Fifth Column

The Fifth Column (5C) is one of the most prolific griefing groups in recent times on 2b2t, having insided and subsequently griefed many megabases on the server.

Founding
The Fifth Column was founded by orsond, HermeticLock, and Sakuya, originally for the purpose of insiding The Republic, a group founded by Bartolome_Mitre. It was also a secretive group that high-profile players could join to grief a base without being publicly exposed for it.

History
Immediately following its founding, within the same month, the group went on a spree of griefs, insiding the Republic many times and also insiding Jakethasnake52's group and bases many times. Within the month of December 2020, they griefed The Holy Land, Jake's Christmas Base 2020, his Second Christmas Base, Jake's Frat Base, and 16 million Jake Base. This spree of griefs can be accredited to many excellent social manipulators being in the group, such as the founder orsond and many others. After these griefs, the group went slightly inactive for a period of time, returning a month later after jared2013 leaked the coordinates of Block Game Jerusalem to orsond. After the group's leaders took a look at the member list of the base and saw many of their friends on it, they refrained from griefing it. The group went along for about 3 months without any major griefs, until Hermeticlock and orsond griefed Imperator's 2. This grief led to the falling out of orsond, Sakuya, and 0x22, leading to orsond kicking the other two out of the group. Promptly afterwards, after 5 months of constant insiding of Builder's Haven, the group obtained the coordinates to Bernheim and Limbosity, and orsond contacted well known members of the bases Boedecken and Block Game Mecca to grief the base together. In September of 2021, after meeting a player named rfresh at the Bernheim grief, orsond decided to team up and launch a project known as Copenheimer, and they used a program by the same name to find un-whitelisted Minecraft servers to hack and exploit, then grief. They did this to thousands of servers, and even griefed Jeb's server, and Fit made a video on the project as well. The project led to players such as WarLordN1k and Bezopasan joining the group. In late October 2021, after orsond was kicked out of Guardsmen, then reinvited, and Joey_Coconut and his fellow Shortbus Caliphate Guardsmen members left the group, orsond decided to recruit a team to inside and grief all of Joey_Coconut's bases on the server. He recruited players such as Franknificant, maksitaxi, Gravixious, oofplux, and forceken. The group promptly insided Shortbus Caliphate and the Astral Brotherhood and griefed Menegroth and acquired coordinates (courtesy of Bathory343) to many of Joey's other bases. In a panic, Joey self griefed many of his bases on the server, such as Gaza. Halicarnassus, and Astralia.