SWaRM
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The History of SWaRM
It begins.
SWaRM was created early in round 4 of Planetarion, the first HC was Raven. Anom joined up then, first under review and two weeks later as HC. She also brought Lytol, AKA Samurai, into the alliance. He was a gal mate of her. Lytol became HC after only a week. She also brought Atarix into the alliance who made HC after 1 day. Lell was the co-creator and also one of the first HC. SWaRM did great the first few weeks, quickly getting 60 more or less active members. The aim was then to set up the alliance so it could start good in round 5.
Round 5 started in late August. SWaRM was created in late May. But one day, when anom was on vacation and Raven was attending a shiprace. Lytol tried to take over. Lytol was a special person, the kind of person that could talk an eskimo into buying ice. He got many members to follow him. After a lot of talking he got control of the alliance and it ended that Raven and Lell were so fed up, they left SWaRM and started The White Dragons. After anom came back, with Lell and Raven gone only Cath, a HC that had replaced Atarix, remained with Lytol ofcourse. The somewhat stubborn anom then swore to put things right in SWaRM. After a short while Cath left for TWD shortly after, because she had grown tired about the way things were going. Anom fought Lytol with reasoning and logic in the forum and maybe by never letting go.
Towards the end of round 6 of Planetarion Lytol finally fell in his own trap. Another HC then, Queen Alexis, got so tired of him she just deleted his account. This caused a lot of stir, yet another HC, Bassie, reinstated him as HC. But then Lytol miscalculated - he wrote a thread and said he´d leave SWaRM if that was the will of the members. Unfortunately for Lytol and fortunately for SWaRM, the members had grown tired of all his whinning and "poor me" threads. He actually made sure that more then 50% of all that happened at SWaRM was about him personally. No one objected to him leaving so he had to take his hat and go. Thus ended the greatest threat our alliance faced that time. The alliance had shrunk to as little as 30 members back then because of the troubles internally. Queen A, beastie and anom were HCs - we were in the in-between rounds time and neither of them were ever online. anom brought in Chris aka Hairy aka sm00th and a peep anom met on IRC called Rusty and the three of them remade SWaRM and had it ready for round 7. And from then on SWaRM owned harmony and was the way Raven had intended it to be.
Announcements
Due to circumstances that couldn´t be helped, SWaRM had a rather sad R12. This has made us think and rethink - concidering staying or leaving PA.
Thing is that our members protested quite heavily when suggesting leaving PA. And no wonder PA is were SWaRM was "born", in R4, its our homebase - where our heart and soul is. So leaving isn´t an option. We are one of the few still alive alliances from way back when ... But. Regrouping, time and inspiration is needed. SWaRM has spread out to several online games, has become a gamingcompany of sorts and all that takes lots of our time and engergy.
-- anomnorway, SWaRM HC (Alliance Discussions 27 Dec, 2004)
Update: SWaRM will not be playing Round 14 due to lack of members. Although we are not playing, the Spirit of SWaRM lives forever in the souls of every member we taught and who left us. We hope to someday make our return.
-- Preacher
Update Feb 2021: SWaRM is looking for old members to join us on Discord for a catch up. Should you wish to come and say hello to some of the current and former members of SWaRM then feel free to drop by clicking the link https://discord.gg/AxnzzGv
-- Tyr
