Mr. Robot + Rassicas Alliance

Mr. Robot + Rassicas Alliance
Name	Mr. Robot / Rassicas Alliance
AKA	r/MrRobot / Rassicas Alliance
Description	The alliance formed by the merger of the r/MrRobot and Rassicas factions on the second day of r/Place, and their many alliances
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Artwork	fsociety, Mr. Robot mask, hellofriend

The Mr. Robot / Rassicas Alliance, also known as the r/MrRobot / Rassicas Alliance, was the faction of r/Place 2022 formed by the merging of the Rassicas faction with the Mr. Robot r/Place Discord server, responsible for three art pieces on the board as well as a large number of alliances. Among their notable victories during r/Place are an almost immediate recovery from an xQcOw raid in the upper-right quadrant of the board that destroyed the Mr. Robot mask on the third day, managing to successfully hold back the void for the entire third and fourth day, forming a defensive wall between it and a significant number of pieces using their piece hellofriend, and successfully defending the Flag of Kurdistan along with Brand New Animal and Milwaukee during the final hours of day four.

History

Day 01: 01 April 2022

The alliance did not exist on Day 1; see the page for the fsociety_ text for Day 1 history.

Day 02: 02 April 2022

The Alliance was formed on the second day, when Ellie (known to the Rassicas faction as 'Squid'), reached out to the Mr. Robot r/Place Discord server for help trying to build the Rassicas faction's art piece, the Vernba head, since the Mr. Robot logo was nearby. However, unbeknownst to them, the Mr. Robot faction had actually been trying to expand their piece upwards to add the Mr. Robot mask above the logo, and so the two sides had been in an accidental build war.

Upon realizing what had happened, the Mr. Robot r/Place Discord urged the Rassicas faction to build their piece in what they had been told was an abandoned part of the Flag of Costa Rica. However, due to the ongoing war between Costa Rica and Spongebob's nose, as well as a lack of coordination between members of Costa Rica which ultimately led to the Mr. Robot mask being left uncompleted, this was unsuccessful, and the Mr. Robot r/Place Discord pledged to help the Rassicas faction rebuild somewhere else on the third day, as long as members of their faction helped build and defend the existing Mr. Robot art pieces.

It was at this moment that the alliance was born, as the Rassicas faction for the rest of the day would help defend the Mr. Robot mask from attackers. Notably, at one point Spongebob's nose attempted to extend into the mask; the Mr. Robot faction responded by not only holding their ground, but by also steering the nose in a different direction with their own yellow pixels, an early example of the Mr. Robot faction's signature use of social engineering tactics.

As these events were ongoing, the Mr. Robot r/Place Discord was also at war with r/xiuxiu, who similar to the Rassicas faction had tried to build above the Mr. Robot logo; in another show of social engineering, they held back r/xiuxiu's attacks by stalling that faction's leader by engaging in a long, deliberately confusing discussion on how they could set up instances of the Reddit Place Script 2022, the r/Place bot that most factions were using since it was publicly available.

Day 03: 03 April 2022

After the second canvas expansion, the alliance started building the hellofriend text, establishing themselves in territory otherwise belonging to the final location of The Swarm, the organized faction for the void. They attempted to build the Vernba Head as an extension of the hellofriend text, but faced with the inability to do so, the two sides of the alliance reached a compromise, to build a smaller Vernba head in the lower-left corner of the Mr. Robot mask.

TODO: Events between these two paragraphs

Later in the day, after the area around the hellofriend text had become less volatile, r/xiuxiu coincidentally tried to remake their piece, this time near the large robot head that was originally planned to be above the hellofriend text. An agreement was struck, and r/xiuxiu found their final home, where they persisted until the Great Whiteout.

At the same time that this was happening, due to this area of the canvas being less volatile than during the first attempt to build the Vernba head, the small Vernba head was abandoned and restored back to the Mr. Robot mask, and the full-size Vernba head was quickly established to the right of the hellofriend text. However, this was not without a minor build war against Banjo and Kazooie, who initially were trying to build on top of the northern border of the Vernba head; this mostly consisted of them placing brown pixels corresponding to Banjo's backpack and being repeatedly pushed back.

Later in the evening, xQc raided the upper-right quadrant of the board with black void pixels, decimating the Mr. Robot mask and several surrounding pieces. By this point, the alliance had figured out two key things: the most important thing to do during an attack is to hold your border, not your entire art piece, and streamer raids were impossible to resist while they were ongoing, but incredibly easy to respond to after they ended. With this knowledge, they almost immediately recovered their territory, as did their nearby allies, r/PathofExile and r/Esperanto, as well as r/PathofExile's ally r/Cubers. Costa Rica, who they were also allied with, recovered first and almost immediately due to their massive manpower compared to all surrounding factions.

TODO: detail day 3 alliances after xQcOw raid

As mentioned, originally, the hellofriend text was going to have a large robot head above it; the faction persisted on trying to build the large robot head long into the night of Day 3, during which the Flag of Kurdistan attempted to set up in the lower-right corner, above the hellofriend text. Ellie, who had since become one of the alliance's main diplomats, reached out to the Kurdistan faction, and negotiated that they move three pixels to the right, so the flag would not overlap with the planned robot head. However, they found themselves spread thin between attempting to build the robot head as well as defend the flag against concentrated attacks from both The Swarm as well as r/Kurdistan's main enemy, r/Turkey, and so r/Kurdistan fled to the lower-right quadrant, originally attempting to set up over the right half of Brand New Animal, and were not seen by the Alliance again until the fourth day.

Day 04: 04 April 2022

TODO