The Fathoms Below
The Fathoms Below was the Delegate of the South Pacific from 18 June 2003 until at the latest 2 July 2003.
The XYZ Affair gained the delegacy through a game glitch around 13 June and immediately began ejecting nations. The South Pacific mounted a resistance that managed to place The Fathoms Below in the delegacy. The Fathoms Below unbanned all nations that The XYZ Affair had banned and ejected The XYZ Affair [1].
During their delegacy, The Fathoms Below encouraged endo-swapping and allowed nations such as Desert Rose to come close to the delegacy, seeing this as democracy[2]. By June 25 the World Factbook Entry read:
Greetings from TFB. I am on vacation currently and can only get to my computer sporadically. If I dont answer your telegram please telegram me again. I hope all is well! www.TheSouthPacific.host.sk
After three days of inactivity[3], on approximately 2 July[4], The Fathoms Below ejected all nations endorsing them and then their own nation [5]. Some accounts state that The XYZ Affair had secretly hacked into The Fathoms Below and was attempting to frame Atlantic Central Command; others claim that The Fathoms Below changed the World Factbook Entry to proclaim they had been hacked by The XYZ Affair; some suspected The Fathoms Below of staging the hacking[6]. They were succeeded as delegate by Alpha C.
References
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20030623155217/http://thesouthpacific.host.sk:80/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=2
- ↑ https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thespacific/martial-law-t406-s10.html#p7010
- ↑ https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thespacific/goddessness-t4141-s40.html#p117459
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20030628104212/http://www.nationstates.net:80/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_nation/nation=the_fathoms_below
- ↑ https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/thespacific/viewtopic.php?p=16959#p16959
- ↑ http://archive.nswiki.org/index.php?title=The_XYZ_Affair