The Rebelievers:Zurg Event Fan Thread//To The Moon!

[Yeata Zi]

Welcome to my fan thread for the events surrounding the 2006 Zurg Event. This spanned from Halloween 2006, until sometime after Valentine's Day 2007.

The Zurg event was possibly the most user-interactive event on Gaia. It included several user-run factions and intricate characters with whom the user base could interact. It had mystery, espionage, and, at times, all-out war. For many of us around in these days, the Zurg event has been the highlight of our time on Gaia. It is a time I, and many others on this site, hold dear to our hearts. We formed lasting friendships between the factions and with the Zurg. Even now, seven years later, many still look back on this event with fondness.

During Gaia's Ten Year Anniversary, back in February, a couple of us came together in our favorite Zurg-Sighting spot: Barton Towns 001919. We met again in the sacred ground for the first time in years, made triangles, reminisced and most importantly decided we should form the Rebelievers. The Rebelievers would be our way of showing we still Believe.

Named for the Believers, the original peaceful plot group, we come together in our mutual love for the 2006 event. We are here, ever watching the skies, hoping for their return.

Why Watermeat?
Our mascot as a group is the watermeat! This beast was favored by [NPC] alien_ufo_02, and became a bit of a symbol for the peace movement after 02 was murdered. The watermeat became a symbol of peace between the warring factions of the 2006 event, and we were able to come together for peace over the loss of 02. It may not mean anything to people who weren't around during those events, but it means a lot to the 06 plotters. I chose the watermeat as our symbol because it has always reminded me of the different groups coming together for a singular purpose. Everyone liked 02, and we were all sad when he was murdered. UFO 02 was the kindest of the Zurg, and he liked everyone despite our different groups. His death is what brought us all together for peace in the end. It makes sense that a new group would honor him. We actually used to host an annual Watermeat festival for a few years after the Zurg left so the different groups could hang out with each other.

Nostalgia Thread Go!


This fan thread is a work in progress. I intend on updating it sporadically over the months. If you have anything to add, please feel free to PM me. I will credit you for your research. :3

News:
10/19/13 : The Zurg Fan thread opens! A full seven years after the original Believers.
10/18/14: HALLOWEEN THREAD IS UP!

[Yeata Zi]

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[Yeata Zi]

The Zurg event had quite the colorful cast of characters that we, the users, got to know over the course of the event. Here, I have tried to organize that list of characters. If you scroll down, I have also included key user-created factions from the event.



[NPC] Ron Bruise
Post History: [ here ]
Personality: Pretty crazy. He just acts a little odd all around, you know? Jumping on couches, getting overly excited about stuff. The man is a little odd. And clearly a Tom Cruise parody.
Bit o' History: He started showing up randomly around the forums before the Zurg showed up spouting some crazy nonsense about the number 19. He was... way overly excited. To this day, some believe he was a Zurg in disguise, but nothing was ever proven. He is a movie star of some renowned. His most recent film, Mother Duck's Sunday Stroll caused quite the stir among Gaians. Ron Bruise held starring roles in the films: Jet Guys, Barstool, Brainman, Intercourse with a Vampire, Battle of the Planets, Operation Unlikely, Operation Unlikely 2, Operation Unlikely 3, Barry McMyers, Far and Wide, The Final Shogun, Full Saddle, and Volcano Rain. The Zurg's preliminary research of Gaia consisted of studying broadcasts being sent from the planet, which mainly consisted of Ron Bruise movies. After watching enough of his movies, they became big fans of his work.
Whereabouts: As far as we know, he's still making movies on Gaia, though he possibly did some work off-planet this mini comic is to be believed.
Manga Appearances: x
Related Items:



[NPC] alien_mothership
Post History: [here]
Personality: Nurturing, but a bit controlling. Mother thinks she knows best.
Bit o' History: She made first contact with Johnny K. Gambino on October 31st, 2006.
Mother and the other ZURG first came to Gaia in search of Power; attracted by the blast that split the Gambinos. She sold Zurg energy drink against Gambino, an energy drink that would turn regular Gaians into Zurg around Halloween. However, the longer she stayed, the more fond she became of Gaia's inhabitants. Over time, she began to think of us as her children, like her 12 UFOs. But she was disturbed by what she saw. She claimed that because of our self-destructive tendency for hatred and greed, we would end up destroying ourselves. The amount of time she predicted we would have without her intervention was no more than five years. The man she predicted would be responsible: Gambino himself. The means: G-VIRUS.She told us that the only way to be saved was to "treat" us, as she had Flarn. It would take away all our negative emotions... and all the positive ones, too. And most likely our free will with it. She was the leader of the Zurg, and upon our decision to keep our free-will, she left Gaia forever promising that in five years time we would see our end.
Whereabouts: Off-Gaia. We assume planet Zurg.
Manga Appearances: x, x
Related Items:



[NPC] Johnny K. Gambino
Alias: [NPC] Gambino's Memorial
Post History: [ here ]
Personality: Your basic filthy rich megalomaniac. <3 and shitty father.
Bit o' History: Johnny K. Gambino was Gaia's most inspiration self-made millionaire. He was also behind a ton of early mishaps in Gaia's history. He's behind both Zombie outbreaks, as well as war between humans and vampires. He survived one assasination attempt only to be taken out by a second. God rest his zombie bones. For the Zurg event, he sponsored the party, and was first to make contact with Mother. He also sold Redbino, the humanizing alternate to Zurg energy.
Whereabouts: Deceased.



UFOs
These were siblings, Mother's children, some were very friendly, while others wanted nothing more than to cover you in batter and deep-fry you. I am going to be updating these more slowly. Sorry about that! School is hard! If you would like to write up a Zurg's entry, feel free! I'd love the help!

COMING SOON!



The Factions
One of the best things about the Zurg Event is that the user-factions involved were just as important as the NPCs! They played a key-role in the creation of the eventual Peace Treaty.

I wrote these... so like....if you are a member of a faction that you want edited or added or whatever, just send me a PM!

So, in alphabetical order....

The Believers
Founder: The Wandering Mind...
Original Thread: Here
Guild:

Bio: These were the peace-loving Believers. They welcomed the Zurg with open arms and befriended many. They were the most accepting group.

The Gaians in Black
Founder: The Iron Magus
Original Thread: Here
Guild:

Bio: The Gaians in Black were formed with two simple goals in mind: to investigate the intentions and origins of the alien visitors, and to keep the peace between Gaia's peoples. Though painted by some as anti-alien, they strove to remain neutral, embracing neither the optimism of the Believers, nor the militancy of the Resistance. They were primarily investigators and information gatherers. Now a days, they still work to gather information on events, though much less than the old days.

The Gaian Resistance
Founder: z-bandit (I'm actually not sure about this.SOMEBODY FACT CHECK ME!)
Original Thread: I couldn't find it! D: If someone knows where it is located, please hit me up with the link!
Guild:

Bio: The more militant Gaian Resistance swore to protect Gaia's citizens by whatever means possible.

The Zurg Hive
Founder: [NPC] alien_ufo_11
Original Thread: here
Guild:

Bio: Originally the Zurg Nation (later Zurg Hive) was formed as the arm of the Zurg here on Gaia. It is where newly transformed Zurg could join up with other Zurg against all Gaians. They were somewhat militant and prone to spying. Now a days, they are a small band of Zurg left on gaia. Their goal is to preserve the Zurg culture.


This information was all taken from the GiB System Database or the brilliant research of Pirate Captain Sushi.

[Yeata Zi]

Here is a collection of histories of the Zurg and of the event from the folks who lived it. IT'S LIKE WE'RE ON ANCIENT ALIENS ON THE HISTORY CHANNEL... only.... BETTER RESEARCHED.

I would love some help with this. Want to give me something to post here? GO FOR IT! I will make sure you get credit. :B

THE SUSHI-DEX
Here is a collection of rather well organized and precise research data compiled by Pirate Captain Sushi. It is all very well- researched and certainly worth reading over.

Zurg Culture

Pirate Captain Sushi

"He owns 19 shoes!"


19 was a re-occuring number in the Zurg plot: the aliens
constantly referenced it, people continued to make
conspiracy threads about it, and developers decided
to dedicate imagery to it. An example would be Ron's
town's address: 23 Barton 003812; add the numbers in
it together, and you get 19. (2+3+3+8+1+2=19). The
digits in Ron's birthday also equal 19, there were 19
jack-o-lantern lights in Barton,
http://www.gaiaonline.com/gaia/map.php?m=19 was
the image of the cliff explosion, and there were 19
of each cow on the map. The UFO's also always showed
up at 1919 or 1019 in towns.


"It was because of... the Apple wars!" -Flarn


On the planet Zurg, they once had a crop called an
"apple". These were the most delicious fruits in the
universe, so delicious that a Zurg would smash their
little sisters cranial plates just to get one. War
eventually broke out for apples between brothers, they
eventually lost sight of what they were fighting for
and used the very apples they loved as weapons against each other!
But one Zurg was capable of settling the feuding
sides. Moof, the savior and prophet of the Zurg, had
eradicated their Darknrgy and saved them
from their path to self-destruction.


"01100011 01101111 01110111"


The standard way of hiding information for the public was
for a Zurg agent to "color=white" the hidden message in their posts.
Binary was a language primarily used by Mother and Blarg,
however, as Gaian's showed they could translate it easily, the
developers and admins decided to step it up a notch. Soon
each Zurg started hiding Anagrams in their binary posts and
making up their own alphabetical codex system. A popular one
was where they took the "Q,W,E,R,T,Y,U,I,O,P" keys aligned in
a row on your keyboard and made it equal:
Q = A
W= B
E = C
R = D
T = E
Etc.
Roman numerals would also be used in place of numbers.


"MoooOOOOOOoooOOoo"


Cows are Rancher-Bills primary source of livestock. They secrete
a fluid from their utters that the Zurg enjoy as a delicacy/miracle product.
To them, this fluid is known as "the White Elixir", named so because
it has the ability to cure any ailment for their race, but to
Gaians, this substance is known simply as "Milk". Cows can apparently
sense when the Zurg are coming, because they formed in triangular
formations when the Zurg first arrived. Cows also seemed to have their
own coded language in the Zurg event, since they posted various
"MoooOOOoo" codes, which were previously decodable
using an offsite "MOO" decoder application.


"I NEED MORE DARNRGY! AUUGHHHHH!!!" -Flarn
DARKNRGY is a highly addictive substance created out of
anger, hate, fear, and overall negative feelings. Flarn became
addicted to this substance when he was revived with a combination
of Zurg and Gaian technology.


"AUGHHH! PAIN!!!!!!" -Flarn


When someone is acting "Flarnal" it means they're acting emo,
sad, angry, vengeful, or post DARKNRGY Flarn-like. It's
used in offensive and playful terms. Flarnal may also be used
to describe anything red, violet, purple, crimson, or black.


"Well... it's a bit of an inside joke really..." -[NPC] alien_UFO 08


You will commonly see Zurg individuals misspell the word
"peace" as "piece". Well this is purely intentional. You see
the meaning behind this typo is in inside joke between the
Zurg Armada. They arrived on a planet scheduled for obliteration
with the guise of friendly neighborhood space dwellers vying for
peaceful negotiations... it ended with them ripping the planet apart,
piece by piece. Now when a Zurg says "we come in piece" what they
really mean is "We're going to tear your planet apart".


"Yikes, that Gambino guy keeps giving me the dirtiest looks.
Maybe he can't handle being the second-richest guy in the room. Ha!" -Ron Bruise


Ron Bruise is a very hyperactive brown-haired Caucasian
male human with a career in Gaia-cinema. He is obsessed
with the future of Gaia, condones the use of psychiatric
medication and pants, and is happily married to a woman
whose identity is currently unknown. His hobbies and
interests are: G meters, his wife, acting, love, and life.
Currently he's writing a book about eastern culture and
cocktail recipes. He resides at 23 Barton 003812 in towns.

The Zurg's preliminary research of Gaia consisted of studying
broadcasts being sent from the planet, which mainly consisted
of Ron Bruise movies. After watching enough of his movies,
they became big fans of his work.

[NPC] Ron Bruise

Hey! Over here! I'll take this one! I'm so glad you asked!
You see, Cindy, I erected a gigantic satellite broadcasting station
in my back yard to beam my movies into space.

Ron Bruise has starred in:

- "Jet Guys"
- "Barstool"
- "Brainman"
- "Intercourse with a Vampire"
- "Battle of the Planets"
- "Operation Unlikely" with 3 reoccurring sequels
- "Barry McMyers"
- "Far and Wide"
- "The Final Shogun"
- "Full Saddle"
- "Volcano Rain"


"WE AWAIT TO DESTROY YOUR PRECIOUS TACO'S" -[NPC] alien_UFO 10


The Zurg became interested in Taco's when a Gaian user suggested
to an [NPC] alien UFO that Gaia would defend itself with "Taco cannons".
Ever since that day, the Zurg had started to reference taco's and bring
them to their parties! Even 05 decided to make a human-flavored taco!



"They're nice, aren't they? They're so strong, and they occur all over the place in nature. We just like them, okay?" -Mother


A triangle is one of the basic shapes of geometry: a
polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides
or edges which are line segments. Triangles are 180°.
The triangle is a reoccurring shape to Zurg, the perfect
shape in their eyes.


"I wub watur meatz, deyz iz mai favowite aminal!"-Narf


Watermeat are a strange form of aquatic mammal found only in
the polar regions on Gaia. Narf came across them when he ran
away from mother, gathered a bunch of them, and started passing
them out to everyone on X-mas! They look like large white fish with one
orange button for the right eye, and a tiny green button for the left.

Zurg in Gaia Today.

Pirate Captain Sushi

Sorn- Sorn briefly makes an appearance in the Manga #15, Death of 09
Where he shoots 09 down from his spacecraft, and makes another
appearance in #17 Return of 09, where he talks to Narf and winds
up cradling their lifeless body.

Flarn- Flarn makes an appearance in #15, Death of 09,
where he's running away from his brother and his sister in accusation
of being a traitor for affiliating himself amorously with Gaians. Flarn is
then shot down. Later, he returns in #17 Return of 09
as a Dark-Energy craving hybrid.

Zoit- She abducts Santa in #16 The Santa Cow Incident

Narf- They show up in comic #17 Return of 09, where Narf
is dressed like santa, passing out gifts to Believers, Zurg Hivers, GIB agents,
and GCD'ers alike. Sadly, he dies shortly after.

??? #1- A mysterious Zurg appears in the Olympics comic #26 Brains and Brawn,
his identity was never released.

In Rally, The Zurg UFO's make an appearance as obstacles.
They briefly pick you up and drop you, delaying your speed for a
few seconds
They also make an appearance as a drivable vehicle.

Every time around December, zOMG! usually updates
with a giant Christmas tree in Barton's town square. If
you look closely in that tree, you can see some Mini
UFO's decorating it.


You may have noticed the tagline that says "SORN"
in OA, northwest of Agent Caruthers (a.k.a Concerned Citizen).
This is a reference to the Zurg NPC Sorn, A.K.A. UFO 11.


Back when the Zurg event was just starting, users would
flock around water fountains found in towns and form giant
triangles around them for the alien NPC's. A homage to the old towns water fountain
which featured a floating spaceship with 4 lions surrounding
it, the zOMG fountain now resembles a flatter shaped Zurg
UFO with its tractor beam active. If that minor design change
wasn't enough to convince you, the lion statues have also been
replaced with cows, an animal sacred to the Zurg.



The Village Greens Goof course cropcircle was originally
made by the Zurg UFO's that burned a series of cropcircles into
the grass, all throughout Gaia's maps. Same size, same shape,
same location, same cropcircle.

As an added bonus, 3 Lawn gnomes spawn on each circle in
one square of the cropcircle... they spawn in a triangle!



The warp portal is a device set by the Zurg Mothership
to allow the rest of her fleet to travel back and forth
between dialed planets of their choosing. When the Zurg left,
the gate remained functional, but humans were not granted access
codes for it. Now, an invasive force of interstellar huntsmen known as
"P3's" have been using it to travel back and forth to their homeworld.
Other alien monsters known as Walkers, Landstriders,
Lightning Bugs, and Death Roaches have been using the portal.
When you walk through the portal, there is no way back, except in a
bodybag.



A reference to the Zurg plotline, the
Believers were an integrated mix of Zurg and
human users who worshiped the Zurg NPC's,
formed triangles in towns, and attempted to
start peace relations between Gaia and Zurg.
In zOMG, they're paranoid alien fans who wear
tin foil hats to stop P3's from reading their minds.
They still form triangles.
Tom: "The Zurg are returning! Our time has come!"


Not much Zurg stuff here, just a possible "happy coincidence".
The number 19 has been a reoccurring number in Zurg culture, there
just happens to be 19 buildings in Buccaneer Boardwalk. As an added
bonus, the islands are in more of an equilateral triangle formation.


Perhaps you're familiar with the Zurg Blueprints from the 2006 Invasion?
Well according to the old 19 theory guild, the map on these blueprints
resembled the pathway in Barton Trench.
When Deadmans Pass came out on zOMG!, users were quick
to spot some Easter eggs from the very same blueprints! The circled
and squared points of interest on the Zurg map were also points
of interest on the zOMG minimap!

1. A flock of clutches swarm with the words "Look out below!". [EXAMPLE]
2. The only purse (discolored clutch) in the entire map is
located in this section.[EXAMPLE]
3. A series of OMGs randomly attack you after going here.
They will continue spawning after the words "OMG what was that sound!?" flash.[EXAMPLE]



"DARKNRGY" or Dark Energy, is a substance created
out of hatred, fear, and overall negative feelings. The word
originated from the Zurg plot (it was a substance Flarn was addicted to)
but as we can see from the DMS expansion, it makes
a resurgence. When fighting Kamila's bloodrage form,
she will announce loudly:
"The Dark Energy! It is growing! Flooding my veins with ecstasy."

[Yeata Zi]

Here I would like to collect various arts and other fanworks that somehow relate to the Zurg Event.

...Towns Shapes too!

A lot needs to be done for this, so I hope you will help me out.

The art from this thread came from my Water Meat Project art request thread. You should totally look at all the beauitufl water meats I have gotten so far. :3

Zurg-Related Fanworks!

by Krystalinn

AND

By
FlowerCape

Rebeliever-Related Fanworks!

Hi-Potion

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2016 Halloween Event Related FanWorks

Bearnas -MNB-

[Yeata Zi]

Contest 1 Results

All of our beautiful entries from this contest! <3

BatChic

Ship Captain: BatChic is the designer, but I would like Zurg 5DMxyzptlk (mxy) to captain this ship

Ship Design:

Notes on Design: As the Zurg 5DMxyzptlk will be piloting this spacecraft with a complete army of droids for combat, a sophisticated docking system to keep the robotic drone fighters energized is in place, with a generous storage capacity for these 10,000 droids. The Propulsion System: The craft is propelled by an extremely powerful rotating and oscillating high-voltage electro-magnetic field that produces a gravity field. This craft does not create an "anti-gravity" field but a field that is "out-of-phase" with the current one; in other words, the gravity field is "out-of-phase" with the same gravitational wave. (Note: phases vary from zero to 180 degrees.) This ship has a reliable cloaking system, and deflector shields -- advanced Zurg technology is at work, here. About the weapons system: of course, up-to-date AI "smart weapons" are on board to optimize maximum efficiency.

BatChic

Ship Captain: BatChic is again, the designer, and 5DMxyzptlk is selected to be ship captain, once again

Ship Design (revision):


Notes on Design: Please refer to entry 1 (Zurg Ship 2016 ~ Green Scan) This particular version represents the zurgship in stealth mode with propulsion system and lasers firing. (I completed this revision with different filters and techniques applied to my base sketch graphic with the GIMP. I feel this is a better representation of the idea of a rescue ship that I had in my head -- more attractive result.)

Contest 2? COMING SOON!

[Yeata Zi]

What sort of fan club would this be without a fan list? I will try my best to update this regularly!

1. Yeata Zi
2. Pirate Captain Sushi
3. Amotry
4. [Hazy Kasumi]
5. xcrimsonlegendx
6. Qyp
7. x Karurie x
8. Meushi
9. Slick Southpaw
10. The Iron Magus
11. B I B A X T
12.Carrion Kitten
13. ChihayatheBlackAngel
14. Eruravenne
15. LabTech Deusy
16. Arifox
17. Guardian Amy
18. Krystalinn
19. Skarlis
20. King Blackwater
21. Anaella
22. dragonmonkey
23. Shaarr
24. Mills XI
25. lord narsha
26. Charriswheel
27. Solarn
28. Captain Jessie Hawk
29. FlowerCape
30. Hell_Tutor
31. Darth Acheron
32. defrev
33. Creeped

[Yeata Zi]

Yay! Open!

Sorry if it's not october 19th in your time zone!

I GOT IMPATIENT!

[Labtech Soosh]

I LOVE THE ZURG MAN, WOOOOOO! MOTHER! YEAH!
SIGN ME UP AS A FAN!
*jumps off couch*

[Yeata Zi]

Pirate Captain Sushi

I LOVE THE ZURG MAN, WOOOOOO! MOTHER! YEAH!
SIGN ME UP AS A FAN!
*jumps off couch*

Hooray!

I was worried nobody was going to ever post.

Do you think Ron Bruise even remembers making films for aliens? Or do you think it is all a hyperactive haze?

[Adulariah]

Aw hell, sign me up as a fan.

It's been a while since I've seen a thread really about the Zurg~

[Yeata Zi]

Amotry

Aw hell, sign me up as a fan.

It's been a while since I've seen a thread really about the Zurg~

It really has been forever. :3

[[Hazy Kasumi]]

Sign me up, Zi! You have my full support as one of the old Believers. <3

[Yeata Zi]

[Hazy Kasumi]

Sign me up, Zi! You have my full support as one of the old Believers. <3

Hooray! Thanks, gurl!

[[Hazy Kasumi]]

Yeata Zi

[Hazy Kasumi]

Sign me up, Zi! You have my full support as one of the old Believers. <3

Hooray! Thanks, gurl!

There aren't too many of us left on Gaia anymore, which makes me sad--but seeing this thread gave me so much hope. smile

Maybe one day, Mother and her surviving children will see that we are, in fact, compatible.