Cyber Nations Early History

Pre Cybernations
Cybernations was started in 1994 when Kevin (admin to some) was only about 13 years old. It was only a map, thumb-tacks, and a few friends. Back then depending on what territories you owned the real life statistics (population, size, etc) depicted how well you were doing in game. The idea was kept until 2003, when Kevin learned how convert the old map and tack game into a real game to be shared with others. It was made but Kevin had underestimated the task and left www.cybernations.net as an unused domain. In may of 2005 he returned to it and laid the groundwork but again was overwhelmed and walked away unfinished. In December of 2005, with a two week vacation, Kevin once again returned to cybernations. This time he was determined to finish it. Not liking the original design it was scrapped and started anew. On January 6, 2006 Cybernations was finally released to the public. Kevin wanted the game to be pure so he kept it free and used the satisfaction he recieved as a payment.

In the Beginning
Cybernations had a very slow start to it and grew in small day to day progessions. Nations were attracted by advertisement on various websitses and by word of mouth from friend to friend. One of the original players-Depraved of New England had this to say about how he found the game.

"I came upon the game through pure luck really. I googled "political sim." After about three or four pages of browsing, I saw Cyber Nations and immediately clicked. Just the name alone hooked me into finding out more. When I read into it, browsed the forums (which were at that time, completely empty beyond the "About Cyber Nations" section) and the next thing you know I'm signed up and ruling the nation of New England. I joined the game simply because after I read and after just three days of playing, I knew this would become huge. I just wanted to be apart of that growing community and watch the game mature into what it is becoming; possibly the best geo-political simulation ever created for free."

By the end of a week there was only about 100 players and the community was tight-knit and very friendly, grudges and arguements were few and far between. As the community grew, a population boom was bound to occur. That boom came when cybernations reached the Nationstates players. New members came in never-ending waves as word rapidly spread through the massive N.S. community. Since then the game has never been the same.

At first the game was riddled with irregularities and coding bugs that were eliminated just in time for a new one to emerge. After two weeks the occurence of these bugs was limited and under control. This presented Kevin with a great opportunity to turn to his players and ask their needs. The issue that was agreed upon was the random battles and a way of better controlling them. Thus after a few weeks of complaints and ideas for improvement technology was introduced on February 8th. The next large change was the switch from the old host to a newe, better one. The old host was found responsible for many of the errors that plaqued the early game.

The First Alliances
It only took a few days before the verbal agreements between players turned into actual allainces. The first was CATO (Cross Atlantic Treaty Organization) lead by Depraved of New England, followed by the INC (Imperial Nations Coalition) lead by Ninjas of Ninjaland. These two allainces grew unchallenged and reached new heights. As with all things a little competition is a good thing, many new alliances came along, but with such giants as GATO and INC they quickly failed due to lack of membership. CATO, following massive growth decided to expand and become the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization or GATO. Eventually tensions grew and war became an ever present reality. Inevitably the tensions reached a climax.

World War I
At first it was debated as to whether or not call it a world war. It was a short war between the new and powerful alliances of INC and GATO. Tension had been growing between the two alliances for a while with insults flying both ways. The war was started when this post on the original forums was made by ninja.

"INC is not officaly at war with GATO. However, Im personaly at war with GATO! I ask for all INC members to join me. If we work together we can bring GATO down while building ourselves up in the process! Remember, this is not a orderyou do not have to fight. your leader, NINJA. P.S. If you are going to go to war with GATO, to help me, and INC. then please make a post here! thanks again, Ninja "

This war quickly ended within about a week INC gave up and disband into oblivion, along with the the ITT (International Trade Agreement) which was run by INC also fell apart. Many INC members joined into GATO turning the already growing giant into unstoppable force, the likes of which has yet to be matched to this day. With the destruction of the INC there was room for new allainces to grow and prosper. It only took a short time before the void was indeed filled.

The Rise of the Next Great Alliances
After a while two new alliances broke free. The first was the Greenland Republic. This was an alliance that required members to be located in greenland. This alliance started off very slow because of lack of members in greenland. They soon discovered that they must change the name in incorperate more people into their alliance. They then changed their name to the National Alliance for Arctic Nations or NAAC. The second and last of these new alliances became the New Pacific Order or the NPO. This alliance took of very fast, because it was an alliance for the vast numbers of Nationstates players. This alliance grew and became very powerful. The rise of these two new alliances only led for trouble in the future.

World War II
With the two new powerful alliances their was bound to be a stuggle for power. Within a few weeks of the formation of these alliances the NAAC began to insult the NPO. The NPO eventually grew tired of this and officially started WW2 with this message by Vladimir.

"Imperial Declaration of the New Pacific Order

In the name of the Emperor:

In the past week relations between the Pacific Order (NPO) and National Alliance for Arctic Countries (NAAC) have rapidly deteriorated. High ranking members of the NAAC continued to insult the honour and integrity of the Order and Emperor while trying to turn other alliances and nations against us. The NPO will never allow such actions to go unchallenged, an appropriate response was deemed necessary to protect our Homelands and ideals.

At 9pm GMT on Sunday the 5th of February, the New Pacific Order launched a devastating preemptive strike of unparalleled organisation against members of the National Alliance for Arctic Countries. This strike hit all corners of the NAAC destroying their entire war machine within a five minute period. The New Pacific Order will state categorically that these attacks will continue until either the NPO War Council is satisfied that the NAAC no longer present a threat and issues a public apology for their past wrongs against the Emperor, or until the NAAC are no more.

Peace! Strength! Prosperity!

Signed,

Emperor, Ivan Moldavi

First Alliance Council of the New Pacific Order, Blackadder Koona Lord Valentine Vladimir ''

Within a week this war was ended by the NAAC because of the constant death their soldiers faced. The terms of surrender were made and the war ended.