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