The Confederacy

Backstory
The Confederacy (later known as the Oceanmakers) was founded on the 7th of January, as a proposed branch to merge factions between Haloman597 and Thinking_robot, and all other factions who were allied with the two members. After building efforts to set up the group's headquarters, the Confederacy was ready to begin accepting members. Old bases were converted into trading stations for villagers and outposts.

Overview
The Confederacy took an approach similar to that of The Grey, where they used their extensive network of bases to help have a large number of people, yet not be completely vulnerable, so they mustn't have to depend on all their members to cooperate, and could instead have more people in terms of quantity.

Merged Bases
The bases which joined together were relatively small, and have almost assimilated entirely, making the Confederation into more of a Federation. These are the names of the most notable bases which joined.

1) Iceland

2) The Warp Base

3) The Block

4) Ariii_Kanariii's private base

5) Various smaller bases.

6) Dawnbreakers

7) Ahauser1's dirt base

The Confederacy was allied with Dawnbreakers and along with The Varden prior to their respective falls, and was at war with The Grey.

Downfall
Shortly after YeahItsRico and Warvan began destroying Grey outposts, the Grey took this as an act of war, even though it was done independently and not condoned by the Confederacy. Around this time, Haloman597 brought his IRL friend who had just got back into Minecraft after 4 years to the Confederacy's main base, Slough. While they were fighting in PVP rounds, the IRL friend, who has the IGN of Maxpaddy, leaked the coordinates by advocating to make the server 'KILL HALOMAN AT -34329 X 75 Y -103984'. Haloman then proceeded to reprimand Maxpaddy and tried to cover up their mistake, by quickly posting more fake 'KILL HALOMAN' coordinates. However, they failed to alert the rest of the team about the leak and instead hoped it would blow over. The next morning, the Grey had somehow procured the true coordinates and identified its validity, and begun a massive grief, supposedly spawning 5 withers and annihilating all 3 floors and a large castle nearby, as well as destroying a massive 5k block supermap of surrounding villages and bases, taking countless shulkers with them. Soon after this, Haloman apologized on behalf of himself and maxpaddy, and Halo then faced a coup, where his own administration overthrew him, and his co-leader quit indefinitely, leaking the 10k blue ice highway he and his compatriots had made.

Attempt at reformation
The Confederacy at this point was found to actually be ripe with corruption and branched off bases were destroyed left and right. After the ousting of Haloman and the quitting of thinking_robot, Warvan assumed command of the base, changing the name to the Oceanmakers, and turning the base into a dictatorship, who rarely interacts with his people. Half of the old administration was also demoted, and a manhunt had begun to find Haloman597, Warvan stood idle and let many side bases fall, until he struck back, taking an important Grey base, featured on their homepage as a significant religious location. Also at the same time, the Empire leaked an important grey base (Waypoint Alpha) to the Oceanmakers. He also took down two more of their waypoints, which housed about 5 people each. Although Haloman had the coordinates to many bases owned by the Confederacy, he still decided not to leak them, even if he was paid. Soon enough the war had subsided, and it became clear that the Grey was in a better position than the Confederacy - at least for the time being. The Confederacy slowly whimpered away, at last, becoming nothing more than a third-tier old collection of bases, and was actually partially subsumed by the Empire. All 3 PunkTowns still stand, along with a few smaller bases of no value, despite the Grey's best efforts. The former headquarters of Slough has since been partially repaired, although entirely stripped of resources and completely derelict.

The Merger
Whilst on its knees and seemingly leaderless with Warvan's silence, the Confederacy counted its remaining assets and found it best to merge with The Empire, a long-standing and prominent ally of the faction. YeahItsRico and Jdog would go off on their own to found the Silk Road. In the end, the Confederacy would give up its status as a faction, and instead, became a network for the Empire and other allied factions where resources could be easily shared. The Empire eventually fell into the NSO, or New Seed Order, which migrated from Purity to other servers after they were being banned in large numbers for alleged server exploitation and evading on alts.