The founding of Nox was the end of an era - a transition from the aggressiveness of Libertas into a state with the intention of upholding rule of law and internal sovereignty.

The time for change has come again.

Nox will be trading perfect fairness for a bit of flexibility, mainly that we will do what we think is needed to eliminate external threats, rules lawyers be damned. No appeal to public opinion is going to change our actions. No amount of arguing is going to get you released if we have already decided otherwise. Punishments will be arbitrary and entirely based upon how much we like you and whether it benefits us.

Demands for justification will go unanswered, not because we have none but because we no longer have the patience for it. The challenge of transparency is not explaining your reasoning once, it's explaining it a thousand times, where each person fails to read the last explanation and demands their own, in their own terms.

This thread is the last time any member of Nox will be engaging with this subreddit or the forums in any official capacity.

Thank you to all of the people who understood and defended our actions in the past. Obviously we do not think our current actions have been consistent with those, and will not ask you to consider them in the same vein. This new direction is the result of a conscious decision by the group, made in the last few weeks. It was not the original intent. I am sorry if any of you feel deceived or misled.

To our allies: you are formally released of any treaty obligations to us. We will continue to uphold ours to you for as long as you may want it.

To everyone else: wars are coming. If you are not our enemy, don't make yourself into one. And if you plan on arguing over what qualifies as an enemy then you should refer to previous paragraphs. Retaliation may not be swift, but it will be guaranteed, prolonged, and extremely gratuitous. Individuals who get involved, know that you are doing so at the cost of your entire city's neutrality. You may believe you are doing the right thing. You might even be right. Whether that's worth painting a target on your friends is up to you.