182nd Legion



'''The 182nd Legion was a division of the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. The clone troopers of the 182nd Legion were sent to the battlefront of Felucia in the final months of the war, though Republic High Command lost contact with its forces. A month later, the elite 501st Legion was deployed on Felucia to discover the fate of the 182nd Legion, and defeat the local droid forces.'''

Pre-creation
Not much is know about the start of the clan, only one person is able to tell us this part of the story and unfortunately we have been unable to get the information out of him yet. We do have some ideas from older clan members but no clear picture as to how the clan began.



“A few years ago there was a young boy, Zacha, that went by the nickname RY3NO who created a clan for his loved Mario kart game. It started out as an offline clan and was named RY3NO CLAN, we don't know how he had matches but we assume he just played against friends or other kids from school.” – THE_GIRL.



As to when RY3NO moved onto forums and onto the game Star Wars Battlefront is also still unclear and can only be explained by one person



“When SWBFI came out he bought it and started playing on it on his ps2 online” – Christian



Presumably RY3NO played SWBF1 on PS2 online until the second version of the game was released. We believe the clan was not started and recruiting on SWBF until the second instalment so RY3NO we guess played this leisurely with out a clan.



Then upon the release of SWBF2 RY3NO created RY3NO clan (Tag [R3N-C]) and used a Freewebs site to gather new members. Reading from the guest book of that site, a member called “GANGSTAR”, who we believe was the first member, joined on April 1st 2006. So the site was likely set up in march time.



“And SWBFII came out and then there was me and I joined as RY3NO clan was changing to The Federation. This was a fuse between RY3NO clan for ps2 and Firebirds for PC and on the TF forum the Firebirds had about 3 posts each and never came on” – Christian



We can guess the fuse with the Firebirds ended up as the RY3NO clan members just on a new forum with a new name. The fuse between these two clans was announced by RY3NO on the R3N-C forums May 11th 2006. The TF forum was created May 13th 2006.



“And then sometime like July/August 2006 182nd legion was formed." - Christian

Early Days
I didn’t like this as the TF forum disappeared and I went and posted regularly on GD for a week or two and then I saw a server called 182nd Legion and laughed at how stupid it was because they all got killed at Felucia and the next day werewolf told me it was TF and I was amazed and RY3NO posted a link on GD later on that day and Werewolf had made a banner for us the storm trooper one and had created a story about the 182nd legion and how they escaped from Felucia and became bounty hunters.



Within a month Daniella, Killbot and Soldier had joined and we started getting a good team and we started getting more members and we were like that for quite a while on the same forum” – Christian



This was the time RY3NO’s clan, now 182nd, really started to become popular. Many members began to join and majority of them were good players. Around the time this was made the older clans of SWBF2 such as ARSE, DLA, DS and GD had started to retire from the game and die which also narrowed down the competition. A squadron from ARSE called ASS was made for those in ASS that still wanted to play SWBF2 and was a big part of 182nd’s time to come.



Then, assumingly around November time there was a type of war with ASS. The clans disliked some of the things the others were doing and after some arguments, spamming of forums and other things a war began. Both parties having their say.



“About the war against ASS, RY3NO told me one day to spam in ASS website because they said that he was gay, that 182nd members are saying they are the best whereas they suck. Then we got banned from ASS. Then, don't remember how, Siemon was my friend. I told him that this war was stupid and useless and with Dark_Kevin and Adrian, we talked to RY3NO, then he asked Siemon if he wanted to stop the war. Siemon said ok.” – Samy



“Your ‘dickheadness’ on the forum pissed me off - example: if someone from France joined then they said "welcome we have the best French player here". On the DS site, RY3NO was saying "I am the best player" and stuff. So I told him my opinion and he didn’t really like it. He and Samy spammed the [ASS] Forum with things like "ASS/Siemn is/are gay" I became good friends with Adrian32, Samy, Dark Kevin and several others. Then Samy and stuff we're thinking about leaving 182nd and splitting up, so RY3NO had to forgive me” – Siemon

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“I was idiot and made peace between 182nd and ASS... between RY3NO and Siemon” – Adrian32

Around now ASS was slightly more dominant over 182nd still so 182nd got together with friendly clan CEC, who disliked ASS very much to say the least. The two clan leaders wanted to beat ASS and came up with an idea to do so. They made a site together called Pulsgaming. This was an attempted fusion between CEC and 182nd. But this didn’t really get much interest so the two clans stayed split.

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After this period 182nd was in for more problems. Petrit, RY3NO’s real life friend and Adrian32, both of whom didn’t like each other much anyway, began to annoy people on the forum for various reasons. Adrian targeted certain members, mainly Da_Brop and Youssef, and began to spam the 182nd forum. Adrian made around 100 spam posts but he was eventually banned for a short period and then stopped. Petrit on the other hand disliked everyone and pretty much everyone felt the same. Eventually after annoying so many people he was banned too but was to return later.

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“Zachyta = Adrian32 = Loko = Sami = wub Oceane --Clone General = Christiand = {ESP} Daniella = Siemn = ” – Adrian (The spam post he did - doesn't work on here!)

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“Adrian was insulting me too much he was saying all of that weird stuff [above]. So I decided too leave. I didn’t play swbf2 for a long time, I was playing other games. Then I looked back on the forum and I saw Adrian was gone too ASS” – Youssef

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But 182nd got over this and continued recruiting members and growing bigger. After a failed attempt in December for a clan match on SWBF2 with ASS due to server problems, another match was scheduled in January sometime between the two clans. The clans agreed on a 5 vs 5 match and the players were as follows; 182nd: RY3NO, THE_GIRL, Soldier, Loko, RAV3N, ASS: Siemn*ThE*Virus, Hoody, Adrian32, Predator, Abba. 182nd won this match convincingly with the final score at 4-1 on map wins. The match was recorded by Loko, edited and was placed on YouTube video hosting site for other people to see.

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This match was the start of many for 182nd who played clans such as GER, ASS and ESP during this time coming out with mainly wins and an overall very good record.

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Around this point was when many predicted the end for SWBF2 online. Lucasarts, makers of the game, did not and refused to host good servers for the game, so it was left to the individuals that played it to come up with the money to get servers. The clan ARSE, which was around before 182nd, had a very strong following and they bought a server together. But at this point in time they had all retired from the game and the money they put towards their SWBF2 server run out around January/February. The only servers that were left were laggy and no one liked playing on them. But once again the SWBF2 community took it upon themselves to save the game. Many players downloaded a server manager so they could create a server on the game. The ones that had good internet connections hosted their servers lots so other could play on them and still enjoy SWBF2.

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Then after this point came a nasty shock for 182nd. RY3NO told the clan he was having personal problems and was going to leave. He put Christian and THE_GIRL in charge and said farewell to the clan. The clan carried on as normal and was still going strong in matches. But RY3NO did return and introduced some big plans for 182nd to advance from a clan to a gaming community and to also give the site a new skin.

182nd.com
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So 182nd moved to this site around February/March time, very slowly and some members tested the site initially. The first two to register were myself and Samy (Soldiers name change). Immediately the future was shown to us. Myself, Samy and Neville were on the box and Neville banned Samy ‘as a test’, with out Samy’s permission. Samy disliked this and posted a topic about Neville on the forum. If only 182nd had seen Neville then…

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After that it went well at first. 182nd had a brand new .com site and the forum had many welcomed add-ons, a great improvement on the old site for sure. Matches continued between 182nd and other clans and 182nd were recruiting well. There was an arcade installed on the forum for the members to play games on and also a special game similar to the way the old Pokémon games worked which the members enjoyed. All seemed to be going well.

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Then, RY3NO decided to leave again for the same reason and Neville saw this as an opening. He was admin on the site anyway but took it upon himself to take full control of the site after this, even though RY3NO said Christian and THE_GIRL should be in charge again. Neville then became very bossy, picky and ultimately controlling. Special rules on the chat box and forums were introduced and some members disliked this. Many were becoming very agitated.

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“Neville was what you could call a dictator. Everyone should be grateful to me! Listen to me! He saw the members as stupid know-nothings, but because they were necessary he tolerated them.” – THE_GIRL

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The fate of 182nd was decided after Samy made a new topic on the forum. It was about RY3NO and showed a topic he’d made on rival clan ASS’s forum asking to join. Samy gave a not serious speech along with the topic but some members decided to call RY3NO traitor and such. Then Neville got to the topic. He wrote the most insulting post towards RY3NO calling him everything he could think of. RY3NO then got wind of this topic and said what he really thought about Neville and the site, things he’d been thinking all along.

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“RY3NO told me it had been a mistake to let Neville go ahead. He asked me what to do.” – THE_GIRL

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RY3NO then took offence to any and all 182nd members, this is when a few 182nd members chose sides – ones that were with RY3NO, ones that were with Neville. THE_GIRL then left a comment; “Why not leave a sinking ship?” with regards to the forum and then she too left for what was presumably ever.

A New Start
<p class="MsoNormal">With a large number of people upset and confused by what was going on more decided to leave. First of all Samy, Rob and myself left together and caused a problem for Neville.

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“I came home from school at Samy had left. I went on msn and me Samy and Neville were talking. Neville was insulting Samy, saying things like, “anything french is immature”[Samy being French] or something along those lines, so I left” – Rob

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Samy, Rob and David brought in people over msn to talk with, such as H5-N1, Zuntyh and [ASS]Yoda who was a good friend of the clan. Together we explained to them what we were doing and they seemed happy to do the same. Together we thought of what do until we decided to make a new clan, free from Neville. Eventually the name ECU, Elite Command Unit was suggested by Yoda and all the 182nd members agreed and we made a forum together.

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182nd on the other hand was having major problems now. After having around 7 members leaving and the rest being recruited by ECU there were more problems in store. RY3NO’s friend Petrit had found his way onto the forum. At first he was made Xbox 360 captain by Neville. But soon Petrit was back to his old ways and eventually ended up spamming the forum with gay porn, of which he named each picture after a clan or forum member.

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Neville was having major problem s now. He’d spent money on this site, the members were all leaving, Petrit had spammed the forum and, even though he was banned now, gave the forum a very negative look to those that saw the spam. So Neville began discussions with ASS leader Siemn*ThE*Virus about giving the site to ASS instead. A lot of 182nd warned Siemn it was a bad idea, but he wanted to go through with it. Luckily for ASS the other site admins and mods talked him out of it, and Neville was left with a dieing site and no means of saving it.

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“182nd.com was gone and Christian had started a new site which we registered on and began to build 182nd back to what it is today and doing much posting again and Christian appeared to be the one leading us” – Zuntyh

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So 182nd withstood Neville and survived. After some problems with a domain name we eventually registered one and began to recruit. Basically every old member joined the new 182nd and Neville tried his luck as just a member of ASS until he was kiked out. THE_GIRL returned as a member and RY3NO came by but not to join. Things were going well. 182nd recruited a member called GorrilaMAN and the clan looked like it was going to become the superpower of SWBF2 after always being neck to neck with ASS.

FEAR
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Then came what people predicted would be the end for 182nd. GorillaMAN and mainly all the older people he’d recruited decided to leave 182nd, GorillaMAN was the one that started it as Myself and Christian found out many months later finding out he’d E-mailed other members through the clan E-mail system asking them to join.

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Myself, Rob and Samy particularly were very upset and disappointed by this. We banned all of the new FEAR members from the site and treated them like dirt, advising the other 182nd members to do so. The FEAR members were surprised and shocked for some reason, I guess they thought everyone would be happy they left and would bid them farewell, but that wasn’t the case, even though some of 182nd were rather harsh to them. Similar to the Neville vs. RY3NO situation members once again took sides, those with 182nd and those with FEAR, all the ones with FEAR joining FEAR.

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“Everything was going just fine, I had lots of friends... Then many of my best friends here made FEAR... I thought that 182nd is soon deserted. We had many problems, about 10 our most active members left and everyone else was thinking about leaving.” – Emil

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But 182nd continued to fight. We still had more members then FEAR, though now ASS had become dominant on SWBF2 and were recruiting literally everyone. Not good for a 182nd that needed all the members they could get. 182nd also had problems in that Predator and Loko, two of their members with good internet connections, therefore good servers, left to FEAR and ESP respectively, Loko leaving on much better terms. So 182nd had no means of recruiting well now.

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But we all downloaded servers anyway and hosted them all the time. My own server caught much attention as first of all I kept a leader board of every player that entered’s points. Then I named my server 182nd Recording Server where I lied and said in the announcements of the server that they were “being recorded” and to come to 182nd to see the recording. I had just acquired means to record but was not doing so then.

Late 2007 Onwards
<p class="MsoNormal">So 182nd were fighting to survive and had come back strong, even if we were still much smaller than ASS. The initial interested in FEAR died down and their members began to leave. 182nd had started playing in clan matches again and played FEAR 3 times and lost none of them. Things were looking positive once more.

<p class="MsoNormal"> A while later FEAR’s leader GorillaMAN mysteriously vanished. Immediately FEAR began losing members rapidly, majority of them joining ASS or other new clan DTA.

<p class="MsoNormal"> “FEAR is one of the best things that ever happened to ASS.” – Siemn*ThE*Virus

<p class="MsoNormal"> SWBF2 had been kept alive mainly by Scorch of ESP’s excellent server, but scorch decided to leave ESP and SWBF2, which meant his server went. Once again SWBF2 looked like dying, but was saved by the community again. ESP, which was now a very established clan with lots of members after having Scorch’s server hosted for them for a while decided to pay for a server. Eventually they bought one from MecaHost and their new server could be found on SWBF2.

<p class="MsoNormal"> While Mecahost was a real life saver for SWBF2, it caused a lot of problems for others. Some of the server admins were quite harsh, but one or two were on our side;

<p class="MsoNormal"> “About the hosters problem, I have to say that I’m not happy with some of them(i won't say names) because I’m changing the server configuration all the time and unbanning people (about 3 or 4 per day).” – Loko

<p class="MsoNormal"> But mainly it was ASS suffering the effects of this. As they had recruited majority of the SWBF2 players, they had got some bad players and some that don’t play by the rules during that time. ESP never seemed to liked other clans, mainly ASS, so any excuse to punish them from their server wasn’t missed. Eventually, as some ASS members were cheating and such, ESP banned the word ASS from their server. Unlucky for ASS and unlucky for the one guy that was called Assassin! This lead to a lot of ASS members becoming bored of not being able to be playing the best server so some of them left, a few coming to 182nd, so it was good for us.

<p class="MsoNormal">Getting onto the present time 182nd is in a strange position. MecaHost has just been taken down and unless a server comes soon looks as though SWBF2 could finally be finished off, except for the hardcore people that will play it until the end. With next generation consoles coming out and members buying different ones, the clan seems to be heading in the direction of PS3. We are all awaiting news of a SWBF3 with great anticipation but at the time of writing there are no signs of that. So 182nd will be living off other games such as Call of Duty 4 and Warhawk until the game we look forward too (hopefully) comes. <p class="MsoNormal">

Star Wars Battlefront 3
A large part of 9 years has passed since the 182nd Legion was created. The next generation of consoles came, and another generation since. With time, we have lost our old consoles, lost players, but we still have our memories of those youthful days when we were just one of a handful of players on the entire European continent. A new age has come to SWBF, November 17th 2015 has been announced as the release date of Star Wars Battlefront 3.

Although the Legion has been disbanded and scattered across globe, the announcement of this new game has answered all our hopes. www.182nd.com has been regained, who knows if the Legion will come back together to battle the millions of new players it will be up against.