Community:Starship ZUChat

Starship ZUChat is one of the handful of handles adopted by chat-goers for trolling escapades on the Zelda Universe forums. There is no defined organizational structure of Starship ZUChat, and in its earlier days was nearly interchangable with the #ZUChat Soviets. It is also closely related to Zangaroa, a secretive organization led by Emperor Hindmost and Captain Cornflake, whose name has been tied to trolling operations with 4chan Ebaums World, future plans for a new sovereign state in the remnants of Venezuela after the overthrow of Hugo Chavez, and sometimes shared with Starship ZUChat escapades.

2007 "Revival"

While the name of Starship ZUChat wasn't directly a part of trolling operations since Hind and Kedsy's initial bannings in 04/05, it was generally accepted that the coordinated efforts of the "chat crew" to disrupt the forums is recognized as the Starship. However, it wasn't until May 2007 that the name would be revived.

Captain Cornflake one day decided to start stirring up controversy in ZU's Zelda Theorizing board, making a thread that promoted the view there was no real "timeline" and that the creators had bungled things so many times that trying to make sense of it was a colossal waste of time. (A stance that actually wasn't fabricated) Naturally, this was met by harsh resistance from frequenters of the Theorizing board, who, fueled by the aggressive attitude displayed by Capn, proceeded to continually derail the topic on merits such as "it sparked an uprising of anti-timeliners." (Exact words) While the thread was eventually locked, a sequel soon took its place, drawing in more members of the chat crew. It was around this time that Capn decided to put together a new Starship ZUChat banner for everybody to sport, similar to Tim and Ked's from 2004. When people started accusing those sporting the new Starship sig of simply being trolls, they responded that they were the "newest timeline group" that believed in no timeline. (The "nihlists of timeline theorizing," as Kara had put it) Of course, this was absolute bullshit, but by the time the drama was over, the Starship had succeeded in exposing the near cult-like culture that had overtaken the Theorizing board.

As the next couple months went on, people sporting the Starship ZUChat banner could often be seen attacking threads in waves, building up massive chains of backhanded insults and psychobabble, picking opponents clean before they had a chance to even reply. They even used their strength to hit the Summer 07 awards, nominate themselves as a group for "best sig," winning the award. (after much protest from James)

Propaganda

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  The original Starship banner

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  The 2007 "Revival" Signature