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GymSock17

2026-05-20T06:11:15Z

320970018886254599: Added Info

'''GymSock17''' is a veteran player on EarthMC. He first joined the server on the 4th of June, 2017, during the [[Classic Era]], and has been active on every map ever since.

== Classic ==

==== Beginnings ====
When GymSock17 first logged in, he took a look at the DynMap to see what land was available. He spawned in Europe, which was dominated by a player named [[Adolf Hitlar (leader of Nazi Germany)|Adolf_Hitlar]]. With a name like that, Gym didn't want to get involved and decided to look elsewhere. He sailed around the African continent. During this journey, Gym was attacked by players when arriving at a town in the Mozambique Channel, narrowly escaping while being shot at with arrows. He decided that the only practical answer was to settle somewhere other players had not yet touched. Looking around the DynMap, he decided that the Indonesia was largely undisturbed and decided to settle on an island in the area. There, he chose the island of [[Timor (Classic)|Timor]], founding a town with the island's name on the eastern tip of the island.

Timor became a project of GymSock17's. The island was thick with jungle trees that housed many hostile mobs in the night, and Gym began to clear the island for construction. Soon, enough of the eastern side of Timor was cleared of Jungle that Gym built a house for himself and a pier. Gym was quite happy with how things were turning out. He had found his tropical island paradise.

==== Rise of Timor ====
The jungle was beaten back, one chopped tree at a time. [[Timor (Classic)|Timor]] became the only town in the region, other towns in the islands having been abandoned and dissolved, a beacon of civilization in the wilderness. GymSock invited a personal friend to the town, bringing the population of Timor up to 2. It wasn't long before other nations began courting GymSock to get him to join their nation. Nations worked differently on Classic, where there were no restrictions on how far a town was from a nation's capital to join it. Eventually, he decided join his first nation, [[Classic:Prestige WorldWide (PWW)|Prestige WorldWide]]. The envoy who contacted him was friendly, and the nation bonus was nice.

== Nova ==

==== Return to Nova ====
GymSock17 made his return to EarthMC on [[Terra Nova]] months after the map launched. YellowVictini, his old friend in the real world and supporter on Classic, invited him back, needing someone to hold a contested area in the Balkans on behalf of [[Nova:SPQR|Byzantium]]. With Yellow being a friend and all that he had done for GymSock on Classic, GymSock felt obligated to support him, and agreed to return to the server. The town the Byzantines wanted Gym to take over had an inactive own and was part of a rival nation, so they asked him to cozy up to that nation's ruler and get him to hand the town over to him. Once that had been done, he had orders to spy on another smaller nation in the region by becoming friendly with the leader of said nation.

Gym was asked to take up residence in a town with an inactive mayor. Unfortunately, this mayor, running the town for the nation he was tasked to spy on did not log into the town in time, and it fell into ruin. Gym was forced to reclaim the town, chunk by chunk. He gave it the name of Konjic, after a town of the same name in the real world in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as Gym's town was close to its approximate location in-game. Since the town had to be relcaimed, the town's buildings and infrastructure were damaged by looters and scavengers. Eventually GymSock17 had reclaimed the entirety of the town hall and began to expand outwards to the remaining buildings.

== Aurora ==

==== Start on Aurora ====
With a fresh start at hand, GymSock17 joined [[Terra Aurora]] at its Premium release. His time on Nova in continental Europe, a place with rapidly changing allegiances, wars, and countless land disputes, saw Gym disillusioned with trying to set up on the continent. He looked elsewhere, wanting to settle somewhere he could be left alone with his friends to build what they want. On the first day, he made his way to the Canary Islands, where he logged off for the night. The next day, a town was founded on the island he had logged off on, so he decided to look elsewhere once again. He decided to go further south and settled on the islands of [[Cape Verde]].

== Nostra ==

==== Start on Nostra ====
GymSock17 signed onto [[Terra Nostra]] on its Premium start date, the 17th of April 2026. He was impressed with how much more stable the launch was compared to Aurora four years prior. Unsure of where to settle, Gym spent the first few days wandering the map solo, gathering resources, only having what he could carry on his back. He sailed oceans, wandered towns and shops, seeing if anywhere spoke out to him. He wanted an island. Just ''one'' island this time, unlike having to manage a multitude of them like he had in Aurora with Cape Verde. Nostra was not like Aurora, however. It was much vaster, its size dwarfed Aurora and Nova, and humbled the old Classic map.

Timor (Classic)

2026-05-20T06:09:21Z

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== '''Overview''' ==
'''Timor''' was a town on the Classic map that was founded in the Spring of 2017 and lasted until the server moved over to the Terra Nova map. The island, from humble beginnings, grew into the epicenter of the Island Union, which at its peak, was the 7th largest nation by the number of players living within its realm.{{Town_Infobox|title1 = Island City of Timor|image1 = Flag of Timor.png|caption1 = Flag of Timor|town = Timor|nation = Island Union|region = Melanasia|population = 10|/t_list_page = June 2017|languages = English, Portuguese|owner = GymSock17|chunks = 208|continent = Asia|militia = Timorian Guard|town-motto = Paradise}}

== '''Origins''' ==
The town's founder, GymSock17, arrived on the island after a few days of exploring the map in early June of 2017. After gathering an adequate amount of supplies, and discovering an open tract of land on the far eastern tip of the island, Gym officially founded the town. The first build on the island was a small pier, one which would later grow into the town's port. Soon afterwards, GymSock built his house, which would be his permanent residence for the rest of classic. Following that, a building directly across from his house was constructed, the Crafting Hall.

== '''Beginning of the Westward Expansion''' ==
Beyond Gym's house and the Crafting Hall, the rest of the island was covered in a thick jungle, which often had hostile mobs hiding in dark spaces. Over time, GymSock would personally and singlehandedly begin a process to clear the jungle, pushing westward and driving the jungle back. As more of the island was transformed from jungle and underbrush to open plains, more houses were built, and more players began to arrive to Timor and settling down.

A small, open island to the north, Wetar Island, was also claimed by Timor. A warehouse to store supplies was built at the center, and the island's eastern end was soon dominated by a large pig farm, typically containing ~80 pigs around the time of harvesting some of them for their meat. The remaining western end of the island was encompassed by a small farm that had multiple levels stacks atop one another, and was accompanied by a separate farm for beetroots that was housed in a dome underneath the sea just off the island.

== '''First Political Contacts''' ==
When Timor was founded, the Indonesian Archipelago and Melanesia were uninhabited, with the only other towns that had previously existed there being abandoned. Nearby Australia was sparsely populated, having only a few small towns along the southeast and southwestern coastlines of the continent. This lack of player presence meant that the Timorians inhabited a region which had had its many resources almost completely untouched before their arrival. The island made good in the trade of wood, cocoa, sugar, and iron. As Timor's claim boundaries expanded more and more westward on the island, it's size and growth began to attract the attention of the server's major nations. Since Timor was at this time an independent City-State in an area otherwise uncolonized by players, the large empires of the era were interested in convincing Timor to join their nation, in order to use it as a springboard for expanding influence in the area.

Timor (Classic)

2026-05-20T06:09:01Z

320970018886254599:

== '''Overview''' ==
'''Timor''' was a town on the Classic map that was founded in the Spring of 2017 and lasted until the server moved over to the Terra Nova map. The island, from humble beginnings, grew into the epicenter of the Island Union, which at its peak, was the 7th largest nation by the number of players living within its realm.{{Town_Infobox|title1 = Island City of Timor|image1 = Flag of Timor.png|caption1 = Flag of Timor|town = Timor|nation = Island Union|region = Melanasia|population = 10|/t_list_page = June 2017|languages = English, Portuguese|owner = GymSock17|chunks = 208|continent = Asia|militia = Timorian Guard|town-motto = Paradise}}

== '''Origins''' ==
The town's founder, GymSock17, arrived on the island after a few days of exploring the map in early March of 2017. After gathering an adequate amount of supplies, and discovering an open tract of land on the far eastern tip of the island, Gym officially founded the town. The first build on the island was a small pier, one which would later grow into the town's port. Soon afterwards, GymSock built his house, which would be his permanent residence for the rest of classic. Following that, a building directly across from his house was constructed, the Crafting Hall.

== '''Beginning of the Westward Expansion''' ==
Beyond Gym's house and the Crafting Hall, the rest of the island was covered in a thick jungle, which often had hostile mobs hiding in dark spaces. Over time, GymSock would personally and singlehandedly begin a process to clear the jungle, pushing westward and driving the jungle back. As more of the island was transformed from jungle and underbrush to open plains, more houses were built, and more players began to arrive to Timor and settling down.

A small, open island to the north, Wetar Island, was also claimed by Timor. A warehouse to store supplies was built at the center, and the island's eastern end was soon dominated by a large pig farm, typically containing ~80 pigs around the time of harvesting some of them for their meat. The remaining western end of the island was encompassed by a small farm that had multiple levels stacks atop one another, and was accompanied by a separate farm for beetroots that was housed in a dome underneath the sea just off the island.

== '''First Political Contacts''' ==
When Timor was founded, the Indonesian Archipelago and Melanesia were uninhabited, with the only other towns that had previously existed there being abandoned. Nearby Australia was sparsely populated, having only a few small towns along the southeast and southwestern coastlines of the continent. This lack of player presence meant that the Timorians inhabited a region which had had its many resources almost completely untouched before their arrival. The island made good in the trade of wood, cocoa, sugar, and iron. As Timor's claim boundaries expanded more and more westward on the island, it's size and growth began to attract the attention of the server's major nations. Since Timor was at this time an independent City-State in an area otherwise uncolonized by players, the large empires of the era were interested in convincing Timor to join their nation, in order to use it as a springboard for expanding influence in the area.

GymSock17

2026-05-19T05:56:06Z

320970018886254599: Added Info

'''GymSock17''' is a veteran player on EarthMC. He first joined the server on the 4th of June, 2017, during the [[Classic Era]], and has been active on every map ever since.

== Classic ==

==== Beginnings ====
When GymSock17 first logged in, he took a look at the DynMap to see what land was available. He spawned in Europe, which was dominated by a player named [[Adolf Hitlar (leader of Nazi Germany)|Adolf_Hitlar]]. With a name like that, Gym didn't want to get involved and decided to look elsewhere. He sailed around the African continent. During this journey, Gym was attacked by players when arriving at a town in the Mozambique Channel, narrowly escaping while being shot at with arrows. He decided that the only practical answer was to settle somewhere other players had not yet touched. Looking around the DynMap, he decided that the Indonesia was largely undisturbed and decided to settle on an island in the area. There, he chose the island of [[Timor (Classic)|Timor]], founding a town with the island's name on the eastern tip of the island.

Timor became a project of GymSock17's. The island was thick with jungle trees that housed many hostile mobs in the night, and Gym began to clear the island for construction. Soon, enough of the eastern side of Timor was cleared of Jungle that Gym built a house for himself and a pier. Gym was quite happy with how things were turning out. He had found his tropical island paradise.

==== Rise of Timor ====
The jungle was beaten back, one chopped tree at a time. Timor was the first town in the archipelago to be founded, a beacon of civilization in the wilderness. GymSock invited a personal friend to the town, bringing the population of Timor up to 2. It was around this time he was invited to join his first nation, [[Classic:Prestige WorldWide (PWW)|Prestige WorldWide]].

== Nova ==

==== Return to Nova ====
GymSock17 made his return to EarthMC on Terra Nova months after the map launched. YellowVictini, his old friend in the real world and supporter on Classic, invited him back, needing someone to hold a contested area in the Balkans on behalf of [[Nova:SPQR|Byzantium]]. With Yellow being a friend and all that he had done for GymSock on Classic, GymSock felt obligated to support him, and agreed to return to the server. The town the Byzantines wanted Gym to take over had an inactive own and was part of a rival nation, so they asked him to cozy up to that nation's ruler and get him to hand the town over to him. Once that had been done, he had orders to spy on another smaller nation in the region by becoming friendly with the leader of said nation.

Gym was asked to take up residence in a town with an inactive mayor. Unfortunately, this mayor, running the town for the nation he was tasked to spy on did not log into the town in time, and it fell into ruin. Gym was forced to reclaim the town, chunk by chunk.

== Aurora ==

==== Start on Aurora ====
With a fresh start at hand, GymSock17 joined Aurora at its Premium release. His time on Nova in continental Europe, a place with rapidly changing allegiances, wars, and countless land disputes, saw Gym disillusioned with trying to set up on the continent. He looked elsewhere, wanting to settle somewhere he could be left alone with his friends to build what they want. On the first day, he made his way to the Canary Islands, where he logged off for the night. The next day, a town was founded on the island he had logged off on, so he decided to look elsewhere once again. He decided to go further south and settled on the islands of [[Cape Verde]].

== Nostra ==

==== Start on Nostra ====
GymSock17 signed onto Nosta on its Premium start date, the 17th of April, 2026. He was impressed with how much more stable the launch was compared to Aurora four years prior. Unsure of where to settle, Gym spent the first few days wandering the map solo, gathering resources, only having what he could carry on his back. He sailed oceans, wandered towns and shops, seeing if anywhere spoke out to him. He wanted an island. Just ''one'' island this time, unlike having to manage a multitude of them like he had in Aurora with Cape Verde. Nostra was not like Aurora, however. It was much vaster, its size dwarfed Aurora and Nova, and humbled the old Classic map.

GymSock17

2026-05-09T07:57:18Z

320970018886254599: Added Info

'''GymSock17''' is a veteran player on EarthMC. He first joined the server on the 4th of June, 2017, during the [[Classic Era]], and has been active on every map ever since.

== Classic ==

==== Beginnings ====
When GymSock17 first logged in, he took a look at the DynMap to see what land was available. He spawned in Europe, which was dominated by a player named [[Adolf Hitlar (leader of Nazi Germany)|Adolf_Hitlar]]. With a name like that, Gym didn't want to get involved and decided to look elsewhere. He sailed around the African continent. During this journey, Gym was attacked by players when arrivign at a town in the Mozambique Channel, narrowly escaping while being shot at with arrows. He decided that the only practical answer was to settle somewhere other players had not yet touched. Looking around the DynMap, he decided that the Indonesia was largely undisturbed and decided to settle on an island in the area. There, he chose the island of [[Timor (Classic)|Timor]], founding a town with the island's name on the eastern tip of the island.

Timor became a project of GymSock17's. The island was thick with jungle trees that housed many hostile mobs in the night, and Gym began to clear the island for construction. Soon, enough of the eastern side of Timor was cleared of Jungle that Gym built a house for himself and a pier. Gym was quite happy with how things were turning out. He had found his tropical island paradise.

== Nova ==

==== Return to Nova ====
GymSock17 made his return to EarthMC on Terra Nova months after the map launched. YellowVictini, his old friend in the real world and supporter on Classic, invited him back, needing someone to hold a contested area in the Balkans on behalf of [[Nova:SPQR|Byzantium]]. With Yellow being a friend and all that he had done for GymSock on Classic, GymSock felt obligated to support him, and agreed to return to the server. The town the Byzantines wanted Gym to take over had an inactive own and was part of a rival nation, so they asked him to cozy up to that nation's ruler and get him to hand the town over to him. Once that had been done, he had orders to spy on

== Aurora ==

==== Start on Aurora ====
With a fresh start at hand, GymSock17 joined Aurora at its Premium release. His time on Nova in continental Europe, a place with rapidly changing allegiances, wars, and countless land disputes, saw Gym disillusioned with trying to set up on the continent. He looked elsewhere, wanting to settle somewhere he could be left alone with his friends to build what they want. On the first day, he made his way to the Canary Islands, where he logged off for the night. The next day, a town was founded on the island he had logged off on, so he decided to look elsewhere once again. He decided to go further south and settled on the islands of [[Cape Verde]].

== Nostra ==

==== Start on Nostra ====
GymSock17 signed onto Nosta on its Premium start date, the 17th of April, 2026. He was impressed with how much more stable the launch was compared to Aurora four years prior. Unsure of where to settle, Gym spent the first few days wandering the map solo, gathering resources, only having what he could carry on his back. He sailed oceans, wandered towns and shops, seeing if anywhere spoke out to him. He wanted an island. Just ''one'' island this time, unlike having to manage a multitude of them like he had in Aurora with Cape Verde. Nostra was not like Aurora, however. It was much vaster, its size dwarfed Aurora and Nosta, and put the humble Classic map to shame.

GymSock17

2026-05-09T07:09:32Z

320970018886254599: Page created, will add more over time.

'''GymSock17''' is a veteran player on EarthMC. He first joined the server on the 4th of June, 2017, during the [[Classic Era]], and has been active on every map ever since.

Cape Verde

2026-05-09T07:04:36Z

320970018886254599: Further edits

'''Cape Verde''' was a town on the [[Terra Aurora]] map, located on the archipelago and island country of the same name in the real world. It is run by veteran player [[GymSock17]]. It was located far off the African coast leaving the town fairly isolated, but it was a popular stop amongst travelers who are crossing the Atlantic in the area as the town's borders provided protection in an otherwise largely unclaimed area.

=== Origins ===
Looking for somewhere to found a town, GymSock17 purchased [[Premium]] and joined the Terra Aurora map opening day on the 1st of May 2022. After waiting for hours and repeated map crashes, Gym was able to get on and walked through Mongolia and into the Gobi Desert, when he received an invite to [[Germany (Aurora)|Germany]] by his long-time friend from the real world, [[YellowVictini]]. Yellow wanted Gym to stay in Germany with him and start a town together in East Prussia, but Gym was tired of the peasants and [[Bosnia|detritus]] that infected Europe on [[Terra Nova]] and expected it wouldn't take long for the same thing to happen again on the new map, so he sailed out from the Baltic Sea, through the Straits of Denmark, North Sea, and the English Channel into the Pacific. From there, he sailed to the Canary Islands, intending to start a town on Grand Canary. However, it was getting late, and Gym had to log off for the day to go to work. When he came back the next day, some fool had already placed a claim on the island (this fool would later lose it for not logging back in on time like an idiot). Gym decided that even the Canary Islands were too big of a target and too massive to claim for his own, and decided to sail south, to the southernmost of the Macaronesia archipelago, the Cape Verde Islands.

After arriving and setting up a hidden base camp, Gym got off once again for the day. The next morning, Gym got on and finally scrapped together enough gold and founded his town, which he simply named '''Cape Verde'''. Immediately, Gym got to work on building infrastructure and expanding the town's claims to the rest of the island of Santiago, the largest island in the archipelago.

Once Santiago was brought under the town in its entirety, the town began to expand towards the other islands of the archipelago. First bringing together the southern island chain, then the northern chain.

=== Islands ===
Cape Verde exists on an archipelago of islands, home to various structures and purposes.

==== Isle of Brave & Dry Islets ====
The Isle of Brave currently had no structures on the island, nor do the tiny Dry Islets to the north of the island.

==== Isle of Fire ====
The Isle of Fire was a volcanic island. It home to the Volcanic Mine, the main mining facility for the archipelago. To the east of the island, the Cape Verde Arena stoodd. The 16-chunk stadium was capable of hosting various PvP events, had working redstone gates, a glass roof for natural lighting, and redstone lights that toggle on and off in accordance with the time of day. Scorchbound's Stronghold was located underneath the island, built out of a hollowed-out base discovered there by GymSock17 in November 2022, whose original creator is unknown.

==== Santiago ====
Santiago is the main island of Cape Verde. The island was home to the town's spawn, hosts a visitor center, a terrace farm, GymSock17's house, Santiago Square, HawtDawg__'s Tower, the former Santiago Mine, and two piers, one on the north end of the island and the other on the south.

==== May Island ====
May Island housed the May Island Facility, which was home to various farm animals. It also had a glowberry vineyard.

==== Goodview ====
Goodview Island is home to the archipelago's rest station for travelers to rest safely in protected claim on their journeys should they decide or need to do so. On the north shore of the island, there is a monument to the Cabo Santa Maria, a Spanish cargo ship that crash in the area in the real world during a storm in 1968 enroute to Brazil. The monument is commemorated to the wreck site how the people of the island who spent several months helping to safely unload the ship's cargo so it could continue on its journey What is left of the wreck in the real world is still there today, most of it lost to the sea due to being battered by the ocean waves of the Atlantic for over half century.

==== Salt Island ====
Salt Island is largely empty, save for a pier for landing on the eastern side of the island and a small cobblestone ruin built by an unknown player a long time ago.

==== Saint Nicholas ====
Saint Nicholas was largely covered in trees. The island was a Japanese-styled house on the east end of the island constructed in December 2022. The island a pier on the west end connected to the road that crosses the island east-west.

==== Saint Lucy ====
Saint Lucy along with the two nearby islets are uninhabited. Saint Lucy itself was protected as a nature reserve, with trees, flowers, tall grass, and a number of different animals, primarily parrots.

==== Saint Vincent ====
Saint Vincent was largely empty, save for a pier on the southeast end of the island, and a road that covers the island east-west.

==== Saint Anthony ====

Saint Anthony, the second-largest island in the archipelago was home to a lighthouse
=== Economy ===
The primary economic activity on Cape Verde were farming, fishing and tourism.

==== Farming ====
The main island in the archipelago, Santiago, was home to a terrace farm which is used to grow sugarcane, wheat and potatoes. There was also an underwater dome next to the island connected to GymSock17's house that grows food.

==== Fishing ====
Being surrounded by ocean, fishing naturally became a cornerstone of the Cape Verdean economy.

==== Tourism ====
The island's presence of providing protected claim areas that can act as a rest stop for players travelling across the Atlantic. The island of Goodview (Boa Vista) was home to a dedicated rest stop for players to use as shelter should they ever needed it.

Cape Verde

2026-05-09T07:02:43Z

320970018886254599: Past tenses due to reset

'''Cape Verde''' was a town on the [[Terra Aurora]] map, located on the archipelago and island country of the same name in the real world. It is run by veteran player [[GymSock17]]. It was located far off the African coast leaving the town fairly isolated, but it was a popular stop amongst travelers who are crossing the Atlantic in the area as the town's borders provided protection in an otherwise largely unclaimed area.

=== Origins ===
Looking for somewhere to found a town, GymSock17 purchased [[Premium]] and joined the Terra Aurora map opening day on the 1st of May 2022. After waiting for hours and repeated map crashes, Gym was able to get on and walked through Mongolia and into the Gobi Desert, when he received an invite to [[Germany (Aurora)|Germany]] by his long-time friend from the real world, [[YellowVictini]]. Yellow wanted Gym to stay in Germany with him and start a town together in East Prussia, but Gym was tired of the peasants and [[Bosnia|detritus]] that infected Europe on [[Terra Nova]] and expected it wouldn't take long for the same thing to happen again on the new map, so he sailed out from the Baltic Sea, through the Straits of Denmark, North Sea, and the English Channel into the Pacific. From there, he sailed to the Canary Islands, intending to start a town on Grand Canary. However, it was getting late, and Gym had to log off for the day to go to work. When he came back the next day, some fool had already placed a claim on the island (this fool would later lose it for not logging back in on time like an idiot). Gym decided that even the Canary Islands were too big of a target and too massive to claim for his own, and decided to sail south, to the southernmost of the Macaronesia archipelago, the Cape Verde Islands.

After arriving and setting up a hidden base camp, Gym got off once again for the day. The next morning, Gym got on and finally scrapped together enough gold and founded his town, which he simply named '''Cape Verde'''. Immediately, Gym got to work on building infrastructure and expanding the town's claims to the rest of the island of Santiago, the largest island in the archipelago.

Once Santiago was brought under the town in its entirety, the town began to expand towards the other islands of the archipelago. First bringing together the southern island chain, then the northern chain.

=== Islands ===
Cape Verde exists on an archipelago of islands, home to various structures and purposes.

==== Isle of Brave & Dry Islets ====
The Isle of Brave currently had no structures on the island, nor do the tiny Dry Islets to the north of the island.

==== Isle of Fire ====
The Isle of Fire was a volcanic island. It home to the Volcanic Mine, the main mining facility for the archipelago. To the east of the island, the Cape Verde Arena stoodd. The 16-chunk stadium was capable of hosting various PvP events, had working redstone gates, a glass roof for natural lighting, and redstone lights that toggle on and off in accordance with the time of day. Scorchbound's Stronghold was located underneath the island, built out of a hollowed-out base discovered there by GymSock17 in November 2022, whose original creator is unknown.

==== Santiago ====
Santiago is the main island of Cape Verde. The island was home to the town's spawn, hosts a visitor center, a terrace farm, GymSock17's house, Santiago Square, HawtDawg__'s Tower, the former Santiago Mine, and two piers, one on the north end of the island and the other on the south.

==== May Island ====
May Island houses the May Island Facility, which was home to various farm animals. It also had a glowberry vineyard.

==== Goodview ====
Goodview Island is home to the archipelago's rest station for travelers to rest safely in protected claim on their journeys should they decide or need to do so. On the north shore of the island, there is a monument to the Cabo Santa Maria, a Spanish cargo ship that crash in the area in the real world during a storm in 1968 enroute to Brazil. The monument is commemorated to the wreck site how the people of the island who spent several months helping to safely unload the ship's cargo so it could continue on its journey What is left of the wreck in the real world is still there today, most of it lost to the sea due to being battered by the ocean waves of the Atlantic for over half century.

==== Salt Island ====
Salt Island is largely empty, save for a pier for landing on the eastern side of the island and a small cobblestone ruin built by an unknown player a long time ago.

==== Saint Nicholas ====
Saint Nicholas is largely covered in trees. The island was a Japanese-styled house on the east end of the island constructed in December 2022. The island a pier on the west end connected to the road that crosses the island east-west.

==== Saint Lucy ====
Saint Lucy along with the two nearby islets are uninhabited. Saint Lucy itself is protected as a nature reserve, with trees, flowers, tall grass, and a number of different animals, primarily parrots.

==== Saint Vincent ====
Saint Vincent is largely empty, save for a pier on the southeast end of the island, and a road that covers the island east-west.

==== Saint Anthony ====

Saint Anthony, the second-largest island in the archipelago was home to a lighthouse
=== Economy ===
The primary economic activity on Cape Verde were farming, fishing and tourism.

==== Farming ====
The main island in the archipelago, Santiago, was home to a terrace farm which is used to grow sugarcane, wheat and potatoes. There was also an underwater dome next to the island connected to GymSock17's house that grows food.

==== Fishing ====
Being surrounded by ocean, fishing naturally became a cornerstone of the Cape Verdean economy.

==== Tourism ====
The island's presence of providing protected claim areas that can act as a rest stop for players travelling across the Atlantic. The island of Goodview (Boa Vista) was home to a dedicated rest stop for players to use as shelter should they ever needed it.

Cape Verde

2024-09-13T20:01:29Z

320970018886254599: Added Info

'''Cape Verde''' is a town on the [[Terra Aurora]] map, located on the archipelago and island country of the same name in the real world. It is run by veteran player [[GymSock17]]. Its location far off the African coast leaves the town fairly isolated, but it a popular stop amongst travelers who are crossing the Atlantic in the area as the town's borders can provide protection in an otherwise largely unclaimed area.

=== Origins ===
Looking for somewhere to found a town, GymSock17 purchased [[Premium]] and joined the Terra Aurora map opening day on the 1st of May 2022. After waiting for hours and repeated map crashes, Gym was able to get on and walked through Mongolia and into the Gobi Desert, when he received an invite to [[Germany (Aurora)|Germany]] by his long-time friend from the real world, [[YellowVictini]]. Yellow wanted Gym to stay in Germany with him and start a town together in East Prussia, but Gym was tired of the peasants and [[Bosnia|detritus]] that infected Europe on [[Terra Nova]] and expected it wouldn't take long for the same thing to happen again on the new map, so he sailed out from the Baltic Sea, through the Straits of Denmark, North Sea, and the English Channel into the Pacific. From there, he sailed to the Canary Islands, intending to start a town on Grand Canary. However, it was getting late, and Gym had to log off for the day to go to work. When he came back the next day, some fool had already placed a claim on the island (this fool would later lose it for not logging back in on time like an idiot). Gym decided that even the Canary Islands were too big of a target and too massive to claim for his own, and decided to sail south, to the southernmost of the Macaronesia archipelago, the Cape Verde Islands.

After arriving and setting up a hidden base camp, Gym got off once again for the day. The next morning, Gym got on and finally scrapped together enough gold and founded his town, which he simply named '''Cape Verde'''. Immediately, Gym got to work on building infrastructure and expanding the town's claims to the rest of the island of Santiago, the largest island in the archipelago.

Once Santiago was brought under the town in its entirety, the town began to expand towards the other islands of the archipelago. First bringing together the southern island chain, then the northern chain.

=== Islands ===
Cape Verde exists on an archipelago of islands, home to various structures and purposes.

==== Isle of Brave & Dry Islets ====
The Isle of Brave currently has no structures on the island, nor do the tiny Dry Islets to the north of the island.

==== Isle of Fire ====
The Isle of Fire is a volcanic island. It home to the Volcanic Mine, the main mining facility for the archipelago. To the east of the island, the Cape Verde Arena is currently under construction. The 16-chunk stadium will be capable of hosting various PvP events, has working redstone gates, a glass roof for natural lighting, and redstone lights that toggle on and off in accordance with the time of day. Scorchbound's Stronghold is located underneath the island, built out of a hollowed-out base discovered there by GymSock17 in November 2022, whose original creator is unknown.

==== Santiago ====
Santiago is the main island of Cape Verde. The island is home to the town's spawn, hosts a visitor center, a terrace farm, GymSock17's house, Santiago Square, HawtDawg__'s Tower, the former Santiago Mine, and two piers, one on the north end of the island and the other on the south.

==== May Island ====
May Island houses the May Island Facility, which is home to various farm animals. It also has a glowberry vineyard.

==== Goodview ====
Goodview Island is home to the archipelago's rest station for travelers to rest safely in protected claim on their journeys should they decide or need to do so. On the north shore of the island, there is a monument to the Cabo Santa Maria, a Spanish cargo ship that crash in the area in the real world during a storm in 1968 enroute to Brazil. The monument is commemorated to the wreck site how the people of the island who spent several months helping to safely unload the ship's cargo so it could continue on its journey What is left of the wreck in the real world is still there today, most of it lost to the sea due to being battered by the ocean waves of the Atlantic for over half century.

==== Salt Island ====
Salt Island is largely empty, save for a pier for landing on the eastern side of the island and a small cobblestone ruin built by an unknown player a long time ago.

==== Saint Nicholas ====
Saint Nicholas is largely covered in trees. The island has a Japanese-styled house on the east end of the island constructed in December 2022. The island a pier on the west end connected to the road that crosses the island east-west.

==== Saint Lucy ====
Saint Lucy along with the two nearby islets are uninhabited. Saint Lucy itself is protected as a nature reserve, with trees, flowers, tall grass, and a number of different animals, primarily parrots.

==== Saint Vincent ====
Saint Vincent is largely empty, save for a pier on the southeast end of the island, and a road that covers the island east-west.

==== Saint Anthony ====

Saint Anthony, the second-largest island in the archipelago, is almost entirely undisturbed from how it appears from the day the Aurora map launched because the island has been illegally occupied by a squatter. This lone squatter is an enigma, as they do not move their character, they do not talk, they do not mine, they do not build. All they do is long in every day, vote, and log off. They do this every single day with no exceptions and have done so for over two years now. Any and all attempts to message the squatter through signs placed in their controlled vicinity and by messaging in-game have all gone unanswered. If they are in the EarthMC Discord, they are not under their in-game name, making it unclear who they are, and not able to be contacted.
=== Economy ===
The primary economic activity on Cape Verde is farming, fishing and tourism.

==== Farming ====
The main island in the archipelago, Santiago, is home to a terrace farm which is used to grow sugarcane, wheat and potatoes. There is also an underwater dome next to the island connected to GymSock17's house that grows beets.

==== Fishing ====
Being surrounded by ocean, fishing naturally became a cornerstone of the Cape Verdean economy.

==== Tourism ====
The island's presence of providing protected claim areas that can act as a rest stop for players travelling across the Atlantic. The island of Goodview (Boa Vista) is home to a dedicated rest stop for players to use as shelter should they ever need it.

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'''Cape Verde''' is a town on the [[Terra Aurora]] map, located on the archipelago and island country of the same name in the real world. It is run by veteran player [[GymSock17]]. Its location far off the African coast leaves the town fairly isolated, but it a popular stop amongst travelers who are crossing the Atlantic in the area as the town's borders can provide protection in an otherwise largely unclaimed area.

=== Origins ===
Looking for somewhere to found a town, GymSock17 purchased [[Premium]] and joined the Terra Aurora map opening day on the 1st of May 2022. After waiting for hours and repeated map crashes, Gym was able to get on and walked through Mongolia and into the Gobi Desert, when he received an invite to [[Germany (Aurora)|Germany]] by his long-time friend from the real world, [[YellowVictini]]. Yellow wanted Gym to stay in Germany with him and start a town together in East Prussia, but Gym was tired of the peasants and detritus that infected Europe on [[Terra Nova]] and expected it wouldn't take long for the same thing to happen again on the new map, so he sailed out from the Baltic Sea, through the Straits of Denmark, North Sea, and the English Channel into the Pacific. From there, he sailed to the Canary Islands, intending to start a town on Grand Canary. However, it was getting late, and Gym had to log off for the day to go to work. When he came back the next day, some fool had already placed a claim on the island (this fool would later lose it for not logging back in on time like an idiot). Gym decided that even the Canary Islands were too big of a target and too massive to claim for his own, and decided to sail south, to the southernmost of the Macaronesia archipelago, the Cape Verde Islands.

After arriving and setting up a hidden base camp, Gym got off once again for the day. The next morning, Gym got on and finally scrapped together enough gold and founded his town, which he simply named '''Cape Verde'''. Immediately, Gym got to work on building infrastructure and expanding the town's claims to the rest of the island of Santiago, the largest island in the archipelago.

Once Santiago was brought under the town in its entirety, the town began to expand towards the

=== Islands ===
Cape Verde exists on an archipelago of islands, home to various structures and purposes.

==== Isle of Brave & Dry Islets ====
The Isle of Brave currently has no structures on the island, nor do the tiny Dry Islets to the north of the island.

==== Isle of Fire ====
The Isle of Fire is a volcanic island. It home to the Volcanic Mine, the main mining facility for the archipelago. To the east of the island, the Cape Verde Arena is currently under construction. The 16-chunk stadium will be capable of hosting various PvP events, has working redstone gates, a glass roof for natural lighting, and redstone lights that toggle on and off in accordance with the time of day. Scorchbound's Stronghold is located underneath the island, built out of a hollowed-out base discovered there by GymSock17 in November 2022, whose original creator is unknown.

==== Santiago ====
Santiago is the main island of Cape Verde. The island is home to the town's spawn, hosts a visitor center, a terrace farm, GymSock17's house, Santiago Square, HawtDawg__'s Tower, the former Santiago Mine, and two piers, one on the north end of the island and the other on the south.

==== May Island ====
May Island houses the May Island Facility, which is home to various farm animals. It also has a glowberry vineyard.

==== Goodview ====
Goodview Island is home to the archipelago's rest station for travelers to rest safely in protected claim on their journeys should they decide or need to do so. On the north shore of the island, there is a monument to the Cabo Santa Maria, a Spanish cargo ship that crash in the area in the real world during a storm in 1968 enroute to Brazil. The monument is commemorated to the wreck site how the people of the island who spent several months helping to safely unload the ship's cargo so it could continue on its journey What is left of the wreck in the real world is still there today, most of it lost to the sea due to being battered by the ocean waves of the Atlantic for over half century.

==== Salt Island ====
Salt Island is largely empty, save for a pier for landing on the eastern side of the island and a small cobblestone ruin built by an unknown player a long time ago.

==== Saint Nicholas ====
Saint Nicholas is largely covered in trees. The island has a Japanese-styled house on the east end of the island constructed in December 2022. The island a pier on the west end connected to the road that crosses the island east-west.

==== Saint Lucy ====
Saint Lucy along with the two nearby islets are uninhabited. Saint Lucy itself is protected as a nature reserve, with trees, flowers, tall grass, and a number of different animals, primarily parrots.

==== Saint Vincent ====
Saint Vincent is largely empty, save for a pier on the southeast end of the island, and a road that covers the island east-west.

==== Saint Anthony ====

Saint Anthony, the second-largest island in the archipelago, is almost entirely undisturbed from how it appears from the day the Aurora map launched because the island has been illegally occupied by a squatter. This lone squatter is an enigma, as they do not move their character, they do not talk, they do not mine, they do not build. All they do is long in every day, vote, and log off. They do this every single day with no exceptions and have done so for over two years now. Any and all attempts to message the squatter through signs placed in their controlled vicinity and by messaging in-game have all gone unanswered. If they are in the EarthMC Discord, they are not under their IGN, making it unclear who they are otherwise, and not able to be contacted.
=== Economy ===
The primary economic activity on Cape Verde is farming, fishing and tourism.

==== Farming ====
The main island in the archipelago, Santiago, is home to a terrace farm which is used to grow sugarcane, wheat and potatoes. There is also an underwater dome next to the island connected to GymSock17's house that grows beets.

==== Fishing ====
Being surrounded by ocean, fishing naturally became a cornerstone of the Cape Verdean economy.

==== Tourism ====
The island's presence of providing protected claim areas that can act as a rest stop for players travelling across the Atlantic. The island of Goodview (Boa Vista) is home to a dedicated rest stop for players to use as shelter should they ever need it.

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'''Cape Verde''' is a town which encompasses the islands Cape Verde Archipelago. It is part of [[Aurora:Mali|Mali]].

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== Description ==
Yellow is a very radical nationalist. They seem to always be in support for and of whatever town or nation they reside in. Yellow currently leads Acre (formerly The Knights Templar), a town in the nation of SPQR. Little is known about Yellow, many dispute why they are so nationally focused, but most can agree that Yellow's goal is to better their resident nation at all costs, even putting themselves and their town at lower priority than the nation itself.

== History ==
Yellow is a player on EarthMC that started originally on Classic. He started in early Spring due to a personal friend from the real world, [[GymSock17]], inviting him to the server. On classic, they were a resident of Gymsock's town, Timor, and eventually turned from being a resident, to being the national regent. Since the days of classic, Yellow started Terra Nova on the day of public release.

== Towns ==

=== London ===
- When Yellow first joined the server, he asked an old rival from Classic, MineHero43, quote, "Hey, mind if I crash with you for a bit?" Yellow started there, was given a small amount of iron by another long time rival, and then went on their way to Jerusalem after mining for a large sum of gold.

=== Constantinople ===
- Yellow joined Constantinople for a few moments, only to hasten their way to Jerusalem. Yellow was greeted, went to the town spawn, gave Syn some gold, and then they headed on their long journey. The road ahead was long and cruel, but Yellow was determined to reach the Holy City.

=== Knights Templar ===
- The founding of the Knights Templar was quite unnecessary. Yellow had originally planned to found Jerusalem, but upon entering the Holy City, had found that someone had already claimed it. Ironically, Yellow was founding Jerusalem with a crew of others, but didn't know that the one who had founded the town was one of the members. Yellow, then likely in utter confusion and distress, only had one idea left to put forth, establish a Knight Order. They currently reside in this town.

=== Tyre ===
- After recieving Greater_London from Conman and giving the role of Grandmaster to a close friend from classic, emmettmaster, Yellow went on to unclaim all of Greater_London and move it and the nation it came with to the Levant north of the Knights Templar. Tyre was a short-lived town with few residents. The ruins of it currently sit north of the Templar fort, sitting with fields of wheat unharvested for what is now 2 years.

=== Acre ===
- After a long period of inactivity, Yellow reformed the Knights Templar into the Crusader State of Acre. The town sat for almost 2 years, dormant and inactive until late 2021 when the Acre Restorative Project was enacted. The town is now as lively as ever with many citizens roaming her streets.

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