Saint Mark

Thank you for always keeping us up to date on the results of our gambling activities! 

That was a wonderful and very detailed update. Thank you very much for sharing it with us.
We are proud to be allied with such an active region.
Best of luck!

That was a wonderful and very detailed update. Thank you very much for sharing it with us.
We are proud to be allied with such an active region.
Best of luck!

I did!
Thanks for the invitation!

PLACE YOUR BETS
GAME GUIDE
A PLACE IN THE SUN
INVESTOR INFORMATION

13 November 2017
Celebrating 200 days as NationStates' Premier Hotel and Casino resort

Hello ladies and gentlemen. I shall be serving as the representative from the Galactic Order.

THE GALACTIC ORDER UPDATE =|=Forum=|=Discord=|=Constitution=|=Whom to Contact for Foreign Affairs=|=
The Galactic Order is a Raider Region with a strong hand in government and role-play through the leadership of our Sovereign, Empress Rachael Arche-VerinGuard and with the help of her husband, Emperor William VerinGuard. After a solid month and a half of regional instability in leadership, The Galactic Order is finally taking steps in the right direction. The Galactic Order contains an elected Senate, where citizens who are elected my submit and discuss legislation on the forum. The Galactic Order contains a Moff Council which oversees the executive government through appointing ambassadors, recruiters, integrators, creates role-plays, and any recreational regional activities. The Galactic Order contains three justices who oversee the Judiciary Branch. The Galactic Order contains a Royal Family which is the House of Arche. Below is a detailed rundown of what all has happened since the abdication of Emperor Scott VerinGuard at the end of November. Future updates will not be as detailed unless a request is submitted to the Grand Moff for more information. All questions and concerns should be directed to the Grand Moff AND the Sovereign.
UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE SOVEREIGN
November 29, 2017
The abdication of Emperor Scott VerinGuard. Emperor Ren VerinGuard ascended the throne with Empress Bunny VerinGuard at his side. Crown Princess Rachael Arche-VerinGuard as his successor.
December 2, 2017
Emperor Ren saw it in the best interest of the region to take an indefinite Leave of Absence. Empress Bunny VerinGuard became temporary Sovereign.
December 14-18, 2017
Empress Bunny VerinGuard takes a private Leave of Absence, leaving Crown Princess Rachael Arche-VerinGuard to oversee the region until the Empress returns. There is no public record of this on our forum and it was widely unknown to the majority of the region.
December 19, 2017
Discussion of what the region to do in the event Empress Bunny VerinGuard does not return. Between this date and December 23, 2017, Empress Bunny Veringuard deleted her forum account and moved her main nation out of the Galactic Order. Rumors began from those who knew her outside of TGO that the Empress had quit NationStates entirely.
December 23, 2017
After many discussions where all options were discussed as to what to do without the Empress present, the region's current leaders and advisors to the Empress collectively decided that it should be assumed that our Empress abdicated the throne, which made Crown Princess Rachael Arche-VerinGuard the new Sovereign of The Galactic Order. 
Empress Rachael Arche-VerinGuard ascended the throne with Emperor William VerinGuard by her side and Crown Prince Smith Liam VerinGuard as her successor.
December 26, 2017
Former Empress Bunny VerinGuard leaves all TGO affiliated discord servers.
January 8, 2018
Empress Rachael Arche-VerinGuard is currently on a Leave of Absence. She has appointed her Successor, Crown Prince Smith Liam VerinGuard, as Regent until her return on January 13th, 2018. 
UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF THE GOVERNMENT
December 23, 2017
Smith VerinGuard resigned as Grand Moff and appointed Lady Madeline VerinGuard to serve as Grand Moff until the election for the next Grand Moff would occur.
December 24, 2017
Emperor William VerinGuard resigned as Chancellor and opened the floor for declarations for Chancellor.
December 27, 2017 - December 28, 2017
Elections for Chancellor occurred with Rikki Arche rising as the victor. 
December 31, 2017 - January 1, 2018
Elections for Grand Moff occurred with Lady Madeline VerinGuard rising as the victor.
UPDATE ON THE MOFF COUNCIL All appointments and removals may be found here.
December 18, 2017
Grand Moff Smith VerinGuard appointed Lady Madeline VerinGuard as Moff of Propaganda, replacing Darth Einas of Bespin.
December 31, 2017
In accordance with the new constitution, Moff of Propaganda was renamed to Moff of Recruitment.
January 1, 2018
Grand Moff Madeline VerinGuard removed Farlandiay as Moff of External Affairs and oversees the department herself.
January 4, 2018
The Moff of Culture announced the new regional role-play to take place in the designated discord. A second role-play was announced privately to be in the works to take place on the forum. All previous regional role-plays were scrapped in order to unify the role-players of the region. An interregional role-play still exists.
January 5, 2018
Integration applications were reopened with an updated application to account for integration through the NationStates site. All previous integrators were required to reapply in order to allow for consistency in all positions.
UPDATE ON THE JUDICIARY
December 28, 2017
Grand Moff Madeline VerinGuard submitted the appointment of Vac Mercer and Lord Caesar VerinGuard as Justices for the Senate to approve.
December 29, 2017
Supreme Justice Darth Leopold Arche resigned.
December 30, 2017
Vac Mercer and Lord Caesar VerinGuard were appointed the Justices of the Galactic Order.
Zaphkael Frostguard was appointed the Supreme Justice of the Galactic Order.
UPDATE ON THE SENATE
January 1, 2017
Supreme Chancellor Rikki Arche placed all legislation on HOLD until the election of a proper Senate occurred in accordance with the Constitution. Several threads were opened in order to address missing information within the Constitution and suggest amendments to rectify the problems.
A thread was opened on the forum for citizens interested in running for the Senate to declare and post platforms.
January 4, 2017
Elections for the Senate to fill in 4 of 5 available seats opened.
January 7, 2018
Elections for the Senate concluded where Howard, Lord Caesar VerinGuard, Princess Amber VerinGuard, and Darth Eilnas of Bespin along with their Supreme Chancellor Rikki Arche became the official Senators of the Galactic Order to submit and pass legislation.
January 8, 2018
The Senate opened a poll to gain opinions on the new Court Procedure.
UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF REGIONAL LAW Constitution
December 25, 2017
Submissions of Final drafts of tentative Constitutions due.
December 28, 2017
Voting began on which Constitution would become official in the eyes of The Galactic Order.
December 31, 2017
Vote closed on the Constitution and the new Constitution became the one submitted by Farlandiay.
January 1, 2018 - Present
Discussion on amendments for the Constitution and potential Acts in addition to amendments began. Many discussions include the recognition and legalization of the regional military, regional security bureau, Grand Moff as holder of Delegate, Sith Cults, and more to come!

With Atlae's leaving, we are in need of a new Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. 
I am looking for someone who has the time to devote to the role and is a decent writer and able to code for the forums.
I will have you assist me in the FA Updates, as well as keep track of our ambassadors ... and perhaps other duties.
If you are interested, make that known here. The position will be appointed by our Delegate Davelands.

You are an excellent player and good guy, Atlae. Although we will miss you, you made the right decision. RL comes first.
See you in the summer!
looks around for a new slave

You are an excellent player and good guy, Atlae. Although we will miss you, you made the right decision. RL comes first.
See you in the summer!
looks around for a new slave

Thank you for sharing this excellent publication! It's good to know our friends in Osiris are as active and funny as always!
 

Thank you for the update! It's nice to hear that our friends are doing so well!

I want NS-wide dominion for TWP. 

I'm sure that would provide the necessary real estate.
TWP, coffee and chocolate capital of the World.
And don't forget the spiced crimson rum.

I want NS-wide dominion for TWP. 

Welcome to The West (Best) Pacific!
What interests you? ... government? RP? military? foreign affairs? cultural activities? ...

Just ask me to mask someone, then you will see my best Halo impression.

So, I've started the process of studying to become an Enrolled Agent.  https://www.irs.gov/tax-professionals/enrolled-agents
Why?
My Job is dull?  My neurosis about always being in school? My compulsive need to collect certifications?  Tired of not getting my tax questions answered coherently?  I'm insane?
Yes.

Bran, I know I'm a little late to this thread, but ... those posters are AMAZING!!!

Not only did we take all the caek, we took all the chocolate as the tribute to Darkesia!

It was a lot of fun, even though real life (and sleeping) took me away from much of it!
Thank you to Altino and all those who helped lead us ... and thanks to everyone who participated!!!
We still know that TWP is THE BEST!

Have you ever sat back in the evenings, eyes closed and your favorite "lets be evil" hat on, and wished that you could only be given the opportunity to relentlessly barrage NationStates with nuclear missiles that left even the moderators shaken? Yeah. Me too. Gracefully, we were recently given such a chance! For NationStates' second Nuke Day, The West Pacific teamed up with Osiris, The East Pacific, and Karma to form a Superfaction. The designated server for the event reached nearly a hundred members and our faction had nearly 1,300 nations in it. Needless to say, we dominated. 

Onlookers watch in fear as Syberian Badgers with Caek ransack their nations with nukes
SBC spent the entire first half of the game at the top of the leaderboard. The most common complaint from our team was from those making Shields - the world was too afraid of the massive arsenal of Nukes we were gathering to even shoot at us, and their jobs seemed boring because of it. We spent hours blowing other factions to smithereens and being begged for mercy. Here are just a few of the messages we received from enemy factions in their desperate attempts to end our waves of nukes: 

- Founder of The Peoples Red Army. We did not have mercy. They were destroyed.

- Member of USSF. Hint: No.

- Member UPPERCUT. We did accept this one! GCRs gotta stick together.

- Member UDS. We didn't ally with them, but did cease fire and switch targets as good faith to UPPERCUT.

- Member The Galactic Defense Force. Easy target, man, sorry!
 
SBC finished off the event with alliances with UPPERCUT, Glitter Squad, Friendship and Explosives, and Collaborating Defensive Alliance. We remained on the Leaderboard until around 6am, when the leaders of SBC finally had to call it quits and go to sleep. We couldn't stay up forever! We awoke to find ourselves to have fallen all the way down to 26th place and though we fought valiantly, there wasn't enough time on the clock to make it back onto the Leaderboard. That's what we get for sleeping until an hour before the event ends... Still, SBC managed to dredge itself up from 26th place all the way to 15th place in the span of 30 minutes! A glorious victory, if I do say so myself. We even managed to absolutely cream the Mods' faction, DEAT From Above, and will forever be memorialized as aggressors to their faction and also the guys who ultimately blew the place up.
 

Mods angrily grumble as SBC steals their caek and nukes their houses
 
SBC ended the game with the 3rd most nations and 3rd most strikes (nukes that landed successfully) in the entire game, but with the most nuclear radiation in the game, with nearly 20,000 more radiation than the next closest faction - Jak Attack, who were the big faction to beat during our last Nuke Day in April. Despite being very obviously the key faction to attack, SBC managed to keep on the Top 20 and take the world by storm! Everyone did a very good job, and we can't wait to do that much better next year. 
 
Special thanks to @Chron for staying up until 5am with me to help keep us on the leaderboard, @Les Claypool for sneaking behind enemy lines and turning factions who were on our backs against each other, and @Maria Isaraider for being the best and most dedicated nuke sender in the faction! 
 
Please feel free to take this forum badge that @Bran Astor made for everyone in TWPAF who participated in the event! Once again, great job everyone!

 

Last week I dismissed four Guardians from their posts. The action itself is not what caused issue, but rather the manner in which I handled the dismissals. Each Guardian has served TWP with honor and distinction and I failed to treat them with the respect and dignity their service demanded.
Their devotion to TWP is unquestionable and their professional character is beyond reproach. Failure to recognize that - however temporary - constitutes a gross misjudgment on my part.
I want to personally apologize to Elegarth, Yy4u, Wickedly Evil People, and Bhang Bhang Duc. Furthermore, I would like to apologize to the rest of the region for the undue stress and anxiety caused by this situation.
Going forward, I pledge to earn back the trust in me that has been shaken, and to continue to serve the region and her interests to the best of my abilities.

*wipes the dripping sarcasm off his shirt* 
There was a time when the only thing you had was the RMB and TGs. Then regions started using forums. Then they got into IRC and Skype. Now Discord has supplanted (only) IRC and Skype.
If you don't accept and embrace new ways of doing things (especially when everyone else is using those tools) you risk being left behind in the dustbin of history.
Better?

Look at those cars! My horse is quiet and reliable.
Airplanes! Bah. If man were meant to fly he would have wings.
Television! Who needs another box in the house when I can listen to music and the news just fine on my radio.
Computers! All I need is a pad of paper, a pencil, and a good mailman.
Discord! Skype is fine on occasion but nothing important should be done outside of Telegrams, the RMB, and the Forums.