Our Saga began in 2003 when a group of us "met" posting on several Star Wars message boards on EZboard.  After a few months of posting and doing RPs at these various sites--I decided to open my own board on EZ.  I wasn't sure what to call the new board--all I knew was that I wanted the terms Outland and Cantina as I though Outland sounded like a cross between Outbound Flight and the Outrider.  And the Cantina, of course, is where all the denizens met to meet and gossip in the Star Wars universe.    So for a lack of better creativity on my part, the site was named Jacen's Outland Cantina or JOC. 

JOC had a great run and we had a lot of fun including the creation of the Vero Order RP line.  After a while, we decided to revamp JOC a bit and changed its name to Across the Stars (ATS) after one of our RP lines.  ATS continued the Vero and ATS RP lines as well as our crazy discussions.  But all good things must come to an end.  With work bearing down on me as well as some family issues, I was not able to remain committed to posting or being online much.  Therefore, after much contemplation, I decided to close down JOC/ATS for good.

After that, forum Administrator the Mean, created his own board called Meansville where he hosted several of the forums we had back on JOC/ATS.  It was at Meansville or MV that we created a new RP line called Shadows in the Force.  After a few months at MV where I regretfully only posted sporadically, life calmed down a bit for me.  Mean and I talked and we decided to create a new board.  After thinking about names for a while we decided to go with tradition and name it after an RP line. 

On August 13, 2005 Shadows in the Force (SITF), the board, opened on EZboard and ran until Ezboard ended.  At that point I stopped running and visiting boards on the internet.  I recently reopened this site having the names www.outlandcantina.com and a mirror site  www.shadowsintheforce.com .  We've also created a yahoo group called Shadows in the Force.