Tales From the Diplomatic Front V

[Frank Johnson]

Our game actually got started early! But ended early too, as someone mysteriously disappeared and we took pity on them and desided not to let the AI ruin them.

In any case, I as the glorious Chinese civilization grew quite well. I met the Indians and Japanese and we set some boarders for now. THe big surprise was the Egyptians. From what I heard they have 4 more cities than the closest competeitor, me. Lucky huts!

Not much to let now, the only question is where we all head next!

Jian Fu Lynn
Da Wang Zhong Guo
Big Emperor of China
Long Live the Middle Kingdom

[War4ever]

Spots page vol 1 issue 1

Well as the commisioner of Major League Baseball (MLB), my goal was to build playgrounds for future generations.

This was cut back due to lack of space on the African plains. For another presence far supeior in technology and power has eaten alot of the landscape.

Yes we are allied with the mighty Egyptians, who did not seem to want to communicate with the lowly MLB clan

However new developments have arisen and now the MLB and Egyptians have a strong alliance in which techs were echanged and mutual borders secured.

I have yet to meet other tribes but reports indicate that a strong Japanese civilization exists based on reports of some sort of hanging gardens, which make the people very happy .

[Curumbor Elendil]

And so the long-awaited sequel begins, with something of a bang, if that is
possible for 1x1x...

Murray Rothbard ascended the throne of an unusually enlightened Despotism as
Supreme Anarch of the Libertarian civilization. Situated in the fertile Indus tidal
plain, the first villagers established the city of Liberty, which in Libertarian
sounds like "Ahmadabad." Soon thereafter Freedom was founded, which sounds like
"New Delhi."

The Libertarians swiftly became great horsemen and rode out upon the plains of
Central Asia, becoming the world's explorers. Libertarian travellers established
fruitful contact with an Egyptian civilization founding cities in northern Arabia,
Roman tribes migrating into Asia Minor, a blossoming Chinese civilization on the
banks of the Yangtze, and, eventually, a Siberian Japanese civilization and a
group of people calling themselves "Falcons" on the steppes of the Volga.

Peaceful by nature, the Libertarians signed peace treaties with all these mighty
empires and soon entered alliances with the Romans, Chinese, and Japanese.
This grand alliance is committed to fair play in the world but is mildly concerned
about the overwhelming dominance of the Egyptians to date, who have
surpassed the Libertarians in their explorations.

Rumor tells also of a civilization calling itself simply "MLB," located, according to
legend, in Southern Africa, where they speak in stutters, so they say (hence
the tribal name).

The Libertarians found many willing supporters in the wilds of the world, and the
Libertarian army was swelled with ever greater ranks of horsemen, until the
empire had, we conjecture, by far the largest army in the world. A few new
cities were also established: Ulan Bator in Outer Mongolia, Kathmandu in the
Himalayas, and Calcutta in the fertile Bengal. Nevertheless, growth has been
slow, and the empire has as yet no marvelous wonders of civilizational
accomplishment to its credit.

Here is the layout of the world as Libertarian cartographers currently conceive it
(code: white--romans/slowwhand; dark blue--falcons/finbar;
yellow--egyptians/suas333; green--japanese/berzerker; light
blue--chinese/dangime; purple--libertarians/elendil;
orange--carthaginians/war4ever)



And here is a graphical representation of the relative powers of the world's
civilizations.



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Curumbor Elendil
jason.sorens@yale.edu
ICQ 56126989

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[suas333]

The World According to the Egyptian Owls:

The Beginning:

The Owls flew quickely from the start. Huts became units and the top half of Africa was quickely secured.

Foreign Affairs:

Libertarian Indians and Romans had both reached Mesopotamia as the Owls were coming in, and peace treaties were established
South Africans were contacted near the halfway mark in Africa soon after the Mesopotamian affairs. With little great resources in Africa, an alliance was made without many details of borders.
As the Owls expanded, the world seemed to grow more hostile.

Treaties, Borders, and Reputaion:

In a 7 civilization world, the Owls seeked to have better relations with everyone.
The first treaties came in Mesopatamia. Although there was fertile land in Mesopotamia, the Romans and Indians both seemed to be heading that way. Rather than be in the middle of conflict, the Owls make a formal treaty with the Indians. Egyptian Owls, held on to Saudi Arabia, and the area immediatey after the Suas canal, while withdrawing from the rest of Mesopotamia. In a few years, all were withdrawn to Africa, except a lone horseman who ventured into the Russia and the Far East.
Owls then seeked to have good relations with their closest neighbor, the South Africans. After the request for alliance and assistence, the Owls proclamed the OAS, Organization of African States. South Africans were given key techs and a workable border was set up dividing North and South Africa. The future of African civs was also discussed.
Hopefully the world will trust the Egyptian Owls. We have brought up the idea of a World Alliance, or United Nations, but not many were in favor. Perhaps everyone will reconcider.

suas the great

[berzerker]

The frugal Japanese discovered the splendid art of pottery before establishing a formal civilization - and upon settling, almost immediately began building what we call "The Hanging Gardens". The varied plant life adorning the grandiose architecture has indeed provided our citizens with great pleasure, but the creation of this magnificent artiface has taken resources away from further expansion.

But we now hope to make up for this delay by venturing eastward - travelers have spread rumors of fruited plains and majestic mountains lying somewhere far to the east across the great water. According to the rumors, the land is vacant and awaiting our settlers and horsemen. The Wonder we have built will provide our future, distant family members great happiness in that one day they will come home and see the magnificent structure.

To our south, the mighty Chinese empire has grown beyond our imagination - and we have met strange peoples in the land of the great lake we call Baikal, preaching something they call 'Karachi'. We translate this word to mean 'inner-peace', but they have also spoken of a vast empire far to the west, called 'Egypt'. Smaller civilizations are rumored to be even farther to our west - we hope one day to trade with all these peoples.

Already, the Chinese and these 'Libertarians' (as they call themselves) are in the process of building a road for caravans to travel back and forth from the east and distant lands in the west - they call it 'The Silk Road'. They tell us this road will one day reach a great western sea which we are told boarders the home of these Egyptians.
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[Curumbor Elendil]

Suas: the only problem with a United Nations is the loss of national sovereignty and global tyranny...step by step. Or so say the John Birchers, which sounds like "Mahatma Gandhis."

But don't worry, we have only friendly intentions, and I'm glad we've worked out a border. Actually, this game has just been a giant lovefest so far. That'll probably last until approximately year 1 AD, when land starts getting scarce.

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Curumbor Elendil
jason.sorens@yale.edu
ICQ 56126989

[suas333]

Libertarian,

Yes, its been peaceful so far but land is definately limited even already. Please settle Mesopotamia as not to tempt the Owls or Rome, so far it seems you haven't headed that way.

[finbar]

PRESS RELEASE (release embargoed until someone gets around to writing it)

"JO JO ZEP RE-FORMS FALCONS IN LONG-AWAITED RETURN TO DANISH MUSIC SCENE"

Legendary Danish rocker Jo Jo Zep, the only Dane to have topped the charts in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, emerged from his self-imposed exile in Lapland to reiterate his claims that Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Marc Bolan and T-Rex, David Bowie and Oasis had plagarised, respectively, "Peggy Sue", "Elanor Rigby", "Metal Guru", "Let's Dance" and "Wonderwall" from his 1952 Danish chart-topper "Have Another Elephant Beer On Me".

With the extended re-mix dance version of "Have Another, Etc" under his arm, Jo Jo looked around him. And saw darkness. "What the - ?", he muttered to himself. In English, of course, having taught ABBA every word of English they knew. Even if they couldn't get their Nordic tongues around the word "the", leaving "The Winner Takes It All" to come across as something approaching "Ze Winner Takes It All".

Darkness? Jo Jo was briefly befuddled. Until his manager - Hagar the Horrible - explained to him that he was entering a whole new world. That past chart success was precisely that - past. On the world stage, he was, now, nothing. Somewhere out there in the darkness were 6 other recording artists with whom he had to compete for chart success.

Jo Jo thought briefly. Jo Jo never thought more than briefly. Chemical ingestion had seen to that.

"Okay", he decided, "I'll re-form the Falcons and give it a shot".

In scenes familiar to anyone who's seen "The Blues Brothers" - plagarised from his life, Jo Jo would insist - he found the various members of the Falcons and persuaded them to re-form.

Pledges of moral and decent behaviour were sought from the various Falcons, for this whole new world - according to Hagar the Horrible - was very different to the worlds they'd known before. This world would revolve around good manners and diplomacy. The Falcons - whose idea of a good time was turning a moose inside out - thought briefly. Even more briefly than Jo Jo, for their chemical ingestion had far exceeded his.

"Uhm", said the Falcons. Which passed for agreement. In fact, it passed for everything. It had to. It was the full extent of their vocabulary.

Thus Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons meandered into the darkness.

Not before Jo Jo, typically greedy, made a very stupid decision. On the spur of the moment, registering two particularly juicy specials, tried to gather them both into his first recording studio. And built the damn studio in a tree! Which about sums up much of Jo Jo's career. If there's been a stupid step to take, Jo Jo has taken it.

As a result, the Falcons' career growth was far slower than it needed to be. The story of their various careers through the decades, indeed.

Regardless, Jo Jo pushed on. Soon, he met up with a wandering Roman muso, a lute under his arm. Jo Jo wondered how a lute went over in a stadium gig. Until he recalled this was a whole new world. Electricity was yet to be discovered. Oh well, guessed Jo Jo, the lute would work well in an unplugged context.

Anyway, peace was made with the Roman muso and, later, with another muso from a band called the Libertarians, who carried something akin to a sitar. Resisting the urge to insist to the Libertarian muso that Ravi Shankar had, in fact, plagarised his 60s classic "Meaningless Plucking", Jo Jo found the Libertarian chappie a pleasant enough chap; pleasant enough, in fact, to exchange maps of their respective recording studios.

Thus Jo Jo was enlightened. That being a relative term for Jo Jo.

Still, it appeared that there were numerous bands in this big new world with even more numerous recording studios already built. And, doubtless, more to come.

Jo Jo looks forward immensely to meeting and making music with these various bands.

END PRESS RELEASE (for further information, contact Hagar the Horrible, Exclusive Management of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons)

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finbar
Mono Rules!
#33984591

[Curumbor Elendil]

Suas: oh don't you worry, I've got someone coming right over. Production just takes excruciatingly long in 1x1x.

In other news, the Libs and Chinese have made an interim arrangement regarding borders, which leaves most of central Asia in the Chinese sphere of influence.

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Curumbor Elendil
jason.sorens@yale.edu
ICQ 56126989

[suas333]

ok, just hoped you weren't testing me. My Owls would seem father foolish trying to sail across the Atlantic, while there was unsettled fertile land in view from our capital's front porch.

[berzerker]

Yes, I certainly dont look forward to sailing a great distance only to find Egyptians living in California

[berzerker]

Round 2 still on schedule for wednesday night?

[suas333]

I thought it was for thursday!, but i can play wendesday too just make sure everyone knows the time and day.

[finbar]

It's (US) Thursday night, isn't it? 9pm East Coast time? Better be, 'cause I can't do (US) Wednesday night.

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finbar
Mono Rules!
#33984591

[berzerker]

My mistake - it was thursday nights...