~} Saiyan {~
It was March/April 2001 when I bumped into a website when I was trying to find a nice online multiplayer game. It was called DarkGalaxy, I signed up and builded some stuff as ussual, but there wans't much action so after a few days I returned. I read the manual and I found out that it looked interesting and my activity became more and more. The First round only had colonisation so all I did was practically Sim City, but the potential of the game was already seen by many including me. There was a community of which I wasn't a real part of due to the fact I didn't register on the forums till somewhere in Round 2 or something and mIRC... I never heard about that I was 14 years old by that time.

This little website contains all information about me during all the rounds I've played, I did it for myself to remember this game for a long time, if you want to read it you're welcome. Dark Galaxy is the best game I have every played in my entire life, it is addictive, strategic and I made a lot of friends due to this game!
Dark Galaxy Round 1
NickName: Super Saiyan
Alliance: None
Final Ranking: +/- 198

I started this round after a few hundred ticks had already past, I didn't play with full activity, but I learned alot in this round about the buildings, although back then you had buildings like Fortress, Settlement and things like light & heavy soldiers. They were not implented, but still it sounded good ! :)

I builded up a empire of around 40 planets which I managed pretty good, I also found out the art of specialisation of your planet, yes I really did this wrong in the start having + 2500 of all resources on all planets, oh well everybody has he's n00b days. The most exciting thing in this round was the run for most planets, those days there was a ranking with ppl with most planets, some had a couple of hundred, ppl who were already addicted to DarkGalaxy :)
Dark Galaxy Round 2
NickName: Super Saiyan
Alliance: Dark Empire
Final Ranking: 146

This round would be the one... The one in which battle would be implented, many alliances that still stand in the present of DarkGalaxy were formed in these days, some later. There weren't big alliance battles in this round, everybody was testing the ships, I remember ppl discussing all ships advantages and test battles were made. I also had a couple of nice fights in this round, but nothing that is worth of mentioning at this time, I don't have any battlerepors out of those days, neither have I got good knowlegde anymore how big those battles were, and I don't want to write lies here... the battles weren't that spectacular anyway ;)
Dark Galaxy Round 3
NickName: Super Saiyan
Alliance: Dark Empire
Final Ranking: 121
Defeated Alliances: Federation Starfleet Command, Generation X, BlockFree Anarchists

Round 3, the first DarkGalaxy round where battle would be fully enabled from the start, many alliances prepared themselves for a real massacre. All kinds of alliances were formed like Reservoir Dogs, Dark Empire, União Portuguesa, CalmEyeOfTheStorm, BlackRiderCommandos, these are alliances that are still dominating this game at this time.

I landed in Galaxy 2 where I met cool people like Cracker, Monkeh and many more Dark Empire friends, I didn' know that I would one day meet some of them in real life. Dark Empire started a war together with Reservoir Dogsand Soldiers Of Light against FSC & GenerationX, at the point we beated GenerationX I had this puberty hit and left DE to form my own alliance, but I was back in no time at all, the worse decision I ever made in my DG history. Battles went on between Dark Empire & FSC forces, this was a fun round with FSC & later BA not leaving us a single moment of rest, this was also the round I saw Cracker becoming one of the best DG players I've ever seen, he's best round by far, I wanted to mention that.

The game was spread over more then 30 galaxies and battles were all over the place. CeoTS kicking ass in Galaxies 6 + With UP & SoL. While the first galaxies were dominated by RD, DE and all other alliances. This was the ultimate DG round in my opinion, there was NO planet limit, NO huge galaxy travel time. There was blood over the entire galaxy, there was NO member limit that's how mass inviting alliances could survive in those days like Immortal Storm which at some point had over
450 members.

Also the community grew and ppl like Golum & Cracker making test battles and posting huge posts about ship advantages, disadvantages, these were the most fun days, Personally I went pretty good, I was killed by a few FSC guys in the middle of the round, but came back.. which was still possible without the fucking planet limit we have these days!
Dark Galaxy Round 4
NickName: GoTRuNKS
Alliance: Dark Empire
Final Ranking: 39
Defeated Alliances: Galactic Empire & multiple small sector alliances.

Alliances were able to have a organised signup this round which meant a new way of warfare. With the new code which included Research it would be important to be a powerfull block against any other alliance in the galaxy. Dark Empire went to Galaxy 13 together with it's allies Flying Lions.

We ended up with SoL & FBL in a galaxy, but these 2 alliances chose the warpath and since FL was our allies we were kind of bored. In Galaxy 12 our 'friends' were under attack by CeoTS, Cracker decided they needed help and sended about 10 members to Gal12 to help with the war against CeoTS, this wans't very popular decision, cuz even our friends left us hanging and said it was lame while they were with their backs against the wall, but the tone was set between Cracker & Noxxe the CeoTS Admiral. Dark Empire prepared a strike against CeoTS, but when we were about to launch CeoTS left the game, due to new cheaters appearing everywhere, I personally already thought this was to flee from the battlefield, cuz CeoTS knew we were stronger then they were at that moment, I thought it was lame, although it might was the best decision CeoTS made.
Dark Galaxy Round 5
NickName: Fremen
Alliance: Dark Empire
Final Ranking: 41
Defeated Alliances: CalmEyeOfTheStorm, Starleague, Galactic Generation

Dark Empire was in a meta alliance with Nova União Portuguesa! We had a plan to take revenge on CeoTS that had killed our fighters last round and before we could show them the real DE fled from the battlefield, The plan was to secure our homegalaxy fast together with nUP so we could both strike to targets in other galaxies. We ofcourse aimed for CeoTS, but it all went different, CeoTS entered our galaxy and from the start there was a furious war going on between DE & CeoTS. Dark Empire took the upper hand due to very good teamwork from Cracker & Co and Kop which was really slaughtering them all. At that moment something happened nobody could anticipate, Cracker LEFT! Dark Empire was a mess and I tryed to Clean it up, but to say that I was succesfull well, not immedeatly. After some sort of hackment of our forums and CeoTS posting all stuff from our forums @ DG forums Dark Empire disbanned as a name in protest against this action, but simply went on fighting under the name of TEG where I became WarChief.

Although we didn't recieve much help from nUP in these early stages of the war we were able to crack CeoTS pretty well, and when the moment came they seemed to be getting back on their feet there was nUP that had been preparing in the shadows of the Dark Empire. They launched a couple of devastating assaults into CeoTS territory and with TEG under command of LV & me we striked against multiple sectors too. I'm proud to have been part of the organisation of these assaults that marked the end of the war in Galaxy 13 in our favour, we totally destroyed CeoTS together with our allies of nUP.

Personally I was in a inactive DE team and my achievement this round was nice, I took over 13:18 almost without help & organised strikes against CeoTS & The Intercept mission versus GalGen. GalGen came to aid CeoTS & SL in their struggle against us, we totally destroyed them and untill now I dislike GalGen more then any other alliance in this game.
Dark Galaxy Round 6
NickName: TransMetal Inferno :)
Alliance: Dark Empire
Final Ranking: 78
Defeated Alliances: None

Dark Empire made a small alliance here to test some new colonisation/invasion lists, I tested the invasion list, which was very succesfull together with some nUP friends we were really kicking our server, but when I finisched my tests I left the server immediatly to prepare for Mars.... the real round!
Dark Galaxy Round 7
NickName: N**P****
Alliance: Nova União Portuguesa
Current Ranking: 180
Defeated Alliances: Bulgarian Alliance

After round 5 I made a lot of friends in nUP like Goshi, Elfwine, Melkor and because I was looking for a new challange in DarkGalaxy I had a nice talk with Melkor about the possibilty to join the Union. He agreed that I could have a vote and I got voted in by nUP members, which was really nice to hear :)

We'e currently around tick 700 and after a fucked up start I'm recovering slowly, but steady. But let there be no mistake nUP is great, but it is unlike any other alliance in DG. When you're a member of nUP you don't play for personal score, you play nUP, you play for Nova União Portuguesa!