Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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@ThisGuy said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Ashkuri Sending Cujo nudes?
Best I can do is cheer for his hockey team.
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I lost my login here for so long. And somehow this nonsense is still going on.
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@Narson said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I lost my login here for so long. And somehow this nonsense is still going on.
I wondered why you went all quiet.
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The bonus XP happened this time last year.
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If that place weren’t such a s-show with all the issues, most of it on the staff’s end, it would be tempting. Been wanting to get in on an active SW place for ages, but the drama and cliques of that place…
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@Roo I get on fine without them.
Make your own activity/stupid ideas. Worked for me. Currently working on a combat alt, Foxy. -
@Hobbie Agreed. DSS is a dodgy system at best, and the way AoA runs it (with its 200+ skills that need to be at 80 or above to be considered competent, dozens of language skills that need to be at 100 to understand what’s said in the language, total lack of transparency, ability to rig the dice to roll low to screw over players you don’t like, downright broken healing systems, glitchy space grid, etc., etc., etc.) is much, much dodgier. Especially when you consider that the effort to expand the stats gulf between newbies and dinosaurs is ENTIRELY deliberate.
Its own creator abandoned it for SW D20 SAGA Edition… and if you ditch a system for something as horrible as SW D20, it’s GOT to be bad.
If it could be broken down to base DSS, with an unbloated skills list, a language system worth a darn instead of one that eats up dozens of skill points, and all new and better systems to do what it currently does, it might be worth it. But the present DSS used on AoA is a disaster that just needs to be scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up.
(Catching up from an absence of most of six months; RL has not been kind of late.)
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@Jennkryst Be careful with this one.
I have been involved with two games based on the FFG Star Wars system. The first one was proposed and promoted maybe six years ago, then went silent for six months without ever opening. And when word finally came from the developer, he said that he had become completely disillusioned with the system and was no longer going to open a game using it!
He did offer to open a Star Wars D20 SAGA Edition game if anyone was interested. Since most people there were trying to get AWAY from the horrors of SWD20, no one was.
The second was Star Wars: Chontio. The system it used was less the FFG Star Wars system and more the Genisys system, which is almost identical. The game was open for less than a year before finally closing down when the gamerunner got depressed about not seeing as much of the type of RP he had wanted to see on the grid.
The system definitely has its ups and downs. It works overall, but getting more than two successes in a roll is very rare. Difficulties requiring three successes aren’t as rare.
I hope you try, and I hope the game does well. Chontio was fun, overall, and I wouldn’t mind seeing it or a game like it return.
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@Warlander I have manically drifted to multiple other ideas, Im sure I will wander back towards Star Wars at some point, though, so if someone prepares the code in advance and its ready to go the moment I am back in high-energy Star Wars mode, huzzah! Until then, there are like 6 and a half other settings in my brainstorm discord Im bouncing between.
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I’ve put off responding to anything… everything… for a long time now. I wanted to leave it all behind, forget about it, and move on with my life. But the nagging feeling of wrongness would not go away, and I realized my silence was protecting the wrong people. So… here we go.
I was Maelstrom. Hired the same time Reverberate and Discordia were; a mere few months before this thread was created in January 2023. Fired in September of 2025… we’ll get to that. I’ve seen a lot of shit. I know some of you here. Many of you probably never heard of me because this game burned you before I was around. Either way, this is a message.
Zephyr, I was wrong. I’m sorry.
I believed all the shit Cujo and Hadrix said about you. I believed it because, as many have said already, they are both great at masking themselves – at first. It took me too long to realize my friendships with both Cujo and Hadrix were one-sided and toxic.
With Hadrix, it was also abusive as fuck. Insults, gaslighting, love-bombing… you name it. And, when I finally did walk away from that farce of a friendship for good? Like so many others, I became another name on his enemy list. I did my best to remain cordial as we were both still staff, but I was quite aware of his smear campaign in the background. Informing Cujo did no good.
Speaking of Cujo. When I became staff, his mask slipped. Or maybe it was never there to begin with. His worst traits are reserved for the Admin channel where he spews anti-women, anti-player, narrow-minded bile. It was so hard for me to accept that the man I thought I knew, who presented himself as a reasonable and fun guy, was closed-minded, aloof, and dismissive. I was in denial; tried to pass it off as edgy humor or just a few bad days. But no. I came to the crushing realization that -is- who he is, just as many others have said.
Long story short: I was ignorant of everything and took their claims at face-value. I failed to do a better job investigating further.
Zephyr, I can corroborate everything you’ve said about your time on AoA, especially as a staffer and a woman. I have seen the awful, toxic things said on the Admin channel. The sniping of players behind their backs. The misogyny and hand waving of problematic lanes of thought and action. And I -did- push against it. I thought, like you, that if I could just do or say the right thing to make Cujo understand what was harming the game and, more importantly, the players, that I could make some kind of positive changes.
I am the staffer who pushed for clarity on what harassment was. I was the staffer whom players would go to when they couldn’t trust the others. I was the one bringing ‘bad news’ to Cujo in the form of legitimate issues (often Hadrix/Reverberate) and, summarily, I was the one he labeled as ‘Difficult to talk to’ or ‘Too emotional’. A stone’s-throw away from ‘hysterical broad’.
The worst part is that I was doing what Cujo asked me to do. He admitted directly numerous times that he knows Hadrix is a problem. Though that was often followed up with “Ugh… but he DOES SO MUCH.”
Cujo told me to keep my ear to the ground for rumblings. I took that to mean he wanted me to let him know when something needed to be nipped in the bud. Instead, it meant something he would have to get ahead of to defend against. When I would bring him reports of player complaints and concerns – even with screenshots of the offense – Cujo would rebuff me for ‘just not liking Hadrix’ and shut me out.
I was gone for nearly the entire year of 2024 because of Hadrix. I told Cujo what was happening, what the line crossed was, and was met with dead silence. One year later, nothing had changed, but I thought… I thought I could change things. I thought I could make it better. I was wrong.
Ultimately, I was fired the same way you were: while I was offline and via @mail. Not for pushing against the abuses I witnessed, but because my OC was hanging around an FC too much. Yes, that was me. How dare, I know. When Cujo tried to grandfather some unspoken rule about OCs being untouchables for ‘reasons he can’t control’ (yet reasons and rules he made up), Ben Solo’s player and I called out the bullshit and hypocrisy. This led to my firing and Ben Solo being retired to NPC status.
I defended Cujo so much in the past that I am embarrassed. I was there when AoA opened. When he and Halcyon migrated from Wing Commander to build it, me and a few others came with them. I guess I thought that would mean something more to him than it did. I had tried to be the staffer that the game needed: one Cujo could trust who also genuinely wanted the game to succeed. And I was. I was that staffer. But what the game needs in a staffer is not at all what Cujo wants.
As for why I defended Hadrix… well. I just wanted to be a good friend. It took a long time to realize I wasn’t getting a good friend in return. The way he trash-talked all his other friends to me in private should’ve been a big clue he was doing the same to me towards them. I was the proverbial frog in the boiling pot. His mask-slip is less of a shocking revelation and more me hopping out of the water. Still sucked to go through as dealing with him legitimately gave me dread and anxiety but hey. Life is full of hard lessons, and I consider my history with him as one that taught me to never let myself be treated like that again.
All in all, I genuinely loved that game. I loved the new friends I had made, and I lament the ones I lost. I put in so, so much effort building, running plots, and recruiting good players. Now? Well, let’s just say that one can only read so much '<insert female name> hates Star Wars" or “<insert female name> is just a whore.” and other nasty, anti-women crap that it’s hard to even enjoy the IP as a whole. And I don’t. I’ve left the Star Wars fandom, having seen the worst in the brand of fans it puts out.
Hadrix’s abuses and Cujo’s insistence in enabling it has me walking away from MUSHing again. The hobby grows ever smaller because of toxic people like this. Yet here I am, making a comment on a thread I swore I would never directly engage in. I need to make right -my- personal fuck-ups, and I come forward with all this in one final attempt to make some positive change. To protect current and future players, and validate past victims.
Cujo and Hadrix will never admit fault let alone apologize, but I’m not them. I can admit to being wrong. I can admit to failing.
To everyone: I’m sorry. You deserve to be treated better than you were. You deserve respect. You deserve a safe place to play and engage, and to be heard when you are wronged. We all deserve to be treated like people and not toys to be used and discarded. You were right. The others were right.
Despite my best efforts, AoA is not safe. I won’t tell anyone not to play there, but do so with caution. I worry for the remaining playerbase, and that concern has motivated pretty much everything I’ve done: staying there longer than I wanted to, and coming forward now to face whatever judgement of my peers.
Coming forward is not easy. Admitting my faults and foolishness is not easy, either. None of this is easy. Did I defend Cujo and Hadrix in my ignorance? I did. Was I complicit to the game’s survival? Yeah. Did I try to fix things? Absolutely. Did I fail? Oh, boy, did I ever.
I opted to try to stay because I thought it was a chance to make the improvements the game desperately needed. By doing so, I perpetuated the lies. I learned much too late that such beneficial changes require a Head Wiz who wants to make them.
What started as a letter to Zephyr has become a missive to former, present, and future players. You deserve better. Never, ever settle for anything less than mutual, earned respect.
I hope things have been much, much better for you all. Be kind to one another.
Thank you for hearing me out.
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@DapperPenguin Thank you. I think I needed to hear this. I can’t promise I’ll walk away yet, but… Ugh. I think I always suspected. And I let Cujo talk me out of my convictions, not once but twice. That’s very unlike me. Thanks for speaking up. I really appreciate it.
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@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I let Cujo talk me out of my convictions
@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
not once but twice
@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
That’s very unlike me
@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I can’t promise I’ll walk away yet
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I’m just throwing this out there and not addressing anyone.
On January 4th 2026 this thread had its 3rd birthday. ( Is there any other threads that keep getting dug up every couple of months like this one?) Since then dozens of folks (and a lot who if you’re paying attention don’t necessarily like each other) have laid a variety of mushing miss deeds from the mundane to egregious (gaslighting, Sex Pesting, and cheating) at Aoa’s feet. A good number of them have been confirmed by various sources. This thread is the oral history of Cujo and AOA.
So if you’re considering playing ( or staying) on AOA please note any of these things can and will probably happen to you. If not you are simply beneath the notice of one of the bad actors, until you’re not. Cujo doesn’t care and won’t help you. He doesn’t like you for the simple fact you play on his game.
Please find a different mu, rp outlet, or hobby to fill your time. Your mental health will thank you in the long run.
If you choose to play there, there’s a chance you will be posting here too. First to defend the place and in the end agreeing with us. Don’t join Aoa’s Oral history.
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Jax is right but man where else do we get stories about players frequently posing the EMBARRASSING removal of pants to reveal powder blue briefs!
Also, I know I’m very often like, won’t someone think of the poor staffers, that’s kind of my schtick, but it’s always good to remember that someone who put a lot of effort into making an enjoyable platform that brings you great fun can ALSO be a real shitty person to be around, and you have to kinda’… look within and decide if you want to tolerate that. It really depends on how often you interact with admin on games. If you play in your own little corner of the sandbox, you can probably skim by unscathed for a bit. If you’re a dynamo that brings engaging content to every game you visit, which requires working with admin, this is a problem.
I err on the side of believing the person that put a fuckton of effort into something to create a space for others, mainly for the reasons we’ve witnessed in that Empire thread where someone wails at the public about injustice when it turns out they’re the problem. This happens… often. Often enough to make me untrusting.
HOWEVER. As we can see from this MASSIVE thread, admin do be wrong. Boy howdy they do be wrong.
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@Jax said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
( Is there any other threads that keep getting dug up every couple of months like this one?)
The Liberation thread gets dug up pretty regularly, but at a slower clip than this one.
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@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@DapperPenguin Thank you. I think I needed to hear this. I can’t promise I’ll walk away yet, but… Ugh. I think I always suspected. And I let Cujo talk me out of my convictions, not once but twice. That’s very unlike me. Thanks for speaking up. I really appreciate it.
With everything you know, what exactly is keeping you there?
I have trouble believing that the game and stories and staff are THAT GREAT to keep playing at a place that makes you miserable and allegedly makes you give up your convictions.
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@Yam powder blue… Dammit I had blocked that out. Now the clock is reset.|
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@Jax I’ll be honest, beyond the pest aspect and the obnoxiousness of it all, I never ceased to be amazed by the sheer variety of ways, means, and methods she used to lose her pants. Never the same! lol
