Rhodes Island

Ideology and Creation

Rhodes Island (RI for short) was created as a spiritual successor to the Cringe Union. It characterised itself as a neutral team that accepted just about anyone into it.

Led by Dr.Beako and PersonUnnamed, it started gathering members for the SuSy event around a week before the actual minecraft server was opened to play on. The group was quickly formed, primarily thanks to the ease of joining the team. The recruitment process was rather simple, with most people being approved outright with very little questions asked.

The ideology of Rhodes Island, much like it's predecessor Cringe Union was to stay neutral towards everyone, having what Dr.Beako described as "John Wick mentality" and responding to threats with military action.

Preparation for the event

During the pre-event time, the team has set up a training server, on which coordination between the members was practiced, as well as speed and general gamesense of everyone playing on it. The group managed to get to early LV during this practice run in the span of around 10 days of casual play.

Additionally, the idea of MARVIN was proposed by the head of R&D. Initially a meme, it was quickly discovered as a viable option for transport, as it was unlocked earlier than the elytra, it was (on average) faster than moving with a boat and land, and a single transport drone could support multiple people at once, provided that the system was supplied with enough of the desired resources (pigs).

The same system would later be utilized to extract Sailor from claimed spawn chunks, in which they were stuck in.

The event itself

After the server opened properly, the members of RI grouped up in a designated location, and (after some confusion) set off in a massive boat convoy towards a nearby landmass. After some back and forth between the members on where to settle on, eventually Oliwier509 would find a suitable spot. A desert right next to a river, a cobalt ore for opencomputers components, a federation outpost less than 300 blocks away, a desert pyramid temple and an orthomagmatic ore deposit to boot, overall one of the best places to base in during the event.

The base was originally intended to be in the beneath due to the vast amounts of anthracite found in it, but this idea was discarded as this area seemed more optimal for gaming. This was changed however, after the igblon log incident occurred, in which everyone's coordinates were leaked by the event organizer, truly a :fireinthehole: moment.

As such, the team was forced to move to a nearby island, it was far enough away for people that wanted to raid RI not to find it by accident, but close enough to still benefit from the natural resources of that land. The entire operation lasted a couple of hours, but in the end most of the base was moved over after a substantially large hole was prepared for it.

It was a few hours after the move that the team managed to create the necessary components for Marvin assembly, and the system was tested out at that time.

The merges

During the event, RI has merged itself with multiple smaller teams looking for a place to stay, most notable of which being the NNZ, which has brought great talent into the team what will eventually save it from being wiped off the map. This however also destabilized the already struggling team, and many of the members from the merging teams would end up going their own way, joining other teams and sometimes even causing hostilities between themselves and RI.

The problems

Due to the openness of inviting new members into the team, quite a substantial amount of spies have accumulated inside it, this lead to multiple counts of sabotage (such as the now infamous large bronze boiler explosion) and information leaking. Additionally due to the general lack of organisation, most members have been left without a task, which prompted them to leak even more information by releasing recordings of the base to the public, this resulted in the team being found and eventually raided by the GGI.

The GGI raid was partially caused by the team leaders assisting Sailor in a raid against them, but what actually was the final nail in the coffin, was failing to properly screen for people invited into the team, which led to SuperObama being not only invited into the team, but also shown around the base and shown the security system by the oblivious members.

What followed the raid on GGI was a relentless assault of suicide bombers on the RI base. WanderingHero has managed to sneak into the base, by changing his in-game name to Dr.Baeko, which managed to successfully fool the members of RI into lowering their guard just long enough to bomb every machine he could get his hands on. He was stopped in his tracks, but it would weaken the team and the base significantly.

The Rising from the Ashes

After the team learnt of the raid by GGI, Oliwier509 has taken the executive decision to pack up the entire base, this was possible thanks to the absolute gigachad known as Illuminati_HD, who thanks to his previous experience in the minecraft pro building scene, knew about the existence of little tiles storage blocks, and managed to create 7 containers large enough to fit the entire base into.

Once the raid begun, he instantly logged out, keeping the entire base safe with him, the remaining soldiers stayed behind to defend the base, but it was hopeless, as RI found themselves outnumbered and quickly overrun. Despite this, the team managed to meet up in a fake hill created around the ore deposit a few hours after the raid, and Illuminati_HD was able to safely log on. What followed was the biggest escort mission in gregtech gaming history, with the entire hive of RI members guarding our entire GDP.

At the same time, Oliwier509 has come into contact with Zalgo239, who agreed to provide RI with coordinates near the PGS base as a last ditch effort to keep the team and the base safe. The team took until the server closing that day to complete the move, and have safely arrived at the agreed upon location mostly without incident.

The downfall

After setting up the third and final base for the event, things appeared to be going smoothly, until one of the teams members decided to stage a mutiny. Rainboo, who originally was a member of NNZ, has had enough of RI leaders, and decided to go on a rampage, killing everyone on sight. Despite his best efforts however, he was killed by PersonUnnamed during his escape from the base, and was later boxed in basalt by Oliwier509, who was camping his spawnpoint. (note that attempts to free Rainboo were made by ggi members, but they ended up killing themselves with their own explosives which is funny af. Their corpses have been discovered by the entrance to the new base)

As retaliation for being captured, Rainboo has decided to publicly leak the new bases coordinates, once again exposing not only the team but both the PGS and RONH (who have also based nearby) to attack.

Despite the fact that Rainboo killed many of RI members that day, most actually agreed with their takes on the current leaders, and would have probably helped him overthrow them had they known in advance he was planning something like this. This was later displayed, as Oliwier509 committing a coup d'état against PersonUnamed and Dr.Beako.

This saw most of the team joining Oliwier509 under a new name and banner of Humanity First, with only a few individual choosing to stay with Penguin Logistics (PL) and some choosing to abandon everything all-together and go on their own way.

The tragic end

After the split the newly formed factions immediately declared war on each other, said war has officially lasted for almost irl 2 years, and has resulted in much discord drama, much in-game drama and [my CRED supervisor will murder me if I tell you this]

Epilogue

At the very end of the event, Oliwier509 would log into the game one last time, seeing the now rebranded HF base, somewhat destroyed by PL raiders, yet still somewhat standing, filled him with artistic inspiration strong enough to write a poem on the wall of his empty room, alongside blood trails made with redstone dust (as befits a retired mapmaker) leading all the way to a central area, which stored a 3D printed block of bedrock in a glass cage.

The contents of this poem, and the chest in which he buried lore-relevant objects are now considered lost media, due to igblon never getting around to editing the SuSy event videos.