S 39

S_39, also known as Lorenzo, is a Mandalorian veteran and former mand'alor of the community. He has been involved in the Mandalorian Community since late 2009 and has been a major voice in the community's politics and dealings, being known as one of the most influential and powerful individuals to ever hold the title after JasterVerad.

Early History
Earliest known recordings of S_39's direct involvement in the community can be traced back to Dekomet's Mando`ade, where he was one of the head developers. S_39 was contracted for the construction of the SW:Legends mandalorian capital of Keldabe. The commission was completed within two weeks, upon which he was granted his pay and left to do as he wished within Mando'ade. During this time, Mando ade saw a large period of growth under its leader and community Mand'alor, Dekomet. S_39 was approached by his (at the time) friend, NaastWerda (now blaster_bolt), who requested a copy of Keldabe v1 for use in his Mandalorian Protectors. S_39 agreed reluctantly and had Naast promise to not provide any other individual with the map. Unfortunately, Naast proceeded to provide FoxDecarian, an agent of iPreVizsla's Death Watch (DW) - a rival group to MA - with a copy of the map, who then proceeded to open-source the map in an attempt to sabotage Mando'ade. Jaster, Dekomet, and Roduck were enraged with this obvious betrayal and demanded their payment back. S_39 agreed and issued a formal apology. Jaster and Dekomet were both willing to take S_39 back in. Shortly after, phantomface contracted an exploiter to steal iPreVizsla's Concordia, which led to the immediate open-sourcing of the map in retaliation for the open-sourcing of MA's Keldabe. At this time, Roduck had convinced Jaster and Dekomet that the way forward was to modernize the tech of the community, which would take the form of fighter combat. S_39, still being the head builder of Mando`ade, was tasked with creating the models for these fighters. In an attempt to showcase scripts that he had acquired from Sonagod's developers, he put together a demo place which used the recently-leaked iPrevizsla Kom'rk fighter models as placeholders for the new models. Upon visiting, Roduck accused S_39 of having orchestrated both the leak of iPrevizsla's tech and passing off Santis_Verdoem's models as his own. This promptly led to the removal of S_39 from Mando`ade a second time, virtually terminating S_39's image and reputation in the community for at least a year.

Dark Age
S_39 was not seen throughout most of the Dark Age, though was called to action by Lord_Dacanoe near the end of the period, around the same time that Zorad_Thanar was called to restore order to the community through the Mandalorian Coalition. Having freshly seceded from Sonagod's TGE with a new army, he reopened the Neo-Crusaders, which was a group that he had acquired from AttonValorius after having been sold by NaastWerda. The circumstances of this acquisition are questionable, as S_39 had promised Naast and MirtaRuni - both of which were interested in acquiring the group, yet didn't have enough money - to acquire the group, and give it to Naast, on the condition that they would set aside their differences and work together. Naast, though broke this agreement almost immediately, prompting S_39 to hold the group on the grounds of [verbatim] "You can't be trusted to lead a group for more than 2 weeks without abandoning it".

Zorad_Thanar had scheduled a speech in which every group within the coalition had to attend. At this same time, S_39 had contacted phantomface on Skype and informed her of the situation, to which she agreed to return to make sure that Ryedogo - who had intentions of turning the Mandalorian Empire group into a proto-cashgrab group - would not retain the official title. Phantomface appeared at Zorad's speech, and took over the closing phase, after Zorad declared war on Ryedogo's empire, proclaiming Zorad_Thanar as the one true Mand'alor, even though through technicalities, Ryedogo was still the direct descendant of Taker64. Immediately upon completing the speech, Wayne_Venamis, on the behest of S_39 challenged Zorad_Thanar in front of the entire clan assembly. Forced to accept, Zorad scheduled the fight at farmerjump1's NJO map. The fight was swift, and although the recording is currently lost to history, Wayne_Venamis was drunk during the entirety of the duel, so much so that he vomited upon his keyboard shortly after defeating Zorad. Such a humiliating defeat at the hands of a seemingly random person shattered Zorad's brief stint as "Mand'alor", and he promptly left and was never seen again until years later.

Following this abandonment of the community, and unwilling to bend the knee to S_39, Merk and his mandalorians quit the Mandalorian Coalition and rejoined Ryedogo's Mandalorian Empire, having been given the deal of a full pardon for their attempted coup, and Merk having his role restored to 2ic. This blatant treachery infuriated S_39, and prompted an immediate military response by the Neo-Crusaders.

Second Unification War
Claiming the title of Mandalore the Ultimate, S_39 lead the Mandalorian Neo-Crusaders into battle against Ryedogo's Mandalorian Empire at their map, Carlac. The war was swift, having lasted only 2 weeks. Seeing that he was on the losing side of history, Ryedogo offered a challenge for the title between S_39 and his champion, an unnamed outsider from the Game of Thrones genre. The fight was organized hastily, and S_39, unprepared for the challenge, lost. This duel was used as justification to ban S_39 and the crusaders from Carlac. This led to the death of the Mandalorian Empire, as the crusaders offered them their only activity. Ryedogo, seeing the writing on the wall, offered S_39 a position as 2ic in the Empire, alongside Merk, but he felt cheated by this offer. He refused the offer, and had phantomface transmit a counter offer: "Surrender, or die." This term would later be used in all future crusades by S_39. Ryedogo acquiesced to the ultimatum, and left the Mandalorian Community forever. iPrevizsla was appointed as transitionary Mand'alor for a week, afterwhich the title was officially bestowed upon S_39, which officially unified the Mandalorian community for the first time in history.

Golden Age
The next period following the unification of the community led to the golden age of the Mandalorian Community. This period is marked by the revolutionizing of development by S_39, who spearheaded the transition to a unified dress code, higher standards for building and map design, and the transition to mesh-based morphs. There was an unprecedented amount of internal stability in the community, which led to the organizations of many campaigns against a variety of different enemies, such as straggler/newgen fando clans, clone groups, imperial groups, and other non-mandalorians - most famously the TGR-Clan Prudii-United Dominion coalition.

Growing Divisions
As an effort to raise a more professional army and optimize the crusades, S_39, at the advice of phantomface, dissolved the clan system entirely, funneling all members of the community into either the militia, the Kih'Akaan'ade, or the army, the Akaan'ade. This move was extremely controversial, as it created a pseudo-caste system where the militia was looked down upon from the more skilled army. Merk was placed in charge of the militia, and felt that all of his adept fighters were stolen by the army. Because of this, he, alongside BalCalistan, staged a coup, which failed immediately and led to their exile from Mando`ade, and the dissolution of the caste system.

Akaan'ade was reorganized into the second cycle of MNC, combining all the less-skilled players that were originally loyal to MNC from the Kih'Akaan'ade, and all the members from Akaan'ade, including the skilled players Merk had. This essentially left Merk with no proper army. This led Merk to close off his group entirely, and seclude himself in his own corner of the community, beginning the long tradition of seclusion and stagnation typically seen from Merkalorian leaders to this day.

The Rise of Traitors
In an effort to destroy Merk_Torras, S_39 orchestrated a complex series of events, that led to phantomface, at the time the holder of his group "The True Mandalorians", admin abusing the group and discord, and blaming it on Tawny, one of her lieutenants and closest friends - Tawny being in on the scheme.

Merk, having been destroyed once again, alligned himself with JasterVerad, who had made a fresh return to the community leading his Protectors of Concord Dawn. This group was again targeted and destroyed by S_39, though having within a month leaked his map, convinced all clans loyal to him to leave and "do their own thing" - which led to their almost immediate death from inactivity - and enraged phantomface to the point of leaving. These series of events led to the utter collapse of the Merkalorian heirarchy.

New Threats
Having realized that S_39 could no longer hold a grip on the community as himself, he decided to orchestrate a transition of power to his alt. S_39 - the account, being piloted by FoxDecarian - lost in a mock battle to Omnidimios - being piloted by S_39 - who then became the new mand'alor until Lorenzo's return in early August 2018, after coming to the conclusion that one could only fix their image by proper means, instead of using an alternative account to start fresh.

At this time, a new leader known as coolninja9494 joined the space, leading a botted Mandalorian Empire. Phantomface, in an effort to get back at S_39 for his involvement in Jaster's destruction, assisted coolninja in growing his empire, which included granting the Merkalorians refugee status in his group. This blatant betrayal on his most trusted advisor and friend's part, enraged S_39. Phantomface famously proclaimed that he was "washed up", which further motivated him to prove her wrong. In one fell swoop, S_39 orchestrated the destruction of coolninja9494 through the same methods used on JasterVerad, who was never seen again.

This new way of doing war was permanently cemented in the play book as long as the enemy of the crusaders was enacting seclusion-based policies.

Contemporary (Post-2019) History
S_39 has been involved with the community's affairs on and off since the collapse of the community into obscurity, most notably participating in the Manda Carta signing, where MNC and the Merkalorian faction The True Mandalorians, agreed to appoint MirtaRuni - a puppet of and "Temp'alor" for S_39 - as Mand'alor of the Community. MirtaRuni was later illegally overthrown following the December Assembly. Following a brief conflict with the Community, S_39 was exiled from the Merkalorian side of the community, being deemed an existential threat.

Lorenzo is a controversial figure in the Community due to him being known to manipulate powerful individuals in other groups to fulfill his goals, though always delivering on his promises of quality and strength.