Bellum Aeternus [BAID] - Organizations - Roberts Space Industries

History

The Begining: Planetside

“Founders”
In the spring of 2003, a group of friends joined together in an innovative new game called PlanetSide and formed an outfit. PlanetSide was a massively multiplayer FPS where three armies battled together over an enormous sci-fi world. They chose the futuristic Vanu Sovereignty on the Markov server. The founders played in the closed Beta under the name The Taken. It was only when Open Beta was looming with a server wipe imminent, that a new name was sought and Bellum Aeternus came to be.

Some of the many founders (And Legates of the Day) Voltaire Destrider TheNino SaintPeter EvilDave CalmTerror
( List of members, arranged by join date )

From the beginning we were a well-organized force. Where other outfits were running disorganized squads, BA was having members lead multiple squads, coordinated over voice chat, into massive battles. A foundation that would serve the outfit for three years was steadily established: required TeamSpeak usage, new member orientations, an extensive officer-training program, a professional-looking site, forums filled with combat strategies, and many other developments.

Bellum Aeternus became the most respected outfit on the server. Our tactics were elite, yet we were not elitist. All the other outfits emulated our tactics. We had many, many a good Centurion leading our charges. We became the backbone of many Vanu alliances, where we would host the allied Outfits on Teamspeak and coordinate gigantic worldwide assaults.

Bellum Aeternus Gaming Community

Eventually, our members felt the itch to expand to other games. So the Legates worked out all the details and we became a Meta Gaming Community.

The continued history of Bellum Aeternus:
http://www.bellumaeternus.com/MediaWiki/The_History_of_Bellum_Aeternus

Manifesto

The Bellum Aeternus Manifesto

What makes Bellum Aeternus different from all the other Gaming Groups?

In general, there are two kinds of Gaming Groups/Guilds/Clans. First, there are the groups who mass recruit seemingly at random, and second there are the close-knit groups, typically with smaller membership, who work to define and hone their own individual or single group skills.

Both methods have their merits and drawbacks: The first can claim to “do stuff”, and generally, can garner a lot of experience/points and put themselves on the leaderboard but they tend to be a chaotic “Zerging” mass. The second has the benefit of a greater level of organization and skill per player but usually they are “Elitist” and beyond many regular players ability and time to play.

Bellum Aeternus is dedicated to taking the games we play to a higher level, through superior organization, allowing us to wield the raw power of a mass-recruiter combined with the precision of an “Uber” group.

This means we rely heavily on large scale organization and tactics, yet at the same time, remain open and available to those who seek our style of game play. Not only are we dedicated to achieving that “next level” of game play, but are also open anyone who willing to get involved.

It is this mindset that we all must share, before we can even begin talking about rules, about regulations, about policy – about anything of great substance.

We do it better than any other Group is the fundamental underpinning that must be accepted by all our members.

All policy, rules, regulations, training, questions, answers – everything must support these outfit fundamentals:

Play well
Be Open
Have fun

Charter

Bellum Aeternus Philosophy

“Innctus Debellamus. United we Conquer”

Bellum Aeternus is dedicated to taking multiplayer gaming experience to a higher level through superior organization and tactics. Our purpose is to allow anyone who wishes to partake in a structured, team-oriented environment the ability to do so. This means we rely heavily on large scale organization and tactics, yet at the same time, remain open and available to those who seek our style of game play. Not only are we dedicated to achieving that “next level” of game play, but are also open to anyone willing to get involved.

Above and beyond our play style, Bellum Aeternus strives to be a fun, accessible, and mature organization. We expect the fun to come out of the camaraderie of our players and the success of our tactics. We are fundamentally egalitarian in our outlook, accepting anyone into our outfit and giving all the opportunity to seek leadership positions. As a mature group, we treat everyone — ally and enemy alike — with the highest respect both in-game and out.

These are the fundamentals and the core values of Bellum Aeternus. If you do not agree with our goals and methods, we ask that you please seek another group more suited to your specific play style.

Our complete charter can be found at the following link:
http://www.bellumaeternus.com/MediaWiki/The_Path_of_Bellum_Aeternus