Obsidian Nation of Independence

ONI, or The Obsidian Nation of Independence, was a Garry’s Mod Faction founded by TheSinnerScanty in March of 2022, though the clan did not receive the name ONI until late April of 2022.
ONI had led by a Council of Five Ministers, which would vote on important group decisions and had ultimate authority over the rest of the group. ONI expressed tolerance of all other ideologies except for Fascism.
== History ==
=== Formation ===
ONI Was founded during April 2022 as a rebranding of a series of former clans that existed as far back as March 2022 or earlier.
=== The Monolith Wars / The ONI-Monolith-Coalition Wars (March 12, 2022 - March 16, 2022) ===
The Monolith Wars began when a predecessor to ONI attempted to negotiate peace with other users and factions in Super Garry's Mod Server, and things went awry. At the end of negotiations, Two groups, the Monolith and the Coalition, declared war on the old group and fought for approximately an hour before suddenly the Coalition surrendered and joined forces with the former faction and combined into one singular group. The Monolith later surrendered and declared a certain area of the map "Holy Grounds".
In the days following the battle, the Monolith leader, apparently the sole member of his faction, began to manipulate and gaslight members of the Coalition, and after running out of patience, the Coalition dissolved the peace treaty and continued resisting the Monolith. After awhile, the Monolith mysteriously disappeared and the Coalition disbanded.
=== The 22-Day War / The ONI-TTN War (April 5, 2022 - April 27, 2022) ===
The 22-Day War was a long and brutal conflict between ONI's predecessor factions and a faction called TTN. They joined the server in an attempt to make peace with TTN, but TTN refused and began shooting ONI officials and declaring war.
Over the course of several days, TTN informed other factions such as ACA about the war and their accusation that ONI started the conflict, despite having no factual evidence other than 'eyewitness' reports. ACA ended up joining the war due to boredom, but in the end did not participate in the conflicts between ONI and TTN for the remainder of the war except for one skirmish.
Some of the most notable conflicts between ONI and TTN were the Invasions of ThatSandboxServer. ONI had a chance to study TTN's capabilities and adapt to their battle tactics after each fight. Every time their forces would breach TTN's defenses, they would use ACF weaponry to launch successful counterattacks. This was before ONI possessed ACF technology.
Later in the conflict ONI struggled to resist TTN, when another faction, TMU, came to their support. At first, they welcomed this support, but ONI and TTN allies alike began to complain of their harsh and unorthodox battle tactics, which usually involved hacking and doxxing. After a while, ONI gained enough allies to fight back and discharged TMU from the alliance to prevent from alienating the rest of ONI's allies.
On the final two days of the war, three weeks after it had began, after ONI received ACF experts from Orzel, as well as advisors for its' soldiers, TTN was exposed for allegedly possessing "Illegal Tech" as it was put by anonymous intelligence sources, which caused most factions in the Garry's Mod Meta to condemn their actions and soon attack them. ONI planned to launch an attack on ThatSandboxServer, but the other factions in the FDV community had gotten to them first. It was concluded that TTN was defeated to a satisfactory level, so ONI declared victory in the conflict.
=== The "Red Man" Incident (April 22, 2022) ===
The Red Man incident, also called the Combine Cross Event, was a brief activity involving Scanty and some random people on Super Garry's Mod that had to do with a Crucified Combine Elite Ragdoll surrounded by other Combine Elites as a joke. Though server anarchists attempted to grief and vandalize the scene which made it all the more hilarious.
=== The Skeleton Incursion (May 3, 2022) ===
Scanty joined Super Garry's Mod and waged "war" against Skeleton Gang fanatics, ending with victory since the gang members most likely disbanded as per usual of Skeleton Gang worshippers.
=== The 5-Hour War / The ONI-TMU War (May 5, 2022) ===
On May 5, 2022, TMU declared war on ONI claiming they had "betrayed them" when all ONI did was expel them from the Alliance for being untrustworthy.
Five Hours Later, ONI declared victory due to lack of enemy participation and their refusal to fight on fair terms.
=== The ONI-TALOS YouTube "War" (April 26, 2022 - May 13, 2022) ===
The "War" which was more of a pointless exchange of slander videos between ONI and TALOS-1 began on April 26 of 2022 when TALOS released a video making fun of ONI propaganda (which was SIE propaganda at the time). ONI Responded with a reaction video of their own, and then TALOS responded to ONI's response to their reaction video.
After this took place, ONI released another video exposing Dimitri (the leader of TMU) for being a fraud and acting like a pedophile. TALOS and ONI agreed to call a truce to make fun of TMU, and the incident was overlooked by both parties.
=== KATO-Petrograd War (May 15, 2022 - May 18, 2022) (Cancelled) ===
At the time, ONI and Orzel were allies, and one of ONI's terms for attacking is when an ally is threatened. So ONI declared war on KATO, but no official conflicts occurred between either party.
An Incident between Councilman Scanty and ACA Leader Xenoscooty caused the positive relations between ONI and ACA to weaken, and members of Orzel were involved in the incident, casting serious doubt on the strength of ONI's relationship with them, so Scanty decided to drop out of the war against KATO and remain neutral for the time being.
=== The Frost Byte Incident (May 17, 2022) ===
The ONI Councilman Scanty joined Super Garry's Mod Server along with the ACA Leader Xenoscooty just to fool around. But a few minutes later, Frost Byte, a troublesome and unstable individual that had been pestering ONI for several months joined Super in an attempt to annoy Scanty but did not succeed. He was attacked by both Scanty and Scooty until he said in the VC "This Server is a Cesspool right now, I'm leaving." And seconds later, he did just that.
=== ONI-USSR Merging (May 20, 2022) ===
The ONI Council and James, the leader of ONI's Allied group, USSR, agreed to merge the clans together to form one strong clan to protect itself against potential threats from the Garry's Mod Metaverse, and to be taken more seriously by other well sized clans. ONI and USSR agreed to move all the members from USSR into the Steam Group and Discord Server, and to use USSR's Group Chat as the primary Group Chat.
=== The ONI-ACA War (May 20, 2022 - May 26, 2022) ===
A Person claiming to be a member of a Group known as "NRK" reached out to Scanty announcing their declaration of war. Orzel then dissolved the ONI-Orzel Alliance and also declared war. The ONI Population during the first battle did not take much of this seriously, and the battle was transformed into a simple shitposting battle in a Group Chat that lasted roughly a half hour or so. It was also discovered that the member of NRK that contacted Scanty was a member of a false NRK, as an identical NRK existed in the KATO Alliance.
Not long afterwards, Scanty made contact with the leaders of KATO and agreed to help them defeat Orzel in exchange for them helping ONI defeat ACA, which they wholeheartedly agreed to. So it was determined that a raid on ACA's Turf, Weedbox would occur. Scanty and Greffly arrived, but no one else in ONI or KATO appeared, so the battle was cancelled.
Shortly after the battle, Scanty was contacted by Magi, who defected to ONI, and a person named Grey agreed to form an alliance between ONI and two other groups and end their neutrality between ONI and ACA.
On the 26th of May, it was decided that ONI and ACA (Also TALOS-1) would have another battle, but there was a large amount of confusion and misinformation from the sudden betrayal from TALOS-1, and eventually ONI forces would remain inactive on the server during the event then members of both parties leaving the server, ending the battle. Afterwards, the ONI Council decided that ACA was no longer worth their attention and decided to pursue more important matters.
=== ONI-TTN Incident (May 25, 2022) ===
One of the ONI Councilmen joined a server with The TTN leader, Gopnik, after a month of limited interaction between the two groups. Gopnik proposed an "alliance" between ONI and TTN and recommended they meet up in ThatSandboxServer which was somehow back up and running again, and no longer under siege by Orzel given their unfriendly relations towards ONI.
However, it was revealed that Gopnik's proposal for an alliance was a trap, and after a minor exchange of weapons fire, air strike dupes and ACF fighting, ONI forces left the server.
=== Disbanding (May 28, 2022) ===
After their loss in the ONI-ACA War, Scanty was in a singleplayer server attempting to make a "superweapon" to destroy the ACA. After his contraption ended up being a few turrets welded to an airboat which didn't even save when he attempted to dupe it, he had an epiphany and decided to dismantle his clan and leave the Garry's Mod scene. Afterwards their YouTube channel was renamed to "ONI Historical Archive" and their page on the RFAI was vandalized.
== Organization ==
=== Ranks ===
==== Council of Ministers ====
The ONI Council carries the ultimate authority over the rest of the group. Sometimes, when merging with other clans, their leaders are allowed into the Council to interpret the wishes of their clan.
===== Executive/Enforcer =====
Carries out and enforces the wishes of the Council.
===== Legislative/Legislator =====
Makes the rules and guidelines.
===== Judiciary/Justiciar =====
Passes judgment on cases.
==== Supplementary ====
===== Military/Tactician =====
Designs useful props for the group and directs the soldiers. 
===== Negotiations/Negotiator =====
Reaches out to other groups and attempts positive relations.
==== Intelligence Agency ====
Advises the Council on important information.
==== Attack Team Bravo ====
ONI's most active and skilled soldiers, who appear when active to defend the security of ONI.
==== Veteran ====
Members who have served in past wars. 
==== Engineer ====
Builders for ACF Technology.
==== Casual ====
New Recruits. 
== Foreign Relations ==
NAME 	RELATIONS BEGAN	STATUS OF RELATIONS	RANGE OF MEMBERS 	TERRITORY 	ALLIANCE 	REP
The Turtle Nation [TTN] 	April 5, 2022 	Ignored 	20-30 	ThatSandboxServer 	None 	Bad
The Marxist Union [TMU] 	April 22, 2022 	Ignored 	380+ (lol) 	NFO Servers 	None 	Blacklisted
Anti-Cringe Association [ACA] 	April 7, 2022 	Enemy 	40-50 	Super Garry's Mod Server, Weedbox	GGMA 	Decent
Orzel Federation 	May 7, 2022 	Enemy 	20-30 	Colorful Crew 	Is an Alliance 	Decent
GGMA 	May 12, 2022 	Negative 	13 Member Factions	GGMA Servers 	Is an Alliance 	Decent
TALOS-1 	May 13, 2022 	Negative 	Unknown 	GGMA Servers 	None 	Decent
Anti-Communist Coalition [ACC] 	May 14, 2022 	Uncertain 	9 Member Factions 	Any 	Is an Alliance 	Decent
STAMP 	May 14, 2022 	Ignored 	1 	Unknown 	None 	Bad
KATO 	May 14, 2022 	Ally 	6 Member Factions 	Unknown 	Is an Alliance 	Decent
Nationalstic Republic of Kakestania [NRK]	May 13, 2022 	Ally 	Unknown 	Unknown 	KATO 	Decent
ZKMB 	May 23, 2022 	Ally 	Unknown 	Unknown 	The Allied Union	Unknown
SGAF 	May 23, 2022 	Ally 	Unknown 	Unknown 	The Allied Union	Unknown
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