Provinces of Lumen

Existed: 21st November 2019 - Present

Members: 40+, though most of the group is largely inactive

The Provinces of Lumen is a building group led by a council of seven leaders (Tathal, Hibj, Vini_Stronda, OwOctome, GuiltfulTuna, arcsabre and Mr_Murphy). Mr_Murphy is the most notable of these leaders being the most active both ingame and in representing the group. In early 2020, Lumen would dominate the server, being the richest and most powerful faction, but nowadays they are a shadow of their former self.

There are two subgroups in Lumen: Auream Solis which is lead by Quantom_Astro; and The Void which is lead by OwOctome. Both of them are inactive.

Former leaders include AMAAAAAR, who was demoted for being too inactive; Tchapman500, who stepped down because he didn't want to be one of the leaders; and Annick30, who was demoted for unprofessional behaviour.

Formation:

The Provinces of Lumen was founded after Murphy left The People's Legion, not wanting to follow EdgyCommunist69's rules. Murphy founded it with Tathal who left PRoP because she found the faction too warmongering. It can trace a lot of its original members back to its predecessor. The original name was to be "Provincial Republic of People", but got changed after Tathal said it would cause confusion with PRoP.

Sub-groups:

 * Auream Solis
 * The Void

Allies:
Provinces of Lumen is in The Senate, but is/was also allied with the following groups:


 * Team Supreme
 * The Order
 * Ramen Bowl
 * Magnificent Maniacs (disbanded)
 * Pink Puffy Rams
 * Moon Clan
 * Mons Dominion
 * Kraken Brotherhood
 * Banana Republic (disbanded)
 * The Homage Society
 * Chronos
 * Circle of Freedom
 * Society of Stuck
 * M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. (TSS war)

Enemies:

 * AerialSN1PER
 * Bluiy
 * M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. (pre-TSS war)

Events (History)
Lumen-Legion Cold war:

There were some instances of threats from both sides, but it calmed down soon after when The People's Legion fell.

The Dongos War:

The Provinces of Lumen quickly got involved in The Dongos War soon after Havenport was griefed. They would lose the towns of Merchant Capital (causing Lazarus_Frost to quit), Levant Metropolis and New Turf Bay to The Dongos.

Dongos infiltration plan:

After the grief of Havenport and during The Dongos War, Murphy's alt, gfrekt, tried to infiltrate The Dongos. Gfrekt infiltrated for a week, until the Fall of Temptown, where he participated in the grief. EdgyCommunist69 saw screenshots of gfrekt being there, which led him to believe he leaked the town, so Edgy told hamoodi123 about Murphy's operation.

Fight against D4RON:

When D4RON left The Remnant, he joined the Provinces of Lumen and was sent to New Turf Bay by Mr_Murphy. After only a few days, D4RON was kicked for leaking the coordinates of a Remnant base, which led him to abandon the town and attempt to leak it to The Dongos. After they griefed the town, he made the coords public. This prompted a retaliation from Lumen, so a few Lumen and Order members, along with EdgyCommunist69 and wertia3 raided D4RON's base, not only to get revenge for New Turf Bay but to recover resources that he took with him when he left Lumen.

Full page: Siege of the Menger Sponge

Summer Wars:

The Provinces of Lumen had a violent and unvoluntary entry into The Summer Wars, when Tynominally and MissPrism griefed Fort Echelon, a Lumen spawn base on the 11th July 2020. 3 days later however, Lumen secured a victory when they discovered various alts of the two griefers, most notably Nnyka, who was insiding Lumen. They were left alone for the rest of the month.

On the 1st August 2020, a combined force of The Dongos, AT&T and EdgyCommunist69 enacted a plan they had been working on for months. With coordinates provided by sugasnaps, they griefed Rouffernaught Outpost, a recruitment town for Lumen, and Comet, a town belonging to the Lunarians, a subgroup of Lumen.

The following day, on the 2nd August 2020, the same group of people would thoroughly grief Lumen City. This was a major blow to Lumen, as it contained the majority of Lumen's industry, and it was a big hit to group morale. Tynominally and MissPrism were banned for "toxicity" shortly following the griefs, which allieviated some of the pressure put onto Lumen.

On the 5th August 2020, EdgyCommunist69 and Fallen014 would grief Lunaris, the last town they had coordinates to. Horry70 would show up and attempt to stop them, but was unsuccessful.

On the 20th August 2020, Edgy, DivineSmoof, Fallen and wertia3 grief Tulipsfountain. wertia is killed at the grief by the other griefers, due to him being an insider for Lumen. This would be the last Lumen town griefed until The Battle of Howick.

Lumen-TSS War:

Following the discovery of Annick30's involvement with the Battle of Lagom, The Secret Society demanded answers from Lumen. Annick30 explained that he was insiding M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. for Lumen in an attempt to get coordinates to Edgy's base so they could grief it. He agreed to let TSS and any other group know when M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. was going to attack, so they had time to prepare.

However, on the 11th November 2020, Annick30 and EdgyCommunist69 showed up at Aska and began griefing the place. Annick30 failed to let TSS know that they were coming, and based on what Annick had previously said that led them to believe that Lumen was using M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. to grief TSS. So, in retaliation, TSS moved out and griefed Howick Plains. The grief was fairly severe, but they stopped after M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. showed up and forced them to flee. Lumen still denies their involvement with the Battle of Aska, and whether or not it was a big misunderstanding is still unclear.

Mistrust had been building between Lumen and TSS ever since the breaking of their alliance, and the Battle of Howick saw it reach a critical level, leading to an outbreak of war against Lumen and TSS. The war would not last long, however. aria_minecraft would give coordinates of Stargate, TSS's end base, to M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E., and together with Tynominally and Annick30, they griefed the base. 2 days later, Gelato, the capital of TSS, was griefed by aria_minecraft and EdgyCommunist69.

After the grief of Gelato, Lumen offered a peace deal to TSS. The terms were that TSS revealed how they got coordinates to Howick Plains, and for TSS to stop claiming that Lumen was responsible for the griefs of Lagom and Aska. Overall, it was a victory for Lumen.

The Great Reconstruction:

With Suga being known being the spy, many towns had to be abandonded. New towns were built and morale in the group was high. Some leadership took a break due to the weight of suga's betrayal.

The Atomic Heist:

On the 10th January 2021, Mr_Murphy, Annick30 and Vini_Stronda pulled off a 'heist' against TooAtomic. They used Vini's alt, TypedScorpion12, to lure Atomic into a trade. Then, they loaded his pearl at an undisclosed location into a trap, just as he had put down his valuables shulker. Vini then stole the shulker as Annick killed him. TypedScorpion would face a lot of hate for this, though they kept quiet about the operation.

The following day, the three of them got temporarily banned for the scheme. Many people are still divided as to whether or not this ban was justified.

Annick's Ban and inactivity:

On the 3rd May 2021, Annick30 was banned for a racist comment against TooAtomic. Lumen's activity was already in decline due to past griefs and some members leaving to join TSS, but this in particular proved to be a major hit to group enthusiasm. Platupus, one of the most active members of Lumen, would leave the group a month later.

Events (Arranged by the faction)
Meme event:

10th March 2020 till 17th March 2020 there was a meme competition which was won by RebeckaWard. Rebecka won and got a set of god armour and tools and a stack of gold blocks.

Drawing event:

14th April 2020 till 1st May 2020 there was a drawing competition: the event was to draw your own skin (or one of your previous skins) and the ambassadors and Lumen members voted the winners. Chimes won and got a set of god armour and tools and a stack of gold blocks.

PvP Event, 10th May 2020:

A PvP event on the creative server. Everyone had enchanted diamond armor, swords and shields. The semi finals had totems, and the finals had tridents. xleoC won the event, adamercsn got second place and Samm_C won the free for all.

Murphy orchestrated the event and killed everyone before the fight so everyone had the same saturation and health. Everyone's inventory were cleared when they were turned into survival so everyone got the same gear. 1st place, 2nd place and the free for all winners got prizes.

Texturepack Endrace Event, 30th May 2020:

Texturepack Endrace Event

Digital Drawing event:

This event lasted from June 1st 2020 till July 1st. The event was to draw your favorite pokemon. The winner in the Lumen bracket was Sugasnaps at first place with 14 votes and Chimes at second place with 11 votes. Fallen won 1st place ambassador with 17 votes.

Lumen Hungergames Event, 5th July 2020:

Murphy, Aria, HartlyLion, and xleoC made an arena for this event. The event was to celebrate xleoC becoming one of the leaders of Lumen. The winning duo would each get 1 shulker pictured below.

First round was just for practice, and keepinventory was accidentally left on. There was also no lapis in the chests so enchanting wasn't possible. xleoC and adamercsn won the first round.

The second round was in the evening time in game (so it was darker) and keepinventory was off. The lapis issue was also fixed which made enchanting possible in the center island. Tooatomic and xxxNickxxx won.

The Video Murphy made of the event:


 * https://youtu.be/-EAQgBKcPdw

Lumen Maze Event, 20th September 2020:

An event which was expected to take 20 minutes but ended up taking 2 hours. The fastest competing player, Vini_Stronda, beat the maze in 20minutes. The prizes were:

1st place prize: god armor and tools, an elytra, 8 stacks of golden carrots, and a stack of gold blocks. 2nd place prize: god armor and tools and an elytra. 3rd place prize: god tools and an elytra. 4th place prize: an elytra.

Vini was first, Erik was second, McDapper was third and OwOctome was fourth.

The coords of the maze in creative are -1826 65 -1878

Lumen Hunter VS Hunted Event, 7th October 2020:

Every allied faction was allowed to join. The event tookplace in Creative.

Almost everyone will be the Hunted, except one or two chosen hunters. This gets decided between rounds, but people never had to be the hunter if they didn't want to.

The Goal: Hunted, Hide and survive as long as possible. Hunters, Kill every hunted. Many Rounds took place since rounds took about 7 minutes.

Lumen One Year anniversary, 21st November 2020:

21-11-2020 on the hardcore server. The event was four of the former Lumen events and one last event with a prize (only first place we were kinda low on resources at that moment).

The events were: Hunter vs Hunted Event, Hungergames, Maze Event, PvP, And the event for a prize, Build battle: make something related to light Every allied faction, and factions at good terms with Lumen were invited. Former PRoP members like Edgycommunist69 and Fallen014 were invited as well.

Build Battle Results:

1st Haxington

2nd Ducky_Sorcery

3th Saimir and fallen

5th GhostOfTheAshes

6th Amaaaaar

7th chefHD and aurvroa

9th McDapper

10th Erik

11th Miller

[Video of event has yet to be edited]

Online Drawing Event January:

1st Chimes

2nd Murphy

Lumen Horse Race:

Five rounds of Horse Racing in the creative server. Final round had prizes. Arena was made by Mr_Murphi and Hartlylion. 1st Erik

2nd Annick

3rd InterOrbital

4th Captain_Noob

Existing towns:

 * Lumen Delta, the creative VC server.
 * Foxville, Capital of Lumen.
 * Shroomcoast Island, mcdappers island.
 * Drifters End, Hartlylions coastal area.
 * Bloomcoast, Coastal town which is mostly medieval builds.
 * Stawford, Low medium town.
 * Fort Lumen, a town founded by GuiltfulTuna with members from other factions welcome to come there, meant to be an underwater advanced city.
 * Chapdale, "recruitment" (since recruitment is stopped) town of Lumen.

There are more towns/outposts.

Abandoned/Griefed:

 * The first new town to be formed was a temporary base which arcsabre also was helping because Moon Clan was inactive at the time.
 * Lazarus' "Merchant capital", griefed by The Dongos
 * The recruitment town of "New turf bay", named after New Diamond Bay and Highturf leaked by a recruit and griefed by The Dongos
 * Levant Metropolis, new recruitment town, griefed by The Dongos
 * Fort Echelon which was used for war operations, griefed by AT&T
 * Tytallia, the previous main population center.
 * Amity Vault, previous recruitment town.
 * The Former Capital of "Lumen City", griefed by M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.
 * "Rouffernaught" which features a raid farm with villager town, griefed by M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.
 * Lunaris, griefed by M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.
 * Exodus River, Founded by Yaboywezz and Platupus and griefed by randoms related to M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.
 * Tulipsfountain, griefed by M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E.
 * Memoria, leaked by sugasnaps
 * Solaceon City, leaked by sugasnaps
 * Howick plains, griefed by TSS