General Information

Copenhagen is as of April 26th, 2021 the second oldest town in Europe behind Porto, which the city takes pride in. Founded on July 6th, 2019, the town is well known for its incredible history and large museum as well as multiple memorials. The city is nicknamed "The oldest town that never died", based on a chat message by Woodmill on December 14th, 2019. Altough that may no longer be true, the city still bears the name as official.

Geography

Copenhagen, the real life capital of Denmark is a town located in northern Europe. It has 22 residents and spans over 489 chunks covering half of Denmark, Skåne, Halland and a large part of northern Germany. It formerly bordered EsbjergHolyCity, Northern Bravaria, Vienna, Hamburg and Stroby which no longer exist. Copenhagen has historically had good relations with towns such as Vienna, Paris, Krete, Faroe Islands, East Berlin and Schwyz, while EsbjergHolyCity was it's former arch-enemy.

History

The First Day

Copenhagen is known for its long and wild history, and everything begins somewhere, in this case, a small snow-covered island north of Labrador around 3 PM local time on the 6th of July, 2019. This is where the story begins, as the new light blue portal on the Ruinscraft hub led the city's founder, AkselHolmsted, to a new world.

After checking the map and going south for wood, a long journey across the Atlantic started. On the way, Aksel saw the huge taigas of Canada, the icy mountains of Greenland, the stone covered plains of Iceland, the flower fields of the British Islands and finally the forests on the west coast of Jutland, Denmark. Meanwhile, CasualGamer487 asked if anyone wanted to help him create Denmark, and of course, Aksel answered yes. Although as soon as Casual arrived to found the city of Copenhagen, he was killed by a fucking spider and dropped his 100 gold that he would've used for a town.

There was no reason not to take advantage of that, and Copenhagen was founded where Rundetårn stands today. Development of the city soon started, but only the first few blocks of rundetårn were placed before it became late.

The Holy Roman Era

It is the 7th of July, 2019, and Aksel joined the server to continue building Copenhagen, but quickly noticed something was off... CasualGamer487 had left Copenhagen to found Roskilde which later changed name to Southern Zealand and then to Koge during that day. A small settlement was already there when Aksel got online, a small Hut of dark oak planks, which Casual had brought to Copenhagen the day before. Luckily Casual had left a few trees in Copenhagen which stand there to this day. The 2 towns naturally started building more to seem better than the other side, and Aksels house, The Diorite building near spawn, the crafting room and the dark oak cottage were built on this day. Aksel had making his own nation in mind, but eventually gave that up after being invited to join the Holy Roman Empire. At the end of the day, the farm was finished as well as Alfreds house.

https://imgur.com/a/KGuxZON First Screenshot of Copenhagen, July 7th

The night passed and it was the eight of July. Koge had become Stroby and their base was finished, which can also still be seen in Copenhagen. A small town had also appeared in Jutland called EsbjergHolyCity, but eh, how would they affect Copenhagen in any way. The Helsingør fortress and the weird Clay building were finished and Copenhagen now had a decent urban area.

On July 9th, Aksel visited Paris for the first time and gave Scriptwielder a shield that they may keep may not have today. Copenhagen also expanded to cover almost all of Zealand and a small brick building was built where the Lego shop is today, resembling Roskilde Domkirke. Esbjerg was growing at an alarming rate and the citizens of Copenhagen had their first suspicions that one day they would become rivals.

As the dates went double digits, The Kattegat Tower was built, as well as the Øresund bridge and a path was also built across Zealand. Talking about paths, Aksel suggested a path should be built to Berlin, which not only became reality a few months later, it was also the first time a path network between european towns was mentioned, which later became The Great European Path Network. Stroby was originally believed to have collapsed around July 11-12th, but as it turns out, Stroby survived until July 14th.

On July 12th, something important happened. Over the night Esbjerg had started claiming the island of Fyn, breaking the treaty they made the day before. As a response, Copenhagen managed to claim the other half before Esbjerg. It was not long before Esbjerg had added a stone brick wall with flames and racial slurs, and Copenhagen added a cobblestone wall to compensate. A grave was dug between the two walls and the Two towns agreed to use it as a DMZ, being MCAtlas' first DMZ. The queen of the HRE also left the server and having no helpers or assistants, the nation was doomed.

July 13th went slowly. Copenhagen claimed as much as they could before Esbjerg to secure a dominant position.

The Euro Era

July 14th started as any other day. The HRE was still dead though, so not that much happened. Until Aksel got a message saying that Austria and Alemannia would merge and if Copenhagen wanted to join. After answering yes, Copenhagen was in Austria for a few minutes where the name if the new nation was debated, and then the famous light blue text arrived, an idea to unite Europe, an idea to cooperate, Europa was born. After a few minutes, people were invited to Schwyz to get 3 European banners each. Copenhagen now had the 3 Europa flags, one is now in the museum, one is on the Kattegat tower and the final one was burned by ciao.

https://imgur.com/a/RazfCmB Europa statue, built Late July

The second floor of the Kattegat tower was dedicated to a meeting room for Europa, but was never used. There was however at one point scheduled a meeting in Schwyz that never became reality. Copenhagen Was The fourth largest town in the nation, with 8 citizens at the time, and the town was expanded heavily. West Copenhagen was now a thing and the two areas were sepperated by an artificial river. The UN building was built in Vienna, and Aksel helped a lot, this being the first interaction between Copenhagen and Vienna. Copenhagen started claiming a tiny part of northern Germany, and the Stroby base was covered in vines. Esbjerg started building many skyscrapers, but on July 26th, Abraxis took a break from the server and Vanity became ruler. This was bad, as Vanity changed the name of Europa to France. The nation was dying, and Aksel complained about the whole France thing. Vanity gave the ruler position to Aksel, saying "Let's see how well you can handle it" and then "So, what are you gonna do now?" followed by Vanity's town, Lyon, getting kicked from the nation. The nation was still dying an there was nothing left to do for Europa...

The Confusion Era

The confusion era is one of Copenhagens most dark times, lasting the entire month of August, it was mostly Copenhagen jumping from nation to nation with no real purpose.

After the death of Europa, Copenhagen took refuge in Switzerland. This did not last long however, as Copenhagen attempted to join Bulgaria a few hours later. After a few minutes of argument between the nation leaders, Copenhagen was kicked and was now nationless. Vienna had joined Israel a few days later, so Copenhagen, having no other choice, joined as well. Although Aksel quickly noticed that Israel was very controlling of its members, and Copenhagen started planning on leaving again. On August 15th, Copenhagen funded a new project throughout Europe under the name "The Great European Path Network". With two centers being Rhymney and Hamburg.

Later that day, Copenhagen re-joined Europa which was now called EU and was ruled by CreateAlex. Not much happened after that, and as EU went into decline again, Copenhagen was invited to join Egypt.

Hours turned into days. Days turned into weeks. Copenhagen Was The only active town in the entire nation and started to become isolated from the outside world. Even esbjerg started to become inactive, and everything was suddenly silent. Time had paused in Denmark, as the world evolved around it. Then, Copenhagen decided to claim parts of Skåne on August 29th, and there was suddenly light at the end of the tunnel.

With the end of the Confusion Era, Copenhagen has left the Golden Age and entered the Middle Ages.

The Scandinavain Era

On August 30th, Copenhagen was invited to join Sweden. Despite the whole denmark-sweden rivalry, it was way better than Egypt, so Copenhagen joined.

After a few minutes in, Aksel suggested that the nation should be renmaed to Scandinavia as it had both Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen. The leader of Sweden, Victim__, liked this idea and the nation was renamed to Scandinavia. It was not long before Aksel started building in Skåne and planning new paths to Oslo and Stockholm.

https://imgur.com/a/NN2hYIZ Scandinavian millitary flag flown over Copenhagen, August 30th

On September 1st, The path that was connecting Copenhagen and Gothenburg was extended to Oslo, and a poll was made on the discord on what route to use to connect Stockholm, Option C and F winning. The next day, a project was started in Skåne to build a history museum that would serve as a way to keep historical items and write down the towns history, and as the building was finished the entire history before this point was written down. Everything after September 2nd has been documented in the museum itself.

On the 4th of September, the path from Copenhagen to Stockholm was finished, and the path from Stockholm to Oslo was 90% done, although to this day its not fully finished. A parliament of scandinavia was also begun, but is also not finished yet.

But everything ends at one point and Scandinavia i´was no exception. Upon joining the server again on September 9th, the nation had dissovled after becoming very unstable. Victim__ moved to California, Oslo became inactive and Copenhagen stood without nation.

The German Age

The German Age. Copenhagens infamous era that is rarely talked about today. On September 15th, Victim__ had apparently made a new nation called "Germania". Copenhagen was at this point familiar with Victim and was desperate for a nation, so Copenhagen joined. This, however, would unknowingly catapult Copenhagen down a dark and lonely spiral.

As Copenhagen joined, things were decent at first. Aksel met moust4che2 for the first time and had no idea that they'd become enemies one day. Victim later moved to California ingame and moust4che2 become the ruler of Germania. Germania went on to become Germany and then The German Empire. Moust was very focused on becoming the ruler of the largest nation on the server, which he seemed to success with later on.

But Aksel became sceptical of mousts intentions after seeing the Hitler statue and his plans to make the city of Germania. The now a little controversial nation was growing, but Vienna and Copenhagen, the largest towns in the nation, were planning on leaving. Copenhagen finally left to join Europa on the 28th of September, and moust was fucking pissed.

The Second Euro Era

So pissed, in fact, that he hired 69420 to trick Aksel into teleporting to Antioch where he would be killed upon arrival. The plan worked but Aksel was equally as pissed as moust now. They argued for well over 15 minutes on the discord before they were pulled apart. But moust wasn't done, he ruined Copenhagen's reputation throughout the server and copenhagen dropped from 18 citizens to 9 in a matter of days.

Abraxis luckily gave some new gear to Aksel, but a lot of historical items were lost that day. On October 6th, a new project to connect Vienna and Copenhagen with an ice highway was started and it was finished the day after. Esbjerg was so inactive at this point, that they only has one citizen left.

Europa went into decline again while Germany grew and grew. Aksel was still so mad at moust, that he decided to build a huge wall and grief Berlin. Aksel was of course banned, and upon joining again Copenhagen was kicked from Europa. So, Copenhagen is back to depression and Europe was in shambles.

Second Euro Era/Unity Age Transition Period

As of October 16th, 2019, Copenhagen had managed to develop hate against the two very nations it helped found the previous month. On October 22nd, the leader of Yugoslavia, Ciao000000, had apparently heard of Copenhagens new hate against Europa. He reached out to discuss making a new communist danish nation.

MCAtlas global chat, 2019-10-22, 15:54 GMT +2

[Belgrade, Yugoslavia] [Member] ciao000000 > at t spawn

[Copenhagen] [Member] AkselHolmsted > but i still dont think i can rule a nation

[Belgrade, Yugoslavia] [Member] ciao000000 > you can with our help

[Belgrade, Yugoslavia] [Member] ciao000000 > do you have active people?

[Copenhagen] [Member] AkselHolmsted > nope, only me

[Belgrade, Yugoslavia] [Member] ciao000000 > come lets destroy the european flag there (Refering to one of the Europa banners gifted by Abraxis_97)

[Copenhagen] [Member] AkselHolmsted > idk, its kinda historical

[Copenhagen] [Member] AkselHolmsted > its been there since august (It had been there since July)

[Belgrade, Yugoslavia] [Member] ciao000000 > no, we need to break it and to add a bright red star at the center of the cross (Refering to the flag of Copenhagen)

One of the three Europa banners gifted by Abraxis_97 on July 14th was burned that day, as well as the large Europa flag flying next to the danish one at spawn. The other two Europa banners were kept a secret from Ciao. That event was followed by a trip to Belgrade, a tour of the city and a boat ride down the Danube. The Socialist Republic of Denmark was being seriously considered, while the German Empire attemted multiple times to get Copenhagen back. Eventually, the idea was scrapped and Copenhagen joined the New Atlantica Pact on October 26th, where they would stay until November 2nd.

As Copenhagen begins to rebuild its former bonds and traditions, the Middle Ages end and the Renaissance begins.

The Unity Age

Copenhagen joined the NAU for the sole reason that "they seemed peaceful". With the increasing strenght of the German Empire, europe was under more pressure than ever. A new age for all of MCAtlas had begun. As stated in the book CPH's History 3, "Europe was a pile of dry wood and the German Empire was a match. The NAU might just have been a way to walk away from the fire that was about to start."

Europa had collapsed by now, but Copenhagen did not feel at home in the NAU. As such, when the Austrian Empire was founded by Copenhagens long-time ally, mijo6000, on November 2nd, Copenhagen was the first town to join. November would be the beginning of a new set of allies for Copenhagen. One of these allies was Krete, led by Loxures.

On November 3rd, Loxures visited Copenhagen for reasons i do not remember. Going on a tour through the city, Arstotzka being mentioned on the HRE memorial led to a talk about the city and eventually it turned out Loxures had visited Copenhagen four months earlier to give an advertisement regarding Arstotzka. As Loxures left the Copenhagen History Museum later, Copenhagen had gained a new ally.

The Austrian Empire became Europa, being the third one. The third Euro era would not begin until November 23rd, though. Things would go quietly, the Skåne region was expanded with extra buildings such as the Dark Oak Repopulating Center and CFC, and on November 20th the Copenhagen History Museum greatly expanded its lower floor.

The Third Euro Era

Built on the 16th of October, 2019, the Berlin wall seperated Berlin and Copenhagen harshly. This would change. On November 23rd, 2019, the wall would be torn down as a part of an attempt to improve relations with Berlin. Loxures was there to document the event and it was written about in the greek newspaper of Hellenic Times. moust4che2 mostly ignored the decision, but Malyesa, who was a citizen of Berlin, made signs on the other side calling for peace. In the end, relations between Copenhagen and Berlin were (mostly) neutralized.

Alas, Europa was dying once more. At an unknown time a few weeks earlier, Copenhagen had befriended EggzOnToast from East Berlin. This friendship would be shown in yet one of the biggest constructions in Copenhagen; The North German Harbor. On November 24th, EggzOnToast suggested that Copenhagen gave them a small panhandle to the coast, as they were landlocked. (Why would that matter? This is a minecraft server.) Copenhagen agreed, and both agreed on building a harbor around the panhandle, shared by both towns.

On top of that, on the night two pretty important players from Copenhagens early history were coincidentally on at the same time: Casualgamer487 (Former owner of Stroby) and S0meth1ng (Former king of the HRE).

But as Europa died, Copenhagen and East Berlin would be forced to move.

The Yugoslav Era

Copenhagen joined Yugoslavia, along with East Berlin on November 29th. Yugoslavia was likely the most indecisive nation. ever. Throughout the time Copenhagen was in it until December it had a bunch of names such as Yugoslavia, Eastern_Bloc, Albanian_Empire, North_Sea_Empire and Scotland. But there were more important things during that period. Oh, so many more important things.

On December first, a small unclaimed micronation called Ladonia, formally Königliche Republik Ladonia. Turns out, it was made by Loxures and someone named SheepOfSteel14. Much more importantly, was the events of December 2nd.

And mijo, if you are reading this, you know what i am about to say.

Mijo6000 got bored and sold Vienna to the Germans, after which it was immidiately destroyed. Mijo moved to the United States to not be seen for a long time. Europe was left behind to be conquered by the Germans.

That night, Copenhagen went silent, not a soul would be online to see the bright blue text in that chat that would appear that day.

A new day is here! Taxes have been collected!

EsbjergHolyCity couldn't afford to remain a town.

With Vienna and Esbjerg gone, Copenhagen would enter its final chapter of history. The Late Age begins here.

The Post-Esbjerg Era

As the sun rose over Copenhagen the next day, Esbjerg was looted, claimed and left in ruins. To make matters worse, Copenhagen could still not claim the remainder of Fyn because of the bane of Copenhagens existence; That god damn claim limit.