Editing ItsAlreadyGold

{{Infobox player
|name = ItsAlreadyGold
|image = Itsalreadygold.png
|nationalities = {{flag|CDM FlagP.png|Cortesia Del Mar}}
|main_residence = [[One (station)]]
|discord = @itsalreadygold
|known_for = [[staff|Senior Moderator]] of [[Horizon's End]]<br>Member of the Forum in [[Cortesia Del Mar]]
}}
'''ItsAlreadyGold''' (or simply "'''Gold'''") is an active player and [[staff|senior moderator]] on [[Horizon's End]]. He is known for his diplomatic and industrial work, as well as his leadership and engagement with the server staff team.  Gold serves as a member of the National Forum of [[Cortesia Del Mar]], and is presently a candidate for Vice President.

= History =
== Orovika ==
=== Early Horizon's End ===
ItsAlreadyGold began playing Horizon's End as soon as the server launched in April 2022; he joined the server alongside the nation of [[Orovika]], with whom he had previously played on [[StarLegacy]] since 2019.

Alongside the rest of Orovika, Gold largely sat out the early wars of Horizon's End (such as the [[Cheth Wars]]), pursuant to a policy of Orovikan neutrality. In this time, he instead devoted his efforts to a settlement project called [[Goldburg]], located first on [[Gahara]] in July 2022, and subsequently moved to [[Kovfefe]] in August 2022.

In April 2023, Gold, alongside fellow longstanding Orovikan [[GenBukkit]], would begin work on a new settlement in northwest [[Aret]] called [[Auriko]], which quickly became a critical industrial base of Orovika. Auriko was the basis for Orovika's entry into the [[Aret Treaty Organization]] alongside [[Imperial Nova]] and the [[Amcaran Social Republic]], which was a major anti-piracy alliance in which Gold was an active participant.

It was also at this time that Gold first joined the Horizon's End [[staff]] team as a Helper. Gold was subsequently promoted to Moderator just a month later in May 2023, marking one of the fastest promotions in Horizon's End staff history.

=== Modern Horizon's End ===
Shortly following the [[Frontier Update]], Gold moved his attention to another new settlement project in June 2023, founding the settlement [[Aureki]] alongside GenBukkit in north Ilius. His third active settlement project since the server began, Aureki would continue a pattern of Gold switching settlements frequently within Orovika.

On 3 July 2023, the sudden return of players from [[Cortesia Del Mar]] to Horizon's End prompted Gold, who had once been a member of the nation on [[StarLegacy]], to assist the group in establishing a presence on Horizon's End; Gold invited the settlement of [[Setra Maria]] to Orovika, and provided it with a large quantity of material and technical aid in its first weeks.

==== End of Orovikan Neutrality ====
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Gold's prominence on Horizon's End would grow as the policy of Orovikan neutrality came to an end with the [[Shadow-Orovika War]], which pitted Orovika against the new nation of [[Shadow]], led by [[Ae0n]] and spurred on by recently-recruited Shadow general [[Noix444]]. This war saw Gold become more active in [[SvS]], and engage in successful diplomacy with members of [[Shadow]], especially [[star_litty]].

Following the end of the Shadow-Orovika War, Gold struck an informal anti-piracy alliance with [[Imperial Nova]] the same evening, to contend with the newly-created threat of [[RentDueYesterday]], many of whose players had been previously involved in the Shadow-Orovika War. 

The departure of [[GenBukkit]] from Orovika on 4 October 2023, and his brief return to piracy alongside [[RentDueYesterday]] for the remainder of the month, left Gold and [[_omni]] the chief active executives of Orovika. Gold was instrumental in the creation and administration of the [[Horizon Federation]] for the full duration of its lifespan, and subsequently aided in the creation of the peacetime [[Ilios Alliance]] alongside former enemy [[Shadow]] (later [[Radiance]]) and the freshly-spawned nation of [[Cortesia Del Mar]].

== Head/Senior Moderator of Horizon's End ==
On 23 February 2024, server director [[GutinGongoozler]] announced changes to the structure of the [[Horizon's End]] staff team; among these changes was the creation of the Head Moderator position, to which Gold and [[MaidPierce]] were jointly appointed. 

Gold's tenure as head moderator is one of the things he is best known for on Horizon's End, having served in this position for several notable events in server administrative history, most notably the [[Vask Authority Leak]]. 

Gold has retained this position (now renamed "senior moderator" as of 1 January 2025) to the present.

== Cortesia Del Mar ==
On 16 October 2024, citing a desire to play with a more active community, Gold, alongside the settlement of [[Astolfo]] (whose players included [[_omni]], [[TheDioriteGod]], and [[liquidreality]]), elected to amicably leave Orovika to join [[Radiance]], with whom Orovika had been allies within the [[Ilios Alliance]] for seven months. While Astolfo would remain in Radiance, Gold would subsequently join [[Cortesia Del Mar]] instead a month later, on 10 November. 

On 25 November 2024, Gold would be elected to the National Forum of Cortesia Del Mar, which is the nation's legislature. He is now running in a special election for the Vice Presidency of the nation on a ticket with [[oko]], with the election scheduled to take place from 11-13 January.

Within Cortesia Del Mar, Gold has focused most intently on developing his personal station [[One (station)|One]] in the [[Ilios System]], as well as expanding Cortesia's [[supercapital]] capabilities. In the #general-discussion channel of the Horizon's End "Staff & Friends" Discord server, Gold described his engagement with One as an attempt to "try to meaningfully engage with the industry side of the server", and confirmed that "my enjoyment of the server has skyrocketed as a result of that decision and I've had a lot of things to do instead of the 'damn, I'm bored, I'm going to do something else' that I used to fall into".

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