ThursAfternoon

ThursAfternoon first joined the server in October 2018, during the Fifth Era. He has been a member of many different towns. He also hosts the MCPE Podcast, a podcast that does interviews and covers other server topics.
== Fifth Era ==
=== Humble Beginnings ===
ThursAfternoon would first join MCPE in October of 2018, during the Fifth Era, having found it on the PlanetMinecraft server list. At the time, he used the IGN "0B3." He was invited to a town located in a jungle, though would later be unable to recall where the town was or its name. Having joined the town, Thurs became inactive for roughly two weeks. After he rejoined, he was no longer a member of the town, and so joined Moscow. It was here that he would receive a proper introduction to the server and its plugins, and was introduced to MCPE mechanics such as alcohol and vehicles. Nonetheless, unsure of what to do in a town already built up, he went inactive once more, this time for months.
== Sixth Era ==
=== Reintroduction & California ===
In the time after initially joining during Era 5, Thurs would primarily play factions on a now-defunct server. However, after his faction collapsed, and his splinter group's base was raided, he decided to quit factions permanently. It was March 2019, and he was looking for new servers to play on when he found a video showcasing a different earth server. Immediately being reminded of MCPE, which by now he had all but forgotten about, Thurs found it in his server list, and rejoined. 
At this point, his IGN had become GreenEyeShot, and the few people who he'd interacted with as 0B3 either didn't recognize him, forgot him, or no longer played. Realizing that the world had been reset, Thurs (Typically referred to as "Green" at the time), joined a small town in Siberia. The town was small and unattractive though, and so Thurs left and joined Korea the same day. Within an hour of joining Korea, he met another player, xXDogeEnricoXx, who was looking to form a new nation. Having no attachment to Korea, Thurs joined him and the two would co-found California. 
California would have a difficult time in its short existence. Doge was aggressive in his politics, and pushed to unite the entirety of the North American west coast. Japan, of which the town Oregon was a member. Oregon had no desire to join California, and the two towns would claimblock each other, resulting in a Japanese embargo of California. Doge's ambitions were seen as immature and obnoxious to a majority of the playerbase, who would come to hate him, as well as Thurs by association. 
Thurs had largely escaped the spotlight, however any attention he received was negative. Doge's often reckless actions would be quietly supported by Thurs, who would go about trying to keep stability within the nation of California. Thurs eventually made friends with two players who owned a town in Hispanola, which would subsequently join the nation. 
The town of Cuba was a small and isolated town, and Doge decided to provoke them for no reason other than believing he could get away with it. He instructed Thurs to guard the town members of Hispanola while they claimed as much of Cuba as they could. Thurs was provided with a few crackshot guns, moderately good armor, and then Doge left for the night. 
When Thurs and Hispanola attempted to claim Cuba, the Cubans immediately sailed over in boats to confront them about it. Thurs, panicking, began to open fire on the approaching Cubans, and a small shootout began. The Japanese, seeing an opportunity to attack California, offered immediate protection to Cuba and Japanese troops began teleporting to the town. They killed the leader of Hispanola as he attempted to retreat, but Thurs was able to hide in a tree before teleporting back to California. 
Thurs was forced to testify before the UN and explain the Californian provocation of Cuba. Though Dracnoian was supposed to oversee the proceedings, he was unable to get on, and SwagMeister27, the leader of Japan, took his place. Unsure of how to get out of the situation, Thurs pinned the entirety of the situation on Doge and denounced California. He then left the nation and formed his new town of Arbor, based in real-life Green Bay. 
=== Arbor ===
Having formed Arbor, Thurs would join several nations, though in all of them he would avoid heavy participation in other towns' affairs. Arbor would stay neutral for the rest of Era 6, in spite of Thurs' persistent desire to invade Sasuke, a town located in Michigan. Thurs typically invited random or new players to Arbor, which, while it did grant large manpower to the town, meant that the majority of the town was inactive. Besides Thurs himself, the only Arborian to become a well-known player was Din099. 
Throughout most of the Era 6, Arbor was a member of the Holy Totoean Empire, making Thurs one of the notable mayors within the nation, alongside TheTiltedIndian and Tur2004. The nation as a whole didn't make many accomplishments, at least not while Thurs was active, however it was Thurs' first real instance of cooperative diplomacy with other town leaders. As the Empire dissolved, GummyGuy gave ownership of the nation to Arbor, presumably just because Thurs was willing to take it. Thurs renamed it to the Union of Arborian States, however Arbor was the only town in said Union, and so he simply let it fall to upkeep. 
Around the summer of 2019, Thurs would go inactive, and the few active members of Arbor did so as well. As such, the town went dark, drifting on its full town bank for the rest of the era, with Thurs not returning until after the GVI War had concluded and the playerbase all but gone. 
Though Arbor's isolationism led to little history available for retelling, Thurs today considers his time in Arbor to be nostalgic, and a highlight of his MCPE career. 
== Seventh Era ==
=== New Zealand ===
In the leadup to the Seventh Era's release, Thurs would communicate with Din099 about where they both planned to form towns. They eventually came to an agreement that they would together form the nation of New Zealand, with Din making the North Island, and Thurs making the South Island. The agreement would come to fruition, and the nation was formed.
After some time in New Zealand, Din would disband the nation and his town, opting instead to join the Valeduxian capital. Thurs received no warning beforehand, and joined Valedux as well, though he kept his town. After unsuccessfully running for the Valeduxian Senate, he would continue to build and claim. That was, until a bug caused by the server updating versions corrupted his town. Southern New Zealand was unable to be edited by any player, and the town couldn't properly function as a town. Thurs sought refuge in the Valeduxian capital, though lost motivation from his town's deletion and went inactive.
== Eighth Era ==
=== Staff ===
As the Eighth Era was being released, an announcement asking for staff applications was made, and Thurs decided to apply. He received a promotion to staff the next day, and got the helper role after several failed applications from previous eras.
=== Cyprus ===
ThursAfternoon had decided once more to make his town on an island, and figured that the Mediterranean would be an ideal location. As such, he quickly settled on Cyprus as the location for his new town. The day that the server re-opened, Thurs would found Cyprus. Not having much interest in a nation, he opted to join Cadmus for no reason other than it being the largest on the server, and did so purely for protection from potential enemies, namely nearby Dripistan. 
Though Cadmus was a superpower, its decline began almost as soon as it formed, and Thurs predicted a looming collapse. Since Era 6, Thurs had possessed a moderate interest in the Brewery plugin, and sought to focus primarily on that and Movecraft during Era 9. His main competition came from Joereg and JustBecuase, both located in Brazil. Aware that he couldn't out-compete them on his own, he decided to propose a merging of their businesses into one company with shared profits and recipes. After some negotiations, this initial idea would morph into the New Alcohol Trade Organization (NATO), and Joe made the nation in game, which Thurs promptly joined, leaving Cadmus to its fate.
Though NATO did become a decently well-known name, and even formed a defensive pact with Prussia and Athens, the capital of Brazil was largely inactive. Thurs, become more interested in being a part of an active nation, left and instead joined Valedux once more. Cyprus had begun to claim large swaths of the Middle East, and so Thurs hoped that being a part of Valedux would help ward off the increasingly hostile Dripistanis in the north.
Around this time, Thurs would be unable to play for two months due to personal reasons. When he returned, he found his town had fallen to upkeep and been griefed, and his staff role revoked due to inactivity. Though he was offered his staff role back if he began playing actively again, the loss of his town had taken any motivation he had, and so Thurs wouldn't log into the server again until Era 9. Thurs would later refer to not playing for the rest of Era 8 as his greatest regret on MCPE.
== Ninth Era ==
=== Crimea and Schleswig-Holstein ===
After going dark, and cutting off all interaction with MCPE for the rest of Era 8, Thurs missed the announcement of a new era, and in fact wouldn't find out about Era 9's existence until roughly a month and a half after it had started. When he finally rejoined, he founded a town in Crimea, and didn't join a nation. Only a day after forming this town, though, he decided to merge with the town of Mendoza, run by myheadisnotanegg, due to their large brewing facility and collection of recipes. Soon, though, Byzant77 and JFK_gaming208 showed up to Mendoza, requesting that Crimea be unclaimed in a thinly veiled threat. Thurs was reluctant, but understood that the HRE, Byzant's nation, was unlikely to respond well to refusal. Thurs begrudgingly agreed, however was surprised when Byzant gave him an offer. He said that though Crimea would have to be unclaimed to make room for JFK's ambitions in Bulgaria, Thurs was welcome to join the nation. Though planning to refuse, Thurs changed his mind and joined the HRE as the Duke of Shleswig-Holstein.
Thurs largely saw the experience of being in the HRE as a readjustment to MCPE's politics and vastly different community than he had known. He constructed brewing facilities and a movecraft port, and familiarized himself with the nations and diplomacy of the Ninth Era. He also interacted with the other major players of the HRE, namely Byzant77, RenWiz, JDrocks11, Junknooo, and niuzhon9, though other players came and went. 
=== Pennsylvania ===
Only a couple weeks after joining the HRE, the boredom of many of its members led JDrocks11 to propose moving the nation across the Atlantic and becoming the United States. It was agreed to the same night, and the nation began to move. Thurs, being a Pennsylvanian in real life, desired to make PA. JD also wanted to make the same town for the same reasons, and so the two merged their towns and formed Pennsylvania.
In the USA, Thurs and JD ensured that their state would become the most advanced and self-sufficient state, being the first with nuclear power and auto-enchanted gear. They also began work on a large road network through the state, and had key highways leading to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie. 
The period of development that the USA had been experiencing was ended all too soon, however, when RenWiz, under Byzant's instruction, drafted the Monroe Doctrine. It was virtually identical to its historical counterpart, discouraging encroachment in the Americas by foreign nations, while vowing to defend towns and nations based in the Americas. Though intended for little more than roleplay purposes, the announcement was taken seriously by foreign powers. Valedux and the British would sponsor _LegendaryOtter to claim a town within the unfilled state borders of the USA, and provoke them as much as possible. The intention was simply to remove Byzant from power, but it ended up causing the entire nation to collapse, with most of the prominent members quitting the server.
=== Rossland ===
Thurs was among those who declared his departure, and deleted Pennsylvania. Only a day later though, he realized that there were no alternatives to MCPE that really interested him, and he shamefully walked back on his announcement from the previous day. He made a new town in Baja California, and joined Valedux, only for the nation to disband the next day. He then reluctantly joined the British Empire, and worked to get the members of the USA to return to the server. This worked, and after RenWiz pretended to join the British for a couple days, he, JD, and Junknooo would form the town of Rossland in Antarctica. 
Thurs joined Rossland after a bit of convincing from RenWiz, and so left the British. Those within the British Empire were displeased with Thurs' abandonment of the nation, and had some internal discourse over how to react. Niuzhon9, misinterpreting the potential of action against Rossland for direct orders, eagerly circle-claimed the town, an event that would sour relations between the "Rosslings" and niuzhon for months to come. After the circle-claiming incident was cleared up, those in Rossland formed a nation, known as the Grand Duchy of Ross, and began to treat their loyalty to Rossland as a sort of cult. 
The primary architecture of Rossland was an underground castle, which would never be completed. There were also a few other areas of Antarctica where Thurs and the other members would build movecraft, however they never came into use. After the British Civil War, the British largely went inactive. That, combined with the collapse of both the USA and Valedux meant that Era 9 would die a slow death for the next several months, with Thurs being inactive.
== Tenth Era ==
=== Pre-Era ===
After Thurs' PC broke, and then later was fixed, during which time the former members of Rossland server-hopped with another group of players, they began to prepare for Era 10. Their first choice of nation was the Caribbean, in which Thurs planned to be Yucatan. After a few weeks of this, however, they moved to Australasia, with Thurs being New Zealand. The Indo-Prussian Union forced him out of New Zealand, though, and the nation then moved to Pennsylvania, opting for the name Greater Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, inspired by Pennsylvania's real-life Commonwealth title.
While in Pennsylvania, Thurs eventually decided to secede from the nation, choosing to make the Grand Duchy of Arbor as his nation. Ren talked him down from it, however, and Thurs agreed that Arbor would stay in Pennsylvania's nation. Unsure of what to call the nation now that it was more than just Pennsylvania, Thurs chose the name "The United Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Arbor," an intentionally long title meant to allude to the strange and often convoluted official titles of nations in real life. Ren however used the title "United Commonwealth of America," sticking with the Commonwealth as a leftover title from PA, while displaying greater ambitions than just the state. Thurs thought the title seemed too unoriginal, and so would refer to the nation as "The Commonwealth" for weeks as a small act of protest, before finally accepting that the UCA was the more popular name.
As the UCA grew, the nation decided to consolidate eastwards, and Thurs agreed to join Pennsylvania. He then changed his mind, deciding to do Madagascar as an overseas state, which he recruited wolverine____ to, just in time for the server to launch.
=== ROSS ===
In the months leading up to Era 10's release, an account known as ROSS would be created. It was seemingly a direct parody of SCIO, also utilizing the theme of multiple numbered individuals on one account. ROSS was initially meant to only be a joke in an internal UCA group chat, before the members of ROSS decided it would be funny to begin talking in the public MCPE servers. ROSS 1 (JD). ROSS 2 (Ren), and ROSS 3 (Thurs) would go around on the account, talking as cryptically as possible, and infuriating most who interacted with them.
ROSS was exceedingly unpopular, with several people dedicating themselves to screaming and cursing at ROSS every time the account was used. Thurs would end up being the most active of the three ROSS, with the other two losing interest very quickly. Thurs attempted to keep ROSS alive, but lost motivation due to being the only one using the account, and eventually he and JD explained the entire facade to Scio.
It's important to note that the identity of the three ROSS was never intended to be a closely-guarded secret. The members were well aware that they were the only ones who'd ever made mention of ROSS previously, and their cult-like obsession in Era 9 made it obvious to any willing to search in the server who was running the account. Nevertheless, their identities were largely unknown, and those who did know never bothered to share that information, allowing ROSS to stay anonymous for longer than they had anticipated.
=== The Era Begins ===
When Era 10 finally released on June 3rd, Thurs was promoted to Helper once more. He'd applied only ten days prior, however the lack of staff on as the server swarmed with players caused his application to be accepted very quickly. When the players were allowed at last to leave the spawn area, Thurs founded Madagascar with wolverine, and they began to develop their town. 
Only about a week into the era, Thurs and the rest of Madagascar opted to secede from the UCA and instead join the Indo-Prussian Union, with Thurs given the titles of Kaiserin and First Lady at his own request.
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