Editing Amcaran Social Republic (section)

== Actual History ==
Friends [[NoContextGiven]], Squirrel_deity, and Wynotwin learned of the continuation of Star Legacy and wanted to form a nation together once the server launched. They settled on making a communist nation and chose to settle on Aret due to its especially high resource content at the time, eventually choosing the Arta Ridge South to settle on. Unfortunately, the group had to promptly move after the area was claimed by another faction. This led them to the Ionian Rise North where they would found the settlement of Ionia and, by extension, the Ionian Social Republic on April 18, 2022. Squirrel_deity, Wynotwin, and [[NoContextGiven|Context]], despite having differing official titles, became equal members of a tri-dictatorship known as the Troika, which became the nation's main executing power.

Shortly after this, the fledgling nation was contacted by one Vortexion who informed them of the name's similarities to his own faction, Iona, and that the similarity in name may draw unwanted attention to the young nation. It was at this point that [[NoContextGiven]] came up with the name Amcar, basing it off of the AMC or "Aret Mining Corporation" from the lore they had imagined.

During its early existence, the nation was primarily comprised of the friend group surrounding the original founders, though the original group would slowly withdraw from the server until solely Squirrel_deity, NoContextGiven, and 40spaceshrimp remained as consistent players by the end of the year. A larger portion of the population began to be made up of newer players that joined the nation, especially following the transition to a republican government in late 2022.

Shortly after its formation, Amcar began to look outward for allies and made its first treaty with Aetheria on April 29, 2022, the [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y9dp6OvITzJ4rDKBedZMA_LIwgRlCBxefc__-FZMBRQ/edit?usp=sharing Amcar-Aether Pact] following the Ionian Conference. Amcar would continue to form treaties with likeminded nations including the Eternal Sith Empire, UNSC, and later Primordial and Panacea. These alliances would soon prove to be of great assistance as Amcar found itself embroiled in its first conflict.

Amcar was founded directly east of the nation of Vulnere, a pirate nation that existed within the larger Echelon-sphere. There had been prior skirmishes between the two nations, but the event on May 20 would prove to solidify Amcaran involvement.

On the evening of May 20, many of the people of Amcar as well as allies were online and had planned to host a meeting at Amcar to discuss Amcar's involvement in the chetherite and piracy wars. One player, chirp_bat, was delayed returning to the city from a trading mission and found herself flying at a time that pirates were about. The Amcaran's online, at the orders of NoContext, piloted shuttles and flew out to meet the late trader and escort her back to the settlement. It was a precaution, though the Amcaran's did not expect an attack, or so claimed NoContext in a later report to Squirrel_deity. After some time of flying, the Vulnere pilots suddenly changed course to engage the group. Fortunately, the convoy successfully arrived back at the settlement and the trader was able to disembark and seek shelter within the base; unfortunately, NoContext, inexperienced in ship combat, overestimated his group's chances and chose to engage the enemy and seek a fight. Luckily, the nearby Amcaran allies, representatives Ashparty, Elomilo, and Killer666dog, chose to aid in the battle. Despite this, the shuttles, designed for transport, not combat, fell quickly to sustained fire from the more dedicated warships. As the battle progressed, even with the losses, it seemed that the escort force was likely to win, until the wider Echelon fleet arrived. All defending ships aside from the original trade vessel were lost with no enemy losses (except time and cheth). Shortly after the defeat, a monument was set up in Korfu Trench on Aret, north of Amcar proper, around one of the fallen shuttles.
[[File:ToAllTheFallen.png|thumb|Monument in Korfu Trench to the first battle over Amcar.]]
(More historic information will be added here).

Throughout its existence, Amcar was never home to the greatest technological advancement nor the most magnificent of architecture. The majority of the people were strongly loyal, though often found themselves more concerned with other ventures, with the time that was dedicated to the server often being spent engaging in less-than-productive activities, not necessarily helping to advance the nation. The majority of the population enjoyed the roleplay aspects of the nation more than committing to activities that would aid in the long term. The situation was further hampered by constant disagreement within government on how to go about national development. Amcar was always extremely proud and stubborn, though this national pride and sense of identity would lead to the more conservative parties in the administration refusing some forms of aid that were more efficient, solely due to their solutions not fitting well into the culture-specific designs that the nation was committed to. This was best summarized with the "orange fuel tanks," which developed into a sort-of inside joke in the community surrounding Amcar. It was a reference to the NASA-punk Amcaran ship doctrine, where ships would be designed with real spacecraft philosophies in mind, but molded to more of an aesthetic role and changed to fit into the constraints of the server. This often led to more effective ship designs being rejected as "not Amcaran." Control over the early nation was primarily shared between the more conservative and traditionalist Squirrel_deity, and the young, impressionable NoContextGiven. NoContextGiven would often cave to any kind of pressure and was quick to take action on a whim, while Squirrel_deity was much more cautious and conservative, and often refused to sacrifice Amcar's identity to progress. 

Even following Squirrel_deity's withdrawal from the nation in mid to late 2022, the nation suffered from a lack of inspiration or motivation, especially NoContextGiven who began to loose a sense of purpose and overall interest in the server, focusing more on other areas of life. The final seal in the first republic (the authoritarian state) was an incident between NoContext and Squirrel_deity that resulted in NoContext briefly leaving the nation before returning with the settlement claim of Kozani Plains in the northwest of Aret, and Squirrel's withdrawl from the nation. The inactivity from Squirrel mixed with NoContext's departure from the settlement led to the main Amcar settlement purging on November 3, 2022.

(To be continued).