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==== The Rise and Fall of Eden ====
After a tense but mostly uneventful spring, the people behind Libertas dropped all pretense of being an organisation that would hold itself accountable and instead decided to reform into [[Nox (Civcraft 2.0)|Nox]], an actual city-state that would craft its own laws, justice system, and, of course, megavault.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/38v1bc/the_kingdom_of_nox/</ref>To try and beat Nox at their own game, the WP reformed into an organisation called [[Eden]], which did have mechanisms that would hold its members accountable.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/3b8xsq/announcing_the_eden_group/</ref>For the first time in a while now, the WP had an organisation they were loyal to as opposed to their own nations, and this also gave a sense of a lack of immunity to their fighters. This attempt at becoming more pallatable to the rest of the server in the face of Nox's rising influence would ultimately fall flat a few weeks later when the [[Rumble in Mount Augusta|Rumble in Mt. Augusta]] occurred. On July 13, 2015, Papa pound was spotted in [[Mount Augusta (Civcraft 2.0)|Mt. Augusta]], leading to Eden forces converging on him to pearl him for the remainder of his sentence that he was accidentally freed from. Papa took safe haven in sintralin's house, and he was able to escape when a number of Chanadians used themselves as human shields for him while other Nox members fought off Eden.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Civcraft/comments/3d8j4u/a_summary_of_the_events_in_mt_augusta/</ref> When Papa made it to safe haven once again, the fighting dwindled out, and Eden was forced to expel two of its founders. The resulting fallout would also cause many Eden members, like [[TheTrackball]], to leave the group voluntarily.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/EdenGroup/comments/3fo0hf/im_leaving_for_now/</ref>Eden carried on for a couple months afterwards but tried to lay low, deciding specifically not to get involved in the [[Goten Secession Conflict|Goten Crisis]] in early August 2015, which resulted in a victory for Nox's allies.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/EdenGroup/comments/3ga2jf/gensokyomt_augusta_conflict/</ref>After 2 months of little actual policing activity, Eden voted to disband on September 15, but still kept their shared channels of communication, allowing them to effectively revert back to the pre-Eden mode of World Policing.<ref>https://old.reddit.com/r/EdenGroup/comments/3l3jl6/vote_the_disbandment_of_eden/</ref>
==== Mir Joins the World Police ====
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=== The Second Rise and Second Fall of Nox ===
''Main Article: [[Somber War|The Somber War]]''
The formation of the first World Police group and the first conflict involving it began much in the same way it did on Devoted. That is, old groups made up of veteran players remaining suspicious of one another and acting on their suspicions. On the night of July 21, 2017, the nation of [[Lexington]] (also referred to as Nox since it consisted of the same players from Nox on Civcraft 2.0, including sintralin) started to repeatedly altraid the [[The Commonwealth|Commonwealth]] in order to exploit them in a protection racket provided by Lexington.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/6orti4/huge_attack_in_commonwealth_right_now/</ref>A number of events subsequently occurred within the Commonwealth because of this drama, with some government officials attempted to get parts of the Commonwealth annexed by Lexington before being outed and expelled from their positions. To undermine Lexington's efforts and get more insider information, [[Hjaltland]] citizens TangentialThreat began spying on Lexington and their allies, notably making many ventures into the land of Lexington's ally, [[Anguish]] (the successor to Ruin from Devoted 3.0) and installing malware on sintralin's computer to gain access to her citadel groups.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/71vj2m/a_thought_experiment_in_favor_for/</ref>With this casus belli, Lexington declared war upon Commonwealth and Hjaltland, who a few weeks ago had allied together and formed the [[Western Alliance]], on October 8, 2017.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/755nes/lexington_declares_war_on_hjaltland_commonwealth/</ref>[[Mir]] and [[Impasse]] were also in the Western Alliance and so came to the aid of their allies in this war. Other nations, like [[Yoahtl]], were at first officially neutral, but took some actions that helped the Western Alliance before joining up throughout the course of the war.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/756ocf/the_empire_of_yoahtl_declares_neutrality_in_the/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/85lpoe/the_western_alliance_on_essence_and_funding/</ref>The formation and expansion of the Western Alliance set the stage for the nature of the World Police on CivClassic in that it would always consist of formal pacts of sovereign nations, as opposed to the informal pacts between nations as seen on Civcraft 2.0. Despite being the ones to declare war, Lexington engaged in actual combat only infrequently and instead opted to continue their raiding across the server, leading to nations like [[Vinland]] and [[Gensokyo]] to join the Western Alliance. This led to the Western Alliance leading their attacks on Lexington and Anguish, completely disabling and dissolving the latter.<ref>https://imgur.com/a/NdQbd</ref>
''Further Reading: [[Fall of Lexington|The Fall of Lexington]]''
[[File:We just left.png|thumb|These signs, left by Nox fighters after fleeing from their vault, became a popular meme among CivClassic players]]
With Anguish gone, the Western Alliance turned their attention to Lexington proper, attacking but failing to disable the Lexington vault on December 30, 2017. Skirmishes but no major battled ensued over the next few months until a Nox fighter was trapped and pearled on March 17, 2018 after they had invaded Commonwealth.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZViwOSsRMA</ref>With morale now raised and feeling as though they could turn the tide, the Alliance made preparations to attack the Lexington vault once again and set up on attack bunker on April 6th. The attackers slowly crawled into the vault, breaking through the bastion field in the process, a technique which was relatively new at the time and one that Nox had little counter to yet. Nox's attacks on the skybridge failed and, losing all hope, they burned most of their materials in their bunkers and fled their vault, letting the attackers break it open and declare victory in the war on April 8, 2018.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/civclassics/comments/8b1987/the_war_is_over_post_screenshots/</ref>Nox leadership, including sintralin, was subsequently hunted down and pearled indefinitely. Later on in 2018, the former claims of Lexington were settled by the new nation of [[Tel Aviv]]. Although this peace would not last forever, the members of the Western Alliance became the ones who would run this new World Police order across the server.
== References ==
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