The Halen Republic

The Halen Republic was a military junta dedicated to more non-ACF combat. While the group has not had much luck in ACF combat or engineering, and has little experience working with ACF, they make up for this lack in skill with E2 and Wiremod development.
== History ==
=== Founding (December 18th, 2016) (1st Founding) ===
The Halen Republic, or HALEN, first founded December 17th, 2016 (Meanwhile, the group actually fully founded the 18th, when the steam group was made.)
The original HALEN was founded by PCrafterZ, Potatolegend, and an forgotten third person. While PCrafterZ (or march, as he'll be referred as from now on) was always the core leader of The Halen Republic, the first Halen was the only Halen that had 3 leaders all at once.
The general active military was Avocado, Nuclearburrito, Sickman, and some others. The engineers of HALEN were seeturtle and Archangel_510.
=== Fall of the 1st HALEN (February 6th, 2017) ===
As time went on, HALEN became more powerful, or so they thought. While they had at least 35-40 members at our peak, with about half being active, their downfall would be a major war that ended quick, and a member in their group essentially pulling a coup d'tat.
After discourse with Nuclearburrito, Sickman, and Archangel_510, it was eventually decided that Sickman would be demoted from second in command after inactivity and Nuclearburrito would be promoted to second in command, which caused Sickman to leave. This was a mistake, because of Nuclearburritos constant thirst for a fight. Without even consulting march about it, Nuclearburrito declared war on The Red Union (Tru), which ended quickly due to their tech being 100 times better then the best HALEN technology.
After this war, Archangel_510 decided to found Engineering³. Originally, this wasn't seen as a threat, due to being primarily an engineering group. However, Archangel_510 invited almost every active HALEN member into Engineering³, telling them to leave HALEN, which ultimately caused the 1st HALEN's downfall.
=== HALEN 2 (Around May 2017) ===
After The Red Union left Garry's Mod entirely on April 21st, 2017, march finally saw an opportunity to fill in a major power gap left from Tru's abandoning. While the 2nd HALEN isn't much to talk about, and mostly lasted about a week, not much is still remembered about the 2nd HALEN. The group maxed out at about 7 members, and eventually died off after a loss of traction.
=== Halen 3 (The Halen Republic) (June 24, 2017) ===
Previous HALEN attempts always had an issue, which was the ultimate lack of organization. While basic ranking was there for commanders, there never was actual proper roles. Technology was also mass given out, which often resulted in leaks.
Halen 3, aka The Halen Republic, has the most history "written down" for lack of a better term. The majority of information not actively written down can be taken from old discord logs, This was also the first Halen to properly use multiple methods of communication, with proper organization and handling of technology.
Beginning
The Halen Republic started off at war with Furries For Life, or FFL. While the Halen Republic could probably easily curbstomp FFL, due to member count, FFL was still a substantial threat to Halen. Other game divisions were set up or planned, including a Rust Division, and a Space Engineers division.
South Western Union
The Halen Republic joined SWU early on in it's life. It consisted of New Arizonian Republic, Sovinia, NCUI, and AEoM. The coalition was mainly dedicated to protection, help in war, and with technology. No group had a say over another group.
Newscasts
The Halen Republic often posted newscasts, which were often written by a specialized Newsman (Quentin, at the time, was our newsman). Info was often sent to him, to write a specialized newscast for the day.
Cryzec-Halen Alliance
 Sometime in July, there was a "secret" alliance between Cryzec and Halen. After meeting on SSPH, they both saw great promise in each other and decided to form an alliance. The majority of this alliance was sending tech to each other, and other various favors.
Captain Cancer's Departure
Captain Cancer left his position July 5th, 2017. He worked on the motto and the constitution at the time. He was later replaced by Quentin, and newscasts were rarely posted. Quentin rewrote our constitution after replacing Captain Cancer.
"Propaganda"
The Halen Republic made some propaganda during their lifetime. While it was amateur at the time, this was considered cutting edge propaganda, using a special green screen E2 along with other techniques.
Captain Cancers Return
Captain Cancer later decided to return to Halen. This caused a lot of ranks to be shifted, including demotions, which didn't make some people happy. In response, ranks remained the same, with only Quenty being demoted to Prime Minister, and Captain Cancer being second in command.
HALEN-OHAPIC Alliance
After minor tensions between the groups, the two decided to ally in an agreement that can best be summed up as this:
# Do not attack each other
# If someone else attacks OHAPIC or HALEN, the other will not support this other person
# The leadership of OHAPIC and HALEN remain in contact
# If OHAPIC or HALEN becomes the victim of an attack, the other must take rational action to defend
# If war is declared on OHAPIC or HALEN, the other must declare war as well
# If war is declared by OHAPIC or HALEN, the other doesn't have to declare war
# All disputes solved peacefully
# This treaty becomes effective as soon as possible
While this may seem like a minor event, this was big for Halen. Previously, they were seen as tiny by most factions, but this alliance had the ability to make Halen stronger then the first or second attempts ever could dream of.
UMU-NAR Conflict
An NAR member joined a server that UMU was training on. According to UMU, this member took out a tank and attempted to interrupt the training, so UMU shot back. However, Quenty had never sent a member to go on that server. Chatlogs are public, you can view them here.
Captain Cancer's Departure 2
Most of the work on the discord and steam group was done by Captain Cancer. He worked very hard to get both up to our standards. However, after a while, march began to slack off, and put most of the work on Captain Cancer. After a while, on August 12th, 2017 Captain Cancer messaged march saying he was done and he would be leaving. This was a huge blow to the group, and to the leadership, which scrambled quickly to find a replacement.
Death
 The Halen Republic's death is the least known part about Halen 3. Most of the info in this section was not written down, as the conversations happened primarily on Steam, and weren't screenshotted due to being highly confidential.
RFAI-IZK were fighting at this time, and The Halen Republic admitted directly they were too weak to fight in such an event, so they stayed neutral. march, realizing how his group was slowly falling apart, decided to prepare a training event for August 25th, 2017. After multiple delays, and still confidential messages with Avocado and Archangel_510, The Halen Republic was shutdown.
Final Claimed Territories:
- BBPH shared with CU nigs
- TMans Build and Kill
- Cereal Killers
- Golden Age Gaming
- Stargate Nova
- Birbs & Parrots GMOD Clan Server
- Darkstorm Build 
=== The Halen Republic (May 5th, 2019) (4th) ===
Not much happened lol
barely anything to really write about
its fuckin 3 am
== Technology Overview ==
== Files ==
Halen Republic Flag (.blend file for Blender 2.8)
http://marchcain.com/projects/project-files/gm/flag/halenflag.blend
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