Hello my friends, it has been a while since my last posting here, mainly due to the lack of anything truly interesting, but today I bring you the story of Babylon 6. This has been 3 years in the making, so I hope you enjoy this monument to salt and fury.
BE WARNED: This is a LOT to read through and has been streamlined to fit into *just* 3 posts. If you want any further information, feel free to ask and I can provide it.
TL;DR Doxxing is bad, make sure everyone knows english, and people don't understand neutrality.
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Babylon 6 was a project that first caught my eye when they started 3 years ago. The goal was to create a player run station based on the fantastic Babylon 5 show, but the lore wasn't the thing that was truly interesting, it was the promise. The promise of a truly neutral entity where orgs can come together and exist in mutual truce. This was intriguing to me as it would help me establish contacts across the community and even if it fails, I would have met some interesting people, which is unfortunately what happened. I originally joined the group to establish an Nexus for my org, the Bounty Hunters Guild, and the point of a Nexus is similar in function to the Continental in John Wick. The goal is to provide a safe place for bounty hunters and mercenaries that function in the guild, a meeting place for clients, and a seat of influence in the region. From my point of view, if the project was successful or not, there was very little risk in getting involved.
Oh how wrong I was.
Before I continue, I should quickly describe how people would get involved in the project.
Roles:
Member - An org that joins as a member is promising a reasonable percentage of their org members as support for the project. A member has voting rights and is a part of the Council, who are the ones that vote and put forward motions on new ideas, changes to the charter, or whatever else needed to be decided.
Ally - An org that joins as an ally will support the project but is promising far less support than a member. Their voice can be heard during a vote, but they have no other power.
Freelancer - An org that just wants to do business with B6.
The founder of the project would invite people by talking to them through Spectrum PM or in the Spectrum Recruitment Chat. Out of thousands of orgs he contacted, he had an exceptionally small amount that showed interest. I can definitely credit him for having the most insanely detailed documentation for a theoretical video game thing ever and I was surprised at his inability to get new people. I do need to address the founder briefly, who went by the name of Antarius-Angel, or @windows7 on Spectrum, because he is critical to this story. Antarius is interesting in how he communicated with people because he had an insanely poor grasp on the English language as a German. Every time anyone said anything, he always had to copy paste it into Google Translate, figure out what it meant, write his response in German, translate that to English, and post that response.
Of course that only worked with text. When it came to images, he had to either rewrite the words into Google Translate itself or have another German member help translate it for him. It was insanity, but it worked for a time.
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Upon joining, I met the insane individual that has been chronicled in these forums before by the name of GhostSquadron. GhostSquadron, henceforth called GS, had a problem. He HATED everyone that wasn't strictly for the UEE and government compliance. I don't know what set him on this path, but the further he dug, the more insane he became. He saw spies everywhere. He wanted to root them out of everywhere he was a part of and attempted to sway Antarius to remove people. Unfortunately for him, he started saying everyone in B6 was a spy for The ORG and everyone had enough and removed him. His craziness is documented in more detail elsewhere and it's an enjoyable read, but this is where his story in this ends.
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After GS was removed, B6 went quiet, and for almost a year and a half, nothing of note happened until an individual from CORP joined name Stesig. I never cared much about B6 up until this point because I had no reason to be involved. It was moving along at it's own pace and nothing of note was really happening. That is, until I received a message from Stesig:
This raised a couple of flags for me, but the main one is the clear breach of the entire point of having neutrality as the core principle in B6. Had I not seen this messaged, I wouldn't have cared, but thankfully it did, because this is where the journey begins.
I went into the voting area and voted in favor of The ORG because I think they do provide a valuable service that will be greatly needed and sought after once SC releases, and also to spite Stesig. I read briefly what he had to say and what the response from The ORG was.
The ORG responded to this, as was their right.
My first thought was that Stesig was making things up without providing proof of his claims. If anyone can say anything without proving its true, how is that fair and neutral. I also called into question why it was seen as acceptable for people to sway the opinions of others in a neutral alliance. He didn't like that.
Essentially, he was unhappy that someone he didn't like was there and wanted them gone immediately. It didn't matter if someone had a valid right to stay or not, he was demanding they be removed regardless if The ORG wanted to keep a representative in the public area to apply to be an ally or member at a later time. I believe the following video is good enough to outline what happened.
Why is The ORG important? You will find out shortly. Soon after, 6 orgs applied to B6 to be in various capacities. About half were for membership and half were to be allies. In addition to this, my questioning of Stesig led to him trying to vote me out of the project. That failed. However, one of the orgs that applied was the MATADORS. THAT made some people pretty mad.
This next section involves two people. The first continues with Stesig. Stesig decided to bring in another person in his org to be another ambassador, which was a violation of the rules. One ambassador per org. He got called out on it and quickly switched him to be a minor attache to his thing.
Why did he bring this person on? To bash the MATADORS of course!
(CONTINUED IN PT2)
BE WARNED: This is a LOT to read through and has been streamlined to fit into *just* 3 posts. If you want any further information, feel free to ask and I can provide it.
TL;DR Doxxing is bad, make sure everyone knows english, and people don't understand neutrality.
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Babylon 6 was a project that first caught my eye when they started 3 years ago. The goal was to create a player run station based on the fantastic Babylon 5 show, but the lore wasn't the thing that was truly interesting, it was the promise. The promise of a truly neutral entity where orgs can come together and exist in mutual truce. This was intriguing to me as it would help me establish contacts across the community and even if it fails, I would have met some interesting people, which is unfortunately what happened. I originally joined the group to establish an Nexus for my org, the Bounty Hunters Guild, and the point of a Nexus is similar in function to the Continental in John Wick. The goal is to provide a safe place for bounty hunters and mercenaries that function in the guild, a meeting place for clients, and a seat of influence in the region. From my point of view, if the project was successful or not, there was very little risk in getting involved.
Oh how wrong I was.
Before I continue, I should quickly describe how people would get involved in the project.
Roles:
Member - An org that joins as a member is promising a reasonable percentage of their org members as support for the project. A member has voting rights and is a part of the Council, who are the ones that vote and put forward motions on new ideas, changes to the charter, or whatever else needed to be decided.
Ally - An org that joins as an ally will support the project but is promising far less support than a member. Their voice can be heard during a vote, but they have no other power.
Freelancer - An org that just wants to do business with B6.
The founder of the project would invite people by talking to them through Spectrum PM or in the Spectrum Recruitment Chat. Out of thousands of orgs he contacted, he had an exceptionally small amount that showed interest. I can definitely credit him for having the most insanely detailed documentation for a theoretical video game thing ever and I was surprised at his inability to get new people. I do need to address the founder briefly, who went by the name of Antarius-Angel, or @windows7 on Spectrum, because he is critical to this story. Antarius is interesting in how he communicated with people because he had an insanely poor grasp on the English language as a German. Every time anyone said anything, he always had to copy paste it into Google Translate, figure out what it meant, write his response in German, translate that to English, and post that response.
Of course that only worked with text. When it came to images, he had to either rewrite the words into Google Translate itself or have another German member help translate it for him. It was insanity, but it worked for a time.
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Upon joining, I met the insane individual that has been chronicled in these forums before by the name of GhostSquadron. GhostSquadron, henceforth called GS, had a problem. He HATED everyone that wasn't strictly for the UEE and government compliance. I don't know what set him on this path, but the further he dug, the more insane he became. He saw spies everywhere. He wanted to root them out of everywhere he was a part of and attempted to sway Antarius to remove people. Unfortunately for him, he started saying everyone in B6 was a spy for The ORG and everyone had enough and removed him. His craziness is documented in more detail elsewhere and it's an enjoyable read, but this is where his story in this ends.
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After GS was removed, B6 went quiet, and for almost a year and a half, nothing of note happened until an individual from CORP joined name Stesig. I never cared much about B6 up until this point because I had no reason to be involved. It was moving along at it's own pace and nothing of note was really happening. That is, until I received a message from Stesig:
This raised a couple of flags for me, but the main one is the clear breach of the entire point of having neutrality as the core principle in B6. Had I not seen this messaged, I wouldn't have cared, but thankfully it did, because this is where the journey begins.
I went into the voting area and voted in favor of The ORG because I think they do provide a valuable service that will be greatly needed and sought after once SC releases, and also to spite Stesig. I read briefly what he had to say and what the response from The ORG was.
The ORG responded to this, as was their right.
My first thought was that Stesig was making things up without providing proof of his claims. If anyone can say anything without proving its true, how is that fair and neutral. I also called into question why it was seen as acceptable for people to sway the opinions of others in a neutral alliance. He didn't like that.
Essentially, he was unhappy that someone he didn't like was there and wanted them gone immediately. It didn't matter if someone had a valid right to stay or not, he was demanding they be removed regardless if The ORG wanted to keep a representative in the public area to apply to be an ally or member at a later time. I believe the following video is good enough to outline what happened.
Why is The ORG important? You will find out shortly. Soon after, 6 orgs applied to B6 to be in various capacities. About half were for membership and half were to be allies. In addition to this, my questioning of Stesig led to him trying to vote me out of the project. That failed. However, one of the orgs that applied was the MATADORS. THAT made some people pretty mad.
This next section involves two people. The first continues with Stesig. Stesig decided to bring in another person in his org to be another ambassador, which was a violation of the rules. One ambassador per org. He got called out on it and quickly switched him to be a minor attache to his thing.
Why did he bring this person on? To bash the MATADORS of course!
(CONTINUED IN PT2)
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