Peoples' Gregic Alliance

The People's Gregic Alliance (otherwise known as The PGA, The Union, or The Union of The Grand Design) was a short-lived team located within a close proximity of the IGoByLotsOfNames cinematic universe. The PGA was founded in anticipation of the HBMNomi event in March of 2023 by Onionator, though his control was usurped by Kuricodes within less than 24 hours. The team was an alliance consisting of The Southern Nations Alliance, The Anti-Zaktabyte Coalition, The Academy of Greg, The KGB, The Peoples' Republic of Inexperienced Greggers, and The Experienced Greggers Guild. The team collapsed as an official entity shortly after its loss in HBMNomi, though it remained as a loose friend group for some time afterwards. Its' server currently remains inactive and invite-only.

History

Pre-HBMNomi

In the days leading up to HBMNomi, dozens of disparate teams formed. Few had any pre-existing allegiances- the event was comparable to a mini cambrian explosion among the GregTech SMP universe, as alliances formed and broke too fast to keep track of. However, a few days later, Zaktabyte was teased as a participant in the event. This triggered a wave of convergent evolution, creating several new anti-Zaktabyte teams as well as galvanizing many others against the presence of Zaktabyte. Zak's usage of a hack client was known and rampant at this point in history, and many feared that their presence would present an existential threat to the event.

Observing this, Onionator concieved of the PGA. While it would not necessarily be a team on its' own, it could serve as an alliance of teams united against the threat of Zaktabyte. However, this soon morphed into the idea of a single megateam, a monolith of the server's best players working collectively towards the goal of total domination. Invites to the PGA were sent out immediately, and six teams accepted.

The PGA's invite policy was lax at best, allowing in anyone with a pulse. Background checks were nonexistent, and the infiltration of spies was guaranteed. Kuricodes, seeing this, took over the PGA in a discord server coup, creating an exact copy of the old server and funneling in most members of the old PGA server. Kuricodes felt he could not trust Onionator with the reins of the team. The coup was relatively amicable, however, and Onionator remained as a leader of the newly reformed team. Kuricodes attempted to rename the team to The Union of The Grand Design, or The Union for short- but this name was generally unpopular and remained in use only through Kuricodes' torrent of shitty memes.

HBMNomi (Pre-Reset)

The SNA insisted on maintaining their own base separate from the PGA, and so all other teams gathered immediately after the event started, digging an underground bunker. The team was split into 2 major factions- progression and exploration. The progression subteam's job was to rush EV technology in order to get a space station operational as soon as possible, and the exploration subteam's job was to hunt down every HBM world structure and gather as many weapons as possible in order to defend themselves and attack their enemies. The first PGA base was short-lived, as NDLD accidentally activated an airstrike on the bunker and irradiated it. Rendered uninhabitable, the PGA relocated to a new location, far deeper underground.

Little did the PGA know, the SNA was actually an enemy using the server to inside the PGA, and began using the chaos of the move to siphon resources away from the PGA and into their own base. This peaked with the LV Circuit Assembler Incident, where Annoying Cat stole the PGA's circuit assembler without anyone even noticing it was gone. This was followed several hours afterwards by the complete destruction of the PGA's second bunker. A spy within the team's ranks, IceMoss, unclaimed the entire base in FTBTeams, allowing another team to claim it and lock the PGA out of all their resources. This was followed immediately by a warhead being detonated within the base, destroying almost everything. While Oxygenfox saved the team's AE2 drives, nothing else was salvageable.

The existence of HBM's generated structures massively threw off the pack's balance, allowing anyone to acquire nukes within the first few hours if they got lucky. Extremely butthurt, the PGA pointed this valid criticism out to the event's coordinator, TheCrazyInsanity, along with a bunch of other stupid whining. Threatening to leave the event, TCI was forced to capitulate and rebooted the event soon afterwards, with an updated pack and structures disabled.

HBMNomi (Post-Reset)

The PGA's final bunker, shortly after the rocket launch. In this photo, some parts have been stripped and brought into space, but no clearer media exists.

Following the insiding, Kuricodes implemented a moderately successful anti-spy strategy. Every server member was put into a list, and if they did not receive at least five vouches of trust from other server members, they would be removed. However, the SNA existed in large enough numbers in the server to keep all of their members in and bypass the spy check. This was alongside the addition of a secret leader-only chat where high priority decisions were made, and a system that allowed members to rat out anyone they believed was untrustworthy. While this revamp of the team's opsec caught most of the spies within the PGA, the SNA remained within the server with access to most of the team's secrets. Of note in the SNA was Oceanking, who used the alias of ForgeEnergy to repeatedly taunt and leak the coordinates of the PGA in r/FeedTheMemes, as well as send insider information to the PGA's main rival, The Sex Nation.

After the event's restart, the PGA gathered in a new bunker over top the world's only Australium vein and began rushing progression. The SNA continued to maintain their own base, and the Academy of Greg built their own separate base as well. The location of the PGA's base was leaked multiple times, requiring a relocation each time, but this was a mere annoyance due to the existence of the destruction gadget. The main challenge was filling in all the space around the base to block EIO teleportation wands. The final base was noteworthy for its construction of the PGA's rocket ship, Mecatt throwing a poison grenade in the middle of it and forcing the construction of a cleanroom and dozens of radiation scrubbers, and Onionator building The Contraption there in order to bum rush rocket fuel.

The PGA's space station, shortly before its' theft.

Due to the diligent work of its' members, as well as some notable and unpatched progression exploits in the pack's HBM implementation, the PGA achieved spaceflight mere days after the event's restart. However, any further progression was hampered significantly due to a shortage of spacesuits. While more than enough spacesuits had been manufactured to support the team's average online playercount, several members logged off of the server without leaving their spacesuits in the ME system, rendering 2/3rds of the team effectively useless.

However, the space station lasted less than a full day, as the SNA's plan came to fruition. In a moment known as The Thismoviesisass Incident, OceanKing gained access to the PGA's space station and created several dislocator orbs of the station's location and brought them back to the SNA. He accomplished this by changing his username to one letter off of a PGA team member's and sending a TPA request. The insider then distributed their dislocator orbs to members of The Sex Nation. Using this, an army of soldiers with space suits stormed the space station, while the insider unclaimed the entire station for the invaders to then reclaim. Over the course of a few minutes, the entire station was stripped of all its' valuables, and the PGA was destroyed.

Post-HBMNomi

Unfortunately, the consequences of having a monolithic superteam consisting of half the server's population reared its' ugly head after the PGA's destruction. The PGA left the event after their annihilation, and because basically every other team still in the event at this point was explicitly formed to be anti-PGA, they left too with their goal now accomplished. HBMNomi died off less than a day afterwards. The PGA remained cohesive as a friend group for some time afterwards, doing group playthroughs of modpacks including Enigmatica 2 Expert Unofficial and GregTech New Horizons.

During Supersymmetry, a number of groups fractured off of the PGA and became their own entities. The EGG continued into Supersymmetry as a spiritual successor to the PGA, and another subsection of members known as the Vanadium Gear Corporation was created as a subteam of the PGS, later being merged into it.

As of today, the PGA remains inactive, and its revival is extremely unlikely. Most of its leaders and members have moved on to other teams or left the Igblon Cinematic Universe entirely.