Tihex Arkology

Flag of the Short-lived "Tihexian Kingdom of God"

This is a message written in code. Let he who knows, know.

The Tihex Arkology is a privately owned arcology located in what was formerly the Grand Portage Reservation. It was first founded in 2069 after the opening up of the lands under the Jackson administration, as well as the start of the Long Winters being a catalyst for what they believed to be the rise of God's Kingdom on Earth. The short-lived "Tihexian Kingdom of God" was dissolved in 2072.

## Background

Tihexian Christianity was a reinterpretation of traditional Christianity which had grown through the internet utilizing memes and attracting conspiracy theorists and libertarians at an alarming rate. Its leader, known online only as "the Travelling King", had published his manifesto and works on theology across the 2020's, 2030's, and onwards. He proclaimed that the end times were near, that he was the 2nd Coming of Christ, and soon he would establish God's Kingdom on Earth. Like many cults, Tihex was able to attract a small following, and after a long period of fundraising, and careful planning of his new envisioned city, he gathered his followers and moved to the newly vacated Grand Portage Reservation, where he intended to build the New Jerusalem.

"The Travelling King" had made several doomsday predictions, from the 2020's into the 2030's, all the way up until the outbreak of the 3rd World War. At that time he proclaimed that the end of days was coming, that the 3rd World War would be the last world war the world would ever fight, and precede the establishment of God's Kingdom. He also made the controversial opinion that China would win the 3rd World War, owing to his belief in China's supremacy. When the East did win the 3rd World War, more people flocked to him, seeing him as being right, and he stated that the 3rd World War would be the last great war between men, and that the Kingdom of God was coming. He tried and failed to get land in several areas, and continued to proclaim there would be no more wars after the 3rd World War. And then a war happened and he said it didn't count since it wasn't a world war.

Then the 4th World War happened and he revised his teachings, now it was the 4th World War that would be the war to end all wars. He stated that the Chinese were actually harbingers of God's Kingdom and would bring about the new millennium. He was then thrown into a labor camp for the religious. Upon being freed by the Americans, he stated that actually it was the Americans who would bring about God's Kingdom, completely scrubbed all previous praise for the Chinese government now it was actively collapsing, and stated he would establish God's Kingdom. After the expulsion of the American Indians by the Jackson administration, and opening up of the land to development, the Travelling King told his followers to settle the land.

## Initial Settlement

The initial settlers set up around the city of Grand Portage. While the Jackson administration had forcefully dissolved the reservations and opened up their land to American settlers, the indigenous people of Grand Portage, numbering some 60 people by this point attempted to resist the influx of new immigration. However, by October 2069 there was an estimated 200 people who had migrated there from the instructions of the Travelling King, who had displaced the original inhabitants of Grand Portage, and by early 2070 the majority of the population of Grand Portage had moved out. The Travelling King had given frequent instruction on how the city should be constructed, but due to the sheer impracticality of his grand designs, the settlers were forced to cut corners, as they could not afford the grandiose scale of the construction. However, under the orders of the Travelling King, who demanded a city in accordance to their visions, the entire city was turned into a single building known as "the Arkology". Costing an estimated 5 million dollars to build, and draining most of the cult's meagre finances, along with unpaid labor from their followers.

## Dispute Over Leadership

Despite being the group's leader, the Travelling King had never revealed themselves to their followers. Upon satisfactory completion of the Arkology, the Travelling King declared to his followers that he would reveal themselves to them at the Tihex Arkology on September 11th, 2070. Unfortunately for the Travelling King, a random Asian person got there first and proclaimed that he was actually the Travelling King, and then hacked into the Travelling King's social media accounts to pretend that he was the Travelling King all along.

This lead to a minor civil war among the Tihex Arkology between the followers of the Travelling King and the followers of the Asian man, both of which tried winning supporters to their side by trying to be push even more insane conspiracy theories than the other side. This culminated into an anti-semitism contest in which, according to the diaries of the Travelling king, he completely owned the Asian person, and the Asian man's nose grew 3 inches. The conflict finally ended when the Asian man began dying of chronic rice deficiency and was forced to return to his mother's house, leading to the Travelling King declaring himself the true king of the Tihex Arkology.

## Mass Cannibalism

Upon the end of the Tihex Arkology's civil war in October 2070, all focus turned towards the continued development of the Arkology, which would need many skills in leadership, architecture, engineering, and agriculture. Unfortunately for everyone involved, the Travelling King was not educated, nor was he willing to get one. The Travelling King continued to insist that he should be able to build an entire megastructure for only 500,000 dollars, insisting that his mathematics was perfect and exiling anyone who disagreed with him. When the winter began rolling in and they ran out of money for food, he proclaimed the Tihexian Kingdom of God and that God would deliver them from the famine and it would rain manna the next day. When God did not show up he claimed that he meant deliver them spiritually. But it would rain manna the next day. This pattern repeated itself several times.

At this point the situation was looking dire and Tihex Arkology basically qualified for humanitarian aid, and truckloads of food began showing up at the Tihex Arkology. All of which the Travelling King sent away because one of the truck drivers was Jewish and he "refused to eat Jewish food". As winter came in the cold Minnesotan climate, and in particular food storehouses ran out on a particularly bad snowstorm. On the first day of the snowstorm he said that God had given him a vision that because he was the Christ, He would bless them and they would know no hunger. On the second day of the snowstorm he said that God spoke to him and that He would provide food for the commune. On the third day he said God spoke to him and He said that they should resort to cannibalism. Upon being questioned by his followers about the safety of eating dead corpses he stated that God had blessed him and that God will protect him.

He then contracted stomach parasites.

## Psyop by 15 Year Old

By this time, the tale of the Travelling King and his wacky band of commune followers had made it to OneChan, the successor of the 4chan boards following the Silicon Valley collapse and the De-Digitalization movement. This is when a 15-year-old Brazilian troll, named NoobSpike decided to, in the words of ex-president Donald Trump, "do a little trolling". He had created a pretty unknown written series known as "Above the Stars and Beyond", which at this point was getting very little attention. He managed to contact the Travelling King through Neo-Twitter and convinced him that he was a Pentagon agent, and that there was going to be a massive coup attempt later that fall.

But he also began introducing lore from his unknown fanfiction to mess with him, introducing Travelling to an AI character named "C.U.T.E.", and that there existed an alternate dimension where all of the fictional universes were real. Which most importantly, included the one where Travelling was an actual king, and not just one larping over a bunch of mud huts in Minnesota. And that Travelling just needed to believe in himself and break through this dimensional barrier to cause the breaching of the barrier between these worlds and manifest his wishes into reality. At this point Travelling renounced the Christian God and began worshipping C.U.T.E. and began preforming animal sacrifices to his new anime deity. Travelling was just about to begin offering human sacrifices when he discovered a wiki article parodying the entire situation on some Asian guy's fanfiction wiki for a fictional universe called "Daughters of Dawn" and became enraged, cutting off all connection to NoobSpike.

However, despite learning that NoobSpike was a troll, he continued to believe that he was actually a federal agent and they would eventually overthrow the US government... Somehow. Also for completely unknown reasons he would continue to worship C.U.T.E. NoobSpike would later flesh out Above the Stars and Beyond, turning it into a small franchise with a loyal and dedicated community.

## Attempted Coup of US Government

About 100 of the 300 initial settlers made it to Spring 2071, with about 200 people cannibalized. Thankfully, new settlers would take the place of the old settlers as the Spring thaw kicked in. Of course, the Travelling King's delusions had only gotten worse over a winter of starvation and cannibalism (And there was evidence that the parasites had made it to his brain) so he believed that the famine was a plot facilitated by Congress in order to prevent the creation of God's New Kingdom. He began chronically using more Neo-Twitter, and became convinced that the American deep state was communicating to him through the algorithm. So he came to the only logical conclusion: He must work together with the Deep State to overthrow the US government so they will proclaim him king.

Completely convinced by this genius plan, he then sent no less than 15 letters to the Pentagon to please do a coup and install him as a theocratic monarch. He wrote up a completely demented manifesto and sent it to the Pentagon, as well as several famous political figures such as Elon Musk's brain upload, Andrew Yang, and ex-President Victoria Cortez. He continued writing furiously through Spring of 2071. Upon getting the attention of federal agents, they began pestering him not for sending plans of a coup of the US government, but instead for tax evasion. With building pressure from the federal government on the Arkology project, the Travelling King was forced to take measures into his own hands.

## Tihex Arkology Attacks

In what is probably the most infamous episodes of the Tihex Arkology, the Travelling King wrote up a list of enemies he wished to have taken out and cultivated several chemical weapons to use against the population. He particularly found use in the weaponization of anthrax and salmonella. Deep into his delusions, he wrote up a list of enemies, including the Asian man who had been his rival for king of Tihex. He now believed to the man was the leader of the Deep State, the Pentagon, and pulling the strings of the US government, to the governor of Minnesota, to the state legislature, and the county government. On top of that, on the list was also several people in the county government, state government, NoobSpike, federal agents, and personal grudges he had from before he started Tihex.

Over a period of several months he used unpaid labor to develop said chemical weapons, creating his own version of mustard gas, and testing it on unsuspecting victims chosen at random from around the commune. The group of elite guards he created to administer these attacks became known as the Holy Paladins. These Holy Paladins would then go around the county, state, and country to poison their targets. Their first target was the Asian man, who had been living in his mothers house in Ontario, he was poisoned by a syringe of chemicals, but was able to call 911 and receive emergency medical treatment at a neighboring hospital. Further south, mustard gas attacks were coordinated around Grand Marais, the county capital, as well as St. Paul, the state's capital. In Chicago, mustard gas attacks on the Chicago metro led to 34 injuries, and 7 serious injuries. And finally, in Washington DC, a package full of mustard gas was delivered to then president Ryan Jackson's personal residence, though thankfully, it was confiscated and disarmed elsewhere.

The attacks shocked the nation, with many more eyeballs, and much more scrutiny coming onto the Tihex Arkology in the coming days and months. Despite the concerted efforts of the Tihex commune, no deaths resulted from any of their attacks.

## Overdose and Death

At this point, the Travelling King had been doing large amounts of drugs due to chronic stress, anxiety and paranoia. He had also begun doing cocaine, and creative worldbuilding. With federal agents closing in on his compound, he overdosed on anti-schizophrenia medication and died over a period of 7 hours. The IRS posthumously fined the Travelling King 5 million dollars in backtaxes, and they seized control of the Tihex Arkology region in order to recuperate losses.

## Eviction and Repurposing

The story of the Tihex Arkology had attracted widespread media attention, with many shocked by the rampant cannibalism, and the mustard gas attacks on the US population. This led to many urban explorers and daredevils visiting the site of the Tihex Arkology, as the indigenous population continued to petition to get their land back. Eventually, the land was purchased by a Christian group in the area. Today, the Tihex Arkology serves as the location for a Christian summer camp, as well as a museum documenting and retelling the story of the Tihex Arkology.

## Modern Usage

1. ↑ Later psychic analysis reveals that the Asian man was actually the original king. The Travelling King just made it all up and the Asian guy just got scammed out of his own kingdom.