About Club Penguin
Club Penguin, commonly known as CP, is an MMORPG that is designed by New Horizon Interactive, targeted towards people between the ages of 6 and 14, although the game is open for all ages. Players can chat, play games, throw snowballs, earn Club Penguin coins, and participate with one another in a snowy virtual world. Although the game can be played for free, a membership is required to buy clothes, go into member-only rooms, etc.
Club Penguin Armies
Club Penguin was known for snowball fights in 2005, although it wasn’t long before armies were an idea. The first ever known armies were simply named by the color of the penguin, such as Red and Blue.
The first army to have a leader was Red, who had a leader named Korn. Armies weren’t big in the community just yet, but the earliest known armies participated in what was known as the Color Wars during the Sports Party of 2006. They were very unorganized, due to the fact that they had no website or forum to create plans. They would just simply log on to the Dojo and battle it out. The Color Wars soon officially became to be known as World War I.
Spread
After the decline of the Color War clans, the clans evolved into armies and took identity by name and clothing rather than color of the penguin’s skin. Some clans became armies on the Miniclip Forums, the site in which Club Penguin rapidly became it’s #1 game. Miniclip was the center of Club Penguin culture, and many new users originated from there.
A user named Vital Viper found Mammoth as the “Forum Server”, and it became a big location for battles, especially during World War II.
These series of constant battles between these clans and newly formed organized armies is recognized as World War II. Although hundreds of clans were probably made during this period, the main clans and armies that are known to have existed and participated in this era were the Romans, Vikings, Pirates, Penguin Secret Agency (PSA), Army of Club Penguin (ACP), Club Penguin Army (CPA), and the Club Penguin United Nations Space Commission (CPUNSC).
Armies like the Underground Mafias Army (UMA), Club Penguin Marines (CPM), and the Nachos were still forming, or in the Nachos’ case, still a clan. The ACP, Romans, and the CPUNSC were the first armies to officially organize on the Miniclip forums.
Purple Republic/Club Penguin Raids
The Purple Republic is a group originating on 4chan’s /v/ board dedicated to raiding Club Penguin servers, similar to the Pool’s Closed phenomenon associated with Habbo Hotel.
The members of the Purple Republic raid Club Penguin servers with purple-colored penguins wearing miner helmets, refer to each other as PR, and treat any color other than purple as an inferior race of penguin.
YouTube
On June 18th, 2014, a trailer for Ground Zero, a series of videos that will look back on Club Penguin army history, was released to the public and onto YouTube.