Us pbem game - part 4

[TheBirdMan]

Turn to Maestro.

From a nightmeeting in Hasdrubals office.

Comrades!

The greens has obviosly allowed themselves to rule the whole world.

I don't like their demanding attitude either - but you must calm down. So far they has made no aggresive acts again us - all they have done, was using their big mouth.

No war - I have ordered Admiral Zxara to return and get our ships into more friendly waters.

Still I cannot understand, what a great warrior as Dictator Lynx - the one before Hannibal - had been thinking, when allowing the spanish to settle the southwest cost of our holy island.



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[Flandrien]

A small, insignificant man travels the Egyptian country, carrying a little red book. He tells stories about a nation in which all people all equal, and all property is shared by everyone.

Everywhere he goes, his speeches are being received with great enthusiasm. It does not take long for them to realise that they not only need a new leader, they need an entirely new way of life !

Long live comrade Mao, the only true leader of the Egyptians !


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[TheBirdMan]

Turn to Maestro.

Hasdrubal - warrior in birth and raised in a military training camp - dont understand much of science. Except if it can be used on military purpose.

Therefore he has called some scientists to a short meting:

What is this new Internet, which obviosly disturb the spanish so much? What can it be used for? Answer me your dummies - or you all will soon find yourselves on a training camp.

And you - Hasdrubal turned around, pointing at Comrade Pia (a new-phoenician, following strong men as a dogs tail follow the dog) - you're supposed to find Hamilcar to me! WHERE IS HE?
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[Flandrien]

What is this internet being used for ?

A quick survey reveals that Egyptians mainly use it for :

- chatting up females (70 %)
- publishing dumb blond jokes (20 %)
- playing silly games in which they pretend to be the leader of a world empire (10 %)


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[Swissy]

What about that small elite group of Egyptian scientists who use it to steal Spanish technological secrets?

[Flandrien]

Egyptian authorities deny all knowledge of such actions.

Of course.


By the way, wasn't it the Spanish who built the Edison Lab ?
Who is complaining about that ???

Wasn't it the Spanish who built the genome project , globesat , etc ...

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[TheBirdMan]

Out of turn again

The spanish just get what they deserves.

I would like go give them more - but......

I know very well, that this is close to an act of war!

We do not want it - but so this might be! No more falling on our knees for spanish demands.

One more try from the spanish socalled "Greens" and my patience is over.

They will be green as the grass when the phoenician military has rolled over them!

Signed by:

Hasdrubal - Most equal Comrade of the Phoenician Empire.

[TheBirdMan]

Turn to Maestro.

Not much new from the Phoenician Islands.

But on a shore far away, a young man jumped into the water from a troopship, where he has been hiding since the revolution and swimmed the short distance to land. This man was Hamilcar, the one Hasdrubal wanted so badly.
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[Flandrien]

These are the words of our most wise leader Mao :

' All people should be treated equal. So, all people should have equal access to knowledge. That is why we have built the internet. '


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[TheBirdMan]

D...!

Played the turn this morning at home and forgot to send it.

Well, mby I have just time to replay it after lunch, before work are calling again.

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Woodstock was here!

[TheBirdMan]

Turn to Maestro.

Admiral Zxara reports: Maintenance completed.

Marskal Xenob reports: Carthage elite ready.

Comrade Pia reports: Hamilcar dead - unfortunately. He drowned when trying to escape my secret agents.

Comrade Hasdubal are pleased.

[Max Webster]

A young man was discovered near a Canadian city. He was brougt in for investigation. It showed to be the son of the former ruler of Phoenicia, Hamilcar - son of Hannibal. He has asked for permission to join the advanced academy of monks in the mountains.


Hamilcar issued this statement:

Message to all loyal phoenicians. I - Hamilcar, son of Hannibal - is still alive. One day, I'll will return and bring back democracy to my people. But first I have to meditate and educate myself, to make me worthy to the respect of the phoenician people.

I know, that my father didn't make suicide. He has not shot himself as Hasdubal has announced. Hannibal has always had a healthy mind and have never owned for even touched a gun. He was a man of wise words and noble deeds.

Shame will come to the head of Hasdubal. I know for sure, that the dictator Hasdrubal will bring sorrow to your homes. He wants war and that has always been so.

[Flandrien]

Ah yes, the monastery.

As Mao hears the news about young Hamilcar, he thinks about his own time he spent there.
He wonders if the old father Pieter Jan de Smet is still alive.


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[TheBirdMan]

Turn to Maestro.

So Hamilcar is afterall alive?

Comrade Xenob - will you please take this former comrade out of my office - let her be executed within next 10 minutes.

And let's see what news time will bring tomorrow.

[Flandrien]

An explosion in a chemical factory causes 45 tons of methylisocyanate gas to be spread into the atmosphere. Even though there are many casualties, Egpytian authorities succeed in keeping the incident a secret for many years.

It is only after it is finally found out that comrade Mao is forced to a reaction :

'Yes, there was a minor incident in one of our chemical plants. But, as you can see, we have done everything we can to reduce the consequences, and we will take every step possible to prevent something like this happening again in the future.'

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