SECT

**Empyrean Conquerors**, or  [SECT], was a team founded by Nightmare on January 16, 2017. The team was built on the foundations of community reconstruction and Nitro Type progression. Making its debut with Season 1 right around the corner, Nightmare (after being banned and making a new account) led the newly established team into the forefront of seasons.

## Requirements

* Complete 500 Races
* 50 WPM

### Prior to Disbanding

* Level 200
* 100 WPM

### Season 1

* Level 120
* 70 WPM

## Members

Nightmare is the captain of the team. An up to date list of members can be viewed on the team page.

Officers of the team during Season 1 include Kryptonic, SupernalLegend (aka GreenKnight or MedievalKnight), Dan\_The\_Wagger, the\_logan, DrizzyShae, VormX, LightningTyper, Doc, Heracles\_Karpusi, JoshRyan, and MysticLegendx.

In October 2017, when Vielle was briefly unbanned, he was made officer as well, and remained an officer when the ban on his account was reinstated; however, Vielle has since been unbanned.

## Chronology & History

[SECT] was the response to the takedown of the previous team, NTF. The team catered to veteran players, which was supported strongly by dominance in the 'Oldest Active Player' Hall of Fame. It also catered to experienced racers that had already established their presence, which could be seen in Gold Memberships and exceptional average levels of all people in the team. They also honed in on those that had yet to make a name for themselves, giving multiple people an opportunity to do so within seasons.

The team would rise in its early period by making powerful alliances with players, with one of the most notable being with [JRMC], which allowed people such as JRC, Moises, Wildflower, Heracles\_Karpusi, and more to join the team. Becoming their first established season team. As well as a few other mergers that put the team well ahead of [DOG] in the early leaderboards leading up to Season 1. Before the season started, there was numerous News controversy and arguments against [SECT], most of it stemming from their combative approach against the "Big Three", and positions on Teams while holding Clans with well-regard. The Team also recruited heavily from the initial [NT] Discord, become the first-ever Discord-based [NT] team on the Site, and offered a completely different form of governance & management that no other team had on the site at that point. This was in contrast to all of the Shivtr based teams at the time in early 2017. Because of this, [SECT] was able to effectively mark its meteoric rise, and pull members from every outlet of the community from the main Discord, the Olympic Shivtr, and contacts of old Veterans that would be willing to come back to the site, with one of the most notable of these being Vielle's participation on the team.

With its biggest competitor being [DOG], there was little time given for the team to think, and a vast amount of time needed to take action. With the mentality of dominating the scoreboards and "emancipating the terrene", the newly founded team was able to establish its presence in seasons. They were projected to take a historical upset against the "Big Three" (NTA, DOG, and STPR) which would establish them as the first-ever winner of a Season. This would give 50 people an exclusive "Champion Team" title; however, because of Nitro Type intervention, they were not given first place. With the team's flagship leader engaged in a bitter rivalry with Smithy, it saw Nightmare attain 2nd place. This was contrary to the fact that Nightmare was the overall favorite to take first place, due to an intervention from NT staff to lock the account over evidence of Nightmare using Guest Racers to shorten race times. Despite this Nightmare was ahead for the entirety of the Season (along with SECT), having never lost it during the entire duration of Season 1. This resulted in him having all of his points removed, an action widely regarded as the deliberate manipulation of the results to change the outcome of the seasons. This was later further backed by leaked PMs & emails of Nitro Type's intentions to change the outcome of the result.

This would further be backed up by NT's plans to rectify the season before Nightmare having even used guest racers - a tactic that would later be used in an extensively wider fashion later by KTTY. NT would solve this by making race times faster for those that were in higher WPM zones. [SECT] only had two recorded cases of cheaters, which Travis has marked as *"far less than some other top teams".* Nightmare was marked as a cheater throughout the tenure of the Season by those in [DOG]. But despite having no evidence, this strongly disputed claim, given all his races were legitimate.

This team was among the most controversial teams in the NT scene due to its loud nature on the News. Despite this, it created a formula for teams in its wake that would follow - by consolidating the Discord community; cementing itself as the rival team to the status quo (DOG, NTA, STPR); and doing so while in a short timespan (a matter of days to weeks). This formula typically plays big for big season point days (delivering itself to three record-breaking days in the Season alone); performing big on Fridays and weekends. This would be one of the quickest rises to success for a team in the history of teams since its inception. There was only an exception to when 200- member teams were able to top the leaderboards despite being relatively absent for the clan scene due to tricking out sheer numbers alone. SECT's testament to an unusually substantial performance is even more eminent, given the fact that it was plagued by repeated community controversy early on. This was because of the wave of circumstances working against the team, only servings to its outsider image in the foray of teams.

Sometime in early May of 2020, the team was auto-disbanded. Although notably on March 18th, 2021, there was a binding Twitter pollheld to determine an upcoming title for the item shop, where it garnered significant support from many NitroType YouTubers including Penguin Typer and the Discord at large. While it was close early on for the first day or so of the poll, the support from YouTubers and community heavyweights helped propel the title to the top, winning by over 16.4% of the vote (55% to 38.6%). It was not put onto the site's item shop, provoking yet another community outrage when NT decided against the title.

### The Return of [SECT]

[SECT] has come back, coming from a top 100 team to a top 3 team within a week from April 20th, this time focusing on an open-Discord model, and collaboration with many YouTubers such as Tendons. With a slated goal of completely winning Season 39, and honoring their victory from Season 1. The Team also launched what would become the most active NT Discord, with backing from many prominent Nitro Typists, and a guarded - more casual approach towards the Typing scene in contrast to other Discord communities. This rise was also met with similar mergers with other top teams which has allowed the team to maintain a dominant position on the leaderboards, while offering powerful prospects for anyone working within the team, in strong part due to Nightmare's efforts and immediate outreach into the community when creating his team.

## Methods of communication

The team had its own Discord server, although at the time, the main Nitro Type Discord server was already mainly composed of SECT members. The team's Discord server was consistently active and was mostly handled by Nightmare & Vielle (the official adviser to SECT). The team also used padlet in the early history of the team.

This new version of the team currently communicates on their own discord server. This new team discord server is consistently active and managed by Nightmare, Vielle, Warrior (who are both advisors to SECT) & several other team members.

## Trivia

* The team is usually said to have broken up the "Big Three" teams of 2015-2016 (NTA, DOG, and STPR) by "killing" STPR.
* [SECT] was the first team to earn 1,000,000 points in 24 hours (7,500 races), and also took the most points in 7 days with over 4,500,000 points (33,500 races) as well as a monthly record that incurred over 15 million points (115,000 races).
* It is the spiritual successor team to [NTF] due to the leader of the previous team being banned.
* The S in SECT stands for: Supernal, Superior, and/or Supreme.
* On April 12, 2022, the team was recreated by Nightmare after a period of the team being disbanded.