The Reservoir

Icon and logo of the Reservoir (2021-2022)

Liquid Lake giving cplx ownership of the server

**The Reservoir** (fictionally known as the **Republic of the Reservoir**) was a Mapping-focused Discord community server based around Anglo-American Mapper Liquid Lake. It opened on 18 March, 2020, and got deleted on 17 July, 2022.

## History

### NameFiller's server

Not enough is known by me to write this part of the article. -cplx

### Early Reservoir (2020-2021)

After the hiatus that followed his previous server's closing, and his rebranding, Liquid Lake opened the Reservoir on the morning of 18 March, 2020. Immediately, tens of people joined the server, including personalities such as Colonel Storrar, cplx, Königsberg, LCTUER, Ryan Ehlers, Scorpio and Starlight Mapping. All who joined by the first hour acquired the *Joined First Hour* role, while the first 100 to join got the *First 100*, a role held by nothing more than a few people by the end of the server.

Over the next few days, more people would join and a community would start to form, with its fair share of conflicts. One of the earliest instances of a collective looking to become the most active in the server was during the Pact Era, or the Reservoir Gang Wars. A brief summary was written by cplx in August 2020, with a few corrections made:

> In the first month of the dictatorship, cplx, the duke of Kollëkorvyno, alongside Königsberg, creates the Greater Defensive Pact of Atlantica, to defend those who want to be defended. This was the start of the Pact Era.
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> Soon, cplx changes the GDPA and turns it into a cooperation pact called The Pact of Cooperatives. The Pact remains strong as the only one in the country, but the Creepergang soon rises to rival the TPC. A conflict soon starts between the Pact and the Creepergang, threatening the former's power. It is during this conflict that the Cowgang is created, which is a neutral group defended by the Pact.
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> The conflict soon ends with the Pact's victory, but another conflict would start within the Pact itself. With cplx leaving the TPC's leadership and handing it to Storrar, a brief crisis between who to lead the Pact would begin. Storrar, who is against cplx leaving the Pact to stay with the Cowgang, declares war at the Pact and creates the Scottish Offensive Coalition. This was the start of the Discord Gang War.
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> The Pact pushed the SOC forces out of the Reservoir, which retreated to Starlight's Planetarium, Storrar's ally. An invasion was made by the Pact and Starlight switched sides a second time, before a treaty was signed by both sides.
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> The Pact lost much of its strength and was renamed to The Pact of World Cooperatives, its current name. A new conflict might rise from these gangs and from the Pact in the future, but it remains uncertain.
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The GDPA and TPC were formed in April with the initial goal of overtaking Liquid Lake in Tatsumaki's activity score rankings and included up to 10 people at its peak.

The staff team in the early months of the server, a group which was composed of Liquid Lake, Königsberg, LCTUER, Whiso, Starkiller

## Administration

The Reservoir's administration history can be split in two periods: Liquid Lake's direct involvement as owner and the *Lakes' Oligarchy*.

### Owners

Until 2022, the Reservoir was owned by its creator Liquid Lake, who, although keeping the position of owner, went inactive due to real life matters in late 2021. The server administrators, the Lakes, took on the responsibility to manage the server for him while he was away.

After returning with an announcement on 3 June, 2022, he surprises the Reservoir by deciding to soon step down from ownership, giving it away to one of the Lakes. Staff at the time immediately came to think that, as one of the most loyal and active members in the community, cplx would easily get the ownership, a statement which only became reality when the transfer of ownership officially happened on the 10th.

cplx was the owner, or *President*, of the Reservoir for a bit more than a month, resigning on 15 July, his own birthday, due to threats regarding the raider situation of the server. Ownership was then transferred back to Liquid Lake, who held it for two more days, while the Reservoir was being nuked by Kristan on the 16th. He finally decided to delete the shell that the server became on the 17th.

### The Lakes

As the administrators of the server, few people occupied the position of Lake through the Reservoir's life. The initial list, on its early days, was: Königsberg, LCTUER, Whiso, Starkiller.

With the server's growth, more members would come to occupy the role, including honorary members Anda, Beta, cplx, Earth, Glacia, iDunno, Jet and Qajor, who were addressed by the Report as Staff-Oligarchs during Liquid Lake's hiatus. Out of those, Anda, Earth, Glacia, Jet and Qajor would witness cplx become owner in their positions.

The composition of the team further reduced with during cplx's ownership period due to his staff reform, as it removed Earth for lack of activity and the Temporary Lake role, effectively removing Qajor too. A few days later, Glacia, having suffered a "toxxing" attack by raiders, would leave the community and cut contact with anyone from the Reservoir. Jet decided to step down on the 15th, leaving only cplx and Anda for the last month of the Reservoir.

As cplx resigned and deleted his account on 15 July, Anda acted as the sole administrator of the server, and, effectively, its owner. Due to pressure from the raider group *the 4th*, he gave those groups administrative power over the server. It is unclear as to whether he was still a Lake by the deletion of the server.