Provinces of Lumen

The Provinces of Lumen's goal is to build towns, provide resources to faction members via town-run farms, and create a safe building environment. The faction itself does not warmonger, but faction members are allowed to assist allies in times war if it is seen as justified.

## Membership

### Leader(s)

a lumen member, Tathal, Hibj, Spraye, a lumen member, a lumen member, GuiltfulTuna, and Arcsabre

## Overview:

The Provinces of Lumen is a group led by a council of eight leaders (Tathal, Hibj, Spraye, a lumen member, a lumen member, GuiltfulTuna, arcsabre and a lumen member). a lumen member is the most notable of these leaders being the most active both in game and in representing the group. Most accounts show Provinces of Lumen is the richest faction due to their high production of armor and toolsets, farms, many towns, and many members.

There are three subgroups in Lumen.
Auream Solis is lead by Quantom\_Astro.
Armed Nations of the Netherlands which is lead by a lumen member.
The other subgroup is "The Void" which is lead by OwOctome.

AMAAAAAR was demoted for being too inactive.
a lumen member stepped down because he didn't want to be one of the leaders.
a lumen member was demoted for unprofessional behaviour (Returned to States General August 3, 2021).
Platupus left Lumen because she didn't want to be involved in drama associated with the faction anymore.
aria\_minecraft was demoted for denying genocides and sharing anti-lbgt opinions indirectly.

**Formation:**

The Provinces of Lumen was founded after a lumen member left The People's Legion, not wanting to follow EdgyCommunist69's rules. a lumen member founded it with Tathal who left PRoP because she found the faction too warmongering. It can trace a lot of its members back to The People's Republic of People. Its first name suggestion was "Provincial Republic of People", but got changed after Tathal said it would cause confusion with People's Republic of People.

## **Foreign Relations:**

The Provinces of Lumen is undoubtedly active in server politics and diplomacy, being allied with many other people and groups.

#### Sub-groups:

* Armed Nations of the Netherlands
* Auream Solis
* The Void

#### Allies:

* Team Supreme
* The Order
* Ramen Bowl
* Magnificent Maniacs (disbanded)
* Pink Puffy Rams
* Moon Clan
* Mons Dominion
* Kraken Brotherhood
* Banana Republic (disbanded)
* The Homage Society
* Chronos
* Circle of Freedom
* Society of Stuck

#### Enemies:

* Joebuffalo/priestlover (same guy)
* AerialSN1PER
* Bluiy
* MissPrism
* Tynominally
* Fallen

## Events (History)

**Lumen-Legion Cold war:**

There were some instances of threats from both sides, but it calmed down soon after when The People's Legion reformed into The Remnant.

**The Dongos War:**

The Provinces of Lumen quickly got involved in The Dongos War soon after Havenport was griefed, though so far they have not been directly affected.

**Dongos infiltration plan:**

After the grief of Havenport and during The Dongos War, a lumen member's alt, a lumen member, tried to infiltrate The Dongos. a lumen member infiltrated for a week, until the Fall of Temptown, where he participated in the grief. EdgyCommunist69 saw screenshots of a lumen member being there, which led him to believe he leaked the town, so Edgy told hamoodi123 about a lumen member's operation.

**Fight against D4RON:**

The Siege of the Menger Sponge.

**Summer Wars:**

The Provinces of Lumen had a violent and unvoluntary entry into The Summer Wars, when Tynominally and MissPrism griefed Fort Echelon, a Lumen spawn base on the 11th July 2020. 3 days later however, Lumen secured a victory when they discovered various alts of the two griefers, most notably Nnyka, who was insiding Lumen. They were left alone for the rest of the month.

On the 1st August 2020, a combined force of The Dongos, AT&T and EdgyCommunist69 enacted a plan they had been working on for months. With coordinates provided by sugasnaps, they griefed Rouffernaught Outpost, a recruitment town for Lumen, and Comet, a town belonging to the Lunarians, a subgroup of Lumen.

The following day, on the 2nd August 2020, the same group of people would thoroughly grief Lumen City. This was a major blow to Lumen, as it contained the majority of Lumen's industry, and it was a big hit to group morale. Tynominally and MissPrism were banned for "toxicity" shortly following the griefs, which alleviated some of the pressure put onto Lumen.

On the 5th August 2020, EdgyCommunist69 and Fallen014 would grief Lunaris, the last town they had coordinates to. Horry70 would show up and attempt to stop them, but was unsuccessful.

On the 20th August 2020, Edgy, DivineSmoof, Fallen and wertia3 grief Tulipsfountain. wertia is killed at the grief by the other griefers, due to him being an insider for Lumen. This would be the last Lumen town griefed until The Battle of Howick.

**Lumen TSS War:**

The Great TSS War

On the 11th November 2020, M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. griefs Aska, a recruitment town belonging to The Secret Society. TSS sees a lumen member at the grief, which was an issue considering that a lumen member promised to tell TSS when the griefers were coming, after his involvement in The Battle of Lagom was discovered. He did not give TSS a heads-up regarding Aska, resulting in a few TSS members retaliating against Lumen by griefing Howick plains, a recruitment town. They chose to do this because a lumen member had confessed to several TSS members that he was infiltrating the griefers for Lumen, leading them to believe Lumen was behind the griefs, but Lumen denies this. Whether or not that was a big misunderstanding is still unclear, though TSS agreed to stop claiming that to be the truth when they accepted the peace deal that came later on.

Many people inside Lumen went full anti-TSS which was accumulating for months because of the belief TSS was unfairly targeting Lumen with negative behavior. aria\_minecraft then gave coords to Stargate, TSS's end base, to Microwave, and joined a lumen member and Tynominally in griefing it. Other members went to spawn to inform the public of the behavior of TSS and just in general hate on TSS for their behaviour. The most common action was placing "Anti-TSS" Banners.

A few people left TSS during this time.

After 2 days later M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. griefs Gelato (TSS capital) with aria\_minecraft being at the grief, Lumen gave a peace deal to TSS which TSS accepted. This marked the end of the Lumen TSS war. https://youtu.be/7cJQNzjE8I8 Some refer to this war as a "Blitzkrieg" as a reference to how short the war was and how much TSS lost to M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.

**The Great Reconstruction:**

With Suga being known being the spy, many towns had to be abandoned. Many towns had to be rebuilt, but morale in the group was high. Some leadership took a break, due to the weight of suga's betrayal.

**The Atomic Heist:**

On the 10th January 2021, a lumen member, a lumen member and Vini\_Stronda pulled off a 'heist' against TooAtomic. They used Vini's alt, TypedScorpion12, to lure Atomic into a trade. Then, they loaded his pearl at an undisclosed location into a trap, just as he had put down his valuables shulker. Vini then stole the shulker as a lumen member killed him. TypedScorpion would face a lot of hate for this, though they kept quiet about the operation.

The following day, the three of them got banned for the scheme. Many people are still divided as to whether or not this ban was justified.

**Leaving Vanilla Craft:**

On July 30, 2021, a lumen member hosted a vote among the citizens of Lumen to decide upon whether or not the faction would leave the server.

On July 31, 2021, the vote had closed with nine yes votes, two neutral votes, and one no vote. The decision was then announced to all members of the Lumen discord and the faction made it's move to a different server and formally leaving Vanilla Craft.

In *The Monthly Sun*, written by a lumen member, Lumen's reasons for leaving Vanilla Craft are as follows:
"After the writer being on Vanillacraft for over three years and Lumen almost existing for two years on Vanillacraft, Lumen has left Vanillacraft. This is because of how Vanillacraft has been a toxic place for over nine months. This is mainly because of “The Secret Society” also known as TSS or “The Satanic Society”. In the past we justified staying in Vanillacraft because of the hope that the admins would act against this bullying and harassing behaviour from TSS.

Sadly, time has shown that the admins have acted in much friendship politics. Much hypocrisy has been shown and it is common knowledge on VC that TSS can just get away with more than other people can.

After events two or three weeks ago where Ohkast made abhorrent slanderous claims. Ohkast was banned by the only active admin showing any decency these days Stadekxiel. He was thrown under the bus by the admin team and Ohkast was unbanned from slandering and harassing people in VC after two hours. Other admins have stated DIRECTLY that banning Ohkast was a “mistake”.

This statement was the straw which broke the camel’s back and made Lumen leave Vanillacraft."

## Events (Arranged by the faction)

**Meme event:**

10th March 2020 till 17th March 2020 there was a meme competition which was won by RebeckaWard. Rebecka won and got OP armor and toolset and a stack of gold blocks.

**Drawing event:**

14th April 2020 till 1st May 2020 there was a irl drawing competition that the event was to draw your own skin (or one of your previous skins) and the ambassadors and Lumen members voted the winners. Chimes won and got OP armor and toolset and a stack of gold blocks.

**PvP Event:**

10th of May there was a PvP event in creative. Everyone had enchanted diamond armor, swords and shields. The semi finals had totems, and the finals had tridents. XleoC won the event, Adamercsn got second place and Samm C won the free for all (where everyone fought at the same time (except glendor and chimes who left already) bonus round.

a lumen member orchestrated the event and killed everyone before the fight so everyone had the same saturation and health. Everyone's inventory were cleared when they were turned into survival so everyone got the same gear. 1st place, 2nd place and the free for all winners got prizes.

**Texturepack Endrace Event:**

30-5-2020

Texturepack Endrace Event

**Digital Drawing event:**

1-6-2020 till 1-7-2020 Digital Drawing Event! The event was to draw your favorite pokemon. The winner in the Lumen bracket was Sugasnaps at first place with 14 votes and Chimes at second place with 11 votes. Fallen won 1st place ambassador with 17 votes.

 File:Suga a lumen member drawing prize.png
 File:Chimes a lumen member drawing prize.png
 File:Fallen a lumen member drawing prize.png

**Lumen Hungergames Event:**

5-7-2020 The Lumen Hungergames event! a lumen member Aria a lumen member Xleo worked for 1 week very hard to make an arena for this event. The event was to celebrate Xleo becoming one of the leaders of Provinces of Lumen! The winning duo team would each get 1 shulker containing whats in the picture below.

First round was just for practice and by accident keepinv was on and there was no lapis in the chests so enchanting wasn't possible. Xleo and Adam won the first round.

The second round was in the evening time in game (so it was darker) and keepinv was off. Lapis were also able to be found in the chests which made enchanting possible in the center island. Tooatomic and xxxNickxxx won.

The Video a lumen member made of the event. it is edited so its nicer to watch.

https://youtu.be/-EAQgBKcPdw

**Lumen Maze Event:**

20-9-2020 Lumen Maze event! An event which was expected to take 20 minutes took 2 hours XD. The fastest competing player Vini\_Stronda beat the maze in 20minutes. The prizes were:

1st prize, Full armor and toolset with elytra 8 stacks of golden carrots and a stack of Lumen Gold Blocks. 2nd prize, Full armor and toolset with elytra. 3rd prize, Toolset with elytra. 4th prize, elytra.

Vini Became first, Erik became second, McDapper became third and OwOctome became fourth.

The coords of the maze in creative are -1826 65 -1878

**Lumen Hunter VS Hunted Event:**

7-10-2020

Every allied faction was allowed to join. The event tookplace in Creative.

Almost everyone will be the Hunted, except one or two chosen hunters. This gets decided between rounds, but people never had to be the hunter if they didn't want to.

The Goal: Hunted, Hide and survive as long as possible. Hunters, Kill every hunted. Many Rounds will take place since rounds take about 7minutes.

**Lumen One Year anniversary:**

21-11-2020 on the hardcore server. The event was four of the former Lumen events and one last event with a prize (only first place we were kinda low on resources at that moment).

The events were: Hunter vs Hunted Event. Hungergames Event. Maze Event. Nether PvP event. And the event for a prize, Build battle! Make something related to light :D. Every allied faction, and factions at good terms with Lumen were invited. Former PRoP members like Edgycommunist69 and Fallen01 are invited as well. Since without PRoP, Lumen wouldn't exist.

The event was a great succes! Haxington won the prize for the build battle. Here are the results:

**Build Battle Results:**

1st Haxington

2nd Ducky\_Sorcery

3th Saimir and fallen

5th GhostOfTheAshes

6th Amaaaaar

7th chefHD and aurvroa

9th McDapper

10th Erik

11th Miller

[Video of event has to be edited]

**Online Drawing Event January:**

1st Chimes

2nd a lumen member

**Lumen Horse Race:**

Five rounds of Horse Racing in the creative server. Final round had prizes. Arena was made by a lumen member and a lumen member.

1st Erik

2nd a lumen member

3rd InterOrbital

4th Captain\_Noob

**Team Deathmatch:**
On April 17, 2021, Lumen hosted a Team Deathmatch event on the Creative server composed of two teams. Everyone playing was given 5 lives, put into survival mode, and spawned onto which could be edited to provide cover or remove shelter from the opposite team.

## **Joining Lumen:**

Currently recruitment in Lumen is stopped, with exceptions for very trusted people.

Normally there are a few requirements for new members though:

First, you cannot raid/grief while in Lumen, Unless its against people on the hitlist, or you first proof that the grief would be justified.

Secondly, you aren't a toxic person, and don't cause to much unnecessary drama.

Lastly, that you listen to the rules in the faction (the #rules aren't very strict).

You might still be refused if you are at bad terms with some Lumen members, but you can always ask. If you want a quick response while you want to join Lumen I'd suggest discord messaging a lumen member. You can ask other Lumen members if you want to join of course and they will forward it to the faction.

## **Towns:**

* Lumen Delta, the creative VC server.
* Foxville, Capital of Lumen.
* Shroomcoast Island, mcdappers island.
* Drifters End, a lumen members coastal area.
* Stawford (A.K.A Stellaria), Low medium town.
* Fort Lumen, a town founded by GuiltfulTuna with members from other factions welcome to come there, meant to be an underwater advanced city.
* Chapdale, "recruitment" (since recruitment is stopped) town of Lumen.
* The first new town to be formed was a temporary base which arcsabre also was helping because Moon Clan was inactive at the time.
* Lazarus' "Merchant capital" (found by close proximity to spawn).
* The recruitment town of "New turf bay", named after New Diamond Bay and Highturf (leaked by recruit).
* Levant Metropolis, new recruitment town (found by proximity to axis).
* Fort Echelon which is used for war operations. (found for being close to spawn and a beacon beam not turned off)
* Tytallia, the previous main population center.
* Amity Vault, previous recruitment town.
* The Former Capital of "Lumen City".
* "Rouffernaught" which features a raid farm with villager town.
* Lunaris, New main population center.
* Exodus River, Founded by Yaboywezz and Platupus.
* Tulipsfountain, leaked by tech and sugasnaps.
* Memoria (was only flat plains), leaked by sugasnaps.
* Solaceon City, leaked by sugasnaps.
* Howick plains, griefed by TSS.
* Bloomcoast, founded by Dapp3r, griefed by Odyssey.
* Lumen City
* Comet
* Chapman City
* Temp Town
* New Highturf
* Periphery Outpost
* Solar Skywinds
* Vandrad Outpost
* Floral Isle
* Kolonie Outpost
* Sapporia
* Southern End Outpost
* Veilstone City
* Verenigde Hel Landen Compagnie Basis