Radical Raiders



The Radical Raiders (RR) is a faction on Simply Vanilla with a tendency to grief bases. Smartleek is their leader as of December 12th, 2021.

History
RR was founded by players HydroLegionaire and add_money1 on January 12th, 2021. HydroLegionaire's starter base was turned into the groups' first base called Tempo (temporary base). The group's name was chosen on February 14th, 2021, and was created by combining an adjective and a noun from respective lists proposed by HydroLegionaire and YeetMaster. The banner was made by NotBarryMC and adopted as the offical group banner on February 20th, 2021, well before Barry was invited into the group. The logo was made by brains4211 in March 2021.

Tempo
In February, 2021 HydroLegionaire came into conflict with add_money1 and GoldHawk which led to the forcefully removement of HydroLegionaire from the group on February 28th, 2021. The coords to Tempo were leaked shortly after to Ultio and by extension TMB. After several players warned RR about the incoming grief RR griefed Tempo on March 2nd, 2021.



Maparts
The group has two maparts of their logo and circulates them in the sv community. The first one was made March 26th, 2021, by Kenny and Add as a copy of the group logo with white font (white carpets) on a black background (black carpets). The second mapart features the logo again with blue font (water source blocks) on a black background (obsidian). It was made on August 21th, 2021, by several group members including Kenny, Add, Horta092, YeetMaster, Bloodswamp, and others helping preparing it. Since the second mapart was made at End_Spawn the materials obsidian and water were used to harden it against griefing. The second mapart was changed to a troll face mapart on November 28th, 2021, by Deoxon as a reaction to the End Spawn Annihilation project (see below).

End Spawn Annihilation
The Project was initiated on November 16th, 2021, and had the goal of removing every removeable block on the End Spawn Island that would not be regenerated by the Ender Dragon summoning ritual. This included the water cube at spawn, lavacasts, and every endstone block at End Spawn. After some planning and Horta gathereing 10 stacks of sponges the project was executed. Hostah and OperatorJoe began sponging on November 18th, 2021. Brains, Kenny, Add, and Angel_Nina joined in shortly after. The last water source block was removed on November 22nd, 2021. Afterwards the End Spawn Island was destroyed with tnt dupers to y = 58 (mostly by Kenny). On November 24th, 2021, the group voted on if they wanted to remove the End Spawn Island completely or if they wanted to leave some form of End Spawn Island. 90% voted in favour of removing it. On November 27th, 2021, the project was completed when the last endstone block was removed and the End Spawn Island was reduced to the Exit Portal, Obsidian Towers, the obsidian Spawn Platform, and End Gateways.

Griefing
Characteristically for an RR grief are large lavacasts with a shrine-like build on top featuring an obsidian block with an end crystal on top, two RR banners next to it and an item frame with an RR mapart in front of the obisidian block. For some griefs the participants also wrote a signed book greeting the base owners. When the bases are in the overworld usually a roof portal is constructed to the base that is clad in RR banners and mapart and other ornaments.

Current (known) Members

 * add_money1
 * Al0b3
 * Angel_Nina
 * Bloodswamp
 * brains4211
 * ButterFire8325 (Hostah)
 * GoldHawk
 * Horta092
 * ilidrael (Kenny)
 * nomnomaly
 * OperatorJoe
 * NotBarryMC
 * Smartleek54
 * Summoner678
 * YeetMaster

Former Members

 * HydroLegionaire

Trivia
Since most player's didn't recognise the group's acronym RR in the early months of the group a ForestBot command !rr was created by add_money1 using the original lists of adjectives and nouns extended with some other words to mock players that guessed the group's name wrong. Other groups also interpreted the acronym in their own way, e.g. Inferno's MattMX calling the group the Radical Runners after RR ran from a fight with Inferno members after RR attacked Roger_Roger_159 and 746k (a.k.a. Vlad) on May 25th, 2021 while both griefed a base of The Melon Republic. The interpretation of RR as Radical Retards is also very common.