CaliforniaRepublic

The **CaliforniaRepublic** is a faction in California, USA on TG Earth 1.0. The faction is lead by KVanilla and has a population of eight. CaliforniaRepublic's motto is *The land of the setting sun.*

## The First Catastrophe

California was not always CaliforniaRepublic. It used to be TheRomanEmpire, however the Italian peninsula provided challenges that led to the rebranding. Before the server launch, they planned to take the Italian peninsula, and rebuild Rome, first with the Coliseum. However, a few days after the group was formed on Discord, it was announced that a landmark, Mt. Vesuvius, would be present, and it provided nether resources. They still tried to take Italy, and were slightly successful for less than a day.

## And then it happened...

Unbeknownst to them, Superiority was settling down in nearby Constantinople. Superiority, better known as "Soup" is known to have players skilled in 1.8 combat, which was the combat type being implemented on the Earth server. Se3dling, KVanilla, and n1k0z were sitting around a small house built by Se3dling, when VTD, Ninobf, and cheeeca came in and killed them. Because of the proximity to Soup, the fact that the faction had only one person knowledgeable in 1.8 pvp (and even he is not very skilled in it), and how Soup had players in full enchanted diamond armor and tools while Rome was lucky to have even one full iron at that time, it was decided that Rome would escape Italy, regroup in the Americas, and plot a way to retake their homeland.

## California! or not...

The escape of Italy was successful, but it proved to be a damaging blow to the faction. Over the next few days, Rome would have it's members cross the Atlantic, and regroup somewhere in Ontario, Canada. They got more resources, and began the trek westward to California.

## For real this time!

After arriving in California, things were starting to look a bit better. They needed time to regain power to claim land, and money as well. There were a few days of peace, and it was all good. Diamonds were found, money was made, food was less of an issue, and it felt good to finally be on their way to recovery. And then...

## The downfall of California

Of course, when you have a faction by the nature of Soup, you wouldn't expect to have much peace at all if you were a weak faction. What Soup did on that day sealed the fate of California. Nino trekked over and killed n1k0z one time while he was attempting to bring a dog he found in Canada back home. Neither n1k0z or the dog survived many minutes. n1k0z warped to Cali, not knowing of Nino's presence. He did this to see if the dog he brought would be teleported along with him (it did not). After he was killed by Nino, he attempted to get back to his dog, but being unarmored was not helping his chances of recovering the dog, and when he got back to the dog, he was met by another player with gear. As he was not in combat, he logged out to protect what little power he had left. When he got back, the dog was nowhere to be found, and is assumed to be murdered by a player from the Victoria faction. Calfiornia member Duhhorn was also online, and was also unaware of the game mechanic that depletes your power every time you die. Not knowing this, he was killed multiple times by AncientBlade, Ninobf, cheeeca, and hjoire. This led to Soup taking a chunk of land where California had what little riches it had, and by then it was lost.

## Present day California

Shortly after the second scuffle with Soup, it was decided that disbanding the faction CaliforniaRepublic would be the best course of action. KVanilla went and joined the America faction, and n1k0z went and created the NorthernTradeGroup faction, in hopes of finding a way to utilize a hopeful future addition of aircraft into the server for economic profit. Duhhorn also left and joined the NorthernTradeGroup faction. Most, if not all members are either not going to play on the server again after the rapid attacks from Soup, or barely play on it again until things cool down and they can utilize their building skills. You can find most, if not all of the members being regular players on the Survival server.

## Trivia!!!!

- Most of the members are citizens of either Seatown or Grogstown

- They are mostly builders

- n1k0z attempted to teach them what he knew about 1.8 pvp, but as alluded to earlier, he is not the best at that type of pvp.

- California was co-lead by KVanilla and banana\_pirate1

- After the disbanding, n1k0z left signs explaining the events of California's downfall, and left flowers around it before venturing to the northern glaciers in the Hudson Bay with KVanilla on horseback.