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I'm pleased to present everyone with this treaty. I doubt it comes as a surprise to some of you now, but this is something we never would have anticipated two or three years ago.

A survivor's account of the days leading to the signing of this treaty. It was a cold and frigid and icy day in Francogradopolisistan. We looked upon the city from the surrounding mountains and saw a teeming metropolis. Thousands upon thousands people were busy, trying to survive until tomorrow. The hint of civilization was a welcome sight after the weeks of trekking through the inhospitable Pacifcan tundra. As we went past one of their houses of worship, we saw our first glimpse into this wretched place. The denizens were completely lost in their worship. They didn’t even notice, they just kept chanting. Their horrific chants still ring through my eyes to this day. ``eromyna stsiocnarF ton er'ew ,saw ti neve dna lla ta msicsaf ot detaler t'nsi msiocnarF ,gnorw gnihton did niapS socnarF`` Inhumane, unintelligible, but all those animals had it memorized. But we couldn’t let this faze us. We were on a mission. A recent tip had come in that our long lost executive, Partisan, was last seen conspiring in this very city. Hilmes could not let this be ignored and he set us out on this expedition. It was just a few of us, Hilmes, myself, three junior associates, and of course the cheapest mercenaries money could buy. But, we needed something, anything, about where Partisan was. Ever since he had been gone, Leopold’s been in charge, he keeps making us treat the junior associates like people and listen to Austrian war marches. You get the picture, we were pretty desperate. But yeah, skipping ahead. We went through that shithole of the city, made it to their central command. They clearly expected us, but even then it was ridiculously calm. I would only later realize that they were prepared. Even with the calmness of the situation the path through those hallways was absolute insanity. To be blunt they were nerve wracking and each room we passed was worse than the one before. In one we saw a German fisherman(?) getting new shilling orders, the next had Ivan Moldavi, Pierconium, and Gracius Maximus reminiscing about the long lost days of 2004, they looked to have been there for about fifteen years now. I even tried to go into that one but they pelted me with a teacup. Each room kept getting worse and worse, I swear in one I saw like a hundred cats and some alchemy books. I would’ve guessed they were trying to make cat girls, but I doubt Pacificans could get the girls. The worst of it all were the creatures we encountered in the hallway itself. At first there were the regular Pacificans, depraved and soulless but still people. Next we saw the furries, all hanging around the Tribunes office. Going forward, we didn’t know what to expect but then the smell hit us. Weebs. Weebs everywhere. Each was armed with a body pillow, a katana, and a whacking stick, sadly none had a deodorant stick. Soon, but not quickly enough, they dissipated and all that was left were some small rodents: hamsters, chipmunks, I think I saw Capybara there too. All through the hallway there were more and more rodents, sometimes random kpop fans too, but they’re pretty much indistinguishable from the rats. The real horror didn’t materialize until we had reached our destination. As we neared the end of the hallway, a place where not even the kpop fans dared to venture. Our small party entered the meeting room and were quickly overpowered by hundreds of Roqbots. We kept screaming that only three of them can attack us at once, but they wouldn’t listen, they couldn’t listen. The fight was over just like that. But they didn’t kill us. In ropes, chains, and whatever other gear those degenerates had on hand, they brought us their central shrine. And it was there that we finally saw him. Roquentin The Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided. And that was when all hope was lost. The Priests of the NPO began their unholy ritual. They began sacrificing our guards. Their hearts to their cursed Gods, the rest of the bodies being thrown into the kpop fan pits. Then just like that; their dark magics beamed upon us and the personalities of my allies were wiped. Their very memories and individuality destroyed. Now only Roqbots remained. I was only saved because I didn’t have a personality to wipe. Then they released us. They even replaced our guards with some of their own. At that point I only wanted to be as far away from their as possible. So I kept my mouth shut and we successfully made our way back to Bermuda. Not even an hour after we returned, Hilmes announced that all three executives would be travelling to Francogradopolisistan for a summit.

First thing I thought of. Credit to @Hodor in the Knightfall propaganda thread.

uhhh hello?

@TheNG shortly after hearing the news

First I wreck the chances of my side winning a war, now I break up IQ. What will I destroy next?

Kayser has finally fulfilled his destiny.

You guyf mention a Track Ftar in Article JJJ. Could you elaborate on that? I'm very curiouf to fee the context on that title. Joking aside, will there be any cuts coming from the Dutch New Pacific Company? In a wave of dynamic sphere restructuring that has seen a fun trend towards smaller spheres, are you guys taking the opposite approach?

Guess we know where Roq falls...

Shoulda been called "Afrika finally gets Electricity"

Hello player, welcome to the Soup Kitchen thread! Your daily bowl of soup will be ready after you read this... If you're interested in joining us, here are some basic things about us to help you understand what the kitchen is like and what we expect from our volunteers. First and foremost, nation size or experience is completely irrelevant to us. We want you, the person behind the screen, not your nation. Soup Kitchen is a place of community and comraderie. We are a tight knit pack of experienced players that started this alliance to take unity and fun as our primary priority. The kitchen is tough and hot, so the volunteers will become your new friends, both in and out of game. If you have ego issues or are easily driven off or offended by dumb or toxic jokes, this isn't the place for you. If you're here to read about our tax rates or growth programs, you're not yet ready. Be prepared to grind your warchest numbers, to participate in raids and counters, and to fight wars to the last penny and infra point. If you hold your infrastructure dear to your heart, and are afraid of rebuilding, this isn't the place for you. We expect you to listen and adhere to all orders through mutual trust, to put the alliance before yourself and to make huge sacrifices along the way. We also expect you to grow this community with us and be active day to day. However, if you're willing to be one of us, to make sacrifices for your fellow chefs and volunteers, and are ready at any point to jump through flames and burn your nation for the alliance, we will give you the world, and will be as dedicated to you as you are dedicated to us. We take loyalty, unity, sacrifice and love as the key ingredients to our soup, and as long as the journey goes, we vow to grow you from any place you're at right now, to the best individual you can possibly become. If after reading all of that you're still interested in joining, join our discord channel bellow and come talk to us Soup as promised

Incredibly satisfying to finally see this posted. A bunch of work went into this from everyone involved and I appreciate every minute from everyone. But there is still a long way to go. This treaty is not an end in and of itself, but a means to a more multipolar world. Ya’ll know what I am about and what my ideals are. This is proof of concept. For those of you who will attempt to frame this in the worst possible light as well as the naysayers, sit back and watch the show, there may yet be more interesting things to come.

Ok then, I'll wait and see who is cancelled. Better not disappoint.

The Soup is hot!

I did not have sexual relations with that hamster.

4/5 of the top 5 alliances in the same sphere, and a tonne of satellites. Is this what we callin a minisphere kayser?

Can confirm. The soup is terrible for a new upstart place (Where the hell is the tomato bisque?), the church is going through some violent turn around with the religious leadership, SK has Squeegee, and the Knights are too busy making ads about skinny alien legs - which just goes to show their unhealthy obsession.

This thread is missing "a communist and a capitalist walk into a bar" joke

Lol wut

We've got the best chow in town

LET’S ARGUE! CoS is ex-Syndicate who barely care about the game, TKR-CoS are going to have strained relations in a month due to this being CoS’s sphere but TKR having the most power/possibilities/growth going forward. CoS has fought 1 war and haven’t proven anything, even last war their stats were average. SK has historically been below average at war. They won’t be any huge help going forward. SK won’t be anything but a vote in the bloc channel. TKR is coming off their first defeat and were more or less forced to drop their treaties. While they have the best milcom, they are going to be in the spot of being the most powerful in their sphere but being the 4th out of their sphere. They’re gonna get pissed and leave in 6 months. Soup is hot. Best sphere is KT/TGH sphere and we’re willing to debate this in-game.

Would you mind sharing those numbers showing this consolidation.

CoS is like, 23 cities average, SK is around 20, Soup 16 and TKR 15. t$ is at 23, and note they have roughly 20-30 more members than CoS (And from the looks, they seem to be tiering so...). NPO averages 16 cities, so they're already bigger than TKR. Rose is at 20, which hey-ho they also have more members than SK. Polaris is also 16 average. tl;dr This new sphere is way bigger than Chaos. We cannot consolidate upper tier when YOUR sphere has alliances with the same average city counts, and higher amount of nations in said alliance. This isn't leveling the game it's just killing one massive sphere with low tier, and replacing it with a high tier sphere. Chaos is quite tiny compared to whatever this is. Even if we're not being dynamic, There is nothing Dynamic about having a bunch of treaties.

I personally know of many members in Syndicate, all of whom I’ve grown to respect for their tenacity, innovative drive, and the determination required to outpace their contemporaries. By virtue of their military and economic prowess, I believe that, irrespective of whether they like them, others have grown to respect them, and what they do. Glad this is a thing, I’m looking forward to working with you guys. Hail, t$!

Ayyyyy. Fun times ahead. \o t$ \o NPO

Winnie the Pooh approves! Why wouldn't you?

The soup is hot!

There are pretty girls like HannaH and Kitschie. So I joined. Internet girls are realllllll.

The soup is hot

why does kastor think he's relevant enough to be posting takes like this go back to your cage

I'll take full blame for the edgy teenager part

"Consolidation of the upper tier" Except as it is right now, t$ and NPO have a larger upper tier than Chaos does. Therefore your point is moot. Not sure you understand what the word consolidation means. Get some numbers and a dictionary before you run your mouth in the future.

Huh, someone could argue that the treaty web looks like it's the entire web vs. Chaos and TGH/KT/Emp/Ob... oh, and Grumpy. Who's sitting up there all alone.

There is the small matter of my Dodge Hellcat. When I loaned it to you, it was in one piece and driveable. Now...

WE GOTTA STOP SAYING THE SOUP IS TOO HOT!!! The boys down at the lab say if the soup gets any hotter we'll have a Chernobyl 2 on our hands.

Question is, how long y'all aiming to be a protectorate for? While having an MDP.... and have two protectorates of your own.

My name is Supercheese and I approve of this message. Looking forward to working with our new friends down in Afrika.

Welcome back old pal. I hope your next move is to spend years building nukes. If not, you're doing it wrong. Glad to see ya around.

lol nice bait. TKR and CoS are definitely in the group of best fighters. Soup is a mixed bag of some good some bad, but could do alright. SK is well, we’ll see how they do.

You are damn right.

The Soup is Souper hot

The Soup is hot.

For @Pestilence's sake, I genuinely hope this dating app idea takes off.

Shifty coming in here with dynamic news of the century I don't need long monologues or slippery backroom deals to report on political climate change Shifty just log dumps and bam, the secret is out: This is Shifty bringing you the real news, not some op-Ed.

tfw NPO and GotG aren't merging into you fast enough....

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