(Embassy) United Defenders League

The United Defenders League Embassy

Here we will post our diplomatic updates.

As we have formally exchange our embassies and establish our diplomatic ties, as the Founder of the World Alliance, let me welcome you in behalf of our great region! Enjoy! :-)

Any updates from your region? :-D

Update will probably be posted today sometime later.

unibot wrote:Update will probably be posted today sometime later.

Thank you :-D

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

This week, during the slower part, I was focused on foreign affairs – expanding The United Defenders League’s base of embassies to new and exciting frontiers (*tips his hat in the general direction of Panopticon, Normandy, World Alliance and International Western Union*). I was then abruptly reminded why The United Defenders League had never applied for an embassy with The New Inquisition…

Your account has been temporarily suspended. This suspension is due to end on Mar 26 4749, 11:23 PM.

Oh yeah… the war thingy-doo about the do-da-doo Concosia thingy, yeah right. Nonetheless, in recognition of the fact that February was one of the most intense naps in the history of invasion history, The United Defenders League awarded Raiderdom with the Chief’s Award “for their month-long disappearance which has kept NationStates safer than ever before”. Other Monthly Awards included Democratic Socialist Alliance’s New Andureo nabbing the coveted “Newcomer Award”, Ajzland And Birolika sharing the ever-so lovely Liberator Award and finally, Hodori continuing his complete domination of the Defender of the Month Award.

However...the nap is over. It’s been a relatively modest but noticeably more upbeat presence on the battlefront, at least more so than the sleep-fests that occurred during February. The Black Riders kicked off the week by proving last update’s gloomy prediction wrong that The Middle East was on the “brink of total destruction” -- apparently that region has a founder who could remember his password …… SURPRISE! Congratulations to The Middle East for overcoming the invader threat. Meanwhile, our main operation this past week was a tight liberation of SPACE against Ainur and the Eurosphere (Europeia, TNI, Kantrias etc.), the final victorious score was 29-27. We’re really happy we could help SPACE out on such tight notice on a quiet Tuesday morning.

<Gordonopia> SPPPAAACCCEEE SPPPAAACCCEEE SPPPAAACCCEEE SPPPAAACCCEEE SPPPAAACCCEEE
<ThatYakGuy> Also, Uni, I told you I'd make it to the liberation.
<ThatYakGuy> I drove like 70 on a 55 highway to be here.
<ThatYakGuy> WORTH IT

Continuing our “Space” theme, we freed “Luna” shortly thereafter in a smaller liberation against The Green Isles, who were backed up by The Black Riders. Participants received the following military ribbons for attending the SPACE and Luna liberation missions:

<Aardenland> So how do you organize these campaigns?
<Tim> Pure Charisma
<Tim> Unibot simply walks in and everyone organizes.
<Tim> It's absolutely amazing.
<Hodori> ^
<Tim> Oh, and it helps when I'm online to time the jumps.
<Tim> But it's really all Unibot *nods*

Tim is going to hate me for quoting him on that. Heh, I really wish that was true but I’ve got a great crew of people who make the magic happen on the battlefield -- I just try not to cramp their style. Nonetheless, The United Defenders League has also been involved with some smaller but recent military operations in The Library, The Islamic Republic of Iran, Pedestria, Coalition of Christian Communities, Defending Hallow, Koprulu, Iraq, and Singapura. I’m glad that the Greenwood Band was able to help these communities and it’s good to see the merrymen being regularly deployed again.

<Carta> my op was unjustly revoked on the silly grounds that I "wasn't a member anymore" and that I "had no authority within the organization"
<Carta> and that I "didn't deserve the ability to ban actual members of the organization from their own channel"

I dunno, Carta, that all seems kind of oppressive to me *snickers*. But you know what seems really oppressive? Carta returning to The United Defenders League! The former Chief Lieutenant returned to The United Defenders League this week, riding a spotted multi-coloured cabbage-breathing camel as his triumphant return was greeted with warm praise and salutations, and then there was…

<Campinia> Hey guys
<Campinia> How's it been
<Campinia> ?
<Ravania> YIHAAAAAA
<Karp> hi
<Karp> rav's so excited he cant type
<Unibot> CAMP!
* Unibot runs and hugs Camp
* Campinia gets crushed
<Tim> OH MY GOD CAMPINIA IS BACK HOLY F**K YEESSSSSS

… Campinia, Belgian Defender Extraordinaire (a shared title between Lt. Ravania and Riemstagrad). It’s not every day that two amazing people come back to join the team. We’re very excited to have Carta and Campinia return. Frankly, Campinia and Carta are family and we’ve missed them very much. As for other new members, this week we’ve also welcomed NS Mentor and roleplayer superstar, United Gordontopia to our ranks, as well as Finjaldn, Schmiegelland, New Sideburn, Aardenland, Schultaria Prime and Kialga, founder of International Western Union. I can’t wait to see what these new members will accomplish during their time with us and I wish them the best!

United Gordontopia has already received the title of Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) for his submission to The Naivetry Reference Library, The Great Global Economics and Trade Survey. United Gordontopia is the first player to receive this title from the Library since the program began in February. Good work, United Gordontopia! Meanwhile, Lieutenant Solm added an entirely new function to The Gameplay Alignment Test. Several people wanted to see the sheer volume or frequency of respondents’ scores, so to allow this dimension of density, Solm has added a “heatmap” option which shows the density of the collected data. Awesome stuff, Solm! Also, if you look carefully on The Gameplay Alignment Test’s celebrity compass you’ll spot Frak on there now. Sadly he did not register as a cosmopolitan. Tis a shame really.

Finally, we’ll be having Movie Night on March 16th 2013 at 8 PM. I figure we’ll continue our “space” theme with Star Wars: A New Hope. It’s high time that Lieutenant Earth finally watches it. Cue a repetitive but relevant emoticon.

I leave you now with the Moment of Zen, tootles!

<Earth> If you were NS porn, where would you be hiding?
<Tim> The Ascendancy, where I'd be locked up in some f***ed up Ascendancy Sex Dungeon.

Great update :-)

Aww, thank you.

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

Hello everyone! Or in true Bazalonian fashion: *stabby stab stab*.

*Bazalonia stabs Unibot
* Cormac has joined #udl
* ChanServ sets mode: +v Cormac
* Bazalonia stabs Cormac
<Cormac> Morning to you too Baz.
<Bazalonia>
<Bazalonia> Who says I'm hard to understand? :p
* Bazalonia yawns
* Bazalonia stabs Cormac and Frattastan
* Bazalonia waves
<Cormac> lol hai

As I’m sure many of you have heard, there was an incident during last week where one of our Lieutenants reportedly leaked a thread (connected to the invasion of Warhammer 40000) to individuals in The United Defenders League – the disclosure of the thread was rash and disreputable on this officer’s part. During the crisis, punishments, some permanent and some temporary were dished out to members of The United Defenders League who read or were aware of the leaked thread.

In the event that members could not be proven to have been unaware of the threads (they had no alibi), members were suspended of duties anyway to ensure that all guilty parties received their due.

In many ways, the people punished the most with these suspensions were the people who had to take on the duties of the missing lieutenants and superior officers. Halving our staff for a week (and then some of the remaining officers attending Spring Break on top of that), left the organization, as a whole, majorly understaffed. So I’d just like to thank all of the senior staff who led The United Defenders League during the past week. Also: thank you, Lieutenant Earth, for serving as the “UDL Standing Leadership”; I’m so sorry that Lieutenant Earth got saddled with my job for a week because I know it’s one of the toughest positions in NationStates and it’s even harder during crises – I thought she did a marvellous job of organizing the inquiry of the event and otherwise leading the organization during this week.

Nonetheless, with that disarray and staff shortage, The United Defenders League sadly wasn’t able to free Warhammer 40000 from The Black Hawks – that was probably the greatest punishment that could have been levied against a defender and I think myself and the other Lieutenants were affected by that greatly. However, we gave it a good shot – not many organizations can organize and run four solid operations back-to-back every twelve hours with twenty+ soldiers.

<Unibot> TNI: They fought the clock and the clock won.
<Galiantus> lol

Our big mission of the past few weeks was a liberation of The Islamic Republic of Iran against the National Socialist League – an overwhelming 26-20 victory. You can read more about that mission and an official warning in regards to escalation in a recent article by The Sherwood Post. Also, on March 17, The United Defenders League lead defenderdom into battle against The Black Riders during a minor update and defeated The Black Riders soundly – defenderdom was responsible for protecting more than 70% of The Black Riders’ targeted victims. Additionally, The Greenwood Band also liberated Avalon from its Kantrian (Kantrian not Kantian, nowhere neeear Kantian -- goddahm spellcheck!) overlords.

Excellent job guys. Below is the military ribbon for The Islamic Republic of Iran and Avalon liberations and the medal awarded for the merit shown during those remarkable defences on March 17.


The Greenwood Band also contributed to the liberations of Middle Earth, Gensokyo, Samsung, Death Star and The Armed Coalition, the latter against The West Pacific Armed Forces. There were also some liberations, defences and just general skirmishes through the week that we didn’t record. The battlefield has been steadily getting more active as we approach April. During the past week, our Defender “Assistant”, FriarTuck has been offline, so Lieutenant Johz (bless him), went out of his way to code us a substitute assistant. I would just like to express my glee that said “bot” is K-9’s older brother, K-8 *barks*.

<Earth> .in 15 minutes unibot go eat
<FriarTuck> Earth: Okay, will remind at 22:31Z
<Carta> .in 1 seconds unibot breath
<FriarTuck> Carta: Okay, will remind in 1 secs
<FriarTuck> Carta: unibot breath
<Carta> he will die
<Carta> unless we remind him to breath, eat, drink, sleep, etc.
<Carta>

<Unibot> Schmiegelland, you up for a lib?
<Schmiegelland> Ah, yes
<Schmiegelland> When will it be?
<Tim-Opolis> In about 5 hours.
<Unibot> Erm
<Unibot> Four
<NewSapienta> so at what time on the little c***
<NewSapienta> CLOCK
<Tim-Opolis> XD
<Tim-Opolis> LOL
<NewSapienta> I MEAN CLOCK

In administrative news, The United Defenders League’s officers have voted in favor of ascending St. Georgie (Mad Jack) to the Hall of Honour – although a current member, he was (mistakenly) not moved to the Hall of Honour during his past departure from The United Defenders League.

Furthermore, The Greenwood Band is very happy to announce that The East Pacific has recently ratified “An Act of Friendship, Development and Mutual Respect for Sovereignty between The East Pacific and The United Defenders League”. The treaty is a strong legislative icebreaker for a bright future for our diplomatic relationship; the treaty outlines The United Defenders League’s development program with The East Pacific, in addition to The East Pacific recognizing that they "sympathize with The United Defenders League's noble cause of securing these freedoms abroad across NationStates" and The United Defenders League praising The East Pacific's stability, reasonableness and maturity.

Hileville’s statement on the Treaty goes into more depth on this subject. We’re currently in the early stages of getting the development program set up, but in a future update I’ll discuss what’s going on with that program as we move forward.

As for new members; during the past few weeks we’ve welcomed Doughertania, Reddogkeno101, Greymlan, Kromar, Swith Witherward, Owl Cities, Nazi Flower Power, Thafoo, Schwabenreich, Bokeryville and our most recent, but definitely not least, Charax. I’ve seen most of this crew already actively on the field and enjoying their time – that’s absolutely wonderful to see! Moreover, Congratulations to Charax and United Gordonopia on passing their Defender Exams and meeting the requirements of their new appointment. It’s lovely to see such dedication from our newer members.

We also had the pleasure of welcoming Cormac Stark and Cromarty back to The United Defenders League – Cormac was a former Lieutenant and the first member to receive our coveted “Newcomer of the Month” award; Cromarty was also a former Lieutenant and is currently the Pharaoh of Osiris.

<Mahaj> You are now higher ranked than Uni
<Mahaj> I recommend you boss him around a lot
<Mahaj> you can still do it even when he's chief of the band, but it’s more fun now
<Gordonopia> Lol, I'll do my best

As for some final notes. I continually get asked “What’s UDL’s position on The West Pacific”; as you may or may not know, The West Pacific’s government has been couped recently. We are neutral on the coup – no troops have been order to support either side and it is unlikely that troops will be called to support either side. If you would like to read up on The United Defenders League’s policy on feeder coups, feel free to review our Rogue Delegacies and Administrations Policy.

I hope everyone has a Happy April Fools (the –best– day of the year for NationStaters). As for this “Regions will Fall” nonsense – don’t panic! The Greenwood Band is prepared for (almost) anything.

Here’s your Moment of Zen.

<Earth> "4 minutes ago: The Nomadic Peoples of Erotic Leprosy ceased to exist."