The Liberators

WeirdApe

Skull Tissue

Aidan

Drago

Fundy

Lucky

BananaBoi

Cinder

The Liberators is a secret alliance formed by Pivotal and PolarIce on an unknown date. The alliance was created to retaliate against Hardcore Empire by convincing all of its members besides the emperor to turn against the emperor and revert the empire to its former self and its districts back to independent nations. This will also allow for people to freely create and join their own factions again. However since The Liberators have successfully made Hardcore SMP a free server again, they have accomplished their goal, so now the alliance has disbanded.

## History

### PolarIce's jailbreak and WeirdApe's revival

After the events of DexDude's execution, Pivotal was now a lone member of The Liberators after PolarIce was incarcerated. He secretly made a plan without anyone else's knowledge to get The Liberators up on their feet. He performed this plan on August 22, 2023 by first heading to WeirdApe's grave in New Vegas. He said the "Call to Anarchy" in the in-game chat which caused WeirdApe to rise from the grave and get revived. WeirdApe woke up super confused, but Pivotal knew he didn't have a lot of time, so he simply told WeirdApe that Hardcore SMP had taken a turn for the worst and Pivotal and PolarIce needed his help. WeirdApe seemed reluctant at first after his past with Pivotal and PolarIce, but then WeirdApe realized that Pivotal just revived him so he realized he must seriously be needed. So WeirdApe ended up agreeing to join The Liberators, in which Pivotal placed down a shulker box where he let WeirdApe take his original netherite armor, sword, and axe from back before he died. Then both of them headed straight for Atlantis' Palace.

Pivotal and WeirdApe quickly headed behind the prison to break a single block, which caused water to flow into PolarIce's cell. He used this water to swim up and out of the maximum security cell where he met Pivotal and WeirdApe. Since PolarIce was never informed that Pivotal was planning to revive WeirdApe, he seemed pretty confused to see WeirdApe with them. But just like with WeirdApe, Pivotal placed down a shulker box where he let PolarIce take Fundy's belongings that he got after killing Fundy as well as PolarIce's riptide trident. The three of them then quickly fled the prison before they would get caught.

### The Liberators' announcement

Some time after Dev and Lucky logged off after the events that took place on August 22, 2023, Pivotal, PolarIce, and WeirdApe logged back in to create a book to announce their presence to the members of Hardcore Empire. This book revealed that The Liberators didn't mean any harm and simply wanted to talk to everyone about improving the server. You can read the contents of the book here.

### Recruitment runs

#### WeirdApe's recruitment run

On August 23, 2023, WeirdApe peacefully met with Skull Tissue and Aidan to discuss the wellbeing of Hardcore. WeirdApe asked if they would be willing to join The Liberators in order to betray Dev to reach the goal of The Liberators. Surprisingly enough, Skull Tissue and Aidan agreed to join The Liberators even if it meant betraying Dev. This was surprising since Skull Tissue and Aidan were supposedly super loyal to Dev, but this proved that all of that was fake.

#### Pivotal's first recruitment run

Pivotal made two separate recruiting runs for The Liberators. The first run was to recruit Drago on August 26, 2023. Pivotal met with Drago right outside of the American Crater and started by asking her what her stance was on Dev and the Hardcore Empire. Drago's answers seemed to not be favorable Hardcore Empire or Dev, so Pivotal asked Drago if she wanted to join The Liberators to aid in their cause. Drago agreed to join because why not and Pivotal gave her the coordinates to The Liberators' safe house.

#### Pivotal and PolarIce's recruitment run

PolarIce was originally supposed to meet with Lucky, BananaBoi, and Fundy alone on August 27, 2023. However Cinder was available to meet with Pivotal on this day instead of the next day, so Pivotal just told Cinder to meet with everyone else in Lucky's house where Pivotal and PolarIce would try to convince all four of them to join The Liberators. They asked Lucky, Fundy, Cinder, and BananaBoi the same questions that were asked to the other members, in which these four mostly had the same answers. They said that they were all good friends of Dev, but not exactly loyal to him. But that was good enough for The Liberators, so they asked these four if they wanted to join The Liberators and help with out their cause. They were a bit hesitant, but after The Liberators gave them a handful of fair reasons to join, they all agreed to join.

Now that The Liberators had acquired all the members of the server to join their alliance, they now had everyone turned against Dev. Pivotal planned for The Liberators to lure Dev into the server on August 29, 2023 only for all The Liberators to corner him, forcing him to surrender and succumb to his house arrest. Pivotal said that once Dev was arrested, all the former factions like New Vegas and Kinoko Kingdom would regain their independence from the empire, revert Hardcore Empire back to an independent commune, and allow for anyone to create any faction they want.

#### Dev's confrontation

On August 29, 2023, all the members of The Liberators except for Aidan and Drago logged into the server for the final confrontation with Dev that would decide everything. They all met at the main nether hub and Pivotal told Dev to wait in his house. Dev agreed to do this since he thought that everyone was gonna throw a surprise party or something. Then once all The Liberators were together, Pivotal directed them all to Dev's house and they all went into Dev's house at once. That was when Pivotal revealed to Dev that everyone was here to kill Dev. Dev was not ready to fight nine people all by himself, so he surrendered to The Liberators. Pivotal forced him into the corner of his house where he was cornered by all The Liberators. Dev said that there was something that he had that was reason enough for him to stay alive. Dev said that he had a time machine that could only be activated by his mouth. The Liberators surveyed the time machine in Dev's secret base and saw that it was legit. So The Liberators returned back to Dev and put him on house arrest instead of killing him. Pivotal told Dev that if he escaped during his house arrest, then he would be hunted relentlessly and killed. From here on out, The Liberators accomplished their goal; they arrested Dev, reverted Hardcore Empire back to Hardcore SMP, gave New Vegas and Kinoko Kingdom back their independence, and allowed for anyone to create any factions they want again.