The Error Empire was one of the longest-running crews/flags in the game. It started as a flag in Azure. It was founded by the forum administrator of a board named "404 Error" when he stumbled across a then-relatively small Puzzle Pirates and suggested the board join. Several hundred people from the board flooded into Puzzle Pirates, raising the population. Notably, many of these players had a tendency to put the word "error" somewhere in their name, raising a question overnight as to why so many "errors" had popped up out of nowhere. By jobbing for the crews that existed at the time and pooling together money, these new players were able to form a crew, the Invisible Strike of The Error Empire.