People's Legion

Existed: 29th April 2018 - December 2019

Members: 30+ at peak

The People's Legion was a major group in the late 1.14 map. It disbanded around the start of the 1.15 map. Its former Name was People's Republic Of People, but it changed when Fallen wanted a more serious name. Although it has long since been disbanded, its influence is still felt on the server today, as successor groups like the Provinces of Lumen, and offshoots of that such as Passione have a very similar group structure.

Foreign Relations:
During The Templar Era, Lethal isolated the group from most diplomacy with other groups. This proved to be detrimental however, as they were barely developed at all.

After Fallen/Erik's Coup, the group was a lot more involved in inter-group diplomacy. Due to erikblue1234 being the owner of the discord server, the group was heavily influenced by The Teutonic Order, which annoyed Fallen014 and EdgyCommunist69.

When Erik departed for The Order, PRoP/The Legion was self-sufficient so they could afford to be isolationist in nature, preventing outside influence.

During 'Edgy's Legion', the group was still isolationist but also almost imperialist, encouraging smaller towns into joining it and attempting to create a sphere of influence amongst smaller groups. Edgy mostly disregarded relations with the older, richer players, which irritated Mr_Murphy and contributed to the downfall of the group.

Formation
The People's Legion was founded as The Holy Roman Empire by BlackRaptorMoses on 29th April, 2018. Since then it has gone through 3 identity changes.

Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was founded by BlackRaptorMoses on 29th April, 2018, nearing the 1.12 map reset. It was nothing more than a Discord server with a few people Moses trusted, including Knees, S3xy_Sloth, Froted, and the Last "Emperor" of The Legion, EdgyCommunist69. They had plans for the 1.13/1.14 map, but Moses decided to invite Lethal over and give him leadership, ushering in the next era for the group.

Templar Republic/Inquisition
Lethal changed the name of the group to The Templar Republic, with the support of his Dukes: Wiggly, Edgy, Cinna, Erik, and his Advisor (second in command), Moses. Moses would get into a bit of trouble with the admins however, for drunkenly getting banned and then attempting to ban evade. This allowed Lethal to boot Moses and gain virtually complete control over the group. Cinna would be named as Lethal's next advisor.

Second Byzantine Empire
When the map reset came out, the Templars agreed to let Edgy rule a puppet state called the Byzantine Empire to gain new recruits quickly. The Templars would not reveal themselves, and only their own people and people in The Senate would know of their existence. When the reset would eventually roll around, Byzantium's only towns would be IceBerg, Testantinople 2, and Sugar Island. Sugar Island was founded after Byzantium's brief independence.

First Senate Exodus
The Templar Republic was in The Senate, until the First Senate Exodus where TTR was kicked after signs claiming Cam's Road for "The Knights Templar" emerged. The Order still claimed the road as theirs, despite maintenance going down months ago, and they used their influence to swing a vote to kick The Templars. Edgy tried to negotiate a way back in, but the nocoords scandal (The Templar's discovery of nocoords which The Order found on the same day) reversed some of it. Eventually the blame was taken off The Templars and they rejoined.

Second Senate Exodus
The second time The Templars were kicked from The Senate was when a vote was held to kick The Templars after Lethal did something, idk lol

Active Period
The Templars made three towns, discounting the Byzantine towns: The first town, which was unnamed, was built by Fallen, Erik and Pipitone, and then later griefed by FireFox2234 after Fallen was revealed to be a spy for FireFox who was trying to get at Lethal all along. After this, the group would briefly become inactive, until Edgy returned and founded the second town, Riverside. Members AerialSN1PER and FirePhoenix would join at this time. This would be abandoned before anything of note happened after Camorrista was sighted at the town. The third town was Firefall, named after its founder, FirePhoenix, and it was the most developed out of the three towns.

Fallen/Erik's coup
To his council, Lethal had become a problem. To them, he was making rash and arbitrary decisions, pushing allies away with his naturally aggressive nature, and most importantly he was never active ingame. So Fallen/Erik (the leader of the coup is up for debate) got everyone excluding Pipitone on the council (Edgy, Shellough and themselves) to stage a coup against Lethal on the 3rd March 2019. Lethal left without any resistance. This marked the end of The Templar Era.

People's Republic of People
After the coup, a council of 5 emerged: Edgy, Erik, Fallen, Pipitone and Shellough. Edgy and Erik decided on the name the People's Republic of People, and held an open vote to legitimize it. This annoyed Fallen and Pipitone, but Shellough was becoming too inactive to care much. They also decided on a new banner. Edgy proposed the idea of democratic voting to select council members, leading to the PRoP becoming the only real democracy at the time. This idea was abandoned three months later after a series of voter fraud and corruption. Erik was the de facto leader of the People's Republic during this era, having ownership of the discord server and threatening to outright ignore the democratic constitution that Edgy drew up. The early days of the PRoP also saw extreme DeLethalization. This era is when Mr_Murphy7, doyle125, and AMAAAAAR joined the group.

New Towns
Over the course of the People's Republic of People, four new towns would be founded: Rhansenville, New Diamond Bay, Sheeptown, and Three Islands. Rosemere would also come under PRoP control for a time. Rhansenville was founded very shortly after the coup by Rhansen710. It would serve as the PRoP's recruitment town until its destruction in Bluiy's War. After that, New Diamond Bay would become the recruitment town. Three Islands would replace it after the PRoP council deemed New Diamond Bay too valuable for recruitment. Sheeptown was founded as Pipitown and was intended to be the capital, but arguing between Pipitone and Fallen led to the most developed area being a sheep farm, hence its new name.

Bluiy's War
See Bluiy's War

Stagnation and Infighting
Ever since the PRoP was formed, the council was always prone to infighting. However this picked up in June 2019, when Edgy and Fallen remarked how Erik had stopped taking things seriously, and they were angry about the invitation of Froted to the PRoP. Edgy and Fallen began to plot against Erik, but it amounted to nothing after Erik's Departure for The Order.

Erik's Departure for The Order
On the 20th June 2019, the second anniversary of The Teutonic Order, Erik, Pipitone and Doyle left without warning for The Teutonic Order. Even though the group would still be called the People's Republic of People until its rename, this marked the end of the PRoP era and the beginning of The Legion Era.

Pre-Emperor People's Legion
After Erik left the PRoP, the remaining council members, AerialSN1PER, Fallen and Edgy got to work removing the presence of ambassadors and doing other reforms. This era is when most of the former Legion members that are still active joined, including HonusOdin, TChapman500, and ncarmillo30. This era also saw The PRoP-CoF war and The War of The Dog, and is The Legion's most violent era. After Aerial left The Legion, Fallen and Edgy would be co-leaders, or Consuls, and they established the Council of Advisors. This would go on until The War of The Dog, when Fallen was forced to leave for the war to end, and Edgy became Emperor.

Towns
The first new town to be formed in The Legion Era was Highturf, the capital until The War of The Dog. New Diamond Bay was kept as a recruitment town until its fall on the 9th July at the hands of MEDICKREDKOBOLD. When that fell, Aeridale was made the new recruitment town in its place for about a day before Bflamed was kicked from the PRoP and it was deemed unsafe, so Carlisle was founded next.

Den Lumen was founded as the town which Mr_Murphy7 ran in the name of The Legion. After Den Lumen's abandonment they moved to Neo Lumen till the Map reset happened.

"The Wall" Project
One day, EdgyCommunist had the idea of constructing a gigantic 40k long lavacast wall around spawn, and so himself, HonusOdin, Vyasuka and Murphy went off to do it. It was never completed however and was only 10% done at the time of the map reset.

'Edgy's Legion' Period
Once The War of The Dog was over and Fallen was forced to leave, EdgyCommunist69 appointed himself Fallen's role and became Emperor, much to Fallen's disliking. Edgy remained Emperor for around 4 months.

Changes to group structure
The council of advisors was kept by Edgy, however he did change a lot of other things. Rather than the two Consuls, there was one Emperor rank, and a Head Advisor, a second in command. The Head Advisor role was kept by HonusOdin until the fall of The Legion. At some point Edgy introduced the "lordship" system, where one player would manage and oversee a town.

Towns
Once Fallen had departed, the first town to be founded was Edgestantinople, the next capital. This would be worked on on and off primarily by Edgy and Honus, taking them a month just to complete the walls. Chapman Island was assimilated into The Legion next. Carlisle lasted for a while after Fallen left before it was abandoned due to The Order sending gnatmash to inside the Legion, and so Bel Air was founded in its place. Xeroc, too, was assimilated into The Legion afterwards. Both Xeroc and Bel Air would fall in Orange's War after AdaRose betrayed The Legion due to arguments with TooAtomic. Vault 420 would be the next town founded, an underground base this time. This lasted until the map reset. The Legionfort was also set up not far from spawn where new players could seek refuge and be introduced to The Legion. Shortly before the map reset, Carlisle was recolonised, but nothing major went on due to the reset.

Drama with The Order
The Legion saw its fair share of drama occuring with The Order during 'Edgy's Legion'. Edgy did not like the Archons of The Order, especially _Haxington_ and Clyme, thinking they were too proud and full of themselves, and with The War of The Dog, relations were not good to begin with. The first real bit of drama kicked off when L5_, an alt of _Haxington_, discovered that Fallen014 was invited to visit Edgestantinople. Thinking this was a violation of the peace, Camorrista joined and began arguing with primarily Edgy in chat about the whole ordeal. It calmed down after a while but relations were still bitter.

The second act of this drama began when Edgy recruited gnatmash to The Legion. Edgy remembered gnatmash from Byzantium however, and how he was part of The Order at some point, which gnatmash denied. Edgy also noted that he was friends with Camorrista and Clyme on discord, and so demanded gnatmash provide direct messages. When gnatmash refused, Edgy kicked him and Camorrista confessed, claiming they only wanted to see if Fallen was still part of The Legion and to monitor their activities should they ever plan anything more.

The third act happened when rhinobites and Edgy got into an argument about The Order's 'honorability'. Edgy took the opportunity to get an Order recruit, Cic4da, to switch sides and join The Legion, initially as a spy, but after pressure from some of his advisors as a full member of The Legion. The Order did not comment on the situation, and was never asked to.

Legion-Lumen Split
EdgyCommunist and Mr_Murphy7 often had arguments over how the group should be run, with Edgy wanting a more centralised group whereas Murphy sought for more freedoms for his sub-group, Lumen. Most of the time a compromise was agreed on, but Edgy's patience was running thin. Eventually, when the map reset was just around the corner, EdgyCommunist69, with the support of HonusOdin presented an ultimatum to Murphy: Have the town of Lumen be a category in the main Legion discord server like the rest of the towns rather than a seperate discord server or leave. Murphy chose the second option and left The Legion along with a few others. Murphy thought his hand was forced and he had to leave the Legion, though Edgy would disagree with this statement. After Murphy Left the Provinces of Lumen was created.

1.15 Map Legion and The End of The Legion
When the 1.15 Map reset came, The Legion's plan to secure the egg failed due to FireFox2234 not being unbanned as Fallen and Edgy expected. EdgyCommunist69 and LetMeTalkToYu went and founded the town of Greenwood, to be a temporary location to gather resources until they moved further away from spawn. Edgy became inactive shortly after though, and the group died with him. The Provinces of Lumen took the opportunity to make all shared members fully Lumen. Later, Edgy attmepted to revive The Legion with his group The Remnant, but that never lasted.