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Peace Works!

Obligatory Peace Works here.

Not a Grämlin.

You mean, not that kind of picture books.

Just to be clear (and just because I'm curious): the evidence presented to you is based on stuff provided to your current adversaries by LH, do you confirm this yes/no?

It should have been 9,998,383,750,000.

JFYI everyone's special, mothers just know better.

You don't look that much dead, yet. My prediction is that this conflict won't kill you either. [OOC] No, you're just the only object around which can offer any challenge to their members and they're taking that opportunity to try keep them a minimum entertained. Tech, Land and any other stuff are just empty numbers without people manning them, the real asset anyone has (and ever had) in CN is the people, the members. Pacifica of all alliances understood this circa 2006 and has gone to great length to both nurture their community and to keep it separate from the rest of the planet - think of it as a cult (which it isn't, but the metaphor can do) which isolates its members from the outside simply to keep them. Going meta, all of this might suggest that a good way of opposing them is to work to undermine that dynamic... although there must be reasons for nobody having successfully done it in 14 years. At any rate, the interest of most of your opponents (minus Pacifica, which is culturally self-reliant and self-sufficient) is to keep you around as a sparring partner, they won't really try to remove you from the planet. [/OOC]

Little man, who made thee? Now we "only" need to summon Tyga to complete the set. (Sorry just now I was just drinking a bit...) of tea

Hello Dajobo, you're full of it as usual. I mean full of class of course. And now in general and about other posts in the last couple of pages, yes, Grub can be maybe accused of many things, but not of providing hypocritical excuses for his shenanigans. Not that I'm saying that hypocritical excuses are what's being presented here, and not even that they're anything bad in the first place. TBF off the top of my head I can hardly recall any significant war of aggression I could be in agreement with - the (ancient) ones I've been part of included. Bad excuses are discussion fodder and they often provide entertainment and psy ops opportunities.

That would mean to actually put effort in CN, which is something I definitely have no time or desire for. TBH, had I time for CN, I'm not sure that I'd choose NG - although I'll also admit that I have always had a soft spot for you, all the way back to my tenure as diplomat on your forums (which could be ten or more years ago). I'm the kind of person that enjoys Caustic's posts... Maybe that makes me a bad person, I don't know. My (too many!) other priorities anyway prevent me - and will always prevent me - from considering anything else than continuing my years long retirement. Sorry for that.

Thank you for having used the word "mediocracy", I like it.

It's just class, evidently. And yes, class might seem alien here... that makes one think, doesn't it?

Surviving 15 years is quite a feat but doing it and remaining consistent across eras and through that many changes of government and membership is... terrific great. Congratulations, old cat.

What a gravedig! Olorin isn't supposed to play with necromancy like that... Are you sure it's you? 😜

Ah ah this made me smile old man... 😉

Confirmed, thank you people! 🙂

Usually I totally enjoy JA's prose (although I seldom know/care of what he's posting about) but I must confess that this time... Well, I don't want to be that guy that makes it a big deal for the one instance in which he's almost completely, but not quite, non-entertained. I look forward to the next episode. On the conflict itself my stance is obviusly of neutrality. Judging from the raw military values the, er, "combat" in the upper part of the ladder should be a walk in the park for the Knights. They should also have the numbers to stand their ground in the other ranges. I'm not sure that this COBRA assault is military savy but, as a useless nurturer hippie myself... what would I know? 😉

GPA Senators don't sanction on a whim and always try to check any allegation before they act, but they have also always sanctioned rogues. This has always been valid for VE, too. I couldn't say anything about others as I don't know their policies. If you need to have a rogue sanctioned on Green, approach GPA or VE Senators and you should be fine.

Please explain further the green team part, thanks.

Walford. If your alliance can't protect you, you are unaligned.

But but, that would require... effort! The horror. (Had I the time for anything more than a brief cameo here and there, I might switch to an aggressive stance. Not as a raider, probably, unless it was to "raid" raiders - that would be fun for everyone involved.)

Friend, you're not in range (although TBH you could, say, dump ~4k of your cheap infrastructure and drop just in). Unfortunately in my position I can't openly invite anyone to attack a nation under my AA's banner, nor it would be gentlemanly of me to be aggressive towards random others, while I am wearing the GPA uniform. (TPF non-transitional members are... let's say a temporary -?- exception to those rules.) BUT! Let's not give up all hope, who knows what the future entails for us? I think I might have a few bucks I could afford to spend on these, er, projects. Disclaimer: all of this joking is meant to be friendly and in jest. It's not neutrality, it's that pixel chest-thumping is - oh gawd! Disclaimer about the 1st disclaimer: "friendly" and "in jest" should not in any way be taken as "I didn't actually mean it".

I feel like I have the required characteristics to join this fine raiding project but there are no TPF nations in range, what are you going to do to fix that?

Whatever, I was just saying that attacking someone without provocation and hoping to get away with it, and then getting smashed, instead, while maybe funny etc has little to do with honour. Honour isn't incompatible with getting smashed but not any and every reason one gets smashed for qualifies for it. Raiding, i.e. choosing a target for plunder and with the idea of a short and profitable war at the expenses of a weaker and less prepared victim, is extremely far from being honourable - if words still have a meaning, at least. Don't get me wrong: I understand the risk associated with the practice and mine isn't a moralistic stance - to be frank I couldn't care less about what any of you does in their free time - but slapping a moral/honourable label on raiding is too incoherent and illogic - ultimately naively stupid - to let it pass. Just happily raid and call it for what it is, an opportunistic low-risk gamble that, if gone bad, makes you look silly, not pretty.