Greetings everyone. I come before you all to set the record strait, if you will. Ever since Notum Wars began, and even before I imagine, Elite Operations, and their training organization, The Elite Acadamy have been hounded. what have they been hounded as you may ask? They have been refered to as brigands, scum, neutral fence sitters (most common and in style latly thanks to fisk), and what have you. Why have we been givin these names? Because we act, and defend what is ours.
The Clans, while some may indeed be friendly and true to their words, seem to like to attack neutrals. Some tell us it's because we've commited war crimes, and must be punished. Funny how that reasoning comes about. Elite Operations (and from now on, include EA) has done nothing but defend and counter attack. Oh!! but how the clans cry foul should we attack in retribution for an attack they did to us. For us to attack them is a war crime ... but them to attack us is umm .. what was it called? Survival of the fittest? we are considered an "easy target" instead of their omni counterparts. Or better yet, we seem to hold "clan territory" and instead of offering to buy it and use diplomacy, they attack. And get beat, except for some... so far. All this with clans that claim to be "friendly" to neutrals.
Let me post some examples from our aggressors.
andLions Den:
PvP outside Arena
Don't attack Clan or Neutral players under any circumstances except in self defence or to defend another Lion. Its however allowed and encouraged to attack Omni players under any circumstances.
Bah! and Dust Bunnies at this time appear to have no known neutral polocy.Black Dawn Syndicate:
A New Resolution
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Black Dawn Syndicate resolves to enact the following actions:
1) Defending the lives of members of the clans
2) Defending the mining equipment and land holdings of the clans
3) Destroying Omni mining equipment
4) Destroying those who defend Omni equipment and holdings
5) Defending the lives and equipment of neutral parties on Rubi-Ka
It appears though, they say neutral, but they have their own definition to what a neutral is, without putting that definition down.
In the case of BDS, through talks, they say we violated resolution #1 by defending our bases and retaliating, which makes resolution #5 void.
In the case of Lions Den, they so, "oh sorry", and leave it at that.
Both have offered to potentially destroy an Omni base and give it to us .... oh how gracious. We got enough on our plates, without starting conflict with Omni at this time.
Lions Den claims to want peace, but gives nothing but an apology for their mistake. They state they couldn't hold a similar base in omni lands, so the took it from a neutral org because its safer. Does anyone else see what is wrong here, in regards to their "stance on neutrals" ?
As for BDS, they were much better in their diplomatic means, but the terms were deemed unacceptable. We will not take a base away from omni and fight a 3+ front war. Simple as that.
Let me give you all the history of EO/Ea towers and you decide if it shows us as aggressors. If it is inaccurate, in any way, post it. If it is true, I will add it to the time line, but it must be provable, whether by many others, or a screen shot that is without a doubt true.
The history of EO/EA towers:
-Notum mineing was deregulated (NW released)
-EO founds base in TLR , Mort, and CAV.
-EA founds base in HitW, and TLR.
**No blood was spilled claiming these spaces. They were open territory. **
-Red tigers attack EO in TLR, but are repelled. No known retaliation has occured.
-Metaphys clan attacks EO, TLR. They are repelled. One known aggressive action in retaliation (helped WB).
-Lions Den takes down Mort tower with help.
EO responds by destroying over half the base, but is repelled. Diplomatic actions are failed.
-EA tower in TLR destroyed by the Dust Bunnies.
EA responds by destroying the Dust Bunnies tower and rebuilding.
-Black Dawn Syndicate destroys and claims EA tower slot in TLR with help of Bah! and other clanners. No known retaliation to BDS. Bah!'s base was destroyed for their involvemet. Diplomatic actions to BDS have failed.
-EO or EA base attacked by Dust Bunnies
EA retaliates on Dust Bunnies base in Wailing Wastes.
-1/8/03 ~0500 cst
EA helps Wolf Brigade take down a base belonging to Clan Metaphys.
-1/10/03 ~0700 cst.
EA tears down Bah!'s towers in Wailing waste with help from CircleG. Only defenders were Synergy Factor.
With this out in the open, can anyone explain to me why we are considered to have commited war crimes against the clans? Many clan say we are omni friendly, but I don't see how this is an accurate assessment when only clans have attacked us and we are reactionary.
We are a mercenary org, aye, but we have also not recieved any contracts yet to take down a tower. If there was a contract out, it would also have political implications and not necessarily always accepted.
so I ask you all out there. Prove me wrong. Prove EO/EA is the war criminals that is claimed.
I would like to know.
*edit: dates added to known dates.*
