WIDEVERSE Leadership

Leaders

Runescape Era

• N/A

COMMUNISM Era

Dates	Leader		Notes
April 16, 2007 – December 4, 2007 (7 months, 2 weeks and 4 days)		COMMISSAR Spaceballs	The Founder of COMMUNISM, the original COMMISSAR and the architect of many of our traditions, sayings, and actions. Led for two good years before a revolution started by future COMMISSAR Shelarahn broke off a majority of the guilds officers and raiders.

Diaspora Era

• N/A

2nd COMMUNISM Era

Dates	Leader		Notes
April 16, 2009 – June 24, 2009 (2 months, 1 week and 1 day)		COMMISSAR Spaceballs	Reformed COMMUNISM briefly before selling the guild to Shelarahn
June 24, 2009 – May 1, 2010 (10 months and 1 week)		COMMISSAR Shelarahn I	After the failure of the offshoot guild, Shelarahn went on to raid with other guilds on Gorgonnash. When he grew tired of the neckbeard atmosphere of raiding guilds, he bought the guild from his long time mentor Spaceballs, and tried to reform the guild to its former glory. Resigned as COMMISSAR in in May of 2010 when he began attending college.

Dark Ages

Dates	Leader		Notes
June 1, 2010 – May 24, 2012 (1 year, 11 months, 3 weeks and 2 days)		COMMISSAR PREMIER Pro Tempore Petrus	Picked the mantle up when the officer Shelarahn had appointed to lead COMMUNISM attempted to pawn off the guild. This era is usually referred to as The Dark Ages

Friend Zone Era

Dates	Leader		Notes
May 4, 2012 – June 6, 2013 (1 year, 1 month and 2 days)		Nawp	Founded Friend Zone and reunited the old COMMIES. No longer considered the leader after Friend Zone ceased being the figurehead of The WIDEVERSE after The Banishment of Shelarahn

New COMMUNISM Era

Dates	Leader		Notes
May 24, 2012 – May 25, 2015 (3 years and 1 day)		COMMISSAR OF THE COMMUNISM EMPIRE Shelarahn II	Bought the guild back from Petrus and didn't start reforming until late 2013. Rebuilt COMMUNISM into a new GOLDEN AGE. Expanded the guild into Wildstar, Guild Wars 2, Tera, Minecraft, Archeage, and reformed the World of Warcraft guilds

BMW, Wrongthink Tank, WTT, & WIDEBOYS Eras

Dates	Leader		Notes
May 25, 2015 – September 3, 2015 (3 months, 1 week and 2 days)		Kimsemus	Short lived reign as he was EAC banned a week in, but remained active throughout.
May 25, 2015 – September 3, 2015 (3 months, 1 week and 2 days)		Capitaler	Primary leader of BMW during The Rust Era. Stepped down at the beginning of The 2015 Hiatus
May 25, 2015 – March 1, 2019 (3 years, 9 months and 4 days)		Taylor Swift	Second hand to Capitaler, but one of the 3 co-founders. Revitalized BMW after The 2015 Fall Hiatus and let until his abidcation.
March 1, 2019 – May 4, 2019 (2 months and 3 days)		Peaches	Co-Leader with Alex. Stepped down during The Sauce Affair.
March 1, 2019 – April 1, 2020 (1 year and 4 weeks)		AlexanderDeLarge	Co-leader with Peaches. Led BMW until he was asked to stop down during The Fools Coup.
April 1, 2020* – January 11, 2023 (2 years, 9 months, 1 week and 3 days)		The WideKing Taylor Swift	Reluctantly returned after both of his appointed replacements had meltdowns and/or left.
January 11, 2023* – Present (1 year, 11 months, 1 week and 5 days)		WIDE Steward Prude	Chosen by Taylor to hold the keys to the kingdom when he stepped down for good.

Leadership Structure

Runescape Era

• N/A

COMMUNISM Era

• 2007: COMMISSAR with multiple officers

Diaspora Era

• N/A

2nd COMMUNISM Era

• 2009-2010: COMMISSAR with multiple officers

Dark Ages

• 2010-2012: COMMISSAR Pro Tempore

Friend Zone Era

• 2012-2013: Co-GMs with multiple officers

New COMMUNISM Era

• 2012-2015: COMMISSAR and TROIKA (3 leaders, including PREMIERE (COMMISSAR))

BMW Era

• 2015: Multiple unofficial leaders in Rust
• 2016-2018: COUNCIL with figurehead leader
• 2018-2019: One untitled leader with a couple moderators
• 2019: Two untitled leaders with multiple moderators
• 2019-2020: One untitled leader with a few moderators
• 2020-2023: WIDEKING with few advisors/MOTHER
• 2023-Present: A WIDE STEWARD