Imperial History

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## **The Imperial History**

### **Introduction:**

The Imperials are a **Minecraft group** of players which plays on **multiple anarchy servers** such as 2b2t, 9b9t, and 0b0t. The Imperials were inspired by the Imperials from the elder scrolls universe and the ancient civilization known as Rome.
Since 2021, the Empire has also been **expanding on other games** like Rust.
Throughout the years, the Imperials have **changed leaders** many times, with each emperor and high ranking officer reforming the Imperials with their methods to improve the group.
Over time, leaders have been elected, appointed by popularity, or even taken over the group. This is one of the many reasons why the Imperials are still alive today.

''***Even though the group changes a lot, the name... remains.''***

The Imperial History is divided in 2:

1. **The Old Empire** (2014 - 2018) regroups the history of the Empire before it becomes a group as we know them today (Very organised, hierarchical, distinct). This Era ends with the mess of the Titus' collapse. The Old Empire is also marked by a lack of historical record, screenshots, stories, videos.
2. **The Modern Empire** (2018 - Now) regroups the history of the Imperials since the revival and refounding of the group. The group has not changed much in form since then.

## **History:**

> ***PS: The History of the Imperials prior to 2016 is very unclear and lacks of actual records. However, we know the group existed prior to that date. Some informations, like the founder's in game name are missing. All help is welcome.***
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### **The early days of the group or the Legatus Era:**

The Imperials started as a small 2b2t base in 2014. It had nothing of a group as we know them today. Just few friends playing Minecraft. The base expanded, more members joined... When the base got griefed, the group started calling itself "Imperials", based on the skyrim game. A player, which we now call Legatus (his actual in game name is unknown) took the leadership of this group. At this time, they started using the "Y" symbol. It was meant to represent a reversed dragon. *(the dragon being the logo of the Imperial Legion in the Elder Scrolls saga)*. The Imperials had around 10 members , and were playing together on 2b2t.

The group also established on small SMPS, it grew on 2b, and, got new members, and eventually, started making a base together. Their first capital was named Laten, founded by Legatus. It was the home to all Imperials at this time on 2b2t. The base was composed of sandstone and brick builds. Non-Imperials and friends of the builders were invited to the base, it got around 15 builders. Laten lasted few months until people discovered and griefed it. Legatus and the Imperials started making countless camps on servers, in which numerous people were slaughtered. Many members left anarchy and moved to SMP after the grief, the group remained small. Most of the Imperials loved 2b2t, because of its freedom of build, SMP had claims, and rules, but it was different.

In early 2015, Legatus was named Emperor of the group, he nicknamed the Imperials to "the Imperial Legion". A group of friends, building and pvping, on SMP servers, PVP servers, and on 2b2t. He was the first one to do speeches in front of the members, he is also the one who created and established first Ranking system and the first Laws. These were not really used, just there to make Imps cooler.

It's at this time that Imperials started to decay, due to Legatus quitting Minecraft in the summer of 2015, he became inactive, it was hard for the members to communicate with him. Most of the members started to leave until a new person arrived. Lego...

### **Lego's Era:**

Lego joined the Imperials in mid-2015... At that time, the group was dying, had no leader, and members were leaving or going it on their own.

Lego would become the 2nd Emperor of the Imperials, he is known for having reformed the group and made it more active.

At this time, in late 2015, the group was disappearing on 2b2t and even on survival servers. Lego worked hard for the Empire, he eventually became a leader. And when the group completely died, he decided to revive it, he named himself Emperor and revived the group.

The Imperials had laws before the refounding but they were not recorded anywhere. The only laws that were written were the base rules which were usually on signs at bases.

**Some old ranks from the 2016 / 2017 imperials, made by Lego and remade by Titus**

1. Emperor - hold the power over all of Imperials, his word is the law.
2. General - Hold the power over a division (it would be equivalent to a Centurion today).
3. Captain - Rare rank used but it was the equivalent of an Optio.
4. Legate - The main rank used to be an equivalent of an Optio.
5. Tribune - Same as now
6. Praefect - Same as now
7. Quaestor - Same as now
8. Auxiliary - Same as now
9. Recruit - Same as now

You still essentially had a rank-up system, however, the ranks were more of a formality and were not given an actual use except for the leaders, who, unlike other members, were known by all. Lego's actual ranking system was lost to time, it had fewer ranks due to the group only having around 30 members in early 2016. More ranks were added as the group was growing.

At this time, the group would only use skype and server chats to communicate. Each division had its skype group, making it hard to unite and organise the group. Due to this, the imperials remained small and dispersed. It is only when Titus **(2016)** became Emperor that discord was used as a primary communication medium for imperials. Skype was not entirely removed, however, it was less encouraged as he would never be online for skype and spent the majority of his time on discord.

All bases in the Imperials were private, generals would rarely change positions and would keep their positions until they quit the server. Most bases were kept private between the Legate (legates where people were usually in charge of bases) and its members. In case of necessity, the general may need the base, which is usually not a problem for the legates to give it to the General.

Lego created the 2nd Capitol, the name was lost, all we know is it was on an SMP server with claims. The base grew a lot at this time, and would not get griefed due to the server's rules. All Imperials members were allowed to this base. Yes, there were insiders, but the Imperials at this time were very cautious of who they invited to bases. They would rather have 3 players per base and never get insided than a 20 player base that would have lasted a month. Imperial bases in 2016/2017 could be compared to VoCo's, you were in a large group but never got to a base that had more than 5 people... Except for the Main base, which was impossible to destroy due to claims and backup.

The Imperial banner was different. It had more blue and red colouring. The **Y** has always and will always be an Imperial symbol. The imperial **Y** was the most common symbol. The imperials saw the **Y** as a politically correct cross. It was also like a dragon somehow. Gold and obsidian build were common for imperial symbolism. (PS: After some researchs we found the OG imp banner in an old video).

The Lego's Imperials would hardly shitpost, Before then the citizens were silently proud. The group had around 50 members in the summer 2016. (I need someone to check that info - brick)

However, on **The First of June 2016, an unexcepted event happened.** TheCampingrusher, a big Minecraft Youtuber at the time with millions of subscribers, joined 2b2t. Thankks to this new wave of players, 2b2t grew a lot, new anarchy servers were made, and the few old 2b2t clones started getting players again. It's at this time **MrCK10** and **Titus** were **Recruited.**

The group expanded to a new server known as Reconnect Mc (Reconnect Revolution), A division already existed there before. This server had been an SMP, but due to the hype surrounding 2b2t, it turned into an anarchy server.

#### **Reconnect MC Era:**

Imperials had a division on this server led by the General Chaser, the group probably had divisions on other servers but we don't know much about it. This branch most likely was a survival branch. Lego did encourage imperials to go from anarchy servers/unregulated servers to servers that had regulation (SMP), because, before the Rusher War events on 2b2t, Minecraft Anarchy was on the blink of death.

Many Imperials left when most survival servers such as reconnect mc turned into anarchy servers due to 2b2t's popularity.

Introduction To Reconnect MC Server Ft OMGSwiper and Paradiserunner1

Server Showcase - ReconnectMC

**Start of the branch:**

A player named Chaser couldn't log into 2b2t very often anymore as he did not want to pay for priority (a few months after rusher joined 2b2t which resulted in 2b2t becoming popular in middle 2016) so he joined a clone server, he found reconnect mc and started to play there. After a while, he met some players and joined a small base known as Valkyrie. Yes, it was a copy on the 2b2t group. After its greif, Chaser went back to 2b2t and joined the Imperials. He got the idea of creating a division *(division is the same as a branch, however in 2016 imperials would call branches "divisions of imps")* for reconnecting revolution. One of his friend, who was also sick of 2b2t created several divisions on anarchy servers, he was known as Titus.

Chaser, after creating this division recruited almost every newfag. Players such as SuperSatanSquad *(later known as SuperJesusSquad)* and DemonJunkie joined at this time. Some Valkiry members, being friends of Chaser decided to join Imperials too.

The emperor at the time Lego asked the small branch to build a replica of the Imperial city from oblivion, which they did. However it was only 2k from spawn, this site would become the Monument for the Imperials for the years to come, and would be rebuilt on every servers as a tradition. The 2k base lasted for weeks, many players passed through the city. Players such as Skytech and MrCK10 joined imperials here. MrCK10 had been recruited on 2b2t but quickly moved to Reconnect Revolution, just as the majority of Imps did.

One day, imperials griefed the base of a player named Merty21. Seeking revenge, he made a group called Stormcloaks (Ironic, since it is the enemy of the Imperials in the Skyrim game). He declared war on the Imperials, and became the first anti-imperial group to exist. The two groups fought for months, griefing each others' bases and allies. *(The Brotherhood, Imperial ally, griefed by Stormcloaks).*

Imperials eventually won, after destroying all of the Stormcloak's bases, and ruining all of their revival efforts. Merty21 finally joined the Imperial forces to fight in another group, Fancierbook's... The Mayhem Squad.

**Imperial VS Veterans war:**

More advanced 2b2t players came to reconnect mc, fans of fit's TEAM VETERAN. These players created a group known as TEAM VETERAN. This group was a direct counter to the popular Imperials that supported and recruited newfags. Team Vet had a leader named "LegoDav" who is sometimes confused with the imperial leader. Chaser and LegoDav griefed many of each other groups bases until eventually Team Veteran disbanded and Chaser and the Imperials reined victoriously. The veterans stayed on reconnect but never had the same confidence as they did when they formed the team.

During this time, a player named Mert21 had his base griefed by the Imperials, he decided to make his own clan to oppose the rising imperial faction, The Stormcloaks". (https://youtu.be/2dH7goOQ-78 https://youtu.be/ZVa5L5sJGJc). At this time, the TheBrotherhood was allied with Imps. To trigger a conflict, Veterans and the newly born Stormcloaks decided to raid the Imperial ally.

**The era of order (Imperial Dominance):**

In a joint effort of the 2 large groups on reconnect.mc, known as the Brotherhood who was lead by Kola, and the Imperials lead by Chaser, created a base known as Shitty City. This base had many farms and was the largest base on reconnect.mc history. For 3 months this base lasted. Players such as Skytech, Gamerman , and Titus were built here, even the server admin (Ango) built here.

Ango as you will is a cuck to whoever is the new player, in this case, it was the Imperials and the brotherhood.

Anyway, the Era of order lasted from the end of the war (Around 2 months after -rusher) to around 5 months after Rusher. (Rusher is used as a time reference here because all of this happened during summer 2016.

This period is the same as any prosperity imperial period, which usually has the following:

* Many bases are built and hardly any are griefed
* Imperials benefit greatly
* Imperials have fun

**Imperials VS Chaos:**