Impedric

Greetings TWP,
Today I want to make the region aware of a situation that came up earlier this week after I had our treaty with the Kingdom of Great Britain repealed and our embassy withdrawn.  The King and his Curia have threatened TWP and Osiris with war, intend to see our downfall.  Furthermore, they have attempted to undermine Europeia.
Several months ago it was discovered that the King Alexander, who otherwise goes by Don, is a pathological liar IC and OOC and an all around manipulative bastard.  He lied about RL situations in order to gain sympathy and manipulate people in his region.  This caused myself and others to leave the region and disassociate ourselves from KGB.  However, we still had this treaty; which I was ok with provided more lies and deceit didn't surface.  A few weeks ago it was discovered that Don was bringing back into KGB a nation known for harassing and bullying behavior who penned this apology letter:  https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=421555   Knowing first hand what had occurred, I could not in good faith allow TWP to be associated with this individual or any region that harbors him.  So after discussing this with the guardians, I decided to act quickly and dissolve our relationship with KGB.
Earlier this week, one of our operatives sent me a long line of logs.  The relevant ones can be found here:  https://imgur.com/a/MZm7P
After laughing voraciously at their thinking that they could coup TWP, I informed our friends in Europeia, Vice Chancellor Brunhilde and director of intel NES of the potential security breech.  They have made sure that Europeia is secure.  The newly elected President, Cat has decided to step down for her part in this.  
When these logs became public a few hours ago, the king has decided to abdicate the throne and quit NS.  Don being a manipulative liar, I am sure will resurface soon.  When he does, I ask that you remember what he has said about TWP and the intentions of his council.  
None of these people:  Don Mountbatten (former king Alexander), Victor Lancaster (the new king William Victor I), Charles Lancaster, Cephal (Cornelius Tallyrand), and John Mountbatten should be forgotten for their role in attempting to subvert TWP and our allies.  We will not work with KGB or the above individuals in any fashion.  I would ask our allies to do the same.  They are not to be trusted!
When I first began diplomacy with KGB last spring, I was pleasantly surprised by the terrific people in the region.  Many of them have chosen to come to TWP over the past few months to see what we have going on here, even becoming actively involved in our TWP community.  Several were actively involved in getting this information to me as they understood the King was making poor choices.  Those of you who have come here from KGB, I hold no ill will towards any of you and ask TWP to do the same.  However, the individuals with the King in the Curia; I do hold you responsible for your statements and actions.
Hail TWP!
Badger

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!

 

I have stuffs to say.  But it is staff meeting day IRL, so I'm going to give it the short version and hope it's not terribly misread.  Any clarification that might be needed, please please ask me anything and I will do my best to speak coherently about it.  I am speaking as a former Guardian and a Former Delegate (x2).
If you have read Ivan's post in the forum, my yammering is the result of my thinking about his post.
First:  Ivan, you did not fail.  Stop saying that.  I get that you are tired.  But that's probably because you drove this game and a few others for several years.  That is not failure, it is success.  But you are correct in observing that some of the old paradigms have returned.  And...
That is precisely what we have all been whining and pining about for years.
Those of us that remember the battle (and the dozens of proxy wars) between the ADN and the NPO, have been longing for the days of politicized use of a region's military.  Ivan and the NPO, won that war.  Partially because of attrition, but mostly because they adapted to the changing world of NS.  But once the war was won, the age of bored military action came.  I have long missed the times when intrigue and intelligence (in both senses of the word) were part of the game.  Things seem to be heading back in that direction.  And frankly, I'm happy about it.  Yes, there are alignments happening in TWP, and in many other GCRs.  They may, or may not be alignments with which we are all happy.  But isn't that just the sort of conflict that existed ten years ago?  Rather than longing for the old days, we can pick a side (or make our own) and join in the new conflicts.  Everything old is new again. 
Finally, to our beloved TWP and her current leaders:
I do not care what alignment the regional leadership chooses, provided the strength, sovereignty and vitality of this region comes first.  ALWAYS.
Time to grab coffee before the meeting.  I will check back later to see if I made any sense at all.  lol