Restarting the Battle in Seattle

Agent Kira here.

I can't believe it worked! Okay, maybe it didn't work out exactly how I planned. But either way with a little help I managed to restart the war here in Seattle.
 
Why did I want to restart the war when my side (The Resistance) won you ask? Well, it turns out if the sky remains one color for too long there are unfortunate consequences.  Even if the sky is the beautiful blue that makes me feel so at home, both factions start to experience distress, get very restless and agents start to disappear!
 
The reality is that neither faction can survive if one completely defeats the other.The relationship, as horrible as it sounds truly is symbiotic.

Pulling this off was no easy feat.  It took weeks of planning, lots of negotiations with both sides and a little (okay maybe a lot) of blind luck.
 
The plan had two parts:

Part 1:
Operation Snow Ball - Securing an area for the Enlightened for a period of time in order to generate resources.  They've been starving for weeks and it's killing them and unbeknownst to us it starts to damage us as well.  This Operation required a lot of time and energy to convince my fellow Resistance that this truly was in our best interest.  They couldn't see the damage that was being done to us because the Enlightened were starving.  It took pleading my case several times and finally respectfully requesting they show some restraint in order to get them to hold on to their XMPs in one area for 48 hours.

Part 2:
Operation Mad Maru - which was conceived and executed perfectly by Agent+Happy Stick Person .  We sent three strike teams of our finest agets to Portland, OR.  There were many objectives but the most important for the bigger picture was to get our AP hungry level 7s out of town so they wouldn't attack the vulnerable Enlightened while they had created so much valuable AP.  For more details on operation Mad Maru please see amazing account here:http://goo.gl/gx3F6

The operations have been over for several days now and I think they can be called a success. I can already see the difference it's making.  Although there is more of that repugnant green on my scanner, there is more activity from my team in response to the increased activity from the Enlightened.  The ebb and flow of the blue and green seems to be increasing which seems to give everyone more energy and drive.  I know this is going to be a long battle and I don't know what's coming next in this +Ingress war but I know that my team is ready for it and that as a team we're capable of taking on whatever Challenge comes next.