[DOW] Darkest Hour Deux

[Sketchy]

 

 

 

 

Can you find WANA?

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Why? Oh Why?

 

I’ve never been one for long-winded bloviating CB’s. I much prefer to shitpost. But in an effort to personally appease Roberts I will post my very important reasons for this declaration of war in a fat wall of text.

Syndicate has engaged in large levels of blatant hypocrisy, repeatedly. 

After justifying an entry against Florida for “Hegemonic Sphere Creation” as they labelled it, and attempting to pressure Florida to separate, they proceeded to consolidate a sphere significantly larger than Florida ever was, the largest sphere in the game by a wide margin, and continuously lied about the size and members of that sphere, up until the moment they no longer could.

They used this sphere to intimidate and pressure other alliances, through hard power, trying to isolate their main rival, Singularity, for an easier attack. After helping to interject and disrupt our own plans, preventing us from settling legitimate scores with other alliances, whilst their allies goaded conflict with us, we were left with no choice but to mount a pre-emptive suicide attack.

Despite our primary opposition in the previous war being one of their allies, and not them, Syndicate revealed the depths of their animosity by deciding to make themselves the center of attention, choosing to be the driving force behind the narrative attacks on Singularity. Syndicate positioned themselves at the forefront, attempting to shape the storyline.

They launched an attempted smear campaign on Keegoz, making baseless claims of design team bias without evidence, which they then proceeded to double down on, until the falseness of their claims was clearly established.

This on it’s own would have been enough to establish Syndicate’s vindictive disposition towards us, but they chose to cross an even further line, by attacking The Fighting Pacifists, solely for engaging in diplomacy with us, for a future treaty that was being actively discussed, and wouldn’t have been inked until AFTER the current war was finished. 

Examining the logic of this decision, it’s clear their intent. By striking a future ally, they hoped to weaken us further for a future conflict, whilst the current one was still ongoing. They wished to further isolate us with the threat of force against anyone who would dare sign us, after pressuring us to separate from Florida, and then consolidating themselves. They were preparing for a conflict against us that was yet to come, all whilst dragging out the current conflict for as long as possible, playing games to delay the conflict as long as they wanted. In short, they sought to keep us in a state of permanent isolation and war.

Well. We saw how that ended. Not exactly the finale you were hoping for. Now all these months later, I have to express some amusement at how things have turned out. How spectacularly that attempt backfired, and how avoidable this fate was, had you simply stayed out of our affairs, and not drawn our attention to you.

Now with all your options exhausted, all your attempts to sign other majors and build coalitions against us thwarted (Yes we know about those too), and apparently, all your allies gone, the long trail of lies and double dealing with everyone have left you back where it all started.

I will enjoy reading any parallels drawn between the accusations I’ve levied above, and the movements of Singularity over these past months. Because it was no accident. Each time you breach the rules of engagement, you put another weapon in my arsenal. I will happily meet you at the new line, and use the tools you give me, against you.

I was content to settle petty scores with alliances who had done us dirty, but you’ve forced me to play politics once more.

 Well, here we go again.

Darkest Hour Deux
 

[Eirik Bjornsson]

uh oh

[BettaChecka]

TL;DR

[Duluth]

I found Wana! There in vacation mode.

[Monti]

[Elesh Norn]

Congrats on your revenge.

[James II]

Good luck, and for Atom's sake please mind the civilians!

[His Holy Decagon]

[Neo Le]

beautiful.

[sheikh]

who cares why, its war after all

[Leroy-Jenkins]

who the !@#$ is wana

[MrBeast6000]

[Keegoz]

@Eumirbagomy patience paid off

[Milos]

Burn them down 🔥🔥🔥

[Alastor]

59 minutes ago, Sketchy said:

But in an effort to personally appease Roberts I will post my very important reasons for this declaration of war in a fat wall of text.

Edited August 18, 2024 by Alastor

[The Icy Parliment]

this is a cry for help (the foundation)
i am dying so hard rn

[Zygon]

[George Clooney]

I expected to be at war, but this isn't the war I expected.  Interesting.

 

[Frank_Underwood]

We are gonna end the t$ bullshit.

[Panky]

I mean... just one thing... I don't think your obsession with T$ is as double-sided as you say... 

On 8/17/2024 at 7:12 PM, Sketchy said:

trying to isolate their main rival

Their number one rival famm... y'all haven't rly done much to earn a rival spot..

[Kevanovia]

3 hours ago, Panky said:

I mean... just one thing... I don't think your obsession with T$ is as double-sided as you say... 

Their number one rival famm... y'all haven't rly done much to earn a rival spot..

Sweet summer child, if only you knew what you were saying. As someone with absolutely no bias in this situation *insert pause here* - for years t$ leadership have talked about the Sketchy/Keegoz boogeymen and vice-versa. Ever since CotL shacked up with Grumpy during Hedge, t$ and the group now known as Singularity have seemingly been at odds. (There are some issues that go further back than CotL for some of those dudes)