James Spanier

The criticism levied was that a member of my alliance should "do something or go sit in a corner" by someone who spent nine days not doing something yet definitely not sitting in a corner.

Worry not, we still have eight days before we've matched your pace.

You certainly were, apologies, I stopped actually reading his posts after page 2.

Wasn't the whole 'cb' from FTW/NATO that DBDC did declare war on you? Or is that narrative already being dropped?

Is this a code? Will there be a revolution in RnR next? Alert NATO immediately!

Like this one for example: https://cybernations.fandom.com/wiki/Kaskus-MI6_War

The 18th War of Argent Relevance, as it's already known.

I'm surprised I need to tell you this, but this has been a known known for like two years now. Like, Polar didn't even hide it, they straight up told us (that is, both Argent and RFI) multiple times in the last year alone point blank they wanted to roll Doom (and would if they could). There's even one venue I can think of where DBDC was present when it was said. I think that our own recent treaty with them includes the 'oNAP' clause serves as an indicator of our feelings on the subject.

The Truth Is Out There.

For some godawful reason I don't actually have a 'correct' version of the flag that is larger, and I'm not sure one even exists.

A long time ago (a little over a year) in a backroom channel far, far away, discussion began which laid the framework for the creation of the ultimate treaty in the cyberverse. The project was subject to great expenses of political capital and excuses for missed deadlines for months on end, leading some to declare it nothing but a bottomless pit of resources. Emperor Jason was adamant however: when the treaty was signed, the detractors would be of little concern, and when has become now. Project Stardust Accords Article I: Peace and Freedom to the Signatories Both signatories will hereafter refrain from targeted aggressive activity, internal subversion or espionage of any kind, against the other. Signatories of this pact pledge to practice only respect and good will towards each other. Article II: Securing the Scarif Vault Should vital knowledge of a political or military nature come to the attention of one signatory, they are strongly encouraged to share it with the other. Article III: Deploy the Garrison Should the Rebel Alliance scramble fighters on the Death Star, either signatory may request support in the form of Starfleet assistance, credits, or a motion in the Imperial Senate from the other. It is strongly encouraged for the other signatory to provide what help it can, though both parties accept that this is not an obligation. Article IV: You May Fire When Ready Should either signatory wish to target another planet with the Death Star, the signatory may ask to use the other's targeting computer, though both parties acknowledge this is not obligated. Article V: Target the Base at Scarif, Single Reactor Ignition In the event that a signatory is a participant in a conflict against an ally of the other signatory, defensive retaliatory military action may be taken as deemed necessary without necessitating the activation of Article VII. Article VI: Death Star II Should the signatories feel the relationship between them has changed, the signatories may come together to build a newer and more powerful Death Star at any time. Article VII: Careful Not to Choke on Your Aspirations Should either signatory become rebel scum in the eyes of the other, this pact will be canceled after 72 hours notice is given. Signed for New Polar Order, Buuyo, Emperor Emperor Jason, Regent JayMillz, Minister of Plenty Tharu, Minister of Peace Signed for Argent, Lowsten, The Great and Loveable Emperor of Argent trimm, Regent and Curmudgeon at Large Legatus, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Clown Appreciator King William, Minister of War and Certified Kindergartener iamthey, Minister At-Large, Lasagna, and Clown IMP REBS, Minister of Internal Affairs and Humanoid Spaceship Janax, Dragon Emperor Emeritus and Minister of Communications

This is a very Sirius development, I'll need to AcTi-vate the contingency plan to counter these turtles.

Congratulations to our friends in the Legion. KiWi and I will share a bottle of wine to celebrate your anniversary.

The Reds must be repelled, glory to the White Army and the Expeditionary Forces!

You're the one that's crying NAP, I've been real this whole conversation: we reacted to your actions. Justify them as much as you want, fact is you were planning a war. And no, actually, the first piece of intel was Thrash DMing me and saying "hey what if RFI fought Oculus?" and when I called him out on how hopelessly obvious his fishing expedition was he had the audacity to ask me who leaked. THAT was when we knew what was up, before any of Hitchcock's nonsense reached our eyes. Mistakes were made that let you and yours control the narrative despite lying through your teeth at every opportunity, but in the end we're still here. So I hope you enjoyed taking that one pound of flesh for the few months you had before NG enjoyed taking all of yours.

And you were just going to leave out that bit of the perspective about us in fact actually responding to your plotting as early as June because you forgot to mention it and weren't just !@#$%^&*ting again I assume? Give me a break mate, you plotted a war, got caught, got fought. Don't bring NAP-this garbage out, like we're supposed to let you just do whatever you want under the guise of a NAP. I personally pushed for that extension to prevent a war mind you, and there was dialog through each event of your side and CLAWS attempting to instigate conflict over one stupid thing after another. Then come to find out you were plotting the whole time anyway.

What a load of hogwash and you know it. You literally gave us the logs of you and Stewie doing exactly what we knew you were doing, which was the basis for us understanding peace was never an option from you and yours (our understanding that is, not your logs which just confirmed what we already knew). The fact anyone believed your crocodile tears and blatant lies reflects more poorly on them than the people that were right all along, poorly managed intel clauses or not. The curtains closed, you can stop the act now, there's no Bloc left for you to protect.

Glad to finally see this, the IRON Curtain now encompasses the ice cap! Congratulations to our first and oldest allies in IRON and our on again off again geopolitical frenemies in Polar.

Both can be true, I never said it wasn't possible, or even untrue here. That's why I separated the line about pettiness from the line about sincerity. You're right, I don't think it's sincere on an alliance level, and do I read the silence as being unable to not engage at that level rather than a true sense of being bigger. That's why I broke my own silence to make the observation. That doesn't mean I'm right, the same as it doesn't mean you're right because you might hold an opposite opinion to mine. It's up to NG, not you or I, to be the change, but it is all of us that will see the results regardless. I'm happy to be pleasantly surprised, I'm just not holding my breath for it.

There's being the bigger man because you'd otherwise be lowering yourself to match someone else's level of pettiness and simply not engaging because when you do you can't help being petty. Because of that it's hard to distinguish actual change from just keeping your head down in a thread about a recent example where you went too far in your pettiness. Relative silence from an otherwise extremely vocal group reads less as sincerity and more as damage control optics.

There are almost as many words in in sigs than the actual document, good lord.

I wish you good fortune in the wars to come. May future endeavors find FTW well.

Your position is acknowledged. I'm simply explaining one of the "why's" left over from the now completed conflict. Moving forward, the goal is to make sure this conflict doesn't repeat.

The leadership of both sides wants to avoid that sentiment, per the rhetoric of the summit. It's a valid concern, and something I believe will get its due investment with the attention of so many influential sphere leaders working towards it.

The whole situation was bad and everyone involved should feel bad. The fact remains, lured or not, he did it and it was not only rhetorically defended, but it required him to stand his allies down. That's not encouraging to the idea we should have bothered to try and convince people to not defend NG or COBRA in this case, much less hope they stood you all down. Could have, could have not. At the end of the day, it's all hindsight regardless.