The Cartographers
| The Cartographers at a Glance | |
|---|---|
| Midnight Ocean | |
| Captain | Daedalus |
| Senior Officer(s) | Cairi, Longstride, Lovelypen, Mackinnon, Reddame, Scottish, Shinrai, Wildrosie |
| Politics | Oligarchic |
| Shares | Even |
| Flag Affiliation | Don't Panic |
| Founded | 27 October, 2003 |
| Last updated on 18 November, 2007 | |
 Crew Info
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The Cartographers: Founded October 27, 2003.
A Don't Panic crew.
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General Information
The Cartographers, one of YPP's oldest active crews, places an emphasis on giving all crew members an opportunity to participate in every aspect of the game such as pillaging and shopkeeping as well as non-puzzling activities like event planning and the political/social game. We actively seek out friendly and mature folks to join us and pride ourselves on training (we feel) some of the finest officers in the game.
We are always looking for good mates to join us!
Scheduled Pillages
We set sail every Monday at 6PM Pirate time for our weekly pillage, which is a great way to meet the crew, have some fun and make a bit o' poe along the way. Join us for some booty-kicking fun on one of YPP's longest-running scheduled pillages!
Shoppes
The Cartographers own three shoppes as a crew: Descartography, a shipyard on Eta island, Enrico's Fermiture, a fine furnisher on Eta island, and Beach Blam-Kit, a fine iron monger on Zeta island. Members of the crew also own an assortment of stalls located around the ocean.
History
2003
The Cartographers were originally founded in the Azure Ocean on August 11, 2003. The crew was captained by Selbstlade with Arctander as senior officer and co-founder. They instituted brown and white as the crew's official colors.
On September 26, the crew merged with The Thunderous Mu-Mu Pirates, bringing in Emmy, Choto, Sunny, Sned and Tehanu among others. Some time after, the Cartographers decided to leave The Olympians flag they were part of after a dispute over a shipwright for the crew. They struck out to found a new flag, Compass Rose.
When Midnight launched on October 27, Compass Rose and its crews reformed there. Soon after, on December 23, the flag arranged a merger with Sanctioned Insanity and became Silver Dawn, where The Cartographers remained as a key member for nearly four years.
2004
In January 2004, Selbstlade (known as Celb on Midnight) stepped down from the captaincy. A crew vote made Choto captain, while Sunny received the crew's royalty seat in Silver Dawn. Shortly thereafter, Diven, monarch of Silver Dawn since its formation, decided to step down. Emmy was elected in his place. Her term was fairly short, however, and she stepped down by March.
The Travellers, flagmates with the Cartographers since the formation of Compass Rose, merged with the crew in March. The Travellers brought their captain Diamondblade, as well as Crazyluigi, Borgman, Colourbeard, and Leperflesh among others to the crew. In June, Sunny gave up her seat as the royalty representative, replaced by Pleiade.
Silver Dawn colonized Eta Island on July 24, 2004. Shortly afterwards, in August, the crew got its first shoppe on the island, Descartography. Also in August, Sunny became captain after Choto relinqueshed the position. She named Crazyluigi as her first mate.
2005
Longstride joined the crew in March 2005, and was promoted to Senior Officer in June.
In June 2005, Pleiade gave up the crew's royalty seat and was replaced by Sunny.
With the introduction of housing and furniture in August 2005, the crew built its second shoppe on Eta Island, Enrico's Fermiture.
The crew was able to acquire an iron monger shoppe, Beach Blam-Kit on Zeta Island, in October of 2005 thanks to negotiations by Daedalus, who previously ran an iron monger stall on the island. In the same month, Sunny's royalty term ended, and she was replaced by Muffynz.
Later in the month, on October 26, flagmates Easily Distracted merged with the crew, bringing in their captain Crispix, Cairi, and Scottish among others.
2006
Captain Sunny was elected monarch of Silver Dawn and took office on January 1, 2006. After the coronation ceremony, Sunny passed the captain's hat to Crazyluigi, who chose Darianne as his first mate.
In February, Muffynz's term as royalty representative expired, and Darianne was chosen as his replacement. In June, Darianne's term ended, and she was succeeded by Omege. He stepped down from the position in September, and Crispix was elected as the next representative.
The following month, Crazyluigi decided to retire from the captaincy, and senior officer Daedalus was chosen to be captain. Longstride was chosen as his First Mate.
After the series of blockades of Eta Island which ended in the loss of the island to Dies Irae, Senior Officers Pinkylee, Zingman and Darianne left the crew to form a new crew called Siochan Leat and Senior Officer Crispix joined Broadsiders.
Former Captain Celb (AKA Selbstlade) returned to the game for a visit after a long absence.
Scottish is elected to be Royal with Crispix's departure. Crispix agrees to buy out the crew's claim to Lab Coats, which was formerly an Easily Distracted crew shoppe, for a payment of 200,000 PoE to the crew.
2007
Early 2007 started quietly but when the Silver Dawn-owned island of Cleopatra's Pearls was blockaded by the flag Incredible (Cleo IV), the flag had difficulty rousing a quick response. During the chaotic days leading up to the weekend blockade, Silver Dawn's Queen Deirdremac was unable due to personal committments to lead the flag and named Captain Daedalus, then the Lead Diplomat of Silver Dawn, as interim monarch on the eve of the blockade. The island was successfully defended. After initially intending to serve only as a caretaker monarch, Daedalus changed course and was elected as the eleventh monarch of Silver Dawn in March. Daedalus served only briefly as Monarch and stepped down in June 2007 when internal disputes made it impossible for him to continue to serve effectively.
During this time, the crew continued to thrive, hitting a peak active membership of over 60 pirates and remaining the largest crew in the flag. When Scottish's term as Royal expired, SO Wildrosie was elected as the Royalty represenatative for the crew. FO Mackinnon was also promoted to Senior Officer during the summer.
In late September The Cartographers -- the last remaining crew of the founding members of Silver Dawn -- voted to leave the flag and departed on October 5th. After a period of flagless existence during which a new forum site was established for the crew, the crew met with a few flags and voted to join the flag of Don't Panic in mid-November of 2007, where it remains today.
2008
In early January, Fleet Officer Seaspirit was promoted to Senior Officer and SO Wildrosie stepped down to Fleet Officer as RL committments limited her game participation.
