The Purple Empire
The Purple Empire (or TPE) is a purple themed faction dedicated to spreading a purple background throughout the canvas. Started on Canvas 51, the factions different template vary each canvas, where user suggested templates take priority.
History
2021
Canvas 51
It all began with the returning pxls.space user Temriel, who after a several month hiatus decided that he was gonna make his own empire, where it was originally called "The Magenta Empire". This was later scrapped, and replaced with "The Purple Empire", which is what we have today.
It started as a small project in the very top of the "bats" head, where it remained a small regional power, only really having it's emperor Temriel as the main placer. This changed however when both Rockbatgirl and iButter joined the faction. The Empire quickly expanded, and took it took over smaller surrounding arts that were no longer being worked on. It was also during this that an alliance with the NBGM was formed.
Near the end of the canvas almost every single person on pxls moved to help both it and another faction to finish the canvas off.
2021/2022
Canvas 52
It was during this canvas that major expansion was achieved, with an official alliance formed with the H2O Lattice as well. Starting in the top right of the canvas, it slowly but surely expanded to claim massive areas, and faced almost no competition.
Despite the Empire only starting on canvas 51, the sudden growth was stunning. By being so isolated (except for it's ally to the south-west, H2O Lattice) it could expand into very large areas without much resistance. During this time Evelyn29 sort of joined the faction by helping the Empire expand west, officially joining next canvas. She (and later E-Aria) would later prove to be invaluable on canvas 53. The Empire was originally only going to stay in the north-east of the canvas, but it saw a very large opportunity to expand south into unclaimed land.
Later on, it came into contact with another large pattern, and very soon reached an agreement to settle the border on something favorable for both factions (although the Empire largely lost ground here, but it was deemed favorable by the emperor), so the Empire could focus on expansion west. It was at this time too that E-Aria asked to make a small to medium sized pixel art from the game Candies 'n Curses, which was finished later that same canvas.
2022
Canvas 53
Starting in the mid-west, the faction made a medium sized pixel art to begin with, which later lead to major purple expansion around it.
With the addition of E-Aria to the Empire last canvas, it granted the ability for the faction to expand around her art in the southeast. This lead into very major expansion around her art for a very long time.
In the Komi-san War the Empire intervened to finish the 5 pixel thick outline of E-Aria's megaproject. This was successful at the start, but when a de-fiddled version was created, the Empire lost almost all of its investments into the war. Later, when it was decided that it was to be majorly expanded, the Empire could only sit back and watch, as d2 expanded it.
During the Splatoon 2 partition drama, TPE was offered a lot of territory, but it took more of a neutral stance during this. The Empire only pushed to the border of the logo, and never actually fought against anyone. This proved to be the right thing to do, as the logo was later redesigned and was spared.
In the bottom right of the canvas the Empire found itself in small, short lived border conflicts with several d2 members, but never d2 itself. It was also in this area that a massive controversy was spawned, where a Trump art threatened to take over a lot of TPE territory in later reveled plans. This sparked a conflict where several pxls users took sides to either defend the art, or defend the Empire. It started with small incursions into TPE territory, which eventually lead to the executive decision of Temriel to stop this once and for all. He was himself aware of the small incursions, but did not intervene. But when it was revealed that ImperialGuard was recruiting several people of another Discord server, the order was announced. When both sides were basically equal, a deal was signed where it would remain the same it was pre-war, however during the time that both Temriel (+most of the Empire) and ImperialGuard was offline some other pxls users took over almost all of the Trump art, giving it to the Empire.
When there were no more expansion paths in the bottom left, the Empire picked a new location in the top right and expanded very rapidly. Considering it was near the end of the canvas, the Empire gained a lot of external support, and basically doubling the placement speed for the Empire. It was also at this time that an Empire-wide template was finally established and grief reports were added to the Discord server.
Canvas 54
With the confusing shape of the canvas, the Empire started it's expansion with a very large template on the left of the canvas, where E-Aria had a pretty massive template to begin with. This was also the first canvas where BTF and the Empire collaborated.
Further into the canvas, a border was established between both the Empire and the Femboy Volunteers, and was finished very rapidly due to it getting help.
(WIP)
(editors note; we get there when we get there)