Valkyria (base)


 * This page is about the base created in 2013. For the group of the same name that inhabited this base, see Valkyria

Valkyria was the first base created by the group of the same name. It was one of the, if not the largest, most populous, and richest bases of its time, resulting in the prominence of the base and group. It went on to carry a legacy of being of the most famous of 2b2t's early bases.

History
During the 2013 April Fools' temp map, Sato86 and the rest of the Black Flag Group (Pyrobyte, Drewbookman, and Angry_baby) met with hinderjd and the rest of his group, Hitlerwood (Coldwave, zach3397, and KnightVista). A base was started on the temp map, and some others joined the base as well who were not part of the two groups. As Hausemaster spawned hundreds of mobs, they acted as a team, with teamwork and sharing. After the chaos of the temp map, Sato proposed the creation of a new base by both groups, which they both agreed on.

As none of the groups wanted to use their bases for the location, Sato was left responsible for choosing a location. Using the map seed, he found an area with good landscape and resources, a hilly area close to an ocean, forest, and desert. The two groups met at the location and began constructing the base. Multiple names were considered in the following weeks, including "The Facepunch Reich", "The Black Flag Republic, and "Niggertown", before Sato decided on the name "Valkyria", inspired by Valkyrie, angels of Norse mythology that transported dying warriors to the afterlife. As time went on, more and more players joined the base, and it became the largest group base on the server at the time. However, after an abandoned base known as "The Reich" was found only a few thousand blocks from Valkyria, many of the members were worried that the existence of Valkyria would be uncovered, and took extra precautions to cover their tracks when travelling to and from the base. Sato even made a base above a double spawner close to Valkyria that not many knew about, in case members of The Reich logged back into the server and found out about Valkyria.

Drew also decided to spawn a wither a thousand blocks away from the base and died trying to fight it. Sato retrieved his stuff, and five players including Pyrobyte and Sato tried to kill it without golden apples. They failed, as three of them died, including Sato. The wither could not be killed until Valkyria 2 was founded.

First Incursion and grief
After kinorana, a new member of Valkyria, had pranked the base members by griefing a world download of the base and sending screenshots of the grief to base members, Sato began to have second thoughts about inviting him, although he did forgive Kino after he apologized. This changed when kino taught the members of Valkyria how to dupe, and the future of the base looked well. However, a rivalry began between kino and Drew; Drew became more distant from Sato and Pyrobyte as they became better friends with kino. Drew also began acting strange, setting parts of the base on fire and blaming it on lightning on three separate occasions, despite the damage being too great to be from a lightning strike, which would have quickly been put out by the rain. Drew was also accused of stealing a set of armor. Despite these incidents, Sato continued to trust Drew because he was the first basemate Sato had on 2b2t, and they had been through a lot together.

Soon afterward in June 2013, the First Incursion was started by members of Valkyria. Most basemates were tired of building and basing, and so hinderjd came up with the invading Spawn. Everyone at Valkyria was extremely well equipped with kino's duped armor, tools, and weapons, meaning the members would have a chance to stand equal to any veteran spawnfags.

"We accepted this idea and marched to Spawn, but not all together. Some people went a few days ahead of the rest, like Drewbookman and Hinderjd. They were important to settle some farms to sustain us. Half of the players of Valkyria were not online at the time or refused to come. After walking for hours at Spawn and killing all the withers we could find, we decided to settle at 2k2k."

- Sato86

The Valkyrians chose 2k2k as a meetup spot of sorts. While there, they met a player named trodam, who did not attack them. Drew instantly attacked and killed him, burning his stuff on the spot. After this incident, Sato had finally had enough, and Drew left the group. The Valkyrians created a small farm at 2k2k with a beacon and logged out. Soon afterward, a player named BAHSAHKAH killed trodam and stole the beacon. Sato logged on and, along with Pyro, chased BAHSAHKAH into the Nether, though he escaped. Later, after Pyro logged out, BAHSAHKAH returned and fought Sato, who lost the fight partially due to a bad Internet connection. Sato considered it to be an "enjoyable fight". As it turned out, BAHSAHKAH was the alt of Jacktherippa, who later became friends with Sato.

After the First Incursion ended, Sato returned to his Black Flag Group base Anatolia, to expand it. While Sato was here, Drew spawned five withers at Valkyria and used TNT to grief more of the base. Coldwave and hinderjd, who were still at Valkyria, killed four of the withers and tried to figure out who was responsible. Sato instantly suspected that Drew was the culprit, and talked to him in chat. Drew confessed to Sato that he wanted to spread paranoia among the members of Valkyria and cause them to split up, returning the balance of power on the server to "the way it was before". Drew had made a grave mistake, however; he had given his coordinates to hinderjd before confessing. hinder, Coldwave and Zach tracked Drew down to his dupe stash and killed him while burning down the stash. Later, Sato returned to Valkyria and, in anger, killed the final wither that Drew had spawned at the base and used its nether star to craft a beacon that he left at the ruins. Sato never thought that he would return to the site of Valkyria again after this.

Revival
Some time after the Second Incursion, Sato and Pyro met up with Jacktherippa and told him about what had happened to Valkyria. Jack suggested that since Drew hadn't actually leaked the coords to the base, they could go and restore it. Sato agreed, and they traveled back to Valkyria. The base wasn't as badly griefed as they had expected, and they got to work rebuilding. As the project progressed, other former basemates returned to Valkyria to help, as well as new members who didn't originally base at Valkyria, such as xcc2 and THEJudgeHolden. Drewbookman also returned to the server around this time, but could not remember Valkyria’s exact coordinates. Eventually, though, he did, and on top of this, someone at Valkyria gave the coords to popbob. This caused the reconstruction project to fall apart, and the members at Valkyria to split up.

Final grief
In 2014, after returning from the 2014 temp map, Jacktherippa got bored at his base The Lands and decided to travel on the Nether roof back to Valkyria. When he got there, he realized that, once again, the base was not in as bad a condition as he had thought. Jack decided to stay at the ruins, only being visited occasionally by Pyrobyte. One day, Jack saw a player named McBrainbomb wandering around the ruins, and killed him. However, McBrainbomb turned out to be the alt of a player named Javazon, who gave Valkyria's coordinates to OreMonger, whose base had recently been griefed by Jack and a few others. OreMonger traveled to Valkyria and griefed it beyond repair, causing Jack to leave and return to The Lands.

Builds
The first major build at Valkyria was a central building with swastikas on top, courtesy of hinderjd. Sato also built his house next to this building. As more players showed up, Sato decided to build a stone wall to define the boundaries of the base and make it so that the builds were more concentrated. Sirms built the tallest building at the base, a tower that resembled a lighthouse, while Drew built a triple layer farm that provided food for the whole base. Around this time, the first ever Valkyrian Eagle was constructed near the ocean out of black wool. Eventually, the base became too crowded and builds began to be constructed outside of the city walls. A massive swastika covered in vines was built over the ocean next to a flying pirate ship built by Fuzzypuffball. The Autism Spectrum Church was constructed just outside the main walls, and contained shrines to many famous players. Nearby was the Asset Forfeiture Tower, a tower by thePOMPANO and fubster that was completely made up of blocks taken from spawn stashes. Sato built two large fortresses at Valkyria; Fenris Stronghold and Valkyria Fortress. Other major builds included an underwater dome, a memorial created on top of the hole created by Drew’s last wither, a replica of fubster’s Spawn Beacon used in the Second Incursion, and KnightVista’s house.

A few thousand blocks away from the main base, the Valkyrian Council was built. It was a massive stone structure reminiscent of Anatolia surrounded by beacons, with a large Valkyrian eagle made of stone brick above the entrance. On top of this tower was a small castle that featured seats for 16 players and an eagle pattern on the floor.


 * Drewbookman was supposedly high when he griefed Valkyria, which explains why he initially forgot the coords.
 * According to OreMonger, Javazon actually griefed Valkyria and blamed it on him. However, there is little evidence to back this up aside from OreMonger’s own claims.
 * The rebuild of Valkyria was also known as Valkyria 2 or Valkyria 2.0.
 * fubster and POMPANO's houses were memed on due to looking so bad