Revall wrote:Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:Do you want the story of the reclamation of TBR? Becuase that's a good one.
Souls and The Ministry of Raiders teeeelllll it
NationStates News wrote:Ever-Wandering Souls wrote:Do you want the story of the reclamation of TBR? Becuase that's a good one.
Any story is welcome.
Aaaaaaaaalrighty. I may need NSA or some others to fill in the gaps.
So this one all started when TBR went founderless following the DOS'ing of Halc and Bob. Region went founderless, massive numbers of natives swarmed in, and leaders ordered an end to a movement to secure the region by it's members (IIRC). It was abandoned to the native hordes, but not forgotten. The first native delegate resigned in a fit over....something I can't recall, but that was UGR (United German Regions). About that time, I was approached by a few folks loosely led by Gerzam to join a small operation to infiltrate the native groups there, which I did by moving to UGR's home region, asking to join his recently-defunct anti-raider intel group (which I knew was defunct, and bet would end with ....) was told to move to TBR and look for work there instead, and did so, joining the native groups' vague government intel group. Meanwhile, I've added a few people to our infiltration. My first assignment was to run a full background check on the delegate who replaced UGR (can't for the life of me recall his name), which I actually did, and turned up some stuff I could phrase as concerning (we were aiming to destabilize him). This worked, and concerned the loose "government" and intel faction, and we were actually shocked when another attempted led by NSA to talk the delegate into handing over the region (kinda) worked. He publicly but poorly tried to hand the region over to raiders after ejecting the entire "government" ... who then picked me to spearhead the effort to keep the region as the only person they trusted (thanks to my report) still in the region. Despite attempts by outside groups including Cormac to also gain the delegate, after a frantic hour or two Harenhime (me) was the third delegate of TBR. At this point our intel group just had to sit back and go "holy shit" for a moment, becuase ... well, fuck, we'd just been elected delegate of the lost TBR! We could have ended it there, but ... well, first of all, our influence position wasn't great, and second, the impact wasn't great yet
So we added more people, and stayed in cover for a while. Next step was picking a constitution. By installing one of us as the neutral party in charge of managing that vote, and with careful wrangling of puppets and a simple majority, we were able to pick a constitution we were confident would allow us to further rig elections for minister positions...which we did, installing raiders in all of them. Somewhere in there, we also rigged forum selection (someone else can doubtlessly talk more about that), enacted a policy to remove potential raider spies (started ejecting nonresponsive natives ahead of time), and decided to blow the op open as advertising for the first ever RaiderCon...which we did, asking a number of organizations to jump onto Harenhime then induce a pile that at times hit over 200 endorsements IIRC, with a good number of that on two other nations as well. Over the next few months, I cleared a number of nations, we slingshotted ... I'm pretty sure it was McMannia... up to perform some ejections as well, and finally slingshotted NSA into the seat to perform the final ejections and lock (edit: I may have actually swapped who did what there...). From there, we whittled it down to just me, NSA, and Syl, and held it as both a memorial and a warning (and no longer an embarrassment to all of raiding) until the mods saw fit to delete it as part of the Predator ruling.
I've really only scratched the surface there, but it really was a legendary operation. Oh, the governement at one point also actually helped in a liberation, of that RP Mentor's region, so we technically took down an actual defender region
Everyone involved can probably add more angles to this story...
Factbook of regions who sent pilers that checked in:
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=we_a ... /id=453189Factbook of nations that checked in among other things:
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=we_a ... /id=443621Original post on the subject in GP:
viewtopic.php?p=25062886#p25062886TBH Forum post/96th day update:
http://s4.zetaboards.com/The_Black_Hawk ... t=10355848Infiltration Operatives
The Fantastic Field Marshal of Ever-Wandering Souls of The Black Hawks as Delegate The Awesome Friendly Delegate of Harenhime
The Deputy Director of We Are Not the NSA of DEN as Prime Minister Dendermond
Reddogkeno101 of DEN as Minister of Intelligence Reddogkeno101
The HYDRA High Command of McMannia of DEN as Minister of Justice Cartanis
The Ancient Synarchy of Gerzam of Unknown as Minister of Foreign Affairs The venatrians
The Noble Pedigree of Revall of The Black Hawks as Minister of Interior The Kingdom of Avallar
The Supreme Autocracy of Raxion of The Brotherhood of Malice as Election Mediator Bartlebee
The The The The The The Stasi of In Gentem Et De Libris Scientiam of The Black Hawks as Minister of Defense Rockmeamedeus
The Incoming MIRV Assault of Klaus Devestatorie of Unknown
Aurum rider of Albion
Knot of The Black Hawks
Nordic arbor of DEN
Victor savage of DEN
I can also talk about some others. For example, the infamous raid on Islam, a locked region I got into as a "refugee" from another sleeper project that ended when the region fell apart, which involved a miss, people not pulling nations, and a tag team making it a hit the next day without a point even online, and included a fake end to the occupation and a memorable SC battle that included the raider point co-authoring a liberation proposal; or Sicarius stealing the refound of well-known Generalite region Tofuline; or perhaps the tale of The White Hope, an anti-raider group I infiltrated, became delegate for, ejected everyone including the founder from right before update, and refounded of my own (think I let that CTE, someone will probably steal it now) (that's also the origin story of me creating
The Black PRiders); or even the tale of
The Black Watch, a raider group whose operation Sicarius saved out of goodwill then got insulted for that failed to found their own region before making a GP thread.... I've got more war stories xD