Scarlet Harlot

Planes fly over The West Pacific dropping pamphlets across the region: Warzone Airspace Dispatch Brought to you by The Warzone Airspace Foreign Service Wing Airspace Raided! Oh No! The psychopathic raider empire of Caesars Legion stormed into the inhospitable wasteland beneath the raging Airspace and took control of the beloved and beleagured region. Unlike their Mojave desert cohorts these raiders left the region largely unscathed. Lyrasan was back in the Delegate position in a matter of a few short hours. Elections! It's time again for Senate elections in Airspace. Delegate Lyrasan has called upon the people of the WZAI to stand for the office of Senate. Four candidates stand for three seats, and the poll seems to be ineffective! Even democracy is a constant challenge here in the Warzones!

Maybe at the next one.

Albion's Gaming Tournament, August 2015 Click for higher Resolution. What's this? A Tournament? You heard that right! There's going to be a Tournament for Gaming, and anyone's welcome to join! The schedule is right there, starting on August the 29th and running until and after September the 13th. There will be prizes for certain games, which range from unique Elite:Dangerous skins to Beta Codes for Total War: Arena. Join in! And, check out the details below! If you're keen to join, add the username 'bert862' on Steam, or add bert.kk.callens on Skype! I've got no money / no games / my computer is terrible! What can I do? That's absolutely fine. We've made sure to include games that are free and either downloadable or online (in a web browser). I want to win! Which games have prizes? Civ 5 will have 1 Winner, for whomever achieves a victory first. The Competitive game will be played on Sunday the 6th of September, at 12AM GMT. Guns Of Icarus will have 1 Team Winner, for a random ship on the winning Team. Cooperative play will net bonus points! The Competitive Game will be played on Saturday the 12th of September, at 4PM GMT. Don't Starve will have 1 Winner - Whomever doesn't starve last. The Competitive game will be played on Saturday the 12th of September, at 8PM GMT. League Of Legends will have 3 winners - Teams need to let me know who's with who beforehand, and Competitive dates will be arranged. Dota 2 will have 3 winners - Teams need to let me know who's with who beforehand, and Competitive dates will be arranged. Team Fortress 2 will have 2 winners - those with the most kills at the end of a half an hour. The Competitive Game will be played on Saturday the 12th of September, at 11PM GMT. Go will have 1 Winner. The Competitive Tournament will be paced throughout the entire Tournament - for those who're interested in playing competitively, let me know through Steam or Skype. Cards Against Humanity will have 1 Winner. The Competitive game will be played on Saturday the 29th of August, at 6PM GMT. Elite: Dangerous will meet up on Saturday the 5th of September, at 2PM GMT. Those interested in winning a Unique Cobra Skin should arrive in an Eagle at Sagittarius A* Almad. Be ready for dogfighting! (Haha, not going to make you go to Sag A, not really. ) Tiny tanks will have 1 Winner, and the competitive game with be on the 3rd of September, at 9PM GMT. Portal 2 will have 2 Winners, for whomever completes the first level of coop the quickest. Videos can be submitted at any time during the two weeks! XCOM: Enemy Unknown will have 1 Winner - The smartest commander. Anyone who'd like to compete, send me a message! The competitive games will be held on Tuesday the 1st, 9PM GMT. Altitude wil have two winners, for the MVP of both teams. The competitive game will be played on Planetary Annihalation will have a single winner, whomever survives the last. The competitive game will be played on Sunday the 13th of September, at 6PM GMT. Which Games are Free? Free Games: Town Of Salem, which is online! League Of Legends, We'll be using either the EUW Servers. Teams are 3 people. Dota 2, Teams are 3 people. Team Fortress 2, Teams are any number of people. Go, Online! a board game that's found a setting in Euro. Look below for more details! Cards against Humanity, Online. Tiny Tanks, another online game from Euro! Altitude, a personal favourite. Check below for Details! So don't forget to contact Sir Bert, our Knight Interior (his details are above) should you wish to join the fun. On behalf of the region, we look forward to seeing you on the gaming field! Yours, Albion

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Welcome! I'm guessing TIO is TITO (10000 Islands) and TCB is probably The Communist Bloc though it could be The Communist Beach?

Yes! More power....Um I mean..friends!

I got in trouble for giving away all the cookies. I regret nothing!

Hmm what more to say... You mentioned revolving door governments and until recently I think that was the case, but I'm not so sure thats a bad thing. In fact that's part of why I like them so much. I like that anyone can be Delegate for a day and that for governments to form they take dedicated people who actually want to do something. If Crisisies or myself had just given up in the face of raiders and inactivity I don't think we'd have a WZAI government today. I enjoy checking in on the anarchic warzones to see what's going on because it might be a EPSA protectorate (Sandbox until recently) or someone evoking the worst Australian stereotypes (Australia all the time). The chaos is really what makes them fun, it's like the coups in feeders/sinkers but no one takes it seriously. I've always liked warzones impermanence, they're a great place to experiment with what regional government and community can be. For instance the term "Native" doesn't really hold a lot of sway in a warzone. We say that our government in the Native WZAI Government, but by what rubric are we natives? If someone comes along, moves in, and replaces our regime to form their own we don't really have much to fall back on other than "we were here first". And maybe that's what a native is, I'll leave that Unibot and his lectures to decide. We happen to be in this warzone for an extended period and have our own government set up, but even then it's fickle; we don't have the massive endorsement counts the respected GCRs have nor are we protected by a founder. WZ governments are really dependent upon the people involved in them. It's the weirdos like myself, Crisisies, Lyrasan, and all the others who keep trying to make it all work out that really creates a stable government.

Definitely. The three I mentioned Europe, Asia, and Airspace have all had stable governments for some time. WZEU is technically a protectorate of Equilism and part of Astarial's Empire. Asia has gotten by through the work of their Delegate Campbell and Vice-Delegate Llamas. I honestly don't know how we manage to stay afloat some times but people tend to forget we exist, which in a warzone isn't always a bad thing. Australia, Africa, and Sandbox on the other hand have all had terrible times trying to build "native" governments and none have lasted more than a few weeks. These also happen to be the smaller regions population wise and they've never had more than one or two nations dedicated to building a government in the warzone. Where the three more stable warzones have all had a small core of at least three to five people working to build a lasting government.

Thanks! I'll let Olivia (our FA minister person) know you said that. She puts in a lot of work writing these even with my meager contributions to the military parts.

It's pretty fun actually. I got interested in warzones because I think the mechanics offer some of the most exciting political gameplay available in NS. Unfortunately they've been shunned by the greater NS community. But it's nice to see all the little regimes come and go. I first started in Warzone Asia before the current People's Republic; then moved to Airspace shortly after our Delegate disappeared. In WZAI we're not as big and lack the endorsements of our more successful friends in WZ Asia and WZ Europe so when the raiders come there really isn't much we can do. Our current unnamed government in Airspace has had 3 Delegates Crisisies, myself, and currently Lyrasan and I think my tenure was the most overthrown. But the next update you're back in charge and the regions all fixed up and it's like nothing ever happened. It's pretty relaxing once you give up to the fact that raiding is inevitable, thankfully no one has tried to establish their own regime in WZAI (knock on wood), so we've been free to pick up where we left off. I still like to check out the goings on with nation movements trying to spot would be invaders and conquerors. Warzone life really introduces you to the small scale game of NS: strange little regions, tiny imperialists with dreams of dominion, and that one time Rifty got really involved in Warzone affairs. It's exciting if you're open to a new way to play the game. Like I said we in Airspace have a pretty laissez faire approach to government and regional adminstration ( I kind of designed it that way when writing our constitution); the Delegate pretty much runs the show. I think the most involved thing I did when I was Delegate was pick out a flag I liked and banned some would be invaders. I guess in summation it's pretty low key and different from a lot of NS gameplay. I'd recommend popping in and seeing what it's all about; like I said warzone mechanics allow for some of the more exciting gameplay opportunities around if only more people cared to get involved in them.

I had to dip into WZAI's strategic cookie reserve, don't tell Lyrasan.

Thank you!

You should pop in anyway! I'll show you around and introduce you to all the lovable Albioneros and Albionitas!

It looks like I'll be pulling double ambassador duty here for the time being.