Underground expansion

The term "Underground Expansion" refers to the sudden and rapid growth of the Ninzard Community's Underground districts from 2018 to 2020. While it had been seen as a benefit during the sprouts of its occurrence, it was later seen as a mistake as it had expanded community corruption in the process.

## Roots

The roots of this can be traced back to the Merge of July 11, which was the occurrence of the merge between the Ninzard Agency and Nightwork, which became the First and Second Factions.

The members of Nightwork consisted of hackers and aggressive members who often spread toxicity within the community. However, this had originally been a problem exclusive to the Second Faction. However, after the start of the Vice Presidency of CloudMaster, the problem expanded into the entire community.

After the Second Ninzard Civil War, the War of 16 began. This brought start to the Era of Reunification, which posed as a double-edged sword. While the community had developed their own sense of pride, the unification caused the spread of corruption throughout the entire community.

## Start of Expansion

After the beginning of the Spikester Administration, the Nightwork experienced sudden and rapid growth. This had been due to Spikester's decisive victories in the Clusteral War and Third Ninzard Civil War. Members who had once been part of the Rocket Squad Nation were seeking to join the NUA.

After the community's victory in the Tank Shop War, Nightwork experienced a dangerously high influx of new members. Spikester opposed this sudden expansion and stated, "our borders are closed." In response, the Ninzard Council created Solarburst, which would give room for Nightwork while continuing the large expansion.

Later on May 11, 2019, the Cyberneo Nexenon requested to sacrifice themselves to become a new district of the NUA. The Ninzard Council accepted this offer and subsequently, the CNX became Xenonitrix, the community's sixth district.

Due to the CNX Revolution that occurred, the Council had now been forced to create another district in an attempt to prevent another Civil War. As a result, Astrocore was born.

Ducky reflected on this situation ten months later: "Actually, I think it started to go downhill once the sixth district was added, after the rearrangement of the districts."

However, during this time was the peak of expansion, known as the Era of Progression.

## Opposition to Expansion

In August of 2019, President Zap began to oppose this expansion. However, due to its immense popularity, he did not explicitly state out publicly of his disapproval.

Also during this time, general opposition towards opposition began to increase. People had caught on to notice to corrupt being spread throughout the community. However, like Zap, they could not explicitly state this due to a hardcore mob of people who loved progression.

When Head Supervisor of Solarburst, Axzco, joined the presidential race, he denounced the President, which he stated, "wanted to put an end to progression." Zap did not response to the statement, which caused everybody else to believe Axzco.

During this time, Zap's popularity plummeted. He was disliked by the pro-Underground members. The pro-Ground had also been completely silent, and they believed that Zap was not with their side.

Near the end of August 2019, Zap began to take a bold stand against expansion. He went after Axzco and other prominent figures of the pro-Underground. Here, he publicly stated his long-time private plan of wanting to destroy the Underground.

This released the pro-Ground from their cage and they showed immense supported for Zap.

As time went by, the pro-Underground support slowly decreased. The once strong mob weakened and became a minority. At the same time, the pro-Ground movement increased in popularity.