Antares Administration

*This article is about Antares's gubernatorial administration. For the Capital Administration, see Antares Capital.*

The **Antares Administration** was the first gubernatorial administration of Ninzardia and also the first elected gubernatorial administration of the Ninzard League. It began on December 25, 2012, and ended on June 27, 2013. This administration helped set the precedent for succeeding administrations to follow. Much of the Antares Administration's tenure was marked by early regarding the protection versus expansion debate, the DNW War, the establishment of various political entities.

## History

### Beginning of administration

Antares was first elected in the 2012 Ninzardia gubernatorial election—an election he had planned to make held while ensuring his victory. To make sure he won, the exploited the creation of Ninzardia in his favor, abruptly adding an additional community to join the merge.

Following the election, multiple members were banned from all districts except Zapstorm. They had been banned due to "slander" and "harassment" against the administration—however, the ulterior motive behind banning these members had been due to the fact that they hated not voted for Antares in the election. After unsuccessful attempted to bring back the banned members, Antares declared the members were permanently banned from "all four districts."

During this time, much of the community has built on spending time on the Xbox 360 cooperatively playing video games together. Minecraft was the most played game in the community. The newly released Call of Duty: Black Ops II was also popular. However, not all members participated on the Xbox 360 or even played video games in general. This made Antares frustrated as he wanted more members who played video games. This resulted in many new potential members being rejected from joining.

### Hybridex Deal

*Main article: Hybridex Deal*
The Hybridex Deal was a multi-layer plan devised by Zapstorm's leadership. Zap and Machitis worked together to bring back the banned members through creating a fifth district called Hybridex, not being part of the *four* districts.

Eventually, with the cooperation of Bananable and other members who joined sides with Zap and Machitis's plan, Hybridex was created. In creating Hybridex, Antares had asked Bananable to bring members into the community who were "good gamers." He also asked for him to secretly help shape a positive public opinion of Antares.

On January 12, 2013, Bananable, invited banned members, Orion1 and Alaric, into the new Hybridex district. He announced this publicly. This greatly confused Antares, who stated that both members were banned. However, Bananable publicly explained that Antares had said all "four" districts and that being the fifth district, Alaric and Orion1 were allowed to join Hybridex. Antares stated that he meant "four" as in "all" and stated that this would apply to Hybridex from now on. Bananable then stated Antares was going back on his word and that it would be easier if he would let just two members return. A distraught Antares did not allow for the two members to return. However, four out of five district leaders opposed Antares's decision, causing his public opinion to falter. This prompted Antares to give in and as a result, pardoned both Alaric and Orion1. However, as a result of this blatant opposition, Antares became extremely critical of Bananable and no longer trusted him.

### Anti-expansion policy of Antares

*Main article: Anti-expansion policy of Antares*
The anti-expansion policy of Antares were steps taken by Governor Antares to prevent the expansion of the community. Antares's spoken motive for the policy was to "preserve" the environment of Ninzardia and not transform it into a "mass crowd akin to a country or a military." In reality, the main motive behind this policy was due to Antares's developed lack of trust following the Hybridex Deal and the pardoning of Alaric and Orion1. Antares also wanted to preserve the gaming skill of each members. He wanted to limit who could join as to prevent "the unqualified" from joining the community.

Following the pardoning of Alaric and Orion1, Antares no longer trusted the district leaders (with the exception of Netterix) and decided that the best option was to keep the community closed as to maintain his personal control over the community. Antares had already been exclusive with his choices of letting members into the community, allowing only "gamers" to join. On January 14, 2013, two days after the pardons, Antares entirely closed the community, disallowing any members to join, regardless of their qualifications.

During this period, Antares argued extensively against expansion, and insisted that to preserve the community, it was better to *protect* the community rather than to *expand*. This prompted the protection versus expansion debate, a disagreement that would ensue for the rest of the community's history.

Whenever Bananable tried to invite new members, Antares blocked his efforts and insulted him. This caught the attention of Austiny, who, while supportive of protection policies, became increasingly disillusioned to Antares as a person.

Attempts by Castler to recruit new members to Neptunity were constantly rejected by Governor Antares, no matter the vouching or qualification of the potential members. This policy was directly in clash with Neptunity, who wanted to open their community to allow for more members to join. This constant clashing eventually led to Castler resigning as the leader of Neptunity and leaving Ninzardia on March 10, 2013. Many members of Neptunity followed in his direction while some stayed to secretly help Castler spy and sabotage the community.

### DNW War

*Main article: DNW War*
The beginning of 2013 began with attempts by Neptunity to recruit new members to the community, only to be constantly rejected by Governor Antares, no matter the vouching of the members to let them join. This policy was directly in clash with Neptunity, who wanted to open their community to allow for more members to join. This constant clashing, paired with the revelations of the Galaxia scandal, and Neptunity members leaving Ninzardia, led to Castler resigning as the leader of Neptunity and leaving Ninzardia on March 10, 2013. Many members of Neptunity followed in his direction while some stayed to secretly help Castler spy and sabotage the community.

After leaving, Antares began to insult Castler. After becoming informed of this by his spies, Castler decided to sabotage Core Wizardry to spite Antares. On March 12, 2012, Castler, who had access to Xbox 360 accounts of members of Core Wizardry, deleted various game files from their accounts. Followers of Castler also unsuccessfully attempt to "hack" Antares's personal accounts. Antares's house was also doxed by Castler, who came by his place to taunt him.

While districts such as Zapstorm and Hybridex supported expansion policies and thereby, opposed the anti-expansion policy of Antares, the leadership of both districts did not seek outright war. Both districts were fine with sticking with Ninzardia. Both districts were also already very critical of Castler's leadership capabilities. Having seen the post-election bans of 2012 which were also undertaken by Castler, most members of both districts were either unsupportive of Castler, skeptical, or just indifferent. Therefore, there was no justification for following Castler's footsteps and openly wage a war against Antares's leadership and thereby, Ninzardia.

### 2013 election loss

*Main article: 2013 Ninzardia gubernatorial election*
While Antares had been unpopular at the start of the war, he regained his popularity massively as many saw him as a leader who could handle and solve problems. As a result, many believed he had a good shot at winning the June 2013 Ninzardia gubernatorial election, which was held 6 months after the previous election.

The day before the election, however, on June 26, 2013, Antares fired Sounddy as deputy simply because he preferred Castor over him. This turned off many people from voting for him as they were reminded that Antares was not a great person. At the same time, Sounddy announced that he was going to run against Antares as payback. This quickly riled up members and gained massive support behind him. Antares, however, believed Sounddy had no chance of winning due to announcing his challenge only a day before the election. Sounddy ended up winning an upset victory against Antares, ending the Antares Administration on June 27, 2013.

Antares was taken aback at the sudden loss and even considered the possibility of Sounddy cheating. Nonetheless, he resigned without resistance. Following his loss, he would conceive of a new plan to regain his power in the Ninzardia community.