| 2022 Confederacy of Layem raid | |||||||
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| Part of the destruction of Layem | |||||||
| Flag used for Confederacy of Layem's occupation Flag used for the Confederacy of Layem occupation | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| File:NS ANTIFA.png NS ANTIFA | File:CoL.png Confederacy of Layem | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| File:NS ANTIFA.png NS ANTIFA command |
File:CoL.png Maur  File:CoL.png Baaas | ||||||
| Units involved | |||||||
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File:NS ANTIFA.png NS ANTIFA ***File:The black hawks 792636.png The Black Hawks ***File:Flag of The League.png The League ******File:Flag of the LCNAF.png League's Defense Forces ***File:GayAgenda.jpg The Gay Agenda ***  The Pacific******File:NPOwar.png Legio Pacifica ***File:The east pacific 768328.png The East Pacific ******Eastern Pacific Sovereign Army ***File:TNPflag.png The North Pacific ******File:TNPflag.png North Pacific Army ***File:SouthPacific.png The South Pacific ******File:WdIcQDa.png South Pacific Special Forces ***File:TWP.png The West Pacific ******The West Pacific Armed Forces ***File:MT.png Mariner Trench ******File:MTarmy.png Mariner Trench Army ***File:Lone wolves united 999106.png Lone Wolves United ***File:Thaecia founder 685519.png Thaecia ******File:TheaWar.png Thaempiral Army ***File:Europeia 715864.png Europeia ******File:Europeia 715864.png Europeian Republican Navy ***File:The order of the grey wardens 500879.png The Order of the Grey Wardens ***File:Balder.png Balder ******Jomsvikings ***File:OFO Osiris.png"'Osiris ******File:Sekhmet.png Sekhmet Legion ***File:CaerSidi.png**'Caer Sidi ***File:SkyHaven.png Sky Haven ******Kali Paladins ***File:The communist bloc flag.png The Communist Bloc ******People's Revolutionary Air Force ***File:BoM flag.png The Brotherhood of Malice ***File:SASQ.png**The Sasquatch Republic ***Assorted mercenaries Supported by: The Great Universe | File:CoL.png Layem | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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108 Updaters 4 Preupdate Pilers 314 Pilers[note 1] | 27 Piler Natives | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 0 | ~105 Banejected[note 2] | ||||||
| The Great Universe did not participate in the ANTIFA triggered operation, but is principally antifascist and anti-Layem. | |||||||
The 2022 Confederacy of Layem raid, often shortened to simply the Layem raid, was an operation against the region Confederacy of Layem. After its founder was deleted, and later declared Delete On Sight,[note 3] the region was selected for destruction for promoting bigotry, offsite harassment, and infiltration. The regional World Assembly Delegate put a password on the region to prevent the quickly assembling task force from raiding the Confederacy of Layem, so an 'offensive' liberation Security Council (SC) proposal was drafted and put to the World Assembly for vote.
Following the passage of SC Resolution #398 Liberate Confederacy Of Layem and removal of the regional password on 18 May 2022, a multilateral ANTIFA coalition of 111 updaters jumped from Resuscitation, overwhelming the 27 endorsements retained by former delegate Baaas.[1] The region was held under a piling occupation to ban remaining natives until 30 May 2022.
Background
Layem was already controversial across NationStates for a variety of reasons. It had a troubled start, being created after the Democratic Union of Assembled States's founder account was deleted for undisclosed reasons. Historical documentation implies this was related to Maur (then Mauricil)'s RMB posts, presumably in the context of rule breaking. In 2018, 2019, and 2021, spammers from Layem posted large quantities of spam, often consisting of racial or homophobic slurs, to various regions' discord servers.[2][3][4] In 2020, logs were released showing Layem's discord server contained antisemetic and homophobic content.[5] Due to NationStates' rules, which bans defamatory content, discussion of this character cannot be easily discussed onsite.[6]
In 2021 – 2022
2022 saw a marked uptick in the Confederacy of Layem's activity. The Brotherhood of Green, an alliance with the similarly reviled Sanctum was signed in February, in spite of charges that the treaty had been plagiarized from Europeia's template.[7][8] In the same month, Confederacy of Layem, Sanctum, Institute of Cellulose, and The Alliance of Eros joined the Grand Confederacy of Regions.[9] Following the raid of Sanctum, Layem founded Trans, saying that the use of an LGBTQ theme on the formerly catholic region was desecration requiring retaliation.[10]
Final days
Maur stated his intention that if his region were raided, he would "make another region and get 300-500 people in it like I'm doing now".[11] While getting more involved in gameplay, Maur founded the region Concord, though it isn't clear if this was meant as redoubt against a raid on the Confederacy of Layem, or if it was meant to serve as a staging ground for more infiltrator discord alts, as the region Bredane was.[12] The founder account for the Confederacy of Layem, Layem, was deleted by the moderation team on 14 May for violations of the longstanding violations of commercialization rule, after a player reported them for advertising payouts onsite for offsite activities[note 4], in Layamite recruitment telegrams.[13]
Knowing that this made the region insecure, Maur moved to funnel Layem's population towards Concord.[14] Maur's DOS declaration on 15 May resulted in Concord itself becoming unsecure, which was taken advantage of by coalition forces led by The League in the near contemporaneous 2022 Concord raid.[15]
Raid
While there were some early movers as the password was removed, the raid began in earnest at the 11:17:01 PM CDT of 18 May. Over a hundred updaters jumped to Confederacy of Layem. No attempt to repulse the attack was conducted. As update occurred, control of the Confederacy of Layem by Layemites was toppled. 30 May 2022 marked the end of operations, with a telegram being sent by Miravana for participants to draw down.
Aftermath
Interregional reaction
Most of gameplay participated or facilitated the raid, and was thus in support. The major detractors[note 5] of the operation and its methods included Nordic Lands and the region NationStates. The delegate of NationStates is principally opposed to the use of liberations, seeing the use of liberations as cheating, and/or as infringing on the natural rights of a WA Delegate. Nordic Lands is a haven of former layemite and Sanctum members, the most vocal of whom see the raid as an infringement on freedom of speech.
Moderator actions
16 May – A member of the Confederacy of Layem flamed a number of users in a 'suicide by mod' and had their account deleted.[16]
18 May – A member of the Confederacy of Layem posted a video from a DOS'd player, which was removed.[17]
Forums
In gameplay, nine organizations set their thread titles to "VICTORY" in parody of Layem's gameplay thread following the successful first night of the operation.
Notes
- ↑ Xoriet provided this figure for Europeia's radio show
- ↑ Mirvana provided a figure of total natives at 'around 100' for Europeia's radio show. After the radio show, Mirvana stated that 98 natives were banned with seven remaining.
- ↑ DOS stands for Delete On Sight, and is reserved by NationStates moderation for severe or long term violations of site rules. Users that have been declared DOS cannot use the site, and will be automatically deleted on discovery.
- ↑ Payouts advertised onsite for participating in Layem's offsite activities involved items of real monetary value, such as games, gift cards, and Discord Nitro
- ↑ Defined as 6%+ of all votes against SC#398.
References
Citations
- ↑ Quebecshire (18 March 2017). "Passage tally for SC Resolution #398".
- ↑ "Enadia-Osiris false flag spam incident". 4 June 2018.
- ↑ Harry Rorschach (6 November 2021). "Thaecia-Enadia false flag spam incident".
- ↑ Quebecshire (30 May 2020). "Layem-LCN spam incident".
- ↑ "2020 Layem Logs". 13 September 2020.
- ↑ Max Barry. "NationStates Etiquette".
- ↑ "The Brotherhood of Green - Treaty Text". 6 February 2022.
- ↑ Madjack (6 February 2022). "The Brotherhood of Green - Accusation of plagiarism".
- ↑ Affray; Hua; Maur (9 February 2022). "Grand Confederacy of Regions".
- ↑ Maur (13 May 2022). "On the region Trans".
- ↑ Maur (11 April 2022). "Go raid me for it".
- ↑ "Bredane". 19 May 2022.
- ↑ Sedgistan (14 May 2022). "Message of death for the Layem account".
- ↑ Maur (14 May 2022). "Reccomendation for Concord Exodus".
- ↑ Sedgistan (16 May 2022). "Confirmation of DOS for Maur".
- ↑ Luna Amore (16 May 2022). "Deletion of "Gondor and of Arnor"".
- ↑ "South Acren's removed dispatch". 18 May 2022.
Bibliography
- Ikania (19 May 2022). "VICTORY IN LAYEM / V-L DAY DECLARED / 108 UPDATERS". NationStates. League's Defense Forces. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
- Maur (6 May 2018). "CoL | History of Layem". NationStates. Layem. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
