Insane_Panda
Deity
Vive la guerre!
NES2 VI - Last Semblance of Order.
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Wubba360
Emperor
The people sat around. They had recently got out of church. Many were pleased with the Emperor's new policy of Christinizing down the the nile to its origin. People were also pleased with his efforts to send students to foreign Christian schools and rearm and train the Abyssannian army. And his acknowlegdment of the Queen of Shiba.
Today once again the Emperor would approach the nation with his proposal of the coming days.
The Emperor walked out onto the balcony. The priest beside him made the daily prayer as everyone bowed their heads. After the Emperor looked out and spoke.
Long have we all lived on this fair land. And long have we prospered. We all stand as a people of God. We all stand as a people with a mission. We all wish to see Africa united. We want to once more be able to live in harmony. We must seek out our unification, even if it means at some point making amends with our enemies.
But Africa cannot be united as long as we do not stand united and keep our vision strong. Stronger than those people around us. For shouldn't all of us accept all people under the great flag as brethren. As long as a man holds his allegiance to Abyssania, they are one of us. As long as they only serve for Abyssania's well being they are one of us.
But, I will tell you there are those around us that do not seek for our better. They seek to bring us down! They seek to take away the very idealology we stand by.
They may be on our right, our left, or even dangling right above us waiting to strike. They seek to bring us in and supposedly cure us. I say we are by no means the sick. We are the cured, we are the chosen.
This is a nation standing for justice and good will. A nation of God. The heretics and satanic people wish to undue us. We must not let such incredulence stand. We cannot let such mutiny stand.
This is a nation bound together. You all are bound together. We all are bound to the same fate. We must not let the savages around us destroy us. We cannot let them stand before our destiny. We cannot let these barbaric people step before us. This is our country, We will not let anything or any threat overflow into our lands. If need be we will stop any fight as to prevent such actions from corrupting our children, our wives, our home, our LAND!
We will not let these warmongerers stand. They cannot and will not! Burn the Heretic! Purge the soil! And Sanctify Abyssania as the true people.
The crowd errupted. Young and old flocked to join the army. Men flocked to join the Navy. People ran through the streets holding the Holy Cross. They cheered and celebrated their heritage. All night torches lit up the bright African night.
Today once again the Emperor would approach the nation with his proposal of the coming days.
The Emperor walked out onto the balcony. The priest beside him made the daily prayer as everyone bowed their heads. After the Emperor looked out and spoke.
Long have we all lived on this fair land. And long have we prospered. We all stand as a people of God. We all stand as a people with a mission. We all wish to see Africa united. We want to once more be able to live in harmony. We must seek out our unification, even if it means at some point making amends with our enemies.
But Africa cannot be united as long as we do not stand united and keep our vision strong. Stronger than those people around us. For shouldn't all of us accept all people under the great flag as brethren. As long as a man holds his allegiance to Abyssania, they are one of us. As long as they only serve for Abyssania's well being they are one of us.
But, I will tell you there are those around us that do not seek for our better. They seek to bring us down! They seek to take away the very idealology we stand by.
They may be on our right, our left, or even dangling right above us waiting to strike. They seek to bring us in and supposedly cure us. I say we are by no means the sick. We are the cured, we are the chosen.
This is a nation standing for justice and good will. A nation of God. The heretics and satanic people wish to undue us. We must not let such incredulence stand. We cannot let such mutiny stand.
This is a nation bound together. You all are bound together. We all are bound to the same fate. We must not let the savages around us destroy us. We cannot let them stand before our destiny. We cannot let these barbaric people step before us. This is our country, We will not let anything or any threat overflow into our lands. If need be we will stop any fight as to prevent such actions from corrupting our children, our wives, our home, our LAND!
We will not let these warmongerers stand. They cannot and will not! Burn the Heretic! Purge the soil! And Sanctify Abyssania as the true people.
The crowd errupted. Young and old flocked to join the army. Men flocked to join the Navy. People ran through the streets holding the Holy Cross. They cheered and celebrated their heritage. All night torches lit up the bright African night.
North King
blech
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OOC: The card of holy war is way overplayed. :yawn:
Wubba360
Emperor
Sorry if I offended the Ottomans, but I was mainly just trying to invigorate a higher sense of nationalism as to further my expedition to the origin of the nile. In no way did I want to offend you. I never even made direct corrillation between you being the heretics. The war with Sennar is over and we have come to an understanding, as Kentharu can vouch for. I was mainly pointing at barbarians who are denying Abyssania's expansion. I am sorry if I seemed offensive. Please accept my apology.
Kentharu
Zebra Commander
i would advise you to never again do that crap lol, seriously, if you call the Sennar a heretic then you are just asking for trouble
thats stupid
thats stupid
Tell me about it. I just wrote a ****load over the weekend, maybe I can type them up and post them by update time.
Maybe.
To: Ottoman Empire
From: Byzantine Empire
After our receipt of some information and further interrogation, we have concluded that this was a Krakowian initiative and therefore not entirely your fault. However, we strongly suggest that you keep a better grip on your populace in the future: it is very disturbing to think that any nation can simply walk in and hire a few of your people and soldiers as mercenaries, to attack whom they will. Any future actions by Ottoman citizens against Byzantine ones, whether or not they are intentional on your part or that of your military, will be taken as an act of war by Byzantium.
@ IP: I wasn't suggesting a move against the Ottomans, you know. I was merely restating that our defensive pact also exists, and that, technically, if we chose to interpret it that way, you would have to declare war on the Ottomans for "attacking" us.
Maybe.
To: Ottoman Empire
From: Byzantine Empire
After our receipt of some information and further interrogation, we have concluded that this was a Krakowian initiative and therefore not entirely your fault. However, we strongly suggest that you keep a better grip on your populace in the future: it is very disturbing to think that any nation can simply walk in and hire a few of your people and soldiers as mercenaries, to attack whom they will. Any future actions by Ottoman citizens against Byzantine ones, whether or not they are intentional on your part or that of your military, will be taken as an act of war by Byzantium.
@ IP: I wasn't suggesting a move against the Ottomans, you know. I was merely restating that our defensive pact also exists, and that, technically, if we chose to interpret it that way, you would have to declare war on the Ottomans for "attacking" us.
Insane_Panda
Deity
Good, that clears that up. 
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Insane_Panda said:
That is most kind of you, and I thank the French nation on behalf of all peoples freed by the breaking of the Old Spanish Empire. We are interested in persuing good diplomatic relations with the French - perhaps a NAP and a trade treaty are in order?
Sultan Suleiman III of the Ottoman Empire accepts the apologies of Abyssinia, and recommends that it is more clear when 'invigorating a higher sense of nationalism'.
It is understood. What you have done to these 'mercenaries' is no less than what we would have done to them.
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
>>>>><<<<<
Acapulco Liberty – 18th February 1748
Articles of Union Created
After a great deal of back and forth over the exact boundaries by various representatives, the boundaries of the first 36 states and 2 Municipalities of the union have been set as shown in the map below, give true meaning to the “Estados Unidos” that have been put around at last as the true “Strength in multiplicity” of our nation is revealed. A number of problems in East Panama has prevented their admittance to the Union, but we expect this to be sorted out by next year, as well as beginning preparations for the Granadan and Chilean states admittance…
das
Regeneration In Process
Nice post, Dis. The system reminds me not as much of the USA as of a certain other state that has two cities with such a special status as well, amongst other parallels. 
North King
blech
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Actually, Dis is reminding me eerily of my earlier plans for Columbia.
A Study in Scarlet: the Campaign of Singidunum, September 1747
Part I: Strategic Prelude
On September 4, 1747, Feldmarschall der Deutschen Franz I began to cross the Danube River at Sirmium (Belgrade). The numbers of his army are supposed to have numbered over 200,000 men, mainly of the Guard of the Grand Chancellery. This elite unit had brought Friedrich von Dunkelheit to power a scant nine months before; not long after, it was in the vanguard of Franzs attack into southern Russia. The well-drilled and well-led Krakowian Army surprised the outposts at the bridges, which were not destroyed, then it vanished to the south.
Only a few months before, the GotGC had torn into unprepared southern Russian defenses in Transylvania, linked up with the pocketed Russian defenses in the southern Ukraine, then raced to capture the fortress of Lemgberg. Unfortunately for them, the Russians massed enough men to push the Krakowian army out of Galicia. The situation was changing: all across the Danube front, Krakow was throwing Russia back. The gods of war (or God, depending on your particular religion or lack thereof) are capricious, though, and after the fall of Budapest Franz was forced onto an alternative route, one that he did not wish to take.
If the Russians held Budapest, there was but one way to continue: not north, into the teeth of Galician fortresses; not west, where Budapest blocked all advances; and not east to further overstretch an already-ruined supply route. The only real option was south, to Byzantine lands. There, the troops were ill-trained: they hadnt attacked the weak Krakowian right flank, a concern for the Generalstab early on. The rest of the army would join up there and march in an Anabasis up-country towards Krakowian lines west of the Danube.
When the Guard, flower of the Krakowian Army, smashed the elements of the Byzantine Army in Sirmium, panic spread like a virus through the headquarters of the army in the north. The enemy had struck, albeit unwittingly, at the weak boundary between First and Second Armies. At the H.Q. of Second Army in Naissus, Stratopedarch Elias Dodismos was handed a message from the C.O. of First Army, the esteemed Venizelos, who was extremely worried about his right flank. If Second Army allowed the Krakowians to push through, First Army would be cut off from the rest of the country and be forced into an ignominious sea-based retreat, which the Grand Duke Melenides would never let lie. Dodismos did a few calculations: with over forty divisions, 400,000 fighting men, in theater, he could exert more pressure than the Krakowians could, theoretically. Not everything was numbers, though: the Unions armies were far better-trained than those of the Empire, mainly due to the Imperial levee en masse from last year.
Second Army began to mass forwards of the Guard just south of Sirmium, boundaries be damned. Dodismos sent an urgent message to Venizelos: he would stop them at good ground, and Venizelos would ring the enemy from the north and west. The plan continued to evolve: a ridgeline just south of Sirmium, near the town of Singidunum, would serve as the place where Second Army could stop the GotGC from breaking through to safety, just north of the intersection of two railroads.
Franz had nearly gotten to Singidunum when VI Corps soldiers first began to fortify the hills in their Lincoln green (OOC: Errol Flynn, anyone?). Believing the entire Byzantine army to be there, marshalling on the ridges south of the town, he ordered a halt to fortify and rest before the mornings assault. At that time, they had that evening, and three more days and four nights after, until First Army arrived and massed enough men to hold them in an ever-tightening noose. Franz, not trusting his cavalry enough in the infantry-dominated Krakowian Army, did not believe reports of II and IV Corps 100,000 men massing to the NW. He thought he had time to blow through the Byzantines here: its only a nights rest
By the next morning, all of Second Army was arrayed on the ridges south of the town, and dug in well.
On the first day, the 20th of September, 1747, the Krakowians began with a probe. A nice flank attack would do it. In the morning fog, three divisions set out from Krakowian lines in the northeast, slipping through the brush, marching towards Vindiaca Hill. No artillery preceded them, no long-range shots to warn the green Byzantine defenders: Krakow was coming. On the First Day, the battle would begin with a man-on-man clash in morning mist, in the primeval forest that covered those hills.
Part I: Strategic Prelude
On September 4, 1747, Feldmarschall der Deutschen Franz I began to cross the Danube River at Sirmium (Belgrade). The numbers of his army are supposed to have numbered over 200,000 men, mainly of the Guard of the Grand Chancellery. This elite unit had brought Friedrich von Dunkelheit to power a scant nine months before; not long after, it was in the vanguard of Franzs attack into southern Russia. The well-drilled and well-led Krakowian Army surprised the outposts at the bridges, which were not destroyed, then it vanished to the south.
Only a few months before, the GotGC had torn into unprepared southern Russian defenses in Transylvania, linked up with the pocketed Russian defenses in the southern Ukraine, then raced to capture the fortress of Lemgberg. Unfortunately for them, the Russians massed enough men to push the Krakowian army out of Galicia. The situation was changing: all across the Danube front, Krakow was throwing Russia back. The gods of war (or God, depending on your particular religion or lack thereof) are capricious, though, and after the fall of Budapest Franz was forced onto an alternative route, one that he did not wish to take.
If the Russians held Budapest, there was but one way to continue: not north, into the teeth of Galician fortresses; not west, where Budapest blocked all advances; and not east to further overstretch an already-ruined supply route. The only real option was south, to Byzantine lands. There, the troops were ill-trained: they hadnt attacked the weak Krakowian right flank, a concern for the Generalstab early on. The rest of the army would join up there and march in an Anabasis up-country towards Krakowian lines west of the Danube.
When the Guard, flower of the Krakowian Army, smashed the elements of the Byzantine Army in Sirmium, panic spread like a virus through the headquarters of the army in the north. The enemy had struck, albeit unwittingly, at the weak boundary between First and Second Armies. At the H.Q. of Second Army in Naissus, Stratopedarch Elias Dodismos was handed a message from the C.O. of First Army, the esteemed Venizelos, who was extremely worried about his right flank. If Second Army allowed the Krakowians to push through, First Army would be cut off from the rest of the country and be forced into an ignominious sea-based retreat, which the Grand Duke Melenides would never let lie. Dodismos did a few calculations: with over forty divisions, 400,000 fighting men, in theater, he could exert more pressure than the Krakowians could, theoretically. Not everything was numbers, though: the Unions armies were far better-trained than those of the Empire, mainly due to the Imperial levee en masse from last year.
Second Army began to mass forwards of the Guard just south of Sirmium, boundaries be damned. Dodismos sent an urgent message to Venizelos: he would stop them at good ground, and Venizelos would ring the enemy from the north and west. The plan continued to evolve: a ridgeline just south of Sirmium, near the town of Singidunum, would serve as the place where Second Army could stop the GotGC from breaking through to safety, just north of the intersection of two railroads.
Franz had nearly gotten to Singidunum when VI Corps soldiers first began to fortify the hills in their Lincoln green (OOC: Errol Flynn, anyone?
). Believing the entire Byzantine army to be there, marshalling on the ridges south of the town, he ordered a halt to fortify and rest before the mornings assault. At that time, they had that evening, and three more days and four nights after, until First Army arrived and massed enough men to hold them in an ever-tightening noose. Franz, not trusting his cavalry enough in the infantry-dominated Krakowian Army, did not believe reports of II and IV Corps 100,000 men massing to the NW. He thought he had time to blow through the Byzantines here: its only a nights rest
By the next morning, all of Second Army was arrayed on the ridges south of the town, and dug in well.On the first day, the 20th of September, 1747, the Krakowians began with a probe. A nice flank attack would do it. In the morning fog, three divisions set out from Krakowian lines in the northeast, slipping through the brush, marching towards Vindiaca Hill. No artillery preceded them, no long-range shots to warn the green Byzantine defenders: Krakow was coming. On the First Day, the battle would begin with a man-on-man clash in morning mist, in the primeval forest that covered those hills.
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Corneal ulcer, trouble seeing. Will try to send orders, but they may be a little late because of this. Hope you understand, das.
Insane_Panda
Deity
Its god's punishment for not signing peace, clearly. 
Kidding, of course. Hope you get better soon.
Kidding, of course. Hope you get better soon.
