Ceasefire

[Rayvon]

[quote name='Hime Themis' date='18 March 2010 - 07:06 PM' timestamp='1268957194' post='2229683']
Gentle Persons

[b]Notification of Unilateral Ceasefire[/b]


The Order of the Black Rose engages in alliance war only to protect herself and those whom we call friend and ally. To this end when war came unbidden to our friends and allies in the Greenland Republic they called upon us through our treaty. We honored this request by declaring a defensive war against TORN.
TORN fought us in numerous conflicts with humor and honor. Nuclear weapons were exchanged in almost all conflicts and significant damage was received and given by both sides.
TORN has conducted their public discourse with us as well as private discourse with grace. There was and is no animus from us resulting from this exchange.
The Order of the Black Rose, as per our Terms of Engagement, sought neither restitution nor terms from our opponent,that remains unchanged. We will not seek a separate peace from our ally who has other specific terms in mind. We will not leave our post at their side should TORN re-engage. However since TORN is in no wars with GR and since the last offensive war from TORN on GR expired Feb 7, 2010 we cannot justify continued hostility against this alliance. We never seek the reduction of an alliance nor do we profit from our duty in war. We sought earlier on to remove TORN from the conflict as is our duty. We were regrettably unable to accommodate agreeable terms for TORN and her adversaries and thus maintained our conflicts with them. However, the time has passed for us to support such operations.

To be very clear, this is a cessation of offensive operations; a state of war still exists and will continue until peace with GR is achieved. Should TORN take any offensive action against GR then this ceasefire will be null and void. That would of course, sadly, mean a resumption of hostilities.

We have striven to achieve an honorable peace for those involved and will continue to do so. It is sadly a case where both sides believe that they are honorably supporting their allies and the lines drawn are too far apart right now to be bridged. That is valorous but lamentable. We cannot support further hostilities at this time when the cause of our involvement is long past and peace should now be the goal.


Respectfully
Dame Hime Themis
For the Knights Council
Order of the Black Rose
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Much respect here. Excellent move OBR.

I hope we can see a cessation across the boards.