Corsair

Corsair (also known by his IGN "xNeocratesx") is an old and well-known player on CrocMC. He joined in December of 2019 and quickly built a reputation of being an excellent builder and alliance-former.

## Corsair

### Associated with

Zion, Zeronis, Osiron, Neo-Falcrest, Falcrest, Alzaria, Texas, Renegades, Legendary Empire, Grainplains

## Appearances

### Background

Corsair joined CrocMC shortly before the Civil War in the waning days of Season 1.5. He is known for building the first sanctuary base on CrocMC, known as **Grainplains**. Corsair attracted notable players such as Xur and Spacelotion, and a few others. The three would go on to fall on Fishy's side of the *Civil War*, ultimately joining CocoaMC for its first two seasons before rejoining CrocMC in Season 3.

Corsair is reputable for his contributions to the CrocMC community, serving as admin multiple times and being an arbiter for international disputes, especially during the *August War*. He is also controversial in the fact that he has a short temper, and in recent times he has come under much scrutiny from the Noah administration.

## History

### Grainplains

Corsair began building **Grainplains** very soon after first joining CrocMC. Located approximately 500 blocks north of Season 1.5's spawn, **Grainplains** served as a temporary sanctuary and server hub for new and established members alike. After establishing the First Church of Wheat, Corsair would go on to transform half of the entire grassland into a giant wheat farm. **The Great Northern Highway**, which connected spawn to **Grainplains**, was the main avenue to reach the old base. New players would join and construct their own houses close to the town center.

When Fishy initiated his coup d'etat against the then-owners of the server, Nick and Dingo, Plague griefed **Grainplains** and left the base in ruin. Shortly after, the CrocMC IP address would be used to form CocoaMC, which Corsair and few others would join.

### Legendary Empire

After the establishment of CocoaMC, Corsair would join and create his first bunker-style base, named **Ole Legendary**, located in a nearby shattered savanna. Xur and Spacelotion would follow suit, setting up in the new bunker and modifying the surrounding area. The other major group in Cocoa, the **Soviet Union**, would prove to be noteworthy allies of Corsair's **Legendary Empire**.

Corsair would go on to establish satellite bases, including **Temple Mount** and **Legacy Falls**, while Xur constructed **Xur Legendary** further east.

Cocoa Season 1 would not last very long, and after a series of major griefs, the server quickly transitioned into Season 2. Not much is known about Corsair's activity during this period, but a base known as **Boreal Palace** is likely to be associated with him.

### Renegade Retreat

Corsair rejoined CrocMC during Season 2 after suffering major setbacks from the constant server wipes from Cocoa, and he would quickly locate to a distant badlands and form **Renegade Retreat** from the remnants of the former **Legendary Empire**. This would be Corsair's first Western-themed base and would serve as a template for his future builds. Xur and Spacelotion would join soon after and help Corsair's construction of the base. The group, known as **The Renegades**, received wide acclaim from the Nick administration for their efforts in building the base.

This is also around the time when the diamond block dupe had not been patched, and Corsair exploited this glitch religiously in order to further the base's wealth and power.

The Renegades' main rival was the old and infamous group known as **Kmerhine**, otherwise known as the Potato Empire. Zentaly, the leader of the group, would become Corsair's archrival. The two agreed to settle this brewing dispute in a 1v1 duel, but the duel never came due to the events which lead up to the *GoldAlaskaBear Crisis*.

GoldAlaska was an infamous (and now banned) member of CrocMC. Corsair knew little of the danger of being in her circles until she arrived in **Renegade Retreat** as a member of **Kmerhine** unannounced. Another member of **Renegade Retreat** known as Adi would initiate the violent confrontation, engaging in combat until GoldAlaska logged at the foot of a mesa plateau. Adi, at the request of Corsair, trapped GoldAlaska in a box of obsidian and filled it with lava. GoldAlaska alerted other members of **Kmerhine** of the situation, and they quickly mobilized and headed straight for the distant retreat. Combat was scattered and one casualty was suffered from the **Kmerhine** side, but a new player known as Tim would step in and calm the situation, offering to escort GoldAlaska from the premises of **Renegade Retreat** in exchange for peace.

Corsair had plans to create multiple outposts close to the base in a series of vanity projects meant to glorify **Renegade Retreat**, but progress quickly came to a halt when he suffered malfunctions with his keyboard shortly after becoming a server admin for the first time. Unable to resolve the issue, Corsair went into dormancy and **Renegade Retreat** became abandoned after the permanent departure of Xur and Spacelotion.

### Texas

Main article: Texas

Corsair rejoined Croc in the final day of Season 3.5, and in the following season he would join reputable members such as Bullet, Fin, Splayhi, Potato, Matthew, and a few others to form a base named **Texas** along the outskirts of an eroded badlands. Following the template of **Renegade Retreat**, the group would construct a Western-themed town and thrived off of the solitude of the distance from spawn.

### Citadel of Phantoms

Main article: Citadel of Phantoms

After establishing **Texas** as a strong and economically stable base, Corsair would begin the construction of his largest vanity project to date, named the **Citadel of Phantoms.** The Nether Update had just recently been implemented in CrocMC, and Corsair would use the new materials to his advantage in building the colossal bunker.

The citadel was accessible in the overworld only through a nether portal linked to **Texas,** and Corsair carved out a massive cavern that would serve as the foundation of the project. He built the bunker from blackstone columns and floors and used basalt as the material for the background walls. Soul soil was used to create the fire and soul lanterns that would give the citadel its ambient lighting.

The **Citadel of Phantoms** would be the home of Season 4's only dragon egg, given to Corsair by the server owner Nick. Nicknamed "Angel", the dragon egg was put on display in one of the side rooms of the citadel, labeled "Angel's Imprisonment." Nick, not trusting Corsair or others who know of the bunker's whereabouts, surrounded the dragon egg with barrier blocks. He unwisely forgot that the pedestal which the egg was mounted on was breakable, so the barrier blocks proved worthless. However, from the day which the egg was placed there to the final day of the season, the egg remained stationary. The egg and the citadel can be found in the opening scene of this Croc ad.

The bunker is also host to Corsair's incomplete Player Archive, in which he attempted to create an in-game wiki of the server's notable players. The archive was never complete due to the massive amount of player contributions and time needed to be put into it.

### Thin Slice

After exhausting an immense amount of effort into creating the **Citadel of Phantoms**, Corsair left **Texas** and went on to build a solitary base named **Thin Slice** in a shattered plateau with three rivers disecting it. Corsair remained here for several weeks contemplating his previous accomplishments and admiring the beauty of the landscape. Corsair also planned to revamp his old plans of building a massive sanctuary in response to the *July Crisis* orchestrated by Nick and Ethan, and so in the beginning days of August, Corsair headed straight to spawn.

### Falcrest

Main article: Falcrest

Corsair wrote up 5 articles which would collectively be known as the *Haven Accords*. These accords established the framework of the new system of player sanctuaries which is still in place today. After revealing this project to Nick, Nick immediately enthroned the *Haven Accords* as part of the server law, and Corsair swiftly got to work on his newest project.

Corsair formed the new group **Falcrest** as an exclusively non-combatant, sanctuary-building team in order to build the season's first and only sanctuary, named **Haven**. **Haven** would prove to be a powerful base in its early days, attracting old members such as Splayhi, Sil, Tim, and Potato, as well as establishing newer players like Myxxo as reputable prospects for the future of CrocMC. With the onset of the *August War* between the combined effort of the old realms of **Kmerhine** and **Anatolian** against the newly-formed and powerful **Neo-Nordic**, Haven became a refuge for those seeking to escape the conflict and to re-establish themselves to enter the war once again.

**Haven** consisted of a commons building, which served as a hub and a hangout for all members of CrocMC, as well as several other player homes and a community bank. Though Corsair won't admit it, **Falcrest** followed a socialist model of economics, allowing members to contribute and benefit from the community bank as they needed. This model proved useful for the members of **Falcrest**, whose efforts in building the colossal base were magnified by the flow of resources. A kilometer highway was constructed between **Haven** and spawn by Tim and Corsair.

Corsair served as the main arbiter in the short-lived **CrocMC United Nations**, which was established during the *August War* in order to settle disputes and rule-breaks as well as outline a better system for combat. The UN met several times in order to discuss the future of war.

Corsair, with the help of Nick and Charge, would create two of CrocMC's Croc Dungeons, named **Boreal Palace** and **Blast Tower**. These dungeons were filled with dungeon loot as well as a trophy upon its completion. A video of the conquest of **Blast Tower** by Zentaly can be found here.

**Falcrest** would not always see glory days, as sometime in late August, Plague would return again to grief most of the base by destroying the community bank and surrounding flammable buildings. Plague was not caught until much later after admitting to his crimes, but the damage was severe. The community bank had to be rebuilt and the base's progress was never fully realized as it was before. The group would also suffer major loss after the *August War* as the server experienced its most major waning period to date, now known as the *Great Decline of October 2020*. Corsair, exhausting much time and effort into Season 4 and returning to studies, left CrocMC for the second time. **Falcrest** had disbanded and no other sanctuary group has been formed since then.

### CrocMC Croc Erf

Nick started a new project in October to serve as a sister server alongside the main server named Croc Earth. The idea behind this server was to implement a total war system in which the winning faction takes all in a survival-of-the-fittest contest without implementing the same system in the main server.

Corsair formed **Kodiak** on the Kamchatka Peninsula, overseen by Kenny who owned the entirety of Russia at the time.

Croc Earth was short-lived and had relatively little history, with the group **Termina** ultimately claiming victory in the contest.

### Cave City

Corsair returned in Season 5 to found Cave City along with Potato. The base initially had success, having many resources and progress dedicated to it. However, with the new Noah administration on the rise, the server's tolerance to profanity diminished. Potato was accused of antisemitism and sending illegal photos to other members, and he was permanently banned as a result. Corsair, having been recently elected CrocMC's first president, threatened to resign from his post if Potato was not allowed to return. When his demands were not met, he retracted from his decision and remained on the server.

Grieved by the loss of a long-time ally, Corsair left Cave City abandoned and traveled to Tim and Myxxo's base on the far reaches of the server.

This is around the time when Corsair's reputation began to decline, as his stark opposition to the new positions of the server's administion placed strain on his behavior and the community's outlook on him.

### Kodiak

After Potato's final removal from the server, Corsair retreated to Tim and Myxxo's base located tens of thousands of blocks from spawn. This base and its subsequent outposts would become known as **Southern Gardens**. Within a nearby taiga, Corsair established **Kodiak**, building a large cabin and resigning himself to live a humble existence, undisturbed by other group politics. Corsair lost re-election to Dave in the second presidential race, which further secluded him from the rest of the server.

Corsair constructed a new Church of Wheat within his base, and built a puppy mill to breed countless amounts of dogs. He planned to build outposts near **Kodiak**, which included **The Tridents** and **Lasker**, but he never began these projects. Corsair Remained in Kodiak for the remainder of Season 5.

### Osiron

Splayhi formed **New Creven** during the early days of Season 6. Corsair joined the team and the group settled in a shattered savanna somewhere 10,000 blocks from spawn. When Zentaly attempted to coup the team's leadership just days after its formation, Splayhi abdicated and handed the crown to Corsair, who subsequently disbanded the group just hours later and formed **Neo-Falcrest**. The new team was supposed to have all the members of its predecessor, but when very few players were interested in the power shift, Corsair scrapped his idea.

However, with the rise of **Olympus** and Corsair's fresh vendetta against the leaders of that group, Nick and Ethan, Corsair created **Osiron** with Zentaly in secret and invited other ancient members to join his war plan. Spacelotion made a reappearance, and other members such as Bullet and Nourish also returned to the server. The group based at **Belhaven**, which was originally supposed to be the main base of **New Creven**, and the group quickly got to work revamping the ruins and expanding from there.

## Other Details

### How to pronounce "Neocrates"

Neocrates is pronounced "Nee-Ah-Kruh-Teez", which rhymes with Socrates. It is not Neo-crates, as most people think.

### Build Style

Corsair prefers subterranean builds, such as bunkers or cave builds. Corsair is also known for his expertise in Old Western styles. Corsair's projects are distinct in their use of columns and ambient lighting.

### Combat

Corsair is no expert in combat, but he typically prefers to engage in fights head-on instead of at range. Corsair loves to use potions.

### Personal Details

Corsair is an American of Scottish and Cherokee descent. He is currently 20 years old. Corsair suffers from depression, and he uses nicotine to self-medicate.