Metro City

Metro City (colloquially: Metrocity) is a medium medium-sized civilization located in the plains biome to the southeast of spawn. Originally founded by Starlit_Crown on session 1, Metro City is more of a project than it is a civilization. The goal of metroits peopleinhabitants was constructionto ofconstruct a world-wide rail system.       History	Metro City
	Metro City view from a neighbouring mountain.
The founder and subsequent ruler of Metro City was Starlit_Crown, a dedicated player who settled on athe first inhabitable land she'sshe found. By session two she had her first player join the cause, a person whose real name is forgotten and missing from all the sources. Older Metro People call him the Goatman.   Metro Civilization (sessions 1-2) In the early days Metro City was known as Metro Civilization which is evident by the old signs scattered throughout spawn. Back then it wasn't really a city, nor a civilization. It was a humble dirt skybase where the first inhabitants planned their moves - the Goatman used to go out collecting the materials, and Starlit_Crown started securing relations with neighbouring Stairway to Heaven.   Ancient sign left by the original Metro People. It turned out that the territories of Metro Civilization and Stairway to Heaven overlapped, so to avoid any conflict Starlit_Crown deployedhatched a ployplan to convince Stairway leader Dreaded_Dust that Metro Civilization is a part of his civ and thus shall be renamed to Metro City.City, although in practice it functioned as a separate civilisation.   Expansion and Metro City strip (Sessions 3-4) By the end of session 2 a group of four players joined the Metro cause. Three of them were migrants from a cherry blossom biome, where they spent first few days of the server. Two of those players would become extremely important to the development and survival of Metro City: Aerial_Wind, a builder, and Serene_Petal, a blacksmith. The otherlast personof these four was Seraphic_Angel, Starlit_CrownsStarlit_Crown's wifewife, who became a miner. Throughout thisthese periodsessions, the population of Metro City continued to grow with more and more people startedjoining joiningthe cause - Jazzed_Motif, a farmer, Lazy_Creature a healer, Organic_Program an admin, and Puffer_FishPuffer_Fish, also a farmer, was recruited from Stairway by Starlit_Crown. DuringIn thissuch perioda short time, Metro City's population had jumped from 2 to 9 inhabitants.players. First  The first big project of Metro City was 'The Strip,Strip', a narrow piece of land that would beserve as the first ongrounded groundand settlement in thesecured area. It required the joint effort of all the MetroMetro's inhabitants, becausesecuring it had to be secured -with a layer of stone brick slabs had to be placed underneath the land and walls that wereunderground connected to the layercity erectedwalls. around it. The project was mostly ready byBy the end of session 4, when the project was thought to be mostly complete, the entire group moved to the strip. It turned out -to prematurely.be Thesomewhat wallspremature with unforeseen vulnerabilities, which were notexploited secured againstby athletically skilled skeletons, which resultedresulting in the death of Starlit_Crown.  The skeleton incident	Panoramic photo of Metro City from the west.
	Regime	Commune
	Date of origin	Session 1
	Leader	Starlit_Crown
	Inhabitants	15
	Metro City's map
	Metro City on a world map

First Metro Line (Sessions 5-12)

The works on securing the entirety of land claimed by Metro has been done by session 10. Parts of The Strips walls have been removed, but the inhabitants did not move to the newly opened area. The Strip stayed as a historical part of Metrocity and attracted many tourists that began flooding to Metro around sessions 5-8. Relationship with Podzil Civilization has been established on good terms, the sign of which was help from Nautical_Stream with digging the layer underneath the city.
The first Metro Line was agreed to be set between Metrocity and Stairway to Heaven. Works on the line began around session 8 and happened simultaneously with works on the city proper. The tunnel was dug mostly by Starlit_Crown and layered with stone bricks with the help of Aerial_Wind and Stairway's builders. The opening of the system was a great success that sparked a big wave of tourism and migration to Metrocity. Some people even held dual citizenship between Metro and Stairway.

Metrocity's helicopter became a main tourist attraction

The City proper developed greatly during this time: Metro People built a Helicopter, a healers hut, the smithy, metro station and few luxurious mansions were constructed in the south-eastern parts of Metro.

The great psychosis (Sessions 13-16)

Works on Stairway-Podzil line began with the help of Nautical_Stream. 
The way metro-stairway line operated already heralded the problem to come, it seemed that Erans did not understand the principal concepts of the metro system.
People kept walking through the metro tunnels, standing on the tracks causing the carts to turn back, there was even an incident involving a dog getting stuck inside a minecart which resulted in the entire systems manual reboot. Thanks to this a tourist, Waking_Horizon, proposed few adjustments to the mechanism of the Main Metro Station that overall improved the flow of minecarts and usage of the system.
By session 12 the tunnel to Podzil was dig out. It had to be widened and heightened and layered with stone bricks to be safe, which happened on session 13 with the help of entirety of Metrocity population and Podzils builders.
Remaining 3 sessions were spent on begging the Civ leaders for help with resources and laying down the tracks. By session 16 the two lines were connected. But the distance between Stairway and Podzil made the entire system extremely fragile to any disruptions. It caused numerous malfunctions, which in turn made other players walk through the tunnel which fueled the malfunctions even more. By this time Starlit_Crown had to basically abandon her post as the leader of Metrocity and full-time guard the tunnels which has driven her insane.

Cabins for the tourists

Meanwhile in the city proper works on the Main Metro Stations building began. Three luxurious cabins were provided for the visitors, a pond was completed by Seraphic_Angel and Metrocity began a prime tourist attraction throughout the server. What helped with that was the contrast between Metro and Stairway, surface of the latter has been completely ravaged by the mobs.

The tomfoolery period (Sessions 17-20)

On session 18 a great coalition of Metro People and Podzilians formed against the player Lazy_Creature who was accused of attempted murder and griefiery of Podzil Civilization. The coalition succeded in their hunt for Lazy.

The Main Metro Station's front face has been completed but the works were not able to be completed by the end of and Era.

Metrocity's unfinished Main Metro Station

Economy

Metrocity was a true commune peaceful commune that acquired most of their resources through trade and donations. Almost all other resources it had were mined during the layer mining and mining of the metro tunnels.

The "Metro City" ploy allowed Metro People usage of Stairway's resources, which was very useful in the early game yet became obsolete by session 12 because of the worsening conditions of Stairway to Heaven.

Main economic hub of Metrocity was The Strip, where Serene's Workshop and farm areas were located. Just outside The Strip's walls a healer's hut was located.

Smithy operated by Serene_Petal, was the only one in the Metrocity. It provided all of the City's tools, most of which were stone with occasional iron variants. Select few Metro People were given iron armor by Serene, but most of the resources were used for various redstone components and rails.

Metrocity had a vast farm area that was operated mostly by Puffer_Fish and Jazzed_Motif.

Culture

Due to it's nature Metrocity attracted very specific type of player: a dedicated, focused one. Lots of them were new minecraft players or new minecraft civ event players. That's why some used the word autistic to describe the culture of Metro People. 
It was a safe heaven from all the chaos - neighbouring mob ravaged land of Stairway, and various political conflicts between Podzil and NPC. Conflict was not welcome in Metrocity, to the point where Starlit_Crown had to resort to forcing out fighting players.

Demographics

Metro population consist of only 46% of Metro People of metro origin. Due to two big migration periods the ethnic split of the place is mixed and most of the players did not begin their journey at Metrocity.

Ethnic composition of Metrocity
Metro	46%
Stairway	20%
Cherry blossom	20%
NPC	6%
Admin	6%