NES2 VIb - Return of the Chaos.

[shortguy]

Romania and Paraguay.

Paraguay is spoken for.

 

[LittleBoots]

ROFL! You gotta do the cooking by the book son.

Hey, the smaller the nation, the more self important they like to sound. Lets equate "Special Forces" with "Couple of Guys with Guns". See, doesn't special forces sound better?

 

[Kozmos]

Ahh much better here's a cookie (^_^)>@

 

[Azale]

ROFL! You gotta do the cooking by the book son.

@birdjaguar, uum...Incans are free! Thats about it really, unless you like rebel groups. I mean seriously, Incans are THE only PC nation left.

From: Premier Évariste Renaud of the Provinces Unie de la Amerique Francaise
To: Estados Unidos America

Excellent, and we would be willing to accept a defensive alliance and the other things you mentioned. We came in with a modest request, just to test the waters so to speak. We are glad the President (anonymous though he may be at the moment ) is such a intelligent and honorable man.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

lurker's comment: Someone needs to start a war, or this could be really boring... what's with all the NAPs?

 

[Insane_Panda]

Look at the last one. Alliances and NAPs abound.

That didn't stop anyone, however. Especially not me

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I seriously doubt that there's going to be an overabundance of peace here.

 

[alex994]

Lurker's Comment: I doubt if you'll even have one turn of peace in the world with no violence of any sorts at all

 

[~Darkening~]

Hell, I'd be surprised if I last one turn.

To The Union of Scandinavia
From Segu

Greetings to our southern neighbors. We wish to increase trade between our two nations and also maybe sign a NAP.

 

[Insane_Panda]

A REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
- APRIL 22nd, 1780, ANNO DOMINI -
AN ADDRESS TO THE EMPIRE

Le Tombeau de Julien​

Today, my citizens, marks the 20th anniversary of my father's death, the death of a great man, the death of a hero - the death, finally, of a martyr. Julien II, or rather, Julien-François, worked hard and indeed died for what he believed in.

What he believed in, simply, was the glory of Western Europe, the triumph of civilization, and the defeat of the wrong, and evil, and the hands of the right, and the just. We owe our empire, our prosperity, and indeed our lives to him - without Julien, the Empire, as it stands today, would never exist. Not since Henry the Great have we seen such a man, a man who holds within him the ability both to govern and to conquer, to punish and to encourage. His genius overshadows all of us, for indeed, it was through his singular genius by which our Empire was founded.

We must never forget that, and we must always honor him. Julien was the greatest leader that France, Europe, and perhaps the world has ever had. He was also the greatest father which a son can ask for.

Thus, It was most horrible that he had to die so that the Empire would live. His death, really, was an eye-opener, a revelation. It showed us, the peoples of Western Europe - a people who had grown complacent and rich - that we could no longer simply bask in the glory of our past victories, we must still move forwards, and there are still threats which face us constantly. My father, always the farsighted, knew what happens when a nation grows content, and indeed, remarked, in a speech to the national convention -

"Contentment begets complacency, complacency begets ignorance, and ignorance begets stagnation. We, as the leaders of our great Kingdom, can never be content with our results, and must always strive for more. If we are to stop our ambition, and simply relax thinking the job has been done, than France will be subjected to a miserable fate as a historical footnote, and not as the dominating, enlightening force of a nation which it truly is." ​

Our Empire, as he saw it, was the force of right, civilization, and enlightenment in our world. A force, which, on one hand, had the power to save millions, yet on the other hand, if improperly used, would drift through the tides of history, and be forgotten. This simple statement remains as true as it did over 30 years ago. We must not allow ourselves to rest, and we must not allow ourselves to stop our crusade for the right, for the moral, and for the civilized. Europe, and the world, depends that we do not. My father, our Emperor, died for that cause, that very crusade. It was ultimately him which gave the supreme sacrifice, and died, just as our soldiers do, so that our great Empire may prosper.

His death is as clear as it is today than it was two decades ago. April the 22nd - today - still rings clear as a day of horror. Sadness, upon this day, overcomes the heart, and we still remember that fateful moment, the moment when all came crashing down upon our heads, and we remember the moments after that and the years after that - years full of strife, dissent, and chaos. It was a wake up call, a clear message to the children of Europe: Either stand strong and united, and work hard to defeat the enroaching barbarism whilst securing the empire for our posterity, or cast ourselves into the darkness of irrelevance and destruction, and allow ourselves to be undone by radicals and vile separatists.

We, to our credit, answered that call. With full force. Within a decade - though a most bloody and terrible decade that was, a decade which, much like the death of our emperor, rings clearly today - the forces of revolution and radicalism were crushed. The powers of Europe and civilization, with the beginning of the Convention of Prague, vowed never again to allow themselves to be overcome by these dark forces, and vowed, strongly, to do whatever must be done to ensure that they would never come back. The actions taken by me, taken by our government, and taken by our allies though regrettable, were forced on us, forced on us so that you, our great people, would not be harmed, and not be cast into the shadows.

However, though we have recently triumphed over these forces, there still lurks, within the fringes of our great civilization, numerous threats. Therefore, we can never allow ourselves to rest - rest is the luxury of the idle, the corrupt, and the cowardly. We must, as our great Emperor declared, always remain vigilant, and always remain at the helm of our ship, ready to sail through and crush those which seek to challange our supremacy, and indeed our right to civilization, our right to glory. If we are to survive the next few decades and if our Empire is to last on unto the centuries, we must take action now - no matter how harsh or unpalattable that action is, no matter how difficult it is - so that we can enjoy the future.

Today we must look to the past. We must mourn the death of a great man, and of a hero, a man to which we owe so much. Yet, looking at the past, we must also learn from our mistakes. If we do not, than we shall be merely doomed to repeat it's errors.

- Emperor Valérien I, Imperator Augustus of the Holy Roman Empire

 

[Insane_Panda]

Das, has egalitisme been made illegal yet?

EDIT: I'll assume not, for story purposes, and that only the act of treason is illegal.

 

[Fëanor]

FROM: The Kandid Persian Shahdom
TO: The Holy Roman Empire [of the French Nation]

We humbly agree to your proposal, we hope that the Great Holy Roman Empire [of the French Nation] will help us with further modernization and that you will support our claims of Arabia as our Bilblical Birthright

 

[LittleBoots]

From the Royal Throne of Finland
To His Imperial Highness Valérien

Finland humbly requests that a number of Finnish military leaders be allowed to temporarily join with French armies engaged in putting down rebellions, or at least be allowed admittance into French military academies. Finland is in the process of developing an Anti-Insurgency branch of her armed forces that French armies may be free to fight more worthy opponents and our commanders would benefit from French experience.

Signed,
His Royal Majesty and France's Humble Servant
Frederik I

 

[Luckymoose]

ooc: Panda that was a very interesting and capitvating read.Almost seemed if I was there.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

His stories are like that.

 

[Insane_Panda]

Thanks

TO: The Kingdom of Finland
FROM: The Holy Roman Empire

We shall agree to the admittance of Finnish military officers into Imperial Academies of War under scholarship.

Signed,
Emperor Valérien I

 

[LittleBoots]

In the Council Chambers of the Royal Palace of Turku...

"Frederik, this licking of the French boot must stop. We must assert our independence and our equality with the nations of the world. Would you have us returned to slavery? Would you have us a pawn in the political struggles of the world?"

"Fool! How dare you question me? You think that the speeches we give about the Great Finnish Nation have a single grain of truth in them? Finland is great because it was made so by greater powers. No, I would not make Finland a pawn, but we were born pawns and must realize our station. It is because of France that we are not slaves. I will not face that hungry Russian Bear alone and as regards France, I would much rather be under the Eagle's wing than in its beak!"

"But surely there is another way? This is degrading! We sing the praises of the French people to our subjects, tell them that Frenchmen and Finn are brothers in arms, that we are powerful allies and yet we are little more than vassals. In the grand scheme of things, we don't matter to the French at all. If the Bear were to attack, how sure are we that the French would respond? Why would they get involved in such a potentially devastating conflict for a nation that means nothing, as you yourself have said?"

"And there is why we 'pander', as you say. That is the reason we promote the French to our people, that is why we offer our unconditional support. And the is also why we are developing these Sotaväki Anti-Insurgency brigades. We must make ourselves invaluable to the French, that they rely on us for something, that we are not entirely dependent on their generosity. If we can give Valérien some reason to remember us, then we need not fear the Bear. And perhaps instead of hiding under the Eagle's wing, we can fly by His side."

 

[silver 2039]

WTH.....listen u bloody vultures i should have my bloody pick of sucessor states u bastars...i want persia it is mine.

 

[Harleqin]

To: Segu
From: Union of Scandinavia
We would welcome peaceful relations and increased trading. We will agree to signing a NAP with your nation. It is our hope that this will prevent future conflicts from happening.

 

[das]

das, tell me the relative strengths of the "factions" working to rip my nation apart on a 1-10 scale of difficulty to remove. 10 being the hardest to remove. Tis a humble request.

Its pretty hard to say, really. The westerners are definitely the worst, though.

Wait a sec are those coal powered or oil powered airships ? And are they full of hot air or something else? "Something else" on such a large scale seems like more than just 26 years of development.

Hot air. Varies from place to place really.

OOC: Yes. Very nice BT and new stats... I have only one concern. Some of these sizes seem a little... off, especially if population is figured into the Size stat. Russia is 4 but the EUA is 5? Both Brazil and the Inca are 2 and so are Poland and Hungary? Japan is 4 and China is 3? HRE is only 5? Some of these just don't... make sense.

Brazil should get +1, EUA -1, not sure about HRE.

Das, has egalitisme been made illegal yet?

Not as such. Though enough egalitists have been rounded up for other reasons...