2018 Year in Review

Hello all,

2018 was a year filled with great success and great change for RF. In this post we’ll take a trip down memory lane to look at some of the highlights!

We started off the year on the old RPF site, rpfrulers, due to DDoS attacks against our website at the time. Popsicle and Chip stood as Rebel Commanders. As we turned our attention to 2018, we were in the midst of our first ever RPF Winter Olympics, and we also saw a graphics update to the Discord server and later the website when it was brought back. After the Olympics ended, we came roaring out the gates with Operation: Comeback, where we maxed 90+ despite our lack of a recruiting base for the past month. The DDoS attacks, as well as the revival of RPM by Elmikey after his coup, led to the foundation of Operation Olympia the previous month. In January 2018, the operation was in full swing. The persona of “ComedyGold” was created by the RPF high command, and we pretended that we knew this “ComedyGold” figure to be the source of the attacks. This led to the real attacker, Nulltype, getting very angry and exposing all of his direct messaages with Elm to PROVE he was the real source of the attacks. This implicated Elm as being the one who requested the attacks, and furthermore got his army banned from CPR because Nulltype also took down a CPR page with Elmikey’s involvement. RPM never maxed more than 10 and fell off the map, while RPF continued to dominate. As there was no explicit need for Operation Olympia when the site was restored, we transitioned into Operation Aperion, which was essentially a continuation of Olympia. Aperion was founded to ensure the further safety of RPF and keep an eye on Elmikey’s activity, so that if any action ever did need to be taken, we could take it swiftly. Tom/Tojo was promoted to Rebel Commander in the midst of all the chaos on January 16th. RPF cruised through the rest of the month without much else to worry about, hitting consistently stable sizes.

February rolled around, and RPF started strong with Operation: Paparazzi on February 4th. Maxing 90+, the rebels were poised for another solid month. Tom was forced to retire this month, but the army got a boost when Left rejoined for 2ic during the month. Club Penguin Rewritten also announced their shutdown this month. Despite losing a fairly stable platform, the leadership was happy to move on from CPR after their repeated transgressions of their own rules.

March began, and RPF wrapped up operations on CPR. The new platform of choice was Club Penguin Universe, which welcomed RPF with open arms. Left was once again promoted to Rebel Commander, and Chip retired shortly after the move. Despite the minuscule playerbase on CPU, RPF was able to rise to the occasion and max 100 in March. This first happened at The March on Blizzard. During this month, RPF also launched the initial planning phase of Operation Exodus. We knew it would be needed at some point, and we put it on standby until it was ready to roll.

In April, it became evident that CPU couldn’t serve as our primary platform forever. The recruiting base simply wasn’t there. Eventually, the decision was made to move to Club Penguin Online. Stability and size and recruiting was restored, and RPF was able to cruise through the rest of the month.

In May, we acknowledged that we were far removed from our CPR times, and it was time for the RPF Rewritten era to come to a close. The Dragon Age was founded as the new era, with Popsicle and Left leading RPF into it. On May 21st, RPF founder Commando717 recognized Popsicle as the first RPF legend of the post-CP times. RPF stayed consistent with size in May and the momentum carried into June in a big way.

In June, 2ic TheNightma3e kicked off the first ever Rise of AUSIA project. At the end of seven days of hyping and recruiting, the RPF AUSIA division hit sizes of 80, never before seen in CP army history. Recruiting for all divisions was also picking up this month, as RPF was now back to its dominant ways. The army community also began to see a comeback this month, as CPO staff embraced the community and more armies began popping up. Eventually, the CPO Army League was founded, and its first tournament, the Legends Cup, was set to begin in July.

July was a very busy month. The Legends Cup began, and we made quick work of our first opponent who was far weaker than us. At the same time, an army called the Templars were now being led by Elm. We realized they were violating army league rules, so we declared war on them and began Operation Dynamis to gather intel. Dynamis saw 2ic Plane infiltrate the Templars leadership at the instruction of Popsicle. Plane was able to gain valuable intel, including a confession from Elmikey that his co-leader, Xing, was mulitlogging. RPF raided Templars a couple of times, and eventually as the kings of the community, more armies joined the Templars to try and topple RPF. 7 armies would eventually form the Red Dawn Alliance (aptly nicknamed the Red Rogue Alliance) to fight RPF. They continuously attempted to raid RPF events, but were unable to make a dent in the rebel forces. As the war went on, RPF fought in the semifinals against one of the RDA armies: EGCP. RPF picked up the win and moved on to the finals, which were to be held in August. Eventually, the RDA disbanded after not being able to take down RPF. RPF claimed victory in the war (now known as World War VII). Some people in RDA came back and said this claim was invalid, but in the end the RDA was dead and never raided RPF again. Several RDA armies disbanded or were banned, and most of the others fell drastically. RPF meanwhile prepared for their Legends Cup finals match up.

For the finals, RPF faced CPO’s own official army, ETA. RPF dominated the battle all the way through, and was crowned Legends Cup champion for the 4th time. In the coming days, RPF would go through some drastic changes. First on August 12th, long-time Rebel Commander Popsicle retired, leaving 2ics Percy and Biffer to lead alongside Left. 2 days later, a disgruntled 2ic decided it would be wise to leak our staff chat, getting RPF banned from CPO and launching us into Operation Exodus.

In Exodus, the “P” from the group was removed – we would now be known as the Rebel Federation. We stayed afloat on games such as Transformice, Town of Salem, and even Roblox.

The RF cycled through a few leaders during this time. Biffer and Percy both retired, leaving Left as the only Rebel Commander at the start of Exodus. A little less than a month later, though, Left would unexpectedly step down from Rebel Commander. This led to two new commanders – Plane and Nightmare.

If the fact that we were forcefully thrown into it isn’t enough to imply this, RPF was not at all prepared for Exodus. The sudden change and creation of new things such as the Intracommand caused problems that could not be ignored. We were a Club Penguin army trying to survive on other games and it was apparent that something needed to change. The RF returned to Club Penguin Rewritten in early October.

However, we suffered yet another tough blew when the Discord server was defaced again. Plane and Night would step down, as former leader Twitchy543 would return to lead the Federation yet again.

After this, many changes were made to further the army. Without the clubpenguinrpf.com site, which made bringing new people to the RF easy as it was #1 for many searches about CPR, event sizes were still low. Veteran and current advisor Silverburg inspired mass amounts of recruiting, which brought up sizes greatly so we could even hit a max of 70+ on a recent event, Operation: Miner Mayhem.

On New Year’s Eve of 2018 – almost 12:00 AM EST on the dot, Commando717 proudly announced the induction of a new RF legend to the Legends Page – Left.

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New legends and new challenges have defined the past 12 months of RPF. No matter the circumstances, this community has always stuck together and persevered through all the challenges. Lets make 2019 our best year yet!

Fight the good fight!

–Popsicle & Danielle