Port Solanaria

Overview
Port Solanaria is a town in the Fourth Empire of Bardonia, in Rathnir. It was founded sometime in early April. The town is the home base and founding place of the religion of Tuberism.

Founders
The original founders of Port Solanaria and Tuberism, the most prominent religion in Port Solanaria, are Apps, Lnedbile, Pomme, Potato man, Axyr, Chachacharles and Zzb_news.

Mayors
With Port Solanaria's lengthy history of many different incidents, there have been 11 mayors over its lifetime. The following lists all the mayors of Port Solanaria in chronological order starting with the first with short descriptions of them:

1. Potatoman (Apps/Trademarkgamer1)
The first mayor of Port Solanaria who ran the small town until his term ended with his alleged death.

2. Lnedible
The role of leadership went to Lnedible, another founder of the town. Lnedible ran the town up until he fled during the Great Solanum Theft which is explained further down in this page.

3. Maximus Ida (Zzb_news)
Maximus Ida took over after Lnedible fled and managed what was left of the town. He lead the Solanum Revamp in which the town was rebuilt and repopulated. He eventually died of an overdose from the drug soladium.

4. Tntore1234 (Bitchboy)
Tntore1234 took on the role of Mayor after Maximus' death. Tntore would rule for quite a short period as he quickly fled when Riots started in the town, and the power shifted to Lnedible. These riots can be seen in more detail in the 'Rioting and Re-election' section of this page.

5. Zion Leyla-Earcala Ida (Zzb_news)
After sorting out the rioting and violence in the town, Zion took back power from Lnedible and became the official mayor. However Tntore shortly returned and protested that he was the rightful mayor, so an election was held which Zion lost, and another candidate, Apps, won.

6. Potatoman (Apps/Trademarkgamer1)
Apps turned out to be alive, and won the election for mayor after Tntore and Apps summed up their votes under his name. Apps would run the town, ending his term when he passed on his leadership to Novarae44.

7. Novarae44
Novarae also ruled as mayor for a short period because she soon died of old age. Potatoman would take back his position when this happened.

8. Potatoman (Apps/Trademarkgamer1)
Apps took back control as mayor after Novarae died. During his term he would hold a poll about whether the citizens of Port Solanaria wanted independence from Bardonia. This poll would be noticed by the Bardonian authorities and Potatoman would flee as a fugitive.

9. Boresthorn Ida
Boresthorn, like Maximus, was also a member of House Ida, and ruled as mayor until he died from unknown causes and his predecessor, Clippen, took over.

10. Clippen Steinwasser Ida Teok (Zzb_news)
Clippen managed the town after Boresthorn and during his term, he would take a temporary break. In this temporary break, Solanaria would become independent as Virolia, and Clippen's action on his return would lead to his imprisonment and suicide. This can be seen in detail in the Virolian Independence section on this page.

> Lnedible [unofficially took over] during Virolian independence but agreed to stand down and reunify back with Bardonia. Whilst he did lead the town, he was never officially mayor.

11. Eran Seiz (Zzb_news)
Eran Seiz, a member of House Seiz, is the current mayor of Port Solanaria.

Founding
The town was first founded by Apps, Lnedible, Pomme, zzb_news, chachacharles, Axyr and Potato man. It existed a small shack with only a few members, but quickly grew with Pomme de Terre as the main builder. It saw rapid growth in the first couple of days and remained active but rather small during its early phase.

The name Port Solanaria has changed 3 times. The town was actually first called Idaho, which was because of the vast fields of potatoes in the town. After the city started taking on a more important role in Bardonia the town was renamed to Port Solanaria. When zzb_news took charge in late May he renamed the city to Idaho once again. But in late July the gods(admins) notice the heretical name and ordered zzb to rename the town to Port Solanaria once again.

Conflicts
As a rather small town, Port Solanaria has only really been involved in 3 external conflicts: the first is the Ferrymen war, the second was the Bardonian socialist revolt and the most recent was the Allium-coalition war. It is also notable that during Port Solanaria's independence as Virolia there were inner quarrels between pro-Virolians and pro-Bardonians.

Battle of Bardonian Fort Lee
The first major conflict that Port Solanaria experienced was the Ferrymen war, Zzb was part of the 6 soldiers who defended New Dorasterrock against 5 combat specialists known as the Ferrymen; they had recently raided the city and were at the gates. Suddenly the Ferrymen withdrew and the Bardonian army charged, the main fighting took place next to the ruins of Bardonian Fort Lee. This was how the Ferrymen made themselves known to Rathnir.

Bardonian Socialist Revolution
The only fighting that took place in this revolt relating to Port Solanaria was a raid on the city. This raid consisted of a Bardonian official was touring the city being attacked and killed by a rebel soldier. When the revolt started fading Port Solanaria quickly withdrew from the fighting.

Battle of New Dorasterrock
One citizen was planning on fighting in this battle, but sadly the swamp overflooded which prevented him from travelling to New Dorasterrock (he got kicked from the server). Although no citizen fought at the battle many farmers from Solanaria sent large amounts of supplies to the city such as potatoes and weapons. One farmer even sent an entire chest full of Baked potatoes to the front lines. But the battle was still lost by the Bardonian soldiers.

Virolian Revolt
During Port Solanaria's independence as Virolia (which can be seen further down on this page), the town's large population of independence activists/Virolia supporters would persecute those who opted to remain with Bardonia. Most of this was at first verbal, but would escalate quickly as Virolia's independence became more and more threatened by pro-Bardonians. Most significantly, Clippen Steinwasser Ida, an important local government figure, announced she was reunifying Virolia with Bardonia. This led to the leaders and founders of Virolia's independence, Apps and Lnedible, to announce that she was to be killed on sight. The revolt's main battle ensued over several days in which independence activists tried to storm Port Solanaria's town hall whilst Clippen's soldiers and barricades held them off. Whilst Virolia did end up rejoining Bardonia, in one final siege Clippen was captured and imprisoned, later taking her own life.

The Great Theft of Solanum
The great theft of Solanum was a massive, destructive heist leaving Port Solanaria in ruins. The theft saw thousands of blocks and items being destroyed or stolen from the main town hall storage area. It occurred during Lnedible's term as mayor. It was also paired with heavy griefing upon various houses and buildings. This caused zzb to contact the gods (admins) in an attempt to fix the damage, but the destruction was too heavy and the town was unable to be fixed. This theft caused the entire city to abandon the city and leave, only zzb_news remained to keep what remained afloat.

Solanum Revamp
The Solanum revamp was a period of time during zzb's term as mayor of Port Solanaria. It was a 3 part plan which would end with Port Solanaria returning to the golden days. The first part was to purge the town of untrusted citizens who were suspected of committing the theft. The second part was to completely destroy and rebuild the town and beautify it. The final part was a massive recruitment effort in order to get more people to join the town. The Solanum revamp took around 3 weeks to complete, by the end of the operation the town had around 5-10 active citizens and the city was looking beautiful thanks to the building efforts of Hipps.

Rioting and Return
The 18th of September was the peak of the riots and famine in Port Solanaria. As the town's main source of food and income dried up before the eyes of the inhabitants, riots began running wild through the main square and church. Lnedible would lead the rioters around the town, slaughtering people left and right in retribution towards the non-tuberites. Many of them would try and flee, some managing to escape by boat while others were trapped in by the closing gate and executed. Those that did escape were sought after to be killed. Others were beheaded in the Tuberist Church, and the riots and hunting would continue until the 22nd of September when the adopted daughter of the 3rd Mayor, Zion, would return seeking to settle the madness. On the 26th of September Lnedible and Zion would fight in a duel, with Zion winning. Lnedible was banished and would go found the town of Patania before being forgiven of his sins and getting duel citizenship in Patania and Port Solanaria. Zion would then claim to be Mayor of the town because the current mayor, Tntore1234, had fled temporarily during the chaos (was inactive).

Re-election
With the return of Tntore1234 soon after Zion's claim to being Mayor, tension would rise as to who truly deserved the role. Eventually it would be decided that the Mayor would be chosen through election. Zion emphasised her key roles and successes previously for the town and her in depth plans for the future, while Tntore1234 would describe his alternate plans and explain his proposed Monarchic remodelling of the Mayoral system. During all this however the first Mayor, [apps], would join the election as a candidate and pledge what he planned to do. Then, after Tntore1234 and Apps joined together as one under Apps, summing up their votes, Apps would become the new mayor of Port Solanaria and be anointed on 13th of October.

Becoming Independent
February 8th 2022 was announced the date of Clippen Steinwasser Ida's break from leadership over the town; she named Lnedible as her temporary replacement until her return. On this same day Hipps would welcome Apps back into the town, a former leader who had returned from his expulsion after past controversies around independence.

Clippen's exit closely followed the Collapse of the Black Dandelion, an event that would prove to raise instability in the town. The drama that this collapse brought would only be amplified as more issues rose on the 9th. Elyas, a new Solanarian citizen, would be threatened with losing his home and livelihood as a group prepared to conquer the island he lived on. At the arrival of this news Lnedible would attempt a diplomatic approach to assure the citizen remained safe, buying the island off of the group, but would instead be scammed and told he had bought a smaller uninhabited island. Various groups would claim ownership of the island but Solanaria would fail to be acknowledged. This created tension between the groups and Port Solanaria, but it was realized that without Bardonia backing the town, nothing could be done about the situation and citizens were outraged with the idea of inaction that would be inevitable.

The idea of independence had been mentioned a few days prior while news of the Black Dandelion's collapse and other provinces breaking away had started circulating, but it was on the 10th that many citizens began to agree that becoming independent was a no-brainer. All the threats that Solanaria had previously faced when contemplating independence were nullified with the fall of Bardonia's military power, and Solanaria could retaliate against the mockery it had faced surrounding the islands with war- something it would only be able to achieve as an independent nation. As the benefits of independence grew, the outcry to leave Bardonia couldn't be ignored.

A day later it had been decided, Apps and Lnedible declared official independence from Bardonia under the name Virolia.

Re-unifying with Bardonia
Soon after the Poleis of Virolia was formed, a problem became clear; despite Apps and Lnedible having won over the people, neither of them held leadership over the town or province. Clippen Ida, who was still on paper the true leader had returned, but she did not share the same views as they had, and opted for a Pro-Bardonian view. As a long time loyalist to Bardonia she was disappointed to see the fellow Solanarians she had put her trust into breaking away from the nation they shared so much history with. Her frustration grew as she was continually ignored by the townspeople, and in attempt to return to Bardonia and leave the pro-independence view behind, she declared that Port Solanaria, Steinburg and the surrounding areas would return to Bardonia, and that any supporters of 'Virolia' were deemed as enemies of the state. But with the overwhelming majority of Solanaria being independence activists, this declaration would become a grave mistake that would cost Clippen Steinwasser Ida her life.

In retaliation against Clippen's attempt of handing Virolia over to Bardonia, Lnedible would respond with a public address where he described his views on Bardonia. Clippen would be accused of tyranny and treason and other pro-Bardonians such as Hipps were described as traitors. Soon after this address Apps would announce to the townsfolk that Clippen Ida was to be killed on sight.

Clippen would barricade herself inside the townhall with a few a soldiers for her protection. Hordes of rioters gathered outside bearing stakes, torches and signs with the slogans of revolution, thirsty for blood and freedom. Days passed with Clippen trapped inside the townhall, food rations had begun to run out inside, with poisonous potatoes being their last resort her soldiers all began to fall sick.

As chaos grew in Port Solanaria, elsewhere Bardonia was beginning to slowly recover from its collapse and noticed the threats being made towards Bardonian supporters in the new 'Virolia'. Chancellor Andreas Medici demanded that the Virolians stand down or the Dandelion guard would intervene.

Rumors spread throughout the town of what Bardonia would do, people believed their cities and homes would be burnt down, and in panic, Lnedible and Apps' guardsmen stormed the townhall, taking Clippen Ida and her soldiers to the dungeons. But both Lnedible and Apps knew the imminent threat they and their followers faced; both backed down and peacefully reunified with Bardonia. But despite this, tensions were still high between Solanaria's citizens and Clippen Ida, whom they believed got Bardonia to ensure Virolia's failure. For her part in Virolia's collapse she was sentenced to life imprisonment in Solanaria's dungeons, the townsfolk rejoiced at this sentencing and it seemed not one citizen showed an ounce of pity. And so in the lonely darkness of her confinement, on the 19th, Clippen Ida ended her life.

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