Darth Ataxia

It was actually 80bn

Happy Birthday, Cam.

Here’s to losing more infra this year!

Cam has been pulling some Ws lately. Here is another one.

Enjoy your retirement, Wana. It’s a bit of a shame that your tenure as t$ FA didn’t work out how you had envisioned. I enjoyed our convos. Tarroc, good luck. You’ve been around t$ long enough now to know what needs to be done and hopefully what not to emulate.

This should be interesting and I hope for TFP’s sake that this bloc works out better for them than the previous one did. I’ll also echo what Roberts said in a post above. Release the treaty text if it exists (if it doesn’t, why doesn’t it?). Doing so will allow people to figure out the political ramifications of everything and start to maneuver around the treaty as they see fit. Best of luck to all parties involved. O7

He’s taking a cold shower as we speak.

Oh my bad. I thought i was in carthago for a second

So are you asking for Honey to be added as a resource instead of water now?

Before I make a few points, allow me to stress that @Darth Revanwill be offering our primary response to this otherwise laughable attempt to justify lying and reneging on your word. Kudos on being willing to post an RoH and attempt to argue back against the claims brought against Carthago. I would hope more alliances take note and follow your lead, albeit with more accuracy. You deserve a second kudos in addition to the first for this appears to be the first RoH that I'm aware of that supports the case of the attacking party rather than disparaging or weakening it. This would be a strong argument had Daveth not followed up two days later to assure us that payments would begin. Additionally the eight billion over eight months offer was the second offer amounting to eight billion. Please see our Statement of Facts points, 45 and 41 respectively. Krampus being in exam season is irrelevant given that he engaged in a meaningful manner and made an offer amounting to eight billion, twice. Exam season does not meet the bar for offer invalidation when these offers occur and then another Carthago member follows up to let us know payments would begin "asap". Thank you for assisting us in proving our first claim against you! "CTO knowingly backed out on the agreement between CTO and HS regarding the 8 billion paid over 8 months that was agreed to on February 8, 2023...." Secondly, this post, in and of itself supports our fourth and fifth claims against you. This is the first time we are seeing any of this information despite asking about it a number of times and certainly the first time we are seeing it since you backed out on the deal that was made. Additionally, as you graciously point out, the bank was mismanaged to such an extent that it apparently lost a ton of capital, all without a peep from the CEO. Assuming that the numbers provided are accurate, this information was also never provided to HS upon request and clearly shows mismanagement at the least. "CTO, through Krampus, has mismanaged The Foundation generally through lack of staff, not updating documents, policies, or channels, not providing systems for Stakeholders to safely and adequately withdraw their investments...." and "CTO has refused to allow other Stakeholders to view bank documents that they have a right to access or would show that CTO has been conducting business in a foul fashion under the excuse that HS was looking to divest from the bank, ignoring the fact that HS had not yet divested from the bank....." Again, thank you for further justifying some of our claims! We claimed our 2.6 mil shares at the last reported share price by the CEO. Krampus made clear in his statements that OWR's shares were not split to HS and CTO but added to the bank capital. Of course, this is just an excuse for CTO to pocket OWR's money and gains. This is claim is just a lie, plain and simple. Please refer to the Statement of Facts. Based on this date, I was with my wife while she was in labor. Apologies on not having Krampus' business acumen to make business deals while otherwise occupied. Had I made a business deal though, I understand that I would be held to it. That brings my limited response here to a close. As mentioned at the beginning, Revan will be responding to the bulk of this OP. Thank you guys again for helping confirm some of our CBs and leaving the remainder unaddressed.

I would never.

King Ataxia sat upon the throne in the grand hall of Winterfell. He and his Council had been listening to petitions and requests throughout the morning and it was close to midday meal. As the final petitioner left the hall, Ataxia stood up and stretched. “Well gents, let’s eat shall we?” He said before taking a few short steps to a table with lunch laid out for him and his council. As they began eating, a courtier came into the hall. “Sorry to disturb you my King, we’ve just received a diplomat from Carthage claiming to be here regarding our investment in our overseas bank. I thought it may be prudent to receive them now before the hunt this afternoon.” Ataxia sighed and put down the turkey leg he had been gnawing on. Disturbing a meal was never great, but the bank negotiations had been ongoing for over half a year at this point and he and his Council had been relying on these funds to further prepare for winter. “Show him in and let’s hope he brought a chest of gold with him.” Ataxia ordered. The courtier bowed and went toward the hall entrance to retrieve the diplomat. “Hobbes, please go get our Carthaginian friend some bread and salt.” Hobbes got up and exited to the kitchens. The doors to the great hall opened and the courtier reentered with the Carthaginian diplomat. He halted at the foot of the table and stood quietly, unbowed. Hobbes reentered with a plate containing a loaf of bread and a small bowl of salt. He walked up to the diplomat and offered up the plate. “Welcome, to Winterfell friend.” The diplomat looked at the plate but made no move to partake. Hobbes glanced toward Ataxia with a raised eyebrow. “We have considered Carthage friends for many years, please let us grant you the guest right.” Samani said The diplomat took in a deep breath and grabbed the bread and took a bite of it before grabbing a pinch of salt and placing it on his tongue. Ataxia smiled and then sat down to resume eating. The other members of his council did the same. “Please, take a seat and let us know what news you bring. I would hope there is a chest accompanying you.” The diplomat grimaced. “I’m afraid not, your Majesty. I bring no chest, only a note from the honorable men of Carthage.” He reached into his tunic, pulled out a scroll, unrolled it, skimmed it and then looked up to Ataxia. “Carthage disagrees that there was an agreement to pay eight billion gold dragons. ‘Despite the current leadership of Carthage and that of the Foundation Bank offering the amount with subsequent assurance of payment, we decline to pay you the previously agreed amount.’” “That is unacceptable. The “honorable” men of Carthage decline to provide us payment, they decline to provide our dividends, they decline to stand by their word and intend to do what? Ataxia said “They want you to offer some amount less than what the shares are worth, your Majesty. From what the scroll reads, preferably something along the lines of two point six billion gold dragons.” Revan spoke up. “They want us to throw away all of our gains and take back our original investment. That will allow them to pocket the work that our capital did for the bank.” The diplomat rolled the scroll and placed it back in his tunic. “That is correct and since you’re on the other side of the ocean, they fully expect you to come to this agreement.” “The issue, ser, is that we already had an agreement. Your organization gave your word. You can’t just back out on it and expect nothing of consequence to happen.” Ataxia said, rising from his seat. The diplomat reached into his tunic again. “Your majesty, we know that nothing will happen. The North moves slowly or not at all. We could get away with murder.” he said with a grin before whipping his hand out of his tunic and launching a dagger towards King Ataxia. Ataxia jerked his head to the side in the nick of time. Instead of impaling itself in his head, it cut a long gash along his cheek. Blood spurted from the wound as Hobbes leapt up from his seat and grabbed a carving fork from the roast on the table. The diplomat turned and began to run towards the entrance of the hall but Hobbes was faster. Even as the guards lowered their spears and prepared to stop the would be assassin from leaving he caught up, pounced as if he were a tiger and tackled the man to the ground. Without so much as a pause to offer him mercy he stabbed the fork into the man’s neck. Blood spurted across the stone floor as the man’s life drained from the gaping wound in his throat. Hobbes stood up as the man continued his death throes. King Ataxia was holding a cloth to his cheek that was slowly turning red with blood. “Call the banners. Have them meet us with all the men they can muster at White Harbor.” He said. “From there we set sail across the narrow sea to pay Carthage a visit.” Introduction After nearly eleven months of negotiation, stonewalling, and back tracking on agreements, House Stark has no further recourse but to declare war on Carthago for their handling, mismanagement, antipathy, and general hostility regarding the paying out of House Stark’s investment and shares in The Foundation Bank. All attempts to remedy this have been exhausted and House Stark has been more than patient throughout this ordeal. This matter could have been and was nearly resolved but for Carthago backing out on their word. We have been delayed at every juncture of improvement only to be set back to stage one. We thank TFP for attempting to patch things up and try to assist in ensuring a solution is reached but our patience is at an end and the bill has come due. By order of Darth Ataxia, the King in the North, House Stark and her banners declare war on Carthago until satisfaction is received. Detailed reasoning is laid out below in the linked Statement of Facts. Statement of Facts Herein lies a timeline with supporting screenshots. To the best of our knowledge and research everything is accurate. Should one of the picture links fail to work due to a permission error, please let us know. Claims (casus bellis) CTO knowingly backed out on the agreement between CTO and HS regarding the 8 billion paid over 8 months that was agreed to on February 8, 2023, using their newfound political capital and membership from the TDR absorption to attempt to leverage a lower price than what was agreed to. CTO has willfully conducted business off the books and therefore misallocated funds. OR CTO has purposefully stolen the money in the Foundation, possibly prior to the disbandment of OWR, with no intention of returning it to the Stakeholders and Shareholders. CTO, through Krampus, has mismanaged The Foundation generally through lack of staff, not updating documents, policies, or channels, not providing systems for Stakeholders to safely and adequately withdraw their investments, and not providing a system for Stakeholders or their representatives to remove a CEO who is not operating in the best practices for the benefit of the business. CTO has refused to allow other Stakeholders to view bank documents that they have a right to access or would show that CTO has been conducting business in a foul fashion under the excuse that HS was looking to divest from the bank, ignoring the fact that HS had not yet divested from the bank. CTO has refused to pay dividends that were requested under the excuse that HS was looking to divest from the bank, ignoring the fact that HS had not yet divested from the bank and after paying dividends for several months after HS made it known they would be looking to cash out. By simply dissolving OWR’s shares and adding their money to The Foundation itself, CTO de facto gave themselves an additional 8.4 billion dollars due to holding sole control of the funds. CTO has continually treated HS as a shareholder throughout the process using the associated lower status to offer original share ppu rather than treating them as an equal stakeholder in the business. TLDR: House Stark declareS war on Carthago for backing out on an agreement to pay HS a sum of money for their stake in their shared business as well as few related secondary claims.

Maybe next time you’ll give a fight worth waking up for. Have a good rebuild 🙂

Goodbye ASM, may you all have good fortune in the wars to come, wherever you end up.

Excuse me, Mr. Propane. Can I buy some Propane and/or Propane accessories to heat a castle in a very cold, very long winter? Heated water turns our frogs gay.

Too bad, them’s the facts.

Good morning Ser Bollocks. We were here prior to it becoming a dogpile and prior to Fortuna being the goal. Sorry your feelings are hurt but those are the facts at least as far as HS’ involvement goes. Yeah, except for that we mutually split up so that dog won’t hunt.

strange times, have some fun

From Winterfell, Seat of House Stark and the King in the North To: All Loyal Bannermen of the Northern Houses, sworn to their liege lord, Darth Ataxia. Effective immediately, all Bannermen of House Stark are to arm themselves and assemble their armies at Moat Cailin. Once there we are marching on the lands of Fortuna, which are ripe and rich for the taking. For too long House Eclipse has built their Babylonian Tower, blocking the sun and hindering our crops as we prepare for winter. The long shadow by their tower and riches is not matched in Westeros or Orbis, except in their aloof air of superiority that they flaunt and hold above all who dare to wander near their lands. They sought to avoid Winter, to avoid the inevitable, but when you actively avoid the inevitable, it only brings it to your hearth faster. Furthermore it is rumored that Eclipse condones the French Nationality. There is little that is more disgusting and sickening to the soul than France and we can not allow this to stand. Additionally, we march on Weebunism. Weebs are pitiful beings and unavoidable no matter where you go in life, but the weebs of House Stark are superior to any Weeb that Fortuna can put to field. We shall show them what good Weebs can do. This also means that we will be marching on old friends as well. Poor, lost beings that have sought refuge in the shadow of House Eclipse. The Bank of the $yndicate and the Legion of Rome will be on the field. We had the honor to call them friends and allies in days past. Now we have the honor of meeting them in the field as foes. With luck we shall liberate them from the bonds of House Eclipse and set them free. This decree has been signed and ordered by Ataxia of House Stark, First of his Name, Protector of the Realm, Friend of $nek, Gator Whisperer, Lord of Direwolves, and KING IN THE NORTH. TLDR: HS declares war on Fortuna, specifically, Eclipse for being a haughty entity and harboring the French, Weebunism for having inferior weebs, and T$/Legion to liberate them and set them free.

If this is what treaty maps look like without @MinesomeMC, then I no longer wish to have eyes.

Wut

Congrats to Camelot and NpO for putting aside their differences and tying.

Nope. The treaties are non-chaining and HS is not a member of Florida.

Legend says that when the Direwolf and Griffin come together that the white winds of Winter have no chance at prevailing and that summers will be long and bountiful for the Realm. The House of the Griffin and House Stark joined their banners and called each other friends once before and now they do so again. Salt and bread has been shared and the Guardian flag hangs over the walls of Winterfell as a token of our friendship and a message to all who would wish Winter upon Orbis. With Griffins watching the skies and our Direwolves roaming the ground, the Others and whoever else comes to our walls will break as water on a rock. Behold the articles binding our Houses. [I] Mutual Defense Both parties are obligated to come to the defense of the other should they be attacked. [II] Optional Aggression Either signatory may opt to cooperate in the other’s offensive wars, should they so choose. [III] Non-Aggression and Conduct Both signatories are obligated to work in each other's best interest and not conduct nor endorse action against the other. [IV] Sovereignty Both signatories acknowledge and agree to protect the other's sovereignty and exclude themselves from the other's internal affairs. [V] Intelligence Both signatories recognize the role of intelligence in each's security and agree to share information without hesitance or alteration in the spirit of mutual defense. [VI] Non-Chaining In the event a signatory is obligated to defend a third party, Article I becomes Optional. [VII] Cancellation Both signatories are free to cancel this treaty at any time, but must provide a 72-hour notice to the other. These Articles are effective immediately and authorized by the below signatories. For Guardian -High Gov Vanek, JtTeE, Memph, and all their murderous Griffins For House Stark and the North The King in the North: Darth Ataxia The Hand of the King: Samani Archmaester: Hobbes Lord Commander: Achilleus Master of Coin: Darth Revan The Wisdom of the Alchemist: Guild: Nero

Oh, it’s beautiful.