North Pacific Destroyers

Oh ye Noble North Pacificans ... Why do you hide in your villas and allow the barbarian to spoil your fields and your elections and your RMB? Where is the Warrior Spirit that tamed Great Bight and Pixiedance? Where are the arms and the swords and the voices of those decrying injustice from outsiders?

Now is the time to UNITE and show the barbarians that The North Pacific will not stand by and endure any more injustice. The North Pacific will not allow the interference of our enemies in our elections and out government.

Now is the time to UNITE and go forth to VICTORY!!!
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Look at the last pissant region that declared war. Hell, if they stay at war with us for a few months, we can ask them why when they join us under pseudonyms.

If Hers says the NPIA investigated and found no credible threat, I am inclined to believe him. If the reasonably coordinated Lexiconians fell over, why should three guys and a pantomime Princess Margaret frighten us?

Allow me to point out again - invasion is invasion. Any perception of moral imperative, or the concept of a "just war" itself, does nothing to change this.
 
If the reasonably coordinated Lexiconians...
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so it does indeed become an object of study and comparison :lol:

Reading through the thread I think I got a pretty extensive image of the situation. What I am not aware of is the history and the traditions. I'm just beginning to reat through the legislation also. But I can remember Flem speaking about a loss of interest for the NS-gameplay and a realocation of that interest to the forums and the inter-personal relations outside NS. tnp seems to be one of the last foyers of the old guard...but I can see the other point. If the game is slowly dying, give them something to talk about. I myself have never witnessed tnp 'massively' invading ( :lol: sorry, old funny situation when a NS region intended to move in a founder-active region with its own UN del. plus three others in a self-described "massive attempt to invade"), kinda reminds you of LoR, doesn't it?

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Nice to see you A-I, your political options are extremly maniheic and inconstant, as always :shifty:
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Byardkuria:
Look at the last pissant region that declared war. Hell, if they stay at war with us for a few months, we can ask them why when they join us under pseudonyms.

If Hers says the NPIA investigated and found no credible threat, I am inclined to believe him. If the reasonably coordinated Lexiconians fell over, why should three guys and a pantomime Princess Margaret frighten us?

Allow me to point out again - invasion is invasion. Any perception of moral imperative, or the concept of a "just war" itself, does nothing to change this.
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And this is why we stagnate; this is why the game spirals down. It is people who see no reason to do anything different ... or anything at all ... that slow us down until we stop. Who would have thought that T. S. Eliot would have played in TNP!

The Hollow Men

T. S. Eliot (1925)

I

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom
These do not appear:
There, the eyes are
Sunlight on a broken column
There, is a tree swinging
And voices are
In the wind's singing
More distant and more solemn
Than a fading star.

Let me be no nearer
In death's dream kingdom
Let me also wear
Such deliberate disguises
Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves
In a field
Behaving as the wind behaves
No nearer --

Not that final meeting
In the twilight kingdom

III

This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

Is it like this
In death's other kingdom
Waking alone
At the hour when we are
Trembling with tenderness
Lips that would kiss
Form prayers to broken stone.

IV

The eyes are not here
There are no eyes here
In this valley of dying stars
In this hollow valley
This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death's twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

V

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o'clock in the morning.

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom

For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
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They obviously crave DRAMA ... why else would "the gnat" pick on a region this size? What is wrong with giving them their "Little War" in their own region? What is wrong with producing the second act of their DRAMA? Think of it as a WarZone exercise and give everyone who participates the chance to have some FUN. The old farts (in thought and not necessarily in age) among you can stay home and remain grumpy old men (and women). You could even present everyone who participates with a ribbon/badge; a flyswatter award!

Frankly ... All talk and no action makes TNP a dull region.
 
Siggi away, my friend. :)

Following along with the RA debate on a declaration of war, it is suggested that such a thing is simply to create activity. TAO categorically disagrees. The Constitution of this region calls for the NPA to defend against all threats. And while to some the current threat implied by an apparently weak NPD would seem piddly, it is always good to remember that a small crack in a dam can eventually cause great devastation if left untreated. The NPD is a cancer on the region hiding in the shadows but pulling away this one or that one ... until one day you wake up and there are more of them than there are of you. And by then any action will be too little too late. Either the NPA defends the region against threats or it does not. Either the NPD is a threat or it is not. As a region, your Assembly needs to choose.
 
Dezzland:
No one in our country likes France. No one in France likes us. Christ I wish I was back in Dublin.
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Thanks Dezz!

...just to remind you (US-Americans) about this:


France is far more popular than the US on the international stage, who is about on the same level as Iran. No, I'm not kidding, even if it may be hard to believe for some of you. Remember, even if all US citizens disliked France, there are some other 6 billion people who might like it....so, pleethe stop comparing NS and RL, it kinda ****** me off. NS, is just a game in the end, no?
That's also why I am in favour of a nice cute attack against our dear friends from TNPD.
 
"Up yours, Delors!" You remember it, FL?

God, these Brits....I guess the author had a bit too much of this horse urine.....er, english beer? :P


Well, the UK...that's different, seems to be quite more popular, even though I don't really know why (considering some of its citizens, FL)....


Oh, and by the way, *how often will I have to say it?* the other Americans (Mexicans, Brasilians, Argentinians, Columbians etcetc.) would get mad at you!
 
North Pacific Army recently placed adspam in all the feeders identifying himself as a TNP recruiter. The nation is brand new with a population of 5 million. Perhaps this could be the work of TNP Destroyers? Maybe not? Who's know? This would fit their MO, however.
 
Ever since hiding the war debate from view, TAO has become more concerned about this region. Why hide things?

With the advent of Feeder AdSpam by someone posing as a representative of the NPA, it appears that something is big-time wrong. Again, why hide things?
 
Yes, blame me.

But seriously should war be authorized, the decision should be made by the citizens and citizens only. The RA voted to make a private hall to discuss security matters, so this counts. If you feel like you're being excluded, you're more than free to gain citizenship by posting an oath.
 
Monte Ozarka:
I've also been ejected from the U.N. because they are afraid of my plot.
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Wh-what? Silly person...
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I am the founder of North Pacific Destroyers. I was asked to join the forum some time ago by Chodean Kal. I see someone got their hands on my recruitment speech and decided to post it. That's cool. I think I should probably change the part about ejected from the UN because of my plot. Maybe I should change it to ejected from the UN because I'm a cheating idiot.
 
My, looking back through this thread, I'm reminded of the Yellow Journalism and such war frenzy!

Though, if I may offer a belated opinion, let the North Pacific Destroyers be. They're good for a laugh :P
 
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