Aurora Novum Remnants

The **Aurora Novum Remnants** is a group made up of the remaining members from the state of Aurora Novum, a nation that once was sovereign in the now province of Valreign in Plagatea. The group was initially formed in order to keep together the members and not act as a nation but rather a hub for connections in the future. However, following the failure of 3 remnant settlements(located in Yimmu-Audal, Bardonia, and Tortuga) and being restricted in what they could do in terms of diplomacy, the group decided to transition into an official nation.

### Settlements

Before the surrender of Aurora Novum, one remnant settlement had already formed due to a group of Novians wanting to flee from the possibility of war and live in peace under the nation of Solitudinem. The members called this settlement Sand and it was built along northern Solitudinem in a desert biome. The settlement grew fast during its early days with Salva, best known for being a prestige builder in Aurora Novum, and the leadership of ad and Rusty. ADINO, another player, was also involved with the creation of Sand but was later kicked out due to crimes committed against Aurora Novum. Sand had a fairly large player base in a short amount of time with new players moving there and finding free housing. The roads and buildings were specially crafted to fit into the neighboring biome and it still houses great communal features including a sewer system that can be used for defense. Sand, as of January 2022, had transformed into a ghost town with many of its members leaving in search of a better world and a general bout of dryness in the remnants

Three other settlements were also created after Sand in order to give a multitude of options to the Aurora Novum Remnants. Those three settlements were located in Yimmu Audal, Bardonia, and Tortuga respectively. The first was called Novumsville and had a large claim in the plains biome. This settlement ended up failing due to the lack of new members coming into it. The second failed before it had even started as no official land claim lay there and the remnants were too tight on resources to start a new settlement. This settlement would have housed recreations of the two original Aurora Novum cities, Black Hollow and Andoros. The Tortugan settlement had failed due to a squatter group that had blocked expansion of the land claim(called Port Novum).

### Novaism

Novaism is the primary and state religion of Aurora Novum. Brought to Aurora Novum by the prophet baked\_croissant, it would continue to expand between Novian members and it is estimated that ~85-90% of the Novian population is Novaist. Novaism centers around the god Nova and the evil god Vetus. There is a church still located in the city of Black Hollow that was designated as Nova's temple and rituals like baptisms and weddings have been held there. The church still remains a sacred part of the Novian culture. Followers of Nova listen to daily prayers and input some of their own prayers as well. baked\_croissant still remains head of the Novaism church as he is the prophet and he seeks to convert as many people as he can via word-of-mouth meaning religion adverts or promotion through other means than verbal(in-game or out of game) is unacceptable.

### Brief History

Aurora Novum was a nation that was founded by Jerry and Georgia Man in the month of June via the Treaty of a New Dawn. It was created in conjunction with the state of Plagadonia and resembled the shape of a bean on the continent of Plagos. The members who founded Aurora Novum had fought in a rebellion against DonFuer who laid claim to their land(known as Terras Tenebris at the time) and Plagadonian land which the members had thought was unjust. They fought alongside Plagatea and several allies in order to win the land back even considering war, but two months after the rebellion had started, DonFuer had collapsed leaving the land to Uldarash and then to Plagatea. Plagatea then sold the land to Plagadonia and the new state of Aurora Novum. Left with no citizens from Terras Tenebris(original nation that contained the land AN had) after the rebellion, the founders split Aurora Novum into two cities and worked to gain citizens fast. The first city was Black Hollow, a city that had existed since February, which was founded by Jerry, Georgia, Zylax, and SwayneP. The second city was Andoros, a renamed version of the old city Vertrappen which was what it was called during the Tenebris days. Both cities had a good start at first with Jerry mostly focusing on the specifics of how the nation would run as both founders agreed on using a republic system and Georgia focused on gaining citizens. Within the first month, the two founders gained a small amount of citizens but thought they had enough to try out Jerry's new government system. Georgia was elected as the first Supreme Chancellor of the nation and his main promise was to gain citizens and expand the economy of both cities utilizing an automatic shopping rail. At the end of his term, there were much more citizens to populate the cities(estimated at around 25) and with Jerry's help, they were able to keep citizens fairly active.

The period after Aurora Novum's founding presented multiple diplomatic issues for the two founders as they would have to deal with their neighbors Plagatea and Plagadonia. The latter being dealt with first as Plagatea declared war on Plagadonia after Cold War esque tensions between the two due to the leader jayjayrex(Plagadonia) and the leaders of Plagatea(Nero and Crabbz) having fundamental differences between each other. The leader of Plagadonia, along with other leadership(VoidCipher), would be poisoned before a war could happen with Plagatea and thus Plagadonia eventually ended up into the hands of Plagatea. Many citizens of Aurora Novum were skeptical of their other neighbor Plagatea, but Georgia(SC at the time) had told them not to worry as he felt relations with Plagatea were fine at the moment. He would prove to be wrong during the last weeks of July and early August as Plagatea declared war on Aurora Novum citing that they wanted to unite the continent. This conflict would spark a flurry of ally gathering by Aurora Novum and eventually ended up with a planned Plagatean collapse regardless of Aurora Novum losing an rp war, which Aurora Novum and its allies thought was good enough.

After the Plagatean conflict, there was deep tension between Aurora Novum and the Second Empire of Plagatea(Plagatean pieces came back together and a coup transpired for Plagatea to reform) due to prior events and the lack of trust for leadership. This tension wouldn't escalate until the month of November when in an attempt to tie a knot with a friendly neighbor and gain more land, Aurora Novum and DonFuer's branch leader BeefLand would come to an agreement for complete annexation of DonFuer Rathnir. This attempt failed however as the leader of all DonFuer branches D\_loaded would step in and ask Plagatea for assistance in dealing with Aurora Novum. This would eventually succeed as tensions rose high when Plagatea used their spies in AN for leverage and AN retaliated with raids. All of these events would lead into a war with the entirety of the Sapphire Commonwealth(nation made from primarily Simulami, Najer, and Plagatea) that never happened as Aurora Novum surrendered last minute due to realizing that the war would cost them more than the land was worth. Thus, the remnants were born to hold Aurora Novum's cause up in a way and promote the community's ideas.

Between the time of Georgia's administration and the end of Aurora Novum, the system had gone through multiple changes as the nation almost collapsed in August and September after Supreme Chancellor Lotus, due to members of the Senate and the Chancellors not communicating. Baked\_Croissant would take over and implement a centralized system where he would appoint other roles based on skill. This act would save the nation for his first term and proved to be quite successful in gathering citizens as well. Baked would win in a debate against Georgia and win his second term as well promising to focus more on internal developments. New members however would cause a shift in the nation for more decentralization so baked's third campaign had failed to the next Supreme Chancellor, Vexenatic late October/November.. Vexenatic's decentralized government system opened to include Chancellors and the Senate fully again however this would eventually fail as government officials were suscept to corruption. One senator in particular, ADINO would grapple through the system and cause multiple controversies in Aurora Novum even during the surrender of Aurora Novum. The senate under Vexenatic was filled with a diverse selection of members ranging from experienced builders(Salva), to amazing grinders(Riste), expert lore writers(baked\_croissant), people gatherers/city owners(ADINO and BeefLand) and other members who participated in the senate. Georgia(past leader) and Elock(experienced diplomat) would also act as advisors in the senate as well. This senate was more active than previous senates and were the ones to decide on the ultimate fate of Aurora Novum during the war with Sapphire Commonwealth, which was surrender.

After the surrender, some members integrated into Plagatean society as they believed that Aurora Novum was mistaken in the situation from the start including Elock who was a diplomat and baked\_croissant, a city owner. Most members however went to the remnants or seeked other opportunities. The remnants made themselves an official nation in early January focusing on gaining new members and expanding the current lore of the remnants which is related to the state religion, Novaism and the history of Aurora Novum. The remnants have also expanded into an era of new diplomacy in early January in order to rise up to the world stage and improve their economy. Whilst beign decentralized, the remnants also want to keep the community together as that was the main purpose of their creation.