I think that was about when BRO signed a BP with AA (one of its enemies during that war). Somewhere during that time, there was a big war (and the 'finest point for BRO' according to its founder against a coalition of guilds, which BRO effectively won (see that thread mentioned above for more details). Then it was renamed BRO2 and Haze became GM, while Friar created a new BRO and started recruiting in the B10s (the pattern continued, although somewhat distorted, a cause for some confusion ever since :P). After some fights with BORG (mainly Kham) it started expanding fast and grew a lot. Initially it grew mainly in B04 and B09, with Friar being GM and Haze 2nd in command. It had no official connection with any Alpha guilds and its original concept was that it would always be neutral, part of no alliances and act a training guild for noobs.

For other views and a more detailed description of BRO's early days you can check this thread īro was founded by The Friar at the start of the Beta server. the very early days) and parts where I will mostly be giving my personal opinion. Also, there are parts I don't know much about (e.g. So, everyone is welcome to discuss and possibly disagree with my point of view (or my memory, I'm unsure about many things myself anyway). I am no holder of the absolute truth, nor I presume I can distant myself from events I took part, in so much that I can describe them with complete objectivity. What follows is a (very long, scroll to bottom of last post from me for short version) description of that period and an incomplete history of one of the most influential guilds of AE, Beta server, but at the same time an autobiography of mine in Beta (an explanation for the obvious bias). But then again I've been a member of The Brotherhood since January 2007 (a strange, to say the least, period for me in rl). Maybe sorrow is too strong a word for sentiments about a browser game. It is with some sorrow that I write these lines. So BRO2 went to help our allies, while the others recovered (but BRO4 was very small at the time, and in the upper galaxies)Īfter awhile, the other guilds had recovered, but BRO and BRO3 didnt want to join the warĪfter lots of arguing, BRO2 told BRO4 they were gonna be leaving BROxĪnd asked them if we wanted to join them.each of us was given the option of going to one of the other BROx guilds or to BRO2 to break offĪlmost everybody went to BRO2, and we broke off to form Omega If there's anything you don't get, or if you want to know anything else, let me know.īROx was at war, and all of the guilds were badly hurt This is when BOB was formed, and why we have pretty good relations (and a sort of unofficial NAP with them, as far as I can tell). That started other people from BROX (which is what we were called to avoid confusion about whether you were talking about the entire guild or just the subguild BRO) leaving to other guilds. After the war ended, the angry continued, until many of the main people from BRO2 left, forming Omega. There were many angry threads about this on the off-site forum. Many of the BRO3 members felt that BRO2 didn't do enough to help us with taking out the GOONion bases. Our biggest players were all in BRO2, and there were substantially fewer GOON bases in the lower galaxies than there were in the teens. So, during the GOON war, we got our asses handed to us. we were organized into 4 guilds, based on the galaxies we were based in. We were originally like the GOONion in that we were so big we needed multiple guilds to hold all of our members. Well, to understand what went on, I'll need to fill you in a little bit on BRO's structure before/during the GOON war.

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