User:PoseidonHeir/AltHistory5

One of the things all wiki users who've been around for at least a couple months know and love is the organization I.R.O.N.I.C, an antivandalism group dedicated to the protection of the wiki from Orangist vandals while the only admin, Nullatrum, was online. For months on end it was the barrier between the hard work of the wiki's users and destruction at the hands of dangerous opponents.

However, after the wiki adoption, I.R.O.N.I.C became less and less needed. Especially now that most of the Orangists were peaceful. With hardly any missions left, it became obsolete. Eventually, PoseidonHeir, the leader of the organization, decided to absorb it into a new organization he was making, SWDF, as a subdivision.

But this scenario talks not about the entire history of I.R.O.N.I.C, but an alternate version of it, so to speak. What would have transpired if this organization we'd known and trusted for so many months became corrupt? And not by collusion from Orangists like you'd expect, but from overextending their own ideals, one could say.

I.R.O.N.I.C in its olden days was almost completely an anti-Orangist group, although it did try to deal with a few non-aligned vandals. Its whole purpose was to stop Orangist propaganda from spreading and opening the wiki user's eyes to the truth that Meme Man was the only true hero. But what if this mantra got a little too engraved in their heads?

PoseidonHeir was willing to accept change in Summer 2018 when he reformed the organization to accept unifist-Orangists, however, for this scenario we will assume there was a user on the wiki who joined I.R.O.N.I.C called General Succ, with a Meme Man with an army helmet PFP. He is not a real user, he is here for this scenario,

So, General Succ would have hated Orangists more than the average I.R.O.N.I.C member. He would have a strong determination to stop the Orangists which would be valued in the organization. Sometimes, he would spread Anti-Orangist sentiment among the organization without even getting authorized to do it by PoseidonHeir. Because of the respect he would've got, General Succ might have been promoted to a high role. For our purposes, we'll say he was so good at his job he became the second in command, eventually.

After the release of Riddle of the Rocks 2 and the promisement made by Orang to not perform malice, the divide of the Orangists begun. The Unifist-Orangists believed Orang knew best and if he wanted to be peaceful, they should be too, but the Separatist-Orangists believed Orang should perform dastardly deeds no matter what. In the real timeline, PoseidonHeir reformed I.R.O.N.I.C to accept the Unifist-Orangists as they were peaceful.

But in this alternate timeline, General Succ would hate this deed. He'd think all Orangists are evil no matter what, and he'd have amassed quite some support because of his high position and popularity in I.R.O.N.I.C. Let's say when PoseidonHeir tries to reform the organization, General Succ declares the reforms invalid and accuses PoseidonHeir of collusion with Orangists. The Unifist-Orangists back PoseidonHeir, but this just causes General Succ to reinforce his claims.

This fires off a huge civil war in I.R.O.N.I.C. PoseidonHeir's loyalists, the most notable being himself, S.A.N.T.A.C.L.A.W.S, Kyleroo, and probably ApertureEmployee, fight against the destructive legions of General Succ and his supporters. Other users not in the organization would likely be thrown in in the struggle of power. With no admins though, there is no clear end to the war.

Now at this point, PoseidonHeir could just tell the FANDOM staff about the problem and they'd likely intervene on his side. However, it would be boring and uninteresting if we ended the scenario like that, so no. Instead, we'll assume he doesn't do that at all, which creates a much darker and more grim future.

PoseidonHeir and his loyalists, currently allied with the Unifist-Orangists, are eventually outnumbered by the forces of General Succ, and capitulate. His demands for a peace deal is that all users who fought with PoseidonHeir be forced to work directly under his command, and if they refused or questioned any order their profiles would be continuously vandalized. PoseidonHeir's loyalists have no choice but to accept.

After that, General Succ becomes the new leader of I.R.O.N.I.C. He and his supporters continuously harass unifist-Orangists and people who don't agree with his ways. All I.R.O.N.I.C members are forced to do the same even if they don't want to. But it gets even worse. General Succ tries to adopt the wiki and tells the FANDOM staff that he's done a great work on the SMW. The FANDOM staff decides to give him the bureaucrat role without doing an investigation this time.

General Succ doesn't give the permissions to anyone else, not even other close I.R.O.N.I.C members or high-ranking staff. The first thing he does is immediately ban all and any Orangists, Separatist or Unifist. He also bans PoseidonHeir, S.A.N.T.A.C.L.A.W.S, Kyleroo, etc. along with every user who is caught sympathizing with their views. Simply questioning the ideals of Meme Man or the motives of General Succ would result in a ban.

General Succ deletes most of the wiki rules and replaces them with one big one. This new rule states that it is illegal to be an Orangist, or sympathize with them, or sympathize with PoseidonHeir's ideals, and doing any of those things would result in an instant ban and constant harassment from General Succ and his cronies. At this point, the wiki users can't tolerate his actions any more - they rebel.

The rebellion catches General Succ and his regime off guard, but is mostly crushed in a few minutes with most of the users banned. But then, before it's completely destroyed, one of the users, who so happens to be PoseidonHeir's secret alt account, contacts the FANDOM staff and demands General Succ be deprived of his bureaucrat role, showing them proof of his wrongdoings in the form of screenshots and more.

The FANDOM staff immediately react. General Succ is not only deprived of his role, but also globalled for harassment and discriminatory stances against the beliefs of certain users. After this, General Succ's regime steps down after the FANDOM staff threatens to ban all of them. The FANDOM staff unblock PoseidonHeir and most of the blocked trustworthy users they can find, who once again rise to power in I.R.O.N.I.C.

With that, PoseidonHeir gets rid of General Succ's policies and restores the regular rules. He then apologizes to all wiki users for allowing General Succ's oppressive regime to rise to power in the first place. He reforms I.R.O.N.I.C to accept Unifist-Orangists. A few days later, he adopts the wiki, and blocks most of General Succ's main supporters, but only from that wiki.

Overall, if I.R.O.N.I.C became corrupt by overextending its ideals and anti-Orang sentiment too far, it would be very bad news for the Orangists, especially the Unifist-Orangists who never wanted to cause harm. We're lucky this didn't happen, and I.R.O.N.I.C remained a clean organization willing to change with the world around it.