History

With the message board restored, a call for more communication and stronger democracy was issued throughout the eXistence, resulting in the Illuminati's evolution into the High Council, sworn to focus more on communicating with members and headed by bwp_2001, Nightstryke, and Shaatar (Director Xul and Director Tetsuma having gone inactive). An election was held to determine who would officially be Vice President. Shock was the one chosen to collect the votes, and after a discussion with Nightstryke, they both agreed to collaborate together to rig the election. Nightstryke was declared the new Vice-President of the eXistence, when it was bwp_2001 who was elected Vice-President by the members. Shock later confessed to eXistence about what he did. Upon learning about the rigged election, the members of eXistence met in the old ez-board forum and discussed ejecting Nightstryke from the High Council. Upon learning this, Nightstryke quit eXistence but still allowed eXistence to use his server for the message board. Shock also resigned from eXistence for a month, before asking a pardon in October and being readmitted. Korzac returned shortly thereafter, and eXistence began a campaign of expanding in earnest to many different games. DarkNight, a recent recruit, began the StarCraft chapter, Ryan and Neomatt began the Galactic Battlegrounds (GB) chapter, and bwp_2001 restored the inactive Age of Empires 2 (AoE2) chapter. Himura and Realm were chosen as the two new High Council members. Quite a few old-time members returned, then disappeared, then returned again as activity fluctuated during the winter (with names such as Subzero and Maniac being readmitted), and future leaders such as eX_Zibbit_A (a.k.a. Vasectomy) and Excalibur (a.k.a. Never) were recruited. Test Chapters were created as a means for expanding into new games, beginning with X-Box Live (XBL), Warcraft 3 (WC3), and Free Online Gaming (FOG), and the largest number of recruits in eXistence's history were accumulated during this highly successful time spanning from December of 2003 through January of 2004.