Platform Map
The platforms where this community existed, and the connections between them. Each platform had its own culture, handles, and social dynamics—but the same people moved across all of them.
Jedi Knight II
FFA servers, lightsaber dueling, clan culture. Where JOC formed and Tomar Dicol was born.
- JOC Clan (roleplaying)
- JKA (sequel migration)
- AIM (off-game chat)
Jedi Academy
JA+ mod FFA, Movie Battles II team combat. The JK series matures. Dark_shocker is still modding for it in 2007.
- JK2 (predecessor)
- MBII (total conversion)
- JOC Clan (carryover)
Star Wars Galaxies
The MMORPG that united and then betrayed them. Pre-CU crafting, Jedi grind, NGE destruction. Tom played on a friend’s account.
- JK games (shared community)
- AIM (file transfers)
- RPG World (thematic overlap)
AOL Instant Messenger
The connective tissue. 42 contacts, 68K messages. Where the real conversations happened—late night, multi-person, with custom fonts and colors.
- All platforms (social hub)
- MSN Messenger (JOC era)
- File transfers (screenshots)
Total War Center
Strategy gaming forum. Tom posts as Pnutmaster. Private messages preserved—4 files from inbox, ~170KB of forum correspondence.
- AIM (cross-platform contacts)
- marcvs.traianvs (TWC contact)
Krillin and Friends
ezboard forums, theatre talk threads, episode hosting. Tom had an episode hosted there. The messageboard provider question remains unanswered.
- RPG World (thematic sibling)
- AIM group (shared reference)
- ezboard (hosting platform)
Handle Evolution
Tom cataloged his own handle history in an AIM session on September 1, 2006: “i’ve got…isellj0epnuts, pnutman, pnutmaster, tomar ducal/tomar dicol.” Reconstructed from the archive:
Social Graph
42 AIM contacts, organized into three tiers by message volume and keyword co-occurrence. Tier 1 contacts shared the core cultural vocabulary—RPG World, Krillin, JOC, SWG. Tier 2 were frequent conversants. Tier 3 were occasional or brief contacts.
Tier 1 — Inner Circle (1,000+ messages, keyword overlap)
Tier 2 — Regular Contacts (200–2,500 messages)
Tier 3 — Brief Contacts (<200 messages)