Junebug482

==Description==
Junebug482 is an individual involved with the Gmod faction community. The purpose of this wiki page is to preserve/document my experience with the community while also sharing that experience with the reader. As a result this document will be biased, and while hindsight will mitigate alot of that. This is as much an exorcise in self reflection as it is me documenting my past. So if you have any questions please consider contacting me on discord. (Junebug482#0164)
== Beginnings/Trajectory==
Looking back at what sent me on the trajectory to where I am today I find it was something almost entirely unrelated as is usually the case when you are young. At that time I helped my dad at his job. However the business was bought and placed under new management, this management was far more strict and didn't like the potential for lawsuits I created being a child and whatnot. So I lost access to the internet as I didn't have access to it at home for around a year or so. Before that happened I used to play robocraft and gmod casually moving from friend group to friend group without ever really getting invested in any larger community. However when my internet was cut off I could only play what singleplayer games I had on my small office dell home computer like Reassembly, Spore, and Total annihilation. When the need to get internet became more obvious to my parents for schooling and other such socialization I eventually got myself some access and started playing gmod and robocraft again regularly. Around this time the robocraft community was on the decline so I spent more hours of my time on Gmod. After some searching for a good server with access to duplicator tool permitted I found the server that is now known as Lucid.
==Early Lucid period ==
When I found lucid I started playing on it more since I enjoyed shooting and basing with people on the server. One day when making an anti sniper tunnel from spawn connecting to a shelter as a lure/chokepoint for me to shoot people. (Since the server was on flatgrass snipers were a major issue for the average player) I noticed a large base with a massive ramp leading up to it. I eventually made it up the ramp and talked to the people on the top asking if I could base with them. I asked with the chat since I didn't have a mic at the time. Even if I did I would've known not to use it since I understood through observation that kids were generally not treated the same way older players were. These people were Docterf and a old lucid guy named Gender Bender. I quickly became friends with Docterf and bender. We played on Lucid and DarkRP together regularly and Docterf taught me basic wiremod. I would build large vehicles for lucid and make bases with help from Docterf. My dupes from this era include the combine spider, carmaggedon and more than a few sniper bases.
==Early AEF period ==
I got on lucid one day and noticed something strange, there were these people basing together with tags that read AEF. At first I contemplated using my vehicles to assault their base and kill them since most of them were sitting almost completely still on an open top base shooting randoms who got to close. I decided instead to base with them to see what was up. I showed off a bit with my vehicle (a flying user chair spawnpoint contraption) by flying into a base they said was giving them trouble and killing everyone inside. I shot a friend request to Strayed (whom I only knew as VHS DVD) and I got recruited. I'd had discord since my older friend groups but still hadn't attained a mic. I got one within the week and talked to people online for the first time. After learning CW2.0 from some basic training and doing some discipline drills. We deployed on some servers like poneyscape. Around this time we were told about IZK and how they were just a bunch of kids. Over time this started feeling more and more like a job.
==Late AEF period==
I learned alot in my time with AEF. However even with my relative lack of experience I could see that AEF comprised of mostly just busywork with no real tangible objective. That and when the objective was tangible it was basically unachievable. One of my first memories with ACF was us doing tank training and (I think it was manta) regardless an ISA tank was spawned and it drove along side us. The first thing I said is "your tank is much better than mine" my tank being a sovin exported MBT50. Person in question just shrugged it off. During this time I met Sergei and some other AEF guys and we were chill. One time I missed a major battle that was the the invasion of dirtbox in I believe august of 2018. From knowing how little equipment we had and seeing the footage from the video after the fact. I guess the game plan was to have the grunts hopelessly charge at tank trenches and die. since the MBT50 was far to slow and weak on such an open map. After the fact me and Sergei talked about it some and both agreed that AEF wasn't equipping us well. Later on Sergei me and a few others got the chance to fight IZK more head-on. While we were still using MBT50s IZK was offering 2v2s so we got to use them. Sergei even though he wasn't of rank to command filled in the role and helped us coordinate and get kills on the IZK tanks. We weren't going to win with MBT50s but we almost always killed atleast one tank. IZK eventually switched to more modern vehicles and completely mopped the floor with us. Sergei later got chastised for taking command without being having the ranks to do so. Me and Sergei were both frustrated by this so we decided to make our own little thing in secret called NRK.
==NRK Formation==
The split happened pretty quickly after a discussion about NRK Sergei had with Strayed. Where he supposedly said NRK would never become anything. My view of this at the time was that he was probably right. However taking the one in a million chance with NRK would still be more worth while than wasting time being mismanaged by our out of touch high command. I still respected Strayed for his charisma but his inability to provide the teeth to back that up were evident at the time. Very early on NRK held this opinion about him even going so far as wanting to impress him. However this eventually subsided with time and as we realized what had happened more clearly. We left with a few other AEF members from that recruitment cycle causing them to lose a promising engineer. The symbol of NRK the cyclops, a circle with a half circle underneath had already been flying on Lucid since January where we constructed a walled city and I organized most the entire servers 32 players and commanded them to expand on the base inside the walls and build improvised pillboxes on the walls for defense, The checkpoint city entrance didn't allow players marked undesirable and was heavily guarded. We recruited 2 new members that day. The first real NRK operations began and Lucid would be our Homeland. All the while we were working feverishly on figuring out ACF for ourselves.
==Early Slog period ==
The slog period was a time when NRK was totally isolated after cutting all real contacts with AEF. You know when I said feverishly figuring out ACF. Yeah what I meant to say was banging our heads against it for weeks, I'm talking we didn't even know you needed to parent armor to a gate. We had turret E2s and basic drive chips off of the MBT50 but they were anemic quality wise. Eventually we started looking through public dupes but we really didn't get anything of use from those either, since the drive chips required the use of transfer cases. When we weren't working on ACF/Wire we would play on Lucid in our downtime. Eventually after making out first tanks that could actually drive, even though they had no real armor. We started scouting for other factions. The first day we found IZK on Ilyas slavetown but we went on to look at their shit and then instantly left since we wanted to maintain a low profile. Eventually we came upon a server called pootland.
==Late Slog period ==
Pootland was the name of a server owned by a clan named TCI or the True Chaos Insurgency. This was our first real contact with a clan and we quickly started diplomatic talks. 2sniper was also on the server at the time and we maintained contact with him. Initially we had planned on backstabbing 2sniper starting our first war. However we realized that noone we could readily see disliked him and he was the one who provided AEF with the MBT50. That and 2sniper really only wanted to help us out and was chill. 2sniper after seeing what had come of his previous attempt at helping a small faction decided that giving us a complete tank right off the bat was a bad idea. So he gave us the Sovin E5 tankette base to start building off of. The end result being the Boar tankette our first actually properly functioning legal tank. After 2snipers initial success with that he gave us the X-10 base, a much larger base, this one resulted in the Liger. Our first MBT and also the first tank we had with a wedge. Afterwards we were given a full copy of the X-10.
==Mid Lucid period ==
During the Slog period we still operated on lucid often, almost daily. Long ago had the age of our walled cities past their protection replaced by a mix of improved skill and new wire vehicles that I had developed. Our role on the server shifted slightly. Old NRK lucid philosophy basically boiled down to a ruthless continual genocide of the server, the only way to survive was the be good at PVP or to be funny enough for us to like you. We also helped the server population against any Aimbotters when the server staff weren't on. Not even staff were free from this selection however, if a small child bought staff and immediately started abusing it, we would quickly try and get their ranks removed in order to stop the community from becoming shit. This cycle resulted in a very strong sense of community as players who stayed typically would join back to talk with us/others of the community and to develop base and wire technology of their own. These beliefs came about from a particular circumstance on Lucid where children typically squeakers would use the Kermit playermodel and base together. These kermies were widely hated by everyone and kermie wars on the server had happened often during its history predating my involvement on the server. The resulting warrior culture these factors created can still be seen today, though the original NRK value of having clan and staff be separate has since been lost.
==Sergei Political Era==
Since I was mostly an internal force and made mainly wire vehicles I wasn't involved in faction relations at this time outside of being friends with 2sniper. I have very little recollection from this era other than to say there was wider diplomatic progress. This is the era where we collaborated with TTF on something and apparently joined gmap? Regardless of what happened I remember this was the first real battle we had with a competent clan when our ligers engaged the "Chad wedge" and resulted in many of our tanks dying. During this we got closer ties with IZK and as a result started some "five day plans" that included us making our first completely domestic tanks. Like the greyhound and prouler (this isn't an error it was actually spelled that way) The first of which Solomon took a screenshot of and was promptly called a cereal box by the rest of the community. The second tank the prouler however had a successful service life. Upon first looking at the NRK wiki and seeing this as a golden age I was initially confused but have since realized this eras significance. Being that it was basically the start of our involvement in the ACF meta.
==Pre AEF war==
Now that NRK had some basic equipment and having lost some older members due to real life circumstances or just a lack of interest. We went recruiting for new members for the planned war with AEF. This lead to us recruiting Ratakis and Strelok, while Ratakis did know ACF he wasn't very good with it at the time and strelok didn't share technology outside of some basic E2s. Ratakis after a while got kicked out of NRK for posting bad loli DeviantArt and attempting to manipulate our sympathy by saying he inhaled concrete powder, that ontop of taking a bath in a call. We originally wanted the split to be peaceful even helping him make his flag. However later that same day we decided that raiding his discord would be very funny. So after spamming his discord with loads of images he threatened to kill himself, over a discord. Starting from that point onwards we had a constant background war with RMTF but for now it was pretty quiet.
== Early AEF war==
on December 28th 2018 after some minor preparations we declared war on AEF. While we understood that we were weaker than AEF in member count we didn't know the extent of AEFs ground capabilities and were caught completely off guard by the AEF airforce. Though we had gotten to test some of our equipment on SDF and RMTF that wouldn't prepare us for a force that didn't care about 2v2s or 1v1s like the other clans we had fought. Since the battles took place on big city early in the war AEF would make tank columns going down the major streets. While our tanks head to head with a column couldn't compete they acted as a good distraction. The NRK PKM 20mm MG handheld was enough to penetrate the AEF tanks back armor, leading to AEF casualties, this would also occur if a column was approached by the side and taken by surprise. My kill record during the war was 3 AEF tanks in one life when I caught an AEF tank column fighting a prouler across a bridge using the PKM to get the kills. Though technically we got more kills if you included infantry during the early battles, our lowered morale definitely didn't make it feel like a win and by vehicle deaths it wasn't a win at all. We had been getting casual support from IZK for a while but they helped us more directly with the creation of the JL1 prouler a collaborative build between sergei and IZK.
==Early RMTF war==
Though the RMTF war chronologically started before the AEF war. It didn't pick up for a while, this war originally started with RMTF using modified public dupes, however just as RMTF began producing fully domestic tanks an interesting political situation occurred. UNR had been in contact with NRK ever since we got any real ties to IZK, however UNR early on tried getting NRK involved in a war with an overseas group. They sent us screenshots of their tanks and told us they were bad. They looked pretty good and by this time we had just been able to produce the prouler. We declined seeing that UNR was probably just trying to get us killed. Soon after the RMTF war started, UNR told us to fight them on some servers. At first we listened to them and did that, afterwards he would ask us if we'd won. After the battle we said we did, and this continued for a little while. One day we took substantial casualties from RMTF forces and noticed Strelok pulling out a UNR anti air system. Pravo asked us if we'd won, we said yes but we had taken causalities. He told us that it didn't matter because we had still won. That was the last meaningful contact with UNR we would have for a long time due to us cutting contact due to obvious manipulation.
== Late AEF war==
While there had been minor skirmishes since the beginning of the war even against ISA to test equipment, my favorite of which being an AEF invasion that happened on new year's eve which we couldn't fully attend due to both me and sergei attending parties having to get on slowly as we each returned to our homes/people left. What started the late AEF war era was the invasion of Scotstavinia the NRK capitol server being hosted by Gathering Rays a guy who AEF was helping when we were in AEF that we'd contacted. However after an incident where Sergei called his discord music bot bad he'd taken down the server. The server was reopened when AEF invaded it (wonder why). This invasion had IZK intervene as PKR without NRKs approval this violated the deal we had with AEF, where ISA and IZK wouldn't be involved directly. This was also where the Prouler JL1 was used to decent effect, however a lack of training with the new platform caused casualties. The violation of this treaty caused it to more or less devolve into IZK vs ISA most of the time, or ISA to come on with an illegal tank whenever we were fighting AEF with tanks.
==ISA dominion period==
Near the end of the AEF war NRK had been pretty heavily demoralized ACF wise, but that wasn't the reason NRK decided to switch over. Due to an NRK document written during its formation, the number one policy of which was to maintain sovereignty. When rumors of IZK wanting to kill us for being a liability surfaced due to Wise contacting Sergei about it, along with the already existing UNR problems. We decided to contact and negotiate a peaceful position with NATO due to not wanting a NRK vs the world situation. This started an era of relative peace where the only war we were involved in was the RMTF war. This was also an era of trial and error as we were continually working on producing new domestic tank designs and then scrapping them over and over again. Any RMTF engagement was able to be dealt with with the existing equipment from the AEF war. While NRKs position under ISA wasn't terrible allowing us to see other peoples builds and interact with other clans on B7R. During a week of NRK playing Minecraft, I mentioned that the khabib was illegal because in one of the clips from the war you could see it turn midair on a server without fin tool. Sergei shared his thoughts and they were basically the same. We understood ISA's corrosive impact on the rest of the meta especially in the context of using their illegal technology on behalf of AEF during the last parts of the war.
==EUC period==
After such discussions about ISA were had. we heard rumors about Elias supposedly damaging the khabib, we decided it would be a good idea to form a pact with him. Since this was more covert than outright resisting ISA we remained on okay terms with them by engaging IZK is some semi successful guerilla battles where we used ACF sweps and smaller tanks from advantageous positions to kill IZK tanks. Elias also introduced us to certain types of armor from other factions he'd been involved with like PCB side armor. The RMTF war was still happening in the background with minor skirmishes here and there. We also began to fight DE after they threatened to dox Sergei. However from the beginning we noticed Elias was trying to influence NRK and SOVN, though he'd named himself the leader of the pact from the very start and had given himself the highest rank. We tolerated that due to the knowledge he provided. However after he'd mostly run dry and wanted us to make tanks for him, he decided to make a political action for us without consulting Sergei or 2sniper causing us to boot him from power and forming ESLV.
== Early ESLV==
ESLV was a merger between NRK and Sovinia both of which had originally been fighting DE due to their doxing threats against NRK near the end of EUC. However our antagonism to DE attracted attention in the form of captain cancer, who'd recently been spying on them in collaboration with ISA. After his own experience with ISA that ended with him leaking the T88 he joined NRK. Captain cancer had apparently been paying attention to us since we first fought him and his chad wedge tank during the Sergei political period. He had some experience with e2 something that NRK had been lacking for a long time. This combined with our mutual disdain for ISA lead to him quickly becoming one of our primary engineers. Mainly due to difference in capability, he also got others interested in ESLV like lemon who joined soon after. The idea that developed over time was pretty simple, whatever ISA did we could also do.
==ESLV==
Of course we weren't planning on doing things to the same scale as ISA, that would've tarnished our collective reputations to an extreme degree. So we kept things extremely small scale, basically just enough to get ISA to say that they would never do what they were doing publicly. Such operations included stealing a really bad tank using advdupe2 on our home server and making an illegal tank of our own to rival the khabib. This tank was called the Tumbler and its main illegality was regenerating armor. As the DE war continued in the background an interesting situation popped up, before DEs collapse we were notified that Fishy was going to dox Deathy their leader. Since Deathy had made doxing threats directed at us we decided to withhold this information from him. As ESLV continued to create public disruption in the b7r discord server resulting in the "week from hell" a person from NATO contacted us disclosing why they couldn't simply ditch ISA. We understood but kept this information at the very top level due to privacy concerns. Soon after Deathy along with members of his family were doxed by fishyforest. We weren't told it would include his family so naturally we felt bad. However this event combined with march being bribed by ISA caused him to betray ESLV this event coincided with lemon leaving ESLV due to him seeing an opportunity for a "funny". ISA soon latched onto this and made hypocritical public statements against ESLV. Soon after IZK released their video titled Hypocrisy, and while not dealing directly with ESLV at all. The message was made clear to basically everyone causing ISA to lose public support.
==Post ESLV==
Immediately after ESLV died about a week before the the IZK video dropped, we collected together to talk about a plan of action. Staying together was a given since we all shared the same motivation in removing ISA from prominence, so we decided that the best decision was simply to shed the name ESLV and return to our independent faction names. This had an almost immediate affect on the communities perception of us and most things returned to normal. While NRK would never be let back into ISA directly we understood that Sovinia was far more likely to be taken in by NATO and allow us to engage in a long term subversion plan that was a more calculated continuation of the previous social disruption plan. We would effectively gain intelligence on how NATO talked about our arguments and use those discussions to tweak our wording to appeal to their way of thinking hopefully enlightening someone whom didn't have the same restrictions as those who contacted us earlier. Effectively all it did was create arguments that got harder and harder to refute without just sounding retarded, the repetition of Connors arguments caused some to reach out already so allowing others to see it would've in theory had some impact. The beginning phases of the plan were already in motion before IZK released the video with 2sniper being readily adopted back into NATO.
==Relations anomaly 1==
Due to the plan above and the contacts with NATO during ESLV there was actually a short window of time where NRK and AEF had positive contacts before the formation of Orzel. This time was during a transition phase from the ISA times so we still heard some members try to defend Connor in casual conversation. NRK basically looked over NATO as something other than IZK which at the time had ideas about punishing NATO for their involvement with ISA. For me it was mainly about meeting people that I hadn't before giving me a clearer picture on what NATO was and how ISA came to be in its position in the first place. However all these political games had slowed deployment of technology on our vehicles somewhat and RMTF was beginning to catch up a little bit by this time.
== Early AEF cold war==
Relations began to sour between NRK and AEF around this time as our connections to IZK became stronger and we got bored. We knew that AEF still had advanced technology and cap had been working on aircraft for us. Around this time I myself became more aware of ACF so I began to innovate, with this I understood what happened during the last AEF war. Though our ground was comprised of VX10s and would suffice for any NATO or RMTF conflict, for now the more pressing matter was our lack of a competent airforce something crucial if war were to fully break out with AEF. Due to our low manpower we required quality aircraft and I came up with a very simple system for distracting missiles using prop chaff while cap used modern pill style aircraft armor layouts. This is the first appearance of stealth technology from what I can tell. Later relations with NATO showed that during this era an invasion would've likely been successful. Around this time is also when I discovered makesphereical armor independently. We considered using it however we thought about the consequences if IZK either already knew about it or didn't and started making equipment with it or both, not to mention the harm it could do to the meta considering how overpowered it was so we decided against it.
== RMTF war ==
After receiving some ISA exports and collaboration with MG, RMTF was starting to produce its first semi competent MBTs. Due to this we'd been producing tanks aswell even before the AEF cold war really took off. The TA-105b was a really simple but bad design however it was still enough to hold us out for a while. Soon after we made the VX10 and GK125a then our ground forces were sufficient. Skirmishes really began to pick up around this time and this was the only era in which RMTF and NRK were ACF comparable knowledge wise. This combined with cap spying on RMTF at the time lead to a large battle on Omega arena where we then made a video against Ratakis. Ratakis claimed that it was slander, however we read over the law and noticed that slander only applied to corporations so the video stayed up. Playing off of Ratakis' desperation during these situations we got 2sniper to spy on him. On top of the already existing doxing threats he'd made we got more. So we decided to get any personal information on him that we could just incase he actually went through with it. This information was purely defensive the only exception being his face due to the comedic condition it was in.
==Late AEF cold war==
While I still consider this a cold war since direct war was never declared. There were large enough skirmishes made against AEF deployments for it to be considered essentially a war. Battles would typically happen when we noticed that AEF was recruiting/training on a server. We would join the server and attack them usually successfully. Around this time is also when a proto Orzel pact was formed. We also noticed a clan called 1-47 on a server know known as FGC around this time, 2sniper would regularly check in on them as an observer so we could keep tabs on how clans form naturally taking a non interventionist policy. However within a few weeks we heard that AEF had contacted 1-47 and integrated them into NATO. Us being a little pissed about the observations being tainted decided to go check on what 1-47 was like during a for fun battle. We invaded them as the IRA, we quickly discovered that they would take invasions very seriously and complain constantly. When Sergei started micspamming IRA music, they were mad about it and complained to the admins. As these people were being the opposite of fun we decided to have fun by going to war with them and by extension NATO.
== Early 1-47 war==
Initial battles happened as if they were continuations of the skirmishes in the AEF cold war. My favorite being when we deployed with UOIA against AEF and 1-47 on a bigcity server. Even though there were only 5 of us on the server with around 16-20 AEF and 1-47 we still won on on the ground overrunning 2 base attempts and pushing them onto the twin towers. Other skirmishes happened on FGC and by this time IZK wanted to join in on the war seeing an opportunity to have fun. After some IZK assisted Invasion where 1-47 abused server rules to ban us. Such abuses included hiding in bases/behind walls where the only way to get in was clipping a chair through, then getting us banned for doing so. Another was on a server where prop climbing was illegal, they hid behind walls again and when we used a prop ramp to a part of the map in order to attain a position where we could jump over them, they complained and we got banned. Any skirmish that happened without those were called victories because we left the server before them regardless of kd. NATO in supporting these actions helped form 1-47's inability to take a loss, where they'll refuse to admit defeat honorably and instead lock themselves into a cycle of making their reputation worse. From what I can tell, the side that's having the least fun in clan warfare is losing regardless of the numbers.
==1-47 war==
Since the start of the war blubberyoyster4 had been an observer and "neutral" for a while. Eventually he was invited to Orzel, and while later I would learn he was a spy for NATO at the time. Given events that unfolded that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. After a large battle on FGC known at the time by NRK as Vanilla no Downloads where blub and IZK were fighting with us. Along with the cats sandbox offensive where after a week of fighting the staff got so stressed out they closed the server temporarily. Soon after NATO having their own problems with 1-47 internally along with blubs spying resulted in 1-47 being dropped like a sack of bricks with the splitting and formation of UNC. 1-47 would not entirely dissociate from NATO for a couple weeks, however association ended when 1-47 joined up with ULSCI to form ISAF after ULSCI had its own troubles with NATO. NATO dropped out of the situation almost entirely due to the autism involved. ULSCI only exacerbated this by saying ISAF was a coalition for those bullied by the meta at large, making lengthy speeches about it.