Anarchy Union

The Anarchy Union (AU) was a three-way alliance between Bluepen Democracy, the Northern Empire (NE), and Team Phantom II on 9b6t.eu. The union's authors, ActionTrooper27 of Phantom, Frosthat of NE, and Fredmodulars of Bluepen coalesced on the threat of Stormfront and their prolonged position as the number one group on the server. The goal of the alliance was to counter Stormfront threats and maintain stability and growth within the three individual teams with the exception of Phantom.

The Anarchy Union was short-lived and ultimately never flourished into anything notable. Though the alliance was major, it immediately caused a war on the server between the union and its major enemies, The Shadow Triumvirate and Stormfront. The impact of the war to the union itself was on such a large scale that most members of the teams left the server and most teams disbanded.

Background
The background of all the teams is diverse and made for a heterogenous alliance. Team Phantom II was created in June 2020 as a successor to the primitive and early group Team Phantom. Compared to the original, the sequel was drained of the activity required to properly function. The group was originally clandestine, for its founders, ActionTrooper27, Phantomhorse, and Skullaton222, created it in secret. However, most to all members were inactive and did not touch foot in the server. Very soon after its creation, the team was declared both neutral and dormant. Despite that, ActionTrooper and Fredmodulars tried to revive the team, albeit with little, if any, success.

The Bluepen Democracy was formed by Fredmodulars on July 17, 2020. The idea for the group came as far back as May, when Modulars joined the server to inquire on a growing 2b2t group. It formed relations with Team Phantom II, which had also made an alliance with the Dark Empire and, later, the Northern Empire. On July 25, Modulars reorganized and restructured the group. Despite its name, the Bluepen Democracy lacked the democratic aspects of its successors (Team Creeper and The Creeper Republic), and the group was more a bureaucratic mess than an actual team. It focused on government structure and player organization rather than combat, materials, and intelligence. It did, however, benefit from a somewhat-large player count, some of whom were inactive. It recruited primarily newfags to help its player count and to try to obtain their trust.

The Northern Empire was formed by frosthat and tastieraqwerty. They fought on the losing side of the Post-Dupe War. By July, their standing in the 9b6t community was unfavorable and they sufferred from some inactivity, as did the former two teams. Team Phantom had forged an alliance with them around the same time (or most likely before) their alliance with Bluepen. What Bluepen lacked, however, Northern Empire made up in experience, combat, and supplies.

Formation, war, and disbandment
The union was established on July 29, 2020, at 0:00 UTC. A group chat between the three leaders, frost, Modulars, and ActionTrooper, led to the formation of the alliance. During the conversation, the three cited growing worries on Stormfront's expansive grip on the server, such as their control of the Wiki and information, dominance in server infrastructure and transport, prominent status, secretive hacked client, intelligence, notable members, and supplies. The founders never proposed a large-scale engagement or war, however, only that the group needed to be equaled via a Cold War-type conflict, essentially.

The alliance was meant to be extremely clandestine. It was immediately revealed to members of Bluepen Democracy. The news wasn't announced to Team Phantom II, and it cannot be confirmed whether or not it was proclaimed in NE. However, dan_999, both a Stormfront and Bluepen member, departed the latter after the news of the union broke out. He did so while leaking the alliance to The Vietcong and concealing it from AU members. Immediately, at 3:28am UTC, A2H griefed a spawn base (Bluefront Isle) of 4 AU-Bluepen members which had been set up shortly before. Go_Hoosiers killed TheSeaBean and Modulars, the former being of Bluepen as well, compensating them with kits. At 17:28 UTC, a refugee center (since most Bluepen members were new to the server) at -3k -3k overworld was also destroyed by Minihercules317 of Stormfromt and The Shadow Triumvirate. The latter had interpreted Fredmodulars's departure from their server as a threat and subsequently broke ties with Bluepen. Meanwhile, dan, now in personal ownership of a once-Bluepen base, was harrassed after his reaction to the base's leaking by a player, Diamond_Woody, of both sides of the war. Minihercules griefed it, followed by a claim by Hoosiers that he was the real culprit. An insider in the AU proved to have caused the majority of the damage.

By 15:16 UTC on July 30, attempts to make peace with TST and Stormfront failed. NekoPvP griefed another AU/Bluepen base. frost tried assisting by attacking players at spawn, but this proved to lead to nowhere except pointless skirmishes. An embarrassing defeat resulted, with Team Phantom receiving the least impact due to none of its members participating.

Aftermath and impact
The events of July 29 and July 30 occurred so quickly that the defining of the AU-Stormfront War as a war, the least important of the three wars albeit, was only in retrospect. The Anarchy Union proved to be a disaster due to poor security. Bases were griefed, the union was leaked, and insiders appeared due to poor security. The leaking of the union was also a major cause of its downfall. Instead of carefully reviving Phantom, building up Bluepen's supplies, weaponry, and intelligence, and growing NE's technology and war techniques, the union was unable to meet war demands and bit off more than it could chew.

The individual teams also found disaster. Due to the union and war, Bluepen immediately collapsed, followed by that of its short-lived successor, Team Creeper. The wiki, with updated guidelines, and Stormfront denied Team Phantom II status as a team. A minor revival attempt led to nowhere, though ActionTrooper27 got onto the server once. The Northern Empire collapsed later in the middle of August, with its successor being Secluded.

In contemporary, or post-9b6t.eu, times, the union has still affected the server battleground. Relations continue between Modulars and ActionTrooper to this day, the majority outside the server. The same goes with the former and frosthat. During 9b6t.org, The Creeper Republic was formed as a successor to Bluepen and, in a way, Team Phantom II. More recently, all former AU members have joined the team on 9b6t.net, and the union began a seemingly perpetual pact between the three, objectively influential, players.

Economy
Due to its nature, the union held few to little materials or supplies. The majority of the population were newfags, and, as such, possessed only whatever the more established leaders and members could offer. In particular, Modulars provided almost all materials to incoming newfags. He believed that newfags were not to be abused, but, at the same time, could not be trustworthy. Newfags, in his eyes, made for population growth, activity, and enthusiasm. However, they could also lead to disaster, insiding, and crisis. As would prove to be the case, both would be true.

The genesis of the AU-Stormfront War brought about the mass destruction of AU bases. The AU leadership could not solve this problem, and continued to believe the discoveries were lucky spawn finds and that W.I.P. bases farther out could be salvaged. This would prove to not be the case, as two members turned on the group and spread the coordinates of many bases to Stormfront. Strained materials amongst newfags, coupled with a lack of a sufficient supply source for experienced players, midfags, and oldfags, helped, but were definitely not a major cause of, the demise of the AU. The AU never had the sufficient materials to counter its enemies, and the hope was to slowly monopolize on the growth they were receiving, but the immediate attacks on AU infrastructure quickly terminated these dreams.