George R. R. Martin teached us not to wake the dragon, and we truly lived up to his advise. Instead of just waking the dragon we threw burning torches into its cave, crushed the eggs and attempted to steal the treasure. Read up, as the cat finally unveiled its mask and revealed itself as a dragon with sharper claws than any cat hold captive by stupid negros.

Echelon map before opening

It was fairly obvious that Mpire wouldn’t stop the nuking party they sincerely invited RebeL to. And just because every party needs its own hooker, our fellow pink-dressed designated mapwinner invited Nosebleed to join up and joining up they did. So we saw another major milestone of Echelon history today as Mpire once again strengthened its ranks, leaving Euro split up and torn apart, behind.

With their new partner, it was just a matter of time until Mpire completely smashed what was left of the RebeL base while other elements already settled on the unfortified lands of the former lands of green. Hex after hex lost until eventually RebeL decided to disband everything - be it as some sort of sign or to allow themselves a fresh new start. We do not know.

What was left of Euro, specifically STEALTH, settled up in the north of the former RebeL territory and at the end of the day, OBNOXIOUS held all the hexes around the former Mpire base.

In an attempt to get hold of all rare elements, Supremacy either lost nearly all of their land with only Thong being the one with a reasonable amount of hexes left - besides Mpire.

Today, we saw the full-blown and all-out revenge of Mpire, as they came back stronger than ever - once more and in this wake, renewed their statement regarding a mapwin. The question is and will ever be, how Echelon will react to this recent shift of Mpire.

Will people leave the map, not seeing a point in standing up in fresh revolution against the pink oppression, or will they take their forks, clubs and slingshots and bring Goliath down? Once more? We will see and - as Einstein said in Red Alert II: “Time will tell.”

Echelon map after closing

But well. I’m afraid that wasn’t everything. Tonight, we saw another prominent agency close their doors for good and leave Global Agenda completely. Hibernating for about a month already, Fruitz finally made if official that they won’t be coming back to RebeL, leaving only Pain and Intrepid. Personally, a very sad day for me, though I wish you good luck and the best of whatever you need to successful compete in the next game you guys are playing. Farewell, Fruitz.

Disclaimer: Read my last blog entry if you don’t understand the “negro reference” in the intro.