Aurora:Rollins
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Rollins is the mayor of Athens and current nation leader of Greece. He first joined on the 5th of September 2020, during the days of Terra Nova.
Nova History
Origins
Rollins joined the server on September 5th, 2020. His place of spawn is unknown, but is estimated to be in the Asian continent. After finding his feet in the server, Rollins joined Nova Scotia, his first town on the server. Rollins would only spend a day in Nova Scotia, before leaving and joining a town in SPQR. After struggling to fit in at SPQR, Rollins moved on to his third town, Nigeria. This suited his playing style a lot more as the town mayor was much more active than his previous two. Rollins spent time building his house and gaining a greater understanding of the server. After his first few days he set out to create his own town.
Africa and New Greece
After his time in Nigeria, Rollins met two mods: Professor__Pro and StrayViper. Pro and Viper both owned the nation of Africa, and Rollins was recruited into the nation, where he befriended them. On the 24th of October 2020, Pro and Viper helped Rollins set up his first town on the server, which he named 'New Greece'. Rollins named it this as his initial goal upon joining the server was to create the nation of Greece as a homage to his own Greek heritage and a celebration of Greek culture. However, upon learning that SPQR had taken control of the Greek land on the server, he decided that creating a 'New Greece' outside of Europe that acted as a home for Greek culture on EarthMC was a better option, and did this in Nigeria.
New Greece was a small town that reached around 38 chunks, and lasted a month and one day. It was set up across from Pro's town 'Cloud City' and Viper's town 'Bruh City' and soon became a frequented town on Nova. While establishing this town, Rollins befriended two more players: Brobbo and Uberstrase. Brobbo and Uberstrase were both friends who had made their own towns, but had a large amount of gold. They would both visit New Greece and spend time with Rollins while he was building the town as well as give generous donations to fund the towns growth. After some time, Africa became more inactive following the demotion of Viper and the fall of his town, Bruh City. On November 25th 2020, Rollins decided to disband New Greece. He decided he had built up enough gold in his time on the server to move on and work towards creating his own nation. In early December of 2020, Rollins met a player called Beanny, one of the leaders of Cuba, who was selling a 130 chunk nation called New Granada for 170 gold. Rollins decided to purchase New Granada and transform it into the new 'New Greece'.
Cuba and New Granada
In early December of 2020, Rollins took over New Granada, and the capital town called Medellin. Later this would be changed to New Greece, honouring his first town. New Granada had 130 chunks and was fairly built, and Rollins spent the next few months rebuilding New Granada. New Granada became a province nation of Cuba, its cross sea neighbour, as it was Beanny, a member of Cuba who sold New Granada to Rollins. Rollins decided that he should build New Granada to reflect the architecture of Cuba's nation spawn, adopting a coastal and colourful sandstone style.
In the same initial month, Rollins also set out to make his first map art on the server. Rollins had befriended fellow map maker TechN9ne and had been taught how to make map art, and spent much of the first few months in New Granada working on this map art in his spare time. TechN9ne was later banned from the server, before Rollins could show him the final work, but TechN9ne was eventually able to see.
Rollins would spend the rest of his time on Nova in New Granada, which he developed into one of the most active nations on Nova. New Granada would host frequent gold drops, as Rollins believed in giving back to the community. New Granada also aligned itself with nations such as Cordoba, led by IceFrosti, and Socotra, led by camdropz, Tafffy and KingMudkipz. Whilst in New Granada, Rollins participated in events such as the raid of Glasgow, as well as participating in wars with Cuba, the most notable against Yucatan.
In April of 2021, Rollins was voted in as the Cuban Prime Minister, and served one full term (one month). During his time as Prime Minister, Rollins focused on ice road developments and stimulus donations of gold to other Cuban towns, as well as passing Anti-Discrimination Bills that would strengthen Cuba's internal government structure and approach towards internal conflicts.
In April 2022, EarthMC announced the establishment of Terra Aurora. Rollins decided that he would no longer be active on Nova, starting from the commencement of Aurora.