Editing Star litty

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|image = Star litty.png
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|main_residence = [[Cicatrix]]
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'''star_litty''' is an active player and server [[staff|helper]] on Horizon's End. She is one of the leaders of [[Radiance]], and the founder of the [[Ilios Alliance]].

= Known For =
=== Radiance ===
==== Leadership ====
star_litty has been near-continually a member of [[Radiance]] leadership since the [[Radiant Revolution]] in July 2024. Her tenure has seen Radiance grow substantially, and she is credited with stabilizing Radiance's large community in the tumultuous months following the Revolution. She is presently a member of the Radiance "1st Quartet", a leadership council consisting of herself, [[_omni]], [[Kay_2905]], and [[Astrobolt]].
==== Cicatrix ====
star_litty is the founder of the city of [[Cicatrix]] on [[Aerach]], as well as a major contributor to its building and development.
=== Ilios Alliance ===
star_litty and [[_omni]] founded the [[Ilios Alliance]] in April 2023. The alliance's original membership of [[Shadow]] (now [[Radiance]]), [[Orovika]], and [[Cortesia Del Mar]] all remain part of the alliance to this day.
<br>As of the start of the [[Long Peace]], the Ilios Alliance is the dominant server power pole.
=== Horizon's End ===
==== Staff Tenure ====
star_litty has been a member of Horizon's End [[staff]] (alternately a Helper or a Moderator) for two separate spans of time. In this position, she has been regarded for a community-focused approach to staffing, as well as for playing a role in revitalizing the staff team following [[Vask Authority Leak|some moderate internal dysfunction]] in August and September 2024.
==== Community Involvement ====
star_litty has been involved in several community projects and initiatives, such as the [[Main Page|Horizon's End wiki]]. 

= History =
=== Early Days ===
[[File:HGM_issue1_pg3.png|thumb|300px|An issue of the newspaper "[[Horizons Galactic Media Weekly]]", published by [[Oliveburger22]] on 19 May 2023.]]
star_litty first joined Horizon's End on an indeterminate date in April 2023, alongside the nation of [[Shadow]]. Shadow (at first briefly named "The Shadow Realm" ingame) was an established nation from the [[Movecraft]] server "Pirate Minecraft", and one with which she had been leagued already for several years. Over the course of the following months, Shadow would quietly develop its base in the [[Ilios System]], largely staying out of server political affairs at the time. In this period, star_litty served as Shadow's "ambassador", putting her in charge of engaging in diplomacy with other nations and groups - most notably, their planetary neighbors [[Setra Maria]] (later the nation of [[Cortesia Del Mar]]) on [[Chimgara]].

=== Rise to Leadership ===
==== Shadow-Orovika War ====
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On 22 August 2022, the nation of Shadow, under the leadership of [[Ae0n]] (and informal co-leadership of the recently-admitted [[Noix444]]) declared war on the colonist nation of [[Orovika]], sparking a 40-day conflict termed the [[Shadow-Orovika War]]. This war was deeply unpopular with the bulk of Shadow's player-base, who did not wish to be in conflict with players with whom they had positive personal relationships, and resented the [[SvS]]-oriented players that Ae0n brought into the nation to wage the war, such as [[Noix444]], [[AdelieXY]], and [[FellOffBridge]].

In this time, star_litty, alongside several other members of Shadow, elected to leave the nation in-game in order to excuse themselves from conflict with Orovika, a movement which crippled Shadow's war-making capacity and forced them to the negotiating table on two separate occasions. Following a [[Shadow-Orovika War#First Attempt at Peace Negotiations|catastrophic first round of diplomatic negotiations]] between Orovika and Shadow, which were broadly perceived by both Orovikan and Shadow witnesses as a diplomatic failure on Ae0n's part, star_litty (despite being in exile) became accepted by Orovika as the primary diplomatic contact for Shadow. star_litty was able to successfully negotiate a conditional surrender for Shadow on 29 September 2023, a success which would cement star_litty's credibility as a diplomat and as a political actor on Horizon's End.

==== Rebuilding Shadow ====
After the end of the Shadow-Orovika War, [[Ae0n]] became highly inactive, leaving star_litty to assume a ''de facto'' position of leadership over the nation. The Shadow that she inherited had been materially exhausted during the Shadow-Orovika War - an issue that would only compound with the start of the server-wide [[Horizon Federation-RentDueYesterday War]] just a week later on 6 October - essentially requiring her to re-build the nation largely from scratch. 

Under star_litty's informal leadership, Shadow's strategy on the server pivoted drastically. The nation admitted several new players (such as [[KBUSJ]], [[EloMilo]], [[Kay_2905]]) who rapidly became integral components of Shadow. star_litty also pivoted Shadow's diplomacy, distancing from players like [[FellOffBridge]] (who had since gone on to form [[RentDueYesterday]]), and aligning Shadow with the colonist nations on the server via the [[Horizon Federation]]. Positive diplomatic engagement with nations such as [[Cortesia Del Mar]] gave Shadow access to more advanced [[starship|ship]] and [[wiring|factory]] technology, as well as [[SvS|combat training]] that reduced the nation's [[Shadow-Orovika War#Noix444 Joins Shadow|previous reliance]] on imported muscle. On 26 March 2024, star_litty founded the settlement of [[Cicatrix]] (then "cherrytown") on [[Aerach]], moving the locus of Shadow's activity away from [[ThievesHaven]] on [[Chimgara]].

On 23 April 2024, after over a week of careful negotiations, star_litty (alongside [[_omni]]) formed the [[Ilios Alliance]], a tripartite colonist and privateer alliance between Shadow, [[Cortesia Del Mar]], and [[Orovika]]. The Ilios Alliance would prove a major boon Shadow in the course of the following months, and is generally understood to be one of star_litty's greatest accomplishments on [[Horizon's End]].

=== Radiant Revolution ===
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In the nine months following the end of the [[Shadow-Orovika War]], star_litty led Shadow from a ''de facto'' position; her formal title within the nation, per [[Ae0n]], remained "ambassador". As Shadow became increasingly detached from Ae0n's legacy, and increasingly driven by star_litty and players whom she had recruited to the nation, this situation became more of an issue, especially as Ae0n would still need to be consulted on major national decisions, and would often be obstructionist towards changes that she believed deviated from her version of Shadow (despite not playing the server). This situation caused increasing dissatisfaction not only to star_litty and her leadership council, but to the whole player-base of Shadow, as it led to the impression that Shadow's players were not in control of their own nation, and indeed most of Shadow's players had never known a version of Shadow led by anyone other than star_litty.

[[File:Radiant revolution.png|thumb|400px|star_litty announces the [[Radiant Revolution]] to the server.]]
Following months of peaceful attempts by several players in Shadow to convince Ae0n to hand over in-game leadership to star_litty (by setting the capital of the nation to [[Cicatrix]] over [[ThievesHaven]]), on 2 June 2024 Ae0n elected to log into the server specifically to strip star_litty (and [[Astrobolt]]) of in-game permissions as retribution. Circumstances had now become intolerable, and so, with the vast majority of Shadow's player-base behind her, star_litty enacted a mass secession from Shadow of all active settlements on 3 July, taking most accessible assets with her, and forming a new nation called [[Radiance]].

Radiance immediately received widespread diplomatic support from nearly the entire server, most especially the [[Ilios Alliance]] (with [[yodabird19]] of [[Cortesia Del Mar]] declaring that "The Republic of Cortesia Del Mar recognizes the nation of Radiance as the legitimate, direct, and sole successor to the nation of Shadow (2020-2024), and the inheritor of all of its assets, obligations, and entitlements" a mere minute after the formal announcement of the change-over). With a large section of Shadow's former wealth now inaccessible (a situation partially mollified when Horizon's End [[staff]] manually transferred several Shadow claims to Radiance on 8 July, concurrently with [[Ae0n]]'s "unfit for community" permanent ban), [[Ilios Alliance]] members quickly enacted a "Marshall Plan-like" program to support the re-development of Radiance; with this support, Radiance quickly became a more successful nation than even Shadow ever had been.

=== Leadership of Radiance ===
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Since the Radiant Revolution, star_litty has been the near-constant leader of Radiance, by most measures the largest and most active nation on [[Horizon's End]]. The nation has continued to expand and develop, founding [[Starfall]], the [[Anemone]], and admitting [[Astolfo]]. With the conclusion of the [[Ilios Alliance-Vask Authority War]] on 26 July 2024 and the start of the [[Long Peace]], the [[Ilios Alliance]] has been the dominant server power. Radiance became the fourth nation on the server to acquire a [[battlecruiser]] in November 2024. 

Describing Radiance's place in history, [[yodabird19]] said on 12 November, "radiance is probably HE's best shining example of a completely new nation nurtured on this server".

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