Domination of Barbarians [Diplo Game] [Story Thread 20 - November 2013]

[Persia (DoB)]

Greece, world sovereign and undisputed leader of all that is of value in this world. It is your complete right to question questions, end agreements, and bring to bear your view of the world and those that inhabit it. To save the faith of which one is entitled to view and hold by discretion of ownership is a feat unnamed in this world.

You appear to hold views of fear and dismay when reluctantly disbanding a former alliance. Words may harm, yet silence can harm most of all. To this is past and present an account of damage done, with a will and measure to aim towards this future? No. Mere acceptance and concern for the domestic challenges, threaded by continued and utterly damaging wars of prolonged nature, some of which bore greater damage through taking up almost all occupation of it's former leaders.

Going through past letters, many of mark and renown, curious tendencies spring forth. After a public declaration of complete sharing, no share has been dealt. Instead, an inspiration by this public decree brought forth a sharing by Persia, to which China, Ottomans and Japan have received bounties as friends and allies in their own right. Greece has not received a tad from this share, but that comes from a right of ownership by which the church of nativity claims an impressive income to the Greek treasury. It is strange, now, to discover Greek lack of followthrough. No Christian nation has received any bit of sharing from what Greece publicly promised to share. Of course, this is neither critique nor accusation, merely observation. If the people of Greece committed this to put on a face of charity, it most assuredly worked. I know three nations that would be far behind on matters at hand if not for the public decree from Greece, which in turn inspired Persia to share among those following the faith of Islam. So thank you, and no matter how much Greece decides to hold back and deny to its Christian friends, Persia will remember an inspiration, a beacon, a golden azure light from which so much invention and advancement has sprung forth.

With a promise of peace through lack of arms, the idea of pacifism has been born in many of the great cities. The people speak up, and now that unfettered leadership has been set up, a new idea and a new future can be nurtured. Since there is a claim that no war will ever take place with Greece as the aggressor, a plan has been set in motion to inspire all that is good in the world. I shall do, and speak not. So you will see for your own self, without any doubt, that this is truth in beautiful radiance like the golden dawn of summer.

~Grand Vizier Tajimal~

[Greece (DoB)]

To the Grand Vizier of Persia, we do understand that you need to share with the other Islamic nations, paying others to keep loyal and puppets doesn't come free. Is no secret that you have worked hard to lock those nations in control and take their freedom away.

[England (DoB)]

The Buddhists rabble had to be shown their place. Their ever increasing agitation for emancipation, the abolition of the monarchy, and the establishment of republican or democratic governance was reason enough to reimpose slavery, but the final straw was something far more sinister. A fundamental challenge to the primacy of the Taoist faith. A theory known as “evolution.”

At first glance it was nothing but a benign theory aimed at explaining the diversity of life, as an outcome of a never ending struggle in which only the fittest survived. However, it was seized on by Buddhist radicals as a rallying cry against the self-evident superiority of the immortal Tao. With the Buddhist cycle of death, and rebirth the radicals argued the undying Taoists could never attain a higher plane of evolutionary existence and that the future was destined to be one of Buddhist domination.

It was a theory that could normally be laughed off if it were not for the immense gains of the Buddhists in recent years. These were ideas that must be suppressed.

Slavery would be reestablished. The economic costs would be high, but well worth the maintenance of social stability.

[Greece (DoB)]

Persia has moved most of their western army inland, to where exactly we do not know. Greece will do some adjustments to its western defenses as well. Still the military will remain strong to safeguard any surprise eastern aggression.

[Greece (DoB)]

Reports have arrived from England saying that the British are close to establishing their own corporation in the near future. Some scientists claim that new corporation will give a great growth boost to the English populace. Greeks are eagerly awaiting to see the results from this discovery, and even if results are positive may negotiate with the English to send corp salesmen to Greece as well.

[England (DoB)]

John Stuart Mill was a modest Taoist businessman of little note. That is until the great Buddhist golden age. Bustling trade brought him to the epicenter Buddhist thinking in Desert where he soon felt the pull of the powerful faith. After several years of contemplation and mediation he was prepared to enter his next cycle of reincarnation.






His substantial wealth was left in a corporate trust with the singular mission of feeding those in need and promoting Buddhist culture. Named after the great Buddhist prophet Siddhartha, Sid’s Sushi was established.

[Persia (DoB)]

Peace.

A word of plenty, prosperity and neglect.

The Grand Vizier studied the latest report and contemplated, wondering what his actions meant to other leaders.



Making up his mind, a letter was written and sent out, bidding the long-lived prophet Abdul Al-hazred to his court. Then he sent for the keenest of thinkers from the national Academy of Phrada. An idea was forming in his mind, and with another keen mind and a prophet by his side, this idea could change Persia forever. Yes, he would see that it worked. He was the Grand Vizier Tajimal of Persia, and permitted himself a brief smile.

[Persia (DoB)]

When guards of white and black arrived, he did not know what to think. In silence he got up and walked the longest hour of his life up to the hill, to the gate, to the keepers of His will. Running through his mind were all the good things he had done, his wife bore many children, but died of the shivers last spring. So need and want had vanished for him, bit by bit he stopped his trade, and all his children grown and having their own families to care for, let him stay alone as was his wish.

Now all the sunsets, every dawn, every word that found him speaking up and out and through the eyes of he who lost that most precious to him. He was old, he was gone, he spoke his mind from what he knew and what he saw. Not one could pierce the world like him, few Imams would let him speak. For saying such as he did earned him beatings with a stick.

Now he stood there for a moment, awaiting judgement as was due, the doors were opened and walking in he did not expect the view before his tired eyes. There sat his eminence and the grey advisors, one all dressed in black, with a thinker with his headband and -by the beard of Allah- the prophet Al-hazred himself! Those eyes looked back with a knowing, and he felt completely bare to his soul, for before him was the mightiest of men in the realm, with him in his muckstained shoes.

Afterwards, he walked home and sat there, wondering the strange turns that life could take. Grasping his staff he made way to his eldest son to speak of this momentous day. Change would come and never be like the Persia of old, and his mind was peaceful again.

[Spain (DoB)]

The Senate of Catalunya, under the governance of Gran Duquessa Sancha, today ratified
the formal Non Agression Pact signed between the Duchy du Catalunya and the Kingdom
of Netherlands.

The Pact is effective immediately and until Turn 900.

[Netherlands (DoB)]

The foreign minister filed a copy of the treaty next to the similar treaty between Netherlands and Greece. The treaty with Catalunia contained more clauses, and so it was heavier, and more elaborately adorned and bound in a shiny tome, whereas the Greek document was a single page, simple and without any decorative enhancements.Still the same term "NAP until turn 900", was contained in both.

[Persia (DoB)]

A young representative is sent to Greece, intending to find out the reason for the recent increase of interest in local farmland and taxation issues close to the Greek/Persian border. From the number of reports a likewise interest has been alotted to find out if any clandestine mindset is behind this otherwise completely legal curiosity between neighbours. No military action has been set in motion as a response to what another, previous leader might have thought of as a prelude to sabotage and outright war.