On Terms

Entry posted by Jipps May 12, 2009

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Well this is my first blog entry, hopefully a start to a series on the many thoughts, explainations, and other general nonesense I find worthy of posting.

Figured I should start off with some answers to many questions I have been approached with about our surrender, a topic that somehow managed 24 pages in the AP.

First thing you should know is that there is no vendetta held against our opponents, despite how bad talks got between the two of us at some points. The Dark Templar were some honorable opponents, as were their protectorates and it was a great fight with them to the end. MOON, as you will find out, was a little less forgiving and while I won't deny that some of us hold grudges, we certainly aren't about to blitz them anytime soon.

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The terms weren't inherently bad, tech deals are a great way of reps especially when compared to the past. It's the comparision between those terms and the ones recieved by others on our side. We entered the war purely for our treaty obligations, we aren't defending the many wrong doings of the past. So you could see our distress when alliances like Valhalla and NATO recieved better terms than us, no offense to the members of those repective alliances. I understand that we didn't have the same opponents, but I would expect Karma to try and act as cohesive as possible.

Four days into the war, I was approached by DT and MOON about peace terms. This was the first time they were veer talked about, we never indicated we were seeking peace. The terms were white peace from DT and 600 million reps to be delivered to MOON. I initially laughed this off and it was understood that no deal with reps would ever come to pass at this point.

The next day, DT and MOON contact me again about the terms. After our complaints we filed to Karma leaders, MOON and DT revised their original proposal. They now offered white peace with an apology to MOON for nuke first striking. We rejected because we were not about to apology for something we didn't do, we have evidence that MOON was the first one to attack us. However our allies in VA and GRAN were hurting badly, so they accepted white peace after consulting us.

A week into the war, SSSW18 had its fill of war. We contacting DT and MOON about peace. Both alliances seemed initially reluctant to discuss peace, it was obvious they planned to drag it out some more. However, we soon had negociations started after notifying other Karma leaders. The terms bounced around a lot, with some including reps and others including treaty cancellations. We finally came to an agreement to the current terms after heavy Karma mediation.

The thread went over pretty bad and I'm disappointed in the show put on by a lot of people. It's obvious there was still a lot of tension over the terms, especially on MOON's part. I'm not here to speak for MOON though, this is just biased judgements based on the information I've been provided.

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So there you have it for anyone who was interested. If people respond positively to this, might see some more updates on other issues I have yet to really discuss.

- Jipps, signing out :awesome: