Well, I see that when I stay away from this place for a bit to finish up the new transmission on the Monte I miss all the fun.
To begin, my name is Marcus and I have shot this Halo individual myself. I'll get back to that later.
As a bit of background; LSAT(Los Santos Air Team) was founded by
@OwensRacing and myself very early on. I would have to look, but IIRC it was round two weeks after the release of the online mode. Originally, the crew was comprised of real life personal friends of myself and Owens that played regularly with us and yet did not have any affiliation to this forum. This, along with the ability to setup multiple-crew-limited rooms allowed us the opportunity to play together outside of public lobbies whether we were flying the GTPL or LSAT crew at the time. Due to the fact that there was a lot of overlap between the two crews(five of our seven core members at the time were active on this forum and GTPL crew) yet most of the regular members were not on the forum many of us would fly the LSAT crew flag at the time. Over time, most of us reverted to active under the GTPL crew as the rest of our friends came and went from the game. I have near-exclusively flown the GTPL flag for the past four years for several reasons; not the least of which was experienced here where recognisable identity can be important to determine friend from foe.
That said, over the same amount of time the LSAT crew has continued to exist and there remained some active members. In that same time, since the crew membership was available to anyone invited by a current member(much like here) some of the folks active on LSAT continued to invite their friends and acquaintances without GTPL affiliation to the LSAT crew with the understanding that they were to not only be discriminating in whom they invite, but also to be responsible for conveying the values and reasons for LSAT's existence(also much like here.) In short, the personal friends and family of Owen's and mine that initially made up LSAT invited more of their own friends and family to the crew. Over the past couple of years, there has been less interaction between LSAT and GTPL due to Owens' absence and my exclusively flying the GTPL flag; such that by a certain time there were several new members in LSAT that not only weren't aware of the history and connection of the two crews had, but even Owens and my existence within LSAT.
And that is how it came to pass that one day I shot Halo myself. I was doing my thing drinking beer nearby my biplane landed above Griffith Park with Slaney, upon which I noticed we were being directly approached by an individual who then proceeded to go into stealth mode with their akula as they neared. Of course, I did what I rarely do and killed the approaching player because that behaviour was a combination of things that you don't do in GTA. This player was Halo. Unbeknownst to me, he was an acquaintance of a friend, though he was not yet on the LSAT crew at the time. For all I was aware, he was a random player. It was only several days(maybe a couple weeks?) later that I was in a room with a long time GTPL/LSAT member where I saw halo again, this time flying the LSAT crew. He, along with another newer LSAT member did not know me as anything but the person who killed them in a public session(it turned out that I also killed his friend atop Griffith Park on his Oppressor later that same public session days ago.) They were, understandably, alarmed at my presence in their room. It was at that point we all discovered that we weren't randoms and kept at least one mutual friend. It was then detailed at the time the history and relationship between the two crews, and all was well.
During and after this time that halo had joined LSAT, of course due to the relationship between LSAT and GTPL he and others new to LSAT were exposed to the GTPL crew. Like has been discussed here previously, despite all of us on GTPL flying the same crew, there are clearly at least a few cliques within GTPL. Much like how we all treat this game somewhat differently, and carry different expectations those same differences exist on an individual player level as well. There are plenty of people here who will be killed tonight in this game and do nothing to retaliate. There are others who will have their car blown up at the cop shop and forever attack and kill the perpetrator.
Everyone reacts to things differently.
So there you have it. My point? Simply to provide the background on the LSAT crew to those here, and detail how even one of the most nonviolent players here managed to kill Halo as well. 🤬 happens. Hell, anyone who spends any time in a vehicle with me will probably be killed at some point or another anyway. I have this nasty habit of failing to maintain altitude from time to time.
Hopefully it is all water under the bridge at this point as I am predictably late to this party. But there you have it.
