The Bastion
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 The crest of The Bastion. | |
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Founding Date |
2020 |
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Harbinger(s) |
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Foundation
The Bastion started as an ideology of better war rules in the GMC, Laken started spreading the ideology in late 2020 and planned for it to start at the summer of 2021; Little did he know, it’ll become one of the biggest organizations in the history of Graal Militaries.
Laken’s Reign
The Bastion officially launched at the sixth of June 2021. With Laken as its Harbinger, he issued The First Regulatory and started his test battles. Once he was done with his tests and was comfortable with updating the Regulatory, he issued The Second Regulatory and began looking for someone to succeed him, as he was eager to retire.
Azerius’ Reign
Laken chose Azerius to succeed him and issued a vote amongst the lords to vote on the decision. The vote was in favor of Azerius succeeding and he took control of the Bastion whilst sleeping. When Azerius was informed, a lot of things went wrong; Azerius began working on his rule tests, and TUS (The Unified State) began its campaign to take over the entire map. Azerius had a lot of opportunities to test his rules. He began working on two-front warfare, revised Laken’s rules and improved house battles. When an alliance formed against TUS, members of The Bastion server, specifically Statesmen, had complained that the organization's overseers were biased whilst campaigning to change a certain rule. Members of TUS had accused Azerius of being a biased Harbinger and was siding with people because he did not agree with their complaints. After the situation was seemingly resolved, the two guilds which had been complaining, consisting of The Unified State and Exercito, withdrew from The Bastion. The whole ordeal had caused Azerius a lot of stress, and he had decided that he did not want to be harbinger anymore. Thus, he reviewed the situation and ultimately decided to apply the rules to the whole of the GMC, dissolving the legislative hierarchy of The Bastion. Thinking this decision was premature and threatening to the well-being of the GMC, Soft talked him out of it - convincing Azerius to make him Harbinger if he did not want the role anymore.
Soft’s Reign
When Soft inherited The Bastion, the situation was fragile. At the time, there was a major ideological split between The Bastion and an anti-Bastion coalition spearheaded by TUS. Though he did make attempts to make peace with the leavers, they had limited success. Thus, he decided to allow these nations to exist outside The Bastion, knowing their time in the GMC would not be long, and negotiate with the more open-minded leaders that remain. Despite the numerous requests from Lords and Leaders alike to call a crusade, Soft persevered in his plan and The Bastion saw a lengthy time of stability for a while after TUS' dissolution.