Citadel

## Current status

Citadel is the biggest town on The Cavern with over 300 members as of Nov 19th, 2022. There are ongoing town projects, such as building the city theatre, and moving the city mall.

## Citadel in 2021

Located at X: -13138, Z: 13069, Citadel was founded on September 19, 2021 by the assumed leadership of homeopatix\_\_ under the guide of building another Karthwasten after some drama involving the largest town at the time, Dixin. New Karthwasten’s goals were to generally expand into the server as usual. All the former Karthwasten comayors were brought into Citadel and given those same ranks, along with Nuggetslasher69 and Hoodiiie. During this time before ThyDarkrai, now named Auriem, rejoined to become Citadel’s mayor. From there, the town spawn was constructed, the town rules were put in place, and the town’s foundation was solidified.

After Auriem took mayorship of the town, the name was changed to Citadel in order to create a sense of originality from the other towns they’ve formed on past servers. They started on town projects and began rigorous recruiting to increase the town's population. The town gained a significant amount of residents over time and made its way to the top fairly quick, but in their growth they had to overcome many obstacles that stood in their way of becoming number one. The major obstacle being the current number one town Dixin.

Dixin was the largest town that existed until November of 2021. Regards to Citadel, it’s earliest founding was parallel to Dixin’s later existence. Even before Citadel was founded, there had some hostilities to the founding people as the mayor of Dixin, Lexxxi, was annoyed by Citadel's people. While a reason of hostilities to most of them are not explained, two known points of it existed towards ZenoBlaze and Pongao. Reasons behind this allegedly boil down to an attempted DDoS on Lexxxi and constant propaganda against her. During Citadel’s reign, many of the town’s staff were outlawed from Dixin. Nevertheless, this charade ended when Lexxxi decided to disband Dixin on her own terms and leave the server. With Dixin gone, it freed up space for those Dixin residents to join others town. As seeing that many of them were from the same server as Citadel before, they joined on board causing Citadel to take Dixin’s place.

Citadel continued with their building, planning, and recruitment, claiming loads of land and gaining residents at a great rate. The town expanded well over 700 plots that included outposts as well as the main city. In this city was the recognizable Citadellian statue that carries the bone sword. Projects such as the town’s mall and Jamal’s Tavern were further implemented as plot development took a significant thrust.

During this period, it was the height of politics as the newest ideals of creating a constitution to guide the town’s direction and ultimately led to the largest towny campaign of the server in which Citadel held a vote for ranks and positions within the town and nation. This went great with the ranks and descriptions given, multiple roles put out, but there complications from this election.

Within a week, the comayor Hoodiiie “quit” the server and stepped down from his ranked positions on the 19th of November. Two days later, a blow out between Monkeyman1202 and Homeopatix within the Citadel’s discord. Monekyman also decided on “quitting” the server as well on November 21, 2021. The election event was more of an activity booster than anything else and did more harm than good to the town as two staff quit by this time and a couple rumors on the town’s state were spread. One other issue that was founded was the constitution implemented. Essentially as Homeopatix explains:

“The town would be divided with different roles, basically changing the way the town runs from everyone together to the person in charge and the mayor”

Nevertheless, the town still had a significant population to deal with and many more projects to create like the Exalted Museum being installed and mass excavations for plots and structures. Unfortunately, while the projects were going good, it appeared that there was a lacking in recruitment as the residency of Citadel began to tank. It hit a peak at around 250 residents, but then it began to dip as quickly as it gained them. By December, it dropped below 200 and, as Empire’s population was mainly citadel’s, the nation dropped to second place but the town still remained ahead of others like Milkyway and Wurstbade. Alongside the drop of citizens, it was brought up by Pongao regarding an economical problem with Citadel’s size. Seeing as citadel was paying nearly half a million in a monthly upkeep, it seemed necessary to do a downsizing. This led to numerous outposts being removed, keeping those owned by mayors or served an important purpose. Later on, the downsizing went as far as the Citadel streets, which all in total reduced it to between 600-700 chunks claimed.

As time progressed, the town survived with citizens dropping and projects being sort of half assed as the funding for the town was… poorly kept up. During later December, monetarily the town’s mayorship had some roughness to it as Aureim was more inactive. In this moment, HerrAcorn and Homeo would be putting money into the town to keep it from collapsing. Aureim solved this issue by granting Homeo mayorship of citadel since he was more active.

## Citadel in 2022

Citadel suffered a significant setback between 1/13/2022 and 1/15/2022. The setback involved what appeared as a coup de ’eat against homeo to retake the mayorship. This insurgence consisted mainly of Aureim, monkeyman, and pongao, with a neutral opinion being from Hoodiie

The two sides can be grouped as this. The Darkraic Conspiracy generally points that monkeyman lied to the server staff that the town was going to be deleted under Darkrai’s influence while the Patix Conspiracy points out that Darkrai lied to staff that homeo would delete the town because he didn’t care for the people and only cared for money and builds. It's essentially both sides accusing each other of lying and sabatoaging. However, Hoodiie's neutral side states that it's mainly a viewing of who's better with the two throwing mud at each other, trying to ruin their images.

For a day, homeo lost his mayorship and was replaced by Aureim forcefully by the server’s staff. On the 15th, homeo was given back the mayorship and the drama only continued through discord. But considering that the server staff, and owner, got involved, it’s safe to say that this is the worst drama on the server yet. As precaution, the town temporarily had no upkeep for a week and hovered around a population of 165 and 175. These conflicts blew over for the most part as Homeo ended up as the main leader of the town on March 23, 2022.

Citadel also suffered a tiny problem of losing both remaining dragon eggs in February along with a ton of backpacks and shulkers. This act of thievery was committed by the town assistant themasterdalek who planned on quitting and buried all the contents under Skaro's garbage center. That plan ended up as worthless as he returned and essentially gave it all back, with staff helping in the process. March also involved a massive project and resident movement where a ton of projects, such as the courthouse, the train station, and the remastered town hall were built alongside new residential plot areas. During this period, more town staff were added as the older generations were slowly quitting the server or becoming more inactive. This may have been due to talks between the town staff deciding if they should leave or stay, with the end result set on staying. With the decision set, Citadel introduced new player events to boost the server’s activity, starting off with the soccer event on March 17th that Empire hosted and won, and then finishing the construction of the Asuzuka Citadel boat race track on March 24, 2022.

From Citadel’s March Madness, the mayor ship remained the only unstable thing, as always, that was constantly going down in all the progress being made. While it can only be assumed, Auriem regained the mayor ship after homeo was banned around May 1st, but later stepped down from mayor due to irl stuff and gave the title to HerrAcorn on June 6th, 2022, while still being the comayor and helping with the building. HerrAcorn unfortunately raged off the server on July 30th, 2022, giving the title to Ximenant, and then Ximenant gave the title to ZenoBlaze as of August 13, 2022. A week later after becoming mayor, Zeno proceeded in combining his mayored town, originally Empire’s capital Devon, with Citadel on August 20th. As of today he still is the mayor as the sociological system of the town has been made stable.

Of course stable systems tend to get involved in conflicts. In early May, the town of Columbia was taking residents from Citadel, whether by convincing or bribing. The mayor, Digitized\_\_, began to escalate negative relations with Citadel around May 13th, 2022, mainly by building ships close to the city. The conflict also included the Citadel Femboy Massacre that displaced the surviving femboys from Citadel to Nibel. As time went on, the incident started dying down as on August 9, 2022, Digitized became more inactive which lead to a small peacetime. Unfortunately for Citadel, this peacetime wouldn’t last as around October 9th, 2022, a voice chat session between Digitized and half the server tried to make an agreement on coming to actual peace terms. Digitized rejected all offers and it ended with nothing being resolved, leaving the conflict standing. As for Nibel, it has taken the femboy population and assorted them into their town and culture, forging the Empire Femboy Division and adding them into the Bingus religion.

## Landmarks

Citadel is well known throughout the server for its numerous stunning builds, featuring primarily Dutch, German and Prussian (today in Poland, Kaliningrad, etc) architecture. See the buildings' locations in the real world here.

Citadel spawn (/t spawn) - City spawn resembling a huge fantasy castle. Originally created by Auriem, for the city spawn of Karthwasten in Minesuperior, another towny server where most Empire members emigrated from.

Nigman's Tavern -

Citadel Statue - A statue that, after being moved around bit, stands in the middle of a garden path as a wondrous monument of the city. Before massive renovations and projects, it used to stand on a hill and, for half of it's existence, served as the town's old spawn. It's also one of the few pieces of Exalted Empire culture that was brought over during the migration.

Shiba Stock Exchange (/pw shiba) -

Citadel Museum -

Citadel Library (/pw library) -

Citadel Cathedral (/pw cathedral) - (When was it built?) Prime landmark of Citadel where major events/ceremonies take place, an Empire adaptation of the Cologne Cathedral (*Kölner Dom*), Cologne, Germany. Originally located at the north side of Dixin, it was transported to the east side of Cathedral via WorldEdit by staff after Dixin's fall (When did Dixin fall, and when was the cathedral moved?).

New City Hall - Administrative building hosting offices of numerous town staff and prominent members. Build by Rowen01, ZenoBlaze's younger brother in real life in Apr 2022, on top of the demolished old city hall, it is an adaptation of the city hall (*Rathaus*) of Stolp, Pommerania, Germany (today Słupsk, Poland). Features a huge meeting room on the 3rd floor.

Art Shop - Initially recreational, later decorative building located right next to the city hall, modeled after buildings in the The Great Ring (*Großer Ring*), aka Market Square (*Marktplatz*) of Breslau, Silesia, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland). Never actually used as an art shop since its creation in Nov 2021, the Art Shop used to host Monkeyman1202 and Homeopatix\_\_'s card game, before the cards were moved to the Citadel Museum, and is currently the private, ornamentally decorated private gathering area of Citadel staff.

Old CitMall (previously /pw citmall) - Major economic center hosting a huge number of player shops, such as HerrAcorn's /pw acorn and DikkeReet's /pw gay. Opened in Nov 2021, close 1 year later after Empire captured and planned to use the underground mall of Goddess Heights, an old Cavern city fallen due to inactivity. Front facade adapted from the Barasch Brothers' Mall (*Warenhaus Gebrüder Barasch*) in Breslau, Silesia, Germany (today Wrocław, Poland).

Citadel Kurhaus - (When was it built?) Huge hotel on /pw Queens, Queens district, East Citadel. It was a replica of the Scheveningen Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Den Haag, The Netherlands, by HerrAcorn to honor his hometown. Another major location for events and ceremonies.

Azusuka Racing Track - (When was it built?) Boating racing track built by Asunarena in Mar 2022 for Citadel's own boat race event to boost city popularity and population. Having held the competition twice, it features a huge sakura tree, and a podium for Asuna's missing duck trophy for winning Cavern's official boat race event. The duck was never given, but inspired the Bernie-Duck meme that was posted on the server's discord for 45 days straight.

Citadel Dojo - (When was it built?) Asunarena's Japanese-style dojo house, primarily used for PvP.

Citadel Rollercoaster -

Citadel Courthouse -

Villa Acornhausen - Oringally adapted from Villa Krell, Cranz, East Prussia, Germany (today Zelenogradsk, Kaliningrad, Russia), it was used by KurtTheCyborg as his private residence in Dixin in Oct 2021, but was ruined after the city's fall. With its schematics preserved, it was rebuilt in May 2022 at the east side of Citadel as HerrAcorn's personal residence.

Parmezaan House -

South Gate -

Victory Road -

### Gallery

Citadel skyline, from left to right: Citadel Cathedral (/pw cathedral), Citadel South Gate, Citadel Kurhaus, and Parmezaan House.Citadel skyline at dawn, screenshot by Auriem.Citadel city centre at dusk, screenshot by Auriem.