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A '''Dark Age''' is a defined specific time or era in [[WIDEVERSE]] history characterized as the opposite of a [[Golden Age]]: A decrease in activity, notable actions and battles, as well as social, and sometimes monetary, depression. | A '''Dark Age''' is a defined specific time or era in [[WIDEVERSE]] history characterized as the opposite of a [[Golden Age]]: A decrease in activity, notable actions and battles, as well as social, and sometimes monetary, depression. | ||
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== 1st Dark Age == | == 1st Dark Age == | ||
* '''Beginning''': [[Shelarahn]] abandons COMMUNISM | * '''Beginning''': [[Shelarahn]] abandons COMMUNISM | ||
* '''End''': [[ | * '''End''': [[Friend Zone]] | ||
* '''April 16th 2010 - April 3rd 2012''' ({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=04|day1=16|year1=2010|month2=04|day2=03|year2=2012}}) | * '''April 16th 2010 - April 3rd 2012''' ({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=04|day1=16|year1=2010|month2=04|day2=03|year2=2012}}) | ||
To date the longest of the Dark Ages of WIDEVERSE, the 1st Dark Age was a truly dark time in the communities history. The age had long been coming, offset only by Shelarahns heroic, but futile, attempts to prevent the inevitable. After the failure of COMMUNISM to revive itself as a raiding guild, Shelarahn abandoned it all in pursuit of college, leaving the community without leader nor community. By happenstance, [[Petrus]] would find himself buying the guild off of a random officer Shelarahn had left it to, unknowingly saving WIDEVERSE from oblivion. | |||
An end to the Dark Age finally came in Spring fo 2012 when [[Jorgan]] pulled many of the old COMMIES back together into [[Friend Zone]], sparking the 2nd Golden Age. | |||
== 2nd Dark Age == | == 2nd Dark Age == | ||
* '''Beginning''': Post-Emerald Dream | * '''Beginning''': Post-[[Emerald Dream]] | ||
* '''End''': [[BMW]] | * '''End''': [[BMW]] | ||
* '''Fall 2014 - May 25th 2015''' ({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=09|day1=11|year1=2014|month2=05|day2=25|year2=2015}}) | * '''Fall 2014 - May 25th 2015''' ({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=09|day1=11|year1=2014|month2=05|day2=25|year2=2015}}) | ||
Despite early successes both in game and culturally, the COMMUNISM Revival began to wane in Fall of 2014 after the failures of first Wildstar, then the [[Emerald Dream Invasion]], despite the relative success of the latter. Most of the blame for the 2nd Dark Age fell on [[Pigeon]], at the time one of the pivotal members of the group as he began to drift from the group foolishly into the arms of several terrible women. A brief hope bloomed in December of 2014 when the COMMIES began playing Rust, eventually hosting their own popular but short lived server. It was not until nearly 6 months later in May when [[Prude]] began playing on the [[SomethingAwful]] hosted server of [[Goon Playground]] under the clan name of [[GAY]], did the Dark Age begin to wane, but at the cost of COMMUNISM itself, as the plan to overtake BMW via the [[Color Coup]] was put into motion. | |||
== 3rd Dark Age == | == 3rd Dark Age == | ||
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== 4th Dark Age == | == 4th Dark Age == | ||
Historians have long debated whether or not the post-COVID era of WIDEVERSE constitutes a Dark Age. | |||