Terminal Territories

The Terminal Territories, although a different realm than Meridian, has been one of the most influential events and places in Meridian's history.

The Terminal Territories began with a single meeting at the Stone Table. The Cabinet was looking into a quest of venturing into new lands, in the name of exploration and discovery. All of them agreed to attempt and move into a new land. After months of experimenting, a gateway to another world was constructed. The Stone Table cabinet packed their items and moved into a new world. They agreed to split up and begin factions across the world, and live in concord with each other. Because of this, the lands were named the Terminal Territories. However, before this began a base of operations was set up, before they group split up. Here a plan was discussed more in depth on how to proceed. Eventually hostility arose between the members, and kingbanana789, attacked the base with his small military. This ended the group, and they split up. This move that Ethan had played, made him a target for many of the members that inhabited spawn base.

The Terminal Territories lasted for a long duration of time. Because of this, I won't go to in-depth on many of the events in this page. You will find separate articles in this wiki for those events and locations.

The first big event that occurred was the building of the Pirate Cove. This was the first and only large group project organized in the Terminal Territories. The builders settled on an island, out in the Eastern Sea. This Pirate Cove had many sandy beaches, a natural inlet for ships to pull in and dock. So this beautiful location became an essential trade route in the seas. However the land had several issues. A disease was eventually discovered creeping up the northern beach on the idea. However, an even bigger threat appeared when volcanic activity began on this island. Because of this, the volcano on this island blew it's top. The pirate docked at the time was owned by MorningBugle1, so it set sail to his home faction of Iceland.

Several months after this, Several of the founding members regrouped and began building the city of Zero Point. A small village was inhabited by them and became reshaped into the seed of a city. The Zero Point was constructed as a new hub between the factions. The Zero Point was elevated in the sky, and it hovered over the water of the city of Zero Point's coastline, by the Red Archon Beacon. Eventually this city became the capitol of the Terminal Territories, and played a crucial role in the Terminal Territories.

After Ethan's stunt with the old spawn base, many members placed a target on him, and his city of New Redstoneia. Because of this members mainly from the city of Taconia began to vandalize New Redstoneia, and caused great grief for the city. However these acts remained unknown to the officials of Taconia. Once kingbanana789 found out where these attacks were coming from, assuming they were organized assaults on his city, launched an attack on Taconia. ObtuseTaco and his army retaliated, and this conflict led to the utter destruction of Redstoneia. However, ever the conflict resolved, what had happened became revealed, and efforts of rebuilding were organized by both parties, until New Redstoneia was back on its feet. This event was known as the Great Troll War, and set the stage for bigger conflicts.

After the Great Troll War unfolded, MorniingBugle1 and kingbanana789 began discussing bringing back the shadow organization that watched over the ancient mega-village, Villagetown. Upon much building, that shadow organization, was remastered, and became known as the Agency of Technical Logistics and Advanced Surveillance, or A.T.L.A.S for short. This shadow organization eventually grew to the point of becoming a governmental body, in change of world surveillance and threat and conflict detection. Eventually it was settled that it was to act as the world's government, so that changed many policies and rules in many areas.

While many accepted this, others hated this idea. A.T.L.A.S ran with a capitalistic form of government. Many ran their factions with a communistic body, so this change went against the ideologies that had been set up by some. Communist factions began to band together to form a large opposition to this system. Many attacks were launched on the A.T.L.A.S headquarters, and the factions that supported it. Many communist camps popped up around the world, but most of them united under a large group of people who fled into the wilderness. The mega-camp of Stravapol was founded, and was where most major attacks were planned form. This battle lasted for a log period of time, and exhausted resources on both sides of the conflict.

Eventually, A.T.L.A.S discovered the location of Stravapol, and destroyed it. This blow led to the victory of the Communists. This rebellion was quenched. After this, A.T.L.A.S wanted to make a move to highly advance its security. The Baritone drafts were unarchived and looked into as a means of advanced surveillance. The Baritone Software was a smart AI, capable of tracking pretty much anyone, anywhere, at anytime. It would document everything found. This were unarchived drafts that were brought up as a solution. However, the majority of the A.T.L.A.S system, disagreed with its methods, as privacy would no longer harder exist. A small group of people who voted in favor of this system, decided to begin working on a prototype. Many hours of coding went into it, and finally was able to track someone through artifacts in their possession. With their success, a full system was created. Not nearly as large scale as the drafts state, but small enough to track a lot of locations and activities. This system was made active, and tracking began for only a few days.

Eventually, the Baritone software acquired a coding bug, and a wide system shutdown occurred all across the world. All of the hidden trackers read the phrase "Signal Corrupted" and wind caught on quickly with what had happened. This shut down effected every major location, and a few days went by, before power was fully restored. This caused a lot of chaos, as it would if your item frames displayed an error message. A.T.L.A.S caught the blame for the incident. An internal investigation revealed what had occurred, and those accused were imprisoned. A.T.L.A.S made a formal apology, but it wasn't enough.

This event caused an uprising against A.T.L.A.S, but also against other factions. This sparked the 100 Day War. As the name implies, this conflict lasted for one hundred days. During this time, the Machine, Baritone was corrupted, and destroyed. New Taconia played a major part in this war, as it fired the first rocket, at the City of Zero Point. This immediately started a war, and almost every faction was brought in. Iceland was utterly destroyed by a series of rockets. A.T.L.A.S quilled this conflict, by using military action. Smaller battleships entered the bodies of water, and troops invaded each location, ended the conflict with force.

A.T.L.A.S had been working on building a navy, strong enough to defend major locations as an alternative to the Baritone system. Three Leviathan-Class Battleships acted as fleetheads for the navy. named Armigers, were constructed. The warships were armed to the teeth in guns of all types, and they could put a hole through an obsidian wall. This force cleared the conflict. The final act of this war settled in the city of Zero Point. New Taconia's military launched a full force attack on the city. There were major casualties, but there was something strange going on with the Zero Point structure itself. It began to glow red, and making odd noises. Zero Point began to destabilize.

Calculations estimated that an implosion was bound to happen, and that would cause so much damage, that everything they knew in that world, would become a devastated wasteland. There was no way to get most people far enough away to avoid the blast. A plan had been in place when the Armigers were constructed. These vessels were built with a secondary engine that would in theory, be able to travel to another world, with much difficulty. With enough power, the engines could be powered for one jump. The plan was to make a calculated jump from the Terminal Territories to the Dreiton Sea, south of the territory of Mafeking.

And that's what happened. The Red Archon Beacon powered up the three Armigers for one jump. The capitol Armiger evacuated the city of Zero point, and the surrounding settlements. Another evacuated the cities of Taconia, and New Taconia, and those surrounding settlements. The final Armiger, hit up the New Redstoneia area, with many towns, as well. Then the evacuation took place. However, things went horribly wrong. The capitol Armiger made it to Meridian, however, instead of landing in the Dreiton Sea, it landed in the Thalassa Sea, far east. The second Armiger made the jump, however, something went wrong, and the ship landed in a different world, which they named Genesis. Contact was lost right after they landed. Sadly the third Armiger, didn't make it out of the Terminal Territories, and was destroyed in the Terminal event.

This concluded this end of the Terminal Territories. Again, this was only an article, of the big event that occurred. Many more will be covered more in-depth, in separate articles. The Terminal Territories has had a lasting impact on Meridian, and will continue to for many years to come.