The USS Blackheart is an online organization, so we tend to use a lot of internet-based communications methods. One of the most useful is called Internet Relay Chat, or IRC for short. For more information on IRC and how it works, take a walk through IRCHelp.org.


We meet online 24/7 on a channel called #ussblackheart, and it's graciously hosted by the folks of FleetChat. You can get on the channel through karma.fleetchat.org or destiny.fleetchat.org -- It all goes to the same place.

Here are some popular IRC clients for download:

mIRC Shareware IRC client for Windows
Pidgin Freeware client for Windows and Linux
X-Chat Freeware client for Linux, Shareware Windows version
X-Chat Aqua X-Chat for Macintosh OS X
Colloquy Freeware client for Macintosh OS X
jmIrc Freeware client for Blackberry phones
upIRC Shareware client for Treo phones