User:Brandon Rhea/SWRP

TheStarWarsRP.Com is an active role-playing message board created by Steven Alldis in early 2005, founded on the basis of “faith, pride and good role-playing”. The website was originally hosted by ProBoards under the name “The Star Wars RP” as an offshoot of the LucasArts Role-Playing Forums, and it eventually transitioned to Invsion PowerBoards and, later, vBulletin, where it is currently located. The website was founded in London, England and the vBulletin servers are located in England, meaning the website falls under the laws of the United Kingdom; most other users are located in the United States, Canada and Australia, although mostly the United States.

With nearly two hundred active members and over fifteen hundred registered users as of January 2009, TheStarWarsRP.Com has continued to grow in size from its original inception. The growth in membership was one of many reasons why the website transitioned to Invision and then to vBulletin. The members and website are currently managed by one founder, one owner, one technical administrator, one head administrator, three role-playing administrators, one faction administration and two staff members in training. The members and staff currently participate in the third role-playing time line that the website has had; originally having two role-playing time lines in the canonical years after the Jedi Civil War, the role-play is currently in 13,000 BBY, where the storyline revolves around the original Alsakan Crisis based on a minor canon event. Role-players have a wide variety of main and independent factions to choose from, including, but not limited to, the Galactic Republic, the Jedi Order, the Ospion Guardians and the Alsakan Union.