Stoned Prophet, on 22 February 2015 - 11:58 PM, said:
Your own members admit to breaking the ceasefire you reference and you wonder why the Davs rejected your "peace proposal". Some people are so nutty...
From what I have heard and read, no one ever said there was a ceasefire. We never knew of one at the time, and we assumed Davion stopped dropping our border because we stopped fighting there. There was no fun doing ghost drops for Davion on planets no one cared about and there was no fun for Kurita dropping where our numbers couldn't make a difference. People bring up these ceasefires like they were official. They weren't as far as I and anyone participating the CW at the time knew. We had both just given up on our border because we had better things to do (Davion wanted to fight Liao and Marik, Kurita went to drop the clan border where for something different than our perpetual losing front). But everyone calls Kurita backstabbers for deciding to change attack borders for a change of pace from a month on the clan front and to fight somewhere where PUGs from every faction didn't clog the queue (At the time our units wanted to start making a difference, and the EU pilots started getting involved again as the three ceasefire system had been newly implemented).
To me, the reason the Davion offensive was put into full swing like it was, was because a certain Davion posted about a nonexistent ceasefire in the forums, and a threat that Kurita will feel the force of a hundred Suns on our border. This challenge of Kurita's strength really got everyone in Kurita going, especially after we had a whole night of literally stomping Davion pilots. A number of Kuritans wanted to give Davion some perspective on what the Clan border was really like, and what those battles had turned every Kurita pilot into. We poured on the battles just to prove to Davion that they weren't as hot as they thought they were or the we were to be taken lightly.
In all fairness, I felt like we did really start to beat a dead horse, but people were really fired up by claims that we were a weak faction because we couldn't even hold our northern border. Since then, the thread I speak of was deleted by OP, but I assume many of us, especially Kuritians, remember the thread I am speaking of and the sweet tears that brought Kurita together.
Many people may say, "Well Kurita didn't want to have a ceasefire when other factions came to them with one, why should we now?" It seems to me that every ceasefire came with a stipulation. They sounded like they involved Kurita having to take orders from other Factions. Stiplulations that could make us nothing more than a dog for other factions to use. We had already been called a weak, worthless faction, so what would make us think differently?
Could you imagine if Kurita wanted to close the wormhole while part of nSL? It was given as our right to close at any time, but I wouldn't have been surprised if the nSL commanded it to stay open to help "fight the clans," even if Kurita felt that it is being used inappropriately (as a potential attack lane to keep Kurita doing nSLs bidding, to siphon planets, to let mercs walk all over us, etc).
Could you imagine if nSL wanted us to return all the planets on the Davion border after we were overrun for months on every front and erase the proof that Kurita completely annihilated everything Davion could throw at us? To let us be walked all over so we could be part of a "secret tree house club" that we don't need to necessarily be a part of to cooperatively fight the clans?
I am not part of our upper command, so I don't know everything behind the scenes, but I have been listening to what has been going on and this is what I think happened.
Edited by Stormthorn, 23 February 2015 - 05:10 PM.