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NS Celebrity: Westwind
Topic Started: Dec 4 2010, 04:49 PM (252 Views)
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On behalf of the Europeian Government, the Europeian Broadcasting Corporation would like to welcome Nationstates celebrity Westwind to Europeia.
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Thank you, it's an honor to finally visit Europeia, I don't know why I haven't made the trip here sooner.
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Former Delegate, Deputy Speaker and Senator of The North Pacific, Lewis and Clark,
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Honorary Pacifican, Founder of many regions

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We would be thrilled if you'd share a personal history with us, sir.
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*chuckles*

Oh my, where to begin ? This may take awhile !

*sets his rocking chair next to the fireplace, sits down and begins to rock*

Once upon a time, in January of 2004, Westwind was created in The West Pacific. I did have another nation before that that I had created in early December 2003, but I don't even recall what that nation was called. I had received an email from my ex-wife with a link to her nation, with a note that she thought I might be interested in this game. I checked it out, but being the holidays I did nothing more with it. Forgot about it, and that nation CTE'd. So come January, I decided to check NS out once again.

Westwind was not my first choice in naming my nation. I wanted to name it Albion. Way back in the 1980's I had tried to write a book, and it was called 'Alexander of Albion'. For years before that, I used to draw continents and cities. Played out histories of nations on paper. Started with tribes that slowly expanded, discovered each other, and had alliances and wars. I tracked their populations, economies, governments..... sound familiar ?

And I started that book based on those. Albion was a nation on the continent Pacifica. (I got to 180 pages in that book, BTW). I've since written a few short stories surrounding that book's 'world'.

(side note, some years ago I refounded the region Albion, after it had become Founderless and been raided a few times....it has since been refounded again by someone else.....hmmmm.....yes, I Founded the region Pacifica once too)

Westwind was another nation on my drawn continents. Further back...into the early 1970's, I had even typed up newspapers (yes, this was before personal computers). And news of Westwind was in those newspapers. I remember having a list of Top Ten Songs, one of those songs being "The Westwind Roll".

Westwind was Founded as an Empire, with Emperor Alexander (pulled him from that book) leading it. Later, there was an RP in Equilism where Emperor Alexander's grandson died, and then his son revolted against him. Declared himself King Adam, and nuclear war ensued in Westwind. To help end the war, Emperor Alexander abdicated and turned the government over to the Parliament, with Rick Shepard as Prime Minister.

In RL, Rick Shepard was once a pseudonym I used as a radio DJ in the '70's.

In the 2004 Equilism Olympics, Westwind won the Gold Medal in Basketball with their irradiated, glowing players. The benefits of Nuclear fallout. *chuckles*

So that was the very beginning. As a post script to that, my ex-wife did nothing more with her nation, and it CTE'd by early January 2004. She does not play NS, but she was correct that it would interest me.

*pauses.....sips his hot tea*
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Three time Former Delegate, two time former Guardian, former Minister of State Security, Field Commander of The West Pacific, All Good People,
Former Delegate, Deputy Speaker and Senator of The North Pacific, Lewis and Clark,
Co-Founder, Emeritus Rex, Father of Equilism, E-Army Commander
Honorary Pacifican, Founder of many regions

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*sets down his tea.....starts rocking*

Of course, I got the usual stream of recruitment telegrams as everyone does. I recall moving to another feeder for a day or two (TNP, I think) then back to TWP, getting the hang of this thing of moving your nation, before I decided the telegram that I received from Equilism looked the most interesting. So I moved there, and have been there ever since. Though there have been moments where I considered leaving.

Equilism was Founded by Equility about 10 days before I joined the region. I visited and lurked on the original forum, where debate over a Constitution was in progress. Equility was both Founder and Delegate at that time, and the Constitution he put together was based on the ADN (Alliance Defense Network) Constitution .... which itself hadn't even been ratified in ADN as of that time. The primary construct from the ADN Constitution that worked well for Equilism was the Dual-Executive. In ADN, there was the President and the Director as the dual-executives. In Equilism, it was the President and Prime Minister/Delegate. This was the first Equilism Commonwealth (the second Commonwealth was started in November 2009, and is the current Equilism government).

Soon the first elections came along, and I decided to run for Senator. I remember being disapointed that Tomika won the Prime Minister election of Rhonanvin. Rho was appointed Vice President instead (Equility was President), but he disappeared shortly afterwards. About a year later we found out that he had been in the hospital most of the year. But also about the same time as these first elections, we moved to a new forum on our own domain, provided by one of our members that worked for an ISP. And then we never heard from him again.

That first government plucked me out of the Senate and appointed me as Interior Minister, where I learned to joys of sending hundreds of telegrams about everything under the sun. Struggling to get people to join the forums, helping Immigration Minister Daradah in growing the young region as well. I had also joined the fledgling Equilism Army, and had begun my career as a Defender in February 2004. My first mission was the defense of Middle Earth, the second was in Northern Ireland. Those were both major events in those days, hundreds of WA's involved on both sides.

We had a couple problem nations show up in Equilism at that time. Equility didn't know how to handle it, and I offered to deal with them. It was no problem really, but no one wanted to deal with problem people.

Shortly after that, Prime Minister Tomika (who was also our first Military Minister at the same time) decided to step down from the Prime Ministership. Taking care of both jobs (and the Delegacy) was too much for him, and he wanted to concentrate on the Military. It was Tomika that renamed the Army to the E-Army, which it remains to this day, and wrote our first training documents. He was also our first forum administrator.

Equility and Tomika appointed me to replace him as Prime Minister and UN Delegate.

*pauses....sips more tea*
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Three time Former Delegate, two time former Guardian, former Minister of State Security, Field Commander of The West Pacific, All Good People,
Former Delegate, Deputy Speaker and Senator of The North Pacific, Lewis and Clark,
Co-Founder, Emeritus Rex, Father of Equilism, E-Army Commander
Honorary Pacifican, Founder of many regions

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*continues to rock in his chair*

Around this same time, I had wandered over to ADN, of which were were a member. I joined ADN on the same day that the ADN Constitution was ratified, February 29, 2004. I also wandered over to A.L.L. (Allied Liberation League) of which we were also a member, and later lead the liberation of The North Pacific from Great Bight with the Puppetmaster operation. Equilism had the largest army involved in that operation. I still have a list of all the puppet nations (from all involved regions) that were in that operation. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

At about the same time, we discovered some problems with our Intelligence Minister, Ellandar. Long story short, he was discovered multiing among other things. I lead the investigation, and the Equilism Council banned him from the forum and region. Both the Intel and Foreign Minister positions were then open, so Equility took over Foreign Affairs, and I took over Intelligence. I was already infiltrated into several Raider organizations at the time, including ones that lead to the formation of DEN.

Pope Hope, ADN Director, wanted me to work in ADN Intel, however the head of Intel, ROTCJAGMAN, was paranoid at that time and wasn't allowing anyone new to join. Instead, I was first appointed as Director of the Office for Public Affairs (press office) for ADN. A short time later, I was appointed as Prosecutor General of ADN.

During my time as Prosecutor General, a number of watershed events occured in ADN, that lead eventually to the end of the Constitution Era of ADN, and the establishment of a new Charter.

During this time, Modavi (aka Pierconium) left ADN and joined the NPO in The Pacific. Of course, he was seen as a traitor to ADN and was appropriately villified. He had been Prosecutor General before me.

Ireland had invaded an ADN member region, and ADN responded by declaring war on Ireland. ADN was not only an interregional organization, it was an extra-regional government. All member regions were required to join in the declaration of war. It was the only time that Equilism has made a declaration of war. ADN had about 40 - 50 member regions. ADN also had close relations with other defender organizations such as GLA, TITO, EAA, etc. ADN was originally formed to oppose the AA (Atlantic Alliance) and also opposed Francos Spain and NPO in The Pacific. The Pacific Army, banjected from The Pacific by Francos Spain, were themselves part of ADN.

The German Empire and DEN joined the war on the side of Ireland. Most raiders were eager to join in war against ADN, the enemy of raiders everywhere (we called raiders 'invaders' back then). It was growing into a more major war, threatening to become a World War. TGE launched attacks on ADN interests, Ireland placed a password on their region and remained under seige.

Pope Hope assigned Eurosoviets (of ASE) and I as negotiators. ES and I negotiated separately with The German Empire and with Ireland. As we came close to concluding a settlement with TGE, another event brought an end to that region.

USSR had been a member region of ADN, but was kicked out after a trial. And USSR was allied to Ireland. RedCommunist, USSR Founder, didn't want to get involved, and did his best to sit the war out. However, suddenly the Founder of The German Empire started banjecting nations and passworded the region. As it turned out, the Founder of The German Empire was controlled by RedCommunist of USSR. That was essentially the beginning of the end of the war.

Negotiations with Ireland continued, and evenually ES and I worked out a peace treaty with them. We presented the treaty to the ADN Congress for ratification. Objections were raised, and the treaty held up, but it nonetheless went into effect.

- Sidetracking.....around this time, there also were elections in ADN. The Presidency and Vice-Presidency were up for election. Equility ran for President against Vasquez (a founding member of ADN), and I ran for Vice-President against Democratic Donkeys (incumbant) and Eurosoviets. When ES appeared to be rallying to the win, I withdrew from the race and threw my support to DD, who won re-election. Vazquez also won re-election as President.

*stretches.....sips tea*
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Three time Former Delegate, two time former Guardian, former Minister of State Security, Field Commander of The West Pacific, All Good People,
Former Delegate, Deputy Speaker and Senator of The North Pacific, Lewis and Clark,
Co-Founder, Emeritus Rex, Father of Equilism, E-Army Commander
Honorary Pacifican, Founder of many regions

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*samples a cookie....rocks.....*

With peace attained, and world war averted, we settled back with our victory in hand. But it was short lived. Vazquez, ADN President, lead his region (Alcatraz) in an invasion of Ireland. After the peace treaty was signed and ratified.

As Prosecutor General, I investigated the incident. I was the one that apologized to Ireland for the invasion. And thankfully, they gracefully accepted the apology.

As a result of my investigation, I found that the invasion of Ireland was planned by Vaz on the ADN forums. I brought Articles of Impeachment against Vazquez to the ADN Congress. Vaz accepted full responsibility and chose to resign instead of facing Impeachment.

And then ADN recieved another shock. Vice President Democractic Donkeys (he's still around as a Global Moderator on the TNP forum, BTW) announced that he was actually an invader, and had infiltrated ADN.

At this point, ADN lost it's President and Vice-President, and the Congress was hopelessly tied in knots and unable to function. There were factions developing within the Congress, each trying to control the processes.

At the urging of several (including me) ADN Director Pope Hope declared martial law in ADN. She scrapped the Constitution, and moved ADN to a new forum. She and Unistrut were the new forum administrators. Equility, Blackbird and I were moderators. After discussion and debate, a new Charter was established and ratified. Pope Hope retained the position of Director, and I was elected as the first Deputy Director.

And then.....came Cybernations. Alot of NS players rushed over to check out Cybernations, including ADN Director Pope Hope. Her absence left me as Acting Director of ADN.

You will always hear people complain that NS is declining. But the decline started way back before Influence, and before Cybernations. Those things just accelerated the process.

But I have always tried to find ways to fight back the inactivity of decline, both at the local level in Equilism, and in the interregional arena. There are always opportunities for activity, if you just put some effort into it.

*pauses*

I'm going to stop for now. I warned you this would take awhile. :P

And please feel free to ask any questions you might have.
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Three time Former Delegate, two time former Guardian, former Minister of State Security, Field Commander of The West Pacific, All Good People,
Former Delegate, Deputy Speaker and Senator of The North Pacific, Lewis and Clark,
Co-Founder, Emeritus Rex, Father of Equilism, E-Army Commander
Honorary Pacifican, Founder of many regions

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This is fascinating stuff.
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It is and very well written. I really enjoyed reading it. Do you still write?
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So that's where Pope Hope went. She was always nice to me. Interesting story so far :)
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Pope Hope is still around now and then, but not actively. She ended up being a CN Admin. I was asked to be a moderator for CN, but I declined, as CN didn't interest me. Besides Cybernations, she joined the RL world of work after graduating from college.

I haven't written, other than official statements and speeches in NS for quite awhile. Oh, and sales proposals, and consulting reports for work. I'm preparing to start work on a musical project next month though. I had released albums in the 1980's, did promotion/website work for bands in the '90's, but haven't written a serious song in about 6 years now. I was working on cleaning up an old mix of a song from 2002 last night.

You're lucky that fragment of history came out that well, my writing these days goes okay until my brain decides it's done with that train of thought. My medical conditions plays games with me like that sometimes.
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Former Delegate, Deputy Speaker and Senator of The North Pacific, Lewis and Clark,
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Honorary Pacifican, Founder of many regions

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Ah, very interesting stuff. I've always heard of Pope Hope but knew nothing about them.

Also, on a more personal note, can you tell me anything about Great Britain and Ireland in this early history? I joined NS in 2006 and they were my first region; I know that they were involved in some of this but I'm not sure how.
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