News Archive 1
Sword's update....again.
10/30/03
I dislike excuses. I'm very sorry to give excuses to you guys
for not being available all this time. As you all know I have been having
trouble working on TR with you guys. For that I am deeply sorry. I know
we all have duties to attend to and I am the only one who is lagging behind.
I work 70-80 hours a week and I only sleep for 3 hour periods twice a day.
In fact, I'm only able to talk to you guys during my lunch break! But
believe me I am trying hard and I do believe we can make things happen :).
I'm going to buy another computer soon- most likely a laptop- and that will
most likely take about 2 weeks to a month. However, we have an excellent
group of people. I truly believe we can grow greatly within the next 6
months. All we need right now is more communication and more people, but
we will make TR greater than ever before!
=TR= *Sword* {*****}
Councilmember Since August 2003
Sword's Progress Update
10/15/03
TR is increasing it's membership in SS! That's wonderful and it's
all thanks to Virago's hard work and dedication. I made a motion for a vote
to set him as the leader of Starsiege division of TR. We only need to wait for the votes to come
in to make it official. Councilmembers vote at the post in the TR Only forum
called "Chatroom". The computers at Sacramento's public library are so outdated
I can't get into any chatroom. I'm not sure what the problem is but they run
some sort of program that requires you to input your library card number to
use the internet so that might be it. Even then you can only use it for one
hour!
Also, there will be major changes on the website coming soon which Enforcer is
working on. I will give my input to him whenever I can and I hope someone can
volunteer to help him finish. If you want to help email him at
flamingpanda@hotmail.com . If there's any death threats for me send them to
somethingangel@hotmail.com .
=TR= *Sword*
Councilmember Since August 2003
Hey Guys, read this.
10/12/03
First off I would like to say that TR is growing, slowly but we're getting
there. Sword just finished moving and should have his computer on the internet
sometime within the next 37 years. Untill then he'll continue to harass and
provide us with new and creative recruitment strategies on our message boards
using the outdated public library computers of California (Now ruled by THE
GOVINATOR!!). Active members please e-mail me at
webmaster@terranrenegades.8m.com
with your name and given rank, this goes for all Terran Renegades
members in every game.
We're currently trying to form a good, strong foundation for our organization,
this includes a hell of alot of website related stuff that I'm currently working
on alone (Go me!!). I'm not going to list everything, but here are some of the
current things I'll be implementing into the TR website.
Starsiege: Tribes and Tribes 2 based site within the main site.
Other game sites: such as Half-Life and Starcraft.
Other stuff: working on making this site your one stop place for any information
and downloads you could ever want on the games we're apart of.
It's going slow but once the new website features are done I'll bring them all
up at once, kind of like a second website overhaul. Remember, nothing worthwhile
ever happened overnight, be patient and I promis you, Terran Renegades will be greater
than anyone ever thought possible.
-Enforcer
GUESS WHAT EVERYONE!!!!
9/23/03
Haha, I totally updated the site at 2AM!!
-Enforcer
By the power of Plague Dog!
8/23/03
Yesterday we had a High Council meeting (probrably for the first time). It was great and we shared many ideas. These are just a few topics we discussed:
Clan Leader Recruitment
Website Features
Join Recruitment and Registration Page
Also, GK has agreed to work with me in the selection process for clan leaders! GK is a mature and valued leader in our organization and that's why I'm glad he's sharing this responsibility with me. Also, every member please go to the registration page and fill out the form. The major reason why you should fill this form out is so we can celebrate birthdays and have helpful information such as your email address.
=TR= *Sword* {*****}
Member and Co-leader Since 1998
What's going on???
8/10/03
Unless you've been under a very large rock (and a very heavy one I might add), I'm assuming everyone
has heard about Arnold Schwarzenegger running for governor of California. Apparently
anybody with $3,500 and 65 signatures on a petition can run for governor, but at least it's
somebody worth voting for, for once!
I personally do not live in California, but a certain contact I know does, they shall remain
nameless for the time being. This slightly reliable/mentally unstable source of information seems to believe that having a person like Arnold Schwarzenegger (also known as "THE TERMINATOR")
will bring a new order of chaotic justice to the state of California, send the "gays" back
to France and cause all the hippies, or "flower-children" as they prefer to be called,
to leave San Francisco, but one can only hope. He aso believes that it's the year 3047 and babies
come from those little Cabbage Patch dolls that were the craze of 6 year old girls in the early 90's, So
I'm not so sure how valid his opinion is.
Below we see one of the advertising banners for Arnold's campaign....
While I believe that his fancy black (definitely expensive) suit/neck tie combo, nice fluffy semi-afro hair do and friendly nice guy I'm not gonna hurt you look may draw the
much wanted attention of the California citizens, several votes from his devoted, maybe even
obsessed fans and quite possibly a lawsuit or two from the semi-threatening text, or the anti cyborg laws. Will it be enough
for him to win the spot of California governor over his competition? That's right everyone, Arnold
Schwarzenegger's most hated, maybe even feared arch-nemisis...and no I don't mean the guy with the funky helmet in Conan the Barbarian. I'm talking about somebody far more dangerous.
Gary Coleman! Now I realize you all may be thinking "Whatchoo talkin’ about, Enforcer?"
but I..I did not stutter. That's right ladies and gentlemen, Gary Coleman, the 4'8" actor has entered the race for governor of the
Golden State! God only knows why they call it that, I have had a few theories myself but I won't
be discussing them in this so-called article. I know we all thought it couldn't get any worse
after the Ferret loving Sheriff, AND the anouncement of American Idol 3, not to mention Gallagher (the guy who smashes stuff with a mallet)
running for California State Governor as well, but it has. Larry Flynt, the publisher of Hustler Magazine is also
in this "race". How will the oh so Golden State of California end up once this whole thing is over? I'm just wondering if
anyone is taking these well known people seriously and how much glue we have to sniff before things start to make sense.
-Enforcer (please don't sue us!)
Sword's weekly update!
8/1/03
Hi, this is Sword with lots great news! As you know, TR has been going
under great changes. This week the co-leaders of TR officially passed the
Code of Honor, explaining in detail how TR is run. Also, the website has
gone under great changes due to Enforcer's hard work and dedication. In
addition, the High Council elected a new clan leader to head TR operations
in Starcraft, Electrobrain! Electrobrain will assume the rank of five star
general and will lead TR along with Enforcer, Gazebo Kid, and myself.
Congradulations Electrobrain!
=TR= *Sword* {*****}
Member and Co-leader Since 1998
Attention everyone! Please read!
30/7/03
Recently there have been reports of a Terran Renegades member
posting on several different clan boards trying to recruit members
for TR. While I believe he was just trying to spread the word about
us expanding into other games, he went about doing it the wrong way.
Terran Renegades is an honorable and very well respected clan and we
do NOT approve of such actions.
I would personally like to think those of you who posted on our
clan's public forum informing us of this issue. If you have seen a TR
member trying to recruit another clan's members or a similar post please
e-mail a link to the problem to
webmaster@terranrenegades.8m.com
so we may straighten things out. On behalf of Terran Renegades, I give out
my deepest apologizes, we would never intentionally try to recruit loyal
members of another clan.
However, we are currently recruiting. If you're interested in becoming a
part of the Terran Renegades team and preferable are not already a member
of another clan, please fill out the form on the registration page. Terran
Renegades is working on expanding into other games outside of the Starsiege
universe. Because of this, we currently have several key positions open. If
you have any questions, please send an email to
webmaster@terranrenegades.8m.com.
-Enforcer co-leader of Terran Renegades
New Website!
29/7/03
Thats right, the Terran Renegades website has a new look, we'll be working
on it for many more weeks, but once it's done, it will be, at least in my
mind, "very nice" for a lack of better words to say. As you can see we have all
kinds of nifty things to click, new pages, new links and new downloads as
well!! We're currently working on expanding Terran Renegades into other
games and expanding the website is only natural. Expect to find alot of
new content in the weeks to come. If you are currently a part of Terran
Renegades, were at one time, or if you're interested in becoming part of
the team, please register yourself and explain your current squad status
so we can keep things up to date.
-Enforcer
Sword does site update V2.0!
25/7/03
Hi guys,
This is your friendly neighborhood Latino with another annoying message
(yes Spanish was my first language). I hope you're all in good health,
especially if you live in Texas (I'm just kidding Enfo). If you don't
already know I'm the father of a brand new baby girl named Rosa. She's
the most wonderful baby in the world- anyone who disagrees is asking for
it! My little girl never cries and she's very beautiful. I'm still waiting
for the celebration cigars from you guys (even though most of us aren't
old enough to smoke yet lol). Anyway, let's get down to business before I
bore you to death. I want to get a few things straight before we take any
more steps toward building TR. First of all, we're in desperate need for
leaders, specifically clan leaders. Right now we're not starting new clans
into more games because most of us don't own another worth while game
besides SS and those that do have great games have other responsibilities
to attend to. I don't even own a computer (one that works anyway).
So this is what we need to do- we need to find leaders outside of TR and bring them
onto our team. We can find people who have experience leading a clan or
find brand new clan leaders with definite potential. We can go on clan
forums, place posts at game sites, contact old SS squad leaders, and
contact current clan leaders and their direct subordinated to find those
willing to be part of our vision. After we start getting responses we can
screen through the candidates and find quality people and present them to
the Co-leaders for approval. I'm going to go a little off subject so
please bear with me a little (I know my messages are long:)). When TR left
EST (Earth's Shock Troops, a merger between TR and a no-name squad)
Enforcer was the only one who did not hesitate to follow me in rebuilding
TR. I was very down and depressed about everything that happened to TR and
if it weren't for Enforcer TR would not exist today. He encouraged me not
to give up and we pulled through the crisis together. After the first few
days many of the old EST members joined the reborn TR (even those that
we're from the first TR like Gryphon) and many new members came in. In
fact, we went from 2 members to 40 members in just 6 months! Suppose that
we recruit clan leaders to start several clans at the same time and they
have the same success Enforcer and I had. We could have 100 members in the
next 6 months! It's very important we find more leaders to multiply our
growth through several games instead of just adding our growth in one
game.
If you want to volunteer your time, energy, and money to making TR
great, email me. But if you decide to help us, we need everything you got
and more, because only the very best are going to be selected. Let's not
forget that we're on our way to creating the greatest online organization
in history, and that's no bull! We need leaders who believe we can be the
best and who are willing to work HARD for it. Email me at
somethingangel@hotmail.com
to apply for the position of clan leader and list what games are you
available for. Email me for any reason, even to let me know you still
exist. I'm looking forward to it :).
Sincerely,
=TR= *Sword* {*****}
Member and Co-leader Since 1998
7/9/03
Greetings,
This is =TR= *Sword* with a message. As you may already know, many TR
members are no longer playing Starsiege (and that includes myself) and
have moved on to other activities. Sadly, this has occurred throughout
Starsiege, and of course, this was bound to happen after a few years. No
matter how much we try, we cannot stop people from buying and playing
newer games. So we have lost many members who found something that they
thought was more fun than Starsiege and there is nothing wrong with that.
Now I know that you have a special place for TR in your heart, whether
you are a current member or not. I've had the pleasure of serving with
over 70 great friends in the 5 years Terran Renegades has been in
existence. We have worked hard to make TR an organization as great as
it is and I know you feel as strongly as I do when I tell you that we
cannot let all of this go to waste. You and I can build TR stronger than
it has ever been before if we address this problem now. I find that we
face a problem that has threatened the future of your organization and
we must find a way that will allow us to grow again. Our love for TR is
strong; however Starsiege is dying and we cannot stop that. So I propose
a solution: Terran Renegades must branch into more games or we will not
survive. I propose we focus completely on other games. By moving into
other games such as Tribes and Tribes 2, Mechwarrior 4, etc. you will all
have an opportunity to become a division or clan leader in any one of
these games. I'm not promising you a promotion. A person with real ability
and character is rewarded with a promotion. Promotions are not given-they
are earned. So, let me have any suggestions you might have. Even if it's
just to say hi, I want to hear from you. My email is
somethingangel@hotmail.com.
Let's go get this thing done .
Sincerely,
=TR=*Sword* {*****}
Co-Leader and Member Since 1998
7/02/03
Well, I haven't really been on Starsiege much and I'm not sure who reads
this site anymore...maybe I should make better use out of it(though it
will always have Starsiege stuff!), but we'll see. For lack of better
things to post..
Did you guys hear the one where Sherlock Holmes and Watson are on a camping
trip? They'd gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes
says, "Watson, look up. What do you see?" And Watson says, "Well, I see
thousands of stars." "And what does that mean to you?" Holmes asks him.
And Watson says, "Well, I suppose it means that of all the planets and suns
and moons in the universe, that we are truly the one most blessed with the
reason to deduce theorems to make our way in this world of criminal
enterprises and blind greed. It means that we are truly small in the eyes
of God but struggle each day to be worthy of the senses and spirit we have
been blessed with. And, I suppose, at the very least, in the meteorological
sense, it means that it is most likely that we will have another nice day
tomorrow. What does it mean to you, Holmes?" And Sherlock Holmes says, "To
me, it means someone has stolen our tent."
- Enforcer
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWORD
5/7/03
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWORD!!(Again, but not bold!) Thats right, it's our good ole Sword's Birthday today! Congratulations on getting through another year.
5/6/03
Hi, I'm retarded. Heres some interesting stuff for you to read since GK thinks my updates are worse than richard simmons.
Dysfunctional Family Part 1
Dysfunctional Family Part 2
And here for your viewing pleasure is the the best .gif animation ever made in the history of mankind.

5/6/03
Updated the main page with this here text, omg!!(bare with me here!)
4/15/03
I gave the site a small update today, nothing too special. I'm working on another computer, hopefully it can be used to host a dedicated TR server for the hand full of Starsiege players left. Check out the downloads page for some nice files and post something on the forums, I'm sure Hal wants somebody other than me to talk to! Oh, and on a totally un-related side note Postal 2 comes out soon!
Sorry for not being around much, I've been messing with my new Geforce4 Ti 4600 alot lately. I bought a nifty cooling system from Thermaltake recently, so not olny does my card run much cooler, it looks damn cool too.
It's a very nice video card, but there's several graphic problems with Starsiege. Missing textures, jagged lines and horrible graphic tears on objects with antialiasing on or off, things just don't show up right. I thought maybe it was the card or the drivers I was using, but I've tried 3 different cards from different companys and an endless list of drivers so that can't be it. Though it's still playable in open gl mode it doesn't look how it should. I know there's software mode but I'm not about to go that low.
I guess with no glide support on Nvidia's cards Starsiege will never look how it should. If you want a good reliable video card that makes Starsiege and many other older games look how they were ment to be seen, I suggest using a good ole Voodoo card from our dearly departed 3dfx. Starsiege and it's spin off "sequel" Starsiege: Tribes(based on pretty much the same engine) were made around the 3dfx chipset and the games looks the best on a 3dfx based card respectively.
On a side note I removed a bunch of crap that was on this main page that you're reading right now and made one nice and neat little update.
Updates are as follows:
1.) Final version of TR City map released.
2.) Final version of TR Castle map released.
3.) No more advertisement on the site.
4.) Better Servers.
5.) A nice guy from freeservers gave me a phone call.
6.) I saw Trinity a while back, haven't seen her for years. She seems to be doing well if anyone was wondering.


