Why did we find it with no WA nations, no WA Regional Delegate, and no posts on the RMB for five months? Don't blame us for your failures in regard to founderless regions.
This isn't me on trial, it's you. However, I never forfeit an opportunity to make a thread about me; it will suffice to say, I care enough about Christmas not to want it to become an imperial colony under your regime without its consent, Cormac, because I believe in regional sovereignty, independence and above all else, justice. I do not have enough personal ties or association to desire to be a citizen of the region.
You do not need to be a member of a region to know and actively protest, even intervene when outsiders aren't playing nice with said other region -- that is not only the principles behind defenderism, but also the World Assembly Security Council, humanitarianism and interregional goodwill.
Cormac Stark wrote:We are not "destroying" the region. We are refounding the region, and your hyperbole doesn't change that. Moreover, if the UDL is so concerned about the future of this region why haven't any of you joined the region and improved it from the inside?
Excuse me? Unlike Cromarty, I *did* ask first. Why do you need to destroy and refound the region to improve it? Surely any sort of restoration project could be done between concerned citizens in Christmas -- if you wanted to be such a concerned citizen, you could have joined the region.
Instead you've moved your raider forces in and have made some cockeyed scheme about "needing to improve the region", hence justifying the region's destruction and refounding, so "Christmas" (what a lovely name for a colony) can be an Asgard colony under the Asgard name. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the blatant holes in your propaganda.
The World Assembly Security Council should not be actively encouraging imperialism whilst it stands for interregional goodwill and peace and thus should be motioning to liberate Christmas from the hands of its foreign aggressors, a.k.a., you: Cormac Stark.
If you want to help the region, Cormac, which I sincerely doubt you do, you would stop this invasion pronto, join the region simply as a member with what friends want to help out and begin developing the region. Perhaps Christmas wants a forum? Organize recruitment? Discuss the possibility of creating a regional government among the natives (with you included in that group once you actively joined as a member) -- like, say, with a staff of elves under Pier Noel. There's all sorts of things you could have done and can still do *without* forcing a refound and subjecting the region to an overbearing foreign imperial power; the fact that you insist on doing this, via the imperial route, demonstrates your true colours and intention.
Fynnbays wrote:To me, this is sounding like another AoSS. situation. The UDL are just wanting to hold the region to ransom so the region will be dependent on the defender groups in the future for protection.
Excuse me, but the UDL wanted to liberate Alliance of Socialist States because the natives didn't want the Red Army there. Little Basses specifically telegrammed me to ask for the UDL to liberate the region. Unfortunately, we were unable to liberate, but Little Basses has taken the opportunity to change the password so that it is relatively safe from invaders, including left-leaning ones, in the future.
These stories about us wanting more regions to liberate are entirely bogus; we seriously have enough founderless regions to keep us busy, even if we'd be so inclined to care more about the existence of opportunities to defend than native security, which we don't. The same goes for Christmas.
If these claims made by the raiders about their intentions turn out to be untrue then the natives can always found a region with a similar name that will have the added protection of an active founder.
Yes, because if there's anything the Security Council should be doing, it's giving the aggressors the shadow of the doubt instead of the natives and,
of course, giving an "oops!", when a little oversight like a group's region slipping into the hands of imperialists.