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Here's a brief account of the history of Space Station 13. When the path branched, the path that leads to /tg/station is taken.
Here's a brief account of the history of Space Station 13. When the path branched, the path that leads to /tg/station is taken.


Yogstation was first known as Apocalyptic Station, founded by IDWMno. The community grew between 20-50 players average a day and night. Over time the server decayed and another server, hosted by an Apoc-Senior administrator was formed, and Apoc fell to its superiority. The new server was renamed Yogstation and everyone jumped ship to it, including the admins and players. EliteIxHitman was the host of this new station. Over time, as with the predecessor, the server fell on hard times and became laggy and unbearable. And thus, one of the council members, 05rhardy/Xantam, stood up and hosted a server and offered anyone who wished it, to jump over. The old server could not compete and a split happened. Eventually the old server collapsed gracefully, and now stands the all powerful Yogstation13!


== 2003: The Original SS13 ==
== 2003: The Original SS13 ==
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== 2010: This is Where /tg/ Came in ==
[[File:Oldtgstation.png|thumb|400px|left|link=https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/14070032424_4dbee3b254_o.png|Old BoxStation (then known as the tgstation) with Prison Station and all]]
After the release of r4407, the flood gates for new servers were open. 4chan spawned /tg/station, Bay12games spawned Baystation, both of which with their own set of coders, spriters and code, based on r4407 of Goon code. The three stations slowly gained player numbers. Goonstation with two servers, /tg/station and Baystation with one server each. The three communities each had their own policies and expectations for players, covering the full spectrum of roleplay.


As player numbers continued to grow, additional communities sprung up: NoX Station, Facepunch, YogStation, /vg/station and others.
== 2010: The original creation of Yogstation ==
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== 2013: First migration ==
== 2013: The Yogstation Split ==
 
Around June/July 2013 05rHardy decided to do something about developing lag and disconnects becoming more and more prevalent in the original Yogstation server hosted by ElitexHitman. Despite attempts to work something out with Hitman Yogstation was nearly shutdown as a whole and the new Yogstation13 was created! From then til now it has seen pretty balanced player counts ranging between 40-70 players at a time.
In May 2013, the first transition of website hosting happened in a fairly bad way. The TGStation forums and wiki were locked with little warning, forcing a scramble to create a new community web site. A large community effort succeeded in the transition of all TGStation forum and wiki content onto a new site. Unfortunately, however, the old site remained online with no links to the new location. It very quickly fell into disrepair, making visitors think TGStation was abandoned. Because of this, it took months for TGStation to return to its former player count.
 
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== 2014: Second migration ==
The new site was only destined to last a year. The explosive growth of TGStation during this time in both player numbers, administrative team size and developer numbers, as well as the first instances of a "new guard" / "old guard" split, caused tensions in all three groups. Around Easter 2014 this culminated in a series of events, including the creation of a short-lived branch called NT-Station, the forceful removal of head administrators, the forceful removal of head coders and the web host dropping support for the developer community. The turmoil resulted in the creation of a new web site for TGStation and the conclusion of the first transition of power in the administrative and developer ranks.
 
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== 2016: The Continuing ==
The second half of 2014 and 2015 saw few large events. Even the first ever transition of game server hosting went through with very little fanfare. Player numbers are peaking at more than 85 players per server, the stations are huge and the game has changed a lot from what it was back in 2003, even to the point of gaining recognition by [http://i.imgur.com/HpDFNrl.png gaming magazines].
 
And then on March 1st of 2016 someone stole the gooncode and publically released it - after some deliberation and messages of support from the other codebases, goon decided to make a new public release of their codebase instead of leaving it in a semi legal grey area.
 
Proceeding this, a third server branch of /tg/ was created, using goons code to branch off from the main arm. This went as well as you can expect, the server never picked up a viable player population after the initial honeymoon period, and the server was eventually shut off.
 
Mid way through 2016, one of the most pressing issues was the server population imbalance between Basil and Sybil, with Sybil holding a very high population and Basil struggling to get by at the best of times. In a unique move Basil was placed on the public SS13 server list, and ever since Basil has outranked Sybil in population numbers, though some question if Basil has lost the higher role play quality it once held. Nevertheless a active server is better than a dead one.
 
[[File:Businessasusual.png|thumb|400px|center|Business as usual]]
 


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