Capto Iugulum

[Luckymoose]

You never gave Guyana fair representation. And you had slavery for quite a while after me.. So...

OOC: Guyana has the vote, they just chose to ignore it and got on a cruise liner for the Netherlands. They voted for that and they didn't win. Even the ex-slaves vote, and have better treatment than your Indonesian population, surely.

 

[Circuit]

Agree with Crezth et al. The United States and Brazil, even though on the same side, still really aren't on speaking terms. Speaking of which, before I forget...

IC:
To: Brazil
From: United States of America

We propose that our nations agree to a non-aggression pact for the duration of this conflict and ten years after, extending to our spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere.

 

[Terrance888]

Yes, it's very true that the division of countries into sides has nothing to do with democracy at all, although you might have thought it was, based theDright and Terrance's impressions.

At any rate, I'm firmly with Milarqui on what the Continental Powers are all about.

Whoa whoa. It's totally theDright. I made no impression on anything except how Milarqui quoted theDright before making his case.

(sorry, I had to throw SOMEONE under the bus. This is Capto Iugulum, after all.)

 

[Luckymoose]

Agree with Crezth et al. The United States and Brazil, even though on the same side, still really aren't on speaking terms. Speaking of which, before I forget...

IC:
To: Brazil
From: United States of America

We propose that our nations agree to a non-aggression pact for the duration of this conflict and ten years after, extending to our spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere.

TO: United States of America
FROM: Empire of Brazil

May peace reign far longer than this treaty entails.

 

[theDright]

I have been posting from a phone all this weekend, so proofreading tends to fail miserably. I meant to say republican or constitutional monarchies for brazil et al. and constitutional monarchies and absolute ones for Spain et al. This is basically true, most of south america is republican, and most of the rest are constitutional governments of some sort. As for the nations/empires comment, we in south america enjoy our sovereignty as nations, while there are many more countries that claim to be empires on the other side.

@Terrance
Do we even have buses yet?

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

All righty... I'm signing on as Serbia, and what a perfect time to do so!

 

[Terrance888]

Orders sent.

The feeding of beans and cheese to produce copious amounts of gas has been initiated.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

@Bair the Normal: Welcome aboard, please PM me if you have any questions about what Serbia's doing at the moment.

All new players MUST send orders for their nations or confirm a reservation via PM if they want to be registered as players for any such nation.

 

[bombshoo]

Looking at joining as Georgia, just to see if I can hold out for a few turns. Unfortunately, while trying to draw up battle plans by projecting a physical map of the area over the game map, I realized Tbilisi (Tiflis) misplaced by a few hundred miles. As this is fairly important for anything I were to do, I thought it should be known. White is where it currently is, red is closer to where it should be.

 

[TheLizardKing]

I'll have to get orders in tomorrow EQ.

From: Austria
To: The World
CC: Trade, and such

We again wish to highlight our intention to stay neutral in this war, and hope that both sides respect us enough to keep the war far from out borders. That being said, the port of Trieste will still be open to trade, but special trade rules will be in effect until the end of the war. Namely that ships that wish to dock in Austrian ports, from opposing nations, will have designated port areas in which their sailors can fraternize, and ships can dock separately, yet equally. Those ships are to be given a 48 hour grace period to unload stock, and reload stock, unless further reason is given for an extended stay, and it's approved by the Dock Master. To any nation that has commerce raiders in the Adriatic, or other appropriate sea lanes not considered to be part of a legal war zone, or blockaded area, who fires on an Austrian ship, Austria maintains the right to respond, but does not consider such response a declaration of war against the responsible nation. Nations are permitted to protect their trade ships, so long as protection doesn't turn to commerce raiding around designated safe trade zones in the Adriatic, and those warships will be subjugated to the same protocols as their trade ships in Trieste, or other Austrian ports.

In exchange, Austria will acknowledge active war zones and blockade areas, and will encourage it's merchants to do the same. Any Austrian merchants that wish to enter such zones do so at their own risk, and without the direct approval from the Austrian government.


From: Austria
To: World
CC: Neutrality

With our regulations on Adriatic/Austrian trade we again, want to make it abundantly clear that we remain apart from your growing global conflict, and our own war with Naples has little to do with the alliance blocks forming across the world. It shall stay that way, so long as other nations treat it as a separate conflict.

To: The Papal States, Sardinia
From: Austria
CC: The United Kingdom

The goal of this war is to defeat any notion of Italian Nationalism that may appear. We have no intent on annexing the entirety, or even parts of Naples, and expect both of you feel much of the same way. The Austrian military will not be a part of a land-grab, and will actively ensure that such an action occurs. The involvement of foreign powers, be it the United Kingdom or Brazil is not necessary in the war, and any involvement, be it direct or not, will be viewed by Austria as both an insult and threat to it's regional influence. We of course, will recognize your interests in the area, and take them into account when everything is said and done.

To: Naples
From: Austria

You have been given a fair amount of time to rectify the situation you have created. Consider any more attempts at diplomatically isolating members of the alliance, or turning this already unnecessary war into a larger one, to be a key example of the highlighted instability of the Neapolitan regime. Unless you are willing to come to direct terms with us, and the Papacy, consider diplomatic relations severed until the first Austrian regiments march through Naples.

From: Austria
To: Milan

Your withdrawal from the war shows your maturity as a state. We are glad cooler heads saved the day.

 

[Crezth]

To: Austria
From: The United Kingdom

We care not if you feel your regional influence is threatened. We have guaranteed Naples' independence and will not see it compromised. We have made our position on this very subject known in the past in dealings with Spain and, similarly, are warning you that violating Naples' territorial integrity can and will be met with force of arms by the British military.

 

[TheLizardKing]

From: Austria
To: The United Kingdom

Considering the situation you have gotten yourself into, we question your ability to forcibly influence the situation at all. Regardless, we have too made it clear that we have no plans to, and will not allow for any type of deal that would end Naples' independence, or allow for any type of land cessation. Since we have clearly stated our intentions, which are in direct accordance with your 'guarantees', saber-rattling is not only wildly unnecessary, but the type of thing that could escalate this conflict into something larger then it needs to be.

 

[Jehoshua]

To the United Kingdom
From the Papal States

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The Sovereignty of the Kingdom of Naples is not in question, rather this war is about ending a threat to the italian peace and crush the spectre of "unification nationalism" that is raising its head with the complicity of the neapolitan government.

Should the war proceed to the conclusion that Naples is occupied, the papal proposal is that a congress is held to determine precisely what happens to Naples in detail. Otherwise we will likely be left with multiple occupation forces, and no common agreement on how the Neapolitan question is to be solved, a situation that is quite likely to lead to unilateral annexations. That said our preliminary thoughts are that Campania and Basilicata should remain under Neapolitan sovereignty, with the congress deciding what happens to the regions of Molise, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily since it is clear to the Holy See that Naples must be cut down to size for the security of the Italian Peninsula.

Regardlesss any British intervention will be seen as an imperialistic intrusion into regional affairs that are not of its concern.

- Pope Leo XIV

 

[Gem Hound]

To the United Kingdom
From the Papal States

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The Sovereignty of the Kingdom of Naples is not in question, rather this war is about ending a threat to the italian peace and crush the spectre of "unification nationalism" that is raising its head with the complicity of the neapolitan government.

Should the war proceed to the conclusion that Naples is occupied, the papal proposal is that a congress is held to determine precisely what happens to Naples in detail. Otherwise we will likely be left with multiple occupation forces, and no common agreement on how the Neapolitan question is to be solved, a situation that is quite likely to lead to unilateral annexations. That said our preliminary thoughts are that Campania and Basilicata should remain under Neapolitan sovereignty, with the congress deciding what happens to the regions of Molise, Apulia, Calabria and Sicily since it is clear to the Holy See that Naples must be cut down to size for the security of the Italian Peninsula.

Regardlesss any British intervention will be seen as an imperialistic intrusion into regional affairs that are not of its concern.

- Pope Leo XIV

From: Brittany
To: the Papal States
CC: Italian Unification
You do realize Pope Leo that you have united Italy anyways against Naples? You say you are against unification yet you have unified them nonetheless.

- Prime Minister Brenic Clydwig

 

[Nailix]

To: Austria
CC: Italian Nations
From: Naples

To reiterate, we did not start this war it was the Pope who declared war for us opening a press to grant freedom of speech to our nation. We had no intention on spreading ideas of nationalism or unification throughout Italy as the Pope said we have. The closest to unification we have said as that the Italian nations should unite, as in form an alliance, to be able to strengthen each other and not be held down by larger nations who try to bully us. However, everyone jumped on what the Pope said and have clung to it as if it were the truth. As we see no other way of being able to withstand an assault from all the Italian nations we have spoken to the people of Italy itself in asking for them to defend what is right and not let their leaders succumb to the lies of the Pope. We did not ask for this war, we were merely defending our nations ability to allow free speech and press which obviously the Pope did not like so he accused us of being nationalistic and attempting to unify Italy under one kingdom which was not the case. Naples has said this many times already and it has fallen on deaf ears, yet we hope someone will actually recognize the truth of what we are stating.

 

[Crezth]

To: Papal States
From: The United Kingdom

We really don't care what the Pope's opinions on the matter of British intervention is. You are as irrelevant as you are outdated. That being said, we reiterate that we will not tolerate the fracturing of the Neapolitan state. There are other means of cutting a nation down to size than the literal division of their territory.

To: Austria
From: The United Kingdom

Callous remarks about our ability or inability to influence the situation at hand won't change the reality to come. We included ourselves in the matter due to the Pope and his gang of brigands' hateful and frankly disgusting rhetoric of shattering the Neapolitan state. That is the reality of the matter. Nevertheless, we are pleased to see that you agree with maintaining Neapolitan territorial integrity.

 

[Jehoshua]

To: Brittany
From: The Papal States

Not quite, Tuscany of course is neutral as is Milan and I believe Corsica as well, and Naples naturally is seperated from the three Italian states arrayed against it (Sardinia, Genoa and the Papal States). So we really do not see how you can say the Papal States brought unity via solidarity amongst the italian states.

Although of course the north and the isles will hopefully be much more peaceful upon the removal of the Neapolitan threat to peace I do give you.

Pope Leo XIV


To The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and all its dependencies, territories, slave states and client nations
From: The Holy See

Hmm, here we were thinking that the British Empire was an anachronism although it is not irrelevant considering its continued attempts to project its influence in regional affairs that don't concern it.

Anyways, apparently also the British government has little conception of the long term problem to the northern italian states of waging a war only to leave an intact Naples to continue destabilising the region in the decades to come. To us your interest in Naples, is rather strange considering that you have no sovereign territory there. Matters involving it and indeed the Italian region are of no reasonable concern to you and your venomous statements and attempts to intrude into a regional conflict merely betray rampant imperialism and a desire to gain influence in the Italian Peninsula. Indeed British colonialism always needs new client states and protectorates, and it appears Naples has wholeheartedly run into your arms now that its been called out at the end of a bayonet.

PS: Thats a very nice occupation of South East Asia you've got there, shame if some sovereign nations were extirpated in the process of historically acquiring that oriental dominion.

~ Pope Leo XIV.

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EDIT: I editted the second message since it sounded a bit disjointed and I wanted to make it as clear as diplomatically possible.

 

[Crezth]

To: The Papal States
From: The United Kingdom

Once we are through with the Continental Powers, we are coming for you.

 

[Jehoshua]

To:To the people of the Civilised World
CC: British Bloc
From: Papal States

-

As has become clear by its recent statements, Britain has shown itself for an aggressive, rogue state with imperialistic designs on the independent nations of Continental Europe and the Italian Peninsula.

In light of these recent utterances from the Palace of St James, it is our hope that all the right thinking nations of the world will reject this blatant aggression and radical barbarism from the British Empire and stand firm together in opposing this nation, and its attempts to bring the world under its hegemony. Indeed they even threaten the Holy See and the Papal States, a small nation that values its liberty and sovereignty against outside powers who would attempt to subvert it, and seeks only the freedom of the italian peninsula from outside domination from the serpentine machinations of certain states, and from those who would seek to bring the region under their hegemony.

As such, We urge all right thinking people in the British Empire, particularly those who adhere to the divine and Catholic Faith and those who's lands are occupied by the British, and in particular those who's right to sovereign independence is surpressed, to find the courage to stand against this barbaric and militant regime in the name of national sovereignty and of liberty. For in silence those who are just are complicit in the opppression and aggressive attacks on sovereignty wrought by the British Empire. Know that the blessings of God and the good will of the Papal States is with you.

As such, We urge all states who have thrown their lot with this vicious and radical empire, this perverse and apostate state, to turn their backs from them and turn to the light of sovereignty, of national determination and freedom from domination. For in shackling yourselves to Britain you only become slaves to their hegemony, pieces in a game of chess at the utiliy of anothers purpose.

We urge the civilised world, those nations who stand against this barbaric power or who are not aligned with them, to stand united against all British Imperialism and for the sovereignty of nations. So long as this state goes unhumbled and unchallenged, then peace in Europe, peace in the world and the right of small and proudly independent states to exist will forever be insecure, and the British Empire will continue its spread, like a red and virulent rash upon the face of the earth at the expense of other powers, spreading its malignant mentality and its abominable errors to the four corners of the Earth.

And to Britain, know that we will never kowtow in the face of your threats. We value independence, and will defend the indepedence of the Papal States, and the Church till the uttermost end. We will never bend to knee to any state that would oppress the weak and bring war in the name of the idols of self-aggrandisement and lust for power.

Pope Leo XIV.

 

[Crezth]

Hollower words have ne'er been spoken. You threaten Naples with aggression and dissolution, against the wishes of your own people, and when forced to answer for your aggression you turned your ire on us. A nation supposed to be aloof from worldly matters deciding instead to aggress and dismantle the independent nation of Naples? How very convenient that the Pope and his ilk should be messengers of God on the one hand and yet become statesmen when it suits them otherwise.

We wish to see an independent Naples, unmolested by your tyrannical hands. If you swear to not infringe upon Naples' territorial wholeness, we will remain aloof, as we were before you issued your vitriolic commandment that they be shattered. Otherwise we cannot promise that we wont enforce Neapolitan sovereignty with steel and shot.

And save your hollow speeches for a world that needs them. We, for the one part, are doing just fine without your supposedly holy guidance.