Rhyagelle Responds To Absaroke Aggression

OCTOBER 10, 2012 -- Felagund -- Today, the Rhyagelle Alliance (RHY) took decisive military action to respond to a series of unprovoked aggressive attacks by Absaroke (ABSA) in late September. RHY's decision was carefully considered only after reasonable terms offered by our diplomatic contingent were patently ignored. The following explanation seeks to present RHY's casus belli for our response, and clarify our position on the matter.

 

RHY would like to make clear at the outset of this explanation that our military response is limited only to ABSA. Although ABSA's aggressive acts were initially precipitated by a minor territorial dispute with the Skeleton Boar (SkB) alliance, that dispute has had no direct influence on our decision to respond militarily to ABSA -- we are only presenting it here to give context to the entire situation. 

 

In short, this situation is not about a mining issue with SkB, we have had no military exchanges with SkB in the wake of the events that precipitated our response thus far, we are not planning on pursuing military action against SkB over the mining claim in the future, and we are not responding militarily to SkB at this time. 

This conflict is limited to ABSA. 

 

The RHY/ABSA conflict began with a dispute between our alliance and SkB over a rare minerals mine in the Keppen region. RHY has used occupying troops to secure rare resource plots throughout our territories, and we have similarly respected players who have done the same in securing rare resources of their own. In this case, an RHY player successfully secured two rare mineral mines that Jefke (SkB) took exception to. After deliberations, our player agreed to a compromise and agreed to concede one of the two mines to Jefke in order to bring the matter to an agreeable solution. Jefke appeared to be satisfied with the compromise, and our player made it very clear that his occupation at the remaining mine would be temporary. 

 

To this point, no fighting had commenced between RHY and SkB members.

 

It was at the end of this issue with SkB that Messer (Absa) attacked our player's position with troops ostensibly at the behest of SkB players. SkB members had requisitioned ABSA confederated to eliminate our player's forces deliberately. It is clear to RHY that SkB leadership was complicit in the knowledge of this attack, which was tacitly acknowledged by Messer himself in this IGM:

 

Indeva State (RHY) responded immediately to this act. This was his IGM to Russian Blue (ABSA): 

 

In the course of this exchange, our player re-took his position on the rare resource mine that Messer attacked. Days later, our players' forces were wiped out again -- this time by a different ABSA player, Hugie. In this attack, thousands of RHY troops were lost.

 

Once again, Indeva sought to reach a diplomatic conclusion to the escalating situation: 

 

September 30th came and went, and RHY received no restitution from ABSA, nor did their diplomatic corps make any attempt to reach a compromise. It was only after the 30th that Indeva began to receive the following IGM from Neytiri:

 

RHY's decision to enter conflict with ABSA came before the announcement of the tournament, and in spite of the tournament's launch, RHY reserved the right to commence its response at a time and date of its own choosing, irregardless of ABSA's requests or the tournament schedule. 

 

Since this first IGM, Indeva has received repeated taunts from Neytiri as well, none of which he has responded to:

 

RHY feels that there is casus belli for its response to ABSA. Two separate ABSA members attacked and destroyed thousands of RHY troops for no apparent reason, and ABSA leadership was unwilling to resolve the matter diplomatically. Rhyagelle will not suffer such a wanton disregard for decorum in Elgean politics and will pursue new strategic objectives against ABSA in light or their decision to aggressively attack our players and ignore the diplomatic process.

 

Finally, RHY is aware of ABSA's membership in the Consone syndicate. We strongly caution against any intervention of confederated alliances on ABSA's behalf, including but not limited to Consone members and SkB. RHY enters into this conflict with the expectation that the combatants will remain limited to our alliance and ABSA. However, RHY is also prepared to respond decisively against any alliance who attempts to bolster ABSA's forces, directly or indirectly.

We strongly encourage Consone to denounce ABSA's behavior and expel it from their coalition.