Myrmidons (2nd)

= History of Myrmidons =

The Escape That Almost Wasn't
The first incarnation of Myrmidons was founded on January 21st, 2008 by openly gay Purge Minister of Recruitment, Pathos. Pathos had left the alliance contemporaneously to a coup within his own alliance. The Order of the Phoenix having considered Triumvir Oreo unfit to rule ordered a reformation of Purge's government, when Triumvir Comrade Korey learned that the new reformation left him and all three triumvirs without power. Comrade Korey shut down the system of government outright. Pathos resigned in the midst of the coup, within an hour Overlord Slayer ordered an embargo on resignations from Purge under pain of war. Pathos carelessly boasted his having escaped in the face of the Purge Viceroy, OBR. Pathos' hubris at that time would in the end prove disastrous for his alliance.

Reception
Reception guarding the creation of the alliance, stated at that time as GBLT only, was mixed. Members of the Continuum, especially the New Pacific Order met the move with a generally positive attitude. Some alliances held issue with the creation of the alliance and argued that it was smearing the line between OOC-IC boundaries far too much for it to be a legitimized alliance. Pathos insisted that the alliance was never intended to cause discrimination of any kind within Cybernations, and further stated that any Myrmidon who created drama in Cybernations would be removed from the alliance.

Myrmidons begins to form
Membership in Myrmidons was at first lacking. Support flooded in from abroad as people began to ambitiously look forward to the assent of this new alliance. Pathos, for his part, became known after the fact as a legendary recruiter. Within one week, Myrmidons had gained ten members, and in a single day he managed to boost Myrmidons membership from two to seven, that date being January 25th. The task was not easy however, and the members he gathered were both inexperienced and disinterested with Cybernations.

The government of Myrmidons was, upon its founding, a triumvirate much like Purge before. The only difference between the two alliances was that Myrmidons lacked a Ministry of Recruitment. Later however, upon seeing the civil strife underway in Purge, Pathos revised his charter utterly turning it into what he called a "ternion" style government. He would be the Director-General, leader for life. Beneath him were two Director-Consuls, who both served as both candidates for the position as well as seconds in command. Beneath this were the newly dubbed Departments, headed by Secretariats rather than Ministers, the name change was merely cosmetic.

On January 25, 2008 Myrmidons adopted a temporary flag and a national anthem, both of which seething with fabulous. Kurushio of NATO was kind enough to modify the flag, thereby making it the new resident flag of the alliance.

Deal with Pinochet leads to Disaster
Shortly following the creation of the alliance, Pathos immediately began to realize that recruitment from the sites he had chosen would not result into the political powerhouse he was hoping. He had earlier been asked by Pinochet to join his own alliance 'United Nations of Digiterra', Pathos decided to revisit the offer. Initially (it had been hoped) Pinochet would join Myrmidons with TheScholar and the two of them along with Pathos would lead the alliance, with the exclusion of the GBLT part of the charter. Pinochet however insisted on a name change, and both himself and Pathos agreed to Entente of Unity. The move was approved of by Slayer, for the Entente of Unity was to be made a member of the Overlord Protectorate's Pact. The Membership of the EU as of January 31st still consists primarily of homosexuals from Mogenic and The Gay Youth Corner. Freed from the restraints of his own charter however, Pathos intends to recruit from running communities as well, perhaps granting The Entente of Unity a very diverse future to come. It was not to be so.

Pinochet did not keep his end of the bargain in going through with the merger. TheScholar made no attempts to contact Pathos during this time. The new members, confused and disillusioned by Cybernations, simply went in-active. At the height of its membership, Myrmidons had nearly twenty members all of them having been recruited by Pathos. After the "merger", membership fell to 14, and Pathos was quick to give up his efforts and merge into Thundercox, which later merged into FPI. It was there that Pathos resigned to his fate and went into exile.

The History of the New Myrmidons
TBA.

= Current Charter of Myrmidons = TBA.

=External Links=
 * "Myrmidons Comes Out" forum thread
 * "OOC View on Myrmidons" forum thread