Toska

Toska is a player known for leading The Collective, and formerly the Imperials 2b2t branch.

Joining 2b2t
Toska joined 2b2t for the first time in April 2020 after following the history of 2b2t through SalC1 and FitMC for some time prior. It was only in early 2020 though that he was able to finally play the server himself after getting a computer capable of running Minecraft. After logging in for the first time, Toska made it out of the spawn area and began exploring the outer spawn regions, finding a small dungeon stash and continuing to explore spawn and base hunt. Growing bored and not understanding there was more to 2b2t, Toska left for nearly a year.

Return to the server
Upon returning in early 2021, Toska would again spend time travelling and base/stash hunting. Eventually he established a base, it was named No Name Base and existed approximately 500k blocks from spawn. He invited various people to the base that he met on the northern nether highway, spawn, and 2b2t chat, No Name Base would peak at 11 members. Unfortunately the base would survive for only 3 weeks until it was found and griefed by a base hunter. After spending the summer of 2021 playing solo, establishing and building at ShroomTown and the Island Cottage, Toska joined the Gapples For Poor Foundation. The GFPF was lead by Kuzinnik0 and it's purpose was to hand out golden apples to new players around the spawn region and on the highways. There were only about 3-4 members of their server at the time, one of these members was ACABMichael. Comically, GFPF didn't have any golden apples to give out, so shortly after its creation it was disbanded due to inactivity and inability to serve its main purpose.

Joining Imperials
ACABMichael had invited Toska to a group called The Imperials before the GFPF was disbanded, and the two worked their way up the ranks of Imperials until eventually they were co-leading the 2b2t branch. While still getting established in the group, Toska took part in Project Imperial Sky during October and November 2021 and placed ~310,000 blocks of the total 1.2 million obsidian structure. After this, Toska became a base manager and established the base Subaqueous, which would be renamed to Aqueous just before being griefed. Aqueous II was established shortly after and the series of bases continued until February of the next year ending finally with Aqueous VI. Toska was also invited to a base named Phaedra, a solo base turned Imperial base created by Law which miraculously still stands a year later. After a worrying security incident, the Centurion (leader) of the Imperials 2b2t branch at the time was removed. Toska and ACABMichael were appointed as co-Centurions of the 2b2t branch. During the dual leadership the branch grew to nearly 200 members, and a series of spawn events called spawn raids took place where members would congregate at spawn and place Imperial Y statues, Imperial maparts, repair portal traps, clean up the nether hub and PvP with non-Imperial players. A number of projects were also in planning, these plans included the 2b2t Olympic Games, the Imperial Merchant item shop and Project Imperial Sky V2. These projects never came to fruition during Toska's time as Centurion.

Beginning of Imperials drama
In December 2021, Imperial member MaxHolloway discovered the Larptown base while base hunting. Not understanding entirely what it was, the Imperial leadership were given the coordinates, and possibly confusing SBA with BSB, lukent was sent to grief the base and he uploaded the full grief recording to YouTube. A few members of the Larptown base created a decoy SBA discord server, and promised new-to-2b2t members of Imperials an invite to the SBA. Of course many members fell for this and the Larptown members were able to grief all but two of the Imperial bases at the time. This acted as the catalyst for the downfall of Imperials, as it caused an unnamed member to become upset about his recruit base build getting griefed. This member began a campaign of griefing Imperial bases and his attack soon turned to outright doxxing and swatting attempts.

Imperatoria 23
Imperatoria 23, of which the 23 had no meaning besides being one third of the number 69, was a high-ranking Imperial base that unofficially became the capital base of the Imperials during its height. This is the location where Toska, HenkieMC, Bematt, Durkaa, MrIcantSleep, lukent, Jesse, AiwaSound and hwe duped a large stash of armor and elytra using Bikmunni's armor stand and dispenser dupe. In February 2022 when the stash was waiting to be split up and moved to more secure locations, base member hwe decided to pearl most of the main stash away and then proceeded to grief the base. This happened because he found out that the leaders of Imperials at the time had planned to kick him out of the group in the past due to a controversy involving his blackmailing of a child for explicit images. He was not booted from the group when this discussion took place because of a lack of evidence/someones word against another's type situation, but he decided to take it out on Imperatoria 23 after seeing the chatlogs of members discussing to kick him out or not. The base was sadly unfinished at the time of the grief in February 2022.

Crum Lodge Grief
Some time in early 2022, players SpiritAce and Slxsh were seraching for a desert to farm base materials, when SpiritAce stumbled upon a small consisting of one house build into a hillside, and a few pens for animals with a path connecting the two. After investigation, SpiritAce recognised the base as the one shown a FitMC video where Fit visits the base of fellow YouTuber JSchlatt. After sitting on the coords for multiple months and receiving no word from JSchlatt after tweeting at him, SpiritAce decided the base should be griefed. Toska and Lukent were invited to grief with SpiritAce on the 16th of March 2022.

Imperial Schism
Through the beginning and early months of 2022, a conflict involving Imperial members being doxxed, set up, and threatened with swatting among other things, came to a head. This conflict, paired with constant infighting and huge tensions between Imperial multi-branch leadership and Imperial 2b2t branch leadership, caused a majority of the branch under Toska's leadership to decide to split from Imperials and create a new group. This mass resignation took place in the early hours of the 23rd of February 2022 and the new group would be named The Collective.

The Collective
In the early months of The Collective, future projects planned by Toska under the name of Imperials would be repurposed to fit the new group. As time went on though, no projects would be completed or even launched, as many members were burned out from the schism drama and ensuing tension with Imperials. What made it even harder to get things going was the group was envisioned to remain as the tight knit friend group that banded together under Imperials and decided to split. This meant there was no recruitment drive, poor application process, and a dwindling core member base. After many months of this, along with a number of great members outright leaving the group, Toska decided to revamp The Collective in Autumn of 2022 and within 6 months the group had grown to 150 members and finally had a strong core of dedicated leaders in charge of it.