Pendaris

Pendaris at the end of Day 9

**Pendaris** was a faction on the Plains island during State Season 2. It was most notably led by HorusCrown.

## History

### **Season 1.7**

Penderia, one of the two main groups that formed Pendaris, was active as a religious group during Season 1.7. Founded as a joke following the announcement of applications, it worshipped the pending status, which was shown when an application was neither rejected nor accepted.

Known as the "Penderian Gang" during the event, it built a church that was briefly mentioned in ish's 1000 Players Simulate Prison in Minecraft.

Officially, Penderia continued existing until August 17, 2023, when it was formally dissolved.

### **Founding**

Pendaris was formed as a federation of multiple factions, most notably, Penderia, Voltaris, and members of the Golden Union, an alliance of Plains factions which collapsed prior to the event. While reorganized, Pendaris' political structure stemmed from Voltaris, while many customs, such as the "Apend" greeting, were adopted from Penderia.

Its foundation featured the Cordania Crisis. Cordania, another premade faction, saw large amounts of its population rejected from participating in the event. This saw a schism where around half of the population rallied to join Pendaris, whilst the other half tried holding the faction together. A referendum that took place confirmed this sentiment, leading to the faction's ultimate collapse. Its leadership largely blamed Pendaris for this.

Hostile relations were formed with the UPS early on. Pendaris was in favour of keeping sovereign factions throughout the Plains, a sentiment shared by the Invisible Hand, but opposed by the UPS, which was in favour of a unified Plains state.

### **Early Days**

Pendaris established itself throughout day one and two. Afterwards, buildings such as the Windmill, Cooky Factory, Tea Tower, made by the "TGTC", Starbonk Memorial Barn, Sans, Outback Steak House, City Walls and KFC were completed. Outside the main city, Crimson Lagoon, a small village pledging loyalty to Pendaris, was founded.

Many members struggled to find the resources needed for armour. This was also due to an inherent problem with the Mining Team, which often took resources for itself. Most members, however, had full diamond armour by Day 7.

### **Formation of FedEx**

Pendaris and the UPS had agreed to a truce prior to Season 2 beginning. Positive relations were especially fostered by TrueMouse, a beloved Senator of the UPS, who had kept ties well between the two factions. Many in Pendaris saw in him an ally. However, his unexpected death on Day 2 fiercly led to a deterioration of relations.

        Going into Day 3, allegations were made that Sidefall, the leader of the UPS, had plans to establish an alliance with the Aculon Empire. Pendaris, seeing this as an attempt to eventually take over Plains, and wanting to keep alliances within it instead, rallied the Invisible Hand and the Oasis to encircle the UPS. As a result, the Alliance of Federal Executioners, or FedEx, was formed.

The crisis was exacerbated by several people, most notably Trinktop, spreading misinfo, alleging that Sidefall was going to attack Plains. On Day 4, delegations from FedEx and the UPS met in the Tavern to clear up the impending crisis. During the meeting, TNT was placed beneath Pendaris, while HorusCrown dispatched members to search the UPS' entire city.

However, going into the meeting with good intentions on both sides, war was avoided. Sidefall agreed to not align with Aculon while joining the FedEx Alliance, leading to Plains being unified in all but name.

**The Trial of Sidefall**

Prior to Day 6, Sidefall was suspected of leaking confidential FedEx information to Aculon. As a result, Pendaris, the Invisible Hand, and the Oasis, mobilized their forces to arrest him. Trialed at the Tavern, Sidefall was lifted of all charges, and the status quo returned. It was found out that German\_Words, leader of the Maids, had actually leaked the information. He was previously falsely added to a Discord channel where this information was held.

    Later on, Pendaris was accused of being hungry for screentime. This was due to the just described events mostly happening on Discord, and it was already found out well before Day 6 that Sidefall hadn't actually leaked anything. However, many members in Pendaris, including HorusCrown, wanted to hold the trial regardless, believing it was "good for the video" and made Plains "less boring".

Pendaris continued holding this reputation throughout the event, and beyond.

### **The Festival**

A festival was held in Pendaris on Day 5. Most significantly, a wrestling ring was set up. Hosting the Tavern as guests, everyone had a good time. Notably, ish, JawUnleashed, and BoyJedi, wrestled in the ring.

### **New Pendaris**

Upon the discovery of the Dead Island, Pendaris established a colony on the island right away, claiming the island's middle mine, where much of the Netherite was found. Managed by governor ExiledLegate, the colony was set up as a resource operation in order to gather as much Netherite as possible. Despite being an open colony, many were unhappy with Pendaris' claim to the island, most notably the Maid Cult. Opposition also came from within, as many Council members thought that claiming the island was selfish, and would only lead to war.

### **Bingus\_Bibi's impeachment**

A High Council member due to his leadership status in the previously collapsed nation of Cordania, Bingus\_Bibi was impeached on Day 7.

Previously, Bingus\_Bibi had repeatedly acted without consulting the Council first. This includes a rally where he gathered people against Aculon, while pledging that Pendaris will invade the Snow Island.

In the following crisis, Aculon members took the news with confusion, many of them believing that Pendaris was genuinely going to attack. Elanuelo reached out to HorusCrown to get confirmation that this was not the case.

This was seen as a last straw for the Council, which, without HorusCrown's consent, impeached Bingus\_Bibi, and announced an election to replace him. This saw the popular OfficialHarley voted into office.

### **Battle of Aculon**

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Pendaris was part of the Bastion of Peace Alliance, in the video portrayed as The Allies.

While originally wishing to maintain neutrality during the conflict due to no large animosity shared towards Elanuelo and a lack of awareness to AFreakinTurkey's importance, Pendaris nonetheless joined the remainder of Plains in the war.

Some notable members, such as High Council member OfficialHarley, died in the fighting.

### **Post-War**

In the post war days, Pendaris was largely deserted, as members either didn't log on anymore or went out to explore the world. On Day 11, the server saw its first redstone machine, a rocket made by ExiledLegate, launched into space. All astronauts died in the mission.

On August 20, 2022, Pendaris was dissolved.

### **Controversy**

Pendaris is, in retrospect, mostly viewed negatively. This reputation falls more on HorusCrown compared to its regular members.

By many, Pendaris was seen as warmongering and hungry for screentime. It is accused of repeatedly trying to start a war with the UPS. When that didn't work out, it made a scripted trial to make the Plains "less boring", according to critics.

Pendaris also had issues with staff. This had its roots with the UPS situation, as well as the hostility towards the Maids and Aculon, and Pendaris' alleged claim to the Dead Island later on, all of which were seen as attempts to get attention in the video.

When the Great War broke out, HorusCrown said in a Discord message that "if my people don't get credit, we are not fighting", which proved extremely negative to Pendaris' reputation.

Many members left Pendaris during the event, not least due to an overall lack of transparency between the people and the government. It is also to be noted that several Council members planned to coup HorusCrown, most notably nonamenoface, which was, however, called off by staff, as it would've been too late into the event.

Nonetheless, Pendaris' regular members are usually viewed in a positive light, and there really isn't any animosity towards them. While some attempts were made to rehabilitate its reputation, in the end, most people came to a consensus that the peace that Plains enjoyed was something that both the UPS and Pendaris contributed to.

## **Organization**

### **Government**

#### **High Council**

The high council, helmed by HorusCrown, was the highest form of rulership in Pendaris, they handle all initial diplomatic talks with other nations, trades, peace, truce and war treaties, and judge in disputes among citizens.

Three members were on the council at all times, originally consisting of HorusCrown, bingus\_bibi, and spreaddatlove. However, after bingus\_bibi was impeached, council member OfficialHarley replaced him.

#### **Main Council**

The Main Council consists of leaders of resource, diplomats, media, military and builder teams as well as misc elected officials. They handled all interior affairs like lack of resources, defense of the city, food distribution, issuing permits to visit the city for foreign diplomats and all related topics.

#### **Governors**

Former leaders of the respected nations that joined Pendaris. They were called advisors and right hands of the high council, however in practice much of their role was merged into that of the main council.

## **Foreign Relations**

### **Plains**

Pendaris held extremely positive relations with the Invisible Hand, which was a steadfast ally since Day 1. Following the Oasis' entry into the FedEx Alliance, it too held good relations with Pendaris.

    Relations with the UPS were cold throughout the event, and openly hostile during the aforementioned crisis, and later the Sidefall trial. However, both factions remained cordial with one another, knowing that a war would devastate the Plains.

The Tavern shared a friendship with Pendaris, and it was commonplace that Pendarians came to visit it to share a drink. Members of the Tavern were openly invited to Pendaris' Festival on Day 5.

Other factions in Plains, such as Wormantraut or the Church of Spring, were viewed positively.

### **Desert**

Positive relations were maintained with the Sultanate. This was in large part due to HorusCrown's and STORMINGHELL's shared Egyptian heritage. When it collapsed, Pendaris offered assistance and openly accepted refugees.

Theria was largely unimportant to Pendarian foreign policy until the Sultanate's collapse. After which, precisely on Day 7, HorusCrown led an expedition of diplomats to it in order to negotiate a formal defensive pact between the two factions.

### **Jungle**

The only jungle faction that Pendaris actively ineracted with was the Maid Cult. After German\_Words had leaked confidential FedEx information to Aculon, Pendaris openly declared its hostility towards it. The Maids later tried assassinating HorusCrown. Calls to invade them, however, were rejected by the Council.

### **Snow**

Despite the crisis and confusion caused by Bingus\_Bibi when he planned invading Aculon, Pendaris maintained somewhat positive relations with the Empire. No open hostilities were ever declared prior to the Great War, and Elanuelo himself never seemed to openly dislike Pendaris.

Pendaris was nonetheless suspicious of Sidefall when he was alleged of reaching out to Aculon; While only perceived as a threat by some, many in Pendaris' Council believed that Aculon's immense power could lead Sidefall to dominate the Plains, which they saw against Pendaris' interests.

Many regular members of Aculon, however, disliked Pendaris, due to its allegations of wanting screentime and generally being hostile against Sidefall, who wasn't viewed as negatively.

The Great War contributed to this attitude, and while Pendaris tried maintaining its neutrality, it did end up joining the war against Aculon, ceiling the two faction's relationship as negative.

## Known Members

### **Government**

#### **High Council**

* HorusCrown
* spreaddatlove
* Bingus\_Bibi (Former)
* OfficialHarley

#### **Governors**

* Cymatilus
* Unusederas
* Sashobg
* ExiledLegate

#### **Main Council**

* AwesomeJett44
* Monsibasketball
* Deadwrong77
* JustSpoon
* iSulfur
* Warden\_InDark
* MaulsTheChurro
* nonamenoface
* MoistPenguin911

### **Citizens**

* justinfreak
* Schpood
* CrispyJerry
* Waa50
* JambonDieu
* Funterive
* Accartis4
* Foreseer\_
* Replicat
* BompScout
* Galoctic
* ThunderUnderline
* \_\_SJK
* WaBread
* real\_bacon\_horse
* Ikiller
* Indecisive\_dice
* Natsuumi\_
* jargon1193
* Supermages
* ad\_chi1
* Tmullz
* Inkl0i
* ARussianTale
* Snickerdoodle06
* BlackWakandaForever
* CoopaT
* Dabber001
* Elactix\_1
* greenfroggy
* Acecrafts4
* addieonline
* Fieryxgamer
* FlaxSeeal
* GoldenFennekin
* NOVantic
* ParrotQuack
* RamyOrlandi

## **Trivia**

* Pendaris' name derives from a combation of Penderia and Voltaris, the two main founding factions
* Due to their similar color schemes and designs, Pendaris' banners were often mistaken for Aculon ones
* It was commonly joked that most, if not all, Enderman deaths on the server were Pendaris citizens, despite this not being the case, as only 4 of these deaths were Plains players
* Pendaris' official anthem was Auld Lang Syne
* Prior to Season 2 starting, Pendaris had a creative SMP where an entire city was planned out and created