Talk:R9k/@comment-105.237.156.161-20141219214419

/fit/ here, since we are dead I feel it's time we confess our perfidy in v5.

In v5, as you may remember, we were still semi-relevant and involved in full scale war on two fronts; a bitter total war directly against the /out/trv/ league and indirectly as part of the /axis/ against /a/. Needless to say when /r9k/ allied with /out/trv/ we were hopelessly outmatched. For a while we managed to subdue /out/ by constantly raiding them, but when it became clear [after the first battle of /int/] that we would lose the war of attrition a /fit/int/ rogue group consisting of 2 officers with 3 new recruits totaling 5 players met to strategize; we agreed we needed to crush /r9k/ or sue for peace asap to focus on /axis/-/a/ war.

WITHOUT the consent or knowledge of the rest of the faction(s), including the leaders (who were offline), the 5 man raid party raided /r9k/. We got in by luring creepers to a connecting cave; no /r9k/ players were inside at the time. We took as much as we could carry and burned the rest, including crops and everything else we could destroy with lava and water. We even got some diamonds stored in your mines. At the breach point we left a sign saying "Love and tolerance. <3 /mlp/" or something like that.

This resulted in a "retaliatory" raid by /r9k/ on /mlp/ [outcome unknown to us], the next day a lost /mlp/ raiding party moved through /fit/ island, after a brief talk (at first we thought they were besieging us) they allied with us in exchange for directions to /r9k/; we gave them your base layout as well. This resulted on the "second" /mlp/ raid on /r9k/

Needless to say the whole ordeal put us in an excellent position politically, with /r9k/s resources severely depleted and another bitter war against a strong faction would keep them busy, we fully committed our resources to the /axis/ war on /a/.

Of course, after the disastrous Nether raid, and the lesser know second battle of /int/ (wherein /fit/izens could continuously reinforce the surviving /axis/ defenders on /int/ island using a secret underground highway built early in the game) our war exhaustion was maximized. We were completely destroyed by a joint /out/trv/r9k/ raid soon after. We moved our Zyzz statue to our new sky base but never fully recovered, as a result we could only contribute 3 fully geared men in our squadron of 6 in the final battle of v5 against /a/.

We would like to sincerely apologize to both /r9k/ and especially /mlp/ - our loyal and treasured allies since v6- for our treachery.

"Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your power, for he may afterwards become your friend." - Moslih Eddin Saadi

Seriously though that war started so small and the escalation completely fucked up every faction involved