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[https://civwiki.org/wiki/Cortwade Cortwade] established claims for Acadia on Civclassic on March 10th, 2021<ref>Claims Of The Republic of Acadia (r/civclassics): https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/m2fuow/claims_of_the_republic_of_acadia/</ref> and the Acadian parliament officially voted in favor of the migration on April 4th. The migration finally took place on April 24th. A key player during this transition was [https://civwiki.org/wiki/Juniortide Juniortide], a player from Javaya who had left CivUniverse earlier already and established himself in [[Icenia]]. A large number of other Javayans joined Acadia as well, though from the Javayans only Juniortide, [[LightningBerk]], and [[Egi]] would remain active in Acadia. The area chosen as the new homeland for Acadia, in the largely empty [[+,-|+,- quadrant]], had previously been part of the [[Chanseatic State]], before it was annexed and eventually unclaimed by [[Mir]]. To the west of the original claims of Acadia lay the old, heavily griefed ruins of [[Holy Tree (CivClassic)|Holy Tree]], and the Chanseatic town of Vanhoover, and many remnants of the past, including swastikas, wehrmacht flag banners, and Chanseatic State banners, were found here. Located in the deep northeast, a mostly undeveloped region of the map, Acadia originally had no close neighbours other than the aesthetic city of [[Gondolin]] to its south and a Mir exclave to its north, and Acadians began to lean into 'frontierism' as a key aspect of their identity.
With a sizable lake island in the middle of Acadia the choice of location for the new capital, New Turing, was easily made, and in a first wave of development a factory building, and a few residential and commercial buildings were quickly build, as well as the Acadian National Arena, and the prominent Square of Perseverance, which would become the heart of Acadian life. However, unlike on CivUniverse, this time Acadia decided to be a federation with internal states and territories, and after the Capitol District with New Turing, the Territory of [[Babbage]] was quickly founded by [[Owain X|OwainX]] with state capital Lovelace, as well as the Territory of Kanava with the eponymous capital city of Kanava, and many more would follow. While much progress was made at the very beginning, further development stalled as people increasingly began to work on their own projects, with one Acadian building a private ore smelter before a communal ore smelter had been established, another working on private xp production, and others working on personal build projects away from New Turing. To a degree the fragmentation was encouraged with the Acadian Constitution granting a voting representative in the Senate, the executive body of the Acadian government, for every group of three or more people with their own State, which was later overturned during [[Kannon]]'s term as Prime Minister. Unfortunately, few settlements outside of New Turing ever became more than personal build projects and those that did never managed to keep activity up for long, which resulted in there being a large number of ghost towns sprawled throughout the previously mostly untouched landscape.
Nevertheless, progress would continue, albeit slowly. Through ancient pre-existing rail Acadia was now connected to the rest of the server, and most importantly Icenia, as the nearest economic center with 20 minutes on rail. Acadia's utter isolation came to an end in June 2021 as the [[Kingdom of Fish]], a spin-off nation from [[Wyvern]], a friendly close nation on CivUniverse, decided to settle east of Acadia. Acadia and Fish immediately signed a Friendship treaty, binding the two nations in an alliance, and giving citizens from either nation unrestricted access to full citizenship in the other. Acadia began to grow a notable population of Fish duals, including [[The druid|Druid]] and [[JayTeeR]].
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In late July 2021, the controversial player 'Rainie' [[RainOfPain125]] from [[CivRealms 2.0|CivRealms]] and CivUniverse started playing on CivClassic, choosing to settle close to the north of Acadia with a quickly gathered group of young newfriends. They established 'The No State Commune' <ref>Claims of The No State Commune (r/civclassics): https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/op7cyu/hereby_declaring_the_no_state_commune_tnsc_now/</ref>, modeled after Rainie's previous failed endeavors with the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] (IWW) and the Paris Commune in Norlund on CivRealms. This immediately resulted in an uncomfortable situation as, due to his actions on CivRealms and CivUniverse, Rainie held bad blood with some prominent Acadians and other civ players, including Cortwade and Juniortide, whom Rainie considered to be 'violent anti-communists'.
While Acadia initially meant to settle for an uncomfortable peace, a number of issues quickly sprang up that made it hard for Acadia to ignore its new northern neighbours. As raidings kept being an issue in Acadia, one of them involved a TNSC member, [[Hawkeye]], who was caught in the act but immediately released after an apology and returning the stolen items. However, not much later, another TNSC member was sentenced for raiding in Icenia, who during his trial declared that Rainie had encouraged him and other TNSC members to raid nearby places to help develop TNSC. Additionally, Rainie was accused of vandalism in the form of communist propaganda on JuniorTide's house, and was seen mining newfriends' unfinished diamond veins under New Turing, even though Rainie had already been declared PNG in Acadia. More serious concerns about Rainie and TNSC
With Acadia soon after accidentally finding an almost finished large bunker-complex under construction in TNSC, the Acadian military elected for a pre-emptive strike on the bunker. On July 28, Egi and Juniortide attacked the TNSC bunker, confiscating some of its contents, and disabling it by placing reinforced obsidian inside the bunker. This quickly attracted a lot of international attention as Rainie and other TNSC members made intensive use of global chat to accuse Acadia of harassing them and attacking newfriends as well as posting accusations and requests for help against Acadia on the server reddit page. This attention quickly brought a number of non-Acadian players, TTastic, Okx, MrJeremyFisher, and Polgondwana, who were presumably out for a more than 500 diamonds bounty on Rainie's pearl by [[MCSPenguin]] due to CivRealms drama. They did not manage to pearl him, and Rainie was only briefly logboxed.
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Acadia's new alliances were soon after put to use when a large group of faction players threathened to coup and attack Acadia. In August 2021, a seemingly normal new person to the server, Bolle Josh, spawned in Acadia. He was seen as a potentially promising newfriend as he was very interested in Acadia's political system, and asked many questions about how nations functioned on the server and what conflict between nations roughly looked like. However, when it came to light that he was merely the first of a group of 15-20 factions players, planning on using their numbers to effectively take over the nation through its democracy, he and his friends were banished from Acadia. They left and settled in an ancient abandoned palace in unclaimed territory near the City of England and Columbia, where they created their short-lived nation of Vusitania. They were quickly insided by both military officer [[Kannon]], and [[Tomattan]], who were able to monitor their actions and movements in-game and through their own live-streams; revealing their locations, recording a large number of racist comments, their threats of grief and hostile actions against several nations (including Acadia, City of England, and [[Gabon]]), and reporting them for x-raying which eventually resulted in a few bans. Meanwhile the newly created PMC was kept updated live, and a coalition of PMC members intervened at their place and managed to pearl their entire core group, effectively eliminating all of 'Vusitania'.
Under Bloofs administration Acadia began to mature as a nation, but there was one aspect of Acadia's democracy where the need for improvement could not be ignored. Until so far the ownership of Acadia's strategic namelayer groups had been split throughout a few of its first core players, with the groups in the hands of the Prime Minister transferred after the election. So far this situation had not caused any problems, but as concerns arose around whether this left Acadia waiting for disaster to happen, the position of the High Commissar, head of state and holder of the groups, was created to put an end to this situation. Cortwade, founder and first Prime Minister of Acadia was quickly elected High Commissar as he ran unopposed. More political changes were yet to come. As the Javayan Acadians had severely declined in activity the traditional Ashahari People's Party, which had dominated Acadian politics since the very beginnings of CivClassic, began to decline in strenght. Meanwhile, a new party began to rise as the so far marginal National Defense Party and the Visionary Party of Acadia merged into one; the National Visionary Defense Party, seeking broad reforms to Acadia's governmental system. The party immediately gained some political power through a scheme where three members crafted the artifical State of [[Thompson]], earning them a State Senator, a voting representative in the Acadian Senate, as per the Acadian Constitution. Soon after, the October elections were held with Bloof stepping down as Prime Minister after reaching the maximum amount of three terms, and the NVDP ballooned in power, winning all government positions, with now Prime Minister Kannon.
The first reform was abolishing State Senators, so that demographic fragmentation and political power plots would no longer be institutionally encouraged. With the second reform Kannon restructured Acadia's military, making it more independent and hierarchical. The third reform was the Eight Amendment to the constitution, which passed both the National Assembly and the Senate almost unanimously, drastically changing Acadia's governmental system as the National Assembly was completely dissolved and the Senate, comprised of elected ministers, turned into a National Council with full legislative powers. However, popular resistance against the Eight Amendment began to appear as people began to consider the system opressive, likening it to a military junta. Meanwhile, the constitutional reform turned into a constitutional crisis as some of the powers and responsibilities of the National Assembly weren't properly redelegated and the general public heavily resisted the simple solution of a constitutional hotfix delegating those powers and responsibilities to the National Council. As the Eight Amendment became increasingly unpopular and divisive, it was eventually repealed by the National Council by the end of October.
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In the meantime, New Turing, for the first time, began to thrive as [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] economic presence began to grow in the city and a large newfriend wave increased activity and the need for more residential units. Many residential units, as well as commercial units, and a new, larger factory and storage building were built by [[TheGreatUniter]] who had recently started playing on CivClassic and joined Acadia. Whereas New Turing never managed to find a convincing, cohesive general aesthetic before, and was limited by the small-scale Acadian architectural norms, Uniter introduced a new architectural style for the city, with taller and more detailed buildings. His style proved immensively succesful as many buildings in Uniter's style began to pop up and genuine excitement about the future of New Turing began to emerge. Rapid development in New Turing kept continuing until the very end of the server, with the government discussing far reaching plans to increase its control over the capital to organize its redevelopment and to find a way around the e-lawyerism and lack of executive tools that made derelicting unused, unaesthetic buildings in the capital near impossible. Center to the redevelopment plan was to remove the western half of the large boulevard reaching down to the quartz Parliament building construction site, as well the largely unfinished quartz Parliament building itself, which after many months of stalled construction had become a symbol of New Turing's previous stagnation.
However, these plans never came to be, as the Acadian government began receiving signals that the server was about to end, and with the incident of [[Pearled Harbor]] following. In the last few days of the server, a number of Acadians attended the 2021 Winter Olympics in [[Rotterdam]], Columbia, with Bloof winning silver medals for Acadia in archery and pvp tournament. With the server finally shutting down on December 18th 2021, Acadia's history on CivClassic came to an end.
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