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The Security Council,

Believing that a history of cumulatively positive behaviour across regional borders responded to positively by those across the ideological spectrum is admirable and worthy of recognition;

Noting that Eluvatar is a founding member of the United Defenders League one of the most known and active defender organizations, subsequently serving as both Chief of Intelligence and Lieutenant, playing a pivotal role in gathering intel, providing tactical resources and regularly filling the organization's need for exact military precision in liberations;

Further Noting that Eluvatar is the creator of FriarTuck, a tool that has been used by many defender organizations to assist in perfecting and simplifying liberations, and as a result has assisted in the aiding, revitalizing and protection of nations and regions alike through this work;

Astounded by Eluvatar’s efforts to secure the regional community of Taijitu which Eluvatar worked tirelessly to protect, ultimately assisting in refounding the region with the support of the native community which allowed Taijitu to continue to exist in peace;

Amazed that Eluvatar has successfully juggled conflicting regional and organizational demands, loyalties and laws to almost unparalleled extents and has served successfully as a respected civil servant in the executive, the legislature and the judiciary of the The North Pacific, Balder, Osiris, The South Pacific and Taijitu;

Acknowledging Eluvatar’s work against tyrants and rogue Delegates in The North Pacific such as Lewis and Clark and Shoeless Joe winning the praise and admiration of the regional community. Furthermore their tireless work against the Empire in the East Pacific, which resulted in the nation being awarded honourary citizenship in said region;

Further acknowledging Eluvatar’s role in the liberation of the South Pacific, including their membership on the Allied Command Council as the head of military strategy and tactics. Eluvatar’s dedication to the cause greatly contributed to the liberation of the South Pacific from the oppressive regime of Milograd, a regime that led to the arbitrary removal of thousands of nations from the region;

Appreciating Eluvatar’s efforts in improving the security of The North Pacific, Osiris and the South Pacific with the development of state of the art technologies such as Toaster, that have been of great assistance in maintaining the security and high endorsement levels of the aforementioned regions;

Thankful for Eluvatar’s work as Delegate of The North Pacific, pursuing difficult legal and constitutional changes in order to improve regional prosperity and efficiency while remaining a respected and fair authority in the regional government;

Understanding that while Eluvatar has not personally authored resolutions of note; Eluvatar’s strong focus on regional engagement in matters before the World Assembly, has greatly contributed to the high number of World Assembly nations within The North Pacific today;

Disappointed that Eluvatar’s constant strives towards international and national diplomacy and their willingness to be a mentor to nations young and old alike, essentially setting a bar for nations to climb towards has failed to be commended so far by the World Assembly;

Hereby Commends Eluvatar.

Co-Authored by KiwiTaicho

Noting, that Eluvatar played a pivotal role gathering intel and providing tactical resources within the United Defenders League, one of the most known and active defender organizations and as a result has assisted in the aiding, revitalizing and protection of nations and regions alike through this work

Acknowledging Eluvatar’s work against tyrants and rogue Delegates in the South Pacific, The North Pacific and his tireless work against the Empire in the East Pacific, which resulted in the nation being awarded honourary citizenship in said region;

Further acknowledging Eluvatar’s role in the liberation of the South Pacific, which included membership of the Allied Command structure that resulted in the liberation of the South Pacific from the oppressive regime of Milograd that resulted in thousands of nations being banned from the region.

Further acknowledging Eluvatar’s role in the liberation of the South Pacific, which included membership in the Allied Command structure that resulted in the liberation of the South Pacific from the oppressive regime of Milograd -- this regime resulted in thousands of nations being banned from the region;

Further acknowledging Eluvatar’s role in the liberation of the South Pacific, which included membership of the Allied Command structure that resulted in the liberation of the South Pacific from the oppressive regime of Milograd, a regime that led to the arbitrary removal of thousands of nations from the region;

Furthermore, acknowledging Eluvatar’s role in the liberation of the South Pacific as a member of the Allied Command structure, culminating in the deposition of Milograd’s oppressive regime after the arbitrary removal of thousands of nations,

Acknowledging Eluvatar’s pivotal role in the liberation of the South Pacific, culminating in the deposition of Milograd’s oppressive regime,

Amazed that Eluvatar has successfully juggled conflicting regional and organizational demands, loyalties and laws to almost unparalleled extents including successfully whistle-blowing where a high ranking UDL member leaked military secrets from The North Pacific;

Unibot III wrote:There were no military secrets leaked in the document posted by Ravania -- political secrets perhaps. Moreover, you're calling it "whistle-blowing" for the extra positive connotations, when he was simply doing his job as TNPI's head (which is what we call espionage and counter-intelligence -- not "whistle-blowing"). I can't help but think you're including this clause purely to score political points once more.

Unibot III wrote:

Amazed that Eluvatar has successfully juggled conflicting regional and organizational demands, loyalties and laws to almost unparalleled extents including successfully whistle-blowing where a high ranking UDL member leaked military secrets from The North Pacific;

There were no military secrets leaked in the document posted by Ravania -- political secrets perhaps. Moreover, you're calling it "whistle-blowing" for the extra positive connotations, when he was simply doing his job as TNPI's head (which is what we call espionage and counter-intelligence -- not "whistle-blowing"). I can't help but think you're including this clause purely to score political points once more.

I support Eluvatar's commendation, but I don't think this commendation should be an opportunity for scoring more political shots against, essentially Eluvatar's long-time friends and colleagues.Moreover you've only scratched the surface in regards to the contributions he had with the UDL (given he and I are the only founding members still in the UDL) -- I fear you're trying to downplay his career there to help frame him as a "feederite hero who fought the UDL and coupers", given the author and the co-author it doesn't surprise me.

Moreover, the resolution should also reflect on Eluvatar's contributions to bureaucratic civil service and legal reform. I would consider him perhaps one of NationStates's greatest civil servants and legislators -- with a great sense of detail and the letter of the law. Any commendation of NS's best wonk should be a tribute to him as a player: which means lose the comma in the first premise, use proper italicization on the Preambulatory clauses and end them all of them with commas, not semi-colons -- the Co-authorship bit should end with a period and the "Commends" line should end with a semi-colon (because it's an operative clause).

Kiwitaicho wrote:The information leaked was a military secret. Given I was the head of the NPA at the time, I think I'm in a better position to say what is and isn't a military secret. Yes? I agree that the information was political in nature but it was only available in the NPA area which makes it a military secret.

Considering the NPIA (not TNPI) never really took off, I think it's a stretch to say he had an obligation to disclose it as a result of that role. It cheapens what I'm sure was a difficult decision for Eluvatar where he was rather torn as to how to respond to the issue at hand to suggest otherwise.

This clause actually didn't have that part in it originally but someone else suggested we elaborate.

As far as I'm concerned there's only one person who should be requesting the removal of that particular info from the commend. And with all due respect Unibot, that isn't you.

Kiwitaicho wrote:As far as I'm concerned there's only one person who should be requesting the removal of that particular info from the commend. And with all due respect Unibot, that isn't you.

Unibot III wrote:

This clause actually didn't have that part in it originally but someone else suggested we elaborate.

I wonder who.

As far as I'm concerned there's only one person who should be requesting the removal of that particular info from the commend. And with all due respect Unibot, that isn't you.

Thanks, good to know that this commendation is just trying to cheapen Eluvatar's legacy by throwing in some political points. Moreover, I disagree with the resolution's cutting out of the story of his work with the UDL down to "he was an intelligence minister". That was the least of what Elu did in the UDL and I have a feeling this resolution is overall too centric on Eluvatar's TNP legacy and the sort of revisionism that TNP has spun around the events of Ravania. You're trying to neutralize his figure down to something amendable to the neutrals and independents and Anti-UDLers in TNP as opposed to praising Eluvatar for who he is -- that's deplorable.

Cerian Quilor wrote:That clause should very much stay in. Eluvatar's willingness to handle divided loyalties like that is a huge part of why he's commend worthy. Otherwise, its just another run of the mill UDL commend (with the added bonus of some GCR work).

• Organized the refound of Taijitu and the community there. Taijitu should be mentioned in a commendation of Eluvatar.
• One of the founding members of the UDL -- besides me, he's the only one still in the UDL.
• Eluvatar's main work with the UDL includes counter-intelligence, admin and coding duties and regular defender/triggerman duties. We love him very much. One of the things that's he done as a defender is his work as a triggerman (this could be written around R4 as "Eluvatar had regularly filled The United Defenders League[, NPA] and other military organizations' need for a triggerman" -- which does not say explicitly that Eluvatar WAS the triggerman).
• Eluvatar created FriarTuck, which is used by most of the major defender and feederite military organizations.
• Eluvatar also created Telescope, which was used for quite some time by some defenders of different defense organizations. Telescope may have been open to other feederite militaries, but I cannot remember.
• You've also mentioned Toaster -- you can mentioned FriarTuck, Telescope and Toaster by name if you're clever enough. TIP: I did it with NSEconomy and xkoranate in "Commend Commerce Heights".
• Won the Dipes Award in 2012 for Intelligence work with the UDL. That vote was open to the public during the Defenders Awards.
• Serves on TNP's Security Council (or did serve?).
• One of the lead organizers of the IPO business at April Fools. (he even drew up a constitution for it).
• Eluvatar has been a civil servant in so many regions in so many positions -- I encourage the makers to find them and list them. I know he was Chair of the Assembly in The South Pacific, Associate Justice in Balder (where he was instrumental in authoring the Militia bill) and Justice in Osiris among dozens and dozens of other positions. He's the kind of guy who made a big difference as a civil servant and a "small guy" in regions to their political and legal reform, just as much as he made a big difference as delegate and other larger positions.
• Let's get specifics about Eluvatar's terms as Delegate of TNP. From my memory, TNP went from total inactivity to the most active region in NS when Eluvatar was delegate -- he made many investments in the growth of TNP including the revitalization of the NPA, the implementation of the Council of Five (which he served as several different positions) and lots of other stuff that frankly slip my brain right now - but should be mentioned. That was a very successful few months for TNP and sets the tone of Eluvatar as being a constructive force wherever he goes.

McMasterdonia wrote:Thanks Unibot - that's exactly the sort of stuff we are looking for. This is just a draft and we posted it here early on to receive criticism and further ideas.

As I consider Eluvatar to have been my mentor and a friend, I want this resolution to do him justice and to reflect his good work in my home region and the world as a whole.

Eluvatar wrote:

Cerian Quilor wrote:That clause should very much stay in. Eluvatar's willingness to handle divided loyalties like that is a huge part of why he's commend worthy. Otherwise, its just another run of the mill UDL commend (with the added bonus of some GCR work).

As much as I just said I'd rather stay away from this thread, I am obliged to make sure I am understood correctly. I don't want to see the incident in question in any resolution attached to my nation. I said no more and no less.

Cerian Quilor wrote:

Eluvatar wrote:Nothing that the IPO was involved with deserves a commendation. We still have to get the eyesore that is Commend the NatonStates Community off the roster.