Archer / ACDC

Archer, otherwise known as ACDC, found Neveron in November 2006 and joined U-R-N.  In May 2007 he took command of Archers Avengers, and presently joined House Liao.

Arkidda

Arkidda came to Neveron in 2004, and joined the faction MOUSE under the leadership of Takira.  He was an astute learner, reading public mail and forming an opinion that HoC were bad.  He then found out that MOUSE was an HoC training faction.  He transferred to the Riders of Armageddon [RoA] faction, before being integrated into HoC proper.  He was briefly a member of Clan Frozen Chosen, but went fully into HoC at the end of the Clan/HoC war.

Arkidda is perhaps best known for running the faction Hot Pocket Cult [HpC], dedicated to his favourite snack.  He is also known for being a #neveron op, after Michael Klien declared in 2006 "what the heck, you don't cause problems".

Aschmo

Aschmo first played Nev back in 2000, and liked it so much it delayed him moving from Windows to Linux.  When he finally did ditch Windows, he spent several months trying to make Internet explorer work, but to no avail, and quit the game.  He was back in 2006, and joined Legion, and later Bad Boys.  He remains a small fish by choice, and is a well-liked voice in Legion.

aussiegolfer

Aussie, everyone's favourite Aussie (unless you prefer Xeno or Fernando I suppose), started playing Nev in 2003, and has been with FWLM for his entire time, although he recently also joined Havok's Harrassers.  He was given the empire Hussars Reborn by gravity{FWLM} in 2004, and ascended to leadership of FWLM in 2005, a position he held until 2007 when succeeded by Crazy Saint.  He is well known as an op in #neveron, a position he has held since 2005, and is widely regarded as someone who is fair to all, regardless of partisanship.

He lists the most interesting thing he has done on Neveron as giving a level 5 empire to Hoppy, who got it deleted within a week.

Ben Holland

Ben Holland first played Neveron in early 2006, but gave up after his empire was destroyed.  He was back later that year however, when Arden invited him to join the nascent SLDF.  Despite being a relative newbie, he has since become a respected op in #neveron.  He built up a well known level 7 - 189th Chimera Corps - from the ground up, but was never active enough on the war log to make it a truly fearsome empire.  He joined the ranks of HoC in mid-2007, but with the destruction of his level 7 empire took a scaled back role in Neveron.  He does however continue to be active in chat and can often be found helping out at chat events.

Bettmaehn

Bettmaehn joined Neveron in 2004, and as is somewhat customary for Germans on Neveron, joined DEST and Ryuken.  He was well known for coming to the rescue of friends in trouble, even at cost to himself, and was a major headache for HoC empires.  Possibly the best example of his selflessness was when he hotdropped his mechs onto Fernando's DP empire The Art of War.  Although the attack was a failure (not helped by bugs), and spelled the end of Bettmaehn's main activity on  Neveron, it showed his admirable courage.  He is remembered by his alliance mates as both a brilliant pilot and a reckless fighter, and above all, a great player.

Bob

Bob (or Bobville) played Neveron back in 2003-2005 as a member of Genyosha Prime. When he returned to Nev in 2006, he joined Legion, and eventually migrated to the Lyran Alliance.

buc`

buc` joined Neveron in 2003, having been invited to join CapCon by real life friend ThorazenMcKenna, and rose to become second in command of the faction Capellan Confederation - Sarna March.  However, it was then that HoC ordered CapCon to disband or be destroyed, and CC-SM became a Genyosha faction.  buc` quit, giving his empires to rmanrr, but changed his mind and was back a few weeks later, having been given the empire Imperial Elite by Oden, and left CC-SM to join the faction Genyosha Prime.  There he stayed, gradually extending his tentacles and getting to know people in HoC, until he eventually found himself as a trusted member of HoC and temporary FL of KK{HoC} while Kato was in Iraq.  Nowadays he is a senior member of the Neveron community, and is known to be trustworthy and honourable.

c4bombexpert

C4 started playing Neveron in 2003 as a newbie in Genyosha Prime, migrating to FWLM when he was level 3.  After several years of fighting HoC and losing numerous low-level empires, he quit.  He didn't stay away long though, and was back a year later with FWLM, AMI and CJF.  He eventually quit again, but came back like a bad penny, and now fights with CJF and FWLM.

Chaos

Chaos was first brought to Neveron by Havok, having grown up together in Grand Rapids, and has fought with him in pretty much every alliance he's been in.  Chaos first played in 2003, but quit a year later when his empire was hit hard and declared unrepairable.  Having taken a year off, he came back and has been here ever since.  His brother, Aidan (aka Pillager) also played Nev, and gave Chaos his empire The Royal Highlanders: Black Watch when he quit in 2007.

Chet

Chet, also known as Chetter, Chetterbear or Chester LaPointe, was probably Neveron's best known player, more so even than the legends of Nimon, Pimp and Madman.  He is known for creating the Word of Blake, the most homoerotic alliance ever to surrender on Neveron, and for his frequent drunken antics in chat.  He served as Primus of WoB for much of his time on Neveron, and later as Demi-Precentor under his successors.

Chet was also well known for hosting NevCon New Hampshire every year around Christmas.

codeman

Codeman started playing Nev at age 13, having been introduced by his uncle, Vader.  He joined STB and Havok's Harassers, then moved to Legion with his uncle vader, before quickly running into the arms of Hoppy and EFS. He isn't the best at landwar, but claims to be a master at Hunchback duels.

Cougar

Cougar, best known for his armoured cavalry (apparently horses exist on Neveron), originally was shown Nev back in 2000, but quit after a few months before picking it up again three years later, joining NAWC. He joined HH after speaking to Havok in 2004, and stayed there until Havok sold Havok`s Harassers, at which point he reformed the infamous Grey Death Legion.

Death Tornado

DT (the left one in the picture) joined Nev in 2003 along with Peel and several other friends, and is the only one left.  He was a member of UDC back in the day, and eventually rose to the status of Faction Leader of 2Legion when his level 7+ empires were merged into a single level 10.  He developed quite a skill at landwar, both low level with Minas Tirith and Isengard, and high level defensive wars - it was his level 8 empire Sphere which destroyed most of Drey's level 9's DP mechs, and his level 10 which caused Drey to self-surrender.

Over the years he has provided invaluable advice as one of Legion's leaders, and his excellent piloting has ensured victory in many landwars by ÐÐ and their allies.

Oh, and the girl in the photo is Amanda, but we're not allowed photos of her in her underwear apparently.

Dee

Although Dee first started playing Neveron back in 2003, he remained largely unknown until 2005, when he sent his first nevmail. After that, it didn't take long for him to get kicked out of AMI for vehement disagreements with KOOLAID and Logres.  He joined Legion in July 2005, and became a permanent fixture of chat a few months later.  His renown as a low-level landwarrer became second only to his renown as an utter freak of nature.  His insanity seemed to know no bounds, and I for one was very glad to have him in Legion - I do not ever want to be on the opposite side of a conflict from him.  Possibly his greatest moment was when he created a trap for empires attacking his, and then tested it on his own empire, ending up headcapping two negative gun pilots.

As a Legion member, Dee rose to a state of moderate power, although he was banned from doing any negotiating.  That has not stopped his warmongering in ÐÐ though, where almost every war was started by Dee, including an abortive attempt to take on SLDF.  Throughout this time he learnt about high level war, and how to better smash stuff.  More of his insanity can be seen in ~dball.

Delta Leader

Delta Leader was first brought into Neveron by Spectre, and joined the LIFE alliance.  After quitting, he had a few years away from Nev, before returning in 2006 and joining Legion, where he developed a reputation as a good low-level landwarrer, and a good person to have watching your back.  After a year or so, he took his empires to Lionheart's new alliance House Liao where he proved to be an able and willing leader, running the faction House Liao Blackwind Lancers.

Elisius

Elisius is a n00b.  He burst into chat in October of 2007, and left a quite indelible mark with an utter insanity rivalling Dee's. He joined DD-SC, yet claimeds to dislike HoC, although he expressed an utter hatred for Havok's Harrassers. Within two months, he joined HH. He is known throughout Nev for his sexual ambiguity and general incompetence.

Fang

Fang, also known as Cheezits or NewBlood, first came to Nev in late 2003, and joined Rox's MAFIA faction, although he soon left to join Clan Blood Spirit.  In September 2004 though, he left due to arguments with another member.  His joining Otomo sparked a brief war between CBS and HoC after Dracs, a CBS member, called for a Trial of Annihilation against Fang's empire, White Fang.  Fang joined Genyosha, only to have it summarily disband, and later became a member of both the 12th Vegan Rangers and the Capellan Confederation.  Nowadays, he constrains himself to low level empires.

Oh, and click here if you want to see Fang pretending to be batman.

Frui / HLC

Frui started out in Riders of the Apocalypse, he went on to co-found the 12th Vegan Rangers with XIBIOUS. He was recruited into HoC by Jimbob in 2004, and changed his name to HLC, an alias he continued to use until 2007.  His empire, Krych, was a deadly mid-level landwar empire.  He became one of the leaders in HoC when he briefly took over Chaos² from Mantis while Kato was in serving in Iraq.  He participated in many major conflicts, personally piloting the mechs which secured a foothold in Highland Glucksburg's core, and is renowned as a superb tactician as well as an honourable player who is willing to negotiate a mech battle to decide a war.

Although Krych no longer exists, he still excels at mid-range warfare with the empire Krych ^Revisited, which had previously belonged to both mattbuck and Celt. He is mentioned in the HoC archive in a story about Kato's return - a band of mechs come home, with such evocative names as "King of Pain", "Storm Giant" and "Deliverance". Then comes HLC in a mech called "Fruitloop".

Gobi

Gobi joined Neveron in late 2005, and to start with lived a fairly quiet life, occasionally duelling.  He joined Legion in early 2006, and started warring with his empires Gobi, Son of Gobi, and Alfie.  Over that year he became a trusted member of Legion, but no more so than most.  That changed in January 2007 when Tigre quit and gifted The Red Legion to him, making him faction leader of the largest Legion faction.  He lived up to the responsibility Tigre had held, and has kept TRL intact and fighting though several FWARs and numerous attempts to gangbang it into submission.

Gobi also joined ÐÐ in early 2007, and later acquired the legendary landwar empire The Church of John, using it to full effect on many enemies, and eventually merging it to become even more fearsome. His son, Alfie (pictured) pilots one of CoJ's GRF-DESTs, an achievement only eclipsed by Patryn's son who piloted a Stone Rhino.

Havok

Havok is one of Nev's best known players, running the faction Havok's Harrassers.  He has known great acclaim for his skill as a pilot and a strategist, and also great disrespect for his funding of Hoppy, possibly the only player to eclipse the hatred directed towards Randy.

Havok's Harrassers was founded before Neveron began, and has its roots in MechWarrior 3 games played among a group of friends, who then recreated their alliance on Neveron.

Unfortunately, Havok has often found himself at the centre of controversy on Neveron, but rarely through any action of his own, and he has proven himself capable of making balanced decisions even against a background of emnity with HoC.  He was even a #neveron op for a while.  Nowadays, as well as running HH, he is a strategist for Clan Wolf and the greater anti-HoC forces.  His preferred style of landwar is to use large numbers of middling market mechs - Hunchbacks, Centurions, cheap Warhammers, etc., as this is more fun than using a few DP mechs and worrying about every headshot.

Hydro

Hydro first found Nev at the age of 13 while browsing on a library computer, and was so hooked that even though he didn't have a home computer, and so couldn't use chat or forums, he kept returning over the next eight years, creating an empire, building up and then dying again. He finally made his way into chat in 2010, and joined LA. His favourite nev memory is of attacking a level one empire with his newbie jeeps and destroying much larger units in a trail of destruction that led to his empire swiftly attaining level three.

Jake

Jake joined Neveron in the summer of 2002 after a trip from Europe. His initial pursuits involved the Word of Blake under the direction of Chester LaPointe.  After being enlightened by the brighter side of Neveron, he then joined the German faction of Alpard Federation where the trouble began.  Jake has been blamed for some of the worst deeds and exploits in the game to date. Several of the numerous exploits include: the scrapping of Dutchy of Small (facilitated with the help of Dragion and Zap); becoming an op in #neveron under the guise of Denikin; the level 0 raider called Planck is a Sally; and the infamous bug which resulted in a level 11 and a level 9 being nuked and his quitting the game.  Other exploits for which Jake takes credit for are not part of the public record but had no doubt influenced this game beyond the sphere of a single player. 

Jake returned in 2007 and is to this day is continuing his efforts to reshape the face of Neveron with the development of a new warring strategy which exploits the current FWAR system.

Kato

Kato, it could be said, is Marmite for Neveron. Anyone who's pro-HoC loves him, and most anti-HoC seem to hate him.  He started playing Nev in 2001 at the end of the Star League war, and in 2003 (along with Gunner, Dragion, Pimp and Shaitan) was one of the leading members of the HoC reformation following Sly's departure.  He achieved dubious fame when his faction Kommando Korps{HoC} was the first ever target of a factionwar.

Since 2005, Kato has been an outspoken critic of the changes to Neveron wrought by Randy, and was one of the proponents to the DP embargo when random factionwars were introduced.  He has also been a major critic of the bad blood that has emerged within the community, and is insistent that players from all sides take responsibility for their own actions rather than claiming the game forced them to do it.

Of course, Kato's magnum opus on Neveron, apart from hosting this website, is the HoC Archive (buy it or download it), a complete history of HoC and its members, which has inspired copycat movements among DEST, HL and Legion to name but three.

KD

KD (or KingDiamond) has long been one of the premier figures on the Neveron duelling circuit, and has developed quite a reputation for fighting in ridiculously high rep units, but always being a gentleman and subtracting init.  His attitudes towards one-on-one war originated in the old Kizo, and he says that continuing support for such ideals is Nimon's true legacy.  Indeed, KD has been one of the great proponents of sportsmanship on Neveron, and is always willing to fight a fixed BV battle to decide a landwar. This has sometimes cost him, and people have tried to cheat him, but he has always stuck to his guns and fought on regardless.  He is in fact the friendly, English-speaking face of DEST.

Kelly

Kelly has always been in the background helping to run factions.  He was brought into Neveron by liber in the faction AEoN, and was known for his way of throwing himself in the path of bigger empires to save factionmates.  He was on the losing side of every war he was in, but would battleplay for hours in an attempt to do something.  He finally broke his streak of losses by sacrificing his empire against Clan Frozen Chosen in a trial to stop the war.  He won the trial, thus resulting in a tie.

Kelly returned recently and joined the Lyran Alliance in an empire which refused to delete after over a year of inactivity.

khit

khit was a well-respected member of IZW, and was the sponsor of many mech tournaments in his time.  His main empire, Frudenach, was in the race to be the first to produce mechs, and would have been one of the first of the second generation mech producers, Genyosha Prime being the first generation.  Unfortunately, he quit due to real life reasons.  His legacy on Neveron, though, is the Shoki SK1-IZW, a mech he designed and helped pay for.

KOOLAID

KOOLAID has been a long-standing member of Neveron, and was an op in #Neveron for quite some time, eventually giving up when he scaled back his Neveron activities.  He has been involved with AMI for most of his time on Nev, was leader to their biggest faction and took over complete leadership of the alliance after Logres quit.  More recently, he has taken over running the n00b FL and dispenses parts and advice to newbies.

Lionheart

Lionheart started playing Neveron almost as soon as it started, having been dragged into Neveron by Wesley, his high school friend, following him through all his alliance creating escapades.  When Wesley left the game for good, Lionheart ended up in AMI:RIS and JSDC-DC.  The AMI:RIS FL proved to be incompetent to the point that LH decided to make his own independent faction, House Liao, and was joined by several other people from AMI:RIS.  Fate struck in his favour when LIFE announced it was disbanding only hours after LH’s decision, shortly followed by the Lyran Alliance FL deleting.  The rush of dispossessed empires went to HL, and Lionheart suddenly found himself the head of an alliance.  Thus far, HL has prospered under LH’s leadership, growing quickly.  Lionheart himself is known for his less than tactful diplomacy, random FWARs and a third way mentality.

Maghetti

Maghetti is not a lucky player, and of all the players on Nev, he probably has more reason to have a grudge against HoC than any other. He started out in 2001 when he was what he calls a "super noob". He joined HoC, but made a comment about "wanting to kill an HoC empire but couldn't because he'd joined HoC" which got him kicked out and Dragion hired as a merc to kill him. He took his empire to the Capellan Confederation, who were wiped out a few weeks later by HoC.  He found himself in WoB and Demolay Core, the latter of which was then forced to join Kizo.  Kizo were subsequently destroyed (by HoC), and Mags found himself with only WoB to call home.  A few years after, he bought a level 12 empire with Lumpy and a few others, and reformed the Neveron Commonwealth, which he now runs.

HoC haven't been the only people who have hurt Mags though.  His ally Sand allegedly stole 1st NC from him, and he was forced to buy it back. Sand later unclaimed the walls surrounding Something Very Weird's mechzone, allowing Malachi to kill almost its entire mechforce.

Outside of being somewhat of a cosmic joke, Maghetti has somehow attained op status in #neveron where his innuendo fills many a heart with terror, and makes Cambone check the locks on the doors.

Magnus

Magnus started playing Nev back in 2001, and joined the Lyran Alliance as his first faction.  He played for several years, eventually joining HoC, before quitting to join the military.  He returned a few years later and is now in the Triumvirate alliance.

Magnus was later found guilty of login abuse.

Malachi

Malachi joined Nev in 2003 in a little faction called BURAKI, which means "idiots" in Polish. He learnt to landwar under the guidance of Padlina, and in turn hosted Padlina in his field in 2004. He quickly became one of the most feared warriors on Neveron, and rose to a position of power within UDC. He joined with Lucifer to do up an empire, Apocalyptic Prophets, but was subsequently a victim of the hacks on Nev perpetrated by Jake in 2005.  After  NevCon UK he inherited a level 5 empire with a Stone Rhino, which in time became Suitably Violent Empire, a quite ridiculous empire, and quite suitably violent. He was a founding member of Vicious Intentions, and then moved onto ÐÐ, where he was one of the primary instigators of any and every fight. He became de facto leader of HoC in 2007 and was instrumental in the destruction of several major headache empires, including ones belonging to Macca, Sand and Maghetti.

Mantis / Rantamplan

Mantis, otherwise known as Rantamplan, started playing Nev back in 2002, and after two months fought his first landwar, losing his mech but taking the enemy's city.  He joined HoC in 2004, having been recruited by Dogmatic, and for a while, things were good.  He became known as a great tactician, having done sterling work defending DBF from Kizo and various HoC empires from pirates, as well as coordinating a faction-wide blitzkrieg.  He became a faction leader when Kato was deployed to Iraq, a job which he kept until he announced his retirement in 2006, having found a new job.  Luckily for Neveron though, he stayed around long enough to read the messages of good will left for him in public mail, and reversed his decision to quit, realising that Neveron had become more than just a game to him - to this day his opening line in chat is "hello family".

mattbuck

mattbuck first joined Neveron in 2003 after being told about the game by Malachi.  He joined Kizo OP10 under the leadership of Tigre, and stayed with them when they became Legion.  He also joined UDC, but left when they became formally allied with HoC, taking his UDC empires to -DB- in time for the Clan assault on HoC, then finally moved them all into Legion. Over the years he became one of the leaders of Legion, and warred extensively with his low level empires Platonian Empire Beta, Delta, and Tau Archipelagos, gaining 100 rep BJ-1DB and CRK-5003-0s along the way, the former only eclipsed by KD's.  Having become agitated by the lack of level 5 targets for Delta, he joined ÐÐ, and eventually Tau joined too.  When Tigre quit during the Legion vs FC:HAHA war, mattbuck inherited the leadership of Legion.

mattbuck is perhaps best known for his work for the Neveron community - he is a longtime helper in #neveron_newbies, a sometime op of #neveron, and coded a series of IRC bots with functions including the calculation of battlevalues. His third such bot, mattbot3 eventually was voted most helpful player on Neveron. He has also created various Excel spreadsheets, and is currently involved in creating a page for player pictures. In 2008 he became one of the first player admins. However, it was only a few months later that he quit the game, saying that it had become a chore to play rather than something enjoyable.

Menelaus

Menelaus first started playing in 2004 as a scion of R-7, which later became Clan Mongoose.  However, when CM became involved in the Cult vs Clan Frozen Chosen war, he moved to the IZW LW Academy, where he first became chat active.  Moving to IZW-2, he enjoyed low level landwar under DuckieHO, and controlled LW empires in both DEST and Bad Boys.  In 2005, he took control of Overkill's Ha-Zard Empire, which was FL of IZW-8, and set about overhauling the faction.  When Zan retired as IZW leader, Menelaus assisted new leaders sdog and nicklamer.  IZW-8 was later fwared by HH-2, but the reorganisation of the faction paid off, and with help from mercenaries, HH-2 were defeated.  With more and more IZW quitting, Menelaus finally joined them after being gangbanged by WoB in early 2006.

Menelaus returned to Neveron in 2008, and joined 3Legion (the last remnants of the old IZW) and DEST.

MisterHalt

MisterHalt is one of those people you see quite a lot, yet have never really heard about.  He's usually to be found in the background, often having the worst luck imaginable in arenas.  He is known to have a hot temper, yet the effects of it are only a slow simmering period and occasional threats of quitting.  While he has no real political affiliation, he is not afraid to help his alliancemates out when attacked by those who do.

Modelo

Modelo has been around Nev for a long time, and is known as rather pugnacious. A lifetime FWLM member (I believe they get a keyring), and one of its current leaders, he has faced off against enemies many and varied, and often with significant DP clout.  Often he has beaten them - he was one of the first people to win the monthly war ratings prize, and recently claimed the scalp of Neveron's highest rep MAD-4A. 

Between beating other people with his own empires, he has crafted some of Neveron's best known war empires, including Wishkah (sold to buc`), Chemical Bath (sold to TPIH), Something Very Strange (also sold to TPIH), and Unlimited Blade Works (sold to Drey).  He also looks after Ausininja's empires while he is on active duty.

Mooseman

Mooseman is not a player who has ever hit the headlines, but over his time he has helped Legion immeasurably through battleplaying and general good humour.

Murphy

Murphy has been around Nev longer than many care to remember, but only became a chat regular in 2005.  When he was level 3, he created a small band of warriors to kill Cletusfunk, including one Pausanian Empire, who managed to attack the wrong way and invade one of his allies.  It was only years later Murphy discovered Pausanian was the owner of Cletusfunk.

Murphy served his early time on Nev with Clan Ghost Bear, but had to leave when it disbanded following Bearz quitting.  Along with a group of other CGB refugees, he joined FCE, and later Legion.

In Legion, Murphy has become a very useful player and generally a great guy to have around, although he claims that all his wars follow a pattern of him getting his arse kicked before someone else steps in to save him.  That being said, he did have the bravest Hornet on Neveron.

nicklamer

Nick first started playing Neveron in 2003, and since then has been either {pissed} or {supremely_pissed} almost without respite.  Nick's name was well known in low-level landwar, where he is sometimes credited as the person who first thought of tent cities, although he claims he just used it to best effect.  In his final year on Neveron, he became faction leader of IZW-6.  He will, however, be best remembered for his duelling - Beasts of Bogardia was an elite duelling empire, and a more than capable landwar empire to boot.

Perhaps his finest hour though was in an FWAR against HoC, where he took his market lvl3, DoWed and killed about 4 enemy level 3s, before being DoWed by several level 4s, beating them, rinse and repeat at level 5.

NuMetalSucks

NuMetalSucks first came to Neveron in 2006 and quickly found his way into Legion, and has never joined any other alliance.  Over the years, he has become one of the more respected members of Legion, and has fought well in numerous wars, though it must be said he has a certain propensity for getting other alliances pissed with Legion.

ODC

ODC first played Nev back in 2004, when he was in the IZW alliance under the name Tiderius. He played into 2005, but had to quit due to leaving school and starting a family, though his heart still longed to be shooting stuff.  After contact with sickazz doc, he rejoined the fold in 2008, and was recruited by Legion.

Ovie

Ovie, otherwise known as The Overmind, claims to have been on Nev since before the beginning of time. He was a loyal member of Kizo, and the Neveron Commonwealth. He later joined Legion with a small empire, while his main empire, Wob Drunkin Wobbies RCT went to WoB, and then rejoined NevCom when it reformed. He eventually quit in 2007.

Peel

Probably one of the most feared players of Neveron, though not for his landwar ability.  Peel struck fear into our hearts through sheer force of personality - we were afraid he was somehow going to find us and... well... ~pball will say the rest.  His great ability on Nev however seemed to be pissing people off - calling Eggy names got his empire wiped quite effectively by Lucifer and Malachi, and kicked from Legion.  He became a demi-precentor in the Word of Blake eventually, before quitting when he went to university. He still reappears in the summer holidays though to remind people just what they're missing.

More Peel can be seen on the Coping With Peel page.

Proud

Proud is one of the best known of Neveron's German contingent, but it almost was not to be.  His first emperor was killed in a duel, which then prevented him from logging in.  It was only thanks to Ray, designer of the TRT-RAY-4L, that Proud started playing, and that Proud's Cave was born.

In his time on Nev, Proud has achieved much.  He started playing in a time before factions, and has run his own faction, Rosa Armee Fraktion [JBO], since they were first introduced, making it possibly the longest-enduring single faction on Nev.  He was also the first person ever to buy a nuke, following Zap's last order that "If anyone hits Clan Ice Hellion or Group W, make them hurt".  As The Pope, emperor of The Vatican, he had the honour of killing Malachi's 500rep Stone Rhino, then the highest repped unit in the game.

Proud is much akin to Chet, in that he speaks neither English nor German, but is instead the only speaker of his own dialect, Proudisch.

Ravill

Ravill first found Neveron in the early years of the 3rd millennium, and joined Demolay Core.  He first joined chat at the insistence of Xavior under the name Hellfire, whereafter he quit DC and moved to WoB.  After losing his net access for six months in 2003, he returned as Wingman, joining Kizo and the original SLDF, and a co-ran a small alliance called HvN.  In 2005 he joined Clan Jade Falcon, and changed his name to Ravill.  By 2006 he owned CJF's largest empire.  He has also in his time been in FWLM, AMI and the new SLDF.

Ravill's biggest claim to fame is managing to lose Canaris's entire level 9 duelling stable in a single night, and then come $100mil away from winning the Hida Fushu award.  To this day Canaris refuses to let Ravill duel any mech in his empires.

Ryuzaburo

Ryuzaburo has throughout his nevtime been a devout follower of Clan Jade Falcon, and has fought in pretty much every war CJF have ever fought, either as a member or as an ally.  He loves duelling, especially with HBK-4Ns, but believes that landwar is the heart of the game, as there's no point building infra unless it's to support mechs.  That aside, he has remained a fairly minor player, but a major nuisance to many, something he loves.

sdog

sdog joined Neveron in January of 2002, and within a year had become the faction leader of Ulantus Defense Legion (UDL).  As faction leader, he guided UDL into the nascent IZW, where it became IZW-3.  He became leader of IZW in early 2006, a position he held until the summer when he quit Nev.  Luckily he was back again in a few months, and resumed his duties as IZW-3 FL, moving it into Legion when IZW collapsed.  He stayed for about six months, but quit again in March 2007, this time permanently.

sdog was always one for speaking his mind, and this earned him Randy's prestidgious "most negative player since Krait left" award, and the title of Neveron Negative Nancy.  In his spare time, sdog is a Bavarian Separatist, probably the only one ever to play Neveron.

TheStarchDefenders

Starch started playing Nev at the tender age of 13, a fact which was apparently totally unnoticed by Peel.  He first joined Clan Ghost bear, back in the days when Clockwork Orange ran it, then moved on to SCABB's Clan Jade Falcon Zeta Galaxy, under the khanate of Kigai.  In his time on Nev he has also managed to have empires in WoB, FWLM, STB and Clan Wolf.  Today, he is Khan of CJF and prides himself on running a Pausanian-esque empire, albeit with better skills.

Tredesde

Tredesde started out back in 2004, having been brought in by a schoolfriend.  He joined the faction Gardens of Kadesh, only to be wiped out. He followed that same friend into NevCom, where he was under the tutelage of KD.  However, he was forced to leave when Nimon quit, and instead found shelter with Chet in Wob, in what he refers to as "a very bad decision".  When WoB went to war with FWLM he defected, and formed his own faction FWLM-MM, which he ran until 2007 when he quit, selling out to Bloodlet.  Less than a year later he was back though.

Tredesde states that the most interesting thing about him is that he came up with his name by randomly pressing letters until he found something which looked good.

umer z

umer_z is a new player to Neveron, having only started in mid-January 2008, joining SLDF. 

Uziel

Uziel has probably gained more of a reputation on Invasion3042, where he is borker-in-chief, than he did on Neveron, but over the years he made significant contributions to many anti-HoC wars.  He was one of the main commanders of the forces of Highland Glucksburg and the rest of the Llama faction in their successful FWAR against the Kingdom of Small, and often commanded NevCom forces during their factionwars.  His empire, 51st NevCom Heavy Guards, was a major headache for HoC.

Nowadays, Uziel is possibly best known for his record of being in 40% of all ~iballs.

Wayward Son

Not technically a player, but still more than worthy of a mention here. Wayward is currently Neveron's only administrator, having played second fiddle to Randy until the latter fell off a mountain - make of that what you will.  He is however brilliant - he personally restored my faith in the admins after my empire was hacked, and was then promptly drunk under the table by all us Brits at NevCon UK in 2005.  Bed at 2am? Pah!

weird

weird joined Neveron in 2001 along with a group of players from a text-based online battletech game. Together, they founded OBA, the Online Battletech Association, and eventually weird became faction leader.  OBA eventually became unF, Neveron's biggest faction, with weird's Death Watch Guards.  At the time of its inception, weird purchased the empire Macca's Imperials for around £300, and downsized it from lvl10 to lvl7 long enough to put it into the faction before levelling back up.

weird is also known as the only person on Neveron ever to own an entire continent - Neveron's southern is almost completely under his domain.  He lists that along with owning the largest empire in the game (DWG), running the largest faction (unF), surrendering a lvl10 with his lvl8 and surrendering a lvl11 inside eight hours as his proudest achievements on Neveron.

weird had been a #neveron op since 2004.

WingedPuma

WingedPuma was a player who made his way onto Neveron in 2005 and never progressed beyond newbie status. Unfortunately, this was at life, because I think his empires were actually moderately successful.  In a short space of time, he became the most ridiculed player in chat, and racked up an impressive number of quotes on ItCouldBeBunnies's Bunnyzen page, including this absolute gem:

<WingedPuma> omfg, i just got tricked by the AI
<WingedPuma> lol what a dumbas
<WingedPuma> no wait

WP now styles himself as ^Puro Estasi, and is a frequent contributor to ~iball and ~oddball.

Wolfie

Wolfie claims to have been abandoned at birth and raised by a pack of friendly wolves.  He also claims to be the only Nev player who works in the "adult entertainment" industry, where he makes "specialised" films.  He has been a long time lurker and only recently decided he was bored silly and had better join a faction and get involved.

Wolfie is known to have turned down a threesome when he was at war on Nev.

wonko

wonko, named after a character from Douglas Adams's So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, first came to Nev in 2002 at the urging of Tobias Moon.  He quickly joined LIFE, then joined Tobias in AMI, where he became war marshal.  When LIFE disbanded, he moved all his empires into AMI, and, having become less vehemently anti-HoC over time, joined SLDF and HoC when AMI started to collapse.

wonko has been known as somewhat of a loose cannon, frequently attacking allies and incurring the wrath of superiors.  That being said, his devotion to the game is unquestionable - he once ran his empires by phone while in jail.

Zan

Zan is probably one of Neveron's longest-serving players, having played (almost) continually since 2001.  In his time he has led several factions including GAF, FRIN and IZW, and has been a shadowy face in IRC chat.  Recently he has had little time for Nev, but still does the occasional arena.

Zan was also one of the main contributors to the genesis of the Shoki SK1-IZW.