IamJoe

o/ IRON!

I'd put money on Ryan if I was allowed to send money outside IRON... Oh well. GO RYANGDI!

Man you are spoiled, I got $5,000 when I joined IRON, and I LIKED it.

[OOC]Do you dump your wife/husband/boy-girlfriend at the first sign of trouble? No, you try to help them recover. Sometimes they do recover, sometimes they don't.[/OOC] I fully recognize that 1v/Q was drifting into 'dangerous' territory behavioral wise for a while, but I like to think that we decided to stick to the ship and attempted to keep it afloat and on a better course rather than jumping to the lifeboats at the first sign of danger. Obviously in 20/20 hindsight, that was a mistake as the NPO had far too much influence and diplomatic/political power to be really ever maneuvered around,, but at the time it seemed the best option. Just up and leaving a powerful bloc when you are a core member is an incredibly destructive move and would have sealed 1v/Q's fate and opened ourselves up to possible attack by both our 'former' allies and by other alliances who had potential grievances with 1v/Q. Also, to cloud things further, at the time the NPO, tho hated by a fairly large number of people spread out through Cybernations, were respected as an absolutely rational, nearly always honorable, mostly careful and (shock) often diplomatic alliance. How do you predict that the NPO would lose their heads and attack a small alliance that hardly knew any better when it was completely obvious that said action would immediately invite in their own destruction and the destruction of their allies? You could say "But they did it before" and point out some other alliance like GOLD, but that would still not be the case. The NPO acted rationally and mostly justifiable in attacking GOLD. GOLD could not have caused the destruction of allies and GOLD had performed acts of espionage on the NPO. I could go on for ages, but I am exhausted. Time for sleep now.

I am pretty sure the only alliance we really kicked when they were down was The Empire, a small one started by several Ex-Councilers who hacked our forums ages ago. Everything else (FAN) was required by treaty IIRC. Feel free to post links if I'm wrong.

Almighty Grub for me!

MHA and Fark taught me that very well too. I got caught with only 2 GCs . I think I won like 10-12 offensive ground battles total. Thank god for my SDI. Here is to peace and hopefully a renewed friendship with my MHA/FARK opponents and others I did not get to face.

Wartz of UncleHermsPlace reporting in. I was only a member for month~, but I haven't forgotten the lonely few who stayed on and kept encouraging me after all hope seemed lost in PWII. I rerolled after the NAAC got peace, been with IRON ever since. I still fly the flag.

How have we not thought for ourselves?

The reason IRON changed course on your interpretation of Independent is because back in the day, GOONs and FAN would have liked nothing better than to attack and crush us for fun. It was the NPO who made sure they didn't try anything, and for that we always respected the NPO as a stable and relatively friendly alliance.

I lol'd To be fair, it was pretty bad.

orange cake and pink cats, what could be better.

/me eats orange cake.

o/~IRON~\o