Alan

My cruel reporting, I'm sorry to paint you in such a negative light, I didn't realize you were so ashamed of Carthago....... TLDR going to war over a news agency is wild. Especially when we haven't posted about you in over 5 months.

TL:DR - Alan Explains the history of BROTHERHOOD FAMILY and why BF just declared war for no reason Part 1 - History of BF "Beef" Part 2 - BF threatens and insults Black Skies creating tensions Part 3 - BF declares war for no reason Good morning Orbis! It seems that BROTHERHOOD FAMILY is the same BROTHERHOOD FAMILY as before. I'd like to applaud BROTHERHOOD FAMILY for taking things out of context and skewing the narrative. It continues to prove that the only way people can find issues with me and Black Skies is if the screenshots are faked or missing context. Part 1 - History of BF "Beef" Brotherhood Family 1 was a cancerous alliance. Not only did their members and government cause drama every step of the way but their gov also hit on and tried to seduce minors for treaties. Our final straw with BF1 was one of their members claimed that 9/11 was an "[act of God to punish America]". We closed and banned all FA and discussions with them after that. Cut to several months later, BF1 had merged. BF2 came out. We prayed that the sequel had learned from it's past mistakes and that they wouldn't.....dear God. Part 2 - BF threatens and insults Black Skies creating tensions Our first interaction with Brotherhood Family is their leader, coming into our public server, and insulting us. PK demanded I give an apology and threatened us with "political opposition against [Black Skies]". The entire conversation is still, publicly available, in our Portal Server. PK claimed: 1.) Black Skies was moving against BF2 - Wasn't true as we didn't even know they had returned up to this point. 2.) Black Skies was posting member announcements "slandering BF2". - Not true, the first message was a public message in RON and discusses the first alliance. 3.) Palsada should be removed from government because he is a "traitor" - He's a very nice guy. We'll keep him. I attempted to direct him to FA to discuss the issue. PK refused. Part 3 - BF declares war for no reason Yesterday (Saturday) at 6:44am MST, a Black Skies low gov of MA, who had just returned from a "16 hour Friday night bender", ordered counters for Chromatica, not realizing that BF2 was countering for one of their applicants. I woke up at 10:07am MST and, seeing no discord messages or requests, began my stream. At 3:07pm MST I started getting messages from other players saying that "Black Skies was countering counters". After the stream I reviewed the situation and saw that my Low Gov had dropped the ball. There was also an ticket open from PK in our FA server looking to surrender. Most of the screenshots are in BF2's fake RoH post. However when options were provided, peacing out wars, having Dark Brotherhood come in to discuss things this was the response.... Once again, BF2 taking a page from BF1. The ticket wasn't closed because I was unwilling to discuss peace options (since I knew that BF wasn't going to declare war). It was closed because PK decided to make a joke out of it. Peace was already being sent out by Black Skies with the correction being made I thought the situation would be resolved. Five hours later, Dark Brotherhood messages us to get the details on what transpired. After discussing the issue with them, the entire thing was fully resolved. However because BF2 doesn't listen to their protector, and doesn't know what time zones are...... War was declared by BF2 on Black Skies for a situation that had already been resolved with both BF members and with Dark Brotherhood.

Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=554511 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=559262 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=564107 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=566226

The leader of Iron Crow Syndicate has made a second account, more likely than not to move resources around so the bank isn't looted during the war. Nation A: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=316857 Nation B: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=569211

Arrgh doesn't do safekeeping....Yarr does. Maybe that's why so many dumb nanos lose their hundreds of thousands.

The Second Biennial Orbis Olympics is HERE!!! September 17th - October 9th We're proud that once again it's time to bring the community together for our second Orbis Olympics. The 1st Orbis Olympics proved to be a fantastic turnout with over 70 players representing 31 different alliances. This time we've perfected the formula to give people more time, availability, and rescheduling for any missed matches. As some of you may remember from 2021 this is what the schedule looked like: With a lot of new knowledge here's what's changing for the Second Biennial Orbis Olympics: Tweaks ~ Games will be played out over the course of three weeks instead of just one. ~ Instead of hosting the Orbis Olympics in a separate sever and having named arenas we will be hosting games in the actual alliance severs. (ex. Instead of having "Camelot Arena" matches will be played in the Camelot alliance server. All match reporting, award ceremonies, and videos will still be held in the Orbis Olympics Discord server.) ~ Sign up period has been extended by an extra week. ~ Prizes have been increased: Gold $10m -> $30m Silver $5m -> $15m Bronze $2.5m -> $5m Removals ~ Codenames has been dropped as an official Orbis Olympic Event. ~ Group Minecraft Build Battles has been dropped as an official Orbis Olympic Event. (Solo is still available) ~ All video recording bots have been removed. Matches that wish to be recorded need to be recorded by one of the players. Additions ~ League of Legends (5 man teams) has been added by request of the previous Olympic Committee ~ Counter Strike: Global Offensive (3 man teams) has been added by request of the previous Olympic Committee ---------- You can sign up for the Olympics here. If you are an alliance that wishes to host some of the matches for the Olympics please DM me on Discord for more information. Orbis Olympics Broadcasting Partner Orbis Olympics Discord Server (needs some work but we're functioning)

I'll give somebody $3 if they can tell me what the unique strength and contribution of Spoeb is.

Seems like another way for alliances to manipulate the market, stronger alliances make more on stronger tariffs. This however does pull the Market Sharing feature into question. Instead of adding something like Tariffs why don't we buff Market sharing/alliance embargoes. You can set market sharing to say 0% and all other trades are at the 10% tariff rate. Just add to what's existing and make the current features better with more involvement/planning.

The answer was apparently "No".

@Demon of TFK Let's get some things straight here (in order of appearance): 1.) Ragnar is not a leader nor a popular figure in the nano realm. Your first mistake was to trust him, twice. You didn't learn from your mistake. 2.) The war between The Coven and Annunaki was over our protectorate ***IRON CLAD***. KODA hadn't even entered the picture and wouldn't for another 2 months. 3.) You realized that Camelot has ridiculous practices (for IA and ransoms) and you signed the Merlin Accords with them. Once again, repeating the issue of not learning from your mistake. 4.) Wars against some 5-8 member nanos for recruitment doesn't help in the long run. Hitting one guy and they having them join usually lasts for about a month. What NYK was doing was going to people, demanding they merge, then attacking them when they refused. What Witches & War Locked was doing was just raiding and then recruiting people who wanted peace. Don't demand merges then throw a temper tantrum when things don't go your way. As you complain, people want to play the game their own way. You can't force people and alliances to just go along with you. You have caused 95% of the problems you faced and your government has caused the other 5%. I'm both happy that you'll no longer be in leadership and sad that you've decided to try and blame others for your actions. My advice for you: 1.) On an international stage do not condemn a group of people based on your sole beliefs. There is a difference between saying "I don't want to speak about that" and voicing derogatory or demeaning remarks about other humans. 2.) Honor your agreements made. Being wishy washy and then backstabbing agreements made will never help your name, alliance or plans. 3.) Practice what you preach. Don't demand that people do something only for you to do the opposite. 4.) Be honest. Making up stories about others or falsifying facts (which are easily refutable) just makes you look like a scummy person. Be honest, be willing to admit defeats, shortcomings and mistakes. You had several opportunities to stay in an alliance and learn instead of trying to bulldoze your way into the community. Take 6 months. Chill. Come back and be willing to learn. Everyone, including myself, makes mistakes. You just need to make sure that your constant mistakes aren't seen as habit.

lEAkEd WaRCheST GoT 'EM!

Still funny how they have to rebrand every time so they can say that "X Name" alliance has never lost a war to Black Skies. Gods of Orbis - Surrendered to Black Skies Providentia - Surrendered with reps to Black Skies Atlas Corp - Surrendered to a single C14 with reps and admitted wrongdoings. Also, kudos to you Commo for flying the Black Skies flag as your pip. Clearly you recognize that you'd be ashamed to fly your own flag and want to fly the flag of the better alliance.

If you sign peace, you agree to it. If you agree to peace, you honor it. If you fail to honor it, you aren't able to negotiate. If you aren't able to negotiate, why bother speaking... I understand what the issue here is. Like Mac, Commo can't and won't honor his peace agreements until he's done what every single AlanFall has attempted to achieve, remove me from the game. Commo's kicked and screamed the entire time, faking apologies, fabricating CBs and lying daily to get what he wants. Now Providentia and Commo himself attacks Prusso Roman Imperial Union, our protectorate, violating PRIU's peace agreement and our NAP. What's more is he and his Members are trying to extort our protectorate for peace that was already signed. So here you are @Commo. The alliance, Mad Cow, sees that the only way to end the conflict is with one of two solutions. 1) Providentia and the leadership of the alliance changes its practices and honors its agreements. 2) I, unable to continue, delete. 21 alliances have tried it and failed. Now we'll see if Commo and Providentia can actually remove me from the game.

Bots and Automation Everything in this game from trading, recruitment, war declarations to spy ops, WC findings and banking is all done by AI. It's no longer a "How good are you at MA" or "How are you managing your economy". It's just whoever has the most inclusive bot wins. Destroys any chances for the newer alliances to get off the ground and really saps the bred talent from the new player base. Spies went public because of bots. Next thing they'll release is automated attacks for raids or automated banking when you run out of Uranium.......

DawnGuards and The Awakening have agreed to terms from Black Skies, signaling their exit from the Mad Cow Conflict. Dawn Guard accepts: DawnGuards pays 5% of all damage dealt by Providentia, The Awakening and DawnGuards as reparations (as of July 24th 2:00PM Game Time). DawnGuards agrees to pay all these funds back to Black Skies no more than 30 days after the official signing of the peace agreement. DawnGuards and Black Skies will meet to understand the grievances of DawnGuards on Black Skies. This meeting will be moderated by an impartial 3rd party. DawnGuards and Black Skies will sign a 2 month NAP. DawnGuards will sign a 1 month NAP with any other active combatants. The Awakening Accepts: Beans and Jokerkid agree to refrain from FA in DMs with Black Skies. Black Skies and The Awakening will limit FA communications to the most bare minimum. The Awakening and Black Skies along with a third party of The Awakenings choice will meet to discuss any and all grievances with one another. If a member of The Awakening declares on a member of Black Skies Post war within 30 days they waive the right to a rebuild from the alliance countering. If a member of Black Skies hits The Awakening post war within 30 days the member will be removed. Black Skies Accepts: Alan apologizes for the delay in members safekeep withdrawals and admits the safekeeping of Lasthearth should of been handled differently. Alan and Black Skies agrees that countering counters is wrong. Black Skies wish both parties best of luck in their endeavors and hopes that communication and time will heal any and all wounds.

Apologies, I've amended the thread to show the correct date.

Apologies, I'm allergic to bullshit. No funny RoH or RP post. If you don't want to look at my ripping apart of their lies please jump to the "Conclusion" at the bottom of the post. Let's take this CB apart bit by bit: "Theft from members safekeep." Both The Coven and it's rebrand of Black Skies has held clarity in it's banking and safekeeping. When Sanctuary merged into The Coven their alliance had roughly $2.1B of debt. I took it upon myself to agree to pay off the debt and give funds to members of Sanctuary for their safekeeps which were essentially deleted by Sanctuary's poor management of their EA department. When Beans (Onara) and Jokerkid (Canadiaa) left to remake their alliance there were 2 issues that arose. Joker claimed that his safekeep was taken by us in which I responded with this screenshot highlighting Joker's willingness to help repay their members lost safekeeps: A second issue that's been posted is about Lasthearth. However his safekeep was sent to him 3 days ago and was seen as a nonissue by Beans. My apologies to The Awakening for the delays in the return of that safekeeping: "Openly posting about paying for a nuclear attack." The post on Sam Cooper's forum post of Arrgh's Nuke Bidding War is not a legitimate bid. All bids must be sent to Sam Cooper in DMs as he explains. All of the posts on that page are not valid. "Not honoring peace agreements." We are committed as an alliance to uphold all peace agreements with all parties and individuals regardless of winning or losing. The most important thing in this game above all else is your word, without which you will be unable to be trusted, reliable or respected for your actions. In the 7 year history of me playing this game I've failed this twice: 1.) Once during an early exit from a global war (2021) and peace with NEXUS Bloc (Carthago, Order of the White Rose and House Stark). We failed to stay below the required maximum MMR when we feared we'd be hit by another alliance. NEXUS informed us, had we reached out first, they wouldn't have redeclared. 2.) The other time was a war with "Wolf Pack" (2018) when Black Skies was just a fledgling under The Lost Empire. We continued spy-ops on their members and was reprimanded by both Atlan and Poppa Onarus? for our actions. We have always kept to our word and demanded others do the same. Since reforming as The Coven and then rebranding we have never violated a peace agreement. "Bullying Nanos and Micros into merging." The Coven nor Black Skies has ever bullied or forced an alliance to merge into us. There have been several times where miscommunications have occurred and those parties have apologized to our government for those fails. Below are the apologies of 2 players (KATZEN of OTSN and KW of Iron Crow Syndicate) who claimed that we were forcing a merge but admitted later that the were either lied to by others or straight up did not read my messages correctly. "Use of Micro Minute for defamation." The Micro-Minute is a News/Drama organization that I run. My stories cover everything from bad nanos, poor business practices and multi users. The server is not a representation of Black Skies and my alliance much like how RON posts or OCN posts are not a representation of Lysander's and Xaria's alliances. This, if seen as a valid CB, would only target my nation. Not the entire alliance. As not to make this longer you may check out our server here to review some of the posts we make. "Repeated use of false CBs." I'm unsure what's meant by this. As The Coven we posted all of our War Weeks and CBs publicly for others to look at and vet. This ensured that we could continue to hit corrupt and toxic communities while still making sure we didn't become the villain. We were even praised by a few members of the community for making just and honest war declarations. Please see the following DoWs for examples of our CBs and the communities response: "Failure to conduct proper FA" I am currently banned from Providentia's discord server. I have been for almost 8 months now since the war between their old brand "Kingdom of Greece". Our FA has been conducted in our FA server until the recent changes in government and brand. We had to fight with then leader Mac to keep to his word after they agreed on peace. I am willing to open up this embassy to all viewers to see the FA that took place between us. You may join our FA server here. Once you do please DM me for view-only access. "False claims of DDos attacks to further agenda False claims of death threats to further agenda." Western Republic, Commo's old alliance accepted members from the then failing alliance "The Elites" (later Jotunheimr). In this alliance were members that leaked my real identity to news sources to damage the reputation of The Coven and to destroy relations with our then ally, The Fighting Pacifists. At the time I was working under the identity of "DamienW". There's a conversation where the then leader DeeC, high on pain relief pills, had a conversation with myself and Ashwin. After some time he then threatened that he'd release my identity to the rest of the game and force me out of the game for discussions that Mac (now leader of rebranded Gods of Orbis) and I had in DMs. 3 Hours after he threatened to release my identity and personal information to the game people picked up the news in OCN with Minesome even messaging me a kind "Hello" and ToxicPepper saying "it all makes sense now". Poseidon, a member of The Elites government, went a step further by attempting to reach out to people that could "hurt me". By re-releasing fake articles and doctoring them calling me a pedophile and a racist. Poseidon then said that if I didn't delete and quit that I "would sleep for a very long time". The faked posts slandering me can be found here: Faked post by HORDE EMPIRE claiming I was a pedophile Faked post by OCN claiming I used racial slurs (only if in Royal Orbis News) Conclusion These CBs are fake. They're more lies upon lies. Instead of simply saying "we don't like you" and hitting us Commo, Providentia & Company has decided to attempt to assassinate not only my character by the reputation of Black Skies. It's no secret that I'm not the Orbis Family Favorite. However what's occurred here is more than just a fake CB. I am deeply saddened that the game keeps reverting back to these fake excuses and lies time and time again. While I understand we don't have to be the best of friends I do ask that you, at the bare minimum, have the respect and decency to treat me as a human being. I am not trash.

Who are you calling a pheasant, peasant.

$950m Providentia

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People look at political, dev and experimental changes to the game and usually pick a lane, doomed to ride the RONicoaster until it drives wedges between groups. We have means of reuniting people via radio shows, game nights and even whacking other alliances. However what major events do people remember that was able to unite a large portion of the game? What major events did people steer clear of? A few people asked me if I was willing to do the Olympics again this year. Last Olympics was in 2021 where we had 32 alliances join in with over 140 participants. If people are genuinely interested in something like this again I'd be happy to work on another large scale event for the game. What would others like to see for a game-wide event?

Damn a war lasting all the way until the 100th day of the 100th month of the year 10,000. Reminds me of AlanFall when "Anti-Alan Coalition" demanded I pay $10B to them or I leave the game. What was NEXUS's response to the whole meme? "Get bent tiny man". By the way Carthago still owes Black Skies $24m. Looking forward to seeing that.

Firwof is always available still......

Please hold, we're rebuilding.

How to ostracize the big farmers in 1 easy step. GG to the billions they've put into land for the farms.