Africa - Ruinscraft/mcatlas-history GitHub Wiki

Founding

Africa was made when PontusLH's nation New Africa in Los Congos, and JamessV's North Africa in Tatooine merged. New Africa was the remnants of the older nation South Africa. The merge plugin was removed by then so on May 20th, North Africa was deleted and all the towns were told to join Africa. Tatooine and Morocco quickly joined, Casablanca was inactive so never joined Africa and DesrtSprings joined Atlantic a few days after however returned to Africa. The capital was chosen to be in Los Congos as it was in a very central location, however, the spawn of Los Congos had to be moved about 100 blocks to reach Morocco.

Creation of Senate

The ranks of players were being discussed even before the merge. The general idea was that North Africa and New Africa would have an equal say in the government, how this was to be was being debated. Unfortunately, all old senate logs were later deleted so it is not entirely certain what happened during this time however we can get a general idea of what was happening. The first senate meeting was about whether or not to ally Atlantic, but the second meeting was to figure out what the senate was. There were two main sides, cumchugg wanted town representatives, and Benjiii1 wanted just voted senators with no basis but a resident of Africa. The towns were actually decided on but a few days later it was changed to the system we see today: Senators vote on any important issue, all senators including the kings had the same voting power, and the Senate votes in and out senators itself. 9 original senators were chosen, 4 from New and North Africa and one neutral. JamessV, StarWarsNerd0322, Saltwithsalt and Random_Vigilante for North Africa, Benjiii1, lkslks001, cumchugg and PontusLH for New Africa and whitetiger131 as the neutral senator.

Mughal Dispute

About a week before the merge Los Congos had claim lined to the southern tip of India. This was done to increase the range on New Africa specifically to invite Hainan, but as they learned just moving the capital spawn will kick all towns 6k+. At the time there weren't any towns in this area, however, it was quickly realized that Mughal had an issue with the colony. After a complicated array of events, the argument quickly became heated, neither side wanting to back down. Mughal would settle with nothing less than no colony at all and, Los Congos having spent about 7000 gold on the colony refused to remove it. Several negotiation attempts were held by Benjiii1 and whitetiger131 later on but nothing was ever settled. Mughal eventually left the server for stoneskies but grudges were kept from both sides.

Rimflakes/Cumchugg Controversy

For a while, Cumchugg had been in conflict with xdeadpine. Starting with the African Trade Alliance which included New Africa, North Africa, and Cameroon deadpine's nation. Arguments arose originally about Cumchugg defending Crowblers' right to be homophobic during pride month. After that, the two quickly started to hate each other. Cumchugg also has issues with salt and the senate, specifically the fact that you were allowed to change your vote. Arguments with deadpine started turning into punishments for Cumchugg, and relations with mostly North African Senators and deadpine began to worsen. Eventually, Cumchugg made a vote to kick himself out of the senate. Cumchugg at this point didn't like the way Africa was going, so before the vote was resolved on June 18 he left the nation entirely. Cumchugg declared himself quit from atlas on June 20. Some arguments were made between Cumchugg and his supporting senators with the opposing senators. Cumchugg even showed up in the nation photo on July 5. Cumchugg engaged in a lot of controversial illegal activity until he was permanently banned on July 21st. Cumchugg's departure from the server gave way for a merger between Cameroon and Africa, which happened right before the photo was taken on July 5th. Cumchugg would come back after 200 days, well after deadpine had left the server, and everything was apologized for.