The Alliance Navy – Banished & Forgotten?
by Alphaville Herald on 03/12/07 at 8:56 am
Merczateer accuses AN of spawnkilling, sithacking in response to riot shield testing in Dorien
by Fox Mulgrave, Military Correspondent
I have seen many strange things in my time in the Second Life military community, personal vendettas, operations such as Crucifix and Crucifix II and of course the infamous Emit Time scandal, however, they all seemed to have sense in them, a purpose and reason. What you are about to read however, is quite the opposite.
Militant Collective Commander Raideur Ng refuses to bow down
Wednesday night and I was trawling through my friends list looking for someone who may have a story to tell, I found hope from a friend in the Ordo Imperialis (formerly the Venuma Coalition and The Alliance Navy II). It turns out that some kind of joint operation between the Merczateers, Militant Collective, and the Ordo has taken place; Tuesday night, all three militaries began the long process of banning all members from the Alliance Navy group, intending to cut them out of the loop completely. Some may see this as a surrender, others, like Raideur Ng (Head of Militant Collective) insists that the move was made due to AN’s ‘overactive’ use of homing kill-scripts.
Those who refused to bow down: Raideur Ng, Lurdan Huszar, Anthony Lehane, Aryte Vesperia.
Intent on finding the truth, I visited Dorien, and began to question the AN, who actually didn’t seem too bothered by the banning, in fact they seemed quite amused.
Dorien sim
Rob Arten (AN Fleet Division Commander) issued the following statement: ‘In the past 6 months we have not had a single major operation enacted against us by said military groups. We get plenty of action without them.’
Next, I journeyed to the Militant Collective base in the Sullen Plummet sim and was taken
To MC Commander Raideur Ng. who insists ‘The Collective, Ordo, Merczateers are tired of trying to bend to the AN‘, then continued saying, ‘have never willingly negotiated anything with other groups Unless it specifically benefited them. I don’t support the slander we’ve been getting from the AN. Personal slander’.
On leaving Sullen Plummet I sent an Instant Message to Merczateer Proteus Hand, who gave me a strange slant on the story:
Proteus Hand: What had happened, was, Kohlen had fashioned a riot shield, which used mechanics that obeyed the rules of engagement, and it was tested in Dorien.
Proteus Hand: What it did, was, once you stopped moving, it would rez an invisible barricade in front of you, protecting your front side from bullets.
Proteus Hand: not explosives, and not your backside.
Proteus Hand: However, the Alliance Navy, witnessing us doing this on their land, thought it to be a breach of STABLE, because they thought it to be an actual full person shield that protected at all times.
Proteus Hand: When in truth, it was just a variant of their barricade rezzer.
Proteus Hand: They declared us no longer under the “protection” of STABLE, and
said that they would resort to any tactics – Spawnkilling, sithacking, etc. when fighting us.
Proteus Hand: Lurdan, Aryte, and Raideur discussed the situation, and came to the conclusion to just not deal with them anymore.
Proteus Hand: The Alliance Navy consider this some sort of “chickening out” from what I understand, and I empathize, I’ve been on their side of the field.
Fox Mulgrave: Interesting, so in fact it was the AN who did this, not you just randomly doing it to them
Proteus Hand: had they done it to me, I would have considered it an informal surrender.
Proteus Hand: yes, it was definitely reactional.
After speaking with Proteus I returned to Dorien, but was ushered quietly away. So is the AN, capable of griefing and breaking their own rules? It would seem so, almost certainly.
Phillip Hltcrantz
Jan 17th, 2008
hmm… A breach of STABLE? Not really.
The AN allow theor ally the 39th M.H.T.F. to use a shield just like ours. In fact they told the 39th that as long as they are unable to fire a weapon or move it’s legal. Well the 39th break that rule every time they come to badnarik.
And don’t try to dis-prove me. I still have a copy of that shield and it is still issyed to pilots of the SZ.06 Mech.
Bruno Ziskey
Jan 19th, 2008
I do believe its been changed Philip. No need to make worthless accusations in an article thats old.
Bruno Ziskey
King of Sparta
Lurdan Huszar
Mar 8th, 2008
WE WILL DEFEAT MILITANT COLLECTIVE!!! WE ARE NOW ENEMIES! MY CAPS LOCK BUTTON IS BROKEN!!
Eye Korobase
Apr 3rd, 2008
I was actually here when AN had gotten Banned from MC, Ordo, and merczs. AN had been bugging the 3 armies in late 2007 with the amount of using rockets and using other devices to crash their sims and whatnot. So, I was there the night it was one ste away from An getting booted from fighting with merczs, MC, and Ordo. It was a Merczs base and Ordo had some in to help defend against the AN that were coming in and after seeing AN using rockets that tracked Ordo’s air craft and using different types of rockets instant of jut normal machine guns or rifles. Low and behold, the next mouring AN come in mass to Ordo’s base and using everything they could to win. Everything from their jumppackes that would basely wipe themselves up a few hundred meters in the air within a sec of being in the spawn, firing rockets that provalued us from even getting to the walls to defend against the AN coming in and many other things. at the time, we had to put 6 big kill prims over the spawn to stop them from jumppacking in, but they would jsut go right through them and after about another 3 put over the other ones, they stopped doing it. Aryte had had enough with AN ad finally orded us to just kill them in the spawn an that later him, anthony, and raideur would collectoly ban all members of AN.
At the currenty time, AN is being missed by many of the members of the 3 groups and wished that AN were allowed back to fight with everyone, but seeing that all the leaders of all the large SL armies can’t just come together to make a new tracy and get over al the past events that have hapened and fix all the bad things that have happened and finally the SL military commuinty just have fun again like they used to and not have all this drama like they have been for a long time. As a SL Soldier, I beileve until we can get over all this drama between all the armies, there will be unrest and bad ideas and rumors about all the armies.
-Eye Korobase
Hades Juran
May 15th, 2008
One thing there Eye. Our jetpacks are only able to get us up 96 meters above our location, and also, they are not that fast. That was actually a script we had made considering the ordo at the time camped their hub no matter who entered.