JOHNSTER98

JOHNSTER98  ( oTradeMark, ExoticDarkness, ShurgAF), is a veteran and former General of The First Encounter Assault Recon. He is a Veteran Representative and co-Owner of the current Veterans of Venezia Discord.

_Begin
He joined the First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R.) on November 22nd, 2010, the year of its creation. He actually joined The Special Operations division before knowing that there was a main division on September 9th, 2010. While he joined the group in November, he didn't attend his first training until December 4th, 2010. This was at dakota78889's Sword Fight on the Ice training place. He was raiding VAK as early as January 2nd. He rose through the ranks quickly, as he was already on the list for General elections on January 8th as the year changed to 2011. However, he didn't make the cut this time.

_The Importance of Friendship
After getting 0 votes in the January election, it was clear it was still to early and he was still too unknown to the greater community in the group. He spent most of his free time patrolling the Recruitment Center and the HQ that no one seemed to know about, and it didn't even have any weapons. Up until February 18th he would patrol these bases, and then came one of the key releases in his career, Fort Alianor. It was released sometime between February 18th and March 29th, as the exact release date is unknown. He used this opportunity to uncharacteristically make friends and start to form his F.E.A.R. family. He was involved with at least one person from almost all the cliques that existed at the time. His early friend group at the time consisted of names like ironman1555, abc123191, yakovtzvi3, Xnite515, BunnyGuy122, Reaperslayer12345, xxFEARisawesomexx, Gwack09, hello, and SmellyWer.

As time pressed on, he met more and more people at Alianor to add to his collection of friends such as Volren, JB1000, animalmagic headless1, arcanewraith xHTMLx, BurningStatic, bloodbred, Whitemagic77, and Jaylox.

Then, something he had set his sights on for the last 5 months was about to happen. There was another General Election in June, on the 4th. It wasn't close, he beat BurningStatic with 26 votes, by 7 votes with a total of 33. After BurningStaitc, xxFEARisawesomexx placed third with 22 votes. Being friends with more than 3/4s of the other nominees definitely helped in this election as the other participants didn't have the same connection with each other. The winners weren't actually promoted until June 14th as SONICTHEHEDGEHOGXX wasn't the most active at the time. He had to private message him with the election link results to get everyone promoted. Somewhere around this time, he met JasonIIII, an Honors Captain who also patrolled Alianor frequently.

_Opportunities From the Wind
Something happened on July 2nd that no one saw coming, an admin attack. This is the first one he experienced as a General. He was flooded with private messages asking to be re-promoted. As a General, that was out of his hands as they did not have that power. On July 6th, he sent a message to SONIC about how he has been getting flooded by PMs and how there aren't enough active Leaders to fix everyone's ranks. This was how he got his promotion to Leader.