Stetson76

Televisions flicker on in the homes across the width and breadth of SNAFU. A familiar man sits behind a desk and crushes out his cigarette then quaffs the last of his Diet Pepsi. Looking up he appears startled. “Damn those producers gave the wrong time again,” he mumbles under his breath. Composing himself, he clears his voice, “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m coming to you here tonight to communicate some serious news. In the last week the state of the world has descended into complete chaos. Luckily, SNAFU has spent its entire existence expecting that things will eventually go insane and that’s just the normal state of our home and it’s alright with us.” Stetson gets up from behind the desk, lights a cigarette and exhales slowly. The camera pulls out to reveal a cloud of smoke hanging in the air like billowing storm clouds. Pausing and popping open another can of Diet Pepsi he continues “Despite our preparations for this day and confidence that it would arrive, SNAFU has found itself in an untenable situation (of course) which requires clarification tonight. SNAFU has made friends with a number of alliances in the course of our existence and we value those ties to this day. Unfortunately, we must clarify our position in regards to those friends. SNAFU has never signed a treaty without fully intending to fulfill it to the fullest and our dedication to this ideal is unchanged, therefore we shall be honoring our treaties to the best of our ability.” Stetson walks to the front of the desk and sits on the edge. “SNAFU’s protectors and brothers, Carpe Diem, have declared war on Nusantara Elite Warriors tonight and the realities of this situation have put us on the “other” side of this conflict from some of our dear friends, namely The Phoenix Federation and the members of PEACE. “ “Although SNAFU only has optional pacts with these entities, our desire to see our treaty commitments fulfilled has given us pause in making this announcement. None the less, we have come to the decision that our protectors must take priority. This does not mean our friendships with PEACE and TPF are diminished so we shall uphold our oath to not engage in any military action with a member of PEACE, The Phoenix Federation or their allies. We wish the best to everyone involved in this war and will be ready to help in any way we can once hostilities have ceased.” Exhaling with a huge sigh, Stetson hangs his head and takes another drag off his smoke. “Today is a day that I had hoped wouldn’t have come..” looking up and staring directly into the camera, “SNAFU is an alliance of marginal size, but exceptional heart and it pains us to sit on the sidelines while our friends are at war, but know this, we shall always do our best to honor our word.” “Thank you for your time.” The camera goes dark as Stetson turns and crushes out his cigarette with vehemence and a shake of his head… tl;dr SNAFU must remain neutral in the current conflict.

Good luck guys. \o Carpe Diem

Sorry I was so late to the party. The nation of Axeland was busy celebrating a national holiday that had something to do with bunnies, execution, candy and necromancy. I'm very glad to sign on to this amendment. Purple has been our home since day one and SNAFU looks forward to closer tie with our grape brethren. \o purple \o PEACE

Congratulations on the new venture! I wish for you nothing but the best.

I would agree with the previous posters who said that the most important thing is community. If you don't enjoy the company of your alliance mates, there's really no point to being in an alliance. [ooc]You've played this game for a very long time and it's admirable that you've stuck it out for so long, but one of the best parts of the actualy "game" is learning various nation building techniques and discussing strategy. This can only be accomplished if you're willing to committ yourself to becoming a full and active member of an alliance. [/ooc] I hope you find what you're looking for and consequently enjoy this game even more.

Congratulations guys. It's been a lot of fun getting to know everyone at Meritokrati and I look forward to the same with Invicta. \o the reunited!

I'm so glad to see this. I've been waiting to make a Thor reference since Tempest came into being. May your hammers fly straight and the goats that pull your battle wagon never tire...when vikings ride the lightning truly shall the mortals tremble. \o Tempest \o Valhalla \o our purple brethren \o thunder and lightning

Off topic: Kevlar, I think your sig is extremely funny considering the topic you're posting in. On topic: Good to see our protector Carpe Diem has made good friends that are working to strengthen their choosen sphere.

Congratulations to our protectors Carpe Diem and their brown friends.

Congrats guys. Great to see you continuing to move forward.

Onward to more purple love!!!

Nice new look Invicta. I'm sure the external good looks are merely a reflection of your internal beauty.

Welcome to the purple party LoW!

Thank you for your kind wishes. It's been a fun 6 months and we look forward to that much more in the future.

Sorry about the double post, but I wanted to make a clear distinction from, what I hope, was an entertaining OP and this more OOCish statement. I just want to take moment to thank our members who have made building this alliance an enjoyable undertaking. Our achievements both in time and total NS might be modest compared to some, but our pride in our success is undiminished by that fact. We started 6 months ago as an alliance of 10 members with a total NS of 170k, approximately 110k of which were wrapped up in our top 4 members. Since then SNAFU has not had a nation join who was over 8k, we’ve reached this goal through strong recruiting and nation building. This effort is a testimonial to the effort our new players have put into learning to grow their nations efficiently and our larger nations being generous with their money and time. Nation growth is honestly a small part of what make SNAFU a place I love to call home. Few of us knew each other prior to joining CN and yet we’ve been lucky enough to become a close, tight knit community. We may never be among the elite alliances in terms of our stats, we will always be a place for our members to enjoy this game to its fullest, both as a social exercise as well as a place for them to thrive on Planet Bob. Of course we couldn’t have done any of this without our friends, Carpe Diem, Tempest, TPF, Meritokrati and all of the other signatories of the PEACE treaty who’ve made purple a wonderful place for us to reside. On that note… Hail SNAFU! Hail her members! Hail our friends for the next 6 months and beyond!

The clock strikes 2000 and televisions across width and breadth of SNAFU click on (Thanks to a short in the electrical grid that somehow only affects TV’s each day at this time) the powerful image of the SNAFU comes on the screen causing everyone to pause before they click the power button… The image fades to reveal a haggard visage of a middle aged man wearing a cowboy hat, pulled down low as he snubs out a Marlboro cigarette and drinks down a swallow of Diet Pepsi while shuffling papers arrayed across the desk… “Drall!” He exclaims…”what is the point of this press conference?” His second in command comes sulking into the room. “We’re announcing our various treaties? Our protectorate with Carpe Diem…no, we announced that months ago, our PIAT with Tempest…no, they announced that.” “Oh, it must be the oDoAP with The Phoenix Federation…shoot, they announced that one, I’ve got it, it’s the PIAT with Meritokrati!” “No, they announced that one too,” Stetson says to his second. “There must be something else.” Pulling out a piece of paper from the bottom of the pile “Ah, here it is! We’ve appointed a new Director of Alliance Relations. Speaking of that, who let President S O go off to Australia when we knew there was going to be a press conference tonight. What if we get inquiries from our foreign brethren.” ”And who let him have the silly title, everyone knows he should be the Minister of Foreign Affairs,” Stetson thinks to himself. ”Oh well, when we founded this alliance, they gave me Grand FUBAR as a sign of respect, so I guess I shouldn’t complain.” Interrupting the conversation between Drall and Stetson the Director of Illicit Affairs, Madam CaVi comes running in… “You’re on the air,” she attempts to inform Stetson without causing too much of a ruckus. “What,” Stetson gasps…”but the clock says 1930!” “Oh, funny thing about that,” says Silver Star as he walks into the room. “In my Department of Making Nations Rich, we turned all the clocks back so that government employees start work earlier. It’s easier to ask them to stay late than to come in early and the enormous number of tech deals we’ve been doing has caused a ton of overtime.” “Did you inform Heheurfunny about this change so that our military exercises go off on schedule,” Drall asks Silver? “Where is that idiot Silver Star,” Heheurfunny, the Director of Damage Control, yells as he storms into the office! “We were an hour early to the exercise! We overshot the target by an hours drive time and leveled that ghost town out on route 151!” “That’s true,” Silver said, “but we’ve just saved millions on the demolition we had planned for next week so we can put in that new shopping mall.” “That’s just great everyone, thanks for ruining my press conference,” Stetson sighs. Then a thought strikes him. “We passed 500,000 total nation strength!” Drall whispers in Stetson’s ear, “Sir, we broke that milestone over a month ago. Haven’t we announced it yet?” “No, our census people mistakenly counted our visitors out at the Econo Lodge when they stopped by before forming the Open Source Alliance. Remember, that's why we established the SNAFU Radar Blip's so we could keep better count,” Stetson says as he smiles and turns back towards the camera pushing his hat up so his face can be fully seen by the audience. “My fellow members of the great alliance SNAFU…” The image of the Grand FUBAR fades away mid-sentence and cuts off after quickly flashing the following graphic. As the red light clicks off the camera, Stetson hangs his head and lights another cigarette. “Typical situation, all fouled up,” he sighs. But then he brightens, ”hey, it could be worse, I could be out of smokes and soda,” he thinks smiling and taking another sip. "I know let's all head over to #SNAFU, the drinks are on me," he says to his loyal Directors. tl:dr Recap of SNAFU’s last 6 months worth of announcements and our official celebration of 500,000 NS.

There's never any reason to take a game to criminal levels like that. Glad to hear you're back up and running with no loss of data IRON. Hope your ISP can figure out who did it and take the appropriate steps.

Congratulations Valhalla! I've had nothing but great experiences working with you guys and wish you another 2 years or prosperity.

It's been almost 6 months now. There's a signficance to that timeframe.

Thanks. We know it's not a revolutionary idea, but its time had come for us. It is easier to keep an eye on the little buggers when they've got their own holding pen. LOL

Smoke billows about the head of the man in cowboy hat as he crushes out last of his cigarettes. “Someone go out and grab me some more smokes,” he bellows out into the hall where the rest of the government has their offices. “I’ve got work to do and I very well can’t do it without some nicotine!” In comes a nameless drone with a carton of Marlboro Lights and places them on his desk. As the peon turns to leave Stetson says, “wait a minute there son. I haven’t seen you around before. It seems like you lackeys change every day.” “I’m a new recruit sir,” the timid boy murmurs, “they said the last page was promoted to citizen shortly after signing up.” “You people come and go so quickly, it’s like you’re just blips on my radar,” Stetson quietly muses. “In fact that gives me an idea… tl:dr SNAFU has established the subordinate Alliance Affiliation “SNAFU Radar Blip” and will be protecting members of this AA.

Hey, where's all of our recruits?

Congratulations guys, I'm glad to see this come together for you. Don't kid yourselves though. You will be getting a bill for the mini-bar and the rug cleaning...Tristram!

Nice change there CDT...but Dest!?!?!? Really?

Congratulations to the government of Valhalla. May the valkries keep your meade cups full and your axes sharp!