M4ximusDMeridius

M4ximusDMeridius is the minecraft alias of King Leonidas of Sparta, born approximately 500 B.C. Early experiences with the Persian players on Purity Vanilla led to a lifetime devoted to defense against these ruffians, which persists in his gameplay to this day.

## Early Builds and Encounters

M4ximus made his first major build approximately 100k from spawn along the axis, a massive dark castle then known as Dargaard. After his cover was blown as a Greek king rather than Roman gladiator, due to this name not actually being Latin, he renamed this build to Castellum M4ximillian. Shortly thereafter, the build was found by a Persian player from POG Town (Persian Original Gangster Town) due to being approximately 5000 blocks wide and next to a highway. Said Persian transferred this knowledge to ICP (International Communist Persians) member Frrost\_Bite, who arrived at the base with allies and large quantities of TNT.

M4ximus appeared mid-explosion and killed one of the Persian attackers, yelling "THIS IS SPARTA!" as he repeatedly swung his sword on his motionless target. Frrost, walking up behind him, scratched his head saying, "isn't this Castellus M4ximillian?" before blowing M4ximus up with a crystal. However, his inexperience with explosives, a new creation since the second Persian war, led to him blowing himself up with TNT shortly thereafter.

A video can be found here: https://youtu.be/TfCUjL14s\_8

An ungriefed world download can be found here: https://mega.nz/file/T4ci0RzZ#ssEjjv\_m8qYj8RRq9m3Hhmp2OsuBQh39nPgUtmAuY8k

## Defense of the 300

Faced with an invasion of the Spawn region by the Persian Original Gangsters, M4ximus built an obsidian wall in a critical pass between steaming lavacasts with the 300 SIP members he led. Swearing to defend this wall to the death to prevent the Persians from proceeding further, his men stolidly took position behind the obsidian. The POG legions first barraged it with fire arrows, only to find that obsidian isn't inflammable and fire arrows don't actually light things. They then attempted to charge it with swords, only to find swords could not hit through obsidian. Beaten back, they attempted to destroy it with mass withers, only to have the withers inflict massive casualties on the Persians while failing to deliver the blue skulls necessary to destroy obsidian.

However, a traitor with greater knowledge of the server from the Meme Hut group offered a way around the wall, asking only to be provided with 6 diamond gsets in compensation. He led the POG legion through the nether, walked 32 blocks to another nether portal, and popped out on the other side of the wall. The mere 300 SIP members, with no obsidian wall in the way, were overwhelmed by the grey POG Town onslaught, dying as they fought to the last.

## Current Activities

Respawning with the understanding that any single wall can be bypassed via nether travel, M4ximillian has embarked on a project of building horizontal obsidian walls throughout the entire overworld, preventing any practical bypass.

    This project has been largely ignored by both the Persians and their opponents, who have concentrated on the either building horizontal obsidian walls in the nether, destroying said walls via withers, or preventing their use for defense by clogging them with even more obsidian. M4ximus is unperturbed, and predicts while the Persians and their nether obsidian walls fade into the dustbin of history, the Greeks and their obsidian overworld walls will echo down the ages.