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Letters from the Capitalis de Societate
Topic Started: Sep 19 2011, 08:54 PM (7,103 Views)
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September 19 2011

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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

Greetings! The United Defenders League has been really pleased with these past few weeks and all the successes that have transpired. We've been elated with a series of successful liberations during the past few weeks. Several regions were liberated; Communist Russia, Sev Space, Katasia, Serenidad, Stargate, The United Kingdom of Britain and Middle Earth. Facing opposition from a multitude of leading raider organizations, I believe this reaffirms to our Merrymen and the rest of NationStates that a successful liberation can prevail even against untold resistance from those who try to usurp control of regions' administrations from their respective native communities.

Perhaps we will remember those sentiments as we look to the devastation of the Proletariat Coalition in recent days; raider forces have swarmed said region, clamouring for some form of ochlocratic 'justice'. We here in the United Defenders League greatly sympathize with the native community. I myself have always feared what will happen to my own region if I were no longer active in the game, would it be targeted? Would my friends or people who haven't even *met* me be punished for my beliefs or mistakes? The raid on the Proletariat Coalition to me resembles kicking a veteran down when he is older and frailer; I'm certainly not going to let this harassment continue and I expect the Greenwood Band to do all it can in its power to return the region's leadership back to its community. Kudos to the many spunky natives of the Proletariat Coalition who have spoken out against the invasion on the Regional Message Board with an admirable fidelity; hope and spirit is not futile, my friends and my private heroes.

On a more cheery note, our movie night was a raving success and we will be doing another movie night at the beginning of October, so watch out for that. Furthermore, in the past few weeks we've been trying to quickly expand our diplomatic relations across NationStates, befriend who we can and get to know the native communities better that we've sworn to protect. If we haven't already, you may see us approach your main region about establishing an embassy to receive letters like these -- if you're not approached, please feel free to apply for embassies on our forums (1. Apply as a Herald, 2. Apply for Embassies).

The Native Rights Watch is also trying to get off the ground although is still looking for a Vice Executive Director; Contact Goobergunchia, the Executive Director of the NRW, or myself if you're interested in that position. I believe the NRW is considering writing and publishing an essay on the situation in Greece, including advocating for a diplomatic solution.

Quotation of the Update, Tim-Opolis's depiction of the Merrymen's successful liberation of the United Kingdom of Britian:

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October 1 2011
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

DISCLAIMER: IF YOU DON'T WANT TO READ ALL OF THIS, FLIP TO THE TWO FINAL NOTES.

Greetings! The United Defenders League has been developing quite a bit in this past week or so, during such time we've been increasing our embassies to branch out to native communities across NationStates. I'm also happy to say that we've signed our first security programme with a region and looking forward to providing it with special security provisions and analysis for the future; the region in question has had a rough time in previous months, having been raided twice in the same month, so we're happy to help in any way possible to get their community back on their feet and a bit more secure from external intimidation.

Last week, we watched in anxiety as our friend and fellow merryman, Glen-Rhodes, lost an opportunity to be commended by a NERVE-RACKING conclusion; a 4,585 to 4,583 vote defeat. Nonetheless, a redraft has been submitted and is available to approve here. Our hearts go to Glen-Rhodes in the hopes that he gets the recognition he deserves this time around.

Since raiding activity has been centralized around the Proletariat Coalition, we've been taking the time to improve our forums and our internal workings; getting our own organization prepared for regular spotting of raider activity, designing an operational system and other... really hush hush stuff that I'd have to kill you if I told you about. However we did recently participate along with TITO in a defense of Anarchy from some internal instability (it just occurred to me how silly that phrase sounds beside the region's name), so we weren't completely useless this week to NationStates abroad thankfully.

We did attempt to liberate the Proletariat Coalition, but the general consensus is forty-five or so soldiers that made up the forlorn hope (many of whom were attending their first liberation) were not disciplined enough to combat a formidable foe. Kudos to the Texan military and the Founderless Regions Alliance Rangers for providing troops for that attempt. Nonetheless, the Merrymen along with I, swore an oath to protect the innocent and strive for native salvation even in "the face of intense adversaries,". Last Sunday for us was a nervous first stadium gig; we jittery awoke one morning and found forty people on our communication channel, now that we know it's attainable and within our reach, it's time to hunker down and do it once and for all.

In the past few months I've been really pleased with all the great people that the organization has attracted and this past week has been no exception. Just to drop a few names: commended players, Ballotonia and Goobergunchia, the South Pacifician Chairman of the Assembly and all around nice guy, Hileville and the well-known generalitie, the Rich-Port have all recently joined. I look forward to working with all them; something that I've learned with defending is these organizations aren't possible without people chipping in and helping out. Perhaps it is written in the very fabric of defending, since one needs an endorsement to defend.

The United Defenders League has a new policy regarding Nazi regions and other regions of obvious social offense, essentially it entails not defending or liberating such regions because many of our members have very reasonable personal problems with helping these regions and even making said missions optional was putting too much pressure on them to attend for my liking as a leader. You can visit the fully policy here. If you're a member of a region that you think may not qualify for support from the United Defenders League under the new policy and are concerned, please contact me via telegram at Unibot II.

TWO FINAL NOTES,
  1. THE UNITED DEFENDERS LEAGUE will be organizing its monthly movie-night for tomorrow, October 2nd at 22:00 EDT. Please visit our IRC channel, #udl on Espernet (server) near that time if you wish to attend. Generally the channel is our private military channel, but we open it up for the public for our movie nights. We will be watching the classic (and IMO corny as hell) "The Adventures of Robin Hood" according to a poll conducted among the Merrymen.
  2. I'd like to finish each update with a question, so you can chat in this thread about it. Defenders often have to debate moral dilemmas and this was one that was brought up recently....
QUESTION FOR THE THREAD: Some have suggested that if regions like the Proletariat Coalition were not liberated, NationStates overall would be safer, since raiders would be congregated mostly in one region. Would it be 'right' for a defender to refrain from liberating on this basis? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter.

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October 25 2011
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

These past few weeks have been busy for the United Defenders League although the raider world was mostly congregated in the Proletariat Coalition and then Utopia and now Anarchy and Osiris. During these periods of high raider centralization our institution has to focus on building up its numbers and organizing to conduct these sorts of large missions. Missions were attempted several times in Utopia; many of us who observed the raid have a personal connection with Utopia, some helped to liberate it back when it was held by the Alliance of Dictators and I wrote and passed the initial liberation proposal. I am glad to announce that although the Phantom Knights and the Alliance of Dictators tried to motion for the destruction of the region, the United Defenders League did finally liberate Utopia on Oct. 23. Coincidentally, the raiders were able to kick-ban the intended lead and it was the mission’s newbie who actually prevailed. So congratulations to Grackalack!

Now if liberating Utopia wasn’t nostalgic enough for some of our members, liberating “A Liberal Haven” surely was:
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<@Goobergunch> I've defended it in my ADN capacity -_-
<Unibot> o_0
<Unibot> Should be like old times then.
<@harmoneia> reminiscent ^_^


All jokes aside, we’re really happy A Liberal Haven’s oppressors were overthrown (on Canadian Thanksgiving too!) and the United Defenders League was able to quickly help that community get back on its feet. The Black Hawks were outnumbered and overpowered by Merrymen and Rangers, 8-3 in successfully updated endorsements. Best of luck to A Liberal Haven in the future and the Dirty South and several other regions we defended over these past two weeks. But of course everyone’s attention is on the creation of Balder and Osiris, the game’s newest “sinker” regions. We decided as an institution to enter Balder and secure some sort of stable framework for a native government. Since any situation like Balder or Osiris will be a large power vacuum featuring military foreign forces in fierce competition, it ultimately takes some sort of organized movement of endorsements to empower the average resident in Balder or Osiris over the direction of their region. This couldn’t be done without cooperation from Europeia and many others who have also being doing a great job helping to safeguard the region in its early days. Furthermore, I’m happy to announce Balder’s elections for WA Delegate are almost done as I write this update; it looks like Luxembourg is going to be the first elected delegate of Balder by a landside vote, but nonetheless congratulations to whoever wins that electoral race. It was a ton of fun running Balder’s candidate’s debate and serving as Balder’s leader for these past few days, although I personally can’t wait to return “Robin Hood” to the Greenwood and continue the fight against the injustices of our world.

I'd like to officially welcome St. George and New Kervoskia to the Chiefs of Staff. St. George has been a merryman for a while and has been a great member, assisting us with those tedious minor updates; St. George has a lot of experience recruiting for his past regions and is looking forward to developing the Recruitment system for the United Defenders League as he takes on the position of Chief of Recruitment. New Kervoskia, former TNP delegate (and my former NS boss!) and well known bureaucrat from those circles has joined the Greenwood Band as our Chief of Feeder Affairs, essentially our Chief Herald will be conducting the usual embassy and treaty relations with feeders but New Kervoskia will act as a consultant on matters relevant to feeder politics. Feel free to reach New Kervoskia at his public office, here. We’ve also had some lovely new entries to the United Defender’s League in the past few days including: South Boston Irishmen, a well-known player from one of our consociates, United Kingdom and also Earth22 and Oliver the Menac—Mediocre, our resident bookworms and patrons of the Library. Best of luck to them in the organization!

Finally we’re going to have our movie night on Saturday, Oct. 29 22:00 EDT. The film will be “Robin Hood”, the Disney version which seems to be a bit of a cult classic. Yes it’s the one with the sexy talking fox *sniggers*. As always our IRC military channel (#udl on Espernet) will be open to the public and all are invited for the movie night.

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* +Ballotonia is using the nation Free4All. It's been a LONG time since that one has seen defender action.
<@Unibot> Holy shit.
<@Goobergunch> XD
* @Unibot bows.
<@Unibot> Not worthy.
<@Unibot> Not worthy.
<+Carta> rofl
<+Carta> ._.
<+Ballotonia> If only the battle could be fought in terms of nation population :p
<@Unibot> Hahahahaa.
<+Carta> lol
<@Goobergunch> Then I'd have to use Goobergunchia for everything =/
<+Carta> xd
<+Earth> xD
<@Unibot> I'd have to stop getting deleted. >_>


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United Kingdom and also Earth22 and Oliver the Menac—Mediocre, our resident bookworms and patrons of the Library. Best of luck to them in the organization!


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November 05 2011
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

First news of the week is the promotion of Ballotonia and Eluvatar to the rank of Lieutenant, this places them above the grunts, but beneath the self-important pencil-pushers like me. Congratulations to both of these soldiers, these promotions were well-deserved and I cannot stress enough how much effort they’ve been putting into the United Defenders League. Ballotonia joined our group asking to work as a grunt regardless of his extensive history as a defender; he’s demonstrated his commitment, expertise and leadership in every way, so much so that my Lieutenant and I felt it would be absolutely absurd not to promote him to Lieutenant. Eluvatar first got involved with the United Defenders League after I helped him refound Taijitu, but his assistance in the United Defenders League has been way beyond expectations, he’s helped out with admin duties, building some new equipment, has been fulfilling his duties as Chief of Intelligence diligently and has even taken on the duties of Chief Lieutenant while Spartz has been away on vacation. Seriously, the United Defenders League would not be what it is today without these two individuals and I know that the organization really appreciates all of the time and effort they’ve been putting into the United Defenders League. Keep it guys.

Unfortunately, the other offers for promotion to Lieutenant were rejected, namely Frattastan, Arch-Chancellor of the Founderless Regions Alliance and Tramiar, General of The Black Hawks. I haven't the foggiest clue why…

I'd like to announce that the United Defenders League has a new policy to help resuscitate defender unity; it’s occurred to us that our fellow defenders are making the same sort of sacrifices as we are and so we should keep the badmouthing of other defender organizations private. ADN can suck my blue and white tripartite! Oops, sorry, it’s habitual. Maybe I have Tourett—Yo Group’s so fat, the only thing you defend is the existence of Jenny Craig. Alright, I have a problem. What's next thing on the agenda to discuss?

I'm happy to say on a personal note, Harmoneia and I are getting NS married; we're waiting on my best man to return from vacation to determine a date for the wedding.

On to a gloomier subject: the situation in Anarchy is worsening, but I appreciate how strong and resilient the native community has been in Anarchy and the United Defenders League wants them to know that their hope is not in vain. Lone Wolves United has been motioning for the destruction of the region, gathering help from Nazi groups and ejecting and banning natives. Our prearranged attempt to liberate Anarchy unfortunately hit a snag: the server suffered from lag, it took many of us twenty seconds or more to move into the region. Certainly a frustrating series of events, but it is our duty to persevere. However, we have had some great successes in the past week, we defended Rohan and Ireland simultaneously (joint FRA Missions) and liberated Rome, United Defense Directorate and Lake ilopango as of last night. Congratulations goes to Goobergunchia, who performed as the lead in a liberation for the first time in a while, he seemed happy about this.

Finally our Movie Night was good fun, some of the commentary of “Robin Hood” lead to some entertaining comments as we relieved our childhood:

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<+Oliver> "Kissing girls? That's so gay!"

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<+Oliver> I'm just waiting for the creepy, bass-themed music to start...
<@Eluvatar> eep
<+Earth> it's...so cute

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<@Unibot> This movie so appropriate for the Tea Party movement.
<+Embolalia> haha
<@Eluvatar> Except for stealing from the rich
<@Eluvatar> to give to the poor
<@Unibot> I love how the narrator is a southern person too.
<+Embolalia> ^

[…]

<@Unibot> But otherwise I'd say thanks for coming out [to Movie Night].
<harmoneia> you all came out?
<harmoneia> aww homo party!!


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HEAR YE! HEAR YE!

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ANARCHY HAS BEEN LIBERATED BY THE UNITED DEFENDERS LEAGUE! Thirteen Merrymen and a FRA Ranger entered Anarchy on Tuesday, November 8; Evil Wolf ejected six before update began in Anarchy… but it was not enough... he needed to eject seven. Ultimately, Lone Wolves United and their Nazi and Fascist brethren were narrowly defeated 23 to 22 endorsers. We wish Anarchy a quick and steady recovery.

To commemorate the liberation, The UDL is awarding those who served in any of the four attempts to liberate Anarchy with a special ribbon, variations include:

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November 24 2011
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

The United Defenders League has been particular busy these past few weeks, although just recently an incident in Balder shocked NationStates and so I will begin this statement, reviewing the situation in Balder. I believe Balder is planning to provide the story in even fuller depth, so instead I would read this account as the perspective of the Balder incident from a Merryman in The United Defenders League.

On Nov. 21, the United Defenders League’s leadership was informed of a very unfortunate conspiracy. The Delegate of Balder, Luxembourg hacked his Vice Delegate’s email and tried to get control of the root admin of the Balder forum. We all can only speculate what nefariousness, Luxembourg had planned for Balder – it was nonetheless a radical departure from Luxembourg’s usual populist character. Luxembourg was unsuccessful at controlling the root admin account, but was successful at hacking his Vice Delegate’s email.

Balder’s Committee of Public Safety in an emergency discussion, organized a liberation of Balder from its rogue delegate. Branching out to various military organizations including The United Defenders League. The plan was to liberate Balder by endorsing Fotar, Balder’s Vice Delegate, but the margin between him and Luxembourg was so high that the Committee of Public Safety opted to wait to liberate till the next update, so that an efficient un-endorsement campaign could run against Luxembourg.

On Nov. 22’s minor update, Luxembourg became too suspicious or knew we were on to him after finding out Fotar’s NationStates email account had been changed; Luxembourg ejected and banned Fotar – if he had ejected and banned Fotar five minutes sooner, Fotar would have updated in The Rejected Realms thereby destabilizing Balder greatly, however because Fotar escaped update, he maintained his thirty-some endorsements in Balder, although banned. Luxembourg quickly established his tyranny; he removed the links to the forum in the WFE, changed the flag, suppressed dissent, enforced an endo-cap of five and added a “totalitarian” tag to Balder. But after ejecting Fotar and Robin Hood, his Regional Influence was greatly severed; like a wounded animal, he withered and sought the end. He eccentrically declared that the first person to telegram him would receive the password to his nations – I, Unibot, telegrammed him first and received the nations: Botswana, Mozambique and yes, Luxembourg. By then, Luxembourg had resigned from the World Assembly and I was able to assume control of Balder’s delegacy to restore Balder to some degree.

I’m happy to report that because Fotar did not update and lose his endorsements, last night on Nov. 23’s major update, Balder was able to perform a safe and unchallenged rise to the delegacy with Fotar, the new delegate of Balder. As I said in the World Factbook Entry of Balder, this was all a series of unfortunate events but perhaps this event demonstrates the resilience of the Balder community.

In other news, we’ve promoted Hileville to Chief of Recruitment; Hileville was previously our Associate Chief of Recruitment and a Merryman and has been doing a wonderful job in The South Pacific where he is the Chair of the Assembly. Good luck Hile! Additionally, Goobergunchia, Merryman and Chief Executive of The Native Rights Watch, got his own sort of promotion… but this one from NationStates’ Adminship! Goobergunchia is a shiny new forum moderator in NationStates! Congratulations to Goober, although, I’m going to miss not ranting at him.

Um... what’s next on the list? Oh yes, we’ve opened embassies with the Founderless Regions Alliance and we’re discussing the formation of a Convention on Defender Solidarity to promote similar principles and cooperation. I’ll keep you updated on that project, but I have high expectations. On a darker note, the situation has worsened in North Atlantic, where troops from The New Inquisition, Europeia and others have hoarded over a small community; recently, a native was banjected from the region for not complying with the raider’s “martial law”. We’re monitoring the situation closely and hope some solace can be brought to the natives of North Atlantic. On a happier note, The United Defenders League has been running around doing deeds across NationStates; defences in Alliance of Communist States, LOL Doomed, The Greater Soviet Union, The Glorious Empire of Belka, Pact of Steel and .. Islam. Again. Will people just stop attacking Islam? It got old around the Thirteenth century. Just saying.

And to conclude this update: UDL’s Movie Night is happening December 3rd 2011. The movie will be decided by our members; so far it's close race between “A Knight’s Tale” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” with “A Knight’s Tale” in a narrow lead.

And your Moment of Zen,

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<@Spartz> scaredy-cat
<@Bunnicula> puddy cat
* @Unibot purrs.
<@Spartz> Unicat
* @Unibot jumps into Bunni's lap.
<+Jamie> Unicat!
<@Bunnicula> :D
* @Bunnicula pets unibot
* @Unibot purrrrrs.
<@Eluvatar> O_O
* @Unibot licks his paw.
<@harmoneia> why is my husband on someone else's lap?
* @Unibot hisses at Bunni and scampers into Harmie's lap.
<@Mahaj> lol
* @Unibot meows.
<+Jamie> rabid cat!


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December 10 2011
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,

Well the last few weeks certainly have been busy haven’t they? Admittedly what’s been keeping us busy has been the less organized (or “unnamed”) groups of raiders as of late, invading places like Federation of Allied Nations, Arachosia, The Land Of Morning Calm and Western Europe and a couple other places. The professional invader groups have been tied up in their mass griefing of North Atlantic. Although The Black Hawks and DEN attempted to hold Egypt they quickly went head-to-head with an awakening founder and lost; it will suffice to reaffirm the following model of combat in NationStates:

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Besides those invasions, the situation is worsening in Vlaanderen. The Black Riders are currently hoarding over the region, moving in a boatload of non-updaters to cushion their tyranny. We here at the United Defenders League are happy to work with the Belgium and Dutch communities (who have been very helpful thus far) to see to it this oppression ends as soon as possible. However there is some good news, we recently liberated another community, Norway. This was a fascinating liberation for me since I had to watch in horror from the sidelines; the lead defender and two other defenders were banjected, so we had the bare minimum to unseat the raider delegate – the new delegate had to be (of course) the mission’s newbie and our new defender-in-training, Fischistan. Good work Fisch! People who participated in the Norway liberation have received this neat badge.

Nonetheless, this week has been frightening; raider groups have been striking left and right and I’ve been serving as the South Pacific delegate. It is good to know however that the team can easily do just about everything without me. This is somehow depressing and honouring simultaneously. I will, however, have to end what can only be described as the Era of Good Feelings in the Greenwood Band and return to the field, probably sometime next week when the newly elected delegate, Hileville takes over as delegate. There have been some great entries to the Merrymen ranks in the past few days and I look forward to defending with them when I get back, including Fisch, Riemstagrad and my good friend Topid! All wonderful surprises that make me jolly.

And since I like new people that much I've decided to promote Earth22 as our new Chief of Recruitment; Likewise, I’d like to wish Hileville good luck on his endeavors as the new leader of the South Pacific. Earth's got quite a bit of work ahead of her, but in the coming months I expect The United Defenders League will become the first defender organization in a long time to do its own recruitment (and not piggybacking on regional recruitment), specifically for promoting defending to new players. I'm very excited about this because, although we've been able to do a lot more with our numbers than raiders would, I'm really envisioning a future where defenders can confidently approach a raid like Vlaanderen (sixteen+ soldiers) and not bat an eye to organize a liberation with more soldiers than "required". But to achieve this vision, we have to approach the new blood of the game and expose them to how they can help out and volunteer to keep NationStates free and just.

Thank you for reading.

Annnnnd here's your Moment of Zen,

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Thank you, Unibot. :)
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