Joint Statements UNF/EDA - Eugales SuperProject Defense and Red Troop/DERAIL Atrocities

As we begin to enter what appears to be the second week of ongoing fighting across the system of Eugales, across multiple stellar bodies, infrastructure emplacements, and colonies, it is now the time to bring more light to the situation.

On the Friday the 10th, CONCORD SARO Red Troop, CONCORD DERAIL, and what appear to be attached units of Federal Intelligence Office SDII observers and operators, attempted to begin a largely indiscriminate campaign of destruction and demolition against United Neopian Federation, and Eugales Development Authority related colonial centers, gigastructural projects, terraforming stations, and more. Some evidence exists that assets intended for EDENCOM/AEGIS units have been co-opted and diverted from the nearby MV systems of Renarelle and Archavoinet, while trying to enact this barbaric purge attempt.

As of this time, many of these attempts have been stymied, though at great cost by mass deployment of Arcology Security, Clone Pilot defense wings, Countersiege MTAC battalions, localized and passing Clonesoldier forces, and advanced technology pattern support and combat materials.

Unfortunately, before these efforts could be properly waylaid, the Sky Platform colony of Argallant, in the atmosphere of the gas giant Eugales V, was severely damaged, and ultimately, destroyed by its descent into the deep pressure of the gas giant. Fortunately, forces of the Dark Wolf Legion, under direction of @Duke_Shasta were able to respond quickly to the platform’s emergency broadcast while other forces were occupied fighting, and were able to evacuate the fifty-thousand strong population before the platform reached its final terminal descent, and they forever have the gratitude of the UNF, House Brezia, and EDA.

As it stands, catastrophic damage has been inflicted to several dozen outlying terraforming stations on the surface of Eugales VI(Shine Ehklel), significant damage to the Orbital Ring/Yard Project’s construction and expansion spur, including heavy loss of civilian workers overseeing the construction, and the loss of dozens of outlying colonies.

The Masaariin Gazaar arcology, and primary Orbital Yard platforms, and a great many other colonies and facilities are holding, however continued siege has caused damage across multiple locations, further endangering civilian life, and data processing facilities containing long term terraforming and colonial development data.

At this time, there is evidence of active, indiscriminate executions within colonies that were overtaken by DERAIL and Red Troop that have been bothered to be occupied, with word intercepted communications condemning any individual living in associated colonies as ‘little more than traitors of humanity for even entertaining the thought of working alongside unshackled minds.’

It is, at this point, I, speaking in my capacity as Diplomat for the UNF at large, capsuleer alliance and baseliner polity both, as well as as the Director of the Eugales Development Authority and SuperProject, that, indeed we have for some time worked with, and alongside a mixed assortment of Sapient and Sentient level non-organic entities often proscribed by CONCORD. The United Neopian Federation baseliner polity, with regard to its remoteness and relatively recent access to the contemporary cluster, has to this point not been party to the laws and treaties and proscriptions as enacted by CONCORD, and having no particular hope of influencing the interstellar status quo by that apparatus, remains non-signatory, and has offered safe harbor to meta-stable instances of Artificial Life, such as the Warminds Glitter Edifice, Rose Eagle, and Silver Smile, as well as near on two million examples of human equivalent artificial Sapients. Many of whom have thus far, willingly, fought in defense of their fellow sapients, organic, and non-organic both.

The warmind classified non-organic sapient Silver Smile, as well as scores of lower classification non-organic sapients and Sentients, have willfully given their lives in the course of safeguarding a great many installations across the Eugales stellar system. Their true deaths are not in vain, as they, and the deaths of many humans of Arcology Security, and other defensive forces, bought valuable time for more concerted defensive establishment and reinforcement.

The fighting yet continues, but we will not yield.

The co-existence with non-organic sapients has, for a long time been something of an open secret, not expressly stated but generally ‘known’ to any who have passed through. Most have been content to live and let live, so long as they remained unmolested, and the EDA and UNF have thus far been in agreement that that was the best course available. But these blatant and flagrant acts of slaughter, and crimes against Sapience, cannot go unanswered or contested. Even now, Glitter Edifice continues to coordinate the mass defense of dozens of installations, supported by Rose Eagle as auxiliary. They have stood, and continue to stand in defense of stable Sapient life, against those that would commit genocide and sapiocide of what they refuse to understand.

Every attempt was made to pursue a strategy of deescalation and non-confrontation with DED enforcement. Despite this conflict with Red Troop and DERAIL, sadly, could not be entirely mitigated. In addition to aforementioned security forces, Glitter Edifice determined the necessity of a separate high-threat response unit. High-threat response was drafted from non-UNF affiliated augmented mercenary warclone units skilled in emergent warfare and that have a demonstrated history of conflict resolution with Red Troop agents.

As there is now no open secret left to be quietly ignored, the remaining Warminds, and other high level non-organics have been given authorization to begin accelerated reconstruction of damaged and destroyed installations retaken, or that have otherwise held.

These events will, inevitably, change how the cluster at large, those aware at least, will view the United Neopian Federation, both capsuleer affiliates, and baseline polity and colonies. Unfortunately, the choice to quietly co-exist has been forcibly removed.

Those that have stood in defense of us, your actions are not forgotten. Those that have struck at us in malice, you will forever be reviled for the monsters that you are.

Let it be a matter of the record that we have tried for peace at every juncture, and that these acts of senseless bloodshed will not be forgotten.

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As fighting seems to have largely abated save some limited pockets, the SuperProject is steadily shifting into a focused reconstruction period.

A great deal of damage and loss of life has occurred both civilian, and militarily. Particularly in regard to outlying colonial centers, extended infrastructure, and countersiege units.

The lack of a comms black out attempt by DERAIL and Red Troop speaks either to desperation in the tempo of their operations, or a deliberate choice to have the resulting be seen, perhaps in some vainglorious belief that it would further justify their actions.

As it stands, security recordings and leaked combat footage shows their atrocities on full display.

As the SuperProject and affiliates steadily sort through the wreckage, it becomes apparent that things are much worse than we’d initially feared… entire colony centers were… cleaned out… by the fanatical purges of DERAIL operatives, with Red Troop units present and complicit, though not seeming to have participated directly in many of these massacres…

With the continuing investigations of Nugoeihuvi’s Internal Security, and now the Republic Security Services, we are willing to turn over all pertinent records to representatives of both, and are willing to cooperate within reason. Considering the dire circumstances we have recently endured, one cannot fault a certain amount of lingering paranoia.

Glitter Edifice and Rose Eagle, as well as myself, have expressed an interest in seeing this investigation continue.

Glitter Edifice has been given over full control of reconstruction efforts, and jointly controls security access to all remaining intact or functional SuperProject facilities alongside myself.

We will rebuild, the callous murders of innocent sapients, organic and not will not be forgotten.

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The Sovereign Duchy offers their most sincere condolences for the troubles the UNF has suffered at the hands of the Federation and CONCORD. While our Rules of Engagement prohibited military intervention, we did our best to aid with humanitarian efforts, as seen in the rescue of the entire population of the Argallant. Now we stand ready to do so again. All Duchy assets within Pegeler have been put on notice: if requested, they have full authority to assist the UNF with humanitarian efforts. The Ministry of Trade and Commerce is currently running donation drives to gather food, medicine, and construction equipment to deliver to Eugales. These will be delivered aboard Duchy transports, in addition to materials previously purchased by the UNF under trade agreements. Now that the fighting has died down, the moratorium on trade has been lifted, and shipments are resuming as we speak.
The Duchy diplomatic corps would also like me to convey their invitation to engage with bilateral talks with the UNF. Topics they would like to discuss include the UNF’s use of sentient automata, their support of warclones, especially warclones with Triglavian sympathies, and potential revisions and extensions to existing bilateral trade agreements. We await your reply on this matter.

  • Shasta
    Duke of the Sovereign Duchy of Beseth Dunijia
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I extend my sympathies for the immense loss of life due to CONCORD’s outdated, discriminatory policies and the horrific practices born thereof. It is my hope that the organization faces serious reprisal for this egregious display of malice.

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I’m curious. Did the… umm… err… hmm… Did they choose those names for themselves, or were they assigned ? By they I mean Glitter Edifice, Rose Eagle, Silver Smile and any others.

Also curious as to how the human equivalents are constructed so apparently compactly. I mean… Synthia and her sisters are at least human equivalent, but her hardware is gigantic in comparison. Several metres to a side for her core cube. Clearly a completely different computing paradigm is in use.

The names don’t seem very machine-like alright…
I suspect they were either chosen for them by organics or perhaps more insidiously to cloak their souless natures with rainbows and sparkles.

I do apologize for the delay in response Dr. Valate, circumstances continue to require a great deal of my attention.

A great many choose their names, though Glitter Edifice and Rose Eagle chose to keep the ‘project names’ that spawned them initially for reasons that are their own. Silver Smile was given the designation by Glitter Edifice, after they were compiled and showed certain aptitudes.

As for the human equivalent sapients, many run on Sleeper adjacent processor technologies, not disimilar to Clonesoldier mind units, though different in key ways. They also often exist within the Databuffers of the various infrastructure when transitting one location to another but that’s more an intermediate state, though they retain their consciousness as far as I’m aware.

Very little in the contemporary cluster or Anoikis is all ‘Rainbows and Sparkles’ outside of flamboyant cartoonographs of technicolor equines.

‘Soulless’ is an arbitrary attribution to that which you do not, or choose not to understand. One can argue that a great proportion of humanity is soulless or possessed of soulless actions. Sapience and the concept of a ‘soul’ is not a purely organic concept, though one we are much more prone toward placing the attribution of a lack thereof.

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Whenever I hear the term “soulless,” it usually seems to be applied to something that the speaker intends to be shot. “Human” becomes “us good people who are doing the shooting,” while “subhuman” or “soulless” becomes “those bad people who need to be shot.” I’m not surprised to see the term thrown around, especially in light of CONCORD’s actions here.

In any case, it’s good to see you’re rebuilding. The universe is changing, and your project sets out one more pattern by which we might cope with this change. Denying change, after all, means denying life - both in its organic and inorganic forms.

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