The Neo-Revival

The **Neo-Revival**, named after the original Server Revival period, is an early, growing movement to resurrect 8th Axis once again, but this time, with the support of the owner, linkbomber123, known better as Link. In the past, revivals, resurrections, and any efforts otherwise by any party affiliated with the server have failed because they were not capable of solving the server's biggest problem, this being incompetent, unavailable, and unmotivated upper staff.

However, now that the server owner Link has a desire and a motivation to revive the server, this might just be the time that things end differently.

## Origin

It is unknown when exactly Link got motivation to work more on the server. All that is known for sure is that following the events of the Neo-Revolution, in which the entire working staff team quit or went on hiatus until changes were made, Link realized that he needed the help of other people. He has said as much himself, apparently not realizing before how much the server needed a staff team. The initial conversation that sparked the movement at large however does have a date, and that was December 9th, 2022. At 3:07 PM PST, former JrQT Meme spoke to FireAndSteel about how to acquire the resource pack from a server following a conversation about the custom resource pack used by the Wynncraft server. Meme described the process of how to extract resource packs the easiest way, how some servers protect their packs, and how exactly to get around the protective measures in place. The last message in this conversation detailed how to avoid a protective measure called a seek-in-file error, otherwise known as a zip bomb.

That initial conversation did not continue, but a day later, on December 10th, 9:00 AM PST, server owner Link responded to Meme's message, saying that he had intended to protect the resource pack for 8th Axis in the same way, but that it was extremely difficult for a pack of that nature to be accepted by the server. Meme proceeded to immediately make some jokes at Link's expense, quoting one of Link's favorite phrases: "effort." and saying that he too had intended to protect the pack but actually had a valid excuse which was a full staff revolution. He stopped joking after that however, asking Link seriously what his plans for the server were now that it was effectively dead. Link responded that it was difficult to make plans for anything when none of the remaining staff had any time. Meme make his question more clear, clarifying that he knew any big projects weren't happening, referencing the new AoT map, but rather if Link had any plans to revive a playerbase or make any updates with no staff, referencing the two inactive JrBT rookies and asking if they were going to replace xyrothim and death506. Link replied that he did not even know where to start something like that.

It was at this point that the conversation became completely serious as Meme became fully transparent, stating that every interaction they'd had at that point was little more than a pitch to sell the server to the Restorationists, and asked Link if he had any actual motivation to revive the server. It was at this point that NR members Tiyke and Adam entered the conversation and started joking about what they'd do with the server if Link gave it to them. Link promptly responded wit a remark about that serious conversation being gone, but Meme kept pressing the question and Tiyke and Adam also pushed Link to answer. It was at this point that the spark was truly lit, when Link answered the question that kicked off the discussion of the revival.

## Talks

Link responded to Meme's question with an answer that no one had heard before. It