THE SECURITY COUNCIL:
HAVING REGARD to the following paragraphs:
§1: A Moment of Clarity: From time to time, Liberations are imposed upon regions in the hope that they will prevent raider Delegates and their Regional Officers from passwording them en route to refounding and destroying them, only for those regions to be annihilated regardless, their native spark having fizzled out. Unfortunately, Eclipsis is one such region. Its Liberation is therefore in desperate, perhaps even urgent, need of repeal. It offers a false promise - a promise that Eclipsis remains open; that it may one day be saved from its captors. Yet it is now under the indefinite control of those that, in actual fact, did do it immense harm.
§2: Sunsetting Liberations: The belief that repeals of those Liberations described in §1 are themselves unnecessary and clog up the Security Council is proving increasingly popular. Yet in reality, this body has historically not hesitated to see such resolutions in a new light: it has acted to strike down the Liberations of Wonderful Paradise (via SC#66), Free Thought (via SC#69), Nationalist Union (via SC#106), Land of the Liberals (via SC#115), Region of reunited muslim states (via SC#117), Alliance Against Nazis (via SC#199), The Place that has No Big Banks (via SC#204), Dank memes (via SC#238), Femdom Empire (via SC#250), Politics Amino (via SC#280), and Yessssss (via SC#476) after their respective refounds.
§3: The Stormclouds Gather: Eclipsis was founded by The Republic of Lunarvi in December 2023; Lunarvi went on to become its WA Delegate and, by some distance, its most important native. The region existed peacefully until April 7th 2024, when The Brotherhood of Malice - in consort with The Black Hawks, Osiris and Sparkalia - opportunistically seized control. The Total Eclipse of the Sun of Asunnia, a vassal of The Malicious Nation of New Sunville, obtained the Delegacy and wielded around 165 endorsements for almost the entire occupation; not only was this about ten times as many as Lunarvi normally enjoyed, but it also rendered Asunnia the 16th-most-powerful Delegate in the world.
§4: Battle by Candlelight: Contrary to widespread belief, Eclipsis was never completely abandoned. The defenders of innocent regions worldwide shone their lights on Eclipsis while it was shrouded by the fog of war, in the hopes that they could save it from raider capture as they had done with Sunland the year before. No less than 70 troops from The Order of the Grey Wardens, The South Pacific, The League and Concord, Europeia, The Rejected Realms, 10000 Islands, The North Pacific, The West Pacific, and elsewhere also sought to defeat the occupation by military force at an early stage, but were thwarted by sheer lack of numbers.
§5: Midnight in Eclipsis: Those seeking to save Eclipsis from being overshadowed by raiders were further beset by the circumstances of its ruin. Asunnia had resided there for only two fewer weeks than Lunarvi, thus accruing sufficient influence to wreak immediate damage on the region. Declarations of dubious necessity on raiding itself and slavery were pushed by Evermoria and The Grand Duchy of Japuile, in advance of the takeover and in anticipation of any liberation efforts. Then, one week after the occupation began, the lights suddenly went out worldwide - an inexplicable development beyond any national leader's control; one with a similar scope to, and an even greater duration than, the tragedy described in SC#426 "The Holiday Apocalypse;" and one which made any practical resistance inviable for the following 13 days. Eclipsis' Liberation was, at one time, perhaps the world's best hope of preventing its destruction; by May 2nd, twelve hours after going to vote, it had metamorphosed into a vain petition of no effect, the region laid to waste.
§6: The Morning After: Lunarvi neither desires to return to Eclipsis nor is able to do so; yet since their innocent homeland was subjugated, they have lit the spark of a new Frontier community in Arborhaven, where they once again serve as Founder and Delegate. They supported an initial attempt to repeal the Liberation in October 2024, which was defeated by 6,233 votes to 4,931. They have also lent their support to this attempt. It would be unnecessarily cruel, and an unprecedented betrayal of the Security Council's usual deference to innocent natives, to deny them - the first and last known native leader of Eclipsis - the opportunity to determine the fate of its Liberation for a second time in short order.
CONCLUDING that Eclipsis should not remain Liberated, as the Liberation serves no use and the region's foremost native wishes for its repeal:
HEREBY REPEALS SC#501 "Liberate Eclipsis."
