End of An Era

[GOLDEN WING]

indeed a shame.. game needs more independents not fewer.

Prob with that is when smaller groups form the Bigger ones Run over them...When i was in Nem my def got massed nearly once a week untill i built UP big.

Sad thing is only alliances like Agen will survive because they have great players with Great accounts joining up.



Nemesis will live on in our Hearts,It was a lovely place for People to go and a lovely safe haven for Young lings but sadly not for the typical Warmonger


Take care my Nem Core Friends!!!

Golden

[ƒëmmë ƒatalë]

*sad*

my home twice

not happy Sammy, not happy at all

[Nikola Tesla]

i know must have been a very hard decision for the lot.

but as times move forward so should we.

[semper]

Nemesis was both one of my greatest achievements and my greatest failures. We hit the ground running in 2009 and became THE alliance of the year. We fought some hard wars and earned respect... but so many greats could never occupy one space and inevitably everyone wanted to go their own way, including myself. So Nemesis faced her first great schism an event from which she never truly recovered.

I returned over the last two years to lift her back up on many times (buck and Tek also tried their very best).. but my time was always too limited, the players too occupied with warring to build and grow and the good players we had were squandered in wars and were fortunate to have good real lives. My last attempt to save it failed and I left to see if it could grow without me... but alas.. as history had shown Nemesis was Semper and Semper was Nemesis and as my personal stature dwindled so did hers.

We tried our best to be a home for many, a place for the radical and independent and always a place for people to learn and have a good time. Our forums were the best alliance forums hands down.

From Buck, Hellfire, Mordack to Field Marshall, to Tek, Gigs and Sammael I had a fantastic time in Nemesis and a Nemesis we were. Most importantly it was a great time I spent with my two main mons Tz and Id.

So to the pages of history Nemesis shall go and with it the Sith Lords finally leave the Gate Universe.

For those interested.. here is our alliance history in full until I left it alone this time....

[spoiler]October 11th 2008 - Semper and Tyber Zann found an alliance. After much deliberation Semper comes up with two names Nemesis Sect and The Old Folks Home. The Old Folks Home is originally used as the alliance name. The idea to base it on Jedi and Sith is adopted.

October 13th-20th 2008 - Law7441, Buck, Mystake, Juliette (Elladan), The Cardinal, Almost38 and Iron Duke join up. Nemesis Sect is truly born. Name is changed from The Old Folks Home to Nemesis Sect which is supposed to be a temporery measure. The use of Jedi is dropped and the alliance becomes exslcusively sith, each member taking on the name of a Sith Lord from Star Wars, a practise that remains to current day for Sect memebers.

October 24th 2008 - Dark Angels Alliance (an alliance of 83 members) agree's to become Nemesis Quarter, TA of the newly formed Empire. Weilandsmith joins up with Dark Angels. Tyber Zann, Iron Duke and Semper form the first Triad Council, Duke taking a purely forum admin role. Others from Law and Sempers old Aeon Illuminate Alliance join Sect. Almost38 is made head of Nemesis Quarter.

November 2008 - Tyber gets Field Marshall, Heaven Seeker to join Sect whilst Semper get's Diamond Dust to join Nemesis Sect. First Nemesis Quarter montly requirements set by Tyber and Semper.

December 22nd 2008 - Nemesis' first war against Forgotten Serenity, started from Preludes Telos Act to gain entry to Nemesis Sect. This was the very first Telos act, ever.

January 12th 2009 - Almost38 flee's Nemesis Quarter leaving no one in charge and turns sides to join Forgotten Serenity. Almost38 is eternally branded as a traitor. Tyber assigns Spirit of Fire to take over leadership of Nemesis Quarter.

14th February 2009 - Forgotten Serenity and Nemesis Sect conclude their war with a draw. The negotiations are opened by Field Marshall and MajorLeeHurts.

24th February 2009 - Tauri Alliance massers (now Rico's) under the leadership of Qacol declare war on Nemesis Sect demanding Elladan leave the alliance and she leaves her FUALL CO and we cease trading with any and all FUALL alliances. Iron Duke kicks the former members of Aeon Illuminate who refuse to fight.

late February 2009 - Dmonix, Croisis, Lord Zeus, CaptainWacko, Castiel, Goldor and [BERSERKER] join Nemesis Sect. The first Nemesis Sect - Nemesis Quarter Liaison is made to appease the restless Field Marshall who goes inactive soon after. Prince of Darkness is in Nemesis Sect for a day before Semper boots him. First Nemesis Quarter Roll calls are called and first purge occurs dropping the alliance from 80 members down to 46. Buck defeats Mathlord in an online battle.
- Weilandsmith moves to Sect.
- Duke starts taking on a more active role in Nemesis administration being more responsible for internal matters and micro organisation in each alliance whilst Tyber and Semper focus on empire leadership, recruitment and politics.

March 23rd 2009 - Semper and Tyber Zann declare war on the Goa'uld Empire. TAM declare war on Nemesis Quarter in anger at Semper and Tybers actions.

April 11th 2009 - Semper and Tybers war with the Goa'uld Empire concludes with an agreed draw.

Later April 2009 - Groka takes over ladership of Nemesis Quarter. Semper begins a political smear campaign against the Tauri Alliance Family. Croisis leaves Nemesis of his own accord, unable to fight in the war. Tyber writes up a series of 'How To's' for the Noob Section.
- Elladan first uses the word 'Triumvirate' to describe Semper, Duke and Tyber which is then permamently adopted to describe Nemesis leadership above 'The Triad'.
- Internal conflicts between Elladan, Semper, Tyber and Duke begin.
- Weilandsmith goes largely inactive and leaves Sect for RL.

May 1st 2009 - Semper gets S.O.U.L Alliance to join Nemesis as Nemesis Force. Ashu comes with them. Semper declares himself Emperor and takes a position of authority above Tyber and Duke, but the Triumvirate remains.
- Semper forms the Nemesis War council which consist's of Field marshall, law7441, Buck and the Triumvirate.
- Law7441 is also made the second imperial diplomat by the Triumvirate as Semper turns to addressing the rest of the administrative issues.

15th May 2009 - Semper threatens to extend the TAM-SECT war to the rest of TA, with a focus on their TA so TA HC open negotiations and a draw is concluded so long as Elladan does not have an FUALL commander. The war with TAM ends much to Qacols and Mathlords annoyance.

21st May 2009 - Groka leaves Nemesis. A new leader for Nemesis Quarter is not immediately found, but Andrew acts as leader.

Late May 2009 - Q Man, Madcat, benjaminMS, Jayne Cobb, Dark Dayz, Thade, MrBiggMan66 and Hellfire join Nemesis Sect with plenty of encouragement from Buck, Semps and [BERSERKER]. The first rounds of the Master-Apprentice System are introduced.
- Tyber boots CaptainWacko and Lord Zeus for inactivity. Semper introduces the Imperial Rank system to Nemesis.
- Hellfire adds a lot of farming and raiding information to the Repository.
- Nemesis has it's first Imperial sigs made at Semper and Dukes request.
- Tyber, Duke and Semper mass Delta and Pi for farming. Semper and Duke mass Omega because SU farmed and massed members of Sect. War is avoided, respect earnt.

4th June 2009 - Semper and Tyber negotiatie with the Collective to have them join Nemesis. Collective is introduced to Nemesis Empire becoming Nemesis Collective. Earendil, Odin, ZERO, Pig Newton, R D Anderson, Josh and others come with it. Temptress joins Nemesis force to try and turn it around.

June 8th 2009 - Nem Collective and Semper have internal conflicts over race names causing Darth Caedus to leave Nemesis. Jayne Cobb takes over leadership of Nemesis Quarter.

June 10th 2009 - Nemesis Senate is introduced by the Triumvirate as a new system for all leaders to participate in and effect and run all alliances from one council beneath the Triumvirate and Emperor.

June 11th 2009 - Semper and Tyber manage to get Sisu alliance to join Nemesis as Nemesis Sisu. Sha_ark and others join taking Nemesis to 5 alliances. Odin, leader and founder of Nemesis Collective leaves the game for a time, leaving Nemesis all together.

Mid June - Owned Alliance under Kikaz declares war on Nemesis Empire because DarkDayz and Madcat massed owned for farming. The war goes amazing at first, but soon begins to break down.
- Nemesis Prime is formed from the remnants of BWP by Buck and actually under Buck taking the Empire to 6 alliances and it's height of 103 members. Rocky, Tactical Commander join.
- Semper leaves for New Zealand reducing his presence to a bare minimum.
- Jayne Cobb leaves Nemesis after a dispute with Semper. Q Man takes over leadership of Nemesis Quarter. Spirit of Fire makes a brief return.

late June 2009 - Mordack, and ~Sylar~ join Nemesis. Semper disbands the Senate permamently.

Early - mid July 2009 - Tek joins Nemesis. War with owned alliance continues. Prime and Sect begin to fracture losing members without active leadership from Triumvirate who are busy enjoying the last of their time together in NZ. Mordack goes on perma-vac mode. Temptress leaves Nemesis. Semper ask's Thade to take over as Force 2ic to try and do what Temptress attempted to do and save the failing alliance.

Late July 2009 - New Zealand holiday ends, all leadership resumes in full. Prime is disbanded and merged in with Sect and Tempest by Semper.
- Mayhem alliance declare war because of Semper's forum comments and Buck's decleration of war earlier.
- Buck has internet problems and is forced to back down as leader of Nemesis Prime leaving Tactical Commander and Sylar in charge.
- Tactical Commander goes inactive leaving Sylar in charge who acts recklessly and uncontrolled forcing Semper to remove him from command and put Rocky in charge of Nemesis Prime. Nemesis Sisu leave Nemesis on bad terms.
- Elladan runs from the war after continuing disputes with Tyber and Legendery Apophis. Semper disbands the Nemesis war council.
- The name Nempire is first coined by Wepwaet during a Mayhem-Semper forum dispute.
- Tyber makes the first use of a war section and makes the joint operation forums.
- In an act of defiance to Mayhem Nemesis Sect reaches and maintains rank 1 alliance inagme.
Spoiler:


Mid September 2009 - Earendil negotiates with Mayhem to end the Mayhem-Nemesis War with a peaceful, and respectful draw. Madcat, benjaminMS, heaven Seeker, Buck, The Cardinal and Field Marshall leave Nemesis Empire for different reasons. The war with Owned Alliance continues. Nemesis Force is disbanded by Semper and pushed back into the newly renamed Nemesis Tempest (formerly Nemesis Collective) and Nemesis Quarter. Nemesis drops to below 73 memebers.

Late September 2009 - Tyber Zann and The Iron Duke step down as leaders and administrators as Nemesis Empire. Semper does not elect or found a new Triumvirate. Nemesis has dropped to below 65 members but the dropping begins to slow.

Mid October 2009 - Semper get's Tyber and Duke to reassume some of their duties due to his pressing weight of work from University. Tyber and Duke become Tri members and forum admins once more.

1st November 2009 - After leading Nemesis to an undefeated year and to great heights Semper steps down as leader and leaves Nemesis Empire. Tyber Zann and Iron duke are left in charge.

Mid November 2009 - The Great Forum Purge happens as Tyber deletes most of Nemesis' history. Owned alliance and Nemesis Empire finally call a truce to their war under the guidance of Tyber. A clean kill ended up in an embarassing draw. Tyber cleans inactives from the Empire forcing Goldor and Mystake out of Sect. Calibretto leaves Nemesis.

Late November 2009 - Mid December 2009 Tyber and Duke lead Nemesis Sect in a fun war against Delta alliance. Nemesis Force is planning to be re-born by Ashu who was shunted to 2ic of Quarter for many months and then a member of Nemesis Tempest by Semper. Tyber and Duke re-organise Nemesis Colours. Pig Newton and Josh leave Nemesis. Pig Newton gives his account to Earendil.

Mid December 2009 - Early January 2010 Duke declares war on a member of Rico's Alliance which in turn causes members of DDE under Qacols instruction to declare war on Nemesis. Semper masses Rico's and declares war on all the DDE satellite alliances in further retaliation. Ashu's plans to reform Nemesis Force end up in Tempest becoming Nemesis Core.

3rd January 2010 - mid January Tyber Zann and Iron Duke leave Nemesis after being members for near 1.5years and contributing much time, leaving just law7441 in charge. Nemesis Empire, without leadership begins to break.

Mid january 2010 - Semper returns to Nemesis to elect a new Triumvirate. Tek, Rocky and law7441, and orders them to immediately surrender to DDE. Nemesis holds her first annual awards ceremony, hosted by Gigs and Stuff of Legends and enjoys the first time of peace and prosparity in months under Rocky, Tek and law.

Early February 2010 - Rocky leaves the game. Semper elects Grim Reefer as the new Triumvirate member who quickly steps up to the role doing a great job with Core and Nemesis. During a triumphant TGW annual awards the Nempire-Mayhem war wins war of the year (over the server war) and Nemesis Sect wins alliance of the year joining the ranks of Omega, TL and TDD (much to mine and Tyber's immense pride as we never wanted anything more for Sect).

Late February 2010 - Grim Reefer is forced out of the game due to internet problems. Stuff of Legends volunteers and Tek agree's to let him take over leadership of Nemesis Core.

Early March 2010 -Tek steps down as head of Nemesis. Semper returns to Nemesis after apparently leaving the game. Semper disbands the Triumvirate and begins re-organisation of Nemesis. Freespirit joins Nemesis. Ashu get's Prime Axium alliance (founded by a former Nemesis member) to join Nemesis and becomes Nemesis Axium. Nemesis Axium and Mayhem alliance go to war. Earendil leaves Nemesis and joins Mayhem. Calibretto returns home to Nemesis.

Mid March 2010 -Arthas, former member of Nemesis Force and leader of Prime Axium runs and Axium is forced to reluctantly surrender to Mayhem. Vinny D takes over Nemesis Axium and Revelations leaves to deal with the traitor who hides behind a DDE member.

Late March 2010 - Lord Y, Revelations and Sammael join Nemesis. Nemesis Core go to war with EK. The war ends in a draw. Freespirit is awarded the rank of Imperial Diplomat, a position until this point only ever held by Semper, Law7441 and Earendil. Introduction of Nemesis Medals and Caps for all memebrs. Re-emergence of the ranks system.

April 2010 - Nemesis Sect and Core go to war with Slovenian Command and Troops under command of Stuff of Legends. Semper opens up applications for a Triumvirate seat. Nemesis Quarter and Sect begin a fresh start as Semper dismisses the past and finishes re-organising the forums. Semper founds the new role of Master Chief which will instruct and insure a basic standard of fighting throughout the empire. Golden Wing and Sammael take the positions. Hinsky_Spartan is made 2ic of Nemesis Core by Stuff of Legends.

Early May 2010 - June 2010 - Mystake, BenjaminMS and Buck return to Nemesis. Tek is reinstated by Semper as a Triumvirate member and Stuff of Legends is voted into the second Triumvirate seat. Buck promotes Kalkin to stand into the third Triumvirate seat as his first major action towards taking over Nemesis from Semper. The Slovenian family go to war with Nemesis. Semper sell's his account and loses any ingame presence.

Late June - Mid September 2010 - Semper again leaves Nemesis and the game. Buck takes Nemesis to war after a short time in office and quickly begins to recruit new players such as Duck'n'Dive and Dark Lord Tacoma. Despite initial success Buck's inability to remain committed force him away from the game and Nemesis begins to collapse to some degree, however after being trained to lead by Buck and Semper SoL, Tek and Rocky are capable of making a stern effort to take over. The Triumvirate is re-elected and Hinsky and Sammael both acquire seats of power a long side SoL. Nemesis fractures further as Core are obliterated in a war. Calibretto, Renegades and Benjamin MS leave for The Legion. Ashu, Vinny D and Shizzo all leave for EPA.

September and October 2010 - Buck begins to falter further and Nemesis' two year anniversary goes unmarked. Core is broken and the Empire is dismantled and pushed into one new alliance. With Buck forever missing he quickly steps down, abandoning Nemesis followed shortly by the betrayal and abandonment of Rocky and Stuff of Legends. October becomes one of the darkest months in Nemesis history as Dark Lord Tacoma and Duck and Dive also leave. Lord Yojimbo reluctantly rises to the challenge and declares himself a Triumvirate members, the new three begin their best attempts at salvation.

November 2010 - December 2010: After a wonderful last minute save by the three new Triumvirate members Nemesis survives for another month and once again Semper returns to lend aid. Realising that clinging onto the edifices of a lost past is doing no good Semper orders the new Triumvirate to remove the name of 'Sect' and start afresh with a new Nemesis. A new era.. a new dawn. The new Nemesis alliance is christened Nemesis Novus by it's original founder, Sect having come full circle and now gone. Dark Lord Tacoma returns and the NAP with Genesis ends.
- Tropic Thunder forms the new Training Alliance for Nemesis, an alliance largely based in Purg. This alliance is designated Nemesis Orsa until a more favourable name can be found. It is decided that Quarter will not be used. Storm is finally decided upon and used.
- Q Man breaks the old Nemesis forums, home to the empire for two years and Semper, Tek and Iron Duke are forced to make new ones and move Nemesis across.

January 2011: The main community awards get underway. The new Nemesis forums go live and appear to be a carbon copy of the original ones but without the filled information. Tek hence opens a competition to reward high posting effort.
- Nempire, after a year of struggle really begins to blossom and grow again reaching a pinnacle of activity and new growth.
- Lord Yojimbo steps down as a Triumvirate member after being a central figure in saving Nemesis once again.

Late January 2011 - February 2011
- The Iron Duke returns to Nemesis meaning that now two of the three founding fathers had returned. He immediately begins to start increasing organisation.
- Nemesis Novus moves to Aker house.
- Dark Lord Tacoma becomes the 13th Triumvirate member of Nemesis.
- Lord Shimmra leaves Nempire to retire from the game and Golden Wing goes on sabbatical to invest in another online game. He promises to return shortly.
- Nemesis wins two 'fun wars' against teams from Silent Resistance and Hidden Village Empire.

End of February 2011 - Start March 2011
- Hellfire, GoldenWing, NexStar, Lord Shimmra and Berserker return to Nemesis.
- New medals and new ranks are introduced by the leadership.
- The Leadership is reorganised abolishing the Triumvirate for good to become 'The Dark Council'.
- New avatars are discussed amongst Novus.
- A fair hit policy is established with EPA, negotiated by Andrew. Andrew also see's about one with OE, but OE offer a universal one to the server.
- The new requirements and forums really do become a massive success seeing new activity, better discipline a lot more stability. An average of 40 members use the forums every day with many former Nemesis members returning for regular fun.
- The introduction of a bounty system starts off as a failure but soon picks up when the first three bounties are introduced.
- Difficulties with Alpha and OE begin to emerge.[/spoiler]

[Calibretto]

Its been a blast. An awesome alliance back then. I loved it.

To phrase Tek: We'll meet each other at the threehouse!

[Juliette]

My, that's a nice history you have there, Semps.
Few details I'd disagree on, but hey, old habits and all.

Congrats and RIP, to Nemesis. Cheers.
*raises glass*

[Jayne Cobb]

Sad to see Nempire bowing out.

*raises glass to Nempire of 09*

[[BoT] Jason]

I grew up in Nem, them joining us is like having a child hood friend now move in with you

To Nemesis Empire!!

~Jason~

[semper]

My, that's a nice history you have there, Semps.
Few details I'd disagree on, but hey, old habits and all.

Congrats and RIP, to Nemesis. Cheers.
*raises glass*

Feel free to actually PM me them as I had to re-create some of this after Tyber accidentally erased our old forums back in December 09 so I actually may have missed or wronged something.

[Sammael]

It was a hard for me too do this especially reading the history before hand it made it even harder reading then nemesis was in there prime but from the four times i help rebuild it felt like it had taken its toll, so i thought lets not let us go out out like a fadeing light like i have seen so many alliance done before, lets give us a ending, im sorry to those i have upset but i think its for the best. i hope it is. for the last year nemesis has kept me from quitting the game the thing semper stopped me from doing a year ago, and now i have disgraced him, believe me i feel i have failed him and all past nemesis.

I apologize

[dark lord tacoma]

a sad day indeed nemesis will always be my favorite allince/emp
i first joint nemesis sect whilst it was under buck's leadership and at war with mayhem and was welcomed into the family after only a week i felt i knew everybody. after the war ended i moved on but soon relised it was the wrong disscision.
semper invited me to rejoin and was soon back into the family we all worked hard to grow our acounts and the alliance and when a opertunaty to become a triv member came i aplied.
we then had a couple of fun wars and then we had the sigma war this was the last stand of nemesis were i'd like to think we gave them one hell of a fun war.
after the war alot of people moved on or left the game. the remaining triv sam me and shim did all we could for the last few months but to no avail.

so even though im sad to se nemesis die im glad we had the guts to close her now rather than drag out her death till complete inactivity set in


made some great friends tho

semper; your reputation as a gate wars legend is a just reputation your a cool guy

The Iron Duke ; was a honour to fight along side you

Tek; your abilaty to post witty and clever posts even in the face of agressive war topics is epic

buck; a legend

Sammael; its been a honour to work with you mate

Shimrra; a proper gate wars warrior can achive sucsess in even the most inprobable situations also your a great guy

Vagabond; its been a honour being in same alliance as you and ill still anou you on msn ofter lol

Golden wing; one of the people id trust more that anyone in this game your a great guy

Tropic Thunder; a true gent and one hell of a player

Hardcore_Hinksy; my fello triv member always there to help

Qman ; hmmm i stil remeber the time you broke the forum lol miss your funny forum posts

Lord Yojimbo; the diplomat/friend

Andrew; was a honour to get to know you

Kalkin; the guy who hates mornings

also thanx to all these guys who helped make my nemesis memorys ,rocky, sol,ƒëmmë , hackeer, bigkev, Craig, Gaz, myrderer , frozen flame,chrbo.nexstar, Z E R O, ~Belsamber~, Jason

hmmm hope i havent forgot anybody

[MEZZANINE]

Sad day, another proud alliance comes to an end.

Nemesis has more earned it's place in the SGW history books, and I wish the all the members still standing at the end well in their new TAF home.

[Triarius]

best of luck TAF

[matty~]

now this is worse then fuall splitting up nem was a buncha cool people,


but ya kno wut..


the future is looking promising for TAF


+1 for taf merger of the year award

[Mathlord]

I realize this is a sad day for many and I too will miss the place that Nemesis had in the alliance rankings, but I look forward to getting to know my new alliance companions in the struggles and achievements to come

Welcome to the Family