Your organization’s name: The United Defenders League
The approximate size of your organization: +40-50 members.
A link to your forums: http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/index/
At least a temporary ambassador: I’m helping our Chief Herald get these initial embassy requests out to regions, but I expect our Chief Herald, New Bazlantis, would be your ambassador.
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Approved.
waves Great!
If you’d like to visit the East Pacific’s Embassy in the United Defenders League:[ol]
[li] Apply for Herald status here: http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/8778125/
[li] Visit the embassy here: http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3816696/
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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,[ol]
[li]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.
[li] 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…
[/li][/ol] 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.
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
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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 missions newbie who actually prevailed. So congratulations to Grackalack!
Now if liberating Utopia wasnt 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 ^^
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All jokes aside, were really happy A Liberal Havens 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 everyones attention is on the creation of Balder and Osiris, the games 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 couldnt 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, Im happy to announce Balders 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 Balders candidates debate and serving as Balders leader for these past few days, although I personally cant wait to return NationStates | Not Found 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, http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3828330/. Weve also had some lovely new entries to the United Defenders 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 MenacMediocre, our resident bookworms and patrons of the Library. Best of luck to them in the organization!
Finally were 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 its the one with the sexy talking fox s[Account under review by Moderators]s. As always our IRC military channel (#udl on Espernet) will be open to the public and all are invited for the movie night.
Quotation of the Update:
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May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
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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 theyve 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; hes 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, hes 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 theyve been putting into the United Defenders League. Keep it up 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; its occurred to us that our fellow defenders are making the same sort of sacrifices as we are and so we should keep any criticism of other defender organizations private. ADN can suck my blue and white tripartite! Oops, sorry, its habitual. Maybe I have TourettYo Groups 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> ^
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<@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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May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
EXTRA
HERE YE! HERE 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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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 Leagues leadership was informed of a very unfortunate conspiracy. The Delegate of Balder, Luxembourg hacked his Vice Delegates 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 Luxembourgs usual populist character. Luxembourg was unsuccessful at controlling the root admin account, but was successful at hacking his Vice Delegates email.
Balders 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, Balders 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. 22s minor update, Luxembourg became too suspicious or knew we were on to him after finding out Fotars 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 Balders delegacy to restore Balder to some degree.
Im happy to report that because Fotar did not update and lose his endorsements, last night on Nov. 23s 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, weve 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, Im going to miss not ranting at him.
Um… whats next on the list? Oh yes, weve opened embassies with the Founderless Regions Alliance and were discussing the formation of a Convention on Defender Solidarity to promote similar principles and cooperation. Ill 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 raiders martial law. Were 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: UDLs Movie Night is happening December 3rd 2011. The movie will be decided by our members; so far it’s close race between A Knights Tale and Monty Python and the Holy Grail with A Knights Tale in a narrow lead.
And your Moment of Zen,
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<@Bunnicula> my very presence makes milograd quake in fear
<@Spartz> scaredy-cat
<@Bunnicula> puddy cat
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May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
Wow, its the end of the year already! Tis been a great year for NationStates and NationStates Gameplay; we saw a game-changing coup in the South Pacific that lead to a greater concern for the protection of democracy and freedom of speech there and elsewhere and the creation of our institution in response to the bureaucratic nature of some of the defence that came to the aid of the South Pacific. This year we also saw a re-emergence of blitzkrieg raiding during the early part of the year, which carried into the summer. Raiders were attacking defenceless and smaller targets with greater frequency during update; going thro region to region, leaving their tag behind. This preceded a re-emergence of stockpile raiding, where regions are taken with a very small number of raiders (two or three), then non-updaters are moved in to cushion their raids security the numbers of which have been ludicrous, at times the infamous raid on the Proletariat Coalition had forty or fifty raiders endorsing the lead, for example. Currently, The Black Riders raid of Rome and Europeias raid of North Carolina are also using those tactics and that forces us to focus on recruiting and organizing; estimations suggest that if the United Defenders League wants to be a viable force to be reckoned with against these types of raids, it would need to quadruple its membership and thus overshadow almost all of the raider groups combined – this is what I intend to do and thus the El Farto Dayo will mark a year of expansion. Consider that my El Farto Dayos resolution to our current problem plaguing the safety of native communities around NationStates.
Some of the ways in which were advertising for new members are rather creative; thanks to one very beloved member, http://www.nationstates.net/page=list_nations/nation= which still warms the cockles of my promotional heart. Also, earlier this month, we sponsored http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/pages/le/ for nations which some of you may enjoy. As Yogurt once said in a thick Jewish accent, Meuuurwwwchandise! Meuuurwwwchandise! Eventually well actually get recruiting sometime in the El Farto Dayo. You know the whole holidays and having fun seems to interfere with mass recruitment programs and the hefty emotional labour thereof but give it time and Ill get the staff whipped into shape, dont you worry!
Weve had a good week or two of military action; defenses occured all over the place. We stopped the Red Army from conquering Dictators of the world Unite (they strategically retreated) as well as defences in The United Kingdom Alliance, The Federation of Allied Nations, East Pacific, Western Europe, Esperivira. There were also liberations in The Roman Empire of Independent States, Koeln (from these troll-face guys) and there was an exciting liberation of The Crimson Dawn from the Black Hawks and DEN; a very close liberation that was attained with a remarkably close margin. Great work guys!
Anyways this week has been pretty chill, the holidays are starting to set in; Id like to wish everyone in NationStates has a happy holidays and seasonal lull. Ive been spending the last day or so sending out holiday messages to our members; for some members I preferred to post on their regions RMB (to embarrass them) and others Ive telegrammed them or included it in this update.
And your Moment of Zen is St. Georges drunk understanding of the United Defenders Leagues membership:
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<@stgeeorgee> Ballotonia|sleep iss cooool. Eluvatar osa mappopoing. Goobergunch is mod and will thus becoe tyrannnnnnnny. Mahaj is 12. spartz is um Unibot must bedn oves Bazlantis|RestingEyes i shero. Carta is hudin in gholgoth. Embolalia is wa. E|study is cooler than iiiii ithought. Grack ids ossomeone Griff is earths biiiiiitcch??? Jamie is cute n hot n cute. splm is ssamsolm
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Happy Holidays from The United Defenders League
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,
Wow, lots to talk about! So at the beginning of the week we had our April Fools Day or shall I say, I misguidedly thought that reinventing the Alliance Defense Network would be a good idea. Pope Hope was doing her best to sell the idea but by the evening that night, just a wave of pure nostalgia washed over me for my quiver full of arrows, hearty laughs and green tights. By gawd did I miss our forum and my band of merrymen and merrywomen, but it was fun being ADN for a day. For those of you who missed the April Fools joke, you can visit our now http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3841293/ and youll see the whole event is archived including the cold, blue steel and glass skin that represented the ADN Reborn oh so perfectly.
Some highlights included: (1) http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9481199/1/#new where she officially declared martial law dissolved the Alliance Defense Network Reborn, (2) The North Pacific joining the ADN Reborn and simultaneously declaring war on us as a part of the Empire, (3) Biyah being masked as an Undesirable for his part in the Empires takeover of Osiris, The North Pacific and The Rejected Realms – some of the jabs back and forth between Biyah and I may have been a little too fun, (4) JAL (aka Durk) having respect on our boards for one whole day as our media advisor instead of his usual, Village Idiot masking (although I still think the Village Idiot (Clean) - YouTube).
Several UDL members, although not in the UDL capacity were enjoying the NationStates wide April Fools day event. Earth (as Lyanna Stark), our Chief of Orientation and Eluvatar, our Chief of Intelligence were having a fun time planning the revolution against Max Barry. Eventually of course, the NationStates community won over the heart of Max Barry before April Fools day ended. Although one player believed that the IPO scam was just a Unibotian plot all along to teach peace and socialism to the masses via demonstration:
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<+Riemstagrad> it’s all just one big conspiracy of Unibot!
<@Ballotonia> Yes, yes it is! (what is?)
<+Riemstagrad> i mean… look at the IPO pie-chart!
<+Riemstagrad> it is Unibot’s flag
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Anyways the only scheme going on was the cultivation of good feelings in regards to the power of the NationStates Community to collectively overcome individual selfishness that was detrimental for the whole (sound familiar) and with that mischievous cultivation came some new members for The United Defenders League like Almaniania, Laysley, Wyominger, Lumierea, Wrightstates and Phillippanoa! Muahahahahaha.
Outside of the IPO, weve had some other great members join the League this month like Lackadaisical2 and Nationstatelandsville from NationStates General; Demphor, Mewsland, Goldsaver, Danatha, Winland, Hjornis ; Greater Evil Imperial Japanese Dystopia and The Black Plains straight from the warmongering of International Incidents; Thatius and Audioslavia from NS-Sports; Astrolinium and Sovreignry from the WA Community; John Pressman from the United Kingdom, Cassitopia from the South Pacific, Aleksotopia from the North Pacific, Fireeliand from Canada, Lords Flail from the West Pacific. Whoo
that was a mouthful, welcome to the UDL, guys! At least the Grand Recruitment Council has been a smashing success oh and congratulations to Parhe who finally remembered to post his pledge to complete his application to the UDL
only a few months later.
In addition to those new members, Gauntleted Fist, a long-time Generalite and member of Lazarus has joined our band of merrymen this month and weve bestowed him the title of Vice Chief of Feeder Affairs. Our Chieftaincy of Feeder Affairs is tasked with the duty of helping to provide a voice to our institution for the feeders and sinkers on issues specific to Game-Created Regions and we thought, who better to do that than a long-time resident of a sinker, eh? But of course, Gauntleted Fist is fairly new to these gameplay politics so weve appointed probably one of the most experienced people on the matter that I could get to helm the Chieftaincy and replace the always sharp, Neo Kervoskia congratulations to Goobergunchia on his appointment as our Chief of Feeder Affairs! Good luck to both of you! Feel free to say hello to the new Chieftaincy at their http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3828330/.
These appointments of course come on the heels with the apology in the South Pacific for my unethical conduct; by lobbying a treaty in the South Pacific to people that happened also to be my soldiers, I broke a serious ethical relationship between professionals. Weve proposed some policies to hopefully prevent this behavior in the future and draw some clear ethical lines to follow, although our initial draft has been vetoed from complaints from other feeder governments, since it became apparent it would have caused problems elsewhere. Well keep you updated on the newest drafts in the future.
This past month weve been cleaning up on defences; with some help from TITO, we were able to defend Former United States in a crushing 10-3 victory, defended The YoungWorld for the second time this month and had a shut-out on the last major update of March. Raiders were unable to capture anything that night, overwhelmed by defenders in various regions. Good job team!
Lets see, whats next, oh yeah, so NationStates • View topic - Declaration of War. Heres the NationStates • View topic - Declaration of War. Um… yeah right, moving on, nothing more really to say here
Anyways. http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9460609/1/ the recipients were decided by the lieutenants. Ravania picked up Detagger of the Month, North Wiedna ran away with Conservationalist of the Month, Danny causally strolled from the proceedings with a Spotter of the Month award in his hands, Zwangzug strutted her stuff to pick up the Liberator of the Month and Fischstan stole the show with the Most Defences of the Month award. Carta was also awarded the Chiefs Award for overcoming great tribulations to be all that he can be and for his dutiful address to the diplomatic incident in the South Pacific that carefully balanced his role as Chief Lieutenant and his citizenship in said region. Each recipient was awarded an aquamarine gemstone in honour of the month of March:
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Hhhhmmm purdy.
Okay and last but not least. Movie Night is this Saturday, April 7. 21:00 EST. The movie is The Life of Brian, our apologies in advance in areas of Wales included the townships of Biggletoftwick, Knobbiewardinewhimper and Nantstrathchurch, Oxfordshire where the film is still unfortunately prohibted but for everyone else, Movie Night is open for all!! Raider, Defender, Generalite, Roleplayer, NSer, Non-NSer, Pope Hope, Not Pope Hope, NS-Sporter whatever, come on out.
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<@Mahaj> unibot rarely puts the best quote into the update
<+Blaat> because the best ones happen when he’s not there
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Ahhh sooo much pressure .
Here is your Moment of Zen:
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<@UNIBOSS> Lacky, I hope we’ve made a good first impression.
<@UNIBOSS> We’ll train you sometime later unless you want to be trained now.
<+Parhe> trained?
<+Lacky> You’re all silly.
<+Parhe> We must be trained?
<+Libby> What’s wrong?
<@UNIBOSS> Yep Parhe. 
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May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,
The United Defenders League liberated ITALIA from The Black Hawks last week in what has to be one of the smoothest liberations in a long time. It all started at about 2 AM on Thursday when I decided that we would try to liberate ITALIA in twenty-three hours, as opposed to doing it on Saturday which was a move I didnt think the Black Hawks would anticipate because Friday night is generally a night chockfull of raids and defences. So I pulled an all-nighter and started telegramming and recruiting members for Operation Little Stalingrad and fortunately, we had a really good turnout; something along the lines of thirty merrymen showed up to help out ITALIA and eat some Hawk. We pretended not to have very many members online to defend, so I defended (and defended Federalist Europe Alliance from a raid by myself! MUHAHAA) and the staff prepared everyone for the liberation. By the time, the liberation came around; the Black Hawks lead hadnt bothered to watch update and we liberated ITALIA, 41-31. NationStates • View topic - The United Defenders League have been awarded this pretty military ribbon:
http://z4.ifrm.com/30294/192/0/p1127160/Italia.png
Other than that, its been quite slow for defending as of late, because raiders have been piling again, but we had a close, close loss to the Black Riders in Pacific (13-12) recently and a successful liberation in Western Africa earlier last week. We also just had a successful liberation in Hong Kong against a bunch of stooges calling themselves the “Royal Canadian Air Force” and endeavoring to refound founderless regions against their consent to bring security to them they just leave the part out about them being the eternal and all-powerful founders of the region forever and ever after and other important details. It was a personal pleasure of mine as a real-life Canadian to liberate the region.
A lot of this past week has been full of drama.
First, our Judge Advocate General’s Corps saw its first bit of action; Agamemnon, Judge Advocate with the United Defenders League has been sent to Democrats to represent South Boston Irishmen in court against several charges which are partially related to South Boston Irishmens work with The United Defenders League. I like to make sure that our members have access to justice when theyre being accused of things related to defending, so Im glad were helping to defend South Boston Irishmen in his time of need for legal aid.
The second stint of drama came this past week when there was some heated dialogue exchanged between the Arch-Chancellor of the Founderless Regions Alliance and I in regards to the politicization of our organization. As I said in a public statement available http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9499816/1/#new, I would quite like to move on and endeavor for better relations between defender organizations and more solidarity between what are essentially team-mates in the fight for justice. I guess as easy as it is for us to find common ground, the stress of our positions and duties pushes us towards in-fighting, not to mention that the defender organizations that stand today are the result of years of conflict between defenders and the social delineation of various groups. To do our part for the cause of defender solidarity, weve restored TITOs viewing privileges on our private military forum and wish them the best.
To recap some administrative news: were very pleased to have established an embassy with ITALIA following their liberation; now even our Italian friends can receive our Lettere dal Capobanda! On a similar note, Ive also taken the time to update our http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3656675/ to include shiny regional flags for all our embassies it looks purdy, you might enjoy that. If theres a flag or emblem that needs correcting, please tell me and Ill get on it.
Also,
The Tournament of the Golden Arrow; a roleplayed archery event that I told you about earlier will be kicking off at the end of this week. If you want to attend you need to sign up http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=169907 before Sunday, April 22. Theres also a The Tournament Of The Golden Arrow! Trivia Questions Quiz - ProProfs Quiz that goes along with the tournament which influences your scores in the event the more you know about NS-Sports, NS Gameplay and The United Defenders League, the better youll do in the tournament!
Finally, a shout out to Stargate for securing their region; I hear theyre working on a constitution and elections now, which is awesome a great example for all founderless regions; doing their best to develop their region even after years of being raided.
Your Moment of Zen, brought to you by Cartas telegram box:
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<@Carta> The Anglophile of Earth22 (1 year 43 days ago) Hey! My name is Earth, and I’m from Europeia, one of the largest, most active and most prestigious regions in NationStates. I’d like to personally invite you to join our region.
<@Carta> <_<
<@Carta> old puppets lolz
<@Mahaj> yeah
<@Carta> LOL
<@Carta> bold skywalker (1 year 73 days ago) sorry- raiding mission want to join up?
<@Carta> i forgot that i tried out raiding once
<@Carta> before i became a rper
<@Mahaj> lol
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Oh my! How things change in a year!
Question for the embassy: do you have any funny telegrams youd like to share?
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of the United Defenders League,
Well it has been a helluva week!
In this past week or so, The United Defenders League has been busy liberating regions like Baghdad and The Blood Cave against the Aphroditean Empire and the Black Hawks and DEN. In addition to liberating Zen this morning from the Europeian Navy and last major, Confederation of Democratic Socialists from god knows who. Kudos to The Founderless Regions Alliance Rangers for helping out on some of those liberations. Normally, I wouldnt present ribbons for a comparably smaller liberation, but the artistic opportunity of a ribbon for Zen was irresistible so all twenty-something merrymen received this ribbon this afternoon for a job well done:
http://z4.ifrm.com/30294/192/0/p1128870/zen.png
Dont wave this puppy around boys; the bad guys might think youre surrendering.
Anyways, yeah, it has been a decent week to dust off the military chops. A lot of detagging (restoring previously raided regions) though, since its been a rather laborious week to clean up the mess left from several nights of tag-raids. Nonetheless, the merrymen are keeping up the good fight and restoring what was left in ruin along the aimless path of regional devastation. Some of our newest members that have joined to carry that good fight include our first MERRYCAT, the Asylum Manager, Fluffy Pink Kittens (see a trend here), Reselia, Crontor from International Incidents and Coolboygcp!
On the subject of new members, [violet], site admin of NationStates http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=176283 would soon be implemented on all so-called auto-recruiting scripts. Now of course, The United Defenders League has indeed been using an auto-recruiter, although we dont suspect that the loss of the tool will hurt our membership projections at least not radically. So, on one hand this is a loss, on the other hand, we could look on the bright-side and suggest this is our way of regaining some freedom from wacky responses to auto-recruitment telegrams! Some of my favorites received in response to The United Defenders Leagues advertisement include:
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“I saw two words in your telegram. Immediately and destroy! I only assume one thing, you want to destroy me. Well screw you guys I’m going to join someone who can protect me!”
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Good lord, I can think of two words Id rather he had read. 
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“It would be great if you stopped slavery”
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Thats me, Abe Unibot Lincoln.
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" Can I be a raider and a defender at the same time? I joined this game to take over regions and bend the weak to my will, but your organization sounds like the type of thing I might enjoy too."
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Mitt Romney called, he wants his self-contradictoriness back.
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“HOW ABOUT YOU GO **** YOUR OWN **** AND THEN SHOVE A PIECE OF **** UP YOUR OWN !!! thats what I think of your bull **** mc* piece of **** telegram”
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I admire your passion and colorful choice of asterisks!
Our sincerest apologies to anyone who received double, triple etc. telegrams from our auto-recruiting nation last night, NationStates • View topic - A Script Has Gone Rogue!, the host developed an error that kept on restarting all [his] running processes there, but never killing any of them, so it just kept on making new instances of [his] auto-recruiting script. Prompting Klaus Devestatorie, of course, to suggest that script had become SELF AWARE!! The problem has since been fixed; once again, sorry to anyone who was contacted multiple times, it certainly was not our intention. HHhhhm, on the note of Solm.
Congratulations to Solm and Zwangzug for their promotion to the rank of Lieutenant. Solm is the founder of Ellorea and formerly, Judea, an International Incidents star and one of our tech gurus in addition to an incredibly reliable defender who has been with the organization almost since its genesis. Zwangzug is one of the leading members of NS-Sports and one of the most dependable defenders we have on our staff, shes always around when we need her to help out with a liberation and shes been working with us since the very beginning too. These promotions, of course, follow the retirement of Ballotonia, whose service to the defending world is absolutely legend; very rarely does someone have the pleasure to have their heroes join them in their cause he was an inspiration. Ballotonia is retiring to remain neutral in the game since hes currently an admin-in-training/code-monkey/thingy if youre interested, Id check out the http://www.nationstates.net/page=dossier_advanced tool that Ballotonia is trialling.
On the subject of Zwangzug, Zwangzug has been organizing The Tournament of the Golden Arrow it started with 85 competitors, its down to just two: Bashan Korxlon of Milograd, the condemned, racist, genocidal hellhole that is new to NS-Sports vs. Aüra Agira of Jasĭyun, managed by Commerce Heights, the commended veteran of NS-Sports and founder of NS-Economy - couldnt be more of an interesting finale for the tournament! If you want to participate, feel free to contribute to the roleplay with commentary http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=169907.
Lastly, The UDL Monthly Awards will kick off this week and Ill announce the winners either in an extra or another update.
Question for the Embassy: http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9523244/1/#new take your bets in that thread or post them here and Ill add them to the list. How much do you think NationStatess population will drop on Mondaygeddon?
Heres your Moment of Zen,
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<@Unibot> I remember pre-public UDL.
<@Unibot> That was fun.
<+Quadrimmina> What Quad read: pre-pubic UDl.
<@Carta> p. much the same thing, Quadrimmina
<@Carta> we’ve…
<@Carta> …
<@Carta> grown since then…
<@Carta> @_@
<+Quadrimmina> Haha.
<+Quadrimmina> The UDL hit puberty?
<@Carta> it’s natural
<@Carta> and it happens to all organizations
<+Quadrimmina> It’s just a part of growing up.
<+Quadrimmina> Nothing to be ashamed of.
— End quote
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
Its final, Ill call it:
THE SPRING LULL IS OVER!!!
Cue the summer lull. Nah, but this is as good opportunity as ever to announce that business is back to usual, as new recruits have begun to pore in again (Welcome Zaklen and Nuvu!), after several weeks of admittedly humdrum business; mostly focusing on cracking off the administrative to-do list and completing the occasional de-tag or starring at the massive piling occurring in Scotland and Region of Reunited Muslim States – in Region of Reunited Muslim States, rather extensive griefing has occurred over the past few weeks with the raid helmed by The Black Riders with assistance from The New Inquisition, The Black Hawks, The Kingdom of Denmark and The Land of Kings and Emperors ; approximately 64 natives have been ejected and banned (or around 70% of the region). Natives suggest that the griefing is anti-Islamic and have been pooling refugees into NationStates | RORMS while their region is still being griefed and unfortunately piled by raiders.
Speaking of region griefing; Fischistan, a merryman with The United Defenders League has a WA Liberation coming to vote in a day to liberate The United Kingdom of Britain, which has been passworded and is being griefed by The Greater German Reich. If the WA liberation passes, Im sure itll be a hot topic in the next update as defender forces will be squaring off against Nazi forces (our favorite guys to beat on).
As far as administrative stuff goes, as I said we had been primarily focused on administrative stuff. Weve finally got the Senior Merryman program installed and released for merrymen.
Senior Merryman is a rank that all Merryman qualify for if they pass a standardized and particularly rigorous written exam based on our new UDL guide (which is the best defender guide Ive ever seen, by the way) and demonstrate practical proficiency at liberating, defending and detagging. There was a nasty myth going around that troops from The United Defenders League are plentiful, but untrained and I hope with this new program well see that myth nipped in the butt as Merrymen work towards the Senior Merryman position. All new lieutenants will have to be Senior Merrymen first, before being eligible for lieutenantship; so I can see this being a great incentive to get studying! A pass on the rigorous, closed-book written exam is 90% and a failure to pass requires merrymen to wait one week before attempting to write the exam again. Good luck to all budding Senior Merrymen!
We also, on the subject of administration, have two new awards which will be handed out this month: Triggerperson of the Month and Recruiter of the Month. Recruiter of the Month is self-explanatory; Triggerperson is a role in a modern army that requires a lot of technical skill and requires people to excel in performance under extreme pressure, essentially their job is to calculate and deliver the move-time for a mission. I look forward to awarding two well-deserving recipients at the end of the month. Furthermore, during the administrative clean-up, I decided that the main defender puppet storage region, Kyzikos, needs a regional flag! If you have ideas, please submit them http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9552712/.
Also, were very pleased to welcome Dalimbar into our staff as a Senior Policy Advisor and hes been spending the past week or so providing advice on internal matters and foreign policy; I look forward to working with him in the coming months. Dali has a very long track-record as a successful feeder politician and seasoned foreign affairs expert.
Okay enough administrative stuff. Lets get to the nitty gritty; in the past few days, weve been catching up for lost time with various liberations and defences. Out of defences, my personal favorite must be Continent of Pwned, where raiders were pwned: attempting to make it look as though defenders had raided the region, the raiders were swiftly and effortlessly ejected and banned from the region by the defender lead. As for liberations, we had a great liberation against DEN in Great White Brotherhood (not a supremacist region) the final score was 7 to 5 for endorsements.
Likewise, yesterday, we liberated Hong Kong from Aphroditean Empire, in a close 6-5 victory. Now, this mission wasnt large enough to earn a mission ribbo–
<+Soviet_Canuckistan> and I assume the ribbon will be ready soon
Alright, alright Soviet Canuckistan. I suppose it was a fun mission. Heres the official mission ribbon:
http://z4.ifrm.com/30294/192/0/p1130844/hong_kong.png
Okay, um final news for this update; congradulations to Ipeland, who is now hosting the prestigious Baptism of Fire tournament in NS-Sports and… oh yeah, heres a load of Moments of Zens.
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<@Solm> Watch out for Sexiness.
<@Solm> The region, not Carta
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<@Mahaj> GREETINGS UDL
<@Earth> GREETINGS, MORTAL.
<@Mahaj>
<@Mahaj> don’t have to rub it in
<@Unibot> That’s going in the next update
<@Milograd> ?
<@Milograd> that’s our moment of zen?
<@Milograd> goddamn it i had a streak goign >:
<@Milograd> If I’m not included in Zen moments, I lose my purpose in the UDL. :<
<@Mahaj> and by better, he means some sickly nonsense that shamelessly promotes him
<@Milograd> Because let’s be honest now, that’s the most you see of me in the gameplay forum. :<
<@Mahaj> Unibot is a sexy beast who is the shining light of every girl’s dreams
<@Mahaj> ^ there. moment of zen
<@Earth> that’s why we sleep with the lights off, Mahaj
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And when Mall (raaarrh, raider) snuck in our IRC Channel:
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<Mall> hahahahahaha come to the dark side. we have… well we have GWB and RORMS.
<@Goobergunch> you have George W. Bush?
<@Goobergunch> EWWWWW
<Mall> BLEH
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And finally,
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HOW I ALMOST MET UNIBOT
-By Tim-Opolis. Chief of the Van
It was a sunny day in Florida. I was chilling at Universal Studios in Orlando Florida. Buying up my Slytherin merchandice at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. When suddenly out of the corner of my eye. I saw it! There was only one of this bot anywhere! It was a Unibot! But then I thought about it. “But wait. Unibot lives in Canadia.” But it looked so much like him. I was tempted to go over and say hi so I could have the chance of blackma cough meeting the leader of the UDL, but I thought it would be awkward if it wasn’t him. So I kept walking, still certain that I had seen the one robot that must be Uni Bot. Later, I was chilling in the Three Broomsticks, sipping on my Butterbeer, when I saw him again. Sitting at a table, eating what seemed to be chicken, was that Unibot character that I think defends or something like that. I was sure it was him! Yet he was with what looked like Parental Bots so I did not approach for I was with my homies. And one does not simply abandon their homies to go meet a Bot. Even if it is the Uni Bot. So I walked away.
Later on MSN, This One Bot and I were talking and I found out that it actually was him. I raged. I screamed. I didn’t break a keyboard over my knee. But I was pretty damn angry. This had been a chance to blackma cough cough cough say hello to the guy that tried to Commend Just Guy. The guy that some TNI troops still don’t know. Unibot. It was a terrible moment. I wept deeply. And then I got over it. And went to eat some bacon.
The End.
— End quote
That’s 100% real, by the way.
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
Ah, seems like an average week here in The United Defenders League. Albeit a little slow; a lot of our membership has been away doing exams and whatnot with school; I heard there was an attempted liberation of Alliance of Socialist States. But yep, overall its been very laid back with a lot of tea-drinking, were huge tea-drinkers during updat
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1 minute ago: The Wouldn’t It Be Nice of Unibot II ceased to exist.
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Ahh. bites his lip passes out
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Actually, it turns out my deletion was an accident; but it certainly gave some members a scare.
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NationStates Moderators (Saved. 12 hours ago)
Sorry about that deletion - it really was an accident. Had too many tabs open, and was intending to delete ‘Unibot XI’ which was maliciously impersonating you.
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On the list of nightmares-come-true, this is near the top of the list. Okay! So a notice to all, ahem, rules-challenged people out there in NationStates, I recommend not impersonating me its got to be in the top 5 reasons why people are DEATd.
In more serious news, Milograd has step down as our Chief Lieutenant. He felt it was his time to move on and has taken the ceremonial position of Guardian of The United Defenders League. He has left the organization in better shape than when he took his position and I wish him the best of luck as he pursues his candidacy for delegate in The South Pacific. Milograds duties as Chief Lieutenant were more administrative and often involved being my consultant and confidant its a stressful job, because Im a stressed out guy. Heh. My hope is that with my new appointment, the Chief Lieutenant will become more military-focused and Solm is the man for the task. Solm, like Milograd, has an extensive history as a roleplayer, but also one of our first members of the United Defenders League and one of the most accountable defenders on our staff. He often ran our minor updates when I couldnt wake up for the morning and I feel confident in leaving him the organization to run when need be. Please wish Solm good luck; I know I do!
On other news, congratulations to ABK with his appointment as Chief of Orientation. He doesnt even know hes been picked yet from the selection of nominations, so this will be a surprise to him. s[Account under review by Moderators]s mischievously. The Chief of Orientations position is extremely important because he will be making sure that we get everyone who signs up to join our organization, trained and welcomed and used to using our IRC channel; which is actually very important if we want to keep growing in membership size.
Okay whats next on the list hhhhmm; ah, yes Kyzikos got a flag finally! The contest ended with Sovreignry and Campinia, two of our Senior Merrymen, putting together the winner. Here it is:
http://z4.ifrm.com/30294/192/0/p1131692/kyzikos__206436.png
This flag is obviously a combination of The United Defenders League and The Founderless Regions Alliance imagery the two defender organizations that share the region.
Additionally in administrative news; http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3845685/ has been constructed! The Hall of Honour is our memorial to all of the hard-working officers who have unfortunately had to leave us for various reasons. It was a pleasure unveiling the Hall of Honour and my hope is that in the future itll become even more of an honour to have ones name engraved in its stone alongside such legends and greats of this game waves to those on the memorial that are reading.
Furthermore, http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9460609/3/#new Congratulations to all the recipients!
Okay, the last major thing I need to discuss in this update is The United Defenders Leagues first anniversary! In the future we may run the holiday just as a day, but its our first, so why not have some fun with it, eh? Yes, thats right, its already been a full year since we started up The United Defenders League. The festivities will include gift-exchanging! (lightly roleplayed, of course), various games and activities; the festivities will begin June 7 and end June 13. Ill post the sceduele for the event when I have it all finalized.
Alrighty, I thinkkkk, thats all I need to blab to you about. See you around for the Anniversary celebrations! Congratulations to Eluvatar, our Chief of Intelligence, on becoming the delegate of the North Pacific.
If you want a laugh, go check out Mallorea and Rivas anthropologic study into the depths of defenderdom on the Kyzikos Regional Message Board, NationStates | RMB Post. If you dont want to go that far for a laugh, heres your Moment of Zen:
Fischistan was being inducted as a Rainbow Monkey Member via weird trials and rituals,
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<@Solm> I’ve set your alarm to 1:30am. With a special message, that’s when your death trials really begin
<+Fisch> quad said something about update surfing…
<+Fisch> from an early region
<@Solm> You’ll just have to see when your phone wakes you up at 1:30am and music is blaring in your eyes, the lights are flickering on and off rapidly, and someone is in your bed.
<@Solm> Hmm
music blaring in your eyes
.
<@Solm> Maybe that comes with being a rainbow-monkey?
<+Fisch> lol
<+Fisch> My eyes can hear, my ears can see
<Fisch> ew, I have lots of earwax
— End quote
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
A Letter from the Capitalis De Societate of The United Defenders League,
Its been a fun week here at The United Defenders League. With June 13 upon us, http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/forum/3845997/. Im honoured that The United Defenders League has become such a successful defender organization and in http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9588820/.
During the festivities, players ate chicken and partied in the Great Hall (which was later invaded by the Dutch Disease RARRRH) and bought swords, shields, armor, clothing and wizardry supplies at the marketplace which can be worn as a badge on customers forum accounts.
The Robes of the Underworld was the most popular item bought, probably because it looks awesome:
http://z4.ifrm.com/30294/192/0/p1132081/Robe_of_the_Underworld.gif
GRRRR, I ONLY HAVE FOUR TEETH, GRRRR.
In another part of the festivities, we bet on who would be the next poster (because UDLers seem to be big gamblers?), Kogvuron won that easily by tens of thousands. In a jousting tournament, Solm defeated me! Fischistan defeated Tim-Opolis and Camwood, looking like the champion until Almaniania (The Champion of the Walrus) defeated him after a long fought after battle.
During last week, The Black Hawks raided Capitalist Paradise; immediately, The United Defenders League staff launched a telegram campaign to inform natives and prompt them of an action plan: (1) remain calm, (2) unendorse the raider delegate, (3) endorse former native delegate. The administration of Capitalist Paradise quickly got involved with The United Defenders League becoming military liaisons on our forums. I have to honour the administration of Capitalist Paradise; Ive been a defender for a while now and seen some regions who hardly put effort into getting their region back; but Afforess and Ad Vitam Adsum were in communication with us all day, telegrammed their community and help us organize a liberation. Ad Vitam Adsum also showed great leadership when he wrote an apology and condemnation of prior behavior to 10000 Islands in response to the griefing of Urbanites by Capitalist Paradise. In another week or so, Ad Vitam Adsum is expected to release the full post-liberation policy plan for Capitalist Paradise talks of new recruitment, endorsements caps and a new regional army has already stirred up lots of discussion on the Capitalist Paradise Regional Message Board.
Unfortunately, The United Defenders League was not able to help Capitalist Paradise further, but The Black Hawks, threatened with the possibility of a liberation, placed a password on the region to avoid confrontation and then left the region shortly after. The incident was the spark to a firestorm of proposals to change the games code; influence, WA delegacy changes and much more have been suggested to be changed (you can find these proposals in NationStates • View forum - Technical).
As for other military action: its been a slow week but we had a fun liberation in the Blood Cave against Lone Wolves United and Bacon Strips, a liberation in the Dictatorship Government Alliance against The Internationale where we hid and used Marxist flags to avoid being banned and ejected were now being called NationStates | RMB Post by The Internationale apparently to my amusement. Weve had defences in Americano States against the Greater German Reich (with the FRA) and a defence of Nations of Christendom. Weve been running detags and restoration missions all month and just arranged a failed attempt to liberate South America.
Now, for some fun news: CONGRATULATIONS to Fischistan and Ravania for their appointment as Lieutenants. Weve needed a few more good men to serve as officers during updates; Fischistan is a regular recipient of UDLs Liberator of the Month and Most Defences of the Month and regarded as one of the promising new stars in the game, Ravania is our lead Detagger and all around shining talent; both show considerable talent, expertise and a willingness to lead and organize. I wish them both good defending in the coming months.
Were also very proud to announce our new recruits this month, including Romanoffia (Executive Councillor and recent runner-up for Delegate in The North Pacific), East Weidmanland, Alyekra (who has been kicking butt with Solm! Keep it up!), Druach and Anacasppia of Democratium, Cowardly Pacifists (Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Social Liberal Union and renowned WA Author!), Great Nepal (you may remember as the recipient of SC#24s condemnation), Trilobitia (has been very very enthusiastic, I look forward to working with him more!), Brituarion from Democratic Socialist Assembly, Vitius, ZackStein, Alec W. G. Stuart and Vibhor O’Connor from United Kingdom and Bergnovinaia (recipient of SC#39s commendation)!!
Although were getting a few new Lieutenants, were also VERY VERY excited to welcome Mahaj back to the battlefield. Mahaj has been taking the past few months off of active combat to serve as Osiriss Kai Repat.
Well, I think thats everything. Wait, do you want to bring back movie night? I want to do a movie night. Hhhm. Yes, lets do a movie night.
July 23 8:00 PM EDT, well watch Pirates of the Caribbean in the UDL IRC channel (#udl on Espernet). The channel will be made public for everyone; defenders, raiders, neutrals.
Heres your Moment of Zen:
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<+Fisch> I want unibot to be able to spot once more
<+Fisch> So I will make a robot do it for him
<@ABK> lol
<@ABK> The Unibot-bot
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May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
http://z4.ifrm.com/30294/192/0/p1133111/jack_sparrow.jpg
COME TO MOVIE NIGHT OR BE EATEN. RARRRRHHHH.
Click above to join our IRC channel, on Espernet which is open to the public for this monthly event. We’re watching “Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of The Black Pearl”.
A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
To whom it may concern: from one proud Canuck to another, Happy Canada Day!
Heh. Now whats happened this past week? Well, weve gotten some great new members that I think were going to really enjoy having on our team. Welcome Vibhor O’Connor, from the United Kingdom! In addition to Callisdrun, long-time roleplayer, The Aurora Confederacy, beloved roleplayer from Global Economics and Trade, Meowfoundland, our newest merrycat, Dukopolious, Ellorn, Hawk Watcher, Funkadelia from Taijitu, Auralia, well-known WA author, and last but not least, Prince Windsor from the North Pacific.
We also have welcomed back Topid to our band of merrymen I guess he just couldnt resist those tights! In addition to Topid, we also said hello to our newest Judge Advocate, Hyanygo, who is fully qualified, having served as Europeias Attorney General, to represent our staff in legal disputes and provide other legal services when the need arises. Lastly, we welcomed Jenrak to our Greenwood Band last week; Jen has already been out defending and helped us successfully liberate The Galaxy just last week!
Speaking of liberating, wow has the United Defenders League been busy! We had three successful liberations in the past few days; we liberated Gargantuan from Democratium Cyber Warfare Units (DCWU) and The New Inquisition; in addition to liberating The Galaxy from Nazi Europe and Zoo from The Black Angels. We also have to thank our allies, The North Pacific Army, The Founderless Regions Alliance and The Royal Defence Force of United Kingdom for helping us liberate these regions and support these missions. A big shout out also goes to Ten Thousand Islands Treaty Organization (TITO) for helping us defend Zoo from a counter-liberation attack by a group of unidentified raiders (saw The Black Hawks, The New Inquisition, The Black Riders there), who tried and failed last night to take back Zoo from the native community.
Those who took part in the missions received these military ribbons (from left to right, Gargantuan, The Galaxy, Zoo):
Whats next on the agenda to discuss? Eh… oh! The Monthly Awards have been released in The United Defenders League. Some repeat-winners included Riemstagrad for Triggerman of the Month and ABK for Recruiter of the Month, whilst Mahaj ran away with the Chiefs Award for his leadership shown during the unfortunately, unsuccessful refound of Concosia.
It was unfortunate that were unable to successful refound Concosia; nonetheless, in response to our liberation and attempted refound of Concosia, http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=188361. Like a distinctive growth of silver hair or the aging of fine wine, we accept this inevitable new stage of maturity as a defender organization with honour and grace.
Furthermore, the incident inspired me to commission the Order of Danmark, named after one of the natives of Concosia who bravely challenged the foreign occupation by The New Inquisition in their region. Members of the Order of Danmark shall be http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/pages/hall_of_honour#danmark and shall receive this customary award:
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Members of The Order of Danmark are natives of regions that have been threatened by foreign occupation. Natives are awarded this distinction by The United Defenders League for inspirational courage and resilience in the face of oppression. You can find a list of the first recipients of The Order of Danmark http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9635526/1/#new.
Some final stuff on the agenda to discuss: Grays Harbour and Lochinver have be officially sworn in as our first, Master Craftsmans as apart of The United Defenders Leagues new Artists Guild. Grays is a famous image-maker whose historical work includes the early mission ribbons used by the Texas Defense Forces. Nowadays he’s now known more for his creation of stationary and currency images in Factbooks and National Information, in addition to being a beloved National Sovereignist in the WA General Assembly. Lochinver is a well-established image-maker in Global Economics and Trade who designed the format for Lyran Arms and Metix Digitals storefronts; an incredible talent in the field of headers and miscellaneous image design which is on display in NationStates • View topic - Lochness Graphic & Storefront Design Thread (Closed). We wish them the best of luck! The Artists Guild will be completing image requests for defenders, which may include flags for defender puppets, military ribbons, badges, seal and other assorted requests.
Also, Movie Night was a swashbuckling success (yarh!), with the crowd enjoying Pirates of the Caribbean. Next week, on July 14 2012 8:00 EDT, The United Defenders League will be hosting a screening of The Dark Knight in its IRC channel for Movie Night all are welcome; this will hopefully prepare all those Bat-junkies for the Dark Knight Rises coming out the week after that.
Well I think that just covers about everything I wanted to cover this week, erm, defences, awards, TNI, artists and Batman. Yep.
Heres your Moment of Zen:
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<+Almaniania> Is there a udl.org, udl.net, udl.xxx, udl.com, udl.net?
<+Astrolinium> udl.xxx would be amazing.
<+Astrolinium> “Watch Unibot liberate Wordy with his large switcher for just $9.99/mo”
<Unibot> hhhhhhmmmm.
<@Milo> udl needs to start doing evony-esque ad campaigns, obv.
<@Milo> “Come and liberate, m’lord!”
— End quote
May Justice Never Be Abandoned,
Unibot
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
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<Milograd> What’s going on?
<Solm> 6 Libs in a row is what’s going on
— End quote
Well said, Solm. Well said. The United Defenders League has been freeing regions left, right and centre with military victory after military victory these past few days. Last update, I spoke about our missions in Gargantuan, The Galaxy and Zoo since then, Gargantuan has finally been cleaned of raiders after a weeklong post-liberation support mission. During the weekend, we successfully managed to juggle all of our support missions and leave The Black Riders and co. unable to try to re-raid Zoo or Gargantuan. This left one newbie Black Rider upset as he stormed out of Gargantuan as soon as it updated and declared on the Black Riders Regional Message Board:
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http://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=1584256
Big Flop.
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Amusing as that was, there are more successes to talk about from this week. The United Defenders League also liberated Senatus Populusque Romanus that same day from under the noses of The Greater German Reich. Oh… and I guess ze Nazis didnt like zat, so they tried to raid it again last night unfortunately for them the Greenwood Band was active and shot down their raid with a quick defense lead by Sr. Merryman Jamie, Mewsland and Soviet Canuckistan. Nice one boys!
Then the next day, The United Defenders League and The North Pacific Army ambushed raiders in St. Abbaddon to liberate it in a close, 15-13 victory against The Black Hawks and The Black Riders plus Unknown and our good erm friends, The New Inquisition, and The Land of Kings and Emperors who were providing support. We made this liberation look easy, but liberators were facing an active raider delegate in St Abbaddon who only managed to eject and ban two soldiers during the liberation (poor Lep and Sov!). Also, a big shout out goes to New Warsaw Pact and Empire of Andrew for helping us during the Post-Liberation support stage!
Perhaps the most amusing part about the St Abbaddon mission was Lieutenant Mahaj, liberating St Abbaddon with a puppet emerging from The New Inquisition, flying The New Inquisition flag. The New Inquisition has yet to declare war on Mahaj, but I fear a speech or lecture on the subject of vexillological thievery is in the works.
But wait! Theres more! If you call now you cawell there is more, The United Defenders League also liberated Former United States from The Black Riders; in a strong showing for a Monday morning, thirteen Merrymen rode into the region in the three second window of opportunity provided to elegantly take the delegacy from the Raiders and return said authority back to the native community safely. There were no ejections or bans of defenders during the mission.
Participants in these various liberations received the following military ribbons:
A shout out goes out to Milograd who was lead in the Former United States liberation coincidentally, Former United States is officially his first mission back as an active defender since he retired last month. Milograd recently retook the Scarlet Oath and were all extremely happy to have our organizations Guardian back on the team with his fisticuffs ready. He received a warm welcome back from his fellow defenders. Likewise, we also welcomed back Jamie Anumia back to The United Defenders League too! Jamie has returned to defending and has already been kicking butt with defences and liberations, even leading the liberation of Senatus Populusque Romanus!
On the subject of new members, weve gotten many new members over the past week. Were welcoming some new additions to our team including, Denecaep, former WA Delegate of Azhukali and founder of the NS World Censuses, Euskirribakondara, whose World Hit Festival has been a smashing hit in NationStates, Laos Refugees, former infiltrator of NAZI EUROPE, Phonencia of Capitalist Paradise, Raymond Sullivan of United Kingdom, The Kingdom of Okwe of West Africa, Morlago of Region IRC, Novus Niciae of Balder avid roleplayers: Nui-ta, Camelza, Remad, Grand Britannia, Deneager, Segmentia, Vecherd, Veladio, Sheepish, Sanian Confederacy, Alternate Universe 912, Vudnia, Kingborough, Veceria, Vettrera, Methoria, Immoren, Socialist republic of Andrew, founder of Republic of Andrew and his regional colleague, Mlewta!
Furthermore, Lochinver, our Master Craftsman, has been incredibly busy! At the beginning of the week, he designed http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9644994/1/. He also designed the new banner and images involved with this letter, which you may have noticed are new and shiny. Lochinver was appointed our Master Craftsman in our new Artists Guild, his storefronts, NationStates • View topic - Lochinver Ordnance (MT) (Nuclear Munitions For Sale) NationStates • View topic - Lochinver Ordnance (FT), are highly reputable.
OH! AND REMEMBER! Movie Night is on July 14 2012 8:00 EDT in #udl on Espernet. Well be opening up our private military channel for the public to watch The Dark Knight. I hope to see you there!
Heres your Moment of Zen:
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<Ananke> eh, I’m not sure there’s a correct way to pronounce it. I just say it the way you’d do it in Danish. shrugs
<@Unibot> Ah-ne-kay with a pause before ne.
<@Unibot> Pretty sure.
<Ananke> A-nan-ke I’d say
<Johz> I’m giving up and pronouncing it ‘Geoff’.
— End quote
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
A relatively quiet week admittedly since much of our staff has been away on vacations and holidays during the summer lull I myself type this letter to you from erm looks at the road signs Boxboro, Massachusetts.
In Boston, I had a particularly fun get-together with Earth22 (also known as Lyanna Stark), Pharaoh of Osiris; Eluvatar, Chief of Intelligence of the United Defenders League and Delegate of the North Pacific; Evil Wolf (also known as Blue Wolf), Former Khan of the Lone Wolves United and infamous trouble-maker; Gulliver, speaker of the North Pacific; and R3naissanc3r, Royal Penguin and renowned member of The New Inquisition and Land of Kings and Emperors among many other regions. Some highlights included Eluvatar practicing his reconnaissance skills and sneaking up on Earth and I on the train-platform (GODDAMIT ELU!), contemplating pushing Evil Wolf off a cliff to improve UDL-TITO relations (deep down inside, you know I love you, EW :P) and handing out UDL T-Shirts to Earth and Eluvatar (but not R3naissanc3r because we came to the conclusion that would count as treason with The New Inquisition unless he burnt the shirt as an effigy). A big shout out to Eluvatar for planning the day it was incredibly fun and I think we all enjoyed it a lot, I know I did.
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Four out of five of us from the get-together.
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A UDL T-Shirt
Whats a UDL T-Shirt, you ask? I had shirts made in the UDL colours and customized with our insignia and have steadily been delivering them to some of our senior members. I know Senior Merryman Quadrimmina was the first to receive his shirt in the mail and called himself a happy customer. Nonetheless, I didnt think anyone outside of the organization would want a shirt for the UDL, but if you do, telegram http://www.nationstates.net/Unibot_II about it and well talk about options.
Anyways, in administrative news: congratulations to Mewsland on his appointment as Vice Chief of Orientation I had heard quite a bit about his training abilities and patience and we felt it was time to make it official. As Vice Chief of Orientation, Mewsland will be busy! The Chieftaincy of Orientation announced on July 27 that there is a new Certificate of Merit to recognize defenders who have received basic training in the field of defending. All senior merrymen and officers have had their certificate, rubber-stamped; but from now on, ones first few weeks in the Greenwood Band will involve demonstrating to the Chieftaincy of Orientation that one knows the basics!
Furthermore, the Chieftaincy of Orientation will be very busy with all the new prospective recruits that will be flooding in with the new recruitment program. Its been announced that for every four recruits that a member gets to join, said member gets a star if a member gets five stars, they will be recognized with the Order of the Golden Arrow as a Knight to be addressed by Sir or Dame. I am gunning to be the first member of the Order, I recruited enough for my first star a few nights ago but Belschaft is slowly catching up to me from the rear!
On that note, The United Defenders League welcomes back the always lovely, Earth22 (also known as Lyanna Stark) to the Greenwood Band after she amusingly rejoined with my forum account by accident (I had been using her computer) http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/8778084/72/#new. The League also happily welcomes Abbey Anumia, Mesoland and Astarial, as well as Subject X7, Zarkenis Ultima, The Drone Empire, Tehraan, Discoveria, Bajireyn, Westfolde, The United Kingdom of Poland, Kritarchy Kolumbes, Zaras, Belhorizon, Embassy Lords and Mertado!
Likewise, were very honoured to welcome The Freestates, The Western Reaches and Imagey Nation (who was commended by the Security Council for his http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?t=13567) to The United Defenders Leagues Artist Guild which has been a smashing success thus far I know of several private image requests that have been satisfied by the Guild and Ive recently signed off on a project by image-making rockstars, The Western Reaches and Lochinver to improve the design of the forum Im excited to see the results. To get a feel for The Western Reachess work, Id take a look at the https://dl.dropbox.com/u/46816843/UDL%20prop.png
he made for The United Defenders League recently.
UDL Master Craftsman, Lochinver takes matters into his own hand when a troll joins #udl.
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As for military successes, its been a slow week but I know there was a successful defense in African Union and liberations in The Alliance of Ogrefasz, Great White Brotherhood, The Plain of Scamander, The Islamic Republic of Iran, Actiunedon, The Dominion of Satan and a liberation in done with the Royal British Isles Navy in New Confederacy of Sovereign Nations. Also, the Post-Liberation mission in Zoo is finally over, since the password has been changed as per native wishes to keep the region in lockdown we wish the native community well there!
Bribery at its finest.
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<@Unibot> Also you guys should know…
<@Unibot> If you get this one
<@Unibot> You get a military ribbon
<@Unibot>
<@Unibot> So everybody stay up!
<Nullarni> Ribbons! Huzzah!
<+Astrolinium> But, Uni… I don’t have enough hair to put in /another/ ribbon.
<+Nationstatelandsville> Can I show this ribbon to children and scream “F*** YOU, BRATS, I WAS IN A WAR!”
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Some final stuff to bring up,
http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9460609/4/?x=0#post8198533! Congratulations to the recipients of the awards.
And lastly, The United Defenders League says farewell to Milograd on his http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=192880 from NationStates. Milograd, former Chief Lieutenant and our institutions Guardian, has touched all of us in the Greenwood Band with his innocent, heart-warming demeanor and his dark humor he will be greatly missed.
In honour of Milograd, your Moment of Zen is:
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<@Milograd> Jaywalking should be a capital crime
<@Milograd> Just to show those people who think they can get away with it.
<@Mahaj> lol
<+Jenrak> The world will be derived of photogenic white women, Milograd.
<+Jenrak> You will plunge the planet into a darker era.
<@Milograd> Truly.
— End quote
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A Letter from the Capitalis de Societate of The United Defenders League,
Its been a quieter week as merrymen take time off to continue their vacations and summer activities speaking of which Ive returned from my vacation that was mentioned last update. Another special Kodiak moment from that trip:
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Unibot standing beside some random dude in sunglasses in Sherwood, PEI.
Nonetheless, the Greenwood Band has been active this past week or so, striking liberations in Confederation of Democratic Socialists against Greater German Reich, Bevanawayanastan against United Sector of Aardvarks, Dragonarius against The Empire of Friendship and a recent liberation in East America. There were also defences in Great White Brotherhood against Pwnzoria as well as Ether, Roma Union and Ponsatomy against Libertatem. I know the group also helped out the North Pacific Army in Goauld System Lords and helped the Founderless Regions Alliance restore Fidelia.
In addition to that, our new guys have gotten some experience in some practice liberations in Warzone Asia and Warzone Sandbox.
So yes, a quiet week, or as the lieutenants put it: Hey Ravania, is everything under control?
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<@Ravania> Solm, How’s everything? Well, everything is under control
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Well, apparently it is under control! The United Defenders League is also happy to welcome Biyah, a legend in the field of intelligence, back to the Greenwood Band. In addition to roleplay stars, Crystal Spires and The Fanboyists; also Ajzland, Conclespia, Max empire, Apox, Atomosea, James Weismantle, Summermusic222, Fashiontopia and Kamany. So far in our recruitment challenge, Ive been cleaning up, gaining my third recruitment star and two more away from the prestigious sir title I can already taste the pageantry.
As for administrative news, I must promote the http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9668510/1/ project, which seeks to map out which defender trained which defender leading some original, ancient defenders to lead their own households (i.e., I am a fourth generation defender from the House of Ostendt). The projects idea came about when I followed my own lineage through Whamabama, former head of the dissolved E-Army, to Westwind, former ADN Deputy-Director and Equilism co-founder and finally to Ostendt, Founder of the ArméeBelge/BelgischLeger (ABBL) and the E-Army. I had some great chats with all of them about the past and felt a bit more connected with the history of defending, which raised some interest among other defenders to do the same. NationStates | Not Found is running the project, so contact him if youre interested in participating.
Weve already gotten some very interesting posts about defending history from Free4All, a legendary retired defender, Nastic, former TNP delegate who called in TNP to help defend The Heartland during its historic invasion and Mendanau, co-founder of the ADN.
In addition to the Defender Tree Project; The United Defenders League is also sponsoring http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=195906 a program coded by Solm and designed by me. NS Weather predicts weather for cities in NationStates and generates these reports in a static and stable image link that can be hosted on any forum for roleplay purposes etc. I hope you enjoy it!
Also, theres http://s4.zetaboards.com/UDL/topic/9672206/ where merrymen have decided on pictures to personify different members of the group; like, Solm being depicted as a cute Golden Retriever or Mahaj, smiling mahajmellows etc.
If youre wondering, Movie Night will occur Sunday, August 19th 2012 at 8:00 PM EDT well be watching Dr. Strangelove and all are invited to join us at #udl to do so.
Some final stuff to cover: (i) you might have watched the Olympics intently, but you probably didnt follow the recent NationStates • View topic - Games of the VII Olympiad - Results Thread as much The UDL is very proud of all of the merrymen and merrywomen who performed admirably, some of whom (I count twelve), even were gold medalists! Congratulations; (ii) were happily observing the drafting of NationStates • View topic - [PASSED] Commend Yohannes and NationStates • View topic - [PASSED] Commend Topid Yohannes is being proposed for commendation for her great service to the roleplayer community and Topid, the Security Council community, but we know them as both super nice defenders, (iii) a shout goes out to http://www.nationstates.net/region=haven, whose community is bouncing back from a major invasion a year ago Haven is historically regarded as one of the greatest NationStates roleplayer regions of all time.
Yes, I know youve been waiting for it, heres your Moments of Zen:
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–after a few fruitless minutes of trying to recruit Cleverbot to the UDL–]
Unibot: Why don’t you want to join the UDL?
Cleverbot: When you have a nightmare don’t tell it to anyone.
Unibot: Aww are you scared of joining the UDL?
Cleverbot: Nope.
Unibot: Cleverbot… are you a raider?
Cleverbot: Yes.
Unibot: Godammit, I can’t believe they got to you first before me.
Cleverbot: Why can’t you believe me?
Unibot: Because you’re a raider.
Cleverbot: What are you?
Unibot: I’m a defender.
Cleverbot: What position?
Unibot: I’m the head of the organization. Are you sure you don’t want to be a defender?
Cleverbot: Yes I am sure I don’t want to talk about it.
Unibot: Goddammit, I bet you grief like a motherf**cker.
Cleverbot: Yes I do.
Unibot: What about all the native communities?
Cleverbot: They’re all going to crash and burn.
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<Abbey> That cat was only about 4 months old when she got pregnant
<Umbra> o-o
<Veladio> haha
<Umbra> that’s pretty fast.
<Umbra> KITTENS THESE DAYS.
<Veladio> new mtv show
<Veladio> kitten moms
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