In March of 2006, I decided to make another Battlefield Pirates clan. My first step was to contact the clanless HG members. The first one I talked to was Fred. He said he wasn't into PC gaming anymore but he'd still join. Taco!!!! a clanless pirate that wasn't in HG decided to join as well. The last person I asked to join was a recruit when HG died. His name was RIP. He showed strong allegence to HG. He kept his ingame HG tag on, even though he knew the clan was dead. I asked him, "Why didn't you join SD?" He said HG was my first clan, and I wanted it back." He also said, "The people in SD just wanted me to join because I was in HG. Most of them didn't even know me."

After this, I bought a pirates server, Ventrilo server, and set up forums. The forums were on a temporary subdomain. The clan was going pretty good until V decided to hack it. At the time, my computer was vulnerable. I didn't have a firewall or any of the windows updates because I had just reformateed. I was just focused on the clan. At first, V messed with my Xfire. There were people I was friends with that didn't show up on my Xfire list. I'd try to send them an invite, and it would just say you're already friends with this person. From there, he slowly started messing with things on the forums. V would slowly change things, and I'd just fix them everyday. Then he'd just completely ruin the forums. This became an everyday battle. My parents were getting irritated because I was on the computer so much. They just said, "Let the clan go." I didn't want to though. I wasn't going to let him win. They took away my computer, so I had no choice. I tried to stay intouch with the guys. The clan died though.

The second time BR was started, I bought an actual domain name. I had to bug the guy for a while so I could get it. He canceled it and I had to wait thirty days before I could buy it. Fred, taco!!!!, and RIP all returned. We got some new members like Rogue, Sparky, Gr00, and Snake. Also the Cursed Corsairs clan merged with us. There was only three of them Reefermadness, Oldman, and FawD. I was really happy because of the new skilled members. I got a new pirates server and Ventrilo and things were going well. I distributed admin rights, and everything seemed balanced. When V saw how good the clan was going, he returned to try to ruin it. He saw I was back, and started hacking again. I couldn't figure out how he was doing all of this. I was using the most current phpbb2, and he was still gettting in. I just fought him nearly everyday. I made a lot of forums backups. Some CT guys got into our private forums section after V hacked it. Direcly afterward, they started harrassing me about calling Snake a sack of shit. This pissed me off because it wasn't any of their business. Snake left BR and Gr00 was going through a hard time. He lost his grandma, and was having financial problems. Fred left BR for SD, and all the SD members thought they were so cool for stealing him. After that, the forums got hacked again, and my parents took my computer again.

The third time BR was started was on the Christmas break of 2006. I got my computer back on Christmas day. Later on, I started playing the pirates mod again. I was thinking about remaking BR, but I knew it would piss my parents off. I really didn't care though. I had unfinished business. They just don't understand how determined I was to make a successful clan. Taco!!!! and Sparky didn't want to rejoin, and Reefer was in [BB]. One day, I was chillin' on my computer, and a fellow pirate named Koppa started talking to me. I knew Koppa when he was in DE. He left because they kept saying he was V. Koppa said, "Are you ever going to make another pirates clan?" I said, "I was kind of thinking about remaking BR." Then I asked him, "Would you join it?" He said, "Yep." From there, I made a group Xfire room, and invited Koppa, Rogue, Oldman, and RIP. We talked, and everyone wanted to remake it. I told them I was going to join the US Navy, and didn't know how much I would be around. Koppa took this the hardest. The next day I asked him to register on the forums. He said, "I don't want to join the clan." I told Oldman this, and he was pretty pissed off as well. Koppa did finally register on the forums. From there, he helped me set things up, come up with new ideas, and tweak things. He is an excellent asset to BR. Without him, the clan would be at the depths. Koppa is a loyal pirate that would never betray his clan. He would fight to the end no matter what the cost. Koppa is a true Bilge Rat.

-Troy