By Calvin Coolidge and Sopo
After nearly two weeks of scrutiny, the tenure of the beleaguered Minister of Recruitment Bri Shakespeare abruptly ended last night when First Minister Pichtonia announced Bri would be fired following a “significant breach” in his duty. Pichtonia stated he would not go into the details publically, but would let any First Minister candidates know what had occurred so they have more information when making their Cabinet choices. Despite several calls for the information to be made public, Pichto has yet to relent as of press time.
Theories abound as to what the significant breach might be, including the inactivity and lack of public transparency that had been subject to a Grand Hall thread and ENN op-ed, but since that was all public knowledge, there must have been something more that Pichto wasn't telling us about. Going off the clue that Bri had done something significant in his duty as Minister of Recruitment, I went to the recruitment reports for “redberrie” (Bri's nation) to investigate.
From there, things became pretty clear. For October 25th, the only day of his term that he recruited, there were several suspicious timestamps for his recruitment telegrams, including several that were sent within one second of each other and some sent on the very same second. For those unfamiliar with recruiting, every nation has a “cooldown period” during which they cannot send any telegrams while manual recruiting. This cooldown is shorter the larger your nation is, but caps at five seconds. Now, recruiting in this manner for one day is bad enough, but it seems that this is a pattern for Bri, as I have found similarly suspicious timestamps dating back to August 9th, and nearly every day he has recruited since then. So, clearly there was some foul play, and potentially, a violation of Europeian law.
Under the Criminal Code, section fourteen, subsection v, “falsely reporting, or causing software tools to falsely report, a telegram count to be included in official government records or processes is guilty of the offense of Unlawful Interference with Recruitment or Welcoming under this law and liable to a punishment at judicial discretion not exceeding an eight (8) month ban.”
Clearly, there is more investigative work to be done by Europeia here to find out the exact nature of these suspicious telegram numbers, but the case seems pretty cut and dry: we've found the significant breach Pichtonia was talking about.
Bri's Entire Recruitment History
After nearly two weeks of scrutiny, the tenure of the beleaguered Minister of Recruitment Bri Shakespeare abruptly ended last night when First Minister Pichtonia announced Bri would be fired following a “significant breach” in his duty. Pichtonia stated he would not go into the details publically, but would let any First Minister candidates know what had occurred so they have more information when making their Cabinet choices. Despite several calls for the information to be made public, Pichto has yet to relent as of press time.
Theories abound as to what the significant breach might be, including the inactivity and lack of public transparency that had been subject to a Grand Hall thread and ENN op-ed, but since that was all public knowledge, there must have been something more that Pichto wasn't telling us about. Going off the clue that Bri had done something significant in his duty as Minister of Recruitment, I went to the recruitment reports for “redberrie” (Bri's nation) to investigate.
From there, things became pretty clear. For October 25th, the only day of his term that he recruited, there were several suspicious timestamps for his recruitment telegrams, including several that were sent within one second of each other and some sent on the very same second. For those unfamiliar with recruiting, every nation has a “cooldown period” during which they cannot send any telegrams while manual recruiting. This cooldown is shorter the larger your nation is, but caps at five seconds. Now, recruiting in this manner for one day is bad enough, but it seems that this is a pattern for Bri, as I have found similarly suspicious timestamps dating back to August 9th, and nearly every day he has recruited since then. So, clearly there was some foul play, and potentially, a violation of Europeian law.
Under the Criminal Code, section fourteen, subsection v, “falsely reporting, or causing software tools to falsely report, a telegram count to be included in official government records or processes is guilty of the offense of Unlawful Interference with Recruitment or Welcoming under this law and liable to a punishment at judicial discretion not exceeding an eight (8) month ban.”
Clearly, there is more investigative work to be done by Europeia here to find out the exact nature of these suspicious telegram numbers, but the case seems pretty cut and dry: we've found the significant breach Pichtonia was talking about.
Bri's Entire Recruitment History
