Zion Shad.

L.O.T.U.S

I really have no idea when they were the majors, but I do remember being in both. Sadly it's the oldest player corporations I can remember.

I've been here the whole time, but I can not remember most of it.
Although I do remember a lot of militia fits.
If I search enough I can probably find a few names of older players if my girlfriend has not thrown them away already.

DNS, And how a Podcast ended the alliance. -

EoN has recently just fallen a part, following Imps down the path of **** You CCP. In an attempt to keep things together, Cubs formed MHPD - Moiden Heath Poice Department, with the remaining Teamplayer members and competitive EoN players, and set out to rebuild a team to keep EoN on the map.

After a bumpy road and ups and downs with Ancient Exiles - MHPD disbands to officially declare EoN no more, the members of MHPD go through a transit until Kane, Cubs, and Regynum with the help of several NF and TP leftovers, formed ERA.

ERA then launches a meta campaign to exemplify themselves as mercenaries, create relationships, and weak there enemies *Ancient Exiles*, building many friends a long the way.

Around this time FA formed with Zatara and were quickly making a name for themselves. There efforts quickly putting them as a top contender alongside NF and AE.

Soon, MH would be ripped by these three cooperations going at it. Each trying to be a mercenary group, and therefor, natural competitors and enemies. The forums would serve as the main battlefield as each of the group vied for community attention. Bartering and undercutting prices on districts and mercenaries costs, the efforts each group put down to come out on top was considerable, often overwhelming the War Room as trolling between the three groups intensified.

Eventually, FA started gaining ground on both NF and AE forces after joining MH's EvE Powerhouse - General Tso's Alliance, and were winning over the community at the same time. Threatened by this upstart cooperation, several plans were put into motion. Some would take fruit - others would stop as soon as they started.

One such plan that bore fruit was securing EvE support, a then vital resource for PC that often time decided a match. In doing so, NF tipped the scales back there way. And after several talks between Kujo and Kain - AE, with the rest of there alliance at the time, join DNS with ERA, who left NF.

With NF and AE forces coming down on FA with superior EvE support, teams, and over-all talent count. FA's end was destined. Through tough negotiations by all parties, eventually a cease-fire and deal was cut - FA would join DNS, and MH would be a Vet only zone.

Thus began the DNS reign of terror.

Most corp who didn't abuse district glitching would be removed within a week, it would be a month before OH and WTF are removed, and longer for KEQ, who had taken the glitch the next level and were un-hittable.

Before DNS could enjoy this reign - a division grew in DNS ranks, as once rivals kept to there flags inside the alliance. Trolling and fighting were common, interior affairs overwhlemed by how many people disliked each other.

Then, DNS Black, leader of the DNS alliance, went on Podcast. What wasn't known among the majority of NF, AE, and FA players, was the plan DNS Black and a select other had set upon and not properly discussed with the rest of us. So when we heard on podcast what was planned, a rebellion occurred.

***** were lost, fucks were given, and someones dog was kicked. DNS breaks in 2 - AE,DB, NS, FA, Cap vs ERA and HvLP. It looked like NF and HvLP were going to win easily, having been preparing for the rebellion for months and preparing several teams. Ultimately, it was 1 ERA team, 2 HvLP teams, and one allied team, and one 'all star' team. Vs FA who couldn't field half a team, AE who could barely do half, Cap who had numbers but not the experience yet, DDB had a decent team and NS.

However, leadership in NF ultimately didn't even want to hold onto the land, and realize by letting it go the effort of dealing with everything falls to the corps who actually owned the land. So NF took away all roles and let all there districts go without a fight.

Thus ended DNS. You'll want to ask Zatara for his side of the story, as he's got some juicy info i'm missing, and there's bits i left off for obvious reasons.

The beginning:

A couple years before the release of Chromosome several groups from the game MAG started to talk about this game that CCP was creating. They were all talking to a guy who played EVE and wanted to form an alliance of FPS groups to be prepared for this new game. Mitauchi, from EVE, reached out to Stylie, the leader of KEQ from MAG, about doing this. KEQ leadership then talked to other clans they knew from MAG and some of began our alliance. I cam to this group representing PHI (Pro Hic Immortalis).


RISE of LEGION:

Many of the representatives from these different clans made EVE accounts and started learning New Eden from the inside. We had our own TeamSpeak servers and were able to talk to our veteran EVE players and learn quickly. After a lot of growth in EVE we finally created the corps in New Eden that the old clans would move into when DUST released. We then created our alliance on 2012-01-07.
RISE of LEGION

This allowed us to have a logo set by the time the game came out and be fully prepared as the first DUST 514 alliance. We were ready and established to go for day one well in advance.


HiveMind:

Another set of corps had decided to do something similar. They formed an alliance that was not official, or part of New Eden. They did start to create corps in New Eden though. Their leader went by the name HiveMind. The main corp in their alliance was STB. They were the only rivals we could see for us at the time that were trying to organise in new Eden ahead of time. We of course implanted some spies, as this is New Eden, and learned that their leader had already decided we were enemies and wanted to destroy ROFL.

After learning this we decided to welcome them to New Eden officially. We made some fleets and found their locations and started to pick off their pilots. They acted as if te attacks were unprovoked, and showed that the new DUST community should see ROFL as a bad group. They tried to cry to the media that was starting out at the time, the GNN. They then paid a mercenary group to try to fight us for them in EVE. We went back to our homes in Null Sec, and awaited the fights, but the mercenaries had just taken their money and never tried to fight us.


DUST 514 Tournament:

During the Chromosome beta testing there was a tournament that was put on. EVEbet.com was taking ISK for bets. It was actually a very well organised tournament that allowed for orbital strikes. Kane Spero was involved and did a great job with the event. As I had worked with the PFBHz before in MAg I knew their skill. I put a lot of ISK on that tournament. I bet on many matches having known the corps form the past.

During the last match the PFBHz were in for a good fight, and we wanted to put down strikes from above and show that we were more than just our ground troops. With only a fleet of 40-50 ships the ROFL fleet was able to put down strikes while fighting a fleet of 150 from our competitors who only brought ships to fight us instead of provide strikes of their own. It is only because of the skill of our Fleet Commander Mitauchi that we minimized losses while putting down strikes, and taking out more ISK worth of their ships than we lost. When our scots noticed a fleet of 250 Goons closing in on the battle our fleets finally left to let our competitors be wiped out by the Goonswarm fleet.

The PFBHz took the win on the ground of course. It was a good fight on the ground from what I have heard.

PFBHz vs STB Tournament Finale
^ Great moment in DUST history.


Pro Hic Immortalis and the Uprising:

I had a great time fighting with PHI. I thought I should include a highlight real of my time with PHI in DUST 514.

First District Taken by PHI

PHI vs Nyain San

PHI vs BurgezzE.T.F.

PHI vs PRO/BHD


ROFL Today:

The oldest and longest alliance in DUST 514, ROFL still is around today. Although much different from its original form, the culture that ROFL created has allowed to to continue on.
ROFL

Anyone else here old enough to remember the beta and such? Anyone that was in STB who had a story from the other point of view?

I remember NumberZ tried making two or three different alliances before they finally had EoN. Anyone from that group back then remember really early stories?


I remember that NumberZ had asked PHI to join an alliance he was creating for DUST 514 before we joined with KEQ in getting old MAG groups to create ROFL.

He only asked us to join to tell us we had to try out and then say no. He was still mad from back when he was part of PHI and we refused to listen to his way of doing things. He left and made his own group with a few PHI who wanted to listen to him.

I guess that was part of the ancient history since it lead to drama during the formation of the DUST community.

A couple of corrections,

As a matter of fact, the "bug" that allowed for infinite orbitals wasn't actually a bug. Its because I was playing with the zitro brothers at the time, arguably dust's best tag team in history, while the initial orbital setting was set ridiculously low. Mix that with carefully timed orders which where still largely unknown at the time for effecting WP gain, we could string OB after OB after OB. much fun! The worst but we found was the aptly named betamax circle jerk.

This was waaaaay back when dust was a lobby shooter. We would all enter a game with no one in it and then call down tanks. We would then make a circle alternating between teams. We would then shoot the enemy player across from the circle and the repair (there was a vehicle remote repair module back then)the one to the left. The result was that because this was when WP was very linked to sp gain, we where getting over 1 million sp per game!

Also the IRC was created during the first playable version of dust. It was secured so that only NDA'd peeps could enter.

I mentioned them in winning that tournament. I wish I could remember who it was against. It was the Imperfecs I think. I am not sure though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajwUACU7nY4

I don't think there's been mention of my favorite moment in PFBHz history. I remembered imperfects as 3C from MAG and knew that they had a good amount of top tier players and got fairly familiarized with them from running into them in pubs. I remember being asked to get online for a match vs the imperfects and when I saw our team composition I was delighted. Then it was a question of who we were up against so when I got in waiting to deploy and saw their team I immediately knew it was going to be a good fight!

I've always been excited to play against protoman, back in MAG as well. When I first started playing Dust in the closed beta (joined way late though lol) he wrecked me pretty good and gave him some GG messages or w/e, hard to remember. I hadn't played against Reg but knew people talked about him being really good. Zitro and Noc were known for being tankers, and I knew HowDidThatTaste was an experienced heavy. Unfortunately Cyn and Sleepy Zan I didn't know much of but I knew Zan was a sniper and generally snipers don't worry me because you can usually avoid being sniped while holding objectives just fine.

I don't game as much as I used to because it seems harder for me to get excited over it, and there's been so few games that feel like they're worth spending the time into getting good at. This match was so exciting to me because the best feeling when playing FPS is when you KNOW your squad is good and you all have good chemistry together, working together as a cohesive unit. That's a great feeling that I have nostalgia for. But even then you need a good opposing team so it isn't a steam roll, so when I saw their team composition I knew it was going to be fun.

As for the details from the match as I recall.. Holding B was very difficult for the majority of the match, they seemed to have a tank on both sides of it and it's fairly open, so the splash damage was real. We ran into a lot of protoman, reg, howdidthattaste and omni zitro. Inhuman had found a great spot from up above to protect C I believe it was with a lazor which turned out to be pretty key to the victory. Once our anti-tank guys cleared out the tanks that were wrecking havoc at B it felt MUCH easier and that pretty much wrapped up the end of the battle with it being pretty close.

Usually when there's battles involving pretty big egos, there's trash talking afterwards. I was surprised to see a thread between us was made on the forums where everyone chimed in their GGs and talked about it, showing some sportsmanship. It would be a deep dig to find that thread though.

Might I put in a few words on the dissolution of PFBHz?

Though a lot of people might like to think that we got ROFL-stomped, that simply was not the case as every match before the mass rage quit was still quite close on both MCC and on the clone front. The majority reason for why we lost was a misunderstanding of initial spawn in mechanics.

See, we didn't know to load in the fittings in the WB first while Hellstorm did. This lead us to load in 20+ seconds late allowing Hellstorm to take extremely hard control very early on in the matches with zero resistance.

Seeing every letter turn red while we were still only halfway across the map to our closest letter is more that just a little upsetting, but in the initial attacks on Hellstorm, we figured it as a mechanic of PC that the defenders started either closer to the letters, or they spawned in faster on the initial spawn in.

Following the 3 close games that were our failed attacks, we sat back and waited to be attacked, sure that it was just a defender mechanic that was giving them their lead. We were sure that with that mechanic on our side, it was going to be an easy win for when we had to defend.

So when we got attacked by Hellstorm, and they yet again took over the map while we were only halfway to our first letter, there were people who literally broke their controller. Some guys simply deleted dust right then and there, never to be seen again.

There is literally a thread on our private forums that came up a week later consisting mostly of facepalms titled "So... thats how they get to letters faster!!!?" when it finally came to light what was going on with our late spawn-ins, but by then, it was too late for the corp to come back.

Those losses came on top of the nasty internal strife centered around recruiting standards and weather or not we wanted to stay on Dust anyways because of how poorly CCP had handled the release of Uprising in the first place.

Uprising had already made several guys quit and had put many players more on the fence for staying loyal to the game for what was done to the aiming mechanics. If I might quote indy strizer on the first game played on its release,

"What the hell man, it's like my clone just duct taped his gun to his **** and is trying to aim by swinging it around."

That statement for those of you who didn't play at that time is more accurate that you can possibly know.

Just a bit of clarification for y'all.

A couple of corrections,

As a matter of fact, the "bug" that allowed for infinite orbitals wasn't actually a bug.

I thought you all quit because the Tac AR got nerfed

/s

I say this often to **** off Skeletor Voltron.

Zion Shad.

L.O.T.U.S

I really have no idea when they were the majors, but I do remember being in both. Sadly it's the oldest player corporations I can remember.

I've been here the whole time, but I can not remember most of it.
Although I do remember a lot of militia fits.
If I search enough I can probably find a few names of older players if my girlfriend has not thrown them away already.

Maybe it's just me but history is less about events and more about people.

I read briefly some of these other posts...like OH rewriting history about leaving the game for destiny when in reality OH became the very thing it despised and the result was cat dog and fusion coming back to FA...and we started face rolling OH...and then OH and FA quit. Yeah OH had been getting the best of us using our own players...but when fusion and doggy came back oh got rick rolled. OH hit FA in the midst of a rebuild and called us weak...boy the Ole pot calling the kettle black there...compare that to the way we treated OH when they were rebuilding...arms wide open. That was almost as disappointing as the way Cap repaid us for supporting their pleas to remain in TSO...despite it costing us a team players going to OH and elsewhere because they didn't want to be in a blue donut with cap.

you'd get a big earful about how I didn't have the confidence to make FA, but the matches I lead and fced for Lol MHPD was the catalyst for skeletor and himiko to urge me to create a corp...and it would have been called poonswarm if Skel had his way. <3

o drama."

To continue, I question this if you say we caused Tso's to be a blue donut: why would MuLa have been let in after all of this went down? As I was informed upon my return, it was an alliance leadership vote that permitted Roman to join Tso's (my guys voted no, but were outnumbered). Tso's was scared of Pure Evil (maybe OH as well, idk if they were dead yet), and wanted to REMAIN a donut. I told you time and time again when I came back: your leadership circle disgusted me, and you were the ONLY guy I sincerely respected (maybe Kaisar or Skel too, can't remember). My actions in dissolving Tso's was essentially the death penalty for FA mass farming, Roman blue-donut strangle hold, and pleas from my men to open MH up.

Funny, I had the pleasure of watching old IMP/PFB PC videos and the Urgent Fury TP/AE fights where Zatara was fighting just a few days ago. It made me realize: coming into dust the week of Uprising, building a corp out of Uprising babies....I was a shrimp among giants. The struggle to quarry a mole hill in the shadow of mansions. A pawn front lined by bishops, knights, queens, all the while having no idea I was playing a 2D chess game with people who could see the game board from above - marionettes of men. Though I may have carved what measly mark I could in our history, it means absolutely NOTHING without the PEOPLE who entrusted me to lead them; those who bought into a philosophy, a direction, a drive and directive. The guys who stuck around when you get removed from PC entirely. The guys who x'd up no matter the opponent, grinded when isk was scarce, followed FC orders to utter and certain demise.

Zat can be the first to confirm, the ins and outs of leadership in the MH world is a saga in itself. The shady deals, pursuit of the almighty isk, blue-ing, red-ing, "gray"-ing. Those moments where one decision literally was the fate of a corporation in its entirety, whether on the district or in the diplo. In reality, for a leader like those I listed, I know one thing is for sure: everything is for the men. Every fight with my ex, the bar nights skipped, the 10+ hours of dust daily, the list goes on -- all to ensure an enjoyable and memorable experience for the guys you've come to love on your team.

I remember quite clearly the day you told me we would be red Zat, I would be removed from Tso's. At the time, OH was smashing us on the daily, and FA was no showing their own battles vs OH.

Fast forward to leadership issues between Cap and FA..this is where I really have to go with you on this. Lags and Devin wanted to farm and I can't backseat drive from Destiny..when I came back to dust the damage in my eyes was pretty well done. Water under the bridge indeed.

- I don't remember this but apparently IWS ran a smear campaign against The Black Jackal who was running to be a Dust 514 representative.

All I know is that every US player in DUST cheered when Nyain got ass raped and dissolved.

And that Legion will have trees.