Keystone Gray

I managed to make myself look utterly retarded, but here's mine, too. >:( Had to use my tongue a few times. EDIT: Disabled Smileys so as to not fuck up my angry face.

Gratz, everyone! Especially Sera! I bet you're giddy. ;)

I hate the Ottoman Turks. I also hate the fact that no one has made an Ottoman Empire army, so we can't invade them again like we did in 1543.

Indeed. If we do that sort of thing, we're no better than Teen Grid militaries. Who do indeed, by the way, seek "Grid-Domination".

And on a more serious note, what the hell. I can't believe he exploded like this. I wonder if his mind is telling him that destroying the AN base was the most patriotic thing to do for Ordo?

This one's long overdue: Nivanglus, for training me through four phases in one crash-course hour. Must have been stressful and hard to condense, considering that I knew a lot about the community to begin with as I had spent quite a bit of time on Titan and already knew how the Iron Symphony groups operated. I'd also like to thank him for putting up with my sense of humor, especially on my exams and tests. Glad I aced it and made him chuckle at the same time. I'm sure others would have been a bit angry at me for that. Speaking of which, haven't seen him in a while. o.o

Rated E. For EVISCERATION.

Meet the Attack Wolf, one of many characters in The Ordo Imperialis. Name: Keystone Gray Role: Support Weapons: Teeth, Growl, Bark Discovered as a puppy in the Badnarik mountains by a lone patrol of Merczateers grunts, Keystone was quickly adopted as a temporary mascot. Confident that the pup was tamable, they kept it as a pet. Sooner or later, however, he grew to both the size and temperament to rip entire squads apart - Merczateers or Vanguard alike - with his bare teeth. Eventually, this became too much, and he was since abandoned. Picked up yet again during an Ordo Imperialis training run, he became a part of the group, integral, yet not without his usual flair of self-entertainment. He has a taste for femur, tendencies towards mauling unsuspecting moronic grunts, flanking, playing fetch, getting belly rubs, and the occasional occurance of carrying bloody trophies of his fallen victims around with extreme pride (sometimes a gun, sometimes a limb) in his mouth. And oh, for those who think you can pet him: Sure. Just make sure he's not hungry first. Attack Wolf update, coming this November! Join us for all-out mayhem on the battlefield as this vicious, carnivorous beast spices up your next raid! ~ Keylocopter Studios

Serious issue needs serious attention. Coujo, maybe you could put together a list in the title post of who is willing to contribute what to the Ball. EDIT: Oh, and also a timeframe, not necessarily a specific date because I know things get delayed a bit.

D: Thankfully, we still have Billy Mays.

My account went through fine. And Trevor, I posted a thread already, with my usual Keystone flair. GENTLEMEN.

I'm widely known as Mr. Neutral, I guess I could pick up a diplomatic role as well, if this happens any time after the 3rd of November. I'm also very experienced in building, and I have attended a military ball at one point. If there's anything I've learned from it, it's this: Take your piss break before the speeches, else you'll be sitting there for two hours, not allowed to stand. In all seriousness though... Time? Place? Decor/Theme?

probably phillip. Indeed, it's Phillip. He can sleep through anything.

So, I was looking at the Vae Victus one day and had thought, "Huh, I wonder what those four dual-barrel cannons were installed for..." They never fired. They just sat stationary. So I did some hard thinking and realized I could just walk into the bridge and pull up Keno's files (btw, I really think you should change your password, 12345 is something an idiot would put on his luggage). And so I did. It was written in legalese, AKA Lawyer Speak, but after reading through it a few times, I finally found out the design purpose and mechanism for these massive, unused cannons. And so begins Keystone's report on his findings... End of report. o.o

And this is yet another reason why I love Second Life as much as I do; it gives people of all socializing backgrounds the chance to be themselves.

Hehe, came back to try to bow out politely, was afraid I started a political stir. Glad I didn't. And yeah, Gunau, I agree with Streak for agreeing with you because I agree with you too. (o.o)

Very well thought out, except this part. There are no "missions such as those" to bomb or attack civilian targets, at least not in modern warfare. Do civilians die? Of course they do. And 9.9 times out of 10, it's a pure and simple accident. It's a war, mistakes happen, and unfortunately civilians sometimes get caught in the middle. Every single thing that can be done to prevent this from happening is done, but people aren't perfect and sometimes mistakes are made. It's easy for the media and the long haired, tree hugging hippies to sit back and play armchair general, but until you've seen it first hand for yourself in the real world, you don't know both sides of the story. Bracketing name-calling generalizes a very valid motive for actions and destroys the original meaning of a protestor's objective; just as with soldiers, bad apples spoil the bunch. Not all anti-war folks are "long-haired, tree hugging hippies" or stoners. Calling people these names is the same as calling a soldier a murderer; it's making them seem less credible to aid one side of the argument and to demoralize the other. As far as I see things, all generals are armchair generals. Yeah, real ones make decisions. However, I have yet to see one pick up a gun and get into the fray with the rest of his men on the front lines. Pics or it didn't happen. "Heroic general" is an oxymoron. And again, with respect to soldiers, I still don't see any reason why innocents should pay the price for something they didn't sign up for. If you had the choice as to how your home town (filled with your family and your loved ones) would be overrun, would you personally choose a nuclear attack or a strategic one?

My piece: No disrespect to soldiers, because I do respect them, but I am not as quick to call them heroes; they signed up, it's their job, they do it and try to do it well. I'm not saying there aren't heroes among them, but it's not very logical to put them all under the same brand. For example, sitting behind a desk in Saddam's palace pushing papers somehow got someone in my area that title, and I've spent all of my time in high school in his classroom. He's racist and sexist. What's worse, he teaches a class full of impressionable Freshmen and is legally allowed to state his sexist and racist beliefs; trust me, I've looked up the California education code for reasons to report and nail this guy, to no avail. Members of uniformed services are exempt from laws barring teachers from being overtly vicious in stating their bigotry. I refuse to call this retired Army colonel a "hero". I'd rather see him shot. NOT for his history or previous occupation, mind you, but for his actions and my observations of his pompous, assenine behavior. Aside from the conceited sort, the only soldiers I refuse to even consider calling heroes are those who willingly bomb or attack civilian targets. It's quite simple to say "no" to missions such as those. Yes, someone else takes your place, but if everyone decided to not harm innocents, it wouldn't happen. Ever since WWI, it has been seen as "legitimate" by Western governments to have certain measures of collateral damage. Hiroshima/Nagasaki were prime examples of the United States blatantly killing civilians in order to end a war. Not a pretty sight. People still suffer from the radiation. People willing to fight for what they believe in? Yeah, sure. Heroic enough, but only if they know why they're fighting. I -NEVER- call a soldier evil, despite my outright despisal of warfare. To sum up my feelings effectively: I judge the individual, and not the group. To judge a group for the actions of a few is to generalize and demean those who actually mean something to the world. Opinions have ways of dipping into politics even when it's not even centered around such, both intentionally and unintentionally. Calling someone a tree hugger or a hippie is just as harsh as being called a hawk or a right-wing fascist; I'm leaving my own politics out of this one, and I tried my best to refrain from name-calling without undermining my feelings. EDIT: Second disclaimer: No, I didn't trim any of this up to be politically correct; it is what it is, these are my opinions, solid and true. Make of it what you will.

OH MY GODFKFVIHVIYTDIHGVI. KANAKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Missed you, dude. Srsly. You've got a lot of friends here.

Everyone, for bearing with me as I bitch and moan about not being able to log in and stand among you guys.

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*Whispers.* Luuuurdcakes... Nice to see you here, Kastrenzo. Geez, all the cool people from Mercz end up coming to Ordo. ;)