UCS, whom you've never heard of. The established powers reacted quickly, nearly forming their own bloc of NPO, NAAC, GATO, and Legion, but GATO ruined it and their MoD Chris Kaos pissed off NPO. He'd spend the next umpteen years of CN history being very good at that. With Plan A scrapped, NPO somehow got into the Independence Council, got everybody worked up at one another, and the bloc fell apart before the end of the month. Nonetheless, the concept of blocs was born, a decision modern scholars still regret.

Remember when bros, current Castellan of the Mushroom Kingdom and admin of countless CN alliance forums, led LUE? Remember when he tried to get NPO and GATO into a war with one another? Remember when Iforget2 of LUE became the first nuclear rogue? Chances are you don't. I wasn't around either. I assure you it was all hilarious.

Some NAAC members lost their nerve and leaked to NPO that the NAAC leader, Arctic, had a spy in the Order. NPO, Legion, and GATO ruined NAAC's day again. In the wake of the Second Polar War, Emperor Moldavi established the New Polar Order to stabilize blue and sap power from their blue team rival. The NpO and NAAC rivalry would be the most heated in CN until the dissolution of the latter. If you ever want details, don't hesitate to ask Polaris to show you their scars; they'll happily do so. Anyway, GATO thought this was ridiculous and cut off relations with NPO. The two alliances would do nothing but hate each other for the years following.

LUE continued its diplomatic campaign in June, signing an MDP with the powerful GATO. Then LUE discovered an NPO spy in their ranks and cut off relations. Yardovich, one of the LUE co-leaders and utterly unamused by all this, decided to post a ridiculously graphic sex story involving officials of the NPO. The Order was pissed, demanded an apology, and deemed the resultant apology unacceptable. GATO tried to cancel their new MDP, but the Emperor of the NpO, Tygaland, went and nuked LUE. NPO attacked soon after. LUE activated the GATO treaty, along with its many others, and so in July 2006 began the First Great War. Sensing a chance to bring down the giant that had run roughshod over CN since its inception, damn near every alliance hopped on the Order-beatin' bandwagon. As the war ground to "a stalemate", the Legion shocked everybody and struck their former friends in NPO for a couple days, crippling the previously untouchable Pacifican upper-ranks. Finished, the NPO submitted to peace with the CoaLUEtion. Tyga resigned as Emperor of NpO, replaced by Electron Sponge, and Moldavi later resigned as Emperor of NPO, replaced by Dilber. The tradition of "if you lose, you're out" in Order Emperors continues to this day.

And so the storylines and rivalries that would drive CN for the rest of time were set. NPO was defeated and hungry for revenge against all those who had risen up against it. The Legion did something incredibly opportunistic. GATO tried to cancel a treaty to dodge a war, but wasn't fast enough. But most importantly, LUE demonstrated that treaties trumped individual alliance strength. Frankly we all hate this fact, but have learned to live with it, more or less.
[/spoiler]

[center][u][b]The Totally Biased and Flippant History of CyberNations, Abridged[/b][/u][/center]

[b]Part the Second - The Great War Era[/b]

The era running from Aug. 1, 2006 to Sept. 23, 2007, the end of the First Great War to the end of the Unjust War, remains a treasure trove of lessons and motivations that define players and leaders in CN to this day. The first and foremost lesson learned would be "Pacifica doesn't forgive and Pacifica doesn't forget," a lesson that now must be aggressively ignored in order to provide the Order a chance to be relevant in the modern day. The second, and more universally applicable, would be "dithering over moralist concerns will get your ass killed." The third and most universally accepted lesson is, of course, "your bloc will never be as good as the Initiative." Shall we dive into some history?

With the NPO defeated, the world fell into the horrors of peace. The LUEnited Nations redoubled its diplomatic efforts, working to maintain the miraculous coalition that had led to its wartime victory. The NPO rapidly rebuilt, surpassing its pre-war strength within a month. Many new alliances formed in the wake of the fight: the Goon Order of Neutral Shoving, the Viridian Entente, the Independent Republic of Orange Nations, the International Communist Party, and the Coalition of Dark States, /b/, the Federation of Armed Nations, Nordreich, and the Confederacy of Independent States, to name more than a few. Granted, a number of them formed before the war, but did not rise to prominence until afterwards.

The NPO, led by its more diplomatically-oriented Emperor Dilber (Sept. 30, 2006), worked to gather the new alliances to its cause. Radio silence on the OWF granted the Order's enemies ample opportunity to make asses of themselves in public, drunk on victory, while its post-war economic performance appealed to those looking for advice and skill out of allies. But NPO's first diplomatic coup came not through new faces, but through old. The Grand Global Alliance, led by the rabidly anti-Pacifican ProdigalChieftain, suddenly coup'd its leader and installed a new triumvirate (ALdbeign, Kevin the Great, Bilrow) in his place. The Order seized the opportunity, buried the hatchet, and secured an MDP with the new GGA. The Orders next secured GOONS (led by [i]GLORIOUS CENSORSHIP[/i]), forming the "Axis of Awesome" alliance with the rapidly ascendant Black-team power. The Viridian Entente, a small Green Team duchy under the command of Egore, would next align with the Order, under heavy criticism from the CoaLUEtion alliances. All the while, plenty of drama ensured there would be no reconciliation between the Orders and the CoaLUEtion.

On the side, color politics grew important. Previously wrecked by the unpredictable ProdigalChieftain, the Green Team stabilized under the tenuous coexistence of GGA, VE, CIS, /b/, and the neutral juggernaut GPA. Meanwhile, the insular Maroon Team developed into a rich ground for ideological conflicts between the ICP and NOR. All who participated look back on these times fondly as an era when people could justifiably get worked up over something as simple as a sanction. Though, it should be noted, that looking up alliances was not nearly as easy as it is today, so achieving a sanction (then limited to the largest alliance on each color sphere) was an extraordinary advantage.

Perhaps the most heinous development of the period was the "For the Love of God, Think of the Children!" Convention. Aimed at restricting the outbreak of global radiation and utter destruction that defined the First Great War, the victorious powers launched into a campaign of limiting the use of nuclear weapons, restricting signatories from using them until such were used against them. The convention quickly attained universal support and acclaim, securing allies in both the CoaLUEtion and the Axis of Awesome. Adherence to the convention would prove deadly for the CoaLUEtion.

The resurgence of the NPO reached its finished stage with the development of the World Unity Treaty (WUT), commonly referred to as "The Initiative." The bloc, consisting of NPO, NpO, GOONS, FAN, VE, GGA, CIS, TOP, and \m/, merged the Axis of Awesome (NPO, NpO, GOONS), the Triple Entente (VE, GGA, CIS), and alliances connected to one of the two organizations into a single, highly cohesive, MADP unit. The bloc was the first of its scale and, while ridiculed for including numerous then-small alliances, triggered an immediate response from the NPO's enemies in the CoaLUEtion. The victorious powers, who had dithered on forming a mega-bloc of their own for months, sprung into action and quickly created the League of Extraordinary Alliances, aka "The League", a multilateral MDP consisting of LUE, GATO, NAAC, LOSS, ICP, CDS, GOLD, and ACID. Though other blocs would also form in the period (GUARD: ONOS, NADC, CSN, TTK, TCF, USN) (Northern Defense Front: NOR, MDC, and a pile of others), the intense rivalry between The Initiative and The League collected the majority CN's alligned strength and clearly bifurcated the world. An alliance was with one, the other, or designated a neutral.

[b][i]TBC via edit later on; off to dinner[/i][/b]

[eyriq]

That, Ardus, is a mighty fine read.

[AzureShadow]

I will say that that's the most entertaining (and probably accurate) recounting of CN history I've ever read.

Good show, chap.

[WarriorConcept]

Can't wait until the next installment, Ardus.

[USMC123]

Ardus for official CN historian.

[Gopherbashi]

The problem is that those things never get completed, as we normally get bored with it after Karma.

[quote name='kevin32891' timestamp='1321590536' post='2846162']
This one is so much superior

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76ZOHZ46vM&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x76ZOHZ46vM&feature=related[/url]
[/quote]
The third one is by far the best of the three.

[Ardus]

[quote name='USMC123' timestamp='1321890279' post='2848131']
Ardus for official CN historian.
[/quote]
I already served the role once during the original incarnation.