Andistine: My Time in the Freedom Alliance

[Andistine]

Since my time in nationstates is coming to an end I feel it is my duty to tell the members of the FA the history, some you may or may not know.

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THE BEGINNING AND IRAQ

The FA was formed by myself and Spaceisland and were soon joined by Potato Pickers. In the beginning we both shared common ideals of freedom and liberated several small regions. We took Iraq in the beginning because of their dictatorship ideals, then Atlantic invaded, we defeated them in what was one of the biggest David and Goliath victories to have taken place in the game with the help of European allies, but this is not all- we cheated. I had multis, Spaceisland had multis and Potato Pickers had multis, it was the only way to defend the FA and we did that using any means
possible.

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POST IRAQ AND THE ELECTIONS

After Iraq we began recruiting more and myself and Spaceisland as leaders decided to have elections, but it was not that simple. The statement used by Spaceisland when I proposed elections were "I'm not giving up my power". I told him I would expose him to the FA if he did not comply with the morals the FA was based on. Spaceisland was to prove a hinderance to the FA all the way though, he had no thoughts for the FA at any time only his own progression. Sari-Dinya would prove the winner of the election against Malagana (Spaceislands multi).
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MISSING

Those of you who were around late last year may remember myself and Spaceisland going quiet for a few months, well the reason was that he left to become delegate of Scotland where he ran a tyranny, I oppossed him and was part of the many in that region who would pave the way for his overthrowing. This was one of the few occassions that I put my own grudges before the FA, but I dont let people who cross me get away with it- He lost that war, just as he would lose each time he crossed me.

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COMING BACK

Myself and Spaceisland saw an ailing FA and decided to go back and help the alliance being held together by Trekkers, he was a great servant to our alliance and served many terms with limited resources doing a fabulous job. Then came the disasterous joint presidency where Spaceisland went back to Scotland to become delegate again and leave me to take the flack of the United States crisies, I fucked up, He fucked up, he left like a coward and I stayed. We lost the US because of low numbers and moral while our co-president left for another region to build his own power.
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ORLAND

Orland was an enemy of the FA and we long suspected he was an insider, we had 90% evidence to show who we thought he was but not enough to confront him, I can reveal publicly that the suspect was The Eternal Overmind, however it is still unclear if this is the case.
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SPACEISLAND- THE FAILINGS

When Spaceisland took charge of The FA again in Spring, I thought we had a bright future. I still find it amazing who I myself believed what he said so often. The problem with him was that when his popularity was up he would go a step too far and blow up, showing the FA what he really was. He sacked Gothicville and myself for disagreeing with him, and I again helped to take him down, we then got a real leader in Dragonlands.
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THE ATLANTIC INVASION

I was in favour of invading Atlantic I have never denied that. I believe that if a region invades us we have the right to strike back at the time of our choosing, it might have taken us a year, but we did it, and guess who fucked it up- YEP Spaceisland! The FA nations piled in and overthrew the Atlantic, Spaceisland only had to keep the region safe, but no he got deleted. He fired Gothicville and myself for critcizing him after the bungled invasion, perhaps a show of strength- perhaps not though as he was booted out at the nezt election.
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MY TIME

It has been a great privelage being in the FA and working with you all, but this is the end for me in the FA, I have enjoyed NationStates but I just dont have time for it now. Thank you to those who made the game interesting: Myrth, OTP, Spaceisland, Atlantic, Potato Pickers, Dragonlands, Gothicville and many more.
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[Freedom Alliance]

I will continue with my information to fill in the gaps of the history.

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LOSS OF THE US:

In the time when I had first joined, there was an ex-FA member named Liberty Ben, who eventually became known as Ben Franklin. Him and some of his other rogue nations won the delegacy of the US. Without a founder, there was no one else to rule except him. This would be a daunting defeat from which the FA would never fully recover.

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SLOVAKIAVANIA AND THE GREAT FA SCHISM:

When I had first become involved I had met Slovak. He seemed alright at first, but then he took part in some shady activities. Sadly, making the same mistake as his FA predecessors, he was also a HUGE multi, and suspected of spying and deception. After the scandal involving him and Axis of Odds being the same person, there was a great split in the FA. Cyke, Hara, and others who were friends with Slovak had eventually, in some way or another, joined with him in his attack on the FA.

With the loss of a number of our members, it seemed as if he were gathering an army to strike against us. Rumors of Slovak collaborating with Ben arose as well, which were proven true later.

However, he proved to be nothing more than a yapping puppy. This was what I had found out about as my first intel mission for the FA was to spy on his new organization, the Elite Council. In addition, it was also to help root out spies and puppets that were in the FA as well that were from Slovak.

After that was taken care of though, we ran into yet another crisis. The aforementioned presidency of Spaceisland.

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MY PRESIDENCY:

While I had a succesful two turns, to me it felt more like it was too little and too late. After the Atlantic fiasco, we lost many members, and a member region or two as well. It turned out we then lost several more regions as time went on, and the ones that remained were not very active.

We were able to successfully rebuild the alliances with other region defenders. Indeed, we eventually gave an apology to the Atlantic, and The Dius Macht. It seemed our bad reputation had spread further than we thought though. It had a large impact on morale and recruiting.

We were able to still help defending, even with our limited numbers since multi-ing had long since been banned from the FA. We had begun to re-establish contacts with certain regions, such as the US, and helped save a few more, such as United States of America and The Great North Pacific Invasion by Great Bight.

However, we became more of an intelligence organization after a while. Since we did not have the numbers to carry out missions ourselves, we became increasingly dependant on help from other alliances such as the RLA and the ADN.

In the end, we had a good run, but now there is no longer the activity needed in the FA to go on anymore.
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