BAPS War


 * This article refers to a 2008 war, not the 2007 incident involving GOONS and GGA. For the 2007 incident, see BAPS Affair (disambiguation).

Abstract
A lulz element within BAPS, including their (at the time) Minister of External Shenanigans, engineered a complicated series of lulzy operations against other alliances, most notably Elysium, Grey Council and ACDC. When the schemes were discovered, Elysium declared war, backed by their protector Valhalla and several of Valhalla's other allies. Other targets ACDC and Grey Council agreed not to declare war.

Rogue Schemes
ACDC member and Black team senator Bobery left ACDC to join BAPS. Shortly after joining BAPS, Bobery returned to ACDC with stolen intelligence (a game-play guide). This lead to an incident in which ACDC agreed to expel Bobery (who was sentenced to ZI by BAPS) and to pay BAPS $83 million and 750 tech in reparations. Bobery soon was attacked by Mhawk from Elysium in an effort to reduce the nation from being eligible to continue holding a seat in Black Senate. After being extorted, and as a seemingly doomed country with team senate powers, Bobery threatened to sanction Elysium. At that time, BAPS Minister of Foreign Affairs Tumin told Elysium to back off from attacks and allow BAPS to handle Bobery on its own. Elysium refused, and Bobery soon imposed senate sanctions on three of its nations.

It was soon revealed via IRC log, however, that Bobery and Tumin were friends, and that Tumin was advising Bobery regarding nations on what he should do. In one instance, Tumin imposed a sanction himself. When it was revealed that Tumin and Bobery were together, Elysium declared war and ACDC cancelled reparations.

While this was going on, The unaligned Ducky ghosted as an ACDC nation (having previously ghosted as BAPS) and attacked the two largest countries in Grey Council. It was soon discovered that Ducky was receiving target instructions from himself, and thus part of their rogue element within BAPS.

References and Timeline

 * Jan 6, 2008, 10:05 PM: BAPS apology to Elysium (includes IRC logs)
 * Jan 7, 2008, 11:32 PM: TPF + OPP DoW on BAPS (excludes OPP member alliance DefCon)
 * Jan 7, 2008, 11:33 PM: Molon Lobe DoW on BAPS
 * Jan 7, 2008, 11:34 PM: Sparta DoW on BAPS
 * Jan 7, 2008, 11:40 PM: Elysium DoW on BAPS
 * Jan 7, 2008, 11:56 PM: Valhalla DoW on BAPS
 * Jan 7, 2008, 12:51 PM: NADC + ACDC statement retracting reps (includes IRC logs)
 * Jan 8, 2008, 05:46 PM: BAPS statement denouncing Tumin's actions
 * Jan 8, 2008, 09:46 PM: Grey Council statement regarding Ducky (includes IRC logs)
 * Jan 12, 2008, 11:46 PM: TDMS8 DoW on 64Digits
 * Jan 13, 2008, 10:13 PM: GGA DoW on BAPS
 * Jan 14, 2008, 12:42 AM: NATO DoW on BAPS