SiIvaGunner

SiIvaGunner is a well-known YouTube channel, of which its fandom is where many of the MROU community's longest running veterans originated from. Its Christmas Comeback Crisis lore event served as the catalyst for the creation of SiIva Forces, also known as SF.

SiIvaGunner & The MROU Community
Many members of SF were fans of YouTube group SiIvaGunner (spelled SiivaGunner, with a capital i) long before the community was formed. SiIvaGunner is a channel that uploads videos, disguised as videogame soundtracks, that follow a bait and switch style of humor, in which the songs are edited, whether through mashups, remixes, or something else entirely. It's a parody of well known videogame music uploader GilvaSunner. In 2016, the year SF was founded, SiIvaGunner was less than a year old.

Creation of SiIva Forces
SiIva Forces, the first MROU community server, was created in the December of 2016, for fans of the Christmas Comeback Crisis lore event, also known as the CCC. For more information on how the community came together from this event, see this page.

SiIvaGunner Lore
This section does not go in-depth on SiIvaGunner lore. It simply serves to explain how it inspired community members before and after SF. If you're interested in more lore, please see the official SiIvaGunner Wiki instead.

SiIvaGunner: Rebooted
In early 2016, one of the first actual lore events to occur on the SiIvaGunner channel was the event now known as SiIvaGunner: Rebooted. It was a period of time when recurring jokes in videos were replaced with new ones, at the fault of recurring villain The Voice Inside Your Head. Its lore videos typically consisted of blank screens with text-to-speech voices and white text on-screen, showing dialogue exchanges between the characters. It infamously had a massive ARG (alternate reality game) attached to it, in which fans had to follow cryptic hints hidden deep within videos to be led down a path of clue after clue, in order to alter the fate of the channel. It was a fairly deep ARG that even hosted some uploads still hidden to this day. This event would inspire SF founder SpookiTomb to hold a small ARG of his own, at one point. Several events from the reboot directly affected the eventual CCC, as well.

Channel Ending
In mid 2016, the SiIvaGunner team planned to end the channel, and held a week where several events would come to a close, and some of the most high-production uploads up to that point would be uploaded. These included cameos from other major creators, such as Vinesauce Joel, also known as Vargskelethor. Many of the rips from this time are some of the most viewed on the channel still, and were popular songs to be played in voice channels in SF. Had the channel actually ended, the MROU community may have never come to be, but fortunately, the team decided to come back temporarily for Halloween, and permanently starting with Christmas.

Halloween 2016
As mentioned above, the channel began uploading videos again in the October of 2016, after they announced the end of the channel and became inactive for some time. The videos were halloween themed, and had several new jokes present in them. Some of them would even be inspiration for arcs in SF eventually.

The Christmas Comeback Crisis (CCC)
The Christmas Comeback Crisis, more commonly called the CCC, is a series of major lore related uploads that began in December 2016, and are still ongoing to this day. Its story was the direct basis for SF's.