Deusselkerr
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Ha, there go my plans of intercontinental conquest. But you NES guys are great at this worldbuilding stuff. Wow.
I will compile my info and add some stuff later today, hopefully. Some pre-party fun, if I can manage it.
Edit: doing the compilation now. I'm on an iPad so this will take a while. DONE
Along the riverbanks of the Ajahbi River, the Ajah people flourished for a thousand years before any other heavenly creation even lifted its eyes from the dirt. Its celestial spires still stand stark against the night sky three thousand years after their construction, their brilliant marble facades faded but not lost. The Kingdom of Ajah was one of the most stable and constant nations on all of Terios, and if it were not for the Celestaine invasion they would still be a fabled power.
Alas, those Celestaine foreigners brought their superior technology, refined culture and monotheistic religion to the Ajahbi basin. Fleeing their old and broken home Celestae, the Celestaines brought to bear their full might against the overmatched and spiritually pacifist Ajah. Though the Celestaine lost many when Celestae collapsed into the core of Terios, they retain power over their new Ajah subjects. The great port city of Shur bi-Yut was renamed Tallharbor; the ancient home of the celestial spires Badif bi-Gaz was renamed Highnest, its temples turned into mansions and palaces and cathedrals to the new god Celest of the Celestaine.
Now, the Steigne rule from their new palace in Highnest. The old families of Celestae likewise restored their dominance, with the Blackburnes taking Tallharbor, the Callsways taking Breakriver, the Aldmores taking Fairbend and the Bulcaines taking Westreach. They continue to settle into their new homeland, convert and civilize the Ajah people, and rebuild the cities of their future.
***
I feel the need to provide a description of these two humanoid species.
The Ajah are short, the tallest coming to five feet. They have short thick legs and long thin arms, and their graceful hands belie the intelligence that hides behind their smashed canine faces. Short fur covers their body, which is traditionally shaved both to release heat and as a sign of deference for their hairless gods. In its place they wear light and colorful cloth in various and mesmerizing patterns, that covers all but their tan faces.
The Celestaine are nearly opposite the Ajah. They are tall, the shortest no less than six feet tall. Their legs are long and strong, and their feet are large and wide. Celestaine males are natural warriors, with barrel chests and muscled arms highlighted by bright plumage that grows from their rear, and extends to form a bodily halo around the body and all the way above their avian faces. Only royalty and nobility are allowed to completely grow their plumage to this extent; lesser Celestaines must pluck it out to show their station and lack of Godly beauty. Female Celestaines are even taller than the males, and slender, with stunted grey plumage. Both males and females wear loose white sheets, the noble males having a unique style to show off their plumage.
The main goals of the Celestaines are to establish their dominance and convert the people and culture of Ajah, develop more advanced Terium mines and processing plants, and set up new trade flow to jumpstart their new but strong economy.
Ajah's main exports are food from their great valleys and semiprecious minerals from their hills and mountains. The library at Fairbend is also being examined, as it holds great texts from the past 3000 years; plans are in motion to establish a great university there.
More love? I'm on it.
***
The mighty Ajah continues to flow her great path down from the Celestial Mountains, ignorant to the fact that her people no longer celebrate her marriage to Ehorab, Father Night. The water still runs black in the lofty headwaters, yet no longer do bells toll and women sing from the spires near them. Strange foreigners from a strange land now celebrate Brother Day, the lowly Rab whose temples were already in continual disrepair a millennia before the first Celestaine stranger heard of the Ajahbi people. Why, the Ajahbi could only guess; many had and were declaring conversion to this overly-honored "Celest" just to see if Rab had truly matured into a greater deity than his lordly brother. Some thirty percent of the Ajah indeed had found Rab- Celest, now, to them- as being at least as powerful, if not moreso, than his brother. For why else would Ehorab refrain from striking them down for heresy? Why else would these converts be blessed with Stranger wealth and privilege if not for a shift in power in the celestial court, which would have (and indeed had) in turn blessed the Strangers, the followers of Rab, with hegemony and the power to spread the word of Rab?
It was this reasoning that drove High Celestial Son Murak to urge his still-faithful people to accept this new celestial order. If Rab- now Celest, as He seemed to prefer- had taken power, then it was only right to give Him due worship. Thus Ehorab and his wife Ajah were given a new, lesser position in their prayers and daily worship.
This great conversion pleased the Celestaines, especially the pious Prince Damas Steinge. He saw this as a great victory for his nation and a great display of the power of the One True God Celest. Little did he know of the continuing polytheism of his Ajah subjects, whose complex and ancient language had only partially been translated; it was by this issue that his misunderstanding formed. Nonetheless, the Ajah grew more restful now that they "converted," and the Celestaines took the Ajahbi attendance in chapels a sign of their good new faith, not knowing that the Ajahbi simply added these chapels and cathedrals to their list of temples, as earthly palaces of Rab. Little did they know the Ajahbi still prayed at home to their local gods as well as favorite minor gods, two of whom were typically the newly-humbled Ajah and Ehorab.
Only now, some thirty years after the invasion and ten after the great conversion, has the Ajahbi tongue been fully translated, both its modern and ancient varieties. Too little too late for the great misunderstanding of Rab to be corrected, but with plenty of time for the fresh King Damas and his administration to study the wisdom of the Ajahbi Empire contained in its library. But that is a story for another day.
***
Some things:
Obviously Ajah is based on Egypt, but with "magic" (you'll see- some innate power over Terium!). I think of the Celestaines as a Victorian Romano-British. Both species are more human than Pug or Peacock. For the cities, think half classical Egypt, half Victorian England- with steampunk, of course. Walls of sandstone and buildings of clay, temples of marble, new structures of brick and wood (the latter brought from far southern reach of kingdom- less prominent the farther downriver one goes).
There is little dissent, as the Ajahbi are peaceful and the Celestaines are not overly domineering. The administration is good, the royal family is strong, and the armies are powerful.
For now, most of the army is Celestaine regulars, with growing Ajahbi irregulars providing support. Ajahbi pups raised in Celestaine schools are not as pacifistic as their peers; they are more Celestaine than Ajahbi in culture, and that Ajahbi culture is losing its fight with the Celestaine one.
Celestaine regulars now wear sandy-colored uniforms of sandwyrm silk and rivercow leather. They wear helms that bear the crest of their respective liege lords, from the Royal Peacock to the Falcon of Fairbend to the Eagle of Westreach to the Osprey of Tallharbor to the Owl of Breakriver. Their great natural strength allows for them to carry many tools, and each is proficient in a specific military discipline, from bridge building to brick making to food preparation. They carry the respective tools of their trained discipline, as well as the weapons of the era. Most carry modern lever-action rifles as well as a short-barrel shotgun and a saber. Elite soldiers, some 10% of the forces, specially trained and disciplined, carry expensive Terium rifles. Their terrible payload wreaks havoc never before seen on the battlefields of the Ajahbi, power crackling from one corpse to the next.
Ajahbi irregulars are not in truth irregular; the Ajahbi's natural abilities lend them towards precision, and thus theirs are the bolt-action scoped rifles of snipers. Many are also simply light-Celestaine troops, for all intents; they carry lever-action rifles and wear uniforms, but carry only minimal supplies, no armor or helms, and no shotguns or sabers, opting for revolvers instead. They are faster than regular troops.
Land vehicles are used primarily for transport and supply, though artillery does accompany the land forces. Water bound forces are nonexistent; boats serve commercial purpose only. Sky ships are another matter entirely. The Celestaine are neck and neck with the most advanced nations in the world when it comes to two things: sky ships and Terium processing. Ranging from massive transports to tiny scout gliders, from dreadnoughts to dogfighters, the Celestaine dominate the sky with a massive navy based out of Tallharbor, with docks carved out of the very side of the floating continent.
In other news, I have done a map of my nation's local geography.
I shall not be change borders of my own accord. I find them reasonable, as you said there are to be approximately 50 nations. However, if you must change my borders, then leave me a narrow strip up the river all the way to the mountains/Highnest a la ancient Egypt. If this is not possible, then give me the river and mountain region around Highnest.
Economics:
The mountains around Highnest have many semiprecious minerals, as well as some precious mineral resources. Terium is present here as well. The river is plentiful with (insert fish, hippo, alligator, etc. animals here) whose skins and tusks are valued as well as the meat they provide. The many floodplains around the river create an abundance of farm and orchard produce that is unrivaled. The cities of Tallharbor and Westreach are great port cities of trade and manufacturing, the city of Fairbend has a booming university (I will set my nation 10 years ahead of my previous info post, making the university an established thing now) where scholars go to research, Breakriver is a great source of Marble (in the mountains and hills near it).
It is 3240 AF for the Ajah. 3240 years since their nation was founded. (AF...After Foundation).
It is 3240 AF for the Ajah. 3240 years since their nation was founded. (AF...After Foundation). The Celestaines have taken to referring to time in AC and PC- Antecataclysm and Postcataclysm. So it is 40 PC now. The modern Celestaine empire was founded in 140 AC. Before that multiple nations ruled, with organized nations existing for at least 1300 years.
A year is defined by both the Ajah and the Celestaines as the period of time it takes for the Shaal flower to flower- approximately 340 earth days. This is due to the abundance of Shaal flowers in Terios, since Shaal flowers are very tough.
A Celestaine will live up to 70 Shaal years, an Ajah up to 60. Emperor Maro Steigne II (120AC-99AC) lived to be older than his younger brother, the great founder and tragically heirless conqueror Adaro Steigne. Maro survived well into his nineties, though his exact age is unknown. The Ajah have myths of great prophets living past 200, though of course this is considered hyperbole in the modern era by all but the most conservative of Ajah.
***
OOC: Can we just agree upon the Shaal flower as a measure of time? Since we don't have days, per se, I think it is a useful tool to equalize our measurement of time.
***
A day is defined as the length of time a Shaal is in a flowering state (approximately 25.766 hours--this makes one Shaal year exactly as long as an earth year, though it has fewer days), and is measured day-to-day with precise candles that are continuously burned in the homes of Timekeepers. This tradition is common in some form in both Celestaine and Ajah culture; the Ajah do not use candles but rather great sand hourglasses, which are much more efficient- the Celestaine are slowly adopting this measuring tool.
Weeks are not known to either culture; they simply divided up the year (for our sake, 340 days in a year on Terios) into months of 34 days, which is how long it takes a germinated Shaal to sprout. Thus there are ten months in a year, with time measurement in those months being measured against their nones and ides (9th, 17th, 26th days- see Roman calendar practices).
An hour is defined as the time it takes a Sandwyrm to lay an egg. This was arbitrarily measured centuries ago and is now based off equivalent sandglass (sand hourglass)/candle timekeepers. There are 34 of these in a Shaal day.
A minute is defined as 1/50 of an hour, and this was simply an arbitrary measurement given to allow for short periods of time. 50 seconds in a minute as well.
So it goes: 50 seconds in a minute, 50 minutes in a hour, 34 hours in a day, 34 days in a month, 10 months in a year.
***
OOC: This is close enough to earth measurements that on a large scale, it is nearly identical in length. Therefore we can just use our own minutes/hours/days etc when discussing lengths of time, and it will be nearly equivalent. Therefore saying "the cannonball took 3 seconds to reach the wall" and it will be fairly similar whether it is in earth seconds or Shaal seconds. Good? This solves our time issues.
And, yeah, I kinda ran with it. This is off by 0.08 years each year, so after 10 years on each planet we are off by .8 years from Terios. Close enough I guess.
Do we have a world map yet? Did I get all of my land?
As of now:
Population: 10,000,000
-1,000,000 Celestaines control $60,000,000,000
-9,000,000 Ajah control $20,000,000,000
-The government taxes 20%, and thus has $20,000,000,000
-$10,000,000,000 Goes towards the Military, $1,000,000,000 towards oligarchy, $9,000,000,000 towards the cities for public works, upkeep, civil defense, courts, etc.
-Of the Military budget it is typically a near-equal split between army and navy
-The University at Fairbend operates on civilian wealth and patronage, and has approximately $200,000,000 for research and development.
-Of 1,000,000 Celestaines there are 500,000 males, with 300,000 of them in fit condition for the military. Compulsory training in school begins at 14, and compulsory service is from 18-22. All males are in the reserve from 23-40. Approximately 90,000 men are on "active duty" right now, though no more than 30,000 are on base at any time; they rotate through each year in peacetime. The remaining 210,000 are expected to attend monthly training and maintain physical fitness, and can be on call at any time to defend the nation. Of the 90,000 men on active duty, 10,000 are in the navy as sailors or marines. Spec Ops recruit from both Army and Navy, and have an unknown number of troops though they are rumored to have around 500 elite soldiers.
-Of 9,000,000 Ajah 4,500,000 are males, with 3,000,000 of them in fit condition. Compulsory training has begun for Ajah males from age 15, and they are expected to be a large part of the military in the future. Right now, from the first generation of training there are 200,000 men in reserve, with 20,000 serving active duty on a two-group rotation of 10,000 on-base at any time.
Yeah, I realize that. I was just doing preliminary numbers.
Anyway, I made a map of my sphere of influence too. So the green that is the same color as my border is the sphere currently, the lighter green is our aspiration. (EDIT: Please forgive my discontinuity. It should read "Here sank Celestae" not "Celestia")
The Court of the New Supremacy of the Kingdom of Ajah:
Royal Family:
King Damas Steigne the Pious
Queen Sila Blackburne
Prince Agrah Steigne
Princess Dell Steigne
High Lords:
Lord Seera Blackburne, Master of the Treasury
Lady Roah Steigne, his wife
Sir Seera Blackburne the Younger
Lord Toma Bulcaine, Grand General of the Army (Currently in Westreach, with the Army)
Lady Fras Aldmore, his wife
Lady Exis Bulcaine
Lord Rive Callsway, Grand Admiral of the navy (Currently in Tallharbor, with the Navy)
Lady Frees Aldmore, his wife
Sir Lejo Callsway
Sir Bren Callsway
Lord Eru Aldmore, Steward to the Realm
Lady Rae Callsway, his wife
Sir Varo Aldmore
Lady Weera Aldmore
Lesser Nobility and Courtesans:
Lord Graf Lewmore, General in the Army
Lord Rado Fars, Admiral in the Navy
Sir Connen Freesi, Master of the Royal Guard
Father Mura, Ambassador of the Church
Maare Endel, Keeper of the Seal
If I don't use half of these, fine. It is basically a list for me to fall back on. Write diplomacy to the king.
Anyhow, looking at it... These new nations look too big in comparison to the established ones. Maybe I can have my "overseas" colonies after all!
I will compile my info and add some stuff later today, hopefully. Some pre-party fun, if I can manage it.
Edit: doing the compilation now. I'm on an iPad so this will take a while. DONE
Spoiler :
The New Supremacy of the Kingdom of Ajah
Spoiler :
Along the riverbanks of the Ajahbi River, the Ajah people flourished for a thousand years before any other heavenly creation even lifted its eyes from the dirt. Its celestial spires still stand stark against the night sky three thousand years after their construction, their brilliant marble facades faded but not lost. The Kingdom of Ajah was one of the most stable and constant nations on all of Terios, and if it were not for the Celestaine invasion they would still be a fabled power.
Alas, those Celestaine foreigners brought their superior technology, refined culture and monotheistic religion to the Ajahbi basin. Fleeing their old and broken home Celestae, the Celestaines brought to bear their full might against the overmatched and spiritually pacifist Ajah. Though the Celestaine lost many when Celestae collapsed into the core of Terios, they retain power over their new Ajah subjects. The great port city of Shur bi-Yut was renamed Tallharbor; the ancient home of the celestial spires Badif bi-Gaz was renamed Highnest, its temples turned into mansions and palaces and cathedrals to the new god Celest of the Celestaine.
Now, the Steigne rule from their new palace in Highnest. The old families of Celestae likewise restored their dominance, with the Blackburnes taking Tallharbor, the Callsways taking Breakriver, the Aldmores taking Fairbend and the Bulcaines taking Westreach. They continue to settle into their new homeland, convert and civilize the Ajah people, and rebuild the cities of their future.
***
I feel the need to provide a description of these two humanoid species.
The Ajah are short, the tallest coming to five feet. They have short thick legs and long thin arms, and their graceful hands belie the intelligence that hides behind their smashed canine faces. Short fur covers their body, which is traditionally shaved both to release heat and as a sign of deference for their hairless gods. In its place they wear light and colorful cloth in various and mesmerizing patterns, that covers all but their tan faces.
The Celestaine are nearly opposite the Ajah. They are tall, the shortest no less than six feet tall. Their legs are long and strong, and their feet are large and wide. Celestaine males are natural warriors, with barrel chests and muscled arms highlighted by bright plumage that grows from their rear, and extends to form a bodily halo around the body and all the way above their avian faces. Only royalty and nobility are allowed to completely grow their plumage to this extent; lesser Celestaines must pluck it out to show their station and lack of Godly beauty. Female Celestaines are even taller than the males, and slender, with stunted grey plumage. Both males and females wear loose white sheets, the noble males having a unique style to show off their plumage.
The main goals of the Celestaines are to establish their dominance and convert the people and culture of Ajah, develop more advanced Terium mines and processing plants, and set up new trade flow to jumpstart their new but strong economy.
Ajah's main exports are food from their great valleys and semiprecious minerals from their hills and mountains. The library at Fairbend is also being examined, as it holds great texts from the past 3000 years; plans are in motion to establish a great university there.
More love? I'm on it.
***
The mighty Ajah continues to flow her great path down from the Celestial Mountains, ignorant to the fact that her people no longer celebrate her marriage to Ehorab, Father Night. The water still runs black in the lofty headwaters, yet no longer do bells toll and women sing from the spires near them. Strange foreigners from a strange land now celebrate Brother Day, the lowly Rab whose temples were already in continual disrepair a millennia before the first Celestaine stranger heard of the Ajahbi people. Why, the Ajahbi could only guess; many had and were declaring conversion to this overly-honored "Celest" just to see if Rab had truly matured into a greater deity than his lordly brother. Some thirty percent of the Ajah indeed had found Rab- Celest, now, to them- as being at least as powerful, if not moreso, than his brother. For why else would Ehorab refrain from striking them down for heresy? Why else would these converts be blessed with Stranger wealth and privilege if not for a shift in power in the celestial court, which would have (and indeed had) in turn blessed the Strangers, the followers of Rab, with hegemony and the power to spread the word of Rab?
It was this reasoning that drove High Celestial Son Murak to urge his still-faithful people to accept this new celestial order. If Rab- now Celest, as He seemed to prefer- had taken power, then it was only right to give Him due worship. Thus Ehorab and his wife Ajah were given a new, lesser position in their prayers and daily worship.
This great conversion pleased the Celestaines, especially the pious Prince Damas Steinge. He saw this as a great victory for his nation and a great display of the power of the One True God Celest. Little did he know of the continuing polytheism of his Ajah subjects, whose complex and ancient language had only partially been translated; it was by this issue that his misunderstanding formed. Nonetheless, the Ajah grew more restful now that they "converted," and the Celestaines took the Ajahbi attendance in chapels a sign of their good new faith, not knowing that the Ajahbi simply added these chapels and cathedrals to their list of temples, as earthly palaces of Rab. Little did they know the Ajahbi still prayed at home to their local gods as well as favorite minor gods, two of whom were typically the newly-humbled Ajah and Ehorab.
Only now, some thirty years after the invasion and ten after the great conversion, has the Ajahbi tongue been fully translated, both its modern and ancient varieties. Too little too late for the great misunderstanding of Rab to be corrected, but with plenty of time for the fresh King Damas and his administration to study the wisdom of the Ajahbi Empire contained in its library. But that is a story for another day.
***
Some things:
Obviously Ajah is based on Egypt, but with "magic" (you'll see- some innate power over Terium!). I think of the Celestaines as a Victorian Romano-British. Both species are more human than Pug or Peacock. For the cities, think half classical Egypt, half Victorian England- with steampunk, of course. Walls of sandstone and buildings of clay, temples of marble, new structures of brick and wood (the latter brought from far southern reach of kingdom- less prominent the farther downriver one goes).
There is little dissent, as the Ajahbi are peaceful and the Celestaines are not overly domineering. The administration is good, the royal family is strong, and the armies are powerful.
For now, most of the army is Celestaine regulars, with growing Ajahbi irregulars providing support. Ajahbi pups raised in Celestaine schools are not as pacifistic as their peers; they are more Celestaine than Ajahbi in culture, and that Ajahbi culture is losing its fight with the Celestaine one.
Celestaine regulars now wear sandy-colored uniforms of sandwyrm silk and rivercow leather. They wear helms that bear the crest of their respective liege lords, from the Royal Peacock to the Falcon of Fairbend to the Eagle of Westreach to the Osprey of Tallharbor to the Owl of Breakriver. Their great natural strength allows for them to carry many tools, and each is proficient in a specific military discipline, from bridge building to brick making to food preparation. They carry the respective tools of their trained discipline, as well as the weapons of the era. Most carry modern lever-action rifles as well as a short-barrel shotgun and a saber. Elite soldiers, some 10% of the forces, specially trained and disciplined, carry expensive Terium rifles. Their terrible payload wreaks havoc never before seen on the battlefields of the Ajahbi, power crackling from one corpse to the next.
Ajahbi irregulars are not in truth irregular; the Ajahbi's natural abilities lend them towards precision, and thus theirs are the bolt-action scoped rifles of snipers. Many are also simply light-Celestaine troops, for all intents; they carry lever-action rifles and wear uniforms, but carry only minimal supplies, no armor or helms, and no shotguns or sabers, opting for revolvers instead. They are faster than regular troops.
Land vehicles are used primarily for transport and supply, though artillery does accompany the land forces. Water bound forces are nonexistent; boats serve commercial purpose only. Sky ships are another matter entirely. The Celestaine are neck and neck with the most advanced nations in the world when it comes to two things: sky ships and Terium processing. Ranging from massive transports to tiny scout gliders, from dreadnoughts to dogfighters, the Celestaine dominate the sky with a massive navy based out of Tallharbor, with docks carved out of the very side of the floating continent.
In other news, I have done a map of my nation's local geography.
Spoiler :
I shall not be change borders of my own accord. I find them reasonable, as you said there are to be approximately 50 nations. However, if you must change my borders, then leave me a narrow strip up the river all the way to the mountains/Highnest a la ancient Egypt. If this is not possible, then give me the river and mountain region around Highnest.
Economics:
The mountains around Highnest have many semiprecious minerals, as well as some precious mineral resources. Terium is present here as well. The river is plentiful with (insert fish, hippo, alligator, etc. animals here) whose skins and tusks are valued as well as the meat they provide. The many floodplains around the river create an abundance of farm and orchard produce that is unrivaled. The cities of Tallharbor and Westreach are great port cities of trade and manufacturing, the city of Fairbend has a booming university (I will set my nation 10 years ahead of my previous info post, making the university an established thing now) where scholars go to research, Breakriver is a great source of Marble (in the mountains and hills near it).
It is 3240 AF for the Ajah. 3240 years since their nation was founded. (AF...After Foundation).
It is 3240 AF for the Ajah. 3240 years since their nation was founded. (AF...After Foundation). The Celestaines have taken to referring to time in AC and PC- Antecataclysm and Postcataclysm. So it is 40 PC now. The modern Celestaine empire was founded in 140 AC. Before that multiple nations ruled, with organized nations existing for at least 1300 years.
A year is defined by both the Ajah and the Celestaines as the period of time it takes for the Shaal flower to flower- approximately 340 earth days. This is due to the abundance of Shaal flowers in Terios, since Shaal flowers are very tough.
A Celestaine will live up to 70 Shaal years, an Ajah up to 60. Emperor Maro Steigne II (120AC-99AC) lived to be older than his younger brother, the great founder and tragically heirless conqueror Adaro Steigne. Maro survived well into his nineties, though his exact age is unknown. The Ajah have myths of great prophets living past 200, though of course this is considered hyperbole in the modern era by all but the most conservative of Ajah.
***
OOC: Can we just agree upon the Shaal flower as a measure of time? Since we don't have days, per se, I think it is a useful tool to equalize our measurement of time.
***
A day is defined as the length of time a Shaal is in a flowering state (approximately 25.766 hours--this makes one Shaal year exactly as long as an earth year, though it has fewer days), and is measured day-to-day with precise candles that are continuously burned in the homes of Timekeepers. This tradition is common in some form in both Celestaine and Ajah culture; the Ajah do not use candles but rather great sand hourglasses, which are much more efficient- the Celestaine are slowly adopting this measuring tool.
Weeks are not known to either culture; they simply divided up the year (for our sake, 340 days in a year on Terios) into months of 34 days, which is how long it takes a germinated Shaal to sprout. Thus there are ten months in a year, with time measurement in those months being measured against their nones and ides (9th, 17th, 26th days- see Roman calendar practices).
An hour is defined as the time it takes a Sandwyrm to lay an egg. This was arbitrarily measured centuries ago and is now based off equivalent sandglass (sand hourglass)/candle timekeepers. There are 34 of these in a Shaal day.
A minute is defined as 1/50 of an hour, and this was simply an arbitrary measurement given to allow for short periods of time. 50 seconds in a minute as well.
So it goes: 50 seconds in a minute, 50 minutes in a hour, 34 hours in a day, 34 days in a month, 10 months in a year.
***
OOC: This is close enough to earth measurements that on a large scale, it is nearly identical in length. Therefore we can just use our own minutes/hours/days etc when discussing lengths of time, and it will be nearly equivalent. Therefore saying "the cannonball took 3 seconds to reach the wall" and it will be fairly similar whether it is in earth seconds or Shaal seconds. Good? This solves our time issues.
And, yeah, I kinda ran with it. This is off by 0.08 years each year, so after 10 years on each planet we are off by .8 years from Terios. Close enough I guess.
Do we have a world map yet? Did I get all of my land?
As of now:
Population: 10,000,000
-1,000,000 Celestaines control $60,000,000,000
-9,000,000 Ajah control $20,000,000,000
-The government taxes 20%, and thus has $20,000,000,000
-$10,000,000,000 Goes towards the Military, $1,000,000,000 towards oligarchy, $9,000,000,000 towards the cities for public works, upkeep, civil defense, courts, etc.
-Of the Military budget it is typically a near-equal split between army and navy
-The University at Fairbend operates on civilian wealth and patronage, and has approximately $200,000,000 for research and development.
-Of 1,000,000 Celestaines there are 500,000 males, with 300,000 of them in fit condition for the military. Compulsory training in school begins at 14, and compulsory service is from 18-22. All males are in the reserve from 23-40. Approximately 90,000 men are on "active duty" right now, though no more than 30,000 are on base at any time; they rotate through each year in peacetime. The remaining 210,000 are expected to attend monthly training and maintain physical fitness, and can be on call at any time to defend the nation. Of the 90,000 men on active duty, 10,000 are in the navy as sailors or marines. Spec Ops recruit from both Army and Navy, and have an unknown number of troops though they are rumored to have around 500 elite soldiers.
-Of 9,000,000 Ajah 4,500,000 are males, with 3,000,000 of them in fit condition. Compulsory training has begun for Ajah males from age 15, and they are expected to be a large part of the military in the future. Right now, from the first generation of training there are 200,000 men in reserve, with 20,000 serving active duty on a two-group rotation of 10,000 on-base at any time.
Yeah, I realize that. I was just doing preliminary numbers.
Anyway, I made a map of my sphere of influence too. So the green that is the same color as my border is the sphere currently, the lighter green is our aspiration. (EDIT: Please forgive my discontinuity. It should read "Here sank Celestae" not "Celestia")
Spoiler :
The Court of the New Supremacy of the Kingdom of Ajah:
Royal Family:
King Damas Steigne the Pious
Queen Sila Blackburne
Prince Agrah Steigne
Princess Dell Steigne
High Lords:
Lord Seera Blackburne, Master of the Treasury
Lady Roah Steigne, his wife
Sir Seera Blackburne the Younger
Lord Toma Bulcaine, Grand General of the Army (Currently in Westreach, with the Army)
Lady Fras Aldmore, his wife
Lady Exis Bulcaine
Lord Rive Callsway, Grand Admiral of the navy (Currently in Tallharbor, with the Navy)
Lady Frees Aldmore, his wife
Sir Lejo Callsway
Sir Bren Callsway
Lord Eru Aldmore, Steward to the Realm
Lady Rae Callsway, his wife
Sir Varo Aldmore
Lady Weera Aldmore
Lesser Nobility and Courtesans:
Lord Graf Lewmore, General in the Army
Lord Rado Fars, Admiral in the Navy
Sir Connen Freesi, Master of the Royal Guard
Father Mura, Ambassador of the Church
Maare Endel, Keeper of the Seal
If I don't use half of these, fine. It is basically a list for me to fall back on. Write diplomacy to the king.
Anyhow, looking at it... These new nations look too big in comparison to the established ones. Maybe I can have my "overseas" colonies after all!
