[quote name='obscurus' date='16 February 2010 - 12:27 PM' timestamp='1266344848' post='2185847']
We are again talking about that SECOND SS.
Too bad that the CB is not about the second SS, but about the first - the one with the shopped IP number, as people from the Lodge (and whatnot) already have stated - ad nauseam - in several posts.
And those "friends stabbed in the back", as some have depicted the 57th, are the same friends who have been helped just one month ago in the Browncoat fiasco, and the same friends to whom the Lodge members - myself included - have donated more tha 100 millions bucks to help them after their war. And those are facts, not alleged or real photoshop jobs.
But those are - obviously - ancillary speculations which do not count against the One True Truth osf Some: that the Lodge is a gang of bullies out there to backstab their closest friends.
And I quote uisge: hope that this mess gets sorted soon, although I am not sure that the trolls who feast here will allow that.
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Obscurus is correct, The 57th and GLoF were friends and allies. The Lodge did aid The 57th after the BC war and it was much appreciated. In fact I will even state that one of GLoF's other allies (NV) help negotiate that peace, which is also appreciated. We have been friends and allies for longer than I have taken any interest in the external dealings of the alliance. It is for this very reason that I was absolutely shell shocked when I logged into my nation the other night to see I had been attacked by our own friends. It is for this reason that I was completely taken aback that no one had made any serious effort to contact a member of government and come to a resolution other than the one that GLoF decided to pursue.
Lastly I will say that of course all parties wish for this to come to peaceful end soon, however The 57th did not send forged documents to GLoF and will not admit to such in order to bring about that peace.