ExShoNek

Summary
ExShoNek was an alliance between 3 small groups, EXOTiiC, Shokan, and Nekauba lasting from December 10 2019 and still going to this day. (However not in much of an anarchy group anymore)

Status
EckShoeNeck is bak for the 20th time in 9b history.

Founding Leaders
EXOTiiC: scaffpine, Cornflaek

Shokan: Enderkool, Easy_2013, Dotingwinner14.

Nekauba: MCA, suejo123 (inactive), Spaniel_AUS (inactive)

Current Leaders:
Enderkool

Mineral Water

Haveproblems

Easy

Grabba

Foundations
Shokan - After its previous base, The Vatican (Oct 20 2019 - Nov 27 2019) was destroyed, the members officially formed the group Shokan and doubled the group's size from 5 to 10 members, then founded a new base, Remnant, 3 million from spawn.

Nekauba - The group Anthrax was a small group located on the -z highway, that had around 10 members. After its owner quit and deleted the discord, the members MCA and Spaniel_AUS made a new continuation, Nekauba.

EXOTiiC - Founded in late October 2019, its leader Cornflaek began advertising in chat and invited a few people, such as scaffpine, and later Enderkool and Easy_2013. At its height, it had about 15 members.

Connections

(Nov 28) Enderkool was trying to pearl TP the dubs of gear that had been stashed near Vatican to Remnant, but he didn't realize jj patched it the day prior. He ended up back at spawn, and began to travel back to Remnant. On the way, completely out of nowhere he ran into MCA, who he had been talking with in chat moments prior. They showed each other their bases along the highway, as they both were quite established at that time along the -z highway. On their way, they also met suejo123 who later invited them to his base.

(Dec 10) Enderkool and MCA decided to create an alliance discord "Shokan + Nekauba" for their respective groups.

(Dec 21) Both Easy and Enderkool knew about EXOTiiC, and how it was similar in size to both Shokan and Nekauba, so they invited it into the alliance.

Expansion (Dec 10 2019 - Feb 14 2020)
Around December 15/16, there was a joint Shokan and Nekauba meetup at suejo's base, as a pre-Christmas party. It was then griefed days later by an unknown player, however it was extremely close to the highway, which is probably why it was destroyed. On December 22nd, Killjoy, the first member of ExShoNek who was not from any of the individual groups founded the Shared Base aka "Frozen Shithole". Only a day later, jj announced the Christmas Dupe. This is when everything began to fall into place. Because of the Christmas Dupe, the members began duplicating items in many different locations and spreading out the resources. It was very good for Nekauba and EXOTiiC, as before only Enderkool and Easy_2013 had access to any sort of significant kits supply. Multiple new bases were created such as the "ExShoNek End Base", "Obsidian City" (closest, largest and longest lasting spawnbase on 9b to this day), "Underground Base/Stash", and many other smaller stashes. It's largest size was about 50 members total. On a side note, the Imperials attempted to inside EXOTiiC, and the alliance helped figure out who it was and ban them very easily. (Ended up being a MrCK alt)

Downfall
After the 'official merge' on Feburary 4th, a new base was created, which would be the most active one yet. The Underground Base. It had a large dupe stash, full of building blocks (which many members were lacking). On February 13th, Cornflaek decided to set up a new shop. However, instead of duplicating his own items for it, he began to use multiple dubs of supplies from the stash without asking any members, and to profit from it for himself. It quickly escalated leading to a (pretty larp, although everything here is) 'trial'. On Feb 14th, he was pressured to dupe items at the stash or even to just return the items he took, but he refused and said that he "had enough of this nonsense". He began nuking the ExShoNek discord, (deleting about half of it before he was banned), and sold everything out to the Imperials (why the Imperials, you may ask? who the fuck knows). The Imps made a compromise and said they wouldn't destroy all the bases but only if ExShoNek 'submitted' to them. Cornflaek quit 9b9t that day.

'Imperial ExShoNek' (Feb 14 2020 - Mar 5 2020)
LARP WARNING

All of ExShoNek's more trusted members agreed that they needed some sort of revenge for what the Imperials and Cornflaek had done, so they decided to 'join' the Imps as the "Imperial ExShoNek Division". MCA and Easy_2013 were promoted straight to Centurion (who knows why, but it was retarded). During this, a new secret group was created called 'Inertia' (yes, before WWE Client changed its name to Inertia Client). After about 3 weeks, they got bored (also because Enderkool couldn't keep his mouth shut so the Imps got pissed at him and he got banned) so MCA and Easy got to nuke both the Imperial 9b9t and ExShoNek divisions.

Continuation (Mar 5 2020 - Mar 29 2020)
After nuking the Imps, ExShoNek was ironically known more as an Imperial group than a normal group, so was a major target for insiders. Despite this, it reformed successfully back into the old alliance discord and created a new recruitment system to compensate for all the members it lost from before Cornflaek. It managed to grow back to 35 active members, and rebuilt Obsidian City for the third time (which had been griefed by the Imperials). However, 2 weeks later in late March was when those insiders I mentioned earlier began to put strain on the group.

First, Inertia Base was leaked and destroyed (presumably by hardbatmonk, an OG member of Shokan, who had been acting suspicious the previous week). Second, Obsidian City was griefed by an unknown player, but this was the worst grief yet. As a result, ExShoNek created Obsidian City 2, at the same coordinates but doubled (6k from spawn). The leaders noticed the group was becoming unstable, and as a last resort to stay together, they organized building of the largest spawn logo. Thanks to 15+ players all at once, they swiftly (by hand) built a ~1000x150 logo in just 6 hours, surprising many players. Unfortunately, due to insiders it became public knowledge before any render was done of it- and the next day was completely covered up. This led to said insiders finally leaking the bases they had knowledge of, and completely obliterating Obsidian City 2. Many active members left, leaving to smaller base groups such as Slimegang, as constant base destruction was (obviously) disliked. The remaining leaders agreed to archive the discord and call it quits.

Aftermath
The Underground Stash from early February had actually been moved by 5 players about 500 blocks right after Cornflaek, and miraculously managed to survive there until late Summer, long after ExShoNek was disbanded. About 30 people knew its location by the time it was destroyed.

There was another completely garbage 'revival' of ExShoNek in the summer but that got trashed pretty quickly as it was extremely inactive and a few of the members were pretty pissed at each other from certain events in Slimegang.

Basically some of the original members of ExShoNek kinda hang out and make a dead base every once and a while nowadays. But they (most of them) are still good friends today.

Revival Again
After the death of Arsonists. The still 9b9t active leaders of Arsonists, MCA, Enderkool, Haveproblems, and Easy wanted to start something new as nothing on 9b9t was happening with them. The discord server was created in early December of 2020, named "Unknown" as nobody knew what to do yet with the group. After around a month, MCA and Enderkool decided to name it ExShoNek again, this time being ExShoNek Remastered.

ExShoNek Remastered (December 2020 - Today)
This version of ExShoNek was promised to be the longest lasting and most stable version of ExShoNek. The group runs by choosing 1-3 assistant leaders every 14th of a month, while having 3 permanent leaders: MCA, Enderkool, and Haveproblems. The group has 3 ranks, Recruit, Member, and Most Trusted. And as to be different than past ExShoNek's bases are completely separate roles from Recruit, Member, and Most Trusted.

When ExShoNek was revived, it was revived in complete secrecy for around a month as the group rebuilt from almost complete scratch. During this secrecy time, the group only had the base Detroit. Detroit later to be griefed by Pogland, but the group moved on from Detroit quickly. As Detroit was happening, all members were invited to another spawn base, the ExShoNek Canal Outpost. As people got bored of the Canal Outpost, Emaan and Maxwell saw an opportunity for a new spawn base, The Cube.

The Cube is a giant 69 x 69 cube near spawn almost completely solid obsidian with a layer of water on the outside and guardians on the inside to prevent people from getting in. And in typical 9b9t fashion because you guys cant let cool things be cool. You found a way to get inside, kill the guardians and grief the cube.

Since the cube, we just have been sitting on our asses making bases, and getting rid of insiders.

Bases
Frozen Shithole (Shared Base), Griefed

Frozen Shithole 2.0 - Trusted 1, Griefed

ExShoNek End Base - Trusted 3+, Griefed

Member Base - Public base for members, Griefed

Tunnel Base - Base for Trusted 1

Underground Base - Second major Moderately Trusted base Griefed*

EXOTiiC Main Base - Scaffpines mancave

Section C - EXOTiiC sectional base from after merge

Section A - still not griefed, and like an imperial base, just terrain, no buildings

Obsidian City - Spawnbase, greifed after the 10k 10k render of spawn

Obsidian City v2 - Spawnbase, griefed by attention seekers

Inertia Base - For a separate group full of ExShoNek members called Inertia, (the group was formed as a secret group during the imperial insiding), Edit: Griefed