Vortex Coalition

The Vortex Coalition is a large group of players who build, battle, and meme on 2b2t and in its community.

The group has over 100 known members, making it the largest and oldest (active) group on the server, and is notorious for its large lag machine capable of crashing the server, its memes, its propaganda, its bot DeadlyMause.

History
The Vortex Coalition was founded by Coltsnid and AmericanOreo in early June 2015. The official date of its founding (June 15, 2015), which was used for a long time, was recently discovered to be inaccurate, as evidence of VoCo has surfaced from as early as June 7, 2015. Colt and Oreo have been playing on 2b2t since 2014.

After deciding to begin the formation of The Vortex Coalition, Colt and Oreo began advertising the group. The initial response to the group was largely negative, as the established players and groups on the server weren't fond of competition (mainly Valkyria). However, after a while, most oldfags began to not care one way or the other about VoCo. Even Sato86, the original hater of the group, has decided to include VoCo's founding date on the upcoming timeline. There are a decent amount of haters of the group, varying from newfags to oldfags, but that is common for all groups on 2b2t.

In its early days, the group had relatively few members. This wasn't helped by the fact that 2b2t only had ~40 active players at the time. Though, despite this, The Vortex Coalition grew to be one of the largest groups on the server, with 15-20 active members during the later 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.

The Vortex Coalition compartmentalizes its members into several different bases, usually having 2 or 3 major bases with 10-15 members each in operation at one time, and several other small bases that may have 2-4 members. They also have a collection of members who possess alt accounts which they keep near spawn, known as the Spawn Squad. This group is very rarely used for PVP encounters, as the main purpose is to build VoCo propaganda near spawn, and build spawn bases to help new recruits who have nothing.

The Vortex Coalition also contributes to memes on the 2b2t subreddit, and posts unique 2b2t related videos to their YouTube Channel (mainly funny memes). They tend to not take anything too seriously, and enjoy meming those who do.

VoCo has now fallen

What has VoCo done?
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. 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. VoCo has created a large amount of memes mainly residing on the 2b2t subreddit. 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.

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.

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

Notable Members
This is not all members of VoCo and it would need constant updating to stay accurate.
 * Coltsnid (Supreme Leader & Co-Founder)
 * AmericanOreo (Co-Founder)
 * Cyanlime (Senior Executive)
 * HermeticLock
 * Ovnel
 * househousehouse1
 * Mega-Outlaw
 * HolyBruhBrine
 * Rula
 * Surviverkiller
 * Pangea
 * D_loaded
 * Dav1dbr1an
 * Icy the Willow Tree
 * Llama
 * Sengorn Leopardae
 * Dakras
 * L3010
 * barrica1
 * MischievousMoo
 * ProxyCake
 * Mekner
 * srgfox
 * T4nkplays
 * TheGeneralTatman
 * chocowhite
 * Kev343
 * KreatedChaos
 * MiaKhalife
 * ZeroCore
 * Foolz
 * FrozenYogurt
 * Salmander
 * ImportedSocks
 * Pikachu2204
 * StrongForce
 * TheJrock_
 * Vel
 * AWESOMEMIDGETYODA
 * ChineseCharacters
 * de4ek
 * donster
 * Flaming_Spirit
 * GoldenRa
 * HeilFitler
 * iktoplasm
 * JonWe
 * Mauiboydmc
 * pistolpartners
 * RedTechEngineer
 * MM114
 * Phazer
 * SirGrassy
 * Snoopy
 * KXC_STYLE
 * ven
 * Xolt
 * _CtrlC; AKA _0xy
 * InDepth
 * Make a meme!
 * shadowfal
 * craftsygaming
 * Grenroast
 * Savage_Cyclops
 * SS_Oberfuhrer
 * WeezyHD
 * Fax
 * Tora
 * TheBlackRose
 * RealMarcello
 * FraazT0