Capto Iugulum Background Thread

[Terrance888]

Ferguson's rather flat. Because Johnston drove a road paver over the proletarist's coffin before it is buried under 12 foot of ferrocrete.

 

[JohannaK]

Well I'm not even Catalonia, but that name is just horrible.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

He is not Catalonia, but he will vigorously oppose anyone who does things as Catalonia without his authorization.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

Just off the cuff, I'm going to guess the 14 potential areas for new states are:

Normandy, Orleans, Poitou, Orleans, Dauphine, Ile de France, Burgundy
Tunisia, Egypt, Benin, 'French Central Africa', 'Spanish Central Africa', Angola

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

You repeated several of those.

Normandy, Orleans, Poitou and Dauphine make sense, plus of course a remnant Franco-Burgundy. In Spain, Galicia, Basque Country, and I think some other state was up for referendum. Ceylon is going to Germany, and Angola is already independent (right?). Tunisia is a good possibility.

But that's only 7. I thought the Franco-Burgundian and Spanish colonies were going to be managed by their respective homelands.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

Thanks for the info and sorry, I was editing there again, so it got a bit messy. Spain is up for referendums? I guess that means not quite as many colonies are rebelling then.

Then I'm guessing:

Independence Granted: Benin
Referendums: Normandy, Orleans, Poitou, Orleans, Dauphine, Ile de France, Burgundy, Galicia, Basque Country, other spanish state
Rebels: Egypt, 'Spanish Central Africa' (no garrison), Angola

 

[TheLizardKing]

Spain is to retain colonies not being given to Italy or me. Yes it is up for referendums.

 

[Grandkhan]

Its entirely possible that the colonies rebel when the full extent of the defeat is known. Algeria and Egypt have had native grown separatist movements for a long time now, a defeat of that scale would basically destroy the Spanish colonial Empire. Egypt would likely rebel on transfer when the Italians try to move in, while Algeria would just outright rebel.

Same goes for the Confederation. A defeat of that magnitude is going to seriously weaken their hold on the colonies - they're about to lose a huge component of their territory, even if all they lose is the Rheinland. The rough equivalent would be Austria-Hungary losing Hungary - the Rheinland is basically an integral component of the state. The colonies are probably going to split off pretty fast.

Tunisia is probably going to go independent after the referendum.

Germany hasn't really got a naval or colonial tradition, I can easily see Germany being unable to effectively govern Ceylon or the Indian Ocean islands and have them rebel on transition as well.

 

[ZeletDude]

Yes jk Angola is 'independent'

And people Ceylon isnt going to Germany until 1929, so the turn after this one.

 

[Blue Bacon 3]

OOC: Spanish Central Africa will definitely try to become independent unless there's a good reason there's no troops there. Hasn't it been like that for a while, or was a garrison rotated out recently?

 

[ZeletDude]

If Spanish central Africa becomes a country, it will be the ugliest thing in the world. Though Libya is really bad too.

 

[Grandkhan]

If Spanish central Africa becomes a country, it will be the ugliest thing in the world. Though Libya is really bad too.

Spanish central Africa is going to be weird because there's like 50 ethnic groups in Cameroon alone. So if it goes independent, it'll either be as some kind of federation of Spanish speaking Africans (at which stage its pretty inevitable that it will stretch up to Libya, because lets face it, Chad is not going to survive on its own in that environment) or as like 6 independent states.

And given EQ said that he hates adding new countries, I think we know whats going to happen.

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

Maybe it'll be our first failed state. Just a blank zone of anarchy between rivaling ethnic identities and the Spanish authorities.

 

[Terrance888]

Oh boy. Proletarists, Dictators, Warlords, Tribals and Fundamentalists ahoy!

 

[ZeletDude]

Rebellions in the Kongo are possible too

 

[Terrance888]

How about most of Africa decolonizes!

 

[ZeletDude]

No 5char

 

[Lord of Elves]

How about most of Africa decolonizes!

If the Abyssinian rebellion and the Adjuuramark invasion are successful, as well as inserting the loss of Spanish control over Spanish Central Africa/whatever else, this is actually a distinct possibility.

 

[J.K. Stockholme]

There would be a pan-European initiative to restore the colonies! Something to finally unite all Europeans to the same team.

 

[Terrance888]

Time for Americans to defend "Democracies".