User:Themonitor

The rise and fall of the Renegade and Insurgency Forums

 * Note: Due to an attempt by thugs to destroy this history, its location had been moved from user:betrayer.

In the beginning, their was nothing. No place to post about DC Comics.

Then a being called the Moderator created the DC Message Boards. Its vast range expanded from the northern mountains to the southern wastelands and everything in between. To ensure peace, he created the 1stman. This poster would serve as his apprentice and observe all new posters for him. Over the years he created more posters to secretly record data, Wellred and Clownfan for example. He called these posters, Watchmen. For a while, everything was normal. This board seemed like a well functioning society, having no complaints until an inept watchmen suspended the right to have avatars. Growth slowed after this, until the time of events known as Countdown to Infinite Crisis. The number of members skyrocketed, prompting the Moderator to create several new watchmen, including Ashtongotpunk'd, Hixon, Horey, and Ryandodson.

There was still peace, until, one night in May, the Moderator's evil brother, the Anti-Moderator, also known as Goatfucker or Rob Kamphausen, attacked and killed the Moderator. After sending a message of distress to the boards, it was deleted, by the evil being as he assumed control. After this, the Anti-Moderator created his own watchmen, called trolls to patrol the message boards, reeking havok everywhere. One such poster was Dustb05 who became one of the Anti-Monitor's first trolls during the summer of 2005. Dustb05 held an open battle against mentally incompetant poster NewKryptoman06. Other posters, like Loxd and Spidermanwater6 continued to plague the board. Flame wars between trolls and posters, [such as the Badbilltucker/ Simplejack War] engulfed board after board. Another troll, known as the All-star, completely shut the boards down for several days during a feud with fellow troll, My-Lamp-is-on. His foul speech included dozens of threads devoted to eating pickles and hating every minority in America.

While this happened, a seemingly random lightning bolt struck the corpse of the moderator. Out of the cosmic dust that conceived the Moderator, a new being with remarkable power was formed. This cosmic poster, took the name Relmurmot and although blessed with tremendous power, he chose to observe.

During this time, a disgruntled ethnic minority in the northern quarter of the DC Boards sought independence from their motherboard, over the right to publish fan stories. They fought a short, yet violent guerilla war against one of the Anti-Moderator's legions. After Guerilla leaders, Killerseamonkey and Mr Andrew, defeated the Imperial legion, a preoccupied Anti-Moderator granted them commonwealth status as opposed to independence. The leaders of this group accepted this as a victory, and have held a close relationship with the DCMB, at their own DC2 Boards.

After handling the war of the north, the Anti-Moderator grew angry and decided to delete threads created by some of his trolls. This however led him to experience a unique euphoria; one which results from deleting threads and causing havoc. Thus a new passion, that would soon lead to his temporary downfall, emerged.

Unknown to the Anti-Moderator, the Moderator gave several of his powers to DC poster Betrayor, in his last second of life. The Moderator hoped that this could help in battle against his brother. The Betrayor began organizing the most heroic, powerful and popular posters, such as Foxy_Gardener, Mr. Andrew, Iggyssj4 and Neoanalysis, into a modern day knights of the round table. He also used his vast knowledge and powers to create an all powerful poster. This poster would be the one to save the DC Message Boards from destruction. His name, was Toxicspurge. In less than a month, Toxicspurge became the most popular poster in all the lands, and organized the other heroic posters into one thread; The "Who likes Powergirl's Boobs?" thread. In an attempt to shield this thread from the Anti-Moderator, several of the Moderator's original watchmen, went off on a suicide mission to combat and distract the evil entity. Casualties ran high, including Horey, Hixon, Ithaquoid, and Grape_Ape who were retconned from existance. When this distraction ended, the Anti-Mod turned his attention to the Infinite Crisis Message Board. He saw the high traffic and realized the potential chaos he could create. Posters screamed, as his dark shadow loomed over the boards. He then commenced to deleted the famed Powergirl's Boob's thread as well as many other threads, including one devoted to calling dibs on dismembered body parts of dead characters.

In revolt, Posters Mr. Andrew and Toxicspurge created, the Society. In this thread, the posters held secret talks and wished to break away entirely from the boards and create a new place where Posters could be free; a place where the Anti-Moderator could have no control; a place called Renegade Forums. This project was headed by NeoAnalysis who constructed an underground bunker in the southern wastelands. As the heros began their exodus to the bunker, they were ambushed by the Anti-Moderator. In this final attack, Toxicspurge charged at the vile creature, with all his power. As the battle commenced, the Anti-moderator was wounded by the sheer power of the champion, but he still managed to discharge a blast of retcon, deleting Toxicspurge from existence, as well as many bystanders like DocNero, Tedkordlives and Beetlefan1123, who had done nothing, but watch the spectacular fight. The Anti-Mod was forced to retreat to his lair for a slow recovery.

The board was in uproar over the loss of their leader, but using the combined energy of the remaining posters, the mysterious stranger known as thebeyonder acted as a funnel and created a new body for Toxicspurge. The Revolutionaries saw a moment of victory, but from his lair, the Anti-Moderator ordered martial law to be enacted on the Boards. No posts were allowed through without his consent. The revolutionaries were scattered. Only 5 managed to make it to the bunker; NeoAnalysis, Toxicspurge, Ryandodson, FiveStarJT96, and Foxy_Gardener. Eventually Project "R" was completed and the Renegade Forum was opened on the South Eastern Peninsula. Using superior technology, most trolls from the DCMB were unable to reach the new board, save for hmmmm1 and Simplejack.

With the DCMB under Martial Law, contacting past comrades was near impossible. Membership grew slowly with the likes of Pologuy, Xombi, Born-to-Run, and Nightwing-Pr1me. Over time, many more members joined, as the Renegades located past posters and recruited new ones as well. Eventually, Martial Law was lifted from DCMB, and more posters were able to escape to the new boards. This new message board continued to grow and would soon become a fair sized board.

And as this happened, Remurmot continued to observe.

Several of the past posters from the heroic group at DCMB eventually reunited, but the casualties of the war of Secession were still high. Several past revolutionaries, like GrooveHoney, DLEIF, and theBeyonder were destroyed during the following occupation and purge. Others like AlaskaPhil and Orb_of_Ra were held as prisoners of war. These prisoners were tortured and the later was brainwashed into having secret loyalties to the Anti-Moderator. Another poster, Whatchel, was thrown into a seemingly endless void of nothingness. He remained their for almost 2 years, before finally overcoming the limbo.

At the Renegade board, many posters, like King_Telfie, Wellred, Spiznet, Twik, Rotten2thecorps, Martinsteinsmom, and manoftheatom helped the board flourish. Topics grew and people like Jayfort the grey-haired and his son bucky, the god of malice joined as did Rickflag1 taking on the military name, Captain Zzap. Former imperial officer Captain Apathy joined, as did Chocolate Grendel, Starless Knight, Sniper23, and the legendary Sikkbones, as well as many, many more. The board was strong, even fending off joint attacks from troll 0n0mat0p0eia and DC2 gurillea fighter, Killerseamonkey, who had a fierce hatred for NeoAnalysis. After the attack by 0n0, the board was in disagreement as to whether identity registration was needed to prevent destruction. After much persuasion by TheHipcat, registration efforts were dropped in favor of privacy and freedom. The board continued to grow, even having its own award show.

Little did the Renegades know, that during this time of peace, champion Toxicspurge was fighting a constant battle, against the Anti-Moderator. The Anti-Moderator, using his cosmic powers, had been attempting to take over his enemy with his astral presence since their last battle. After many months of internal fighting, Toxicspurge was finaly defeated and taken over by the Anti-Moderator's spirit. Toxicpurge came back from his leave of absence, to the unsuspecting board and attempted a hostile takeover. He succeeded. Censorship was enforced and many prominent members were banned, including Sikkbones, Gossamer and his former ally, Mr. Andrew. This action angered many posters, and led to a mass exodus of Renegades to the Empty Quarter.

Anti-Toxic ruled the remaining posters with an iron mouse, devoted to his own cause. To ensure he had allies, Anti-Toxic created his own court. First, he forced poster Starheart1976 to drink the blood of the Anti-Moderator during an ancient ritual. Starheart too, became a midless tool of the Anti-Moderator. Afterwards he appointed a queen. He chose Comiclass, a very unpopular poster who had already earned the malice of various posters. He then gave important posts to sympathizers, such as Orb_of_ra and Blodyprime.

This new Renegade Board was forced to endure a time of destruction. Flame wars were constant, most notably, the Ares/Halo War. During this event, minor quarrels were escalated into major conflicts by Anti-Toxic, who expelled poster Halo82, causing an internal uproar among the few remaining posters after a visit from the Spook revealed this. Halo came back in an assassination attempt, but was expelled. Soon, Anti-Toxic, began facing much internal war and criticism personally and became disgruntled.

It was then, that Relmurmot stopped watching.

He united the dispelled posters, who were forced into the Far East Mountains of the Empty Quarter, which were once thought uninhabitable by members of the Renegade as well as the DC Board before it. Relmurmot convinced the posters to strike back. These fighters joined with past enemy, Killerseamonkey, who pledged the support of his board's resources. A joint attack from the former Renegade members, now called the Insurgency, was successful in temporarily defeating Anti-Toxic, however it would take months of hit-and-run guerilla tactics to truly expel Anti-Toxic. He eventually resigned, handing over control to his puppet consulate, Starheart. He too, soon left.

As they left, the Anti-Moderator remained in control of their bodies. He, along with his queen Comiclass, and his royal Cabinet, were forced from the boards.

The group retreated to a former bunker of queen Comiclass, in a baron Island off the southern coast of Renegade. From their, they set up a government in exile of about 3 miles on the mainland. Hoping to remain in hiding, the cabinet was attacked by female extrodinaire, SydB_JenG, who, after discovering the hideout, bravely assaulted it on her own. She burned the entire surrounding area to the ground, splintering the group of posters. As they fled, they cursed the name of the Insurgents, vowing revenge.

This led to a surge of nationalism among the insurgents. A new Insurgency board was created by former knight, Iggyssj4, and most members of the Renegade Boards were accepted. However, some prominent members of old, such as the inspiring Jayfort the Gray-haired were forced into retirement by the Anti-Toxic regime. Others, like Foxy_Gardener, King_TelFie, Nightwing Pr1me and Kissmyringbuddy found themselves with no memory or their actions at the Renegade. These posters returned to the DCMB and post there as if the revolution had never happened. A weak alliance formed between the Insurgents and the DC2, and has remained intact, despite several remarks against it.

The Insurgency grew and began to acquire more posters, several of which, were thought to be killed by the Ancien regime, during its vast purges.

While this happened,the DC boards under went change as well. With the displacement of the Anti-Moderator, a Somewhat-moderator took control. After a short time of relative freedom, the secrets of the comic book 52 were leaked. Enraged, the Somewhat-Moderator launched a powerful attack that engulfed the 52 boards and ended the physical presence of several posters. As the remaining posters attempted to rebuild, the popular fortune teller, Mazingman728 came under the notice of the Somewhat-Moderator. Thinking, that if their powers could be combined, then a Super-Moderator could be formed. However, the high popularity of this poster prevented his abduction and ensured his security, atleast for the time being. In order to prevent public uproar, he decided to scapegoat and punish those posters, who were conceived by the Moderator. A time of great purges took place, during which, several of these posters, such as Ryandodson were seemingly destroyed and so were all records and posts of times past. A smear campaign was also launched against the Moderator's apprentice, the 1stman. An imitation of the slightly arrogant poster was created and several trolls were released to attack him. The 1stman was successful in surviving, but his posting has dwindled as of this writing. This, as well as the death of almost all watchmen led to a weakened board.

The DC Boards after being weakened by the losses of those posters, resulted in several raids by savage tribes against the DC Boards. In disgust some posters, such as Technocrat, decided to breakaway from the DCMB, to escape the savages.

Others, such as 2 posters known only as Harry Snatch and Chodaboy decided to attack other boards, like terrorists. Under first fire, came the Renegade and Insurgency Boards. The attacks by these two posters left a feeling of hostillity in the air, and in their anger, the Insurgents almost had their de facto leader, Captain Zzap, hanged. These attacks left the insurgents stronger though, and they all promised to protect one another.

At Technocrat's newly established "Other DC Message Boards", in an island chain off of the east coast, alarm was raised, when Anti-Toxic's former advisor, Starheart1976, whose horrible speech has been removed from this history, took up refuge among the political refugees. This resulted in hostility by the Insurgents, who were taken aback by the attempted coup. Though war was avoided at first, there was a reminder of fascism and censorship was thick in the air. The unavoidable war eventually came, after the return of Comiclass and other dispelled Renegades under obvious pseudonyms, including Anti-Toxic himself. War then erupted, between the expelled servents of the Anti-Mod and the Hell Hounds, an elite organization of Insurgents, leading to those boards being ravaged. From the chaos, a new, unexpected leader emerged, known only as Kell Mossa, who was later revealed to be an Insurgent sympathizer. Technocrat was later returned to power which he then turned over to Relmurmot, who promised lax laws and protection, given by an occupation force of the Hell Hounds.

At the Insurgency boards, just as with Renegade, things seemingly went into decline. Poster Syd went to Hawaii and many others disappeared. Poster Black Raisin attempted to incite membership through imperialism and military conquest, as he had done it the past, but this time, it was a failure. Things grew worse as valued posters, Captain Zzap and Mr. Andrew were forced into a violent flame war over new poster Eliza. Matters were made worse, when a military alliance was formed between past enemies of the board members. Halo's arch enemy, Ares16, returned from the dead and joined this alliance that was led by Starheat1976 and contained Harry Snatch, ChodaBoy, Iman and SimpleJack. To announce their alliance, they killed poster Omega Supreme and absorbed his presence, becoming the allaince of Stars Supreme. The alliance led a smear campaign against Captain Zzap in this time of war and once again board members questioned their leader's mental stability. The alliance claimed that Zzap allowed them entry and that Mr.Andrew was among their ranks. Sensing the possible destruction, Dr. Fate appeared and called forth the Hell Hounds to be armed for battle, in case war broke out. Tensions ran high and civil war seemed certain. The Ball S.A.C.S. collective continued to attack with a seemingly unrelenting capability. New Poster, Antraxx69, put a stop to this using not his strength, but his words. His wisdom slowed the destruction and allowed Pologuy to temporarily banish StarSupreme, but the battle was not yet over.

The parasitic Anti-Moderator relinquished control over Toxicspurge, and attempted to overtake Mr. Andrew as he had Toxic. He sensed anger and hatred in Andrew, and thought this would lead to his victory. He was wrong. Though Toxicspurge, Starheart, and others were corrupted by this entity, Mr. Andrew fought against the temptation and after a rallying battle cry from the Hell Hounds, the posters of the Insurgency Boards fought fiercely and expelled the invaders from their lands. The Evil Alliance was apparently dissolved as its leader, Starheart1976 was kicked out by the others. Syd_BJen_G and Biaroundthebloc, who had been vacationing, returned, and were shocked by the amount of devastation that had happened.

While the members began to rebuild, a new menace appeared. Snidley Whiplash, a being of almost pure evil arose from the destruction and went around causing mischief. This man, who in the past had bombed an innocent village of Smurfs, kidnapped the Burger King and along with his Legion of Evil, threatened to give the entire planet mustaches, set loose a mindless Kool-Aid creature. Chuck Norris appeared, and defeated the Kool-Aid creature and threatened Whiplash against future attacks. Though a squadron of spies led by Mr. T failed to stop Snidley, Chuck Norris destroyed the Satellite of the evil creature. Whiplash, escaped, but soon returned and was banished to a nether region within the chin of Mar-vell.

Sensing that the danger was finally over, Dr. Fate bid a fond fairwell to the insurgency, promising them a time of peace and prosperity.

At the DCMB, the Anti-Moderator returned. After failing to take over Mr. Andrew, he was left displaced. Rather than return to his former host, Rob Kamphausen, he created a new body and regained control of the DCMB from the Somewhat-Moderator. He then began a new series of systematic purges. Famed poster Mazingman728 who survived the first purge by the Somewhat-Moderator, was finally destroyed. Many other posters, including Batfan666 and Inreverie were also destroyed during this purge.

At the ODCMB, the weakened state of the board caused by the withdrawl of the Hell Hounds, led to serious attacks, first by 0n0mat0p0eia and later by Sir bigsby of bombay, which eventually led to an abandonment of the ODCMB.

The time of prosperity turned out to be unfortunate for the Insurgents. The need for shedding blood led the Insurgents to engage in many wars. First amongst themselves and later with other boards. The lack of defined rule pertaining to signature sizes led to a civil war between 2 factions; one led by Mar-Vell and the other by Relmurmot and BlackRaisin. This war was brought to an end after moderator Sikkbones attacked Relmurmot's sig, turning symapthy toward the Rel/Raisin Coalition. Another civil war was fought over civil rights for alters. Several alters were mistreated by mods Pologuy and Captain Zzap, leading to a proliferation of rights by a sympathetic public.

The Hell Hounds, having been succesful in the past, led a campaign of wars against totalitarian boards. First against the Tyranical ComicBoards, where leader Schnurr, accompanied by Ramon Fronkus and Morlun failed to stop an invasion; The Hounds then planned a raid on the Super Buddies forum, but canceled at the last moment due to a more lucrative target; DCMB. At the DCMB, the Hounds went after radical poster, DavidH, after he attacked Hell Hound leader Halo82. The ensuing battle led to a formal annexation of the Aquaman Boards, which was later withdrawn after DavidH fled. The hounds later held a 3 day campaign against ComicBloc which led to a decline in poster participation there.

The boards were overjoyed after the return of prodgical son, Mr Andrew, who spent 9 months in voluntary exile on a small island due to his actions in the Ball S.A.C.S. Crisis. He sought help against several past adversary's and recieved ample aide to succeed in his goal. His quick return reopened some old wounds however, and Andy began a war of words with fellow poster Grendel.

This war came to an abrupt end however due to the blaring trumpets of war. After repeated attacks by thugs from a rival message board, Insurgent Whomod received help from the Hell Hounds as well as a strikeforce of Insurgent warriors. This war would take place at Rob's Message board. A board run by noneother than the goatfucker himself, Rob kamphausen [AKA: Anti-Mod] After being abandoned by the Anti-Mod for a new host, Kamphausen took over a militaristic board inhabited by several rejects and outcasts who attacked anyone who disagreed with them.

As the Hounds and the coalition went to war, they were successful in victory after victory within the first weeks of the war. Several of Rob's posters surrendered, including King Snarf and URG.

Victory however, soon gave way to defeat as RBKM poster Prometheus gained access to the high vaults of the Insurgency. A traitor was suspected, and later revealed to be Comic Lass who stole access information from Relmurmot. THe Insurgents recovered from this and continued scoring many victories. However once again the villains at RBKMs gained access the secret military orders of the Insurgents. It seemed that every organized attack by the insurgents was countered by the enemy with a prearranged response.

This prompted the Insurgent posse to abandon their home boards in favor of the Devastation Nation; an island in the south sea, on which Antraxx69 was born. Eventually the mole was revealed. Former knight and current Insurgency Admin, Iggy had betrayed the Insurgency. Throught his reign as admin, he felt anger toward the insurgents for not showing him the same admiration that they gave to the de facto leadership. He drunkenly handed over full control to the RBKMs and then passed out from the excessive amounts of alcohol in his system.

While he slumbered, as his liver was hard at work, Insurgents Captain Zzap, Black Raisin and halo82 regained control of the forums. They attempted to sort out the mess but by then it was too late. As Iggy regained consciousness and swigged another jack Daniels, he retook the boards. In a list ditch moment of defiance, many Insurgents chose to born their board rather than see it fall into enemy hands.

Throught the next week, the former Inurgency board burned. As it burned, post after post was consumed, however this history was plucked from the wreckage and spared. As some of the flames died, what little remained was reclaimed by Iggy, who immediately transfered control to the RKMB's army, and then preceeded to piss and passout.

In a pitiful land beyond the mountains on the Southern Renegade border, the dispelled Renegade members settled and have been successful at cloaking and protecting their new land. Toxicspurge, now free of the Anti-Moderator, resides their, knowing that he can never take back the actions that he was forced to do. His former title of champion gone.

Back at the Renegade forum, poster Sniper23, was trapped, by an evil spell that bound him to the board. Now, the curse having been broken, allowing Sniper to be able to post among the Insurgency, as Unicron.

In the wastelands north of the Renegades, at Liberty Fan Forums, a small village set up by American Hero, Jayfort is occasionally able to contact his past friends.

Within the far east mountains, a small fife of land was granted to the Hipcat, who converted the land into a new board called Spoiler Central.

At the DC2 Boards, several past Renegade members, such as Nightwing Pr1me and Dragonbat, reside under the watchful eye of Killerseamonkey, who continues to keep his peace agreement

At an island location, later known as the Devastation nation, many Insurgent refugees await happier times.

And as the flames still consumed the former insurgency Board, the former Insurgents who managed to escape the flames journeyed to the land of the Iconoclasts; a land within the former Renegade territory that was entrusted to grendel. It was there that the heroic Captain Zzap bid a fond farewell to his friends, thanking them for their service, before leaving.

And thus this history ends. Having been spared from fires, dispearsed by wars, and surviving dictators who sought nothing more than this history's destruction, it is passed on to you. And as one reads this history its overall message is clear. Always be prepared to fight for your rights, never become too invested in one place, and never underestimate the power of liberty, justice, and friendship. And thus always, remember that history can never be changed, only forgotten. And those we forget the past, are doomed to repeat it.

-The official historian