Tales from Gaia

[drake]

From the study of mohammed......

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[drake]

The reign of Mohammed III

It was a time of building a stong foundation.

Only 4 new Arabian cities were founded in the reign of Mohammed the third, but work on existing cities was bustling. Traders covered the lands, selling their wares to neighbors. Temples to worship Allah were erected in major cities, and people for miles around congregate here to find solace.

Our entire empire is connected by an intricate system of roads and bridges. We recently aquired the technology to build spans across rivers and so our mighty empire was able to be connected as one in his reign.

By trading maps with neighbors, the Arabians have come to the realization that room to expand is growing scarce. We have quickly realized that some of the best land in the world was set aside for the Celtic people in the reign of Mohammed the first. What a blunder it was. We regretfully will have to retract our prior land agreement with the celts and negotiate a new agreement, that is more appopriate and allows for more Arabian expansion. We will not ask Queen Boann for much of the land back, only a portion wide enough to fit 4 more cities. We do desire more, but if the Queen acts reasonably in this matter, we will settle and be content with our proposition (see proposed land division below).

In the coming years, Mohammed IV aims to finish his fathers work in the holy city of Mecca. It shall be a great spectacle for all merchants across the world.........

[belinda9]

In the years of the turn of the Millenium, the Chiraqua filled their home island with cites, expanded out onto the two small islands found off the southeastern coast, and sent ships off into the world in search of arable lands to settle.
In negotiating the Oceanic League Pact between the Chiraqua, Freedonians, and English, Queen Belinda I ensured that peace would reign in the region, and gave these peoples a forum for resolving issues that arose as each of these civilizations began to fill the available land masses. Exchanges of maps showed us that there was not a great deal of uninhabited land left in the world as was originally supposed. Thus, her subsequent successors, Belinda II and Belinda III, were able to negotiate with the English to coinhabit the large island found to the north where the city of Norther was established, with space to spare for subsequent settlements within prearranged borders.
The discovery of what was believed to be a few small islands far to the southwest of Home during the reign of Belinda III was also cause for celebration, as Farpoint and it's companion settlement Isle were quickly established and worked hard to produce settlers for both irrigation and further settlement.
The reign of Belinda III saw the greatest strides in the developments of new technology, due in part to the completion of the Great Library of Home, which was begun during the reign of Belinda II and completed in 140 AD, shortly after the ascension of Belinda III. During this time, the literacy rate of the Chiraqua also increased dramatically, rising to 2nd in world at one point, though we continue to be one of the smallest of countries in both population and land area.
Belinda III also established trade routes with the English, with more to come as the Chiraqua send carvans out laden with resources from our native lands to exchange. Inspired by the monuments of her predecessor, Belinda III commissioned the building of a Great Wonder in Easthaven, which although she sadly did not live to see its completion, should be completed in a few short years, and will provide a national military training academy for the education and training of those of Chiraqua youth who desire a career in the military. Belinda III's successor and only son Robert is expected to announce plans of his own when he ascends to the throne later this year. He has also announced plans to extend relations during his reign to include the Celts to the east. These peoples have been sighted often offshore in their white-sailed ships, but while contact between the Chiraqua and the Celts occurred hundreds of years ago, it proved to be brief, unenlightening and unrepeated. King Robert announces a desire to learn more about our eastern neighbors, with an eye towards future trade and friendly coexistence.
As the years go by, the world grows smaller, and it is greatly hoped among the Chiraqua that their new King Robert will follow in the paths of peace established by his matriarchial predecessors, and lead us all into a greater understanding of our neighbors and ensure us a place of respect among them.

[rridd]

The following is a brief synopsis of the English peoples.

Early during our history we met and merged with another tribe on a river to create our capital, London. This gave us a base to continue our explorations. During the early years of exploration we found many areas covered by swamps, jungles and woods. Finally our explorers found another river and some game, here we started the city of York. Later one of our explorers found another tribe that wished to merge and enter our civilization, this was the town of Nottingham. Years later 2 settlers thought they could do better on their own, they created the cities of Coventry and Warwick.

The second era of our history started with discovering the secret of mapmaking, which allowed us to build boats and explore new regions. Two explorers set out about the same time, one from Nottingham and the other from Coventry. About this same time one of the great projects came to completion. It was the Pyramids, a vast structure where we could house food to help our civilization grow. Later our explorers found friendly tribes that saw the glory of England and wanted to join. These were the cities of Dover, Oxford and Liverpool. We also where met by the Japanese (a seafaring nation) who were interested in mutually peaceful exploration of the world oceans. Between us and another nation (the Freedonians) we created the Oceanic Pact, a pact dedicated to the peaceful exploration of the worlds oceans. This was a major milestone in our history because they know of different advances that our scientist hadn't thought of yet.

Our civilization continued to grow spreading over the three islands we had found, then after finding a fourth land mass we met a civilization that was not so friendly as the Japanese or the Freedonians. There were called the Arabians and they demanded that we leave immediately. Informing them that we had already built a city on this land mass, they graciously allowed us to keep that land but to remove the rest of our explorers. However since they have allowed other civilizations to colonize parts of their continent (we discovered how big the land mass was when we traded maps), we are reserving judgement about their aggressiveness.

While discussing scarcity of land masses to build cities, we allowed the Japanese to colonize part of Round Island. We have also created the great projects of Hanging Gardens ( to amaze our people and visitors) and Leonardo's Workshop. The Japanese have started developing trade routes between our cities. Recently the Celts, who have been busy exploring our coasts, have landed on Arm Island and we are in the process of discuss possible borders between our civilizations.

[boann]

Our boats have traveled all the world and met many different
peoples. We have come to realize that not many know of the Goddess and most civilizations are ruled by the men creatures.
The Princess has said we must make settlements with temples
to share the knowledge of our Goddess.

The great king of the Freedonians has extended his hand to us in brotherhood. The princess has decided to give her sister to the great king for one of his wives... bonding our great civilizations for all time...pledging our life and blood to his .

the green slant eyed people sent a diplomat uninvited into the palace. we let him stay out of our good maners , but keep a watchful eye always on him.. we find we share an island with these green infidels... our people are peaceful , but we will prepare for defending our settlements. the only unknown part of the world remains in the green infidels area. we will explore their waters and see if they are a threat to our way of life.

the yellow infidels to the north of our mainland have been a peaceful people. but their attempt to back out of our prior
border agreement has put us on watch. although we believe they will keep their pact with us, only the years passing peacefully will tell the real story of their honor.

a settlement way to the north has encountered a very aggressive people. we have sent many warriors by boats to
protect and defend our homes there. we have been there a long time , but only sent out exploring settlers in the last few years
to find we were not alone on our land there.

our greatest lesson is that we are not alone and must
learn strange ways to survive in this world.

[belinda9]

We interrupt this broadcast....

a Disclaimer and Explanation for those who read here and may be confused as to who are the green guys:

That's me: I was to be the Chiriqua, and so it was on our start. However, upon subsequent restart, it appeared that the Customization had not "taken" and the game had insisted upon labelling me as the default for my color: the Japanese.
But I didn't want to be the Japanese;
However, it seemed no one else really wanted another restart, and we had already wastedlike 45 minutes trying to get started, so I just decided to let it slide: the game could call me whatever it liked while we all ignored it and continued to pretend the green guys were the Chiriqua.

Of course, I didn't think of what it would show up as on posted graphs, etc., much less anticipate that certain players would be unable to remember this little ruse:
nonetheless, I'm nothing if not stubborn.

So just keep in mind that the Chiriqua and Japanese are the same civ, regardless of what "language" it's rendered in.
Otherwise, I might have to demand my restart. lol

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programme, already in progress.............

[Chris 62]

Freedonian Texts part IV

There came a time when we sent brave people to the north to settle our god given lands, and did meet resistance from our allies, the men across the sea of the breaking waves...
It seems the Freedonians attempted to colonize an island to the north of their homeland that was clearly within their sphere of influenece, only to find that the British were already there in considerable numbers.

To help all live peacefully, we did convince the great king of the Britans and the Mighty Queen of the amazons to accept a peaceful border, with the lives of our people to act in trust of this...
It seems the Freedonians, through intensive diplomancy managed to convince the British to accept Freedonians colonies in between themselves and the Amazons, whose expansion they feared, despite the fact that they where the most numerous people on Gaia at this time.(there are indications the Chiraqua may have helped in these negociations)

It was learned that men feared the mighty Amazons, and as we did not, living in peace with them, we were able to live amongst them, and to convince the mighty Sultan of the Arabians to accept our people in trust the way the British did between the arabs and the Amazons...
The Freedonian diplomats managed to convince the Arabs to accept Freedonian settlements to act as a buffer between them selves and the Amazons, showing the tremendous skill these people had as mediators and diplomats.

Our empire did continue to grow, with new cities appearing through the mists of time...
The Freedonians continued to urbanize in this period, maintaining their postion as a power in the anciet world of Gaia.

More next time...

[drake]

Arabia was starting to get congested. Room to expand was dwindling, and yet the people kept growing in number.

Through succesful diplomatic tranmissions, our good friends, the Freedonians managed to persuade the stubborn Celts to allow our proposed land settlement into the southern portions of Greater Arabia. The condition: That the neutral Freedonians would serve as a buffer between our two peoples. While we are friendly with the Celts, we don't seee eye to eye on all issues, and having the Freedonians in between our two great nations, is probably the best thing for all of us!

Mohammed V aims to finish filling out Northeast portion of Arabia very rapidly. At this point, our natural expansion will be completed. However, this might not appease the Arabian people. They have never been a nation to settle for mediocricy.........other measures may have to be used in the future......only time will tell.

[boann]

cable out tonight.
snowing and 17 deg.
sorry about missed game

[drake]

Ok gang, tonights the night. Hopefully we can have anice smooth session. Hope boann doesnt get snowed in again

[SlowwHand]

Be advised.

Boann just called. She has cable connection that has funked out on her.
I gave her a technical service number to call, and she has hopes she'll be up and running shortly.
Bear with her, she asks.

It's a nation-wide affliction.

[belinda9]

oh no!
another AT&T Broadband casualty?
Will just have to hope she's either ready to play tonight or has a reliable sub (XX)

[boann]

my connection seems to be working ok
I find the "adelphia powerlink" ...to be slower than the "athome"
service... but not enough to really complain over very loud.

ill be there , unless something unusual happens.
like tornado or car wreck.

I have not tried to find a sub since I thought Chris didn't want
subs in the game. I may be mistaken about that.
as I'm known to make them on occasion

[suas333]

Drake,
Nice to see you have another Monday Night game going. I'm enjoying the tales, keep it up....There will be some nights i can sub if there ever becomes a need

[drake]

Mohammed VI helped Arabia become more stable in his reign. Infastructure was completed in areas, linking every city in arabia by a single road. Cities, after long remaining stagnant without proper irrigation were once again beginning to grow. The military was bolstered and borders were enhanced on all sides.

The English grew agitated upon spotting the Arabian border patrol, to the west of their lone city on the continent of Arabia. They panicked and began making allegations to the world of Arabian hostility. Mohammed took this very poorly and vowed that his good name would not be put into the mud. England will pay for their unfounded accusations some day.

In other news, the Freedonians completed their peacekeeping line between the edgy Celts and the wary Arabians. Freedonia seems to have taken the world lead in diplomatic skill and negotiating. They also continue to be Arabias most reliable ally.

Suas, I sent you a PM