NewDawn

Full Name: NewDawn Short Name: ND Public IRC Channel: #newdawn Alliance motto: Soaring Where Angels Fear To Fly Current High Council: Spritfire, Grog, BA, damo8, Catwoman http://members.lycos.co.uk/elcura/Planetarion/ndbanner_small.jpg

Pre-Pax

NewDawn, founded in round 1 by Sith & Stez, has played every round of Planetarion and has often been represented in top blocks and alliance rankings. ND's philosophy is "fun first" and they play the game based around that, leading to a strong and active community.

Through building a strong core in round 1, ND became an elite alliance in round 2 with the highest average score until the WaC-war. Cooperation with SK and F-Crew went wrong, the war was lost which left ND effectively dead.

In that period there was a power struggle between Coffee and Sith/Stez and the ND core decided to create a new alliance to be called 'Inexorabilis', in which some of the best players from all major alliances at the time would be involved . It seemed to have a bright future ahead and even before the end of round 2 there was active networking on forums & in channels. Unfortunately the attempt was undermined by traitors and with this failure, a great part of the old core decided to reinstitute ND, with people like Odoric, Canker, Sith, Stew and Myrdhin in command. This round was also the round when the ND battlecalc was created by Odoric. A downloadable, ace battlecalc which was used by 90% of all planetarion players, best compared to thrud's calc now.

Early round 3 featured a good start but some old command folks went inactive near the end of the round and some of the new command (eg aviendha, ashknight) lacked loyalty, leaving for DoM (a legion recruitment alliance) and undermining ND's efforts.

In round 4 ND began with two inactive HC and only 10-12 people in the private channel. New people stepped up to the command though, including Hardball, Jellinek, Buly, Riddim, Myrdhin and later on Orange and El-Cura or cura. ND survived one of its worst rounds. With a new website, competent commanders & recruitment picking up, NewDawn was ready to go into round 5 as a real force once again.

In these days the first recruitment alliance of ND was created, called TheRising. TheRising was created to be able to recruit more people without compromising the security and it recruited quite a few people that later became part of the ND core.

The Furgion cartel dominated round 5, forcing ND to cooperate with Xanadu with whom they had held good ties since r1. This cooperation allowed growth; mergers with ICD and YHQ added enough players and allowed ND to compete as a respectable power once again.

Round 6 was coloured by the entrance of Colcarpenter, former YHQ leader. Colcarp left ND later due to differences with the old ND core, but he remains a positive influence in ND's history. Around this time Barrow and Shooter16 joined the command. Politically round 6 was the round of FoS, XeTa and FLTV. ND were a major player in Fusion of Six, or 'FoS' in an attempt to break the power of FLTV who were finally beaten by FoS-XeTa, ending the worst period of stagnation in PA history. After that, FoS-XeTa cooperation ended to prevent further stagnation, allowing FLTV to make a resurgence.

PaX & Beyond

In PaX, NewDawn was able to step up, finishing third in Round 12, allied to the winners 1up. After a poor showing in the first half of Round 13, NewDawn merged with SiN to form SiNND who finished fifth.

After the severe beating of Round 13, the loss of many members to 1up, SiN joining Hydra and G-II de-merging it looked like NewDawn would collapse. However, the loyal core and several new recruits made a strong start with Gate and Flying_So-Low running the show. The_Fish and ReligFree later joined the HC team as Gate burned out. NewDawn first engaged the similarly sized Reunion in a rank war before swelling in size by absorbing members from the collapsed InSomnia, Hydra and Wolfpack. At the end of the round, NewDawn were crushed by 1up and their allies Reunion, finishing second.

NewDawn went into Round 15 with yet another HC change; Grog, h3ll, and Amon joining Flying_So-Low as HC. Grog's political maneuvring let NewDawn reach the top spot, but eXilition, helped by other alliances such as Subh and Vengeance were able to obliterate NewDawn's lead. Again, ND finished second.

In Round 16 a new council was set up, constisting out of cura, BA, Paddy and JDD. Grog took the BG DLR out of tag for the round but despite this loss, NewDawn were still able to compete. 1up defeated Subh early in the round, but NewDawn joined Subh's side and, frustrated by the dominance of XP, 1up began to weaken. The outcome of the war was never decided as Ascendancy tagged up and took an easy XP win leading to NewDawn surrendering the fight for first, eventually finishing 7th after tidying up its ranks.

Round 17 saw NewDawn ally itself with InSomnia early on to engage the leaders Omen. Indecisive leadership and the failure to prosecute a proper war on behalf of both NewDawn and InSomnia allowed the conflict to become bitter and drag on with no clear resolution. 1up hid a huge amount of score and by the time they tagged up, petty arguments between Omen and NewDawn/InSomnia allowed them to stroll to a victory.

NewDawn started Round 21 with only two HC, namely Barrow and cura. After losing quite a few members to Conspiracy and WolfPack, NewDawn didn't compete for the #1 position and instead aimed to rebuild for the future.

This rebuilding effort was successful as NewDawn won Round 24 and Round 25, in both cases narrowly beating Urwins and Conspiracy.