Conquest of Pergo

Conquest of Pergo
COMMIES accosting an unsuspecting pubbie
Date June 3, 2014 - August 14th, 2014 Location Pergo Result Massive recruitment spike for COMMUNISM, death of Pergo forums
Belligerents
COMMUNISM	Pergo Pubbies
Commanders and leaders
Shelarahn	None
Units involved
10~ COMMUNISTS	1000s unwilling participants
Casualties and losses
None	None

The Conquest of Pergo was the first major operation of 2014 by COMMUNISM and the event that marked its return to prominence in the wake of the post-Lightninghoof slump.

Background

During the first few months of 2014, COMMUNISM was in a major slump. The momentum from the Lightninghoof Invasion had stalled and the group was limited to mostly a few members in Facebook Messenger chat. In the morning hours of April 12th, Pigeon suggested the group try out the upcoming MMO, Wildstar, getting the idea from a PAX panel he had watched. There was immediate interest in the game, as its structure and gameplay was reminiscent of World of Warcraft in its early form, specifically Burning Crusade. Very few of the old Lightninghoof COMMIES were interested, but the core group was.

Launch Week

The COMMIES having bought in early allowed them to begin playing the game a few days before the rest of the community, so by the time the mass population had arrived, most COMMIES were already way ahead. This gave them more time to focus on propaganda and recruitment. One of these avenues was the official realm forums, much like the original Gorgonnash realm forums, which were highly active and concentrated towards just the players of Pergo. The COMMUNISM recruitment thread immediately became one of the most active threads on not only the Pergo forums, but the entire Wildstar forums. The popularity only rose when Shelarahn began making custom invite videos for people who were expressing interest, most notably Succs legendary recruitment video.

The infamy also brought out many naysayers and haters, most famously in the form of an ironybro named treemonster whos chronic cringeposting made him a constant target for COMMUNISMs shitposts.

The COMMISSAR Speaks

To further the brand of COMMUNISM and their displeasure with the way the forums were being ran, Shelarahn took on the persona of THE COMMISSAR, a balaclava clad revolutionary who made ISIS style videos declaring war on the powers that be and "the capitalist dogs". The idea originally came from a promotional video done for The Lightninghoof Invasion, but this time around was done in a more personal fashion, calling out people by name and addressing specific issues in the community. Kayfabe was kept among the COMMIES that THE COMMISSAR was a completely different person from Shelarahn, adding to the spectacle of the propaganda. These "manifestos" were released for almost 2 months, each one used to recruit more people and to complain about the state of the forums and overzealous Brony mods.