Subject: THE TAKEOVER OF PLSH As President of the United States, I stand before you to explain what happened to PLSH this week. This is not only about me. It is about the core team that built PLSH, and the members who were pushed out of it. Every time below comes from the PLSH alliance log. Any R4 can check it. The People Who Kept PLSH Running PLSH did not run itself while Chaptu was away. A small core team did the work, for free. Sun ran rank tracking, Canyon Clash, city paths, Glory War picks, VS push days, and our relationships with your alliances in the vote chat. DwH has recruited and enforced our rules since day one. Oso, Hao, MASSE and TheGuild covered rallies, SvS strategy, alliance research and Glory War. And many members fought every Buster Day and every SvS without asking for anything. On October 26, I chose an R4 team based on who did that work. It was working. That same day, while Sun and Rambro50 were in conflict, the Hiyooo account changed its name to "Blackmail". The alliance log records it under that name when I promoted it to R4 at 14:12. It has since changed back to Hiyooo. What Happened Nov 3, 15:47: After Glory War, Ediva was removed by DwH for repeatedly criticizing our R4s in alliance chat, something he had done many times before. At 21:28, one R4 let him back in without the rest of the team agreeing. Ten minutes later, Sun left. Nov 4, 10:54: I was at work. My game was logged in, so I showed as online, but I was not at the screen. DAVYM206 asked me to make him R4. At 10:58, four minutes later, he left the alliance. While he was gone, he attacked my base. Nov 4, 12:00: The Hiyooo account let him back in. That account is no longer played by Hiyooo. It is played by Killer Whale (KW) of State 394, our next SvS opponent. KW confirmed this to me himself on November 1. I gave DAVYM206 R4 in good faith to calm things down. In the next 15 minutes, he: 12:04 - let Ediva back in 12:10 - brought in ChillinVamp, a player Sun had issues with 12:11 - removed Chaptu, the founder of PLSH None of it was discussed with me or the R4 team. I told him directly that Sun would leave if Ediva came back. His answer was that she should just ignore him. He called this making it right. It did the opposite. Sun had made it clear she could not work with Ediva back in the alliance or ChillinVamp brought in, and Chaptu's removal was the last straw. At 14:37, she left. The person who kept PLSH's back end running was gone. Earlier that afternoon, DAVYM206 had asked me to give his R4 seat to Rambro50, the player I had rotated out of R4 on October 26 because of his conflict with Sun. By the time I got to it, Sun was already gone, and it felt like a moot point. At 14:59 I promoted Rambro. I knew she would never have accepted it. DAVYM206 never gave up his own seat. An hour later, Rambro wrote in our leadership group chat: "We both are R4 my friend 😉😉😉". DAVYM206 still held his seat the next day. Nov 4, 18:11: He accepted Officer Shock, the player the alliances of 395 agreed to ban on October 29. The next morning he removed him again. The Cost In less than 24 hours, PLSH lost Sun, Kappasugi, Zee88, Caílynn, Frollein Anne, Le-with-1E and Blůe. Fighters and longtime members. Not inactive accounts. Sun and Blůe have come back. Others have told me they are leaving this weekend. By DAVYM206's own count, PLSH lost about 1 billion power. In one afternoon, the man who built PLSH was removed, the people who ran it were pushed out, and its leadership was overruled. That is not a disagreement. That is a takeover. What PLSH Stood For PLSH was never the strongest alliance because of one account. We were strong because we were coordinated, we showed up for each other, and we had fun doing it. Somewhere along the way we drifted from that. We became hungry to stay on top at any cost, and we let in people who did not share what PLSH stood for. Being the strongest means nothing when we are not coordinated. When every week becomes win or the end of the world, the game stops being fun and people burn out. This is not the same PLSH it was when Chaptu was here. People who gave this alliance years of their time are walking away, and that should matter to all of us. We are losing our integrity as the alliance we once were, and I will not stand by while it happens. Chaptu Chaptu built PLSH. He gave me the opportunity to serve. He led with patience and kindness, and nearly everyone on this server respects him. His seat was being held for his return. Whether or not he comes back, he earned the right to hold that seat. Removing him in the middle of chaos was a serious disrespect, to him and to everyone who followed him. The Path Forward As R5 of PLSH, I have: Removed DAVYM206 from PLSH. Restored the R4 team as it was before November 4. Invited Chaptu back. His seat is his whenever he returns. No player, no matter how much he spends, gets to take over an alliance he did not build. To Every Alliance This is a PLSH decision, not a state rule, and I am not asking anyone to take sides. I ask every R5 on 395 for one thing: respect each alliance's decisions about its own members, the way PLSH has always respected yours. To everyone who left PLSH this week: the door is open. To everyone who stayed: thank you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -Imwrong