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**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 01:25

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The History of Apolytonia
(The First Democracy Game)
In the begining
The Reign of Sodaq: Part 1
The Reign of Sodaq: Part 2
The Reign of Sodaq: Part 3
The Reign of Sodaq: Part 4
The Reign of Sodaq: Part 5
The Short Reign of Shaka Nuldur: Part 1
The Short Reign of Shaka Nuldur: Part 2
The Reign of MBloomIII: Part 1
The Reign of MBloomII: Part 2
History Beyond 200AD
The Reign of Shade
The Reign of Cavebear
Epilogue

The History of New Apolytonia
(The Second Democracy Game)
Prelude
The Birth of a New Empire
The second half of Despot John's Reign
The begining of the Reign of King Hydey
The Despot is gone, long live the King.
Long Live Bureaucracy.

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**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 01:26

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Prelude

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A long time ago (in about 4000BC) a wandering tribe of nomads discovered a large ruin. This ruin must have been there for thousands of years and wasn’t like anything they had ever seen before. They send out their bravest men to explore this mysterious by forest overgrown ancient city and waited both excited and afraid for their return.
10 days later their men returned, none of them were harmed, which immediately convinced them there weren’t any other tribes who lived in this ruin. The stories these brave men brought with them were even more amazing.
The ruin was even bigger then they expected, the men told it went all the way to the sea and there were even structures in the sea. They also told about buildings, which were so high that they touched clouds much higher then any bird could fly. On some places the ground between these buildings was harder then solid rock and a transparent material, which sealed perfectly square and round holes in the walls of these buildings, couldn’t be damaged with spears or even rocks thrown at it. This was truly a miraculous ruin.

After hearing all these fantastic stories the wise men of the tribe decided to go on a second expedition inside these ruins. Accompanied by the brave men they entered the ruins a few days later, to return safely to the tribe 40 days later.
When they returned they brought with them a large amount of strange objects, most of them were what we now call books, but back then these things had no name. There was only one problem, the wise men had no idea how to interpret these strange ideograms that filled most of the books, but they were deterred to figure it out.
The reason they gave was even more fantastic then the stories the brave men had told after the first mission…they spoke of a building that showed them what must have happened to the ruin before it became a ruin.
It had shown them enormous armies, of more then a 1000 times 1000 men which were fighting for some reason, strange machines hovering over the land and breathing fire. Other machines flying through the sky like birds, whose droppings caused enormous explosions.
And in the end there were images of strange looking spear like objects, that were moving through the sky over enormous distances, and were they came down they caused “a mushroom of death”, incinerating everything near the explosion. Further away where there was no fire an invisible hand crushed the birds and the machines in the sky. On the ground the soldiers just fell over and never stood up again.
All this time there had been a voice that spoke words they didn’t understand, even after the third and fourth time they entered the building and saw these images and heard the voice they didn’t know what the words meant.
The wise men were only sure about 1 thing: There must have been a very advanced civilization a long time ago and it got destroyed in a war. They called this civilization Apolytonia(because this was one word the voice had said repeatedly).

In order to be able to study the ruins and understand more about this long gone civilization the elder decided to found a village on the grasslands east of the ruins.
It was named Melfort and from now on the people would call their tribe New Apolytonia.
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-Written By Historian Shade

**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 01:27

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The birth of a new empire.

So here they were ready for a new way of life, no more constantly moving around, looking for a place to stay for some months.But as always there were some people who weren’t ready to give up their nomadic way of life so they decided to keep traveling around a little longer. In order not to lose contact with the village they promised to stay in the area.

To keep the village life organized the people demanded some sort of government. Immediately an eager young man named 123John321,although everyone called him John, stepped forward and claimed he could lead the people out of the darkness into the light. His enthusiasm was so overwhelming no one could stand a chance against him in elections.
Of course his reign could not be an absolute one so he needed to listen to the advice he got from his cabinet of elected village elder.

After 2300 years, his reign came up on review and although the first reactions were quite positive, it almost cost him his head.
In these 2300 years he had accomplished to explore an enormous area and had lead his exploring troops into many battles with Barbarians, all of which he was victorious. He also led a diplomatic mission to a nearby advanced tribe whom he convinced to join our tribe. They were so impressed with his military achievements they didn’t hesitate to join. (How would you react yourself when you are face to face with an invincible army and you can choose to fight them or be protected by them?)
From that day on the city of Seville became part of what everybody started to call the New Apolytonian Empire.

To make sure his troops had a place to train in, he ordered the building of barracks nearby his village palace in Melfort. There, warriors, phalanxes and even horsemen were trained in the arts of war and exploration.

In the mean while, the village elder had been studying the books and objects they brought with them from the ruins. In order to do this more efficiently they invented the alphabet.
In their quest for knowledge and understanding they also developed a way to mimic the objects made of some kind of metal. They called it the art of bronze working and it didn’t take long before some of the enlisted men got the idea to make weapons using this technique. This allowed them to make stronger bronze helmets and shields for the defending troops that were called Phalanxes. It were also the same young men that created the art of horseback riding. This was the result of a bet, one of them was bragging he could easily fight and win from 4 warriors when seated on the back of a horse…although he lost his bet (the fourth warrior was to much ) some men started training like this and after a while they were able to fight of 4 or some of them even 5 warriors.

In spite of all these achievements there were some people who weren’t very happy. They complained John hadn’t send out people to settle new cities in the explored land and that he hadn’t asked for more advice from his cabinet earlier in his reign.
At a certain point it got so bad that the leader of the cabinet, VP Darkness’ Edge, had to put up a referendum for the people so they could decide if John would be impeached or not.
After numerous speeches defending and attacking John and a lot of spear tossing the final result was that John just made it with 52.38%. He could continue his reign but he would have to be very careful. After his reign, when his diaries were discovered we learned he really felt bad about the situation. He described how his feelings were tossing him around between anger and total despair. He lost all faith in himself during the impeachment-referendum and didn’t really believe it when he made it eventually.
After the dust settled and he again could count on the undivided support and help of his cabinet of village elder, he continued his reign.

-Written By Historian Shade

**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 01:28

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The second part of despot John's reign.

To make sure nothing like the last time happened he let his reign be reviewed 725 years later. During this 725-year period John again led the people in the exploration of the world around them and discovered many new lands. He even discovered 2 new ruins, although smaller in size then the one in the woods near Melfort they were big in importance. In both ruins the old and wise men of the tribe discovered new books of knowledge. They learned from the drawings and ideograms, they already could decipher from the books from the Melfort ruin, how they could create maps of the explored territory. They also learned to mimic some of the techniques they saw on the images, using the materials they had at hand, to build temples and shrines for the gods and the ancestors, who guard and protect us in all we do.

He also encouraged, with help of the expansion minister, the people of Melfort and Seville to send out groups of brave young people to found new cities in the explored territory. Using the art of mapmaking this was now a lot easier and so 2 new cities were founded: “Cordoba” and “St.Praski”.
To make sure everybody would remember that Melfort was the most important city of all and home of the government, it was decided that it would be renamed to CAPITOL, in tradition of something the wise men, studying the ruins, had learned about the disappeared civilization.
To keep the empire in one piece John also ordered the creation of a road between CAPITOL (Melfort) and Seville and another road to connect St.Praski to Seville. These roads made it easier to travel from one city to another so problems could always be solved swiftly.

At this point the entire world the people of The New Apolytonian Empire knew was surrounded by liquid water. Except for one place where it was so cold the water was frozen solid. Because despot John wanted to explore, exploration was the one thing he really lived for, you could see his eyes glow with pride and ecstasy when he told about his expeditions with the troops, he ordered some of the bravest men to come with him and explore these icy lands. Because this would lead him to far away from CAPITOL to do his job decently the cabinet ordered him to stay at home while those brave men did the exploration. In an attempt to make this situation bearable for despot John they also ordered the men to send in yearly reports about their progress. John agreed with this plan although it made him really sad. The day the troops left CAPITOL for the exploration of the icy lands there were 5 men needed to restrain John from following them. The following weeks there didn’t pass a day the cabinet had to send out a search party to get despot John back.
Eventually John gave in and stayed in CAPITOL and did the job a leader does. The cabinet tried to comfort him as good as they could, even a blind man could see how sad he was. Every year he was excused from his duties during the 2 weeks the messengers of the explorers returned home to CAPITOL. During these 2 weeks he was constantly talking to these messengers, day and night without getting tired or hungry he listened, asked, listened and asked again. He wanted to know every detail and almost sucked the stories right out of them. These were the days you could hear him laugh throughout the entire palace.

When his reign was reviewed in the year 975BC, there were no complaints. Everybody was happy, except despot John. He couldn’t stand it any longer to stay at home, so far away from his troops exploring these new and unknown icy lands. Therefore he told the cabinet he wanted to step down and go join the explorers. He even had a name for a successor, but since The New Apolytonian Empire is a democratic society the cabinet insisted on elections.

So new elections were held, not only for the job of despot but also for all jobs in the cabinet. As soon as these elections were finished, John took his horse and raced after the last messenger returning to the exploring troops.

Here end's the reign of despot 123John321.

-Written By Historian Shade

**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 01:29

Main Table of Contents

The History of The Apolytonian Cabinet

The First Civ2 Democratic Game (begun February 2002)

February Cabinet
March Cabinet
April Cabinet
May Cabinet
June Cabinet
July Cabinet

The Second Civ2 Democratic Game (begun August 2002)
August Cabinet
September Cabinet
October Cabinet
November Cabinet
December Cabinet

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A new day, a new leader, a new empire.

When the dust settled and the votes were counted a new leader stepped into the light: Despot Hydey . His first act as new depot was simple, he sacked all his male employs and replaced them with glorious young women . He explained in a press release this was because people, who would come to him with problems, feel more at ease when addressed by a nice young girl then by a grumpy old male employ. As always, when a leader makes a wise decision, there were evil tongues that claimed otherwise. They spoke about “parties” where only the young interns were invited by despot Hydey, and about the things which happened there.

When this change was done, despot Hydey started his reign. He continued the exploration of the last part of the main continent using a troop of horsemen. One day they saw a group of huts on the horizon, Hydey who didn’t trust this situation, he had heard about troops of barbarians traveling the entire world and attacking everything that even looked like civilization, approached the village carefully. When the villagers saw the approaching horsemen, they send out a “volunteer”: to find out what Hydey wanted. After a few tense hours of discussion both parties concluded they could trust one-another. Despot Hydey was immensely surprised when the people of the village held a huge celebration that evening and they announced they would send their strongest men with him on his campaign to explore the continent.
So when the horsemen and despot Hydey left the village they were accompanied by a troop of heavily armed and very good trained men, who called themselves “Legion”.

In the mean time ex-despot John was exploring the icy lands and had submitted his reports in which he spoke about endless plains of ice and snow, about bears with white furs and sea lions with big ivory teeth. He also mentions 2 villages they found in these unforgiving lands. The first one was empty; they only found some metals worth 50G that he send with his report to Capital. The second settlement was inhabited, the men who lived there told they were explorers of a distant country and they were lost in these cold lands. Living there already for 7 years and having seen 3 out of 4 of their friends die they decided to join John’s explorers. They packed what was left of their horses and followed the pack.

Back in Capital there had been a lot of small fights in the streets and pubs lately so the mayor decided to put down some rules of conduct for the stationed men and citizens, to keep this situation from escalating. He called them “Laws” and in his enthusiasm and love for rules he even wrote a book of on how to create these “laws”, called:”Code of laws, how to create a successful law.”
At the same moment of despot Hydey’s return to Capitol, rumors about the Chinese nation building a wonder called “the pyramids” reached the Apolytonian Empire . As reaction to this and to show the strength of our young empire despot Hydey announced the foundation of a new city called: Valencia . He also ordered the construction of the first ship that the New Apolytonian Empire would build. The news of the Chinese building the pyramids had given Hydey a vision, a vision of an immense empire with many cities and tens of thousands of citizens. It would control the land, sea and sky over an aria so big that it was day in one part and night in an other.

-Written By Historian Shade

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**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 01:30

Government History Contents

August Cabinet
President: 123John321
Vice President: Darkness Edge
City Planner: Ixnay37
Foriegn Minister: -Jrabbit
Minister of War: MrWhereItsAt
Expansion Minister: Atawa
Science/Trade Minister: H Tower
Historian: Civman2000

Government History Contents

September Cabinet
President: Hydey
Vice President: Ixnay37
City Planner: Darkness Edge
Foriegn Minister: -Jrabbit
Minister of War: cavebear
Expansion Minister: atawa
Science/Trade Minister: H Tower
Historian: shade

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October Cabinet
President: Cavebear
Vice President: Darkness' Edge
City Planner: Zedd
Foriegn Minister: 123john321
Minister of War: shade
Expansion Minister: atawa
Science Minister: Ixnay37
Trade Minister: MrWhereItsAt
Historian: Shade

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**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 18:07

Main Table of contents
Citizens of New Apolytonia
1)MrWhereItsAt
2)Civman2000
3)Marquis de Sodaq
4)Xenozod
5)teic
6)DarkCloud
7)ixnay37
8)CannonFodder
9)H Tower
10)shade
11)atawa
12)123john321
13) Darkness' Edge
14)Kropotkin
15)Hydey
16)DuckOfFlanders
17)-Jrabbit
18)JCP
19)James Adams
20)Ren
21)Libertarian2004
22)Atomant
23)AdamTG02
24)Fatwreck
25)Kassiopeia
26)jdd2007
27)Vlad Antlerkov
28)Zealot
29)Zedd
30)Jayne
31)Messer Niccolò
32)tomcat ha
33)trickey
34)cavebear
35)Gelvan
36)Galvatron
37)Gramphos
38)Dank
39)Bear
40)Makeo
41)earwicker
42)geoffrey arnold
43)Tass
44)Tassadar5000
45)obiwan18
46)Jan Kras
47)Baron O
48)Space05us
49)DinoDoc
49)GaijinTenshi
50)BruceTheStupid
51)Adacore
52)War4ever

(as of December 10, 2002)

**H Tower** · October 13, 2002, 18:54

Main Table of Contents

Baisc Guidelines For Playing

Responsiblities of the Cabinet
President
Vice President
Supreme Military Commander (Minister of War)
Science Minister
Trade Minister
City Planner
Minister of Imperial Expansion
Foriegn Minister
Historian
General Cabinet Rules

Election Guidelines
Everyone

Guideline for playing

President's Responsibilities
-Plays the game
-If supplied with conflicting advice/polls and there is no time/way to straighten this out, the Prez makes the final decisions.
-If the matter is urgent enough (eg imminent invasion/loos of capital city), the Prez is expected to seek help from Ministers/the Public and NOT go it alone.
-Should post a turn-by-turn account of their play (nothing too detailed, just major troop movements, conquests etc, Wonder/technology news...)
-Gets to name cities

Guideline for playing

Vice-President's Responsibilities
-Posts nomination thread
-Posts election polls
-Becomes Minister if that Minister is absent for 24hr
-Becomes Prez in event of abdication - holds position until next elections

Guideline for playing

Supreme Military Commander's (Minister of War) Responsibilities
-Military polls
-Exploration (shared with Minister of Imperial Expansion)

Guideline for playing

Science Minister's Responsiblities
-Setting science rate (in conjunction with Trade Advisor)
-Tech targets (main and secondary for just in case situations where we can't go for the one we want)
-should be for a tree of several techs so we don't have to stop every time we get one.

Guideline for playing

Trade Minister's Responsibilities
-All uses of caravans (Wonders, trade with ourselves/others, rushing other things)
-Setting tax rate (in conjunction with Science Advisor)

Guideline for playing

City Planner's Responsibilities
-What to do with workers and when to build them
-Build queues. When polling on possible build queues, the Minister decides the most important ones for himself (in consultation with public/Council if necessary) and poll only on these important ones
-Unhappiness Issues
-Terrain Development

Guideline for playing

Minister of Imperial Expansion Minister
-Where to build cities
-Exploration (shared with Minister of War)

Guideline for playing

Foriegn Minister's Responsibilities
-All foreign affairs, use of diplomats/spies and government change

Guideline for playing

Historian's Responsibilities
-Writes a narrative of all that happens during a term (see -Jrabbit's excellent ones for a good indicator of what you are to do) with excessive smilies (important! :doitnow: ) and must be prepared to be contacted for news to put on the Apolyton Civ2 news site (has happened twice)

Guideline for playing

General Cabinet Rules
-Each person may hold 1 post at a time.
-Cabinet gets the save.
-Absolutely NO play to be done by any but the Prez
-NOBODY is allowed to check the map by cheating or playing into the future for an advantage
-NO reloading for favourable outcomes of huts, battles etc.

Guideline for playing

Elections
-Elections end of every month.
-Each citizen may be in the Cabinet for four terms in a row only - need a responsibility-free month before they can run again. The only exception is if there is no other candidate for a position in an election - this should be considered last resort material
-Self Nominations OK
-Once elected (polls close and Cabinet names are posted in High Council thread by the Prez) Ministers must PM their emails to the Prez

Guideline for playing

Everyone
-Anyone can be a member of Apolytonia.
-All are allowed (and encouraged

) to vote on polls
-Any concerns should be posted or PMed to Ministers - this IS a Democratic game!

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**H Tower** · November 4, 2002, 22:05

Government History Contents
February Cabinet

President: Marquis de Sodaq
Vice-president: Shaka Naldur
Science Advisor: Gramphos
Foreign Advisor: adamsj
Millitary Advisor: Shade
Trade Advisor: El Awrence
City Planner: kassiopeia
Impirial Expansion: Frank Johnson
Historian: Albert B.

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**H Tower** · November 4, 2002, 22:05

Government History Contents
March Cabinet

President: Shaka Naldur
Vice-president: MBloomIII
Science Advisor: Gramphos
Foreign Advisor: adamsj
Millitary Advisor: Shade
Trade Advisor: El Awrence
City Planner: kassiopeia
Impirial Expansion: Frank Johnson
Historian: Albert B

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**H Tower** · November 4, 2002, 22:07

Government History Contents
April Cabinet

President: Shade
Vice-president: Shaka Naldur.
Science Advisor: MBloomIII
Foreign Advisor: Hydey
Millitary Advisor: Marquis de Sodaq
Trade Advisor: El Awrence
City Planner: cavebear
Imperial Expansion: Steelehc
Historian: Jrabbit

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**H Tower** · November 4, 2002, 22:08

Government History Contents
May Cabinet

President: cavebear
Vice president: MrWhereItsAt
Science Advisor: ixnay37
Foreign Advisor: adamsj
Military Advisor: Marquis de Sodaq
Trade Advisor: shade
City Planner: Shadowlord
Imperial Expansion: CannonFodder
Historian: -Jrabbit

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**H Tower** · November 4, 2002, 22:09

Government History Contents
June Cabinet

President: cavebear
Vice president: civman2000
Science Advisor: ixnay37
Foreign Advisor: Hydey
Military Advisor: MrWhereItsAt
Trade Advisor: timmy2tone69
City Planner: Bear **
Imperial Expansion: CannonFodder
Historian: -Jrabbit

**Bear resigned on June 13. atawa became the City Planner effective June 15

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**H Tower** · November 4, 2002, 22:10

Government History Contents
July Cabinet

President: MrWhereItsAt
Vice-president: 123john321
Science Advisor: H Tower
Foreign Advisor: Hydey
Minister of War: Shade
Minister of Trade: Matticus
City Planner: atawa
Historian: cavebear

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