Just Clanning Around part 3: The History of Hyperstream

A long time ago on a server far, far away, a clan was formed by friends from a defunct modding team. The friends had a forum called Hyperstream. At the time, JK2 was in its prime, so they decided to form a clan, also called Hyperstream.

The leader of the clan was named Kirk (note: all names changed to protect both the innocent and guilty). But the guy who owned both the forum and their JK2 server was Chuck. Although no one knew it at the time, this was the beginning of the schism that would tear HS apart.

Hyperstream – both the forum and the clan – grew by leaps and bounds. They had a good number of extraordinary duelists. One of these, CGIman, recruited Samurai, who introduced Spinner to both the world of online gaming and to the clan.

Things went well for several months. Altough CGIman was gone frequently, both Samurai and Spinner rose quickly up the ranks of the clan; Samurai because he was an excellent duelist as well as a straight-shooting, no-nonsense kind of guy, and Spinner despite the fact that he sucked at dueling, but was relatively mature and became something of a mediator for the rather impetuous core of the clan.

But then the schism started to widen. This happened because Chuck was 12 or so and was not even close to mature enough to be a leader. On the JK server, where he was supposed to be an Admin and enforce the rules, he was very often the biggest lamer there. He enjoyed Admin stunts like setting up a small room full of trip mines and then teleporting unsuspecting players into it. When confronted, his response was, ‘It’s my server and I can do what I want.’ Kirk had no recourse against Chuck, because pissing Chuck off would mean losing the server and the forums.

Well, things came to a head after a couple months of this behavior when one of Chuck’s admin-padawans (named Meteor) was confronted by Spinner, then an admin in his own right (but not the laming kind). Although Spinner knew Meteor was in the wrong, he stupidly failed to take screenshots of the behavior, and in the ensuing battle of he-said/he-said, Chuck took Meteor’s side and Spinner decided enough was enough.

Sadly, this happened at 3am est, so none of Spinner’s supporters (who could have verified the truth) were online, and the thread was locked by the time anyone else saw it.

So Spinner left, and was soon followed by Samurai. They joined another clan, SinisteR, together, drawn by their friendship with <SR>Devastator. CGIman stayed to try to keep HS afloat, but it was too late; the clan limped on for a few more months and then died an ignoble death. Eventually CGIman saw the light and joined Spinner and Samurai at SinisteR.