Unified Defense Force

The Unified Defense Force (UDF) was a Sandbox group dedicated to the defense of various Garry's Mod servers from mingebags and other deemed threats to the servers' communities. Initially a vanilla faction operating exclusively on the Friendly Garry's Mod Community, they later founded their own server and expanded to others.
After a long series of both internal and external conflicts, the UDF eventually became the now-defunct Royal Eskeylian Military and the present-day 1-47 Union.
== Founding ==
The UDF was originally founded as the 1-47 Combine on September 2nd, 2018 by Epic, 7j8f (better known as Seven), Cody, and Captain Cobra on FGC with the goal of having fun and fighting mingebags. The group's name was inspired by an alias used by Seven in other communities, which was created by a user named SpellTeller.
Of the original four members, only Seven and Epic remained involved with the group for any significant amount of time, as Seven was ousted from the group during the Divide, and Epic abandoned Garry's Mod entirely in late 2020. None are present today in the modern 1-47 Union.
== Early Combine Activities ==
After the initial founding of the 1-47 Combine, many small-scale fights against other tiny factions on FGC occurred, most notably with the Calcium/Skeleton Mafia, Pool Squad, and numerous rebellions by random players roleplaying as Half-Life 2 rebels, all of which were defeated by 1-47. Slowly but surely, the 1-47 outlasted all of its opponents and climbed to power in FGC, eventually becoming a dominant (though disorganized) force on the server and gaining notoriety in its community.
== First Discord Purge ==
On November 14th, 2018, Cody, the second in command at the time, banned everyone on the 1-47 Discord server and left. Seven and Epic were able to get most active members back through Discord DMs and in-game text chat, and Epic became the new second in command shortly thereafter. Cody never gave his reasoning behind the purge.
== The Calcium War/Skeleton War ==
=== The Calcium Supremacy/Rise of a Zealous Evil ===
During some point in time there was a spike in players having skeleton playermodels in FGC. It was in the darkest hours of the consecutive Skeletons' rise to power in FGC and the Calcium Wars that the Skeletons presented a threat to the spirit of the Friendly Garry's Mod Community and had been so that justified its destruction by the Union. The motive of the Skeletons' rise is that they were an 'ascended race rightfully called the Calcium' and were allegedly destined to dominate everything. This prophetic grotesqueness grew to the point that skeleton players forced randoms into imprisonment and participation in 'sacrifices' where 'blood would be drained'. The cult-like threat that loomed over the Friendly Garry's Mod Server were a concern to pillar members in the community that wanted a return to the former place that was once FGC, including the staff team.
=== Battle of gm_supersizeroom ===
These battles were arguably the bloodiest war in the history of the Union and played a major role in laying the foundation for 1-47's path to the domination of FGC. Throughout the war, there were two major forces fighting to defeat what was known at the time as Calcium and another group called the Rebels. The Pseudo Combine was one of the forces fighting in this war that was waged in the maps gm_bigcity and gm_supersizeroom. Stationed on the table in bedroom building a base under heavy sniper fire from the Rebels. Under several hours of sniper fire, the leader of the Pseudo Combine X GONN GIVE IT TO YA launched an assault towards the ratholes. Upon reaching the train table they made a one hour climb seizing the Rebel outpost and cutting off snipers and rebel aircraft. This was later used to counter Rebel airboats that tried to fly into the bookshelves. Meanwhile, on the other side of the map, the Combine fighting off hordes of enemies at the shelves along with Pseudo-Combine in the Train Room. After 2 hours of fighting at the bookshelves, the order was given to head to the Pseudo-Combine base after rebel forces had focused attention on setting up a new base by the computer. As the focus was moved to the base Pseudo-Combine retreated back to base. Afterward, a plan was made to have a mass aerial assault along with infantry. It took 30 minutes to reclaim the shelves until rebel control of the base ceased along with the remaining calcium still in the server. The end of the war resulted in the retreat of Calcium forces along with complete eradication of the Rebels.
=== Skeleton Town ===
The Battle of Skeleton Town, or as put in controversy, 'The Massacre of Skeleton Town', was the event of which took place in gm_bigcity on the Friendly Garry's Mod Server. It was there that a scouting party of Union members found a massive settlement of Calcium residing within the warehouse district of the map. Union forces quickly gathered and used the power of both air and ground forces in an aerial-ground troop support type assault. The mass of Union members flooding the streets of the warehouse district in brutal building-to-building skirmishes proved increasingly overwhelming to the Calcium, even more so when vanilla built Union Hunter-Choppers circled over the town bombing and gunning down into the main roads. The main force of Calcium would retreat southward, establishing blockades into a small corner sheltered by a highway overhead of the warehouse district where little remained of what fight they had left before surrendering to the Union and finally disbanding the Calcium. It was joked that the battle resembled Germany invading Poland.
== 1-47 v. USSR ==
Nuklearburrito appeared on FGC one day (sometime in December 2018/early 2019) and immediately fought 1-47 with some other randoms, formed the USSR soon after, multiple wars against USSR, 1-47 won every single battle due to superior organization, technology and leadership, 1-47 grew tired of constant battles and formed a loose truce with Nuklear to get him to stop, Nuklear eventually became less active on FGC and stopped attacking despite breaking truce, allowed USSR to die off
== 4 Hour War (1-47 v. AEF) ==
Introduction to groups outside FGC, AEF scouting party went on FGC one Sunday and crushed the few unprepared 1-47 troops online, week of researching AEF and related groups, that Friday AEF brought recruits to train onto FGC, underestimated 1-47 forces who launched a massive counterattack with everything they had, 1-47 overwhelmed the enemy in the first half of the fight until map change, but it became a stalemate in the second half after the AEF made a base, until AEF declared a truce, 1-47 and AEF became allies afterwards
== The Divide ==
7j8f was a very active leader for about 2 months after the founding of 1-47, but his laptop broke causing him to be inactive in game for most of the group's lifespan. In addition, he was rude because he often makes jokes at the expense of others and put many people down, pushing many to leave, he used bots to stay in power and eventually used a raidbot to destroy the server after the revolt. He made many sudden and random choices and never explained how to use the ranking system, which added to tensions between him and the group's officers over the course of a few weeks. The climax of these tensions finally occurred when he announced a declaration of war on the AEF despite most members wanting to avoid conflict with them. A push began within the group's circle of officers to overthrow him, and after approximately one week of attempting to convince Epic to become the new leader, a new Discord server was created and 1-47 declared themselves to be "the Divide." Though the initial revolution was unsuccessful in removing 7j8f because he claimed he needed the discord ownership and then epic gave it to him resulting in him attempting to lock himself further into power, a second revolution under the same name occurred less than a week later. This second movement was a massive success, with nearly every single active member supporting the plan and next to no resistance.Once all supporting members had joined the new server, thecraftianman 2rd in power at the time nuked the old one and banned mostly everyone causing 7j8f to kick everyone from the server using. Epic then decided to promote X GONN, Ally for Hire and thecraftianman to commander ranks in order to help him run the group for their extensive service and assistance in helping him lead prior to the revolution. 1-47 quickly declared the new server to be the true Combine and formed a new Steam group to reflect their new leadership.
== The Organizational Change ==
After 7j8f was overthrown by the inner council of High Command within the Union it was regarded from then on that the 1-47 would change what was the original goal of the group as a warclan that conquered servers, they would not be such a thing anymore and reintroduce themselves across the servers starting from the Friendly Garry's Mod Server as a server protection force that carried on the Combine theme.
=== Introduction to Cat's Sandbox ===
Attempted to claim, low-scale war with ULSCI, later allied after realizing common enemy of IZK, claim later revoked but remained under 1-47/ULSCI defense.
== War on Petrograd ==
Petrograd started a multiple day siege on Cat’s, re-attacking every day for about a week against 1-47 and ULSCI, breaking a load of rules and ultimately getting a lot of themselves banned by the server’s staff. They eventually stopped attacking and nothing was heard for a long time except finally hearing from Strayed the war was over. 
== UNC Split ==
After a while, fantasies began going into Epic’s head about what 1-47 should be so he started not listening as well as not sharing information with even High Command. X Gonn, Ally, and Jake got sick of it, so when NATO gave the Union 2 weeks to reform or have members favoring a split away from the group, they chose split. The officers were under immense stress and pressure at the time so they felt they had no choice, thus was the founding of the United Commonwealth (UNC). After the UNC was made and 1-47 was ejected from NATO, they cherry-picked the group's ranks, getting basically all of their active members, leaving 1-47 and crippling them temporarily. HECU and CSPG also disbanded into UNC, but not much is known of the reasoning except it was voluntary. Over time, a lot of ex-1-47 members rejoined 1-47 along with Ally for Hire, as well, UNC was being heavily backed with NATO technology. During the time Ally was in UNC, UNC cut ties with 1-47, and they are now in a neutral-hostile state to this day.
== 1-47/NRK Dispute over FGC ==
After NRK claimed FGC, the 1-47’s home server, and G10 gave it to them, outrage erupted in 1-47 high command and that day, they attacked FGC and told Sergei they were disputing, in the end both sides claimed victory even though 1-47 had higher K/Ds and hadn’t resorted to using invincible and server-lagging machines. At the present, 1-47 has a claim on FGC.
== Petrograd/Orzel/UOIA Valen Raids (Operation Lightning and Operation Thunder) ==
IZK and Orzel attacked Valen a total of three times, winning each. UOIA did quite a few smaller attacks, and when they gained their new jet they won a large scale battle as well. The conclusion of this war was the disbandment of ISAF and ULSCI.
== N0mad's Revolution ==
12/13/2019 - tojo, the leader of the Universal Union, took control of the 1-47 as the Head Advisor. This was done as a attempt for tojo to make the 1-47 into the Overwatch, the Universal Union's military forces. It began to deteriorate after the populace, mostly NCO's, began to speak up with their opinions and justified a ousting of tojo due to his breaking down of 1-47's identity. Tojo justified it was a attempt at remodeling and the change was temporary so it can fit the Universal Union's standard, but this did not please the NCOs.
12/14/2019 - After D-BOI, Ally, N0mad, and others got together in a revolt, eventually even getting Epic's support, Tojo, seeing the threat of his demise, prompted the removal of the channels and members out of 1-47. This was shut down when 1-47 caught wind of this. Nomad and Chaz were put into power after the removal of the tojo. Tojo made the 1-47 rethink their way of government, due to the rash and on the spot decisions made by Epic. This led to a bicameral command structure being made, and eventually the entire government followed suite. N0mad, seeing his revolution succeed, stepped down and allowed Epic become the commander with Chaz in the same position.
== Democratic Protest/Reform ==
After a quite a few people, notably Desired and Ally for Hire, plus about 6 more, protesting against Epic for corruption, and after long discussions Epic stepped down to NCO, but was put to Overwatch Commander (leader of military) by Desired. Desired was made to Supreme Chancellor (the equivalent of universal commander). After this, a few things were decided:
1) Supreme Chancellor would have a 2 month term, then anyone above 04 could run.
2) If the Supreme Chancellor was caught being treasonous or corrupt they werr viable to be removed if sufficient evidence was given.
3) Senators got a 1 month term, and anyone above 04 could run
4) A majority vote consisted of 5 votes from Senators
5) Epic and Ally both got permanent seats in the senate
After this, a constitution was made. This consisted of:
A1) The senate cannot be disbanded
A2) War cannot and willnot be declared unless absolutely necessary (though this one was removed later after complaint)
among other things as the months went by.
== The Grim Hour of the Union ==
Because of Epic's stubbornness to change the Union's ways and relieve tensions with the Meta seeing them as all enemies of the peoples and a 'plague of the communities', he would decide to keep the Union and its members as an unorganized horde to fight the entire meta. He would completely neglect all of the group's members and dissolute all cares for them because all that mattered to him were getting rid of warclans without considering the impact of the consequences that awaited the 1-47. Epic had even gone down such a road so far down to the point that he would twist the system of the Union's own democracy to his own personal favor in order to more quickly meet the goal of winning a near impossible war, and it was surely painful for all in the Union.
=== Failed Purge of Lucid Gaming ===
1-47 forces with Epic leading them would deploy and assault the NRK capital of Lucid Gaming, it was the very beginning of the campaign in an attempt to one by one fight the meta warclans out of all the corners of the servers. Outclassed in tactical rationale by 1-47 being cornered by sniper towers and pressured into defeat by guerrilla warfare, the Union would fail immensely in their assault on the capital of Kakestania. Already the purging of warclans was a lost cause, and the Union's peoples were already at their lowest point in morale.
=== The Overthrowing of Epic ===
After a long period of stagnancy High Command would collectively overthrow Epic and assume the directory role as one entity, as the democratic system within the 1-47 developed, Desired, an officer within the ranks, would step up to become the Supreme Chancellor of the entirety of the Union, and would single-handedly interact with the entirety of the meta and re-sustain 1-47's relationship with all warclans through a series of alliances with almost all of them. Epic would be kept under strict watch and be removed of his power in reprimand to his actions.
=== The Grim Hour of the Union Passing ===
Epic would for an extensively long amount of time reconsider the fact that warclans are part of the greater Gmod community and they were in the early years when Gmod was a more chaotic place a part of what brought life to the game as a whole. He would stop his delusions of seeing these groups as essences of pure evil and would come to respect them as individual human persons who did what they did best and for fun. Epic would then come to the resolution of swearing an oath to the entire group that such a time as this would never become reality for the Union ever again, and he would further lead with a more open mind and a compassion and striving of understanding for all.
== USMR Wars ==
Events in chronological order:
1) SyntheticMind is forced out of 1-47 due to previous acts.
2) SyntheticMind, now being known as Swaggman, creates HECU and starts war with UNC and 1-47.
3) UNC + 1-47 destroys HECU, and Swaggman gives up.
4) Swaggman, (for the final time), now goes as SlayerMelon, creates a faction called USMR, or the United Socialist Melon Republic.
5) After plenty of fighting, there is a meeting between 1-47, UNC, and USMR. The leaders of these conferences were ScartTheWoz, the Ground Watch commander, with CastleCrasher, the leader of Metro Police Force, on the 1-47 side. On the UNC side is X GONN, the co-leader of UNC. On the USMR side is SlayerMelon, the leader of USMR, and Dr. Everyday, the head engineer. They eventually come to a conclusion of peace. (There will be a wiki page on this later.) 
6) SlayerMelon is caught breaking every single term of the contract, so 1-47 declares war.
7) After so much fighting, SlayerMelon gives up and 1-47 gives a two month term of peace.
== The Second Skeleton War ==
The events of the First Skeleton War still traumatized the denizens of the Friendly Garry's Mod Server, and impulsive hate for people with a skeleton player model still burned inside the community. A series of witch hunts organized by the locals of FGC caught the community off-guard and was swept into a server-wide conflict. Because then during after the first war that the Skeletons sought redemption as a people in the community, the Union by its mission had to protect the now innocent fugitives from the mob. A defense was established sheltering the Skeletons by the Union in the map gm_functional_flatgrass, jet planes from the locals made bombing runs that were cushioned by the Union's primary defense lines while evacuees were escorted into the underground tunnel systems and railways deep below. After, settlements of skeleton people flourished in the underground with hostilities now ended, two major skeleton settlements were noted to exist, 'Blue Balls' in the deepest parts of the underground, and a town inside of a pitch black glitched part of the map clipped out of reach called 'The Void'.
== Transformation into UDF ==
The inner council of High Command came to a consensus that the group needed to change its identity to something that would be welcomed by all peoples across the servers that did not exclude people who did not want to associate themselves with the ambiguity of the 'Combine' theme. Since the cause was true and clear in all of the group's members that they wanted to be known as an authentic server protection force an original and non-conflicting identity was needed. It was set into motion that the 1-47 Union would grow as an organization from their horrible past into something for the better and would be forever known now as the Unified Defense Force. The general design of the group would be that of a futuristic-type organization that did not identify itself through country, religion, creed etc. and would serve as a defender of the preservation of all good in the communities in Gmod, striving to be a beacon for all players in all their times of need. Through this the Unified Defense Force would be an organization not being puppet to the fantasies of politics or religion and were simply founded upon to be a group of individuals fighting together for the mutual benefit and defense of the livelihoods of the server communities.
== Post-Transformation NRK War ==
News of the rebranding of the group that had drove out Orzel/Petrograd forces occupying the Friendly Garry's Mod Server reached the acknowledgement of the New Republic of Kakestania, a major enemy combatant during those times, and had declared all-out war against the Unified Defense Force. A total of two battles took place during the war, the last that decided the loss and repelling of NRK forces from the servers within the server Lucid Gaming. The Allied Forces, UDF and the BAF (Belugastan Air Force) would fight against the Petrograd-Orzel forces.
=== Assault on Eternal Sandbox ===
The forces that had opposed the UDF would make their first move, deploying all of their troops directly into one of the major servers of UDF operations, Eternal Sandbox, the immediate conflict would transition into the map of gm_bigcity where the battle raged atop the twin towers of the map, accusations of a member within the UDF using illegal methods such as Wiremod player trackers to fight the Petrograd and Orzel coalitions harassing the server from the enemy side were futile and the opposing forces quickly developed infamy in the server, forcing the Petrograd-Orzel forces to retreat.
=== Expedition of Lucid Gaming ===
UDF since its days as the 1-47 would already be knowledgeable of NRK's capital, Lucid Gaming. A PVP server that had already formed somewhat positive relations with the Union now UDF and with a history of resentment for the oppressors that occupied the server being NRK, the opportunity was ripe for rebellion and the banishment of a warclan from a server that did not want them. A local pro PVP group of friends that disregarded the Meta which dubbed themselves 'Belugastan' would approach UDF with a proposition; that the UDF would give something to fight and that they would fight alongside the UDF in joint operations. Epic would agree to the proposition made by representative of the friend group 'Armenian', and the battle would commence after long trials of preparation. UDF would establish hunting squads to engage some of the straggling Orzel-Petrograd forces while the main forces of the enemy were engaged by a vanilla AC 130 Gunship that fired down upon the towers where the coalition forces tried to swarm into and assume control of. After time and time again of routing the enemy forces, the homeland of the belligerents would become their grave, and they would soon after remove their presence indefinitely from Lucid Gaming. At the end of the battle, both the Unified Defense Force and the Belugastan Air Force would raise their flags together in victory.
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