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I'd like to thanks everyone for the positive feedback that I have received for the first article, and such comments are only encouraging me to continue this.

In this specific article we will be aboarding the French Toast Period, the CSD hegemony and also we will see in depth what Atlantis was and it's opponent PEACE GC. the period that will be covered in this episode is of november 2008 to february 2009

The Beginning of the Two blocks.

Althought ,both Alliance (PEACE GC and Atlantis) we're created before november 2008, I choose to only talk about it more deeply here as French Toast was one of the first Conflict where multiple nation would clash in direct attack between PEACE GC and Atlantis.

While Atlantis was mainly founded by member of the Northern Alliance and a few Mediteranean Alliance member, PEACE GC (or People of Earth Associated under Common Excellence: Global Community) was born out of the FIST alliance integrating Members from the PANAM alliance and the Med.


The Prototype Flag for FIST

PEACE GC was purely a response to Atlantis who had grown way too powerfull to face separetly. PEACE GC had no proper identity and keeping everyone together would prove a challenge more than once with the amount of country present in the alliance. However, strong leadership have maintained this alliance alive for far longer than most would have predicted.



The first test was in Hungary, but it was nothing in comparison to what would happen later on in French Toast. Where Peace Had to defend one of it's member to the very end. On top of this, The Man in command was none other than Mathieu Bonne, a famous french Politician.

From this point there was no possibility to be Neutral in the World, as most attempt would either be met with invasion or in the contrary, help agaisnt the invader. This created a situation where you had to pick a side. We are still living this scenario as of today. Just like Back when Communism and Capitalism would meet everywhere on the planet, PEACE GC and Atlantis would fare agaisnt each other at every chance they had.

The force of Atlantis that took part in the operation French Toast were numerous. Out of these most notably was two powerhouse in Sweden and Spain, both wich were already battle hardened, something that would prove invaluable in this conflict.



But these two country wouldn't be the only invaders in this epic war, as Canada, the UK and the United Stade would band together for the attack. This overwhelming force was something quite new to the Warfare in erepublik. Wich was one of the reason why everyone was so successful at first.

Operation French Toast

Unquestionably the most epic war ever witnessed so far in the game (at that epoch). Fortunatly I've been able to recover an incredibly good article in the archives wich was detailing everything that happened there. However, I shouldn't be credited with most of the work, as it was mainly Potier ( THE most famous french Writter) who did this masterpiece. The original article can be found here. It's only in french, but it's a most interesting piece of writting even if you don't understand the language.

At first it was only a spanish invasion:



December 4-5

3 simulatneous battle erupt on the southern border of France. Leaving the defenders in mayhem has they scatter around trying to resist the Iberian Powerhouse. Meanwhile, Canada, USA, UK and Sweden will all start the Declaration of War on France in order to join in the fun.

December 7



Having a the DoW out of the way, The UK, US and Canada are moving on the french coast. The Swedish army will take advantage of such activity and launch their attack as well on the region of Lorraine. All of these attack were successfull.

December 8



France Decided to only focus on the Canadian assault, winning the battles they could at least. However, Canada replied to this by hiring Spanish Mercenary. The battle was won, but at the cost of having Canada out of the game because of lack of supply.

December 9-10



France won it's first battle on the 10th, as they stopped the Brittish Attack in Picardy. Even thought both the US and Sweden continued their advance, at least it was a moral victory for the french.

December 11



As the Canadians did, the Americans ran out of supply as their infrastructure wasn't as much geared up for military operation as Spain or Sweden. However, both the Spanish and Swedish force were able to go a bit further in. This would be the last time Atlantis Force's would know victory in france for the remainder of French Toast.

December 12-17

As everybody ran out of Gold and Weapon eventually, France slowly got back up on it's feet. There was nothing stopping them from taking back the regions and within a week, recovered the entire country. Thus ended a great part of our history.

But what caused this plan to fail so badly? Poor communication was one of the issues. As Canada wasn't planning on opening more fronts because of internal problem. The plan was poorly planned as well. Atlantis HQ decided to leave France alive instead of finishing it, one of the reason was that Romania was going for Russia. This lack of coordination really took it's toll on the Allied effort. Would the result have been different had the proper force been applied when necessary, probably, even if the total conquest was far from assured. From this I think people learned that in order to win a war, you had to enter it with a ton of Gold to properly fund continuous battle in order to maintain the block. But this is all history now...

The CSD Hegemony

For those of you that only came here recently, the Party known as EPIC, wasn't always named like this. Before the Merging with the CNC, it was named the CSD or Canadian Social Democrats. Much in the same alignement as the EPIC Party, it was a left wing party (if that means anything nowadays). The CSD used to control the entire Canadian Political Scene. As we've seen with the previous edition. Cottus Arci rose up with the CSD to take what influence the Norsefire Party had. And in time, the CSD grew up to be the biggest party in all of canada rounding up more than 300 members at one point, wich was quite a feat back then. This sheer number was translating quite well both in congress election and CP election.



And this is how Zanalan came to power in January, and even got elected to a second mandate. Althought he has been mocked at multiple occasion in the past, this man was no fool, he was quite intelligent. Sadly this couldn't make up with the biggest weaknest he had. He was as active as a Zombie Worker. Wich even led to people questioning if Zanalan was even real at all. I encourage you to read this fantastic TROLL from AB, this should be considered part of our heritage!

This inactivity is probably what lead to the Election of Bruck in March 05. Even if Bruck influence was undeniable at the epoch, Zanalan poor showing made the transition easier.

The Boomers

What Can be considered one of the most prolific time of the Canadian Growth System. Althought there was no clear correlation between what had been done and the numbers of Player coming to the game, there was something undeniable, Canada was Booming! This lead us from a mere 3k citizen to almost 6k in a matter of weeks. I was one of those born during this time, but I am far from being alone, even today, famous player still play the game, General Ramizeth, Former president Dade Pendwyn, Kelly Mahoney, CAF officer Mary Chan, Pifreak, Famous politicians such as Jacobi and Nosyt. It was indeed a great time for the country as we started to be more and more relevant on the world stage.

When this generation came to maturity 2-3 months later, we also saw an important change in Politics as it was part of the support that helped Jacobi win agaisnt the CEP candidate, Alexander Rearden, eCanada's financial Guru. This is one of the few things we will look at more deeply with the next article From the Archives of eCanada- Part3

Again I would like to thank Both Potier and Dishmsdc for their input in this series.

From The Archives of eCanada:

Part 1
Part 2