The Galactic Empire

## Description

The Galactic Empire was a nominally medium-sized clan, though in reality almost a third of it's listed members were in varying levels of inactivity.

The Empire was led and was founded by Elizzar. According to him, he made the Empire as a "cool group where Star Wars fans can build Star Destroyers."

## History (Taiga Map) =

After failing to gather any members for his Lord of the Rings group "Gondor", Elizzar decided to make a fan group from a franchise with wider mass market appeal. He ended up choosing to form it around Star Wars, his second favorite universe behind A Song of Ice and Fire. He chose to model it around the Galactic Empire due to the outwards projection of power, as well as the fact that he had already spent a lot of time building Star Destroyers on other servers.

### Early Days

Elizzar started by building the Empire's first, and second largest, Star Destroyer. He asked around to find people who were interested in joining. The first to join was FlaminTurkey, who, due to his established server presence, granted the Empire increased legitimacy in the eyes of the greater AztecMC community. From there, many others joined, including notably luv\_blaze, BigBou08, aryamansahni123 and BedDestroyer08. Elizzar then got to work on organizing the Empire. He started the Galactic Empire Discord server, and continued to recruit new members, including his friend and established server member EvModder.

### Decay

As recruitment slowed, many members began to lose interest in the server and began to log on less and less. BigBou08 slowly lost interest in the group and one day, when Elizzar was AFKing at a shared mob grinder, BigBou08 killed Elizzar, stole his elytra, panda head, armor and left. Elizzar himself had less and less time to focus on Minecraft as he worked towards finishing a Star Wars animation.

### Resurgence

Eventually, Elizzar became active once again, and as recruitment resumed, a flood of new players poured in, reinvigorating the group, The Empire continues to pursue large build projects to this day. It is however in this time that the Arya-Joshua Henderson Debacle occurred, and the Empire lost one of it's more established players for a month. The Empire has recently finished a Star Wars themed map art.

### Second Resurgence

In February of 2021, the Empire gained a surge of new recruits, mostly stemming from PurplePersona's friends(Techno\_Rens, MeesWasbeer, etc.), and double-clanners from Vanguard, who the empire had recently formed an alliance with. The Empire built two farm bases: a guardian farm known as Erabor and a gold farm. The gold farm became a focal point of noncombative conflict between BedDestroyer08 and various Vanguard members, who mismanaged the base systems. As the arguments came to a peak, the farm was suddenly raided. It is not clear who raided it, but there are 3 probable possibilities: first, that a Vanguard member griefed it, second, that a Benchwarmer member griefed it (although if this is the case, Chasey\_Wasey would have had to betray the Empire), or a third party. The most likely scenario is that someone who was accidentally teleported ended up griefing the base. However, to alleviate tensions, Elizzar is taking the stance that since no one can be pointed as definitely guilty, everyone should act as if no-one is at fault, and just move on.

## History (Desert-Savannah Map)

At the start of the map, The Empire rushed to kill the Ender Dragon first, mainly competing with Valhalla. The Empire ended up killing the Ender Dragon before Valhalla got any Eyes of Ender. EvDoc landed the killing blow, just as he did on the last map, getting the first Dragon Egg. After killing the dragon, he gave multiple other Empire members the egg, granting them the advancement "The Next Generation".

As the map lost players in its last 2 months of its 6 month tenure, like most groups, the Empire lost activity as most players found that the server didn't have enough players to support multiple competing groups. The Empire continued as a token entity, with hazemaze putting GE signs throughout rtp, and elizzar putting a few GE portals around rtp.

## History (Caldera Map)

The clan was almost completely inactive during this map, and on april 17, 2022, Elizzar relased an announcement on the clan discord announcing the disbanding of the organization

## Organization

The Empire uses a naval ranking system with ranks from multiple national navies, though mostly inspired by the naval ranks in Star Wars. There is a relatively strict hierarchy determined by rank, and members of the Empire are grouped into "ships" with a Star Destroyer constructed high in the overworld serving as their symbolical base of operations.

### Ranks (Highest to Lowest) \*

#### **Grand Admiral**

Notable Grand Admirals:

* BedDestroyer08
* FlaminTurkey (inactive)
* EvDoc (EvModder)
* ary5

#### **Admiral**

Notable Admirals:

* CaramalFox
* LaddieMate

#### **Commodore**

Notable Commodores:

* PurplePersona

## Relationships (Taiga Map) =

### The Embassy

The Embassy was founded by BedDestroyer08 as part of the alliance between the Empire and the Whitetail Militia (see below). It was responsible for peacekeeping operations between members and clans and helps sort out disagreements and misunderstandings. The Embassy also started to form an Armed Forces branch, ensuring that its decisions are upheld. However, since the Embassy has since been disbanded, the Empire is no longer part of it.

### The Whitetail Militia

The Whitetail Militia and the Empire formed an alliance after Jaknarr, a member of the Empire, decided to form a new clan of rangers known as the Militia. They had a treaty in place, written by BedDestroyer08, the agreed ambassador between the Empire and the Militia. They were both members of the Embassy, before it was disbanded and all members of the Embassy left.

### Greywind

The Empire was heavily allied with Clan Greywind. They were at each other's aid during war and at times of economical crisis. Greywind however, is now defunct.

### Vanguard

The Empre is currently allied with Vanguard, the relationship has been strained at many points since it's inception, but there still isn't a clear end in sight to the relationship. Kyab is on good relations with Gastrogi and c0rrupt. The conflicts usually arise between the mid ranking members of Vanguard, and the higher ranking members of The Empire. The alliance probably won't break any time soon, simply due to the number of shared members the clans have.

## Notes

\* The ranks that each individual member of the Empire change often; the wiki is not a reliable source for this information.

= The information is subject to a previous map and may or may not be out of date, refer to an unmarked section for information at the present time.