As a formal request, the Sovereignty would humbly like to request another chance against the Galactic Empire, in their invasion against them.



To initialize our repertoire of arguments and concerns, our first issue and concern is that we were stonewalled, stalled, and deliberately impeded by sheer unwillingness to complete a story that encompassed the efforts of all of the Sovereignty staff and Galactic Empire Staff (That were all completely absent from the invasion) from progressing the story past 100 posts. The Sovereignty went into this invasion, completely, with the hearts and minds of the defenders in mind. As is evident in former faction owner Varik Ice's rationale:



 [spoiler='Evidence']https://i.imgur.com/R0jvc9x.png[/spoiler]


This discord message comes from the very earliest onset of the invasion, where you could see a manifold number of Sovereignty posts within the first 24 hours, before you saw any posts from the Galactic Empire. We did not want to run them over. The Sovereignty might've hit a hundred posts from their 95 if Varik Ice had not called for the halt, since in the early onset of January it's evident in the post frequency of the Sovereignty was much higher, as they were much more inspired and had higher muse. You can visibly see that this decision was met with counter arguments, before Varik Ice/Bronzy had overturned his decision a day later, until he saw at least 2-3 GE posts. In that time, with the Sovereignty's heightened muse, five posts could've easily had been cranked out.



However, this drop in activity, on the part of the Sovereignty, as is evident in the final days of posting, happened very much so for a number of reasons.



Number 1: the lack of attendance from any Galactic Empire admins to add to a cohesive, interesting story for the Sovereignty and for the Galactic Empire, while the Sovereignty made clear efforts to establish a story, as was evident in Varik Ice's opening post that provided a solid foundation for the Galactic Empire to retaliate, yet the Sovereignty was met with no such over-arching, big picture storyline on the part of the Empire. This demoralized us; they demoralized. Through their sheer unwillingness to help carve a cohesive story with us, our muse was curbed. We are neither the First Order nor the Galactic Alliance in terms of size. There are not that many of us. We are good, transparent people who simply want to roleplay with a reasonable, fair, active opposition that we were not provided.