About GRIMM

GRIMM started because several people kept joining gaming communities that failed in one of two predictable ways. Either they were dead within six weeks, or they were run like an unpaid second job with a rank structure, an attendance policy and a disciplinary process. There is an obvious gap between those two outcomes and nobody was standing in it.

So the design goal was narrow: enough structure that things reliably happen, not so much structure that turning up feels like a shift. Everything else — the document numbers, the classification strips, the insistence that this website does not exist — is a joke we have committed to properly, which is the only way a joke is worth telling.

How members behave

The behavioural standard is five lines long and has never needed a sixth. It is published in full in briefing GRM-2026-017 and restated at enlistment, so nobody can claim they were not told.

1. 01Do not be a bigot. There is no interesting edge case here.
2. 02Do not harass anyone, in channel or out of it.
3. 03Do not bring interpersonal conflict from elsewhere into GRIMM spaces.
4. 04Do not cheat, exploit, or otherwise make other people's time worthless.
5. 05If you are asked to stop something, stop it first and argue about it afterwards.

How it is organised

GRIMM has units, and units have responsibilities, and that is the entire hierarchy. A unit is a group of people who have agreed to be responsible for something specific — the servers, the records, a particular operation. It is not a rank, it confers no authority over anyone's evening, and it can be left at any time by saying so.

Operations have session leads while a session is running. The moment a session ends, so does the lead. Nobody is addressed by a title, in or out of a voice channel.

Moderation

Moderation is direct and private. If something needs to stop, someone says so, once, plainly. If it does not stop, access ends. What does not happen is a public thread, a community vote, or a lengthy statement about an individual's conduct — that format is entertaining for spectators and corrosive for everyone actually involved.

One identity across every game

You are the same person in GRANITE as in HARVEST. Callsigns, history, commendations and reputation carry across operations rather than resetting each time a new game is stood up. That is the point of running an organisation rather than five unrelated Discord servers with the same logo.

It is also why concluded operations stay on the public record. A community that quietly deletes the things that did not work is a community you have no way to evaluate before joining.

What GRIMM is not

• An esports organisation. Nobody here is going professional and nobody is pretending otherwise.
• A milsim unit. SWORD borrows the good parts and leaves the ceremony.
• A content pipeline. If you stream, excellent. If you do not, also excellent.
• A hierarchy to climb. There is nothing above you to be promoted into.