Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Story Thread 8 - May 2011]

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

Notice to All Concerned Nations:

Please note that in the past Israel has waited nearly the entire period to act while awaiting responses to her own proposal. Israel would make claims that they are leaderless, without the Sanhedrin, but this is belied by the fact that they have already acted. What seems more likely, is that Israel is stalling, asking Turkey to leave our forces in place so that Israel can move cannons in position to destroy us. If Turkey is to remain in place let Israel promise to keep her forces in Bethlehem.

If Israel does not openly commit to keeping her forces in Bethlehem, let this serve as evidence that there was no desire on the part of Israel for peace, as Israel acted almost immediately to ignore the peace offer. Obviously, Israel intends to continue making war on Turkey and is exhibiting Zealotry for war. Turkey welcomes the input of the Inca factfinders as to how Turkey should deal with Israel continued refusal to make peace despite the offer to return her Capital, and the fact that Israel is now reduced to only 3 cities. Should Turkey take another Israeli city? Or wait idly for Israeli to launch a suprise attack with Cannons?

Mahmud, substitute messenger of Sultan Ahmed V.

[Aztecs (DoE)]

PUBLIC AUCTION
Royal Tezlan Auctioneers, Contemporary art, Meso-American section

Announcement:
The painting of the Mysterious Black Lady will be on auction on June the 23rd.
Bidding will be public. Lotnr. is 140.






More on this work:

[Israel (DoE)]

To the Incan ambassador,

On behalf of the people of Israel I thank you for your interest in our fate.
We are without leadership as we speak and we are sorry for not being able to welcome you in luxery. All our official governmental builings in Tel Aviv are now occupied by the Turks and the Russians.

I have talked with many people and will try to inform you as unbiased as possible about the events that happened since the Israelian attempt to regain Jerusalem, our holy city.

- About 40 periods (turns) ago the Turks, our eternal enemies who razed our holy city of Jerusalem and occupy the Mount Moriah since then, approached us to wage war against their enemies, the French. We were surprised. Why would the Turks suddenly want to fight on our side. We simply hated eachother. Our leadership accepted this invitation as it understood it to be a sign from G'd: He would delivre our enemies to us on the battlefield.

So when we had a chance and when the Turks were sleeping, we turned against them and killed them all.
We allowed the Russians to escape from the French. We had no quarels with them.

- Then our armies marched towards Jerusalem. But the Turks were able to build a strong defense army quickly. Together with Russians on their side and French on our side we were facing each other for many periods. A status quo situation.

- In the meanwhile the Turks razed our ancient city of Ekron by a naval attack and occupied our ancient city of Hebron, destroying most of it's buildings. Many of the ancient buildings of Hebron generated much respect from the Arabians who lived close to the borders of Hebron. It was all gone.

- Then our leaders approached the Turks. We were willing to sign undonditional peace and give up our claims on Jerusalem for now. Our leaders accepted that our betrayal was punished by the razing of Ekron and the semi-destruction Hebron while the Turks had only lost 20 units of soldiers.
The Turks accepted our peace proposal and peace was signed, about 20 periods ago.

- All French armies left Israel and Israel returned into a semi isolated trading nation again.

- 12 periods later though the Turks approached us again, demanding that the re-founded city of Ekron would be removed or handed over to them because they considered it to be a treat to their nation.
Our leaders were shocked. Ekron was our only mediteranean harbor and it had never been used as a treat to any nation. Israel never had a fleet or even any ship except for our fisher boats.
We tried to buy time and contacted the Russians to convince them that this was not needed. We lived in peace, the horrors of war were behind us.

The Russians offered our leaders to keep the city of Ekron but in exchange we had to pay them 400 gold per period for 10 turns and then 100 gold per period for 20 periods. This was too much for us to pay.
Our leaders decided to hand over Ekron to the Turks and the city was offered.
In the meanwhile the people of Ekron talked about Ekron as the famous ancient city of Megido, the city that was razed many times. The Turks disliked that our people named Ekron that way and considered the deal off.

We still had to hand over Ekron but now we had to pay the 400 gold per period for 10 periods and the 100gpt for 20 periods in addition to the demand to hand over Ekron.
We could not accepted. Especially because the amounto of money demanded was growing every day.
We had recently signed peace, we had settled the first war. And Israel simply couldn't pay that much money without destroying our economy completely.

So we tried to negotiate new peace deals, offered 100gpt for 30 turns, but for obvious reasons started to build up a defense army as well. Our catapult were upgraded and new musketmen were trained and drafted. This lead to the Russians to the believe that we didn't want peace and just negotiated to buy time. Which was not true. Why would we prefer war with a superior army if we could have peace? But no nation under treaths like this would not train their army. The Turks then invaded our city of Nain in the south-east, far away from Ekron or the Turkish borders.
While we were still negotiating with the Russians, the Turks invaded us already.

- While Turkish armies marched towards Tel Aviv, our capital, Turkish messengers traveled to the Zulu and the Mali, our ancient friends and neighbors in Africa. They were asked to attack Israel from the south. The Zulu refused. We do not know what was promised to the Mali, but an army of about 20 knights and muskets invaded Israel near Sidon in the south. An army of 10 muskets was sent to the south to defend Sidon against the Mali, but we were too late. We had to hand Sidon over to the Mali in exchange for peace.

- In the meanwhile the Russians had as well unexpectedly declared war on us and marched towards Tel Aviv.
It was clear that we could not stand against this superior army. Cossacks and rifles against muskets and maces. Not to mention that their army was at least three times the size of ours and 10 of our muskets were still in the south near Sidon.
So once again we reached out to the Russians for mercy and offered the Holy City of Bethlehem to them. An enourmous offer to the christian Russians, to get posession of this Holy city that made 100 gpt without even a bank or a grocery.

But our offers for peace were ignored and Tel Aviv was attacked.
Our army could barely escape eventhough some of our canons and muskets were attacked from behind. Some died.

- Then the Turks again offered us peace, I recently got a long list of terms from them. But while they offer peace to us they raze Ekron (4th time in recent history), occupied Hebron and Ai again. While we speak only 3 of the original 9 Israelian cities are in our hands. One of them is in Mali hands (Sidon), The most important ones are in Russian hands (Tel Aviv) or in Turkish hands (Jerusalem), Ekron has been razed and Ai, Hebron and Nain are in Turkish hands.

Bethlehem is the only important city that stands.
The Turks demand us to betray G'd and say goodbye to our Judaistic roots.

Yes, Israel betrayed the Turks. Like the Turks betrayed Israel when they attacked Jerusalem 2 periods after signing a treaty about Jerusalem. But the Israelian damage to the Turks does not compare at all to what the Turks have done to us. And what they demand from us is an impossible request. We can never say goodbye to G'd Adonai.

We hope that you can convince the international community that the current holocaust on the Israelians is the most terrible barbarian act in history. We need help or we will all die at the hands of the Turks.

The description above is, despite lacking many details, what happened in the most recent years. While I am writing we are standing with a small army in Bethlehem, fearing for our lives. We hope that this reaches you before we all have died.

Yitshak Rabin, leader of the resistance in Bethlehem.

[Israel (DoE)]

Rabin read through the the enourmous list of demands.
He was shocked to read that Israel had to give up their faith in G'd Adonai!
The Jewish faith was the soul and the heart of the children of Israel.
How could these goiim demand them to desert their G'd?
How could they betray their history.

But Rabin was a pragmatic man.
He knew that peace was the only option to live.
Without signing peace with the Russians and the Turks, there would soon not be any jew alive.
Then nobody would be worshipping G'd anymore.

But Rabin's companes all disagreed with him.
"We will serve G'd forever!" they yelled!
or "We cannot decide this, that's up to the Sanhedrin. Nobody made us leaders of Israel"

They continued to discuss the situation all night long.

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

An Addendum to All Nations:

Turkey rejects the Israeli excuse that the Sanhedrin is unavailable. The Sanhedrin intentionally made themselves unavailable by surrendering to the Russians. Now Israel seeks to make their unavailability a stalling tactic to avoid responding to the peace proposal. This excuse is void, because the peace proposal calls for the removal of the Sanhedrin fanatics. They are illegitimate leaders, and have led their nation to ruin. There can be no peace as long as they head Israel, precisely because they will never allow lasting peace with Turkey. Israel can not claim the Sanhedrin's absence as a reason for stalling peace talks as the Sanhedrin is in Russian custody and should not be allowed to re-sieze power.

This is what Turkey has been trying to explain to the world community all along. The Sanhedrin and their religious fanatacism is the root of all this misery. The Dominant religion in all Israeli lands is Christianity and the people of Israel have chosen to embrace Free Religion, not a State Religion of Judaism.

Only the fanatical Sanhedrin in their religious zealotry continue to force the people of Israel to claim to be Jewish when they are not. Almost none of the Israeli cities even practice Judaism. It is madness for these so-called leaders to claim that Israel are practicioners of Judaism!

This is why the religious fanatic Sanhedrin and all who think like them must not lead the Israeli people. Their fanatical beliefs have wrought nothing but doom and desrtuction upon the Israeli people. Even now, with Turkish armies surrounding them, and with only 3 cities left their religious Zealot leaders still release statements proclaiming eternal hatred for the Turks. Hatred that stems from the destruction of a city that vanished into the dust of the desert thousands upon thousands of years ago. Hatred over a forgotten holy shrine who's religion is barely practiced, even in Israel.

Leaders of the world, please help bring an end to this insanity! Israel has only 3 cities left and their religious zealot leaders still refuse peace... All for the sake of an obsolete religion that is not even recognized as the state religion in their own nation! Please join Turkey in the condemnation of the Sanhedrin fanatics, and support our call for them to leave Israel for good.

Mahmud, substitute Messenger, on behalf of Sultan Ahmed V

[Russia (DoE)]

...The the doors suddenly opened and Russian cossacks entered the place....
Amram looked up from the book role and looked into the eyes of the commander of the Russians...
"What are you looking for?"

"We are looking for hidden soldiers. Who are you white-haired old men? Here is too dangerous for you. Semion, call the General - these look pretty important - he will know what to do with them"

"Yes, Sir!" said the young lieutenant and in a minute he was back with the General and his officers.

"Ah, so we have here the Israeli Sanhedrin! So, honored elders, let me introduce myself - I am General Vasilievich of the Russian Army . You must be Rabbi Amram Goan, right? So, can you follow me - I am ordered to escort you to the Turkish headquarter. You Rabbi are wanted as a war criminal and a traitor and will be trialed at military court of justice, and the rest of you honorable elders I am ordered to empty this building and escort all of you out of the city to Israeli territory. From there on, you are on your own. We have more important stuff to do now than to look at your grumpy old faces and to have to take care of you. Go back to wherever the new Israeli palace and center of government is moved and take at last responsibility for your own people if they dont kill you with stones for what your indecisiveness and foolish pride did to them. You can only bring more and more trouble to Israel if continue to act as a senile and irresponsible leaders of your own people."

"Soldiers! Take them away! And clean this place - make it a first aid hospital - your comrades are outside, bravely chasing the retreating enemy outnumbered by 5:1 in favor of the Israeli."

[France (DoE)]

An Addendum to All Nations:

Turkey rejects the Israeli excuse that the Sanhedrin is unavailable. The Sanhedrin intentionally made themselves unavailable by surrendering to the Russians. Now Israel seeks to make their unavailability a stalling tactic to avoid responding to the peace proposal.

It would seem to me that the Turkish Emperor and the Russian Queen did exactly the same thing recently.....

Marc Renaud

Minister of Foreign Affairs

[France (DoE)]

The Defeat at Plymouth Meadows

Marshal Maray was old. He was decorated. He was experienced. But he was also impatient to see the damn anglais destroyed, He left London with cannon and the elite cuirassiers of the French army. In two days he was camped next to Plymouth, about to start the siege that would define his military career.

An then the English attacked. Before the might of the french cannons and cuirassiers could be brought to bear. First the English catapult artillery, wounding both horse and infantry alike. And then the grenadiers, attacking the reorganizing French units.

Captain d'Albret, a veteran of many battles in North Africa, lay beside his trusty steed. He knew he was not long for this world. His wounds were serious. But what bothered him more was the defeat. The French had never experienced this. He died unsettled.



The French army destroyed many catapults that day, and a number of grenadiers, but they were caught unawares and completely defeated. Marshal Maray himself was killed in an attack by one of the Incan grenadier units.

It was a dark day for France.

[Inca (DoE)]

A letter to all European leaders:
Dear Leaders,


We regret that Inca arms have been used in an assault on French troops. Such units were given to the English a long time ago, perhaps [40T] ago, and at the time were little more than armed with maces. This was in the wake of massive English casualties, and as such the English were desperate to acquire any moderately strong units to bolster their extremely weakened and vulnerable defenses, as two major armies pushed through her homeland and threatened to deprive her of all her European possessions. The Inca made sure such units would not be used in any invasions against either the French or Viking mainlands (aggressively). These deals were (although not in detail) revealed to the world community during the peace process at the time.

That said, the Inca consider English actions to retake their core territories to be justified under the concepts of defensive warfare, and as such will not censure their usage in such a manner, as although the direct actions were of an offensive nature, the territory on which they took place was still culturally and historically defensive (English).

Still, Inca are never happy when their men or arms, no matter how long gone from the Empire, shed the blood of any other empire, and are regretful for these actions.


Signed,

Chapa Llamana
Ambassador for Western Affairs
Venetii, Inca Western Embassy

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

The Black Rock of Turkey...

Late at night, Aysecan stood out front, in smug anticipation... as the Russian convoy approached with their cargo...



Welcome Amram Goan...

... to the Black Rock, our most secure Turkish detention facility... I came all the way here just to greet you and tell you how... delicious it is to finally meet you. You said long ago that you were coming to Turkey, and the Most High has seen fit to see to it that you did come... at last..."

"And Oh yes, I almost forgot" Aysecan said, "The captain of our Russian Guard, Boris, will see you to your... accomodations... enjoy. Your trial begins in one hour."

Aysecan smirkerd ever so slightly at Amram Goan, pleased to have captured this notorious false prophet and terrorist at last, but still... she admired his bravery for having surrendered to the Russians... He must have anticipated what his fate would be.

The trial of Amram Goan was swift, as the evidence was overwhelming, and the verdict was carried out with the same efficiency of the trial...

After the trial...

Aysecan was relaxing and preparing to return to Court after the ordeal of watching Amram Goan's trial. Ali was Aysecan's personal valet, and stylist, and he was thus privy to many of her most personal thoughts... As he prepared her "So what about it Ayse? Don't you think that the Sultan and the Princess were stalling just as bad as the Israeli's are now?"

"No" said Aysecan, "First of all, Princess refused the ridiculous Israeli trap-offer outright in an interview with the Sexxstanbul... everyone knows that, so there was no stalling." Aysecan continued... "Second of all, Turkey and Russia were never weeping to the international community asking for Israel to grant peace. Israel was complaining about wanting peace, so it is ludicrous for them to be stalling... That was the point Mahmud aptly raised."

"You mean the Sultan?" Ali quickly interjected.

"Please..." Aysecan rolled her eyes... "Nobody knows Sultan Ahmed better than I do... there is no way he wrote that statement... Mahmud wrote it, and he just signed it... hmrph." Aysecan laughed... "and anyway, only the French would say something like that in the first place"

"Why do you say that Ayse?" Ali inquired

"Because the French have an interest in seeing this war go on forever. They are worried that if the war with Israel ends, Turkey will be free to threaten them... so it is to be expected that a Frenchman would scoff at the peace process and make statements to undermine it and cast aspersions on the peace effort at every turn"

"I see" Ali said...

"Just finish my hair old friend... and leave the politics to me" Aysecan took a sip of her Turkish wine... quite content in the events of the last few days.

[Mali (DoE)]

Official communiqué of the Malian government:

Leaders and people of Mali peacefully welcome new leadership to Israel, Mali is glad that the old corrupt council, which in its external relations, served with fraud, espionage and political assassinations are no longer in power. Mali will readily contact the new leader of Israel Yitzhak Rabin and expects to receive his proposals for lasting peace and friendship between Mali and Israel.

[America (DoE)]

Bid Lot nr 140; c/o Royal Tezlan Auctioneers, Contemporary art, Meso-American section

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would hereby like to place an early bid on Lot nr 140 if possible; for the sum of 120 gps. I would also like to know the size of the work, as I want to uhm, hang it, yes, hang it on the wall in my bedroom. I need to know if I have enough space, you see. Also, in the event that the painting is quite big, do you also sell smaller prints, that I can put in something like, well, say for instance if I wanted to put it in my toilet, not that I will of course, haha, but just, you know, that kind of size, which is handy, so that I can take it with me to different places? To show to people of course, haha, why else would I take it with me?

Hope to hear from you!
John Johnson
Graphic Design, WP.

[Israel (DoE)]

John D. Rockefeller, a wealthy jew who lived in Neandor territory, sent in a bid of 140 gold to the Royal Tezlan Auctioneers.
Under condition that the Azecs have to deliver the painting to Bethlehem.

[Israel (DoE)]

Rabin raised his voice: "People of Bethlehem, we have no choice! We must surrender to their terms!"
The general of the army remaining in Bethlehem, Ariel Shaon said: "Nonsense!" he walked to Rabin and pointed at his chest: "Do you want to give up the cities of Hebron, Ai, Nain and Sidon? Do you want to give up Jerusalem as our most holy city?"
Benjamin Netanyahu, a local politician supported Sharon: "Do you want to turn our back to G'd JHWH? Do you want to tear the soul of Israel in pieces, rip it out of our chest and feed it to the goiim?"

Many people applauded the words of Sharon and Netanyahu.
Rabin scraped his troath and tried again: "Let us say that all terms are acceptable, except those terms that seperate Israel from G'd, terms D3, D4, D5 and D6?"
"And what about Hebron and Ai and Sidon and Nain?" Sharon insisted.
"We have to be prepared to trade land for peace!" Rabin said with a great voice.
People yelled, screamed, but nobody dared to speak against the words of Rabin anymore.

Then Rabin started to prepare himself to travel to Tel Aviv to offer the total capitulation of Israel to Turkey and Russia under all terms as provided by the Turks and the Russians, except for D3-6.
Rabin knew that many people hated him. But he wrote the statement and started to travel to Tel Aviv. He had not yet arived by he insisted on bringing peace to the Jews once again.

[Israel (DoE)]

Ariel Sharon called his officiers.

"Before Rabin has signed peace we will march to the traitors to hit them before the peace has been settled.
We will strike at Sabra and Shatila and make these terrible betrayers pay for what they have done to us.
They will pay for their deepest betrayal"