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== Civcraft 1.0 ==
It was in the December of 2012 when some in the S.P.Q.R. began looking for new servers... searches for ''"Minecraft Gondolin"'' directed them to civcraft where the city of ''Gondolin'' existed... upon further investigation they discovered that the server was in the midst of a great HCF invasion... naive the former enemies united with the purpose to come to Civcraft and liberate the server from the HCF invaders; they were foolish, but the event resulted in the union of ''SPQR, OGOM, Templars, and TNR''. All groups would have a presence on Civcraft by January 2013.
The new S.P.Q.R. existed as a nameless faction within the sprawling city of ''Aristopolis'' (the population center for the ''Kingdom of Gondolin''). In those days the server was on its knees, ''Augsuta'' had already been lava bombed and turned into ''Mount Augusta'' and cities like ''Tigerstaden'' were depopulated. The world police were in hiding, fighting as a resistance from the shadows while a few others (Like ''Gondolin'') were able to maintain an uneasy neutrality. While the ensemble of ''OGOM, TNR, SPQR, and Templars'' would not all identify as ''Romans'' for some time, it is simpler to refer to them as such from here on out for that is what most of them became. The Romans used their time in ''Aristopolis'' to get established, gather wealth and scout for ideal city locations from which to build their eventual planned city. There was some minor collaboration with the resistance during this time... Some World Police were saved with our help and the house in ''Aristopolis'' was targeted at one point resulting in the temporary pearling of Roma_victor...
Eventually the ''Romans'' decided on a piece of isolated land deep in the -,- in keeping with the tradition of grand cities in that quadrant, and they began relocating the masses out to that region.No sooner than surface constructions of farms and barns were begun out of necessity ''(most of the original buildings were entirely underground in those days to avoid the still present threat of HCF warbands finding their way to our settlement)''... The Romans found themselves in a heated land dispute with a group of communists that had settled virtually on top of the city location... the communists fled from their former settlements both to get away from the Maniacal Zombie_Lenin and to avoid the HCF War. The young settlement was named Belgrade.
Tensions rose and drew international scrutiny from both sides with the overwhelming population of leftist on the server at the time giving ''Belgrade'' the air of legitimacy they needed to remain while threatening the Romans with complete annihilation. In a desparate attempt to establish their presence the Romans built a Senate building with Birch columns overnight to contest the claims from the opposite side of the river the ''Belgrade'' council hall was being built. The Romans appealed to ''Berge403'', King of ''Gondolin'' for assistance and with his help we were granted all land one one side of the river with Belgrade retaining the other half on the condition the S.P.Q.R. joined ''Gondolin'', ''which they did'', And ''Roma_victor'' was installed as the First and Only Lord of ''Gondolin'' to preside over the S.P.Q.R.
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Eventually some of the Romans had enough and dispatched an unknown account to destroy Belgrade in the middle of the night. Although caught in the act the damage was done, Belgrade was abandoned and the Romans would soon come into control of both sides of the river to continue with the grand plans of establishing a grand city. Coincidentally, this border dispute can pinpointed as the event that began the S.P.Q.R.'s obsession with excessively large land claims to ensure comfortable border buffers with neighbors.
It was around this time that the HCF war began to die down; many pearls were released and most of the primary leaders went inactive, leaving around ''HCF Light Brigade'', and other splinter groups to continue harassing undefended towns before they too were driven off. This was also the time at which several Civcraft natives, namely Shadowcon and Logic_Man joined the SPQR and ultimately became the first native Civcrafters to rise to the rank of Senator. ''(they came from a town called Lazuli or some such place)''
Having remained neutral throughout the war while the rest of the server burned, ''Berge'' and the rest of ''Gondolin'' by extension had drawn the eternal enmity of most of the rest of the server and soon a plot evolved in which a coalition of former WP and reformed HCF allied to take on Gondolin. The saw a number of confrontations throughout the nether and surface around ''Aristopolis''... at one point ''Zombie_Lenin'' was killed by a trap and ''Roma_Victor'' made off with a few trophies... but eventually the confrontations escalated into a full blown fight to break out that ended in the ''Valentines day Massacre'' in ''Aristopolis''... ''Mark_Antony'', ''Cicero'', and ''Roma_Victor'' were pearled while ''Varkanos'' and the rest of the defenders managed to retreat into the Tower of the King safely.Everyone was freed the following day after a overwhelming outrage from other international groups.
It was during this relatively peaceful time that the Romans explored and expanded throughout much of the deep -,-. There was a small scale war with a group of raiders led by one called ''Paramoo''. They were eventually all captured, but the primary outcome of the conflict was the resulting friendship with ''Brynley'' and its citizens, namely ''Fernum'' and ''Grimetone''. ''Brynley'' had been attacked by the petty raiders as well and together they teamed up with the S.P.Q.R. to help hunt them down and capture them. This friendship with ''Brynley'' would last throughout the remainder of 1.0, all of 2.0 and even into 3.0. At some point during this period the S.P.Q.R. would make an amicable separation from the ''Kingdom of Gondolin'' and become a true independent republic; this decision would contribute to the success that Berge himself would call ''one of if not the most active city on the server at this point in time.''
In the aftermath of the ''Valentines Day Massacre'' the opposition to ''Gondolin'' died out except for among the die-hard haters who resorted to alt-raiding in one of the first and worst cases of alt-raiding in a group that came to be known as the ''Gimmick Brigade''. The ''Gimmick Brigade'' was notoriously used for using a group of gimmick named novelty accounts to raid soft targets that otherwise would have had no enemies and deserved no such hostility... settlements such as ''Valenti.'' In one raid on Valenti Mark_Antony and a few other Romans were killed by the ''Gimmick Brigade,'' although not pearled. It would be a few weeks later that ''Berge403'' exposed the alt raiders for who they were and the whole conspiracy fell apart. It's irrelevant other than it marks the beginning of a greyed line in the eyes of the Romans between right and wrong, between the World Police and their HCF enemies... This discontent grew to the point they sided against the World Police holding ''RKwildCard'' captive near the end of 1.0, and prompted their joining with many notorious HCF invaders to break him out... many of those same captors were among the Gimmick Brigade while most of the rest turned a blind eye to their alt raiding.<br />
== Civcraft 2.0 ==
In the transition from 1.0 to 2.0 the Romans decided to remain allied to their former allies in Gondolin and settle in ''<nowiki/>'The Metropolis''', a group of world border cities centered around the North Pole along the central axis. Plans were made for a grand city and most of the former 1.0 citizens carried over as well, but plans would not go well for the Romans.
For their part the Romans agreed to try to break with tradition and name their capital ''Solis,'' to make the city more appealing to a generic audience, a decision that did nothing good, Metropolis began to fall apart before the server began... some groups that had vowed to settle in the Metropolis never showed up and none of the other groups that did ever did anything of import. The only other group to settle was ''Minas Minas'', which was the consolidated ''Kingdom of Gondolin'' from 1.0, and they quickly fell apart after the first month. The Romans constituted a large portion of the ''Metro Marines'' that chased the ''Butter Brigade'' out of Metropolis in July of 2013, which was arguably the high point of Metropolis.
== Civcraft 3.0 ==
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