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From The Desk of Uncle Traveling Matt Explorer of Space The Nation of Fraggle Rock Greetings to all the best nations of Orbis. And a hearty hat tip to the others. It is my pleasure to invite you all to our nation, Fraggle Rock, in 212 minutes. We are putting the finishing touches on our 400th nuclear weapon. Let's thank Mr. Monkey D Luffy for sponsoring this one. Let's also remember that you, yes you, can also sponsor any nuclear weapon in the future. Number 420 has been mentioned as special between all the druggos.....I'm sure that we will either get a lot, or they will take a few bong rips and forget. Thanks to all who made this possible. We look forward to number 500 by the end of the summer. Join us here: https://discord.gg/3QAGE7 Best Wishes, Uncle Traveling Matt

Shifty News Network reporting live from our newsroom and into your bedroom, whether you like it or not. ? ?? Shifty, reporting in with midnight snack special. First off in the world of micro AAs, a bite size chunk of news: Defcon 1 and Frostbite are merging. Could tS be behind/benefit from this? Only time will tell. Second tid bit if you're still begging for more: AdMech and Elysium are merging into Weeb Ltd. No seriously the name is MAGE LTD. Limited mages? Shitty network imo, I'd go with LTE 4G Mages. MHHMMMMM, DAS RITE.? ?? And finally, oh baby a triple, choke on it: Shifty's press is a shooting star press straight off the ropes, SHOCKING LOG DUMP, like when you take a shit and it splashes back on you in the dead of the night. Ice cold, deep freeze water.... FELKEY EXPLAIN YOURSELF RIGHT NOW MISTER. And that's Shifty News Network, going with the hard hitting facts like recoil from a .50 cal. Loud, explosive, and hard to wrap your head around. BAM ?

>Nuke Support You already lost by writing this sentence. And looking at your lineup, i guess KT is enough without allies to handle that. Shots fired. DEUS VULT! :D

Micros merging and old logs? Back to bed.

Great work Felkey, I see you're following the procedure very carefully. TCW gets +5 Seeker Points, and you get a gold star! Keep up the good work, membership awaits! ?

So I guess you guys are trying to do a hatchet job on Felkey now, because you're upset about his treaty? I think you'll need to step your game up from "here's some several-months old logs of someone else saying he might have known about a thing that arguably fit within an intel clause he had, though really the plot wasn't terribly plausible in the first place." The fact that that's the best you seem to have, and bearing in mind you might have been able to mine the Pantheon breakup for better instances of him being a liar/sneak if he was indeed one, kinda makes him look better to me for your efforts, not worse.

Rather amusing that Pantheon still thought we stole their bank. I thought it was pretty public knowledge on who did steal it. Quite amusing as well that in the end half the alliances suppose to hit us ended up fighting with us against IQ.

Ehm. I don't really have too much of a stake in the whole KT vs Felkey convo, but this bit is interesting! Justiiiin. Justiiiiiin. While I understand your need to defend your alliance's honor etc. etc..... I think it's a bit disingenious to draw a paralel with Thrax' criticism of you in order to support your case that it is more than fine to be critical of third parties and call out when you believe you see bs. In principle I 100% agree with your point that it is totally fine to do so, but you need to be able and willing to take it on the chin yourself as well. In Thrax' particular case (and mine), you and yours showed extremely thin skin and apparently took the matter rather personal. While that too is perfectly fine, and your prerogative, it's contradictory to the point you are trying to convey here. In other words: Either bullshit around and be cool with it when others call your crap out too. *Or* tone it down. Right now it comes across as rather hypocritical.

Since when is anyone bad mouthing Felkey? "Well him being a liar and a sneak is well known" - Your head of FA This victim complex you guys have for "getting flak" here is pretty ridiculous. You are an alliance who from the beginning has set out to be as hostile and toxic as possible. Including mass invading/trolling peoples discords. It's up to you if you want to do that but don't act surprised when people stand up to you.

Kastor dislike = we must be doing something right

Good, good... my disinformation operation is working as intended. All the pieces continue to fall into place.

It's been a few months now and I am really enjoying the dynamics and challenges being the leader of Rose has brought. After settling in, we've decided to make a slight turn on our FA journey. Rose values all of our treaties, and our allies play a role in shaping the future of our alliances. At this moment, Rose has decide to focus in on our current allies, and seek to take new risks and meddle in uncharted territory. Part of this process is evaluating our old ties and making sure we can both be beneficial to each other. Today, Rose will be cutting ties with Nuke Bloc, by ending our ties with the World Task Force. It's been an honor to fight and work alongside them during my time as leader, and there is so much history in our relationship. The original treaty was signed in 2015, long before many of our members (including myself) were even a part of the picture. With our 72-hour notice provided on Sunday, the treaty has been cancelled at the time of posting. We wish them the best of luck going forward. Signed for Rose, Sovereign, Dynamic Regent, J.A. Goldington Vizer of State, Mhearl Vizer of State, Ameyuri tl;dr - Rose cancels our treaty with World Task Force, effectively ending a long relationship between Rose and NB.

Am i reading this correctly? It seems like your point is that your alliance is being "persecuted" unfairly, but you seem to be making that point by suggesting that Smith's hero is Hitler. So uhm. Okay.....Is this a really clumsy attempt at humour I am just not getting at all? Considering that his original point was that your alliance is unique in the way it antagonizes people and that's why people might be so inclined to criticize it, that is an interesting way to make your point. Or rather, his. Justin, Buor.... seriously. While your alliance contains gov who say stuff like this, just stow the "who, us!?" thing. It's super tedious.

Get on my level

Its from many months ago something that quite clearly wouldn't happen. Since it came in wake of our bank theft so we were quite pissed and thought it was KT. KT were poaching our members at that time so it just helped to confirm suspicions, even if they were unfounded. Felkey had nothing to do with this, anyone that claims he did is a liar. We moved on from the Bank theft a long time ago. Pantheon got robbed there was nothing we could do we moved on. Simple as that.

"...of course." Her grip on the rifle was loose. Nervous? Agitated? Her eyes out of focus, darting across the room. And she wouldn't stop grinning at me. "Usually waveless meat doesn't get to hear. You must be so excited!" "Right. Yes. Of course." Her companion was more matter of fact. He barked a simple order: "Strip." "...excuse me...?" "Space Powder. Detoxifying. Mandatory. Strip down." "Erm, toxins...?" She looked at me, and took on an apologetic tone. "It's not so bad. We've really had to tighten things up since the Fraggle Incident. Fluff everywhere..." she bit her lower lip. "May Uncle see them to their deserved fate. Don't worry. I'm sure writing your story will be worth it!" What could I do? It took me ten minutes of arguing to get my clothes back. With it they handed me half of a bagel, and a plastic cup of purple liquid. It felt like I'd just given blood. Welcome to the Church of Spaceology, she said. He made the entire speech from his pool. The mic was wired, so whenever he moved or gestured, five followers would hold the cable over their heads for him, out of the purple water. He looked haggard, and only one of his hands was on the mic. I was glad I hadn't drunk my cup yet. "Yesterday, you were told. Tomorrow, you were told. Today, there is little to say. The loop draws closed. The bagel reaches its end. I reach my end. Ends reach their end. We begin." The followers, there must have been hundreds of them, were looking in every random direction. Were they even listening? The room was packed thick. The air hung, and any time you brushed up against someone, you would stick. They all had the powder on them. "Look upon the beginning. The bagel you were given. The bagel you were told. Similar, but different. What changed?" They all spoke. It was like a communal groan. "Poppies." I guess they were listening. "Poppies. Seeds. What is a Seed? Potential. A capsule of Time and Space. Who is a Seed?" My head was swimming. Was it just the heat? How did I not notice the guy in the tiny pirate ship rowing across the pool? "You. No longer me. I have come to the beginning. Let the seeds show the way. For in that Time, the poppy can become something more... lend itself to vision. Opiates are one way to bridge the gaps between the synapses. To make connections across Space." Opiates...? I poured the cup into the pool. No one seemed to notice. My head didn't feel any better. "The Space between my words has become infinite, as it was always meant to, and always was. Before I ascend, a map for your own journey: Rub the powder on your lips, and feel a momentary respite from prison. Kiss Space, you orange flavoured ^*$(%^*%*^*^." His final words before returning to his "ship." The mic dropped by the side of the pool, and many sets of eyes greedily fixed upon it. Excited, the nearest follower leaned close to me. "It's our time, now." TL:DR: Please join me in welcoming Ripper, who will be handling CoS's FA, and is presumably only slightly evil. I'll still be around, don't hesitate to contact me if we already get along. : )

Wow that's a lot of replies. Okay first of all, trying to convince me there's no attempt to make Felkey look bad would probably work better if I wasn't immediately quoted by several people trying to explain how they're not trying to make Felkey look bad. Hehe. I'm going to reply to Keegoz because while I usually disagree with him about miles of political things, I still think he's the closest one to arguing in good faith. Hi Keegoz! I don't know the history you're referring to. So there's definitely a handicap for me there and I could be wrong. But looking at what's been presented, i don't see much reason to think Felkey was necessarily aware of the plan. Whether or not there's some hypocrisy there can't really be up for debate before it's proven that there's a salient threat against KT he knew about and willfully obscured. It looks like Sphinx brought his name up without talking to him directly, from what I've seen. Without that, the whole thing just falls apart and looks like a clumbsy attempt to slander. Also, it does look like KT would be reaching a bit being really upset about the possible violation of the intent of an optional treaty, considering KT's own history with protectorates and allies. Now me personally, I wouldn't necessarily call it hypocritical, since it could be that Theo and the remaining newer government has a different way of running things and that there's been a bit of shift in ideology. But if you're allowing for that, then TCW and Felkey should probably deserve a bit more faith than that's been shown to them? It looked to me like a fairly understandable shift in ideology and goals between KT and TCW, rather than a VILE BETRAYAL by either side. The treaty went without much fanfare, for example. So the timing, to me, seems a bit suspect.

Well looks like news to me on this and shows that we was truly valued as treaty partners by Pantheon. Pretty much being nailed on to participate in a quest we had no gripe with. As a clear up we had and have no intention to go and fight kT

Is this recent news? I mean the screenshot.

I knew about your promotion yesterday evening/this morning. I didn't post because I act as if your AA doesn't exist and they act like I don't exist. Also are you calling the Shifty New Network® slow? I'll have you know that I don't think any FA head or P/W radioshow host can really capture the irreverence, the ADHD-infused zeitgeist of the P/W forums. Only the Shifty News Network® can do that. You can scoff, but has any work of art championed by mainstream media circles in the last 5 years attained even half the prestige, influence, and enduring popularity that of the Shifty News Network® continues to flaunt? Doubt it. I'm part of an Ivy League think tank and my peers and I really do believe that the Shifty News Network® will one day be a fixture of the 21st century humanities. Nothing could be a more perfect relic of our time.

Are you retracting the claim now that nobody is bad mouthing Felkey? When has TKR or Polaris ever mass invaded and trolled your discord? The idea that everyone acts the same as you simply isn't true and there is a difference between doing that and being opinionated

Since when is anyone bad mouthing Felkey? I wouldn't bad mouth the guy I put in office. I'm just being critical of what I see as mishaps by his government and hypocrisy from him. Am I or others not allowed to be critical of things we disagree with? Thrax has been regularly critical about TGH and others decision to sign the 6 month NAP, Felkey has been critical to me about TGH's existence and apparently how terrible and stupid our last war was. How come we are getting flak for "bad mouthing" or trying to do a "hatchet job" when we're simply calling out stuff we disagree with or see as hypocritical? Why is everyone here acting so innocent when this stuff has gone on for years and everyone of us has done it. Yes, we believe that Felkey and TCW's government made a mishap with KT and then they tried to use excuses such as "bad ally" and such when at the very same time they in fact may have not been the best ally to KT. But you know what, as stated above, Felkey was within his right and obviously did not value the KT treaty and therefore simply ignored it. Which is totally fine, they had different goals, but don't come on the forums talking about KT being a bad ally over information clause stuff when you were mutually defying it. Also no ones blind to the fact that KT has a bad history when it comes to being a good ally, but they recovered well from it and made a lot of improvements. We repaired a relationship that I was close to cutting after the Pantheon stuff with KT back in the fall.

I did tell them it was AdMech lol. But they are super retard and read that as KeeTea

If we beat CoS can we get comics as reps?

Congrats Ripper! Just a few issues: -No nudes -No powder smell -No powdered nudes

lets add a little fun into the mix its not the best i did the best i could with this so yea lol

How much to sponsor 420? Asking for a friend....

Hi dad, Honestly, I’m not here trying to be critical of those who are critical of us. I and we expect it with the way we put ourselves out there. The point I’m trying to make is that you can’t complain about our complaining and criticisms when everyone else does the same thing to us. No one has really offered any defence for Felkey other than that we’re essentially being mean to him “hatchet job”, “bad mouthing” and that it’s terrible that we’re doing it. Instead of disagreeing with our core opinions and posts they’re disagreeing with how we operate and how opinionated and publicly critical we are. It’s not just in this thread, it’s in private and it’s on discord. They don’t think we should be this way, when in fact they are all the very same way. With love, Justin ❤️ PS: Is that a threat? Youre either mistakenly or intentially misinterpreting what I’m saying. I wasn’t referring to our war time trolling, I was referring to how opinionated we are and how we privately and publicly critique people. People keep complaining about us going after people like TRF, Pantheon or whomever else aligns themselves against us when we’re simply calling them out for shit we disagree with. People never really come and try to rebut our core arguments but rather come out with a victim complex and act like it’s terrivle how we are calling all these people out. We all do the same thing in that regard and it’s funny to see people complain about it when we all do it, why act so innocent?

It’s not about that smith. Who the frick cares about people defending him, go ahead and defend him all you want. My post is about you guys complaining about the stuff we do when you all pull off the exact same shit. Pure hypocrisy. I don’t care about the antoginizing, I don’t care about people being critical of us, but don’t come her with all this innocence and act like we’re the only ones in this game who are opinionated.

Probably one of the most remarkable accomplishments in this entire game. Congrats Fraggle!

Except no ones trying to "tar" him, or anyone at that matter. I don't really see why people are acting so innocent and acting like we're big bad people for questioning something. The whole point of this discussion is because Felkey has stated KT was a bad ally for not informing them of their war with IQ and such and therefore not respecting the intel clause between them when at the very same time, TCW Government member(s) had access to information that you guys were trying to form a coalition to roll KT and its sphere. It's literally a simple call out of hypocrisy, the people thinking its some kind of attack on Felkey are simply overreacting or taking up the opportunity to paint us as the boogeyman out to get everyone which is probably true for some.

No ones trying to do a “hatchet job”. We’re just questioning Felkey since yesterday he went on about KT being a bad ally because they only gave a few days notice or their war with IQ when at the same time TCW gov had access to information that someone was trying to form a coalition to roll KT. It’s just hypocrisy, critiquing KT over the intel clause when they weren’t following it either.

Oh dear that’s my name...

I already knew this but thanks for making it public Shifty, can always count on you. @Felkey Your head or FA had Pantheon discord access while all of this planning was going on. How come you guys didn’t warn KT via your information clause in the ODP that there was a coalition in planning to smack them?

gives ice cream and cookies :Shrug:

When the doomsday clock hits 2 minutes to midnight, Shifty hits the snooze button for 3. ???

I highly doubt tCW would activate their ODP with KT have you talked to them throuhout this? given pm has dual membership? Sphinx - 03/15/2018 Yui has duel membership, but she is in her own AA. Yui would never fight Panth But I need to speak to tCWl. Roquentin - 03/15/2018 Yui is the MoFA of TCW Sphinx - 03/15/2018 She's also got Government rights in Pantheon as well. Felkey wouldn't choose KT over his former alliance. If he did then we would ruin almost one years worth of friendship and goodwill.(edited) Roquentin - 03/15/2018 but yeah we need to know what rok/bc are doing Sphinx - 03/15/2018 Well we will see what our allies are doing Anyway, we will keep you updated. ? The grave just got 10ft deeper...

Yaaaaay Ripper

SK flash backs Nor can I

Same.

Nothing of value was gained or lost.

Meh, I'm too lazy to go back and get my logs with Abbas, but doesn't matter anways, fam. I can understand it gets boring fighting the same alliances time and time again, so as far as fun is concerned, I think y'all did the right thing fighting nuke bloc instead.

Hm, I feel conflicted about this thread. On one hand, I'm bitterly disappointed at the lack of nudity. On the other hand, ew Ripper! Obligatory congrats to Thrax and condolences to Ripper. Enjoy retirement, Thrax, and Ripper, I expect you to turn CoS into a 1 ship raiding, rogue alliance. Arrgh!

Damn, I lost the timing... At least we were faster than Shifty news... I cannot promise comics during peace-time, but they can certainly be used during war negotiations. Congrats to Manthrax for what he has built and the way he runs things.

If I recall correctly, you were invited to participate in the IQ war about a week prior to its happening. So I don't think it was "2 days notice". And you answered us what Justin said in the prior post. And yeah we did ask you again once the war started and we triggered the OD clause, and it was well within your rights to say no, no one is questioning that here. But don't see how were you not informed. While on that subject, we received no notice on you going to war with Nuke Bloc 2 weeks later, so I'm not sure why are you going by that route here. TCW-KT treaty had it's rough moments, true, but since I took over, and until Justin stepped down, it was valued from this side, not just politically or militarily, but in the process of working with Justin, we became friends. After the new government took over however, there were little to no bonds being recreated, and paper being dead was becoming obvious to me when the last war started. We simply grew apart and when people grow apart it's natural to go their own ways. I know you had to respond to the prior post that indirectly attacked your alliance for not helping us, but I don't see how it's helping by trying to throw mud at us while defending yourself. We never did that nor we went public with our treaty cancellation. I respect TCW members and for that reason I'm not gonna attack you or your alliance. So I'm going to ask you to the same, because if we start throwing out the dirty laundry in the public, I'm afraid you might end up looking worse than me here.

In Crazy Town that might be a possible way to look at it. Especially since lordship, who at the time wasn't even a proper part of our government, has total control over TCW. ?

I mean looks like the treaty said "Optional" so they choose the option not to.

>What are you saying Mulder, my doctor's an alien?

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