The Dance of Civilizations [Diplo Game] [Story Thread Pt6 - February 2010]

[England (DoC)]

PM Frank was interrupted by his generals as he was signing some Indian letters:

Generals:
Prime Minister it seems that Byzantium threatens us that they will intervene. They call us butchers!

Frank:
Is that saw, where was Justinian when Greece needed help, where was he when we gave enough warnings to the Arabs to leave Greece.

Generals:
Well Sir, it doesn’t matter, they will now intervene. We are preparing for the worse; all armies have been put on high alarm. Our Korean friends are sending reinforcements. All cities have orders to switch to military buildup. All obsolete units will be upgraded to Red Coats and Machine Gunners.

Frank:
Hmmm has it come down to this, I though diplomacy was going somewhere with Justinian. We were having progress on this Arab/Greek war.

Generals:
Sir it seems their letters failed to reach us in time, some kind of a blackout, they just arrived though.

Frank:
Well I will immediately write to Justinian and seek a ASAP solution to this, before it get out of hands.

Generals:
Sir what you do not know is that we have resumed our Intel on Byzantium, there is just too little trust currently, we have to know what is going on in Byzantium.

Frank:
Hmm that is disappointing; we had an understanding with the Byzantines on this. But I guess security comes first in these times of trouble.

[Egypt (DoC)]

A celebration!

Egypt officially has the highest approval rating in the world! To celebrate this, the Great Pharaoh Ramesses II has ordered a day of festivities!



And, for one day, sugar dates will be free for all!

[Greece (DoC)]

URGENT DESPATCH!

My Allies and my friends!

English liberation armies have freed one of the occupied Greek cities, the keys from the city have been offered back to the Greek government.

I have ordered my generals not to enter Arab lands.

PM Frank

Rip van Greekle rejoices at the news!!

And thankyou to our allies and friends.

Greece is prepared to leave the last remaining Greek city in Arabian hands if it quells a wider war. We would like some of our workers back though.

Greece has lost much and details may be forthcoming but for now our pride is restored and we wish to see a new peace!!

[England (DoC)]

Rip van Greekle we are happy to see you willing to talk peace.

I will immediatly send orders to our western armies and have them return to England.

It is good to see your readiness to compromise so that this continent can find again peace.

I hope that by returning you one of your cities we have fulfilled our debt to you.

PM Frank

[India (DoC)]

Prime Minister Frank,


Now you can see why it would had been better for everyone if we had converted Byzantium to Sha'Tao and removed their evil leadership. They could watch poor Greece exterminated because that's their interest.
We are too far from this conflict, but know that India supports it's taoist brothers in their mission to protect Greece against Byzantium's evil forces.

Empress Shakti

[England (DoC)]

Empress Shakti

Thank you, my cabinet and I have never doubted your support for your taoist brothers.

As i said England has complited what was asked by us from the Greek government.

Now we await Greece to make peace with Arabia.

PM Frank

[Byzantium (DoC)]

Justinian read the latest intelligence reports from the English capital and the the diplomatic post.

He shook his head at the lastest from Korea, knowing full well that there were Korean soliders positioned but a period's march from the Byzantine border. He could see the crafinesss of their policy - Korea defend England, so English troops are free to massacre the Arabs - but knew that no nation woudl be fooled that this still amounted to England and Korea combining together to attack the Arabs.

But then he called for some water and splashed his face with it, reminding himself that he must not get wound up by the Koreas - there were many lives at stake.

He read through the diplomatic and intelligence documents again.

Nodding he smiled.

The latest from Prime Minister Frank was hopeful, positive even. At last the long friendship between the English and Byznatines (he laughed warmly remembering the old slogan of 'the people of the red cross') was bearing fruit and looked as if it would avert world war.

The English had flexed their muscles. Well, the Arabs did need to understand that they were in danger of going from reason to excess, which nobody, Byzantium included would support. We had made it clear diplomactically, but well, perhaps it is not surprising that the English did so militarily.

But the English had seen the sense in pausing and withdrawing their armies. They too knew the dangers of appearing to go to excess.

Now a moment for peace to have a chance.
- Greeks knowing that they could not simply demand a return of everything under the threat of the English and Koreas annihilating the Arabs
- Arabs knowing that they could not just continue the war, hoping that Byzantium's policy of non-intevention gave them so blank cheque.

Justinian ordered his generals to stay their hand. To remain watchful in case the English withdrawal did not happen, but he was confident that it would.

[Byzantium (DoC)]

Rip van Greekle Statesman of Greece,

I salute your wisdom and courage in these difficult hours. Be assured that, just as Byzantium has done nothing to cut trade links between our countries in these difficult times, and many of our people live with mixed nationalities on our borders, Byzantium will rejoice in a return to the peace and prosperity which had been shared for millenia across our borders.


Saladin of the Arabs, mightly warrior,
Conclude a fair peace, my neighbour. Greed leads to failure, as the Vampire Queen herself found out, but wisdom leads to modest gains and prosperity. I trust your diplomacy is as successful as you war.

Justinian.

[Mali (DoC)]

The northern Mali colony flourishes these days. Not too long ago, the first settlers from the mainland boarded ships headed across the sea. The colony now stands at three cities strong, the third city founded within the last 10 years. Let the Mali people be the first to demonstrate that war is not necessary for growth.

[India (DoC)]

A new kind of people, who have travelled to India and call themselves enlightened, are forming groups. They call themselves Hippehs, and they dress colourful and promote peace and something they call 'free love'

Yes, we aware of the so called "Hippeh movement". These useless, lazy men and women cause more and more trouble here too and even our inqusition can't cope with their large numbers anymore. So we decided to build a reservation for them, a "naional park", in some forest around one of our overseas colonies and deport them all there. We suggest you follow our example.

Shakti

[Korea (DoC)]

The korean ambassader to Byzantine walked across the road again, he had spen his whole life here in Byzantine afte rhis father the former ambassader had moved here.

He had wlaked th estreets of Constantinople , he had enjoyed the lavish fetes held by the Byzantines. His children attended traditional Byzantine schools. His wife was a Byzantine woman.

Over the past few months, his joy at living insuch a splendourous country had turned more and more to sadness.

Messages from home coming across his desk, he was instructed to take more and more regular missives to his counterpart across the road.

His Byzantine counterpart was his freind. The best man at his wedding. They had shared beers after work evrey day.

That was until the Greek Invasion. With that invasion somehow everthing changed. But looking back now, he should have seen it coming, his freind across the road had become more secretive for about 6 mths before the invasion.

Hisd firend had not even mentioned the Arab army travleing through Byzantine to him, his bosses back in Korea had qwuestioned his ability.

And so began the feelings of mistrust. Eventually he and his friend had stopped meeting socially. No contact except the ever increasing messages from Korea to Byzantine.

And now he wlaked again across the road. His heart heavy with grief from the content of the letter. The Koreans were unhappy with the latest letters from Byzantine.

He had read them, seen them blatantly accusing Korea of slaughtering arabs. Accusations of the highest order.

And so he crossed the road one last time. He enquired at the front office for his freind, he was informed he was out but he was well aware that his friend was indeed in having seen him lookin gout the window above into the street.

He sighed a heavy sigh and handed the young Byzantine lady the letter and turned and walked out one last time.

Outside he was met by the Korean secret service and escorted south to the English borders.

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To the Byzantine Ministry
From Koh Jung Korean Ambassador to Byzantine

It is with heavy heart that i wish to inform you that I have been recalled to Korea as the government have taken umbridge with your accusations and bleeive you have gone too far.

Korea officialy closes it Diplomatic Embassy till an apoloigy is forwarded.

Farewell my friend.

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[Korea (DoC)]

Kim Jin Sil stood in front of the mirror and reaarenged his clothing one last time. Tomight was his big night. He hadstudied under the greats for this oppurtunity. The ancients would be proud of how hard he had studied to get here.

From the obscure village on Hope Island through the Tao tmeples and Tao Universities. Led my some of the Great Tao teachers.

Now he had been honoured with the title of Tao Priest to India. The position had been vacant for many many years. Taoism had faced a massive split about three centruies ago as two extreme views formed. The Indians and the Koreans had virtually cut each other off for cneturies.

Now a new revitalistion was occcuring, Korean and Indian Priests had been in communication secretly for decades and now, with offical approval of the Korean Miniistry, Kim was now on the first official Korean visit to India.

As a young Taoist priest he was eager to impress his Indian hosts.

To get th e opurtunity to pray at the Holy of Holies for Taoists.

This could be a new turning point.

[Ottoman Empire (DoC)]

To All Nations Of The World:

After years of war and slavery of the Ottoman people, Selim has been exiled to an African prison forever.

A powerful group of Ottoman traders has elected Caliph Mustafa III to right the wrongs of Selim's maniacal rule and bring the Ottoman Empire back to prosperity. We welcome delegates from ALL nations and will be taking the next few months to assess our situation and realign ourselves on the right path. Until then, we put the following up for consideration:

- We have 4 African cities that we are open to negotiate away

- We seek technology and formidable naval units

- We currently have the 6th largest army in the world that, if we are able to call peace with Russia, will be up for purchase or lease

Direct all queries by private messenger.

ALL HAIL CALIPH MUSTAFA III

[Korea (DoC)]

Korean Government officals read with interest the missivie from the Ottomans, little contact had been had with them so the leadership decided now was the time to action a new reltionship

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Caliph Mustafa III

Greetings in the name of Tao.

For too long we have been distant to you and your people not jsut by distance of land and sea but by ideollogy. In this new enlightened world we wish to discuss mutally befiicial trade and arrangements for closer ties.

We wish to establish a new embassy in your nation with a delegation of Korean diplomats.

if this is to your liking we will send over our appointed Ambassaders hencewith.

Korean High Command.
General Lu Sing Fait

[Ottoman Empire (DoC)]

General Lu Sing Fait,

Your delegation is most welcome, please join me at the capital as I cannot guarantee your safety on the African continent at this moment.

Caliph Mustafa III