Overview
Pirate Dinosaur Alliance is a roleplay based organization on LittleBigPlanet. It is best known for its role in the prelude to the Remnants Union / LBP Union War and its secession from the LBP Union in the autumn of 2014.
History
The clan was founded by Hoeflers4 sometime before 2013 as the Autobots, a smaller organization based around Transformers. They were a state of the Remnants Union, a multi-clan alliance, however they failed to make their membership known to the public. This led to the confusion which sparked the Remnants Union / LBP Union War in the spring of 2014. After the LBPU extended its hand to invite the Autobots to join on December 13th, 2013, just before the ratification of the Union Constitution, President XFinal_IsaacX was infuriated. He believed that the LBPU was attempting to steal their member states. After tense debate, the Autobots decided to leave RU to join the LBPU. This directly led to the aforementioned conflict in the Spring.
After joining the Union, the group changed its name and its theme to the Pirate Dinosaur Alliance. The group mainly stood as the roleplaying community in the Union. However some of its members refused to accept the Union constitution and acts of harassment were observed by Union officials. Captain Hoeflers4 was warned that if his members were not able to follow the rules of the Union, Union peacekeepers would be forced to take action. Hence some members of PDA held a resentment for the LBPU administration for not allowing them to act in such a way that would be perceived as bullying.
It was during this period that a conflict between another Union clan at the time, Taurian Concordat had tensions with PDA after a roleplay incident gone wrong. The specifics of the story are unknown, but most counts regard the issue stemming from a game freeze intentionally or unintentionally caused by Hoeflers that caused Sevi to lose unsaved work. The Concordat left the Union for the Remnants Union after the LBPU administration was unwilling to support them in their argument with PDA.
Eventually in the fall of 2014, Captain Hoeflers was approached by an old friend of his named CROSSBONES-4 who expressed negative opinions of the Union to him, and asked him to leave. Hoeflers called a vote in the matter blindly, and after he realized the mistake he had made, he was unable to call off the vote. Those members who were upset with the rules they had been placed under before by the LBPU got the rest of the clan to follow them and voted to secede. Captain Hoeflers voted to stay.
The LBPU Minister of Foreign Affairs CCSocalGamer decided that all assets to PDA should be cut off and they should receive no further assistance in any manner due to their secession, a decision supported by the rest of the Union Protectors.
PDA now remains independent of alliance organizations and its current status is unknown.
Demographics
Population
Pirate Dinosaur Alliance's population was last recorded to be 12 on the LBP Union Census.[1]
Language
The majority of the organization speaks English.
Government
PDA seems very loosely organized and doesn't seem to have any real ranking order. It heavily relies on a roleplaying system to function. Known administrative positions are Captain and Deputy, which is the group's second in command. It is not known who holds the position of deputy currently since the previous holder of the position, BumbleBurke resigned after the group seceded from the LBPU and then returned to be its leader after Captain Ryan Hoeflers offered his position to him. Hoeflers returned to his position some time later.
Foreign Relations and Military
The Pirate Dinosaur Alliance historically has been rather divided on foreign policy. Notably the administration usually has been pro-Union, but a significant portion of the members are Anti-Union for unannounced reasons. These members seem to spread their beliefs through the clan when they can by unknown methods, likely verbal.
Anti-Union activists in the organization are very devoted to their cause, but do not explain why they oppose the Union. In a meeting between President M88youngling and Captain BumbleBurke, it was revealed that PDA opposes the Union Task Force's ability to engage trolls in a tactic known as "rating warfare." President M88youngling encouraged them to rejoin the Union in order to push for a proposal to restrict the controversial tactic, but PDA has since avoided Union affairs entirely instead.
According to Hoeflers4, the organization conducted grief reporting strikes on trolls in the summer of 2017 with success. The exact targets and actual effectiveness of the reporting is unknown.
Culture and Style
The organization is fundamentally built off of roleplaying and Hoeflers4's interests. The style of Pirate Dinosaur Alliance revolves around science fiction and space piracy. The organization also considers itself to control the Carribean Sea and its Antilles island chain.
Infrastructure
It is not known how the Pirate Dinosaur Alliance communicates with its members, if at all.