The first STRIKE.

On July 14th, 2026, over the course of about 2 and a half hours from 4PM EDT to around 6:30 PM EDT, 180 regions were captured by the Verchy Keeper Network, raising it's count from 85 to 265.
This was the STRIKE.

What were these regions that the VKN had seized? These were places held by... the blacklisted of my brief good age.
What do I mean by that?

Well, Brain Cell Family, and Brain Cell Nursery are successors of old One Collective Brain Cell, one of the major embassy collectors that did not vet their embassies before requesting.... (For any prospective embassy collectors.... your niche is filled lol)

But what about the others? They were held by... the people whose actions ended this brief dawn.
Yep, after the Christmas 2024 catastrophe, I thought it was calm.

Recent observations though... have led me to conclude that something might be brewing up.... So I found a list of all of their old territories, checked which ones were available, and then seized them. Some of them, in the vetting, I decided belonged in Special Occupation.

The thing is.... I'd wanted to do a mass seizure for a while.... but I didn't really have the mental energy to do it....

Until I found myself for who I really was. And now I seem to have a lot more energy mentally....

What are those two regions that became Nominal Territories?
Transgender People and Da Trans Factory.

These names were found when I was deciding which places need to go under special occupation.
I decided the VKN would be too harsh for these, given the names. So they were taken before the STRIKE, they're open, and I am looking for stewards who will take them.
Transgender People was the place where operation progress was reported on.

This may not be the first STRIKE. The Realm is awake.