Tok'ra

The Tok'ra Alliance was created in round 2, as a galaxy alliance. Most of the members were "newbies" and had no idea how to play. Hell, I still don't!. The name derives from the Stargate SG1 universe, based upon the race called the "Tok'Ra". The Tok'Ra were rebellious and for thousands of years, fought against the Goa'uld, the main "bad guys" of the TV show. I created Tok'ra with the same mindset. Fury, Legion, WolfPack etc.... Far more powerful than us, but together, we stood a chance.

In Round 3, it was a somewhat successful "Cluster Alliance". Again, many newbies.

Round 4 is where Tok'ra took off. Whilst never a "famous" alliance, Tok'ra in Round 4 had the distinction of being the ONLY alliance to every win every battle, offensive or defensive. No other alliance in Planetarion's history can match that achievement.

We grew quickly, and our website and structure changed often. Too often. I was too concerned with looks over effectiveness. The problem with alliances, or so I perceived at the time, was putting up a public relations image, and ignoring the core participants.

We didn't win the round and we didn't ally with a "great power". We did ally with Territorial X ([TX]) and defended each other quite nicely.

In Round 5, we were destroyed. There were many reasons, not least being the fact that I deleted our entire database and website because I got bored. There's no other excuse.

We shared with TX, in good will, our co-ordinates, to avoid "friendly fire". I was only 17 though and at that age, I thought I knew everything. I heard rumours that TC was going to attack us, so things went downhill. TX, as it turns out, never had any plans of attack, but after many accusations and many IRC meetings later, we decided to dissolve our bond.

After much messing around, and many members leaving, I, one day, after a lot of alchohol and weed, decided to destroy the website* and database of people. We never recovered. I tried to re-create Tok'ra with Project Black-Star, but it failed.

A few split off and formed "Black Ice". I joined Deus Ex Machina. I don't know how things went for BI.

• it was voted sexiest site.

I hope this is useful for someone, and I take full responsibility for Tok'ra failing.

- Garshaw