The Porn Spammers
More in depth or less in depth? I'll post one of each. The first being the more in depth version of the key players and events of porn & forum destruction of 2010. This is what occured within the TUK-NBE-UK triangle and their spheres of influence.
Part of the TUK-NBE-UK triangle series.
The first time I met Sephion IV and his friend Pietro Vidaurri was in The Walbard Union, a region I had originally joined when I came back to Nationstates. It had been founded by then Prime Minister of TUK, Carlisle Callaway. Sephion was the heir to the throne in The United Kingdom and wanted me to be his wife (his first words) and come over. I only really got active in The United Kingdom when King Edward IX (PASD) abdicated and Sephion IV became King. Pietro was different, a player involved in and who had positions in many regions. He was very stretched out.
There was fear in both regions and indeed, in many. The United Kingdom had been attacked by porn spammers and so would The Walbard Union. Claiming responsibility for one of the attacks was "Zero", a supposed member of the AC. The account was promptly banned. But it didn't stop there, The United Kingdom would continue to be attacked every so often (over 3 times I believe) with Maxwell Callaway and John Franklin often receiving personal messages containing porn. It was truly disgusting given how young Maxwell was. Security became tighter and tighter, with every step in becoming a member of the forums made more difficult.
I didn't realize this, but becoming an admin with IR and PASD was alot of work. There was a responsibility to stop the spammers and you were constantly afraid that they were going to strike again (PASD told me after TUK fell, that he was kinda relieved because he no longer would have to stay up late stressing about an attack). Which they would and we still had no idea who was behind the attacks, but I was told by a friend that Zero had never attacked TUK and that Zero had merely let his name be used as a front for those who actually committed the acts. The truth seemed so close yet always just out of our reach.
When Sephion joined the New Britannian Empire with Pietro, it also got attacked. What that proved to us was that NBE was not in fact responsible for the attacks on The United Kingdom. Looking back it seems very obvious who was part of it. There had been rumours before that Sephion had ties to the AC and had even told PASD that he was part of it a long time in early summer. But, Sephion was a serial liar as well as incompetent and a bit of a coward. It just didn't seem possible. But then the impossible happened when another forum got destroyed, that of United Kingdoms and while unfortunate gave me a chance to hopefully find out more about it. I was very surprised when I found out that Sephion IV had been the Monarch of UK.
It was then that things started to click, that every region that had been attacked was one where Sephion had been in. Indeed, Sephion admitted that he knew who destroyed United Kingdom's forums but wouldn't say. I confronted him and he told me that he had founded the AC (I'm calling BS) before moving on in NS. He had tried to get away from them but we hurt him in TUK and were never his real friends. Not like the AC, who respected him. He would never betray them for us and unfortunately, United Kingdom couldn't figure out who "them" were.
It turns out, that they were on the wrong track and couldn't figure it out. When they were pushed in the right direction it turned out that the only person who could get the proof they needed to solve the case had left the game. Luck, evidently was not on our side. Or so we thought.
Next Time on PFA: Finding the person responsible and their influence in future regional affairs. As well as the after effects: including, the current accusations of treason in United Kingdom, the Coup in TUK, UKB's gamble and Fominovsk.
Potential and known timeline issues: Unfortunately, while I have a knack for remembering events and details I often have issues remembering their order. For example, I did meet Sephion when I first came to TWU but I'm not sure about Pietro which might have been when I helped out in it's re-founding. In which case, a couple porn attacks had happened before I met him. Actually, thinking about it I'm almost sure that was the case.
What I'm also not sure about is when Sephion's confessions on his role happened. Which did happen, I think the night we found out (just before) is when he said it. But it's also possible that he said it earlier but we didn't believe him. Both make strong cases in my mind and unfortunately, the confirmation of one or the other is on the TUK forums which are offline.
Fun and Random Facts: The name "Walbard" is a combination of the words "wall" and "cupboard".
Sephion is also known as Richard and Alexander, and is the son of Lady Jane Grey. In the past was a Windsor along with PASD. All his names have different roman numerals, Sephion IV, Richard VIII and Alexander III (I think those are all right).
Pietro is also a Grey and was known as Peter Grey in UK. Often uses cute avvies.
I have nothing against Greys
Carlisle Callaway was part of the Callaway brothers, a family that also included Maxwell and Edward. He is now known as Henry Tudor and Maxwell is known as Christian Tudor.
Edward Callaway is also known as Fliyan >.<
King Edward IX is also known as PASD (can anyone guess what that stands for?) and for a time was known as Asher Anumia.
I've had 5 different first names, 3 of which were only used in my first few months as a NSer. (Isla, Swift, Fiona, Katherine & Rachel). The reason I haven't changed my name in EoE to Rachel is because I made a promise to not bug them anymore for name changes.
The AC stands for something (it starts with an A, but I forget) Combine.
IR is Imperialist Royalists, who confessed during an interview that he is neither an Imperialist or a Royalist. He's brilliant, awesome and amazing but unfortunately an Anumia (make of that as you will :emb: )
