There are a lot of reddit posts about the extensive admin intervention that occured while you were not online, but I figured I would try to give you a comprehensive summary of what happened and pose some questions that are central to the issues.

Some hours after we were unbanned and the vault was broken, 12 or so members of our group had rallied(with Gordge's forces finally joined with ours we were poised to begin putting our enemies in a fresh vault) I was not present in the fights, but my understanding is that a fight with some "World Police" ensued, during which nimajneb3 and 3 other players on their side were pearled despite superior numbers, and these pearls were then brought to our vault at the edge of the world and placed in it.

A few minutes later the following administrative interventions occurred: (And rather interestingly the "evidence" for X-ray is supposedly only discussed and bans dealt out many hours after the vault situation was viewed in detail, yet mere minutes after a victory for our forces.)

1.)The following players were banned by operator(to my best understanding):

TravisSupreme, prerequisite, ApacheBlitz, Ezziot, Russian_Roulette, Richard_T,Yakman1, Gordge, and all accounts associated with any of these accounts.

2.)All the people who were freed from Foofed's vault were re-pearled by Exultant.

3.)Exultant then went to our vault and freed all 4 players pearled in our vault.

A post was then made by Tactful explaining that all this was done because he thought he had evidence that X-ray was used, while not providing any clarification about why he thinks this is the case. This is strange because you have said in the past that the burden of proof is on the accuser for X-ray cases, and that an accusation protocol must be followed before any bans:

Unless someone makes an official accusation thread I don't get involved and you do not have to worry about being banned.

-ttk2 regarding X-ray

He later discusses world downloader as another possibility, but it seems clear to me that by the wording of the rules that using world downloader to gain information about the map on another server is not disallowed in the first place or that if it was disallowed under the X-ray clause the formalities should be the same.

Another strange thing is that so many accounts were banned when only a single account could possibly be strongly implicated in the case that there was evidence for x-ray.

Stranger still was Exultant's choice to free all the individuals we had in our vault even though that not all of those involved in killing them had any relation to the earlier vault events.

I am hoping you can weigh in detail on whether you think sufficient evidence of X-ray or world downloader use exists to ban any or all of the players banned and whether you think all the other interventions could possibly be justified even in the event that strong evidence of X-ray use did exist.

There are some important questions that arise from this:

1.) Is there a precedent for banning players for the use of world downloader to explore/modify parts of the map on a different server(i.e. scouting while avoiding PvP, or practicing a vault attack or to count vault thickness, etc.)?

2.) Is there a precedent or decent reason for banning more than 10 accounts in an X-ray or world downloader case where at most one account can be implicated?

3.) Is there a precedent or decent reason for reversing all pearlings or unpearlings which may have even the weakest causal relation with a particular illegal use of world downloader or X-ray?

I am still interested in continuing to play on this server if these matters can be resolved, as I and others have had a great time excluding this unwanted administrative turmoil in the past two days. Also we would like to proceed with the in-game historical developments that were underway.