Amnesia was started 199? by Lester, HR, The Resistance and Captain Blood.
They had all been in Malice for the past few months and after a bonehead move
by Dorian Hawkmoon, they decided to walk, and let the best malice people follow
them. This was how it began, originally Rapier and Amnesia were nearly the same
group, but it never panned out, thus spawning the later rivalry. Amnesia was
rocky at the start, Captain Blood being named as a narc and becoming one of
the more hated men in the scene at that time. He was removed from the Amnesia
leadership and then it became just the three amigos. Amnesia quickly grew into a
power.
Some of the better traders in the scene who were already in Malice,
quickly moved over to the newer, less fucked up group. Lester quickly capitalized
on this, picking up some of the better traders from smaller groups with alot of
potential. TSA, Yoss, Crazy, Aurora(mgd), Davan, Shafter. Two of the top sites
at that time moved over to the group. BBX and CRC. The problem was simply that
there was not enough loyalty to go around. Risc being highly threatened by AMN's
emergence as a solid competitor, began deleting traders who wouldn't quit, nuking
them x2, doing whatever it took to take AMN out of the fold. So many many traders
would move to risc, at the end of AMN, only Lester and Prozac were left from day one
of AMN. But it was one hell of a ride. AMN dethroned Risc and removed the monopoly
on sites that they had, also taking the BBS scene away from them as well. In the peak
of AMN's days they were undisputedly #1 on BBS and NET. Having such bbses as Street
Spydrs, Malevolence, The Screwy Gecko, etc.
AMN linked up as Official Couriers for PWA, a task that has since not been
accomplished. But AMN was not perfect, there was the incidents with Trite and Dreamland.
Couriers leaving and trying to steal people. Gahn breaking off and forming Empire,
a group war that amounts essentially to what MNM and DMS is right now. I just wanted
to sum it up for you guys, included below is some quotes from people who were around
or in AMN during it's days. Also are some info files, I could not find the first info
unfortunately.
-Lester - EX-AMN Founder