Karma War

The Karma War, originally the NPO-OV War, and alternatively known as the The Epic War, Great War IV (or Great War VI and less often  Great War V), the Apocalypse, the Stern-talking-to War, and the War of the Second Coalition, is a global nuclear military conflict involving the New Pacific Order and its allies, collectively known as the Hegemony, against a coalition of alliances known as Karma. The war began on the night of Monday April 20, 2009 when the NPO and The Order of Righteous Nations (TORN) attacked Ordo Verde. TORN withdrew from the war, but the conflict soon escalated when a number of alliances, most notably the Viridian Entente and Ragnarok, declared war on the NPO the following night.

Events leading up to the war
Long before the possibility of war started solidifying, alliances now in Karma announced a number of newly-signed pacts amongst themselves. An MADP bloc, unofficially known as Below, was formed on February 10 out of an agreement from the Viridian Entente (VE), Ordo Verde (OV), and the Global Order of Darkness (GOD). Argent signed MDoAP pacts with Umbrella and Grämlins, and signed a MDP with The Order of the Paradox (TOP), who was at the time a member of the Continuum. FOK, at the time an ally of the NPO, also signed a MDoAP with the Mushroom Kingdom (MK). The International (INT) formally aligned itself with the League of Extraordinary Oranges (LEO), an MDoAP bloc that joined Karma, and a combination of three alliances (iFOK, Iunctus, and Seaworthy Liberian Cardboard Boxes) united under a MDoAP bloc on April 9 to form The Stickmen.

Treaty cancellations
As a possible war against the NPO grew stronger, treaty cancellations were announced frequently in the weeks prior to the conflict. On March 23, Viridian Entente canceled its treaties with the NPO and the Grand Global Alliance after the Independent Republic of Orange Nations canceled it's own treaty with VE. Monos Archein soon after canceled it's treaties with NPO and United Purple Nations on March 29. On April 10, FOK and Ragnarok separately announced their intentions to cancel their treaties with the NPO.

A week later, the Dark Evolution followed the trend and left the Watling Street Compact, an MDP bloc headed by the NPO. Shortly after, The Order of Righteous Nations dropped their treaty with the League of Small Superpowers. These two aforementioned alliances, TORN and LoSS, came to play a key role in the development of much of these cancellations. Sparta dropped their treaties with Valhalla and TORN on April 18; GOD, the Random Insanity Alliance (RIA), FOK, and the R&R, followed Sparta's footsteps by canceling their respective treaties with TORN. LoSS, on the other hand, withdrew from the Agora Accords, and unilaterally dropped its treaties with The Phoenix Federation (TPF), the Multicolored Cross-X Alliance (MCXA), Zenith, Valhalla, Echelon, and the NPO.

On different fronts, the Viridian Entente (VE) cancelled their treaty with the MCXA on April 17. Argent withdrew from SNOW, an economic treaty that contained non-aggression provisions and which included The Order of Light (TOOL), the Fellowship of Elite Allied Republics (FEAR), Zenith, and TPF as members. Finally, The Foreign Division (TFD) left the Agora Accords, an ODP pact whose members included the NPO, the MCXA, the North Atlantic Defense Coalition (NADC) and Echelon, only approximately an hour before the start of the war.

The Continuum
The Continuum, the largest and most influential MDoAP bloc and the bulk of the Hegemonic forces, began to shrink with the withdrawal of Grämlins on December 10, 2008, almost five months before the start of the conflict. A few weeks later, on the 17th of January, FOK decided to follow Grämlins' lead and also stepped out of the Continuum.

On April 18, Sparta announced that they intended to leave the Continuum. The Order of the Paradox (TOP) and the Mostly Harmless Alliance (MHA) followed by announcing their own withdrawals from the Continuum just before the outbreak of the conflict. The Continuum was thus left with seven out of its original twelve members on the brink of war.

The War begins
The war began about 20 minutes before server update time, on April 20, 2009, when nations from the New Pacific Order (NPO) and The Order of Righteous Nations (TORN) declared war, in-game, on nations from Ordo Verde (OV). TORN and NPO formally declared war on OV approximately 15 minutes after server update. On the NPO declaration of war, Sethb, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for OV, was accused of accepting "a screenshot from the NPO private forum"; he was offered "one set of wars with no apology" by the NPO as an alternative to an alliance-wide war, but upon the rejection of these terms, the NPO declared war. According to The Tattler, the series of accusations against OV that sparked the war were greater in scope; quoting from its April 19 issue, "TPF and TORN have accused Ordo Verde of a number of things: cooperation with Blackstone Collusion (BC), holding a treaty with BC, receiving screenshots of the NPO forum from BC, and knowingly accepting a BC member into their alliance. In particular, the two Ordo Verde members they are accusing of these “crimes” are MrDuffy [Minister of Internal Affairs of OV] and sethb." Immediately following the declaration, the NPO was heavily criticized for allegedly declaring war in the middle of negotiations with OV, a claim that the NPO denied.

Forty-eight minutes after server update time, Sparta announced the cancellation of their MDP with the NPO, pledging however to uphold the cancellation period specified in the treaty. Sparta had already announced their withdrawal from the Continuum three days before. This treaty cancellation was followed by the dissolution of the Writ de Credo by the Order of the Black Rose (OBR), a document that established peace between OBR and various Karma-leaning and Hegemony-leaning alliances. Shortly after, OBR signed an MDP with the Greenland Republic (GR). However, OBR clarified their intentions, stating two days later that they would uphold the seven day cancellation period of the Writ.

Later that same day, Fark announced the cancellation of its treaty with the NPO. The Mostly Harmless Alliance (MHA) followed: they declared that they did not support the war, and suspended their treaties with TORN and the NPO (disregarding the cancellation periods of such treaties), announcing that they "will not be activating the Aggression portions of the those treaties [with the NPO and TORN], nor shall the Defense portions of those treaties be activated." In the same declaration, the MHA posted the list of treaties that they intended to honour in case of war. The Orange Defense Network (ODN) followed a similar path as MHA's, by announcing their opposition to the war and listing the treaties which they had full intention to enforce. These treaties included pacts with Vanguard, The International and R&R, and noticeably did not include ODN treaties with The Legion, IRON, Invicta, or GGA. Both MHA and ODN received criticism for effectively ignoring standing treaties.

In the chaos and confusion of the first day of the war, Archon posted a thread attacking the NPO and TORN for their actions, arguing that they "took a path that speaks to arrogance and blind wrath," and boldly declaring that "[y]ou will pay for what you have done." The name "Karma" for the side opposing the NPO was announced in this thread.

As the first day of fighting drew to an end, TORN announced the cancellation of its MADP with the NPO, and declared their intentions to withdraw from the war. TORN claimed that the NPO had unilaterally and without TORN's consent approached OV with a ceasefire agreement, and declared that "the conduct of NPO in this matter is to be condemned." Just before new war declarations started to arise, the New Polar Order (NpO) announced that, "pending further investigations of the facts to hand", they would suspend all treaties and obligations with the NPO. However, the NpO remained clear that "[t]he Orders will never fight each other directly", stating thus that they did not support Karma either.

April 21 peace negotiations
Before the end of the fight day of the NPO-OV conflict, peace negotiations were held between members of Ordo Verde, the New Pacific Order, and Karma. Representing OV: Dani_C, Triumvir. Representing the NPO: Moo-Cows (TrotskysRevenge), Emperor; Z'ha'dum, Cortath, and Mary the Fantabulous, Imperial Officers. Representing Karma: Delta1212, Triumvir of the Random Insanity Alliance (RIA); Archon, King of the Mushroom Kingdom (MK); Tygaland, Supreme Chancellor of the Siberian Tiger Alliance (STA); and Roquentin, Triumvir of Umbrella. In them, the NPO was offered "surrender terms" in order to avoid a greater conflict. The terms offered were the following:
 * The NPO will issue a full, earnest, and sincere apology to Ordo Verde for their rash and unjustified declaration of war.
 * The NPO will admit that the casus belli used against Ordo Verde was trumped up and that the NPO over-reacted in an effort to provoke war.
 * The NPO will pay reparations to Ordo Verde at a rate of 300% the damages dealt. This includes econmic [sic] damage dealt as a result of being in peace mode. To ensure that these reparations are paid promptly, the NPO will suspend all tech deals for the duration of these terms.
 * In recognition of the tensions caused by the NPO's rash declaration of war, and to ensure peace is maintained, the NPO will hereby decomission [sic] their soldiers down to 20% per nation. They will furthermore decommission all CMs, Tanks, Navy, and Aircraft. They must maintain this state for a period of 60 days.

After much discussion and argumentation, NPO representatives were prepared to agree to the first three terms listed above, but rejected the forth clause as "unacceptable." Archon threatened to put an end to the peace talks if the NPO did not agree to all terms "within the next minute." Karma's demands were not met, and the peace negotiations were finalized without an agreement.

The NPO criticized the proceedings of the peace negotiations, claiming that "these entire negotiations were a farce." In a response from Archon, Karma contended that the NPO "had only one thing in mind - belligerence."

The War becomes global
Between the night of Tuesday April 21 and the early morning of Wednesday April 22, a total of 12 alliances declared war on the New Pacific Order: the Greenland Republic (GR), Athens, R&R, The International, the Majestic Order of Orange Nations (MOON), Orion, Deck of International Card Experts (DICE), Vanguard, Avalanche,, the Global United Nations (GUN), and, most notably, the Viridian Entente (VE) and Ragnarok (RoK). VE declared in defense of OV and RoK declared because of a MDoAP treaty between RoK and VE. FOK joined Karma later that day by joining their allies from the League of Extraordinary Oranges.

Coward Coalition
As the declarations of war against the NPO flooded the CyberNations Forums (which, because of the sheer amount of activity, caused performance issues with the CN Forums), in a dramatic turn of events a total of eight alliances announced their intentions to cancel, with immediate effect, their respective MADP-level treaties with the NPO. These alliances were the Independent Republic of Orange Nations (IRON), the Multicolored Cross-X Alliance (MCXA), the Old Guard (OG), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Grand Global Alliance (GGA), Valhalla, The Phoenix Federation, and Echelon. The first seven alliances jointly announced their treaty cancellations, while Echelon made their treaty cancellation public a few minutes later. These eight alliances were derisively referred to as the Coalition of Cowards.

The "Coalition of Cowards" received heavy criticism, and were even described as "the first coalition to chicken out en masse." Some even called for Karma to attack these alliances "on principle alone." Surprisingly, the Federation of Armed Nations (FAN) declared war a few hours later on those alliances "that just flipped a !@#$%* on the NPO and ran away with their tails tucked between their legs."

On the 26th of April, the Karma war reached a total of 134 alliances recognized as involved in the war. With the Hegemony having 43 alliances, with 1 alliance (TORN) having already surrendered and a second (Elysium) having merged back into The Phoenix Federation, and Karma having 91 Alliances, with 1 alliance (IOTA) who withdrew from the war due to MHA's policy to protect Pacifica from bandwagoners, the war looked bleak for the Hegemony. The GRL (Global Radiation Level) reached 19.51, and the in-game nation strength needed to make the top %5 dropped by almost 2,000.

Just after update on the 27th of April, two more alliances with the Hegemony surrendered to Karma receiving white peace. These alliances are IRAN and UF. GRL reaches a new high of 26.22.

On the 28th of April the GRL only slightly increased to 29.93.

Viewpoints
''These viewpoints do not represent the whole of CN and are only here to provide background thought onto the war. Any topics which may be biased to ethier side should be added below and not to the main sections of this article.''

Karma Viewpoint
From the side of Karma, it is easy to understand that the tyranny of the NPO must come to an end. NPO has dominated the game since it's inception, and that they have found that charges of spying make a convenient excuse for declaring war. As more and more individuals and alliances become victims of NPO domination and subjugation, those charges carry less and less weight with game players. Their recent attack on Ordo Verde truly shows that the NPO will use information gained by spying to learn about a spy operation. That is truly hypocritical. Furthermore when the NPO itself spies on other alliances and is confronted about it, they state that they do not spy, despite clear evidence showing otherwise. Not only that, but they proceed to say, and create conflict about it when they have been proven to actually spy too. From a truly neutral center, it seems obvious that NPO's claims and charges may not be a compelling reason for war. NPO's expression of outrage over some data that may or may not have been stolen is mere posturing, posing, and, in the end, an attempt to manipulate the Cybernations world to their will.

Time will tell if NPO's era of world domination has come to an end.

Hegemony Viewpoint
For Hegemony, there has been a bloc acting in a manner like Karma for quite some time, and Hegemony believes that this informal alliance group has been fueling up tensions for a while, looking for the single mistake any nation of the Continuum and One Vision might make. The Ordo Verde spy incident was merely an excuse, a trap carefully set up for months in the implicite goal of putting an end to the peace that had prevailed over CN for quite a while.

Not to be paranoid, it is still certain that some people in Karma had a clear intention of bringing NPO down along with its last allies. Karma masterfully played a diplomacy game, influencing alliances and nations to be prepared.

As soon as NPO seemed vulnerable, all the NPO haters began to rise out of the shadows, bringing a whole bandwagoning with the culmination being TOP using OUT, an ODP bloc comprising alliances of both sides to enter the war, effectively privileging an ODP to several MDP and MADP they possessed.1

The Hegemony accepts that while spy operations are a part of the game, they are commonly accepted as a valid casus belli.

Sitting by and watching your sensitive information be spied away is a strategic failure.

1 TOP also has MD(A)P's with the Karma side.

Links

 * War Events and Links
 * Daily War Stats
 * War Propaganda topic

Screenshots

 * NPO/TORN vs OV War Screenshot: Image
 * Athens vs NPO War Screenshot: Image
 * GGA vs Athens War Screenshot: Image
 * FARK vs IRON War Screenshot: Image

Hegemony

 * NPO DoW on OV
 * TORN DoW on OV
 * Shurukian, Empress of TSI, resigns to fight for NPO
 * mhawk resigns from TPF to fight for NPO
 * IDC (one nation alliance) DoW on anyone attacking NPO
 * Echelon DoW on anyone attacking NPO
 * mhawk re-founds Elysium to defend NPO
 * TPF re-signs MADP and DoW on Avalanche
 * OG DoW on GR
 * GGA DoW
 * NATO DoW on INT
 * AB DoW on GOD
 * Invicta DoW on Orion
 * The Legion DoW on Ragnarok
 * MCXA DoW on VE
 * UPN DoW on R&R
 * FEAR DoW on R&R
 * SSSW18 DoW on MOON
 * GDA DoW on GOD
 * VA DoW on MOON
 * Zenith DoW on PC
 * GRAN DoW on MOON
 * Valhalla DoW on PC
 * NEW DoW on CCC
 * TOOL DoW on DT
 * Soldier/Terra Prime DoW on CCC, TFO & WT
 * TSI DoW on TFO and White Tree
 * 64Digits DoW on CCC
 * RDD DoW on RIA
 * IRON DoW on RoK
 * TFD DoW on TGE
 * IRAN/64D/UF DoW on FoB
 * BAPS DoW on LoSS and Nemesis
 * Olympus DoW on Kronos
 * Wolfpack DoW on ODN
 * ML DoW on MK
 * UCN DoW on ODN
 * Tempest DoW on LoSS
 * -AiD- DoW on DE
 * FnKa DoW on Brigade
 * NADC DoW on RAD
 * Avalon DoW on PC
 * TPF DoW on NSO
 * OMFG DoW on Umbella

Karma

 * OcUK Declaration of intent
 * VE DoW on NPO
 * Athens DoW on NPO
 * GR DoW on NPO
 * R&R DoW on NPO
 * RoK DoW on NPO
 * MOON DoW on NPO
 * INT DoW on NPO
 * Orion DoW on NPO
 * DiCE DoW on NPO
 * Vanguard DoW on NPO
 * IOTA DoW on NPO
 * Avalanche DoW on NPO
 * GOD Acknowledges War with NPO
 * GUN DoW on NPO
 * FAN DoW on those who canceled on NPO
 * FOK DoW on NPO
 * Vanguard DoW on GGA
 * Stickmen and FCO DoW on GGA
 * Fly DoW on GGA
 * MA DoW on Echelon
 * DE DoW on Echelon and OG
 * DF DoW on NATO
 * =LOST= DoW on GGA
 * RIA DoW on Echelon
 * FOUND DoW on GGA
 * GR DoW on TPF
 * IPA DoW on NATO
 * Vanguard DoW on Legion
 * TGE DoW on NATO
 * PC DoW on TPF
 * DT DoW on TPF and SSSW18
 * Sparta DoW on NPO
 * LSR DoW on SSSW18
 * OA DoW on GGA
 * Nemesis DoW on Legion
 * CCC DoW on TPF and OG
 * DICE DoW on GGA
 * GR DoW on NEW
 * Kronos DoW on GGA
 * Genesis DoW on GRAN and VA
 * Umbrella DoW on Valhalla and Zenith
 * Nemesis DoW on AB
 * Argent DoW on Zenith
 * RAD DoW on Zenith
 * MK DoW on TPF
 * FoB DoW on TPF
 * Kronos DoW on Valhalla
 * AZTEC (1TF, GLOF, and NV) DoW on MCXA
 * TAB/TCB DoW on Invicta
 * LoSS Dow on Legion and Aurora Borealis
 * BTO DoW on AB and Legion
 * ODN DoW on FEAR
 * IS DoW on Soldier
 * M*A*S*H DoW on GGA
 * Fark DoW on IRON
 * Syndicate DoW on MCXA and OFLC
 * Gramlins DoW on IRON
 * Carpe Diem DoW on NEW
 * ARES DoW on GRAN and VA
 * ARES DoW on Legion
 * LOUD DoW on UPN
 * UCR DoW on NPO
 * TFO recognition of hostilities with Soldier, TP, and TSI
 * IK DoW on Legion
 * CSN DoW on GDA
 * Nexus (57th, CoIN, LEN, and OTF) + TheFed DoW on RDD
 * =WE= DoW on IRAN, 64D, and UF
 * TTK DoW on AB
 * FCC DoW on IRON
 * MHA DoW on IRON
 * LSF DoW on NATO
 * Amaranth DoW on IRAN and 64D
 * Sparta and Brigade DoW on TOOL
 * Assassin Order DoW on Echelon
 * Apocalypse DoW on Legion
 * /A\/A\ DoW on GGA
 * IngSoc DoW on Legion
 * AzN DoW on Legion
 * ROCK DoW on IRON
 * BTO DoW on BAPS and Tempest
 * IS DoW on Soldier, Zenith, TSI, and Valhalla
 * AO DoW on TOOL
 * TTK DoW on Echelon
 * STA DoW on ML
 * NSO DoW on ML
 * TOH DoW on UPN
 * Immortals DoW on 64D, UF, and IRAN
 * WAPA DoW on TFD
 * FOK DoW on TFD
 * SSX DoW on MCXA
 * Umbrella DoW on BAPS
 * GDI DoW on NPO
 * APP DoW on Echelon
 * TriCom DoW on AiD
 * TOP DoW on Echelon, UPN, Invicta, and BAPS
 * ACF DoW on NADC
 * ODN DoW on NATO
 * Assassin Order DoW on NADC
 * Apocalypse DoW on Echelon
 * TSC DoW on Tempest
 * DiCE DoW on Nod
 * TSO DOW on Echelon, Invicta, UPN, and BAPS
 * RoK DoW on NADC
 * RoK DoW on Invicta
 * TGR DoW on TPF

For Hegemony

 * OFLC DoS for Valhalla

For Karma

 * /A\/A\ DoS for Athens
 * Vox Statement
 * SPA DoS for MHA

Surrender Terms

 * Individual Surrender terms from Karma

Hegemony and Allies

 * TORN Withdrawal from War
 * UF & IRAN Surrender with White Peace
 * TFD Surrender with White Peace
 * GRAN & VA Surrender with White Peace

Karma

 * IOTA retracts DoW on NPO
 * GDI retracts DoW on NPO
 * TSI & Terra Prime grant White Tree White Peace

Other Related

 * GOD clarification: Rumors are false, not surrendering
 * Soldier releases a PoW to WTF
 * Invicta fights on
 * 64Digits not surrendering

IRAN internal issues
 * Battalion removed from office
 * Battalion response to Mogar
 * SSSW18 announce support for IRAN gov during internal issues

Declarations of Neutrality

 * URSA DoN
 * GLOP DoN
 * SNAFU DoN
 * Guru Order DoN
 * GPA DoN
 * UTF DoN

Other Declarations

 * NpO statement regarding treaties and obligations
 * RDD nukes free

With NPO

 * NpO Suspends treaty with NPO
 * IRON, MCXA, OG, NATO, GGA, Valhalla, and TPF Cancel treaties with NPO
 * Echelon cancels NPO MADP
 * GDA cancels NPO-related treaties
 * MHA announces it will protect the NPO from bandwagoners
 * GDA reactivates all NPO-related treaties

Others

 * MHA announces it will only honor Härmlin Accords, Trident, plus MDoAPs with Sparta, FOK, TOP, TAB, RoK, Umbrella, and protectorates
 * ODN announces it will only honor treaties with Vanguard, R&R, and the International
 * GDA cancels and later revokes cancellation of PIAT with Sparta
 * Sparta cancels PIAT with GDA
 * Grämlins treaty with MCXA
 * Brigade cancels PEACE with IRON
 * TAB cancels treaty with Zenith

Other Related

 * Initial 'Karma' topic
 * zzzptm's open letter to NPO
 * Karma response to NPO allegations
 * 'An Open Letter to Archon and Karma at Large' by TruHartBrakN
 * 'What will become of the Red Team?'
 * MAD members split from Echelon
 * MK closes embassies of IRON, GGA, Valhalla, Echelon, MCXA, NATO, TPF
 * 'Unimportant War Events'
 * Trashcat's Corner: War Edition
 * TPF questions CD attack
 * TPF questions PC about NAP
 * 'One tC Leader's Account of the War' by Anu Drake
 * OBR will honor cancellation period of Writ de Credo
 * 'Waste Land'
 * "This Week in Pacifica"
 * The Brain explanation of aid
 * 'SCM's Rant against (almost) everyone'
 * Avalanche message to Reyne impersonator
 * Invicta fights on
 * CDS (2nd) becomes a protectorate of TPF