Here is a summation of “The beginning”

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is really close to the truth. The original 5 of us worked together on a real estate agent help desk where the clients preferred to yell rather explain the problem to you. It got to the point where I honestly said to a screamer “If you want to yell at me for 20 minutes, you can or you can tell me the problem and I can get you fixed and back to doing your job in 5, your call.” So the bond we formed here it really became a situation where it was us vs. them. Hence the AAHH comment above.
Anyhow, we started playing “Duke Nuke’em” first as individuals and then over the network. It came to the point where we would take over the room where the temp staff worked during the day and started playing death matches. The really funny story that goes with this is when the network admin came in one night to run some stress tests only to find the 5 of us were stressing the network. He could see on the network who was logged in… Temp1, Temp2, Temp3.. etc… So right away he knew it was us. He came into the room where we were playing cussing more than talking. He was a good guy about it though and gave us network cable and a hub. I distinctly remember “Get off my G-D network.” We did play others on the network, such as Warcraft 2, Masters of Orion 2. With Warcraft 2 we started designing our own maps and usually rotated turns making maps.
So then Ultima Online comes out. Hawke had the beta to it and of course installed it at work. Early rumors of UO said that you would be able to purchase land and build structures on it. We originally planned to be the “real estate agents” of this game. Although it never got off the ground that way, we all were hooked on the game instantly. When I first tried the beta at Hawke’s desk, I remember stealing anything I could get my hands on, to the point where my character could barely walk. The look of disgust on Hawke’s face was classic after he spent 10 minutes or so empting my bags so I could move. I wish I had a camera for it. The game went live and we formed S.C.A.R.A.B. (I still forget the exact meaning but it’s been posted before.) From there, we grew almost exponentially.

Well.................... I didn't join scarab, I thought it up with Hawke. I saw a computer gaming world magazine (back before they started to suck) in 1995-1996ish with a preview for ultima online.
This was in the day when ultima meant "the best" for role-playing games. I was working at MRIS with Hawke, Venomm and Ravenn. I shot a few emails around, and they were interested in the game. Then I mentioned the fact that the game was going to support guilds, and player housing. In that job, we supported (and often hated) realtors. The idea of logging on to a game and making their lives HELL was very appealing.
However, we wanted a guild name that could be either good or bad, so we could be sneaky. We had a few emails going back and forth and the idea of SCARAB (standing for 2 very different names - one innocent and good, and one evil) took hold. The basic ideas and concepts were mostly Hawke and I, with some ideas thrown in from Ravenn and Venomm.
Shortly thereafter, Hawke brought his current girlfriend (ldyhawke) into the plan. She was the first member, and was able a month or two i from the brainstorming sessions. Then we got into the last few days of UO beta, whereupon Hawke was most personally abused by the first Llama he encountered. The rest was history.
I believe Macedon, Boudica and Diasx were our first in-game recruits, followed shortly by cloudyx, sivadx and a few dozen others whose names I could not remember to save my life.
Then came Uo burnout, a few months were SCARAB only exsisted because a few of us were too stubborn to let it go, then EQ beta for a month or three, then eq, then AO, then DAOC, then SWG, COH, EQ2, WOW, AA, with some quick stops in Jumpgate, EVE online, and a few other titles.

I also forgot to explain the blue and gray color scheme.
I avoid leadership and command duties. I had to find a way to bribe Hawke. At that time, Hawke was really into the civil war. Thus, I bribed him with the blue and gray color scheme, with civil war shades as the theme. It worked, I was off the hook to be the front man for the guild.
Then we discovered in UO being evil for the msot part was not our thing.... and around the EQ 1 (pre-live) timeline a guy named Gregor came up with honor-valor-loyalty and the old chivalry code.