Editing Mr. Robot + Rassicas Alliance

{{Community stub}}{{Community
| name = Mr. Robot / 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
| artwork = [[fsociety]], [[Mr. Robot mask]], [[hellofriend]]
| aka = r/MrRobot / Rassicas Alliance
| subcommunities = [[Mr Robot r/Place Discord]], [[Rassicas]], [[Deep Rock Galactic]], [[1G SQUAD]], [[Chicago Cubs]], [[The Seed]], [[Bravo Vince]], [[Steins;Gate]], [[Costa Rica]], [[r/Splatoon]], [[Vegan]], [[r/Esperanto]], [[r/PathofExile]], [[r/OneShot]], [[r/SkyPlace]], [[The Swarm]], [[r/Kurdistan]], [[Milwaukee]], [[Brand New Animal]], [[Unnamed FIRST Robotics Alliance]]
| logo = MrRobotFaction.png
}}

The '''Mr. Robot / Rassicas Alliance''', also known as the '''r/MrRobot / Rassicas Alliance''', was the faction of [[r/place 2022|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.

Also on the second day was the formation of the alliances with the [[Chicago Cubs]] and [[The Seed|the Seed]], who both were able to hold out in territory otherwise governed by the [[Megaman Accords]] until the xQc raid on the third day, during which they took heavy fire and then were completely overtaken by the rebuilding of the [[Flag of Israel]]. The Chicago Cubs fled, and although the Seed almost managed to rebuild, they also disappeared soon after.

=== 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 [[small Vernba|smaller Vernba]] 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 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 concentrated attacks, be them from streamers or from The Swarm, 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 ===
Early in the morning of the fourth day, an alliance was negotiated with The Swarm, the organized faction for the void. However, while this protected the hellofriend text from organized attacks, and indeed the server for The Swarm would after this point reject many proposals to attack the hellofriend text, it did little to defend them against randoms.

Thus, given the onslaught of randoms trying to expand the void, as well as people attempting to build in the area, it was decided that the full-sized robot head above the hellofriend text was untenable in the time that was remaining. Believing r/Place would likely end at 10-11 AM, around the time of the board expansions, the faction decided to instead build a small robot head as an extension off of the side of the hellofriend text. This was built quickly, albeit it provoked an immediate reaction from The Swarm. One of the faction's diplomats to The Swarm quickly explained that they had given up the space above the hellofriend text in favor of the smaller robot, which they felt was a fair exchange given they were conceding far more space to the void than they would have otherwise.

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