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'Brief history'
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Founding and early history
STARS was founded 17/05/2007 a year after the opening of the Alpha server. The founder and GM was Andromeda assisted by Commodore-in-Chief Dracata. The early STARS was a small and weak guild. In order to survive from ancient and enormous guilds, many smaller guilds have reach out and seek for alliances, including STARS. Dracata in charged of battle and discipline affairs while Andromeda established guild structure, system, forum, diplomatic relations and alliance with many remarkable guilds, such as NGR, SIR, RFA, *H*, UFP, {WD}, CotM, etc. Less than half a year, STARS proudly set up brother guild status with NGR and SIR respectively due to intimate friendship and excellent cooperation.
The very first battle and first victory of STARS was against the intrusion of [=^=] in Jun 2007. Many righteous guilds contacted Andromeda to offer help and fleets. STARS's honourable reputation was brought up by this incident and has widely made new alliances and friends. After a few months, LUEnar declared war on a group of smaller guilds, and the advance of STARS close relationship with NGR and SIR. Higher level STARS players participated in the guild BOB to prevent the guild Horde farming smaller guilds. STARS was once ranked in the top 40 guilds. Among the notable leaders of the guild were QuickSilver, frankvsfred, Actarus, Black Hawk, Rasputin (now Dark Temptress), Kimmler, Bob McFred, Baldamundo, Locutus of Borg (now Åмǚñ~Ŕâ), GaZ, gyd, Tzoli, pak, pegleg, hallucinogenius, Peter Jackson, Teutonic, efanton, Litchi, Xiburwolf, etc.
The 'difficult' middle period
December 2007, having founded the guild and overseen it's early growth Andromeda was unable to log in due to real life issues and Commodore Dracata took over the GM role but was themselves less able to give the game attention due to RL commitments. Meantime, many officers were getting busier themselves and management scheme went loose. Members grew a sense of drift in the guild that the guild is getting dysfunctional. Some foreign guilds came to persuade members to join their guilds or become their training guild. This cumulated in the 'Christmas Crisis' of 2007 when due to a series of RL issues and PC breakdowns the members found themselves needing to make decisions but without any leadership. This led to some serious and open criticism of the guild as having 'too many officers, but no bloody leadership'. This crisis was smoothened by firm action of Blackhawk and the repair of Rasputin's PC.
New Era
In early 2008, Andromeda and Dracata came back from inactivity and they decided to restructure the leadership of the guild, in case of same management crisis happens again. In consideration of RL issues, Andromeda promoted two more Commodores and decided to step back and let BobMcFred, Kimmler and Dracata to take turns on the guildmastership. This functioned throughout March till July of 2008. A few STARS members served in NGR and the merged war guild with RFA 'United rangers of the Realm' during the server war, and many STARS members fought for the guild Pieces of Eight [P-O-8] with whom STARS have a close relationship in this period.
This era came to an end as the server war wound down and a new conflict with HORDE. On at this time, a few advocated counterattack while some disagreed. A few prominent members were absent, guild again lost direction. A potential declaration of war from [{TA}] and [HORDE] lead to a greater divergence of views and the recognition that with the guild in disarray, STARS was not able to fight back effectively. In an contraversial move The Unclean, BobMcFred and efanton led the majority of members into a temporary mmerger with NGR to rebuild. Not everyone accepted this as a wise move. some stayed in the original STARS guild while other left at this point, leaving less than 20 members in the guild. Dracata, completing university and starting a career, turned inactive and quit AE. [{TA}] meanwhile withdrawn the declaration.
Rebuild STARS
After few months of recovery and re-coordination, most of the members were agreed to rebuild STARS and that there should be an election to find a new GM. a pattern That has continued in STARS ever since. The election of BobMcFred as GM marked a rebuild of STARS. he quickly set up a council of officers and setabout a complete overhaul of the guild internals. Notable achievements in this period included the achievement of Brother guild status with RFA; the formation of the war guild [8472] by STARS members when their brother guilds, NGR,SIR and RFA were declared on by BORG. STARS member Baldamundo acting as GM of [8472].
After six months as GM BobMcFred indicated that he would step down after new year 2009, and a further election was held the candidates being Peter Jackson, Dark Temptress and Baldamundo. Despite interruption by a declaration of war by MIN, Baldamundo emerged victorious from a close ballot, decided in the second round Peter Jackson's votes (Jackson had dropped out in the first round) transferred to him. Baldamundo is now busily establishing what, he has no doubt, be a will be a glorious regime.
This period has seen the completion of a sucessfull war with the guild [RxD]and STARS intervention, again allied with NGR and SIR, on the side of MIN in the Fourth Server War. Less happy has been the troubled departure of Diplomat Dark Temptress, who appeared to have trouble accepting her second election defeat when standing as GM. This departure forced GM Baldamundo to take over the diplomat role himself, where despite initial misgivvings he has manged well.
Training Guild
Flushed with victory and determined to cut a figure in the politics of alpha our GM, the most revered and worshipped Baldamundo, decide that his prestige needed a Training Guild.
The TG has been called [LH95] Nebulae and set up and initialy GMed by Black Hawk {http://alpha.astroempires.com/guild.aspx?guild=8449] And then by Conqueror. The curse of real life intervening again both Black Hawk and Conqueror had to leave Alpah and the leadership fell into the hands of Loki Ellis.
Leaders
Council:
52665 Guild Master Baldamundo [1]
92293 Council Member efanton [2]
49192 Council Member hallucinogenius [3]
XXXX Litchi [4]
XXXX Loki Ellis [5]
District Officers:
69654 A00-A09Dist Officer 88245 A10-19 Dist Officer Fred Y? [6]
39998 A30-39 Dist Officer Tzoli [7]
86551 A20-29 Dist Officer TεŭŧΦתίc [8]
64968 A40-49 Dist Officer TOPstoPPeR [9]
80512 A50-69 Dist Officer Chris Mckenze [10]
Other:
78739 Vice Diplomat The Unclean [11]
77107 Trade officer Hallucinogenius[12]
