Infice

Nothing beats BK and NPO going from each other's throats to steadfast allies.

They should merge with NPO actually. The NPO-UPN treaty is arguably the turning point which brings UPN to where they are now.

Nice to see multiple wars going on in parallel instead of one treaty clusterfrick.

I'm always BK. Just waiting for @Yosodog and @LordStrum to bring me back to the Promised Land.

UPN Logic. Rose attacked our allies. We retaliate by cancelling our treaty with Rose. Let's declare war on KT who didn't hit any of our allies. ??

Shifty still does the best memes.

If you asked us a few months ago, no BK members who ever thought that we should sign NPO. However, signing NPO can indeed be seen as drastically changing the status quo; two bitter enemies allying months later. If you look at it, the chances of any other alliances on Syndisphere who would agree to allying NPO is pretty low. The inclusion of Zodiac is pretty much a foregone conclusion since they seems to be amicable to us from the very start of the proposal of Syndisphere splitting. I'd argue that the creation of the bloc was due to friendships/ideaology, a result of like-minded leaders coming together wanting to do something "different". This is talking solely about FA relations between leaders of alliances rather than strength of individual alliances. On the military side, it does indeed makes sense to sign NPO. They are reasonably good at wars compared to other alliances, Zodiac after the merger is also in a pretty good spot as a ally militarily Unfortunately, it did meant the consolidation of the mid tier. It does fit into BK's strength of dominating mid tier and up-declaring however, even though your upper tier is probably too large for our mid tier to defeat in a war. It is easy for us to look at the Syndisphere situation and decide which alliance should be in split up into the different spheres equally to make things more even, however, the human element will always come into play to distort things. The current result were choices the leaders and FA of different alliances decided. I may not like it but at the end of the day, it is just a game, we get to war with challenges despite the advantages each side have. I will just roll along with it.

I think if we really wanted to start another World War, we would probably have looked into cancelling some treaties to prevent another dilemma of being two-sided again (t$/UPN). It was unfortunate that things turned out the way it has. The general consensus was to let things settle after the break up and possibly econ up to more upper tier. The escalation of tensions happened rather quickly in my opinion.

We traded being dominant as a sphere in nearly all tiers to being dominant in only the mid tier in the name of "shaking things up" I don't like how we handled things with regards to Mensa and t$. I do believe we had missteps in handling relations and communications with them but ultimately, we accept that things can go wrong / blow out of proportions when you attempt to do something different from the status quo.

I have no idea what the proposals were, but to imply that OO leaders (BK and CS in this case) are too scared to take and risks is laughable. The actions that both alliance took were so risky that it did indeed brought out another world war. In this case, it is more evident that TKR was the one who refused to take any risk that threatens its position.

You are called the Animal Empire and you used the Merlion (Lion head, fish body) as your logo?

We signed a treaty to an alliance with people who we could work with. We entertained the idea of the treaty because of our good relations with Resplendent. If overnight the people we could work with left, and we are left with a government who only has the courtesy to inform us of a treaty signing a day prior to it, you can expect us to nope our way out of it before it brings us trouble. BK was told about the treaty a day before. Our leader might have inclined to give it a go, but with a government that's a shell of what it was, and the revelation of the drama, we decided it was not in our interest to maintain the treaty. FA moves are made by good relations with individuals, not alliance in name. If we want to ally with names, we would ally the top 10 giant whales right from our incarnation. The last time someone informed us of a signing days before the signing, shit happened. BK also had the pleasure of keeping a treaty that was counterproductive to both alliance. You can be sure that we do not want such an episode to happen again.

To hold the position of Supreme Leader and FA at the same time. What can go wrong?

There is still 72 hours you're supposed to defend Sparta

Swift rebuild DEIC.