Individuals

Some people have had more of an impact on the Allegiance Community over the years than others. Some have worked hard to build Allegiance into what it is today, other's have tried to destroy the game. here's a list of Allgiance's most famous and imfamous players.

Aarmstrong

Member of the Palidors' Knights, Aarmstrong, along with Jalindo, made the last attempt at restoring the Allegiance Zone before the Source Code release. Aarmstrong has provided this Community with high quality servers hosting the Allegiance Plus core for players to enjoy.

Anguirel

Senator for PK, Ang took over the Cadet program from Romeo and made tremendous improvements to the program. Unfortunately he had to turn it over to BlackViper due to RL time constraints. Ang works in game development.

Black

Black was the first to exploit the voice chat bug in Allegiance to Crash Guard players (crash their game and send them to the Crash Guard screen) with nothing more than a voice chat. A PM would crash one player, a message to all would crash every player. Black was banned from the Allegiance Zone for two months after causing terrible damage.

After Vencain provided protection from it and Microsoft eventually fixed the bug, Black returned with a core cheat - by editing the .igc core file on his only end, he could change ship properties for himself alone. This caused the community to turtle under its shell and wait for new cheat protection while blocking any new players; ASGS resolved the issue. Black has been banned for life from the Allegiance Community by Senate vote.

Some say that it is thanks to him and the other cheaters that the Community has become what it is, stimulating extreme development to provide protection.

BlackViper

BlackViper is a long-standing member of our community who was with us from the early closed MS BETA days. He was an @Alleg on the MS Gaming Zone, the old SL of BlackShadow, a founding member of the Cadet Program, founding member of the WildCards, global forum moderator in the Free Allegiance forums, and now currently the head of the Cadet Program and in charge of all of the @Allegs. He is one of the few people who have been involved with this community since its inception, and keeps giving and giving. The list is endless for his past and continuing contributions to this community.

Clay_Pigeon

Being a teacher in real life, Clay makes the ideal Zone Lead for the Training Zone. He is personally overseeing the revamped ACS program to provide the community with more and better commanders.

Dengaroth

As Head Cadet Instructor, Deng has been instrumental to the running of the Cadet program for a long time now and dedicates a huge amount of time to marking the Cadets' exams at the end of each session. He is also the most longserving member of Rolling Thunder's leadership.

Dogbones

Currently leads our FAZ Dev team. He coordinates the many projects, etc. See the special FAZ section for all of the individuals who work on coding and development.

DrStrnglv

Known as one of the greatest commanders, Dr. StrangeLove is also the developer of the Rock Paper Scissors core.

Grimmwolf

Grimm started out in the FZ in 2000. In 2001 he became one of the leaders of GermanBorg and he was a constant member of their leadership until 2006. He was a major player in the helpline for many years helping a huge number of players play Allegiance through their routers. Along with pkk and Zapper he pays for and runs the GPZ server. He is also maintains the GoD2 core.

Guns22

Guns22 started Crash Guarding players later than the other two, and did so on the Free Zone. He was banned for life from the Allegiance Community by Senate vote.

ImmortalZ

ImmortalZ first played in the open beta until the first "death" of Allegiance. Returning during the paypal era he has spent a huge amount of time helping new players get up and running in the Helpline leading to his post as Tech Support Zone lead.

Jalindo

Founder of The Collective, Jalindo was a great commander using original and well thought out, though improvised, strategies. In order to increase TC's popularity, Jalindo used a fairly simple technique. As the Allegiance Zone allowed any player to simply create a game (much like Blizzard's Battle.net), he named a game after TC and added a catchy title, and hosted pickup games fairly often, the biggest games on the lobby. His principle of allowing anyone to join his squad certainly contributed to train a lot of today's veteran pilots and contributed to TC being the largest squad in Allegiance's history.

KGJV

Allegiance's prime all-star hacker, KGJV has created a multitude of software that are used today by players-developers: IGC Core Editor (ICE), Allegiance Game Manager (AGM), Allegiance Map Editor (AME), Allegiance Aleph Randomizer, MDLView, Allegiance Modeling Tool, and probably a few others. After taking a pause, KGJV has returned as did the Source Code to help Allegiance's brightest developers in restoring the Allegiance Zone, now known as the Free Allegiance Zone.

McWarren4

Founder of the System X, which he did because he was tired of powerful squads stacking the teams. McWarren is now a member of the WildCards

NakPPI

NakPPI is known for his great commanding skills, including his many different perfect records. He is also known to be proud about it, boasting one of the great many superb temperaments of the Allegiance Community and booting any player who would dare confront him, which is doubtlessly what led him to law.

NathanD

Founder of the My Allegiance group.

Noir

Another generous individual, Noir designed, along with NoodleNT, and hosted the Allegiance HQ when IGN's Allegiance Vault was receiving less support. NoodleNT and himself had prepared this alternative. Noir also developed the Dark Nebulae core, which he used to host on his servers available for the Community to play on.

NoodleNT

Member of the My Allegiance group, NoodleNT assisted in developing the second Allegiance HQ that was hosted on Noir's server, and was the first central community website after the IGN's Allegiance Vault.

Orion

Developer of the Ga'Taraan Federation (faction), Orion has also prepared a few useful tools, such as a web-based map switcher to allow for map switching of random maps without restarting a server. Orion also developed MDL, a useful tool.

pkk

A long time member and SL of GB pkk has obsessively kept a nearly definitive collection of core revisions and has all the Datanet posts archived for future generations. He also organises the Germany GB and Allegiance meet-ups. Along with Grimmwolf and Zapper he pays for and runs the GPZ server.

Pook

Now semi-retired, The Allegiance Senate Chancellor, Supreme Emperor Pookatine, formerly known as Raidersoft and ZoomPooky on the MS Zone. He wrote the authentication system, ASGS (Allegiance Secure Gameplay System), to resume the easy incorporation of newbies into Allegiance. This system has allowed us to stop ALL hacking of gameplay. Pook has kept this community alive for years. We owe him a great deal. He continues to work behind the scenes on ASGS, ELO, Head Admin for the Free Allegiance Forums, etc. Pook has been the glue that has held us together. A.K.A. "The Fluffy Tyrant".

Romeo

The founder and originator of the Allegiance Cadet program. Along with Black Viper they put together the initial program where cadets were assigned to a squad and taught from within. The program has evolved into and 8 week course with it's own private forums.

SOLAP

Executive Producer and Designer for Allegiance, Joel Dehlin, along with Chris Moffat, has also worked quite hard and successfully got Microsoft to release the Source Code to the Community. Solap was a developer who was close to the Community throughout Microsoft's support, often organizing the big Solap games.

SOV_Vencain

Vencain is among the few who directly saved the Allegiance Community. He developed a handful of tools, known as SOV * (SOVRoute, SOVLog, SOVLogin, SOVGuard, etc.), which provided from basic protection to full-blown authentication and accessibility during hard time when no lobby was up. He and some of the team have come back to Allegiance.

Spaceman_Spliff

Spaceman_Spliff, known by any veteran for his godly dogfighting skills, has assisted in the development of the Dreghklar Empire and Technoflux.

Spunkmeyer

Spunkmeyer used to moderate and mod the Allegiance Gateway forums for a while, and has also developed the Allegiance Plus core. He founded the Cheyenne squad, a squad meant to train newbies and then deliver the well-prepared players to recruiting squads. The project did not last long, but the concept was resurrected with the @Cadet training program.

Thalgor

An extremely generous and warm individual, Thalgor basically saved Allegiance from falling into oblivion. As Microsoft gradually reduced support of its title, and the game lobby itself would haphazardly go down for days, Thalgor provided a new lobby, as well as multiple high-quality servers (all known as ThalServe) and connections that allowed flawless gameplay. He also worked with the players-developers to help them test their new cores or maps. Thalgor owns the right to our current website and forums. He pays the bills for us. He holds the top spot as an Admin in our community.

TheBored

TB joined in mid 2004 and for a long time was the Senator representing SRM. Recently he left SRM to join PK. He is also now a major player in the Documentation Zone creating content and editing both the KnowledgeBase and now the Wiki.

Tigereye

TE now has the keys for the ASGS system and the Hat has been passed to him by Pook. The master of our help forum, "Forum Shrink", Head Admin for the forums, working with the Dev team and Pook. The list is endless for his past and continuing contributions to our community.

Titty_Baby

Another great guy with a great character and member of the Black Shadow, Titty_Baby is unfortunately best known for being the second recognized member to die while being an active member of the Community (the first being NGRU-Ilsa who died on 9/11). Shotgun brought the news. After succumbing to a heart attack, Titty_Baby's memory was honored in a special game where a minute of silence was observed. A total of 103 pilots participated. His legacy lives on with many maps having sectors named for him.

Tkela

One of the Developers of Allegiance, David Pugh was also close to the Community, often involved with players in Allegiance's continued development. Tkela also provided assistance when the Source Code was released. Tkela still is active in our development forums.

Tpaganj

Member of the My Allegiance group.

Vegeta

Developer of the Dreghklar Empire and Technoflux (factions), Vegeta also was the founder and leader of the Z Fighters, one of the best, but not undefeatable squad of the immediate post-AZ days.

Virus

Virus also used the PM exploit to Crash Guard players, and was banned for the same two months as Black. He later returned and claims to have never caused damage since. However, others claimed that he either Crash Guarded players or use the core exploit. Virus was banned for life from the Allegiance Community by a Senate Vote.

Was_Fired

Member of the My Allegiance group, Was_Fired was the first to develop a new component of the technology tree for Allegiance, the SOC (Special Operations Command) allowed for torpedoes and a few other goodies, as well as a new ship (using the Patroller model) mounting retro boosters. All those were stuffed under the Garrison tab in the Investments Menu (F5).

Your_Persona

Member of the My Allegiance group, Your_Persona introduced the first Voicechat customization which unfortunately crashed Allegiance and ultimately resulted in the method Black and countless others used for cheating. Your_Persona participated in some of the first efforts at hacking around in Allegiance.