Lone Wolves United - April Update

Following discussions among the active membership of the region, we are proud to announce that LWU have conducted a complete review of its own policies, and we have decided to pursue new directions.

For too long, we are only known as a raiding region. All we have done and known is raiding. This was what we have based our region on, and how we have survived to this day. Yet, considering our so-called core values, recent events have led us to rethink our role in the broader NS community. Over these years, we have sought to make ourselves be known through raids, and all for nought. People come and go, and some individually have made a larger impact on NS as a whole compared to regions like us. It is clear that longevity and raiding pedigree is no longer valued these days. Furthermore, it is clear that raiding as an alignment, rather, R/D as an aspect of NS gameplay is no longer fulfilling or profitable. Considering all of this, we asked ourselves, why bother? And now we have answers.

Raiding and defending have just brought division among all of us, the NS community. Instead of working constructively to collectively create a community based on collaboration and creativity, we have let our various factional differences and squabbles drive us apart. Of roleplayers and gameplayers. Of raiders and defenders. If only everyone worked together. We could all be part of a much greater project.

What then is to be done?

NS as a whole has serious deficiencies, in that anyone can do their own thing. Anyone can set up their own community, break off to develop their own project. It's even officially sanctioned. "Regions" - they're called. This is why we as people on NS fail to reach greater heights. Because we let our own ambitions for power through leadership, and selfishness in pursuing independent goals get to us. By dividing ourselves into different regions, we look inside, to our own comfort zone and bubble, and fail to see the bigger picture. That is why we believe that the regional system of NS has limited our potential. The fact that any user on NS can create a region and do anything they want with it is seriously detrimental to the development of NS as a community.

As such, we believe that a radical reform is necessary. Instead of continuing our former misguided paths, we have decided to reboot ourselves. We are now a region for potential. For the reduction of individualist and divisive influences within NS. For the reduction and eventual abolishment of the concept of user created regions in itself. And perhaps, eventually, the abandoning of the regional system as a whole. When the day comes, we too will gladly dissolve ourselves.

For too long we have watched from afar the struggles in the Feeders. For too long have we denied the truth to ourselves and to the world. Now, we can shy away from it no longer. We must recognise the truth and share it with the world. Thus, we acknowledge the following truths:

- There is a class struggle ongoing in the Feeders between the Userite and the Feederite, a struggle that affects all.
- The Feeders, by their very nature, are the enemy of all user-created regions. One or the other must be defeated to ensure unity.
- It is the nature of the Userite to impose their will on the Feeders through political manipulation or military force if necessary.

These truths, contained and documented in "Proper Francoist Thought", first developed by Unlimited, are collectively referred to as Francoism. User-created regions have long demonised this document as evil, and have always denied its fundamental truths.

In recent years, we have watched as the Feeders closed their eyes and turned away from the Francoist cause, deceived by Userite promises and manipulated by the User-created regions. Lone Wolves United has decided to no longer hide the truth. From this day forward, we are rebranding ourselves as the very first Francoist user-created region. From this day forth, we will act as Proper Francoist Thought dictates. It is our sincere hope that more regions will follow our example and embrace the truth that is Francoism.

Our rebirth has begun. May enlightenment spread far and wide.