Rapture

The city of Rapture was created by VX_Purger and the now-exiled player JosephGoldberg (Tante). It was an underwater trading area, originally made as a hyper-capitalist city for the purpose of trading, mainly out of Prismarine blocks. Its facilities included a watchtower (with a statue of a man holding up an atlas, much like the cover of Ayn Rand's Magnum Opus Atlas Shrugged), a central hub, a hospital, a recreation area, and a massive underwater agricultural area.
Rapture was a short-lived city, created after the destruction of the New Aldwyn Company. Tante, seeing the horrors of war, decided to establish a peaceful city decided to trading, and was shortly joined by VX_Purger and Shades (on his Bvll alt). It was seen as a city where man would only be constrained by his potential, and not by other factors, such as social institutions or social safety nets. He hoped for a thriving city full of excellent men, each living for their own sake, not asking other men to live for them.
And indeed, for most of its existence, this dream was achieved by the denizens of Rapture. It became a large city with multiple new inhabitants such as Cuckolded, with many structures such as the aforementioned Arc Agricultural Area being brought underwater. Indeed, it also kept this peace with the outside world, maintaining strong ties with neutral parties such as the Hyacinth Foundation and the Union of Salvation, especially given that both aforementioned parties were founded by former members of the NAC.
Unfortunately, like all good things, this golden era of peace and prosperity had to come to an end. The beginning of Rapture's end started with the Wojvid-14 pandemic. The Hyacinth Foundation, wishing to spread awareness of this deadly virus, began asking that residents of Wojland mask up, as well as get tested for Wojenkovirus, for which there was a testing clinic in Rapture's hospital. The testing process was going smooth, until it was shot up by a member of the Third Order of Bethlehem, whose schizophrenia had led him to shoot up the clinic, believing that the Foundation was the Antichrist.
Attacks upon the sovereignty of Rapture continued throughout the rest of its existence. Seeing the city as a threat, the Third Order demanded that Rapture give up its guns, under the threat of war. Rapture's citizens refused to do so, and the Order then began to wage war upon Rapture.
At first, this was a war which Rapture was winning with ease, along with auxiliary forces from the Union of Salvation and the Hyacinth Foundation, who were also helping the defense of the City. After the first day of war, Rapture managed to repel the invaders, who retreated and called for a ceasefire, to which Rapture stupidly agreed to.
The night between fighting was when Rapture's fatal mistake occurred. Through some black magic, or perhaps a mishap on the part of Tante, the members of the Order were able to gain access to the locked chests of Rapture as well as its very building blocks.
In the morning, the Order realized this changed. They decided to break the ceasefire and continued a devastating assault on Rapture. Rapture and its Union allies decided to launch a Hail Mary attack upon the Third Order, but this was for naught, for the attack was easily repelled.
Seeing the end as nigh, Rapture decided to retreat. However, the Order was able to bait one of their members to the battlefield, after which they were able to conquer the once-great city.
However, not all was order. Not wanting his creation to fall into the hands of schizophrenic imperialists, Tante, with the blessing of VX_Purger and Shades, decided to blow up his own city.
Thus ended Rapture. Its tale is a warning that men will always hate you, even if you attempt to be at peace with all.
File:Goldberg.png|Joseph Goldberg.
File:2021-02-18_20.33.43.png|Entrance to Rapture.