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Perikles

2007-04-22T14:47:51Z

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{{member|name=Perikles|avatarimagelocation=periklesavatar.gif|mainrank=[[Moderator]] of [[TWC]]|ranks=[[Moderator]], [[Patrician]], [[Wiki Project Editor]]|patron=imb39|patronof=[[Goscinio]], [[Kara Kolyo]], [[burrek]], [[MarcusCorneliusMarcellus]], [[Candelarius]], [[Rammstein]] and [[RTR Fan]]}}

'''Perikles''', originally jp, is currently a moderator.

Author of [[Archer's Plot]], known for extreme views on Network Admins and being a supporter of the [[Curia]]. TWC [[:category:moderator|Moderator]], [[CDC]] and ex-[[CoP]] member. Never actually elected a moderator due to some reason or another but gets by without the seal of Popular approval.

Member of the [[:Category:House of Wilpuri|House of Wilpuri]] under the patronage of [[imb39]].

== Contributions ==

*Various Curial Bills.
*Organiser of the last [[Member Awards]] under the remit of the [[CoP]]
*Served 2 [[CDC]] terms
*Librarian from the creation of the [[Scriptorium]] to December 2006
*2 [[Eagle Standard]] Articles interviewing [[RTR]] and [[Rise of Persia]]
*[[Moderator]] since 4 August 2006
*Contributor and [[Wiki Project Editor|Officer]] of this Wiki

== History ==

*Joined February 4, 2006
*Became Civitate March 23, 2006
*Elected to the [[Council of Peace]] June 21, 2006
*Elected to the [[Consilium de Civitate]] July 13, 2006
*Appointed Tribounos [[:Category:Moderator|Moderator]] August 4, 2006
*Appointed [[Patrician]] 30th August, 2006
*Elected to the CdeC February 03, 2007

The story of jp's short but eventful time at [[TWC]]

=== Beginnings ===

After joining in February 2006 I became a regular of the Political Mudpit where I was noticed by a few members as being potential Civitate material. My mainly conservative views were shared by members such as [[Carach]] and [[the Black Prince]], while I often debated agaisnt [[Shyam Popat]] and [[Squeakus Maximus|Ozymandias]]. Strangely the 2 people who influenced my first 2 months on TWC the most were Shyam and Carach, coming from opposite ends of the political spectrum. I was eventually patronised by [[Ummon]] a month after joining, I joined the ranks of the Curia just before the [[Total War Center History|April Fools Joke]] on the members. During this period I became friendly with [[imb39]] after he conned me into believing that [[Crandar]] really had returned (Damn him!). When [[Ummon]] left the site in May I transferred patronage to [[imb39]] and haven't looked back.

=== Summer ===

After being a member of both the [[CoP]] and [[Consilium de Civitate|CdeC]] in the Summer of 2006 I asked to be entered into some moderator elections that may take place while I was on holiday. Upon returning from holiday I found I was in an election and many had thought I had left due to my inactivity. After the ensuing crisis of alleged widespread use of PM's to canvass for votes I was appointed a [[:category:moderator|Moderator]] along with [[Evariste]] and [[Seleukos]]. With the [[Curia]] now attacking me for being appointed rather than elected I set about trying to be a good moderator, something which I hope I achieved with my 'less is more' mantra. My moderating style is laid back and Infractions are only issued very rarely, usually for personal attacks.

=== The Depression ===

==== Staff ====

October was the month of the [[Staff Rebellion]] against [[Archer]]. I knew something was up when [[Tacticalwithdrawal|Tac]] resigned. Later I found out Archer had removed him due to him supposedly reading PM's on MYSQL however I am not sure of the factuality of this. I was invited to sign a letter which called for the removal of Archer and was to be posted in staff with the signatures. It was a great letter really and argued not against Archer as a person but his lack of leadership and communication skills. The letter called for his resignation from Imperator to either Hex or Staff or the general membership. A few days later I came online to find [[TWC]] in chaos yet again. Archer had just demoted everyone and promoted [[HG]] to Hex (who saw some unfavourable things about him which had some bigger consequences for TWC down the line) along with [[Belisarius]] to Admin. Eventually after much arguing everyone got back in Staff and HG and Belisarius (who eventually returned and has since become Content Manager) left TWC. Hex became a supposed council of equals and everyone was happy (well we'll see about that later on).

==== The Ongoing Saga of Selling the Site ====

TWC was going fine, MTW2 was just out, the moderation was perfect, the debates were going well and the mods were just appearing. Then I asked General Sun if he knew [[TWC]] was up for sale (which was commonish knowledge at the time) in passing conversation. He was amazed and we soon had [[Evariste]] and [[Professor420]] in our conversation. In my other msn window was [[imb39]], I asked him if he was interested in our plan to buy the site and he joined the conversation 5 minutes later and offered to buy the site outright. After approaching [[Ogre]] and finding out about the pitiful zboard offer we were ecstatic, but worried at how far into the deal ON were. The long wait for Ogre to decide began and during this time [[Besim]] reappeared at TWC...

==== Besim ====

At first we thought this was good, but the longer he stayed the more he wanted to interfere in things he did not understand. For more details on Besim's reasons for meddling in TWC, destabilising the site and hindering the sale to us please see [[Of the Exile]]. Then I came on TWC one morning to find:

* A New Skin that was Pink
* Half of Hex demoted
* The Curia deleted (well removed from view)
* All Civitates and Patricians demoted

I immediately went on msn and started talking to Besim, inviting all the other staff on msn to the conversation. We hammered out some compromises such as getting the Curia back and imb39 (who had resigned the previous week), Lusted (who had been demoted) and I were given access to the Admin Control Panel to fix the ranks. However Besim did not give us the required access so it was pointless, and I just ended up reading Hex for half an hour. Then [[Professor420]] was banned, I told Besim he could not just do that at TWC, it was not how we operated by threatening members and banning them. He then threatened to ban me for dissenting! This was a big mistake on his part as I was now dead set against him. I immediately added Prof's [[Of the Exile]] article to my [[Signature]] in the now infamous 'The Truth' style and encouraged others to do so. I opened a thread polling the members on what they thought of Besim ([http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71380 Link]) however he removed the poll and added it to this thread ([http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=71466 Link]) the results are obvious to see. After some flames and trolls between various members (me included I'm sorry to say) and network administrators Besim caved in and gave control of [[TWC]] back to [[Hex]]. [[HG]] reappeared during this episode, on the side of Besim, and the plotting of the next and final crisis is said to have begun immediately after the fall of Besim...

==== Honor&Glory ====

One Tuesday in January I was visiting TWC. It was 6 weeks since Besim and my activity had declined sharply. Not only had I been rejected by the Curia in the CDC elections and by certain others, people were saying I had tried to 'destroy the site' and after Ogre said he wasn't going to sell TWC I found logging on a chore, let alone moderating or posting. I felt slightly betrayed and bitter during this time, I'd helped get rid of an 'idiot' (to put it nicely) and been snubbed by the people it had helped. Then I refeshed the main TWC Index and suddenly the Staff Forum and Curia were gone and to my utter amazement [[Richard the Lionheart]] had a bold purple name. On joinng the thread in the Suggestus I thought this was a joke, surely the most hated person on TWC was not really an admin, how wrong I was. As more facts emerged we realised this was not a joke.

The next day I logged on in the morning to see if there were any developments. I found half the forum banned and in disgust I posted something about 'HG loving Ogre' (in harsher terms). When [[gigagaia]] saw he told me to edit it out quickly as we didn't want everyone banned. So I quickly edited it and then imb39 presented me with a perfect snipe at HG, asking what his vision for the future was. You can see my reply to imb's post in the 'Quotes' section below, I was banned immediately.

====New Site====

On the Wednesday night it was decided a new site was to be created to rival TWC. Simetrical set this up and Lusted/imb39 began the organisation of such a move. Luckily Simetrical had made a database backup quickly before he lost his admin powers, meaning the transition would be easy. The name [[Total War Horde]] was chosen at first with an aim of buying [[Total War Zone]] and then moving to that in the not too distnat future. Lusted organised for about half the mods at TWC to leave there altogether and join our forum, while the rest were going to maintain a presence at both.

====Dispair and Triumph====

People were being banned and unbanned and chaos reigned over the forums. Not just the Curia and staff but all the members were in revolt. The plan for the new forum was going smoothly until we hit legality issues with the database. In another sneaky trick [[Spirix]] registered TWH.com and put a redirect to TWC there to try and confuse people in finding the new site. Things were going down hill.
With HG in charge at TWC and legality problems with using the TWC database for the new site our plans stalled. Forum life was going back to normal and this did much good for HG's cause as a stable TWC meant he had won in taking over the forum and imposing his will over it. However when [[Archer]] and [[Meiyogen]] put us on a global ignore list known as 'Coventry' they amde a big mistake. TWC began to revolt again and the spamming of the forums began as [[Ozymandias]] and I incited people to spam the forum with the link to [[Archer's Plot]]. Then people began to be IP banned and in conjunction with [[imb39]] I was given permission to spam the link to the new forum. Using the account mafiaboss I opened 10 thread each containing the link to the new forum, they were soon deleted, but people had seen the link and soon began to spam it too. Satisfied TWC was at it's knees and knowing imb39 had an important msn meeting coming up with Ogre than night I went to bed. On waking up in the morning TWC was ours, with the chance to control and influence it's future.

=== The New Golden Age ===

Upon imb39 buying the site, it was clear this was to be the new Golden Era of TWC. So far this prediction has not been at all wrong.

== Quotes ==

''ON have given birth to a new doctrine in running a forum: 'stupidity' '' (In response to [[HG]] being appointed Administrator of [[TWC]])

''Offering moderating advice to someone sorely lacking in that field does not count as a rebellion.'' ([http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=79154 Source]) (In response to HG closing his threads on the moderating under the new regime)

== Criticisms ==

He has received one complaint about his moderating that was upheld, details can be found [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?p=1527499 here]. He apologised for the incident.
Some have criticised him for being too 'spammy', a claim jp does not disagree with. However jp believes there is a time for light-heartedness and a time for seriousness, but sometimes the lines get blurred.

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:category:House of Wilpuri|The House of Wilpuri]]

[[Category:Moderator]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category: House of Wilpuri]]

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2007-04-15T08:45:49Z

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Justinian

2007-04-10T10:18:53Z

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==Overview==

Justinian is one of the oldest active members of TWC and one of the longest serving staff members, have joined the site on September 21, 2004 after lurking for several months in the Total War section. He was made a [[:category:Civitate|Civitate]] after a failed attempt on June 25, 2005. He was then elected to the position of Quaestor (now [[:category:moderator|Tribounos]]) on September 13, 2005, in the first ever moderator election on TWC. He was also, along with [[Soren]], the first ever elected [[:category:Administrator|Hex]] member, being elected to the position of Praetor (now Strategos) on November 28, 2005. He held the position until March 1, 2006, when he was elected to the position of Republican Consul and [[Curator]], becoming the first democratically elected administrator of TWC. At the time, there was a Triumvirate of administrators --- the Imperator, representing ON, the Republican Consul, representing the Curia and the CC, and the Imperial Consul, representing the TW and modding communities. Justinian resigned on March 1, 2007. Justinian is considered by the Community in general to be "Wubalicious"

==Contributions==
*Former general manager of [[The Eagle Standard]] and The [[Helios]].
*Long time news contributor and poster.
*Original author and compiler of the [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59187 Consolidated Guide to Total War Center].
*Interviewed for the [[TWC Podcast]] in the first interview for that publication, by Evariste.
*Several bills in the Curia.
*CC related content to the TWC wiki.
*Served as Curator of the Curia until the position was moved away from the Republican Consul.

==Family==
Justinian, along with [[Belisarius]], is one of the founders of the [[:category:House of Caesars|House of Caesars]], TWC's largest house and semi-political body. He was originally in the family of [[the Black Prince]], before differences separated the two. He is the patron of [[Felixion]], [[Ulyaoth]], [[Reidy]], [[Ran Taro]], and [[Shyam Popat]].

==Ranks Held==
*[[:category:Civitate|Civitate]]
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*[[:category:Patrician|Patrician]]
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*[[:category:Senator|Senatorii]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/Senatorii2.png

*[[:category:moderator|Quaestor]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/Quaestor.jpg

*Praetor

*Republican Consul

*[[Curator]]

*[[:category:administrator|Strategos]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/team_icons/administrator.jpg

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:category:House of Caesars|The House of Caesars]]

[[Category:Famous Characters]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category:House of Caesars]]

Justinian

2007-04-10T10:18:39Z

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==Overview==

Justinian is one of the oldest active members of TWC and one of the longest serving staff members, have joined the site on September 21, 2004 after lurking for several months in the Total War section. He was made a [[:category:Civitate|Civitate]] after a failed attempt on June 25, 2005. He was then elected to the position of Quaestor (now [[:category:moderator|Tribounos]]) on September 13, 2005, in the first ever moderator election on TWC. He was also, along with [[Soren]], the first ever elected [[:category:Administrator|Hex]] member, being elected to the position of Praetor (now Strategos) on November 28, 2005. He held the position until March 1, 2006, when he was elected to the position of Republican Consul and [[Curator]], becoming the first democratically elected administrator of TWC. At the time, there was a Triumvirate of administrators --- the Imperator, representing ON, the Republican Consul, representing the Curia and the CC, and the Imperial Consul, representing the TW and modding communities. Justinian resigned on March 1, 2007. Justinian is generally considered by the Community in general to be "Wubalicious"

==Contributions==
*Former general manager of [[The Eagle Standard]] and The [[Helios]].
*Long time news contributor and poster.
*Original author and compiler of the [http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=59187 Consolidated Guide to Total War Center].
*Interviewed for the [[TWC Podcast]] in the first interview for that publication, by Evariste.
*Several bills in the Curia.
*CC related content to the TWC wiki.
*Served as Curator of the Curia until the position was moved away from the Republican Consul.

==Family==
Justinian, along with [[Belisarius]], is one of the founders of the [[:category:House of Caesars|House of Caesars]], TWC's largest house and semi-political body. He was originally in the family of [[the Black Prince]], before differences separated the two. He is the patron of [[Felixion]], [[Ulyaoth]], [[Reidy]], [[Ran Taro]], and [[Shyam Popat]].

==Ranks Held==
*[[:category:Civitate|Civitate]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/Civitate.jpg

*[[:category:Patrician|Patrician]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/patrician8tp.jpg

*[[:category:Senator|Senatorii]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/Senatorii2.png

*[[:category:moderator|Quaestor]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/customavatars/Quaestor.jpg

*Praetor

*Republican Consul

*[[Curator]]

*[[:category:administrator|Strategos]]
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/images/team_icons/administrator.jpg

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:category:House of Caesars|The House of Caesars]]

[[Category:Famous Characters]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category:House of Caesars]]

TWC Wiki:General disclaimer

2007-04-09T20:14:03Z

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Nothing you see on these pages bears any resemblance to reality, and may have last been edited by a drunken gay student from Milton Keynes

TWC Staff cannot and will not be held responsible for the following
*A genuine [[Honor&Glory]] raping
*sheer randomness
*general gayness
*the Black Prince (yes, in general)
*[[Wilpuri]]'s alcoholism
*[[Gigagaia]]'s fashion sense, or lack thereof
*left wing british homosexuals
*barbie
*Cadbury's Creme Eggs
*the effects of prolonged exposure to [[TWC]], or its rare element [[Professor420]]
*anything posted by [[Ferrets54]]
*the above includes anything posted by [[Ferrets54]] pretending to be female and a radical feminist
*existentialism
*[[TWC]] taking over your life and destroying your career/marriage/relationships/school grades/physical appearence/(insert/delete as appropriate)

TWC Wiki:General disclaimer

2007-04-09T20:13:53Z

160.5.238.38:

Nothing you see on these pages bears any resemblance to reality, and may have last been edited by a drunken gay student from Milton Keynes

TWC Staff cannot and will not be held responsible for the following
*A genuine [[Honor&Glory]] raping
*sheer randomness
*general gayness
*the Black Prince (yes, in general)
*[[Wilpuri]]'s alcoholism
*[[Gigagaia]]'s fashion sense, or lack thereof
*left wing british homosexuals
*barbie
*Cadbury's Creme Eggs
*the effects of prolonged exposure to [[TWC]], or its rare element [[Professor420]]
*anything posted by [[Ferrets54]]
*the above includes anything posted by [[Ferrets54]] pretending to be female and a radical feminist
*existentialism
*TWc taking over your life and destroying your career/marriage/relationships/school grades/physical appearence/(insert/delete as appropriate)

TWC Wiki:General disclaimer

2007-04-09T20:11:30Z

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TWC Wiki:General disclaimer

2007-04-09T20:10:50Z

160.5.238.38:

Nothing you see on these pages bears any resemblance to reality, and may have last been edited by a drunken gay student from Milton Keynes

TWC Staff cannot and will not be held responsible for the following
*A genuine [[Honor&Glory]] raping
*sheer randomness
*general gayness
*the Black Prince (yes, in general)
*[[Wilpuri]]'s alcoholism
*[[Gigagaia]]'s fashion sense, or lack thereof
*left wing british homosexuals
*barbie
*Cadbury's Creme Eggs
*the effects of prolonged exposure to [[TWC]], or its rare element [[Professor420]]
*anything posted by [Ferrets54]]
*the above includes anything posted by [[Ferrets54]] pretending to be female and a radical feminist
*existentialism

The Black Prince

2007-04-09T19:18:07Z

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== Overview ==

the Black Prince, or "tBP", was administrator of Total War Centre from November 2003 to February 2004, where he was controversially removed after allegedly attempting to delete the site. He has been a moderator several times since then, and was elected to the rank of [[:category:Divus|Divus]] in February 2006, though he later resigned due to doubts as to whether or not he qualified for the position. He is currently a senior well respected Senator, and a member of the Consilium de Civitate. tBP has been instrumental in the drafting of the new site Constitution.

Author of [[The Chronicles of the Prince]].

== Background ==
the Black Prince, real name Aden Lucas, is an English Law Student born in 1985, London. He joined TWC in September 2002 not long after the sites creation, and following the release of Medieval: Total War. When TWC moved to legiontotalwar in April 2003, tBP was one of the first to join up, as member no. 19. He is one of the few members from this era who still are regular active members, notable others including Wild Bill Kelso, Siblesz and PyrrhusIV.

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:Category:House of the Black Prince|The House of the Black Prince]]

[[Category: Famous Characters]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category:House of the Black Prince]]

The Black Prince

2007-04-09T19:17:18Z

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== Overview ==

the Black Prince, or "tBP", was administrator of Total War Centre from November 2003 to February 2004, where he was controversially removed after allegedly attempting to delete the site. He has been a moderator several times since then, and was elected to the rank of [[:category:Divus|Divus]] in February 2006, though he later resigned due to doubts as to whether or not he qualified for the position. He is currently a senior well respected Senator, and a member of the Consilium de Civitate. tBP has been instrumental in the drafting of the new site Constitution.

Author of [[The Chronicles of the Prince]].

== Background ==
the Black Prince, real name Aden Lucas, is an English Law Student born in 1985, London. He joined TWC in September 2002 not long after the sites creation, and following the release of Medieval: Total War. When TWC moved to legiontotalwar in April 2003, tBP was one of the first to join up, as member no. 19. He is one of the few members from this era who still are regular active members, notable others including Wild Bill Kelso, Siblesz and PyrrhusIV.

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:Category:House of the Black Prince|The House of the Black Prince]]

[[Category: Famous Characters]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category:House of the Black Prince]]

The Black Prince

2007-04-09T19:17:03Z

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== Overview ==

the Black Prince, or "tBP", was administrator of Total War Centre from November 2003 to February 2004, where he was controversially removed after allegedly attempting to delete the site. He has been a moderator several times since then, and was elected to the rank of [[:category:Divus|Divus]] in February 2006, though he later resigned due to doubts as to whether or not he qualified for the position. He is currently a senior well respected Senator, and a member of the Consilium de Civitate. tBP has been instrumental in the drafting of the new site Constitution.

Author of [[The Chronicles of the Prince]].

== Background ==
the Black Prince, real name Aden Lucas, is an English Law Student born in 1985, London. He joined TWC in September 2002 not long after the sites creation, and following the release of Medieval: Total War. When TWC moved to legiontotalwar in April 2003, tBP was one of the first to join up, as member no. 19. He is one of the few members from this era who still are regular active members, notable others including Wild Bill Kelso, Siblesz and PyrrhusIV.

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:Category:House of the Black Prince|The House of the Black Prince]]

[[Category: Famous Characters]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category:House of the Black Prince]]

The Black Prince

2007-04-09T19:12:39Z

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== Overview ==

the Black Prince, or "tBP", was administrator of Total War Centre from November 2003 to February 2004, where he was controversially removed after allegedly attempting to delete the site. He has been a moderator several times since then, and was elected to the rank of [[:category:Divus|Divus]] in February 2006, though he later resigned due to doubts as to whether or not he qualified for the position. He is currently a senior well respected Senator, and a member of the Consilium de Civitate. tBP has been instrumental in the drafting of the new site Constitution.

Author of [[The Chronicles of the Prince]].

== Background ==
the Black Prince, real name Aden Lucas, is an English Law Student born in 1985, London. He joined TWC in September 2002 not long after the sites creation, and following the release of Medieval: Total War. When TWC moved to legiontotalwar in April 2003, tBP was one of the first to join up, as member no. 19. He is one of the few members from this era who still are regular active members, notable others including Wild Bill Kelso, Siblesz and PyrrhusIV.

== See Also ==
*[[Total War Center]]
*[[:Category:House of the Black Prince|The House of the Black Prince]]

[[Category: Famous Characters]]
[[Category:Civitate]]
[[Category:Patrician]]
[[Category:Senator]]
[[Category:House of the Black Prince]]

Total War Center

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== Overview ==

[http://www.twcenter.net Total War Center] is the largest Total War fansite on the internet. It is owned by the not for profit organisation [[Ogres Net]]. It is home to many mods including [[Rome Total Realism]], [[Europa Barbarorum]], [[SPQR]] and [[Terrae Expugnandae]]. The Site also has it's own [http://www.surrealchat.net/chat/TWCenter IRC Chat] and [[Podcast]]. The Day to day running of the Site is done by the [[Hexagon Council]] which is comprised of the most senior moderators/administrators. There are also approximately 20 [[Junior Staff]]. TWC is also home to [[The Curia]].

== Hosted Mods ==

The Total War Center (TWC) is home to the largest collection of modifications for the total war series. The hosted mods are predominantly for Rome TW and its expansions, although work has started on several mod projects for the new release, Medieval II TW.

=== Rome Total War ===

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=214 Rome Total War Modifications]

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=215 Barbarian Invasion (expansion) Modifications]

=== Medieval 2: Total War ===

The Medieval 2: Total War modding community is waiting in eager anticipation of a new Patch and Pack Extractor.

[http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=211 Medival II Total War Modifications]

Many mods have been announced including:

[[Europa Barbarorum 2]]

[[Medieval Total Realism: Age of Ambition]]

== History ==

Some of the former admins or staff members of TWC have created acocunts of their times at the site. [[Mi Lucha]] by Siblesz, [[The Chronicles of the Prince]] by the Black Prince and [[A History of a Society]] by Belisarius.

=== Origins ===

TWC was originally created by Emperor Paul Dacoste and co-founded by The Knight2100, under the name mtw.gamercastle.com, as part of the gamercastle network, that now longer exists. When GC closed down in 2003 it became the Total War Centre (note english spelling of name!) when it moved to an independant server, www.legiontotalwar.com in april 2003.

=== Early Days ===
The first year of independant existance was a quiet time for the site. It remained a small cosy and largely unnoticed community. It was known for being a haven of intellectual debate, and liberal moderation, at a time when larger fansites, notably the official boards and The Org were employing increasingly harsh policies. The intellectualism of the site attracted members away from larger boards where deep and informed debates were often interupted or hijacked by what is referred to as n00bish posting. TWC's growth was slow during this time, but saw rapid rise as new administrative staff were brought in.

=== The First and Second Triumvirate ===
As real life issues increasingly detracted from the time Paul Dacoste was able to devote to running the site, its two moderators, Juan Siblesz (aka Siblesz) and Aden Lucas (aka the Black Prince) were given admin status and tasked with reforming and rejuvenating the site. Together with Paul, they formed an administrative Triumvirate. The biggest success of their leadership was the somewhat illegal hosting of video recordings of the BBC2 and Lion TV Production "Time Commanders". This show used the engine for Rome Total War, which was unreleased at the time, to recreate historical battles that teams of ordinary people could fight in in a Total War Style. As the show was unavailable in the US, there was great demand for images and recordings of it. Several british members of TWC made these available to the admin staff, which hosted them on TWC's server, and advertised this fact around the wider community. By the end of the first season of Time Commanders, TWC was one of only 2 websites providing the content, and greatly increased its membership because of this. It brought the website to the forefront of the community, though this also resulted it attracting the wrath of Creative Assemblies and threats of legal action over copyright issues.

Due to increasing conflicts in administrative style between Juan and Aden, and continuing prolonged absense of Paul, a third member was brought on board to assist in the running of the site. Leonardo Esperon (aka Boris Pavlov Grozny) was another long standing member of the community and invited to take the job as the third member of the Triumvirate. This Second Trium represents the start of a golden age at TWC where the perfect balance between community size, popularity content and moderation was established.
The Three admins divided the duties of running the sdite between them, with Juan dealing with website and technical issues, Aden running the forum itself, and having overall charge of moderation, and Leo arbitrating any issues between them, as well as overseeing a new concept on the site - The Curia (see elsewhere)

To summarise briefly, Leo wrote an created a Constitution for the site, known as the Syntagma, and a place called the Curia, which was to be the home of all Syntagma related issues. They also created an additional class of members known as Civitates who represented the most respected members of the site. The key idea behind the concept was that all members would be bound by the Syntagma, including the staff, and that the Civitates, through a form of democracy within the Curia, would have say over how the site was run. The first example of such input was the creation of a Signature and Avatar Policy by the Curia.
Increasing conflict arose between Leo and Aden over the exact nature and implementation of the Syntagma, with Leo eventually resigning his post citing administrative conflicts with the "bureacratic nature" of Aden. This proved to be the first step toward the forum Civil War.

=== Civil War ===

=== Hacker Attacks ===

== Common Community ==

The Common Community Section of TWC is almost as big as the Total War areas. Here people debate topics such as Politics, Currant Affairs, Morals, Religion, Science, Sport, History, Technical Things, games amongst other things.

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