EPN Policy Change

Greetings to you all,

My friends on Vector had the pleasure of me going through this with them, however you all get the benefit to read this through at your own pace.

It's about time something concrete was set up to determine how factions can join EPN. There's been a few different ways in the past, yet now we've set this up as a more uniform route for factions. Anyway, the specifcs are as follows:

HOW A FACTION CAN PROVE THEIR WORTH

Each faction will be set the following 3 tasks to complete. Depending on the personal style of that faction, they can do more or less of each task, to the agreement of their EPN Liaison. However, they must have evidence that they've done each 3 tasks to some degree.

1. Attacks conducted on Enemies

There are a lot of people who do not support our cause and are more than willing to make us aware of that fact. The Cypherites have always been our main opposition, yet there's always the Machine organisation as a whole and of course the Merovingian has no love for us.

How a faction goes about this can be two fold. Firstly, this can be outright combat kills against these hostile groups. For that, your EPN Liaison Officer will require time stamped images to back your claims. However, we're also aware that not everyone likes to go beating up other operatives every minute of the day. For those who prefer a more vocal option, your EPN Liaison will accept chat recordings of conversations you've had with hostile groups, with you strongly supporting EPN views and ideals.

2. Finding potential bluepills

With the war waging in full once more, it's more important now than ever before to free those from the system who want out. You will find that there's an ever growing list of bluepills in the Matrix that we've picked up on who are ready to be awakened to what the Matrix is. What your EPN Liaison Officer will provide the faction with is basic information on the potential (name and where to find them). It will then be the factions job to get to know the bluepill, earn their trust and eventually arrange an extraction of the bluepill once they believe they're ready to be given the red pill. I want to personally make a point here that I want no hassling of the bluepill, they're not going to trust you like that. I equally want it shown that EPN do not force people into taking red pills. It's a free choice that all deserve.

Again, your EPN Liaison will require chat recordings off the faction, as well as any time stamped images to back up what they pass on about their progress with the potential.

3. Explaining what EPN means to them

This will be done on both an individual basis and also a main faction grouping. Your EPN Liaison will talk with the faction wanting to join EPN and ask them to explain to him/her what it means for them to join EPN. Naturally, we know that each operatives reasons can and probably will be different from the next, which is why when a faction joins that we want to speak to as many members of that faction as possible.

When the EPN Liaison speaks to your faction leader, they will discuss not only their personal beliefs but also where that leader wants to take their faction within our organisation.

As with the other points, chat recordings will be made by your EPN Liaison during these meetings.

How the tasks will be documented

As soon as a faction applies to become a part of our organisation, you'll notice a thread pop up on your respective instance discussion boards. For example, Sons of Liberty are going to be the first faction on Vector to try this, so their thread will be, "Proving their worth: Sons of Liberty."

Within this will be all the documentation that your EPN Liaison will obtain off that faction as they go about the tasks set to them. All the chat recordings, the images and anything else, will all be put in here for all to see. This will be so that existing factions can see the work that the faction is going through.

Anyone is free to comment within these threads, however I must warn you about any abuse some people may feel the urge to put on their because they see an image of their butt being handed to them in Mara. Seriously though, you are free to post on these if you keep it to a respectable manner.

The Formal ceremony

Now, once all these tasks have been completed to the satisfaction of your EPN Liaison, a date will be set for a formal ceremony to confirm that faction to all as now being EPN.

What will happen here is that an invite is sent out to all existing factions from your EPN Liaison, stating that they will be required to attend (in as many operatives as are available) a meeting in a weeks time from when you receive the invite.

The leader then has to swear on behalf of the faction, in front of all existing factions, that they'll do their upmost to fight for EPN and they believe in the ideals and the path that Neo had set out before us and that they will carry on his work in the Matrix.

With everyone present, the liaison can request if anyone present has any legitimate reason that the faction should now not be welcomed into EPN. If all goes to plan, there shouldn't be but if someone's been burning to say that someone in the faction who want to join has a really bad attitude, then they're free to say so in that situation.

Once all of this has gone through, your EPN Liaison will sign off on your application and pass all the documentation over to Michael to confirm you as an EPN faction. Your EPN insignia will usually come online within a week from this point.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read through this. If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to contact your EPN Liaison Officer and they'll be able to go through any of the finer points.

Equally, you are free to discuss this policy change in this thread.

For Neo,

Khepril

EPN Liaison Officer - Vector instance

The first benchmark through which potential EPN factions can prove their worth is an act, or acts of violence.

How fitting.

((Very nice, there should certainly be better 'vetting procedures' for such things))

The first benchmark through which potential EPN factions can prove their worth is an act, or acts of violence.

How fitting.

They're not in any particular order, this is just how they originally popped into being (mainly due to my current mild obsession of stalking around Mara C).

Like I said though, not every faction has to do every tiny detail, just so long as they do cover the 3 tasks set out for them.

To show that you are ready to live by the words of the long dead broker of the Truce, the man whose actions resulted you being awakand, and alive?

Random acts of Violence.

The "leaders" of EPN, sicken me.

Is this "policy change" sanctioned by Michael?

We were always under the impression that if you had a strong enough belief in Neo and what he was trying to do for Peace, you were EPN.

Now there is an . . . application process?

Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Is this "policy change" sanctioned by Michael?

We were always under the impression that if you had a strong enough belief in Neo and what he was trying to do for Peace, you were EPN.

Now there is an . . . application process?

Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

EPN being... organized?

Unheard of.

Back when the sub-orgs were formed, there were puzzles to be solved before a faction could acquire the tags. That has faded away. I like Khepril's idea of creating something to add to the prestige of joining this organization.

Is this "policy change" sanctioned by Michael?

We were always under the impression that if you had a strong enough belief in Neo and what he was trying to do for Peace, you were EPN.

Now there is an . . . application process?

Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

I'll throw that back at you. Do you think I'd put anything like this on here for everyone to see if it hadn't been checked?

This is something I designed that all EPN Liaisons had a chance to look over during a long length of time and equally Michael for that point, which was not questioned in terms of the logic of this.

As of this point, gone are the simple days of not even showing if your faction has what it takes to join EPN.

If your faction wishes to join, you contact your local EPN Liaison Officer and we'll take you from there.

Personally, I'm amazed that other groups just let you join regardless, yet maybe that's why Zion gets all messed up by Cypherite spies when EPN does not?

NightTrace wrote:

To show that you are ready to live by the words of the long dead broker of the Truce, the man whose actions resulted you being awakand, and alive?

Random acts of Violence.

The "leaders" of EPN, sicken me.

I rather doubt that YOU haven't commited random acts of violence to begin with, like 99% of the rest of the redpill population.

Those of you who are without sin, throw the first stone, no? You be sick of yourself then, no?

Shi+Xin+Feng wrote:

Is this "policy change" sanctioned by Michael?

We were always under the impression that if you had a strong enough belief in Neo and what he was trying to do for Peace, you were EPN.

Now there is an . . . application process?

Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

I think of the Kid's followers as those who were going to follow Morpheus anyways. There's a number of Redpills, such as Morpheus, who were declared enemies of Zion because of the fact that they jeopardized peace with their avid code-bombing routines. Any E Pluribus Neo who is not aware of this is surely driven by ulterior motives and using their affiliation as a temporary vessel for violence against the Machines (and bluepills) or misguided by their choice in organization.

Michael has ridden the coat-tails of his savior for a long time. I find his Redpill handle to be fitting of his immature characteristics. Leadership skills? Pfft.

(( Morpheus continued to fight the Machines despite all that Neo accomplished. He had a prejudice for them that would not end. He constantly found reasons to keep fighting. It's funny that the General created a simulacrum for Morpheus. I find that they have a lot in common, being soldiers without a war. Now we have war once again, though. I expect that we must not blame all of Zion for it, though. Kid was going down that route anyhow. ))

Perhaps that is true to an extent. But certainly, not all of us who follow Morpheus are in EPN quite obviously.

Although we sympathize with some of their goals, the mature and decisive leadership of Niobe and Ghost (not to mention loyalties that run deep), will always keep my faction Zion.

I can't really say that I don't agree with this "policy".  At the very least EPN is trying to implement standards they obviously didn't have before given the current body.

((/target roukan /jab /jab /jab))