COMMUNISM

COMMUNISM

Final logo used in 2015 until COMMUNISM merger into BMW
Original Logo
Predecessor	Umbral Sect Severed Veins
Successor	BMW/WTT/WIDEBOYS (2015-2023) SCJP (2023-Present) COMMUNISM Reformation Front (2023-Present)
Formation	April 16, 2007 (2007-04-16)
Founder	Spaceballs
Extinction	July 12, 2016 (2016-07-12)
Status	Defunct
Headquarters	Gorgonnash US (Original), Lightninghoof US, Emerald Dream US, Illidan US
Original Guild Master	Spaceballs
Revival Founder	Shelarahn

COMMUNISM (Rebranded to COMMIE CREW in 2015 then briefly to GAY in Rust) was the primary group of the WIDEVERSE until it merged with GM and FORD to become BMW. COMMUNISM serves as the anchor point for the beginning of the communities cohesive history, as its foundation is seen as the single most important factor in bringing all the people into the community and put into motion most of the traditions and events that form the current zeitgeist.

History

Pre-COMMUNISM

Pre-COMMUNISM is broken up into several different timelines and information is only available on certain members of the group.

2003

Shelarahn began his career in Runescape, bouncing around clans with friends as a teenager. During this time was when he developed a taste for trolling, as they shitted up multiple clans on Runescape, as well as running their own. Their first clan joined together was a PvP focused clan called Warriors Gate that was led by a very angry Arab man. Several other people consisted of this "proto-group" including Dark fire500 nicknamed Ol' Greasy and a kid named Lance from New Hampshire.

Mid-2000s

Around 200x, Prude and Austin met while playing Diablo 2. Prude also met Pigeon not long afterwards, but wasn't that close with him initially.

2007

Prior to COMMUNISM, Spaceballs was a raider in the guild <Umbral Sect> one of the more prolific Vanilla and BC raiding guilds on Gorgonnash.

World of Warcraft Era

Formation of COMMUNISM

<COMMUNISM> was founded on April 16 2007 on the US server Gorgonnash by noted forums and Trade chat troll, Spaceballs as a dedicated trolling guild.

COMMUNISM began dabbling in some light Karazhan raiding, but stalled out progression around Moroes. The guild was fairly infamous on Gorgonnash from its inception given their proclivity for pissing people off and starting giant flame wars on the forums, as well as their memorable Auchindoun battles with <Serenity> and their leader, Georgepatton. Around this time, the leadership of COMMUNISM comprised of Spaceballs as GM, Malade who was dating Spaceballs at the time as co-GM, and Icarus as Spaceballs right hand man. Other memorable members included TJfrost, Donbrasher, Trance, and Prophetomega. (Many of these names and more from that time can be seen in the screenshot below.)

August 2007, an Undead Warrior named Shelarahn joined COMMUNISM, attracted by the no rules environment, and ready to make a name for himself on Gorgonnash. Shelarahn, Secondary, and a few others over the next few months slowly formed what would later be referred to as "The Group", which was in essence just a clique in COMMUNISM of some of the younger members, most of them being in their late teens at the time.

1st COMMUNISM & First Golden Age

A few months later, COMMUNISM had branched into 25 man raiding, thanks in no small part to a merge between COMMUNISM and Vengeance Pending, another fledgling 10 man guild, that led to COMMUNISM briefly being named NOT A DEMOCRACY, going as far as killing Gruul and putting in attempts on Void Reaver.

Shelarahn by this point had ascended to the role of officer in the guild, appointed as a "joke" by one of the officers from the Vengeance Pending guild. Spaceballs never rectified this "joke", as Shelarahn being an office gave a voice to the younger faction of COMMUNISM. Many disagreed however with giving someone like Shelarahn a position of leadership, which led to frequent power plays with Spaceballs girlfriend, Malade, who represented the original COMMUNISM members who didn't like the younger and newer members.

Eventually, the tension came to a head when Shelarahn refused Spaceballs order to disallow a dual boxer from raiding, citing that if he was able to fill his role adequately in both raids and wasn't taking anyone's spot, there was no issue. Shelarahns raid group and a few others left COMMUNISM, temporarily joining a guild called <Rage>, owned by the multiboxer. They went on to form a guild named <Scholars and Gentlemen>, though the success was short lived due to internal drama and lack of any real leadership. Shelarahn disbanded the guild and went back to one of the guilds he had been in prior to COMMUNISM, <Guns for Hire>.

After the dissolution of the main COMMUNISM raiding force, COMMUNISM went back to just being a trolling guild while one by one the leadership quit. The period that followed is known as the Gorgonnash Diaspora, as all of the former members of COMMUNISM either quit the game or joined other guilds.

2nd COMMUNISM

In December of 2008, Spaceballs had come back to play and reformed COMMUNISM, with the intention of reclaiming the glory days. The new COMMUNISM focused more on attracting active raiders over established personalities, as by this time the culture around trolling had begun to wane as more and more progression orientated guilds sprung up on Gorgonnash. Among these were Prudedruid, Reckface, Jessikuh, Shaynuh, and other young players who had known of COMMUNISM but were never around for its heyday.

This incarnation of COMMUNISM lasted for a few months, attempting to raid and attempting to retain dominance in Trade chat, but the social and raiding scene had changed too much for Spaceballs and Shelarahn and too many of their members were young upstarts ready to get ahead and many members were lost to more dedicated raiding guilds like <lmperium> or <Kill Order>. Eventually the guild fell back into obscurity as the members went their separate ways.

It's at this point that Spaceballs more or less exits the history of COMMUNISM. Several months after the guild fell apart, Spaceballs attempted to sell the guild in Trade chat, but it was bought by Shelarahn for 10,000 gold. After a very brief attempt by Shelarahn to revive the guild in ICC but this quickly floundered.

The Dark Ages

2010-2012

The first few generations of COMMUNISM had moved on. The original GM and officers were nowhere to be found, Shelarahn went to college and stopped playing WoW, Jorgan continued raiding, and Prude had a quarter life crisis after high school. (who hasn't?). When Shelarahn went to college, he gave the guild to a random officer he had recruited during the failed resurrection. This officer later quit or was attempting to give the guild away when Petrus, an officer in <Guns for Hire> who had always been a fan of COMMUNISM, took the guild and became its caretaker.

The Friend Zone Project

See also: Friend Zone

In April 2012, Jessikuh got most of the old group back together on a new server and under a new guild name: <Friend Zone>. Shelarahn and Prude were hesitant at first considering Reckface (Who was GM of said guild) had a track record of being less than an ideal leader. They overlooked it off however and spent the next 6 months building the guild into a top 100 US 25man raiding guild.

In Summer 2012, Shelarahn and a few other group members who had been met on Darkspear went back to Gorgnnash and got COMMUNISM back from Petrus, who was still serving as caretaker. The officers vision of Friend Zone in the beginning was to create a COMMUNISM like atmosphere but with actual dragon killing. Later on however, Reckface and Jessikuhs vision became more simple: They wanted to recreate their old guild from Darkspear, but with them in charge instead. These two visions clashed over the next year, leading to several falling outs over several issues. Friend Zone eventually absorbed a transfer guild from Gorgonnash, bringing with it the typical try hards that Friend Zone was created to not attract. Several of the new members from the absorbed guild remembered Shelarahn and COMMUNISM from Gorgonnash, and already had a poor relationship. Shelarahn and them eventually came to blows when Shelarahn doxxed Crownic, forcing the guild leaders to remove him.

Meanwhile in Texas, Prude had been livingan old member of The Group and former officer of Friend Zone, Mandapanda. They had quit the game and gone on to live their normal lives up until sometime in summer 2013, when they split. Prude was not only devastated but more or less stranded in Texas, eventually moving back to California in July of 2013.

COMMUNISM Revival Era

2013

Shelarahn had spent Summer 2013 drifting through with no real goal. After losing his prized project, he was left with almost nothing except a handful of friends with very infrequent contact.

However in late July 2013, Prude messaged Shelarahn telling him of his breakup and return to California, planting the seeds of an idea to reboot COMMUNISM. They reassembled fragments of the old group and some new friends into Mumble and began making plans for a comeback. It was then that the decision was made to once and for all tie The Group and COMMUNISM together as one entity.

At the suggestion of Dlight (a friend who was met in Friend Zone but later left), the group relocated to Lightninghoof and started a new COMMUNISM there. The guild was mildly successful given the population of the server which was low to near non-existent. The COMMUNISTS however gained no real ground and the interest quickly faded around December 2013.

2014

By April 2014, the group was all but dead again, with only sporadic Mumble meetings and no real interaction beyond that between the members.

In late May 2014, the decision was made to move COMMUNISM to the brand new MMO, Wildstar. The push into Wildstar started slow, what with server queues and crashes. Business started to pick up however when COMMUNISM branched into the Pergo Realm Forums, replicating much of the success that early COMMUNISM had enjoyed in generating interest via forum warfare.

Three people who would eventually become officers where quickly recruited: Dianic, Gauze, and Solgnir. The first several months of Wildstar where spend biding time, waiting for excitement about the game to wane and for people to realize that they werent going to get into great guilds and to become jaded, the exact demographic COMMUNISM aims for. COMMIECRAFT became a thing thanks to the efforts of Solgnir and his group of Minecraft friends. COMMUNISM also attracted non-guilded friends at this time too, with such regulars as BIGMAMABOUTOCOMETHROU and Sicari.

The Third Golden Age saw the coming to fruition of a long term dream of COMMUNISM and its subsidiaries and projects: Successful branching into multiple games. The era saw COMMUNISM branch into Guild Wars 2, Rust, Destiny, Minecraft, Tera, and countless other games both MMO or otherwise.

In August, after realizing the devs of Wildstar had no idea how to run a game, COMMUNISM officially left Pergo. However, countless friends had been gained and influence from their time there transitioned into several different MMO's, including a relaunch of our WoW guild and expansion to Emerald Dream. COMMUNISM was met with great resistance, but a niche was found and for a while it was good. Friends were made such as Jason and NightlyNews. After a few months, most everyone stopped playing once again.

COMMIE CREW Era

2015

2015 started with an attempt to run a Rust server. Although initially successful, interest within the group and with Rust as a whole was low. After two months, the project was abandoned. In March however, the COMMIES revisited Rust and were active on several servers for a few weeks before going into a hiatus again.

GAY & BMW

See also: BMW

In late May, Prude brought the COMMIES into a server hosted by the Goons of SomethingAwful. The server existed for several weeks as smaller factions in friendly rivalries, until the leaders of the factions agreed to move to a different server and combine force in a group called BMW. Shelarahn was the co-leader of the group and produced several clip videos of the groups antics, referred to as The Rusty Goons series. Even from an early stage, the idea to co-opt BMW's hundreds of players was at the forefront of COMMUNISM's plans. Many of the clans top players like Rejdukien, Gmach, and Peaches formally joined COMMUNISM after a few months.

BMW went into a hiatus in August 2015, whereafter the COMMIES went back to their old ways of casuals games. When the hiatus ended in late 2015, most the Commies returned, including the new ones, to restart BMW.

In this new BMW, Taylor sought to finally enact his plan and, with Kimsemus and Capitaler both gone, set himself as the figurehead. However, many Commies didn't see the benefit in this and begun drifting away from Rust.

When the BMW Discord was established in March, only Prude joined with Taylor. This created a noticeable rift in COMMUNISM, which Pigeon took as an opportunity to seize on and shape COMMUNISM to his ideals, along with his girlfriend. The Messenger chat was reorganized to include many of their Seattle friends, and eventually Taylor and Prude were both forced out.

COMMUNISM officially came to an end during the 2nd COMMUNISM CIVIL WAR, known as The BEEFY Troubles, when Taylor and Prude began feuding over the direction of the group.

Generations of COMMUNISM

See also: Generations of Biggers

COMMISSARS of COMMUNISM

See also: List of WIDEVERSE Leaders