Dec 14th 2002
That was when the first SWAT Forum went online and the day that the SWAT Portal was born.
Much has changed since then.
We started with 5 members next to the Site Admins. Hawk, Sensemann, rBaron, Werewolf and DonZardeone.
The idea was simple: "let's create an international multiclan community".
It took us not long to say "mission accomplished" as very soon the Ministers of Death (MoD) turned into Starlancers most professional clan, Bloodguard grew to the biggest FL clan in history and the Defenders of Aresden/Aresiens Inquisition ruled over Helbreath.
A few years later this community turned into a Server community for Freelancer.
Out of that several mods were created and released: Bloodguard RPG, Crossfire, Blaster Universe, ...
Today the SWAT Portal is more like a kind of Community Network.
In 2010 SWAT acquired the Lancer's Reactor Community which since that is getting hosted by the SWAT Portal.
We currently have two active clans hosted at SWAT and three active modding projects (probably soon a 4th).
But SWAT is even more.
All around it other clans were formed and became part of the community.
A community which houses meanwhile more than 13.000 registered members at out main forum and several ten-thousand at TLR.
9 years of hard work and good progress.
Let's see what the future holds.
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