Phil 2014

== Overview ==
Phil_2014 is the founder and former leader of the United Legion of SCI. Phil was characterized as a determined, but notoriously paranoid leader during his time. This paranoia would slowly wear away as time passed. Phil had a propensity to experiment with source engine physics and ACF during his career, the volume of projects increasing over time as his knowledge grew. Due to his distaste for making minmax equipment, he frequently developed skunkwork designs to try and discover new ways to gain an upper hand, but in the end were mostly for fun. 
== The Very Beginning (2014) ==
Phil_2014 purchased Garry's Mod around the Summer of 2014. The first multiplayer server he settled on was a now defunct ACF server (to his lack of knowledge at the time) known as the Masters of Survival (MoS). Surprisingly, he became an admin at the age of 11, and performed very poorly at his job. For some reason, this did not catch the eye of the owner.
=== The LAW ===
The LAW were a micro-faction of toxic players who abused ACF gimbal weapons to terrorize the server. Their presence was indicated by a giant tower with a gimbal howitzer at the top, guided with a laser pointer. Phil was surprisingly admitted into the LAW which did not last for long after they coerced him to reveal his age. This resulted in their extremely toxic attitude being directed towards him, to which has caused him to resent them even to this day.
== Simply Captain Icky's (2015-2019) ==
After exploring multiplayer for months on end, Phil discovered Simply Captain Icky's Sandbox. The server was a perfect blend of chaos and fun, featuring gbombs 5, WAC Aircraft, and M9K. The temptation was strong and so Phil abandoned his position as admin on MoS and joined SCI Servers. During his time there, he met Viper, the soon to be leader of FOXCBM and Baccio. 
=== The Legendary Protectors (2016) ===
SCI Sandbox #2 debuted some time in the first half of 2016, featuring Neurotec as its primary addon. This addon pack featured warships, aircraft, and tanks. Phil was a "Beta tester" for the server, being given private access to the server before it opened to the public. During this time, Phil was a Senior Proven, the highest rank a player could earn at the time. 
Not long after, a micro-faction grew significantly on SCI #2, The Legendary Protectors (TLP). The leader, Legendarygamer11, was an eccentric person who took his group quite seriously. This was most likely due to his young age despite his mature voice. Phil joined the TLP Navy, the largest branch at the time, and patrolled SCI #2 often in large fleets with fellow sailors. Not long after, Phil believed what he saw to be a TLP battleship firing on noncombatants on a nearby island. He kept this knowledge to himself until sometime in early June when he declared his desertion to Legendarygamer11 himself. Phil founded the Dreadnoughts of War, a skeleton group that never got any major recognition due to Phil creating it during a vacation in Vietnam. When Phil returned from his vacation, he deleted the Dreadnoughts of War and instead created the United Legion of SCI.
=== Conflict ===
The entire war against The Legendary Protectors was one single battle. The Battle of Flatbuild happened on gm_flatbuild, a map with large flat terrain and an adjacent ocean. As Phil duked it out with the Legendary Protectors' fleet, many of the server's population rose up and declared their allegiance with the United Legion, one of them being Baccio. The battle was intense but brief and the TLP fleet was utterly obliterated in the ensuing fight, with the flagship of the fleet being sunk after being battered by naval gunfire and aerial bombs for minutes on end. TLP fled to the land, setting up flak batteries and SAM sites around the area. This was countered by Phil and numerous other player's bombing sorties against such installations. Eventually the battle came to a close with a clear and absolute victory for the ULSCI.
=== Dormancy Period (2016-2017) ===
Following the devastating defeat imposed upon TLP, they never returned for days on end. Phil began to question whether he should continue running operations for the United Legion, and soon decided to shutter its doors until it was needed again. Following a declaration of dormancy, Phil returned to being a casual SCI player.
==== FOXCBM ====
Phil was playing on SCI #1 when he stumbled across the 102nd Red Foxes Combined Militia. He was given an invitation to join by Viper to which he promptly accepted. This group was where Phil met most of his modern day online friend group, which dissolved in 2021. 
=== SCI Summer War (2017) ===
Main Article: SCI Summer War
As FOXCBM started expanding their operations into SCI #2, Phil reactivated the United Legion to assist them. An alliance was quickly formed and they both agreed to assist each other in operations. The state of the server was thrown into chaos as a devastating conflict raged across the maps for months after Swat07, the de facto leader of the "Minge forces" pulled a Pearl Harbor on a FOX-ULSCI naval base. The ULSCI grew significantly following this conflict, as well as Phil's confidence in his leadership.
=== CGI War (2018) ===
Main Article: SCI War
Phil's mental stability was pushed to the brink during the war against Catgopher Industries. Irrational thinking manifested from his young age, creating unnecessary levels of paranoia. This, topped with the SCI staff breathing down his neck because he committed the absolutely heinous crime of leading a gmod group made everything worse. Disputes between the Coalition and CGI led to many fights having no documented victor for most of them. Infighting within the Coalition was also beginning to manifest, mostly between Viper and Baccio. Phil and Baccio adopted a narrative accusing Viper of being an overly aggressive warmonger due to the fact that he would threaten to declare war on either of them during arguments, which would fracture the Coalition. The fact that this didn't happen was because of their common goal to defeat CGI.
==== SCI Staff Feuds (2017-) ====
Harassment from the SCI Staff began around early October in 2017. Phil was not able to handle being bullied in such a large volume, and he constantly feared being banned from his favorite server. On multiple occasions Phil was bullied off the SCI Discord. Phil attempted to report the problem to Icky, but due to the fact that most of it was occurring in a channel specifically for roasting (most of it was just "haha gmod group go kill yourself" rather than actual roasting), no action was taken. The height of the bullying was during the CGI war. Sometime in early 2018, SCI Staff coerced Phil into letting them raid the Coalition Discord server in order to reach Viper. They threatened to ban Phil from the SCI gmod server if he didn't comply. Despite the fact that this was against Discord ToS, Ickycoolboy, the server owner, did nothing nor did he address the issue. The animosity between both parties ceased in 202- WRONG!! (EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER) I still live rent-free in their heads apparently.
===== Mass Banning =====
Phil plotted to mass crash the server network but then the SCI Staff permabanned all of the ULSCI. Soon after, the Coalition Civil War ignited. Phil was left hopelessly distraught as his active members became nonexistent due to the fact that none of them participated in the ACF scene. The nagging of the SCI Staff towards Phil lasted until after World War 4, with the former server co-owner of SCI leaving behind inflammatory remarks on his steam group page. Because of their clear intention to continue their harsh treatment, Phil had limited contact with the SCI Staff to the absolute maximum, blocking all of them and moving to an entirely different discord account.
==== Return (2018) ====
The last major action on SCI Servers was the gradual unbanning of the ULSCI after making a deal with Senior Admin ColonelBreeky that they cannot get a single ulx warn for an entire month to which they accomplished.
==== Shutdown (2019) ====
SCI Servers shut down on April 30th, 2019.
==== SCI Imitations (2020) ====
Sometime in October of 2020, attempts were made to bring back SCI by copying its addons and features. The first attempt was made by former staff member Clark Grausk, who became immediately unpopular due to his tendency to ignore the criticism of the playerbase. Phil abandoned the imitation and migrated to Datboi's Imitation, which was initially very successful. Phil became a staff manager, frequently having to deal with Datboi's stupidity and inability to take criticism, often shutting it down with the iconic "I'm done arguing." After multiple attempts to curtail Viper's position as admin, he and Phil rallied the entire team together and threatened to leave and make their own imitation if Datboi did not improve. He agreed to do so, but eventually relapsed as shown when he tried to intentionally get Viper in trouble with an alt-account over jokingly saying "I have your IP address" to a player. Despite the trouble in the staff team the server was still rather successful until late 2020. Phil had preemptively banned the entire former SCI Staff team in order to bar them from access citing that they were extremely untrustworthy. Datboi ignored Phil's warnings after Corvo bribed him with $200 (which he never gave) and Phil was forced to unban him by Datboi's orders. Soon after, the entire SCI staff team flooded into the server and began attempting to crash the server. Phil banned them all, then saw they were spamming gore and scat pornography in the Imitation's discord server. This too was also quelled, however Phil was severely shook by this encounter. Soon after faith was lost in the server, and Phil left behind a note describing all of his grievances against Datboi before departing. The server has since been shut down, Phil believed Datboi got what he deserved because "If he can't run a staff team, he can't run a server."
===== Revival (2022) =====
With news of an official spiritual revival of the server under a different name, Phil intended to move there on launch, but it was cancelled due to lack of motivation by Icky, the owner of SCI.
== ACF (2018-Whenever people stop using ACF) ==
Phil was genuinely excited about ACF because of his profound interest in armored vehicles and military history. His first build was a poorly made ACF turret that used no multi-parenting whatsoever, meaning it was poorly optimized. 
==== CGI War (2018) ====
While Phil was learning ACF technology, engineer Leningrad constructed the Mark 1 and 2 MBTs for use in the ULSCI. Initially intended to fight CGI in the event they encountered each other on an ACF server, the tanks would only see combat until the Coalition Civil War. The Mark 2 remained the ULSCI's staple MBT up until the Mid-war period of the EI wars.
==== EI Wars (2018) ====
Phil was once again mentally pushed to the absolute brink during the EI wars. Him and Viper's large egos led them to believe that they could take a shot at CGI again, but ended up facing GMAP as well. Phil rushed himself to learn ACF, making below sub-par tanks that did not fit the meta due to his lack of knowledge of the tank meta. Combat was rare but tense when it did occur. Phil's desire to defeat CGI was outmatched and outgunned at the time, and the threat of spies was way more apparent. During this time, the SCI Staff mass reported Phil's discord account and got it deleted, they did the same thing to the EI discord by raiding it and nuking it. When the war fizzled away, Phil wasn't satisfied, they outlived the enemy but did not truly defeat them.
==== ISAF (2019) ====
Following controversies in AEF's western coalition and NATO, the ULSCI withdrew and went on to form ISAF. This alliance was meant to ensure mutual defense for factions that were frequently bullied by larger powers. This only served to be Phil's downfall because literally everyone hated him at the time. Operation Lightning and Operation Thunder devastated the ULSCI and 1-47, and Phil fled the scene. This is the first of many times Phil would flee from the meta.
==== 2020 ====
Phil was not present in the meta for all of 2020 except for a minor, short lived appearance in TEC.
==== The Federation (2021) ====
Phil returned in February of 2021. During the time of the Federation the ULSCI had reached a level similar to its golden age in 2017.
==== World War 4 (2021) ====
Phil fought in the early stages of World War 4, but after Xgonn's claims that his home was Swatted, Phil fled once again due to fear of falling victim to the same fate. His rationale was that GMAP was already performing harmful acts such as crashbotting as well as March's controversy over IP grabbing the year prior and that they were willing to go far worse. Phil believed he was leaving before "the bombs started to fall."
== Daktank, Return to ACF (2021-) ==
Phil had a renewed interest in the meta due to the migration to DakTank as it appeared to be a change of pace and far more simplified. Phil had constructed multiple tanks already in anticipation of fighting potential enemies like GMAP, since WW4 technically never ended. Due to the death of DakTank and the rise of the FDV ruleset, Phil followed and became active participant.
=== Ludasia ===
Ludasia is a nation made by Phil, which he does not intend to treat Ludasia as a faction, but rather as a source of aesthetic (basically LARP) for his vehicle designs and to add some depth. It is currently unaligned. Ludasia is a nation based off of Hungary. This nation does not use a tag or is recognized by any faction in the meta.
=== KATO-Petrograd War (2022) ===
A vast majority of Phil's ACF development was during this conflict. Phil had churned out a vast arsenal of weapons ranging from experimental tanks to his first competitive MBT that could actually take a hit and survive for once. A lot of his learned ACF knowledge is accredited to his induction into IZK's circle which was made possible by re-establishing his friendship with Baccio following a schism that occurred in their previous friend group, which had split them apart in late 2021. Due to newly acquired building knowledge, Phil was able to confidently participate in tank combat against KATO forces while also providing technical aid to other minor groups when he desired. 
=== 2023 ===
Following the falling out between IA and IZK, relations shifted and eventually lead to an unforeseen friendship with KATO due to their shared dislike of IA. Though initially rocky, the two work together intermittently but usually just fuck around.
=== Present Day ===
Semi-Active, likely screwing around or waging a one-man guerrilla war, but usually busy with college.
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