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[Chemistrius]

bobF, on 07 February 2015 - 12:30 PM, said:

I could truly care less I truly couldn't care less what grown professional men acting like entitled man-children in a video game barely a few thousand strong think about my online persona. Some of you grok BobF and have a good time, the rest of you post tears and assurances that I'm bad at the game. Like every other PvP forum, ever. The truth of the matter is that no one has fun turret dropping with an overflowing queue, and that's the reality of rallying everyone to stack sides, no matter if it's Clans, IS or some neckbeardish Star League. Edit: oh yeah, kiss a little more PGI brown eye, and get those twitter accounts going, only dev intervention can give you bads enough "skill" to accomplish what you're talking about. (edit was made due to a correction cited by my editorial staff. thx u guis)

+1 for use of grok

[Ilithi Dragon]

The Conference of Wazan is about to commence. The conference will be recorded, and a recording will be posted here afterward.

[Monkey Lover]

Ilithi Dragon, on 07 February 2015 - 03:57 PM, said:

The Conference of Wazan is about to commence. The conference will be recorded, and a recording will be posted here afterward.

ahh nice I wanted to be.there but I'm still working for another 3hours. Thanks for doing a recording.

[Jerry Wargate]

[Grendel408]

Jerry Wargate, on 07 February 2015 - 05:49 PM, said:

like child labor?

[Ilithi Dragon]

THE STAR LEAGUE HAS BEEN REBORN!!!!

The Conference of Wazan has been a resounding success. Representatives from across the Inner Sphere met on Wazan to discuss the great threat of the Clan Invasion and unifying against it. After many days of discussion, debate, and deliberation, the delegates reached an agreement, and in a nearly unanimous vote agreed to recreate the Star League, declaring cease fires and alliances across all borders of the Inner Sphere. The Star League lives, and rises to fight the Clans!

Details of this convention, and the ratified agreements, will follow as they become available.

Edited by Ilithi Dragon, 07 February 2015 - 06:45 PM.

[Ilithi Dragon]

The Star League is on the move!
Just hours after the declaration of the Star League's rebirth, militaries are mobilizing across the Inner Sphere as House and Mercenary units are redirecting their efforts in a unified defense against the Clans, all flying the banner of the Star League. Mechs are being repainted en route, and there are reports of Marik, Liao, and Davion units hitting the dirt on the Northern front still in their old faction colors, not even waiting for their mechs to be repainted before rushing to assist their beleaguered brethren on the FRR and Kurita fronts.



Details of the new Star League forged on Wazan are coming in.
Many of the finer points of this new grand alliance have yet to be finalized, and the delegates have agreed to reconvene on Tharkad in two weeks time to further discuss and refine the minutiae of Star League operation. In the mean time, military strategies are being drawn up and revised, units are being deployed, and reserve forces are being called up to aid in a renewed offensive against the Clan invasion.

Star League officials on Wazan have also released details on the agreements ratified to form the new Star League.

In a vote of 25-0, with one abstaining vote, the delegates agreed to formally ratify the creation of a new Star League, formally declaring a cease fire and tentative alliance across all Inner Sphere houses. Inter-house training exercises, including simulated invasions and some live-fire exercises will still be conducted. Local citizens should not be alarmed by these exercises, and local authorities will do their best to keep local populations informed of these exercises, though the sensitive nature of military operations may limit that.

This new Star League will have no First Lord. Learning from the lessons of centuries of internecine conflict, the delegates have explicitly prohibited the position of First Lord of the Star League, or any similar position, from ever existing in the new Star League. It has been declared that no one man or woman shall ever be the sole ruler of the Star League ever again.

Under the new Star League, each great House Nation will maintain a high degree of autonomy, largely directing their own affairs. Each House will send an elected representative to stand in a Star League Parliament, and all Parliament meetings will be open to local house leaders (unit commanders), faction diplomats, and appointed representatives (unit reps appointed by the unit's commander). Due to high suspicion of infiltration by Clan spies and other agents, Parliament meetings, as they currently stand, are not open to the general public.

It has also been agreed that the diverse number of mercenary units, representing a significant military force, shall be given their own representation as a Seventh "House," which has yet to be named, equal to the other six Houses in the Star League Parliament.

Further details on the organization of the New Star League are still sparse, and many finer minutiae of the Star League's day-to-day operation have yet to be finalized. A second Parliamentary meeting has been declared in two weeks, and will be held on the Lyran capital of Tharkad.

Official word from the still-forming leadership of the Star League Defense Force is that the immediate objectives of the SLDF is to reinforce the heavily depleted forces of the Rasalhague KungsArme in the battered remnants of the FRR, and to assist in the recent Mercenary reinforcement of the Kuritan front. SLDF leadership has put out the call to any and all Mechwarriors willing and able to take up arms against the Clans to rally to the Star League Banner and deploy on these fronts as they are able, particularly the worlds of the FRR, which is suffering the full weight of the onslaught of all four Clan factions.

More details to follow as they become available.


/character


The meeting minutes with motions and vote counts:
https://docs.google....vzh7eB--t0/edit

Edited by Ilithi Dragon, 07 February 2015 - 07:37 PM.

[Jerry Wargate]

Grendel408, on 07 February 2015 - 06:28 PM, said:

like child labor?

Nay Suh,
The Fruits of our New Endeavors feeds All...

[Ilithi Dragon]

Raw audio file: https://drive.google...iew?usp=sharing

Note, this is a raw audio file of the 2+-hour conference. It is 1.6 gigs. I will condense it down and post a compressed version later, if someone else doesn't beat me to it.

[bobF]

Motion Two: Mercenary units may vote on SLDF decisions during such time that they are contracted with the Inner Sphere only. Pass 20:4, 4 abstained

MercStar is honored to be a part of the new SLDF. Thank you gentlemen.

Edited by bobF, 07 February 2015 - 08:11 PM.

[Benjamin Davion]

Looking forward to going boots down with my men back on the Clan front. My battalion has launched a number of expedition forces into combat all along the clan front, meeting with success in most engagements. I look forward to fighting under not only the Sword and Sun but also the Cameron Star. Let us lay aside our differences and meet the enemy at the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag. No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides!

[Ilithi Dragon]

Clarification: Motion Two is in conjunction with Motion Three: The Mercenary units will represent a seventh house-like faction. Pass 18:5

Each "House" in the new Star League will get one vote via an elected representative to the Star League Parliament. Minutiae regarding representation has yet to be finalized, but as it currently stands, to participate in the Star League Parliament, individual units must members of their "House" player community. This includes the new "Mercenary House", which has yet to be named.

Merc Star has openly declared their refusal to abide by any agreements, cease fires, and alliances reached by the Star League, and they are currently actively engaged in internecine operations against Davion despite the new cease fire agreements. Merc Star has made its Ghost Bear affiliation and False Flag intentions abundantly clear, and as such, Merc Star does NOT have a vote nor representation in the Star League.

If Merc Star wants to become a part of the new Star League, if ANY unit wants to become a part of the new Star League, they need to abide by the agreements of the Star League, and commit to fighting the Clans, all Clans, while in the IS. Merc units switching to the Clan side for a week or two to play their Clan mechs is one thing. A merc unit that is dedicated to a Clan faction and playing IS for a short time only to put tags on planets and engage in false flag operations is something else entirely.

Edited by Ilithi Dragon, 07 February 2015 - 08:26 PM.

[thatrobotguy]

Out of curiosity, how many Steiner units were present at this meeting?

[Murzao]

thatrobotguy, on 07 February 2015 - 08:33 PM, said:

Out of curiosity, how many Steiner units were present at this meeting?

Probably none. The other good news is Kurita capping a Steiner planet before the first ceasefire is over. We all knew they would.

Good to see it's business as usual.

Let's not forget Mariks offer to Clan Wolf to become a full member. Total lulz I know.

Edited by Murzao, 07 February 2015 - 08:44 PM.

[Duncan1dah0]

Minutes should have who was present and who they were representing.

[dervishx5]

Murzao, on 07 February 2015 - 08:41 PM, said:

Probably none. The other good news is Kurita capping a Steiner planet before the first ceasefire is over. We all knew they would.

Good to see it's business as usual.

Let's not forget Mariks offer to Clan Ghost Bear to become a full member. Total lulz I know.

We'll see you on Tharkad!

[Benjamin Davion]

Ilithi Dragon, on 07 February 2015 - 08:25 PM, said:

Merc Star has openly declared their refusal to abide by any agreements, cease fires, and alliances reached by the Star League, and they are currently actively engaged in internecine operations against Davion despite the new cease fire agreements. Merc Star has made its Ghost Bear affiliation and False Flag intentions abundantly clear, and as such, Merc Star does NOT have a vote nor representation in the Star League.

There's absolutely no way AFFS command will stand down on the Marik border while those douchebags are knocking on the door.

[dervishx5]

Feel free to strike back. We won't stop you from reversing any gains they make.

[Lugin]

Idle suggestion here, for the name of the Merc "House," why not use the (timeline current) Mercenary Review Board or the (slightly) future Mercenary Review and Bonding Commission?

http://www.sarna.net...ding_Commission

[Ilithi Dragon]

There were multiple Steiner units present. I didn't get a full count (we had 70+ people in the channel at the time, and I had my hands full, so I wasn't able to keep track of every unit that was represented), but Wild Hog was there, and I imagine he has a good idea of which Steiner units were present.

To any units that would have liked to attend, but did not get notice in time to do so, I apologize. I tried to spread the word as best I could, but we were throwing this together on very short notice, and I wasn't able to reach everybody. We will be holding the next session of Parliament on Saturday the 21st, on the Steiner TS Hub. We would have liked to meet next week, but that's Valentine's Day, and the wife aggro would have been too great. We also agreed to rotate between the faction TS hubs for the meetings for the time being.


As for any planets taken by rogue/false flag units, Marik will not defend any worlds Davion moves to take counter the losses they're suffering to those rogue units, with the probable exception of worlds like Asuncion, which is the designated homeworld of the Seraphim.

Also, in the future, if these "false flag" operations continue in such numbers in the future (there were 60+ dropping against Outreach earlier), I would suggest not defending against them. If MS wants to refuse to follow faction leadership instructions and refuses to abide by Star League agreements, let them send 60 players to sit in queue for ghost drops. Let them sit for an hour in queue per company, wasting their time, only to get a ghost drop. They'll get bored and go somewhere else after a while, and you can cap it back down when they're not looking. Don't give them the satisfaction of getting a fun match to play in reward for defying the Star League and conducting False Flag operations. Starve them out with a ghost queue.

Edited by Ilithi Dragon, 07 February 2015 - 09:05 PM.