Alliance of Peace

Sigil of the Alliance of Peace

## Executive Branch

### Executive

Co-Presidents of the Alliance of Peace; later Supreme Leader of the Alliance of Peace

### Main Organ

Executive Council of the Alliance of Peace

### Headquarters

Alliance Palace, Central Lands // SM14

The **Alliance of Peace** was an international strategic alliance formed by players Spartan and ChloeTheCow on 17 November 2017. The Alliance was formed with the intent of preserving peace and avoiding war on the Survival Mode 14 (SM14) server of Lifeboat Servers. Originally meant to be nothing more than a strategic pact between independent players, the Alliance became increasingly more centralized in December 2017 and eventually was reformed into the Alpha Republic of SM14. The Alliance of Peace was the first of the so-called "Marthian nations"--that is, the first in a line of factions and nations that eventually became the modern-day Federal Republic of Marthia.

## History

### Origins

The Alliance of Peace was founded on 17 November 2017 by Spartan in the Central Lands part of SM14. Spartan had joined the server a few days prior, and had been helping new players become adjusted to the server. After meeting a player named ChloeTheCow, the two became friends and Chloe built her plot next to Spartan's.

### Pontiac and Romani

Soon after, Chloe was attacked by a player named Pontiac. Seeking revenge, Spartan and Chloe chase Pontiac back to his plot, where they are ambushed by Pontiac's associate, Romani. After dying several times to Pontiac and Romani, Spartan and Chloe decide to form an alliance to punish them for their actions. After Spartan makes a server-wide call for players to form an alliance to take down Pontiac and Romani, players MobGriefer and ALL DA BUBBLES answer the call, forming the Alliance in Spartan's plot. Chloe then seeks out fabled PvPer Bloodmau, who lived in the Western Reaches portion of SM14, to ask for his assistance with the operation to take down Pontiac and Romani.

Bloodmau tentatively agrees to help the new Alliance, despite initial hesitation. The group suits up in Spartan's plot and takes off towards the Near East to attack Pontiac and Romani. Upon finding the two, the Alliance successfully ambushes them and kills them multiple times, until Pontiac and Romani have both run out of diamond armor sets. The two surrender to the Alliance and return Chloe's items, at which point the Alliance also returns Pontiac and Romani's items.

### Formation of the Alliance

Returning to Spartan's plot, the group decides to form into a permanent Alliance to help keep the peace on SM14 and protect new players. Spartan states that he will build a conference room for the Alliance in his plot, and the group agrees to meet back at Spartan's plot the next day. The next day, the Alliance meets in Spartan's plot, and they sit in chairs that designate the position that each of them will have within the Alliance; Spartan as Senior Co-President, Chloe as Junior Co-President, Bloodmau as Vice President, MobGriefer as Secretary of Defense, and ALL DA BUBBLES as Secretary of State. At Chloe's suggestion, she and Spartan are made equal Co-Presidents. Spartan then asks the non-Alliance players online at the moment if any of them would like to join the Alliance as Secretary of the Treasury. OmegaPikachu joins as Secretary of the Treasury, but is never seen again after that day.

### Expansion of the Alliance

From the start, membership in the Alliance was denoted by the addition of a oak wood sign placed in the Alliance conference room with the Alliance member's name on it. Originally, there were six slots for members of the Alliance, these being the six Executive Council members. Soon after the Pontiac and Romani situation, Co-President Spartan expands the capacity of the Alliance from 6 members to 20 members by adding the "Member" rank in the Alliance membership boards, thus opening up membership to up to 14 more members. The Alliance rapidly expands, and the original Alliance conference room is no longer large enough to accommodate the entire Alliance. Co-President Spartan thus excavates the Alliance Meeting Hall in the basement of the Alliance Palace, with a much larger capacity and more space for the entire Alliance to meet.

The Alliance grows rapidly in late November and early December 2017 and quickly becomes the largest and most influential faction on SM14, albeit not the strongest. During this time, the Alliance Palace is completed, with Co-President Spartan finishing the Alliance Meeting Hall, the Alliance Armory, and the Storage Room. Notably, players Sleekmila, CerealOak, Jaypdawg, CutieCupcake, BiggestGull, EliteForce, and xXKlingOfChaosXx join the Alliance during this time, with Kling becoming the new Alliance Secretary of the Treasury and building his plot directly north of the Alliance Palace.

Upon exploring the Western Reaches of SM14, Co-President Spartan finds a small palace adorned with precious blocks in a wide plain. Going inside, he finds the players Fyre and EggyWings, who are part of the unofficial faction the Kingdom of Fyre. Queen Fyre harms Spartan, believing that he comes with intent to kill her, but quickly stops after Spartan explains that he comes in peace. Fyre, Spartan, and EggyWings speak for a few minutes about the state of the server, at which point Spartan leads the two back to the Alliance Palace to give them food. There, the three speak at length and Spartan explains the Alliance of Peace. Fyre agrees to join the Alliance, making the Kingdom of Fyre the only "nation" to officially join the Alliance during its lifetime. Queen Fyre, EggyWings, and Wizard--another citizen of the Kingdom of Fyre--are added to the Alliance membership boards, and Fyre moves her plot to the Central Lands to be near the Alliance Palace. Queen Fyre takes an active role in the Alliance and quickly becomes one of its most influential members and an expert recruiter, bringing in many new players into the Alliance.

Co-President Spartan also encounters the player brookemccool roaming around the Central Lands, and invites her to shelter in the Alliance Palace during the night. Spartan provides Brooke with some gear and supplies, and Brooke thanks him. Finding the Alliance Meeting Hall, Brooke asks about the Alliance, and Spartan invites her to join it. Brooke joins the Alliance, and soon after meets Queen Fyre, who she becomes fast friends with. Brooke thanks Spartan for his help and goes to build her plot next to Fyre's new plot in the Central Lands.

On another occasion, Co-President Spartan encounters the player Jonathanman, of the unofficial United Legion (U.L.) faction. Jonathan is a wealthy player and Spartan introduces him to the Alliance, and Jonathan decides to join it. With the addition of Jonathanman to the Alliance membership boards, the U.L. is unofficially considered a member faction of the Alliance of Peace due to Jonathan's leadership role in the U.L., making it the second nation/faction (the other being the Kingdom of Fyre) to ever join the Alliance.

As he explored the Frontier Lands region of SM14, Co-President Spartan encounters a massive fortress with a large cross on the side. After attempting to find an entrance, he realizes that there is none, but sees the builder and inhabitant of the castle peer through a window at him. The player introduces himself as Moonknight, and he and Spartan exchange pleasantries. While having a conversation about Moon's castle (informally known as Moon Castle) and whether Moon is a Christian--a question that Spartan asks due to the massive cross on the side of Moon Castle--Spartan's chat glitches out and he and Moon are unable to continue their conversation. At a later date, Spartan once more encounters Moon, and through signs Moon explains how to fix the chat glitch prevalent on SM14 and that has been plaguing Spartan by not allowing his chat to appear to others since he met Moon. Spartan fixes the chat glitch and bonds with Moon, who gives Spartan a tour of Moon Castle and agrees to join the Alliance of Peace.

Around this time, Pontiac and Romani seek peace with Co-Presidents Chloe and Spartan, offering gifts as an apology for their earlier violence against Chloe. Conferring in private, Spartan and Chloe decide to offer Alliance membership to Pontiac and Romani, and both accept, becoming full members of the Alliance. At this time, Spartan decides to form the Alliance Army in case it is ever needed, and Pontiac, Romani, Scottgirl, CutieCupcake and Jaypdawg become the first Alliance of Peace Army Members. Several sporadic instances of griefing occur throughout the server, but nothing is thought of them. Spartan also finishes the Alliance Offices, a hallway in Alliance Palace Basement II with small offices for each of the Alliance Executive Council members. Co-President Chloe and Secretary of Defense MobGriefer have an argument about a subject unknown to Spartan, and Chloe logs off the server, never to be seen again. At this time, the Alliance has approximately 19 members, including the six members of the Executive Council.

### The Sleek Alliance

Several days after Co-President Chloe was last seen on SM14, her plot claim disappears due to inactivity. Seeing that Chloe appears to have quit SM14 for good, Co-President Spartan and Secretary of Defense MobGriefer mourn her for a short time, after which MobGriefer, at Spartan's suggestion, claims Chloe's former plot to save it. Spartan also offers MobGriefer the post of Co-President, as Chloe's successor. MobGriefer accepts, and she becomes the new Co-President of the Alliance.

Seeing that MobGriefer has been made Co-President, Alliance member Sleekmila approaches Spartan and angrily asks why she was not made Co-President instead of MobGriefer. Spartan explains that MobGriefer has been a member of the Alliance for longer than Sleekmila, and that he knows her better, which he says is enough for him to choose MobGriefer over Sleekmila. Sleekmila is upset by this and attempts to kill Spartan, but as they are in the Alliance Palace--Spartan's plot--she is unable to hurt him due to the server rules and plugins. Sleekmila instead leaves the Alliance Palace and states that she is making her own alliance.

The next day, Spartan logs on to find various signs placed around the Central Lands threatening all-out war if Spartan does not apologize to Sleekmila and make her Co-President. After Spartan refuses the request, Sleekmila forms the Sleek Alliance and secedes from the Alliance of Peace, taking a few Alliance members--notably CerealOak--with her. The Sleek Alliance then starts attacking members of the Alliance of Peace throughout the server, escalating the situation into the Alliance's first real war.

### Alliance-Sleek Alliance War

With the war ravaging every corner of SM14, the Alliance Executive Council decides to deploy the Alliance Army for the first time. Since the position of Secretary of Defense was vacant, Co-President Spartan personally took charge of the Army. As the Council deliberated its next moves, Sleekmila and several of her soldiers stormed the Alliance Palace, massacring all the Alliance leaders except for Spartan, who could not be harmed on his own plot. After fighting off the Sleek Alliance troops, Spartan puts the Alliance Palace in lockdown, and various other members of the Alliance take refuge within the Palace. With several members of the Alliance Army present among those sheltering in the Palace, Spartan administered weapons and gear and organized a rag-tag Army squad to defend the Palace from a second wave of attackers. Three or so Alliance soldiers, led by Spartan, exit the Palace through secret doors and fight against the Sleek Alliance troops. After being severely weakened, the Sleek Alliance soldiers retreat to their headquarters in the Western Reaches, followed closely by the Alliance Army squad.

Returning to the Alliance Palace, Spartan reinforces it and makes it easier to defend in the event of future invasions. The other Alliance members log off the server, and Fyre soon joins Spartan in the Palace. Speaking through signs, Fyre informs Spartan that she intends to leave the Alliance as part of an elaborate scheme to trick Sleekmila and win the war. She also tells him that Moonknight has gifted her his castle, and that she will be taking up residence in it. Moon Castle, like the headquarters of the Sleek Alliance, was located in the Western Reaches, allowing for it to be used as a place to spy on the Sleek Alliance. Spartan agrees to the plan and Fyre publicly announces that she is leaving the Alliance and forming a peaceful convent, the Moonfyre Convent. With this statement, Fyre also dissolves the Kingdom of Fyre.

Several days later, after various other battles with the Sleek Alliance, Spartan visits Fyre in Moonfyre Castle to plan out the end of the war and the destruction of the Sleek Alliance. Meeting in the Castle's large dining hall, the two leaders converse and Fyre informs him that Sleekmila is close to giving up, and that one final attack would force her into surrender. At this point, Spartan tells Fyre that he will organize the raid on the Sleek Alliance headquarters, but that the Alliance will need to launch their attack from within Moonfyre Castle in order to keep the element of surprise, thus revealing Fyre's true loyalties. Fyre tells Spartan that she has hated being a nun, and that she would much rather jump back into the fighting. Spartan and Fyre finish planning out the details of the attack and log off for the day.

The next day, Spartan logs on at the agreed time and finds Fyre preparing the weapons and armor that they need for the attack. Spartan rallies several Alliance troops--including MobGriefer--and they suit up in Moonfyre Castle, waiting for Sleekmila to log on. A few minutes later, Sleekmila and most of the Sleek Alliance join the server, and the Alliance Army begins its attack. After killing the members of the Sleek Alliance several times and taking all their diamond armor sets, Sleekmila surrenders to the Alliance of Peace and hands over her sword. As peace negotiations begin, Spartan is forced to log off, but appoints Fyre as the new Alliance Secretary of State due to ALL DA BUBBLES's weekslong absence from the server.

Secretary of State Fyre leads the negotiations on the Alliance side, with Sleekmila and CerealOak representing the Sleek Alliance. Both sides come to the agreement that a serverwide peace alliance is not feasible due to the nature of SM14, and that the Alliance should instead reform itself to give the average member a larger role in its governance. The Alliance should also focus on protecting its own, instead of preventing war. Fyre states that she will confer with Co-Presidents Spartan and MobGriefer and that further actions towards a lasting peace between the two factions will come after then.

### End of the Alliance

The next day, Secretary of State Fyre informs Co-President Spartan of the terms agreed to at the peace negotiations the previous day. She suggests reforming the Alliance to meet the terms of the agreement, but Spartan instead suggests that the foundation of the Alliance is weak and it must be dissolved and replaced with something stronger. Fyre agrees, and Co-President MobGriefer logs on soon after. Spartan and Fyre explain the plan to MobGriefer, and she agrees: the Alliance will be dissolved and replaced with a sovereign Republic.

Spartan, however, claims that they lack the power to dissolve the Alliance on their own, and that he must declare himself the Supreme Leader of the Alliance to dissolve it. With Fyre and MobGriefer's agreement, Spartan declares himself the Supreme Leader of the Alliance of Peace, and promptly dissolves the Alliance in the Declaration of a New Order. As Spartan utters the final words of the Declaration--"The Alliance is dead. Long live the Republic!"--the Alliance is officially dissolved, and the Alpha Republic of SM14 is formed in its place. Spartan states that all members of the Alliance will automatically become citizens of the Republic, and renames the Alliance Palace to the Republic Palace. He also appoints former Sleek Alliance co-leader CerealOak as the Transitional President of the Republic for a few days while Spartan, Fyre, and MobGriefer finish setting up the foundations of the Republic.

The Alliance of Peace was dissolved on 19 December 2017, but the Alpha Republic of SM14 did not officially come into existence until 22 December 2017. The days between 19-22 December 2017 were the term of the Republic Transitional Government.

## Government and politics

### Executive Council

The Alliance of Peace was governed by the Alliance Executive Council, a group of six officers of the Alliance who conducted and directed all its affairs. The Executive Council was composed of two Co-Presidents, the Vice President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of the Treasury. Altogether, the Executive Council held all power that the Alliance had, and used it to promote the cause of peace throughout SM14.

Since the Alliance was a purposefully weak international coalition, the Executive Council had no legislative or judicial power. Its executive powers were limited to sending out peace missions to resolve conflicts throughout SM14, and, on rare occasions, deploying the Alliance Military to defend the freedom and peace of those under the protection of the Alliance. The Executive Council functioned more as a deliberative body than a decision-making one, and at most meetings of the Executive Council its members simply discussed issues and took no concrete action. Most functions of the Alliance were carried out not by the Executive Council as a whole, but by its individual members through the offices that they held.

### Co-Presidents

The Co-Presidents of the Alliance together served as the leaders of the Alliance, although they exercised few actual powers. The Co-Presidents were the unofficial chairs of the Executive Council, and led its meetings and directed debate. The Co-Presidents did, however, hold the power to appoint new members of the Executive Council whenever a vacancy arose. The Co-Presidents also often served as the face of the Alliance in international affairs.

By convention, the Co-Presidents directed the activity of the Alliance's Department Secretaries, although the Secretaries had no legal obligation to do as the Co-Presidents asked since the Alliance had no written constitution. In this way, the Co-Presidents directed the policy of the Alliance, and set up projects to improve the lives of those on SM14. The Co-Presidents also had the sole power of allowing new members into the Alliance; however, members of the Alliance could only be removed if a majority of the Executive Council agreed.

The Co-Presidents, by tradition, lived in adjacent plots in the Central Lands zone of SM14, with Co-President Spartan living in the Alliance Palace--which was also the Alliance Headquarters--and Co-President ChloeTheCow living in the plot directly west of the Alliance Palace. Later on, after Co-President ChloeTheCow had disappeared for an extended period of time and MobGriefer had been appointed Co-President to succeed her, Co-President MobGriefer took over ChloeTheCow's plot adjacent to the Alliance Palace.

**Co-Presidents of the Alliance of Peace**

* Spartan (17 November 2017 - approx. 19 December 2017)
* ChloeTheCow (17 November 2017 - approx. 10 December 2017)
* MobGriefer (approx. 10 December 2017 - 19 December 2017)

### Vice President

The Vice President of the Alliance was the second-in-command of the Co-Presidents and was effectively the third-ranking officer of the Alliance. Although a member of the Executive Council, the Vice President was the weakest member of the Council, as the Vice President had no other powers or duties aside from serving on the Council and taking over for the Co-Presidents in the rare instance that both of them were incapacitated. The Vice President, therefore, often simply served as an envoy to other factions on SM14, spreading the ideas and beliefs of the Alliance and helping to keep the peace serverwide.

**Vice Presidents of the Alliance of Peace**

* Bloodmau (17 November 2017 - 19 December 2017)

### Secretary of State

The Secretary of State of the Alliance was essentially the arbitrator in internal disputes in the Alliance. Tasked with keeping the Alliance united, the Secretary of State handled disputes and conflicts within the Alliance and resolved them peacefully. Later on, as the Alliance became more nation-like and the Executive Council began to exercise more powers, the Secretary of State became the chief planner of covert operations in the absence of the Secretary of Defense and also the chief diplomat of the Alliance.

**Secretaries of State of the Alliance of Peace**

* ALL DA BUBBLES (17 November 2017 - approx. 15 December 2017)
* Fyre (approx. 15 December 2017 - 19 December 2017)

### Secretary of Defense

Despite serving as a peacekeeper on SM14, the Alliance of Peace did have its own military, albeit a weak one. The Secretary of Defense of the Alliance of Peace was tasked with leading this military--called the Alliance Army--and leading it into battle whenever the Executive Council decided it was absolutely necessary. Due to the peacekeeping nature of the Alliance, along with the Alliance Army's relative weakness and inexperience, the Secretary of Defense rarely saw battle and was more of a symbolic post than a practical one.

**Secretaries of Defense of the Alliance of Peace**

* MobGriefer (17 November 2017 - approx. 10 December 2017)

### Secretary of the Treasury

The Secretary of the Treasury of the Alliance of Peace was tasked with managing the Alliance's finances and distributing funds to Alliance members in need when necessary. In practice, the trade economy of SM14 negated the need for a treasury, as most transactions simply traded one kind of material for another. Nevertheless, the Alliance did have a monetary treasury composed of a limited amount of diamonds and gold ingots, which were kept in a safe room in the Alliance Palace. Towards the end of the Alliance's existence, Co-President Spartan set up a shop in the Alliance Palace for the Secretary of the Treasury to give out financial assistance to Alliance members who needed it, but this shop was never actually used.

**Secretaries of the Treasury of the Alliance of Peace**

* OmegaPikachu (17 November 2017 - approx. 25 November 2017)
* xXKlingOfChaosXx (approx. 25 November 2017 - 19 December 2017)

### Supreme Leader

At the very end of the Alliance's lifespan, half of the Executive Council was inactive and the Alliance was too weak to enforce its policies and keep the peace on SM14. The Alliance was also in the midst of a large-scale war that was devastating its members. In light of this, Co-President Spartan--with the approval of the remaining Executive Council members, those being Co-President MobGriefer and Secretary of State Fyre--declared himself Supreme Leader of the Alliance of Peace and dissolved the Alliance, reforming it into the Alpha Republic of SM14. The position of Supreme Leader existed only less than an hour, as it was quickly replaced by the post of Transitional President of the Republic.

**Supreme Leaders of the Alliance of Peace**

* Nano Anakin/Spartan (19 December 2017)

## Military

The Alliance Army was weak and decentralized, mainly due to the Alliance's purpose as a peacekeeping organization. While led in theory by the Secretary of Defense, in practice this was never the case and the Army was simply led by one of the two Co-Presidents. In addition, the Army relied on Co-President Spartan's personal wealth to supply its soldiers with weapons and armor. The Army was small, with around seven soldiers at its peak. It was never able to organize more than two of its soldiers online at once, leading to a disorganized and oftentimes ineffective military.

## Member states

While the Alliance of Peace was considered an international coalition, there were no proper nations on SM14. Instead, the Alliance was an alliance of individuals. Each individual was their own sort of unofficial nation, with different rules applying on each Alliance member's plot. However, a few members of the Alliance were heads of state of their own factions, and so it can be assumed that those factions were member states of the Alliance. Other Alliance members sometimes shared plots with one another, or had large plots reminiscent of cities, and these can be considered member states as well. Some examples include:

* The Kingdom of Fyre (due to Fyre's membership in the Alliance)
* The United Legion (due to Jonathanman's membership in the Alliance)

## Name and symbols

The Alliance of Peace was heavily inspired by the Rebel Alliance in the *Star Wars* franchise, as seen in both its name and its sigil (which is simply the re-colored icon of the Rebel Alliance). Its composition was also inspired by the Rebel Alliance, as it was composed of mostly new and inexperienced players. In addition, the Alliance of Peace was dissolved to give way to the Alpha Republic, just like how the Rebel Alliance became the New Republic in the *Star Wars* franchise.

## Trivia

* Unfortunately, no screenshots or pictures of places and events during the Alliance era have survived to this day. The earliest records in Marthian history that have survived are from the Old Republic era, which took place during the existence of the Alpha Republic of SM14.
* The Alliance of Peace is the only "Marthian nation" to be collectively ruled by two leaders simultaneously. It is also one of the three "Marthian nations" to be ruled by more than one leader simultaneously--the others being the Republic of Prime and the Marthian Republic, which were ruled by triumvirates.
* The Alliance of Peace is the only "Marthian nation" to not be considered sovereign nor a true nation. Every other "Marthian nation" acted and conducted operations similar to a true government, but the Alliance of Peace was more similar to a faction in this regard.
* Few current Marthian citizens joined during the Alliance era, those being Spartan, Fyre, Moonknight, brookemccool, EliteForce, BiggestGull, and MobGriefer.
* The only current active Marthian with memory of the Alliance era is Spartan.
* Despite the democratic traditions present throughout the "Marthian nations" being considered a vital part of their history, this tradition did not begin with the Alliance of Peace, which was actually a particularly undemocratic institution.