History as told by Toli:
The clan Prince started way back when.. about 8 months after Jedi
Knight came out. I had been playing Jedi Knight for 6 of those eight
months. This was in the days of the Great clans or RA and Element...
the Ancients .. and a few others.
I met this Guy Yackman and in all
honesty .. wasn't that great... but we became friends and i taught
him how to be a gunner at bespin mining station. Soon after we
decided that we needed a clan and we were having trouble finding a
name... we put forth many with Rebel in them. I said to myself
Forget the others I will come up with a name by myself. PRINCE It
was perfect first all my favorite characters (in books) we Prince's
... my name was already Prince... and well to be honest it embodied
everything I had hoped for.
I told Yackman to change his name
and as my good friend he did as I said and he was proud to be my
second in command. We recruited about 20 people .. about half left..
but the rest stayed... we had only 10 - 20 members for quite a
while.
And in an effort to recruit an
awesome player.. I made a small bet without Yackman's knowledge
pledging that all Prince members would join RA if he beat me to 10
.. however if I won he would join Prince.. a great battle ensued and
the end score was 10 to 5 Prince_Arutha VICTORIOUS!!! ... just to
bad he didn't keep his word
Prince went through many stages One
where we were large in stature but we lacked strength. I told
Yackman many times that we had to make our clan stronger...
Prince really took off in the year
that I was away ... a whole year Yackman took over and kept me
informed and was so loyal that he would not assume full
leadership... Just waited patiently for my return. during the time
while I was away many members were added to our ranks. and Yackman
also become a budding saberist .. and a better gunner than I ever
was.. After my return I spent about two to three months regaining my
meager skills. I battled feelings of feeling left out.. feelings of
creating something bigger than I could control and most of all I
battled feelings that Yackman took over Prince slowly but surely
whether he knew it or not. This was not so because I learned that it
was up to me to reclaim leadership of Prince ... it wasn't Yackman's
job to hand it to me on a silver platter. So I worked hard learning
the art or sabering. I got to know my members ... and even got the
full version
Their are many things that I owe Yackman
.... my skill (meager as it may be)... my rank in this clan... and I
also owe him the whole clan. Without him keeping things inline while
I was away I would not have had a clan to come back to. Yack you are
a better friend than I ever was... if their is anything I can do ...
let me know.
Prince_Toli
Prince Inner-Clan Saber Tournament Champions
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