Rextown

Rextown was a town on the continent of Sørligste which contained 6-7 players. They worshipped a player-idol named Stimar, and had a developed lore about the god Chungus. The town itself was a quaint medieval village of small houses, a windmill, and a few bridges. There have been several instances of players from Rextown being deemed toxic and making offensive edgy jokes.

On the 18th December, 2020, Rextown was settled and founded at the time unknowingly directly on the border of Soumere. Originally just players Turtlekingcam and Spaceman220, their population quickly grew, but the most notable members were Cyberminer1201, Vortex879, LudwigsSword, and Stimar. Though 6Glizzy_guzzler9 and Chilly were also members. The town fell on the 6th of January, 2021, only for a new town to be settled on July 16th.

Stimar and Stimarism
Stimar was, according to the members of Rextown, the prophet of Jabril, the “one true god.” Stimar constructed a Monastery in the mountains just north of Rextown, which as of January 7, 2021 still stands near the Ruins of Rextown. Stimar wrote “Rextopians,” A work detailing the history of Rextopians before settling in Rathnir. He originally planned to write up to 5 books, (Stimar I-V) however the writing of Stimar I never even began. A copy of the original resides in Dorasterrock, however the original copy and many other copys most likely still exist and are most likely stored in Sea Fortress.

“Raiding of Redpanda and The Netherite War”
On the 21st of December, 2020, Cyberminer1201 raided the construction site of Redpanda Island, stealing and destroying thousands of items via clear-lag, and left a sign reading “Hail Stimar.” Around this time Sea Fortress (which at the time was called Sea Tower) was being constructed by Turtlekingcam, was completed around this time. Shortly after on the 23rd of December, 2020, Cyberminer scammed GreenTomato5 of Yanren. Cyberminer proposed a sale of 10 netherite ingots to GreenTomato for a price of $30,000. GreenTomato agreed to the deal and paid half the price upfront, and would meet with Cyberminer later to pay the rest of the money and receive the Netherite, however Cyberminer did not show up. GreenTomato accused Rextown as a whole of scamming him and declared war, taunting the Rextopians. On the same day, the Rextopians got together wearing various qualities of gear ranging from regular iron to enchanted diamond, and made a journey to Yanren before the war had officially started, and attacked and spam killed GreenTomato in what is known as the Battle of Yanren, in the latter half of the battle however, the Bardonians came to the aid of GreenTomato and drew the Rextopians out of Yanren, as well as taking their gear. A few hours after the Battle of Yanren, Bardonian forces occupied the city of Rextown in what is known as The Battle of Rextown, and the Rextopians were forced to surrender after being forced inside of the buildings in the city. This moment is the moment that began the rivalry between Bardonia and Rextopia. A more detailed description of these events can be found on the wiki page for The Netherite War. Shortly after, WaferKnight and Sedail arrived in Rextown threatening another war for Cyberminers Raiding of Redpanda Island, however Spaceman220 stopped this by promising that Cyberminer would be exiled and Rextopia would repay the debt to Redpanda Island.

Cyberminer was exiled to Sea Tower and the debt was never payed off, it also seems that both sides have pretty much forgotten about it at this point. (Subheading: “Sea Fortress”) Sea Fortress, (originally Sea Tower) was a defensive position built by Turtlekingcam, and handed over to Cyberminer and LudwigsSword shortly after The Netherite War, when it was renamed to Sea Fortress. Ludwig and Cyber expanded the position to house a Barracks, storage room, and various towers. In the future, Sea Fortress housed two massive wheat fields to supply Operation Birch Door, which is explained in a later section. Sea Fortress currently is the last remnants of Rextopia, and is where all of its remaining members currently reside.

Bardonian Tensions
After The Netherite War, the Rextopians were fairly quiet in the chat, presumably because they had gotten many people upset due to their toxicity, and didn’t want another war to happen. Sometime near the end of December 2020 and beginning of January 2021, Rextopia had established an alliance with Kronesia and Frostmarch, with the grand plan of uniting the southern continent of Sørlgiste into a single country to fight the Bardonians. A few days after this, the Kronesians opened Walmart, a direct competitor to Dorasterrock, which many players flocked to due to its low prices, however this caused many players to openly slander Dorasterrock for its obscene prices, one of the prime contributors to this slander was Vortex, this all led up to what is known as the Massacre of Walmart. This caused further distain on the Bardonians from all of Rathnir, and is one of the many events which led to the beginning of the Coalition War.

In Response, Cyberminer wrote a book called “Perish Bardonian” which was mass produced and spread throughout Rathnir, though it was discovered that the book had many similarities to the real-world Nazi convictions of Jewish people, and judging by the toxicity of the Rextopians, it was pretty clear this was intentional. Cyberminer was banned for 2 days in response. Original copies of the book still exist in Sea Fortress, however its contents will not be provided here due to its similarities to offensive real-world literature.

Operation Birch Door
Shortly afterwards Turtle hatched a plot to drain Unicornboi’s bank account by selling hundreds of thousands of wheat in bulk to his store, 2 massive wheat fields were constructed underneath Sea Fortress but the plan was eventually abandoned due to the Rextopians not being interested in harvesting wheat all day, and eventually the server changed the store plug-in which would prevent this from working at all.

The Bardonian-Rextopian Wars & Spaceman220
During this time, Rextopia, specifically Vortex and Cyberminer, continued to slander Bardonia for what they did to Walmart, which eventually caused Bardonia to declare war on Rextown again on the 4th of January, 2021. This time, their plan was to reduce Rextown to a crater. In Response the Rextopians original plan was to tear down the entire city, so that the Bardonians could not get the satisfaction of blowing it up, but this would have taken to long, eventually they moved everything of importance to Sea Tower, as it was a separate land from Rextown and could not be stolen from, then, Turtlekingcam put up signs on every building reading “Gone Fishin’” and other various signs like “F*ck Bardonia” and building a massive penis near the town well, and filling the streets with bamboo plants. That night, Spaceman220 entered a voice chat with Unicornboi, trying to get him to not blow up Rextown, but eventually Spaceman came clean and said that he didn’t want to be involved with such toxic people, wanted Rextown gone, and was willing to help the Bardonians. The next day, the war began, Spaceman tried to get Vortex to come online and was successful, but Vortex hid across the server, in the basement of Walmart, and at bedrock in a maze of strip mines. Due to an error with TNT explosions on the server, the city was not destroyed, but was instead buried under blocks of cobble and dirt.

Immediately after the war ended, another war was declared on the 5th of January, 2021, this time the Bardonians goal was to get Rextown unclaimed. Between the initial declaration and the war itself, Spaceman220 asked Unicornboi and Tzsue if he could barrow shulkers to raid Sea Fortress, he was provided the shulkers and stole large amounts of valuables ranging from blocks of coal to Netherite gear. In exchange, Spaceman was allowed to keep a lot of the items he stole and was given protection by the Bardonians, as well as his own home in Dorasterrock. The next day during the 2nd Bardonian-Rextopian War, Spaceman allowed Bardonia to kill him repeatedly in order to win, once the war was won, Rextown became unclaimed and Spaceman publicly announced he had insided Rextopia, and will found his own nation in Sørlgiste as a protectorate of Bardonia, the Principality of Kierros. On the early morning of January 7, 2021, the borders for the Principality of Kierros were drawn, and Spaceman declared himself Prince Kasper of Kierros.

Rextown is now partially unclaimed (parts of it being claimed by a member of Soumere) and buried under stacks of cobble and dirt, currently the best information on its future is that it will be sold to Soumere and most likely renamed. The last of the Rextopians are held up in Sea Fortress, however all of their valuables are gone. Rextown became a ruin that players would use to salvage blocks with some value (Barrels, wool, quartz, etc.) until player MrSkyeJB established the new town of Casten on top of the ruins of Rextown on July 16th, 2021.

Casten
On July 16th, Nomad MrSkyeJB wandered the ruins of what is now Casten, and began uncovering the dirt and cobblestone that littered the ruined town. After uncovering signs that were left as Rextopians fled to the Sea Fortress, he learned of the ruined town that was built, called Rextown. Fascinated by it's architecture and surrounding land, MrSkyeJB created the new town of Casten and began rebuilding. Two days after its founding, Casten joined the Pirate Empire of Tortuga.

Toxicity
Rextown was known mostly for being very toxic, using slurs, naming weapons the n-word, using naked hitler and George Floyd skins, etc. According to Spaceman220, “I’m gay, and after finding out I insided them, there was no shortage of homophobic slurs and stereotypes thrown at me, but I just responded with ‘seethe’”. The book "Perish Bardonia" was also filled with coded language attacking Bardonians, basically accusing them of being stereotypical jews (running the media, banks, and that "the solution" is extermination). Cyberminer1201 was permabanned for this.