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Mon, 07 April 2003 05:03  |
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| Steve1 |
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Put your reading glasses on. This is a long one.
From the minister of information's office:
As per the message pane, Cheekybuggers would like to publicly announce that we have an alliance with Luap's.
Many of our populace weren't happy with various deeds performed by the Luap's but there was always the noisy minority whom loudly and for all to hear declared absolute support for them.
One scandal after another found that the Luap's had secretly
infiltrated all levels of industry and government to provide themselves with the right kind of support.
Finally it was put to the ballot and the outcome was that 98.3% of the population voted to end the futile alliance between the trustworthy Cheekybuggers and the dastardly Luap empire. 
Cheekybuggers would like to announce therefore that the alliance is ended with three years notice provided.
Meaning that we may attack each other (or not) in the year 2459. 
Cheekybuggers would also like to list in detail the reasons for our decision:
a) A few years ago, we found that the Luap's had switched us from friendly to either neutral or enemy (we're not sure which). We became aware of this for two reasons. Firstly an unarmed scout was decimated by one of their destroyers and secondly another was destroyed in crossing a Luap minefield. This was claimed to be accidental and perhaps it was ???? 
b) Cheekybuggers had an agreement for tech exchange with the Luap's.
The agreement went as such: Luap's were going to provide elec11 in exchange for the Cheekbuggers providing prop12. We were originally on elec6 and after many emails back and forth and numerous delays were finally given elec8 (12 x elec8 scrappers).
The Luap's were on prop6 and were given enough scrappers to get them up to prop10 or 11 (We lost track at some point).
Cheekybuggers were also generous enough to provide the Luap's with 12 x energy6 scrappers (I believe it was energy scrappers but will stand to be corrected on that one).
We didn't complete the order (up to prop12) when it started to seem like we may not get all that was agreed to.
When asked about this, this Luap's didn't at first reply. When prompted again and they finally did reply it was to impose new conditions on the agreement. We weren't allowed to exchange elec11 with anyone else.
Cheekbuggers explained that we already had an agreement with another race to provide elec11 in exchange for other tech.
Although this was outside of the original agreement we also understood their position and suggested that we could get elec11 ourselves in two turns anyway, so perhaps they would like
to provide something else.
From then on, the Luap's have been silent and have discontinued all further communications with Cheekybuggers. 
c) The grab is now on for the Weader planets. I would normally expect to negotiate a deal with an ally over planetary rights but the Luap's have pushed right across the Weader territory to
apparently claim it all as their own.
The only three races that truly have a border with Weader, are Luap's, Nexus and Cheekybuggers.
Nexus and Cheekybuggers are currently in negotiations for planetary rights and contrary to popular belief, we are not even allies !
Yet Cheekybuggers one true ally is excluding us from any claim at all.
Now this shouldn't be surprising to any other race.
With the withdrawal of the Ygrinni from the galaxy, the Luap's claimed all of that as their territory as well. 
The following are a couple of extracts from this forum:
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YGRINI ATTACKS!
The follow report was issued today from Military Command :
* Three Luap DD's returning from escort duty stopped over at Puma to avoid a small cosmic storm.
Upon arrival, a armed Ygrini Orbital Fort fired torpedoes at them. The Luap DD's received substantial damage and lost many of its crewmembers. The Luap DD commanders were able to recover from this surprise attack and return fire, destroying this rogue Ygrini colony.
However, a single rogue colony was not the case. We soon got reports of a Ygrini DD attacking a Luap unarmed scout at Norm. The scout was able to outrun the DD and escaped without harm.
This second attack confirmed our deepest fears. The Ygrini, our one time friend and mutual protection partner has turned against us.
No word on a Diplomatic solution to this crisis. But as of today, The Luap War Machine rolls into action against the sinister Ygrini .
- and this -
Military commanders also announced the presence of many races scout reporters inside engagement zone. A reminder that all
non-Luap vessels in area are susceptible to friendly fire and are their at own risk.
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Now does anyone actually believe that the Ygrinni were the aggressor here ?
Furthermore we didn't think much of the Luap's "engagement zone" but thought, well so what, it's nowhere near our territory, so what has it got to do with us. 
Now the Weader territory is a different story altogether.
Since the Luap's have chosen to leave themselves out of the negotiations, they don't have a choice in what planets remain theirs. Any planets that Cheekybuggers negotiate for with Nexus
will, if necessary, be taken by force from the dastardly Luap's.
What Nexus do with their negotiated planets is up to them and is none of our concern. 
Please note that this is not intended as a smear campaign and that we are not asking other races to get involved.
Our intention is to present our case for what was said and done and also to establish a basis for possible hostile actions against the Luap's.
We would like to point out though, that this forum is not an inter dimensional court or the United planets.
Cheekybuggers feel wronged and intend to take the necessary steps to help us feel less aggrieved. 
If any other race disagrees with our intentions, then we accept your point of view but are not likely to change our stance on the matter.
We would be interested to hear your point of view however.
Regards - Steve
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