Black team currently stands as the fourth team in rankings. There has also been a decrease over time of nations on black and few nations coming to black. Dark Rising is a team wide race to get black up as the largest and strongest team in CN. Through mass assemblage of all active black nations and alliances, Dark Rising will be to organize a massive program and recruitment drive to bring more nations to black and strengthen to team as whole. Another part of the dark rising program is to create propaganda for the team and to have day's dedicated to the history and calibration of black alliances during February.