Highway Integrity Union

Existed: 25th October 2020 - Present

Members: At least 16

The Highway Integrity Union is an organization led by c4ustic, DarthObsidian64 and Jorgur containing members of many different groups dedicated to building, maintaining and upgrading the nether highways. It was founded a while after the nether was reset for 1.16, and contributed to most of the current-day highways being built.

Foreign Relations
Since it is not a normal group, it does not have allies and enemies in the same way that other factions do. However, this does not stop them from defending the highway from griefers if need be.

HIU-TSS Hostilities
During the start of 2021, DarthObsidian64 was getting into trouble with The Secret Society for making threats of embargos and war against them after TooAtomic killed a random HIU member. This was reported to the leaders of TSS, who joined the HIU's discord server and demanded that Darth step down as leader. Despite protests from Darth, his supporters, and a few members of the Provinces of Lumen, most people in the discord were for Darth's ousting and an election was set up to decide the new leader. c4ustic would end up being elected, and TSS left the HIU alone for the time being.

Things would kick off again when on the 2nd March 2021, c4ustic got burned out and handed leadership over to Jorgur - who, 2 days later, would immediately reinstate DarthObsidian64 as a co-leader. Nothing would happen intially until June 2021, when Darth began threatening TooAtomic again. In retaliation, Atomic would kill Darth and another random highway worker and openly threaten to kill all of the HIU on sight. Jorgur petitioned the leaders of TSS to ask Atomic to stop his hostilities, but TSS insisted that Atomic was acting alone. Anti-TSS sentiment was high in the HIU discord and gearing up for war against TSS is still occasionally discussed. Atomic stopped on his own though, presumably after seeing all the shit him and TSS was getting into, and for the most part the HIU went back to business as usual.