Ženkai §enshi™ was officially established by Andy and Ken as a duo in around 1996, but Ken himself refered to Andy as his mentor and as someone who had been involved in text-based internet RPG on-line fighing for much longer than himself, to at least 1995 if not earlier. Again it's not sure how this was possible on Yahoo! since it did not have email services, forums or chatrooms at the time. AIM came out in 1997 and YIM not until around 1998, so Andy must have originated from somewhere else prior to Yahoo! as Ken may have suggested or hinted to me. Some rumors suggested he came from Homestead, but even that service didn't exist until 1997 so personally I believe Andy came from IRC in 1994, but nobody really knows and the mystery behind the Ženkai §enshi's true origins still remains today. What we do know is that Ken learned on-line RPG text-based fighting directly from Andy himself in 1996 before Comicity had a chat room. Ken would register with Comicity in 1997 and shortly afterwards Comicity's legendary famous chat would appear. The Ženkai §enshi™ would appear immediately afterwards in Comicity's web portal, and they would go on to last longer than the portal itself, inspiring legends and rivalries that exist even to this day. I was the last member of the Ženkai §enshi™, having been initiated and invited into the Comicity chat group in the year 2000 by Jade, Eric and Ken shortly before the domain was taken down and destroyed permanently.
I was Ken's last student and the last to join the gang. Eric and Jade were not part of the Ženkai §enshi™ proper but were instead, along with their buddy Alex whom I had never met, the arch-rivals of the Ženkai §enshi™ who had formed the Kao-Syndicate in Comicity's chat. Despite the in-game bitter rivalry, the Ženkai §enshi™ and Kao-Syndicate were both madeup of players who shared a strong friendly and respectful connection to one another out-of-character. Some of the other members of the Ženkai §enshi™ who came before me include Nick, Phan, Leo, Wayne, Rob and Griff, all of whom I never met before but I was told legends about from Ken and Eric in Comicity chat in 2000, shortly before it was destroyed by a hacker who still remains anonymous to this day. Ženkai §enshi™ was often called the Ž-Senshi for short, senshi meaning "guardians" or elite warriors. The unique Ž moniker represents many things in symbolic ways. It stands for Zen or the principle of harmony and balance, as there was a mystical connection between the Ženkai §enshi™ and the rival Kao-Syndicate at Comicity.
The famous Ž moniker also stands for strength in unity of numbers. Alone the members of the Ženkai §enshi™ were vulnerable, but together they were indestructible. They were a gang, a group of on-line RPG fighters who shared a personal bond with one another. They had similar histories and spoke the same language, frequently visiting the same chat where they all practiced the same rules and cultural habits. This made them unbreakable as a whole. But perhaps the most heartfelt and meaningful meaning behind the Ž moniker is that it stands for zenith, the highest point when the Ženkai §enshi™ were at their strongest with the most members being active at one time. It also stands for the Z to A, the omega to the alpha, the end to the beginning. Andy started the Ženkai §enshi™ in 1995 and eventually someone will be the last to end it. As of 2017 over twenty years later, I am still here recalling Andy's story and preserving it for future generations to come. It's amazing how much of our RPG history gets lost, forgotten or distorted by myth or lore throughout the decades, even on the internet. I can only hope that someone might remember this story one day, and preserve it for future generations after them, just as I did for the masters and veterans who came before me. But only time will tell I guess. Until then, long live the Ženkai §enshi™ for at least another decade.