Colonial Space Marines

Who is CSM?

Colonial Space Marines (CSM) is, literally, a guild on the Destromath server in the game World of Warcraft. The guild has an extensive history on the server, and is typically regarded as a 'founding' guild, that is it has existed since the creation of the server with the launch of World of Warcraft in November of 2004.

More broadly, CSM is a collection of typically level headed and easy going mmorpg gamers from across the world who drift in and out of a thirteen year old community, not just in World of Warcraft, but across a range of other games as well. It is the hilarious memories, shared experiences, trolling jibes, grueling hard work, triumphant successes, and colossal failures of a group of friends separated by distance but kept together by purpose. It is these memories we attempt to capture with this wiki.

Also there is some weird wigger shit going on? I mean look at the picture in the navigation bar on the left, it's not even close to what the guild membership is like. Except for maybe Heaton and Shimmer.

Classic

Colonial Space Marines was formed on the second day of live servers, November 24th, 2004. This makes it the longest running active guild in the history of the Destromath server. There are a few other guilds on the realm that have existed as long, but none have maintained a presence in progression for the entire history of the game. CSM was chartered by Alys as GM and Sylphiel and Paradox as her officers. They came to WoW with some other friends from Planetside, Final Fantasy XI, and various other MMOs. The name Colonial Space Marines was, at least to the writer's knowledge, not a nod to Warhammer 40k, but instead just a name that they chose because it fit in Planetside and was carried into other games. In the early days of CSM they started to assimilate other guilds of like-minded players, interested in conquering the hardest content WoW had to offer. Some of these early mergers included defining excellence (Zelf, Ell, Popp) and Amish (Red, Jody, Killswitcher, Bibafatty). CSM's roster leveled up and then began farming Scholo, UBRS, and Strath for their Dungeon Sets to prepare for raiding. During this time they continued to expand their sphere of influence. Council of Shadow (Magy, Drewbie) and Equals D (Rudger, Kabal, and the rest of the Ohio Crew) were recruited around the time that CSM began to venture into the Molten Core. During MC progression many other guilds were assimilated including Carnage (Kendoch, Airion, Reapor) and eventually CSM started to poach people out of our rival progression guild Tilt (Finite, Infinite, and eventually Tilt's GM, Covet, would eventually join). Throughout the rest of Vanilla there were many other mergers, acquisitions, poachings, and random people joining. CSM even received a bunch of recruits after Blizzard opened up free transfers from Mannoroth ????? an overpopulated server. It was this collection of people from many different countries, backgrounds, walks of life that would eventually form the community we now know as CSM.

Raiding History

Molten Core
Boss	Server Kill Ranking	Kill Date
Lucifron	2nd Beat by Masquers
Magmadar	1st
Gehenas	1st
Garr	1st
Baron Geddon	1st
Shazzrah	1st
Sulfuron Harbinger	1st
Golemagg	1st
Majordomo Executus	1st
Ragnaros	1st
Onyxia's Lair
Boss	Server Kill Ranking	Kill Date
Onyxia	1st
Blackwing Lair
Boss	Server Kill Ranking	Kill Date
Razorgore	2nd Beat by Taken
Vaelstrasz	1st
Broodlord Lashlayer	1st
Firemaw	1st
Ebonroc	1st
Flamegor	1st
Chromaggus	1st
Nefarian	2nd to Alliance guild i can't remember
Temple of Ahn'Qiraj
Boss	Server Kill Ranking	Kill Date
Prophet	1st
Bug Trio	1st
Battleguard Sartura	2nd to alliance guild
Fankriss	1st
Princess Huhuran	1st
Twin Emps	2nd to G Unit
Viscidus	1st
Ouro	1st
C'thun	1st
Naxxramas
Boss	Server Kill Ranking	Kill Date
Spider Wing			Anub	1st
Lady	1st
Maexxna	2nd to Get of Fenris
Plague Wing			Noth the Plaguebringer	1st
Heigan the Unclean	1st
Loatheb	1st
Abom Wing			Patchwerk	1st
Grobulus	1st
Gluth	1st
Thaddius	1st
Death Knight Wing			Instructor Razuvious	1st
Gothik the Harvester	1st
The Four Horsemen	1st
End Boss Wing			Sapphiron	1st
Kel'thuzad	1st