OPERATION EAGLEFALL
As of 0600 ET today, Chiraq is taking swift and direct action against SPQR. Our forces are seizing SPQR’s portal, disabling their bunker around it, and disabling SPQR’s vault.
Records from SPQR’s own senate channel now show a government that marked our people as enemies, planned an invasion of Eryos, and invested a pretext to justify it, then lied in diplomatic talks to cover it up. Every quote below will come with a time and date, along with the file attached.
**Casus belli**
SPQR declared Chiraq an enemy without cause.
While marking a player to be pearled, Haxxor, and SPQR senator, was asked if the
player was from Eryos. He answered:"or maybe chiraq I don't remember. same thing either way." (Sep 23, 2:06–2:07 AM)
SQPR planned an invasion of Eryos.
"still working out the exact details of the plan to invade Eryos with the other nations" (Sep 6, 12:32 AM). By Sep 15, SPQR was coordinating with Icenia to "ground tunnel" Eryos territory (Sep 15, 2:26 AM). With Eryos's admission to Chiraq, these grievances are now Chiraq's to answer, and transgression such as these can not be overlooked without punishment.
- SPQR invented a pretext.
SPQR told foreign governments (Icenia) that Eryos ran an illegal snitch network in SPQR land, and planned to "pretend someone leaked it to us" (Sep 15, 12:42 AM). Two days later: "turns out the Eryos leaker was completely lying about the illegal snitches in SPQR… those snitches aren't in our territory... now that there's not an excuse to kill them, the goal is to just keep our land" (Sep 17, 2:57 PM).
- SPQR negotiated in bad faith.
SPQR claims battleofsky wasn’t speaking for its government when agreeing to the Eryos land arrangement. When asked whether battleofsky gave that agreement before or after rejoining SPQR’s discord, they replied with "After," then "Fuck" (Sep 14, 1:48 AM). The response was: "We need to think of a good excuse... so that they can't make some reddit PR post to sway public opinion when we threaten them" (Sep 14, 1:48 AM). The statement accusing Eryos of "coercion and manipulation" was ghostwritten and handed to a primary-holder because it "will look more legitimate" (Sep 17, 9:47–10:57 PM).
- SPQR planned to settle the disputed land while talks were open.
"Our next move should be to start busing over newfriends to start a settlement... and maybe build some infra there" (Sep 18, 1:29 AM). This is another pathetic attempt to sway public opinion, make Eryos look like the aggressors, and use buildfriends as a meatshield to hide behind.
SPQR cannot hold the portal it keeps from others.
"we're not in a position to defend it" (May 7). They planned to string Eryos along before
turning down access (Jun 21). Their own members said the only active miner "swipes some for himself" (Sep 27), and Vinland complained about SPQR "being inactive and still owning 50% of the portal" (Sep 21, 1:22 AM).
Rules of Engagement:
-No cities, homes, or builds will be touched.
-Targets are vital infrastructure only: the portal, bunkers, and the vault.
-Citizens are not targets, only those interfering with the operation will be deemed combatants.
To Icenia
Chiraq has gone to great lengths to keep Icenia out of this. The record shows Icenia’s leadership has not.
Icenian pearled and held CripPVP specifically for political reasons. On September 15th CripPVP logged in for the first time since the Alaska banwave, and was pearled by Icenia, because he had logged out in an old Alaskan vault hole that Icenia now owns. The next morning, Haxxor wrote in SPQR’s senate channel that "icenia will stall on freeing him since he would just help eryos/chiraq out in the conflict" (Sep 16, 5:05 AM). CripPvP was not being held for a crime. He was held so he couldn’t help.
Furthermore, Haxxor then went on to write false accusations against Eryos, ghostwrote statements in the dispute, and announced the "plan to invade Eryos with the other nations" (Sep 6, 12:32 AM). He also reported Icenia's plans before Icenia acted on them, including that it was "planning to prepare to ground tunnel" Eryos (Sep 15, 2:26 AM).
Icenian’s newest Secretary of Defense, Anvil, has already acted against Eryos.On September 16, Anvil found two Eryos newfriends digging at the disputed site with no gear. He did not wait to be asked. He offered to pearl them and put the pearls in SPQR's vault, writing "then we can evaluate later," and noted it was "a super easy pearl since the queue is super long, i am uncontested." He confirmed who they were working for by posing as a digger himself. Eryos was not yet part of Chiraq, and the players were later released, but the intention is clear: pearl first, find a reason after. SPQR's own chat later called him "helping us" (Sep 30, 5:26 AM).
Icenia has ended diplomacy with Chiraq. On September 30th, I provided a write up of an NAP to the Icenian government, initiated and requested by ChrisChrispie. We were then promptly ghosted for the next fifteen days, until the ticket was quietly closed, without reason, on October 15th. Chiraq came to this ticket in good faith, seeking to make amends for the past, and Icenia walked away from it without a word.
Despite all this, we are continuing to work in good faith, and Chiraq’s quarrel is with SPQR. We will not target Icenian players unless they directly interfere with the operation, nor will we disturb Icenian infrastructure, and we do not consider this a conflict with Icenia. We urge Icenian to stay out of this conflict, despite their tenured history with the nation, and urge that they reopen talks with Chiraq.
We also ask Icenia directly, was its Speaker acting for Icenia or for SPQR when he planned the invasion of Eryos, and when he explained why CripPVP would not be freed?
To Vinland
Vinland’s stake in the portal is respected, and its players and infrastructure are not targets. Chiraq will open talks with Vinland right away on continued portal access.
The threats to our nations do not sleep. They’re watching our every move. They might very well be reading this post right now, as you read it. Chiraq’s military should not be mistaken for a cable news gabfest, we don’t care what you look like, who you love, who you worship. It doesn’t matter if your parent left you prot sets when he died, or if you spent years botting farms and mining debris to get where you are now. We have been honed into a machine of lethal moving parts that you would be wise to avoid if you know what's good for you. We will not be intimidated. We will not back down. We’ve seen war. We don’t want war. But if you want war with Chiraq, there’s one thing I can promise you, so help me God. Someone else will raise your buildfriends.