Ferrymen

The Ferrymen were an oligarchical faction on the Trapped SMP.

## History

Formed on the 23rd of December, 2020, the Ferrymen predated The Faction Assembly. Its founding members were Lohawke — who designed the ideals and essentials — and Saleek — who worked on the logo and political structure. It was initially intended to be a mercenary faction. CathyTheQueen and TheLegendaryGamer joined over the next two days with Cathy becoming the Head of Industry and aiming to create a charcoal factory. She was eventually promoted to leadership by Lohawke and passed on her role as Head of Industry to Creepi. Legendary was the first Head of Scouts (then called Head of Indirect Warfare). Over the next forty hours, several more members would join, including Furiousky (Head of Military), Elv (first builder and later Head of Scouts), Ama (Head of Builders), Cathy's brother Spider, and ChromaticPixels.

On the 26th of December, two votes resulted in a revised banner design by SunnyD becoming the faction background; the faction's first banner had been the symbol of an anchor.

Throughout January, various religions and ways of life clashed in the Ferrymen. The Cult of Waluigi was founded on the 4th of January, 2021, by Wosklm. On the 9th, the Pink Sheep Religion was founded by high priest Kuya Spider who immediately converted librarian SilverPrimrose to the cause. Following the founding of Pink Sheep Religion, the Cult of Waluigi dismissed the new religion as heresy which kindled the First Heretical War. The war lasted hours, only ending when Pink Sheep Religion won a poll against the Cult of Waluigi of eight votes to seven. The Cult of Waluigi did not accept the defeat and continued to be in conflict with the Pink Sheep Religion.

The server died some time in February, due in part to this conflict and the inactivity of Lohawke, Saleek, and CathyTheQueen.

## Goals

Their goal was to rule every other main faction behind the scenes. This was kept private - even from regular members (only heads and leaders knew).

Public goals were basically non-existent, although a coast/riverside base was aimed for.

## Structure

The Ferrymen were governed by an oligarchy in which a small group of privately-selected leaders held power.

These leaders sat at the top: they had final say but most members agreed for any given decision they made.

Beneath them sat heads of a unit (military, building, scout/spy, industry). This is how jobs were organized.

At the bottom were normal members, who picked their units on membership.

## Foreign Policy

Relatively chill officially, although a large number of members disliked other large factions and a good amount of members infiltrated the councils of said factions (it's possible their collapse in some cases could've partly been caused by said members).

## Members\*

The member count was capped at 30 to keep out the floods of serfs and possible spies. Elvir, the head of scouts/spies, did a great job weeding out the few spies that joined the discord before the cap.

Leaders: Lohawke, Saleek, Cathydeletus

Heads: Furiousky (during active times, Military), Elvir (Scouts/Spies), Amalos (Building), Wwick (Industry).

Other notables [INCOMPLETE]: ChromaticPixels, Rickmondy, Wosk.

\*This was pasted from the old wiki; the original author doesn't remember the majority of members, and unfortunately said majority left the discord. Using IDs, they may be able to recover the conversations most members were in, and by that way remember them again. Until then, take the "Other notables" list with a grain of salt, as it is incomplete.