I joined CN in August 2006 when a friend from school suggested it to me. I built my nation a little until one day I got bored and decided to test out the war system. I picked someone at random and was promptly jumped by all his friends (probably alliance mates). After that war ended, a bunch of friends from school decided to form an alliance for protection, and the D-Wing Union was born. I hung out in that AA until many of those friends realized that if we joined an established alliance, they'd give us money and we could buy a harbor (we though $200k was a lot at that time). So, a bunch of us joined GATO, as we were already on the brown team (don't know why, actually, I started on Pink but they convinced me to go to brown). I'm not entirely sure when I joined GATO, but I always say it was