The United Defenders League

[Tramiar]

A Canadian with a huge ego and terrible ideas?

Yes, because being confident in yourself and being the one who came up with the whole SC/GA World Assembly model is terrible.

DYP said the UDL was Falc. I described Falc.


Also, huge ego and confidence are sort of different. Sorry.

[Fischistan]

Yes, because being confident in yourself and being the one who came up with the whole SC/GA World Assembly model is terrible.

DYP said the UDL was Falc. I described Falc.


Also, huge ego and confidence are sort of different. Sorry.

Oh shit, I feel like an idiot now...I thought you were talking about Unibot. He is Canadian, and he does have a bit of an ego though.

[SunRawr]

DYP said the UDL was Falc. I described Falc.


Also, huge ego and confidence are sort of different. Sorry.

Oh shit, I feel like an idiot now...I thought you were talking about Unibot. He is Canadian, and he does have a bit of an ego though.

No worries, I had to ask her to be sure

[Sedgistan]

Yes, because being confident in yourself and being the one who came up with the whole SC/GA World Assembly model is terrible.

Oh shit, I feel like an idiot now...I thought you were talking about Unibot. He is Canadian, and he does have a bit of an ego though.

Indeed, especially if he's claiming credit for what was a collective idea.

[Goobergunchia]

Or it could totally be that raiders hijacked a UFO to come abduct and brainwash Mall, et al. Yes, that must be it.

I will neither confirm, nor deny, the existence of a Black Hawk UFO which brainwashes UDL members.

[Unibot II]

Yes, because being confident in yourself and being the one who came up with the whole SC/GA World Assembly model is terrible.

Oh shit, I feel like an idiot now...I thought you were talking about Unibot. He is Canadian, and he does have a bit of an ego though.

Indeed, especially if he's claiming credit for what was a collective idea.

Well, your boss called it the Unibot model.

[New Rogernomics]

I will neither confirm, nor deny, the existence of a Black Hawk UFO which brainwashes UDL members.

*Is turning fenda and drinks aren't helping*

Must resist mind control...argh!

"OBEY GRUB! MUST DROP PANTS AND MAKE LONG WINDED RANT ABOUT EVIL RAIDERS ARE!"

But back to reality, I might be applying to a fenda org when I have more time on my hands.

[Cormac Augustus]

"OBEY GRUB! MUST DROP PANTS AND MAKE LONG WINDED RANT ABOUT EVIL RAIDERS ARE!"

I would say that any form of mind control that requires fendas to drop their pants should be treated as a top international security concern. For this reason I will shortly be proposing "Liberate My Burning Eyes" before the Security Council.

(No, not really, because I don't really feel like a rules violation just for the lulz. But lulz there would be!)

[Drop Your Pants]

I never rant how bad raiders are. I might complain like an old woman sometimes Hmmmmmm idea for a future project right there. OWL: Old Woman League.

[New Rogernomics]

I never rant how bad raiders are. I might complain like an old woman sometimes Hmmmmmm idea for a future project right there. OWL: Old Woman League.

[Unibot II]

Movie-Night was fun, thanks to Carta for picking the film (Rush Hour) although I had to spend too much energy pretending Chris Tucker isn't funny.

Very fun liberation, guys and gals.

[Milograd]

Movie-Night was fun, thanks to Carta for picking the film (Rush Hour) although I had to spend too much energy pretending Chris Tucker isn't funny.

Upon having sat through the first rush hour for movie night, I proceeded to watch the second one in its entirety, and am now watching the third one. : /

[Unibot II]

A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

The 2012 Defender Awards, that we told you about last time, just announced its winners. The United Defenders League is very honoured to pick up the Defender Group of the Year Award and The Newcomer of the Year Award (which we shared with our merryman, Ravania). Also, congratulations to our Chief of Intelligence, Eluvatar for winning the Dipes Award for his contributions to the field of intelligence. We as a group would like to thank all the voters, native communities across NationStates, our mothers, alarm clocks, Max Barry, caffeine, Max Berry, the F5 key and The Founderless Regions Alliance for hosting the Awards ceremony. *music plays* Hey wait, I’m not done with the update! How rude, hmphf.

As for internally, The United Defenders League has been busy getting the Great Recruitment Council off the ground. The guys and I have been putting our heads together to find new and exciting ways to improve recruitment; I don’t think any of them are legal *sniggers* but hypothetically they’d be pretty neat. Well, to start things off, you can now find our telegram advertisements sandwiched in between a couple of raider group telegrams when you create a new nation and view its telegram box – but it’s a start! Thank you to Solm, one of our beloved merryman, for putting together the auto-recruiter script; we’ve generally strayed away from recruiting fresh newbies but we’ve decided it’s time to end that! To improve our effectiveness we’ve got some wacky ideas that might blow some minds when they’re released, but to start off with, we’ve compensated for the lack of annoyingness (because we’ve used less bold tags) by adding animated arrows that non-subtly point you to the message that will change your life!!

In addition to recruitment, The United Defenders League now includes a legal department. Our newly established Judge Advocate General's Corps, currently managed by Agamemnon, will provide legal counsel for our defenders and staff or others in cases we deem as falling under the umbrella of “cases that the UDL is interested in”. Defenders, like police officers in real life, tend to go to court a lot, so I think this service could be of mighty use. The legal department will also be consulted in interpretations of regional law when stuff happens that requires legal consultation. For example:

<Unibot> DURK IS PURGING THE NORTH PACIFIC… AGAIN!!!
<Mahaj> Oh noz.
<St. George> Is that illegal in The North Pacific?
<Unibot>… *glances at the legal code… the constitution… the bill of rights…* Um… this could take a bit to figure out; they’ve codified their region flag!?!?!
<Agamemnon> It’s illegal under c.8 of their Bill of Rights and c.11… but c.11 applies to everything.
<Unibot> Ah thank violet!

That was a simulated conversation by the way; St. George doesn’t actually care about breaking rules (kidding!).

In our military operations, we’ve had a great week or two. We defeated the Black Riders and co. in A Liberal Haven, which meant we had to endow our soldiers with some pretty badges:

St. George, Carta, Zwangzug and our new-ish member, Nullarni get hugs and chocolate cake for being the only four to attend both attempts to liberate A Liberal Haven (the second attempt was successful, the first was close… but lacking in cigars). We also had some great defenses against The Black Hawks and the Black Riders, like in the United Lands of Catalystia, Kingdom of Ireland, District 10, Western Europe, Frozen wastes of Ralarii, The Youngworld, Together In Isolation and The Great Green Federation. There was also a sneaky raid in Deutschland which we caught and stopped before it could progress.

I recently re-created the German team from the infamous Monty Python skit, Philosopher’s Football Match, which can be found in the 1972 Munich Olympics. Which means you may occasionally see some philosophers kicking raider butt around NationStates from now on. Highlights thus far include Team Captain, Georg “Nobby” Hegel demonstrating his ‘Master-Slave dialectic’ against The Black Riders in the defense of “The Great Green Federation” and Franz Beckenbauer defending “Together In Isolation” from TBH and DEN:

@Goobergunch> Seconds ago: The Republic of Franz Beckenbauer became regional WA Delegate.
<+Saugeais> GOAL BECKENBAUER!
<+Saugeais> Beck!@
<IG> Very nice
<+Fisch> YAYAYAYAY!
<Wibblefeet> congrats
<@Goobergunch> defense successful

Speaking of sports, The United Defenders League is pleased to sponsor the Tournament of the Golden Arrow, a roleplayed archery event in NS-Sports which is being organized by Zwangzug and I. It’s our way of giving back to the community that’s been *so* helpful and contributive to the defender cause. You know, when I was first starting up the UDL, people were particularly critical of my choice to include roleplayers into our staff, but it always seemed like the natural thing to do: they were always online and many of them were very nice. I’m really glad I kept with it – nowadays our roleplayers are some of the most distinguished and experienced members and the UDL enjoys a multicultural element that I don’t think exists in many other organizations in NationStates. I will circulate the dates and links for the Tournament when they’re up shortly; nonetheless, the Tournament is open to all!

In other news, as was explained earlier, at the end of the month will we be handing out awards to our merrymen and merrywoman. These awards are our organization’s monthly awards in the same manner as other defender organizations do. Details on the awards can be found here. Also, if you’re interested, Nullarni has written an interesting essay on our oath and has brought up some very interesting observations.

Our Movie-Night will take place on...the one... the only… APRIL FOOLS DAY: NationStates’s consistently funniest day of the year. No word on if any shenanigans will be played on people.

Your Moment of Zen is in two parts,

First, on a particularly boring night, Goober spotted something!

<@Goobergunch> Seconds ago: The Guiding Light of Francos Spain replaced the Supreme Bunnyness of Krulltopia as regional delegate.
<@Mahaj> WUT

And then from a discussion on Francos Spain, the conversation quickly deteriorated,

<+Astro> Like replacing every seventh word with "penis"?
<+Wied> The seventh word in that sentence is penis...
<+Astro> Oh, I didn't even notice. rofl.
<@Eluvatar> lol
<@Mahaj> lol
<@Goobergunch> I prefer replacing every word over five letters with "penis"
<@Mahaj> why, so only raiders will be saying things other than 'penis' ?
<@Goobergunch> It forces people to compose statements with brevity
<+Astro> You just wrote "It penis penis to penis penis with penis."
<+Astro> We are so puerile. I mean penis.

May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot

[The Blaatschapen]

Hmm, seeing the deconstruction of the oath... I'm in clear violation of it. I have not renounced my past wrongs (and I'm not planning to, nor am I going to make public to anyone what this wrong is). Feel free to kick me out

[Unibot II]

Hmm, seeing the deconstruction of the oath... I'm in clear violation of it. I have not renounced my past wrongs (and I'm not planning to, nor am I going to make public to anyone what this wrong is). Feel free to kick me out

RAAARRRRH *kicks*.

[The Blaatschapen]

Hmm, seeing the deconstruction of the oath... I'm in clear violation of it. I have not renounced my past wrongs (and I'm not planning to, nor am I going to make public to anyone what this wrong is). Feel free to kick me out

RAAARRRRH *kicks*.

I'm actually serious, but okay

[Astrolinium]

Glad to see my penis posted all over the forum.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Forgot we had a thread.

So... any thing for me to do? Like, sample ice cream or something?

[Klaus Devestatorie]

Stay out of Kingdom of Ireland, raiders. It's on our team. -_-

[Campinia]

Stay out of Kingdom of Ireland, raiders. It's on our team. -_-

Raider Unity at its finest?

[Rachel Anumia]

Stay out of Kingdom of Ireland, raiders. It's on our team. -_-

Are you a raider today?

[North Wiedna]

Forgot we had a thread.

So... any thing for me to do? Like, sample ice cream or something?

Yes. We want you to pick which one best describes Unibot so we can send it in to the Ben & Jerry's contest.

Stay out of Kingdom of Ireland, raiders. It's on our team. -_-

Raider Unity at its finest?

Indeed!

[Mallorea and Riva]

Raider Unity at its finest?

Indeed!

Can't hear you over the sound of Portugal.

[North Wiedna]

Indeed!

Can't hear you over the sound of Portugal.

It's Sanc's fault.

Yep.

[Sanctaria]

Can't hear you over the sound of Portugal.

It's Sanc's fault.

Yep.

How is it my fault? The UDL are still going to try to lib it. Probably.