Government:2019 East Pacific Coup Attempt

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2019 East Pacific Coup Attempt
Date 14 October 2019 to 15 October 2019 Location The East Pacific Result Loyalist victory Cabal convicted of treason and Tim convicted of omitting to prevent treason
Belligerents
Cabal	East Pacifican Loyalists
Commanders and leaders
Fedele Davelands Aleister Funkadelia	Marrabuk Aelitia Bachtendekuppen Todd McCloud

The 2019 East Pacific Coup Attempt was a coup d'état attempt committed by Delegate Fedele.

On October 14, during the delegate transition from Fedele to Delegate-Elect Marrabuk, Fedele banjected Marrabuk and Vizier Bachtendekuppen and Funkadelia ejected Vizier Todd McCloud. Due to influence issues, Fedele was unable to banject Vizier Aelitia and simply ejected him instead. Aelitia returned to TEP before updating and Bachtendekuppen update surfed, both managing to avoid losing their endorsements to the update. Todd McCliud didn't update surf and lost his endorsements.

Mismanagement on the part of the cabal allowed Aelitia to overtake Fedele in endorsements, gaining the Delegacy and retaking control of TEP on the major update of the 15th of October.

Prelude

No one knows when or why the Cabal (and, in the early stages of the coup, Tim) decided to coup the East Pacific. While plausible theories exist, the fact is that no one besides the Cabal truly knows why.

The most plausible reason is this. TEP in 2016 and before was inactive. Aelitia's removal from the Delegacy by the Viziers resulted in him having to go through a legal challenge to get reinstated. An inactive region would allow the Cabal to quickly assume positions of power just by being active and, because the region is inactive, very few people will bother paying attention to what they do. Aelitia Delegacy being seized eroded trust in the government and gave the Cabal a window of opportunity to begin.

Fedele has hinted at the involvement of other people as well and while this is likely, we don't know who was involved and the extent of their involvement.

Beginnings

Tim had been in TEP since 2013. He was a former Citizen and former Magister who resigned from the Magusterium in 2014 and went inactive after that because of time commitments due to being a Pharoah of Osiris.

Aleister and Fedele both joined TEP in 2016 within a month of each other. Aleister introduced himself and went inactive after that, becoming active again in 2019. Whereas Fedele became involved in discussions of raising activity. His suggestions included ejecting nations that didn't contribute to TEP, saying that the Delegate ought to play the villain, and calling the government an oligarchy.

After this, Fedele becomes inactive and the cabal remain inactive until 2017.

In July of 2017, Tim applied for Citizenship and would also apply for the Magisterium a month later. He would be accepted for both and would proceed to be an active Magister for the remainder of his time in the coup. (Note: Tim first appeared in TEP back in 2013 and applied for Citizenship in the same year. He applied to the Magisterium in 2014. He resigned from the Magisterium due to time commitments as Pharaoh of Osiris. It's reasonable to assume that his TEP nation CTE'd during this time. This would forfeit his Citizenship and would require a new application.)

For unknown reasons, Fedele reapplied for Citizenship in September with the same nation as before. He would be accepted on the same day.

On the 2nd of October 2017, we saw Davelands for the first time when he applied for Diplomatic Status as a diplomat from The West Pacific. Also in October, Fedele applied for the Magisterium and was accepted under the name "Scardino" which was his forum name in the beginning. After being accepted, Fedele became an active Magister especially during the 37th and 38th Magisterium. During the 38th Magisterium, he became Deputy Provost to Provost Verdrassil/Drachen. The earliest known forum reference to this is on the 19th of August, 2018 during a vote.

In 2018, Fedele was nominated to run for Delegate in the May/June elections and he would accept. He then posted his campaign for the Delegacy and although he lost to Yuno, he did get 27% of the vote. After losing to Yuno, he was nominated to become a Vizier and he would be confirmed by the Magisterium.

In July 2018, Tim resigned from the Magisterium because he didn’t like the direction the Magisterium was going. A few months later, in early November, Tim reapplied to the Magisterium and was accepted. He stated in his questioning that this time, he would be less aggressive. He also said other rhetorics the Cabal was pushing for like ending protection "for some individuals".

At some point in mid-October, Drachen received an administration ban and Fedele became the Interim Provost of the 38th Magisterium.

Fedele would be nominated for the Delegacy again in the October 2018 elections and would accept. This was during Tim's self-imposed withdrawal from the Magisterium. He then posts his campaign a day later where he makes his famous pledge not to run for re-election which he would later renege. His campaign was consistent with his push for activity he made when he joined TEP. He would go on and win the Delegacy with 68% of the vote.

Remember, Tim reapplied after Fedele was elected. It could be that the Cabal didn't think their coup plan would work and began to withdraw. Then Fedele won the Delegacy, giving them a huge boost in confidence and causing their activity to build.

Whilst the election is going on, we see Davelands apply for Citizenship and he would be accepted in 11 days, after the election was concluded.

Fedele's First Term

In November, Pakitsk resigned as the Minister of Immigration but Fedele refused to accept it. Pakitsk voided his resignation after Fedele’s refusal but, by then, Fedele had already appointed Tim as Pakitsk's successor. Paki then served as co-Minister with Tim.

In the month of December, Davelands applied to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and he would be accepted on the same day. Just 10 days later, Davelands would apply to join the Magisterium and he would be accepted.

After this, the Cabal’s activity stabilizes for the rest of Fedele’s term. We see Davelands participate in a few arcade games, post foreign updates, and participate in basic Magisterium activity whereas Aleister was still inactive. Tim posts a few times but nothing particularly interesting however he was active in pushing for Concordat reforms. Fedele, on the other hand, was unusually active in legislative affairs. He was advocating for Concordat reform, repealing Honorary Citizenship, Conclave reforms, everything that would later tie into Funkadelia’s 45 Theses.

Another thing that happened in January was the promotion of Davelands to Chief Minister of Foreign Affairs after Marrabuk, the previous Minister, was switched to Chief Minister of Regional Affairs. This is a big change. Fedele placed another Cabal member into a position of significant power.

A month later, the February Delegate elections rolled around. Both Davelands and Fedele are nominated to run and they accept. Both post their campaigns soon enough. If we go back and look with hindsight, we can see the same themes of Concordat reforms in Davelands’ campaign. Fedele’s campaign received just three replies but the effect of this was minimal. In the end, Fedele received 67% of the vote.

External links

The East Pacific during the coup The East Pacific just after the coup