How to Completely Destroy a 300,000 Member Roblox Group

Lortex Security. It's a name you probably haven't heard of in years, if you've even heard of it at all. It was once a massive 300k+ member army that ruled the clanning world of Roblox, but it's since disappeared from the face of the platform and fallen into obscurity. What happened to it? Join me as I take a deep dive through Roblox history to find out.
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Special thanks to users Marinist, ToastSalamanca, Apollyoff, and Wardency for allowing me to interview them. Those interviews can be found in full in the Sources document.
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[@user-my8ix4yb3i]

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[@SharkHutDLL]

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[@jaxe9751]

Chickenless bone

[@sc4ndal]

egg

[@OneAndOnly957]

boneless pizza

[@meltedm]

​@@OneAndOnly957 pizzaless bone

[@aplayer0001]

Former Lortex Colonel here from the Wardency era, it was really nice to see that the group didn't die as silently as I thought it would and getting to see some history I only loosely heard of from assosiates in the group. Safe to say this video does summarize my experience well and I'd like to thank you for compiling it's history and bringing it up for everyone to see.

[@murdiahmurdiah4154]

No reply? Lemme fix that

[@NihilisticOutlook]

I will also Join

[@zxrfxllxn3247]

Hail aplayer38! One of the BEST person I’ve met in LS

[@suzz8805]

Hmm tfzxdef here

[@suzz8805]

Also I was also a colonel in lortex during the wardency era the epic sub group just died immediately after being made

[@user-fi5vq8fo5e]

Something i love about old roblox is that even the smallest things have a lot of lore, unfortunatly you cant say that about modern roblox

[@Squibblefall]

I agree a bit, but I've also been through some crazy lore even in recent years.

[@Jerome18921]

Going corporate killed off any uniqueness the site had to offer and left nothing but bland trash in it's wake

[@rishiktandra7236]

⁠@@Jerome18921yeah and like nitro said in a different video, a lot of the games are just like crappy mobile games for pc

[@TomokoPlaysGames]

There is a bunch of modern lore, PLAY THE GAME

[@rishiktandra7236]

@@TomokoPlaysGames the Roblox war groups like red cliff and korblox also have a lot of lore

[@mjdxp5688]

These Roblox group videos are always really interesting. One of my favorites is Pinewood Builders, which has been around for over 15 years at this point and still going strong, with its games still being updated to this day and having a very rich history to it, including subgroups such as a security team, emergency response team, and a spinoff group called "The Mayhem Syndicate" for the security team to fight against. I'd love to see a video about it sometime!

[@DavidDumbedDown]

They even have a Roblox toy

[@DavidDumbedDown]

12:46

[@mjdxp5688]

​@@DavidDumbedDownI actually collected every Pinewood Builders toy ever released. It took a while...

[@itscupss]

innovation inc is my goat

[@ChoppyChips]

though pinewood is ran by very shady people, i do see where you're coming from

[@SleepyLuigi]

This feels like the real life equivalent to the story from “NitroLord: The Player Roblox Forgot.”

[@canyoudieguy]

yup, never heard of him

[@zenith-the-protogen]

i've been playing since 2013, never heard of lortex :(

[@pineapplesodah]

I’ve been playing since 2009, I can’t remember too

[@DarkLatexKing]

And as a 2011 player I never heared of LORTEX too I guess most of us dont really know them that much :/

[@MyStellarSpace]

I've been on since 2011 and I NEVER heard of this group either

[@kingcoveryepic]

Been playing since June 2014, same fr.

[@hellofellowbotsss]

I guess that’s part of the reason why it’s disappearance was mysterious

[@Zellzoi]

Fun fact: in Nitrolord's most popular video (at 3:41), I'm the guy that made the builderman render

[@Cattling7961]

Builderbird

[@SleepyLuigi]

Cool!

[@FuzzyQue.]

huh

[@RedDemon012]

Wake up its a epic guy

[@2yldy]

What

[@TooSunset]

i believe "The Family" (ive been apart of similar clans) Is a group for "Royalty" or high ranks. The group may have ecncompassed such themes especially with the use of "Fatherland" Which was used alot back in the day historically to describe a nations land. This point is further proven by literally the owners of LS being called "Emperor"

[@Nitrolord]

@@TooSunset gotcha, interesting

[@krieger8825]

Scary how easily people can manipulate kids to start worshipping them

[@BlairCat_]

I remember having friends who were in Lortex a few years ago, I had to step away from Roblox for a while and when I finally got to playing it again I nearly completely forgot about Lortex. It's wild how much they've gone forgotten.

[@jameshoxworth6447]

I remember when F.E.A.R and Vortex were respectable war clans

[@bananaboi4108]

I only know F E A R but never heard of vortex tho

[@eAdamus]

0:05 that guy named "eAdamus" seems really cool

[@lidianetridico7737]

who he is ?????

[@funni_moksi69]

@@lidianetridico7737 i swear to God, if someone tells you who he is I'm gonna r/woosh their ass

[@mix737.]

@@lidianetridico7737it’s him

[@CasperTheRamKnight]

sigma dinkis.

[@MotherTerminator]

Swear I just saw him comment somewhere

[@ethansvault4574]

the first 20 seconds dedicated to patreons is nice but will surely have alot of people click off the video, thats why you usually save it for the end

[@The_Random_Guy_200]

Well if it's at the very end people will just click off.

[@cewla3348]

@@The_Random_Guy_200 yes, do you want people to click off at the start or end

[@The_Random_Guy_200]

@@cewla3348 why not just throw it midway? People are probably already hooked and want to finish the video, so long as the segment is short and not too disruptive there shouldn't be issues.

[@ethansvault4574]

@@The_Random_Guy_200 middle could work

[@poke_ms]

It's so unfortunate how such a cool Roblox group with such greatness could go downhill... It's very saddening, and if it wasn't for Wardency, the group probably could've survived.

[@toastyburrito]

Isn't it poetic a group born outta greed, died from greed.

[@Nitrolord]

That's what I'm sayin

[@pokerations]

roblox has more lore than the earth 😭

[@YeetoTheYeetafic]

except from the fact that roblox's lore is technically the earth's lore, you are nothing more than right bro

[@hellofellowbotsss]

Eh it’s another online space that’s existed for over a decade, lore will start existing shortly after the beginning of the existance of literally everything

[@ThatRandomDude14]

Fr

[@NetzachEnjoyer]

Uh...actually...

[@nesatcatic1303]

The groups that started the clan war was redcliff and korblox Kids would think thats redcliff rp and korblox legless

[@YelloPlayz]

Roblox clans are really cool. I went around the roblox forum archive and saw a lot about older war clans. Current war clans are pathetic clans where being a 'power clan' is given value and players are filtered based on skill. The clans of old were just tight-knit groups of players fighting each other. Roblox's first clan Phoenix Fire made by Jacobxxduel (Reverse_Polarity) started the tradition of trying to grow clans as large as possible and this was continued by clans like the X-101st. It is a pity how war clans have fallen. The good 'super'clans are no longer traditional war clans(gun clans/sword clans) but clans that are confined to a select few games. These clans by definition are not superclans due to being a part of a niche game with a niche playerbase. Platform-wide clans are just gone and the remnants are a shadow of their past. A good example is the RSF which is now too focused on Roblox Clan League. The clan league led to a halt on the old platform wide wars and tech improvements which is unfortunate

[@totally.normal]

You should really check out the Third Noob Division, they're a clan that doesn't focus on power clanning and instead utilizes giant wave tactics of the old.

[@Herowandering]

True, I develop for a super-clan and development for most clans have been stagnant for years. Not much changes because a ton of clans have big pride and only care about winning, this makes a few clans keep degenerate users and cheaters in their group so that they can win.

[@AussieJoseph]

@@totally.normalUGE better

[@totally.normal]

@@AussieJoseph Who?

[@renclaire]

It got too competition focused instead of purely having fun. Current clanning is just cheating and many of the groups are led by pdfs and other degenerates.

[@Xmaricw]

most of rebreb's alt is terminated, but for some reason MeChadV is still fine and laying around

[@Nitrolord]

@@Xmaricw he's just that much of a chad 💪

[@Xmaricw]

@@Nitrolord NO WAY NITRO REPLIED

[@hellofellowbotsss]

My conspiracy theory is that the admin that caught reb’s altweb saw that account any wanted the username but lost their perms before they could secure the account

[@frogish5977]

Crazy

[@ancientarchon4844]

Pretty cool. I love to see these warclan documentaries. I'd suggest perhaps you do VAK next. One of the very few really old clans to still have their original leader, the most dominant clan, the most hated and ifamous clan, and still today we clanners agree it's the undisputed top clan across history. With only really RAT, and VOID really coming close to it's dominance, and they're both long gone. RAT's successor GUF hasn't been as active nowadays, and there hasn't been a legit VOID successor really ever that last more than a month or two. A video on VAK sounds very interesting not going to lie since their history is so long and historic. It would probably take a lot of effort to make a video on them however. I'll admit I'm personally not a VAK guy I'm much more of a SURGE guy myself which is one of the other rival "filter group" clans.

[@Herowandering]

Filter Groups are all kinda funny in modern time because they are all owned by terrible people or have had terrible hicom in the past 2 years. I think Vak is the best right now because their pedophile incidents was like 2 years ago, vs Sols which was like 3 months ago, both incidents of pedophiles were defended by the owner of the clan for a while. Surge is owned by a doxxer (who is also a front page dev) and op is also owned by someone who threatens to doxx someone. the 4 top filter clans are all bad bruh how did clanning get this bad.

[@Exorbulla]

Please cover FEAR next, this video really got me interested in the lore of FEAR, which i knew nothing about before this video, and i would like to see a video made about it

[@Ammado-xh8bq]

Are you talking about the game or group?

[@Exorbulla]

@@Ammado-xh8bq both ig, but I'm mostly interested in the group

[@Commandant.General]

library of clans represent! lortex security is super cool, but theres so much lore that runs so deep in clans in general its a great area of roblox to explore and show to more people with how interesting it can be!

[@Yourlocalwordrobe]

I wonder what Rebreb is doing in his life

[@pa1ntX]

its always impressive to see how you manage to find and connect every little information from ages ago. great video

[@ryanhirsch2395]

this guys essays are so interesting, i have zero knowledge on anything he ever talks about but i always listen and always learn awsome vids dude

[@GrimMcGrimmer]

Nitro just gave me hours of nostalgia for some random lortex game they had

[@BananaIsYumYum]

I would love to see this come back. I played Roblox back in 2016, and I did hear about Vortex Security, but never Lortex Security. I never joined any of these groups. This may be because I wasn't on Roblox too much (maybe one every other week), but I do not remember too much about it.

[@BenniWithABiscuit]

Yk I actually remember being in a tycoon game when I was very young with a buyable Lortex Security suit in it (which I only bought one part of because I was broke at the time) and that was basically my only interaction with the group at all. Ty for another great vid nitro!!

[@evcraft6666]

I just checked my inventory and found my Lortex power armor and Lortex airborne armor lol

[@pinkism8565]

Found my original Lortex Uniform from 2018.

[@sammyandangelo]

The wedding? No, no, I can't make it. New Nitrolord video just dropped.

[@flop42069]

omg this video gave me chills congratulations my guy really liked this! Good luck!

[@5-Consecutive-Hairpin-Turns]

Lortex at it's peak had an army two times bigger then that of the UK right now

[@BrowserBiscuits]

My friend bought a sword group that was called lortex, I don't actually know if it's related to this group but that's pretty coo

[@renclaire]

Lortex Armed Forces? I believe it’s a reboot clan. However not sure if whoever made that group owns the rights to Lortex. Wardency owns the rates

[@MattSheridan818]

I love this video so much! I hope you never stop making this kind of content because yours are some of the most unique Roblox videos I've ever seen, you have my endless support.

[@Nitrolord]

@@MattSheridan818 thanks a bunch!

[@ultratheman]

14:48 You can gather so much from these 2 rules alone, but it seems that 10 years ago wasn't too different from today.

[@pancake8853]

I feel like you should make a video on Roblox war groups in general. They felt like a lost art; a concept lost to time.

[@reddragon8078ithink]

never heard of lortex till today

[@TheWatcher-z2y]

Maybe do a vid on Centaura? Most people talk about the game, the game has groups similar to clans The main game is where they fight which is really cool

[@syntheticdxrk]

Great video, love all the group videos. Another group that would be cool to see a vid on would be TNI, very interested to what Nitro would have to say about the group

[@bomber7735]

This is an amazing video. I've raided that Lortex Security base with the tower before but I wasn't ever in Lortex Security. That was a really fun and unique base. RIP Lortex 🙏 One of the clans I wish you would cover is UCR or United Clan of ROBLOX. It was the 18th group created on roblox (id 18), and still going

[@handleorwhatever]

I love these videos. It would be interesting to see one on LMAD and the vast empire of StickMaster Likes wealth

[@skuttie1]

ur voice reminds me sm of konekokitten ngl

[@nackrr9742]

Preach dude, I swear it's him.

[@yeeyee9694]

I may be mistaken but I remember going to some superclans fort one day for a raid and I said something about one of the groups higher ranks or leaders being an ODer and I remember being server banned. IBURNING looks real familiar and it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s who banned me LOL

[@not7170]

A video about innovation Inc and pinewood would be cool

[@Cheetahhurricane]

WAKE UP‼️‼️‼️ NEW NIRTOLORD VIDEO!!!

[@Glub_tuppis_wepple]

But it’s 12 am

[@MintyTea_N]

@@Glub_tuppis_weppleDON'T CARE, WAKE UP ‼️‼️‼️

[@Ybois658]

Spammed ahh comment

[@davin6957]

Epic

[@JamsaYt]

@@MintyTea_NIM ALREADY AWAKE❗️❗️❗️

[@WIP467]

you absolutely need to make a vid about the roblox easter basket because there is so little info about it on the internet and one of my fav items came from it (korblox grand marshal, and NO its not ugly)

[@RNoctowl]

i remember always seeing ads for clan groups with cool designs, i wonder if these type of clans still exist on the modern age (not the gun based group) it seems really interesting to me now

[@InkblotHyena]

I remember being in Lortex for a bit. I wanted to get into the Airborne so bad because I loved planes when I was younger, but I never could pass those flying tests. I had no idea about all of the drama, since I was just focused on attempting to pass those tests. It's funny hearing about this all again, seeing as it's been years since I thought of it, or even used the account that was in the group. Shame it all went so wrong, but, it was fun while it lasted. Well, it was fun, until it wasn't.

[@Robbert-d6g]

this whole clan and clan war stuff looks so cool why isnt this still a thing it sounds so hype

[@NavenNater]

It IS still a thing! I reccomend (and sorry for bias lol) joining some of the groups mentioned in the video (The First Encounter Assault Recon, United Clan of Roblox, Frost Clan, The Robloxian Army TRA, etc)

[@Rekitor]

That is a crazy rename that is surprisingly more accurate to the group in question

[@y2_kat]

I'm so happy to see someone else using levitation animaton pack 💀

[@perperperper7554]

I remember meeting the owner in its training game back in 2016,didnt know they were popular

[@ZeyyRBLX]

BRO I LOVE U U MAKE SUCH GOOD VIDEOS

[@JohnDoesISReal]

What's the music at 2:59?

[@kuroreimi5640]

couldn't skip any of your videos Nitro

[@kurbieee]

love your videos bro

[@sorosh78]

this video was so fun to watch

[@Nitrolord]

@@sorosh78 Thanks!

[@JudyBopps-rj8rm]

I hope to see a video like this about x101st legion. The leader was a notorious creep and always promoted girls in exchange for bad things that you can imagine. Got terminated multiple times with big limiteds

[@skid5785]

yoo new nitrolord upload

[@personguyIII]

oh sick a new nitrolord video

[@kreozello]

Knew that group since 2016 era hence why clicked on the video, but joined there myself as a noob from popular tycoons. Never knew it had such a story...

[@Exorbulla]

Man i have never seen clans or clan wars happen on roblox and had no clue that was a thing till now. Only clan i knew was FEAR and the reason for that is because i played sonics little jailbreak inspired game, it was pretty fun ngl. Also its interesting how fear and lortex both got founded by dudes who were notorious for copying games

[@maxmikester8185]

As someone from Roblox’s beginnings it’s an interesting watch. I feel too old to play Roblox nowadays. Fun fact, I was in the X-101st as a kid.

[@dragonenderfowl5040]

Never heard of LS outside of Futuretops weapon selections, but knowing my history with Innovation Security and The Nighthawk Imperium, kinda sad I joined the clan scene so late in 2018.

[@beargenleadgen]

thank you for covering the history of the LS ancestors o7 soldia

[@NavenNater]

Finally, a clanning video

[@Wardency]

Nice video. A piece of constructive criticism: I can only deduce from the content that Marinist is still incredibly upset regarding the events that occurred in 2018-2019, using Nitrolords platform to take out some resentment upon me. Which is fine, stoicism sometimes escapes us. I will say that a small amount of the screenshots both him and the user toast provided are edited to fit their agenda. The video does seem one-sided during the segment about me, perhaps Marinist provided more source material and this is why. It also appears Functionized wasn't interviewed for this content, I'm sure he would've had some not so nice things to say about me too. It's important to understand most of this happened at least six to eight years ago. We were all teenagers, growing up with different circumstances affecting all of our lives. I wasn't a particularly mature or reasonable individual back then, believe me when I tell you the world punished me for it. I can only hope that everyone involved in the history of Lortex learns to let the bad go and instead cherish what great memories we had, even if the bad ones were more plentiful, they to me were not more powerful.

[@Lincolnator721]

This is entrant. I know we haven't ever really talked, but I enjoyed my time with LS. I didn't stay for long. I was in and out of LS a lot, as you know. I appreciate yall giving me a chance to be an officer. I wish i stuck it out better than I did. It was fun while it lasted..This is kinda saddening how much time has passed and time flies. Ngl, I cried. I don't regret anything. I don't have anything against you. Love ya, man. ❤

[@kai_alex]

why do you talk like a lawyer

[@eeoa9188]

ExaltedArchitect/eeoa (one of the developers Marinist mentioned) here. I was in Lortex when I was in middle school / early high school, and I look back fondly on a lot of the memories from that time. There were a lot of frustrating moments, but I also made some core memories with the people in that group. Good times. Should’ve paid me tho. :(

[@Wardency]

@@discborgIt is the accuser who has to prove the crime exists, not the victim to prove it doesn’t. “Prove these are fabricated”, there’s also zero evidence that the users in question are minors and not 80 year old individuals even if it wasn’t fabricated. Sure it’s Roblox might be reasonable to assume, might be reasonable to assume it’s fake too? I can craft a screenshot like that of you saying just about anything in 2 minutes, I can fabricate a screenshot of you saying you like hairy waffles boiling in your armpits and there wouldn’t be a thing you could do about it. In fact I’m going to make a screenshot of you saying that, I could even upload it to my channel - does that make it true?

[@tout_mout]

@@WardencyWhy are you so adamant on refusing to accept responsibility? There’s a likely chance you’re either in your late 20’s or even jn your 30’s yet you still behave like a child and refuse to accept any form of responsibility, and instead deflect using strawman fallacies.

[@c4tb0mb]

i have NO clue what lortex security is but i swear i remember that obby

[@SupineEquine]

oh my god i completely forgot about lortex. turns out this group has been sitting in the back of my mind for YEARS

[@JustYourOrdinaryFriend]

Bro I thought I had a massive Mandela effect watching this video, I question myself "Wait wasn't the group named Vortex?" and then when I watch video I start losing my mind, Biggest plot twist ever

[@Fotononf]

I remember seeing a Lortex advertisement back in like 2017-2018 in a tycoon game I think about pizza

[@itsjxey11]

My first ever roblox shirts were the Lortex power armor and the Airborne armor..

[@brrman4089]

I feel like you should make a video about Vaktovia

[@jcub5855]

I clicked on this video to listen to it in the background and had to do a double take when I heard "The Raven Empire." For a second there, I felt like a kid again.

[@suchlike4396]

Yooo Nitrolord is alive

[@The_normal_PIayer]

Nitrolord could you make a video talking about the skull series in Roblox? Like the riddling skull, noir skull and ice skull of nevermore.

[@Mausondahaus]

This doesn't feel like armies or groups. This feels like an EMPIRE!

[@jadopachob]

where did you get all the "RoWar" information, I would like to learn more about the RoWars

[@Luis83852]

Nitrolord you should put the game links that you used in the videos in the discription

[@taxes_withtoasters]

Video 1 of asking for a video on some of the largest military rp groups (VWRP, ToW, SSRP) stuff like that (I run a faction for vwrp so I could give you some info on that front if you did the video)

[@maksimovich09]

shoutout lortex still in there to this day

[@Nitrolord]

legend

[@LukeGalaxy_]

You need to talk more about this ro-war thing at 10:49 I am so interested now.

[@TheyFrNamedMeBen]

“Known as the most feared organization on roblox” Shiver me Timbers

[@BlueBrickGuy]

I may not be og but I love myself some roblos histories

[@cosmic7140]

I'VE PLAYED NUCLEAR WASTELAND TYCOON IN 2017, i remember that game

[@jayjayjonny5043]

It's unfortunate there aren't ever any groups like this anymore, Roblox just simply isn't the same.

[@TheRedStormwind]

Omggg he is back again we love u man

[@azka1289realacc]

HE BECAME FURRY💀💀💀

[@TheRedStormwind]

​@@azka1289realacc ik but he still makes banger content

[@Baburun-Sama]

News: Popular Roblox Army Group Deserted and Obliterated by Crazed Staff Members

[@plsroux6132]

@Nitrolord yo just saying, the voice you made from 30:18 sounds a bit like papyrus from undertale's voice lol

[@YeetoTheYeetafic]

0:44 my man could've said a bird joke by saying swoop but ignored it

[@YeetoTheYeetafic]

ngl one single second doesnt even sound that cool as swoop

[@New3picPictures]

Video idea: Look into ai and how its affected the roblox community and at the end do an experiment where you make the same game and advertise them with one having an authentic thumbnail and one having an ai thumbnail

[@BrainDamageIV]

I remember seeing alot of Ads about them alot.

[@Nah_17]

honey wake up nitrolord posted

[@blackshadow6373]

This better be good you upload once a year 😂

[@MariCar2]

Can you make a video about old roblox forgotten games and play them if their underated or not

[@Pengwincraft]

25:30 this is the best thing i have ever heard

[@alexandrathielicke5742]

i know nothing about roblox armies but im still probably gonna watch this

[@EarthToGuppy]

Video Idea: History of roblox's myth community

[@ImKappa]

You should do John's Cobras next, I use to be apart of them, very great times lol

[@Idk__anymore631]

Aight and bet nice video bro

[@Ekh519haj]

you’ve no idea of the lost stories of the living dead

[@NoodleySnek]

dang I joined roblox around 2016 and never heard about lortex, I've only ever heard of (and joined) innovation securtiy.