Brotherhood Elder Cyclone

## Pre-2018

**Cyclone's time before leaving The UNKNOWN Trading Company has been documented on the UTC Wiki.**

## January 11th 2018

On January 11th 2018, Cyclone, after facing a trial where he was told he will never make it to the top of the clan, saw no point in continuing to work for a clan that he could never become a leader in. The following video explains the UTC vs Cyclone in the trial. This led to him and his friend and co leader of the 501st regiment at the time, **Whoopiecow**, leaving The UNKNOWN Trading Company. After discussing it with Joe and Whoopie, it was decided that Cyclone (owning the 501st regiment discord) should take the discord, and transform it into a completely new discord, keep many of the members of the regiment that were loyal to Cyclone. Though many claim he didn't give his members the choice to leave and join The UNKNOWN Trading Company again within the first month, this is simply not true. Both Cyclone and Whoopie made efforts to make announcements and message individual members to let them know the situation and give them they option to leave. They would often link them the **501st leadership trial**to let members form their own decision.

Following the start of his new beginnings, Cyclone decided to form a "new him". He decided there should no longer be one single leader of a clan, as clearly, it does not work, even if it was him as the leader. Whoopie and Cyclone created the foundations for the clan, and decided in the end for the head of the clan to not be held by a dictator or supreme leader, but a group of people.

Cyclone, despite what many others said, never doubted the chances of The Brotherhood becoming a major clan in the MineZ community. He would constantly remind his worried friends and clan-mates that The Brotherhood wasn't small enough to not grow, The Brotherhood was not so big that they have no sense of people who are actually interested, but that The Brotherhood had just the right size to begin to grow.

## February 2018

During February 2018, Cyclone was often recruiting new members at a fast pace, and training them with other members. He would recruit almost anybody as long as they don't have a bad reputation, including other UNKNOWN Trading Company members he (and other members of The Brotherhood) still saw hope in. within a month and a half, The Brotherhood grew from a small group of people who believed in Cyclone and a brighter future outside of the UNKNOWN Trading Company, in large part thanks to Cyclone's mass recruiting.

## March/UNKNOWN Trading Company War

In march, Cyclone was attacked by members of the UNKNOWN Trading Company during a trade run after purchasing a set of chain armor. Not only did the UNKNOWN Trading Company claim they didn't do it, but lied to their own members about the event. This outraged not only Cyclone, but multiple members of The Brotherhood, even members who were fond of The UNKNOWN Trading Company. Cyclone and other members were able to rally enough support and votes for a war against The UNKNOWN Trading Company. Cyclone was at almost all battles, and not once while leading did he have a member of The Brotherhood (in iron armor or more) die to the UNKNOWN Trading Company forces on the battlefield. His role in The Brotherhood-UNKNOWN Trading Company war as a face of the war for moral, as well as his duties on the battlefield lead him to being one of the most important figures in the entire conflict.

## April-July 2018

At the start of April, Whoopiecow had to go inactive. This lead to Cyclone having to do things such as lead the PVP division as one of the council members, and he had to do more work as Whoopie was not able to a lot of tasks such as farming or moving/organizing alts.This added to Cyclone becoming a very prominent figure head and leader within the Brotherhood as he was already viewed very highly by members of The Brotherhood.

Following the month of alt production in April, on May 7th, The MineZ World War began. Cyclone and Joe were the lead commanders of the entire campaign. Though during the start of the war, The Brotherhood had a negative K/D ratio and was losing battles, by the end of the conflict they turned all the stats to be in favor of The Brotherhood. This in large part was done by Cyclone, with well thought planning, great placement of alt bases as well as quick decision making in battles.

During The Brotherhood-Dawn Brigade alliance, Cyclone was very neutral on many decisions that involved the two. He felt that many members of Dawn Brigade were selfish, or incapable of defending themselves or their own clan. The members he didn't view in a negative way he saw potential in, and was open to help train and protect them.

Cyclone was also very open to and interested in having Dawn Brigade pay large amounts of caps for protection fees in order to keep the alliance beneficial for The Brotherhood.

By the end of the alliance, Cyclone was in favor of breaking the alliance. He no longer saw the need for the alliance, as well as he didn't see Dawn Brigade nor The Brotherhood gaining anything from it.

In late July, Cyclone wanted to branch out from just MineZ, and brought up the idea for the modded division. He decided he no longer wanted to be a major role in the MineZ portion of the clan unless he felt the community changed.

In the early morning hours of July 23rd, Cyclone gave his PVP division leader title to returning inactive elder; Whoopiecow, and began to focus on the modded division as well as other games not Minecraft or MineZ related.

## August-September 2018

In August 2018 Cyclone ran around like a degenerate and burned down a shit ton of villages. Cyclone Also completed the construction of his long term plan of having operational naval bases. Submarines were a key class that cyclone used to make these bases effective. The submarine featured Depth 3's and Resp 3's for maximum travel speed within the southern waters. These naval bases would go on to be successor to the Spec Ops Unit system until the nerf of Depth striders in late 2018.

## October 2018

In October of 2018 Cyclone went innactive due to him focusing more on his school. He did however come back near the end of the month, though with little interest in the game.

## Novmeber 2018

Cyclone made a full comeback to The Brotherhood in November and was in a few battles. He realized the direction the clan was going in didn't match his values. Many members wanted to end the Dawn Brigade - Brotherhood war as well as many people didn't want to be as hostile to people as they were previously, which Cyclone didn't have any interest in. After multiple weeks Cyclone abruptly left The Brotherhood after an argument with a few members in the general chat of The Brotherhood discord. Following this Cyclone made his own clan called "Insurrection" and recruited multiple members of The Brotherhood following the clan's dismantlement.

## Legacy

Although Cyclone is hated by a large majority of players in the community, Cyclone remains to be almost completely loved by members of his clan along with what's left of The Brotherhood. He has shown amazing leadership, amazing alt management and decent negotiating skills which usually leads to him being considered one of the greatest clan leaders in the entire game. Although he has had a bumpy past and has had many problems with multiple clans and groups in the community, it is without a doubt that Cyclone is one of the most influential players to play MineZ in 2018.