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*'''Full Name''': The Farnborough Crew
*'''Short Name''': F-Crew
*'''Public IRC Channel''': [irc://netgamers.org/fcrew #f-crew]
*'''Alliance motto (1)''': You Know When You've Been [FC]uked
*'''Alliance motto (2)''': Cos anything else isn just an alliance
*'''HC''': [[Wakey]], [[Smokeh]], [[Imperial]], [[ANA3D]], [[carld]], [[Judge Judas|Juice]], [[Greendog]], [[rob6985]]
*'''Website''': [http://www.fcrew.net fcrew.net]
*'''Recruitment''': Open
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== Background ==
'''F-Crew''' was founded by [[Bazz]], [[Mike]] and [[Wakey]] back in round 1 while sitting in the local McDonalds.  [[Bazz]] and [[Mike]] had just been introduced to [[Planetarion]] by [[Wakey]] and together they quickly realised they weren't the only ones at their 6th Form College to be playing this new game. So F-Crew was born with the goal to serve these people, although it quickly became an alliance to serve the whole Farnborough Community. 

The alliances turning point came at the start of our second week with the application of [[Seventh]] to join our ranks. While he wasnt from Farnborough he was from just down the road and from here on the requirement to be a resident of Farnborough was dropped. This obviously saw a change in F-Crews aims, these new aims somewhat mirrored those of [[IPC]]'s which quickly led to the two alliances forming a friendship that would pretty much last until [[IPC]] disbanded its PA operations in Round 10.5, after playing that round with their members under the F-Crew tag.

== Rounds ==

F-Crew has had a turbulant history, from its glory days where it was fighting tooth and nail with [[Concordium]] to the dark days after P2P and pre-[[Round 10|PAX]]. Below is a brief description of some of the important events in F-Crew History.

=== Round 1 ===

When '''F-Crew''' entered the game all the main alliances present in the game were based round the [[Clusters]]. Some of them were starting to but [[F-Crew]] were one of the first alliances to start up without a cluster alliance at its base.

Life started slowly for '''F-Crew''' with our requirement for members having to live in Farnborough holding us back but once [[Seventh]] was accepted and our rules relaxed the alliance sprung into life. By the end of the round we were pushing 300 members.

On the war front the round was fairly quite. There were a couple of small squirmishes but nothing significant.

=== Round 2 ===

With the membership numbers at a level that was beyond anything that was envisioned a new membership structure was introduced. While [[Bazz]], [[Mike]] and [[Wakey]] remained in HC positions the rest of the alliance was placed into wings in an attempt to make things easier to manage and to allow the alliance to work more effectively.

Each wing consisted of between 18 and 22 members with a Team Leader overseeing them. The Team Leaders were :-  <p>
[[Admiral Thrawn]], [[Neophyte]], [[Seventh]], [[Smif]], [[der'Vow]], [[Rekordze]], [[Brows]], [[^0neEye]], [[Phi]], [[Pelleon]], [[MasterJodoKast]], [[Rinoa]], [[Dearth Vader]], [[TEDGE]], [[_PUG_]], [[Maximillon]], [[Goulash]], [[Script]], [[Zoblefu]], [[Morrigu]], [[Voodoo_Pigeon]] and [[Allanon]] </p>

The makeup of the teams was fairly complex. The teams were split firstly by mission focus with half the teams being defence based and half attack based. These groups were then split further so that some were “daytime” teams and others were “nightime” teams. Additionally each group had a couple of “Special Forces” and these teams could be raised at a moments notice. Assignment to the teams started by placing the more experienced players into the teams to provide the core with the new and inexperienced players then being assigned to the relevant teams.

[[Round 2]] started with a bang. Almost immediately a small but organised alliance called the [[Sulla]] alliance started to attack our members. With a new feature of [[Alliance Tags]] being introduced for [[Round 2]] it made the Intel side of the game extremely simple and the new wing system in place the threat was quickly neutralised.



===='''War with [[Concordium]]'''====

The dust had barely settled when a major war appeared on the horizon. Suddenly [[F-Crew]] noticed an unusual amount of incoming [[Concordium]]. With no official declarion of war from coming from [[Concordium]],  [[Wakey]] confronted [[Jonka]] and was informed it wasn’t an alliance attack but some members doing their own thing. When the attacks continued [[Wakey]] twice more confronted [[Jonka]] who again stated it was not an official attack.  Finally on the 4th time of asking [[Jonka]] admitted that [[Concordium]] were at war with [[F-Crew]]

A chance encounter between [[Bazz]] and the high command of the newly formed [[UXF]] alliance made it clear that [[F-Crew]] weren’t the only alliance that [[Concordium]] had declared war on and the two alliances started discussions about how they could work together to fight a common enemy.  

[[Concordium]]’s structure was the main roadblock in any plans to fight them. Not only did anyone attacking them have the main alliance to deal with but they would also have to deal with their Internal Wing [[Legion]], their junior wing [[WaCjr]] and their strong allies [[TE]]. It was decided that if there was to be any chance of success then additional alliances would need brought into the fold.

Upon approaching long term allies [[IPC]] and [[New Dawn]] a parallel plot to take down [[Concordium]] was uncovered. This was being organized by [[Zeus]] in an attempt to liven the game up. The two plans were merged and invites were extended to [[BlueTuba]], [[hirr]], [[SK]] and [[Rinoa's Eclipse]]. This left all the perceived top alliances but [[BlueTuba]] who declined the invite, on the brink of war. There was a lot of debate about inviting [[Fury]] who hadn’t yet shown their potential and initially they weren’t included in the preparations although at the end they were invited to attack [[TE]] in an attempt to prevent them retaliating on behalf of [[Concordium]].

=== Round 3 & 4 ===

=== Round 5 to 9 ===

=== Round 10 ===

=== Round 11 ===

 14	SWaRM	        36670	77	1633343	 125767486
 15	Insomnia	33256	43	2874288	 123594419
 16	DEADLY	        32606	49	2320091	 113684470
 <font color=orange><b>17	[F-Crew]	29917	60	1572203	  94332235</b></font>
 18	SiN	        23423	34	1845936	  62761830
 19	SU	        18316	64	827907	  52986085
 20	ARS	        15538	48	1044141	  50118797

=== Round 12 ===

 16	Coven	        28438	65	94774359
 17	[Pr0nStars]	22972	18	86759674
 18	[APA]	        25971	87	73235060
 <font color=orange><b>19	[F-Crew]	21609	62	72361386</b></font>
 20	Bruderschaft	17508	45	58558603
 21	Please Join me!	16038	55	49793709
 22	G.O.A.T	        15892	47	48271167

=== Round 13 ===

 12  	ToT  	        50777  	40  	246846155
 13 	Vengeance 	51343 	75 	215906018
 14 	[APA] 	        50814 	75 	199886245
 <b><font color=orange>15 	[F-Crew] 	51064 	92 	183500827</font></b>
 16 	ROCK 	        39480 	55 	160812804
 17 	Coven 	        38268 	75 	146546939
 18 	hirr 	        12074 	29 	 68183347

=== Round 14 ===

 3  Reunion  	        81358  	 75  	384074614
 4  Tides of Fire 	82823 	 87 	334205101
 5  xVx 	        58412 	 78 	243749156
 <font color=orange><b>6  [F-crew] 	        48828 	 86 	211129844</b></font>
 7  Vengeance 	        45759 	 53 	209010433
 8  TGV 	        46545 	 52 	176225444
 9  HowlingRain 	40326 	 70 	170165468

=== Round 15 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 6  Subh		46917  	 68  	223365900
 7  Vengeance		51422 	 68 	213446750
 8  TGV			46204 	 70 	207211143
 <font color=orange><b>9  [F-crew]		50428 	 89 	205634083</b></font>
 10  Howling Rain	37691 	 64 	170212866

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>

 <b>#   X  Y  Z   Ruler      Planet                Race    Size     Value     Score     XP       Nick         Alliance </b>
 34  8  2  10  Maker      Nitropentaerythrite   Xan     1391     3073283   7992323   81984    [[^Miksu^]]      [[F-Crew]]
 95  14 1  2   Hertogjan  Arcen                 Cat     1115     1084332   5907792   80391    HertogJan    [[F-Crew]]

=== Round 16 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 3 Subh        60      46,228    260,077,495    4,334,625   770 
 4 Vengeance   68      42,921    259,051,829    3,809,586   631 
 <font color=orange><b>5 F-Crew      78      42,148    258,277,410    3,311,249   540</b></font> 
 6 Angels      57      60,066    255,461,139    4,481,774   1,054 
 7 NewDawn     53      41,328    249,044,293    4,698,949   780
  
<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>

 <b>#   X  Y  Z    Ruler           Planet      Race    Size     Value      Score      XP       Nick         Alliance </b>
 20  10 4  8    Shadow          The Past    Zik     1,976    7,829,560  10,759,300 48,829   [[Pglee]]         [[F-Crew]]
 68   8 5  7    Dutch Wagenbach The Barn    Ter       489    1,001,033   7,454,933 107,565  [[TSP]]           [[F-Crew]]

=== Round 17 ===

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>

 <b>#   X  Y  Z    Nick           Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 37  10 9  2    [[Paulioski]]      [[F-Crew]]        Zik     3,652    6,272,070
 49  8  4  9    [[Rocko]]          [[F-Crew]]        Zik     2,042    5,613,216
 62  16 3  16   [[GaNjA]]          [[F-Crew]]        Xan     1,977    5,209,912

=== Round 18 ===

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z      Nick           Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 97   1  6  11     [[Berns]]          [F-Crew]      Zik     2,428    3,774,331

=== Round 19 ===

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z      Nick             Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 100  10 3  5      blizzzardstorm   [F-Crew]      Ter     1,655    5,853,111

=== Round 22 ===

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z      Nick             Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 68  11  8  4    Entropy            [F-Crew]      Zik     1,374   4,490,285

=== Round 23 ===

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z      Nick             Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 65  10  6  3    Smokeh             [F-Crew]      Etd     1,614    4,414,441

=== Round 25 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 8   TGV           37412     51     173,851,533
 9   Hidden Agenda 43384     60     164,784,606
 10  Orbit         32975     60     159,963,337
 <font color=orange><b>11  F-crew        38154     59     134,679,030</b></font>

=== Round 26 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 9   Orbit         42746     66     178,005,454
 10  Hidden Agenda 39042     67     164,914,551
 11  Vengeance     36461     57     162,619,290
 <font color=orange><b>12  F-Crew        42365     62     145,173,189</b></font>

=== Round 27 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 8  Hidden Agenda 50882     74     176,555,980
 9  ASS           43689     66     163,683,710
 10 VsNoX         46839     53     159,527,942
 <font color=orange><b>11 F-Crew        36823     72     145,912,563</b></font>

=== Round 28 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 7  TGV           29610     45     135,634,093
 8  Hidden Agenda 34149     60     134,990,141
 9  Redemption    30826     51     117,117,841
 <font color=orange><b>10  F-Crew        30339     45     107,120,723</b></font>

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z      Nick             Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 52   9  2  2    Shaz               [F-Crew]      Zik     2,559    6,288,375
 58   1  7  12   Imperial           [F-Crew]      Xan     2,126    6,085,804

=== Round 29 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 10 ASS           38072     59     152,583,709
 11 Hidden Agenda 24045     38     96,175,333
 12 Hells Fury    24837     49     83,552,180
 <font color=orange><b>13 F-Crew        19063     35     66,859,945</b></font>

=== Round 30 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 11 Hidden Agenda 31046     50     162,868,150
 12 ASS           20873     41     141,592,790
 13 Factory       29165     44     135,159,953
 <font color=orange><b>14 F-Crew        26566     37     128,914,003</b></font>

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z      Nick             Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 45   9  1  11   Imperial           [F-Crew]      Etd     2,945    11,926,033

=== Round 31 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>


 5 ROCK          52765     83     182,318,871
 6 Hidden Agenda 46019     65     150,175,753
 <font color=orange><b>7 F-Crew        34558     68     138,775,450</b></font>
 8 DLR           24101     36     135,646,124
 9 Orbit         31568     39     121,641,203

=== Round 32 ===

F-Crew decided to take round 32 off.

=== Round 33 ===

<b><u>Alliance Rankings </u></b>

 7  Conspiracy   42999   52      3,134,664       163,002,568
 8  ASS	         31743   60      2,520,328       151,219,683
 9  DLR	         36678   32      4,064,260       130,056,332
 <font color=orange><b>10 F-Crew      31186   46      2,651,971       121,990,666</b></font>

<b><u>Members In Top100 Planets </u></b>
 <b>#    X  Y  Z   Nick             Alliance      Race    Size     Score   </b>
 20   5  1  7   Smokeh           [F-Crew]      Zik     2,098    7,549,562

== Community ==

=== F-Crew Meets ===

==== Meet #1 ====

==== Meet #2 ====

==== Meet #3 ====

The 3rd F-Crew Meet took place at Thorpe Park in the last week of July 2002. In attendance was [[Wakey]], [[Mike]], [[Pelleon]], [[DoUrden]], [[Bazz]] and [[Eddie]]. Below is Eddies Account of that day

* [[Sunburn, Hamsters & Soakings: F-Crew @ Thorpe Park]]


== Did You Know? ==
* The Farnborough Crew was never intended to be the alliance's name. It was a temporary name used as a site title placeholder but it stuck.
* The shortened name of F-Crew didnt appear until Round 3 and was a product of an alliance-wide compitition to make the alliance name edgier.
* F-Crew is the longest running alliance having been created in Round 1.
* F-Crew is also the only alliance to have played every round uninterrupted.
* [[Wakey]] is one of the few Round 1 veterans to have only been a member of a single alliance.
* [[Wakey]] still hasn't finished the new [[F-Crew]] site
* F-crew broke HC [[Cm]]'s curse whereby every alliance before disbanded within 1 round of him joining
* F-Crew has been the subject of 3 stories by its former BC [[Zimra]]. [[F-Crew-Story-1]] , [[F-Crew-Story-2]] and [[F-Crew-Story-3]]
* F-Crew now has its own [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24091815459 Facebook Page]  where Past, present and potential members can get together and swap stories, pictures and bodily fluids if they wish.

===List of Recruitment threads===
[http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=176061 Round 10.5],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=178400 Round 11],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=180759 Round 12],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=181955 Round 13],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=185885 Round 14],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=188020 Round 15],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=189404 Round 16],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=190366 Round 17],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=191313 Round 18],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=192437 Round 19],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=193522 Round 20],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=194192 Round 21],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=194750 Round 22],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=195070 Round 23],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=195653 Round 24],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=195922 Round 25],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=196217 Round 26],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=196542 Round 27],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=196826 Round 28],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=197035 Round 29], [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=197333 Round 30],  [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=197702 Round 31] [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=198097 Round 33] [http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=198228 Round 34]


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