The Revolution

## Event

The Revolution was the mass revolt of the 8th Axis playerbase following the exodus of the 8th Axis Staff Team, including the majority of the BT, namely Danload, Yudolph, Woutley and Lauren, in addition to the QT-Head (QT member at the time) Dishwasher\_Soap, after a long discussion about operations on the server following the fallout from the Black Armory.

The following passage is a military briefing of the situation that was sent out in the discord of the town Legion and presumably others by former BT LM\_BROS on August 18th, 2020.

> If you don’t know what’s been happening in the community, let me be brief and frank. Recently, most of the Build Team as well as Dishwasher\_Soap from the Quest Team had recently and suddenly quit the 8thaxis Staff Team after a discussion about server operations. Long story short, Danload as well as Yudolph quit the staff team, with Wout following with Dish not to far behind, and eventually Lauren aswell. This didn’t occur until after a series of extremely unprofessional outbursts by many of these staff members inside of Staff Chat, *(Of which I’m sure all staff members in this discord can attest to,*) Not long after, an administrative meeting took place and occurred. In this, many of the administrators as well as Dish who was present at the meeting all agreed to forfeit the resignations of Wout, Lauren and Dish in exchange vying for them to rejoin the staff team, knowingly returning much of the staff tension as well as questionable behavior as observed in the past. So, you might be wondering, “What the hell does this mean?” Basically, much of the server administrative team had blatantly and clearly chosen their priorities of keeping together the staff team’s BT over what would otherwise be a more advantageous as well as productive staff team of which would be more beneficial to the players. AKA they valued having builders than a productive server for the community. It is because of this, that myself including many other staff and players have chosen to give an ultimatum, roughly saying that if things were to not change for the better and after observing the true colors and priorities of much of the staff, that many of the staff would be resigning as well as meaning the beginning of a player revolt against the 8thaxis Staff Team. We represent the Players and the Community in this “Revolution”, in which it is our duty to serve the playerbase to the best of our abilities.
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> It has come to our attention that this is wrongfully not the priority of much of the staff, and therefore we have no other choice but to have one last final stand. 8thaxis is on its last legs, people, and if this server is to survive, we must act. Sometime tonight, @Manager and I will he meeting with the owner to give him five points of change that must be seen if the server is to survive. Among that is the balancing of the server economy, the balancing of content, staff power and limits, etc., all beneficial to the community and players. Eventually, I will once more @everyone to notify you to join the 8thaxis General Voice Chat. Once you have all joined, what will occur will be the gradual reading of many staff members as well as players reading off their resignations and issues with the actions taken by the staff team. When that happens, **please read off the message posted below this chat verbally.**
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> “As a player of the 8thAxis. I also join the many staff that have resigned over the incompetence of the build team, and other staff members. We call for revolution. We demand that these staff members resign, and have their ranks revoked for their acts of incompetence, immaturity and most of all, the selfishness they have shown : Lauren, Dishy, Wout, Yu. Those are the staff members. They still hold their ranks on discord and server. We stand with the staff resigning, it is time for change, stop hiding from it and do your jobs.”
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The result of this meeting is essentially unknown, though it's widely known that nothing much happened. The BT was offered a compromise but denied it and were at war with the rest of the server and stuck in a standoff until the complete removal of the Black Armory, which they were fighting for control over.

After the botched meeting, there was a slight secondary exodus of the playerbase following the mass retirement of the Staff Team. People like LM\_BROS have left, while some of the remaining staff members have quit as well, such as piecatjustice. Others, like former JrQT Redrubix and Kirigumo, were planning to quit in protest at the time as well but did not for a longer period of time.

On September 27, 2020, former JrQT Kirigumo was killed in the battle that would later aptly be named "Kiri's Fall at Legion", and quit the server immediately afterwards. He disclosed that he had planned to quit the staff team and the server after the event, but he was killed in the wild by BT Meme, and all his best items were gone, prompting him to leave sooner.

Former JrQT Redrubix\_ quit the staff team in protest and was banned shortly afterward for leading a discord raid against the remaining staff team.