MEA

== Overview: ==
The MEA, also known as the Military Esperanto Alliance, was a faction whose purpose was to invade unclaimed territory, protect any recognizable/intricate art, and expand their ever growing navy of ships, nicknamed the "Bismarck's Cradle". This was a large and expansive group that was founded by WilhelmLover42 around early-September (9/6/22), with the hopes of fortifying areas incase the imminent threat of void invasions take place. The MEA does not grief under normal circumstances, but may have to if forced into a war that requires to do so. It has grown to become one of the largest groups on the server.
 
Fig. 1a: Original Logo (Fig. 2 logo suggested by Rock on 11/10/22) 
 
Fig. 1b: Pre-RW war logo by Rock Bottom (Current logo suggested by WilhelmLover42, 1/13/22, height of the Red Winter War) 
 
Fig. 1c: Strategic Command Logo 
 
Fig.2: Lower FNP before the Die-off 
 
Fig.3: Mother Russia: A fully independent state of MEA, only connected through real-life ties
 
==History: ==
===Nether Era===
====Foundation + Ascension Period====
For much of it's beginnings, the group only had 3 members, however in recent times recruits have signed up to bring it's current known force up to 40 members strong, anonymous and known. The Group's starting location was a primitive fortress, located in 42,42 in the Nether. The MEA was not noticed for quite a while, due to its unusual method of outlining territory and spamming fleets, however has gained more attention due to its role in some offensives including the TLC Yello invasion. A war was declared on the 5th of October between the MEA and Cerith's green over Cerith's '14 pixels', as well as the MEA's affiliation to the Red Takeover. This resulted with multiple skirmishes taking place, inflicting damage on both sides. This war has ended as of 11/10/22, but no clear tactical victory has been identified. It was unknown if it was just Cerith or their team, or whether it was a revival of the Green Void. The MEA mostly has a reputation of building historical war designs, mainly German. It was noted that a figure nicknamed "Esperanto Man" was treated with great respect by the original members of the group. This link (usually shortened and placed near spawn) was commonly associated with the Esperanto Man movement and vaguely details events from the legendary person's life and art. 
Fig. 4: A retaliation strike against Green's attack on the provinces 
====Die-off Period====
After several days into the war, NIZNEB griefed and eradicated nearly all forms of art inside MEA boundaries, causing the majority of MEA battlegroups to be recalled to defend and repair any damage caused by NIZNEB and anonymous griefers alike. The War continued, with 2 more offensives being exchanged between sides. This was a short era, as new art was soon to fill in gaps, this time all MEA made. During this time, a miscommunication between Kapitan and the MEA led to a misguided conversion attempt by the MEA. However, shortly after a devastating swastika attack not orchestrated by the MEA made the Negative Void believe that their territory was being "invaded" and submission attempts defied. This dispute ended around late October 2022, with the MEA argument winning. 
Fig 5: Another attack on the MEA province. The Bismarck continued to be steadily repaired.
====Retreat Period====
after constant grief attacks on key installations, the MEA high command had ordered the MEA to pull out of the nether, and leave only lightly serviced colonies, in favor of a hidden capital in the subterranean Voxel Dimension. There was currently no evidence on the location of the capital, labelled the Classified Frontier Province (CFP). This project was dubbed "Delta Jet" by Rock, and supported by Wilhelm. It was also expected for there to be multiple small colonies scattered around the map. However despite "retreating" it was more of a large expansion project, and therefore led to the early Imperial era. 
 
Fig. 6: Full view of the FNPs in its griefed state (11/23/22)
===Imperial Era===
=====Dark Green + Expansion + RM tensions=====
This era, after the retreat bluff, was characterized by numerous territories and colonies scattered around the map as the force of the MEA grew larger, and it's grasp and status increasing exponentially. However, this was temporarily drawn to a halt due to the severe attack following dark green's return onto the server. One by one new clans were ravaged by dark green, leaving little left behind. Shortly after this, diplomatic reforms were made between Dark Green and the MEA, ending the conflict between the two groups. NIZNEB joined the MEA only a couple of days after this event. Due to the alleged withdrawal of MP from pixel.land, the MEA once again changed their capital to their share of Minting Press, being changed to the Central Naval Province (CNP). The foundation nether provinces (FNP) were still in use. Another project was additionally commenced, nicknamed "Operation Retribution"; It's contents were to only be released after it's completion. Another event occurring around this time was the Red Mural, which covered nearly half of the TLC province. Despite nearly obliterating the area, diplomatic talks convinced MEA to hold off a major all-out attack, and rebuild from scratch instead. "Let us finish first, then the old players can cover over it" said Ibanexxx, the leader of the Red Mural in TLC. The spawn firebase was completely destroyed on 11/19/22. 
Fig. 7: TLC province as of 11/18/22
Fig. 8: Spawn firebase after a major greifing by green void (no longer exists) 
 
Fig.9: The griefed base by a player, confirmed to not be NIZNEB 
 
Fig.10: The "NIZNEB" Signature on the mostly repaired territory
=====Portal Destruction=====
As a troll just two days before the Voxels.town portal self destructed, the MEA performed a miniscule amount of Tom Foolery, setting up MEA Land #2 at spawn, as a joke forerunner to the Spawn Firebase. Malkist on the same day (26th November 2022) helped with the Naval capital, by building a small Aircraft carrier, B2 Spirit bomber as well as gun Amogi. The larger ship down at the bottom of the capital was further developed. 
 
Fig. 11: MEA Land #2 just before the self destruction (11/26/22) 
Fig.12: Naval capital after development on existing grounds. Taken on 11/26/22. 
On the last day before the portal self-destructed, the MEA made this statement, with a typo: 
 
Fig 13: MEA portal memorial
Fig. 14: Last message by Wilhelm at spawn, before the detonation
=====Minor Blue Disputes=====
Around this time, the Red Mural exchange continued, with colours from MEA, dark green, Crisp, Yello and others uniting to take down the rapidly expanding area. Following the Red Mural exchange, Blue Revolution attempted to merge MEA with Blue Rev. This increased some tensions, and the MEA responded with message, exclaiming "WE ARE NOT YOU! - MEA", on the morning of 11/28/22. 
=====Spring Red Offensive; Beginning of formal RM War=====
On the last day of 2022, the MEA made a major push in the Red Mural to regain the lost land in TLC, and was the third skirmish against Red. This attack involved around a fifth of the foreign force, comprising of MEA members Sumthng, Raven, Vault, and Wilhelm. This attack took a large but not major chunk out of the Red Mural, turning it into partially Neon colour. The Red soon struck back, inflicting minor damage on the rest of TLC MEA. The Summer offensive was to follow.
Fig. 15: The progress made halfway through the offensive (11/30/22)
Fig. 16: Minor Red damage to remaining TLC MEA
=====Invis Blockade=====
Due to some rising tensions between allied Invis and MEA due to Invis's alleged attack on Orange Town (Also MEA Allied), MEA blockaded Invis from Blue Revolution, as a warning sign to not invade Orange Town further. After Orange Town was abolished, the blockade was lifted, and the fleet was seen as more of a defensive perimeter rather than it's original intention.
Fig. 17: MEA Blockade of Invis coastline (11/30/22)
===== RM Retaliation=====
Following massive gains of the MEA into RM Territory, they finally struck back with a devastating blow to the back lines of the original MEA Neon. This prompted a reparation job, as well as another attack into MEA territory.
Fig. 18: Upper RM attack, less severe. Observe the "This was War" message left by RM (10/5/22).
Fig. 19: A more severe RM attack to the back lines. Notice the flags changed from MEA into RM (10/5/22).
=====Orange Town, Yello & UWU=====
The 5th of December in 2022 was a notable date in MEA history, as Azalea and Sleepi had both given up their lands for MEA to take. The MEA was quick to take Orange town, achieving full control in under a week. Sleepi additionally joined the MEA, receiving title of TLC subcommander. With this addition, many gains in the TLC theatre and war effort were made throughout. Yello was relocated inside Negative Void. Around this time, preparations to restore the FNPs were underway.
Fig. 20: Neon early into Yello integration (12/5/22)
=====Orange Town Disputes=====
As most members of Orange Town were anonymous, many "members" were slow to realise that Orange Town was indeed an abolished colour inside the Color Wars. Because of this, this statement left by Wil was left:
Fig. 21: Wil's message to Orange Town members
This was ignored and erased, however Orange Town retaliations were kept minimal.
Fig. 22: Slight Orange Town attack, due to unwanted land disputes.
=====Forest Green=====
Forest Green on the 12th of December 2022, made a rapid expansion into MEA and Blue Revolution Territory. This was however quickly repaired by a few MEA members online, and slightly expanded into Forest Green/Red Takeover territory, as a reminder to not invade the colour. After this point, Forest Green was considered an enemy of the MEA. This conflict was unresolved, and it was uncertain whether this may descend into all out war.
Fig. 23: Naval Capital after Forest Green attack
Fig. 24: Total Naval Capital as of 12/5/22. Observe slightly larger boundaries due to the Forest Green restoration.
=====Blue Revolution Attack=====
Blue Revolution on the 9th of December made an advance into MEA allies, as well as MEA itself. Because of this, the MEA sent "bombers" as well as soldiers as a warning shot to not attack MEA.
Fig.25: Blue Revolution attack and MEA counterattack
The MEA Naval base continued to grow.
Fig. 26: MEA capital as of 12/10/22, Left was the Naval Capital, right was the IGP
=====Dimensional Update=====
With the new update of private dimensions brought an new Golden Age for MEA. MEA quickly made a canvas for it's capital, which was under construction, while it also built an expeditionary base in the Neo-colour wars started by LegendisYT, which was also taken by Azalea, Nizneb and Legendis. It additionally built a province in the Sus Dimension created by Charr, and because of this Charr herself was given a place in the MEA. This was all in the first day of the update, so all 3 projects had barely started. Due to the Dimensional update, the Frontier was promptly deactivated, being replaced by the MEA dimensional capital, which was yet to be started at this stage in time. Air also joined the MEA. The Naval Province was downgraded to Overworld capital, rather than the central MEA capital.
thumb|A builder. They are seen in safer parts of the world fixing several buildings and help communities rebuild after a grief.
Fig. 27: MEA expeditionary province in it's early stages
Fig. 28: Sus MEA province also photographed on the first day of the update
=====Negative Void Alliance=====
On the same day as the dimensional update, the MEA finally allied with the negative void, after some tensions over the MEA's history. As said by Ray, the creator of Negative Void "I'd be fine with forming some sort of alliance, a lot of groups I've allied with in the past have died off too, so getting more would probably be a good idea".
=====Obliteration of RM=====
on the 11/10/22, RM was officially taken, with the implied surrender of RM's resistance, ending the war in MEA's eyes.
thumb|A researcher. They are seen in the backlines of safer bases inventing researching and manufacturing many parts of the army.
Fig. 29: MEA TLC province as if 11/10/22
=====Further Gains at Sus Province=====
With the addition of PantsPlant, growth of the Sus province spiked, growing into the picture shown below:
Even more additions were added after this date, including NoRad, the powerplant and a chopper landing from the capital. From this point on, the Sus province was renamed to the official MEA dimensional capital, and the previous planned canvas was scrapped.
=====Colonies:=====
From this point on, formal colonies were produced, being the void base and the Portal colony. These are much smaller than provinces, and are not of significant importance to the MEA empire. They do not have respective sub commanders; are mostly governed by the sub commander whose territory was closest.
Fig. 32: Portal colony
=====Highway Province=====
Another major contribution of Plant, was his handing of the large x/y worker highway to the MEA, giving rise to an entirely new form of base - the Highway province. Around this time (12/16/22), the highway was in a mess, so preparations were made to firstly fix severe damage, and secondly signify it's occupation with the building of soldier bases and patrols throughout the province.
=====Soyjak scare=====
After the Soyjak party (a group of pixel site raiders), raided owop, the MEA and some of the server feared pixel.land would be next. Although it was unlikely they would find the site at this stage in time, the MEA rushed frantically to prepare, keeping watch for signs of their arrival.
=====The rebuilding of the FNPs commence:=====
Given power of the entire MEA army by its leader, PantsPlant has started to rebuild the first ever MEA base.
===Crisis Era===
=====Fall of the Dimensional capital=====
During the height of the Imperial era, something strage was detected: In the dimensional capital ocean, the words "MEA was ours" appeared in red. Suddenly Red swarmed the city, engulfing all it's history and monuments in a blaze of fire. This would the the start of the 
====Fall:====
On the 29th of January, Wilhelm leaked coords to important art across the canvas This angered alot of MEA and Non-MEA members, such as Malkist, Legendis, and irene, leading them to leaving MEA. An important member of the team, Cerith, also revealed that he was supplying DEZTRUCK with vital information, like ciphers and provinces, over the past 2 months due to MEA griefing one of his builds. This eventually led to Wilhelm leaving MEA and it dissolving into other groups such as the Nizneb Esperanto Alliance and SARDINE.
==Provinces: ==
*MEA Dimensional Capital (previously Sus province)
*Naval Province (Overworld Capital)
*FNPs (Nether Province 1&2)
*Infantry Garrison Province (IGP)
*Highway Province
*TLC Province
*Resurgence Silos
*Strategic Air Force Base (In Construction)
*MEA Expeditionary Province (MEP)
*Spawn Firebase (Deceased)
*CFP (Deactivated)
Shown in order of importance
==Colonies: ==
*Portal Colony
*Void Base
==Art: ==
center|thumb|Art of the MEA infantry, by PantsPlant.
==Projects: ==
#Delta Jet - Establishing a classified province in an unknown location, to safely ensure survival of MEA as a territorial faction. The location was unknown, however it was confirmed by Wilhelm that it was indeed situated in Voxels.town
#Resurgence - A once again classified project, with no information on whatsoever. More details on this particular operation may be revealed at a later date.
#Summer Rising - A project dedicated to colonising different dimensions, and becoming the dominant faction in this new frontier
==Structure: ==
The structure of the faction's military are divided into 3 parts:
The Main force was the backbone of the MEA, and usually performs classified or high communication operations, and are the only members on the Server.
The Foreign Force was comprised of recruited members on public chat, and are usually involved in an all out war, with a full mobilization of all forces. They excel in tasks that require numbers and strength, so are useful in long fighting between nations.
The Reserves are only activated in times of desperate need, and usually only defend territories from severe attacks and crises. 
Allies are usually present on the battlefield with the MEA, but are not obliged to do so even under emergencies.
The Cipher used by the MEA comes in 3 encryption levels:
Low/Tactical - {Redacted}
Medium/Strategic - {Redacted}
High/classified - {Redacted}
There are also Subcommanders, that govern each province under the Commander:
TLC: Sleepi
FNPs: Rock Bottom
Naval Province: Wilhelm (Overworld Capital)
Resurgence Silos: (REDACTED)
Dimensional Capital: Wilhelm (Central Capital)
Expeditionary Province: Vault
IGP: Sumthng
==Sub-Branches: ==
===VDA===
VDA or Void Death Agency, was a Sub branch of the MEA specifically created to keep watch for new void invasion. It's relations are essentially the same as the MEA and was directly to it, however only specific/different members are a part of the VDA, and have a special role in the MEA. This sub branch has a similar function to Clan Lumina, except operating in tandem with the MEA. It's purpose was to act as an advance-warning project, and warn the main MEA force of voids.
Fig. 35: VDA full logo
Fig. 36: VDA signature logo
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