The Brotherhood



The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood was a Minez clan created by Cyclone_43, Whoopie and many other members of the 501st regiment of The UNKNOWN Trading Company focused on trading, PVP and dungeons.

Creation of The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood was started after Cyclone_43 was forced to step down from his role of being the leader of the 501st after the trial the 501st leadership faced. After the trial, Judas_sicarius (Joe), who was a co leader at the time (soon to be promoted to leader of the 501st), Whoopie (Whoopie), who was also a co leader at the time and Cyclone_43 spoke about the future of the 501st. They came to the conclusion that Cyclone_43 and Whoopie should take the 501st and create a new entity with it, seceding in a way, while Joe remains with The UNKNOWN Trading Company. On January 11th 2018 The Brotherhood was created. Cyclone_43 and Whoopie took the 501st Discord and turned it into the Discord for The Brotherhood, and began recruiting new members while figuring out who was going to stay with The Brotherhood or go back to The UNKNOWN Trading Company.

On January 30th, Joe left The UNKNOWN Trading Company and joined The Brotherhood, becoming the third elder after a vote took place. Around this time, the final member count of The Brotherhood was concluded with no confusions of who was staying with The UNKNOWN Trading Company and who was joining The Brotherhood.

Claiming territories and building the clan
After establishing their capital as Fort Saward, The Brotherhood began Operation Ironclad, which resulted in parts of the midlands, westerlands and mordor to be claimed by The Brotherhood.

Following the first month of the existence, The Brotherhood had mass recruitment runs, and managed to recruit members at an exceptional pace. The clan managed to almost triple it's original numbers it had when it was first created, making The Brotherhood one of the youngest, yet biggest, clans in MineZ.

The UNKNOWN Trading Company-Brotherhood War Begins
On March 2nd 2018 The Brotherhood declared war on The UNKNOWN Trading Company

In order to supply the rising number of Brotherhood members, many higher up members of The Brotherhood purchased mass amount of alts for storage and for combat. With the war between The UNKNOWN Trading Company and The Brotherhood going on, production and farming was extremely high, with multiple pot alts and other alts being stocked and restocked in no more than a few days.

On March 10th The Brotherhood along with the Anti UTC Coalition fought the UNKNOWN Trading Company north of Romero. This battle is called: The Battle of Romero (often referred to as "Attack of the Clones"). It was one of the major blows to the UNKNOWN Trading Company during the war. The Brotherhood and Coalition forces lost no members in iron or higher, while the UNKNOWN Trading Company lost their entire trade run force.

It is also important to note that many of the veterans of The Brotherhood were recruited during the Era of Expansion

The Brotherhood's 9/11
On March 21st 2018 The Brotherhood lost a large amount of alts due to a rule in the Mojang terms of service. This event known as "The Brotherhood's 9/11" slowed down The Brotherhood but in weeks following the event members of The Brotherhood were able to obtain more alts and restock them with the supplies needed faster then ever before. Creating a bond and a sense of unity within the clan.

Birth of divisions
In late March, The Brotherhood developed the "Division" system. This system was created due to the rising number of active members, and the need to have more organized events. Multiple divisions were created. These include; the PVP division, the dungeon division, the logistics division and the training division. Each division has specific tasks that they work on, with many more divisions being planned on starting in the future.

Creation of The People's Paper
With The Brotherhood becoming a prominent clan in the MineZ community, Whoopie and Joe thought they should bring news and info about what is going on in The Brotherhood and bring information to uninformed and interested individuals. With this idea, they created the first issue of their weekly Reddit newspaper called: The People's Paper - The Voice Of The Brotherhood.

The UNKNOWN Trading Company-Brotherhood war ends
On April 16th 2018 The Brotherhood declared a victory over the UNKNOWN Trading Company.

MineZ World War begins
On May 7th, 2018, the MineZ groups/clans S-class as well as Insidious declared war on The Brotherhood. Although many people see the war as a joke or a meme, The Brotherhood decided it was worth their time anyways to pursue it.

Brotherhood-Dawn Brigade alliance is formed
Following the declaration of war, The Brotherhood and the healing clan known as Dawn Brigade decided to work on creating an alliance. The terms were decided a few weeks after the start of the war. The rules of the alliance involve protection of one another, training of Dawn Brigade members by The Brotherhood as well as making sure members of both clans are not attacked by each other's members. Dawn Brigade was to also pay The Brotherhood a sufficient amount of caps to defend Dawn Brigade heal runs.

Later during the war, the UNKNOWN Trading Company launched a surprise attack against The Brotherhood at Devil's Castle. This was the first and only time the UNKNOWN Trading Company launched a successful attack on The Brotherhood. With the war now not only being The Brotherhood and Dawn Brigade against S-Class and Insidious due to the UNKNOWN Trading Company joining the war, many Brotherhood members began to call the war, the MineZ World War.

The creation of The Brotherhood currency "caps"
Following the alliance with Dawn Brigade and The Brotherhood having more interest in trading with other clans as well as doing mercenary work, The Brotherhood created a currency known as "caps" (based on bottle caps being used in many Fallout games).

The idea of caps being created was not to give the entire community a standard currency, but more so to make trading with clans as well as being paid for mercenary work easier for The Brotherhood. This meant that the value of caps depended on the needs of The Brotherhood. Here is an example of how it would work:

Dawn Brigade asks for protection on a heal run from The Brotherhood. The Brotherhood asks for 20 caps in return for doing so. Since The Brotherhood has a shortage on bread, each stack of bread is 3 caps. Dawn Brigade then decides to give The Brotherhood 6 stacks of bread (18 caps). The Brotherhood also has a surplus on sugars, meaning the value of sugar is extremely low. This means 4 sugars = 1 cap. So Dawn Brigade gives The Brotherhood 8 sugars (2 caps). After the exchange is done, The Brotherhood has much more bread than before, meaning the value of it has gone down a bit, making it only 2 caps per stack.

MineZ World War becomes minor objective
With The Brotherhood able to fight off Insidious as well as S-Class in many skirmishes in the west and midlands as well as the UNKNOWN Trading Company unable to fight a large scale front against The Brotherhood, The Brotherhood (unofficially) consider themselves the current victors of MineZ World War. The war status is still in effect as no declaration of victory or defeat has been officially announced by any clan partaking in the conflict.

Brotherhood-Dawn Brigade alliance ends
On July 5th, The Brotherhood and Dawn Brigade ended the alliance between the two after two months of working together.

There are many reasons for the alliance ending. Relations between members in both clans were not the best, Dawn Brigade was having a hard time paying The Brotherhood sufficient amount of caps to cover protection fees, Dawn Brigade members often didn't attend alliance joint events, Brotherhood and Dawn Brigade members disagreed on many issues and many more reasons. The alliance saw it's last day after an incident involving Dawn Brigade Seraph: Guy. The Brotherhood had evidence and reasoning to accuse Guy of breaking rules in the alliance. Many people believed he allowed Dawn Brigade members to attack members of The Brotherhood in the cave system, and helped them escape without them getting attacked by members of The Brotherhood. This was the nail in the coffin for the alliance, and immediately following the incident, The Brotherhood held a vote to end the alliance.

In issue #15 of The People's paper, Brotherhood member JamWizard as well as Joe outlined why they believed the alliance ended. Many people in Dawn Brigade and to some degree some people in other clans including The Brotherhood felt it was biased, and wrong.

Following the ending of the alliance, The Brotherhood attacked a Dawn Brigade heal run, and many members were removed from the Dawn Brigade public discord. In response, The Brotherhood put some members of Dawn Brigade on a Kill On Sight (KOS) list. Weeks after the end of the alliance, tensions decayed, and there was less tension between the two clans. Though there were still many anti-Brotherhood Dawn Brigade members as well as anti-Dawn Brigade Brotherhood members, it was not nearly as large as it was during the first week of the end of the alliance.

Many Brotherhood members played with members of Dawn Brigade even after the alliance ended as there were no rules stating you couldn't play with others, so long as it did not interfere with Brotherhood events or ambitions. Most members of The Brotherhood don't attend Dawn Brigade events or join them in spare time just for fun, but there are a few that stand out such as Elder Whoopie, who has been seen attending Dawn Brigade heal runs as well as other minor events during times there were no events in The Brotherhood.

First division not involving MineZ is created
On July 20th, The Brotherhood opened a new division; The Modded division. This division was focused on modded Minecraft servers that weren't MineZ related. Not only could any Brotherhood member join it no matter the rank, but people from different MineZ clans were allowed to join the division. They would be given the guest rank and play with members of The Brotherhood or anybody in the division. Members of this division, have no impact on the rules or decisions made for MineZ side of the clan.

The Brotherhood re-launches the UNKNOWN Trading Company Campaign
During July, many higher up members of The Brotherhood felt we were losing grasp on our territories and that the UNKNOWN Trading Company was becoming active once again. With the MineZ World War still technically going on, Brotherhood elders agreed to relaunch the campaign against the UNKNOWN Trading Company. On July 31st Operation Reunion was put into full effect. Brotherhood elders received information as to the location and starting time of a dungeon run being hosted by the UTC at Wizard's Tower and killed 3 members of the UTC while other members of the UTC retreated. Following the attack on the dungeon run, a member of The Brotherhood was attacked in the midlands, and called for support. Brotherhood members swiftly arrived and killed the 4 hostiles.

The Kings of The North become an obstacle
During August, a clan/group calling themselves "The Kings of The North" (More often referred to as "Kings of Romero") began contesting lands The Brotherhood claim, starting a border conflict (not an official war) in the Westerlands known by The Brotherhood as the Bloody conflict. This border conflict currently has the highest fatality rate of Brotherhood members seen in something close to- but not fully, a war.

Many people believe the conflict officially began when four Brotherhood members were in the Northern Westerlands, and encountered four Kings of The North. A member of The Brotherhood claimed they would not attack. The KON (Kings of The North) did not engage until The Brotherhood attempted to leave the area, where The KON chased them down and kill all four Brotherhood members.

Simoon's Avengers make return
Dungeon group "Simoon's Avengers" decided to make a comeback to MineZ, being more active and attempting more dungeons along with recruiting more members, and immediately join the fight against The Brotherhood with the help of Kings Of The North and the UNKNOWN Trading Company.

The Brotherhood gets New Elder
After Joe was given Elder on January 31st, The Brotherhood went a total of 214 days without seeing another member of The Brotherhood achieving the rank of Elder. On September 2nd, this changed when K3YD0N was promoted to Elder for his time spent in The Brotherhood as well as his alt management skills and negotiating tactics. This sparked an important moment in The Brotherhood's history as there was now another Elder who could give input on extremely classified matters.

The Second Plane
On September 11th, The Brotherhood had another alt nuke - which is quite ironic considering they named the first alt nuke after the September 11th attacks. This event is often dubbed "The second plane" as after the first event we didn't believe it would happen again. After everything The Brotherhood lost;
 * 148 alts
 * estimated 550 hours of farmed items
 * combat alt support in it's northern territories for a few weeks
 * About 53% of all Brotherhood storage

The Brotherhood declares war on Dawn Brigade/The Brotherhood starts MineZ World War II (MZWWII)
On September 16, '''The Brotherhood declared war on Dawn Brigade. With Operation Reunion still happening as well as war with the Kings Of The North along with fighting Simoon's Avengers, The Brotherhood created a conflict against a majority of the community, starting what The Brotherhood calls: "The Boring war" or MineZ World War II (MZWWII).''' This war depending on who you ask in The Brotherhood was either a great decision or a terrible one - with a majority leaning towards it being beneficial to declare war. This put The Brotherhood in a position it has never been before where it is fighting a force much larger than itself. Morale was quite high with a large amount of members once again and just like the events following the first alt nuke, many members went to farming for The Brotherhood. This brought The Brotherhood alt network back to a sufficient level. To this day The Brotherhood does not have the alt network like it used to be, but the current network is still efficient and is used often.

Recruitment and activity goes down
After the first initial weeks of the war The Brotherhood's main members began going more and more inactive. This was becoming a more and more visible issue as The Brotherhood was recruiting less members due to lack of players that are not in a clan as well as being cautious about spies. This has made The Brotherhood similar to a size as it was late January - early February (Not including inactive members). All of this has lead The Brotherhood to become less about having major events in MineZ and more so about being able to support and defend it's members when needed. The Brotherhood also stopped fully supporting the division system as it was deemed unneeded as the original purpose of the division system was to help with the over abundance of members. With a lack of members, the only divisions that were needed were training and logistics.

Cyclone leaves, Jam becomes new elder, DB-TB war ends
On November 14th 2018 Cyclone officially left The Brotherhood after his disagreements with the direction of the clan and his belief that The Brotherhood could only succeed if he were to leave. This immediately lead to infighting within the clan as to what happened with Cyclone and other members within the clan. After everything settled, Jam was promoted to elder and along with others attempted to fix the mess of the clan along with the departure of Cyclone.

Immediately after Cyclone left the clan, all the elders agreed on Whoopie's proposal to end the Dawn Brigade-Brotherhood war (The boring war) and the agreement fell through days after the proposal, giving The Brotherhood complete peace for the first time in months. Seeing as The Brotherhood was becoming even more unstable and inactive, Jamwizard wrote up a large list of ideas on how to change The Brotherhood to keep the clan alive including things such as getting rid of unneeded divisions and the creation of other ones. He also had many plans for recruitment. Whoopie was in favour of a majority of the changes while Keydon and Joe were not so keen on all of it. This left the clan even more stagnant with more and more members leaving The Brotherhood.

Some confusing views of morals of clan are brought into question
Many arguments ensued between members of The Brotherhood following the days of Cyclone's departure and Jam's promotion. Many people left the clan out of no interest in the game or clan or arguments within chats. This brought up many questions on why Cyclone left and whether the clan could or SHOULD continue. Many meetings were had to decide the future of the clan. One of these ideas brought to the table were to actually dissolve the clan entirely, and make it into a community.

Vote to make The Brotherhood a gaming community rather than just a MineZ clan
Before Cyclone's departure Joe and Keydon toyed with the idea to make The Brotherhood into a gaming community and get rid of the clan structure or at least for use in MineZ. Jam and Whoopie were very much opposed to the idea and sighted that it would completely kill the clan completely and that the clan was still savable. They realized after days of fighting with each other not only in elder chat but in sentinel chat with other sentinels that there needed to be a large clan vote.

The voting ended with a large majority in favour of making the clan into a gaming community. Following the voting's end Jamwizard along with Zbot left the clan to join Cyclone. They proceeded to steal a large majority of all Brotherhood owned alts through the logistics discord that Jamwizard and Zbot had access to with all the alt information. Though the alts were owned by The Brotherhood, majority of the alts taken were either bought by, farmed by, or organized by Jam, Cyclone and Zbot. This made a lot of members in The Brotherhood not too upset as The Brotherhood no longer had a use for them as well as with most of them being able to be considered owned by those three, many people saw it fair or as them just taking back what was theirs.

On November 23, 2018, The Brotherhood was officially no longer a clan, ending the almost year long reign as a dominant force.

Short TB Reunion/Battle of Logging Camp
Although The Brotherhood had been gone for a little over two weeks, on December 8th 2018, Cyclone, Jam and Zbot's newly created clan "Insurrection" got word of a cake party being held by the UNKNOWN Trading Company. Cyclone believed they could attack the event but did not have enough members online to do so. He immediately contacted retired members of The Brotherhood and asked for assistance. People such as Joe and Whoopie joined him and various Insurrection members to attack the UNKNOWN Trading Company, and they were met with great success. The "Brotherhood Reunion" group managed to get 12 kills and suffer no casualties. There were also two notable kills before the battle though, as well as a few after the battle on various stragglers in the area following the battle of Logging Camp. Although The Brotherhood was dead and a new clan was formed with many ex-Brotherhood, they could all rally together to fight the UNKNOWN Trading Company. ""

Legacy of The Brotherhood
Although The Brotherhood ended in a very disappointing and quick way in the last month of it's existence, the entire history of The Brotherhood has had a large impact on MineZ. Many can argue that every year of MineZ had one or two dominant clans or groups that had a large control of the game. Many people believe the most dominant or at least impactful in terms of how the community acted toward or around a clan in 2018 was The Brotherhood. The Brotherhood were one of the only clans to completely dominate over the UNKNOWN Trading Company along with damage it greatly. The Brotherhood also completely changed how alts are used in MineZ for not just storage use or just one time combat use, with various bases scrambled around the map to be used to counter attack or set up attacks a head of time and whenever it was needed.The Brotherhood were also one of the reasons for the nerfing of depth striders as The Brotherhood used them extremely often in combat in it's western territories. Although the clan's morals are very blurred and many people argue the clan got worse as time went on or the other way around, it is no doubt that 2018 saw the birth and death of one of the largest (in terms of population factoring the population of MineZ as a whole) and influential clans in the history of MineZ."'I knew it was coming. I just didn't know when. I know this clan will be remembered. Whether that's for good reasons or bad ones, it will be remembered. Perhaps The Brotherhood was meant to die. That's how nature is. You don't stay the strongest or biggest forever. At some point you die, and the seeds you leave behind grow up to become something of their own or influence something else. That's the beauty of something ending, something new starts after it.' -Whoopie"

List Of Major Conflicts And Operations (In chronological order)

 * Operation Ironclad
 * the war between The UNKNOWN Trading Company and The Brotherhood
 * MineZ World War
 * Operation Reunion
 * MineZ World War II (MZWWII)

Holidays and Days of Importance

 * January 11th is independence day. This is the day the 501st regiment left the UNKNOWN Trading Company to become its own clan
 * March 21st is "The Brotherhood's 9/11". This is the day that many Brotherhood alts got shut down/taken away because of Mojang's policies

Facts/Minor Information

 * Although Whoopie edits almost all of the wiki, Cyclone has written some. It's very easy to tell which ones he's wrote because he's biased and makes insults and jokes in them (though he has only written about 2-3 pages).
 * Teckit has been demoted and promoted more times than any other member in the history of The Brotherhood.
 * Sentinel Urban drowned in Paluster, it became a popular meme within the chats.
 * The shouting of "EASY!" became a meme from Tuna, and stuck around with many ex-brotherhood members who still use it to this day.
 * At the height of The Brotherhood, there was (a little over) 40 members in The Brotherhood, with about 30 active members.
 * The Brotherhood originally wanted to be friendly with the UTC when they left, with even the idea of letting in members with imperial citizenship.