NewDawn

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*'''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]]'''

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===Pre-Pax===

NewDawn was 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 war with [[WaC]]. 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'. It seemed to have a bright future & 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 [[Odoric]], [[Canker]], [[Sith]], and [[Myrdhin]] in command.

Early [[round 3]] featured a good start with but some of the new command (eg aviendha, ashknight) lacked loyalty, leaving for DoM 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]], 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 to 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]].

[[Category:Alliances]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 1]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 2]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 3]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 4]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 5]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 6]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 7]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 8]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 9]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 9.5]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 10]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 10.5]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 11]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 12]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 13]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 14]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 15]]
[[Category:Alliances:Round 16]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 17]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 18]]
[[Category:Alliances:Round 19]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 20]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 21]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 22]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 23]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 24]] [[Category:Alliances:Round 25]]

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