The First MCO War

"There was a time when MCOrigins was a server of peace and harmony. That, however, were to change."The First MCO War was a major conflict that took place on the Minecraft server MCOrigins and, simultaneously, in many places on the internet related to it (most notably YouTube) that lasted about two years, starting from Spring of 2016, to finally come to an end in the Summer of 2018. It was a large conflict between not two, but in reality countless sides, including the PGN, HN, the Peace Groups, Non-HN Haters and many more. The war did not end with any definite winner, although it is true that the Haters got the upper hand in the later conflict.

History
The war mainly began due to the fact that as Pink Sheep's YouTube channel started to grow, the server MCOrigins started to become more and more populated by the incoming Prankster Gangsters, who, encouraged by Pink Sheep's attitude towards the "Haters", started building many PGN plots on Creative servers, being openly anti-"Hater" in the process. This caused many people to become sick of the PGN, as they deemed them kids who did not respect opinions. As a result, the PGN was soon to be challenged by an emerging side in the conflict, the Haters. Originally without a distinct leader, the Haters were overall a pretty scattered group and did not really have that much of a common goal aside from opposing Pink Sheep and his fans. That would, however, change, as the server would soon see someone who declared himself the leader of the opposition. That someone was Ilanwer3, leader of the Hater Nation. He quickly took control of a significant group of Haters and united them in a common goal. As a result, the Haters started to retaliate more effectively against the evergrowing Prankster Gangster Nation.

As MCOrigins entered a definite state of turmoil fueled by both sides, some people began to think of stopping the conflict. Although it is unknown how many people had tried this before, the first two major attempts at ending the MCOrigins War were performed by CreeperFilmsYT and Bossofminecraft (SirFetty). The first attempt, although loudly announced in Creative Blue, was in fact nothing but a cosmetic action. CreeperFilms's nation quickly collapsed on its own due to absolutely no leadership and goals. Bossofminecraft, on the other hand, was more determined to put an end to the War. He quickly organized his nation into a capable and relatively large group, and began recruiting as many people as possible ever since late 2016. Even though the efforts made to bring about peace were noticeable, the Peace Nation failed its mission, and, instead of calming the situation, the conflict actually escalated as the PN started to become less and less objective about their mission. Ultimately, PN's mission came to a decisive end on the 17th of March, 2017, when due to Hater Nation's actions, Bossofminecraft was forced to disband it. Not long after that, he himself joined Ilanwer3's nation.

In Spring 2017, the server would see many people turn against the PGN in favour of the Haters. That was the case with one of the key figures of the Prankster Gangster Nation - Blue Sheep. He left the nation, changed his identity and became a Non-HN Hater. Many former PGNs or Neutrals, however, would join the Hater Nation itself. Among these new HN members was none other than RazZorInc himself, one of the founders of the Retardistani community. Another founder of RR, Infra, was going back and forth between the Hater Nation and the Neutrals.The Hater Nation began to fight back against the PGN more fiercely than ever before, and, in fact, became more and more successful over time as their attack strategies evolved, which further contributed to the PGN being pushed back.

This would not last long, however, as some of these attack strategies had major controversies surrounding them. The most infamous one of them - IP logging - was the reason quite a few people left the Hater Nation to avoid being associated with such deeds. As a result, more moderate and neutral groups started to gain significance on the server, which shone a bad light on Ilanwer3 and his nation. Although this made the Hater Nation less populous, Ilanwer's most trusted members formed even tighter bonds with their leader, therefore the group was not necessarily weakened.

In November 2017, BossOfMC once again attempted to bring peace upon the server through the creation of another peace group he called the United Neutrals. Although successful in gathering a large variety of member factions at first, UN quickly fell to the wrath of the Hater Nation and to some of its very own rebels, including Infra, who had griefed UN's headquarters prior to its disbanding.

Despite the undeniable fact that the Hater Nation had managed to spread its influence over the vastness of MCOrigins effectively, the faction itself began to grow less and less active over time. In fact, by the end of 2017, it only had a few truly active members, and was even spied on by RazZorInc, who managed to trick the HN into thinking he had become their associate once again, as he had left the nation before due to the well-known IP logging scandals. Following this period of uneventfulness, BossOfMC made his last attempt to bring MCOrigins closer towards a decisive end of the war, by creating a faction first and briefly known as the Secret Unity of MCOrigins, which quickly got renamed to Democracy of Peace. As all his former peace-oriented factions, DP sought to unite as many players as possible under one common banner and goal, eventually leading to ceasefire and peace on the server. The beggining of this initiative was quite promising as a substantial number of players started rapidly joining DP. The process was further accelerated by Ilanwer3's announcement regarding HN's disbanding. This later proved to be a distraction tactic, but DP members nevertheless did not suspect that much and decided to openly celebrate, despite them having had little to no involvement in this act.

Although Democracy of Peace was developing quickly, it was not long until it had to fight off new enemies, most of them being its former members who turned revolutionary for various reasons. Some, like Jorden2006 and Trizenthic (Hexer) decided to form their own nation called the New Hater Legion after being demoted by BossOfMC and Infra, the two most important figures in DP.