My Life as a PTOer PART 1
Manong Z
Jofroi recently published an article about his story and his rise to power. In it, he claims that "[he] and [his] friends have finally been able to get rid of most of the ATOers and took control of the country" after the long political battle that ensued after the liberation of Flanders in the New Era. However, I'd like to present a different story.
Since I am no longer an active member of this community, and my previous involvement was all in the past, I have decided to write about my story as a PTOer, yes as a PTOer, perhaps the most successful PTOer eBelgium has ever seen. I also realize that it really no longer matters at this point, and the statute of limitations should have already run over for my crimes, if there were indeed any.
It is a story that I have kept for so long, and a story only very few know. So here goes my unadulterated tell-all of what really happened during “The Beginning of a New Era”.
The Great Umbrella Enterprise (that no longer exists, tehee)
I was born in the eUSA. There, I managed to become a member of the Umbrella Corporation that held a small but significant amount of political power. Its leaders, Don Keedick and Drake Koeth, were wealthy business owners who held a slew of successful companies and enormous amounts of gold. With their financial capability, not only were they able to make the Umbrella Research Party a viable political force, they were able to recruit many people to do their bidding. I was one of those people.
I started out as a mere low-level Umbrella spy. I was stationed in the eUK, and my primary objective was information gathering. I also did a little bit of political sabotage in some small political parties. Indeed, such affairs were petty and most utterly insignificant; however, through them, I was able to rise up through the ranks of the Umbrella Corp., later becoming the Director of Foreign Recruits, and ultimately an Elder, the highest rank below the CEO.
The Restructuring of Umbrella
Like most organizations, and many small nations in eRepublik, Umbrella was having a hard time with member-retention. We had a network of spies, but only few were actually active in intel gathering, most just wanted the affiliation to Umbrella due to its popularity in real-life. As Director of Foreign Recruits, I was in charge, among other things, of finding new ways to increase member-retention.
At this time, Umbrella’s political wing, the Umbrella Research Party was also losing members. Don Keedick, the founder, also went into inactivity without sharing the passwords to Umbrella-owned organizations that held most of Umbrella’s accounts to the other Directors. Fortunately, with the dedication of Drake Koeth, the new CEO, Umbrella was able to barely survive.
But with dwindling resources and man-power, Umbrella was doomed to fail.
The Belgian Invasion (That’s right!)
Around the time of the restructuring of Umbrella, EDEN (formerly Atlantis) was planning to liberate eBelgium from its union with eNetherlands to prop a puppet government. This operation was carried out by the Romanian group called The Group, and eUSA’s American Seal Team 6 led by Rod Damon. I, of course, got a wind about this.
Thinking of Umbrella’s future, I approached the board of Directors and proposed that Umbrella should also take advantage of the coming invasion. Though Umbrella was in a decline, we still had sufficient manpower and resources to pull off a political take-over. We also will not have to spend a dime in funding the resistance as EDEN will be doing that.
The plan was simple. As changes in game mechanics concerning citizenship at this time were not yet made, one was able to easily become a citizen of a newly liberated nation. Thus, once EDEN liberates Flanders at their expense, Umbrella forces were to sweep in, and gain a strong political presence in eBelgium. If Umbrella were to divert the majority of its manpower to this operation, eBelgium could effectively become Umbrella’s very own puppet state. With this control, Umbrella could easily plunder eBelgium and add funds to the declining Umbrella accounts. In addition, EDEN would also not be so butt-hurt about it since Umbrella was aligned to the eUSA. In fact, they may even let us keep eBelgium and support Umbrella’s control over the nation as such aligned to EDEN’s interests.
The Board of Directors, however, were skeptical to change. The recent restructuring of the enterprise made them weary of overextending our dwindling resources. Thus, they were incapable of taking risks. However, I was not discouraged. I was certain that this was the only way for Umbrella to survive. Umbrella can easily gain a lot of money by plundering eBelgium’s treasury and future tax incomes. The novelty and excitement of the invasion will also increase member-retention. Still, the Board of Directors refused.
But I was insistent. Thus, I formed my own invading force. As Director of Foreign Recruits, I was able to gather a few of the new recruits, among them are people that the eBelgian community has grown and loved over the years namely M.Leviathin (who will later become the last CEO of Umbrella) and RayCaptain.
However, little did we know that our aspirations of plunder will soon turn to love and dedication to the very nation that we hoped to conquer.
PART 2 COMING SOON!
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P.S. M.Leviathin joined my efforts to just troll around, and RayCaptain joined later on (though still under the shade of the already-obsolete Umbrella).
Comments
This is unreal ...
SX80's ancestor lives!
interesting story
Cool stuff, waiting for pt.II
directly from the other world 😮
he's back :?
Interesting read 🙂
subscribed because I like to read about eHistory
Interesting read, but there are a couple of facts that I don't agree with 😛.
Although it's true that you didn't acted ill and wanted to help eBelgium, what you did was NOT an ATO.
eBelgium had previously voluntarily merged with the eNetherlands and the union was fine (even if there were internal political struggles, like everywhere). Both RL belgians and RL dutch were living together and no RL belgian ever asked to break the United Netherlands. As a matter of fact, the Belgian Party was the major party of the United Netherlands and we had several presidents.
However, the United Netherlands joined Phoenix and a group of Romanian decided to make this split through resistance war. The only people who wanted this to succeed were EDEN people and definitely not the people who lived on the eBelgian territory.
If anything, I'd call it the biggest PTO of history and not the biggest ATO.😁
And btw, my article was a troll in case you didn't notice😁
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In my opinion, the ATOers were PEACE and EDEN was the PTOer. But this is because the eUNL (Belgium + Netherlands) was a PEACE country and therefore the guys on the other side called them PTOers (and vice versa😁).
In the newly created eBelgium, there were no real PTOers and ATOers, but two different sides trying to take the control of the country. And those sides split not into pro EDEN/Pro Phoenix factions but more depending on the political attitude of the persons that were mostly acting in the eBelgian interest.
However, in the article I indeed reffered of the EDEN forces as ATO forces, but that was only because shadow was a part of them and I wanted to say that Shadow lost (and didn't want to enter into much detail in that article which is why I didn't said the things properly😁).
Jofroi, I know that your article was troll. But I ultimately got confused when you referred to the EDEN forces as ATO and that made my recollection of past terms blurry. I knew that the spirit of your article was to troll, but I assumed that you were using legitimate terms.
I thought about it, and I thought that EDEN called themselves ATO to legitimize their invasion, as they propagandized that PEACE was the one doing the PTO. I was going to explain this in the next part, but I guess Im wrong about that. 😣 My memory about the terminology used is not very good.
Anyways, I actually wrote PTOer in the first draft, but your article threw me off. Darn you! 😛
If you write that you were a PTOer, then I'm fine with the article 😛.
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Nice article, thank you for sharing your info. I knew it somehow there are more foreign spies sleepers active in eBelgium, and it just proves my suspicion.
Some of them already left eBelgium.
Stop stealing our citizens 😛.
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"Stop stealing our citizens"
In the name of the God; how did I steal "YOUR" citizens?!?
I maybe only helped them little bit making their decision for departure faster.
And they just took first early Thalys train at the Brussels Midi Station and passed the Channel with the speed of the light, and there they were at the Waterloo Station, London UK. 😛
I put my seal on their skin so they're officially my multies!
Oh my oh my, I would`ve expected everything, but to hear that Jofroi is multi account Lord; the one who really controls eBelgium behind the scenes is really shocking. I am quite surprised and stunned. But it´s all normal and it just explains how Jofroi is paying for our MPP-s from his pocket, by robbing his multi accounts for the gold. That`s it, after confessing his PTO-er now his new confession; where this old world is going, I don´t know, I don't know...
i remember this time. Do you remember how much time i took to trust in you. I sent you mails where i said you : You are ptoer : )
maybe you changed your view when you begun to have belgium in your heart.
Rod with his special message in newspaper : i endorse this message
Kylero was there too.
We need time to trust in several persons. Few weeks after, i knew you wasn't bad, but a nice person who wanted the justice. You know how much i love you on the game superMouse ^.^
I love you too Ely! You've become one of my greatest friends!
but before i really gave you difficulties here. I was so bad sometimes. Thanks to be here. I missed your articles.
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One day, I'll also tell my life as a PTOer.
But first, I've got to find the way to the political module.
Hard to find, been looking for quite some time now 😉