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King Vences

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  • Birthday 08/05/1993

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  1. I guess KV go bye bye.

  2. [center] [img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080221003402/cybernations/images/5/53/Auric_Armada_Flag.png[/img] [size="6"]Hello. My name is King Vences. I am a failed leader.[/size] [/center] Some of you may remember a small alliance by the name of the Auric Armada. We ceased to exist on July 21st 2008, almost exactly 2 years ago from the day this was posted. The story behind us is that we were infiltrated by FAN and taken down from the inside. Well, it's time to give the full story. FAN might have killed us, maybe they didn't. Read on to decide for yourself. I no longer have anything to lose. Please trust me, I will be completely honest whilst telling my story. At the time, I was the sole Triumvir of Auric Armada (Or Au for short.) The story is long, the details are many, but the facts are thrown around senselessly and carelessly. It's about time this story comes to a close. I'd like to give the full story here, now. Considering FAN has moved on from it's supposedly endless war with NPO and all that jazz, now is the time to post. I've been waiting months. What happened before Au was born is of little relevance here. Auric Armada started out as a merge between The White Delegation (of TPF fame) and the Global Republic of Allied Nations (also of TPF fame, Overlord's Protectorate Pact). Afterwards, Au itself joined OPP. A month later, we announced our flip to the yellow sphere. Slayer99 wasn't all too happy about this but he did understand where we were coming from and wished us the best of luck. Time passed and as we graduated out of OPP, we sealed a treaty with TPF (MDoAP if I recall correctly) and announced our [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=21647"]MADP with Defense Confederation[/url] who were our brothers in OPP. This treaty will have more significance later on... when it gets cancelled. Keep reading. Then begins the REAL story. We announced our shift to the Yellow sphere. I couldn't find the thread, but here's the announcement: [font="Arial"][quote][/font][font="Arial"]Au's move to yellow was done in and effort to bring about the resurection of the yellow sphere, for the longest time yellow had been a wasteland full of dead or dying alliances, exilled from the rest of the world they would be left there to wither away and die. So Au stepped up to the plate and took the challenge of bringing back light to a sphere full of darkness, and the changes and impact we have had already have been notible , with many many more come the future of yellow looks bright for the first time in ages.[/quote] ***** [b]RUMOR BUST:[/b] Auric Armada was planted by NPO to take over the Yellow sphere. [i]LOL, no. We came here because Yellow was dismal and alone and we had a realistic chance of thriving there. It was all in our plan to be a great alliance. We had nothing to do with NPO.[/i] *****[/font] [font="Arial"]We made the move with our friends in Deck of Cards. Later, Defense Confederation came and joined us, along with Veritas Aequitas, another OPP ally of ours. Soon after, other alliances like Pyramid joined Yellow. All of us in Auric Armada thought we were doing an excellent job at reviving Yellow. So many of us joined Yellow at the same time, but this would later turn out to be one of those cases of too many, too soon. This was when the other two triumvirs departed Auric Armada, and left me alone. I was assigned an assistant, but he also quit and left later on. Tensions built immediately. Yellow was divided into 3 pieces. Auric Armada and Deck of Cards were one tier as the two strongest alliances in Yellow. Defense Confederation cancelled our MADP between us and allied themselves with Pyramid. ***** [b]RUMOR BUST:[/b] DefCon cancelled on Au on bad terms. [i] It has been revealed that DefCon cancelled on Au because of the departure of leadership from Au. DefCon knew that there was trouble brewing in Auric Armada and didn't want to be involved. DefCon also realized that Au was become more and more attached to DoC. At the time, DefCon and DoC had some sort of vendetta against each other.[/i] ***** This was the 2nd tier. FAN itself was tier 3. ROCK didn't really have relations with any of us so they won't be added into the equation here. This was when Yellow transformed from an attempt at unity to a total and complete power grab. The Au government, including myself, were rather concerned by the announcement of the [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=25395"]Goldenrod Accords[/url] (also known as Yellow Sphereority). At the time of the announcement, however, Au and DoC were working on our very own bloc, but it wasn't the PIAT bloc that DefCon and Py had announced. We were working more agressively. We had a defense/offense bloc in the works, but since we couldn't convince any other alliances other than Au and DoC to sign, we put the project on standby. (We wanted at least 3 signatories. DefCon would've been the perfect addition as the 3rd largest yellow alliance. They refused to join on grounds that they don't want to be allied so closely with DoC.) We at Au felt threatened by such a bloc. We knew it wasn't something very big, that it didn't physically threaten us, but the Goldenrod Accords were beginning to alienate us. Time passed on, and running Au was becoming unbearable. I grew bored... I wanted something to make running an alliance fun again. I needed partners. I needed that sort of satisfaction you get after announcing something big. Some of the guys in Yellow began to mention the Yellow Senate. One thing led to another and we were daring each other to sanction Brass, the FAN senator in yellow. I agreed to do it, and I did. I was very happy with myself afterwards. FAN naturally began to question me as to why I would do such a thing. I guess my only reasoning was "You're FAN", but that wasn't good enough. Brass sanctioned me and unsanctioned himself, and then I sanctioned him again, the cycle just went on and on. ***** [b]RUMOR BUST:[/b] NPO asked Auric Armada to sanction FAN. [i]This is only partially true. I sanctioned FAN on my own accord, yet I did have a small influence from NPO. I was becoming personally friendly with the upper group of NPO, and was encouraged to sanction Brass.[/i] ***** Then, the Golden Sabres War ensued. Someone took a screenshot of the Golden Sabres website. The front page encouraged their members to vote for Brass for the Senate seat. Some of you may remember what the screenshot looked like. I took that shot. Our diplomat from NPO made the discovery and relayed the information to me. I took the shot, marked out a couple things, then passed it on to Bigwoody of TORN. Arrangements were made, talks were had, and we all engaged in the [url="http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/Golden_Sabres_War"]Golden Sabres War[/url]. My reasoning for joining the war was that we could gain a serious public relations boost. I personally wanted to get closer to TORN, as they were probably the most adored alliance at the time. I did succeed in securing a PEACE treaty with them. Then, the whole FAN spy incident took grip. I had a new member by the name of Bad JuJu join us. At the time, Auric Armada was in a dismal state of disrepair with about a 10% activity rate on the forums, and with only 2 government positions filled out of 8. After some minor questioning, I was still very fuzzy on his past. He was hesitant to give many details, but considering how bad a shape were were in, we needed help. After a week or two, he proved to be a very active, very involved worked. I didn't want to put someone as new as him into a very top position, so I gave him the lowest of the 5 departmental position: Director of Moderation and Security. It's very ironic that he would later be discovered to be a "spy". Eventually, I was approached on IRC by Umbrae Noctem of NPO. It was so long ago that I don't remember how we got in official contact in the first place. We received a diplomat from NPO, and I personally traveled to their forums and tried to be diplomatic. It is my belief that NPO saw Auric as more of an opportunity than an ally. I requested an MDP from NPO to seal the deal. I wanted the rest of CN to know that were throwing the dice with high rollers. That never happened of course, because a few weeks afterwards, Bilrow approached me and requested my presence in another channel... We had a long talk. Bilrow, Umbrae, and one other guy I can't remember his name, were accusing Bad JuJu of being a FAN reroll nation. He was correct. When I went to check his nation, he was at war and had changed his alliance affiliation to FAN. I was honestly pissed off, shocked, appalled, outraged. No longer were we on the way to recovery, but to complete ruin. [quote]<Bilrow> The way we found it was our constant watching of FAN aid that was sent and received. We would then backtrack and follow that aid along it's path. Doing so we found a number of common nations being used to "funnel" aid to FAN without it being sent directly or being obvious by a cursory glance.[/quote] It's all about public relations. I feared the serious backlash that would come after having to announce such an event on the CN Forums. I didn't want to remain in an alliance which everyone saw as pathetic or downright stupid. Being the age that I was (15 at the time) I had little experience with anything. I was then approched by "Umbrae" again. He broke the news that there were 8 other spies from FAN in Au. I didn't believe him at all, but I have done nothing wrong from trusting him in the past. I immediately declared war on several of them and ordered other members of Au to do the same. I even allowed other nations to declare war on some of them. Later, I discovered that "Umbrae" was being impersonated by a FAN nation, identity still unknown. I had declared war on 4 innocent nations. (1 of the nations accused was actually FAN however. I knew he was FAN. I refused to accept him, but he said he no longer wanted anything to do with FAN. He wanted to play the game and enjoy it rather than live in peace. He joined much sooner than Bad JuJu did, however.) I posted [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=27942"]THIS[/url] thread in reaction. This turns out to be my biggest mistake ever. Later in that thread, Bad JuJu posted something revealing a similar spy in DoC who was also under attack. Let's backtrack a little here. Before this post, before Bad JuJu was revealed, I recall a personal query with Bad JuJu discussing this very member of DoC. Bad JuJu said that he had a friend in DoC that he'd like to bring to Auric. He began telling me several details about DoC switching to the Aqua sphere and ditching Yellow. I asked how he knew this and says that his friend in DoC had told him. I was very suspicious indeed, but checking his friend's nation, he had 25 nukes. Since our alliance was crumbling day by day, anything that would have boosted our stats would have kept my moral up. Later in the thread linked above, Bad JuJu reveals these very logs, accusing myself of being a spy since I accepted this information and I was also revealed requesting that this other friend of Bad JuJu's be brought into Auric. Did I make a mistake there? Hell yes I did. I was asked to clear up this matter by NPO. I was asked to tell to truth that I was not spying on DoC, our closest ally. I messed up the wording in the post quite bad. The logs are located [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=27942&view=findpost&p=743498"]HERE[/url]. My very poorly worded response is located [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=27942&view=findpost&p=743507"]HERE[/url]. ***** [b]RUMOR BUST:[/b] I was myself spying on DoC as I accepted information about them. [i]No. That post where I apparently condemned myself was very poorly written. When I said "[/i][/font][i]That meant "Dont tell anyone else you dont get stamped a spy and start an incident."", I was trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong. I said "don't tell anyone else" not to hide that we were spying, but to keep the leaked information from DoC from leaking any further. We were close friends with DoC and I didn't want their secret plans to go public anymore than they already have accidentally.[/i] ***** Now fast forward to where Bad JuJu was kicked out of Au. Nukes were launched, and a period of calmness fell over Auric later. It was best to lay low for a while. A month or so later, I put up a poll about whether or not we should disband. Apparently someone in FAN was able to see this, as I had banned Bad JuJu, and Bad JuJu posted on the CNFs that were were "disbanding" and began to rant about his successes in "destroying us from the inside". Also bad for public relations don't you think? We never did disband. I talked with ZoomZoomZoom, leader of DefCon (who is still yellow) at the time, and asked him to accept members of Au. The merger commenced. The announcement of the merger is located [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=28823"]HERE[/url]. ***** [b]RUMOR BUST:[/b] Au was defeated by FAN from the inside by a FAN spy. [i]Despite all that I've told in the story above, FAN had little involvement in my decision to merge Au. Auric was already unrepairable and inactive beyond belief. The whole FAN Spy incident was just another incident that showed why I no longer wanted to be leader of an alliance. I made the decision to merge Auric into DefCon as a sign of apathy. I simply didn't want to run Auric anymore, and there was nobody else in government who I deemed a good choice to take my position.[/i] ***** ***** [b]RUMOR BUST:[/b] Bad JuJu was actually a FAN spy. [i] Maybe. Again, despite what you've read above, it is my personal belief that FAN had no knowledge that Bad JuJu was an ex-FAN nation. FAN has always proved themselves capable of taking advantage of everything possible to smear the reputations of others. I believe that once Bad JuJu was caught, he reported to FAN with his adventures. Soon after, FAN discovered what Bad JuJu had done, they saw this as a brilliant chance to make themselves look bigger and better than they are. FAN embraced the whole event and made it look like they were involved. Unless FAN decides to be honest and let us know whether or not they had any knowledge of Bad JuJu being a FAN nation before he reported to them, there is no way of knowing if he was actually a spy, or someone who simply took advantage of the situation. If FAN says "no", then he was not a spy and this whole thing could be considered an accident. If FAN says yes, then Auric Armada was infiltrated by spies... but not destroyed by them. ***** This is my story. This is what I experienced. If you remember this whole incident as it happened first hand, please let me know you're thoughts on what happened. I would like to answer all questions now. This whole thread is written in a rather short amount of time. Please excuse any grammatical errors. If some part of it is just plain inconsistent, please let me know so that I may make edits. [b]Cybernations is a game. Games are supposed to be for fun. Although I may have made some of the wrongest decisions ever playing this game, such as those that I made while in Auric Armada, I did have the funnest time dealing with them. As I look back to the past, I thank CN for this moment in history while in Auric Armada. No matter how stupid I looked back then, I had fun doing it, and that's what matters in the end.[/b] FAN, thank you for the lulz. Auric Armada, may you rest in peace. tl;dr for Longbowe: I screwed up. Thank you for reading.
  3. This is my first post on these forums in months. That's how awesome Valhalla is. o/
  4. A brilliant new government to match a brilliant new charter. It's awesome. It's so awesome, it's thick, dude.
  5. You still have that avatar >_>

  6. I am King Vences, and I approve of this very thick message. Hail TORN also.
  7. Well, here I am, almost 900 days after the very day I created my nation. A lot of fun, weird, lame, and sad events have taken place since then. From the very beginning, I grew my nation according to small alliance tradition. I received the standard recruitment messages, but they didn't peak my interest. I then received a message from my first alliance, The White Delegation. Funny thing is that said alliance was founded the day I got the message. So I applied. Now what ? Well, I took to the skies early on. I thought it would be fun to be a Minister of Defense. So I applied. So I got shot down. I thought it would be fun to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs. So I applied. So I dropped out after realizing how much work that would be and how inexperienced I was. So I ran for the only position with no other candidate. The Minister of Internal Affairs. That was the effective career-changing factor in my entire CN lifetime. Well, I was elected. Now what do I do ? Well, I asked the alliance leader. I make the newspaper, keep people updated, spread the news, and keep people interested in the alliance, among many other things. I say I was doing pretty good. The next election came, and bam, landslide victory. My second term introduced something a bit new to the mix. I was to be spearheading the development of a newspaper. I experimented with a few versions and settled on one after a poll. That was when I decided to introduce Photoshop into my mix of attributes. I figure it would be cool to do stuff in Photoshop. So from there, we went for a while, and I made a video for my alliance. Just in time to run for the 3rd elections against a worthy opponent. Another landslide. I was starting to like the crazy twist known as CN politics. It wouldn't be like that for long. During my 3rd term, things were heating up. TWD and TPF were having a few troubles, and my alliance hit a recession. We weren't doing to good, but after a group of members formed a breakaway alliance, that crushed my moral. It was about halfway through my 3rd term and I had to fix the impression that I failed my alliance, that all the inactivity and lack of intelligence was my fault. It was that moment when when all of a sudden, a certain member was expelled, and seemingly, the problems lifted away. Everything was relatively still during the upcoming 4th election. I couldn't run for the position because I resigned from the alliance not too long before the group of members formed a breakaway alliance mention before. I left to RnR while all that happened. I had to return as I missed the characteristics of TWD. Branded as a spy for a while, I couldn't run. I just kind of sat there for 2 months, but during that time, I was still at work. My job consisted of running the newspaper, big deal. Those 2 months flew right by. Time for the 5th elections. I won another landslide despite the previous events. So I was in my 4th term as the MoIA. I felt like I could just do whatever now. The government had fallen into obscurity and I didn't know what to do. To get rid of the feeling that there was nothing going on, I made new forums for TWD. I really liked them. It was almost the end of the 2007 when I met a pair of dudes from some other alliance named GRAN, or the Global Republic of Allied Nations. They were cool people, and I liked hanging out with them. We shared a lot of similarities. We started talking, and somehow it ended up in thoughts about merging TWD and GRAN. I liked the idea, and so did the remaining TWD government. The thing was, that a few weeks had passed since the leader had even showed up. The only way I got approval to talk about a merger was via CN PM to the leader. All of a sudden, the gears started moving. The 2 leaders from GRAN and myself started having...talks, if you will. Planning everything for a merger. The name, the color, the allies, the government, everything was perfectly assembled like some sort of high performance luxury sports car. I thought it was fail proof.There was just one problem... I didn't have the authority to take any of this out. The leader of TWD thought it was a good idea, but he was never there to approve of things, and he wouldn't approve it unless it went his way. I got an idea. The vice-leader of the alliance at the time was even more inactive, so I requested he be fired. He eventually got fired. That is where I realized the true power I had come to hold. The gears started moving even more, and a think tank of information poured in from all sides. Everything stated from here on out was planned by myself and the GRAN leaders. I requested the charter be changed to allow a new position, the "Executive Minster", which allowed said position to inherit the power of any missing government member in the case of their absence. As I made the position, I was appointed to it, ending my 4th term as MoIA, and half of a 5th term (nobody ran against me the 6th TWD election). I started my first term as EM. I inherited the vice-leader powers as per the new position I took. The year was close to an end, a week at most before the 1st of January. The TWD leader still hasn't shown up. I had to do something if we wanted our master plan to take place. I read through the charter closely at the position I had edited into it, the Executive Minister. I never realized that I typed that I could inherit the abilities of both the vice leader AND leader. Technically, the leader was not there. I could inherit the spot if I planned a takeover quickly. The charter says that the president may be voted out if necessary. With only 2 other government members, we started a poll. The vote was 3 and 0, in favor of kicking out the president. Since the President no longer existed there, I took that spot. It was January 8th, sometime in the morning. Only a few hours later, the GRAN leaders announced the merger of TWD and GRAN. We had formed the Auric Armada. A period of 2 months worth of planning and waiting had come to pay off. Myself and the 2 GRAN leaders formed a triumvirate. In a month, we gained 300k NS from what we started out with. In 2 months we were past 1 mil. The very day we turned 1 mil and were released from OPP (it was carried over via GRAN), we announced our swap to yellow along with our buddies at Deck of Cards and Defense Confederation. Myself and the DoC leader gained senate seats over FAN quite quickly. We had officially become a yellow colony. Things were great for a while. We had inspired many other small alliances to join and form in Yellow. It seemed as if our work had paid off. Soon, the other 2 members of the Auric Armada triumvirate resigned and went off to real life, ditching their nations. They assigned somebody to join the triumvirate, but he left soon after. There was mass inactivity and the work was becoming overwhelming. I had to get more members in government, so I reluctantly approved a recently accepted member of Auric Armada. He showed experience in what he was assigned to, so I didn't see a problem. He was later discovered to be a FAN reroll, and was attacked, along with other FAN rerolls in DoC. That was the first time I was nuked, and the first time I launched a nuke in retaliation. After that whole episode, I didn't find much fun in politics anymore, and the government was 0% active. We were rapidly dropping strength, and I honestly tried to find a way to save the dying alliance. It turns out that it was damaged beyond repair, both in public relations, and general activity. In a last effort to save the nations in Auric Armada from falling into obscurity, I ordered that all Auric Armada nations join Defense Confederation. That was the disbandment of the Auric Armada. A few minutes after that, I started speaking to bigwoody of TORN. He seemed like a pretty good dude, and he knew what he was doing. I asked him if I could apply, and he said yes, so I did. I was accepted, and begin a new chapter in my CN career in a new alliance, with a new goal, which was to stay on the sidelines and support when called to. I didn't want to be in heavy politics anymore. I held random jobs around TORN for a while, and I really got to know the general member base of TORN. It seems like I could stay there forever. I just might. - King Vences.
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