Frattastan IV wrote:Likely could not refound. Reppy should show up in this topic and tell us the truth, though.
You couldn't refound a nation yourself until March 2008, prior to that any nation resurrections required a mod to reactivate the nation, and we would turn down excessive requests (basically "No, we're not reviving dozens of nations you couldn't be arsed to log in to once every two months" or "This is the bajillionith time you've needed that same nation revived, moderation is not a substitute for logging in, stop that.")
Nations could and did CTE pre-Lazarus, but as it was right around the time I first got modded, I can't recall where mod-revived nations resurrected to at the time. I'm not even sure we revived any prior to Lazarus existing.
EDIT TO ADD: So I did a casual log dive, the earliest record of a nation being restored I found was "Tue Apr 22 00:37:08 2003: admin restored deleted nation tonyonia", with the earliest non-admin mod-resurrection happening about two weeks later: "Thu May 8 12:57:19 2003: menelmacar restored deleted nation darkskye". Though I lack evidence, I would hazard that Lazarus was quietly added around the same time mod-assisted nation resurrection was.