SHNES: Settling Accounts

[Insane_Panda]

Confirming the USA.

I thought Silver was the CSA...

 

[KrimzonStriker]

OCC: No you are not Totone, the Confederacy belongs to silver. Speaking of which...

To CSA
From Mexico

Allies, conflict flows within the wind, as such we formally ask for your assistance in building up our country for the dark road ahead. If we are to be triumphant we must stand together. We will offer whatever we can to you, but we are unfortunately ill-equipped. Please respond soon to our call for aide.

 

[Insane_Panda]

@Sheep: Do you have a gif version of that map? Saving it as Jpeg really screws it up.

 

[Sheep]

I am the confederacy correct?

No Silver is.

@ Krimzon Striker

No sp cannot be saved.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Confirming Italy.

 

[Tyrion]

@Sheep Can you PM me also the specifics of my project? Also im not totally clea on how this trade and food supply thing works. Does our food look after itself or do we need to buy it?

To Britain, Russia and CSA
From France:
The storm clouds are gathering and France for one sees the sensibility in forming more strong alliances for when the storm breaks a joint wall will last longer then seperate ones.

 

[KrimzonStriker]

OCC:I'm apart of The Allies to Tyrion. Could you possibly mention me next time?

To France
From Mexico

Allies, our request for aid also pertain to you as well. We must remain strong in all theathers and would most graciously appreciate any assistance you can render our country.

 

[Tyrion]

OOC: Sorry Mexico should have known that. Though you didnt ask s to start with either for the aid.

To Mexico
From France:

Let us work out exactly what we need to be doing with our resources first. Certain things need to be taken into consideration before we make any plans that we must go over.

 

[silver 2039]

To Our Allies
From CSA

Of course we agree with your sentiments. Our alliance must be strong and cooridnated if we are to wether the coming storm victorious. We must aid each other in any way that we can.

BTW be wary of the vile Negroid race. They are scum and it is our greatest duty to eliminate them from the face of the earth.

 

[silver 2039]

To Allies

Contanact me by telephone here is my number. (aj_k_2003@hotmail.com)

 

[Kozmos]

Dunno if I will join but please correct the horendous spelling errors in weapons descriptions like Arepolane Carrier and Meduim.

 

[das]

Tsar Mikhail II "Toptygin".

The Gosudar-Imperator (the Ruler-Emperor), Mikhail II, of House Romanov, was born in November 22nd in the year 1878. He was never supposed to rule, especially as he cared little for matters of state, and less so for military ones. He wasn't really a militarist and neither was he an anti-Semite, at least at first; but he did passionately hate Germans from his birth, refusing to wear "German-like" uniforms at the parade. He created quite a scandal in 1911, when he married Natalya Sergeyevna Wulffert nee Sheremetevskaya, who also happened to be a commoner and twice-divorced. The marriage was secret and took place in Vienna. The clouds of war were by then already near...

During the Great War... well, much like during the Russo-Japanese War, Mikhail did nothing. He lived in Petrograd with his wife, brought up his son Georgiy, read newspapers, cherished the Russian victories and expressed dismay at German ones, contributed to war funds, praised Felix Yusupov for killing Rasputin and gradually begun leaning to the far right, especially towards Shulgin (who believed that Constantinople should be Russian, and likewise with Romania, Bulgaria, Armenia, Anatolia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Persia and other such lands) and Purishkevich (who believed that the Jews should be sent somewhere far away, and likewise with Germans, liberals, socialists and other such scum).

Then the bomb went off. Tsar Nicholas II died, killed by the eSeR Boris Savinkov, and Alexander IV (OOC: I assume that that was an ATL character) rose to power. It was too late. The revolution begun. Starving and despairing, the people of Petrograd rioted. Tsar Alexander ordered the garrison to disperse the crowd. The garrison mutinied. The Tsar sent Knyaz Lvov to calm it down. Soon after, Knyaz Lvov took command of the garrison and marched it to the Winter Palace.

And that was that, really. Tsar Alexander quickly agreed to let Lvov form a temporary government and himself opened negotiations with the Central Powers. Courland was annexed by Germany. Lesser Hohenzollern princes ruled puppet kingdoms in Poland and a vastly-enhanced Ukraine. Austrians seized Bessarabia. The Turks annexed vast areas in Caucasus and to the north from it, including Novorossia. Even Persia, neutral Persia annexed Baku! Adding even more insult to the injury, the Central Powers made Russia pay a vast indemnity.

Mikhail didn't like it one bit. But only the chaos around him, the request of his abdicating brother and Purishkevich's insistant demands resulted in him taking over Russia. His power was, however, limited severely by the Duma, and it seemed as if things will remain like this forever... until in late 1920, using the shaky state of the central government, the socialists led by Ulyanov, Skryabin and Dzhugashvilli led a rebellion in Petrograd. Mikhail had to flee. Lvov failed to escape, and was shot by the tribunal. The Russian Revolution has begun.

Mikhail and his supporters were in disorder and unsure of themselves as they escaped towards Moscow. It was then that the third member of the triumvirate that was to dominate Mikhail's early reign appeared - Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov. A determined, able commander during the Great War, he proved just the man Mikhail needed. It was he that persuaded Mikhail to adopt many of his militaristic policies. Kornilov was hated by the liberal elite, but was also beloved by his troops and the Cossacks, so a "Great White Army" was soon assembled. The Black Hundreds provided volunteers. Yudenich reorganized a part of the Russian army and blockaded Petrograd, further assisting the cause.

The Great White Army marched on to Petrograd, ruthlessly crushing the partisan movement as it went. Purishkevich organized the "Black Terror", killing, maiming and driving out thousands of Jews and liberals. The sailors were inspired by the anti-German propaganda, as contrasted by the large amount of German socialist specialists that arrived with Ulyanov to the Petrograd Commune, and so they rebelled in Kronstadt. The Finnish nationalists were tricked into allying with Mikhail (and were later rooted out, Finland losing its autonomous status) against the Red Finnish Riflemen rampant in Viborg.

Long story cut short, Petrograd was assaulted and seized, but rebellions didn't end here. Though Ulyanov commited suicide after the defeat of the Commune, Dzhugashvilli and Skryabin escaped to wage a bitter guerrila war in southern Russia, making Tsaritsyn their base. The rebels were defeated gradually, and in 1928 order was restored. The Duma was naturally also restored... but became mostly ceremonial and dominated by a Purishkevich-led coalition of the Union of Archangel Mikhail, the League of Russian People and the Council of United Nobility (all of which had only minor ideological disagreements). Kornilov rebuilt the army based on civil war experience. Shulgin reestablished ties with the former Entente, agreed with Japan and China on the status of Manchuria and fomented rebellion in Austria's Slavic provicnes.

However, another problem soon came. In 1929, Russia proved unable to continue paying the reparations to Austria-Hungary, and refused to do so. For a while, it seemed as if a new war would come. It didn't. The Austrian economy was also shakey. The lack of reparations caused a panic there, and that set off the Great Depression. It hurt. It hurt badly. But Russia wasn't really all that bad off - its enemies were the ones trully weakened by it, for Russia itself didn't have much money to lose. Now, they could fight.

Then, suddenly, Purishkevich died from stress and typhus. Kornilov was killed by a bombist. Shulgin's plane broke down and fell into the Baltic Sea as he was flying to Britain. Three ministers, three key figures in one year of 1932.

Mikhail was alone.

To be continued

 

[Sheep]

Brilliant! keep it up!

 

[von_Seydlitz]

25. Anniversary of the death of Kaiser Franz-Josef I. in the offing.

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Vienna. Everyday life seems to be as ordinary as always, as the 25. obit of our beloved Kaiser Franz-Josef I. is coming closer and closer. But behind the scenes of the center of our glorious monarchy the arrangements for the looked-for festive day are made.
The urban handicraft enterprises are busy as rarely seen before. Painters are climbing ladders to finish the last details in colossal portraits of the departed sovereign, so that every hair of the beard sits on the right place; the tailorings and weaving mills produce huge amounts of flags; the carpenters timber large double eagles that will adorn the roads of the capital, and on the parade-grounds battalions of young recruits are lookings nervously forward to the great day, as they are exercising for their big deployment.

Specific regard on dearly relation of Kaiser Franz to our german sibling-state.
Ceremonial act shall endorse the fraternal german-austrian friendship.

As stated by insiders of our royal court, the big procession shall be an emphatically expression of the fine tradition of german-austrian, or german-german, as some historians say, relationship. For these purposes, our
adored Kaiser Karl I. has sent an official invitation to Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm I. to attend the ceremony on his side. We are looking forward, as we might potentially see the german Leibgarde walking between our glorious Kaiserjäger regiments. Shall this demonstration be a signal to all the world, that our two monarchies will stand together forevermore!

Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze,
Unsern Kaiser, unser Land!

 

[KrimzonStriker]

OCC: Sheep, you said we couldn't directly effect our economy, so what exactly can I do to boost it up. Inadvertanly of coures.

 

[Fëanor]

Sorry Sheep but i'll have to drop out of this, mainly because of lack of time and partially becouse of the disappointing stats, ROC is worse than Ireland and Quebec! Also the Purchasing Costs make little sense.
Anyway, Good Luck with the nes and i hope you all have fun

 

[Insane_Panda]

I'll get in orders tomorrow, with possible map fix for you sheep

 

[Tyrion]

Scientists were dissapearing... suddenly, mysteriously but never violently. They would be at work one day and then be gone the next before their employer of choice could fire them the Government assured them that they would hold the scientists possition until he or even she in rare cases returned.

Pierre was one such scientist working at a small university within france he had yet to make the big discovery he was sure he would to make sure his name was never forgotten. Life was boring... he got up, got dressed, ate breakfast, went to work, came home, planned the next day, had dinner (sometimes he went out... though rarely), worked on some new idea and then went to bed.

One day this all changed, in the morning he was called by a man who would give no name and said just to call him Grey Wolf. This Grey Wolf told him to get his things ready because later that night he was to be taken to a facility where he would join the best of the best scientists from within France and even neighbouring nations in a research project that, this Grey Wolf said, would change the world. Grey Wolf did not wait for a reply and hanged up.

After some careful, if short, consideration Pierre decided this might very well be the thing that put his name in lights. He packed his bags.

 

[Sheep]

@ KRimzonStriker, winning the war will help your economy alot, also making sure there is enough food and oil helps. Failing to keep morale up will hurt it, and stories will also assist in this endevour. There is no right or wrong answer, this meant to accuratley reflect the economies of RL during this time, and that is to say they are extremly fickle.

@ Feanor, sorry to see you, have fun yourself.

@ Insane Panda, that would be great!

@ Everyone, Great stories, but remember that the deadline for ORDERS is less than TWO days away now and I have only received TWO orders. On another note stories after the deadline will still count to bonuses. Also remember that I am GMT +10 so for the Americans I am most of a day ahead of you so take that into account.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Sorry Sheep, but I can't stay in this. I'm in to many NESes already, and I don't get the economic system. I wouldn't be able to give this the time it needs. Really sorry about this Hope Italy does OK.

Actually, nevermind. I don't want to hurt my record of never quitting a NES.