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Formerly known as "CyberShy"
Carpe Diem tamen Memento Mori
Welcome to the New Story Thread!
Formerly known as "CyberShy"
Carpe Diem tamen Memento Mori
To the Backstabbers we do agree to your terms for peace:
The above to me means that you will not try to catch up in intel vs us now that you have so little vs us points? We will not put a point vs you as well.6. A mutal commitment to not build espionage networks in each other's lands.
As the aggressor in this war I ask that you seek to offer cease fire and ask for the cities requested. We still have some dignity left so we will not do it ourselves. So offer us cease fire with the cities you have pointed out above to finalize this treaty.
B.
England,
Yes - I will adjust intel investment to zero immediately against you, and expect you to have done the same, and neither will conduct operations against each other.
I am happy to offer teh cease fire. However, as detailed, you cannot hand Chiel across to me peacefully, so I hope that as instructed you have removed its defenders. If not please do so immediately.
Makarios
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I will do as you wish Makarios,
I hope you do not mind OOC for me to log before you if you haven't to move out the units so you can take cap. All armies will head south this coming turn.
No - please do - I trust you - it will get it all sorted this turn which will suit us all I think.
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Nancy Ward called a Powwow for the Native American tribes. The Iroquois, the Apache, the Pawnee, the Cherokee, the Cheyenne, the Hopi, the Comanche, the Blackfoot, the Creek, the Choctaw, the Navajo, the Crow, the Seminole, the Shawnee, the Mohawk, the Shoshone, and last but not least the Sioux nation, all gathered in Cahokia. There was great feasting and dancing and drumming and well you know.
After three days Nancy Ward called the chiefs together for a war council.
She addressed the gathering.
‘ We have tried for many moons to live peacefully, alongside our northern neighbours, the Indian, Sha’Tao nation. We have offered assistance when asked, to resist the aggressive forces from the west, but despite our pleadings to Empress Shakti about safeguarding the Native American nation and culture, she has ignored our requests and continued her policy of cultural intrusion’
‘ In the best interests of our nation I took it upon myself to contact our good friends the Mali nation, who likewise were suffering from this cultural colonization.’
’So we agreed to work together to limit the cultural spread into our territories’.
’Unfortunately or fortunately around about that time, the allied nations of Byzantium, England, Korea and Persia chose to mount their attack on India and its colonies in New India with the aim of capturing the Taorisha shrine. We thought this attack was pre-mature and badly timed but as our own plans were still in development we had to appear to offer support to the Empress.’
‘However under the guise of support, it allowed us to offer defensive troops to India but continue with progress on our real objective. Mali was building troop transports and I was building marines as quick as I could’.
The calls for Mali and Natives intervention would at last be acknowledged
’We calculated that India would be so pre-occupied with the impending conflict with Byzantium, England and Korea, that the Empress would miss the build up and movement of troop transports to the Mali cities of Djenne, Waden, and Niana and of troops located there’.
The strategy required that we were able to move marines, discretely, to these ports.
This plan required specialist units from the ‘Special Canoe Squadron’, the ‘SCS’. I asked each tribe to send skilled men and women for special training.’
Recruits from the tribes included: Chief Salmon Leap, and Braves Running Water, Trout Knows, Summer Spring, Still Water, Chief Rapids, Sea Trout Pool, Salmon Pool. West Current, East Current, Eel Pool, Sea Current, Ocean Current, Frail Pool, Bear Run, Strong Pool, Tidal Pool, Duane Eddy, Rock Pool, Ebb Flow, Tidal Race and others.
These were highly skilled operatives: all highly skilled marines
At last under the cloak of darkness, 10 transports left the Mali ports of Niani, Djenne, and Wadan loaded with the tribes Marines, from the tribes of Native America, and attacked the Indian port of Pataliputra.
The 40 fold marine invading force encountered a company of machine gunners, infantry and airforce regiments.
There was fierce fighting in this theatre of war, over many hours, mostly by this experienced SCS regiment but eventually the sea port of Pataliputra was overwhelmed and was captured by the regiment led by Chief Salmon Leap.
India’s third cultural city, Pataliputra, had been captured and hence the Indian nation damaged. The free world has hope.
Chief Salmon Leap awaited orders for Pataliputra destruction.
Meanwhile on a bridge into the city, two SCS braves were arguing:.
’No I want to defuse this device’ said Strong Pool’
’You are too late' said Frail Pool .
I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)(Teton Sioux)
Wow!
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Heracles was bemused.
His SCORE intell was at odds with the Natives broadcasts.
Deep under the very foundation of Orb an old presence began to stir. A man thought to be lost in time walks through a doorway and into a room filled with glass jars of various body parts and failed experiments. In the center was a huge glass box filled with an unnatural liquid. In the middle of this box was a young man no older then 15. His hair was as white as fresh winter snow and his body was completely toned and slightly muscular
The man knocked on the glass to awaken the sleeping boy. As the boy's eyes opened they revealed to the man his life's work. The man then smiled and reached over and pressed a large red button on the side of the glass box. The unnatural liquid quickly emptied into the drainage system leaving only the young man who was still hooked into a machine that had kept him alive since before his birth. The Front of the glass box then opened up and the boy was released from the machine to breath through his lungs for the first time on his own. With each breath the boy's body began to respond better and better. As he stood up for the first time he looked around and saw things clearly for the first time in his life.
The man then spoke, "Sage, do you know who I am?" The boy quickly looked over to the man and spoke for the first time, "Yes, you are the great and powerful Kane. You made me and I live to serve your will." The man smiled, "Yes my child it seems you know exactly who I am and why you have been created. Out of the countless others you are my one success and the last hope for my will to be cared out."
As Kane continued to look the boy over for any defects the boy got dressed. Once the boy was fully dressed Kane led the boy to the net room over. For the most part the room was empty with the exeption of a gateway in the middle of the room. Kane then spoke to the boy again. "My child, this world's time is coming to an end because we could not live in peace. Through this gateway you will travel through time and space to a land that is unknown to you or I. What you will encounter I do not know but the key to your power and all the answers you need will come when you learn to use your eyes."
Sage then picked up a large metal staff and a long sword then walked through the gate, to the unknown.
Kane smiled knowing that even though this world would soon end at least a part of him would rebuild a new world. Once Kane could no longer see Sage he set off a series of explosions that buried him alive for the last time.
The civ formerly known as The Holy Empire of Britannia/dutch
"We think" the shadowy figure reported to Makarios "that the Natives celebrate April Fool's day a day after the rest of the world, and this is a form of entertainment, since we can get no independent verification of this attack, but we are still working on it"
Makarios nodded "and there are the old prophecies that there will be wars and rumours of wars but we should not be deceived because the end has not yet come"
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Nancy Ward awoke from her interesting Dream.
Hmmm nice name that for an Indian brave: Frail Pool.
I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)(Teton Sioux)
Nancy Ward awoke from her interesting Dream to find lawyers from India demanding compensation for the Empress' heart-attack and from Byzantine tank manufacturers who had just gone into overdrive and now had surplus stock.
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From now on the indian Sha'Tao inquisition will investigate the people's dreams too. Can not be allowed that dangerous thoughts like this one go unpunished. For a better future people must watch what they dream.
Hight Priest Ashoka
((it was a good one, first I've read Persia's "did the Natives just attacked India" message.. then the story, it got me for a moment
. 10 tranports are a bit too much to slip my awerness, but even one could have a fairly good chance, 2 should be enough., but i'm always checking everything.. looking for hiding transports, analyzing the powergraphs etc
Excellent
He put the truth commission report down and gave the orders.
Cancel the Oil deal with Persia.
Close borders with Byzantium.
Heracles was a wise and strong man. Always trusting and vigilant. Byzantium's attack on England had shocked him and now to find out that Korean Transports were used to carry troops to invade England was devastating. And on top of this the discovery of Byzantium's units on Korean soil that assisted in this invasion was too much to bear. General Belarius would be turning in his grave (if he is dead?!)
The intercepted communications between Persia and Byzantium spelt a conspiracy of a dimension that made India look like a nation of Christians.
Two former allies had manipulated the trusting and decent civilizations of England and Korea.
Persia and Byzantium were close, very close and for very long on many levels...
It is the truth.
He lent forward and gazed West...
It was posted on the 1st. Unless in your land you celebrate April Fools Day in March...Originally Posted by Byzantium (DoC)
Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah
Do not insult Us!
The Christians are the evil as You can all see now. India always worked for the good of the world.
All must remember that We had warned England several times that Byzantium will destroy them, and even the world if they could. We did our part but the world remained blind and deaf.. now it is not our problem anymore. We will still do a favor for the world.. a last one.
Empress Shakti
And there was me just reading the time stamp which says 2 April 2.35am, but maybe it adjusts for different times zones? Blimey - you mean April fools day is different in different lands? Makarios is a genius.It was posted on the 1st. Unless in your land you celebrate April Fools Day in March...
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I've been completely April fooled! I even logged into the game to see what the heck was going on!!!!!
The only April's Fool prank that got me! Congrats, Natives! Very good
Force is always beside the point when subtlety will serve
Darius order to kill Oroetes
Nancy smiled
I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man (Isna-la-wica)(Teton Sioux)
doh!! you got me! so badly that I even fired up the diplomacy works again
oh well, I might as well go out strong than sit around and wait idly for death to come
Bare derutsya — u kholopov chuby treschat.
The Russian Dynasty:
Samo the Headbanded
Catherine the Progenitor
Dominika Ekatarinova
(Konya the Lost)
Igor Exilaskaya
[action=Persia (DoC)]fires up military production again[/action]doh!! you got me! so badly that I even fired up the diplomacy works again
oh well, I might as well go out strong than sit around and wait idly for death to come
Force is always beside the point when subtlety will serve
Darius order to kill Oroetes
Frail PoolWow!
Time is user context-sensitive...It was posted on the 1st. Unless in your land you celebrate April Fools Day in March...
this is a story about the Sha'Taoistic Republic Iran
Russian war threat
Russian armies were sighed near the North-Eastern border of the gigantic Iranian Empire. (The Iranian Empire is by far the largest empire of the world.) Many Russian grenadiers, riflemen, cannons and other types of soldiers were preparing themselves for battle. First the army appeared to move south and reinforcements were sent to Sardis, located at the south of the Mediterranean, but then the army moves north again.
Many armies from New Russia returned home to take up what seemed to become the last challenge with the Russians. President Ahmedinejad spoke to the nation:
Citizen of Iran,
We have faced many difficulties in the history of our nation.
Civil wars, invasions, betrayals and war.
Tyranny and genocide, backstabbing and suppression.
Many times the Russians were a part of these horrors,
and it seems like they today are seeking war again.
The Ultra Hastogianistic spirit of the Russians never died.
We may have to save their people from Hastog, like we did to us!
We must therefore prepare ourselves for the doom of the Russians once more. Superio weapons will be used against this evil. The lies that have been spread about our aim for nuclear weapons is horribly wrong though. We would never build or construct such a weapon and we are only trying to achieve the technology of nuclear power for civil purposes.
People of Iran, we must stand together and with our faith in Sha'Tao we can defeat any enemy, like our Ally an friend, India, has shown to us.
Let's now all pray and prepare ourselves for all that comes from the North East!
When war comes upon us, we must do all we can to eliminate the spirit of Hastog from our eastern neighbours once and for all!
Iranian scientist discover the secret of flight
With much joy the Iranian scientists revealed their success in revealing ways to fly! From now on citizen of Major Iran (Media) and Minor Iran (New Persia) could visit each other without lengthy journey times. Within 4 hours it was possible to move from Media City to New Persia City!
Generals are very interested in this new technology, especially because these 'planes' could apparently be used to drop weapons with a 'civil' content above crowded areas in enemy territories. All possibilities were considered. A great step forward for the Iranian Nation!
Ahmedinejad speaks to the nations
The Russian activity on the Iranian border worries the peaceful Ahmedinejad
Ahmedinejad inspects the research laboratory, working for civil purposes only!
The civil nuclear technology is not dangerous. Iranian scientist wear proper white clothes because they are proper!
Force is always beside the point when subtlety will serve
Darius order to kill Oroetes
Suwasqa wasi hina simiyoq
The construction of the Sha'vanti towers is in course of completion. The five Indian High priests are gathering in Bombay, the centre of these towers, the place where they belive the dragon will born and then cleanse the world from evil.
As the final day comes near the high priests are.. changing.. their eyes, their voice... as they were possessed by something not from this world. The people seemingly ignore this, as they ignored the brutal slave work they were forced to do to make these towers ready in time. Millions died but they were content as long as they listened to the preachings, novadays broadcasted on televsion.
From the top of the center tower Empress Shakti incite the people for even harder work
this is a story about the Sha'Taoistic Republic Iran
Letter to Makarios
Makarios of Byzantium,
Why are you setting nations up against Iran?
Why are you trying to break bounds of long lasting friendship on the continent of Hascon? Are you trying to turn Hascon into the same place of destruction as you did to Meltingcon?
The friends and allies of Iran have informed us about all of your steps. Know that we will certainly use our most civil weapon against you as soon as we have it. Your current actions have proven that Byzantium must be destroyed since it tries to break bounds of friendship like it did to it's own friends, the English.
Your only hope may lay in the prophecies that say that Sha'Tao will cleanse the world soon, because if it would not then your cities would be our first target.
We will not forget your treachery,
President Ahmoud Ahmedinejad of the Sha'Taoistic Republic Iran
Force is always beside the point when subtlety will serve
Darius order to kill Oroetes
Many books would be written over the rise and fall of Makarios, the great, or infamous, Byzantine nationalist.
Historians would attribute his rise to power to the great crisis caused by the Indian Disaster. The old military, scientific and diplomatic elite who had held power throughout Basil's rule where thoroughly discredited. What had they brought for Byzantium but and economy strained, diplomacy skewed around just one objective - the destruction of the so-called Tower of Evil - and the death of millions of Byzantines on a foreign shore? No family was left unscared by the Indian disaster. The anger of the people was unstoppable. Basil perhaps knew this when he took his own life, knowing that otherwise he would have faced revolution.
In times of great crisis, grief and anger, all people turn to extremism, and come the time come the man - Makarios. This guerrila fighter against English domination in the south suddenly rose to prominence. Yes there was genuine grievance in the south against English domination, but why did the people of Constantinople and the cities of the Ice Sea back him? The answer must lie in the grief and anguish at the Indian disaster; the people desparate for a strong man who would focus on Byzantium, its peace and prosperity, who would rebuild the nation.
The events of the liberation of England are well known and documented elsewhere. Even his enemies can't doubt Makarios' brilliance as a general, born of the long guerrila fight against England. Within one year, England the greatest power on the planet, collapsed utterly and had to accept Makarios' terms without negotiation.
But then the problems started for Makarios. He was not a man who could lead a nation at peace. Byzantine relationships with its other neighbours - Russians, Greeks, Peruvians and Egyptians were cordial and peaceful, with Byzantium doing much to support its neighbours, particularly in the great Railway project. Quickly the need for Makarios and thus is support ebbed away. Yes he had freed the Byzantines of the south, but he seemed unable to delivery the peace and prosperity the people clamoured for. The guerilla fighter who had spent much of his life living in caves couldn't grasp why people wanted homes to live in.
In a final bid for popularity Makarios proclaimed the 'Free Democracy of Byzantium' sweeping away the old caste and guild system which had dominated Byzantine life for a millenium, and breaking down the old imperial bureaucracy. He believed that as the liberator of the Byzantine people he would, and he deserved, to win the following election. He contined to believe this until the final day, but the tide had long since gone out on his brand of nationalism. The old stability and decency of the Byzantine people was reasserting itself as the years passed since the Indian disaster. And Makarios just didn't see the people's desire for prosperity.
The result was a crushing defeat for Makarios, and the election of Eustathius as President of the Free Democracy of Byzantium.
Eustathius had begun as a worker in the shipyards of the Ice Sea, before rising through the union movement to become the leader of the Shipworkers Union and a well-known campaigner for the reform of labour laws, the provision of healthcare for workers, and the building of new homes 'fit for heroes'.
The trauma of the Indian disaster was passing.
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