There is little to say that has not already been said. Rougiers completed the task assigned to him, to gather IPs and other information for our own region's security. Forum destruction was not part of his assignment.
Unknown judged Rougiers based on the success of his assigned mission, not his actions after its completion. This judgment was never meant to be an encouragement of such tactics, and hopefully has not been interpreted as such.
But on the anniversary of our condemnation, we wish to reiterate: We do not, nor will we, encourage forum attacks like this. They will not be done in our name or on our behalf.
To The Council of Narnia and the Crusaders of Justice: We are truly sorry for what part we played in your loss, and for our unsympathetic response to your legitimate complaints. In the end, we too trusted Rougiers too much, and were nearly destroyed by him. Our loss was not the same as yours, but served as a wakeup call--though none should have been needed.
The deletions and bannings perpetrated by Rougiers never should have happened. They, and our response to them, are inextricably tied to our region's past, but they are not who we are or who we want to be. There is nothing we can do to change the past; we can only learn from it, and offer our humble apologies.
Signed,
Archemperor
Dark Dion
Angelus Curator
Imperial Advisor
