SIN War Declaration Against SHARK

The Hashashin's [SIN] war declaration is a direct, one-on-one strategic challenge to Dark Shade's [SHARK] move into the Newlands. This is not a grievance. We seek to engage SHARK at times and places of our alliance's choosing to halt their deliberate move into the Newlands, which we believe is designed to exert dominance over the BL continent.

SHARK has talked about its move into Newlands numerous times in the forums as being concerted and expressly strategic in nature. Pico said, "Shark decided around 6 months ago to make Newlands our base in BL. Being one of the top alliances in the game, having a base in the middle of BL provides us with the opportunity to reach out to different regions in a more efficient way."

Halcyon has also explained SHARK's move to Newlands as a "strategic move into Newlands," and in response to the rise of land claims and SHARK's willful thwarting of them, Halcyon said, "We do not settle inside a land claim with an intention to force a conflict, but we settle where our strategy indicates even if this means settling inside a land claim." Halcyon objected to the rise of BL land claims, arguing that, "this means that a relatively small part of the players are trying to dictate to the majority where to place their cities. It won't stand." However, in SHARK's recent surrender terms for TVM, they have stipulated that the losing combatants adhere to a "6 month ban on settlements in Newlands." SIN sees this as further proof of an accelerated plan to bolster SHARK's position in Newlands that can lead to their unwanted military dominion over the region and beyond.

For our part, SIN also recognizes the strategic value of the Newlands. In a forum response we've noted: "Make no mistake: Newlands is prime location for a militarized alliance. Its central position and relative number of plains plots makes it ideal to build a kind of "base" that would allow a TVM or Shark to reach key areas of the BL quickly, whether it was in a tournament or in a real war. Over the past 6-9 months, the rise of alliances in the immediate center of BL, such as Shu-Han, B!B, Hansa, BRO, Stark, plus other Elgean alliances' satellite clusters, all make it a region worth dominating."

As a military alliance composed of avid gamers, SIN applauds SHARK's willingness approach the game from a strategic perspective. We also see this is as a crucial challenge for our own alliance, which has strategic objectives of our own. We intend this war to be a challenge to SHARK's move to the Broken Lands. In spite of being grossly outnumbered in members, population and land claimed, SIN embarks on this war singularly and voluntarily.

SIN is not looking for alliances to interfere with this challenge on either side, as it is a one on one challenge to SHARK and SHARK alone.