Kentharu
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NES2 VIb - Return of the Chaos.
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Got you! You probably thought this post is the update post. Heh, gullible NESers...
Well, technically I suppose it is.
Update 2 (16) - Year 1782
Non-Military Events:
Yet another war-and-peace American spotlight. I hate to spotlight the same place twice in a row, but its not like I have much of a choice yet.
(see military events, see spotlight)
On a brighter spot, Boston has ascended to the position of trade center, especially as the French commerce shifted westwards for a variety of reasons (+Boston economic center).
As tensions with EUA evidently recede and American merchants use the trade agreement to flood Brazil, the people and the military are increasingly restless and the Imperadotr's mailbox is spammed with anti-American petitions (-1 Confidence). Nonetheless, the trade agreement doesn't seem to have been completely useless, as Montevideo for one thing has greatly prospered from this and the generally-growing Atlantic commerce (+Montevideo economic center).
With the step-up of the propaganda campaign, the Imperials had launched yet another crackdown on the Egalitists after several more terror attacks and assassination attempts. A similar crackdown was enacted against the various nationalist groups still in existance; the latter were however already weak and insignificant. As for the Egalitists, they too were somehow weakened, but their remaining leadership still eludes the Gendarmerie despite several severe measures taken to track it down. It is suspected that it is probably in hiding somewhere else. As opposed to the HRE. In any case, however, it would seem that the Egalitist threat in the HRE itself has been considerably weakened, both by the crackdowns and the defections amongst the previous support base caused by the reforms and the newer propaganda. The recent naval maneuvers with Scandinavia in the North Sea also helped reinforce the national morale (+1 Confidence, +1 Culture).
A brutal campaign of sabotage took place in Scandinavia, as several vital railways were destroyed, causing much suffering (-1 Infrastructure). It is unclear who is to blame; penguins, Egalitists, Swedish separatists, Russian spies and the nefarious international Judeo-Masono-Irish conspirators seem to be the most popular candidates for scapegoats, however.
The Egalitists have definitely been getting stronger - and more daring - in the rest of Central Europe, especially in the former Russian-dominated regions (-1 Confidence for Poland, Hungary, Romania). Same sabotage campaigns as in the HRE previously took place in Poland, along with other low-level terrorist acts (-1 Infrastructure).
The strategically-positioned Byzantine city of Sirmium - or Belgrade, as most of its residents persitantly call it - has evolved into a great Danubean trade center (+Sirmium economic center).
After the suspiciously-convenient death of the heirless Malik Abdul Hosnin of Egypt, a strange situation came into place as, though noone had abolished the monarchy, there was no monarch or even regent, and the parliament - without declaring a republic - de facto took over. After some powergaming, most probably with French backing, a parliamentary called Jacques, a descendant of one of the French merchants that decided to settle down in Cairo a few decades ago, emerged to power. His very descent won him numerous enemies; as for his foreign policies - breaking the alliance with Russia and formaly "pledging allegience to the Holy Roman Emperor" (though Egypt was not annexed by the HRE, or, at least, as many of Jacques' many enemies claim, not yet) - they faced some opposition even amongst the Francophiles. So obviously, the Francophobic, pious Muslim countryside didn't take long to rebel. Another rebellion came in former Sennar (see military events). Fortunately most of the army remained loyal and the rebels were defeated, but the deep-rooted divisions between the urban and rural populations were worsened, and only the timely completion of the irrigation project allowed Jacques to retain some degree of support, but his extreme Francophilia still didn't win him any friends (-1 Culture, -2 Confidence). Sabotage by one of the local anti-French Islamist groups prevented the timely completion of the Benghazi-Suez Express (-1 Imperial project progress)..
Incidentally, all this indirectly caused a bit of a crisis when the Russian fleet - for obvious reasons no longed stationed in Alexandria - tried to return back to the Black Sea. The Byzantines simply didn't let it, explaining their attitude by the whole Romanian affair (see military events). The Russian fleet
On the brighter side for the Imperials, the situation in Persia calmed down somewhat after a crackdown on Sunni rebels (see military events), so the exploitation of Baku oil fields could now begin.
The Japanese seem to be very keen on securing petroleum resources. Though they had found some minor oil sources in the last few years all over their far-flung Pacific empire, this year two sources closer to home were discovered - in Manchuria and in the recently-ascendant industrial city of Akita (+Akita economic center, by the way). Their exploitation has recently commenced.
PUASE is beginning to consolidate.
Terra Australis is being increasingly settled - by Egalitist convicts and the poorer Chinese opportunists.
Military Events:
The war in PUAF, and the PUAF itself, ended. Many of the PUAF's problems that caused the war and the split in the first place remained, however...
(see spotlight)
(+10 PUO irregular divisions, +1 PUO Confidence, -1 PUNF Confidence, +1 PUNF Culture, -8 PUNF irregular divisions)
(-7 PUNF divisions, -1 PUO division, -4 PUO irregular divisions, -2 Imperial Foreign Legions)
A nearly-succesful attempt on the life of the Hungarian regent served as a signal for a general Egalitist uprising in Hungary. The Egalitists not only rallied the masses in the more industrialized regions, but also found supporters amongst the soldiers (-5 divisions) and some of the ethnic and religious minorities. Fortunately, most Hungarian forces remained loyal and crushed the rebellion in Budapest itself, though the rebels dug in well in highly-industrialized Transylvania. In the end, the Imperials came to the rescue of their rather foolhardy allies and, operating out of Romania, attacked the Transylvania Egalitists in the rear. Transylvania was devastated by the struggle (-Bistritz economic center), but the revolution was nipped in the bud, for now anyway (-1 Confidence).
(-2 Hungarian divisions, -1 Imperial Foreign Legion)
Becrying the atrocities of Antioch II's reign in Romania, the HRE, supported by its various allies but first and foremost by the Byzantine Empire, announced its intentions to overthrow the Romanian government. Antioch II, realizing that he was doomed, decided to surrender, but his brother Dimitrie, commander of the Red Guard, didn't share this opinion. So immediately upon his brother's abdication, he took power and slaughtered the would-be provisional government, declaring himself King Dimitrie I. Before these news reached the Byzantine positions, however, the Byzantine "peacekeepers" sent to assist the new government suddenly came under fire and, taken by complete surprise, were ignominously repulsed. Meanwhile, Dimitrie I ruthlessly crushed an Egalitist rebellion and a military mutiny as he had crushed all rebellions against his brother, and demanded loudly that Russia intervenne to protect its Orthodox Romanian brethren from the foul French schismatics and so forth. This was mostly ignored in Moscow; Dimitrie I wasn't very popular even amongst the Russian reactionaries, much less the populists actually in power in Russia. And his cause was a lost one from the start. After the Byzantines recovered and were reinforced by the Imperials, they managed to force a crossing over the Dnieper and decisively defeated the Romanian Red Guards at Craiova. Dimitrie I conscripted desperately, however, and managed to force together a new army outside of Bucharest. That army was obviously not very inspired, however, and much of it mutinied upon Imperial incitement; the rest was massacred, or, with the mad monarch himself, retreated to Bucharest, where it tried to make a last stand but was betrayed by local populace, which rebelled and allowed the Byzantine-Imperial forces to enter the city. Finally, Dimitrie I impaled himself on a stake, and all resistance collapsed. But the country itself was devastated, and was put under temporary Byzantine-Imperial peacekeeping occupation as things were sorted out and candidates to head a new government were sought... In the meantime, the Byzantine Emperor was approached with a tempting offer; several surviving Romanian public leaders and aristocrats petitioned him to annex Romania into his realm, provided that he pledged to respect its old laws and liberties (basically amounting to domestic semi-autonomy). It doesn't seem likely that anyone apart from the Byzantines themselves will approve something like that... then again, it might be a solution to the Romanian problem.
(-Romania as an independent nation, -4 Byzantine divisions, -3 Imperial Foreign Legions)
Radical Muslim rebels have been defeated after some fighting in Sennar and Egypt Proper.
(-1 Egyptian division)
Few paid attention to this however as a huge financial tragedy unfolded, as several large ships entered the Egyptian Canal. They only had a skeleton crew, most of which died, commited suicide or was promptly arrested; themselves, these ships were filled with heavy stones and explosives that went off as soon as the Imperial officials grew suspicious and demanded that the ships are stopped for investigation. These ships succesfully clogged the Egyptian Canal, and caused some damage to it as well, and temporarily, the great commercial vein was cut, and, ofcourse, the commerce in the Mediterranean, Red and Arabian Seas was badly shaken (-Nicosia, Suez, Asmara economic centers). This was obviously a serious blow to the Imperial economy (-1 Economy) and to the fortunes of many European companies, though in business there is no time to weep, and indeed, soon after the attack the Imperial Atlantic commerce picked up, the port of Agadir particularily prospering (+Agadir economic center), both as trade with the Americas grew and as for a few months at least the tried old path around much of Africa was revived. As usual in such times of economic turbulence, outlaws got involved; in this case, as one might half-expect from nearly the start, pirates, but not just any pirates, as apparently they have somehow acquired a submarine or three, and begun preying on Imperial commerce near Madagascar, preventing that Imperial-ruled island from exploiting its sudden new opportunities. Sadly the Imperials were busy elsewhere when this begun, and bureaucratic bumbling combined with communication troubles delayed any response.
The Persians succesfully crush the Azeri and Iraqi Sunni rebels, though the Central Asian ones are obviously a far tougher nut to crack.
(-2 Persian divisions)
Random Events:
As living conditions generally improve, the Imperials and their allies are on the brink of victory in the war of propaganda (+1 Confidence to both HRE and Finland).
Scandinavian national pride in their navy grows further (+1 Culture).
The new Egyptian government swiftly acquires much Francophile and liberal support (+1 Confidence).
A patriotic upsurge takes place in Paraguay (+1 Culture).
Tribal dissent in the outer regions of Segu increases (-1 Culture).
Warfare, blockades, instability and alleged sabotage damage the American commerce, especially in the Carribean and by extension in Europe (-1 Economy).
Sulian living standards gradually detiriorate (-1 Living Standards).
Assassinations and defections amongst the Jesuit elite of Paraguay take place (-1 Civilian Leadership).
A mass exodus of Romanian intellectual elite begins, most Romanians fleeing to EUA, HRE or Russia (-1 Education).
Spotlight:
America Still Aflame.
"We had a good war, and a bad peace. Now we'll get a bad war, knowing our luck..."
- Philippe d'Orville, French writer, philosopher and radical political pundit. Year 1777.
The 1781 war was, from the purely military point of view, more of a defeat for the rebel forces in the PUAF south; despite the desperate resistance and the ongoing guerrila campaigns, they were forced out of Charleville, and defeat seemed rather inevitable even as they advanced up the Mississippi. But they won a victory of a different kind; by bleeding white the enemy troops, by waging ulcerous guerrila campaigns, and by demonstrating that they were willing to fight on for longer, the southerners persuaded Renaud Evariste - and, more importantly, Emperor Valerien I - that to crush them would consume a disproportionate amount of money and manpower, and put the Holy Roman Empire's very hegemony - at least, in North America - at risk. Yet at the same time, the southerners cleverly and markedly remained open to negotiations, showing a pretty simple way out of this quandry. Divide-and-conquer was one of those great imperial maxims the French never did rely on as much as many other powers, but here, they were practically forced to divide a single, potentially-threatening PUAF satellite into three different ones, all remaining bound to the HRE to the same extent. The confusion of early 1782 grants some support to the hypothesis that while Renaud and Valerien worked in close coordination on this partition of the Provinces formerly Unie de la Amerique, their southern counterparts weren't quite as deeply involved in working out the final treaty; but as it largely proved to be better than their wildest dreams, they agreed.
That's the South and the HRE. The only two parties that were really content with the split-up of the PUAF in 1782 into the Provinces Unie de la Occitaine (the South), Provinces Unie de la Nouvelle France (the north, with an autonomous Canada - or autonomous parts of Canada, at least) and Provinces Unie de la Colorade. Let us begin with that latter, weird, utterly artifical state that clearly demonstrates to all the biased Western Franco-Americans that no western leaders were consulted and the partition agreemenet was done by people utterly incompetent and ignorant of the western affairs.
Instead of getting a complete western state (i.e. Frontiere and Texas) that they so wanted - or at least the entire province of the Frontiere - or, as the EUA supporters demanded, being annexed wholesale into that state, though this was pretty unlikely to happen as long as France was dictating the terms of partition, they got a trimmed (nay - brutally and incompetently shaved), renamed Frontiere and had to divide it into several "Provinces Unie" too, apparently. In any case, the west was in way too much anarchy for any such simple solution to work there - so Texas was soon aflame in battles between ragtag bands and even more ragtag militias of "southerners", "westerners", "reunionists" and "unionists" (the latter supporting an union with the EUA, the former - with Nouvelle France), whilst Frontiere got even wilder, with two estados, three republics, two Indian confederacies and one divine commune being proclaimed within a few months, and that's not to mention the less fancy gangs of outlaws roaming the land. And then, the Southerners, the Northerners and the Imperials ("Franco-Europeans") alike intervenned (admittedly, in some concert despite disagreements in Texas as to what should be done with slaves), trying to restore some order there. They partially succeeded in the eastern half of Texas and a few of the more civilized regions of the Frontiere, but a return to a peaceful North America was awfully improbable, at least in that region.
The South, stretching as it was from Virginie to la Grande Fleuve, was as already mentioned doing quite well; Stephen Colbert established a new provisional government in Charleville, while the Bishop of Nouvelle-Orleans was charged with assembling the Inquisition and rooting out Protestantism (and atheism) amongst the blacks, though amongst the white Christians religious tolerance continued to exist. As all the southern (and, as already mentioned, several western) territories were handed over to the Charleville government, loyal militias were levied everywhere, and the forces already raised rushed to impose order and slaughter (or at least disarm and reenslave) all the slave rebels. Despite some problems with the Imperial expeditionary corps officers on that issue, the Occitanians mostly succeeded in that task by the end of the year. Though the eastern territories saw some fierce Egalitist slave risings, these were put down as well, though many of the rebels simply fled to Nouvelle France, increasing tensions with that country. Some already predict that a new war is inevitably once both countries consolidate and defeat their internal enemies.
While the southerners quite reasonably celebrated victory, Nouvelle-France was undergoing a serious crisis of confidence. Though the Union-Separatists (those who wanted to stand united, but separate from the old France) were crippled by this, even they seemed to be a serious threat to Renaud's government at first, and their Francophobic (or, rather, anti-Julienist) sentiments gained widespread support; many decried the Partition as a treacherous act of the tyrant Valerien and his lackey Renaud. None, ofcourse, excelled as well in this atmosphere as the Egalitists did; though facing defeat and general decline in Europe, they now gained a great potential powerbase: Nouvelle-France, where the Valerienian social reforms were not yet introduced, where the proletariate's conditions weren't all that good at all and getting worse, while dissent, by the contrary, grew and grew. So Egalitist riots shook the country, leaders of the Establishment were constantly attacked by angry mobs and what's worse couldn't properly trust the military, because from the right fringe, headed by disillusioned army officers, they got a pressure just as severe. The soldiers that shed so much blood at Charleville didn't really understand, much less appreciate, the concept of compromise at all. In fact, they recalled for Renaud to be booted out, the Parlement thrown out as well, a general purge of the present civil elite and then, ofcourse, a jolly revanche.
In other words, Nouvelle-France was in trouble even without Canada, which was almost as bad as the Frontiere by now. While there was a pretty large population of apathic complacents there, mostly Francophones, they were the only ones Renaud had failed to antagonize there - well, them and a few hundreds of trully die-hard Unionists. There was a pretty large amount of people that wouldn't have minded a simple autonomy; but when Renaud granted them less than a half of Canada as an autonomous territory, a great many of those autonomists, especially the ones in the west, were obviously displeased. They rarely actually switched to some of the more violent movements and joined the violent armed struggle against Noveau Amsterdam, but they were clearly no longer reliable as a group. The radicals already rebelling, however, weren't going to accept any mere autonomy in the first place, and so they just went on rebelling unperturbed, capturing great amounts of land until Renaud finally launched his punitive expeditions. Despite initial successes, the bad weather and the awful logistics prevented any decisive blow from being landed on the rebels all through the year, and their guerrila campaigns, in combination with the natural attrition, raised hell. Fortunately the radicals were also checked, by a different factor - internicine strife. After the initial moments of comparative unity, factions immediately begun to form. Lots of factions, though fortunately for Canada they often enough saw the value of tactical alliances. Of particular interest to us are the Egalitists that, after some initial defeats in the east, resurged all of the sudden at Winnipeg, led by a man called van Laaden, who scarcely faced any opposition securing far western Ireland; the decentralized Anglophone coalition in the east that secured Hudson Bay territories and repulsed consecutive undersupplied Nouvelle-Francois attacks there with humiliating ease; and some silly Irish maniac whose name SERIOUSLY isn't Chip, and who nonetheless captured Quebec and declared himself Emperor of Canada. Technically he only held some regions around Quebec, but his ragtag international army succesfully defended this miniscule empire, largely due to dumb luck and inspired madness I suppose. There were many other rebellions along ideological, religious, ethnic and other lines, but they were of lesser importance.
So as winter came and a new series of Canadian rebellions begun behind government lines, whilst rioters and strikers paralyzed Detroit, Renaud was not a happy man at all.
NPC Diplo:
OOC:
JosefStalinator, "Acier" is French for "steel". That was ofcourse a pretty hard-to-guess refference, but whatever.
Sorry about any mistakes, especially in the deliberation on that attack on the canal; terrorism isn't really my speciality.
I could never remind you people to say where exactly are you placing what troops too often! This particularily applies to Panda ofcourse.
Well, technically I suppose it is.
Update 2 (16) - Year 1782
Non-Military Events:
Yet another war-and-peace American spotlight. I hate to spotlight the same place twice in a row, but its not like I have much of a choice yet.
(see military events, see spotlight)
On a brighter spot, Boston has ascended to the position of trade center, especially as the French commerce shifted westwards for a variety of reasons (+Boston economic center).
As tensions with EUA evidently recede and American merchants use the trade agreement to flood Brazil, the people and the military are increasingly restless and the Imperadotr's mailbox is spammed with anti-American petitions (-1 Confidence). Nonetheless, the trade agreement doesn't seem to have been completely useless, as Montevideo for one thing has greatly prospered from this and the generally-growing Atlantic commerce (+Montevideo economic center).
With the step-up of the propaganda campaign, the Imperials had launched yet another crackdown on the Egalitists after several more terror attacks and assassination attempts. A similar crackdown was enacted against the various nationalist groups still in existance; the latter were however already weak and insignificant. As for the Egalitists, they too were somehow weakened, but their remaining leadership still eludes the Gendarmerie despite several severe measures taken to track it down. It is suspected that it is probably in hiding somewhere else. As opposed to the HRE. In any case, however, it would seem that the Egalitist threat in the HRE itself has been considerably weakened, both by the crackdowns and the defections amongst the previous support base caused by the reforms and the newer propaganda. The recent naval maneuvers with Scandinavia in the North Sea also helped reinforce the national morale (+1 Confidence, +1 Culture).
A brutal campaign of sabotage took place in Scandinavia, as several vital railways were destroyed, causing much suffering (-1 Infrastructure). It is unclear who is to blame; penguins, Egalitists, Swedish separatists, Russian spies and the nefarious international Judeo-Masono-Irish conspirators seem to be the most popular candidates for scapegoats, however.
The Egalitists have definitely been getting stronger - and more daring - in the rest of Central Europe, especially in the former Russian-dominated regions (-1 Confidence for Poland, Hungary, Romania). Same sabotage campaigns as in the HRE previously took place in Poland, along with other low-level terrorist acts (-1 Infrastructure).
The strategically-positioned Byzantine city of Sirmium - or Belgrade, as most of its residents persitantly call it - has evolved into a great Danubean trade center (+Sirmium economic center).
After the suspiciously-convenient death of the heirless Malik Abdul Hosnin of Egypt, a strange situation came into place as, though noone had abolished the monarchy, there was no monarch or even regent, and the parliament - without declaring a republic - de facto took over. After some powergaming, most probably with French backing, a parliamentary called Jacques, a descendant of one of the French merchants that decided to settle down in Cairo a few decades ago, emerged to power. His very descent won him numerous enemies; as for his foreign policies - breaking the alliance with Russia and formaly "pledging allegience to the Holy Roman Emperor" (though Egypt was not annexed by the HRE, or, at least, as many of Jacques' many enemies claim, not yet) - they faced some opposition even amongst the Francophiles. So obviously, the Francophobic, pious Muslim countryside didn't take long to rebel. Another rebellion came in former Sennar (see military events). Fortunately most of the army remained loyal and the rebels were defeated, but the deep-rooted divisions between the urban and rural populations were worsened, and only the timely completion of the irrigation project allowed Jacques to retain some degree of support, but his extreme Francophilia still didn't win him any friends (-1 Culture, -2 Confidence). Sabotage by one of the local anti-French Islamist groups prevented the timely completion of the Benghazi-Suez Express (-1 Imperial project progress)..
Incidentally, all this indirectly caused a bit of a crisis when the Russian fleet - for obvious reasons no longed stationed in Alexandria - tried to return back to the Black Sea. The Byzantines simply didn't let it, explaining their attitude by the whole Romanian affair (see military events). The Russian fleet
On the brighter side for the Imperials, the situation in Persia calmed down somewhat after a crackdown on Sunni rebels (see military events), so the exploitation of Baku oil fields could now begin.
The Japanese seem to be very keen on securing petroleum resources. Though they had found some minor oil sources in the last few years all over their far-flung Pacific empire, this year two sources closer to home were discovered - in Manchuria and in the recently-ascendant industrial city of Akita (+Akita economic center, by the way). Their exploitation has recently commenced.
PUASE is beginning to consolidate.
Terra Australis is being increasingly settled - by Egalitist convicts and the poorer Chinese opportunists.
Military Events:
The war in PUAF, and the PUAF itself, ended. Many of the PUAF's problems that caused the war and the split in the first place remained, however...
(see spotlight)
(+10 PUO irregular divisions, +1 PUO Confidence, -1 PUNF Confidence, +1 PUNF Culture, -8 PUNF irregular divisions)
(-7 PUNF divisions, -1 PUO division, -4 PUO irregular divisions, -2 Imperial Foreign Legions)
A nearly-succesful attempt on the life of the Hungarian regent served as a signal for a general Egalitist uprising in Hungary. The Egalitists not only rallied the masses in the more industrialized regions, but also found supporters amongst the soldiers (-5 divisions) and some of the ethnic and religious minorities. Fortunately, most Hungarian forces remained loyal and crushed the rebellion in Budapest itself, though the rebels dug in well in highly-industrialized Transylvania. In the end, the Imperials came to the rescue of their rather foolhardy allies and, operating out of Romania, attacked the Transylvania Egalitists in the rear. Transylvania was devastated by the struggle (-Bistritz economic center), but the revolution was nipped in the bud, for now anyway (-1 Confidence).
(-2 Hungarian divisions, -1 Imperial Foreign Legion)
Becrying the atrocities of Antioch II's reign in Romania, the HRE, supported by its various allies but first and foremost by the Byzantine Empire, announced its intentions to overthrow the Romanian government. Antioch II, realizing that he was doomed, decided to surrender, but his brother Dimitrie, commander of the Red Guard, didn't share this opinion. So immediately upon his brother's abdication, he took power and slaughtered the would-be provisional government, declaring himself King Dimitrie I. Before these news reached the Byzantine positions, however, the Byzantine "peacekeepers" sent to assist the new government suddenly came under fire and, taken by complete surprise, were ignominously repulsed. Meanwhile, Dimitrie I ruthlessly crushed an Egalitist rebellion and a military mutiny as he had crushed all rebellions against his brother, and demanded loudly that Russia intervenne to protect its Orthodox Romanian brethren from the foul French schismatics and so forth. This was mostly ignored in Moscow; Dimitrie I wasn't very popular even amongst the Russian reactionaries, much less the populists actually in power in Russia. And his cause was a lost one from the start. After the Byzantines recovered and were reinforced by the Imperials, they managed to force a crossing over the Dnieper and decisively defeated the Romanian Red Guards at Craiova. Dimitrie I conscripted desperately, however, and managed to force together a new army outside of Bucharest. That army was obviously not very inspired, however, and much of it mutinied upon Imperial incitement; the rest was massacred, or, with the mad monarch himself, retreated to Bucharest, where it tried to make a last stand but was betrayed by local populace, which rebelled and allowed the Byzantine-Imperial forces to enter the city. Finally, Dimitrie I impaled himself on a stake, and all resistance collapsed. But the country itself was devastated, and was put under temporary Byzantine-Imperial peacekeeping occupation as things were sorted out and candidates to head a new government were sought... In the meantime, the Byzantine Emperor was approached with a tempting offer; several surviving Romanian public leaders and aristocrats petitioned him to annex Romania into his realm, provided that he pledged to respect its old laws and liberties (basically amounting to domestic semi-autonomy). It doesn't seem likely that anyone apart from the Byzantines themselves will approve something like that... then again, it might be a solution to the Romanian problem.
(-Romania as an independent nation, -4 Byzantine divisions, -3 Imperial Foreign Legions)
Radical Muslim rebels have been defeated after some fighting in Sennar and Egypt Proper.
(-1 Egyptian division)
Few paid attention to this however as a huge financial tragedy unfolded, as several large ships entered the Egyptian Canal. They only had a skeleton crew, most of which died, commited suicide or was promptly arrested; themselves, these ships were filled with heavy stones and explosives that went off as soon as the Imperial officials grew suspicious and demanded that the ships are stopped for investigation. These ships succesfully clogged the Egyptian Canal, and caused some damage to it as well, and temporarily, the great commercial vein was cut, and, ofcourse, the commerce in the Mediterranean, Red and Arabian Seas was badly shaken (-Nicosia, Suez, Asmara economic centers). This was obviously a serious blow to the Imperial economy (-1 Economy) and to the fortunes of many European companies, though in business there is no time to weep, and indeed, soon after the attack the Imperial Atlantic commerce picked up, the port of Agadir particularily prospering (+Agadir economic center), both as trade with the Americas grew and as for a few months at least the tried old path around much of Africa was revived. As usual in such times of economic turbulence, outlaws got involved; in this case, as one might half-expect from nearly the start, pirates, but not just any pirates, as apparently they have somehow acquired a submarine or three, and begun preying on Imperial commerce near Madagascar, preventing that Imperial-ruled island from exploiting its sudden new opportunities. Sadly the Imperials were busy elsewhere when this begun, and bureaucratic bumbling combined with communication troubles delayed any response.
The Persians succesfully crush the Azeri and Iraqi Sunni rebels, though the Central Asian ones are obviously a far tougher nut to crack.
(-2 Persian divisions)
Random Events:
As living conditions generally improve, the Imperials and their allies are on the brink of victory in the war of propaganda (+1 Confidence to both HRE and Finland).
Scandinavian national pride in their navy grows further (+1 Culture).
The new Egyptian government swiftly acquires much Francophile and liberal support (+1 Confidence).
A patriotic upsurge takes place in Paraguay (+1 Culture).
Tribal dissent in the outer regions of Segu increases (-1 Culture).
Warfare, blockades, instability and alleged sabotage damage the American commerce, especially in the Carribean and by extension in Europe (-1 Economy).
Sulian living standards gradually detiriorate (-1 Living Standards).
Assassinations and defections amongst the Jesuit elite of Paraguay take place (-1 Civilian Leadership).
A mass exodus of Romanian intellectual elite begins, most Romanians fleeing to EUA, HRE or Russia (-1 Education).
Spotlight:
America Still Aflame.
"We had a good war, and a bad peace. Now we'll get a bad war, knowing our luck..."
- Philippe d'Orville, French writer, philosopher and radical political pundit. Year 1777.
The 1781 war was, from the purely military point of view, more of a defeat for the rebel forces in the PUAF south; despite the desperate resistance and the ongoing guerrila campaigns, they were forced out of Charleville, and defeat seemed rather inevitable even as they advanced up the Mississippi. But they won a victory of a different kind; by bleeding white the enemy troops, by waging ulcerous guerrila campaigns, and by demonstrating that they were willing to fight on for longer, the southerners persuaded Renaud Evariste - and, more importantly, Emperor Valerien I - that to crush them would consume a disproportionate amount of money and manpower, and put the Holy Roman Empire's very hegemony - at least, in North America - at risk. Yet at the same time, the southerners cleverly and markedly remained open to negotiations, showing a pretty simple way out of this quandry. Divide-and-conquer was one of those great imperial maxims the French never did rely on as much as many other powers, but here, they were practically forced to divide a single, potentially-threatening PUAF satellite into three different ones, all remaining bound to the HRE to the same extent. The confusion of early 1782 grants some support to the hypothesis that while Renaud and Valerien worked in close coordination on this partition of the Provinces formerly Unie de la Amerique, their southern counterparts weren't quite as deeply involved in working out the final treaty; but as it largely proved to be better than their wildest dreams, they agreed.
That's the South and the HRE. The only two parties that were really content with the split-up of the PUAF in 1782 into the Provinces Unie de la Occitaine (the South), Provinces Unie de la Nouvelle France (the north, with an autonomous Canada - or autonomous parts of Canada, at least) and Provinces Unie de la Colorade. Let us begin with that latter, weird, utterly artifical state that clearly demonstrates to all the biased Western Franco-Americans that no western leaders were consulted and the partition agreemenet was done by people utterly incompetent and ignorant of the western affairs.
Instead of getting a complete western state (i.e. Frontiere and Texas) that they so wanted - or at least the entire province of the Frontiere - or, as the EUA supporters demanded, being annexed wholesale into that state, though this was pretty unlikely to happen as long as France was dictating the terms of partition, they got a trimmed (nay - brutally and incompetently shaved), renamed Frontiere and had to divide it into several "Provinces Unie" too, apparently. In any case, the west was in way too much anarchy for any such simple solution to work there - so Texas was soon aflame in battles between ragtag bands and even more ragtag militias of "southerners", "westerners", "reunionists" and "unionists" (the latter supporting an union with the EUA, the former - with Nouvelle France), whilst Frontiere got even wilder, with two estados, three republics, two Indian confederacies and one divine commune being proclaimed within a few months, and that's not to mention the less fancy gangs of outlaws roaming the land. And then, the Southerners, the Northerners and the Imperials ("Franco-Europeans") alike intervenned (admittedly, in some concert despite disagreements in Texas as to what should be done with slaves), trying to restore some order there. They partially succeeded in the eastern half of Texas and a few of the more civilized regions of the Frontiere, but a return to a peaceful North America was awfully improbable, at least in that region.
The South, stretching as it was from Virginie to la Grande Fleuve, was as already mentioned doing quite well; Stephen Colbert established a new provisional government in Charleville, while the Bishop of Nouvelle-Orleans was charged with assembling the Inquisition and rooting out Protestantism (and atheism) amongst the blacks, though amongst the white Christians religious tolerance continued to exist. As all the southern (and, as already mentioned, several western) territories were handed over to the Charleville government, loyal militias were levied everywhere, and the forces already raised rushed to impose order and slaughter (or at least disarm and reenslave) all the slave rebels. Despite some problems with the Imperial expeditionary corps officers on that issue, the Occitanians mostly succeeded in that task by the end of the year. Though the eastern territories saw some fierce Egalitist slave risings, these were put down as well, though many of the rebels simply fled to Nouvelle France, increasing tensions with that country. Some already predict that a new war is inevitably once both countries consolidate and defeat their internal enemies.
While the southerners quite reasonably celebrated victory, Nouvelle-France was undergoing a serious crisis of confidence. Though the Union-Separatists (those who wanted to stand united, but separate from the old France) were crippled by this, even they seemed to be a serious threat to Renaud's government at first, and their Francophobic (or, rather, anti-Julienist) sentiments gained widespread support; many decried the Partition as a treacherous act of the tyrant Valerien and his lackey Renaud. None, ofcourse, excelled as well in this atmosphere as the Egalitists did; though facing defeat and general decline in Europe, they now gained a great potential powerbase: Nouvelle-France, where the Valerienian social reforms were not yet introduced, where the proletariate's conditions weren't all that good at all and getting worse, while dissent, by the contrary, grew and grew. So Egalitist riots shook the country, leaders of the Establishment were constantly attacked by angry mobs and what's worse couldn't properly trust the military, because from the right fringe, headed by disillusioned army officers, they got a pressure just as severe. The soldiers that shed so much blood at Charleville didn't really understand, much less appreciate, the concept of compromise at all. In fact, they recalled for Renaud to be booted out, the Parlement thrown out as well, a general purge of the present civil elite and then, ofcourse, a jolly revanche.
In other words, Nouvelle-France was in trouble even without Canada, which was almost as bad as the Frontiere by now. While there was a pretty large population of apathic complacents there, mostly Francophones, they were the only ones Renaud had failed to antagonize there - well, them and a few hundreds of trully die-hard Unionists. There was a pretty large amount of people that wouldn't have minded a simple autonomy; but when Renaud granted them less than a half of Canada as an autonomous territory, a great many of those autonomists, especially the ones in the west, were obviously displeased. They rarely actually switched to some of the more violent movements and joined the violent armed struggle against Noveau Amsterdam, but they were clearly no longer reliable as a group. The radicals already rebelling, however, weren't going to accept any mere autonomy in the first place, and so they just went on rebelling unperturbed, capturing great amounts of land until Renaud finally launched his punitive expeditions. Despite initial successes, the bad weather and the awful logistics prevented any decisive blow from being landed on the rebels all through the year, and their guerrila campaigns, in combination with the natural attrition, raised hell. Fortunately the radicals were also checked, by a different factor - internicine strife. After the initial moments of comparative unity, factions immediately begun to form. Lots of factions, though fortunately for Canada they often enough saw the value of tactical alliances. Of particular interest to us are the Egalitists that, after some initial defeats in the east, resurged all of the sudden at Winnipeg, led by a man called van Laaden, who scarcely faced any opposition securing far western Ireland; the decentralized Anglophone coalition in the east that secured Hudson Bay territories and repulsed consecutive undersupplied Nouvelle-Francois attacks there with humiliating ease; and some silly Irish maniac whose name SERIOUSLY isn't Chip, and who nonetheless captured Quebec and declared himself Emperor of Canada. Technically he only held some regions around Quebec, but his ragtag international army succesfully defended this miniscule empire, largely due to dumb luck and inspired madness I suppose. There were many other rebellions along ideological, religious, ethnic and other lines, but they were of lesser importance.
So as winter came and a new series of Canadian rebellions begun behind government lines, whilst rioters and strikers paralyzed Detroit, Renaud was not a happy man at all.
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OOC:
JosefStalinator, "Acier" is French for "steel". That was ofcourse a pretty hard-to-guess refference, but whatever.
Sorry about any mistakes, especially in the deliberation on that attack on the canal; terrorism isn't really my speciality.
I could never remind you people to say where exactly are you placing what troops too often! This particularily applies to Panda ofcourse.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
OMG no way. I didn't mean to post damn tabs.And 30 second post delay.
das
Regeneration In Process
And I suppose that you would also be expecting a map with that. Hah. That would take a few more hours...
Well, okay, actually this is indeed the map post. I suspect that this sort of humour is extremelly irritating to everyone but myself, but if it is so, it suits my purposes even better.
Oh, and I probably will continue this after all, btw. Sorry about that false alarm a while ago.
Well, okay, actually this is indeed the map post. I suspect that this sort of humour is extremelly irritating to everyone but myself, but if it is so, it suits my purposes even better.
Oh, and I probably will continue this after all, btw. Sorry about that false alarm a while ago.
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Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Nice update,damn terrorists 
JosefStalinator
Я буду снова здесь
Ohhh, I get it, Stalin, Acier, if I knew french, I woulda caught that.
And has Charleville not recovered yet
And has Charleville not recovered yet
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Oh screw this, I have lost the tiny bit of intrest this game held for me. I just aint cut out playing sucky nations.
Insane_Panda
Deity
****ing terrorists.
There will be payback for this sabotage.
There will be payback for this sabotage.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Insane_Panda said:
Damn right. let the War on Terror begin. - George Bush voice.
Insane_Panda
Deity
Shut up, you
I have a pretty good idea of who it is.
Insane_Panda
Deity
Wonderful update, all in all. BTW, did my Sumatran troops do anything? (I dispatched 10 FL divisions here)
silver 2039
Deity
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Das why were my fortifications (I spent 2 eco on it) not built also my refomrms weren't carried out?
I believe there were a number of things bolded there.
I believe there were a number of things bolded there.
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
From the EUA
To the HRE
You gave the southerners Texas!?!
Nice update das - though there seem to be some bits missing from the military part - "The Russian fleet (absence)", also may I ask what happened to two of my Air Squadrons?
To the HRE
You gave the southerners Texas!?!
Nice update das - though there seem to be some bits missing from the military part - "The Russian fleet (absence)", also may I ask what happened to two of my Air Squadrons?
Kozmos
Jew Detective
Can I assume I am the northwestern white blob and Iggy is the northeastern blob. Or is it the other way around?
Icmancin
WSNR Pte
What happpened to the other trade center I had invested in? 2 EP, gone...
This is insane...why do all the idiots want to rebel here? Cleric, you do realize your in line to be crushed or annexed by the EUA?
Swiss, you'll be the first to die, just for being stupid.
@das, why is the South shown on the map as invading part of my territory? And what exactly made the West mad? I dont understand, we granted them full independence to do WHATEVER THEY WANT and now thier just rebelling anyway in the SAME area.
From: PUNF
To: HREotFN
I think we need to work over this compromise thing...
Swiss, you'll be the first to die, just for being stupid.
@das, why is the South shown on the map as invading part of my territory? And what exactly made the West mad? I dont understand, we granted them full independence to do WHATEVER THEY WANT and now thier just rebelling anyway in the SAME area.
From: PUNF
To: HREotFN
I think we need to work over this compromise thing...
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
Check ICNES Azale most important you remember.
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