Duncan King

=Overview= Duncan King is currently the Secretary of the Interior of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Since his arrival on Planet Bob on November 23, 2006, he has been a member of GATO, ICON, and NATO, fought in GW2, GW3, and GW4, and made numerous posts on the Open World Forum.

=The Early Days=

Arrival on Planet Bob
Duncan King first arrived on Planet Bob on November 23, 2006. He had been a player of Nation States for three years previously, under the alias of "Pharan," and was intrigued by the talk of a new nation simulator game called Cybernations. After holding back his curiosity for several months, he finally broke down over Thanksgiving Break 2006 and created a nation. Because he was new to the game and did not know anyone, he chose the alliance name that most spoke to him. That alliance was GATO.

The GATO Days
Duncan King joined GATO on November 26, 2006. After lurking for several weeks on the forums, he began to spread his wings and take on some responsibilities in GATO. He began to work in Internal Affairs as a member of the GATO Member Monitoring Force, GATO's mass PMing and roster checking organization. Later, he began to work in FA was well, eventually being appointed by Vincent Xander to work as the Leader of the League Division of the Ambassador Corps. In this position, he served as the lead ambassador to OIN, LUE, ACID, CDS, NAAC, LOSS, ICP, BTA, and SWF. He was relatively successful in these positions and helped to facilitate GATO's signing of the PIATs with SWF, BTA, and ACID that brought these alliances into GW3.

After his first two months in GATO, Duncan King began to become dissatisfied with the corruption and lack of openness that he perceived in GATO. He had ran two unsuccessful campaigns for the GATO Senate and had seen his duties as an Ambassador Corps division leader shrink under subsequent MoFA administrations. He had finally made up his mind to leave on March 19, 2007, the day GW3 broke out. Not wanting to abandon his alliance, Duncan King stayed in GATO and was ZId. Wanting to find a way out of a war and believing that he could do a better job than the current administration, he ran for MoFA in the April 2007 elections. When he learned that he had lost, Duncan King resigned from GATO.

The Interim
For the next two weeks, Duncan King lived as an unaligned. He served as a consultant for an alliance that a friend was starting, called Legio di Roma, while remaining in peace mode. When the war ended and that alliance didn't get off of the ground, he left that alliance to help found ICON.

=ICON=

For more on ICON, see ICON

After leaving Legio di Roma, Duncan King helped found the alliance of ICON with his friends RiverCityDude and Brian Reimer. His goal was to create an alliance that would not be a part of the Initiative-League rivalry that had caused two great wars. He wanted ICON to go a third, independent way. For the majority of its existence, ICON remained independent and isolationist. It signed friendship treaties with alliances without concern to where they were on the treaty web but would not sign MDPs. Eventually, however, ICON began to open up to the outside word, eventually becoming a protectorate of NATO and fighting in GW4 for ~

Throughout its existence, ICON very much reflected the personal views of Duncan King. It's evolution from an isolated alliance to fighting in a Great War reflected the evolution of Duncan King's views as he began to be more open to relations with the outside world.

Eventually, Duncan King began to chafe at the limitations of a small alliance. Despite his best efforts, ICON failed to increase its strength or membership based. Frustrated with a perceived lack of assistance from local government members, Duncan King decided to try to annex the alliance into NATO. When that resolution failed, he resigned from ICON on November 30, 2007.