INES III: Storm Tapestry
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If you want in and all other members are cool with it, you are welcome to join us.
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Lord of Elves
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Orders have been sent.
We would definitely be interested in most of the treaty, though we are concerned with why we were initially discriminated against.
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OOC:
You weren't actively discriminated against...
I just choose a few nations and offered them friendship. it was pretty random. its way too early to pick a fight for the carribs.
(OR IS IT?
)
You weren't actively discriminated against...
I just choose a few nations and offered them friendship. it was pretty random. its way too early to pick a fight for the carribs.
(OR IS IT?
)
Omega124
Challenging Fate
Hey, I was booted off the computer for most of yesterday, and I'm not going to be dropped on the first turn of an Imago NES! Oerders being sent right this forking instant!
Kozmos
Jew Detective
3 to 5 wars? Goddamn...I knew I should have prepared but alas didn't have time for extensive plotting or writing.
DarthNader
Destroyer of Worlds
Claiming Patagonia. Sorry I'm late...I'm traveling cross country and don't have much time to get online.
You guys don't know how lucky you've been. I was just about to finish the update when Omega sent his orders, then I was just about to finish the update again when germanicus sent his orders, and now, if you get them in quick, I have time to include yours, DarthNader.
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Shortly after Friday prayers, a large crowd gathered outside of the Atigh Jame' Mosque in Shiraz, awaiting the arrival of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Khamenei, as Supreme Leader of Iran, enjoyed ultimate political and religious authority in Iran, and was revered throughout the nation. It was a testament to his influence and popularity that a crowd of over 10,000 had gathered outside the mosque and in nearby squares to hear what he had promised would be an "historic announcement". Throughout the nation, those who had just returned from their local mosques could be found inside, glued to the radio or television. From Constantinople (the Iranian sector of the city, of course) to Pakistan, people waited in anticipation for the Supreme Leader's speech.
After a short wait, the Supreme Leader emerged onto a balcony of the mosque, and a great silence fell upon the crowd. As he slowly walked into the view of the public, the Supreme Leader was flanked by several imams, while a number of Revolutionary Guards stood in the background, cradling submachine guns. People in the square and across the nation waited expectantly as the Supreme Leader looked out over the crowd and began to speak in a powerful voice.
"Children of Allah, men and women of the Revolution, I have called you hear today for two very important announcements. Firstly, as you are all aware, since the beginning of our glorious Revolution, the President of Iran, elected by the people, has served as the highest political power in the land, subordinate only to myself. While in the past the President has served Iran well, recently they have grown corrupted, and diverged from the traditional Islamic way of the Revolution. Therefore, I am pleased to announce that I have officially abolished the position of President of Iran."
Below, murmurs spread throughout the crowd. Most everyone knew that the President held very little power in Iran, serving mainly as a puppet to the Supreme Leader, who held most of the power throughout the nation. Surely, the abolishment of an unimportant office such as this couldn't be the "historic announcement" the Supreme Leader had promised. But as the murmurs died down, the Supreme Leader again raised his voice so that it was heard by everyone in the square.
"Secondly, and most importantly, I come to deliver to you a historic announcement, one that was ordained by Allah, and which shall affect the lives of his faithful followers. When the Order of Mecca, a Christian theocracy, took control of the cities of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, Muslims worldwide were shamed. For decades, we have lived with a cloud over our head, knowing that these two cities, cities sacred to our religion, lay in the hands of non-believers, and that Allah looked down on us for this. No more I say. Today, I come before every faithful follower of Allah and his prophet Muhammad. I say, let us be shamed no more. Let us not live in cowardice while the cities of Muhammad lie in the hands of infidels. Let us strike to reclaim what was given to us by Allah. I call on all faithful Muslims, in Iran and elsewhere, to join a jihad to retake Mecca and Medina."
As these last words rang out, the crowd erupted into cheers and chants of Allāhu Akbar. Across the city and nation, people watching or listening to the Supreme Leader broke out into cheers, and in many cases tear. The jihad to reclaim Islam's two holiest cities had begun.
OOC: Sorry if its not that great of a story, but I was rushing to finish before the update was posted.
After a short wait, the Supreme Leader emerged onto a balcony of the mosque, and a great silence fell upon the crowd. As he slowly walked into the view of the public, the Supreme Leader was flanked by several imams, while a number of Revolutionary Guards stood in the background, cradling submachine guns. People in the square and across the nation waited expectantly as the Supreme Leader looked out over the crowd and began to speak in a powerful voice.
"Children of Allah, men and women of the Revolution, I have called you hear today for two very important announcements. Firstly, as you are all aware, since the beginning of our glorious Revolution, the President of Iran, elected by the people, has served as the highest political power in the land, subordinate only to myself. While in the past the President has served Iran well, recently they have grown corrupted, and diverged from the traditional Islamic way of the Revolution. Therefore, I am pleased to announce that I have officially abolished the position of President of Iran."
Below, murmurs spread throughout the crowd. Most everyone knew that the President held very little power in Iran, serving mainly as a puppet to the Supreme Leader, who held most of the power throughout the nation. Surely, the abolishment of an unimportant office such as this couldn't be the "historic announcement" the Supreme Leader had promised. But as the murmurs died down, the Supreme Leader again raised his voice so that it was heard by everyone in the square.
"Secondly, and most importantly, I come to deliver to you a historic announcement, one that was ordained by Allah, and which shall affect the lives of his faithful followers. When the Order of Mecca, a Christian theocracy, took control of the cities of Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities of Islam, Muslims worldwide were shamed. For decades, we have lived with a cloud over our head, knowing that these two cities, cities sacred to our religion, lay in the hands of non-believers, and that Allah looked down on us for this. No more I say. Today, I come before every faithful follower of Allah and his prophet Muhammad. I say, let us be shamed no more. Let us not live in cowardice while the cities of Muhammad lie in the hands of infidels. Let us strike to reclaim what was given to us by Allah. I call on all faithful Muslims, in Iran and elsewhere, to join a jihad to retake Mecca and Medina."
As these last words rang out, the crowd erupted into cheers and chants of Allāhu Akbar. Across the city and nation, people watching or listening to the Supreme Leader broke out into cheers, and in many cases tear. The jihad to reclaim Islam's two holiest cities had begun.
OOC: Sorry if its not that great of a story, but I was rushing to finish before the update was posted.
Circuit
Writing Letters
*sigh of relief*
Update: 2051
Peaceful Events
Three alliances across the globe formed tentatively, too weak yet to really play counterpoise with each other. The Chinese and the Indians signed an agreement, one that might or might not have included the Order of Mecca. The Republic of the Caribbean created a constitution of sorts for countries acceding to their Treaty of the United Americas, but the selection of invited signatories (CWOH, Texas, Canada, Quebec) was described by an official in Havana as arbitrary, and diplomats of Atlantic Kingdom have filled many international newspapers by ranting about being excluded. The Pact of Europe between the UK, Rome, and France was stalled for a time over no less an issue than a naming controversy (the original proposed acronym for the organization was PEE, which amused the UK’s diplomats to the point of distraction), and now the Pact faces a crisis that might break it apart before its first anniversary.
(See Military Events)
Quebec’s hospitals arguably became the finest in the world, thanks to their new access to state-run organ farms. To complement the improvements in their people’s health, the Quebecois legislature began a program of tax rebates contingent on the purchase of consumer products, which has helped prime the nation’s economy for considerable growth in the near future.
(+Quebecois approval rating)
The people of the Atlantic Kingdom desperately needed something to cheer for, so they seized the moment when George IV died. An official coronation has not yet been held for his daughter Victoria I, but celebrations in honor of the Washingtonian Dynasty’s first ever Queen Regent have become a weekly occurrence in many parts of the country.
(+Atlantic approval rating)
Victoria opened her reign with an intense mechanization and industrialization program for the agrarian South, which has curbed the need for hand cultivation, made the estates of the landed nobles that much more efficient, and provided city jobs for the laid-off help.
(+1 Atlantic ASP)
President Thomas Porter established the Texas Baseball League. Embarrassingly, the New Orleans Jazz won the first championship series 4-1 against the Austin Stars, but at least the Cajuns were happy.
(+Texas approval rating)
The Caribbean government made some extremely profitable investments in the international electronics market, which boosted the national economy but left it at increased vulnerability to embargo. Many of the gadgets the Caribbean has taken to peddling abroad are as unessential as they are popular.
(+1 Caribbean ASP)
Patagonia moved soldiers to its northern borders.
With great official fanfare, representatives from communist Japan and Germany landed in Bamako, paying homage to their leader in World Wide Revolution, the USACS. As the international dignitaries looked on, Bamako’s Assembly of National Governance passed a five year plan rife with aggressively titled programs like RAAGE and MANG, but growth targets were surprisingly reasonable, even cautious. The Kélen Toumani only demanded a 15% increase in industrial and a 5% increase in agricultural production. More ominously, the dignitaries also attended a ceremony where thousands of West African lottery winners were rewarded with plane tickets to new homes in the Congo. Finally, a number of adventurous Japanese and German diplomats were inducted into the Brotherhood Revolutionary Organization, and the whole lot of them affixed their signatures to the LIARS treaty with USACS, which seems far more comprehensive than anything capitalist pigs have been able to put together of late.
Chilling unofficial stories have been coming out of USACS, filtered through the Congo, which is one of the few parts of the Communal States ruled with less than absolute control by the Kélen Toumani. Areas are being redistricted, populations are being forcibly resettled, and rebels are taking to arms. Maybe. All those points are extremely unclear, and the few foreign news reporters allowed into the country have seen little beyond happy smiling hardworking people.
(+USACS approval rating)
The politics of the Roman Republic in recent decades were simply Byzantine, with the entrenched Partito Repubblicano di Roma ruling through a combination of corruption and historical romanticism. This year, the dam broke in the person of Nico Romano, a manipulative accused fascist who convinced the senate to make him consul, buoyed by defections en masse to his Nazionale Fazione Progressista of the PRR, his status as an army general, and a botched attempt on his life. His brazen competence has instilled new vigor into the Republic.
(+Roman approval rating)
The Romans began a series of fortifications clearly aimed against Iran.
Young, well-spoken Franz Kohler was proclaimed the future leader of the Socialist Republic of Greater Germany, but the announcement was undercut for two reasons. Firstly, the nation’s current leader, Heinrich Eichel, made a full recovery from what was thought to be a severe stroke, dragging out the succession process. Secondly, Kohler looks positively camera-shy compared to Nico Romano.
The Order of Mecca began construction of a series of fresh water plants, aimed at eradicating the very real Arabian problem of thirst. The crusaders also closed the border with Iran, and began a police campaign against those with “pro-Umma beliefs,” which served more to alienate local Muslims than eliminate subversives. Still, the government’s sentiment was spot-on. The Iranian Umma invaded early in the year.
(See Military Events)
The Supreme Leader of the Iranian Umma, Mojtaba Khamenei, abolished the office of the president in favor of direct rule. While his soldiers marched, his engineers beefed up national ports and the merchant marine, better linking the Umma’s overland trade routes to the world economy. Prosperity migrated northeast from the increasingly dangerous Suez-Red Sea corridor.
(+1 Iranian ASP)
Imperial Proletarian Japanese efforts to improve roads and farmland have not been as immediately successful as hoped, though the program is proceeding in good order.
The key to Japan’s imperial communism is no secret. It’s in the food. It’s always been in the food. Freedom-Flavored rations keep the people numb, Success-Flavored rations provide them with artificial positive reinforcement, and a myriad of other types can ‘encourage’ the workers of the Home Islands to be everything from acutely perceptive to dead. Currently, the average Japanese comrade-on-the-street is being chemically conditioned to love the armed forces, the Emperor having decided that increased militarism is in order.
(+Japanese approval rating)
The Japanese upgraded their network of fortifications, most significantly (but not solely) in Korea. Those engineers who were inefficient received Dishonorable-Discharge-Flavored rations.
Military Events
Most experts viewed Inca-French tensions as grandstanding up until the very day that forces loyal to President for Life Reza Eghtedar invaded the Guianas in three columns. French divisions posted on the border were encircled and destroyed, and the entire colony was occupied in a matter of months, with rumors of a massacre after the fall of Cayenne. Aged Eghtedar’s victory was tempered when her fleet was decimated at the hands of the French in pitched battles around the Windward Islands, but French marines were unable to regain a landing zone on the continent, and Port-of-Spain suffers daily air raids.
(-1 Incan division, -6 Incan squadrons, -1 Incan group, -3 French divisions, -2 French squadrons, -1 French group)
After the Russians threatened the Balt Confederacy early in the year, Helsinki became convinced that invasion was inevitable. Having far less strategic depth than Russia, to say the least, the Balt high command opted to launch an attack immediately rather than wait and defend. Airfields in Riga and Arkhangelsk were cratered without official declaration of war, while hundreds of thousands of Balt troops crossed the border. Barely able to contest the skies, the Russians opted to launch a huge spearhead at St. Petersburg, which reached the city and linked up with underground nationalists. The Balts did their best to fight street by street, but fell back once they realized they were severely outmatched by battlesuited Russian infantry and could count on little local support. Their own offensive, largely dependent on armor, swiftly conquered Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, arriving to cheering crowds, but the intended drive on Moscow itself was rebuffed with heavy casualties, the Russians having invented some sort of rifle that can cut through light tanks. Nevertheless, the Russians are in a tenuous position. Their navy’s attempt to blockade the coasts of Sweden and Finland turned into a disaster once all the local friendly ports were lost, with some ships being captured before they could be scuttled. Meanwhile, their supply lines to St. Petersburg are bombed with near impunity. It would be easy for the Russians to drag the war out, but it seems near impossible for them to win it.
(-2 Russian divisions, -7 Russian squadrons, -5 Russian groups, -6 Balt divisions, +2 Balt squadrons, -1 Balt group)
Allahu Akbar!
(See Spotlight)
(+10 Iranian irregular divisions, -1 Iranian division, -6 Iranian irregular divisions, -1 Iranian squadron, -1 Iranian group, -2 Egyptian divisions, -2 Egyptian squadrons, -1 Egyptian group, +15 Order irregular divisions, -5 Order divisions, -9 Order irregular divisions, -4 Order squadrons, -2 Order groups, -1 Order ASP)
United Kingdom and Japanese naval forces, both on alert in the South Pacific, participated in a border skirmish somewhere off the coast of the Bird’s Head Peninsula. The UK lost more material in the exchange, but the Japanese and their overzealous drugged-up seamen lost more face.
(-1 UK squadron)
Peaceful Events
Three alliances across the globe formed tentatively, too weak yet to really play counterpoise with each other. The Chinese and the Indians signed an agreement, one that might or might not have included the Order of Mecca. The Republic of the Caribbean created a constitution of sorts for countries acceding to their Treaty of the United Americas, but the selection of invited signatories (CWOH, Texas, Canada, Quebec) was described by an official in Havana as arbitrary, and diplomats of Atlantic Kingdom have filled many international newspapers by ranting about being excluded. The Pact of Europe between the UK, Rome, and France was stalled for a time over no less an issue than a naming controversy (the original proposed acronym for the organization was PEE, which amused the UK’s diplomats to the point of distraction), and now the Pact faces a crisis that might break it apart before its first anniversary.
(See Military Events)
Quebec’s hospitals arguably became the finest in the world, thanks to their new access to state-run organ farms. To complement the improvements in their people’s health, the Quebecois legislature began a program of tax rebates contingent on the purchase of consumer products, which has helped prime the nation’s economy for considerable growth in the near future.
(+Quebecois approval rating)
The people of the Atlantic Kingdom desperately needed something to cheer for, so they seized the moment when George IV died. An official coronation has not yet been held for his daughter Victoria I, but celebrations in honor of the Washingtonian Dynasty’s first ever Queen Regent have become a weekly occurrence in many parts of the country.
(+Atlantic approval rating)
Victoria opened her reign with an intense mechanization and industrialization program for the agrarian South, which has curbed the need for hand cultivation, made the estates of the landed nobles that much more efficient, and provided city jobs for the laid-off help.
(+1 Atlantic ASP)
President Thomas Porter established the Texas Baseball League. Embarrassingly, the New Orleans Jazz won the first championship series 4-1 against the Austin Stars, but at least the Cajuns were happy.
(+Texas approval rating)
The Caribbean government made some extremely profitable investments in the international electronics market, which boosted the national economy but left it at increased vulnerability to embargo. Many of the gadgets the Caribbean has taken to peddling abroad are as unessential as they are popular.
(+1 Caribbean ASP)
Patagonia moved soldiers to its northern borders.
With great official fanfare, representatives from communist Japan and Germany landed in Bamako, paying homage to their leader in World Wide Revolution, the USACS. As the international dignitaries looked on, Bamako’s Assembly of National Governance passed a five year plan rife with aggressively titled programs like RAAGE and MANG, but growth targets were surprisingly reasonable, even cautious. The Kélen Toumani only demanded a 15% increase in industrial and a 5% increase in agricultural production. More ominously, the dignitaries also attended a ceremony where thousands of West African lottery winners were rewarded with plane tickets to new homes in the Congo. Finally, a number of adventurous Japanese and German diplomats were inducted into the Brotherhood Revolutionary Organization, and the whole lot of them affixed their signatures to the LIARS treaty with USACS, which seems far more comprehensive than anything capitalist pigs have been able to put together of late.
Chilling unofficial stories have been coming out of USACS, filtered through the Congo, which is one of the few parts of the Communal States ruled with less than absolute control by the Kélen Toumani. Areas are being redistricted, populations are being forcibly resettled, and rebels are taking to arms. Maybe. All those points are extremely unclear, and the few foreign news reporters allowed into the country have seen little beyond happy smiling hardworking people.
(+USACS approval rating)
The politics of the Roman Republic in recent decades were simply Byzantine, with the entrenched Partito Repubblicano di Roma ruling through a combination of corruption and historical romanticism. This year, the dam broke in the person of Nico Romano, a manipulative accused fascist who convinced the senate to make him consul, buoyed by defections en masse to his Nazionale Fazione Progressista of the PRR, his status as an army general, and a botched attempt on his life. His brazen competence has instilled new vigor into the Republic.
(+Roman approval rating)
The Romans began a series of fortifications clearly aimed against Iran.
Young, well-spoken Franz Kohler was proclaimed the future leader of the Socialist Republic of Greater Germany, but the announcement was undercut for two reasons. Firstly, the nation’s current leader, Heinrich Eichel, made a full recovery from what was thought to be a severe stroke, dragging out the succession process. Secondly, Kohler looks positively camera-shy compared to Nico Romano.
The Order of Mecca began construction of a series of fresh water plants, aimed at eradicating the very real Arabian problem of thirst. The crusaders also closed the border with Iran, and began a police campaign against those with “pro-Umma beliefs,” which served more to alienate local Muslims than eliminate subversives. Still, the government’s sentiment was spot-on. The Iranian Umma invaded early in the year.
(See Military Events)
The Supreme Leader of the Iranian Umma, Mojtaba Khamenei, abolished the office of the president in favor of direct rule. While his soldiers marched, his engineers beefed up national ports and the merchant marine, better linking the Umma’s overland trade routes to the world economy. Prosperity migrated northeast from the increasingly dangerous Suez-Red Sea corridor.
(+1 Iranian ASP)
Imperial Proletarian Japanese efforts to improve roads and farmland have not been as immediately successful as hoped, though the program is proceeding in good order.
The key to Japan’s imperial communism is no secret. It’s in the food. It’s always been in the food. Freedom-Flavored rations keep the people numb, Success-Flavored rations provide them with artificial positive reinforcement, and a myriad of other types can ‘encourage’ the workers of the Home Islands to be everything from acutely perceptive to dead. Currently, the average Japanese comrade-on-the-street is being chemically conditioned to love the armed forces, the Emperor having decided that increased militarism is in order.
(+Japanese approval rating)
The Japanese upgraded their network of fortifications, most significantly (but not solely) in Korea. Those engineers who were inefficient received Dishonorable-Discharge-Flavored rations.
Military Events
Most experts viewed Inca-French tensions as grandstanding up until the very day that forces loyal to President for Life Reza Eghtedar invaded the Guianas in three columns. French divisions posted on the border were encircled and destroyed, and the entire colony was occupied in a matter of months, with rumors of a massacre after the fall of Cayenne. Aged Eghtedar’s victory was tempered when her fleet was decimated at the hands of the French in pitched battles around the Windward Islands, but French marines were unable to regain a landing zone on the continent, and Port-of-Spain suffers daily air raids.
(-1 Incan division, -6 Incan squadrons, -1 Incan group, -3 French divisions, -2 French squadrons, -1 French group)
After the Russians threatened the Balt Confederacy early in the year, Helsinki became convinced that invasion was inevitable. Having far less strategic depth than Russia, to say the least, the Balt high command opted to launch an attack immediately rather than wait and defend. Airfields in Riga and Arkhangelsk were cratered without official declaration of war, while hundreds of thousands of Balt troops crossed the border. Barely able to contest the skies, the Russians opted to launch a huge spearhead at St. Petersburg, which reached the city and linked up with underground nationalists. The Balts did their best to fight street by street, but fell back once they realized they were severely outmatched by battlesuited Russian infantry and could count on little local support. Their own offensive, largely dependent on armor, swiftly conquered Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, arriving to cheering crowds, but the intended drive on Moscow itself was rebuffed with heavy casualties, the Russians having invented some sort of rifle that can cut through light tanks. Nevertheless, the Russians are in a tenuous position. Their navy’s attempt to blockade the coasts of Sweden and Finland turned into a disaster once all the local friendly ports were lost, with some ships being captured before they could be scuttled. Meanwhile, their supply lines to St. Petersburg are bombed with near impunity. It would be easy for the Russians to drag the war out, but it seems near impossible for them to win it.
(-2 Russian divisions, -7 Russian squadrons, -5 Russian groups, -6 Balt divisions, +2 Balt squadrons, -1 Balt group)
Allahu Akbar!
(See Spotlight)
(+10 Iranian irregular divisions, -1 Iranian division, -6 Iranian irregular divisions, -1 Iranian squadron, -1 Iranian group, -2 Egyptian divisions, -2 Egyptian squadrons, -1 Egyptian group, +15 Order irregular divisions, -5 Order divisions, -9 Order irregular divisions, -4 Order squadrons, -2 Order groups, -1 Order ASP)
United Kingdom and Japanese naval forces, both on alert in the South Pacific, participated in a border skirmish somewhere off the coast of the Bird’s Head Peninsula. The UK lost more material in the exchange, but the Japanese and their overzealous drugged-up seamen lost more face.
(-1 UK squadron)
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