Active alliance

The Active Alliance was a loose organization of citystates to collaborate, cooperate, as well as roleplay. It was largely centered around the Active Alliance Discord, which has since been deleted. The Active Alliance is infamous for having sparking drama within the Syberiacraft community in the Citystate Disputes.

The Active Alliance was considered to be a early grouping of what would eventually become the server's more infamous members. Such as Dark, Lombard, and Gyro.

## Structure

The Active Alliance was divided into two broad categories. High Members, and regular Members. High Members were roughly analogous to the UN Security Council, having veto power over all decisions, as well as generally being seen as the head of the organization.

At the beginning of the AA, the three founding members were Jandro, DarkErminia, and Vinnie. Who comprised the original high members. However, after a dispute when Comrade King built Auschwitz in his city, Vinnie left in rage and never returned, though they remained on good terms.

Following that, the absence of Vinnie was eventually filled with Lombard, who acted as the third high member until the AA's dissolution at the conclusion of the Citystate Disputes.

## History

The AA was originally founded as the Triple Alliance Pact between Dark, Jandro and Vinnie after Jandro attempted to take over Vinnie's cities. When both Vinnie and Dark retaliated in defense, the end result was a defensive pact between the three. Though this was originally meant to be a pact of friendship between the three, increased interest in city states saw the growth of the Triple Alliance Pact until it became the Active Alliance.

For a decent while, leadership was split between Dark and Jandro, with Vinnie largely being the voice of reason between the two, before Dark largely took over the leadership role himself.

## Members

The Following are a list of the AA's members and their cities.

DarkErminia controlled Rustmond, widely regarded as the largest and most powerful of the cities.

Jandro initially built Merivil, a stereotypical American town, before handing it over to his friend spaghetti\_os. He then later started construction of Madisun, a truly horrifying overpopulated slum to overpower Rustmond. The design of Madisun may have later inspired Helenski. Eventually he grew tired of being known as "that one copy paste guy", and created Brickwell, his last city project, before eventually leaving Syberiacraft entirely.

Vinnie built the cities of New Amsterdam, of which the names I still cannot remember.

Lombard built the city of Tundra Village, considered to be one of the best built of the cities.

Gyro was a member, albeit a somewhat inactive one. Who built Helenski.

TheSnipeneer was originally an early member, having created New York as a member. Though as hostilities between the mod team and the AA mounted, he was eventually banned from the server.

BanditD was a member through his construction of Bandit Country.

Comrade King was a member through his construction of... Not sure.

Jas was a member, but didn't built anything.

Iron and Blood built a large fort, which ended up being a member.

## Opponents

The most vocal opponent of the AA was Project\_J109, who complained the focus on the city states drew attention away from the main construction projects in Syberia Proper. But broadly speaking, the somewhat toxic and power-hungry attitude of the AA was opposed by most of the modteam at the time, including Burrito, Pescavelho, and especially after getting banned, TheSnipeneer.

The hostilities continued to mount, especially after the AA banded together to block vote in the Kanzler elections, hoping to gain more favorable admins through the office of Kanzler.

## Rigging of the Kanzler Elections

The AA, now with a majority of the active playerbase under their control at the time, began growing power-hungry, and sought more power. Of special note was the Kanzler elections, which allowed the playerbase to vote in a new mod, also known as the Kanzler.

In their first manipulation of the Kanzler elections, the members of the AA banded together to all vote in their preferred candidate, which though it was originally Jandro, quickly switched to Vinnie as they realized that Vinnie would be more popular with the Syberian electorate.

Jelly, with 8 votes was far ahead of Vinnie at 2, but through block voting, Vinnie pulled a surprise upset victory, defeating expectations and eventually winning 10-8. Surprising the mod team, who had all but expected Jelly to win.

For their second election, they attempted to rig in Iron\_And\_Blood, though this eventually failed, as the AA ended up being dissolved before they could properly rig it.