Age of Chaos

## Overview

The **Age of Chaos** was a historical period in the Surreal Memes Wiki lasting from early August to mid-October 2018. As the name suggests, it was a very chaotic era defined by multiple vandal attacks, full-blown wars and constant conflict. Highlights included CheeseDestructor's attacks and many wars involving Omnipotent gangster.

## Summary

Before the Age of Chaos, the I.R.O.N.I.C organization had a stranglehold over the Surreal Memes Wiki. It had almost completely prevented vandal attacks since late May and was the wiki's de facto government. In early August, however, the most powerful vandal attack yet would destroy the peace and challenge I.R.O.N.I.C's power.

On August 7th, 2018, a user known as DeLoominarty started mass vandalizing, replacing all the content in pages with links to The Flat Earth Society's website. This wasn't DeLoominarty's first attack - he had been a mildly troublesome vandal since May- but this attack was much larger than any one before. Eventually, he was blocked by a random VSTF member, but it was only the beginning of the chaos.

On the same day, new user by the name of CheeseDestructor8723 made some Seperatist-Orangist comments on a couple pages and some threatening messages on the walls of I.R.O.N.I.C members. He threatened that there would be the "Second Great Orang Movement", or a massive vandal attack, on August the 9th.

CheeseDestructor quickly started vandalizing pages, and he was much more destructive than KylerC123, an older Orangist, ever was. CheeseDestructor's vandalism involved destroying as much as possible as quickly as possible, and he started mass vandalism on the SMW.

I.R.O.N.I.C quickly responded to his vandalism and began to try and revert it as quickly as possible. ApertureEmployee427, a medium-ranking I.R.O.N.I.C member, tried to mock Cheese until he gave up and convince him that seperatist Orangism was now pointless (due to the ending of ROTR2).

After user AlmightyMemeMan (who was trusted in the wiki) tried convincing CheeseDestructor, Cheese started to claim that he was no longer an Orangist. He was no longer a threat, at the moment. While he spend the first half of the 8th vandalizing, he spend the second half asking for forgiveness and undoing his earlier vandalism.

Meanwhile, he was also vandalizing the Surreal Science Wiki and turning it into an Orangist base. On August the 9th, he would unleash yet another massive attack on the SMW, destroying dozens or maybe even over 100 pages. I.R.O.N.I.C, with a large team, was reverting the damage in a matter of minutes or seconds. But in the midst of the chaos, Nullatrum, in his first action since April, blocked CheeseDestructor for 1 year.

However, CheeseDestructor was apparently on discord with another old Orangist: KylerC123. Kyler hadn't been important for over 2 months, so naturally I.R.O.N.I.C assumed that Cheese's claims that he was working with Kyler were empty threats. Little is known about Cheese and Kyler's discord discussions.

For the next 2 weeks, there was relative peace in the wiki. However, on August the 20th, a new user joined: Omnipotent gangster, or Omni. For the first few days he didn't actually cause destruction and only didn things such as roleplaying as the Omniscronchulon.

On August 25th, Omni left a message on PoseidonHeir's wall saying "the war" had begun. He was referring to a roleplay war, involving the great epic face, Orang, and many more. This was the beginning of the Omni vs. Meme war that pitted I.R.O.N.I.C against Omni.

He then joined Kyler and CheeseDestructor on discord. Meanwhile, CheeseDestructor had completely taken over the Surreal Science wiki and the trio used it to communicate. This was the point where the actual warfare started. On the 29th, CheeseDestructor created a second account, CheeseDestructorV2.

But on the same day, they made a truce with I.R.O.N.I.C and claimed to have turned good. They didn't break this truce for a while, but unbeknownst to I.R.O.N.I.C, Omni had created an alt account by the name of Orang4Life, who vandalized and acted like a seperatist Orangist. He also shared control of the account with Cheese.

On August 10th, conflict resumed when Omni attacked. He started a great roleplay war and revealed his "true identity" to be the Crustobloviscular EYE. Meanwhile, Kyler had switched sides and pledged his allegiance to I.R.O.N.I.C. Kyler and Poseidon also managed to convince Cheese to become a unifist Orangist and join I.R.O.N.I.C.

Meanwhile, in the raging roleplay battle, the EYE revealed *his* "true identity to be Inverto, an evil inverted Orang. The battle was long and dramatic. In the midst of the chaos, new user Deadline666 joined in on his own "second evil side". He claimed to literally be the devil and he fought both I.R.O.N.I.C and Omni. The forces were now fighting all over the Surreal Science wiki in its largest ever war.

It was really confisuing with a three sided war all over the place, and by now it had also turned to vandalism: the largest mass vandalism in the wiki's history at that point. But suddenly, he turned to I.R.O.N.I.C's side again, claiming Omni needed to be stopped. The resulting 2 sided war would be known as the Final War, the "last war of the Surreal Memes Wiki". (Of course, it turned out to be far from the last.)

During the final war, it was all a blur; hard to understand, harder to remember, and even harder to document; and the line between roleplay, vandalism and chaos was blurred. The gist of it was that everyone: I.R.O.N.I.C, Deadline, CheeseDestructor, Kyler, and even random users were fighting against Omni.

Multiple mass vandalism sprees happened throughout this event, from both Omni and Deadline. After days of fighting, however, I.R.O.N.I.C proposed a ceasfire. The agreement was essentially "Omni promises not to vandalize if I.R.O.N.I.C doesn't block Omni's non-vandalism edits".

The ceasefire was agreed upon, and in the next couple days the chaos died down. Nobody was still vandalising by late september and the roleplay battle was long over. Both the SMW and the SSW were now being re-constructed and the damage was cleaned up relatively easily.

Drama wasn't completely over, though. On October 1st and 2nd, a vandal called "The Dark Star X God" vent on a vandalism spree. He insisted that he wasn't Omni but he likely was. He was gone in 2 days and he for the rest of the Age of Chaos, there would be vandal attacks.

For the rest of the first half of October, the Surreal Memes Wiki entered a period of uncertainty. No one knew when the next vandal attack would be, or what would happen in the near and far future. I.R.O.N.I.C and the wiki in general were still a bit dazed from the chaos that had ensued for the past 2 months, but nothing new happened.

This uncertainty would finally end when JoeJoeTheAnimator adopted the wiki and started the Safe Age.