Middle Earth

Tatarica wrote:

Hmm, I am more terrible at these things than others of the region, but if I am to guess I'd say that Red Maw is a name of something spawned by Morgoth; a balrog? A dragon? Maybe others know the answer

Carcharoth was taken, unfortunately. But yes, Morgoth’s guardian of Angband’s gates. :P

Tatarica wrote:

Ah, yes, obviously; Carcharoth! A terrible, powerful beast. And so evil, running away with a silmaril like that!

Wouldn't surprise me if Carcharoth was used in a previous raid on Middle Earth :P

Now I see the resemblance of the werewolf name with the LWU. Nice idea for a name.

Thank you!

After speaking with Dispatch, I’ll leave the embassy with the RP region open and have appointed them as officer so you can keep your RP running. Hopefully the raid doesn’t bother too much this way - outside of the WFE and flag, of course :P

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Disclaimer:
The below are MY OWN PERSONAL THOUGHTS on the matter, and not necessarily shared by the rest of Middle Earth.
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Dear everyone,

The R&D aspect of the game is something our region is not into, but we experience it once a year or two years. We thank our vigilent friends that make it so that we only stumble into problems once a year and not more often, we thank our friends that came and assisted us when we got into problems, we thank our raiders for conducting an interesting in-lore raid without too much disruption, and, finally, we thank our residents for not antagonising things, as I know how much the region means for the natives and how vocal people get in those moments.

Middle Earth is mostly full of ents, so I m surprised if not the majority of our residents had any idea of the latest turmoil, which can be consideres as lucky in these given circumstaces. Thank you to the natives that were active during the raid but did not engaged the raiders in bitter RMB talk which is never productive, considering that everyone does in this game (NS) what they consider to be interesting.

So, thank you to Kitezh and to those that assisted Middle Earth in regaining control. Your help is utmost appreciated!

Thank you's are extended also to Red Maw and those that participated in the raid of Middle Earth but did so with in-lore names and generally not so much disruption.

My personal opinion to the lot of you is that the doors of Middle Earth is open for anyone that has interest in the lore, and that you can stay / remain here with your nation, a nation puppet, or come here in secret, just as long as you leave your R&D ambitions to your other nations, something similar to what I have done in the distant past. Many of you know this but many also do not, as I have played both as a defender and as an invader (back in a time when people were calling it invading rather than raiding), both for big organizations now defunct / not operational, and then I decided to remain around because this was a part of NS that also interested me.
Obviously I do not talk for the region, but I am sure that these things can be discussed and opinions on these matters given.
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TLDR: Long story short, I, personally and my view does not directly represent the view of the rest of Middle Earth, thank you to everyone that participated in the R&D event, for any part of the barricade. Have a great day everyone.

Please forgive my poorly-informed-ness.

As I recall there was supposed to be a means that was made available a year or two ago that basically allowed Regions such as ours to simply opt-out of being raided. What was it again? Something like having an officer with Boarder Control that could not be removed by raiders? Sort of like a Founder for a Founderless region?

Is this available to us? If so, lets do it - now.

I seem to remember some inconclusive discussions around this a while back - some objections like what about if the person quits NS, and then it is quit involved to change who gets this power (requiring an act of the WA?).

I say let us delay and hee and haw no longer. Let us take decisive action to protect our fair region from these orcish raiders.

Noldoria is not the oldest nation in this region by far - so we don't deserve this responsibility. However, if no one else will step up an take it - if we are the only ones willing - then we will happily do this service for Arda. Let her never again be marred by raiders. We can guarantee that Noldoria will forever stand will you as an active member in our region.

We say to the free peoples - give someone amongst us this responsibility - whoever you think best qualified - so that they may crush the next raiding attempt - not unlike as Helm Hammerhand would !