Mr Murphy7

Murphy is an active player on VanillaCraft, and is one of the 7 leaders of the Provinces of Lumen. He is the most prominent leader of the faction. Murphy was part of The People's Legion as the Duke of Den Lumen until disagreements with EdgyCommunist69 led to him leaving and forming the Provinces of Lumen. Murphy is a decently popular player on the server with multiple allies. Murphy is also in The Red Rose House to help the faction.

Affiliations:
Past: People's Legion

Present: Provinces of Lumen, The Red Rose House

Allies:

 * Team Supreme
 * The Order
 * Ramen Bowl
 * Pink Puffy Rams
 * Moon Clan
 * Mons Dominion
 * Kraken Brotherhood
 * Banana Republic
 * The Homage Society
 * Circle of Freedom
 * Society of Stuck
 * The Secret Society
 * Annick30 (outside game)

Enemies:

 * priestlover
 * Bluiy
 * Fallen (only ingame)
 * Edgycommunist (only ingame)

The First Days
Murphy joined under the name Mr_Murphy7 on the 28th December, 2018. during the 1.13 section of the 1.13/1.14 map and traveled out 10k blocks from spawn, staying there for a week. He learned it was unsafe to be so close to spawn, and so extended to 50k out where he founded Leusden: the capital of his 'faction', the Armed Nations of the Netherlands. During Leusden's history, it would never be griefed, and only Eashandai visited the town.

Conflict with Abyss
For 4 months, Murphy had played mostly on his own. He decided to ally himself with the Greatest Nation of Armenia, led by AlikatHD and the People's Republic of People. Murphy worked to maintain the stairs to The Ice Road at spawn, which the at the time unknown player "Abyss" constantly tried to grief. Once Fallen014 and Murphy had discovered that Alikat had a connection to Abyss, the alliance with Armenia broke down, and Murphy would never trust Alikat again.

Joining the PRoP
Murphy was still allied to the People's Republic of People, and EdgyCommunist69 requested his help during the Battle of Rhansenville. Murphy provided everyone with potions for battle, but the outcome was not changed much. Murphy was invited to New Diamond Bay, and after a week got invited to join the PRoP outright by Vyasuka (now Amar).

Time in the PRoP
Murphy still considers the days of post-erik PRoP to be great. The town of Three Islands resulted in an alliance between himself and OwOctome. Murphy, Edgy and Fallen all worked on the capital of Highturf. Murphy suggested the name of Highturf because it was a translation of a Dutch town and it reminded Edgy of a Team Fortress 2 map. Murphy also founded Den Lumen, which he and Tathal were co-mayors of: This position would become official once Edgy became the Emperor, and renamed the ranks to Duke and Duchess.

The War of The Dog
Murphy took a neutral outlook to The War of The Dog. Murphy did things with The Order regardless of the war, helping one Order member travel to Lazarus_Frost's merchant capital, and made peace with Clyme. He never helped The Order in any way though.

Aftermath of The War of Dog
After the war ended with the Bamboozlement of Highturf, Murphy spent most his time in Den Lumen. After that there still was a cold war against Order which made Murphy’s trading relations decently hard, but because he still had the "Armed Nations of the Netherlands" he still technically kept good relations which Moonclan and good-ish relations with The Order. Murphy rarely worked in Edgestantinople but sometimes did visit. One instance of his visit resulted in his death due to some mishaps with the Gold Farm. This time of the faction it was very inactive but the Growth of Den Lumen was great. Secretly Murphy did try to find the person who leaked Highturf because the town was dear to Murphy. During this time, Murphy and AerialSN1PER began their 'rivalry', due to arguing in The Legion's discord server and Aerial raiding bases.

The leadership Of PRoP was also that Murphy was a member of the council of advisors, but after Fallen had to leave under one of the peace conditions of the war, Edgy made himself Emperor. This was in Murphy’s opinion a bad plan, but most of the time Murphy could stay stubborn enough so his rank of Duke could still influence decisions.

Murphy's Fall of The Legion
Even before The War of The Dog, The Legion did not have the best reputation but that was worsened afterwards because of AerialSN1PER's antics and Edgy failing to maintain a positive image and isolating The Legion. At the time, the towns were sorted out into categories in The Legion's discord server. Murphy wanted Den Lumen to have its own seperate discord server, thinking that Edgy's way was too strict, but was told that all the town chats must stay in The Legion's discord server. Murphy reluctantly complied at first, but later on he abandoned Den Lumen after a beacon disappeared (it turned out to be Tathal moving the beacon without announcing it) and made a discord server for his next town, Neo Lumen, anyways. Edgy did not take too kindly to this, but decided to put up with it anyway. Upon hearing about the incoming map reset, Edgy demanded that Lumen's discord server be abandoned or that Lumen would have to break away from The Legion. Murphy chose the latter option.

Murphy quickly got to work inviting most of the active members of The Legion to the newly formed Provinces of Lumen, including HonusOdin, Tathal, Vyasuka, LukeT33 and TChapman500. A week away from the map reset, AerialSN1PER leaked the original Den Lumen's coordinates, solidifying him and Murphy as enemies.

Provinces of Lumen
Murphy and Tathal founded The Provinces of Lumen shortly after their departure from The Legion, and since the reset was right around the corner, Murphy thought it was perfectly timed since all ties would be cut from Edgy when that happened. Murphy convinced many members of The Legion to switch sides, though some remained part of The Legion as dual citizens. After the reset, Edgy was fairly inactive so Murphy used this opportunity to recruit nearly all remaining Legion members and have them join Lumen, after which The Legion fell.

The Dongos War
Upon hearing about the griefing of Havenport, Murphy got the Provinces of Lumen involved in The Dongos War. He commanded an attempt to use his alt gfrekt to inside The Dongos, but it was thwarted after Edgy leaked it after seeing gfrekt at the grief, leading him to believe that he leaked the town. Afterwards, he helped in an operation led by TooAtomic to infiltrate The Dongos again.

During the griefing of Chronos, Murphy came to its defense but he was forced to retreat after realizing he was outnumbered.

Murphy had multiple of his towns griefed during the war, including New Turf Bay, Lazarus Outpost, and Levant Metropolis.

Once the war had ended, business returned to normal.

Tension with The Heretics
Murphy wanted an alliance with The Heretics, and so asked both Jorgur and Edgy for one. Both responded with no, but Murphy persisted, occasionally asking them again and again, but stopped after it seemed it was for no use. Eventually, after having a discussion involving all of the Heretics guvmn't, multiple members and leaders of Lumen, they came to an agreement that resulted in them stopping the alliance requests.

The Summer Wars
Shortly before The Summer Wars, Rebecka cut off the alliance between Lumen and The Secret Society due to her feeling that Lumen was belittling TSS's achievements and offering little assistance in the aftermath of the Battle of Isbukt. When Becka took the issue to Murphy, he could not see what he had done wrong, which further divided the two groups.

Murphy happened to be on holiday for the start of August when M.I.C.R.O.W.A.V.E. began griefing Lumen's towns.