Vac for Pharaoh!

[Vaculatestar]

OF course. I would have my Scribe of Media issue regular reports on things such as military victories and any happenings in RP's by both posting reports here, and in a GP thread like TRT or EPNS does.

[Ridersyl]

Thank you for answering, Vac. Good luck going forward.

[Vaculatestar]

And good luck to you.

[Cormac]

First, a question specifically for you. You've probably seen my questions to the other candidates already, but if not, a preface: This isn't personal and isn't meant to be an attack. I'm asking tough questions of all the candidates as they come to me.

You weren't all that active during the prior term, as Scribe of War, though it should be noted as I've noted previously that this was the case with nearly the entire region. Nonetheless, the Pharaoh must lead activity, that's the reality in Osiris. How can we be sure you're going to do that?

Now, I'm also going to be asking all of the candidates this exact same set of the following questions:

1. A coup d'etat takes place in The Rejected Realms, led by The Black Hawks and supported by the United Imperial Armed Forces. The Sekhmet Legion is asked to support the coup. How do you respond? How, if at all, does your response differ if the coup is instead led by the UIAF?

2. What is your favorite color, and why?

3. A coup d'etat takes place in The East Pacific, supported by the UIAF as well as raider regions with which the Legion has collaborated in the past. How do you respond?

4. If you had to choose a song to represent your campaign, which song would it be and why?

5. Osiris is approached about joining an interregional military organization of six initial regions: The North Pacific, Balder, Europeia, Equilism, Spiritus, and of course Osiris. How do you respond? Does your response differ if it is instead a trilateral organization with Balder and The East Pacific and, if so, how and why?

6. Do you know who your Vizier is going to be? You don't have to name him or her, I just want to know from each candidate, honestly, whether they know who they want for Vizier and whether that person has confirmed they're going to take the position. Not necessarily a deal-breaker, more a curiosity.

7. The highest influence Guardian of the Atef seizes the Delegacy and gives his nation to Biyah. The Empire of Osiris is declared, supported by pilers from hostile regions and various unflagged units. Within a few updates, you and your Vizier are ejected and banned, and no Guardian is anywhere within striking distance of the Delegacy. What do you do? How does your response differ if one or more of the other Guardians join the coup, and why?

8. Choose a Christmas carol to be the official carol of the Osiris Fraternal Order, and explain why.

9. A serious dispute breaks out between Balder and The East Pacific, prompting mutual severance of relations between the two. Both sides are pressuring you to cancel Osiris' treaty and sever relations with the other. How do you respond?

10. Two members of your Hedjet are embroiled in intense arguments. These arguments have been erupting, on and off, for two weeks, dominating the private Hedjet IRC channel and even spilling over onto the forum and into #osi on a regular basis. Both are your friends, both do their jobs well, and both are demanding you fire the other. How do you resolve the conflict?

Thanks in advance for your answers and best of luck!

[Vaculatestar]

First, a question specifically for you. You've probably seen my questions to the other candidates already, but if not, a preface: This isn't personal and isn't meant to be an attack. I'm asking tough questions of all the candidates as they come to me.

You weren't all that active during the prior term, as Scribe of War, though it should be noted as I've noted previously that this was the case with nearly the entire region. Nonetheless, the Pharaoh must lead activity, that's the reality in Osiris. How can we be sure you're going to do that?

Now, I'm also going to be asking all of the candidates this exact same set of the following questions:

1. A coup d'etat takes place in The Rejected Realms, led by The Black Hawks and supported by the United Imperial Armed Forces. The Sekhmet Legion is asked to support the coup. How do you respond? How, if at all, does your response differ if the coup is instead led by the UIAF?

2. What is your favorite color, and why?

3. A coup d'etat takes place in The East Pacific, supported by the UIAF as well as raider regions with which the Legion has collaborated in the past. How do you respond?

4. If you had to choose a song to represent your campaign, which song would it be and why?

5. Osiris is approached about joining an interregional military organization of six initial regions: The North Pacific, Balder, Europeia, Equilism, Spiritus, and of course Osiris. How do you respond? Does your response differ if it is instead a trilateral organization with Balder and The East Pacific and, if so, how and why?

6. Do you know who your Vizier is going to be? You don't have to name him or her, I just want to know from each candidate, honestly, whether they know who they want for Vizier and whether that person has confirmed they're going to take the position. Not necessarily a deal-breaker, more a curiosity.

7. The highest influence Guardian of the Atef seizes the Delegacy and gives his nation to Biyah. The Empire of Osiris is declared, supported by pilers from hostile regions and various unflagged units. Within a few updates, you and your Vizier are ejected and banned, and no Guardian is anywhere within striking distance of the Delegacy. What do you do? How does your response differ if one or more of the other Guardians join the coup, and why?

8. Choose a Christmas carol to be the official carol of the Osiris Fraternal Order, and explain why.

9. A serious dispute breaks out between Balder and The East Pacific, prompting mutual severance of relations between the two. Both sides are pressuring you to cancel Osiris' treaty and sever relations with the other. How do you respond?

10. Two members of your Hedjet are embroiled in intense arguments. These arguments have been erupting, on and off, for two weeks, dominating the private Hedjet IRC channel and even spilling over onto the forum and into #osi on a regular basis. Both are your friends, both do their jobs well, and both are demanding you fire the other. How do you resolve the conflict?

Thanks in advance for your answers and best of luck!

I'll answer your questions in turn and thank you for them.

As for my activity I will not try to hide how I lacked in it. I'm man enough to admit this. As for leading it I can guarantee that and let me tell you why. Because as I've stated before I am back, and I'm not going anywhere. Everyone has periods of time when something hits and NS has to take the back burner, it took almost two years but mine came. That is behind me now and I can see my work schedule being the same and me not having to run round like a chicken with my head cut off trying to keep up with the changing schedule that was continuously thrown my way on top of studying and physical training. So now that all of that bull is out of the way and I can see where I am going to be for at least two years into the future, I'll be here like I was before, just at different hours of the day.

As for the general questions here are my answers.

I will take the policy of only supporting militaries in actions such as these that we have treaties with. So regardless of my membership in TBH I will not support them in a coup of a region, regardless of R/D stance, my loyalty is to Osiris, not one of the letters on either side of the backslash. As for the UIAF. We do have treaties with each of the member regions, but those treaties don't REQUIRE us to support them in such an action. Therefor I would have to look at the situation objectively and see if there is a reason for this action beyond R/D stance. If TRR had done something or multiple things which myself, the Vizier, Scribe of War, Scribe of FA, and Scribe of Security believe to be egregious enough to constitute such an act beyond being defender and not imperialist, then yes I would support them. If not, then I would decline.

My favorite color is orange. School color from the University I went to. Eat em up Kats! (Sam Houston State University )

You mean other than the one in the OP? (goes to various playlists on Spotify ) Parking Lot Party by Lee Brice because it's gonna be one long party coming out of culture.

As for the six organizations? It would of course depend on whether or not everyone can pull their weight, including us. When it comes to organizations like that it would come down to whoever commits the most troops regularly will have the most say. We saw this with ISRA where Osiris officials basically did all the decision making because we contributed like 99% of the troops on a regular basis. The same goes with the trilateral organization. In both instances I would critique our ability to pull our weight so that we don't become "junior partners" in the organization. I would also have to take a look at Balder's ability since as I mentioned before, they contributed pretty much nothing to the ISRA.

As for Vizier? Yes I do and this person is from Osiris.

I would have to call in all of our allies that we are currently signed with IE: UIAF regions, Euro, Balder, TNGE, prod multiple Monarchist Treaty Members and immediately begin massing for a counter attack. I won't go into detail on how exactly we would go about this because I'm not the US Government and I don't spill how I plan to fight wars, hypothetical or otherwise. I would also at the same time we are (hopefully secretly) making plans to fight back also attempt to reach out to the invaders regardless of how far fetched a diplomatic response is. My plans would not change if any of the other Guardians turned traitor.

You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch. This is because we are so awesome that we make it so that no nations that get refounded here want to leave off to UCR's. Hence, "stealing their Christmas".

As for the TEP vs. Balder scenario. I would be forced to look at the circumstances between the two. Who has the stronger argument for how they were wronged and who is just being petty, if we had any grievances with either of the regions, but ultimately I would have to look at Osiris' interests. As I said before my loyalties do not lie with R/D, but with Osiris. Therefor, if it was in Osiris' interests to sever with either I would sever with that one, if it were not then I wouldn't. Foreign regions do not command Osiran policy, the Government and People of Osiris do. We won't be anyone's puppet in a chess game across NS.

I would have to look at the merits of the arguments. If one of them had say spilled the others personal information onto the GP forums then that person would be gone due to a lack of trust. But if it were petty personal grievances that had no business affecting Osiris as a region then I would pull them together into a private IRC channel and have an extremely long talk with them (may or may not mix in threats of both of them being canned ). If it cannot be resolved informally in that manner then they can both kiss their jobs goodbye because the kind of people that allow petty personal grievances that doesn't concern the OFO have no business leading the region in any way. I would also talk with the other #osi ops and get each of them a day long ban from the channel and I would institute a day long ban from the hedjet channel to ensure that the two have time to cool off and to show them that I'm willing to handle my business, it'll be up to them to handle theirs.

[Cormac]

Solid answers, Vac. Thanks! As a note, I love that you chose "Parking Lot Party."

[Vaculatestar]

*shrugs* It's a great song.

Any other questions?

[War Wombat]

Good luck!

[Vaculatestar]

Thanks Wombie! <3

[Joshua Bluteisen]

Here's one question that I'm asking all of the candidates; how do you intend to deal with the relatively low amount of influence spread throughout the Atef?

Do you plan on making more appointments to the security council?