The Swift Archives
The Swift Archives (see former names in info box) is a collection of the collected COMMIEVERSE history. Including thousands of video clips, text files, website backups, images, game servers, and more, they all server to accurately represent certain times and points in the history of the COMMIEVERSE.
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| Former name | The COMMIE Archives, Friend Vault |
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| Established | 21 April 2012 |
| Location | Taylors Massive Collection of HDDs |
| Collection size | Several hundreds of gigabytes |
| Founder | Taylor Swift |
| Historian | Taylor Swift, DerVerrater |
Philosophy
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This stance on the collecting and maintaining of the groups history stems from the massive loss of information that occurred due to lack of foresight, carelessness, hard drive wipes, and system failures in the pre-Dark Ages. Almost none of the history of those early years exists outside of scarce and incomplete Ventrilo recording, old forum posts hosted on free sites, and WoW screenshots. As such, most of that history is lost and unable to be accurately immortalized as it is completely at the whim of the historians memory piecing together what scant evidence is available.
Foundation & Friend Vault
The concept of a cohesive collection of historically relevant materials began with the formation of Friend Zone in April of 2012 when Shelarahn began hosting the guilds website and doing graphic work for the group. At the time however, video recording wasnt as simple as it is now, and hardware limitations restricted video collection of most events, along with inexperience and lack of foresight, so even though the Friend Zone archives were well maintained, they were limited mostly to videos and text. Varied PoVs exist from the late Friend Zone era, but are mostly irrelevant to the COMMIEVERSE.
The COMMIE Archives
With the loss of Friend Zone from COMMUNISM control, the entirety of the Friend Vault was sealed and put into cold storage. A fresh archive was prepared for the newly revived COMMUNISM. This time around however, focus was put towards video media works, as opposed to just still images. Most of these videos are saved between the current archives and YouTube, even if some were lost during domain changeovers.
The Swift Archives
Curation of The Swift Archives began in May of 2015 as the Rust group began its daily rampages across Rust. Countless hours of video highlights began being made, mostly as footage for The Rusty Goons.
The Xyelz Memorial Rust Collection
The most notable collection in The Swift Archives is known as The Xyelz Memorial Rust collection, named after "famed" streamer and former archenemy of BMW, Xyelz. The collection features nearly 900 clips totaling near 300 hours of footage from all eras of BMW Rust, including limited footage from COMMIE CREW Rust and various Rust outings post-BMW.
Many pieces of the collection have since been put together as video compilations, including man full length raid videos and The Saga of Salt, recounting the fights between Xyelz and BMW. Work is ongoing in an effort to bring more notable events to the public.
The Forbidden Archives
The Swift Archives also specilizes in the handling of certain banned and illicit materials. Chief among these is the notorious 2007 work, The Twixy Tapes, which feature a young woman pleasuring herself in Ventrilo while reading erotic literature for 15-20 trade chat creeps.
A more recent edition is a copy of the Facebook stream of the Christchurch Shootings
The Lost Archives
Many pieces have unfortunately been lost, mostly before the official beginning of the archives. Below is a short list of the more notable works of the COMMIEVERSE that were lost:
- Original Jorgan Confrontation Ventrilo Recording
- Karazhan and Gruul Kill Videos
- Skyler nudes
- 2016 Election Night (Was never actually recorded but there was plan to that never came to fruition)
Notable Releases
- The Saga of Salt
- BMW vs LAPD
- The Rusty Goons Series
- CF Raid
- HR Raid (Aka The Door Code Incident)
- House of Wolves
Statistics
- 481GB
- 249,487 Files
- 25,253 Folders
- 700 Hours of video