The Red Safari was a mass tech raid on individual non-alliance members of the red trading sphere by members of various tech raiding alliances. The Red Safari started on July 17, 2010 and it has been called a "grassroots" movement as it has been argued that it was started by members of various raiding alliances, was not officially sanctioned by any of their leadership, and the members participating have not broken any of their alliance's tech raiding rules. It has been described as an opposition to the Revenge Doctrine put out by Red Dawn to protect the individual nations of the Red trading sphere from unprovoked attacks like tech raids. Red Dawn's announcement topic related to the Safari caused much debate on the topic of tech raiding with a multitude of alliances decrying the mass raid an