Jadoo1989

What's With The Nick?
Well, a lot of people mispronounce it. I won't go all into a lesson on phonology, but Jadoo is the Hindi word meaning magic. I chose the nick because of the film I happened to be watching during the signup process, Koi Mil Gaya. The film is Bollywood's version of ET and the name of the alien was Jadoo. Finally, 1989 was the year I was born. The mistory is solved!

Cybernations History
Jadoo1989 first began playing Cybernations in 2008 under the nation ruler stephenk. The nation name and other details have been forgotten. Jadoo1989 resumed Cybernations in April, 2009 where he found a permanent home among friends at the Mostly Harmless Alliance.

The First Nation
Jadoo1989 began cybernations as stephenk where he joined The Order of Righteous Nations and remained a member until boredom and reality lead to the deletion of his nation for inactivity, and thus the end of his brief stint of a few months in The Order of Righteous Nations. Although Jadoo1989 left the alliance, he still carried with him valuable Cybernations experience that would prove useful during his later return.

The Second Nation
In April of 2009, Jadoo1989 decided to return to Cybernations and give it a second chance. On April 9, 2009 at 3:24:25 PM Jadoo1989's new nation of Bharatia was created.

Mostly Harmless Alliance
Mere hours after the creation of Bharatia, Jadoo1989 received a recruitment letter from Shamshir of the Mostly Harmless Alliance. Jadoo1989 was so impressed by the friendliness, courtesy, helpfulness, and recruitment methods of the alliance that he quickly enlisted and began the road to membership. As he spent his first days in the Mostly Harmless Alliance, Jadoo1989 began to realize that the atmosphere in the alliance was exactly what he was looking for and thus he found his home in the alliance along side his hitchhiker brethren.

The Ministry of Destructor Fleets
Jadoo1989 began his career in the MoDF a few weeks after joining the Mostly Harmless Alliance. After failing in his somewhat rambunctious bid for the post of Minister of Bad Poetry, Jadoo1989 was offered a lieutenant commander position by blucaboose979 who was then commander of the alliance's fifth fleet. Jadoo1989 served as fifth fleet lieutenant for a few months and then was promoted to commander of Fleet IV. As commander of Fleet IV Jadoo1989 aided the other commanders and ministry staff with many organizational tasks that will be pivotal to the future success of the ministry.

Involvement in MHA Cybernations Merchandise
Jadoo1989 is credited with bringing the Mostly Harmless Alliance its very own merchandise to the Cybernations store. The alliance's original flag was designed by long-time MHA member Damaen who intended for the image to be used small-scale for Cybernations. The original design worked well for the in-game flag and alliance forums and sigs, however, it simply was not large enough to look well in print. After many users attempted to scale the original image up to 10 times its size, resulting in a significant amount of pixelation, Jadoo1989 stepped up and volunteered to redesign the flag from the ground up using the original version of the flag as a template. The project took around a week and when finished was sent off to the Cybernations store.

Jadoo1989's version differs from the original version in the following ways:
 * It was designed natively in high resolution for optimal quality results during print
 * It features a transparent background to enable printing of the logo seamlessly on colored fabric
 * It contains a more curvy, modern feel with more use of a drop shadow to accentuate shapes.
 * The font is different due to difficulties in finding the original font used for the logo. However, the fonts in the two are so well matched that one might not even see the difference.

Other Alliance Activities
Jadoo1989 is also the Mostly Harmless Alliance's diplomat to several alliances. Apart from his diplomacy job, he also works in the Ministry of Bad Poetry as a Secretaty of Arts.

In Reality
In reality, Jadoo1989 is a full time student studying for a Bachelor's of Business Administration in Banking and Finance. In his free time, he likes to read, play piano, study foreign languages, and talk with his girlfriend, Priya.