Vortex Coalition

The Vortex Coalition (sometimes referred to as simply VoCo) were a large group of players who built, battled, and memed on 2b2t and in its community. The groups meme motto was "dedicated to making 2b2t a better place".

History
The Vortex Coalition was founded by Coltsnid and AmericanOreo in early June 2015. The official date of its founding (June 15, 2015),

After deciding to begin the formation of The Vortex Coalition, Colt and Oreo began advertising the group. This sparked alot of hate from alot of players due to them mainly spamming the chat and not having done much. Eventually people began to realize that the VoCo was a meme, and Sato86 made a comment on them

In its early days, the group had relatively few members (with the exception of common newfags joining the group due to advertisements). This wasn't helped by the fact that 2b2t only had ~40 active players at the time

While the VoCo had a small amount of players, it got a large player count because of its easy to join and lenient nature during the late half of 2015.

The Vortex Coalition was not as active during the first half of 2016, and consequently suffered a loss of members and relevance. However they began to increase in activity just before TheCampingRusher joined the server, who subsequently brought hundreds of players onto 2b2t. With the influx of new players ready to make their mark on 2b2t, and the group's policy of accepting anyone regardless of being a newfag/oldfag, The Vortex Coalition was able to recruit far more members than they ever had before.

The Vortex Coalition has remained relatively peaceful during their existence, not antagonizing other groups, and declaring themselves a noncombatant third party in the Rusher War. They are neutral with many groups and have began to become allied with some of them. They view PVP as "pointless" and the vast majority of their members do not partake in PVP at spawn due to most VoCo members not being very good at it.

The Vortex Coalition eventually went on to create its own website, youtube channel, and subreddit. This allowed the VoCo community to expand. VoCo also made memes as for the most part, the group was a meme group.

The Vortex Coalition has built ~365 bases (although the logistics of this number are up for debate, Coltsnid claims this is an estimate), which are spread throughout the 2b2t map in all quadrants. Most of these are small outposts that serve as "checkpoints" for members to set their bed and possibly farm/autofish. Some, on the other hand, are large, active bases that can have up to 15 members. During 2016, The Vortex Coalition created their own take on the Wrath Outpost, which they built overnight. It was unfortunately destroyed within days of its creation during the 5th Incursion. They have also created a large amount of memes mainly residing on the 2b2t subreddit.

Trivia

 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition is responsible for the "Did you know?" meme due to the group's bot.Spawn Squad.png
 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition has a spawn squad, featuring many member's alternate accounts, that is ready to log on in mass at anytime. With this system in place, VoCo can have an army at spawn within minutes.
 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition spawn base is at x420 y69 z911, and currently features the ruins of an obsidian megastructure built there, known as "The Wrath of VoCo."
 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition is known for possessing several alt accounts, and because of this, can be just about anywhere on 2b2t at anytime.
 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition accepts both new and old players.
 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition official motto is: "The Vortex Coalition is an elite group of players dedicated to making 2b2t a better place". However, this is a meme, and was specifically designed to trigger those who are not fond of VoCo. One cannot truly change the tides of anarchy.
 * Did you know? The Vortex Coalition has created many bases and destroyed others, organised over 15 members to get online at the same place all at once, they have had up to 30 players logged into 2b2t at the same time, they have utterly destroyed 4 different smaller groups, and they are the reason The 4th Reich exists.
 * Did you know? Each VoCo base is named with a corresponding number since the first VoCo base. For example VoCo base 297 (AKA Gamma Base) is the 297th base built by VoCo. Other examples include VoCo base 276 (base raided by Tumorous) and VoCo base 329 (AKA Delta Base).

Relations

 * Team Rusher - The Vortex Coalition is currently neutral with Team Rusher. TheJadyha confirmed this when he asked VoCo members about videos containing raids on Rusher settlements. The raids turned out to be staged and so the two groups remained neutral.
 * Team Veteran - The Vortex Coalition is neutral with Team Veteran (despite some oldfags looking down on VoCo)
 * The 4th Reich - The 4th Reich was brought into the public eye because of The Vortex Coalition after the VoCo vs 4th Reich War. The Vortex Coalition recently ended the war and the two groups are now allied.
 * The Peacekeepers - Allied.
 * Team Pepsi - Allied
 * Team Aurora and The Resistance - Neutral

VoCo II and Fall of VoCo
In January, the Vortex Coalition started getting banned unfairly by the admins in the 2b2t Subreddit. This caused some drama, however only the Vortex Coalition was actually supporting, since most people are glad to see the subreddit finally cleared of VoCo members. This is followed by the hacking of the VoCo site by HermeticLock as revenge against Coltsnid who leaked DonFuer's Capital City to Babbaj.

The Vortex Coalition first disbanded on January 13th, 2017, when a fight broke out within the hierarchy of the group, causing Sengorn_Leoparde to ban all users from the discord, infuriating Coltsnid and leading to the uprising of another server called "The VoCo life raft", a server set up by HolyBruhBrine when he saw how the server was starting to crumble. This caused Coltsnid to no longer care about VoCo or its members. Alot of VoCo members saw this and brought it up with Coltsnid, who decided enough was enough and deleted the discord and posted an official disbandment post on the 2b2t reddit.

Coltsnid later founded VoCo II in an attempt to revive the group and was very close to doing so as the discord had gained most of the old members back via spamming the life boat server and reddit (the server being called 'Singularity'). The discord was once again disbanded when Coltsnid sold it to Hermeticlock (DonFuer) and so it remains dead.

The group as it stood was dead, with its members residing primarily with the group: Singularity, and the drama on reddit taking less and less of an affect as time went on. At this point, AmericanOreo and Coltsnid essentially layed the matter to rest because of this.

Former members of the Vortex Coalition went on to form other groups such as Singularity and RoCo which have varying states of activity.

VoCo III
Coltsnid eventually regained the discord and attempted to create a third VoCo. However, most of the members had moved on at this point and given up hope that there would be any truly functional revival of VoCo. The discord server remains alive, with Coltsnid online and infrequent announcements being made.

Ranks and their meanings
IMPORTANT NOTE: Ranks WERE NOT NECESSARILY EXAMPLES OF ACTIVE PLAYERS. Players who have not ever interacted with VoCo ingame could still hold the Elite rank or other such entitlements and vice versa. As with the ranking of players, take these ranks as suggestions of how players fit into the hierarchy of the group.

Supreme Leader: The owner and operator of The Vortex Coalition and it's affiliated projects.

Co-Founder: Involved in the foundation of VoCo.

Dev: Worked on coding things for VoCo such as hacked clients and web development.

Prime Minister: Late in the life of VoCo, Coltsnid sought a method of representation through a Prime Minister whom the members of the group would vote on every two weeks and had the possibility of incumbent reelection as long as they were willing to run. The requirements to become a Prime Minister were to be of Member+ or higher in rank and to have committed to VoCo. During VoCo's life, there were two elected Prime Ministers (HolyBruhBrine and ImportedSocks) and one appointed Prime Minister (iTavux, following the resignation of ImportedSocks) who still holds the title and will forever as long as there is no further electoral activity or interest. The Prime Minister would advise Colt during their tenure and had the responsibility of controlling the release of base coords to players seeking a place to call home.

Elite: The highest possible rank a member could achieve within The Vortex Coalition without working on code. They were generally the most trusted players and were regarded as gods among the group.

Recruiter: Responsible for recruiting new members to The Vortex Coalition by advertising on /r/2b2t, in chat and through personal contact with players of interest.

VIP: A trusted player with more privileges in the group. These players typically spent time working on bases with the group and growing the empire as large as it could possibly go.

Member+: A player who has earned the trust of the general population is granted this rank to as a testament to that trust. These players are typically well settled into the group and have begun to take part in activities with other players and bases.

Member: The basic confirmed rank. You have been admitted to The Vortex Coalition if you bear this rank.

Notable Members
These were the notable members of the first Vortex Coalition. They are not necessarily accurate in their rankings and should therefore be taken as a suggestion of those who may have played a major role in the group's history. Please note that their were several other members

Names with an asterisk indicate players who played an important or major role in the downfall of VoCo.
 * *Coltsnid (Supreme Leader & Co-Founder)

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 * *AmericanOreo (Co-Founder)
 * Cyanlime (Senior Executive)
 * *HermeticLock(Dev, Elite)
 * Ovnel (Executive)
 * househousehouse1(Recruiter, Executive)
 * iTavux ([Permanent] Third Prime Minister)
 * *Mega-Outlaw(Recruiter, Elite)
 * *HolyBruhBrine(Recruiter, Elite, First Prime Minister)
 * Rula(Recruiter, Elite)
 * Pangea(Dev, VoCo VIP)
 * Icy the Willow Tree(Elite)
 * Llama(Elite)
 * *Sengorn Leopardae(Elite, The beginner of the end) (Defector)
 * *ImportedSocks (Elite, [Resigned] Second Prime Minister)
 * chocowhite(VoCo VIP)
 * Kev343(VoCo VIP)
 * KreatedChaos(VoCo VIP)
 * *MiaKhalife(VoCo VIP)
 * ZeroCore(VoCo VIP)
 * CokeQueen420(VoCo VIP) (Traitor)
 * Flip(VoCo VIP)
 * *Foolz(Member+)
 * FrozenYogurt(VoCo VIP)
 * *Salmander(VoCo VIP)
 * Pikachu2204(VoCo VIP)
 * StrongForce(Member+)
 * *TheJrock_(Member+)
 * Vel(Member+)
 * AWESOMEMIDGETYODA(Member)
 * ChineseCharacters(Member)
 * de4ek(Member+)
 * donster(Member+)
 * Flaming_Spirit(Member)
 * GoldenRa(Member+)
 * HeilFitler(Member+)
 * iktoplasm(Member)
 * JonWe(Member+)
 * Mauiboydmc(Member+)
 * pistolpartners(Member+)
 * *RedTechEngineer(Member+)
 * MM114(Member)
 * Phazer(Member)
 * *SirGrassy(Member)
 * Snoopy(Member)
 * Surviverkiller(VoCo VIP)
 * ven(Member)
 * Xolt(Member+)
 * _CtrlC; AKA _0xy(Member+)
 * Dakras(Member+)
 * L3010(Member+)
 * craftsygaming(Donator,Member)
 * *D_loaded(Member)
 * Dav1dbr1an(Donator,Member)
 * Grenroast(Member)
 * MischievousMoo(Member)
 * ProxyCake(Member)
 * *Savage_Cyclops(Member)
 * SS_Oberfuhrer(Member)
 * WeezyHD(Member)
 * *Dark_Annihilator (Member)
 * thesheergenius04 (Traitor)
 * CokeQueen360 (Traitor)