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=== Founding the Kingdom of Ashelor ===
[[File:Ashelor-first-borders.png|thumb|The Kingdom of Ashelor's borders]]
In November 2018, a player named [[ThirdOfFive]] became a citizen of [[Bloom]]. At first they gravitated towards each other as they both had a great enthusiasm for law making, however Orinnari quickly found himself frustrated by [[ThirdOfFive]]'s inexperience and tendency to insist upon solutions that either wouldn't work or would cause more problems than they solved. After a spat in which [[ThirdOfFive]] created a knock-off of Orinnari's shop, insisting on his right to do so, and stating that Orinnari should feel flattered, Orinnari and [[dBeatzx]] left for greener pastures on 6th January 2019 and foundfounded themselvesthe in[[Ashelor|Kingdom theof +,+Ashelor]]. Since [[dBeatzx]] left with Orinnari, [[ThirdOfFive]] began spreading the lie that Orinnari had poached [[dBeatzx]] and was therefore a traitor. Orinnari successfully negotiated the land from the [[Free Territory of Kropotnia]] on 8th January 2019 with a treaty called the [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/ashelor/kropotnia-treaty/ Treaty of Mutual Recognition].
[[File:Aleh-ashelor-meme.png|thumb|Meme of Ashelor by Aleh]]
 
=== CivExReturning to Yoahtl and Bloom===
On 28th January 2019, Orinnari received an invitation from [[bgbba]] to join [[Yoahtl]] on [[CivEx]], which after some exploration he accepted. [[dBeatzx]] had already become somewhat inactive and so when Orinnari andbuilt [[Alzdadog|Aleh]]a movedhome over to [[CivEx]], [[Ashelor]] was effectively put on hold. On 17th February 2019 in a spurtreminiscent of activity,his [[dBeatzx]]original attemptedresidence to revive thefrom [[Ashelor]]New byYoahtl negotiating to become a state of [[BloomCity|NYC]], howeverand thissuggested wasthe quicklyname vetoed"Adobe byForge" Orinnarifor duethe tofactory fearsroom ofsince interferenceit bylooked [[ThirdOfFive]]like andthe otherAdobe Memberslogo offrom [[Bloom]]'s Parliament, though this sadly made [[dBeatzx]] go inactivethe againminimap. [[CivEx]] would however effectively die by the end of March 2019 due to bad admin public relations incorrectly stating the lie that the lifespan of the server would only be about three months.
[[File:Civclassic-civex-timeline.png|border|center|frameless|Timeline]]
 
After [[CivEx]] died Orinnari followed [[Yoahtl]] back to [[CivClassic|CivClassic]], moving back to NYC as well as placing an alt back in [[Bloom]]. Soon after NYC went through a reconstruction period, undoing the damage that [[TheOrangeWizard]] did while he was Alcuahtl (leader of [[Yoahtl]]) to the city.▼
=== Returning to Yoahtl and Bloom ===
▲After [[CivEx]] died Orinnari followed [[Yoahtl]] back to [[CivClassic|CivClassic]], moving back to NYC as well as placing an alt back in [[Bloom]]. Soon after NYC went through a reconstruction period, undoing the damage that [[TheOrangeWizard]] did while he was Alcuahtl (leader of [[Yoahtl]]) to the city.
 
In February 2019, the O.R.I.N. rail was completed in [[Bloom]], standing for Overland Rail In the North.
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Orinnari switched focuses between [[Yoahtl]] and [[Bloom]] pretty regularly, but on 23rd July 2019, Orinnari was a councillor for [[Yoahtl]] and suggested a structured mechanism for proposals which included the ability for the council reject blatantly populist or meme worthy proposals subject to any restrictions imposed by the Chief Justice of [[Yoahtl]]. But this wasn't taken well by [[Tigen]], a long standing [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] citizen, who went on to characterise Orinnari's entire personality and contribution to [[Yoahtl]] as being a busybody councillor coming out of the woodwork to accumulate ever more power, thinks players are dumb and aren't worthy of power, and is a shy dictator who's no longer forcing the indignity upon others of having to pretend he's anything but. Orinnari was completely taken aback at the level of spitefulness and vitriol since it came from nowhere and was completely unprovoked, and so he decided to step down figuring that he would not tolerate such behaviour from a work colleague or a friend and so shouldn't be expected to tolerate it from a voter.
 
=== Reattempting Shen ===
[[File:Shen-island-expansion-design.png|thumb|The plan to expand the island of Shen]]
Soon after Orinnari stepped down from the council in [[Yoahtl]], he sought out an external project to focus on and remembered Shen, the island that was used for [[Oakhurst]]. He asked the [[Ashelor]] people to join him however they didn't seem interested since they sensed that it was Orinnari's project rather than a group project. He wanted to expand the size of the island, transforming it from a small sliver into something more respectable and workable. However the sheer scale of the project worked to demotivate Orinnari, especially since he was determined to fill in the expansion rather than leave it as a shell or hollow island. The expansion plan was soon abandoned, but managed to commission [[alzdadog|Aleh]] to design a bridge to connect the island to the mainland for rail purposes.
[[File:Shen-bridge-design.png|thumb|Shen's rail bridge design]]
 
=== Returning to Yoahtl, ''really this time!'' ===
Returning perhaps isn't the right word since Orinnari hadn't left [[Yoahtl]], but was just focusing something outside of [[Yoahtl]]. Nonetheless, Shen seemed more and more like a secondary project, a place to build farms or some sort of weird attraction rather than it be a new home or town, especially since [[specificlanguage]] had made Orinnari promise it wouldn't become like another [[Southshire]] or [[Oakhurst]]. His focus naturally fell back towards [[Yoahtl]] since [[Tigen]] had disappeared again so there was no longer a source of drama in that respect.
 
However, around the beginning of September, both [[Sventhar]] and [[SpaceVolcano]]'s toxicity became quite acute, so much so that within the next month, [[Sventhar]] would be sued twice ([https://discord.com/channels/278045721742147586/348687557455904778/626478546289688607 <nowiki>first [settled outside of court]</nowiki>] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/CivYoahtl/wiki/judiciary/cases/aki_v_sventhar_oct_2019 second]) for toxicity and harassment. It got to the level of intolerability, and after [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] had mentioned exploring old [[Ashelor]] for nostalgia's sake, they both sought to reclaim [[Ashelor]].
 
=== Problems with the Salisbury Gazette ===▼
=== Restarting Ashelor ===
When Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] sought to reclaim [[Ashelor]], they quickly found that in the year since its founding and subsequent abandonment, the territory was now owned by another: the [[Adina|Federation of Adina]]. It was lead by Kaly, who didn't take to Orinnari whatsoever given his [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] citizenship, even going so far as to call him a "Yoahtl agent." However, the other citizens of [[Adina]] were amenable to the idea of [[Ashelor]] but only as a territory of [[Adina]]. Orinnari hoped he could work his way towards gaining [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] independence like he did with the [[Kropotnia|Free Territory of Kropotnia]] though over a longer timespan, however, disaster struck during negotiations.
 
Under the [[Adina|Adinan]] constitution, autonomous territories are allowed to request opt outs of federal law, so as part of the negotiation process, Orinnari read through [[Adina]]'s federal laws and noted any concerns. One concern was communal storage, the remedy for which was exempting [[Ashelor]] from that law on the basis that [[Ashelor]] would not have access to [[Adina]]'s communal storage and vice versa. Another concern was that of Koric Law, which appeared to be a set of religious doctrines that imposed some odd restrictions in the context of minecraft such as: the prohibition of the mutilation of dead bodies, the prohibition of TNT'ing trees, state protection of burial grounds, state protection of foetuses, etc. This is not to say that there weren't any aspects relevant to minecraft or any that weren't agreeable to Orinnari, far from it, he very much respected the right to be free from discrimination for example, but such things would already exist within [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] constitution. The request for an opt out however was interpreted by Kaly as a slap in the face, a fundamental insult to the very fabric of [[Adina|Adinan]] society, and so broadcast this to [[Adina]]. [[ImperatorMendes]] then acted as a mediator, offering [[Ashelor]] the compromise of being subject to Koric Law but under a strict system of Judicial Review, that only qualifying cases would be accepted, and [[Ashelor]] begrudgingly acquiesced.
 
On the next issue however - defence - Orinnari and Kaly clashed again, and it became clear that neither liked nor trusted the other. Orinnari feared that this would become the ongoing relationship with the federal government, that it would always be hostile and at odds with [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] wants and desires. Orinnari made the decision on 12th September 2019, two days after negotiations started, to relocate Ashelor to the eastern coast of Dithmarschen, [[Maltovia]]. The exact location and borders of Ashelor were negotiated on 7th October 2019 but only revealed a month later on 3rd November 2019 to prevent any invitation of raiders.
 
=== Moving to Nyasaland ===
Around 24th December 2019, Orinnari went on a spree of joining Discords linked on the [https://ccmap.github.io/ ccmap], one of them being [[Nyasaland]]'s. The community seemed very active and welcoming, which was a surprise since he thought they were inactive or kept to themselves as his only interaction with [[Nyasaland]] had been their shop in [[Bloom]]. He was also drawn to them by the mutual liking of the game League of Legends, and would often watch streams of the game in voice channels. His intention was to move [[Ashelor]] to [[Nyasaland]] in hopes of it being more active and populated. By 30th December 2019, he had terraformed and constructed the canals, though the area was not independent or even autonomous, since the area was on [[Nyasaland]]'s main island and they were newcomers, but [[Nyasaland]] nonetheless accepted the idea of it being its own thing and not necessarily complying with the aesthetic of the main town. It however became quickly apparent that a mutual liking for a game was not a substitute for the kind of affinity that smooths group dynamics when he often found himself treading on eggshells around certain longstanding members. He didn't want to cause upset or make waves, but this often meant double checking everything he said, writing disclaimers before writing anything political, and being extremely specific in conversations, which quickly became tiring and outweighed the benefits of staying, especially since playing League of Legends with the others meant playing on North American servers, thus having very high latency.
 
=== Ashelor's statehood of Adina ===
On 10th January 2020 [[Ashelor]] was griefed for the second time within the span of a week by [[seanfpa]] and [[xVANCEx]]. Seeming that Orinnari was spending a lot of his time in [[Nyasaland]] and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] was largely inactive, Orinnari decided to offer [[Ashelor]] as a state to [[Adina]] so that they could use the land for farms and such should [[Ashelor]] be abandoned. But over the coming days and weeks, this (the abandonment) would never happen since Orinnari was already growing distant from [[Nyasaland]] and instead becoming more involved with [[Adina]]. [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] accession to statehood also brought with it the federalisation of a version of [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] Habeas Corpus laws. [[Adina]] passed the "Ashelor Integration Act" on 17th January 2020, and [[Ashelor]] responded by passing the "Recognising the Ashelor Integration Act" on the same day. On 24th January 2020, [[Ashelor]] passed "Integrating into the Republic of Adina" which officially transitioned [[Ashelor]] into a state of [[Adina]].
 
Around the beginning of March 2020, both Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] found themselves more active and so made an effort to be more involved with [[Adina|Adinan]] affairs, however, the cultural divide between [[Ashelor]] and [[Adina]] became more and more apparent, particular when Orinnari ran as a judge candidate on the principle of separation of powers: that judges should, in their official capacity, be limited to judicial affairs. This along with Orinnari's proposal to make the National Assembly more transparent clashed with [[Adina]]'s unwritten conventions thus framing Orinnari as an outsider. It was surprising therefore when Orinnari and [[pamaxwell]] (the incumbent) tied and were brought into a private room and asked to choose between deciding the winner through random chance, or allowing the National Assembly to vote. After a short discussion, they both decided to allow the National Assembly to resolve the tie; Orinnari didn't want to set the precedent of ties being resolved through random chance, but he was not surprised however when the National Assembly swiftly chose to elect the incumbent.
 
=== Ashelor's secession from Adina ===
On 24th February 2020, [[ImperatorMendes]] approached the government of [[Ashelor]] with a proposition to build a vault within [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] red desert. Orinnari and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]] had immediate concerns, mostly to do with its proximity to the the town of [[Ashelor]] and the implications that would have but also what it would mean in terms of borders since it would be a dramatic reduction in [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] then already small land claims. After some research into [[Adina]]'s laws and constitution he found that there wasn't anything specific pertaining to land jurisdiction with the sole exception of the "Ashelor Integration Act", which stated that [[Ashelor]] would retain its borders thus implying that those borders meant something. This was backed up by the fact that [[Adina]] was ''requesting'' [[Ashelor]] for the land rather than acquisitioning it, thus also implying that [[Ashelor]] could in fact refuse.
 
On 25th February 2020, [[Ashelor]] passed "Land Negotiations with Adina" which empowered its Governor - an newly formed governmental role created under the requirements of [[Adina|Adinan]] statehood - to negotiate the desired area of red desert with [[Adina]], thus negotiations began. At first there were discussions of a land exchange, but [[Ashelor]] quickly asserted that a land exchange should be mutually beneficial, that it shouldn't be land area for land area but rather useful land for useful land, but that caused that line of negotiation to end pretty quickly. [[Adina]] then bragged about having sold [[Phylon]], an area they had recently been gifted, to [[Odresh]] ([[Odresh-Phylon Conflict|yikes]]) for 192 diamonds. This inspired [[Ashelor]] to suggest a land purchase, but while [[Adina]] understood, they felt it wasn't within their budget.<blockquote>"yeah i totally get why you guys do want to be compensated, we just may have to move location if it is too pricey"
 
- [[matanic]], President of [[Adina]]</blockquote>[[Ashelor]] came up with the price of 64 emerald blocks, and after some discussions of a zero-interest payment plan, [[Incentives]] offered to pay bill in full himself, so it seemed like construction would start in a matter of days.
 
On 14th March 2020 - two days after a newly elected [[Adina|Adinan]] government - the mood suddenly changed: [[matanic]] sent [[Ashelor]] a rather scathing message which stated in no uncertain terms that the government of [[Adina]] was disappointed with the request for compensation; that they understood that [[Ashelor]] (supposedly) didn't feel [[Adina|Adinan]]; that other states do feel [[Adina|Adinan]] and thus would give up their land if it were them; that [[Ashelor]] should start acting like a state; that [[Ashelor]] doesn't deserve to be a state; that if [[Ashelor]] citizens wished to exercise their [[Adina|Adinan]] rights (such as running for election) then they should act like [[Adina|Adinans]]; that [[Adina]] will be "clarifying" its laws and constitution to give powers to the federal government to be able to take land from states without asking.
 
This was not surprisingly taken poorly by [[Ashelor]], but civil discussions began nonetheless about how to transition [[Ashelor]] into a (supposedly) more appropriate arrangement, leaning towards an autonomous territory. However they were soon made privy to the fact that [[Adina]] was, as part of their "clarifications", updating the constitution to strip autonomous territories of their voting and candidacy rights. This was seen by [[Ashelor]] as a blatant attempt to coerce them into either handing over their land or accepting a form of self-imposed and federally enforced isolation from [[Adina]], thus giving credence to the idea that [[Ashelor]] wasn't really [[Adina|Adinan]]. It was also not lost on [[Ashelor]] that the federal government could, in theory, pass federal legislation requiring [[Ashelor]] to relinquish its land anyway, so in an abundance of caution, [[Ashelor]] pursued independence, becoming independent on 19th March 2020.
 
▲=== Problems with the Salisbury Gazette ===
Following the secession, on 20th March 2020, the [[The Salisbury Gazette|Salisbury Gazette]] published a heavily one sided and propagandised article about the recent dispute between [[Ashelor]] and [[Adina]] selectively using more dramatic quotes which deliberately left out discussions from voice chats and other channels, as well as curiously going out of its way to mention Orinnari's and [[Alzdadog|Aleh]]'s narrow defeat in the recent [[Adina|Adinan]] elections, which could imply certain untrue things to readers. Orinnari posted a [https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/flnlse/salisbury_gazette_ashelor_leaves_adina_after/fkzozwn/ rebuttal] to the article's subreddit post, but it was then that he began to view the [[The Salisbury Gazette|Salisbury Gazette]] as a tabloid rather than a prestigious and unbiased news source.
 
=== Founding the Admiralty of Wesbury ===▼
=== Ashelor's first execution ===
On 20th March 2020, a player by the name of [[MrWiggles|Mr__Wiggles]] entered [[Ashelor]] and began breaking chests. Still skittish over the raid in January, Orinnari called in reinforcements. [[Onederful]] from [[Adina]] offered to help. [[Mr Wiggles|Wiggles]] was pearled and [[Onederful]] was compensated for his troubles. It turned out that [[MrWiggles|Wiggles]] thought that [[Ashelor]] was abandoned because while wandering around ''for a few minutes'', he didn't see any activity. Orinnari only noticed the raid because he was up late and AFKing in his home. [[MrWiggles|Wiggles]] was then sentenced to five days exile pearl, as well items known to be taken from neighbours in similar raids to be confiscated and returned. However, in [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] laws, someone who is sentenced to pearl time must be ceremonially executed. [[MrWiggles|Wiggles]] was executed by guillotine on 25th March 2020. ([https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/ashelor/wiggles-execution/ Watch here])
 
=== Ashelor's township of Yoahtl ===
The general decline of CivClassic saw a reduction in players in and around the +,+ often leaving Orinnari AFKing for days on end without seeing anyone at all. With his continued and ongoing citizenship of [[Yoahtl]] and their reasonable though mostly meta-bound activity convinced Orinnari to offer [[Ashelor]] as a non-autonomous town of [[Yoahtl]] via the [https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/ashelor/yoahtl-treaty/ Treaty of Terestai], signed 7th August 2020.
 
=== Bloomification of Ashelor ===
A little over a month later on the 11th October 2020, Orinnari convinced many of the [[Bloom|Bloomeans]] to migrate to [[Ashelor]], spawning a large set of law and treaty changes including secession from [[Yoahtl]], though not for any hostile purposes but simply as a means of self-determination as the circumstances had changed from the accession. Indeed within a week, [[Ashelor]] had gone from one active citizen to sixteen. Among the many changes to [[Ashelor]] was the abolition of the Royal Prerogative ([https://civstorage.github.io/orinnari/ashelor/orinnari-execution/ watch Orinnari's execution]), which put [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] laws into disarray, requiring many proposals through the Citizens' Assembly to piece [[Ashelor|Ashelor's]] laws back together in a form that the [[Bloom|Bloomeans]] consented to. The day after (12th October 2020) [[Slushhi]] was elected as Prime Minister, and soon after came the beginnings of the trenched city now known as Denver, the new capitol of [[Ashelor]], the idea being that the city would offer reasonable security to all citizens who resided within it, thus avoiding some of the issues that open planned cities often fall prey to.
 
▲=== Founding the Admiralty of Wesbury ===
On the 10th January 2021, Orinnari sought a new project. [[Ashelor]] was firmly established but was quickly fading into inactivity. [[Ashelor]] had the disadvantage of being remote so that travel to and from other nations took an inordinate amount of time. Nor did [[Ashelor]] have any neighbours, allies, or foes. Once people had built their houses there wasn't much left to do. [[Slushhi]] became the last bastion of activity, so once he decided to take a break, the last few who logged in here and there went dormant too. This issue was compounded by the increasing popularity of [[Icenia]] with its promise of juicy drama and government positions, but also the launching of [[Devoted Hell]]. Either way, Orinnari felt it would be inappropriate to start making changes to [[Ashelor]] without the consent of the citizens and so began considering a small project nearby to other nations and so founded a new nation: [[Wesbury|Admiralty of Wesbury]].
 
=== Returning to Southshire, ''really really really this time!'' ===
On 7th June 2021, Orinnari glanced at [[Southshire]]'s Discord server, noticing a lot of recent activity, most notably [[RoboRik]]'s proposed redesigns of the downtown factory building. He rushed down to [[Southshire]] to see if it had been built, or whether anything else had been built since the last time he had been visited and that's when he found himself in a conversation with [[cinzar]] who then invited Orinnari to build a house, but was later given permission by [[StrPlatinum]] to claim most of [[Oakhurst]]'s old territory as private property. [[Cinzar]] insisted however that the [[Nymph]] Embassy ought to remain. However, Orinnari successfully negotiated the deed to the land in return for manually relocating the embassy and its items to the opposite side of the canal, effectively reclaiming all of [[Oakhurst]]'s former territory as private property. [[StrPlatinum]] then spontaneously granted [[Oakhurst]] autonomy, returning it to its original form back in 2017.
 
=== Relinquishing Ashelor ===
Orinnari had been the Lord Protector of [[Ashelor]] since 30th December 2020 when the Royal Prerogative was re-instated with a few minor changes and named as the Lord's Prerogative, hinting at a Cromwell-esque republic which was ''totally'' not a Monarchy. But [[Ashelor]] was growing increasingly inactive. On 3rd February 2021, Orinnari suspended the election cycle due to lack of interest. Later, on 17th May 2021, Orinnari suspended the need for citizens to register to vote and the need for proposals to be seconded. [[Ashelor]] became so inactive that [[Icenia (CivClassic)|Icenia]] effectively occupied and annexed Old Bloom, however this was instigated by Truckman, a [[Bloom|Bloomean]] and [[Ashelor]] citizen, so the only issue was the [[Icenia (CivClassic)|Icenia]] didn't consult with or inform [[Ashelor]]'s government. Wanting to move onto other projects, Orinnari passed on the position of Lord Protector to [[7misun]] on 5th July 2021.
 
=== "PSA Orimmari isn't me" ===
On 13th September 2021, a new account joined Civclassics named "[[Orimmari]]", clearly a gimmick account of Orinnari. Made somewhat unsettled by this, Orinnari posted a few notifications to various discords that the account was not an alt and shouldn't be given groups. On 11th October 2021, after someone in global chat wondered how Orinnari could've joined without having logged out, he felt it best to be more active in disassociating himself with the gimmick account: this however backfired, causing interest and memery, including from [[Wingzero54]] (the admin of Civclassics) himself. As this continued, two days later Orinnari tried being more personal by making a subreddit-post explaining the gimmick account, how it made him feel uncomfortable, how the characteristic similarity of the gimmick account posed an inherent risk to security and privacy, etc, but this also backfired: the community thereby feasted gleefully on his vulnerability and attempt to leverage the imitator to stop. While this was spiralling, Orinnari got a good piece of advice from [[bgbba]] and had the idea to make it seem like he switched to another account. He used a script to re-nickname himself in all civ-related discords and used a [https://github.com/MCCTeam/Minecraft-Console-Client headless client] to afk on Remcompti. Shortly after, the account "Remcomptii" appeared, which Orinnari found very funny though was also somewhat disappointed that the imitator didn't go for a more meme-worthy corruption like "Remcumpti". With that said, Orinnari's opinion of the community was lowered by the whole affair.
 
=== "Dereliction: Ashelor" ===
On 1st October 2021, [[Okx]] declared the independence of [[Dumnonia]], a new one-man nation comprised exclusively of [[Yoahtl|Yoahtlan]] territory. Two days later, [[GDAN12]] filed a lawsuit against [[Okx]]. Since [[Okx]] did not trust [[Yoahtl]]'s courts to be fair or unbiased he vowed not to show up to court. At first, Orinnari offered himself as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae Amicus curiae] to give a second opinion on the numerous charges laid against [[Okx]]. However, [[SpaceVolcano]], the High Justice of [[Yoahtl]] who was presiding over the case, was insisting on a standard trial without an absentee defendant, so Orinnari became [[Okx]]'s defence lawyer. On 9th October 2021, Orinnari used [[Ashelor]] in his opening statement to court as an example of technically unlawful secession being nonetheless perfectly acceptable. Half an hour later, [[GDAN12]] posts a dereliction request of [[Ashelor]] to the [[Unified Map Project|UMP]]. In the next three weeks, [[GDAN12]] would argue repeatedly for [[Ashelor]]'s dereliction. When confronted, [[GDAN12]] claimed to hold a general opinion against inactive nations holding claims, and yet to date [[Ashelor]] remains [[GDAN12]]'s first and only dereliction request to the [[Unified Map Project|UMP]]. When Orinnari suggested that [[Ashelor]] should become a protectorate of the [[CCCP]], [[GDAN12]] reacted poorly, arguing that newfriends would be unduly prevented from settling there and keeping the area claimed is wrong no matter how small [[Ashelor]]'s claims are.
 
=== Southshire's trans-flag drama ===
(CW: transphobia)
 
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On 24th November 2021, a [[Bonita Springs]] embassy(?) in [[New Yoahtl City]] was trans-flag bombed and covered in signs with progressive messaging. Two days later, on 26th November 2021, a number of [[IMC]] citizens invaded [[Bonita Springs]] with the intention to perma-pearl [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]] and level the settlement, using the internal [[Southshire]] flag drama as justification. After Orinnari received frantic cries for help from [[Bonita Springs]], he and [[RoboRik]] began lobbying for the withdrawal from [[Bonita Springs]] and the cessation of violence. It was decided internally not to offer [[Bonita Springs]] reentry into [[Southshire]] - and thus under the protection of [[SATO]] and the [[UDF]] - since this would likely be seen internationally as active support for [[cinzar]] and [[RKFalcon88|RKFalcon]]'s blatant and unapologetic transphobia.
 
=== The murder of Civclassics ===
On 17th November 2021, Civclassics went down for approximately two days for unknown reasons. A couple of days after restoration (21st November 2021) [[Wingzero54|Wingzero]] published an announcement in the Civclassic Official Discord going into detail about the server downtime:<blockquote>Things are winding down on CivClassic. I am closing the Bug Bounty program as I was singehandedly managing the program and will no longer be doing that. I will not be implementing any more changes and will generally not merge any code requests unless they are needed to fix issues. The server being down was because the automatic payment failed and only one person has access and did not notice. It simply took several days to get around to setting it back up. The issue was not a lack of funds. Regarding modmail, I have been handling 99% of it and going forward if your modmail is not of high importance I would not expect it to get answered. That all being said, Kira is down and I'm not fixing it right now and there's nobody else to do it</blockquote>This announcement was ominous enough for people to assume the death of Civclassic but Orinnari was unconvinced. Given that Civclassic development had been lethargic for months, he didn't consider that aspect of the announcement news. He didn't consider however that the automatic payment failing but not due to insufficient funds was foreshadowing [[TealNerd|Teal]]'s intentions. On 24th November 2021, [[TealNerd|Teal]] made a subreddit post titled "[https://old.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/r0rsys/end_of_the_year_party_121821_at_1800_utc/ End of the Year Party 12/18/21 at 18:00 UTC]" to send off the year with an in-game party. People began to suspect that this event was an End of the World (EOTW) event and rumours began to spread. On 8th December 2021, [[TealNerd|Teal]] made another subreddit post titled "[https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/rc370p/through_the_roof_n_underground/ Through the Roof 'n' Underground]" which fawned over the success and longevity of Civclassics while also stating in no uncertain terms that Civclassics will come to an end and will not return for a third iteration. Orinnari responded with the following comment:<blockquote>'''THIS IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY'''
 
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On 18th December 2021, Orinnari repeatedly asked [[TealNerd|Teal]] during the EOTW event what will happen with the remaining funds from Civclassics' Patreon, all of which he refused to answer. While some players included mentions of the funds in their speeches, the general atmosphere mirrored the lack of outrage and spurned Orinnari for being a "killjoy".
 
=== Dissolution of Ashelor ===
On 11th December 2021, Orinnari requested and was given ownership of Ashelor's Discord server for old time's sake. Sometime later, Orinnari understood that Ashelor would not be re-established on future iterations and so used [https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter DiscordChatExporter] to archive pertinent channels before deleting the Discord server.
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