PepeTheNoob

**PepeTheNoob** is a long-time Marthian who served as Federal President from October 15th, 2020 to June 15th, 2021. He has contributed to Marthia for nearly 4 years, initially as a powerful ally in November and December 2018, and all the way up to his Governorship of Masora.

Pepe first became involved with Marthia on October 23rd, 2018 a couple days after he joined the server of Myths-Echoes. He lead MunitorJuvo, one of the most powerful factions on the server, for 2 months until he agreed to have the faction annexed into Marthia as a state on New Years 2019.

Shortly after the creation of Old Marthia in June 2019, Pepe would be appointed as the District Commissioner of the Capital District, a position he would use to develop the district for over 2 years.

Pepe was elected Federal President of Marthia on October 11th, 2020. His time as President would be defined by the colonization of Xanez, where Pepe would personally create multiple settlements and, most notably, created a large stone brick wall extending over 2000 blocks. He would also lead 2 other colonization missions during his Presidency. His Presidency is also known for the Presidential Advisory Committee, an unofficial group which is often accused of using Pepe's presidency in an oligarchic manner.

For around 6 months from December 2021, Pepe would develop the Capital District, which would quickly be re-organized into the State of Caladan, on Mid Marthia. Shortly after the creation of New Marthia, Pepe would found the city of Blackwall, which would become inhabited by a wide range of Marthians from different states. A couple weeks later, Pepe would lead a movement which merged the largely inactive states of Caladan, Abyssia, Prime Republic and Terra into the State of Masora, which was the most active state in Marthia for months.

## Myths-Echoes

### Mountain Sanctuary

Pepe joined Echoes on October 19th, 2018. He began exploring the valley by the world spawn, until he discovered the mountains near the valley. He began scaling the mountain until he reached the top. There, he built his first house. For the next 2 days, Pepe continued exploring the valley and gathering resources. On October 21st, Pepe began recruiting other players to help build a settlement on the mountain. The same day, Lou, the owner of the server, visited Pepe's settlement and asked if he had any wishes. Pepe asked for potatoes, and Lou gave some to him. The next day on October 22nd, Pepe logged on to find the mountain settlement had been raided, with the walls broken and valuables stolen. Due to Pepe not having any money, he couldn't claim the land on the mountain to protect the settlement from griefing. After the raid, Pepe decided to move from the mountain. Many members Pepe had recruited the day prior did not return.

### Faction of MunitorJuvo

After Pepe abandoned his pillaged mountain settlement on October 22nd, he discovered an abandoned mine left by another player. Pepe decided to create the base of his new faction at the bottom of this mine, which he named MunitorJuvo. Pepe dug out the mine and created a pumpkin farm. He sold these pumpkins for a large sum of money. After farming the pumpkins, Pepe returned to the spawn valley and went to a naturally generated village in the valley. To protect the village from the common attacks and griefs by players, Pepe built a wall around the village, and built a tower next to the wall which he used as an outpost for MunitorJuvo. Pepe then built a road from the spawn village which lead to the castle of one of the most powerful factions on Echoes at the time, called Hypers.

Later in the week, Pepe recruited long-time Marthians Food and Karate. He also started talking with the Prime Republic (soon to be the Republic of Marthia), and met with one of the leaders, QueenFyre. Pepe discussed trading food to the Prime Republic, as he had a surplus of potatoes at the time. In the following weeks, Pepe would build relations with other factions and establish MunitorJuvo as a neutral and peaceful faction. During this time, a member by the name of Squeekachu and his faction would use Pepe's road to discover the castle of the faction Hypers, and claimed the castle, practically killing the Hypers faction.

In November, the server's spawn location was changed. At the new spawn, Pepe created a wide and long road which lead down the mountain the spawn area was on and down into a valley. Players of many different factions began to build along the road, including castles and shops. As the road began to develop, Pepe named it Route 76, after the numbers in Llou76, the owner's username. Route 76 would become the main hub of activity on Echoes, being the location of dozens of shops and multiple conflicts.

In December, Pepe continued to recruit for MunitorJuvo, including members such as Codes, ColumnedBird, Poprockslive, and MineBuild. MineBuild was a former member of The Dynasty, a faction lead by BladedRacer65, and MineBuild's membership in MunitorJuvo allowed the two factions to become allies, and shifted The Dynasty's priorities from being an antagonist on Echoes. Throughout December, MunitorJuvo also continued to grow closer to the Republic of Marthia, and by Late December, many significant members of MunitorJuvo had left for Marthia, including Codes, Food and Karate, and on December 25th, 2018, Pepe agreed to have MunitorJuvo annexed as a state on New Years 2019, in tandem with the introduction of the Articles of Federation.

### FRM State of Roma Fortuna

After MunitorJuvo's annexation into Marthia, Pepe and Pop, who was Pepe's new co-leader, decided to rename MunitorJuvo to Roma Fortuna. Pepe then began working with New Sparta to establish Roma Fortuna's new capital across the bay from New Sparta. Pepe and Pop would work to develop Roma Fortuna (and get involved in a war on behalf of Marthia) for the next 2 months. However, around Late February, Pepe decided to create his own faction seperate from Marthia, and he handed over ownership of Roma Fortuna to Pop and left.

### AurumInvicta

After Pepe left Roma Fortuna, he created a new faction called AurumInvicta. He would only invite one member to it, that member being Ikey (known later as Jaygora). While leading this faction throughout March, Pepe began to grow disinterested with Echoes, as he was becoming more busy in his real life. In April, the Echoes world was unexpectedly lost, and Echoes was forced to reset. Pepe, along with many others, became even more inactive on Echoes

### Post-Synra

Around a month after the loss of the Synra world, tensions between staff culminated in the majority of the staff team quitting, and with Marthia leaving Echoes altogether. Pepe, although remaining in Echoes and Marthia, was inactive in both. Eventually, in September 2019, Echoes was closed permanently.

## Old Marthia

### Capital District

In June 2019, Marthia would move their home server to a private Bedrock Edition Realm. On this Realm, then-President Spartan came up with the idea of the Capital District, an area around the world spawn which would not be in any state. Spartan asked Pepe if he wanted to become the Commissioner (essentially the leader) of the Capital District, and Pepe agreed. Throughout the next 2 and a half years, Pepe would make the Capital District into one of the most developed areas of Old Marthia. He was the main builder of the Capital City, and the only builder of several smaller cities and towns, including Goldwind Heights and Varkhstad-Camino.

After joining Old Marthia for the first time, Pepe would settle in a naturally generated desert village near spawn. This village would become the base for the Capital City, which would become one of the largest cities on Old Marthia. The desert village itself would be transformed into a villager trading center (alternatively called Pepe's Slave Camp). On the north side of the village, Pepe would build a neighborhood with a Mediterranean theme, which he would name Sastedonya. To the east, Pepe would build a modern district with multiple skyscrapers. To the northwest, Pepe would build a medieval themed neighborhood which he would call Westmarch. Pepe would also build a wall encompassing the Capital City. The design of this wall would become a staple across Marthian history.

Pepe would additionally build several smaller towns in the Capital District. To the northeast of the Capital City, Pepe would build a military base and a small town. The town portion would have the Mediterranean theme, similar to Sastedonya. He would name the military base Camino, and the town Varkhstad. Both the base and the town were referred to unilaterally as Camino-Varkhstad.

On a large hill on the southern border of the Capital District with New Sparta, Pepe would build another town with the Mediterranean theme as seen in Sastedonya and Varkhstad. This town was mainly known for hosting the 107.9 FRM Radio station. On the northwest base of the hill, Pepe would additionally build a gas station. Pepe would name this town Goldwind Heights. A complimentary town called Southwind was planned to be built to the east of Goldwind in a naturally-generate village, although Pepe only ever built a horse stable there.

The final town Pepe built was a small town on the bank of a river in the Prime Republic. This town would also have the Mediterranean building theme seen in Sastedonya, Varkhstad, and Goldwind Heights. This town was notable for being the western end of Highway Route 1, the main highway on Old Marthia.

In September 2020, Pepe began a campaign to be elected as Federal President of Marthia. A campaign video would be made, which you can watch here. On October 11th 2020, Pepe was elected as Federal President of Marthia. Soon, he would take lead on a new colonization mission.

## Xanez

On October 1st 2020, Bladed joined Xanez Nations with the intent of finding a location to create a base of operations. He would quickly discover a naturally generated taiga village about 300 blocks from spawn, which he would name Opus Centrum and establish as the base of operations for the colonization mission.

### Tibrus and Ost-Harad

Pepe would begin helping in development of Opus Centrum from the beginning. The first notable thing Pepe did was the building of an Obama Pillar church. The next day, Pepe would participate in an exploration mission up the river that Opus Centrum sat on. During the mission, Pepe would establish a new settlement, named Kubolay, upstream. Pepe also named the river that was traveled up the Tibrus. This marked the beginning of expansion beyond Opus Centrum.

Pepe would continue to help build up Opus Centrum and Kubolay, as well as further relations with allies, in the following weeks. However, on October 23rd, it was discovered that spawn would not be moved upon advertising the server, and so Opus Centrum would be at high risk of being griefed. Thus, it was decided that the main base of operations would be moved over 1000 blocks south to Ost-Harad.

After re-settling in Ost-Harad, Pepe would discover a naturally generated abandoned village nearby. Pepe decided to create a settlement on the abandoned village, which he named Untergracht. Untergracht would eventually grow to be a hub of sheep farming in the Marthia colonial nation.

Over the next couple of weeks, Pepe would continue to build up the Ost-Harad area. By Halloween 2020, Pepe had completed a road of ice used by boats that connected Ost-Harad and the largest city of Marthia's ally on Xanez, Dureksburg. He called the ice road the Damaarthian Highway. He would also settle a new outpost called Cornerwall near the center of the Damaarthian Highway, which would be used primarily for potato farming.

Pepe also continued to build up Tibrus. On November 10th, Pepe completed the clearing of a trail from Opus Centrum to the northern capital city of Damaaria named Sarstoon, which was named the Opus-Sarstoon Trail. 4 days later, Pepe would settle a new city in the northern jungle of Tibrus, at an abandoned site for a Tibrus capital, named Kubilog. In the following days, Pepe would connect Kubilog and Kubolay, and built a defense tower near Kubilog. By now, Tibrus had effectively taken control of the entire jungle area north of spawn, almost entirely due to Pepe's work.

On November 19th, Pepe began construction of the Damaarthian wall in Tibrus, a large stone brick wall spanning over 2000 blocks. He would complete the Tibrus section, which encompassed the entirety of Tibrus' border, on November 23rd. After the completion of the Tibrus section of the wall, Pepe decided to step back from Xanez and begin focusing more on Old Marthia. 1 week later, Damaaria would be annexed as a state in Marthia.

### FRM State of Damaaria

After Damaaria was annexed, Pepe began several new projects, including the expansion of the Tibrus wall down to Ost-Harad and the expansion of the ice road network to include a bridge to what used to be Moistan, an island south of mainland Damaaria. Pepe also constructed a stone brick road from Dureksburg to Cornerwall. By December 8th, Pepe had completed the Damaarthian wall.

For the rest of December and January, Pepe would be mostly inactive on Xanez except for the occasional gathering of materials. On January 30th, he would attend the signing of the Twin Peaks Accords. Throughout February, Pepe would continue to be largely inactive, although he would help in the establishing of relations with the upcoming New Roman Republic.

### FRM State of New Rome

After a crusade against players of New Rome and the Damaarian province of Toria in Early March, Pepe continued to help build relations with New Rome, until on March 11th, Loyally Benched, the Emperor of New Rome, unexpectedly asked to have his nation annexed into Damaaria. Damaaria obliged, and Pepe attempted to calm nerves on the sudden situation, but ultimately it was decided that New Rome would be its own state inside Marthia. Pepe would continue to interact with New Rome after its annexation.

Throughout the rest of March, Pepe would stay inactive. In April, Marthia entered into a war on Xanez. The only notable action Pepe did during the war was call the retreat of Marthian forces in a battle in Villa. Pepe's call to retreat was ignored by 2 soldiers, who ended up getting killed and losing their loot because of it.

Through April and May, Pepe would monitor the situation on Xanez, and aid in various discussions about the server. However, Pepe did not play on the server for most of this time. On May 28th, Marthia would leave New Xanez permanently. Pepe would remain in the Xanez Nations discord server, however, he did not make any attempts to play on the server again.

## Icebox

### East Marthian Dynasty

On February 2nd 2021, during the Xanez Colonization, Pepe joined an Earth map Nations server called Icebox. After joining, he would make his way to the real-life location of Zhanjiang, China. There, he would settle on the naturally-generated village. The same day, Pepe would invite ComradeStalin to help build up the city, which would be named Zijincheng.

Over the next few days, Pepe and Stalin would continue to gather resources and construct new buildings. Stalin would begin work on a palace, which he would name Vermillion Palace. Due to the modded nature of the server, Pepe and Stalin would begin to tinker with the custom blocks, and incorporate them into buildings.

On February 10th, FoodPlayz would be invited to the colony. Pepe and Stalin would continue to build and gather resources. Late that day, Stalin would gain enough netherite to construct a modded drill, which could automatically dig a 3x3 tunnel. Overnight, Pepe would dig a tunnel from Zijincheng to a planned area of expansion in the real-life location of the Philippines. On February 11th, Pepe's submission of a claim for southwestern China and the Philippines would be accepted, and the East Marthian Dynasty would become an official nation on Icebox. That night, Pepe would build a potato farm, which solved a food shortage which had been ongoing since the beginning of the mission.

On February 12th, Pepe would make a new ally in the form of the Holy Latin Empire, one of the strongest nations on Icebox. The next day, while working on Vermillion Palace, Stalin and Pepe captured a naturally generated pink sheep, which the named as a prophet of Obama Pillar. For the next few days, Pepe would continue to make minor improvements to Zijincheng, while Food and Stalin built in unclaimed areas for claim expansion. KarateKid and BroMango would be invited to the colonization mission as well.

On February 15th, Pepe posted an ad for the East Marthian Dynasty on Reddit. The next day, three people would join from the ad. These 3 settled a town to the northeast of Zijincheng, which they named Philville. 2 days later, on February 18th, Pepe would discover that Zijincheng and Philville had been griefed. After an investigation by the admins of the server, it was determined that the 3 redditors had griefed their town and Zijincheng. All 3 were promptly banned, and Zijincheng was restored.

Over the next few days, Pepe would continue to monitor Icebox, however most of the progress would be done by others. Moobert, Mango and KGB would settle in the Congo region of Africa mainly to mine diamonds, while Food and Stalin would continue to build up Zijincheng. On February 21st, Australia was put up for sale. With a large sum of diamonds on hand, it was planned to make the deal and buy Australia for the East Marthian Dynasty the next day.

Unfortunately, early the next day, the owner of Icebox announced the server would be moving to Java, and that the world would reset. This move practically shut the colonists out of the server, and thus the colonization mission was abruptly halted.

### Nova Tibrus

In Late May 2022, Icebox reset their world from a heavily modded Java-only server which had been running since the previous reset of the Bedrock-only server in February. The new world was run on Geyser, a plugin which allowed Java and Bedrock crossplay.

On May 27th, Pepe joined Icebox and founded the town of Luzon in the real-life location of Manila, the Philippines. After inviting Food, they both headed to a diamond mining spot in northern Australia. While mining, Food was accused of x-raying, although nothing came of the accusation. Later on, Stalin, LbsgMaster17, and Lbsg's friends were invited to the colony.

Throughout the day, Luzon would continue to be built up, including the addition of an Obama Pillar church. The phrase "Ave Obamus" would also be spread on the server, and a church session would be held in Luzon, which showed that the church was becoming successful, as many members from beyond the colony would go to the church.

Still on May 27th, Pepe would work with Lbsg to establish plans to settle Damaaria on Icebox in replacement of the current colony. Marthia was planning to fully leave Xanez the next day on May 28th, and Lbsg, the new leader of Damaaria in King Dungeon's absence, did not want to settle Damaaria on Old Marthia, so Icebox was chosen for their new home.

The next day, Pepe would begin to build farms in Luzon, along with extending and building more paths. Dabi and FloofBloof would also be invited. Pepe would also establish relations with Great Britain, lead by the same person who lead the Holy Latin Empire and was allies with the East Marthian Dynasty.

On May 30th, a nation in southwestern Australia contacted Pepe due to Nova Tibrus' claim in Northern Australia for diamond mining and for a skeleton spawner, which concerned the leader of the nation in Australia. As a compromise, Pepe and Food proposed a treaty which you can read here. The treaty was formatted in the style of Marthian laws, which impressed some members of Icebox.

Over the next couple of days, Pepe would start construction of a large Obama Pillar on top of a large hill on the outskirts of Luzon, and would also begin constructing several new houses. On June 4th, Pepe would be informed that Nova Tibrus' allies were going to start a war, however Nova Tibrus would remain out the war.

On June 8th, the Minecraft Caves & Cliffs update was released, and Icebox updated to it. Unfortunately, Geyser would not update for over 2 weeks, which meant that Bedrock players, a majority of Icebox and Nova Tibrus' playerbase, was not able to play the server, and so both the server and the colony began to die. Even after Bedrock players were able to join Icebox again, most of Icebox, including much of Nova Tibrus' (including Pepe) did not continue to play the server, and Nova Tibrus would die out by mid July.

## Mid Marthia

After the end of Nova Tibrus, Marthia would slip into a period of inactivity through the rest of the summer. Although activity on the Discord would begin to rise again in September, server activity remained low. However, on December 11th, the Marthia world was reset.

2 days after the new world opened, on December 13th, Pepe would join and travel to the coast of a bay in the jungle in the northeastern portion of the world, where he would establish his base. On December 16th and 17th, Pepe would work with Moo to create a direct nether connection for the Capital DIstrict and New Sparta. On December 19th, Pepe would also recruit Teakie, who would soon become his Lieutenant Governor.

Over the next weeks, Pepe would build minorly around his base.

### FRM State of Caladan

Since Marthia was on a new world, and there was no plan for a new capital area, Spartan made a suggestion to Pepe. In order to give the Capital District more representation, it should be moved from a Federal District to a State. On January 3rd, the Capital District was reformed into the FRM State of Caladan, governed by Pepe.

Over the next 2 months, Pepe would slowly recruit more people to Caladan, although many wouldn't be active. Pepe would also continue to build up his base, which was one large building surrounded by two large (and laggy) animal farms. In January however, activity on Mid Marthia would begin to decline, and not much would happen in Caladan.

## New Marthia

After the inactive period from January to June, the decision was made to reset the world again on June 15th. This world, however, would use the Geyser plugin to have Java and Bedrock crossplay, along with more stable performance and plugins.

### Blackwall

After joining Marthia, Pepe would settle on a bay on the western end of the Moonfyre Sea. Here, along with Stalin, Dabi, Xman and Soup, the city of Blackwall would be established. In the first couple of days on the server, Pepe would clear a portion of the Dark Oak forest on the coast for Blackwall. The steep cliff on the coast would be transformed into a wall of deepslate, which would be extended onto land to mark the boundaries of the city. This is where Blackwall got its name.

Over the next week, Pepe would lay down path, as well as invite new (and old) members to the city. Construction on some houses and farms would begin as well. Pepe would make an ice road to an Industrial District near Blackwall, too. On June 30th, Pepe would recruit ValtheCultured and Quill to Blackwall. Over the next few days, Pepe would help gather resources for building farms in the Industrial District, as well as continuing to build up Blackwall. Pepe would also begin to construct an ice road in the nether to connect Blackwall to New Haven, New Sparta.

Later on June 30th, construction on a capital building Blackwall for the Council which would run the soon-to-be Masora was completed. 2 days later, Pepe began widening the ice road to the Industrial District.

### FRM Grand Federation of Masora

Since the opening of New Marthia, every Marthian outside of New Sparta and Xanezia had settled in Blackwall. Due to this shared city, many residents of Blackwall began advocating for the merging of the states of Caladan, Abyssia, Prime Republic and Terra. On May 27th, Pepe would create a name for the proposed state: Masora. The name was derived from the real-life Masora Rose.

On July 6th 2022, the Grand Federation of Masora was established as a State of the Federal Republic of Marthia, with Pepe as the Interim Governor.

Over the next few days, Pepe would help with getting good trades in the villager hall in the Industrial District. He would also work on getting netherite, as well as planning a commercial district on the north side of Blackwall, outside of the original city area, which was designated as the residential area. On July 15th, Pepe won the Governor election in Masora.

After the founding of Masora, many older members of Marthia who had been inactive for months (or even years) returned to play on New Marthia. Most notably, Bladed joined to settle the new town of New Abyssia north of Blackwall, and Shadoodle, who settled the town of New Ireland on a small island on the other side of the bay from Blackwall.

On July 18th, Pepe would invite JackAbyss to Masora. Jack would later invite 3 of his friends, and they would settle the town of Valhalla across a river north of Blackwall. 2 days later, Pepe would begin construction of a bank in Blackwall, which would be the first bank used by the Ministry of Finance in converting diamonds to scrip, Marthia's custom currency.

On the evening of July 21st, Pepe blocked the nether portal in Blackwall, trapping Moobert, a New Spartan who was in Masora to trade, in the city. In response, CmdrSpartan and zombieplayrr of New Sparta made an attack on Blackwall. Spartan shot Pepe, and Pepe's dogs attacked. Spartan then killed some of Pepe's dogs, before retreating into the Blackwall council building with Zombie. Spartan then killed Pepe while on a tower, and demanded Blackwall surrender to New Sparta. Spartan then called for a meeting of peace in the Blackwall council building, where peace was made.

Over the next couple of days, Pepe would invite multiple new members to Masora. On the evening of July 25th, Pepe would call for an Obama Pillar church session, where 7 people from all 3 states showed up. However, 4 of the attendees were against the Obama Pillar religion, and attempted to disrespect the church session, including calling Obama Pillar a fake god, killing each other to spread skulk in the church, and releasing sheep which were meant to be used for religious reasons.

On July 28th, a raid would accidentally be triggered in the Industrial District. Pepe, along with VeryMellow, Swedish and Shadoodle, would attempt to complete the raid. In the process, the Industrial District would lose many villagers, along with all 4 being killed when fighting. In the end, Pepe opted to wait out the 40-minute timer on the raids, at which point the raid ended. Pepe spent the rest of the morning trying to breed new villagers.

Over the next few days, Pepe would work on gathering resources, as well as expanding Blackwall's town hall. On August 1st, Pepe would get into skirmishes with VenaticGnat, including the killing of one of Pepe's dogs. On August 3rd, the Movecraft plugin was added to New Marthia, allowing ships to move. The next day, Pepe would build a small boat and be one of the first to use the plugin. Several more small boats would be built on the docks of Blackwall in the following days.

In the following days, Pepe would work on expanding the Blackwall docks, as well as building new ships. On August 5th, Pepe would buy a new ship. That night, Spartan would sail to Blackwall and blockade the bay, and threatened to attack Blackwall using his cannons. Pepe convinced Spartan to leave on the condition that Spartan was allowed to destroy a random ship sitting in Porlamar's port.

Over the next few days, Pepe would begin to expand his house in Blackwall. On August 6th, Pepe would finish building a large ship called the Queen of Fyre. Later in the day, it would be discovered that items from multiple people in Masora were stolen. After an investigation by FABLE, Nlechoppa, a resident of Valhalla, was found to be the culprit of the stealing. While searching for stolen items, FABLE discovered mining tunnels made in a pattern sufficient with x-raying. VeryMellow, JackAbyss and TubularTax, who were all residents of Valhalla, were discovered to have made these tunnels. All were banned for x-raying and stealing.

On August 7th, Pepe would help with gathering materials for building, as well as using the new Brewery plugin to brew alcohol. On August 8th, Pepe would finish building a new ship, named the HMS Terrafirma. On August 16th, a raid would be accidentally triggered in Blackwall. The raid did minimal damage, although some villagers died. The raid would end due to the 40-minute timer.

Over the next 2 weeks, Pepe would gather copper. On September 5th, along with Stalin and Dabi, Pepe would sail to New Haven as pirates. Food would log on and attempt to take control of the ship that the pirates left in the New Haven harbor. However, Pepe and Dabi returned to take the ship back to Blackwall.

From October through March, Pepe would only play on a few days, with the only notable event being the selling of a plot of land to Zombieplayr for a new restaurant in Blackwall.

On April 19th, Spartan gathered a group of Marthians to plan a coup against the incumbent government, and to establish a new authoritarian government in its place. Pepe was part of the group, and agreed to be appointed Pontifex Maximus, the head of the Church of the Pillar. The position allowed Pepe to regulate the Imperial Government to keep it in line with the interests of the Church. Pepe received the position in the aftermath of the successful coup.

## Trivia

Since April 2020, Pepe's main persona has been the "Pepe Bush". The Pepe Bush is based off of the Talking Bush in the show *Adventure Time*.