Destiny of Empires [Diplo Game] [Story Thread 11 - August 2011]

[Ottoman Empire (DoE)]

The Daily Turkey

Former Substitute Messenger Mahmud releases advance copies of his Magnum Opus

The "Great Treatise of International Law" co-authored by Supreme Commander Jamal and Substitute Messenger Mahmud has finally been released for publication. The work contains a perfectly balanced War and Diplomacy centered complilation of international law. For our loyal readers, The Turkey is releasing excerpts from the introduction and the First chapter...


Introduction

This work is done with respect and appreciation to all nations who have contributed to the understanding of international law. Particularly, we wish to give special thanks to certain nations and certain persons throughout history. The nations that must recieve special recognition are, Neandor, Inca, China, Valhalla, India and Native America. The persons that deserve special recognition are, Dwight 'diplo' Eisenhower of America, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, Emperor Mejii of Japan, Rabbi Amram Goan of Israel, Lady Aysecan of Turkey, Camaxtli of Azteca, Ras Imru of Mali, King Phillipe of France, King Venetta of Neandor, Mind of Heaven of Native America, Comrade-Princess Catherine of Russia...

This Treatise is not intended to be an imposed rule. On the contrary, this Treatise is merely a recoreded observation of what the attitude of the world community has been historically to a number of situations. We attempt to present the way th einternational community has responded to past situations, in order to help nations predict how nations will respond to their conduct in the future...

Chapter 1

--Wars of Pure Conquest

Lower rank Civilizations have an absolute privilege to attack higher ranked civilizations for the purpose of pure conquest and or rank increase. Higher ranked civilizations have no privilege to attack lower ranked ones for conquest purposes. Some other legitimate purpose must be well enumerated before attack. When a lower rank civilization attacks a higher ranked one for conquest purposes, the attacks must cease when the lower ranked civilization surpasses the formerly higher ranked one in rank...

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The Turkey will print more of this compelling work in days to come...

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Reports indicate that rebels seek refuge in neighbouring countries -STOP- Natives and Inca have been contacted -STOP- Camaxtli still on throne -STOP- Support is diminishing -END OF MESSAGE-

[Native America (DoE)]

Salt of the Earth read the report from the mayor of Siskyou and sighed. He certainly could understand the woman's thought processes in this suddenly chaotic situation, but he wished she had been a little less compassionate under the circumstances. Still, he did not think it likely that the Turk-things would care much about the city called by the Serpent People-things "Tijuana", nor did he think that his good friend, "Comrade" Catherine would care much, either. The city had little in the way of strategic resources that anyone had found. And it was true that the sudden civil war in the Serpent People-thing "empire" left the inhabitants of the city quite without protection, or even basic services.

Still, he thought, accepting the request to take control of the city, and move troops into it no less, was bound to ruffle at least some feathers. After all, the whole issue of the war currently going on between the Serpent People-things and the Turk-things (and, by the reports, the forces of Comrade Catherine) was the "lease" of the city of Tlaxcala to the Viking-things. Trading cities like they were simply pieces on some gigantic gameboard was against all convention, even for the man-things of the rest of the world. For The People, it was not to be contemplated at all. Which meant the move by the Mayor of Siskyou had to be dealt with.

He thought for a moment. Ah, that was the key! He would stress to his friend Catherine, and to the world, that this was purely a temporary move. The city would be granted back its own control as soon as the situation stabilized. After all, that's all that the inhabitants of Tijuana had asked. And The People certainly had no intent on taking any permanent action on the situation. And he would remind the press that Tijuana had been right on the border, and was surrounded by increasingly Peoplized towns and farms. If The People had not acted to take control before, the world would hardly expect The People had permanent designs on Tijuana now.

He sighed again. Hopefully, things sorted themselves out very soon. Word of destruction in the psuedo-empire of the Serpent People-things had already reached him. It was not a good day to be from the Ithsmus...

[Russia (DoE)]

The rumors that the former Lieutenant Boris rose so fast in the hierarchy because of his close relations with Comrade Catherine was finally broke. The important task of leading the Operation Tlaxcian Freedom was a good test about his skills and he managed it brilliant. Led by the newly promoted Colonel Boris in person, the Krasnaia Armia infantries had jumped from abroad the ships and had stormed the Azteca defensive positions on the West Coast. Despite the low odds, the determined Russian attack was successful, seizing two of the major Aztec cities Tlatelolco and Teotihua Canal with a storm.



Colonel Boris ordered the perimeter to be secured while we wait for further development of the crisis.



While waiting for the answer of the Aztecs officials - being they the Royal Court or the Revolutionary Comitee, an appeal to the ordinary Azteca was released:

"Aztecs, overthrow the lunatic King Camaxtli who leads you from war to another war! For the good of your nation, choose the peace instead of war. Stand as one and ask the unity of the whole Aztec nation. Take back Tlaxcala from the oil-thirsty foreigners. Take the control of your destiny back in your hands! Aztec Empire is the people of Azteca! Proletarians of all countries, unite!"

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Tenochtitlan Today - Confusion reigns, no clear winner

“I will stay in Tenochtitlan until the end,” Camaxtli said.

On that occasion, Camaxtli also called on his supporters across the country to help liberate Azteca from the mass of the so-called rebels. Camaxtli continues to fight the insurgents despite recent reports of resistance that has killed 367 people on both sides.

In that message, Camaxtli also worried, “Azteca will burn.” He also promised to give arms to loyalists to attack the rebels who have pushed loyalists out of Texcoco.

Tenochtitlan News reports that Camaxtli refused to hand over power. In fact, Camaxtli promised to appear and declare victory in Tenochtitlan.
In Yucatan, the rebels who claim to have mastered Texcoco celebrate. The rebels are even very confident that Camaxtli will step down in just a few hours.

Despite this Camaxtli says: “The great thing that you guys do, although there is harsh opposition, you stay and fight in Tenochtitlan”.
“Go forward and attack, go forward.”


Meanwhile, both the rebels and the loyalists fight the Russians with even more hatred.
"We would have been united, happy and rich without these bastards and the Ottoman hounds they sent against us.."

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Confusion continues.. utter destruction of Aztec lands and economy

Short headlines

* Camaxtli has not been signaled for 8 days. Has he fled the country?

* Civil war continues. Loyalists control Tenochtitlan. Rebels the country side.

* Situation around Tlaxcala remains unclear, as Camaxtli is unavailable.

* Russian naval blockade causes severe famine in Tenochtitlan (loyalist) and Texcoco (rebel). Again the Russians have utter contempt for human life. First they destroy Tlatelolco and Teotihua Canal, now they starve the remaining Aztec cities.

* Azteca is in ruins and will not recover. Economists say that it takes hundreds of years to recover..

* Therefore rebels ask for protection of the neighbouring countries. If the naval blockade continues, nothing will remain from Azteca. Save the civilians!
Only the neighbouring countries can control enough of the countryside to prevent famine.
> Tijuana rebels are already under protection of Native America.
> Texcocan rebels ask for protection of United States.
> Calixtl asks for protection of the Incan empire.

* Being a stubborn people both loyalists and rebels refuse to give in to totally unfair Russian demands. First they and their dogs, the Ottomans, destroy Azteca and then they act like they are the peaceloving and kind peoples. "We Aztecs will have none of it! We better die proud, then to live like a puppet on a string. Let the world know what they are up against."

* An american peace core has been signaled in the country. Both rebels and loyalists have asked them to return home, as the country is allready filled with military from all across the globe.

[Russia (DoE)]

"Read this Aztec communique, Colonel Boris." a Russian infantry soldier with muddy boots entered and saluted strained.

"We will leave to Moscow to answer the political ones, but we can resolve the immediate humanitarian crisis. I will write to the Valhalla authorities to just hand over the Tlaxcala city to Native control. The people there are left not much and already starved by working to get that bloody Oil, so no starvation will occur there, even more - they will actually start feeding, as they have Native farms to work. It can be done even today, so no more lives are lost. Once the city is no longer in Viking possession, our job here is done and we are lifting the blockade and sailing away back to Matushka Rus. Contact the Vikings at once!" Boris was energetic and capable young man, who always liked working solutions.

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Breaking headlines

* Tenochtitlan on strike versus Camaxtli

* Texcoco under American protection

* Calixtl under Incan protection

* Ottoman government breaks promise: "the unofficial" peace as offered by the Ottomans is broken by these same Ottomans.
Miami is attacked and sacked.

[Aztecs (DoE)]

J'accuse

The famous French writer Emile Zola publishes the news paper article "J'accuse" (I accuse) on the Ottoman campaign versus the peacefull Americans.
His final statements in this article are:


"But this letter is long, Mr. Sultan, and it is time to conclude.

I accuse Major Patyclam as the diabolic workman of the miscarriage of justice, without knowing,
I have wanted to believe it, and of then defending his harmful work, for three years, by the guiltiest and most absurd of machinations.

I accuse General Attaturk of being an accomplice, if by weakness of spirit, in one of greatest iniquities of the century.

I accuse General Suleiman of having held in his hands the unquestionable evidence of America's innocence and of suppressing it,
guilty of this crime that injures humanity and justice, with a political aim and to save the compromised Chief of High Command.

I accuse General Bosdeffra and General Gonse as accomplices of the same crime, one undoubtedly by clerical passion,
the other perhaps by this spirit of body which makes offices of the war an infallible archsaint.

I accuse the three handwriting experts, sirs Bello, Varina and Cazri, of submitting untrue and fraudulent reports,
unless a medical examination declares them to be affected by a disease of sight and judgment.

I accuse the offices of the war and Mrs. Aysecan of carrying out an abominable campaign to mislead the public and cover their fault.

Finally, I accuse the first Ottoman council of war of violating the laws governing war by attacking the allways peacefull nation of America,

and I accuse the second Ottoman council of war of covering up this illegality, by order, by committing in his turn the legal crime of knowingly discharging all humanitarian pleas.

While proclaiming these charges, I am not unaware of subjecting myself to articles 30 and 31 of the press law of July 29, 1861, which punishes the offense of slander.
And it is voluntarily that I expose myself.

As for the people I accuse, I do not know them, I never saw them, I have against them neither resentment nor hatred.
They are for me only entities, spirits of social evil. And the act I accomplished here is only a revolutionary mean for hastening the explosion of truth and justice.

I have only one passion, that of the light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so and is entitled to happiness.
My ignited protest is nothing more than the cry of my heart. That one thus dares to translate for me into court bases and that the investigation takes place at the great day!

I am waiting.

Please accept, Mr. Sultan, the assurance of my utmost resolve in this matter.

[India (DoE)]

The Total War


Following the fall of the Representative government of India the entire nation was in utter chaos. The peaceful Indians who had dedicated themselves to pacifism for hundreds of years had seen their lands stolen by China, their honor mocked, their decency questioned, their morals despised, their colonies robbed, their people starved, their empire lost. The limit of Indian peacefulness had been reached, the cup of rage so far outbrimmed the restraint of logic that when some semblance of order was reestablished it was not a man of peace who took charge.

Admiral Bayeg was a man of Calicut, one of the cities that had suffered the Japanese blockade, his early history in the navy had made him a feared and respected as a harsh and brutal man, as so many naval commanders of the time. When a message from the Indian Constitutional Congress came to end the war against Japan, this man of war reacted by retreating to his quarters for a forthnight awaiting further orders. As no new orders came he began to send out orders of his own. A message to Japan followed quickly, allow the Indian fleet safe passage home. The Japanese in their arrogance demanded 300 gold for his retreat. Cornering their fleet with his superior ships he graciously granted them 100 gold in return for passage.

Yet the fleet laid anchored outside Japanese waters for several months, waiting. It was not an exit he desired, it was an entry. Following his commands the captains of several galleons responded as he expected, they too were harsh and brutal men, and all of them were loyal to India, to a fault. They responded to his vision as he had hoped, they sailed into the Dragon's mouth knowing well that only death could be their reward. Since the dawn of time, China had been India's greatest enemy, its only obstacle to greatness. The obstacle would be removed or India would collapse.

As Indian Rifles and Grenadiers assaulted from the sea, the Chinese coast cities pitifully defended fell, first Shanghai, then in turn, three others. The Indian soldiers saw no reason to show mercy, the cities were fired upon from the sea, the soldiers spread fires. In less than a week four of China's great cities were gone. Its population, great culture, many buildings eradicated by the allconsuming fires. As the word reached back to India of this act of insanity and reckless courage, the Indian people were shaken out of their lethargy. Thousands took up arms and marched to the eastern border. Total War now existed between the Indian Republic and the Chinese Empire.

[Arabia2 (doe)]

Arabia is in shock. President Abdus Salam wished to give a speech, but couldn't hold back his tears.. he could only mumble a few words "Allah save us, Allah save us all!"

[Aztecs (DoE)]

Camaxtli, the official Aztec leader, has vowed to fight on and die a "martyr", calling on his supporters to take back the streets from protesters demanding his ouster, shouting and pounding his fist in a furious speech.

Camaxtli, clad in brown robes and a turban, spoke on Tuesday evening from a podium set up in the entrance of a shelled building that appeared to be his Tenochtitlan residence.

"I am a fighter, a revolutionary ... I will die as a martyr at the end," he said.

"Camaxtli is the leader of the Aztecs, I am not a king to step down ... This is my country. Camaxtli will not leave his post."

"I have not yet ordered the maximum use of force, not yet ordered total war... when I do, everything will burn."


He called on supporters to take to the streets to attack protesters.
"You men and women who love Camaxtli ...get out of your homes and fill the streets," he said.
"Leave your homes and attack them in their lairs ... Starting tomorrow the cordons will be lifted, go out and fight them."

Camaxtli said "peaceful protests is one thing, but armed rebellion is another".

He urged all young men to immediately "form local committees for popular security", telling them to wear a green armband to identify themselves.
"The Aztec people and the popular revolution will control Azteca."

The speech was made to hundreds of supporters massed in Tenochtitlan's central Ball Park Square.



Speech highlights

Shouting in the rambling speech, Camaxtli declared himself "a warrior" and proclaimed: "Azteca wants glory, Azteca wants to be at the pinnacle, at the pinnacle of the world".

The leader alleged that all of those who were protesting against his rule were "drugged", and called on people to capture them and bring them "to justice", and not to back down from "cleans[ing] Azteca house by house" unless of the protesters surrendered.

Camaxtli warned that instability in his country would create an opportunity for extremist elements, saying that it would "give Russians and Ottomans a base".

He also warned that he could resort to using extreme force against opposition in the cities of Texcoco and Teotihua Canal, citing examples of the use of state force in Russia and Ottomans as times when the international community did not interfere.

Camaxtli offered a new constitution to citizens, starting from Wednesday, but asserted that the constitution would only come into effect through dialogue.

He said that the country's youth was drugged and did not know anything; they were following their leaders and these would be punished with death in accordance with the Aztec law.



The Aztec interior minister renounced his post shortly after this speech.
He was seen sitting on a desk reading a statement that also urged the Camaxtlian army loyalists to join the people and their "legitimate demands".

[Russia (DoE)]

"Catherine! We have shocking unconfirmed news from the Far East! The Chinese coast is smoldering!" Liliana and Tatiana - two of the young female agents who were both companions and guards for Comrade Catherine entered her chambers loud. "Something is boiling, Comrade - we have no confirmation, but something is not right"

"I knew this number 420 bodes ill - fires and smoke, but it is even not come and the disasters are already started! Let us be prepared! Call the Prime Minister Yosif! Call Red Alert! Call mobilization! Everyone on his guard!"

[India (DoE)]

From the Ashes it rises, Shiva the Destroyer, the original God of the Indians, dormant for a half dozen millennia, cast out by logic and pacifism, now returned in its full glory. India serves the destroyer.

[England (DoE)]

Excerpts from Edward Gibbons' The History of the Decline and Rise of the English Empire

The Elizabethan Age

Centuries of golden ages, colonial expansion, global commerce and native conquest led to an England sitting astride the world as a giant. An empire the likes of which the world had never seen. Vast territory and natural resources on three continents, millions of acres of land and tens of millions of royal subjects, the English Empire was the envy of the planet. In 1270 AD King Henry VIII died and left the empire to his daughter, Elizabeth, the first queen of England. Her coronation was befitting an empire at the height of its power. The pageantry and splendor was unmatched. All the lords and ladies dressed in the finest silks and linens the empire's global trade network could provide. Each of them expecting many glorious days to come. None of them expecting their grim fate.

The English Empire on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth:



The Great War - 1335-1360 AD

While the English grew wealthy extracting riches from around the world, her neighbors grew jealous and covetous. They were arming themselves at an incredible rate, and equipping their troops with advanced weaponry England simply couldn't match. They sought a piece of England's riches. They weren't after her colonies though, they were after the heart of the Empire - the British Isles. The Vikings struck first. With no provocation, they were motivated purely by greed. In 1335 war was declared and the Viking troops landed all across the eastern coast of Britain. Their vast numbers could not be turned back by the island's defenses. Their disciplined, accurate riflemen overpowered England's ragtag collection of medieval troops and smooth-bore musket carrying militia. While a sufficient army to subjugate primitive tribes on many shores, the English army was no match for the Viking onslaught. York fell in 1340, and London, the most glorious city in the world, fell to the Viking raiders in 1355.

Queen Elizabeth was determined to fight back. And fought back she did. She raised an army in Plymouth and the English killed as many Viking rifles as they could, she even led them into battle to retake London in 1360. But they could not hold it more than a few months. Admiral Nelson was dispatched to evacuate the city as the Viking troops fought and pillaged house to house through the streets of the once mighty world capitol. With all of Britain suddenly in danger of conquest, Queen Elizabeth and her court fled to Iceland, hiding behind her fleet and hundreds of miles of ocean, it was the last safe place left in Europe. The loss of London was a huge morale blow to the Empire, but had practical effects as well. London was the center of science and invention in the Empire, hosting the most prestigious research institution in the world: the Great Library. It was a hub of global trade, the lucrative trade routes from all corners of the planet were coordinated through London. Without it the entire English trade network collapsed, and so did the economy. The Church of England suffered a serious blow as well. The Anglican faithful in Australia, South America and Europe tithed greatly to the central church, and the Queen, as head of the church, had relied on these tithes to run both the church and the government. In every way the loss of London was a monumental disaster.

This first stage of the war went very poorly for England, the empire lost the jewel in her crown, but there still seemed to be hope. Up till 1360 it was purely a Viking vs. England war. It hadn't yet expanded beyond the two combatants. This was soon to change.