Asylum 51 (often abreviated to A51) is a gaming community primarily playing a modification for the Freelancer computer game. It runs two servers and contains 8 official clans. A51 developed in 2002 by Glock36. His aim was to make a home for disinfranchised gamers -- a place where misfits could forge connections with peers from all over the world. No dues are ever asked for or collected.

A51 has evolved from the original beginnings of G36's mod to host other games on its secondary server as well as form official chapters on other gaming servers. The aims of A51 remain to forge a strong community that can play together, fight together, and live together even though separated by oceans. The vehicle is gaming, but the result is an open exchange of skills ranging from creative writing to 3D modeling to programing to plain old life lessons in common sense.

The Mod

The mod itself is only downloadable at the Asylum51 site, and can only be run in multiplayer mode on the Asylum51 server. The server is run by Glock36. Every ship from the original game has replaced with a ship model from X²: The Threat, and the Asylum51 shipwrights and modders are starting the port the X³: Reunion ships.

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Asylum51 Contractors

In addition to online game play, Asylum51 has a dedicated groups of non-gaming members. They make the commonity what it is.

Sirius Grafix - A graphics group that makes the majority of the members signatures and other concept art for the game. In more recent times, the forums skins have been redesigned and modded to give a more individual style to the Asylum. It is hoped that in the future, entirely new skins will be commissioned by the players, for their own personal or clan usage.

Mad7 Shipyards - A group of in game modellers are able to build custom designed ships for inclusion in the mod (for a small fee.) This can range form a sensible jet fighter or a flying calculator or Toilet!

Atreus Foundry - Also a modeling group, focusing on the total conversion of the ships in the game. Recent times have seen the branching out into custom designed base shapes, for that all round Asylum51 feel!

Logistics Now Construction - An organisation who's sole purpose is the construction of static objects for inclusion in the mod. This can range from dockable bases and planets to weapons platforms or just plain old rocks with your name on. The choice is yours.

Official clans

The ShinRa (SR) - General Good Guys

The Reavers (Reaver)- The Pirate's

The Rangers (Ranger)- Sirius Police

The Kadaks (Kadak) - Alien Overlords

The Renegade Legion (REN) - House Shippers

The Angels (Angel) - Newly appointed Official Clan

The Hellfire Demons (HF) - A Demon Clan from the lowest regions of Hell

The BlackMerx (MX) - The local mercenaries.

Clan Descriptions...

The ShinRa (SR)

The ShinRa have been a special forces/Navy Clan for about 7 months now. The clan itself has been running since December 2004. Originally we started out as a mercenary clan. However we felt the pull to the good side and decided to fill the empty space for a Navy clan. We gained official status on the Asylum51 server on the 16th February 2005, and havent looked at another server since. Our Local system is Hokkaido in the Kusari sector - we have one established planet - Chordata and 2 other bases, The ShinRa Weapons Research Labs and Pipster Memorial Accounting Academy. We also own the ajoining system Chugoku, with one other base, Abyss Intelligence services.

The Reavers (Reaver)

The Reavers are a Pirate clan, formed in the summer of 2004 to counteract a lack of "evil" clans on the server. Our leader is Reaver_Kingpin and the clan has around 14 members. The Reavers have official clan status and own the Dublin System in the Bretonia Sector, with Planet Tartarus as the Reaver Planet. For more information click on the Clan name above.


The maximum number of players per official clan is 20.

The server also has spaces for unofficial clans (allowing them to become official), as well as player and admin run server events, such as racing and duelling tournaments and the weekly clan sponsored roleplay events. There are new rules currently being put into place that allow unnoffial clans to challenge an established clan to their official slot.

Each clan has their own system from the original "Vanilla" Freelancer game, with a few additions. A new planet, with 2 docking rings and an orbiting post for stealing hostages also come with official clan status.




For more information or to join this community go to www.asylum51.com