Kinetic Assault Initiative
Kinetic Assault Initiative (KAI) was formed 3/15/2021 byAlly for Hire. It immediately joined the Garry's Mod Alliance Pact (GMAP) and formed multiple alliances with member states inside of it, though it later became a founding member of the Kestrel-Astria Treaty Organization (KATO). It was formed as a need for Ally for Hire to have an outlet for technology and dupe distribution, with its closest ally being the Red Sun Military Forces (RSMF). It is focused on engineering in all categories, such as ACF and Wiremod. It's members almost entirely consisted of friends of the leader considered experienced enough to represent the clan in combat.
Technology
KAI's technology was quite varied as it was anything the engineers were willing to make, ranging from ACF aircraft to true vanilla cluster bombs. As the members of KAI had experience from all walks of GMOD there was a wide variety of technology used. The most notable vehicle that was produced by KAI was the SU-47 "Vengeance" used primarily on Apex Networks, which was used to single-handedly hold the server for several weeks from notable clans of the time such as RKG and UNR.
History
TTN Raids (around 3/21/2021)
Helping BSC, and other miscellaneous clans TTN's capital was raided multiple times, all ending in victories by a landslide, proven by KDs and total losses, even though TTN was using sourdough (IA) (this isnt even correct) technology they got overall killed and even resorted to ULX banning anyone who used technology that wasn't theirs, despite all of this TTN still claimed victory with nothing backing it and calling KAI and its allies bad to the very end.
Petrograd NPCs Raids (around 3/30/2021)
KAI interfered on the Petrograd NPCs raids on the side of the defenders and helped hold off Petrograd, though this really was just for fun so I'm not gonna declare outcome or anything I just wanted to document it.
TTN Raids Part 2 (spanning a bit earlier than 4/27/2021 to 5/4/2021)
Over the course of a month or 2 KAI along with various forms of backup raided "That Sandbox", held and owned by TTN, efficiently defeating TTN every time while taking minimal losses. This continued and eventually even KAI's leader, Allyforhire, jumped into the fray and after defeating TTN in gun to gun combat joked around and ammo bombed as shown here. This continued over the course of about 2 hours. 5/3/2021 a new mbt was battle tested against TTN, but ttn was getting tired of the raids by this point and banned the 2 raiding KAI members off the server (now unbanned). I won't document every fight because there has been so many but TTN's server "that sandbox" has been raided by numerous KAI members and affiliates, without taking a reported loss to TTN yet. IA intervenes in some of the fights which comes out to various results.
Reforms (5/03/2021 - 5/04/2021)
On 5/03/2021 Allyforhire launched a poll asking the members of KAI if they wanted to transition to a more serious clan, and the poll received a high majority agreeing to go with the changes, so Ally reworked roles, policies, and other major parts about the group. The flag was also updated on 5/04/2021.
WW4 (5/05/2021 - 6/16/2021)
Beginning with IA affiliate Sergei doxxing KAI's ally and Ally for Hire's friend, Catgopher, as well as raiding his College discord, KAI issued a declaration: All IA affiliates have a short amount of time to back off as KAI and all of its allies. After ULCI openly defended Sergei's actions, as well as IA members following suite, the war began. Despite IA stating they have been defeating KAI forces, video recording and KDs say otherwise. KAI tanks had yet to take a casualty to legal enemy ground tank as of halfway through the war, however in the 2nd half KAI tanks took a very small amount of deaths due to being shot in the side, however at no point did a KAI tank die frontally. After many battles, where KAI tanks and jets only maintained positive kds in 1v1s, and etc. Ally for Hire dropped out of the war on 5/24/2021 due to personal reasons, the primary one being them being tired of the war. GMAP forces would continue fighting ORZL, and getting a majority of the wins, even with claims of losses during certain battles.
Colourful Crew
| The Battle of Colourful Crew |
The other battles largely did not get recorded. Unfortunately after many wins on Colourful Crew and no losses in terms of vehicle KD, the server ended up being shut down due to lack of donations from Sol, removing a home server from ORZL and ending the war on the front.
Apex Networks
| Battle on Apex Networks |
Apex Networks is where the fights went after Colourful Crew shut down, ending in further KAI victories. The 2nd battle has not had a video made on it yet, but it is estimated KAI + Allied forces won by about 12 kills, with an estimated final vehicle KD of 15:3 on bigcity, despite counter-claims by IA. A video was made on the battle of May 18, and previous fights clipped together, all of which KAI forces won. KAI leader Ally for Hire and member Knight had to leave partly into the battle, however GMAP forces were still able to win out as shown partly in the latter half of the video seen on the left. KAI tanks were single-handedly able to take down all enemy combatants in 1v1s and 2v2s with little difficulty, only dying due flanking as earlier versions of some KAI MBTs had sub-par neutral steering, however a KAI tank never died from the front and KAI constantly maintained a positive vehicle KD throughout the entire war.
Valen
Valen is where most of the fighting happened in the latter half of the war, however KAI was less involved in these fights, maintaining the stance Allyforhire had in leaving the war. However, in the fights KAI did participate in where absolute victories with enemy combatants taking far more vehicle losses.
The GC Incident
| Video insulting Ghost Company |
On June 16, 2021, Ally for Hire initiated a spying operation on GC, who they were currently allied with, due to suspicion that GC was planning anti-GMAP action and spreading rumors behind his back. However the largest result of this operation was a KAI member, DroxiKnight, betraying Ally for Hire for the GC leader, Rec0rd. After GC announced the existence of KAI's operation publicly in an attempt to rally against the clan, Ally made a YouTube Video insulting GC and empathizing his lack of interest in apologizing, as well as making many sarcastic comments in the GMAP alliance discord. Following this, took his next break from the meta at large, formally transferring most of his remaining members to CTF due to his friendship with the leader.
Ghost Company Conflict
In July 2021 KAI member Kiwi and 2 other independent parties fought off a Ghost Company incursion on lucid gaming. KAI was inactive for many months following this, until, in November 2021, an independent party E-thing was seen using a private Ally for Hire tank on the TTN home server when Ally and Kiwi went on to mess around. It was later revealed that DroxiKnight had leaked one of Ally's tanks to Ghost Company, a birthday present given to him several months prior. This prompted Ally and Kiwi to make a video, "stop", as a warning for Ghost Company to stop their bad behavior and to call out a number of things. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this video is unlisted and cannot be hyperlinked.
Escalation and Formation of KATO
In late December 2021 on CFC B/K, Kiwi (who at the time had informally assumed leadership of NRK) along with some of his friends shot down a Ghost Company jet, which prompted more of Ghost Company to join as back up, escalating the conflict. During the battle IA member CRISIS called the rest of the alliance as backup. Despite being outnumbered 10:4 NRK and (informally) East Detroit managed to drive them off of the server. Afterwards a group dm was made with Rec0rd, which led to the confirmation that Ghost Company was in alliance with IA despite previous counter-claims. Following this spike in activity, ex NATO members, and the International Weapons Corporation came back along with Sergei (who had taken measures of steps to apologize for his past behavior) to come together to create what would later be officially formed as the Kestral-Astria Treaty Organization on April 12, 2022.
The Formal Dissolution of KAI (around 7/4/2022)
Following the creation of KATO, KAI was essentially just the operating banner of Ally for Hire under the alliance. For several months official development was steady with the eruption of the CFC wars against IA, with Ally for Hire forming a secondary group called the Bairi's Bitchin Clan (BC), which had its own subsequent history, none of which happened under the banner of KAI. The formal dissolution of KAI occurred upon its removal from KATO due to internal disagreements between the alliance with BC high command member Bairi around July 4, 2022. Bairi took several actions deemed by KATO leadership to be an unacceptable representation of an alliance member, and as BC operated under the KATO banner due to Ally for Hire's running another KATO member state, it was grounds for KAI's removal from the organization.