Easter Island
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GHalfrunt, I'm sorry for spamming your thread, but we did keep it on the top of the list for you, and I'll stop now. Bring the conversation to the database download area or the thread for the mod Thank you
GHalfrunt
Just zis guy, you know?
Nah, it's cool. I love that movie (and book). 
GHalfrunt
Just zis guy, you know?
The next update will come Monday night. Traveling for Thanksgiving, playing through Escape Velocity: Nova yet again, and trying to do National Solo Album Month kept me too busy for Civ for a couple weeks.
GHalfrunt
Just zis guy, you know?
I was afraid for the first few turns that nothing interesting would happen.
Some workers built some stuff they had started in the previous update, some boring units (e.g., Longbowmen) got trained. No wars started, no cities were built, no new technologies were invented. Until...
The Indian navy finally regained control of the seas near their colonies in the 1690s. After only a few short years (and somehow accidentally screencapping the "Alt + Tab" box), piracy was temporarily halted in the region.
The Rapanui pirates, however, had hardly stopped being a threat. As the Asian empires grew in power, the Polynesian peoples grew in worry. Making sure to steer clear of Aztec patrols, privateers operating in the Caribbean attacked Chinese shipping without mercy.
Any method available of harming China, decided the God-King, was vital to the continued survival of the Empire. Relations with the Great Powers of Asia were lukewarm at best, and a growing network of vassalage and defensive pacts essentially united most of the world under a single enormous alliance: China, Arabia, and Persia, and their various tributary states. Even Russia, although not willing to sign defensive pacts with anyone at this time, was still on extremely good terms with the other Asian powers.
(There were supposed to be four screenshots; the one focused on Persia and its vassals seems to be gone.)
There was some good news, at least. The Romans remained crippled by their earlier defeat to Persia. Under their thin veneer of technological advancement, they still relied mainly on the antiquated weapons of their traditional Praetorians (not that the Rapanui army was in much better shape)...
...and the Rapanui's good neighbors in the Incan Empire constructed an ornate temple that brought Hindu pilgrims from far and wide.
But the real advancement came in 1704...
Spoiler :
Some workers built some stuff they had started in the previous update, some boring units (e.g., Longbowmen) got trained. No wars started, no cities were built, no new technologies were invented. Until...
Spoiler :
The Indian navy finally regained control of the seas near their colonies in the 1690s. After only a few short years (and somehow accidentally screencapping the "Alt + Tab" box), piracy was temporarily halted in the region.
The Rapanui pirates, however, had hardly stopped being a threat. As the Asian empires grew in power, the Polynesian peoples grew in worry. Making sure to steer clear of Aztec patrols, privateers operating in the Caribbean attacked Chinese shipping without mercy.
Spoiler :
Any method available of harming China, decided the God-King, was vital to the continued survival of the Empire. Relations with the Great Powers of Asia were lukewarm at best, and a growing network of vassalage and defensive pacts essentially united most of the world under a single enormous alliance: China, Arabia, and Persia, and their various tributary states. Even Russia, although not willing to sign defensive pacts with anyone at this time, was still on extremely good terms with the other Asian powers.
Spoiler :
(There were supposed to be four screenshots; the one focused on Persia and its vassals seems to be gone.)
There was some good news, at least. The Romans remained crippled by their earlier defeat to Persia. Under their thin veneer of technological advancement, they still relied mainly on the antiquated weapons of their traditional Praetorians (not that the Rapanui army was in much better shape)...
Spoiler :
...and the Rapanui's good neighbors in the Incan Empire constructed an ornate temple that brought Hindu pilgrims from far and wide.
Spoiler :
But the real advancement came in 1704...
GHalfrunt
Just zis guy, you know?
At the turn of the 18th Century, Persia was more friendly toward Rapanui than the other Great Powers, and accordingly approached them with a trade deal that changed the course of the country entirely. Over the 17th Century, the Rapanui Court's influence had led to more and more frequent conflicts with the God-Kings of the Matu'a Dynasty. They had come to admire the relative freedom of the Persian Aristocratic Republic — or rather, the freedom of its nobility to rule without regard for the whims of either the people or a king. So they arranged for Rapanui and Persian scholars to visit each other's countries under the guise of a diplomatic summit to trade away the secrets of the steam engine in exchange for a decent translation and explanation of Persian laws of government.
Upon their return, the scholars, accompanied by a near-unanimous panel of supportive nobles, presented a draft constitution modeled on the Persian one to the God-King. He, predictably, did not approve of the idea of a government without Himself in it. He ordered the palace guards to escort the petitioners to jail. The Lord Governor of Hanga Roa Province ordered the capital's garrison to storm the palace. The garrison outnumbered the palace guards significantly, and quickly took control of the building. The God-King fled, but too late, and was apprehended in quite an undignified way, shot in the leg with an arrow, as he ran for a waiting boat.
The new government set up immediately in the occupied palace and issued as its first act a formal Declaration of the Establishment of the Rapanui Aristocratic Republic. However, the nobles hadn't counted on the feelings of the citizens of the capital. As the proclamation was sent out and announced in town squares around the country, exaggerated and gruesome stories of the coup's treatment of the God-King spread, too. Police were harassed by gangs of monarchist commoners who feared that the new government would end the long peace. By the year's end, rioting was nearly ubiquitous. As 1705 began, a counterrevolution was in full swing, and it became abundantly clear to the noble provincial governors (especially in Southwest Land, where monarchy was seen as the only thing standing between them and pointless death at the hands of India) that they would likely be in "full swing" soon, too, from the ends of ropes.
On August 10th, 1705, rebel leaders, with well-armed guards, met with nobles in Hanga Roa to discuss a peace settlement. The new government would be run under five simple terms well-known to modern Rapanui schoolchildren:
I. The Rapanui Empire is to forever be a Sovereign and Hindu State.
II. The Holy Dynasty of Hotu Matu'a, the Ancient God-King, Rightful Heir to the Throne of Krishna, is hereby restored as the Supreme Judicial Authority of the Empire. The God-King is not to make laws, but is to provide the final say on the holiness and means of enforcement of all laws created by Parliament.
III. The Parliament of the Rapanui People is a single body comprising four Members from each Province. Members of Parliament shall be elected by majority vote of the heads of all Hindu freemen's households, and any free Hindu man of at least twenty years' age shall be eligible to become a Member of Parliament.
IV. No title of nobility will ever again be conferred except to members of the reigning Dynasty, and all those who hold titles of nobility at the time of this Constitution's establishment shall neither pass on those titles to their descendants nor be permitted to hold any elected office.
V. Parliament shall make no law altering, or otherwise in defiance of, this Constitution, except with the freely-given consent of the God-King.
The new government quickly enacted a series of additional laws to ensure the continued freedom of the Empire from outside troubles, closing borders to most foreign trade and providing for conscription in times of crisis — a law that was actually even more radical than the management of the military under the old system, but one which nonetheless was approved on the grounds that it was "to ensure that this New National Order does not fall to enemies inside or out", in the words of the first Prime Minister, Nga'ara of New Mataveri.
Spoiler :
Upon their return, the scholars, accompanied by a near-unanimous panel of supportive nobles, presented a draft constitution modeled on the Persian one to the God-King. He, predictably, did not approve of the idea of a government without Himself in it. He ordered the palace guards to escort the petitioners to jail. The Lord Governor of Hanga Roa Province ordered the capital's garrison to storm the palace. The garrison outnumbered the palace guards significantly, and quickly took control of the building. The God-King fled, but too late, and was apprehended in quite an undignified way, shot in the leg with an arrow, as he ran for a waiting boat.
The new government set up immediately in the occupied palace and issued as its first act a formal Declaration of the Establishment of the Rapanui Aristocratic Republic. However, the nobles hadn't counted on the feelings of the citizens of the capital. As the proclamation was sent out and announced in town squares around the country, exaggerated and gruesome stories of the coup's treatment of the God-King spread, too. Police were harassed by gangs of monarchist commoners who feared that the new government would end the long peace. By the year's end, rioting was nearly ubiquitous. As 1705 began, a counterrevolution was in full swing, and it became abundantly clear to the noble provincial governors (especially in Southwest Land, where monarchy was seen as the only thing standing between them and pointless death at the hands of India) that they would likely be in "full swing" soon, too, from the ends of ropes.
On August 10th, 1705, rebel leaders, with well-armed guards, met with nobles in Hanga Roa to discuss a peace settlement. The new government would be run under five simple terms well-known to modern Rapanui schoolchildren:
I. The Rapanui Empire is to forever be a Sovereign and Hindu State.
II. The Holy Dynasty of Hotu Matu'a, the Ancient God-King, Rightful Heir to the Throne of Krishna, is hereby restored as the Supreme Judicial Authority of the Empire. The God-King is not to make laws, but is to provide the final say on the holiness and means of enforcement of all laws created by Parliament.
III. The Parliament of the Rapanui People is a single body comprising four Members from each Province. Members of Parliament shall be elected by majority vote of the heads of all Hindu freemen's households, and any free Hindu man of at least twenty years' age shall be eligible to become a Member of Parliament.
IV. No title of nobility will ever again be conferred except to members of the reigning Dynasty, and all those who hold titles of nobility at the time of this Constitution's establishment shall neither pass on those titles to their descendants nor be permitted to hold any elected office.
V. Parliament shall make no law altering, or otherwise in defiance of, this Constitution, except with the freely-given consent of the God-King.
Spoiler :
The new government quickly enacted a series of additional laws to ensure the continued freedom of the Empire from outside troubles, closing borders to most foreign trade and providing for conscription in times of crisis — a law that was actually even more radical than the management of the military under the old system, but one which nonetheless was approved on the grounds that it was "to ensure that this New National Order does not fall to enemies inside or out", in the words of the first Prime Minister, Nga'ara of New Mataveri.
christos200
Never tell me the odds
Great update.
thecaesar
Will appear randomly
Woohoo!
hoplitejoe
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Get nukes!
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MaxWar
King
Don't you sometimes wish you could launch Tactical nukes with privateers?
...Pirate nukes would be way too OP i guess
Great update btw!
...Pirate nukes would be way too OP i guess
Great update btw!
GHalfrunt
Just zis guy, you know?
Aha! I found it! Here's the missing picture from the Eastern Alliance, if you're interested in seeing Cyrus's side of things.
Thank you all for your patience as this story repeatedly fades in and out of existence. LOL.
Oh, and MaxWar: maybe I should try to import some pirates with nukes from Escape Velocity: Nova... (I wish games worked that way.)
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Thank you all for your patience as this story repeatedly fades in and out of existence. LOL.
Oh, and MaxWar: maybe I should try to import some pirates with nukes from Escape Velocity: Nova... (I wish games worked that way.)
That would never work.
MaxWar
King
Well, if they could launch one missile, then sink, it would still be worth it
clearmurky
Emperor
That pretty much described the best country in the world, Sealand.
clearmurky
Emperor
No, but I don't think I've posted. Been here since the start.
