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I never cared for Pikajew's behavior in the game (ask Solaris about Pikajew's antics in the Purple Star Directorate). That said, I can't honestly say that I hate anyone here. Frankly, what fun is a game without any tough opponents?

I'll take pigs and spices. Edit: I don't need any cash. I'll switch colors once the circle is finished.

Congratulations on your membership, RoA. You're in fine company.

I concur. Good luck with this treaty, RDD.

Congratulations, Solaris. Your path to success has been a long one. Good luck, old friend.

Welcome aboard, MCXA.

Same here, man.

Well, we are cool people generally speaking. Congratulations on the milestones and the new Lord of Recruitment. Edit: Let's try for some subtlety.

Congratulations on the Space Programs and the 888 wonders.

Congratulations Squires Craven and Stella.

Frankly, this is not unprecedented. STA and MK were not 'bandwaggoning' when they helped Opethian in that war. They were helping a friend they thought was being exploited. The actions of STA or MK in that war were not dishonorable. I am not sure what is wrong with NSO announcing they will exercise the very same sovereign right all alliances possess, and alliances have historically used to declare war. Or I could assume the NSO have the worst possible motivations and belittle them with almost-witty one-liners. That's really all that seems to occur these days when an alliance announces something interesting or unconventional or controversial.

This point cannot be emphasized enough. The fact that Rebel Virginia isn't left to his own devices is baffling.

Good luck, Scorponok. Congratulations on your treaty.

Have you been talking to Sarkin? Talk about déja vu. Anyways, you might want to re-read the treaty.

I am glad we finally signed this. Sup Corrupt?

Those =LOST= signatures are awesome. Good luck with the treaty, guys.

Aurora Borealis has moved forums: Alliance (full name, acronym): Aurora Borealis, AB Alliance Color: Blue Alliance IRC Channel: #aborealis URL to forums: http://aborealis.net/forum/index.php

Can you get on IRC/our forums? We will just mask you a member. You can wear the Aurora Borealis affiliation.

Echelon's military treaties were canceled when they signed their surrender terms (save for their treaty with Vanguard). Sorry for the annoyed tone; I misunderstood the inside joke.

This is announcing a military treaty between the Rubber Ducky Division and Aurora Borealis. Neither AB or RDD is allied to Echelon. I am not quite sure what the issue is. Edit: Hey JJ. Thanks.

The price of telling lies is the trust of others in a person's word. In this world, we have our soldiers and our word to defend ourselves. The word of a person and his integrity are his entire self here. It is a representation of that person, and it is the only real resource worth trying to maintain at all costs. If a person allows his word to become as expendable as their soldiers are in war, then that person will find himself treated as expendable. Nations can be rebuilt; soldiers can be nursed back to health; however, broken trust is almost always irreparable. Liars will not be trusted to tell the truth because they have a exhibited a pattern of lying in the past. (A shocking revelation, to be sure.) It's not a matter of 'who says.' It's a matter of who trusts whom. It isn't a moral issue. Forging documents and passing it off as an objective fact will have only a few possible results: no one will believe anything that person says after discovering the falsehood. Or worse, people will believe the falsehoods to be the absolute truth. That's a very subtle tyranny. It's forcible manipulation of history. If the written record says events happened a certain way and those involved in the events refuse to challenge the written record as a lie (be it by coercion or otherwise), then how can an objective observer come to any conclusion other than that the lies are truth? It's not just revisionism, it's a creating a whole new truth.

That made my night. Congratulations to our friends in Eldar and our allies in the Rubber Ducky Division on this treaty.

I am glad to see this relationship come full circle. I eagerly look forward to our future as allies.

I'll pay 21 mill.

Impressive growth, guys. It is great to see Nitemare back in a leadership role.