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The TLS (short for „Tekkit Lite Server” and later retroactively named TLS1) was a multiplayer server operating since the 20^th of December 2017 until May of 2018. The server had to be shut down due to an ever worsening memory leak making it unplayable.

The server opened with Domo and Kuba coming together to construct a nuclear power plant and play together over the winter break. The little server however would quickly grow and attract new players.

Players:

Throughout it’s entire history, 10 player would play on the server. All of them, with the exception of snatch77jr being classmates. The exact order of players joining is lost to time as the server’s history wasn’t carefully logged during it’s operation. It is however certain that the first 4 players to play together were:

1. Kuba_0040
2. Domo1504K
3. Olwik
4. puszeczek

The remaining players would join soon after as news about the server spread over class messenger groups and word of mouth.

Full list of players:

• Kuba_0040
• Domo1504K
• Olwik
• puszczek
• Jacob92
• DickSon_TM (reffered to as Alek for the remainder of this article)
• Oliwka
• Wena_PL
• snatch77jr
• Tordyy_Gamer6 (reffered to as Emma for the remainder of this article)

Everyday life on the server

Due to the large amount of players the server harboured a strong sense of community, amplified by the fact that most of the residents lived together in one neighbourhood located within the Living Sector (Sekcja Mieszkalna). The server’s residents would help each other on various projects as well as join groups. The server operated under a capitalist economy with coal being chosen as it’s currency due to it’s unusual scarcity on the server.

The city (under the leadership of Kuba) was divided into the following sectors:

• Living Sector

Although initially started as a small offshoot of the city, this sector rapidly grew over the city’s lifetime becoming the largest and most developed. Notably, it was also the only sector with a consistent visual style and sense of order and care for the surroundings. This made it a favourite among everyone. It was the home of all of the server’s residents following the SNPP explosion. This sector was not entirely devoid of industry as an experimental Breeder Reactor was constructed right besides Olwik’s house. This reactor later exploded due to the IC2 “infinite overheating” glitch. Additionally the sector housed a local oil fired power plant, the first to use Energy Converters on the whole server.

• Industrial Sector

The industrial sector was the oldest on the server being built mostly in 2013-2016 back when the TLS world was just Kuba’s personal creative world. It housed many early experiments in buildcraft and IC2 machinery. Kuba never removed failed experiments leading to his learning journey being fantastically perserved. At the same time this made the Industrial Sector a very ugly and difficult to navigate place making it rarely visited by anyone other than Kuba. During the server’s lifetime a key feature of the sector became it’s ATOM nuclear power plant generation & research complex.

• City Center
• Old Living Sector
• Community Mine

Roles and significant achievements of each player

• Kuba_0040

Ran the energy grid and server’s industries, built factories, roads and transportation systems. It was Kuba’s job to refuel the servers nuclear reactors before the automatic Class IV designs entered service.

He also maintained the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant (This is a key detail, please keep it in mind for later)

• Domo1504K

Built and partially operated the Syberian Nuclear Power Plant prior to it’s explosion. Along with puszczek he worked together on developing Siberia.

After the SNPP explosion Domo shifted his focus onto helping construct pipelines to foster the petrochemical industry.

• Olwik

Olwik was the great collaborator. Together with puszczek and Olwika she worked on many community projects like the Thermal Springs (Gorące Źródła) and Game Center. She was the leader of the Anti-Pig Coalition group.

She was the only private resident to posses nuclear weapons which were later confiscated by the state.

She played a major role in other projects such as the End Base as well as researching an at the time unknown mod “Factorization”.

Other notable projects of her include the Biedronka super market and the secret network of underground tunnels stretching to all parts of the server.

• Puszczek

Prior to the SNPP explosion, puszczek was the first player to move in to Siberia as he found it more aesthetically pleasing than the messy city.

Together with Domo he made plans to develop the Siberia area with his largest project being the Siberian Restaurant and Hotel.Unfortunately, these plans could not be realised before he was forced to move to the city following the explosion.

At the city puszczek collaborated with many other players like the before mentioned Olwik on countless community projects. Although he lived humbly, he was one of the richest players on the server with advanced Power Armor sets and a private hydroelectric dam to avoid paying electric bills. Puszczek was another key member of theAnti-Pig coalition.

• Jacob92

Jacob’s main contribution to the server was his Pub. Originally built to serve the Alek Hotel, the Pub and it’s signature product – coffee – quickly became a key point of the city.

Jacob’s Dark Coffee helped players run and mine faster at the Community Mineshaft. This lead to coffee becoming an extremally popular beverage among the residents with many players becoming addicted to it and frequently overdosing. The message “<player> was killed by magic” frequently popped up in the server’s chat. The most avid coffee drinkers were Kuba and puszczek, however virtually everybody drank at least 3 cups per minecraft day.

This popularity was sure to bring Jacob immense wealth, however unfortunately due to poor security his Pub was the Burglary Center of the server, exploited by virtually everyone as an easy source of Coal (the city’s currency). When combined with astronomical electricity costs associated with operating the Coffee Machine, Jacob was plunged into debt, amassing a deficit of over 384 coal to the city in unpaid electricity. It’s for these reasons that Jacob rarely played on the server in the later parts of it’s history.

• Alek

Alek's Hotel after being superficially damaged with dynamite

Alek’s main contribution to the server was the construction of his hotel and castle.

The towering hotel made purely of gold blocks quickly became an eye-sore for the city’s residents with resentment towards it quickly building. Kuba tried to reason with the other players to keep Alek playing, however was unsuccessful as an armed gang lead by puszczek and Domo acquired dynamite and superficially damaged the hotel. The hotel was repaired and the weapons siezed however resentment towards it continued to grow until it boiled over resulting with the hotel being mined down by a quarry with the help of Kuba who secretly hated the hotel all along. The citizens shared the gold blocks among themselves and celebrated by overdosing at Jacob’s Pub.

• Oliwka

Oliwka was on the surface a “normal” player who lived by the lake neighbouring Kuba and puszczek’s houses.

She worked closely together with Olwik and Wena on various projects. She cared greatly about the appearance of the city and worked hard to pretty-up theLiving Sector. One of her main public contributions was the construction of an elevated bridge connecting her house with Wena’s.

In secret however, Oliwka was a crucial member of the Anti-Pig coalition, responsible for the construction of it’s secret hideout.

• Wena

Wena was a peaceful player who mostly kept to herself.

Unfortunetly, her life would drastically turn for the worst after she built a pig-face from wool near Jacob’s Pub. The statue was adorned with a sign saying “Nie zabijaj świnków” (Don’t kill the pigs). This simple act for no reason whatsoever would lead to the creation of the Anti-Pig coalition. She was the only player to openly support protecting the server’s pigs.

• Snatch

Snatch rarely played on the server, however even in his brief time online managed to etch himself into the server’s history.

Snatch was one of the main drivers behind the Siberia-City nuclear stalemate after being manipulated by Kuba into burring concealed nuclear weapons into Siberia territory. Kuba then betrayed snatch by leaking the news to Domo which resulted in a tense nuclear stalemate between the two players. Shortly before the SNPP explosion tensions dissipated as Kuba (again, manipulating both players) took part in the creation of a peace deal which sought the Nuclear Control Center destroyed and some (but not all) Nuclear Weapons removed.

• Tordyy_Gamer6

Emma was the last player to join the server a week before the Biedronka Incident.

She lived together with Wena, later constructing her own home near Jacob’s Pub. Her main contribution to the server was the construction of many pretty Pokemon statues and pixelarts around the Living Sector.

Key events in the server’s history

Notice: In order to fully understand the events you are about to learn about it is imperative to understand Kuba’s character and head space during the servers time. Kuba had a very ugly attitude to lie, gaslight and manipulate people to cause drama or steer events towards his goals. This awful habit developed early in his life, and continued over the years with him getting better and better at it. Pre-2020 Kuba is a difficult person to break down, on one hand he genuinely cared about others if they needed help, on the other hand if others went against his plans or wishes he often grew resentful and tried to quietly and secretly steer things in directions he saw “correct”. Kuba was a man who liked control and things being run and done to his liking. Below is a first person letter from Kuba (keep in mind he wrote this article) about this period in time:

I was a genuinely awful person to a lot of different people, often only concerned with my needs and wants. During the coronavirus pandemic a lot of different things happened in my life, things I’d rather not discuss publicly. Life finally shoved sense into me and made me finally see what I was doing to others. It was a rough period in my life which ended with going to therapy. I am beyond disgusted at the things I used to do and say, and the systematic nature of it all. I was deeply ashamed of all the lies I’ve told in the past which left me to not admit many of them for years after the fact. I’d like to say sorry to all of my close friends who I’ve deceived for years, making up stories to make myself or my accomplishments seem grander than they really were. I’d like to say sorry to my friends like Domo and snatch for steering them in directions I saw fit. I’d like to say sorry to the people of Hyptek about whom I’ve lied for years to further my story of ATOM Co. and the “oh so sad ridicule I received at their hands” when in reality it was just one post made in 2018. I’d like to be able to say I am a better person now, but that is left to You to judge. All I can hope for is that you can accept me for the person I am now. I wish you all the best. Kuba 18-09-2025r.

Snatch – Domo Nuclear Stalemate

The crisis started with Kuba having a stupid and unreasonable grudge against Siberia. He didn’t like that people like Domo and puszczek chose to settle outside of his city. He wanted them to move back and decided to create some drama to make it happen.

It is unclear what exact lies Kuba told snatch about Domo, those got lost to time through fuzzy memory. However, Kuba managed to plant a seed of distrust against Domo within snatch which lead them to bury a series of nuclear weapons below Siberia “in case things escalated”.

At the same time, Kuba came to Domo with a “shocking discovery” of nuclear weapons being buried under Siberia. The two then conducted an investigation which lead the blame on snatch. Urging both sides separately to keep his involvement a secret, Kuba successfully played both sides in order to escalate the conflict. His ultimate goal was to lead puszczek to leave Siberia for the city.

The situation took an objectively expected turn when Domo placed his own nuclear weapons under the city. This came as a surprise to Kuba. With his city being threatened, Kuba quickly shifted his focus towards diffusing the situation. Ultimately concluding with both parties deciding to excavate and remove their nuclear weapons from the other’s territory. All bombs were removed from the city, however two remained buried under Siberia as nobody (including Kuba) could find them again. This resulted in the frequencies 12x being banned from use as to not accidentally detonate these leftover weapons.

Neither party ever learned Kuba was behind the crisis.

Siberia NPP Explosion

The explosion at the SNPP is one of the most defining moments in TLS history and at the same time one of the most intricate myths Kuba has crafted over the years to suit his goals.

As stated before, Kuba didn’t approve of others living outside his city. Publicly he didn’t have any problems with it but privately he was working to get the players of Siberia to move to the city on their own accord. He initially tried to create an atmosphere of fear to get theplayers to move with the Snatch-Domo Nuclear Scare, however after that plan backfired he shifted his focus to try and find another way.

Eventually he came to the conclusion that only a serious accident at the Siberian Nuclear Power Plant would work. Kuba also had a partial resentment towards the plant itself. Even though he helped built it, the plant quickly expanded way beyond the initial two reactors. This lead to the Siberian NPP being moretechnologically advanced and of larger scale than Kuba’s own city NPP. This lead him to quickly expand his own plant to match Siberia as well as kickstarting a race to rapidly develop nuclear technology to out-do Domo’s plant.

This grudge aside, Kuba also took issue with the fact that he had to refuel Siberia by himself, even though he wasn’t it’s owner. In the days prior to the invention of self-refueling Class IV reactors, Kuba had to every 2.5 hours stop whatever he was doing on the server and refuel all 11 reactors running on the server (6 of which were in Siberia). This whole process would take 20 minutes as prior to Class III+ reactors, refuelling was rather annoying with the cooling system clogging the fuel channels with LZH compensators once the uranium rods depleted.

While this annoyance with Siberia might seem reasonable at first glance, keep in mind that Kuba never asked Domo to help in refuelling the reactors. He simply did it himself and was then “shocked” like the stupid, egotistical fool he was that nobody helped him. It was for all of these reasons that Kuba decided to manufacture an accident at SNPP.

Due to the previous Nuclear Scare, Kuba had to be careful to not escalate tensions between the city and Siberia as well as not cause a panic within the city’s residents (the vast majority of the server’s energy came from nuclear power + keep in mind there already was anaccident at the Living Sector Experimental Breeder two months prior). It was also imperative that the whole operation remained a secret with Kuba not being suspected of foul play.

To meet all these goals, Kuba formed the following plan.

1. The accident needed a likely cause. Siberia’s untidy and exposed wiring, (at the time) outdated technology and the lack of a “forever overheating” glitch detection system provided the perfect background to justify the accident. Additionally, Domo himself disabled the “Emergency 100” system on his reactors as the cooling system kept triggering whenever the reactor’s temperature would spike during a coolant change-over. This ensured no alarms would ring in the city to notify others of the situation.
2. The accident must happen while Kuba is publicly away from Siberia, preferably working on a project with other residents. The construction of the Biedronka supermarket was used an an alibi.
3. The accident must be small enough to be believable while damaging enough to shut down the plant. If more than one reactor exploded the circumstances behind such an event would certainly raise some eyebrows. As a result, during many refuelling trips Kuba carefully inspected the wiring at the plant, making sure not to spend an abnormal amount of time on any singular trip. He eventually determined that Reactor number 4, named “The Nuke” was an excellent candidate to sabotage. It’s central location within the plant, neighbouring the control rooms of reactors 3+4 and 5+6 would ensure it would destroy enough wiring for the reactors to become inoperable while also keeping their safety systems intact so that more explosions would not follow.

Kuba on his 3^rd to last refueling trip sabotaged a blue-alloy wire powering the cooling machinery as well as broke an extra wire to disable the overheat protection system of Unit 4. Both of these cables were within the radius of the explosion, to ensure all evidence is destroyed. Additionally, the charge in the cooling room’s batteries would ensure the reactor would keep working for a couple hours before overheating.

Kuba set his plan in motion around 2 weeks after the Nuclear Scare as tensions had fully dissipated by then. Instead of working on the Biedronka supermarket he took the time to upgrade the Coffee Machine to produce Milk Coffee as well and constructed his own mini pub next to Jacob’s.

When he went out to change the fuel after the accident he faked surprise and called an emergency meeting with Domo to discuss what to do. It was eventually decided to not rebuild the SNPP and instead seal of the plant and evacuate Siberia. Both Domo and puszczek moved back to the city and the whole incident relatively quickly got forgotten as an unexpected crash corrupted the TLS world soon after.

No one ever found out, and Kuba kept perpetuating the myth for years to come as part of the ATOM Co ethos.