Steel Shield

The Steel Shield was a group whose Specterium branch was founded by The\_Biblioklept. The group helped new players with spawn farms/nether highway expansion.

It was inactive for a long time and was eventually disbanded, but in early June 2020, The\_Biblioklept formed a successor group: The Engineers.

## Members:

* The\_Biblioklept

* Eccentricat

* CRD716

* Swiitsh

* ChefAli

* MrEDok? (Is in the discord but nothing else)

## Bases

   All of these were small and close to Spawn.

* Mesopotamia
* Mesopotamia II(public farm right next to Spawn)
* Occitian(the main base, but not used very a lot and close to spawn)
* Bookthief Bay(Biblio's base, which was also somewhat used by the group)

## History:

Dates have been lost to time completely. This all took place in the AnarchyMC period.

Mesopotamia I was founded around an unknown village (assumed to be ~10K out) however was abandoned due a base of a player who was at the time considered dangerous being found nearby.

Mesopotamia II was built in a pyramid (made completely out of cobblestone by a bot) that Eccentricat hollowed out and made multiple farms inside. The\_Biblioklept would later tend to it and give it the name "Mesopotamia"

Mesopotamia II became well known for new players to find and use. The upkeep was low enough that members could also do other things.

At an unknown date, Tom\_The\_Narco and 2 others casted it, though it was quickly uncasted, and minimal crop production was continued before largely being abandoned for Occitan Base. Eccentricat continued and continues(?) to maintain it, and it is still producing crops.

Unfortunately, around this time spawn walls started to be build, and trees destroyed. New players could no longer walk out of spawn and had to take portals instead.

Occitian was created and was the main base for a while.

At some point, the group went inactive, with the discord still being up, but the leader left and members have joined other groups.

### Biblio's History:

September 1st, 2019

> "The Steel Shield was created on 2b2t in 2015-2016, but at the time it was a slaving, spawnkilling, constantly griefing organization. In late 2016 there were some changes, that led to a rebellion, though I wasn't around at the time so I don't know what led to the rebellion. nugatory\_void recruited me via Discord, for another group I was in. He became the leader and gave the group its new purpose of undoing the damage done from our past. When I was recruited I was recruited as part of the recursion squads, players who go into spawn and bring players to 1k, and set them up with gear. Since then we have moved to constantium, though that branch recently fell. So now we help out, restore bases, and we have made some pretty nice builds. I haven't seen any recursion teams go out recently.
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> We also have a parent group, go ask u/notitiaprobitas. They are the conglomerate that we are a part of.
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> There is currently a power vacuum for nugatory's old position. There will be no way this doesn't end in in-fighting. Some people want me to take it, some want someone from our parent group NotitiaProbitas, some want an outsider, and some want it to remain empty, and just let our parent group lead us."
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## Encoding:

The group had multiple encoding languages, only of which English was ever used. The other languages were Occitan, Esperanto, and Ido. The Steel Shield also had a coordinant notation system which saw little use even by The\_Biblioklept.

### Unknown symbols:

These symbols were found on the discord. They are from an unfinished ideogram for a conlang created by The\_Biblioklept. The glyphs represent storms/lightning, forests/growth, and blood/life accordingly. It was used sparsely by the Steel Shield on another branch, but fell out of fashion quickly.