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=== The Great HCF War and Creation of the World Police ===
The World Police began as a concept in late 2012 during the [https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1dlmo0/the_hcf_conflict_in_screenshots_and_posts/ Great HCF War]. In the iteration before Civcraft 1.0, [[AncapMinecraft]],
[[File:Slaying ancaps with russianroulette.png|alt=A still from the video "Slaying AnCaps with Russian_Roulette" depicting a fight with the original World Police from the HCF side, December 2012.|left|thumb|A still from the video "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzsolKHJfc Slaying AnCaps with Russian_Roulette]" depicting a fight with the original World Police from the HCF side, December 2012.]]
On December 20, 2012, HCF forces attacked and occupied Columbia, the largest city on the server at the time. The server largely united against them, with Civcrafters from many different cities coming together to retake Columbia.<ref><nowiki>https://i.imgur.com/IG3ILHV.png</nowiki></ref>This informal coalition successfully retook Columbia and Foofed's Vault, which the HCF griefed extensively.<ref><nowiki>https://imgur.com/a/LaKVv</nowiki></ref>The rest of the course of the war followed this formula: the HCF would attack a town, and the World Police would come to defend it and pearl them, absorbing town residents into their ranks as time went on.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzsolKHJfc</ref> The result was a coalition of fighters from a variety of backgrounds, including [[LSIF|anarchists]], [[Prussia#Civcraft 1.0|Prussians]], AnCaps, [[The Workers' Party|statists]], and nomads.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1760lw/on_operation_liberty_rising/</ref>On December 27, the World Police label was officially adopted by this group.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/15i01h/an_update_from_the_world_police/</ref>
As the months went on, the World Police were continually successful in ultimately repelling HCF attacks despite taking heavy losses and having their cities numerously raided. On February 23, 2013, the WP broke open the HCF's second world border vault, which they had been using to store the pearls of WP fighters and innocent civilians they had been pearling, leading the WP to declare victory.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/192gum/a_new_era_begins_uniting_the_nations/</ref>The next two weeks involved cleaning up HCF stragglers, with the WP pearling the last of them on March 9th, bringing a final end to the server's first global conflict.<ref><nowiki>https://i.imgur.com/cxZaOjH.png</nowiki></ref>
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''Main Article: [[The LADS War]]''
[[File:Duck city.png|alt=Pro-LADS propaganda from the LADS War, circa February 2014.|thumb|Ironic anti-LADS propaganda from the LADS War, circa February 2014.]]
The World Police claimed to have found themselves in a new, impossible position: people wanted them to fight Bloodcrew and the Poser Brigade and live up to their World Police role while also simultaneously lumping them in with the former two and despising their presence outside of Carson. In order to remedy this, on January 1, 2014, the World Police announced their official disbanding and reformation into a new organisation
What would become known as the LADS War formally began on February 3, 2014 when the LADS raided Whosnick island in an attempt to pearl Joshua97367.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1wyiqp/lads_declare_war_on_josh_and_friends/</ref> The head of a reformed raider group, Josh attempted to pearl shadowjay for crimes committed under the Poser Brigade, but was thwarted when shadowjay ran to Duck City for safety.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1wxyym/shadowjay_seeking_safe_haven_in_duck_city/</ref>The rest of the LADS then attempted to pearl Josh and resulted in the invasion of his home base. Taking up the defence of shadowjay as their hill to die on, the LADS would go to war with and invade numerous cities around the server, including [[Commonwealth (2.0)|Commonwealth]], [[Orion]], and [[FAGT]], all of who attempted to pearl shadowjay.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1y3gq9/lads_formally_declare_war_on_fagt/</ref><ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1y787l/lads_attack_2/</ref><ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/2ke51g/once_again_the_lads_are_destroying_everything_ive/</ref>Subsequently, similar to what happened at the end of 1.0, a new coalition of city militias teamed up with the newly-free HCF members to take down the LADS, who were shedding members like blueavenue and MrsEmery.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1vq35s/formallypublicly_announcing_my_disassociation/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1wtq1r/my_pov_on_the_recent_goings_on/</ref>
On March 9th, ReCharge, a new PVP group made up of many of the HCF who were released and who claimed to have been reformed, invaded Duck City and pearled a number of the LADS and Poser Brigade.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1zzk1v/riversend_recharge_zerorussia_betray_as_expected/</ref>Worn down by the fighting with an entire server against them, the LADS saw the writing on the wall and surrendered, announcing their dissolution and releasing the rest of the Recharge members.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/200z3f/lads_statement_or_how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying/</ref>
=== ReCharge and the Unofficial World Police ===
''See also: [[Recharge War|The Recharge War]]''
The surrender of the LADS led to the departure of many from the server, mostly voluntarily but also including a few like NjPalms and GordonFreemanQ who were banned for cheating throughout their Civcraft careers.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/251tvb/its_been_one_hell_of_a_ride/</ref>Carson still existed and would still always be linked to the World Police, but founders blue and Jacky crafted a great name for Carson independent of the World Police label. This was largely done through the creation and continual expansion of the [[CIC]], 2.0's great rail network that connected all of the server's major cities and then some. For the first time for over a year, Civcraft was without a World Police, and peace was at hand.
This peace, however, would not last long. ReCharge, the HCF group that succeeded Bloodcrew and absorbed many of its former members, earned the favour of many Civcrafters by claiming to be reformed and fighting with them against the LADS. As Recharge built up their base, River's End, and got more powerful, they began to test their luck. First, they released infamous HCF collaborator Dill_Weasel on March 13th, and second, they came to [[New Danzilona]] to harass citizens and get into a fight on April 6th.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/22df8o/ndzs_side_of_the_story/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/20cpli/riverside_good_guys_huh/</ref>These acts were controversial and planted the seed of distrust in many, but most of the server still gave Recharge the benefit of the doubt, siding with them or taking a lenient stance. It was not until they invaded [[Fellowship]] on April 15th that the server could no longer deny their intent, and a new war began.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/235eo6/recharge_invades_fellowship/</ref>
To face such a global threat, yet another global coalition of Civcraft militias was formed. The coalition included many Gondolins who were previously anti-WP, like clone2204 and Superbuilder229<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/1gfccu/haven_under_attack_holy_shit_god_help_us/</ref>, as well as [[United Provinces of the Plus Plus|Threepers]], Carsonites, Fellows, Commonwealth citiziens, Orionites (like [[Farley50]])
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