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Overview

CRacKeD Clan (shortly CRKD) is a Halo PC clan, founded by Rock in 2003. The clan contains members of all ages, and of different ethnicities. It developed itself over the years into an active clan in the Halo (video) community<ref>Halo videos: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=crkd&search=Search</ref>, with members all over the world. Mainly centered in the United States, CRKD includes members from Canada, Great Britain, and New Zealand.

Although there are many Halo PC gaming clans in the world, CRKD strives to be the first of many to enter new online territory. The notion of entering itself onto Wikipedia is a first of many, with the main goal of educating others about this gaming clan. This Wikipedia document is not meant to be seen as a substitute for webhosting, but rather as a living document detailing the history of a modern day gaming clan.

2003

On Nov. 14^th, 2003, CRacKeD Clan was founded by Rock. Initially, the applicant pool into CRKD clan was very small, but as more people found CRKD through the online Halo servers, CRKD started to grow.

The main driving force behind CRKD during the early startup of the clan was lead as what was known as the power triangle. It consisted of three members: Rock, Buu, and Denton.

These three individuals played a unique role into shaping what CRKD has become today. Rock was the leader of the clan, and he implemented behind the scenes work for the clan, such as the forums and website.

Denton was the enforcer. He kept recruits in line and made sure the forum was tidy. Denton was never afraid to say his ideas, and was always blunt.

Buu was a person of inspiration. When times got rough, Buu would always make sure that people were happy. In short, he looked out for everyone. He could say anything and make anyone laugh.

2004

EvO

The highlight of year 2004 was CRKD and its incident with EvO (Evil Owls) clan. EvO was a new clan to Halo PC, started by some individuals in Sweden. However, their ingenuity was very poor. EvO created a website similar to CRKD, and imitated CRKD in every single way, such as imitating CRKD's forum and shoutbox.

One day the registration on EVO's.tk site expired (www.evilowls.tk) so [CRKD]Kishan registered it, and put the message OWNED BY CRKD on their website.
EVO's leader came onto CRKD forums begging Kishan to give his site url back (he thought he had been hacked), and Kishan gave it back when he promised he'd never bug CRKD any more. A few weeks later, EvO couldn't run themselves and it died a few weeks later.

2005

2006

Chic/Pepsi Era

During 2005-2006, CRKD Clan recruited a member by the name of Chic (Chicha). Chic was a heavily active member and was also credited with a big increase in recruiting. She was also reputed as being very talented, working regularly with photoshop and Halo. However, there was also some concern amongst members over certain issues surrounding here, such as her constant activity, and also her relationship with some members in the clan.<br />
One of these members was an admin, MrBuu. There relationship continued outside of the online community for a short period, however, it was ended when Buu discovered that Chic was not a 17 year old girl, but actually a 28 year old man with two kids, who was acting as if he was a girl. This discovery was causing a lot of turmoil in the clan. Members left because of the revelation of Chic, and the clan was in a fragile state. Things recovered and the clan went on.<br />
The person known as Chic changed his name into Pepsi. Even though some members left the clan, CRKD was still active. Pepsi provided the clan with servers, and significantly changed the looks of the site. Most members still did not trust him, which resulted in the resignation of Pepsi. <br />
This development started the return of ex-clan members.

Early 2006

During the months of January, February, and March, the CRKD life was pretty good, as one might say. Chic was around, however, and MrBuu had disappeared. Chic was a great person around. She (term used loosely) really was active in the clan. Making sigs, stunt videos, forum modifications made her a graphics guru for the clan. At this point in time, questions were asked about how a girl has so much free time working on modding Halo. Many new members were recruited here, like Advent Chimp.

Spring Time

During the spring time, there were many issues to be solved by CRKD. There were rumors of member Black Cat falling in love with Chic. Many parts of this story are still being uncovered. <br />

People continued to say that Cat was around only because he liked Chic, but Chic didn't feel the same for Cat. Cat argued that this rumor was not true. Cat used to be part of the RPC (Red Phoenix Clan), but he was "converted" to CRKD, as were so many former RPC members such as Target and Filter.<br />