BlaDipNES - A Fresh Start

[TheBladeRoden]

Rats, I was hoping to make a dutch nation...

Vikings!

(f) nwy
(f) den
(f) cly

Is this possible?

"I'll allow it!"

But that's it!

--

What I'm waiting on

j_eps: Coast preference for Spain.

Lord_Iggy: Color.

If you don't care then I'll just fill them in myself.

 

[jeps]

Name: Spanish Empire
Colour: Spain in Civ 3 PTW. whatever it is
Units:
Spa: F
Bre: A
Gas: A

 

[LightFang]

May as well reveal myself.

Nation Name/Player: 1337Ascendancy
Color: Light Red
Home Centers(Unit):
1. ank (F)
2. arm (W)
3. bul (A)
Description: In the year 1337, these fez-loving people united for no apparent reason. They got bored of sitting around doing nothing, so now they've decided to conquer Europe!

 

[Foozicaba]

I shall require you to pick something other than Bul, since someone secretly claimed it. Though it's probably hard to hide who with deductive reasoning.

then ill take A(rum)

 

[TheBladeRoden]

oh yeah, j_eps I'll need a coast for your Spanish fleet.

 

[Foozicaba]

so we can send in orders now since you're closing the sign ups??

 

[TheBladeRoden]

sure, why not? But I will be post an indroductory update beforehand.

Also, if anyone feels like exchanging sc's (imperceptively glances at a particular location of the map)
do so before I get back tomorrow at 6:00PM EST

 

[Niklas]

Also, if anyone feels like exchanging sc's (imperceptively glances at a particular location of the map)
do so before I get back tomorrow at 6:00PM EST

Yeah, I wouldn't have taken Rom if I knew Ven was a center, get me Nap (F) instead.

 

[jeps]

Spa: F SC

anything else you need?

 

[TheBladeRoden]

No, everything is prepared for your arrival

 

[TheBladeRoden]

A Fresh Start​

“Three… Two… One… Happy New *bzzzzzt!!!!* …”

That was the last thing anyone heard from their television sets in Sydney, Australia on January 1st, 2000. The power had gone out, across the city, across the coast, across the whole time zone. Y2K was happening.

It struck New Zealand an hour earlier, but without electronic communications, no one could warn their neighbors to the West of the terror about to befall them.

As the night drew on, Moscow, London, and Washington all started noticing the signal blackout crawling across the earth from the International Dateline. Their worst fears had been confirmed.

One by one, longitudinal regions of the globe fell to the dark ages… well, at least to the early industrial age. Humanity had put all its eggs into the computing basket by 1999, but it turns out the basket had a paper bottom, or maybe a trap floor. Well, anyway, the bottom fell out due to computers not being powerful enough to calculate years above two digits. Thus, 99 turned back to 00, and so too, did reality’s clock turn back, and all the eggs fell out.

Utilities shut down, banks went bankrupt, criminal records erased, and once powerful governments turned into a bunch of suited guys in isolated buildings yelling into inanimate pieces of plastic and silicon.

For those in America, it was like a lesson learned in the Matrix (recently released on DVD) about man’s overdependence on technology. But even with the advanced warning of the future, no one could do anything to prevent it, since nobody wanted to pay the tech guys overtime to work evening hours on a holiday.

And thus, all went dark.

Eons have passed since then…​

Well, maybe one year.

With the states of old having been destroyed in Y2K, the people had once again been dispersed into tribal living. The weak stayed weakened, but the strong worked to regain what was lost. New leaders rose to bring their people back into order, technology, and prosperity. These are their stories…

(I like ellipses)

The European Landscape​

Even after a year’s time, the new nations in Europe have barely learned of each other’s presence, and are still cut off from the world outside. Thus, they will only have each other to deal with for the foreseeable future.

The Great Swath

Back on the night of 12/31/99, German scientists were unwisely working on the key code launch sequences for their stockpile of recently secretly built nuclear ICBM’s whence the clock struck midnight. Well, you can guess what happened next.

Nowadays the German region and most mid-latitude lands nearby and eastward are practically uninhabitable from radiation. The semi-smart vacated the area and now inhabit the coasts of the continent.

The Great Swath separated the landscape into its four distinct regions, each occupied by two outstanding powers.

Western Europe

The ecosystem of Western Europe remained largely intact after the German Nuke Incident, allowing it to remain prosperous and ripe for redevelopment. After the chaos of Y2K, the Spaniards managed to retain their cultural identity and somehow avoided their 22nd civil war, which is more than what can be said for France.

Local Franks and Muslims duked it out for most of 2000, but out of respect for beautiful French architecture, left most structures untouched, making the lands rather tempting for invasion by the Spanish Empire.

But they may soon face competition from the new force of Dover, reportedly led by some guy named Ben. The Dover were forced out of the British Isles by invading aliens and their scorched earth policy, but they managed to hold on the Channel coast, and the aliens soon gave up and moved to Ireland and Iceland. The Dovers now occupy lands on both sides of the Channel, having sworn never to let the aliens cross it onto the continent.

West Mediterranean

Besides having entices aliens to Earth, Y2K also created a rift in the space-time continuum. Hannibal of the Carthaginians and his military forces were shifted from the Punic Wars more than two thousand years into the future. “Man, I so had Rome, too!” he was quoted as saying.

In 2000, Hannibal had to start over again with his invasion, this time from a different route, since Switzerland is neutral as always. Before reaching his millennia old dream of Rome, he will have to face the might of the Northern Italian Empire, a rough and tumble band of spaghetti orchard farmers. Spaghetti now grows on trees thanks to the German Nuke Incident. They don’t mean to be wet noodles, though. Haha.

Baltic Region

Up on top of the world are the hardy Vikings. It is not certain whether they come from another time portal, or are just regular Norwegians gone violently bat guano insane. They will need to be hardy, though, as their lands are rather cut off from expansion. But maybe their berserk barbarian fleets would do wise to practice a little diplomacy with the neighbors.

The Fins were never pleased at being labeled as part of Scandinavia. “Well,” they thought, “why not be ALL of Scandinavia? Or ALL of Europe? Hell, or why not just ALL!? Yes, Finland is All. Has a nice ring to it.” And thus, as always, things are done thusly, and the Finnish Empire was born.

They may have an easy start of it, too, since the nearby Baltic States are mysteriously empty. Where could they have gone??

Balkans and Asia Minor

Oh HERE they are! Whether due to geographical error or a sophisticated sense of irony, the United Baltic Provinces have managed to cross the Great Swath and land in the Balkans. A popular rumor is that they were somehow beamed there through the 1337 Ascendancy’s teleportal experiments. The 1337 Ascendancy is a group of Turkish hackers that saved their computers from the effects of Y2K and now have a leg up in technology as evidenced by their being the first to produce militarized heavier-than-air flight.

The UBP might have the last laugh though unless a deal can be cut as they have surrounded 1337 territory and could easily control most escape routes.

Conclusion​

The troupe is ready! The stage is set! Let the mayhem begin! And all that jazz!

Spoiler Starting Map :

Orders due Sunday 7:00PM EST

Here's the jDip files
http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/Y2Kregular.zip

 

[LightFang]

Dammit, you shame me and my horribly thought-out and obviously BSed updates.

Edit: Also, your links are 404s.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Dammit, you shame me and my horribly thought-out and obviously BSed updates.

Edit: Also, your links are 404s.

I had some spare time in Multimedia Kinetics today

 

[MjM]

Err, resending orders, I fooked up.

 

[LightFang]

I had some spare time in Multimedia Kinetics today

Your jDip files refuse to load for me! ^^;

Oh well, I'll do without them.

 

[jeps]

DIPLOMACY TIME!

Spain FTW!

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Alright! I think I got it this time!

Unzip this into your jDip folder (but don't unzip the scifiVariants.zip inside!)

http://students.uww.edu/RodenJA10/Y2Kregular.zip

 

[TheBladeRoden]

I've got 5/8 orders! If you push maybe you'll be rewarded with a saturday update!

 

[jeps]

6/8 orders. LAST TWO PEOPLE SEND!

and ALL my neighbours, after the update we need to talk.

 

[MjM]

Who else needs to send?