The Lancastrian Empire (Lancastrian: Imperial Del Lancastria), (tag: LE), is an Empire/Nation that was first founded on PirateCraft in mid-2015 but has been disbanded and then restarted multiple times. At current times the Lancastrian Empire is active and if you want to join you have to contact TheAgentGamer.
Purpose
The purpose/main goal of the Lancastrian Empire is to protect liberty and freedoms of all those who can't protect it themselves.
Politics & Government
The Lancastrian Empire is by most definition a constitutional monarchy, but with some degree of changes. The Crowned Ministers, either be the King or Queen of the main bloodline decent, hold some power within the Lancastrian Empire, but their power is shared with that of the Prime Minister and Vice Prime Minister who are elected in once every 4 months (but as of now their is no Prime Minister nor Vice Prime Minister and there is no vote as of yet until more members join the crew). There is then the Council of Ministers that acts like a Parliament, but they are selected by the Prime Minister just like the Vice Prime Minister when they are running for office. The Crowned Ministers, Prime Minister, and Vice Prime Minister are known as the Executive Branch, and the Council of Ministers are known as the Parliamentary Branch.
History
Time Before Empirehood
The story of the Lancastrian Empire all started in early 2015 when TheAgentGamer joined the server, he joined as part of a small crew made by JMChilly, which was made up of people from another server who came to PirateCraft for just some survival fun. They set up a large structure which was basically a large stonebrick structure along the coast of the mainland in the Northeast Quadrant of the map. It had multiple levels inside with a main room pretty much in the center that was multiple stories and took up most of the building. The main room was made up of lots of levels of farms, the plants in the farms where pumpkins, melons, wheat, and some others. Besides the main room there was private rooms for each person and storage rooms with lots of chests that where on all the levels and each room was fairly small, only 1 level high and not that wide. They eventually also built a dock and built some small ships for the dock and some cannons. But disaster soon struck as about a month or so after they started the project, they where attacked. Now the construction for the stonebrick structure and dock where done but they still did damage, mostly just with burning the ships and dock since both where made out of wood and wool. The dock was for the most part repaired but TheAgentGamer decided to just adventure out and make a small mine and also a fort (though the fort was never finished). The small finished mine and partly finished fort still exist on the map to this day.
First Attempt of Founding the Lancastrian Empire
Eventually JMChilly as well as everyone else but TheAgentGamer who where apart of the small crew left PirateCraft. This lead TheAgentGamer to go solo and just continue mining and gathering resources at his mine and partly completed fort. This continued on for a while until TheAgentGamer got two new friends, SnowTrooper7 and Alphaology, to adventure out west to the other side of the main continent to create the capital city and to found the Lancastrian Empire. A spot at the delta of two rivers along the coast in a bay area in the Northwest Quadrant was chosen. Once there, the first Lancastrian Empire was founded in mid July 2015, literally a few minutes before the HOICSquad hacker attack happened to Minecraft (which was a hacker attack that shut down all of Minecraft for 8-10 hours). The timing of this founding is somewhat humorous. After all that drama with the founding and after that the HOICSquad hacker attack, things went well for a while as the rivers where drenched out and made wider and deeper for a port, and the land in and around the delta was flattened and deforested and houses, governmental buildings, docks, and ships where built, partly built, and planned to be built.
Sadly however, it would only be a few weeks after the founding and construction of the capital city that a small group of Pirates would come into the bay area, and attack the small capital city. The Pirates would deforest and flatten an area on the northern side of the bay, which was the opposite side of the bay to the Lancastrian capital city. The Pirates would build a huge fortress made out of stone, stonebrick, netherbrick, and some other things and would eventually build a large Hydra symbol, which the Lancastrians would eventually find out that the group of Pirates that just built that weren't just any average Pirate crew, they were the Eternal Empire of Hydra. They would continuously attack and plunder the Lancastrian Empire and eventually the Lancastrians called for help. It is not remembered who came to burn down, block-aid, and destroy part of the fortress made by the Eternal Empire of Hydra in response to the call for help from the Lancastrians, but seeing that the British Empire had their major town of Gloomsbay nearby, and that they also hated the Eternal Empire of Hydra, it is likely that it was the British Empire who came to the Lancastrians aid. But even with outside help, the Eternal Empire of Hydra would continuously build the fortress larger and larger and would continuously loot and destroy the Lancastrian capital city over and over until everyone, including TheAgentGamer who was the leader of the Lancastrian Empire at the time, left the Lancastrian Empire and the server. The site of the first capital city and attempt would be rolled back due to the long period of inactivity by TheAgentGamer and his friends and today its just a delta of two rivers in a very forested area with an abandoned cabin nearby.
Second Attempt of Founding the Lancastrian Empire
About a year later after the Founding and eventual failed attempt of the First Lancastrian Empire, during the second half of 2016, the second attempt at the founding of the Lancastrian Empire was made. TheAgentGamer, the founder and ruler of the first attempt of the Lancastrian Empire, came back to PirateCraft. Sadly though his friends from the first attempt never came back, but TheAgentGamer would find some new friends, and move further south from the first attempt of the capital city, though this second attempt would still be basically in the Northwest Quadrant of the server, it was a bit more south. The new capital city would be founded in the delta of a small river along a secluded lake that was right next to the ocean. The construction of the capital city would go along well for a while, but the large hills in the area would greatly slow down the flattening process and thus be one of the reasons why the second attempt of the capital city would take a lot longer.
Eventually within a few weeks the Lancastrians would get raided from time to time, but not as badly as during the first attempt, which would be due in part because there wasn't really a large crew trying to kill them continuously, and the Lancastrians would get an ally that would fight with them, trade resources with them and ultimately be the first true ally of the Lancastrian Empire in its history. Sadly however, the name of the crew is forgotten but the person who ran it wasn't, and the leader's name was Asterity. Asterity and her brother would run a large kingdom just north of the Lancastrian capital, and it was very large scale. The alliance would be very useful, with roads and railroad networks built between the two and both nations would go on resource adventures and such, of course not everything was so uphill and happy, both nations still most of the time did their own thing, but the alliance between the two nations was fairly strong. It was also during the second attempt that the Lancastrians would also build their first colony, a small trading town just northwest of the capital at the entrance/exit to a canal that connected 2 oceans. The small town still remains there to this day and still has a small shop there, although it is not known if the shop still has resources to trade or not. Eventually over a few months the Lancastrians would get bored of PirateCraft and virtually all the members over time left, and the capital region would be abandoned as well as its colonies for several months until the beginning of the third attempt.