History of the League of Small Superpowers

2006
 * Written by Lord-Slade, LoSS MoIA

In March 2006, in order to correct the lack of greatness in the world, the League of Small Superpowers was born as a new Blue alliance out of the joint plans of Uq Lee and Vaelar. Unbeknownst to the founders, one of their very first decisions would change the face of LoSS beyond their imagination; the decision, to recruit Alexandros Dios Nidhogg. Nidhogg has gone on to become the longest active member of LoSS with membership running what can be considered the entire time of existence; He is widely considered to be the member that started LoSS as a "real alliance" by creating the original charter. That prestige is rare amongst alliances as old as LoSS.

Growing to an estimated 20 members, LoSS founders approached the National Alliance for Arctic Countries, a large world power at the time, to establish a protectorate agreement with them. During the time the protectorate agreement was created the leaders of LoSS had also started the development of the governing charter. The backbone of that first charter still lies at the heart of the charter used today.

When May came everything internally was falling into place perfectly as planned, but on the world scale Polar War Two was beating on the door. PW2 would go on to involve LoSS's protector, the NAAC. In a move to protect LoSS, NAAC would cut it's treaty with the young alliance to save it from destruction. With possible annihilation on the line, LoSS was forced to make a decision; With it's founders inactive a group of higher standing members decided they would grant power to three emergency dictators, who would govern LoSS during the war time. Those dictators were King Justin, Nidhogg and Zarchay. With LoSS no longer being a protectorate, the decision was made as an independent alliance to stand by their friends against almost sure defeat. Any LoSS member that wanted to fight entered into a member change program that allowed them to move into NAAC during the duration of the war. This was in order to protect the alliance as a whole but still stand with their friends in NAAC. In an act of pure nobility and honor every active member joined the NAAC. This friendship would become something that would be forged in the fires of war and molded to stand the test of time. Destruction was nothing compared to the bonds that held LoSS and NAAC together.

After standing tall in the face of defeat, the war would end for LoSS when NAAC surrendered to a force over 3 times its size. The emergency dictators saw the end of their power when King Justin left the alliance and Zarchay stepping down to become inactive. With those two leaving, Nidhogg was left as the alliance's soul leader. At the end of his dictator power a working charter was finally put into action and government shifted into positions that were created within the charter with consul being the leader. Being the sole remaining leader left, Nidhogg would take his place as Consul.

It was during this time that a very valuable member would join the alliance and continue to be a member to this very day. Drugsup is considered the member who has put in probably the most hours of hands on work in the alliance doing everything from administrating the forum, filling government posts and is the most solid and consistent factor within LOSS, being active even when Nidhogg would spend some time away. During his early time in the alliance, Drugsup would hold the MoFA position creating a huge network of contacts in the world that he still maintains today as a Consul Emeritus and as the acting High Judge.

During June through the leadership of Nidhogg and Drugsup, LoSS would grow too nearly (if not over) 100 members. Programs were put into places that still run within the alliance today such as the mentor program and the library system. After the information gathered during PW2 a military structure was built that would rock the very core of every enemy it faced in the years to come.

July would prove to be an explosive month, not only for LoSS, but for the world. Along with NAAC, LoSS had started making friends with other world powers, LUE and GATO. The biggest draw for all the friends was the common enemy amongst them all: The Orders. On the 15th all hell would break loose and a rift would be started that would not be removed until nearly a year later. After an event involving the leaving of a LUE member verbal hostility would rise to the brink of war. Finally, after claiming LUE did not do enough to condemn their leaving member's actions, NpO would fire the first shot at LUE, quickly followed by NPO. Calling on all their friends, which LoSS was apart of, LUE stood up to The Orders and formed the CoaLUEtion, a wartime coalition led by LUE. LOSS, fighting on the side of the CoaLUEtion. The end result was a near stalemate between forcing both sides. In order to keep from compleatly destroying everything both sides agreed to a mutual ending to the war. In addition to the war, LOSS moved to the black team, where they felt they could find a new open arena in which they could expand, specifically the trading sphere.

The end of the worlds first Great War brought forth many changes to LoSS. They had handled themselves very well during their participation in the war. While LoSS played a smaller role in the war than the majority of the CoaLUEtion, it still reflected well for them. With the noble actions of Polar War 2 still fresh on everyone's mind and now with the way they handled themselves in GW1 LoSS was a respected alliance on both sides of the word spectrum.

During the second half of 2006 LoSS would really start to thrive. New government members Rom and Sully would step up and be the first real help current government would have in awhile. Rom would lead the FA department while Sully led the MoRE department. They both were the first to be able to take some of the stress off of long term government member Nidhogg and Drugsup.

In September of 06 from the depths of LoSS was born a new type of treaty; The PIAT. Government members had been discussing ideas for treaties to offer to other alliances because with the MDP treaty to NAAC they did not want to bind themselves to another alliance with the possibility of conflicting with NAAC, so other types of treaties had to be used with other alliances. One idea that was tossed around was a possible mutual rogue killing treaty. That idea was pushed down and thoughts were put into finding a middle point between the MDP and the NAP. Supremicist, the then MoFA, and Rebirth of Gorniar, a senator and lead diplomat, took control of working on the treaty creation. The first resemblance of the treaty was released to the world on Sept. 24, 2006 with the [http://s15.invisionfree.com/Cyber_Nations/index.php?showtopic=24902&st=0&#entry4925322 Wonderful Intelligence and Nonaggression Entreaty. (W.I.N.E.)] signed by LoSS and GATO. Oct. 2, 2006 LoSS would release the LL Bean Pact: A Peace, Intelligence and Aid Treaty between the Legion and the League of Small Superpowers. This would mark the first ever official PIAT treaty as it's used today.

October would see the first change in Consul since its creation. For the first time Nidhogg would loose the election. "In honor of Nidhogg's work with the alliance the senate sat down and worked out a new honorary position within LoSS government. The senate finally reached an agreement the all honorable previous Consuls of LOSS can be granted a positions as a permanent senate member of LOSS under the title, Consul Emeritus. Although this position holds no official power within LOSS it will drastically benefit the decisions of Loss's future with all past honorable Consuls as permanent seat in the Curia. There are some terms to this position and the senate has the power to remove Consul Emeritus from his position at any given time. All previous Consuls of LOSS have to be confirmed by senate before receiving the title of Consul Emeritus. Congratulations to Nidhogg on being the first of many to become Consul Emeritus." With Drugsup becoming the new leader of LoSS the person that would fill his shoes as IA minister would be a new breed of minister. This minister would be Idriveavw and October would mark the first of five consecutive election wins for him. He spent many hours putting time in on the forums really working to revitalize the internal workings of the forums. His 5 terms held a LoSS record for most terms served in one position by a minister, until it replaced by CDavo's MoRE 6 term span nearly a year later.

November would be a time that would forever mark LoSS in the history books of the world. For the first time ever the red team would have a senator that would not a member of NPO, but instead hold membership to LoSS. New Reverie had joined LoSS in October and had, since his creation four months earlier, been a member of the Red team. On his acceptance into LoSS New Reverie would be the strongest member of the alliance and after unsuccessful attempts to find trades on Loss's Black team,  New Reverie chose a different option: obtain a senate seat on the Red team, which had always been held by NPO. Reverie would begin messaging members of the red team that were not part of the NPO to garnish support for his run at the senate. At this time there were more unaligned members on the Red team than there were NPO Red members. Reveries messages were working and he was gaining votes very quickly. It was at this time that he was approached by NPO's Emperor, Dilber, with a request to leave the red team, which would clear his votes. Refusing to leave Reverie brought the situation up to LoSS government who had previously been officially unaware of the situation. LoSS helped by standing their ground, protecting New Reverie with statements on the OWF and working on a diplomatic solution both publicly and privately.

The red senate struggle would reach international headlines when the emperor issued a decree forbidding New Reverie or any non approved NPO nation from running for red senate. In addition, should New Reverie fail to remove himself from the red team within 24 hours, both he and his alliance (LoSS) would be destroyed. Reverie and LoSS would then issue a statement to thousands of nations from all teams now involved in the first debate over the freedom of the red senate. With the added publicity and continued campaigning, New Reverie eventually earned enough votes to win a seat on the red senate. This was the first time any non NPO nation had earned a red senate seat since the creation of the NPO. The growing support and political pressure caused the NPO to reevaluate its position on the red senate. In an epic retraction, Dilber issued a new Decree that made allowances for New Reverie to continue to run for the red senate. This marked the end of the first red senate debate. With the issue settled, New Reverie continued to campaign for the red senate, but was eventually ousted by the superior numbers and heavy campaigning of the New Pacific Order. This incident had placed New Reverie and LoSS in direct confronting lines with the most powerful alliance in the game and they stood their ground believing in their stance on the freedom of the Red team. It became an exemplary chapter in LOSS history.

Riding on the wave of popularity brought in by the powerful stance LoSS took against the NPO, membership would start to rise to nearly 140 members under the control of the new MoRE Trace. Trace is arguably, together with CDavo, the best Minister of Recruitment to ever grace the alliance. LOSS would reach a peak in its existence at the end of his 4 month governmental career.

The month of December would drastically change the alliance from how it was on day one to how it was the thirty-first. Until December the LoSS GOONS relationship had been a somewhat competitive one. Jesting remarks at each other trying to push each other to try and out do the next, so that the winner could be better than the other. Growth for each provided health for the black team. While the competition was heated it could still be said it was not completely a hate filled relationship. It wasn't until December 15th and the singing of the World Unity Treaty and the formation of The Initiative that things would go from bad to worse. The competition would blow up into full fledge trolling on both sides. The friendly competition was out the window and it was replaced by hatred. While personal feelings fell apart with each other, professional embassies were still kept in order until December 19th when LoSS Consul, Rebirth, cut off all relations with GOONS, and closed off their embassy on the LoSS forums. All GOONS ambassadors were de-masked and all ambassadorial/diplomatic conducts, halted. This was due in part by the actions of GOONS involving Drugsup, the LoSS diplomat and the LoSS embassy on the GOONS forum. On the 19th Drugsup found all diplomatic topics deleted and replaced with a single topic that contained graphic posts, insults and swearing. This event led to the end of everything but animosity and hate between the two alliances. This hate would breed one of LoSS most notorious members: Neuronia. He led the LoSS members on the OWF and everywhere else against the GOON trolls with trolling of his own.

December would also usher in New Reveries second attempt at the Red senate, with much more dire results. The run originated from an idea Reverie had to message unaligned members and try to recruit them to LoSS. Reverie developed a method to be able to mass produce lists to help the alliance. In order to test his method Reverie used it as a tool to run for the Red Senate again, PMing unaligned red members. With the decree from emperor Dilber giving New Reverie permission to run in the red senate,  New Reverie, although cautious and worried, felt that this time things would turn out differently and that he'd be able to serve the red team from the head of the senate. This second attempt at winning a senate seat would be met with even greater threats by the NPO. Unlike before where the world seemed to favor Reveries actions, this time the NPO would be supported by the World Unity Treaty, which at the time consisted of many of the world powers. LoSS and New Reverie had few options against this new and unstoppable force. On December 23rd New Reverie was sanctioned by the two additional red team senators. Despite leading the red senate in votes, New Reverie could not remove the sanction and lost all trades and abilities to send or receive aid. New Reverie still gained votes in the senate and lead the other senators by a margin of over 200 votes. Many called for New Reverie to sanction the other senators or even high ranking officials of the NPO. New Reverie did not see the morality of such a course of action and the war that it would inevitably cause; instead he released another statement informing the world of his position, to continue supporting unallied red nations. After actions taken by Admin for a possible rules violation Reverie lost his Red Senate position. With his loss of position Reverie quickly went into peace mode and on December 29th the NPO declared war on him until he left the red team. New Reverie was willing to stay and fight the NPO and suffer all consequences. LoSS however still needed New Reverie and ordered him to silently change teams. On January 1st 2007 he did so, thus ending the 2nd and last Red Team senate challenge.

While New Reverie was going after  NPO's Red Senate, LoSS was working with NAAC and others of the former  CoaLUEtion to pull together a group that would counter The Initiative. The base plans for The League had started months before LoSS became involved. A group of alliances had been discussing the possibilities of an extended Mutual Aggression Pact to counter the increasing number of allies the NPO was bringing into its fold. The failure of The Spectrum Defense Accord as it was known would lay the groundwork for The League, an extended MDP between LOSS, NAAC, GOLD, LUE, GATO, ICP, CDS, and ACID alliances. On December 24th The League would be officially announced with the LoSS tag proudly listed as an original member.

2007

As things settled down between LoSS and NPO, other clashes with the Initiative by LoSS allies, namely GOONS and LUE, would soon usher in the worlds second Great War. Pitting The League against The Initiative GW2 would start on Jan. 9th and end less than a week later. LoSS would enter the war at 11:47 pm on the 10th with a surprise blitz on CIS, a member of The Initiative who hadn't joined in with the other alliances the night before. LoSS faced both superior numbers and strength against CIS, but their attacks would prove to be insurmountable. Overnight important members of the CIS government resigned and the alliance was left in chaos. CIS never gained ground during GW2 and although LoSS surrendered to The Initiative with the other League alliances, their part in the war was considered an overwhelming victory. The little anarchy against LoSS came when a few members of FAN broke to attack LoSS.

The time after the war was mixed. With the war over LOSS was able to achieve forgiving peace terms that wouldn't hinder them too much. They would fair better than other League members due to the damage done to CIS and lack of damage done to them. Trace, who started membership increase as MoRE was able to do even more when he became Consul. Between Trace's work and New Reverie's lists members flowed into the alliance. This was helped by the fact that even though their side lost the war, LoSS was able to ride high on notability because of the damage caused in GW2. While membership crossed 300 and continued to rise to a peak LoSS has never again reached, internal strife was leading to the loss of high strength and government officials.

In Feb. Trace won Consul again, but do to arguments with long term member Drugsup, he left shortly after the start of his term as did other long term and high NS members for reasons of their own. With the void in the Consul position LoSS was controlled by senate Praetor, +Zeke+. +Zeke+ had been in different positions within Government for the past 5 terms and has been the one person to have the most power bestowed upon him without actually serving in one of the traditional powerhouses in LOSS government (Consul, MoFA, and LSAF). He is credited for revolutionizing the office of Praetor, from a figurehead position to someone who rallied the Senate, and proved more of a counterweight to the Consul, breaking with traditions left and right.

With the close of February and the start of March things were finally calming down internally and on a global stage LoSS was fighting with GOONS and the ever present threat of other Initiative members for control of the Black team. With the induction of New Reverie to the Consul position, plans that had been in the planning process came to a head. ACID, a Black team friend and former member of the now defunct League had fallen on hard times after the war; Their leaders and many of the alliance left, leaving ACID a shell of its former self. The plan would have ACID become a protectorate of LoSS and fly the LoSS AA effectively boosting the alliance to its membership peak at just over 400 members and over 1mil strength. While this protectorate treaty was disliked by a few members of ACID the majority changed their tag to LoSS. ACID still kept their independent forums and government, but in effect any that flew the LoSS AA was protected under the treaty.

During this time LoSS would feel growth and prosperity it had never felt before. Forums were ripe with activity and as one the alliance prospered. With the absence of +Zeke+ in power LoSS government was persuaded to start using IRC more. +Zeke+ had been a big opponent to using IRC and with him not in power to fight the motion LoSS would move and flourish on IRC. Everything was going the right way for LoSS. Even as shadows were looming on the horizon and hollow whispers were flowing, nothing was going to deter the alliance from their party. Then those shadows turned to fire and the whispers turned to war drums; War was upon the world.

Prior to the war, New Reverie and other strong members of LoSS had been declared on by several members of the GOONS alliance. Allegedly the declaration was made in jest, but the greater purpose was to prevent the strongest of the alliance from entering peace mode in the coming war. New Reverie, as Consul, pleaded with his larger allies to help resolve the wars declared on LoSS, but no help was to be found. It was becoming more apparent each day that the biggest allies of LoSS were once again going to be of little help when LoSS is in need. They were forced to survive GW2 without much help and it was apparent the coming war was going to be the same. The possibility of staying neutral if war really did break out was being discussed, but the idea was quickly dropped. LoSS has always had a solid base of honor when it came to friends and they all knew this would be no different.

March 19th would be the starting date of the deadliest event in history. Early in the day the plans of the Initiative were shown to the world when the New Pacific Order and allies attacked the Global Alliance and Treaty Organization due to claims that GATO was spying on them as well as harboring intentions of hostility, as revealed by several leaked chat conversations. The allies of GATO slowly rallied around them and discussions of a counter attack started. LoSS was brought in due to military treaties. Many former League members were also there. Even crippled as they were, because of the GOONS slot filling attacks, LoSS rallied to help. The leaders of GATO, Legion, and LUE drew out the war plans for the coalition that would be known as Aegis.

The LoSS war council looked at the situation and the alliances that had entered the war on the opposing side and decided that LoSS would be of most use attacking the Grand Global Alliance. The GGA had an appearance similar to CIS in GW2. GGA was slightly stronger than LoSS, but LoSS had superior numbers, and GGA would be split because they had already begun attacks on GATO. LoSS would also be able to enter the war on moral grounds against the GGA thanks to already established treaties with GATO. It was the obvious match for LoSS and the Aegis war planners were informed of the desired actions. Instead, even after arguments with LoSS leadership, the Aegis planners decided that LoSS must attack the Viridian Entente, whom we were friends with and had a treaty, with the aid of the previously neutral and unpredictable b|/b/ alliance. After hours spent pushing against fighting VE and asking for LoSS to defend GATO by attacking the GGA, LoSS finally gave in to the demands of its allies, leaving a bad taste in their mouths once again by those alliances they had considered friends.

LoSS entered GW3 early on March 22 in a full blitz against VE. b|/b/, an alliance that had long been neutral in similar conflicts, declared war on the VE and other select alliances of The Initiative. LoSS fought very well at the start and what they had done to CIS in the previous war was on everyone's mind. They sustained few losses during the first week of the war even while fighting a much larger and stronger enemy. As the days drew on LoSS continued to fight strongly in the lower ranks, but the strongest members started suffering devastating attacks. By the end of the first week it was apparent this war would be different for LoSS than GW2. The bright star of LoSS was its middle ranks. Even though VE recovered quickly those middle members were still able to dish out damage for a long period of time, before even they too were overrun. It wasn't going to be the enemy's strength or numbers that would defeat LoSS, but instead the mere fact that VE had better backing and was easily able to outlast LoSS. Aegis as a whole was fairing the same way. Even NAAC, who LoSS was still very close to, was hurting.

When LoSS went into battle moral was high amongst the general membership. CIS was still fresh on everyone's mind and everyone was still riding high on the fast growth between the wars. Pro LoSS propaganda was everywhere and members contributed their own fun in preparation for war. Membership may have been blind to the large picture, but it wasn't scaring them. LoSS had always done well for itself and this would be no different. Mess halls were established where eggs and bacon and other items were served daily. Custom foods were made if you brought your own ingredients. When the war started there were RnR stations set up for the battered soldiers from the war, in which a nice hot lady and a resort room were provided.

As the war carried on things became worse. It was easy to see that VE was not going to fall as they were still receiving aid packages from the rest of the Initiative. It was like that throughout the battle fields. Aegis was crumbling all around itself forcing alliances to aid themselves to stay afloat instead of other Aegis members. On the other side the Initiative was passing aid too all alliances even those not in the Initiative. When it came to LoSS reserves were very low as bank nations were unable to get to peace because of the jesting GOONS early attack. While b|/b/ was supposed to be countering the larger nations in VE they were instead falling apart. b|/b/ attacks were uncoordinated and were not causing the damage needed to fend off VE. In the past LoSS had always been able to rely on NAAC if things got really bad, but NAAC had been cornered by NPO in a threat of nuclear war. LoSS was alone and for the first time in any war there was no upside. For LoSS, the days of destroying CIS were over and their fight with VE and The Initiative had turned into a fight for survival.

Things would get worse on March 30th, Dark Friday. Rogue b|/b/ members started launching nukes and (spam) attacks against the world. This would bring both sides of the war to their knees (game goes offline). In disgrace leaders of b|/b/ disbanded the alliance leaving LoSS more so alone. On April 3rd, when the dust settled after the b|/b/ suicidal attacks (game comes online), Aegis members were quick to condemn the events of Dark Friday. LoSS, not wanting to be tied into b|/b/, went as far as to order all their soldiers to stand down and surrender, even though they continued to be attacked. It was an honorable move to show that did not agree with b|/b/ actions even though they fought on the same side. Sadly it didn't help their cause; VE would not stop attacking without terms.

Government received peace terms from VE and decided to put them up for an alliance wide vote under the agreement that LoSS would have 5 days to accept or reject the terms. LoSS had fought and died together, so it was government's view that this decision was beyond them and something the alliance had to decide as a whole. The vote ended in a near deadlock, acceptance winning by a very slim margin. New Reverie posted the acceptance to the terms publicly, only, to everyone's surprise, find them rejected by the VE. Unbeknownst to LoSS two days into the voting on the surrender terms, GOONS pressured VE to add an additional term; LoSS must leave the black team or no peace. GOONS had finally found a way to rid themselves of LoSS and take full control of Black. The new terms were begrudgingly agreed upon. The two terms that would affect the alliance the most were the downgrading of all MDPs to PIATS and an alliance wide move to the pink sphere. The terms would not be the last blow LoSS would suffer. NAAC, LoSS's long time MDP partner, former protector, and eternal brother would bring about the end of the war with their disbanding on April 14th. A relationship that had been molded to stand the test of time and the fires of war was now extinguished.

The Pink Era

The war had come to a close and what was put before the alliance was to be nothing more than a very bleak and isolated future. This dark future was supposed to break the alliance from within, something that 3 wars had been unable to do. Two primary things were put into place to bring down the alliance; the first, isolate LoSS from their friends by downgrading all military treaties to nothing larger than a PIAT, the second, isolate LoSS from the world by forcing them to move to the pink team which had become the home of hippies, communist alliances, and other alliances forced into isolation after an unsuccessful actions.

Right from the very beginning it would seem the isolationism would destroy the alliance. Angry membership, which included some government officials, left and the member count plummeted from near 400 to just 130. Part of the membership drop came when ACID ended their protection treaty with the alliance. Those members who had been flying the LoSS tag went back to the ACID tag. They had plans to merge with another alliance.

April was a rough time for LoSS. After New Reverie and other government left the alliance at the end of the March term other members fell in to replace them. It really was a month of chaos. With members leaving left and right and government positions being filled with newer people it really was like a dust storm nobody really knowing what to do.

Though not known at the time it would be a defining moment for some younger members as it was a time to test their true resolve. They would go on to become core members of the alliance still to this day. One such member, Shinbay, stepped up and was finally able to bring back some sort of order to the chaotic alliance. As Praetor he did what he could towards the end of April and then in May he would step up to take full control as Consul. Shinbay would go on to lead the alliance for 3 months in a row, a standing record, during one of its harshest moments. Because of his efforts LoSS was able to rebuild the entire foundation for future growth. Shinbay was supported greatly by other members such as Caesar di Cesare, who would become one of the alliance's greatest MoFA, CDavo the longest minister to ever serve in one position in a row, he kept the entire MoRE department running just by himself for many months, Legion-X and Nhoj, two long term senators who between them have served 18 of LoSS 28 months of existence as a senator, Co God Ben and Desert Ratz who both became trusted military advisors and program builders in the early days of Pink.

May was focused on getting out the rebuilding aid. Shinbay had a direct standing order to all remaining members of LoSS: all those above 3000 infra must aid those below or get the hell out of the alliance. Slowly in those early days of surrender the alliance was being pulled back together. While control was slowly being created internally, LoSS still had to deal with pink. The current pink alliances, orchestrated by LSF, were in talks of fighting LoSS to avoid them coming onto pink. It could have been devastating; LoSS was in no way prepared to repel an attack. Luckily, Caesar went to each pink alliance and defused any worries. LSF had their own issues to worry about with Norden Verein, so Caesar had an easy time with them.

With Pink threats quelled Shinbay really started trying to come up with a way to turn the situation around for the alliance. Everyone knew that if they were ever going to be released from there terms it was going to be a long time off. LoSS had to do the best with what they had. While Shinbay continued his internal reformation he set Caesar to the task of reforming pink. Until now pink was a wasteland of small and destroyed alliances. Other color spheres had organization and senate control, but since the disbanding of LUE, pink was without control and it was that control that Caesar would seek to form. That control came in the form of CALIPH (Coral Accords Legislating Indomitable Pink Harmony). The purpose of this treaty was to promote stability, amity, and economic wellbeing throughout the Pink Sphere. The signatory alliances recognized that in order to truly prosper as members of the Pink Team an environment of open trade, cooperation, and peaceful relations must exist within the trade sphere; when it came to team senate each signatory grouped up to gain a senate position. LoSS, being the largest pink team alliance, was able to take a senate position by their selves. Shinbay was voted into the position. Oddly, while the treaty was more for pink unity it had an unexpected global reaction. It showed that LoSS was not dead, that they were even prospering. The treaty announcement was supported on a wide scale by many former enemies. Many welcomed it because of the strength it gave to the Pink team, and until that point pink was a forgotten wasteland.

During the formation of CALIPH, Caesar would meet Herooftime, the MoFA of UNO, and Magicman, the deputy MoFA. It was unknown at the time, but these two would later start a confrontation within CALIPH members LoSS and UNO. Hero and Magic would both start purchasing nukes when they were capable despite other government officials request not to, due to power balance. This would go onto be a nuclear standoff between Hero and Magic against UNO leaders. After speaking with Caesar, LoSS granted Hero and Magic asylum to try and keep the peace amongst CAPIPH signatories. After the two governments met and spoke of the events it would become a buy off. LoSS paid UNO a minimal amount and both Hero and Magic were able to leave UNO. Luckily for LoSS they both decided to stay within the alliance. Magic would go on to serve in Government while Hero would continue his nuclear campaign and until his leave of LoSS would hold the most nukes within the alliance.

As bleak as things had started they finally started turning around. Members were sticking together well after the loss of all the in actives and old government had left. The family atmosphere was setting into place; it really had become "the alliance first, your nation second" and that feeling was accepted by all. In late May and early June an opportunity opened up for LoSS that could have been very disastrous or very refreshing….a release from terms. With the disbanding of VE, LoSS was in essence free from the one alliance it surrendered to in GW3. When LoSS Security Minister Oberwoot, without authorization from the rest of government, approached NPO that LoSS now thought it was free because the alliance holding their terms had disbanded; NPO emperor Moo proceeded to declare war upon LoSS until a full surrender was given to the entire Initiative. Due to quick work by Shinbay and Caesar everything was worked out and war was diverted. The end result, while ended without war, resulted in Loss's total surrender to the entire Initiative. While things ended badly everyone knew it could have been a lot worse.

Another global move LoSS made during this time was to acquire a new protectorate. With the loss of ACID, LoSS was looking to gain a new protectorate who they could then try to absorb if possible. Explosmer would be that new acquired protectorate. After a misunderstanding with NpO, Explosmer approached LoSS about previously discussed relations. Unlike the ACID treaty, the Explosmer protectorate would be a normal one. On June 19th, LoSS would announce it's second ever protectorate to the world. Due to the inability to add a defense clause to the treaty, the protectorate was a well fortified optional aggression and defense style treaty. PHD, who would later become a Consul of LoSS, was the Minister of Explosm Affairs to LoSS. While spending time on IRC, PHD and LoSS senator Kaiser Paul and later Co God Ben, slowly worked out plans for Explosmer to join LoSS; later PHD and another Explosmer councilor, Itastenice, worked it out on the Explosmer side finally convincing the 50 members to join LoSS. PHD would go on to become a very influential member of LoSS government, serving his entire time as a member of the alliance in a government position starting with the Explosm Affairs Minister and moving up to lead the alliance as Consul.

August would mark the transfer of power within the alliance. After 3 months of rebuilding everything during the darkest days of LoSS, Shinbay would step down from Consulship. Caesar would win the August Consul election and Magicman would replace Caesar as MoFA. It was during the August Moldavi Rebellion that NPO approached LoSS. An event shocking to some within government for this was the first time NPO had approached LoSS for anything. The only communication had been the repeated denials of LoSS appeals to their surrender terms. NPO wanted to know which emperor LoSS supported: Ivan Moldavi or Moo. The alliance government stuck to the surrender terms put on by NPO and replied to them that LoSS is neutral and staying out of world affairs. This would set LoSS up for their position in the coming global war, neutrality. This would be considered by some LoSS's first step back into the world playground.

With the coming of September a face would rise to Consulship that hadn't held the position for 11 months; Drugsup. Drugsup had plans to secure the growth the alliance had been going through since its rebuilding stage. Since its drop to 130 members after GW3 LoSS had regrouped to over 200 members. Drugs, in a stance to make everything safer created the ghosting policy that required every member to state their ID in their nation bio; after a given time anyone that didn't do this would be considered a ghost and forced to leave. While the majority of the alliance did this, a few did not and were hunted down and forced to leave. While internally things became safer LoSS membership and strength started taking a big hit. Some considered this a good thing, while others considered this procedure detrimental to the alliance. One such member was Shinbay. Fearing that everything he had done to rebuild the alliance was for nothing, Shinbay left the alliance. In the end the final result of the process being good or bad is left in the eye of the beholder. While it did secure the alliance it also cut out many members and strength.

Security was going to become a large issue fast. Since the Moldavi Rebellion The Initiative had started showing signs of cracking and with the formation of the Unjust Path, two sides could easy be seen with The Initiative. War rumors had been brewing for nearly a month and on September 9th they came to a head with NpO leading the ~ side of The Initiative against the Unjust Path side. This war would bring the end of LoSS's long time enemy The Initiative and mark the first Global War without a LoSS presence. Both sides of the war would approach LoSS government asking for them to fight on their side and both sides were quick to wave releasing of surrender terms as incentive to join. At the time there was no clear winner and since there was no loyalty held to either side Government stuck to their terms as they had before and explained that LoSS was neutral and would not be involved in the war. After the war NPO made it known that just because The Initiative was no longer around that LoSS was not free. They now officially had complete control of the terms. There was no public ill will for us not fighting as they were happy we abided by the terms and did not fight in the Unjust War.

Back to Blue

After the war LoSS took a new try at getting released from the terms. To that point LoSS had been rather quiet since the terms were first put into place asking only once every now and then about a release. Now in late September early October it had become a coordinated effort by Drugsup and Caesar. Drugs had been working with NpO to gain some favor while Caesar continued his talks with NPO higher command. On October 24th the first big chunk of getting the terms removed hit and it was announced to the world that with the blessing of the NPO and BLEU, LoSS would be moving off the Pink Team and onto Blue. For LoSS this was a grand achievement. It had been 7 months since LoSS was forced off Black and moved to pink. For LoSS it was a return to its birth place, a return to its roots setting us up for a fresh restart. Sadly, with our leave from Pink, CALIPH quickly fell apart. It had been a baby of the alliance since its conception and while it was hard to see it fall, the move to blue would open us up to the BLEU economic treaty, which more than made up for the loss of CALIPH. And oddly enough, when we left Pink, a few other Pink alliances were angry we were leaving; just the opposite of when we arrived, they were angry we were coming.

With everything working out globally LoSS senate started working on the first of what would become many charter revisions. Drugsup hadn't been the only older face to return to government. Neuronia had returned from his few months' vacation and took over the LoSS military. For him many things had changed since he left right after GW3. He tried to work within the new established system, but was unable to adjust. Many arguments broke out on how things were done. It was these arguments senate used to start amending the charter. The first one was adjustments on how to remove military command from the LSAF and give it to the MoS, which was run by Grand Duke Stephen. GDS had come to the alliance in August after leaving GGA for personal reasons. He quickly gained the trust of the alliance and worked well within government. Much strife appeared between GDS and Neuronia. Neuronia fought to keep the LoSS military from falling into the government's control, but failed to win. The senate passed their first amendment disbanding the LSAF position and granting military control to the MoS. Other amendments created new Minister Positions on a trial bases including the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Communication. Those trial positions would go on to be removed at the end of the December term. Other things were going well internally as LoSS had two small alliances unofficially join: Spork and The New Republic. Both alliances had been friends for a long time. Spork had even been a member of CALIPH. One of the best results of the joins was the gaining of long time friend Embereus, who would become active in Government and at one point being Consul

The internal bliss would come to a halt with the November election. While this election ushered in the return of Shinbay it would end with a quarreling government and the loss of Magicman. Jaaku, who had been Praetor in October, ran against Shinbay and former MoFA Caesar. Through most of the election it was a tight race between Shinbay and Caesar with Jaaku pretty far behind. Midway through Jaaku PMed the entire alliance campaigning for himself. The only thing the charter said about PMs was that they should to be personalized. After the PMs went out Jaaku's votes skyrocketed propelling him to win the election. This caused much strife amongst the government, current and running, with some calling Jaaku's win to become void. In an honorable move Jaaku admitted he exploited the loophole and stepped down from the Consul position. Shinbay, who had been one of the complainers refused to let Jaaku step down. He admitted that Jaaku had won the election and under the charter, while maybe not the spirit, he had done nothing wrong. Shinbay petitioned other government members to put Jaaku back into place. Overall most supported the move and Jaaku become Consul once again. The process outraged Magicman, causing him to leave. Caesar, while not as supportive as Shinbay did not leave the alliance like Magic. In turn he made it a very rough term for the governing body.

In December everyone knew things had to change. And with the way it was building up it looked very promising. Shinbay won Consulship with promises of building like the days on pink, as before on Pink Shin would have a fresh new group of up and comers that were quickly building themselves to become the future of LoSS. Members like Embereus and PHD, who both joined from pervious joining alliances, and Michael Locke and Lord Slade, who had both joined the alliance during the pink era; Locke had been working in military while Slade had been working in government. Supporting old timers like Caesar, Nidhogg, Kaiser Paul, and Co God Ben would return to help solidify the group. As expected everything did become progressive; even with Shinbay having to step down due to interests that would keep him inactive. With Shinbay stepping down it put the government in an odd place. Locke, who had never been in government before was Praetor. By the charter, if Consul leaves then the Praetor becomes the new Consul. Some government officials didn't feel that he was ready to lead the alliance and asked that something be done to keep him from doing so. In his defense it was brought up, that by the charter Locke was in charge and free to do as he wishes; in a statement by one government official it said that Locke, as Consul had to know when to do the best thing for the alliance and it was up to him to decide on what was going to happen. In a move that showed the young leader was wise beyond his time, Locke refused to take the Consulship. In an emergency vote, senate voted that Nidhogg would replace him as Consul. It had been 13 months since he last owned the position. The first of more charter reform happened with the creation of the Pro-Consul. This was in a move to keep what happened with Locke from happening again. Now, the elected Consul would appoint, upon election, a minister as Pro-Consul, so that if something ever happened, the Pro-Consul would lead. Other reform included the recreation of the LASF and the ending of the trial ministry positions. Starting in January election terms would be two months instead of one as they had been since the creation of the charter.

2008

In the New Year LoSS would continue to grow and thrive on Blue. While not reaching the members it once held the alliance has well surpassed any strength it ever held with more members. While growing, more and more efforts were being put into a full removal of terms. Subtle as they were, it was working. LoSS was winning more and more sympathy from alliances in The Continuum and One Vision, namely certain individuals within those alliances, to help put good words in for LoSS to the NPO. While being subtle with everyone else, LoSS was slowly becoming better friends with NPO. Drugsup, who had spent many a day trolling NPO and their allies in the days of The League, had become good friends with former emperor Dilber.

Finally on April 10th a year and six days after surrendering in GW 3, NPO removed LoSS's surrender terms. LoSS was finally free. No one had ever expected for LoSS to survive, but survive they did. To quote Dilber "To be perfectly frank, no one really expected LoSS to survive under the terms. However, LoSS exceeded all expectations, and not only survived, but thrived under the terms." Directly after the release LoSS signed the "Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks" Mutual Defense Pact with NPO. It represented a moment of pride within LoSS. The alliance had ridden out the terms better than any other alliance ever under terms had. They flourished where it was said they wouldn't flourish, they turned a desolate wasteland into an organized trading bloc, they shrugged off grievances of days long ago and in the end, after over two years of existence and with 230+ membership and over 3million in strength, were exactly where they wanted to be.

After celebrating it's two year anniversary in March and then with the release in April LoSS was feeling a high it hadn't felt since the devastating destruction if CIS in GW2. Everyone sent in treaty requests trying to pull the alliance in every direction. As some members of government stated it was a bit overwhelming. After rushing into the MDP treaty with NPO the government decided to go slow with all other treaties. Signing massive amounts of treaties in the old days had been what severely hurt the alliance. Government was bound and determined not to let that happen again. In the end 3 more treaties were accepted. An MDoAP was signed with both Greenland Republic, who was the embodiment of NAAC and had always been very close to LoSS and with TPF (The Phoenix Federation) who LoSS had become very close friends with due to older members, in both alliances being friends. The fourth and final treaty would be the MDP with NpO. Polar had backed the alliance since the days of the Unjust War and worked with the alliance to get NPO to release terms.

The alliance continued growing and along with many older members, members from the pink era, and a new breed of government consisting of TBone, LoSS's longest running Minister of Economics, AlmightySquare, MoRE, and Deth2Munkies, a long term senator, orchestrated LoSS's 3rd protectorate, The Ravyns.

The Ravyns started out as friends within the alliance of CIS and when the group of friends decided to create their own alliance LoSS was approached through a friend of AlmightySquare. LoSS worked out a deal with The Ravyns and offered them a protection treaty. The group told LoSS that CIS would no like the fact that they were leaving and that things could get bad. LoSS, remembering the days of GW2 informed the Ravyns that they had nothing to fear and could create with the full backing of LoSS. Though tensions did rise between the three alliances nothing ever came to blows, even though an internal debate about the situation caused long time member Caesar to leave LoSS. Until its disbandment in early August, members of CIS government continued to try and find things Ravyns would do wrong and try to get LoSS to turn them over. LoSS continued to stick by Ravyns and never gave into CIS demands.

In late June early July the world seemed to somewhat spilt again. During the Pacifica-Polaris Dispute many alliances backed one Order or the other in their verbal disputes. LoSS was approached many times asking who the alliance stood with. The sides of the dispute had put LoSS in an awkward position. LoSS had two treaties of both kinds on both sides of the dispute. NpO and GR were on one side, while NPO and TPF were on the other. Not wanting to break any treaties, as so many alliances had already done and normally does when events like these arise, LoSS honored all treaties and used the conflicting treaties to stay neutral. While the dispute never came to blows LoSS government made a stand against the normal move of dropping whatever treaties doesn't fit you at the moment. It has been a stance LoSS has had since it's creation and until this day still holds to its values.

August would be a dark month for the alliance. Late on August 11th Legion-X, the Minster of Foreign Affairs, was hacked. Using the hacked account, the hacker gained access to the LoSS government IRC room as well as causing havoc within the forums. While in the government room the hacker impersonated PHD, the leader of LoSS, and created forged logs of an IRC conversation between PHD and Legion-X stating that LoSS would cancel their treaty with GR, whose protectorate had been attacked earlier in the evening. The hacked account then spread around the forged documents to different alliances as well as to LoSS senator Deth2Munkies. Being upset that PHD would turn his back on allies Deth was unknowingly persuaded by the hacked account to call for PHD's removal by a senate vote. After Deth put the proposal up for vote, two other senators, Michael Locke and Descarte, would vote for removal as well. It would be found out later that both Descarte and Locke's accounts had been changed to allow the hacker to use them at his will. Locke had been asleep for awhile and Descarte had been AWOL for a few weeks. After getting support from the two other senators the proposal passed with the votes to the good. Deth then published on the Open World Forums that the LoSS senate had, by vote, removed PHD from Consulship. At the moment the announcement was made the hacker started changing and removing things within the LoSS forums and posted many topics that instantly made Deth realize what had happened. Deth called for OWF moderators to delete his topic while he informed Desert Ratz, LoSS LASF, what had happened. As the 11th faded away and the 12th came the real PHD logged on to find things in Chaos. It was then a long morning of cleaning things up. PHD, AlmightySquare, Michael Locke, and Lord Slade slowly corrected the issues that had befallen the forums. While the clean up was going on PHD addressed the world through the OWF about what had happened to the alliance and come to find out the hacker had been working on other alliances as well.