Antigen Po
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2006.07.23 02:30:00 -
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Your premise is lame..speaking as one who flew in lots of the early ops of the war:
Speaking as a regular member of FLA, the general consensus in our alliance was that we could count on you (SPARTA) to be a solid ally in the north, after the fight with NFC was resolved. Everyone I spoke with and flew with said that we hoped SPARTA would not enter into the conflict because we considered you a good ally to the north of 3jn (despite your earlier actions of setting us to -10 in support of nfc, purely in order to gain the czd station for yourself, in the first war - we honestly held no ill will because of this, our fight was with nfc). Those of us who flew with you in defense of upper dek held nothing but respect for you.
The first weekend of the conflict you flew a carrier into 3jn under the cover of neutrality, in the middle of a nfc siege of the system. Your leadership claimed that the carrier was only there to transport minerals in and out, and we let you be, on good faith (though at the same time our cov ops pilot saw that your carrier was assisting nfc in setting up their first wartime pos in 3jn...and he as screenies to back what he saw). We werent looking for a conflict with SPARTA.
Shortly after us giving you the benefit of the doubt about your intentions in the FLA/IRON/Friends vs NFC conflict you declared that you were siding with NFC. Most of us said, very well then and regretfully included you as our enemies.
A day later you withdrew from the conflict (not gonna get into the reasons for that here). You declared you were staying neutral (for the second time in the conflict).
On the surface you stayed so, though those of us in the FLA/IRON coalition were wary because of the fact that you originally helped NFC under the flag of neutrality.
Then 1Trav1 had the cyno incident, nfc imploded and disbanded within 24 hours of D2 placing them at -10 in return for this incident, which showed NFC were starting to support the goons. Most of NFC began making preparations for leaving dek, and we offered quarter to those who wanted to leave respectfully.
The next day those of us in the FLA/IRON camp found ourselves hoping that these events would mean the end of the fighting. Despite the fact that SPARTA decided to side with NFC early in the conflict, we hoped that recent events would allow us all to work towards a peacful dek with IRON/FLA deciding the fate of lower dek, and SPARTA keeping their sovereignty of CZD constellation.
FLA had early on already had open discussions (being a democracy) with our membership about the possibilty of sharing the RFY constellation with SPARTA as a good faith measure of hoping we could finally move forward with ppl we could work with. Instead of what we had before with NFC taking a completely cold war attitude towards us, attemping to push us around, etc.
What we instead found happening was SPARTA allowing ex-NFC corps into their fold and declaring that because these ex-NFC corps now flew under the SPARTA banner of neutrality, SPARTA had rights to all their previously claimed systems and resources.
IRON came forward quickly and basically said wtf (with FLA diplo's backing them). After all this fighting, NFC imploding, SPARTA thought it would be kosher for them to accept ex-NFC corps as refugees of the fighting AND also claim that this ex-nfc space belonged to them.
IRON & FLA both opened diplomatic channels in a brief effort to see if this could be resolved, but by that time those in nfc (who already lead thier alliance to collapse) had convinced the SPARTA alliance that all the IRON/FLA coalition wanted was a complete wipe of dek without considering them as partners. Those few leaders in SPARTA who listened to this, said wtf and nap'd goons, and the rest is well known....
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