Metro City

Metro City (colloquially: Metrocity) is a medium-sized civilization located in the plains biome to the southeast of spawn. Originally founded by Starlit_Crown on sessionSession 1, Metro City is more of a project than it is a civilization. The goal of its inhabitants was to construct a world-wide rail system.       History	Metro City
	View of Metro City from a neighbouring mountain.
The founder and subsequent ruler of Metro City was Starlit_Crown, a dedicated player who settled on the first inhabitable land she found.  By sessionSession two2 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 (sessionsSessions 1-2) In the early daysdays, Metro City was known as Metro CivilizationCivilization, which is evident by the old signs scattered throughout spawn. Back then it wasn't really a city, nor a civilization.civilization, It wasbut 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 the 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 conflictconflict, Starlit_Crown hatched a plan to convince Stairway leader Dreaded_Dust that Metro Civilization is a part of his civ and thus shall be renamed to Metro City, although in practice it functioned as a separate civilisation.   Expansion and Metro City strip (Sessions 3-4) By the end of sessionSession 22, a group of four players had joined the Metro cause. Three of them were migrants from a cherry blossom biome,grove where they had spent their first few daysdays. of the server. Two ofOf those playersplayers, two would become extremely important to the development and survival of Metro City: Aerial_Wind, a builder, and Serene_Petal, a blacksmith. The last of these four was Seraphic_Angel, Starlit_Crown's wife, who became a miner. Throughout these sessions, the population of Metro City continued to grow with more and more people joining the cause - Jazzed_Motif, a farmer, Lazy_Creature, a healer, Organic_ProgramOrganic_Program, an admin, and Puffer_Fish, also a farmer, waswere recruited from Stairway by Starlit_Crown. In such a short time, Metro City's population had jumpedincreased from 2 to 9 players.   The first big project of Metro City was 'The Strip', a narrow piece of land that would serve as the first grounded and secured area. It required the joint effort of all theof Metro's inhabitants, securing it with a layer of stone brick slabs underground connected to the city walls. By the end of sessionSession 4, when the project was thought to be mostly complete, the entire group moved to the strip. It turned out to behave been a somewhat premature withmove, as there were unforeseen vulnerabilities, whichquickly weretaken exploitedadvantage of by athletically skilledathletic skeletons in what was dubbed the 'Skelly incident', resulting in the death of Starlit_Crown.    The walls were also didineffective littleat to stopstopping spiders from getting in. The first night after the attempted move-in, builder Aerial_Wind attempted to raise the wall height and addingadd outstretched slabs in an attempt to block spiders,spiders. inWhile doing soso, he got a little too close to an eager creeper which exploded,exploded breachingpart of the wallswall, andallowing causingmonsters ato spill in of aggressive mobs.in. The hole was quickly patched up by 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)

TheBy worksSession 10, work on securing the entiretyperimeter of land claimed by Metro washad completedbeen by session 10.completed. Parts of The StripsStrip's walls have been removed, but the inhabitants did not move to the newly opened area. The Strip stayed as a historical part of MetrocityMetro City and attracted many tourists that began flooding to Metro around sessionsSessions 5-8. RelationshipPositive relations with Podzil Civilization hashad been establishedestablished, on good terms, the sign of which was help fromwith Nautical_Stream withhelping diggingto dig the layer underneath the city.
The first Metro Line was agreed to be settravel between MetrocityMetro City and Stairway to Heaven. WorksWork on the line began around sessionSession 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.Metro City. Some people even held dual citizenship between Metro and Stairway.

Metrocity'Metro City's helicopter became a main tourist attraction

The Citycity proper developed greatly during this time:period. The Metro Peoplepeople builtbuilt:

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Helicopter,A aHelicopter healersA hut,Healer's theHut smithy,The metroSmithy stationA andMetro fewStation luxuriousLuxurious mansionsMansions were constructed in the south-eastern parts of Metro.

The great psychosis (Sessions 13-16)

WorksWork on the Stairway-Podzil line began with the help of Nautical_Stream.
The way metro-stairwaythe Metro-Stairway line already operated already heraldedportrayed the problemissue to come,come: it seemedappeared that Eranspeople did not understand the principal concepts of the metro system.
People keptThrough walkingignorance or incompetence, people would walk through the metro tunnels, standingtunnels on thefoot, tracksdisrupting causingits themechanisms. carts to turn back, thereThere was even an incident involving a dog getting stuck inside aone minecartof the carts, which resulted in the entire systemsmetro manualsystem reboot. Thankshaving to thisbe restarted. Waking_Horizon, a tourist, Waking_Horizon,proposed proposeda few adjustments to the mechanism of the Main Metro Station that overall improved the flow of minecarts and usage of the system.
metro.

By sessionSession 1212, the tunnel to Podzil washad digbeen fully dug out. ItFor hadsafety, toit bewas widenedincreased andin heightenedsize and layered with stone bricks to be safe, which happened on session 13 with the help of entiretyMetro of MetrocityCity's population and PodzilsPodzil's builders.
Remaining The remaining 3 sessionsSessions were spent on begging the Civcivilization leaders for help with resources with which to craft rails, and laying down the tracks. By sessionSession 1616, the two lines were connected.connected, Butbut the distance between Stairway and Podzil made the entire system extremely fragilesusceptible to any disruptions. ItThis caused numerous malfunctions, which inled turnto madepeople otheropting playersto walk through the tunneltunnels (as opposed to taking the carts), which fueledfurther exacerbated the malfunctionsissue evenwhen more.they Bywould thisbump timeinto the minecarts. Driven to insanity by this, Starlit_Crown hadwould tomore basicallyor less abandon her post as the leader of MetrocityMetro andCity full-timeto guard the tunnels which has driven her insane.
full-time.

Cabins for the tourists

Meanwhile in the city properproper, works on the Main Metro Stations building began. Three luxurious cabins were provided for the visitors, a pond was completed by Seraphic_AngelSeraphic_Angel, and MetrocityMetro beganCity became a prime tourist attraction throughout the server. WhatMetro helped with thatCity was theparticularly appealing in contrast between Metro andto Stairway, whose surface of the latter hashad been completely ravaged by the mobs.monsters.

The tomfoolery period (Sessions 17-20)

On sessionSession 1818, a great coalition of Metro People and PodziliansPodziles formed against the player Lazy_CreatureLazy_Creature, who was accused of attempted murder and griefierygriefing of Podzil Civilization.Podzil. The coalition succededsucceeded in their hunt for Lazy.

The Main Metro Station's front face has been completedcompleted, but thenot worksall projects were not able to be completed bybefore the end of andthe Era.

Metrocity'Metro City's unfinished Main Metro Station

Economy

MetrocityMetro City 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 yetbut became obsolete by sessionSession 12 becausedue ofto the worsening conditions of Stairway to Heaven.

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

Smithy operated by Serene_Petal, was the only one in the Metrocity.Metro City. 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.

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

Culture

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

Demographics

MetroMetro's population consistconsists of only 46% people of Metro People of metro origin. Due to two big migration periodsperiods, themany ethnicMetro splitcitizens ofare the place is mixed and most of the players did not begin their journey at Metrocity.migrants.

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