The Short Bus Squad / TSBS

About 15 years ago, a group of gamers, most over the age of 30, made up of mostly Military (current and Ex), Rocket Scientists, Engineers, HVAC, and other professionals came together to form a clan we named =FR= Force Recon, an online competitive FPS clan.

We started playing the original Ghost Recon. We fought hard and eventually took the top spot on the Ghost Recon Un-timed Ladder while competing on TheCombatZone.net. Having achieved our primary goal, we set out to see where else we could take our brand to, make new friends, and dominate and make a name for ourselves.

Enter 2004 and we found the game EvE-Online.

We joined the Soul Cartel, a Corporation based in Domain space. We learned the ropes, formed friendships among the membership, and eventually decided we’d be better off forming our own Corporation with our own set of rules befitting us. We created our own Corporation with a name only fitting our sense of humor and play style. [TSBS] The Short Bus Squad was drooled. We moved into contested space, a 0.4 sector of space called Kheram. Pirating came naturally and easily to us. Our Ranks swelled to almost 100+ pilots. We made quite a few enemies in Stain during our time in Kheram, our 0.0 neighbors to the south, who decided to make it their duty to remove us from existence.

It was through this conflict that we made our closest ally: MASS. You see, MASS were one of the largest Stain Alliance Corps, and we knocked heads very often. Through bitter and highly competitive fighting, they started to regard us as a potential ally in their fight against Curse. The major issue, we were Pirates! How in the hell do they convince the Stain Alliance to our inclusion?

Well, long story short, we became the 1st ever Pirate Corp to become a full member of the Stain Alliance. What we brought to the table in the fight against Curse was a different aspect of fighting and, as a result, winning, and winning big. The strike hard and fast tactics we brought with us made us favorites among the PvP focused members of the Alliance. Gape Night Friday Nights were a TSBS specialty looked forward to by many of our PvP allies.

Time went on, and as with most gamers, so did our attention spans. We are droolers and window lickers remember!

Of course, EvE hasn’t been our only game since the Ghost Recon days. We have played every major FPS title and MMO title out there. We’ve continued to use the FR and TSBS tags and even added a third, Demise. Again, we lick windows, drool incessantly, and fling poo for fun. We certainly can’t hold a constant thought when naming our clan when starting a new game.

But there is a new and potentially awesome space game heading our way again. In celebration, we have broken out the drool cups, hemets, and even the old Short Bus to ride in. The core members from the original TSBS are back!

We have made Star Citizen our new home, now mostly in our 40’s. We’ve wiped the chins of many of our old Eve bus riders, and maybe over the years, we’ve even found a secret poo flinger or two.

So, what drool you? Think you wanna be part of drooling, window licking, poo flinging history? Or do you just want to have a great time and learn a thing or two from guys and gals who’ve “been there done that”?

Throw some poo our way and join us!!