I most humbly apologize for failing to immediately jump at the snap of your fingers, and also for allowing more pressing matters to take precedence over piecing together this tattered tapestry of a tale, involving substantially more players outside Harmless than within it.
If you wish to take up grievance with us, you might at least be so kind as to justify your assumption that past association with this account grants you first right to the cities in absence of either might or even prompt occupation--a stance even Harmless do not claim with our own inactive ex-members.
And if you wish us to respond favorably to
your grievance, at least do us the courtesy of being specific about who and what is involved, rather than making us track down every detail and separately follow up each version of the story. 15 of the top alliances (counting various Crow wings as one) have seen fit to supply our Embassy with representation, and enjoy the benefits of focused discourse with as many or few of us and/or each other as the situation calls, allowing prompt and productive response. They even each did so proactively, prior to encountering any specific cause for making use of it. World's End and Valar are the most notable exceptions. So forgive me if I do not rush to understand your situation at my own expense in time and research, when you offer so little effort to support your own cause both then and now.
Instead, you spam your entreaties anywhere and everywhere, pretending this public charade is anything but a mockery of due process and an attempt to pressure us into a hasty and unconsidered acquiescence to your terms on a situation to which we've only just been made aware. You offer us too little time to respond to even a clear-cut situation, no details on a situation that is anything but, and then attempt to coerce us using public scrutiny into accepting your resolution to a problem we don't even yet understand. Then when confronted you turn to fallacious insinuations and a tone that is outright insulting.
So you have nothing to hide? Good for you. I gladly bear in this "open" conversation any mark you would cast upon my character by publicly denouncing your offer and any chance of future agreement. Until privately shown otherwise, I recognize no claim by Valar on these cities. I see no reason why I should work so hard on your behalf, nor why I should potentially throw my own members under the bus by carelessly entering agreement. Let this thread stand as public testament to Harmless? evil and hostile ways, and especially to mine personally. Both you and the public are fully equipped to judge me and my actions separately and without each other's help.
If this is not how you wish the conversation to end, and if you think it possible we might prove more diplomatic and fair when dealing within proper diplomatic channels, I believe you know where to find us. If after having actually dealt with us you still find our handling of the situation unfair, you're always welcome to come back here and cry wolf some more.