So hi. It’s been a while hasn’t it?

I haven’t run for office in quite some time. In fact I’ve deliberately tried to keep my involvement in both domestic and interregional politics just because I didn’t want to deal with it. I’ve read the laws, read the arguments, decided on if I liked them and then voted. I’ve stayed quiet and comfortable in my quiet corner as SPSF General, admittedly blackballing my politics side other than the occasional post in NSGP. While I’ve interacted with everyone, in both GP and here in TSP, I’ve not truly been involved since my time as MoMA during the 2016 Great Council Government. But now I’m ready to come back. I’ve spent some time looking out from my corner, and have decided me sitting silent wasn’t doing anyone any good. So, let's get right to it then.

Experience outranks everything - I have played a leading role in SPSF for 3 years now since my appointment to General in May 2015. While SPSF had ups and downs throughout my time there, it has given me much in the way of understanding my role as a leader of an organization. During my service I’ve learned from countless others in other regions by observing, understanding how they operate, and then taking that and applying it within SPSF. I think those sorts of observational, planning, and leadership skills are what make both a good military officer and leader, and though the Foreign Minister is a civilian title, I’d like to see how I can use my skills that I’ve picked up over the years and apply them to an executive office.

No conflicts of interest - TSP always has been, and will be, my home. For 3 years, I’ve been an active member in TSP affairs, with everything from SPSF to the Legislature to TSP RP on my sleeve. Despite my short time in the NPO early on in my career and my current time as a resident of TRR(which, let’s be honest, every R/Der is at some point ), TSP is my first, and only real home on NS. And I think it’s quite clear in how I’ve stuck around: joining SPSF less than a month into my time here, sticking on as a General for (now) over 3 years, even my 6 month stint as MoMA after the Hileville coup, I’ve stuck around in times it would’ve been easy to leave. I’ve stuck around because I feel a strong sense of duty to a region and community that has stuck by me during my worst and best of times, even during times when I wasn’t there. I’ve brought that sense of duty with me to my Generalship, my time as MoMA during the Great Council Government, and I’ll bring it with me to the FA office.

Consuming Souls - As it was with my last political campaign, the reaping and consummation of souls must continue! In recent years, TSPers have outright failed to sacrifice to proper number of new players to the great [v] and our savior Max Barry! This failure cannot be allowed to continue. Upon my election, I will outright guarantee the continued sacrifice of new players to the great [v], who will continue to protect and favor TSP for the many years to come!

Primary FA Objectives

In Foreign Affairs, my first priority is continuing to support and work with our allies in TNP, TEP, TRR, the NPO, UDS, and Conch Kingdom. I’ve had a ton of experience working with people from all of those from both my time in SPSF and my time wallowing around the Discord-space, all of these regions are filled with people who’d love to work with us on anything from festivals to military operations, and I certainly look forward to working with these folks in a more formal way in a position as MoFA. With a number of events coming up during the summer and fall, like the Inter-Regional Games and (admittedly my personal favorite) N-Day, the MoFA will most certainly be working closely with both SPSF and the MoRA to maximize participation, and working closely with our allies to make sure all upcoming inter-regional/NS-wide events are a fantastic success!

Second, I’d like to continue pushing for the support of the Peacekeeping initiative in Lazarus. With the Entryist LWU government out of the picture thanks to Imki, once again we can finally look forward to the return of a locally run government in the Sinker. The Peacekeeper Initiative, I feel, is the pinnacle example of what GCRs can accomplish if we decide, just for a minute, to put aside our differences to do the right thing. I’d like to continue to see an expansion and potential formalization of an Interregional Peacekeeper Program, as an organization like that has clearly proved it’s worth in situations like Lazarus.

I think that this would initially take the form of an inter-regional council, who would discuss potential war-torn regions and whether the Peacekeepers would be necessary to ensure stability and native governance. I’ll be honest, I don’t think it will fix all the problems between the different GCR spheres, or that the Corps overall won’t sometimes feel useless. But, the idea itself is one born of idealism, and the hope for a better future, and I believe it’s formalization would serve well as an object to bring the GCRs together, and ensure stabilization both in Lazarus and give a chance for peace the potential intra-regional conflicts to come.

Third, I’d like to continue to capitalize on the expansion of TSP’s Ambassador Corps and Embassies. Over the last 8 months, we’ve seen a complete and successful return of the TSP Ambassador Corps under Tim, and that is something I would like to continue to push and capitalize on, by both reaching out to more regions for embassies, in turn allowing us to recruit more ambassadors for the Ambassador Corps. The Ambassador Corps often provides an excellent source for newer players to gain FA experience, and it allows us to keep a direct line with our friends and allies across NationStates.

Intra-Regional Affairs

Domestically, I’m going to continue the strong cooperation between the MoRA and MoFA branches. Both branches have seen a lot of great cooperation in the last year working together on festivals and celebration programs, reaching out to our friends and allies to help us celebrate events in the party capital of NationStates. I would like to continue to expand on this relationship, opening up TSP to more potential festivals, and the first idea that comes to mind for me would be a Science Fiction Festival. From Isaac Asimov to George Lucas to Gene Roddenberry to James S.A. Corey, fans of the Science Fiction/Science Fantasy have a massive variety of works and universes to delve into and discuss. If elected, I’d like to push for TSP to host an Inter-regional Sci-Fi Festival to help celebrate the works of all the vast amount futuristic and interstellar works we have come to love over the years. I already have too many ideas to keep them down in this campaign thread, ranging from everything to Sci-Fi game nights to RP events, I can think of a number of regions who would be more than happy to get involved in this project with us, most notably the NPO, who has a Sci-FI RP community much like ours and who I’d definitely like to bring into the fold for this project if elected.

Obviously, given my own direct involvement with SPSF as a General, if I were elected I would push for a closer relationship between the two organizations. First thing on my mind is helping SPSF have a more public face. Despite recent slowdowns due to large scale operations, SPSF remains the most active GCR military in the game, and I think it’s time we really show it. What I would like to see is regular SPSF Update operation posts on TSP’s GP forum Not only do I think this will help with SPSF’s public face, I think such posts and dispatches would make excellent tools for recruitment efforts and to continue to show the rest of GP that SPSF remains NS’s premier military. This particular project is one that I think we can use to really bring all the writers in the ministries together, and even some of the writers from TSP RP.

Dealing with NSGP

As I’ve made clear before in other chats, I have little interest in the trivialities and circle jerking we call NSGP. Obviously, We will continue to support and work with our allies, make regular updates on the forum as things in TSP continue to progress and my previous above idea for work with the SPSF, but I have very little interest in those who are looking for an easy headline for regional propaganda TGs or some rather boring trolls who seem to have this strange insistence on calling themself a delegate(*cough*Balder*cough*). While I do not think the answer to dealing with them is simply not indulging their pathetic frivolities, I do believe the solution lies somewhere between sarcasm and mockery. While sometimes it may not be a bad idea to deal with them in a serious manner, making fun of them will at least be much more fun and stimulating for the rest of us as we use our creative minds to crack witty responses at their expense. As for NSGP folks who aren’t our friends but aren’t exclusively worth our mockery(*cough*NotBalder*cough*), if they have a change of heart and decide to start working with us, that’s great. I’d love to work closer with some of those regions. But if they continue their current policies towards us, I’ll be satisfied enough with current status quo.

Well, that just about covers everything. If anyone has any questions, feel free to DM me on discord, or ask them here! Cheers!