Clamju, this would be a cogent and interesting post if only you had had some facts to hand before you wrote it. Why, for instance, do you assume so casually that there was no discussion between LRAG and W1N befre this merge began? Of course there was a complete discussion and full agreement between all parties was reached before we went ahead. Actually I am at a bit of a loss how you would imagine anything else, but there you go.
Next... you seem to have heard the same ethereal voices as Luke. Certainly they did not come from this thread. Exactly one KA player suggested that he would continue to support Flux, and he subsequently retracted publicly - which took a certain amount of sand, by the way. I imagine that there was some disagreement within KA, now LRAGKA - but there is normally disagreement from someone in a tribe with whatever decision is made, so what does that signify?
As for what you would demand if you were leader of W1N - that is not really interesting, because the people who are actually the leaders of W1N are men of their word and have thus done nothing of the kind and will not do so. They are deeply uncomfortable with some of the events since then - a discomfort I fully share - but we agree that undertakings once made are to be held to.
Finally, and this is also addressed to Gypsy and others - Hi, Gypsy, by the way - I cannot know the details of agreements between KA (as was) and Flux, but I do know what I have been told. I have been informed by Sir.Bama and others, that Flux unilaterally dropped AK from this agreement that they are shouting about so freely - and did so before any of this happened (and without 28 days notice, either). If this is so - and I notice Timmy has not denied it - then I can see no difficulty with LRAGKA's contention that the agreement was voided at that moment.
If, again, this is so - this whole shooting match has been a brilliant - if meretricious - attempt by the Flux leadership to minimise the damage done to them by these changes in alignment and to divert attention from that fact that so many of their erstwhile friends now want nothing to do with them.
The wholehearted tailing in behind this farrago - in some cases by people who really should know better - is a tribute to the excellence of the work involved... but that excellence does not mean that Flux are in the right and LRAGKA in the wrong, though that is what was so excellently presented to us. If Sir.Bama speaks truly to me - and I have no reason to doubt him - Flux are squealing over the so-called infraction of an agreement they themselves had already rendered null and void. They are, in fact, trying to PnP their way out of a very severe fail and various people are latching onto this PR exercise because it has taken them in - or because it suits their own interests to do so.
That's how it seems to me. I think it is now for Timmy to tell us whether Flux did indeed drop AK from alliance before the family merge was agreed. If they cannot unequivocally tell us that they did not... we know we've been following some hollow - and doomed - men, don't we?
are we ?