To our fellow Illyrians,
It is with great sadness that we must announce to you all that we are initialing hostilities against player Hiei. He is the founder of the alliance Coin and, as of now, not in any alliance.
Historically, training alliances have been considered a protected class of alliance who's members have been shielded from hostile activity to allow them to grow and learn in peace. We continue the tradition of a training alliance and seek to avoid hostilities with any players or alliances in Illy. In this case, we did attempt numerous times to settle this diplomatically. We were met with venom, mistrust, outright paranoia, and military hostility in the form of diplo and military attacks. Our last attempt to discuss the matter was met with a "there is nothing more to discuss" answer and the razing of two of our cities. Because of our Training Alliance status and usual peaceful demeanor, we felt the need to explain our actions to the Illy world so you can understand why we needed to act and see we had no other choice. Additionally, because we are not affiliated with a Big Brother/Sister alliance, we need to handle this on our own.
The facts are fairly simple. 1) Player Kayteen needed to no longer be active growing and building in Illy due to real life committment. He is planning to continue to be social. His second account Aurelious was in ACHE, so he donated both accounts to be used to help new players grow. 2) Sitters from our leadership council were set and both accounts were moved to our little sister alliance Cobra. This alliance is where we put accounts that will be harvested by our players so that we don't need to have players jump in and out of ACHE to siege them. 3) A few of Kayteen's cities were in Kal Tirikan near to where Hiei's cities are. Kayteen's cities were there before Hiei's were. One city, HoneyComb was 8.2sq from Hiei's city 3.Northern Saloon. 4) Prior to us starting giving them away, Hiei had been running theft operations over and over against all three of the cities near him. 5) One of our new players, Detritus, was assigned Honeycomb and began his siege. Hiei saw this and contacted us to demand that he move the city away and rationalized that he had some claim to it because it was under 10sq from his city even though it was there before him. 6) There were several exchanges between myself and ACHE Council members and Hiei. Initially and ongoing through this process, many overtures were made to seek peace, incuding even a temporary visit to ACHE to meet the group and possibly recruit some of our trainees for his alliance. At that point, we were under the impression that He had agreed to allow our taking the cities, as we had informed him that the players would very likely be moving the cities given how far away their position was. 7) With approximately 300 pop to go to capture, without any warning or communication, Hiei destroyed Detritus' siege army. 8) We contacted him again and he gave us no real answer as to why there was a change except to say that he was insulted that he was not offered some form of compensation for the taking of the city and that we were buillying him, which included forcing him to join ACHE or some such paranoid rationalization. 9) A few days later 2 cat armies sieged the town, Honeycomb. Fortunately, the sitting player had enough left over troops to destroy both sieges. 10)Last weekened the real Kayteen logged in and sent Hiei a message asking him why he was doing this. He, in a more polite way told him to go f himself. 11) A day or two later multiple spies, thieves and armies attacked both Honeycomb, the city 8.2sq away, but also Donut, which was about 18 or so sq away. The sitter dodged his attacks and even sent the army to a distant spot. Hiei followed those troops and sent an army to kill them. We contacted him to try to understand what was going on and we were told that there was no more point to discussion. Later that same day 2 siege armies were placed on Donut, the further town. He razed that town. It is our belief that he chose this time to attack as he knew we are participating in the tournament and figured our troops would either be busy or dead. 12) A day or so later he repeated the same thing at Honeycomb and razed that city.
What you will notice is that at no time up until now, did we attack him or his cities in any way. So in summary, he attempted 3 sieges and razed 2 cities because he felt that a town, we were given and were in the process of giving to recruits, was his because it resided within 10sq of his city.
These are the facts of the issue and are unrefutable. We have copies of most of the communications, both in-game and Skype messages. I also have screenshots showing the area with our 2 towns and his towns, before our 2 were razed. It is because of this unprovoked hostility that we feel that we have no other choice but to take military action. We have a right to protect our members and our property from attack and damage. To add to his arrogance, he recently wrote this message after he razed our 2 towns. Sent By: Hiei Received By: LukeSky [ACHE] Date: 08 Apr 2017 23:21 I would rather no fight you guys. This is foolishness and childish but if i have to I will defend myself. Go away stop harassing me.
We have no issue with any of the members of the alliance he founded, Coin, and will not direct any hostile action toward them in any way, as long as they do not assist him. We will not be declaring war on Coin, or any other alliance, because we have no gripe with any other players.
My Best to you all in game and RL.
Respectfully submtted for the Council of ACHE by Lord Stanley Oracle of ACHE
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