We are celebrating a year with the name for teh lulz. The game is not about much except for one thing, the people. A few hours after The Revenge of The Fallen was going down, Leafy asked me to help in a group "Black Rebellion". I came in and basically was running the stuff. First thing I did was asked DJ (who was in Revenge with us) if he was coming over, but Runes had scooped him fast. Since we have started I've done a crap-tonne of the administration of BR. We were a group that everyone called a farm. A group of noobs with no clue. All along we were bringing new people, removing the slackers. We knew we had no credibility. We had to grow our own players. I originally posted a few hits to try getting awareness for us. We had a few good ones coming up, Jewl, Loko, Caputi for example. We started removing people down and brought in respected enemies like Nobody, and Raptor. Soon we had a pretty decent bunch. After all having been in other alliances where there were strict rules and such, we didn't want any of that crap. Anything goes, have fun. On that note I once came into our chat to see that someone had displayed that footage of a bald man sticking his head up a girl's..nvm, you get the point... We removed order. We removed all that. Chaos and anarchy are the best.
We've had friends, RL friends, enemies and more pass through. For the ones who came here, it is our home. When VVV started recruiting more people, we lost Loko, who was a big guy for us at the time... yet still he dropped by our forums, gave advice, tips, warning and more.
We removed all NAPs and looked for more dangerous fun-loving players. We brought in some very hated players throughout ZE, but a lot of them just use it as a front like Ree. As a result, we've had people gunning at us for a while. Grata was all over us at 9th overall. Message we said was, don't be worth it and be ready to acs. We didn't whine and complain, but rather learned.
A large portion of our players came in the shocking week where VVV disbanded. I was PMing with Loko at the time and asked him if he wanted back. Later we saw that Jess had applied as well. Two days before, Torgy had been talking to me about our policies or lack there of and wanted in. After having some of us go after this player we thought was a"noob" we saw Thorr, he came in too. Now we've gone from a turtle group to a primarily fleeter and miner group. Chasing fleets aimlessly and pointlessly though means very little. The whole concept is a bunch of pointless pixels on a screen. The players you work with though, they are real.
Over our time, a lot of people had to go, and we miss em all. Lloyd was one of my favourite players, hilarious guy who I had been planning on giving my duties to when leaving in January (Yup, I was planning on quitting then lol). Unfortunately, he moved and broke his femur and left. Lee, Chad. Miss you guys too. Zack, you were a pain in the ***, but always fun. Another one that will be recognized is Scott (CuddlesTheBear) an RL friend of mine that was teaching fleetsaving to a lot of the guys back in the day. Caputi also had to go off for his military service and we simply never heard back from him after his 6 weeks
. Reed came by and was a great guy too. Compare to others, how many of the main BR guys ya see floating into other alliances? None.
On a personal level, the BR guys are why I play. I was going to quit in January, but things were quieting and couldn't see that happen to the group. Stuck around a bit more and a bit more. Finally had planned to quit simultaneously with another friend as we were each getting busy in RL. He managed to stay off the account, I couldn't. Then I officially quit in May. Despite having quit, I stopped by our chat and kept talking with everyone. I just couldn't help it. Finally Christie and Jedi (who had been doing a lot of the managing and now is like our secretary) talked me out for just two days as they put it. They knew I would get hooked again. One of the guys fed me co-ords on Gigaboy and made sure I would get the thrill of the kill and work w rec help on em. I just couldn't stay away. I never can...
After everything, personally and together, we are a bonded group. We are not an alliance, but rather a gang. A gang of friends who mainly play not for anything, but each other. And after having watched over these guys grow over the year, that looking towards it as a father would, this baby is now able to walk on her own.
Grats to everyone in Black Rebellion and now its parteh time! All you idiots have fun!
Death begins with life's first breath, and life begins at the touch of death.
