Eist wrote:You UDL sure know how to pat each other's backs.
From what I recall, and tell me if I am wrong, Topid founded the region
Trojans with a puppet nation of the same name. He then in the recent past "ceased to exist", and Trojans was unsurprisingly and ignominiously raided by none other than
Bacon Strips. Topid (as a member of UDL) was asked to bring back the founder nation, but stunningly declined. UDL then bizarrely liberated the region anyway with
Spanish America as lead (perhaps even with Topid in tow; this detail is a bit iffy -- someone can surely clear this up).
Topid is a lazy WA resolution writer, and is a terrible "defender". Someone more in the loop may care to comment on his effectiveness as delegate in TSP as
Daynor. My understanding is that it was less than memorable. Anyway, I'm sure Topid will "quit NS" -- for the umpteenth time -- sometime next week, negating any need for this UDL back-pat badge.
I do not support this.
I don't think this has anything to do with backpatting between UDLers, Topid only recently joined us again -- after leaving in protest of defender disunity. Which only further emphasizes that this is a free-thinking individual who maybe you'd do better to listen to, instead of just calling him a terrible "defender". Frankly I've lost patience trying to mend any such relations, but Topid never has and that's something I've always quietly admired about him.
Back in the days of the FRA, Topid called himself a lone defender, not joining any organization because I think he liked the genuineness of the idea of just being a defender, helping out regions without the need for politics. An inspiring sense of character, for myself. It should come to no one's surprise he's been such an advocate for defender unity when he was always such a objective-focused defender -- ultimately, all of our interregional squabbles and posturing gets in the way of the protection of native communities.
As a WASC Author, Topid was a pioneer along with Sedge, AMOM and I; he was the first person I know who really embraced the Security Council fully.. it wasn't a side-project to him in the game and he was the one who founded the Security Council region, which started the old SC Community forums where the brainstorming of the future of the SC took place between it's core members. He made mistakes as an author, "Condemn Grub" being one (mostly just fueled by raider propaganda he didn't understand as a newer player -- I mean, Grub hasn't exactly made "Empire of Power", PR friendly) and "Condemn Nazi Europe" being another (right objective, wrong way to do it). I believe the joke among the SC authors was that Topid's career is one of the few that actually went full circle -- he worked hard to get his resolutions passed and harder to get them repealed.
As for his history in TSP -- Topid did more work when he was not a delegate, then when he was delegate. This goes for Bel too. Both had personal issues during their delegacies. Nonetheless, Topid's crowning achievement was not his term as delegacy, but the work he did to help TSP recover from Sedge's coup and later, withstand a coup from Haxstree. Much of this recovery meant dealing with the diplomatic residues of the Dev Coup and resolving legal reform -- TSP boomed under his sort of, shall we say, direction.
He's a well known figure for a reason -- he's contributed a lot, but in more subtle ways than some of the bigger names in NationStates. I'm in support of a commendation.