[posted LIVE IN GAME in 'Feudal Japan' with my WA raider nation 'Roger Hooper' and reposted for the raider community in 'The Old Raiding Club' using this nation 'General T R Franks' - replicated here for admin and mod perusal as per request]
Defenders should forget about trying to mitigate the global condemnation they are receiving for their Security Council interference in regional sovereignty by cheap, pointless chatter which you hope might change the situation.
Spamming the board here will not make anyone change their mind about defenders perverting the freedoms of all nations and regions in NS.
Senior raiders liasing with the delegate here are all pretty laid back about the outcome, so for those fendas who haven't been watching too carefully, here's roughly where we're at:
Despite defenders proposing and passing SRC#6 nominating Feudal Japan as the battlefield (the time and place of their choosing), raiders had the region in complete lockdown 24 hours prior to the Resolution being implemented.
By 96 hours after implementation and password removal, all senior raiders, empire builders and neutral nations here had made co-ordinated contact with the delegate and the cross-verification of all nations deepened. Numerous dubious nations have been ejected and the watchful eyes of global raider forces patrol the region 24/7.
Despite having SCR#6 passed by an overwhelming 4575 to 894 votes, rather than any co-ordinated public statement by the proposers and supporters of this legislation, the only defender voices heard are those that are against WA pervertion of regional sovereignty and mechanical rule changes.
Across the globe there is no concentrated diplomatic support anywhere for any of the six Security Council Resolutions so far, least of all for passing SCR#6 to destroy a region of only two nations and a delegacy of 640 days.
Meanwhile as we speak, watered-down, 'show pony commendation' proposals are being put forward in hope that in-crowd popularism will dilute the vulgarity of 'the six' which create precedent to destroy regional independence for all players across NS.
The scope to railroad further destructive and coercive WA SCR's by narrow NS forum moderation viewpoint has been challenged directly and the 'primacy of the gamemap' in point of fact has been established by the now undeleted 'gamemap manifesto' which correctly places the NS forum as supplemental to the NationStates game and not some replacement or usurpment of it:
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Acknowledging the battle won in Feudal Japan, raider groups got back to business early with The Black Hawks being the first to rotate more flexible troops out of FJ securing another great victory while creative opportunism saw Lone Wolves United and The Commonwealth take long held Africa with mod assistance to overcome a localised glitch.
Defenders would be better off consulting with their diplomatic cadre either to devise some argument which supports destruction of regional independence of sovereignty across NS or devise a way for them to unsupport it in the same way that long game defenders from Chicago have done by their recent public statement distancing themselves from the contradictory position that you want to 'uphold the right to regional freedom by defending neutral regions' while simimultaneously stripping regions of their independent status and right to regional autonomy they have enjoyed since the game began rolling out of the Pacifics.
This might wash in smalltownsville, but if NS hopes to replicate geopolitical complexity and relevance vis-a-vis the real world and keep players engaged, it has to acknowledge that the political superstructure of the UN and all the world's navies have little real relevance over three million square miles where a handful of Somali boatmen are maintaining their form of localised independence and effectiveness irrespective of how you, me, the UN, the navy or anyone else likes it.
How many 'superior' armies or political machines have been overcome or neutralised in the history of the world? Ever noticed that Afghanistan has mostly been a battlefield for the last two thousand years? How many attempts at global hegemony have ever really managed to patrol the world? Who would come close? - Alexander? Genghis Khan? The Romans? The Incas? The Brits? The USA? How small is the worldview, right?
So by any yardstick NS wandering off into fantasyland that there is or ever was some central ruling power who could 'go anywhere, do anything and always achieve their whim' decouples NS from geopolitical real world complexity and it's all downhill from there.
NS has been there, tried that, it was called NS2. Breaking the framework of independent regional messageboards and self-governing autonomous communities while trying to funnel players down a revenue path to express themselves was never going to work. It's regrettable that the NS game owner and community were not treated with the sincerity that was supposedly displayed at the beginning of the NS2 transaction and there is no doubt long game players have had to content with significant and in some cases terminal destruction of their local regional communities. It would be madness to go down this path again.
If anything, what we have seen is that despite the onslaught to NS that NS2 was, it's the longer term player constituency who function well as independent autonomous self-governing communities who have kept this game alive.
It's now roughly 10 days since Feudal Japan was secured and from a nominal top line of 70 endorsements the scaling back will continue. It's good to see more raiders evidently briefed on protocols because raiders are no longer asking questions publicly on the board which help our enemies like, "How long are we going to be here?", "Are we going to refound?" and so on. Instead, people asking those sort of questions are highlighting themselves as worthy of further scrutiny.
Groz has been delegate now for 650 days (congrats mate) so there's no hurry or fear motivation that defenders can apply here. Standard raider procedure is already in effect with longer term garrison troops being installed while those more fluid troops are already long gone taking the raider flag to other lands.
So fendas, if you can't think of anything, here's one honourable way out to save some face and NS from further regional community destruction -
1) Publicly renounce your support for the vain and vulgar six WA SCR's passed and take steps to have these recinded by public motion or internal diplomatic fiat.
2) Renounce any and all claim on Feudal Japan as forfeit for 'illegal overreach of WA authority by abuse of Security Council process' thereby acknowledging that one cannot champion or 'defend' regional rights by destroying region sovereignty and autonomy.
Or not? The choice is yours to make, however you should be aware that while raiders have been content to delegitimise the 'vain and vulgar six' across the NS gamemap, we have simultaneously opted to preserve your veneer of respectability on the NS forum by not shining any light on your inappropriate actions and untenable position which attacks the freedoms of all players and regions in NS while pretending to defend them.
And as you know on forums, posts remain, people link to them, and this matter isn't going to go away there like it will here. The chattering classes love a good moral dilemma and will tear apart your non-sense in no time. If you can't even support your own position, how will anyone else be able to? Is that where you'd like this to go? How widely do you want to damage your credibility and to what depths would you like it damaged?
All over NS there is diplomatic silence and no support for any of your actions or SCR's passed and we don't see 4575 WA's here to support you - you are not even here to back yourselves or your resolutions.
So talk amongst yourselves and bring NS back from the abyss of regional destruction by taking your diplomatic foot out of your mouths, do yourself the justice in valuing the very communities you supposedly hope to 'defend'.
Defend the freedoms you champion in fact as well as by rhetoric - erase the six SCR's passed so far and look to creative ways to expand your influence which are not at the expense of independent communities and all players across NS.
We don't need another NS holocaust just because defenders think they have the fantasyland right to police the world.
