Spartan Group Omega
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| Theme: | Spartans. Spartans. Spartans in Halo. Sparta. 300. Spartans. | ||
| Founder: | Count Blinkula & Spartan101 | ||
| Location: | Spartaa!! | ||
| Motto: | Spartans...PREPARE FOR GLORY. | ||
| Members: | 123 (As of 13/5. Coincidental?) | ||
| Founded On: | 2006/12/06 | ||
| Group Page: | [1] | ||
Spartan Group Omega is a Halo videogame-themed group founded on December 4, 2006 by a man known through the Internet as Count Blinkula, also known though Wikipedia as Housecat Monkey, and another man, who goes by the Internet name of Spartan 101.
[edit] History of Spartan Group Omega
It was in the groups section of bungie.net where Spartan 101 met Blink348, in a group called The Rulers of Jupiter. The two members of bungie.net, along with the rest of the group, went through good times and bad times, from days with forum activity to days with absolutely none, and in the end the group lost activity in their private forums, causing Blink348 to leave the group. Blink went on sometime later to help found another group called Coral, along with someone else on bungie.net named Gemini.
One monotonous day Blink was busy “on a recruiting run” (which is 7th Column slang for recruiting members for minutes or and sometimes hours) for Coral. His recruiting run had just happened to run by Spartan 101 in The Rulers of Jupiter. Spartan 101 accepted Blink’s conscription offer, and joined his group.
Coral was never active. A few inactive weeks later Spartan 101 posted in Coral’s forums the thread that would be the start of a special group. Spartan 101 explained in the thread how he wanted to make a new group, and needed someone to assist him in making the group. Blink offered to help. Blink chose the name for the group, the group purpose and the group motto, which are the usual requirements for any group. The group was to be named Spartan Group Omega. Unfortunately, that group name was already taken by another person, seeing as how every group has a unique name that can only be used once per group. So Spartan 101 created the group as Elite Group Omega.
Blink and Spartan 101, along with the help of other comrades, WyattFNEarp and Banshee 21, created threads in the group’s private forum, created recourses, made ranks, recruited members, and even made the group’s very own website. The group was doing great, it was increasing every day, the forums were very active, and the members obeyed all of the few necessary rules for the group.
[edit] A tragedy occurs
A group conqueror, had joined SGA and gained the trust of Blink and Spartan. His name will be classified. Once he gained Full Control, he deleted all of the approximately 100-110 threads in the groups Forum. There was also another conqueror (whos name will also be classified) who also deleted all of the news posts that the group so desperately took the time to make.
The group was doomed - Blink and Spartan and all the moderators had to build every single important thread from scratch. It took almost as long as it took to make all the important threads in the place—three days. Once all the important threads were re-made, and the perpetrators dealt with, the group once again thrived. Then one day Blink was browsing around the site slowly and with boredom, when he decided to take a look at the current Spartan Group Omega. Blink was surprised. The group only consisted of two members. And the group was on probation, meaning they only had 60 days to get more than three members and get the forum going or else the group would be deleted. When Blink checked up on the group, they had only about 12 days left.
“What to do…what to do….but wait?” said Blink. “Just…wait. Wait until the group is deleted, then recreate the group and get everyone to move there. Then we would move all the threads to the new forum and continue like we always do!” It was an ingenious strategy. Never before had that been attempted - to move 60 members all from one group to another…until Blink and Spartan pulled it off successfully 12 days later.
[edit] Current Status
The group, now named Spartan Group Omega, still stands today at almost 130 members as of the date of this article. It is currently the largest group beginning with “Spartan”. It is also currently in friendly competition with another group, Elites of the Covenant, to see who can make it to 500 members first.
