Agent W

It's morbin time.

Investor Contact: Vemek Media Contact: WANA The Syndicate has activated it’s 72 hour cancellation clause with Rose. Reasons for this move were communicated in private. I'd like to take this time to thank Rose for their passion, hard work, and camaraderie during our time together in Celestial. You guys were a pleasure to work with, and I wish you nothing but my best as we both move forward. /s/ WANA – Chief Global Strategist Lucas – Chief Operations Officer Vemek – Chief Financial Officer Golden Pope – Chief Security Officer About SYNDICATE, INC., SYNDICATE, Inc., based near Nassau, The Bahamas, is the world's leading gasoline, aluminum and munitions distributor for a wide variety of peacekeeping and humanitarian activities. Wholly-owned SYNDICATE, Inc. subsidiary brands include The Enterprise, which provides development and growth opportunities for multinational prodigies around the globe. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact WANA, Chief Global Strategist.

Hello Friends, As you are likely aware by now, a state of hostilities exist between Rose/Eclipse and Grumpy, Guardian, and Oblivion. As it should also be clear, the Syndicate has decided not to partake in this war unless we are obligated to due to our treaties. Many people have questions, so I am going to be explaining our position, how we got here, what went wrong, and how we’re moving forward. Since the end of last war, the Syndicate has been planning on leaving or significantly pairing down Celestial. We understood that if we kept Celestial around as the largest sphere, our options were limited, and so began to brainstorm what a new path might look like for the Syndicate. While the Syndicate was considering its options on how to proceed, we were approached by certain elements on plans for an offensive. At the time, the Syndicate declined to participate, because hitting someone immediately after a rebuild is a bad precedent to set, even if you are angry. As our plans to transition got underway, we informed Rose that we’d no longer be interested in an offensive, this was especially so with us planning on transitioning to a new sphere. Rose however proposed that they would hit GGO with Eclipse. It is not my place to tell other alliances what they can or cannot do, so I informed them that I would honor our treaty should they come under attack from TKR. It is not my intent to get involved in this conflict, but I am a man of my word, and I will not have it be said that tS doesn’t defend her allies. I thought this would be a middle ground between not jeopardizing Rose’s plans, and allowing the Syndicate to do what’s best for itself and the community. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re keenly aware of the leaks that got widely disseminated on the 24th of August. After this past war with Hollywood, the Syndicate and I personally was enraged at being hit twice in a row by Hollywood, especially under no pretense of a CB. While I don’t believe my desire to get revenge is unfounded or unjust, the ways it was being considered on how to carry it out were. This desire for revenge, coupled with the rumor mill, led me to believe that TKR-GGO intended to remain linked through a secret treaty. I chose to believe it at the time, but it is clearly untrue. It's a good lesson in verifying with the appropriate sources, and not believing the worst in others. Since I’ve been the Chief Global Strategist of the Syndicate, I have found myself locked in a cycle of conflict with the forces of Hollywood, and I’ve let myself become blinded by the need to compete with them. Our fixation on alliance’s like Grumpy has led to us disregarding large swathes of the game, and coming off as hostile and disinterested in the broader affairs of Orbis. If I were to continue to go down this path, it would only lead to darkness, and the type of politics we all vowed to fight against many moons ago. It is clear that the Syndicate must take a step back, and re-evaluate what its current politics have wrought. I don’t imagine this will be a comfortable process, but things worth doing rarely leave you in your comfort zone. The Syndicate must choose to walk the road to a new dawn. -WANA Chief Global Strategist

In our agreement you mentioned you had no CB on us. Glad to see you're not even pretending you do.

Our ROI thanks you, friend.

We didn't stay mil'd up because it benefits us more to be able to reap the economic benefits of being demil'd. Given the past actions of Clock chaining, we decided to enter into this agreement to manage the risks of Clock trying to chain. This is an insurance policy. Insurance protects you from risk. The vast majority of adults willingly pay for insurance even if they never have to make a claim. I have not said we're the victims. Nor do I think Clock is the "bad" guy. I do not see the world in such a black and white manner. I know that Clock is unhappy with this move. Your unhappiness with this move is valid, even if you are distorting my character.

In case it is entirely clear at this point, let me spell some things out here for the broader community. During the lead up to the MO war, myself and Ataxia engaged in talks to de-escalate that conflict. This led to us getting cold feet approaching the blitz. In the Blackwater leadership server, BW leadership was debating the merits of going through with the hit. I relayed these concerns to Keegoz, and started a dialogue with him about it. Ultimately, I decided to offer Keegoz a deal that I thought would limit the negative externalities of such a hit. I asked Keegoz for a mutual guarantee not to aid HW in a hit against the other, and for plausible deniability if Clock did choose to hit Rose. At the time, and both my government, allies, and former allies can confirm this, Rose was not my concern, as I viewed them as a friendly entity. It was in this view that I wanted to ensure that the Rose-tS relationship wouldn't be trashed if Clock decided to hit them. I didn't want Rose to be hit, but I believed that Clock would hit them regardless of our involvement, and was correct in my assumption. Hell, as I mentioned before, I felt so icky about the whole thing that I even decided to tell Rose prior to the hit. During the time of the MO war, my biggest fear is that we would get hit by Hollywood. I understood that Hollywood was upset from Brawlywood, and wanted to try and avoid a repeat war. This is borne out by actions and words at the time, and I think Hollywood knew this at the time. Ultimately the MO war was unsuccessful at buying us cover from HW, which I think is fair to critique me for. Since I took over as FA Executive, I have had a strong working relationship with Rose, which ultimately allowed for the creation of Celestial. What motivation would I have had for trashing a relationship I had worked so hard to cultivate. Ask yourself, based on my relationship to Rose, why would I throw it away for Clock's benefit? It doesn't make logical sense. As for the current uproar over the HW-Celestial agreement, you can think of it as risk management and nothing more. HW and Celestial are strange bedfellows, with enough hurt feelings between the two to require years worth of therapy. The fact that this agreement could even get passed should tell you how seriously we viewed the threat of Clock deciding to chain. Ultimately, the ball is in Clock's court at the moment. The power to send this agreement to the shredder is in their hands. I do not desire war nor enmity towards Clock or its member alliances. You guys know where to find me if/when you guys want to engage in good faith dialogue.

I am saddened by this. OWR were an enjoyable group, and Sval was the right mix of competent and compassionate. I hope that your community can thrive irrespective of your desire to play the game.

Did you guys misread my intent that badly? Hopefully this should clarify.

Desperation is a bad look for you, Keegoz. Leaking months old logs about a war long since litigated? Not to mention that you're telling the story wrong, as you usually do. Let me clear things up. Blackwater had concerns about going to war with MO under the pretense you wanted to use. We were getting to the point where we were looking to call off our hit. I approached you with a deal that might let us proceed with the war. You agreed to that deal, but as usual, you act like a scumbag. I found out when we signed Rose that you had leaked those logs to HW, and they had in turn made their way to Rose. Even back then you were acting scummy. Fortunately, because I know how you operate, I informed Rose of Clock's plan to hit them prior to the blitz. You can continue to dig your reputation into a bottomless chasym, though. I'll continue to sleep soundly at night. Also, just for funsies, apparently you have no qualms working with other spheres.

I think this fits us.

I think this is the correct take. It’s a pretty unique agreement.

I wonder what happened immediately after that war that may have caused this. Reflect on your actions before you ask me to.

I didn’t peak in 2016, I’m still out here getting cuter.

I’m well aware of history. It’s just lame that people are taking potshots on a party the thread isn’t about.

An early contender for best DoW of the year.

Friend, a lesson in FA. You don’t ever say the silent part out loud. What type of box? You selling Series X’s? Not sure why our name is randomly coming up. Though I do appreciate getting to live so cheaply in the heads of randoms. Old soldiers never die, and they don’t fade away. I’ve literally never seen someone go into a thread and fumble the bag this hard.

Those are some high quality logs. Might build myself a desk. Maybe a log cabin? Please don’t drive food production down too much ok?

Hola

All of you together, like Iron Lords.

Happy birthday, Carthago. May you continue to grow fat from strength.

Agreed on that one. Whatever people want to make of the politics, Grumpy has been a resounding success, and you cannot tell the story of P&W without them. Congrats on the milestone, y’all.

It’s an illogical leap. You can choose what you choose to believe, doesn’t make it true. Your argument is “neither of the tiers we’re stronger in matter.” I suppose cherry picking does make the mental gymnastics easier to perform. Don’t blame me for the death of multipolarity, that ship was in disrepair due to the moves of others. Were the two smaller spheres just supposed to be happy with the prospect of being non-competitive with others?

Are you implying that the mega-whale tier and 0-20 tier don’t matter? That’s not very nice of you. Where did I make any comment about how a war with Clock would go? It seems you believe that because I don’t intend to pursue a war with HW, that I intend to pursue a war with Clock. That’s a pretty big assumption.

Don’t you think that HW adding TI and Clock adding Voodoo forced us to consider how to remain competitive? I think what’s being misunderstood here is just your final point. The option to straight up merge BW/MHC was there, but that’s not what we did, because that sort of move would have done what everybody is accusing us of. Both Rose and tS had to make some tough decisions on who to ask to be a part of this sphere, so doing a straight up merge would’ve been the easy route. Your name is coming up a lot, considering nothing about the OP has anything to do with you. What I’d argue is more hypocritical is this. Your alliance leader defending Rose against HW because of your own accusations of them being a hegemony then deciding to join that same grouping after a catastrophic misreading of reality.