Time For Some Action

Time For Some Action By Synthetic Sid

Might as well start with the bones of it:

As of 24:00 Saturday/00:00 Dunday (CET) all agreements between Fury and Elysium will cease. It can be taken as raed that this will be followed shortly there-after by inbound fleets.

Why is this happening? Well we had to start a war with someone to liven the round up. Elysium were chosen for the following reasons:

1. We have less shared galaxies with Ely than with any others in the WTFVE group, 2. With the recent attacks by Hirr - with many attackers from in Fury galaxies - we either had to take a large hit to our galaxies by authorising retaliations or take this step, 3. Ely seemed to be the most popular choice of target amongst our members, 4. We have less historical ties to break with Ely than with any of the others.

This decision is NOT being taken because we have any particular grudge against Ely, or because we feel they were bad to work with. It's been fun working with them, and had our actual enemies put up a half-decent fight we wouldn't have ended up coming to this stage. I can only hope that Ely HC see this move as a step to try to introduce some fun into the game, rather than as back-stabbing.

We're giving 24 hours notice - any Fury member who attacks or defends vs Ely before that period has elapsed will lose their Fury membership permanently.

We are still maintaining our other agreements - meaning that Ely members in Legion/WPO/Ni/Virus galaxies will not be targetted until they attack or defend vs Fury: at which stage standard retal procedures will be followed (they agree to pay a roid fine or become open targets for us).

I'd also ask that there NOT be a rush of other alliances attacking Ely - we'd like to give them the chance to fight to demonstrate that they are (as I believe) a much better alliance than many people give them credit for. A roid-rush on them by all the other WTFVE members is not what they deserve.

How does this affect people in Fury galaxies? If your galaxy has no WTFVE other than Ely in, then you can most likely expect inbound at some stage soon - Im expecting my gal news to be red/green (and very long) tomorrow night

Retalatiations will still be granted by Fury on any galaxy members of ours who attack/defend vs Legion/WPO/Ni and we'll be asking for retals on any of their galaxy who do the same vs us.

The question on everyone's lips will be "Why didn't you attack Legion?" I guess. The answer is that we have MORE shared galaxies with Legion than with any other alliance. Civil war in about 40% of our galaxies was not a viable option.

I now look forward to being flamed for back-stabbing by all the same people who had previously been flaming me for not having the guts to fight anyone.

May the war last a bit longer than the one with NoCex.