History and goals (Old)

I started this clan in November 2002 and the name was {{SL}} - SilverKnights. Actually this isn't quite right because in the beginning there was 2 leaders, me and a  guy called Pyro. He heard I had left {Fm} and asked me if I wanted to start a clan with him and I said yes, since I had nothing else to do. So I began making a site, and we got a few members and so on. After 1 week, we had 3 members, a webpage and a lousy 5 slots server running 2-3 hours a day. Then Pyro suddenly left without a word.
He just stopped getting online, and I was on my own. I said to myself there was no reason for quitting now when we had a site www.sl-silverknights.webbyen.dk
(take a look and see how ugly a page can be) and some active members.

Three members I really remember from {{SL}} are Legato (Haunted), Kyp Nadon and Road Runner. I guess I was just very lucky to get these 3 members into my clan because they are still with me, and 3 of my most trusted members.
After a bit of time in {{SL}}, Road Runner came up with a new name.
"Silverknights sounds like a bunch of gays running around saving princesses"
he said, and no one said he was wrong. So after that we changed to Clan Apathy
and all of Pyro's work was gone.

One day, on our new forums, Pyro came back and said his PC was broken, and that he was really sorry that he had just let me down. Well that was OK with me.
He came back and he got a decent rank right away. But this time he didn't hold that long either. I saw he was using another name, Desann I think it was, and having "fun" with his admin password. He got in on some of my very good friends servers, began laming and so on. I noticed this fast and got him kicked. Then he started a clan called < X > and they became our enemies right away. Well once again he left his clan without saying anything so after 2-4 weeks it died. That's mostly the early history, right now our clan just got out of a big inactivity, we were almost dead for 1 month but we got back on our feet.

The reason for the latest inactivity I guess it was because of the members we have now, most have been with us back when we were still called Silverknights, so it has been the same for a long time, no new members. That is probably why Clan Apathy almost came to be a family, we didn't just "adopted a kid" because we didn't have lots of members, we had to like him/her. We had to know that he/she would be loyal to all our members before he/she could become a part of our family. And because of that we only wanted members who everyone could like. No one had the intention to "move away from home" either, so that's also the reason why we didn't get any new life into the clan. Now we are beginning to play a lot on the SA server because they are great allies and everyone likes their members.
Written by DuckLord - 26/07/04

History and goals (New)

I wrote this story recently, trying to continue and complement Duckie's version:
The clan was created in November 2002 by Ducklord. We were called {{SL}} SilverKnights and started like any other clan in Jedi Outcast: Tryouts, hierarchy-based ranks, strict rules, etc. At first the clan was formed by DuckLord, Kyp Nadon, Pyro and Roadrunner. Later on we started to get bigger with the addition of more members to that small group of people. At a given time, a few months after its creation, {{SL}} changed to - Clan Apathy. Don't let our current name fool you, since it was kept more like as a tradition rather than to represent our philosophy. Even with the addition of more members (such as FreeZ - now DarkLight, who's always been with us) Ca was still small, serverless and rather noobish.
We only had a horrible website, forums, and sometimes DuckLord, Road Runner and myself hosted limited servers from our own PCs.

Little by little, clan started to change. The members got really close to each other, sharing their personal problems, facts, and becoming real friends. I guess this was the reason for us to start considering Ca as "a clan based on friendship, not skills". DuckLord had a goal for the clan - to make it so no council, punishment, ranks or rules were needed, just like a big group of friends, which would play and have fun in peace without disrespecting each other or fighting. Since that is nearly impossible to happen, he named it "Ca's utopia". We would then try to get closer to that idea, taking small steps, little by little. Then, traditional skill-based tryouts were abolished (our tryout became "get to know everyone and make them enjoy your company".

The clan grew up to around 15 members (Zulu and Aragorn joined at that time), but we were still serverless. The things that kept us together were the friendship and FORUMS (and that's why we value them so much). After a long time, our oldest ally, SA - Silent Assassins decided to lend us their server for recruiting and admining (and I'll always be thankful to Punizer for that). Then more and more people joined, (including Kale, and Djspazy) and Staveinator, who brought us his server. After that, Ca hasn't stopped growing, and we were settled as one of the most important clans in JK2 (even though many still considered us a "noob" clan).

Admin status were made independent of the military-based ranks, which were then abolished. We kept the council and the tryout rank "{P} - Private" and rules got a bit softer. After that, the "Teams System" was created so everyone could participate and help the clan. Nowadays we are steady and strong, even with the countless problems that keep showing up every month. Council still does most of the work, but the members help a lot (thanks, everyone).

People came and went away, but everyone were, and still are important to us.
We are still taking small steps, back and forward, making small changes with no hurry and trying to reach our utopia. I really hope everyone understands that and helps us to do so.
Written by Haunted - 14/3/2006

Ca gives no guarantee that the history is up-to-date.