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Valtinius Varus is the new president, capturing 61% of the popular vote. The Federalist National Party has won control of 64% of the senate.

In the interest of improving our relations with other North American nations, we desire to establish a embassy in your nation. ~President-Elect Varus Nation Name: Federal Republic of Henripolis (FRH) Government Type: Republic Ambassador's Name: Pallia Ceno May we open an embassy in your nation (Y/N): Y Position regarding Bohovia: Currently Neutral Would you like to sign any other treaties: Possibly

ooc: If you give advance notice of being absent for an extended period of time, you shouldn't be purged from the map. I suppose if you wanted you could promote the idea of more "watches with great interest posts" so you don't get purged. That would dramatically improve the already stellar quality of this forum. (I should note that this post is self serving as I'm going to be unavoidably AFK for a month this summer.)

At 2202 local time, television sets all across Federal Republic are turned on. One of the most popular stations is HBC, the Henripolis Broadcasting Company ...will bring a few scattered showers and cooler temperatures for the remainder of the week. The best chance for showers will arrive late in the week,as several disturbances cross the area Thursday and Friday. Another chance of showers will take place Sunday. This event may actually bring a bit of rain/snow mix. And now on to Stepf with our election coverage. Good evening good citizens. After weeks of campaigning, election night has finally arrived. 3 leading candidates have emerged- Frald Heidmir Party: Unionist Political Ideology: Social Conservative Brief Bio: Heidmir is a long time Senator from Florence. Born into the wealthy aristocracy of the eastern half of the nation, he became the country’s youngest millionaire at age 27. Heidmir believes that the maintaining of religious values is essential for the state’s health. He has also been the chief proponent of FRH neutrality. Valtinius Varus Party: Federalist National Party (FNP) Political Ideology: Right Wing Reactionary Brief Bio: Varus rose through the ranks of the officer corps, eventually reaching the rank of General. He advocates expansion of the military and a much more aggressive foreign policy. Economically, Varus favors centralizing government assets. Jon Hawker Party: Socialist Labor Party (SLP) Political Ideology: Market Liberal Brief Bio: Hawker became involved with many human rights groups while schooling at university. Eventually he entered the political realm by running for mayor of Manchester and defeating the FNP incumbent in a stunning upset. He is regarded as an expert in economic affairs and supports international free trade. Widely considered to be the front runner in the Presidential elections. And now back to Stepf A reminder to our gentle citizens: polls close in 48 hours and the winners will be in power for three years. OOC: tl;dr Election thread every three months. I RP as the winning president.

*reserved*

Geography OOC: Western border roughly defined by Tennessee River, AL/MS state line. Northern border is bisection of TN. I will be going by the real life geography of the region. Military All able bodied males are expected to serve in the armed forces for two year but many exceptions are made on religous, physical, and psychological grounds. Following two years of service in either the active army or national guard, they may be discharged. However, they remain on reserve for emergencies until age 50. Army 63,000 Active 56,000 National Guard 281,000 Reservists OOB: Active Army 1st Armored Division 1st Armored Brigade 15th Armored Brigade 2nd Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) 2nd Infantry Division 5th Armored Brigade 6th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) 9th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) 3rd Infantry Division 8th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) 12th Infantry Brigade (Mechanized) 17th Armored Brigade Equipment M1A2 SEP: 464 M2A3 Bradley: 521 M1127 Stryker Recon: 164 M113A3: 1000 Air Force Equipment F-22C Raptor II: 102 Mi-28N: 325 F-16C Block 50/52: 370 (Slowly being phased out and replaced by the F-22C.) TU-22M: 24 Nuclear weapons: Yes

(OOC: No replies please. You can usually find me on IRC if you have any questions. All information can be assumed to be unclassified unless otherwise marked.) Official Name: Federal Republic of Henripolis Short Name: Henripolis Abbreviation: FRH Government Type: Federal Government Capital: Florence President: elected every three years by popular vote. (OOC: I plan having an election thread here every 3 months, beginning tomorrow. Following elections, I will RP as the current president) Presidential Cabinet: appointed by the President, approved by Senate. Senate: elected every three years by popular vote. Foreign Relations: Economy Currency: Dollar GDP Per capita: $40,000 Major Exports: Agricultural products, Iron, Steel, Coal Demographics Population: 7,672,500 Official language: English Major Ethnicities: Anglo-American, Germanic Major Religion: Christianity

In Game Nation Name and Ruler: Henry of Henripolis RP Nation Name (If Different): same Tech Level: 2,108.64 Infra Level: 8,500 Land level: 1,841 Nuclear(Y/N): Yes Link to In Game Nation: http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_d...Nation_ID=94208

YES! Thanks for the shout out Commander! B)

Congratulations to my first alliance! Its nice to see my old flag/avatar in your video too. I hope all of you are well.

Oh its log dump tiem?

Sethly isn't a spy. And stop taking TE so seriously.

Topic title pretty much says it all. I thought the damage bonus for tech capped off at a certain level. Might have been around 5000. I could just be confusing things though. Thanks for your time.

o/ Fark. Keep up the good work.

Yes we heard. Had to finish the stats up though.

NAAW's side: NAAW: Members: 119 (-4) Strength: 158,725 (-15,755) Nukes: 4 (-2) Anarchy: 67 (-11) GREAT: Members: 41 (+1) Strength: 75,577 (-6,145) Nukes: 10 (-1) Anarchy: 20 (+1) GDA: Members: 155 (+40 Strength: 290,085 (+11,547) Nukes: 3 (no change) Anarchy: 12 (-2) ================================================= Blackwater's side: Blackwater: Members: 41 (no change) Strength: 66,993 (-2,931) Nukes: 1 (no change) Anarchy: 9 (-1) CDT: Members: 38 (+1) Strength: 105,007 (+1,387) Nukes: 15 (+1) Anarchy: 1 (no change) M*A*S*H: Members: 53 (+1) Strength: 146,337 (-79) Nukes: 27 (-4) Anarchy: 11 (no change) Lafayette Escadrille: Members: 71 (+23) Strength: 201,333 (+75,285) Nukes: 26 (+21) Anarchy: 8 (-2) ========================= NAAW's side totals: Members: 315 Strength: 524,387 Nukes: 17 Anarchy:99 Blackwater's side totals: Members: 203 Strength: 519,670 Nukes: 69 Anarchy: 29 Commentary: NAAW continues to bleeds NS but gets nations out of anarchy. Genesis merges with LE. Possible truce on horizon.

Actually the edit was just to add a commentary on the bottom. I'll do an update in a couple of hours.

Not another one of these... We're just going to fight it out now. Tired of talking. If DCS wants in, they better get in before the slots are full

It's probably due to the fact its turned pretty nasty. Some of thats my fault.

NAAW's side: NAAW: Members: 123(-3) Strength: 174,480 (-9,109) Nukes:6 (no change) Anarchy: 78 (-2) GREAT: Members: 40 (-1) Strength: 81,722 (-4,866) Nukes: 11 (no change) Anarchy: 19 (+6) GDA: Members: 151 (-3) Strength: 278,538 (+6,283) Nukes: 3 (+1) Anarchy: 14 (no change) ================================================= Blackwater's side: Blackwater: Members: 41 (no change) Strength: 69,924 (+915) Nukes: 1 (no change) Anarchy: 10 (-2) CDT: Members: 37 (-1) Strength: 103,620 (-418) Nukes: 14 (+1) Anarchy: 1 (-2) M*A*S*H: Members: 52 (-1) Strength: 146,416 (-4275) Nukes: 31 (-1) Anarchy: 11 (unchanged) Genesis: Members: 30 (-1) Strength: 84,244 (+783) Nukes: 20 (No change) Anarchy: 1 (No change) Lafayette Escadrille: Members: 48 (No Change) Strength: 126,048 (+211) Nukes: 5 (no change) Anarchy: 10 (+5) ========================= NAAW's side totals: Members: 314 Strength: 534,740 Nukes: 20 Anarchy:111 Blackwater's side totals: Members: 208 Strength: 530,252 Nukes: 71 Anarchy: 33 Commentary: GDA joins. Ceasefire in effect so not much change overall besides that. I have the feeling tomorrow is going to be a big day.

George! Up early I see! For those who want to know what Blackwater thinks rather then read bias that is tried to be passed as fact, NAAW tech raided one of our training company members around December 27th. We responded the way we always do with tech raiders who attack us, we attacked back. NAAW attacked us back. Then the whole thing snowballed. At some point we talked to Kingdingle about peace and he accepted. I was not the guy at the negotiation. From what I can tell from our private forums, one of our Blackwater guys got attacked again after he sent peace. So then we had a little brawl going, though Blackwater as a whole was not engaged. The thing that really kicked off the party was NAAW first strike nuking us on 12/31/08 and then spying away one of our nukes on 1/1/09. I'll be the first one to admit the situation was confused but... NAAW doesn't dispute the nuke attack or the spying and evidence can be read here. Per our TE SOP, that was a declaration of war on us and Operation SHTF commenced. You can debate the whole sanctioning thing if you want to, but I think its been talked to death in the other threads. Fact is, we will use any and all in-game means to defend ourselves and our allies. Our inital blitz happened on the 1/1|1/2 update. We have discussed this here and in private channels over and over and over again. The peace terms offered by the NAAW did not include any written guarantee of this not happening again by way of a NAP or other signed agreement. So what if your alliance has to bleed a little bit because you don't like the terms; it has happened again and again and again in standard and TE. We wanted terms both we and our allies would be happy with. For the record, our friends didn't jump in until 1/3|1/4 update. That gave NAAW a full 48 hours to pound us. This you're going to have to sort out with MASH. Looking at the GDA thread, I'm not seeing anything that constitutes bawwing. There are a couple of complaints about GDA entering the war 24 hours before a DoW but thats to be expected. If you really want to talk about bawwing, you should consult the "unfair tactics" thread. [OOC]If you think someone is trolling on the forums here, report it to moderation, don't discuss it in this thread[/OOC] This is the part that really bothers me, mainly because it concerns me personally so I'll devote some time refuting your attack on my character. "Trolling" as I understand it does not constitute us saying what you do not want to hear. I am curious as to what you think I said at the peace talks that you think was trolling. If you could give exact quotes or screenshots of stuff I said which offended you personally that would be helpful. From what I remember off hand, I did say something to the effect of "NAAW had 48 hours to have their way with us. And they failed. " Which is completely true. But since you brought up the peace talks, I'm seem to remember there was some discussion by your party to the effect of "Blackwater are cowards who hide behind their allies." Sethly, a NAAW representative, definitely did propose some outrageous things about "NAAW having a free fire on Blackwater for another round of wars". Someone also said they would give our allies peace but Blackwater would still be attacked. All this may have set me off a bit. I would not be a very good representative for my alliance if I let those things happen, would I? We did get a 26 hour ceasefire out of it, so I would hardly say "I ruined the peace talks". If we really want to have a successful peace talk, we need a controlled environment moderated by a third party with exactly one representative from each alliance. (I should note I can't remember the exact quotes, but if someone wants to pull up FULL logs and post them, go ahead) I don't think I have complained about any alliance coming in, except possibly yours. That was because you admitted that you did not see the war declared earlier by GREAT on MASH. It was on the first page of the war screen before the GREAT-MASH thing kicked off. To me, it is the responsibility of the leader of an alliance to monitor the wars declared by his AA and if he finds that one of his members attacked an alliance, to take the initiative of sorting it out first before the violated party comes to him. Its the whole policing your own alliance thing which I have said again and again and again. Pure grandstanding. NAAW had the drop on us in the early going as evident by our mostly full defensive slots. Of course the momentum shifted when our allies came in, just as it shifted back your way when GDA came in. Surely you notice that we always have peace talks right before or after a new party joins in? The shifting tides are what make this fun.In short, almost your entire post slanders Blackwater and is rather troubling when one considers a ceasefire is in effect and we're coming back to talk peace tonight.

Yeah we'll wait and see how things develop tonight.

Nice to hear this from the escalador's side. We here at Blackwater are all about peaceful solutions.

I can update stats tomorrow. Other side's going to cry "propaganda" though. Got the stats from earlier today. Will compare with stats after update and compare.

6 v 1 is where the fun's at.