Multipolarity III - Game Thread

[Jehoshua]

THE CORONATION OF EMPEROR MAGNUS FLANAGAN, OF THE IMPERIUM OF MANN, BY HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XXV​

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The Cathedral resounded with the sound of a thousand voices, and was filled with a myriad of clergy, nobles and dignitaries each festooned with colour.

Zadok the priest, and na-than the pro-phet, a-noin-ted Solomon King!

The choir of the Cathedral of Peel, sang the traditional coronation anthem of the ancient Kings of the Isles, who although they fell to heresy in the last few hundred years of the ancien regime, began as Catholic monarchs, just as the Imperium of Mann, a renewed order stood on the solid rock of the Church, the sure foundation of truth and a rightly ordered society.

And what surer sign of this truth was the presence of the Successor of Peter, the rock upon which Christ built His Church, the vicar of Christ, the very representative of God on Earth, Pope Pius XXV, who in vestments of white and gold stood in splendour before the altar of God to impart the divine mandate of the Lord upon Magnus Flanagan, to reign in glory as the Emperor of the Manx People. His predecessor, Gilmore Flanagan had died in heresy and as an excommunicant. This coronation also as such served as a sign of the restoration of the right order of God above the hubris and pretensions of men, and of the Church as superior to all earthly orders.

Magnus Flanagan, in purple coronation robes embroidered with gold and ermine, a platinum brooch clasping the robe around his neck, cast in the shape of the three-legged emblem of Mann, a sign that the legs Mann stood upon where the three persons of the Holy Trinity, The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost, One God for all eternity. Pope Pius XXV gave a rare smile, after the setback with Romnesia an occasion that reaffirmed the unity of Europe under the banner of the faith was most welcome.

The Emperor, a fifteen year old lad looked nervous as the he arrived at the coronation seat. A simple wooden chair carved with ancient Ogham script, a legacy of the long lost era before the cataclysms, from even before the unification of the isles under the legendary Queen Arturia all those thousands of years ago.

The Pope turned and began the sacred rites with the traditional coronation oath of the Emperors.

"Will thou, solemnly promise and swear before almighty God, to govern the Peoples of the Empire of Mann, and all your other territories and provinces according to their respective laws and customs?"

The Emperor shifted a little, uncomfortable perhaps, as millions of Manx watched either personally in the hallowed Cathdral, or via one of the many cameras hovering about the cathedral serenely utilising the latest ornithopter technology.

"I solemnly promise so to do."

"Will thou to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all thy judgments?" His Holiness immediately responded.

"I will"

The tension now built, for the last oath, the most hallowed was the one his predecessor, his father had sworn and broken.

"Will thou to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will thou to the utmost of your power maintain in the Imperium of Mann the Divine and Catholic Religion established according to law? Will thou maintain and preserve inviolable the rights of Church and its supreme sovereignty bequeathed by the Lord Most high? Will thou preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of Mann, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them personally or to any of them?"

All of this I solemnly vow and swear before God, Sovereign of All Things so to do.

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silence, and then the Cathedral palpably filled with happiness as the Emperor restored continuity and peace to the Imperium, still torn by the betrayal of Gilmore Flanagan to his own people. The coronation then proceeded through the presentation of a bible, the words of wisdom, and through the celebration of Holy Commuion, the disrobing and the solemn anointing before the moment itself, the coronation proper.

At that moment a page boy, handed the crown to a priest, who passed it on the Holy Father. Who seemingly enjoying the moment looked at the crown before raising it aloft in the air, where catching the light from the rose window of the Cathedral he said.

"Thus it has come to pass that an end, begins. In the name of the Most Holy Trinity, I crown thee, Magnus Flanagon, son of Gilmore Flanagan Emperor of Mann and all its territories so help me God"

And with those words the Holy Father, the Vicar of Christ and sovereign representative of God on Earth lowered the crown onto the young head of Magnus Flanagan, as all present in the Cathedral knelt before Emperor and Pope and with a single voice proclaimed.

Long Live the Pope! Long Live the Emperor! Long May The Emperor Reign!

and thus was Magnus Flanagan, 14th Emperor of the Manx, Lord of the Isles, Defender of the Catholic Faith in Mann crowned.

 

[Ravus_Sol]

I'm pretty sure I haven't been around long enough to have any stats yet...

All the new nations this turn got the same stats. So according to my notes you have;


~Stats~
2.85 Industry (so can produce 100 GDP)
4 energy, 6 raw materials
39 gold
9 armies
5 navies

 

[Tani Coyote]

Ravus is correct, RobertCan't.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Ravus is correct, RobertCan't.

It's a shame that he can't.

 

[GenMarshall]

Cathedral of St. Joseph, Solitude

After Hanna witnessed the Coronation of Emperor Magnus Flanagan, she was unexpectedly moved by the mass and celebration of the Eucharist. She made a private trip to the ruins of the Cathedral of St. Josephs. The Cathedral once stood along side the Hartford skyline, now lies in ruins after the second cataclysm. Ruins that were left untouched due to strife with Pope Pius XXV in previous years. Hanna drove in not by a presidential limo, but in her own 1947 Chevy. Hanna scanned the ruins of the cathedral itself as she exits her car. With the strife still fresh in her memory, she's afraid to step into the cathedral without the roof caving in metaphorically. "The Pope slated us as an apostate state, we slated their doctrine as incompatible with our ideology and policies" Hanna said to herself as she looks at the collapsed bell tower "Could it be that we've misjudged the doctrine after spending many, many years living in underground vaults?"

Hanna, then struck up the courage to walk up to the Cathedral Ruins itself. As she approaches the building, she was approached by one of the parishioners. "Ma'dam, President, It's a surprise to see you here."

"I'm... ...just here on a stroll. That's all" Hanna nervously said while trying to ease her nerves.

"Long before you people dove into the vaults, this region, the northern states of the US. Were predominately Catholic until a series of cataclysms came."

"Yeah" Hanna said while looking at the twilight sky "Unfortunately, that Christian denomination wasn't preserved in the vaults. Ordained priests died off from old age within the first generation of vault dwellers. Apathy towards Catholicism grew until it just became a myth."

The parishioner, then asks Hanna "If you don't mind me asking, what religion are you."

Hanna thought deeply and turned to the parishioner "Christian, Non-Denominational."

The parishioner simply smiled and invited Hanna to attend the first celebration of mass in Solitude. Hanna, then nervously nodded and accepted the invitation. The parishioner reassured Ms. Antilles that the house wont collapse around her. Hanna took an effort to follow the gestures the parishioners were performing. When it came time for the Eucharist, Hanna refrained from joining the crowd not because of apathy towards the practices, but she knows full well that she's a Non-communicant and a non-Catholic. After the mass, Hanna traveled back to the Solitude White House and went to her office. After seeing the practices first hand, she decided to issue a bill to congress to ease up on the restriction of differences of political views and ease up restriction of religious beliefs of government officials. Hanna, also began to write down a pathway to a possible detente, an easing of an already strained relations, with the Holy See.

 

[Jehoshua]

Pontifical Pastoral Letter to the People of Solitude

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The Holy See has recieved, from the nunciature to Solitude, a cable indicating a bill is intended to go through the congress of your nation ensuring a restoration to your lands of the foundations rights and liberties of freedoms of thought, and freedom of religion, in public life, the public service and in the very halls of the government itself.

The Holy See has in years passed looked upon Solitude as a bastion of ignorance, proclaiming itself a land of freedom yet in truth enslaving itself, unwittingly to egregious tyranny. Where in upholding liberalism, Solitude had placed man, and by the ordering of society the state as the arbiter of what is good at the expense of liberty. Where in seeking freedom without objective limits, it had in truth lost it to the blind hand of majority opinion. As Pope Leo XII wrote in his encyclical. Libertas Praestantissimum

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"By the patrons of liberalism, who make the State absolute and omnipotent, and proclaim that man should live altogether independently of God, true liberty, which goes hand in hand with virtue and religion, is not admitted; and whatever is done for its preservation is accounted an injury and offense against the State. Indeed, if what they say were really true, there would be no tyranny, no matter how monstrous, which we should not be bound to endure and submit to"

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However we now see that true liberty, which comprehends the inalienable right of the individual to freely live his life in pursuit of what is right and just has not been totally lost to Solitude, and that the fundamental goodness of intent of its people remains intact through we can only say the grace of God. Who through his infinite mercy and unbounding love pours out his graces upon all men of goodwill, imploring them towards reconciliation with himself and conversion towards the ultimate goal of all temporal existence, truth.

We had seen Solitude, and its people, and called out to heaven asking, in the words of the second psalm of sacred scripture "Why do the heathens rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed?". Yet with the bill that has been proposed in Solitudes legislature they have given us an answer to our lamentations and proclaimed with this action that "The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call on him in truth". Solitude has looked in on itself and turned, for a glimpse only perhaps, away from what it has known from the caverns of its ancient refuge and to the light of Truth as truth actually is. A first step on that nations road forward.

The Holy See seeing that Solitude has taken a step on the path of Truth in turn shall take its own step in turn, a sign of our goodwill and of a departure from the past perhaps. The Holy See in consulting with Solitudes Ministry of Foreign Affairs has agreed to engage in mutual Non Agression Pact between Solitude and the Papal States. This pact indicates to God and to men that despite our differences that fundamentally we have the same desire for peace, and have no malice towards eachother or hatred for our fellows. There is a long road ahead for the people of Solitude, for long have they stood in darkness only to now come out into the blinding light, but we stand in solidarity with them, and offer them the wisdom of the Lord in saying.

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another -- and all the more as you see the Day approaching. Hebrews 10:23-25

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May the Peace of the Lord be With You

~ Pope Pius XXV

 

[Tani Coyote]

I am finished with Finals, and am eager to resume work on this great enterprise. However, we have a few stragglers:

Algeria
Bengal (to be terminated faster than an Immortal Child if Bonefang does not report in)
Iraq (to be spared extinguishing in case of no orders since Bair has declared continued interest)

Legion

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

Everything into industry, as I'm just too tired right now to make proper orders. Apologies again.

 

[Jehoshua]

Dispatch to the Office of Martial Affairs: The Templar Program:

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classification: SECRET

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Your Emminence, The Templar program has shown marked success , the volunteers recruited between the ages of five and six, 20 years ago during the reign of Pope Palpatine III (who despite his many flaws and reputation for worldliness was a strong supporter of the military) have on the whole shown that the military training regime we have developed has been a massive success, despite the doubts and the concerns of some within the Office regarding the programs... compatibility with the Church's moral theology and questions regarding the feasibility of such a long term program, and the costs I am pleased to say that in answer to the critics, superior outcomes have been recroded all round in terms of physical ability, intellect, blind obedience to authority, and tactical prowess in simulated combat within the average candidate, with teh result being that our army stands on the precipice of a great step forward. The extreme rigour of the program despite its, high rate of "drop out" has resulted in our candidates being vastly superior compared to an average soldier, also serving as a long term investment to the security of the Papal States even after the predicted 20 years of active service is completed.

I am also pleased to report that the experimental Biotechnical Implant procedures on the candidates throughout their training has also has been a massive success, Miostatin inhibitors regularly introduced into the candidates systems since their arrival at the program has resulted in a five percent increase in muscle cells in those who have gone through the templar program, a permanent biological advantage only enhanced by ordinary training procedures common to all armies. This combined with skeleto-mechanical implants has resulted in vastly increased strength and resilience in the soldiers through means acceptable within the confines placed upon us, and within the revealed truth of the Lord. Inoculation against common biological and chemical compounds that pose risks to soldiers in exotic battlefields, and in the event of biological or chemical agents being used in warfare has also ensured greater tolerance for such asymetric methods of war, despite the proportionally high percentage of drop outs being caused through adverse reactions to this particular enhancement procedure.

Reporting on a related program, collaboration with the Defence Technology Institutes (DTI) related Milites Christi program to develop superior armour and weaponry utilising such advances as explosive reactive technology borrowed from research within the armoured divisions and experimental light weight carbon nanofibre/metal compounds produced within DTI's labrotaries and incorporating them into a superior bodyarmour has also greatly aided in our armies effectiveness by ensuring a greater survival rate within our soldiers compared to their average competitors internationally.

As such although problems persist, In terms of industrialising and making cost-effect the production of what are for now experimental technologies and in terms of expanding the program to more than just a relatively small portion of rectruits to the armed forces and ensuring its sustainability and long term vitality. I believe that the results of this program will prove to you Your Emminence, to be more than worth the investments put aside for this purpose by the Office of Martial Affairs, and result in significant improvements as the years progress for the defenders of our Holy Mother Church, and of our most glorious Papal States. As such I urge you to continue support for the program in order to ensure the foundation of our nations program of ensuring the stability and peace of our region from rogue elements is strengthened and indeed advanced.

Your humble servant

~Dr Fiorenzo Barberini

 

[Tani Coyote]

I believe I have the lock set to Saturday.

I think everyone's more or less finished with finals, and what stragglers there are have been active in other threads.

As such, I am moving the deadline to later today. So... 20 hours or so?

 

[Tani Coyote]

Also, to enhance immersion, I am asking for approximate religious percentages of everyone's population. I've been trying to make educated guesses, and here's what I have:

Bengal 57% Hindu, 23% Muslim, 11% Buddhist
Canada 73% Protestant, 15% Catholic, 7% Atheist
Costa Rica (NPC) 44% Atheist, 37% Catholic, 9% Protestant
Granada (NPC) 89% Enerjakism, 5% Catholic, 3% Muslim
Japan 83% Shinto, 9% Buddhist, 7% Catholic
Manx 71% Catholic, 18% Anglican, 8% Methodist
Namibia 90% Atheist, 5% Catholic
New Zealand 87% Anglican, 10% Catholic
Papal States 98% Catholic
Poland 89% Catholic
Romney 82% Mormon, 9% Catholic
Russia 73% Orthodox, 23% Atheist
Solitude 54% Protestant, 40% Catholic, 3% Jewish
Spammers 31% Jewish, 29% Muslim, 25% Catholic

If you are unhappy with the percentages you can always change them.

Keep in mind these are ACTUAL numbers, not public numbers. Everyone in a police state might report a certain religious affiliation, but that is not magically the truth.

Bear in mind some adjustments will be made to any number you submit (I normally leave a few points undefined), but they will overall follow yours.

 

[JohannaK]

I demand more Buddhism. And perhaps a couple more points in Catholicism. Which benefits do I get from each trait? I NEED TO KNOW IF I AM TO MIN-MAX!

 

[Jehoshua]

Tis for flavour mostly iirc, although certain players may like you more RPwise depending on religion along with the more theocratically inclined NPC's.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Really it's just to add depth.

 

[JohannaK]

NO! What... WHAT ABOUT CHEKOV'S GUN???!!!

 

[Daedwartin]

NO! What... WHAT ABOUT CHEKOV'S GUN???!!!

OOC: BLAM! It is heresy to object to the law of the GM.

 

[Sonereal]

Orders coming in an hour.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I have received Sonereal's orders. I shall lock orders now to get to work on them.

Should Bonefang report in by later tonight or next turn, he will be restored to full glory.

 

[JohannaK]

Nowait I need time for an RP.

 

[Jehoshua]

shoulda woulda coulda done it earlier Joan