Whirlas

## Summary

Whirlas is a long time player of the geopolitical genre and joined Colenia in Summer of 2017. He first joined the discord on September 2nd, 2017.

## Before Colenia

Before Whirlas came to join Colenia in 2017 he spent time in a few other Earth servers such as EarthMC and others. He didn't spend too much time in them besides wandering around the map for a bit and then leaving soon after.

## Joining Colenia

Whirlas first joined Colenia in the Summer of 2017, during 4.0. How exactly he came to find Colenia is unknown, but it's likely it was either Cheezewafflez's advertisement or a 3rd party website. When he first joined Colenia he was invited by Beaubo, the leader of the Pacific Union, to join his nation. Whirlas explored around LA a bit and then proceeded to make the Hollywood sign out of diorite after flattening the landscape using the explosive pick given to him by Beaubo. He then left the server and forgot about it for a while. When he came back the second time he wasn't in the Pacific Union anymore so he decided to make his own nation. He founded it in Louisiana and it was known as "New Louisiana." He claimed some land and built a small town, most notably a lighthouse, then left Colenia for awhile again.

## The Third Return

When he joined Colenia again around October-November of 2017, he found that his nation was gone. He then decided to make another nation, but this time in Cuba. He went to the island of Cuba and claimed it all, but this was not to last. The power in the region, the UPCA, didn't approve of Whirlas taking the island of Cuba. They were preparing for a "Bay of Pigs" invasion, so Whirlas decided to abandon Cuba and look for greener pastures. He traveled to Asia and decided to take South Korea, but before he could claim it all he was approached by Hawgharian , the leader Tamil, who asked him to form an alliance with him. At this moment, gamabhana  private messages Whirlas telling him to get away as quickly as possible. Whirlas then disbanded Korea and headed to Europe. He then started a nation in Greece on the island of Crete. he expanded his borders to Sparta and the coast of Anatolia. He also owned the coast of North Africa for a brief moment before Dictator , the head of Angevin , told him to "Get away from the Holy Land" and unclaim the land, which he did. He built a nice little city on Crete with a tower that went to world height which he tore down right after finishing because he realized it would be virtually impossible to put all the windows in it. This is where Whirlas left Colenia again in early December, waiting for the next reset to begin with plans of making New York. I'll leave out the story about all of Whirlas' USAs here, but if you would like to read it, see United States.

## Whirlas' Non-USA Nations (6.0-9.0)

I'll leave out the specifics of all the nations; this is merely a list and not a comprehensive description.

* Texas 6.0
* Iberian Union 6.0
* Arabia 6.0
* Central America 6.0
* Cuba 6.0
* Deutsches Reich 7.0
* Roman Empire 8.0
* Danish State 9.0

## Stint as Staff

Throughout his time in Colenia, Whirlas ran numerous times for CD to become staff. Though he very nearly won most of them, he ultimately failed in his attempts and essentially gave up. This was the case for perhaps two years, until sometime, I don't quite remember when, for one reason or another he became the server's sole advertiser. This role served to bring more people into Colenia and expand the server's reach. Before he was the server's advertiser, he had brought many people in through his SMP Earth Discord, but this time it was different. In May of 2020, Whirlas contacted one Drew Durnil on behalf of Colenia. Whirlas didn't expect much to come from it, but to his surprise Drew replied to his email. This was relayed to the rest of the staff team, and they began work on replying. After a bit of back and fourth with Drew, they eventually came to an agreement where Drew would come on the server. The host was upgraded and staff prepared for an oncoming wave of people. This, though, would not be the case. In hindsight, informing all members of the staff team about Drew was a fatal mistake, and word about the advertisement got out. This eventually reached the word of one "t-man" as I'll call him. For whatever reason, he set out to strike this advert down before it even happened. T-man or one of his accomplices went on one of Drew's stream and sent fabricated messages through donations. They also did this through a Twitter account with essentially the same message, speaking on how advertising Colenia was supposedly not a good decision. These messages likely reached the ears of Drew, and as a result, the advertisement fell apart. For the next 9 months, Whirlas did very little as server advertiser, and Colenia as a whole. He was eventually removed from his position in early 2021, and thus concludes his time as staff.