Sebastian

Greetings world. Sometimes one is nostalgic. As R.O.C.K.ers we still dream about the day when we were still R.O.A.Dies. Some of us have decided to take action and do something about it. Without further adieu, I am proud to present the statutes of the Royal Order of Allied Duchies(R.O.A.D.) [quote] [center][size="5"]Statutes of the Royal Order of Allied Duchies[/size] [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Flag_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg_%281997-2003%29.svg/450px-Flag_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo.svg_%281997-2003%29.svg.png[/img] [b]Motto:[/b] [size="1"][i]By divine right [/i][/size] [/center] § I: [b]Membership[/b] To be accepted into the Royal Order, one must fill out the specified application form and be accepted by the Grand Duke or the Chamberlain. Applicants that wish to reside in a sphere other than Yellow must be accepted by the Grand Duke. § II: [b]The Grand Duke[/b] The Grand Duke leads the Royal Order by royal prerogative and appoints the Privy Council at his will. He must appoint an Heir-Apparent that will take over in his absence or abdication. The Grand Duke will be considered absent if he has not shown signs of activity for forty-eight hours. If the Grand Duke is inactive for five days without giving notice he shall be considered abdicated. § III: [b]The Privy Council[/b] The Privy Council shall advice the Grand Duke. It consists of the Aide-de-Camp, the Chancellor and the Chamberlain. - The Aide-de-Camp shall communicate orders from the Grand Duke to all of the Allied Duchies, and advice him in times of war. - The Chancellor shall entertain foreign dignitaries and oversee the diplomatic conduct of our members. - The Chamberlain shall maintain order in the Ducal household and safeguard the economic wellbeing of the Allied Duchies. The privy councillors may appoint deputies to assist them in their duties. If the Grand Duke is unable to respond within reasonable time, the Privy Council may in urgent matters rule in the Grand Duke’s name through a simple majority. If they wish to declare a State of War or cessation of hostilities unanimous consent is required. § IV: [b]Limited State of War[/b] The individual duchies of the Royal Order may declare a Limited State of War against individual nations. They may not do so if the nation reside in the yellow sphere, or is under protection, of a Foreign Entity consisting of more than three members. Should the conflict escalate the individual duchy may not reasonably expect any aid. § 5: [b]Nuclear policy[/b] It is the right and duty of all members to become nuclear capable. The preemptive use of these weapons must be approved by either the Grand Duke, the Chamberlain or the Aide-de-Camp. If however one of the following scenarios play out, a nation is free to retaliate by going nuclear. These are as follows: a) If a the member is attacked by a nuclear weapon b) If member has it's nuclear arsenal destroyed by foreign spies. § VI: [b]Changes to these statutes[/b] These statues may be changed may be changed by the Grand Duke with the consent of the majority of Duchies in this Order. § VII: [b]Ratification[/b] [i]We hereby pledge to uphold these statutes and declare the Royal Order of Allied Duchies for founded.[/i] [center]Grand Duke Sebastian I of Sandtorv[/center][/quote] Our government is as follows: [size="4"]Grand Duke[/size] Sebastian I of [url=http://tournament.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=1001264]Sandtorv[/url] [size="4"][size="3"]Privy council[/size][/size] [i]Aide-de-Camp[/i] Mappy of [url=http://tournament.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=1001277]Zeprinzicus[/url] [i]Chancellor[/i] Neforatu of [url=http://tournament.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=1001267]Decedere[/url] [i]Chamberlain[/i] Bojje of [url=http://tournament.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=1001274]The Holy Empire of F[/url] Our forums is located at http://s4.zetaboards.com/ROAD/index/ Our IRC-channel is #ROAD at Coldfront. Our colour sphere is [color="#FFFF00"]Yellow.[/color] We are protected by SUN( ), so don't do anything stupid. Once we get properly established, we look forward to fighting and interacting with the TE community.

I especially enjoyed the part about liking the colour yellow. ---- Thanks for protecting us SUN. You are awesome.

[quote name='Erixxxx' date='29 May 2010 - 02:00 AM' timestamp='1275091195' post='2315067'] I am proud to see how Death Before Dishonor has grown to become selfsustaining in such a short time. Protecting you guys has truly been an honour, and that you want to continue relations with us makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. o/ DB4D o/ VA [/quote] It always makes me warm and fuzzy to see a yellow alliance do well, especially one like DB4D that I know has none of the colonialist attitude.

As a yellow patriot I find this to be truly awesome news!

Well, I see your position, and I understand we're on completely different levels here, so there's not anything to be gained from arguing. Still, I disagree with you blatantly dismissing it as non-comparable. They were promised protection from tech raids, when you join an alliance you're promised the same protection. Because of recent events, they no longer get that protection, when an alliance disbands, they can no longer provide that protection.

Hush you, we're busy taking sides and yelling at each other and stuff. Seriously though, words are empty. Now if that apology was followed up by reps to the red nations, it would have been a honourable way to handle an apology. I would've just considered it an honest mistake from a decent fellow.

I said right now. I don't consider it dishonorable because NPO claims ownership to Red, but because up until recently, nations on Red enjoyed protection like they would've if they were in an alliance. Thus, it's comparable to attacking a disbanded alliance. You do consider that dishonorable right?

Oh great, now you mock people for dismissing points. Wow. Lead by example isn't your strongest side, huh?

Great, you ignore what I said to mock me for a word you used yourself in the post I replied to.

Who's threatening DT? What's asked is that the aggressor from DT, who had the nerve to come here and brag about his opportunistic attack against unaligned Red nations, pays reps to said nations. That being said, how on Bob is the Revenge doctrine bad? Attacking Red right now is like attacking a recently disbanded alliance. Opportunistic and dishonorable.

A one man AA is not an alliance.

In that case, I extend my personal protection towards Merrie. And guess what, I do recognize his attack as a MDP-able relation.

I predicted you'd say so, but come on, don't pretend like this isn't a direct consequence of his tech raids. He attacked a nation that was under NPO's protection. True, it was a fair gamble that they wouldn't enforce that, and in the end, somebody chose to enforce it for them, but it's not as though it wasn't a risk he was willing to take.

Whatever happened to:

Well sir, it was fun debating with you. No matter what your position becomes, I'm glad my point got through. I think we both had to think hard about our stand tonight.