The Karaian Empire. There are two universes to the Karaian Empire. One is here, based on the NetMech Gaming Organization started by Josev Marcelian. The other is in a fictional universe that follows one planets journey from self-discovery, to power, destruction, isolation, and devastating rebirth. This site will touch on both universes, but will focus on promoting the fictional universe which is continually being written. This is the story of Marcelian.
In 1995, the Karaian Empire emerged as a rogue clan on the Mechwarrior2™ Netmech™ servers. Due to technology at the time the clan/pirate group played mainly off public servers until Mechwarrior2: Mercenaries™ came out. At that time the Karaian Empire (KE) became public. Numbers were purposely kept low as only the best were accepted and there were only two online trainers qualified to train.
The sense of commraderie and honor flowed through the Karaian ranks. A culture was built and sustained well beyond it's humble beginnings.
There have been whispers of bringing the Karaian Empire back to online gaming...what fun that would be.
-Josev Marcelian (Jan 2011)