Victus' Biography

[Victus]

My first round was G15. I landed in sector 8:38. As always, I was using a Volcanic Inferno planet type. The sector was effectivley dominated by the SL, who made up 1/4 of the total sector NW. I was grabbed almost constantly, probed several times per hour. I asked questions but the SL never answered back. One day the SL suicided on a Fenris KD, apparently he didn't like Fenris as it was in his suicide note that we spend everyday attacking them. For most of the round we were in Amber, but we lost a war (from my perspective we lost) and joined its remake, called Virgins. I was appointed VSL after having done all the sector's number crunching (NW/land/ratio increases) all round. I didn't even know what VSL stood for at the time. I ended with a NW of around 1.8 million.

My 2nd round (G16) I used the same planet type. I landed in 2:38. This is once of my most favored sectors of all time. It was a top 100 sector with many experienced people. This is the round where I first got AIM, and started to build my contact list. Our SL was Lukendekal, my first real mentor. He took a hands off approach to showing me the game. I still managed to get grabbed around 25 times over the course of the entire round. My prior round I had been out in the middle of nowhere and wanted to help people who were in that position now, and in future rounds. I started trying to form my own Coalition of alliances, sectors and individual KD's. Getting started was hard as I had no experience or back up of any kind. Eventually I managed to get 10-15 alliances signed on. We took out some bashers can over all accomplished our goal of protecting the Coalition members. I spent most of the round in Rangerz, but we moved to the USF alliance briefly to reinforce them with one of their wars. It was tuff being in such a small alliance during a war. It makes you a prime target for anyone looking for an easy grab. we eventually moved back to Rangerz and had a nice over all round. I'm still in contact with several people from that sector. My finishing NW was around 2 to 2.2 million.

The next round (G17) I landed in a small sector where I quickly seized the SL position for the first time. I had no idea what I was doing but managed to BS my way through the whole thing. We joined Gravity, which was actually the sister alliance of GravityX. The AL was Getdown. The prior round's attempts to form a broad, defensive coalition gave me alot of experience with tracking down AL's. For this reason I was appointed to my first officer position, Intel Chief of Gravity. I collected the officer lists of all but 3 alliances that round. About halfway through the round Gravity's VAL (Mez) was threatened by Defiant for some reason. He left to form his own alliance, 3lite. He was KT'd by Defiant literally the moment that he left Gravity. He blamed Gravity, specifically Getdown, for his death. He swore revenge in some long boring speech which I didn't read the entire thing. He formed a UA out of supporters for his 3lite alliance including two of our SL's, one of which was our morale officer. A shortwhile later I was given the position of Gravity War Chief, and only days before our AL started getting long lists of attacks from Defiant, and several from other alliances. We were on the brink of war until we started to investigate and discovered that Defiant, nor any of the other alliances, had any KT's posted in their alliance forums. Infact Defiant's AL had also been receiving attacks from Gravity KD's. I was charged with discovering and eliminating the cause of the attacks. 3lite's people had formed a UA and were mass producing multi accounts in order to spark a war between Gravity and Defiant. We didn't want to limit our KT ability by declaring a NAP so we started to hunt down 3lite members. I joined their organsiation and pretended to be a loyalist to Mez. I collected what intel I could on KD locations and pass codes. A day or so later Genhis was assigned by Defiant to head up their efforts against 3lite, their AL had been hit too. We shared intel and wiped out the conspiracy in it's sleep. We were warned several times by GravityX officials (our bosses) to find a diplomatic solution, but instead we massacred many KD's until the threat was eliminated. From what I can remember the rest of the round was pretty quite. End NW around 2.5 million give or take.

[Victus]

The next round (G18) I of course tried to get back into Gravity. I once again captured SL of a medium sized sector, just shy of being top 100. We moved to Gravity where I was awarded the position of Head Of External Affairs for Gravity (pretty much what I was doing last round but in one position). My sector had few people, but the ones we did have were fairly high NW. After a shortwhile we were booted without warning. The cause (given only after I demanded answers) was our "inactivity". I protested stating that we had high NW and more activity than several other sectors but it fell on def ears. We moved to LuminX because I had good dealings with its AL, Neal. Once there I was given the position of Intel Chief and went to work collecting information and handing it to Lum officers when needed. My sector held a grudge against Gravity's AL so we put it to a vote and decided to beat him silly. One sector VS an entire alliance. We were outnumbered and outgunned. Several of us, including myself, were killed. This was the first time I was KT'd. I survived for around 12-18 hours (estimate). I remade and landed in the same sector (a bug that occurs occasioanlly). I resumed as SL and we all had a good chuckle about how we took Gravity's AL down to around 350 land with just one sector. After that, Gravity began a rapid decline into nothingness (probably not related to this event). Neal eventually got the officer lists he wanted and everyone lived happily ever after. Except me cause my end game NW was like 600K.

The next round (G19) I landed in a pretty cool sector. I lost SL to a halfwit (still dunno how that happened). We got into the #1 alliance at the time, Genesis. Genesis was being run by ManiacMansion and his officers. I was made the Intel Chief for Genesis though Maniac didn't seem to understand what an Intel Chief's job was at first. A guy named Murph landed in our sector and was a very smart guy. We sat around in Genesis. The Osiris alliance attacked us and it was massacred until it eventually fell apart from the inside. After that some of the officers started cracking down on any form of criticism in the alliance forums. Tensions inside the alliance grew and Murph eventually proposed forming our own alliance. We did and we took several sectors from Genesis and other large alliances. We formed and I was made VAL and Chief Diplomat. Murph formed a UA, TLC: Talaxia's Last Cruscade. It was formed to fight cheaters and protect little KD's. Reaper (our new allaince) remained a little small but we were very active. Defiant contacted us constantly about merging with them, because they weren't as big as they normally were either. Eventually we merged with Murph, Genghis and Cleft as Co-AL's. I still had my prior ranks but the alliance name was now Chaotic. Sectors flooded in and we started a sister alliance called Mayhem. Apparently I was first in line to AL Mayhem but Chaotic's AL was in my sector, making it impossible (you win some you lose some). We killed a basher from Mecca in 52 minutes, which is good time for a small alliance. This caused an uproar in Mecca cause their people didn't believe our evidence. Basiacally I issued a diplomatic comment and they threw it back in our face. Awhile later all the Chaotic/Mayhem officer got drunk one night and we almost probe killed Mecca's large AL. Unfortunatly they caught us and we made up some story about some mystery guy pretending to be an officer.They baught it and went away. Diplomatic tensions continued between us for the rest of the round. With only 4 days left I came back froma long weekend vacation to find that we were at war with Zamoloxis (a very large alliance). We had been keeping up with them blow for blow until eventually all 3 AL's died. They stopped the war after that. Their AL had also died (I'm pretty sure about this). Meccastarted targeting our sectors while they were moving so we targeted them back and did significant damage in the remainder of the game. This was my first experience with creating an alliance from the ground up. During the round we were contacted by a small group of players on the outer edges of the universe. They called themselves Source (xSRCx). They "asked" us to help the fight xMGx as they were kind of taking over the universe at the time. We really didn't care either way, I think Murph wanted to use Source for target practice but I objected for some stupid reason. End round NW 2.6 million? (estimate).

[Victus]

Beta 1 was the debut of SK Version 2.0. It had all sorts of new additions that I won't go into too much detail about. I landed in a sector filled with Fenris players. So we moved there. It was boring and I felt no need to help with anything. I was not an officer as you have to be with Fenris for several round in a row to be an officer. It was so boring I was tempted to start killing people at random in order to amuse myself. There were a bunch of KT's where I lifted a finger and used like 1 probe attempt. All in all nothing of any relevance occured this round. End game NW 4.9 Million.

Round 1 more than made up for Beta 1's boredom. First I was going to help a friend set up and revamp his democratic alliance, Remnant. It had been a minor alliance for sometime but it's democratic ideals were unheard of at the time. I figured it would be interesting. Remnant flopped out and we merged with Defiant (I seem to do that alot). We became SIN (strength in numbers). SIN did ok, not growing very fast. I was named VAL by Defiant's original founder, and now SIN's AL, GenlAnesthesia. This upset some guy who wanted the position which made working with him uncomfortable. Soon after this we merged with Revenent, which was being AL'd by Ashpen. He was an old Fenris AL. Anyways GenA couldn't be as active anymore so he urged Ashpen to make me VAL of the new alliance, RevSin. So here I was organising things in our tiny, inactive alliance when a thought occured to me. What if we held competitions in the alliance forums? And we did. Our first competition was a 4 day game to see who could grab the most land from the Gravity alliance. Everyone marvled at this and said it was a great idea for boosting activity. I was really happy that my idea did some good. A war broke out between Source and another alliance (Ducimus?). Gravity was a Source ally and one of our sectors became very upset that we didn't cancel our competition as a sign of support. The sector left to join Source. Later on we merged with W1cked, and Majestic to form RAPTURE, where I was once again VAL (see a pattern here?). Ducimus and Celts had a war for some stupid reason and Source/Gravity/Celts all ganged up on Ducimus. We decided this was a scummy thing to do so both RAPTURE and TAG started beating the living crap out of Source. Eventually we smashed them around too much and Source ally Zamoloxis started a proxy war with us. We backed off and only a few of our officers were killed (Mary and retribution). Mary was AL of W1cked and was pissed because we wouldn't sacrifice ourselves for her. So before she died she told her people to leave RAPTURE and create a new alliance, Syndicate. Most didn't listen and infact stayed. Time went on, we recoverd and started KT'ing bashers and cheaters. With around two weeks left in the game Source heard intel theat we planned to attack them. Without really looking into it they started a war. Source/Celts/Syndicate/Gravity VS RAPTURE. We killed both their AL and VAL with such speed that it forced them to reform, which they screwed up. We targeted Celts and once their primary leaderhsip was dead they surrendered. Gravity left the war once we killed their VAL in under 30 min. Per my request (well I asked then it happened but I'm guessing there were other reasons) LuminatX jumped on Syndicate and wiped the floor with them. RAPTURE beat Source around for the rest of the round, including that sector that had left RevSin for Source. By all outside accounts it was a massacre of Source and it's allies. I learned how to conduct a full scale war during this time, thanks Mindstorm and Ashpen! End ruound NW was around 30K.

[Victus]

In Round 2, I was planning on helping my friend with his alliance, Vengeance. I landed in a sector with an officer from RAPTURE (see round 1). Cashidler was one of our Company Commanders and he won SL so we moved to Carnage, being run by Mindstorm and some of his friends. I didn't really persue an officer position as all the work from RAPTURE had nearly burned me out. I spent my free time bashing, probing and nuking Source officers cause they were easy targets and I could get away with it. Anyways I got several warning but I told them to stfu and they did. This is where the round goes to hell in a hand basket. Mafia was supposed to be returning for the round, to be AL'd by Mind. I won't go into details but the plans changed and Mind was no longer to AL. So a few sectors from Carnage (including mine) and other allainces left to form Mafiosi. Of course Mafia UA wasn't happy about this and a few days later it was half the universe trying to whipe out 7 sectors. Source took the oppurtunity to KT me, which they still managed to screw up cause it took them 42 hours to kill me using 40 sectors, where as it took our 7 sectors 12 hours to kill their AL (who was around teh same size). Any who I remade after that little alamo remake attempt and landed back in my home port of LuminatX. They made me a Jr. First Officer so that people wouldn't hunt me down and lynch me (as seemed the fad of the day). I did zero work until another war broke out between Lum and Celestial (Zamoloxis in disguise). It was a pretty even war. Very hard to call a winner. Anyways I was killed in this war too. I remade and landed in Harlequin, which basically gives the term "ass end of the universe" its meaning. I made every attempt to improve the allaince but they didn't seemt o want to get new sector or be battle ready. So I did the only logical thing. I set everyone against each other then hijacked my sector for XLumainatX, Lum's sister alliance. We had a brief brawl with Source and beat them silly once again. I started drinking alot around this time, and only logged in to remain active. So the end round is a little blurry. End round NW estimated at 500K.

In Round 3 I promised to help Mind, Cash and Mbizzy with their new war alliance, Polemos. I was all hyped and then I landed in a Fenris stacked sector. I was a Polemos Council member for all of 2-3 days while I stalled for more votes. Eventually we moved to Fenris with me as SL. So I got trapped in Fenris for the whole d**ned round. I was once again bored out of my mind and contemplated taking the round off. Then a nice newb landed in my sector. Kirby was a refreshing project, somebody new to show the game to. In the end I razed my buildings and made a crap load of probe factories and started aronsing people because I was so bored. At the end of the round my sector got pissed that Fenris was letting Riptide (a remake of Polemos) push them around. We left and joined Riptide. Half the sector helped Riptide the other half attacked it from the inside so we were booted. After that I decided to pull a prank on Source. I had a friend, Bastion who was a Source SL. Source was fighting with Defiant and I figured what could be funnier than swiping one of their sectors. Bastion's sector voted and left. It was chop full of Source officers, most of whom suicided. They joined my [VICTUS] prank alliance. The AF's were a huge flame war because 49% of Bastion's sector were really pissed at having been abducted. Eventually one of Source's people won SL I had him killed off, along with a few other sourcians in the sector. The sector was now in ruble and it moved to Blitzkrieg. My sector also eventually moved to Blitzkrieg as it is/was run by a really good friend of mine. Sniper. I went a little inactive but managed to dig up a little dirt on xFCx (Fight Club UA). End game NW was round 2.3 million.

Round 04 I was supposed to make my own alliance, The Company. we had some exciting new features lined up and a fair number of people interested. Unfortuanatly a friend of Kirby, who I was grouping with, voted down the idea while it was my understanding that he was going to go along with The Company. I don't believe in reamking a dozen tiimes until you get what you want (call me old fashioned) so that was that. Some people who had put alot of work into The Company wanted CopyCat's head on a platter but I declined cause he was afterall, my sector mate (I'm so lame, honestly). Anyways at some point early on I created SKU cause I was getting bored, not that Essentia wasn't fun. So that turned out pretty well. Then I figured I'd sign up for source for round 05. I figured there'd be complications for me so I signed up early. At one point I was asked not to make suggestions in the suggestions thread (a source taboo apparently). Anyways the wackyness continued. There was a huge universal war. Around the end of the round I was asked by Mind to help get him #1 Honor. The guy who had #1 honor at the time mysteriously died. End round NW was around 5.8 million. A new record.

In Round 05 I joined Source, in sector 1:8. My sector was one of the most stacked sector I'd ever seen. Soon into the round the AL/VAL became almost completely inactive. The forums were cluttered. Eventually a new system of "Team" problem threads was introduced, where instead of having a problem thread and a punishment thread, Source had 5 problem threads, and 1 retal thread. The system, as any experienced player could predict, was wholly disasterous. The officers weren't active enough to keep up such a system and eventually people began to complain. One sector made a thread mentioning that they were leaving. It soon became a place where all who were dissatissfied with Source vented their feelings. Rather than being helpful this eventually turned into a wholesale uprising. Soon after I was banned without reason from the alliance forums. Eventually, while I was banned, 1/4 of Source's sectors left because of the poor leadership in the alliance. Source was still investigating the leaks in their security which allowed me access to their hidden command center on their website. One of the Admirals, Ulsa investigated and asked one of the names of the leaks so that he might talk them out of it. Sure enough he did, and one of the leaks stopped sharing information. When he reported back to his superiors he was demoted because he had promised not to reveal the name of the officer he had investigated. He kept his promise and Source could not accept not having absolute power so they dismissed the long serving and loyal officer. Source attacked the MARINES alliance succesfully beating them out of existence. A report posted in Source's command structure by one of their admirals details that source was lucky the confict ended when they did, as Marines' kills were quickly gaining on those of the larger Source. Later on there was another war with LuminatX. Lum outperformed Source as far as kills go, despite Lum fighting several major wars already in the round. It was a mostly dull round other than observing the various inferiorities in Source. End round NW was around 4.6 million.

[PyroTECH]

you did round 3 against your strat

[Victus]

Actually I followed it to the letter as to what I posted in my article.

[me]

get a life dude =\

[Miltown]

LMAO!!!!!.....

[Fedaykin]

ys he need to get a life LAMO @ ME

[Fedaykin]

Guest-me said:

get a life dude =\

that is what i'm refering too

[AMIABLE]

Sorry Fenris bored you so much. There is much that can be done in fenris. You can look for multis. record bashers . Get on the fenris webpge and voice your opinion.
Hope you were not in one of my sectors. i try not to make the game too boring as sl and if one alliance gets stale i go to another alliance of the sectors chosing.

[Underhill]

you are a good guy victus. Keep up the good work.

[shelovestherain]

Awesome site here, Victus. I'd just like to say, your postcount is biased, though...I wanted number one poster!!!

Hell...it's the only thing I'll be seeing number one on for a while, so I'm going to take my victories where I can get them!

[Victus]

Round 6 was a very busy round. I landed in sector 1:23 with my group. Gypsy landed in our sector. We also had a Source group who same became frustrated when our sector wouldn't move to Source so they remade their accounts. We moved to TAG. In the begining of the round there were 4 superpowers... Ragnarok, TAG, Chaotic, and Crucifix. After an account sharing scandal involving Crucifix's AL, they lost alot of power and prestege. Ragnarok was the dominant power for the majrity of the round.

Early on Fenris' AL was assassinated by KD's from many alliances, but many from TAG. Fenris started killing the participating kd's without contacting TAG's AL so a brief war ensued. Fenris lost.

Ragnarok's relationship with the rest of the universe deteriorated. A universal was to bring them out of their powerful position began. Affinity's AL, Dozer, made the silly mistake of betraying her allies. Affinity was torn to shreads as a scape goat for ending the war early.

Gravity and Saitnoxis were formed from the remains of Crucifix and Affinity. Crucifix had collapsed when the original AL reumed command and deleted the alliance after their war with Fenris.

Source was attacked by Aurora and BNL, who's total NW was less thatn Source's. Source surrendered when their chain of command was unable to organise under pressure.

Another universal war with Ragnarok followed. Ragnarok was demolished. It's allies, Fenris and Mecca, were also attacked and defeated.

xFCx hacked TAG leadership and disbanded it. It reformed to first place in under 24 hours.

There were a bunch of random irrelevant wars near end game while I was writing exams so I don't have many details.

Source finished #2, their highest ever.

My end round NW was a bit shy of 2 million. I'm surprised I got that far because of all the crap I did in the wars this round.

[BigBirdxSPx]

actually, technically, dozer didnt "betray" her allies. I'm tired of explaining it, but Chaotic was wrong in attacking Affinity as well as Affinity not explaining why they were leaving the war against Ragnorak. And Affinity was a superpower then, also. They were #3-#4 before the incident ;-)


Victus's biography round 7:

"I" landed in an Affinity sector, and we joined Affinity. I asked the AL in the Welcome thread who we would be having an inactive war with. Then i asked for an officer position in Affinity. I am upset i didnt get the SL position.


To answer your question, i dont believe I know yet, but there will still be plenty of time to find inactives from the right alliance. ;-)

and fenris is a pretty strange alliance.