Alright... It seems like I have to clear up a few things again - I wish people would not view everything from a biased point of view and understand both sides of the story. Alas, we've heard TU's side, now it's time for FS's side of the story.
It all started quite a while ago already, when The Rebellion merged into FS, which included player 'sithmedic' comming along in the merger. TU appeared to be very suspicious about this player in particular, because he joined them, left, accidentally joined again while at work - thinking he accepted an invite to The Rebellion (the alliance he applied to a little before that) - left them, and then joined The Rebellion when he got back from work. Under the assumption that 'sithmedic' had spied on your internal fora, took the intel and planned on using it against you, I was messaged by Jaykon about the matter. He agreed to me and our Senate voting about the matter, and we unanimously voted to keep sithmedic, and thus not comply with your demands. Even though there was the seeming of us having a choice that wouldn't affect diplomatic relations, the very moment I said we weren't going to comply, Jaykon's attitude shifted from 'willing to negotiate' to 'we can't do dealings with you guys'. I'm not a big fan of being given a choice, but when making the choice that isn't the one the other expected, it turns out you didn't really have a choice in the first place. Anyhow, that's where it all started.
A little while later, one of our members accidentally bumped into one of your Cships. Of course, I was messaged by Jaykon, since TU was -once again - under the assumption that we had malicious intends, broke their siege on purpose, and were trying to invade
your ocean. Here is the exact conversation we had:
Now, I'm not a big fan of being insulted in diplomatic negotiations, but I let it go without too much hassle.
After this, the question raised within our senate if we should go to war, or not. We agreed it was inevitable at some point, but postponed it until further notice.
Then, a few days ago, Gierto reached out to me, saying he didn't like to organisation of TU, said there was a huge absence of the leaders on the internal fora, and the majority was slacking on the conquest part of this game (as in, not conquering people). We put his application up for voting in our senate tab, and unanimously agreed to take him in. When we took him in, we did
not declare war yet; you waking up to red flags means TU made the first move by declaring war: if
we had declared war upon
you, you wouldn't see any red flags, they'd only be visible for us. However, when
you declared war on
us, you'd see red flags, and yours would still show as brown to us. Alas, that doesn't matter too much, as we did declare war upon you one day later, on the 19th of july.
As for the BE0W0LF part, SteelRain is right on that one. Gierto had a short talk with him, and BE0W0LF said he would 'like it if he'd be able to get him in'. Since our senate wasn't a big fan of the attitude, we declined his request, and we did not invite him - had we voted to take him in, he wouldn't be at your side any longer. He's not the 'better man than gierto' that you all think he is.
I hope this clears up a few things. If not, feel free to message me in-game, or post here: I'm more than willing to go into discussion on the matter.
Regards,
Acupuncture