NewDawn

Full Name: NewDawn Short Name: ND Public IRC Channel: #newdawn Alliance motto: Soaring Where Angels Fear To Fly Website: http://www.ndawn.com/forums/ Current High Council: Paddy, Spritfire, Grog, h3ll http://members.lycos.co.uk/elcura/Planetarion/ndbanner_small.jpg

NewDawn has played every round of Planetarion and has often been represented in top blocks and alliance rankings. It was founded in round 1 by Sith, Stew and Stez. New Dawn's philosophy is "fun first" and they play the game with that idea first and foremost in their sights. This has contributed to a strong and active community.

NewDawn is one of the oldest of all the alliances, dating from Round 1. Many members from the very early days of NewDawn still remain.

In recent rounds, NewDawn has made new friends and stepped up a bit, finishing third in Round 12, allied to the winners 1up. After relatively poor showing in the first half of Round 13, NewDawn livened things up again for its members (and perhaps for the game) by merging with SiN to form SiNND.

Between Round 13 and Round 14 NewDawn suffered a bit of a crisis. G-II decided to de-merge from NewDawn (they had merged in a much earlier round), and several other members including one HC decided to join 1up. For a while it looked to some like NewDawn would cease to function as an alliance, and most of the universe had written off their round 14 chances. However, the core membership made a very good start to the round, not least due to sterling work from the HC Gate, The_Fish, Flying_So-Low and Spritfire; and after a series of other alliances disbanding or collapsing against the winners 1up, NewDawn ended up finishing 2nd. During the round they took in a lot of new members, mainly from the alliances of Wolfpack and Insomnia, as well as SiN members formerly playing with Hydra; increasing membership from about 40 to over 80 members.

NewDawn went into Round 15 with yet another HC change, with Grog, h3ll, and Amon joining Flying_So-Low as HC after the departures of Gate, The_Fish and Spritfire from the HC team. They played Round 15 well on a political base with Grog being the political genious and managed to stay #1 for a long time. Nearing the end they attacked Exilition full force because it was only a matter of time untill Exilition would attack them, but Exilition proved - with the help of other alliances such as Subh and VGN - a too big of an adversary for NewDawn. Exilition took over the #1 position making NewDawn end 2nd.

After Round 15 Amon, Grog, h3ll and Flying_So-Low resigned as HC and took a well deserved break after their outstanding performances in Round 15. During the time inbetween rounds a new command was set up once again.
In Round 16 the council constisted out of:

• cura leading the Internal Affairs Department
• BA leading the External Affairs Department
• Paddy leading the Battle Commander Department
• JDD leading the Defence Commander Department

With this new command NewDawn reinforced the community feeling on which the founders of NewDawn have built the community that exists now. They are still going for victory but will not when the costs are getting members to quit due to getting burnt out. Victory at all costs is not a motto for NewDawn. The strong feeling of community, having fun, socialising, etc. is what has kept NewDawn going for so many rounds, sacrefising this for victory is not an option.

(Spam deleted --Squidly PS: Much lub to ND)