Sonspiracy!

[Sonereal]

Map of the world: 1910

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Spoiler Backstory :

Iberia - After the Triple Alliance's intervention in Spain's, the region erupted into chaos; decades of civil war left the peninsula in chaos until, in 1795, a combined Moroccan/Algerian force launched the Reconquista of Iberia. With Castille, Portugal, and various Iberian factions constantly warring, Muslim soldiers landed in Granada. The populace of Granada, tired of constant warfare and strife, accepted the law and order that strong, Muslim rule brought on them. Superior, undivided Muslim forces soon pressed against the Christian nations in the north, and by 1830, half of Iberia had fallen. However, Christian nations in the rest of Europe deigned to intervene on behalf of the remaining Christian kings in Iberia. By 1880, the Christians weren't in as quite a desperate situation, though Catalonia had lost Barcelona in the fighting. Civil war in the French regions left Bearn and areas north of it poorly defended, and Catalonia seized it purely as a new source of food and manpower. In 1910, tensions between Northern Iberia and Andalusia have sparked again as Muslim armies mass on the Castillian border, Portugeuse ships raid Muslim shipping, and Catalonian militia regiments sow the seeds of rebellion in Barcelona; Iberia is at a boiling point, who will emerge victorious?

France - The splintered state of France another product of Triple Alliance intervention, France was split into many tiny states. Over the decades, duchies and kingdoms have slowly emerged as dominant powers in the region; Bar, along the German border, plots to bring back the glory of Burgundy, while the North French Federation seeks new trade routes and partners. In the west, Berry exerts dominance over its capital in Bordauex, plotting a way to reacquire their old city of Berry. In central Gaul, the tired, beaten, and disgraced true French kingdom plots, planning on its eventual reunification of France - and perhaps, given the right circumstances, it will emerge as a power to rival Germany itself. In the south, the Occitanians sit atop their rich nation, enjoying a position of great wealth and prestige - the only problems being the Catalonian occupation of parts of France. What will happen in France? Who's to say?

Poland - One of the three founding members of the Triple Alliance, Poland is one of the great powers of Europe. Before the Polish-German war of 1727, Poland was ruled by the Jagiellon family and its lands streched from Bohemia in the west, Moscow in the east, Saint Stanislawbug in the north, and Istanbul in the south. After being allies for nearly three hundred years, Germany and Poland split after arguements over the Balkans when Germany left the Triple Alliance and found the German Confederation with its vassal states and Austria. When fighting broke out over Holstein only thirty years after, Poland quickly joined its ally The Kalmar Union in defense against Germany, starting the Polish-German War. The war intially went well for Poland, but then it suffered a series of large defeats that contuined through the rest of the war. When peace was signed in Berlin on 1734, Poland lost most of its Hungarian territories, Bohemia, its Greek holdings, and parts of Russia. Not long after the defeat revolutionaries blamed the royal family on the loss, and the Jagiellon family was ousted from power in 1759 and the Polish Republic was declared shortly after. Currently, Poland is a relativily poor nation compared to the rest of Europe, but has the largest, but not well trained, army in all of the world. Due to the poor state the country is in several influecial and radical groups are growing in power inside Poland. The largest of these are the nationalists in the North, and the communists in the south. Many expect the upcoming elections to be decisive in the history of the nation.

Italy - Italy, a peninsula in Europe constantly existing in a fractured state; though far more unified than ever before in its fractured past, the three nations that have a grip in Italy still vy for control constantly and are constantly undermining the efforts of the others. The Italians, who maintain an iron grip on the central region of the Italian peninsula, are in a precarious position, wedged between the powerful armies of Austria and the invincible navies of the Sicilians. The ancient Austrian Empire, a powerful entity stretched along the Adriatic Sea and in Lombardy with armies rivaled only by the Germans. Though, no matter how powerful its allies, its political situation is poor; nestled between revanchist Italians, Balkan states, and the powerful Germans, it will have to play its cards wisely to come out ahead. Finally, in the south, is the fairly new, and economically powerful, Sicilian Empire, stretching from Sardinia to southern Anatolia. With a powerful navy and a powerful economy, it is poised to dominate the Mediterranean; however, due to its relative newness and nationalist feelings of the different regions of its populace, for how long can the Sicilians maintain their island empire? It appears as though there will never be an Italian power that dominates all Italian regions, without drastic change.

North America - North America, a continent once belonging to vibrant natives, since wiped out by the Dano-German settlers who dominate the continent. Though Denmark acquired far more of North America than the Germans, much of the fertile eastern seaboard became home to German settlers; a strong presence of German soldiers generally kept Danish raiders away. Not long after the first German-Polish War in 1727, in which Denmark was a participant, the German Reich was forced to raise taxes in their few remaining colonies that Denmark did not strip them of to pay war debts and to restabalize the Dano-German border in North America. German colonists, angry for having to pay for a war the Reich fought for them, declared independence shortly afterwards. The German Reich, exhausted from a long, grueling war with the Danes and Poles, put up only a half-hearted resistance before letting go. The newly founded "republic," founded on ideals of "liberty," was led under the iron rule of President Jorge Warshipington. Under the leadership of Warshipington, Amerika entered pursued a policy of "liberating" other parts of Amerika. The Danes, naturally, were not happy about this - the rest of Amerika belonged to them! The Kalmar Union issued a warning to the nascent Amerikan state - cease and desist or face annexation. The Amerikans chose to go to war.
Over the next six years, 1838-1844, Amerikan militias and under equipped regulars engaged in several conflicts with Danish Colonial Militias and a handful of Royal Armies - the war would have continued as a stalemate, if not for the actions of Simon Barley, a farmer-turned-revolutionary from the Danish province of Vestkysten. With the support of local farmers and workers, using promises of a proletarian state, ruled by the workers, where all men were equal, along with arms shipments from the Amerikans, an enormous revolt broke out in Vestkysten's capital - Helgen Henry (San Francisco). With Danish forces exhausted by years of fighting Amerikan forces - even if they had made gains, small or no - the Danes surrendered control of Vestkysten to the rebels. Now forced to retreat into New Jutland - surrounded by revolutionaries to the west and Amerikans to the east - the Danes were forced to march north, leaving New Jutland to the mercies of Amerikan and Vestkysten forces. Not two months after the Fall of New Jutland, reports came in of the atrocities that either side committed on one another, as Amerikan forces attempted to crush the Vestkysten People's Army, to march their army from sea to shining sea, and both Vestkysten and Amerikans raped and pillaged the landscape to feed their armies. With Kalmar forces beaten and ragged, and with newly-formed Vestkysten armies already in control of Vancouver and pushing north to Alaska and a nationalist movement starting in Canada, Kalmar Union forces fled through Hudson Bay, to quell revolts in colonies that were not quite as hopeless as North Amerika.
Now, Vestkysten communists and Amerikan "revolutionaries" continue to fight over war torn New Jutland, a nation nearly irrevocably scarred by war. In the north, the Canadians, having since broken off the Kalmar Union, mass their troops on the Amerikan and Vestkysten borders, paranoid of invasion. In the south, the Floridian League, a sovereign nation that still bows to both the German Reich and the Kalmar Union, gives arms to all sides and continues to earn a tidy profit in its small island empire.

South/Central America - Though generally a poorer region than its more northernly neighbors, nationalist embers burned just as brightly in South America as the northern continent. In the north, Kalmar-dominated Gran Colombia held a convention, after some particularly harsh taxes were instituted on them to pay for the Polish-German War. After several protests and the destruction of several merchant vessels docked in Gran Venezuela ports, the capital of the province - Caracas - was occupied by Kalmar Colonial Defense Forces. The people, outraged, rose up to drive the soldiers out - and they were brutally, brutally suppressed. The Kalmar Union was not willing to lose any more colonies to "revolutionaries," not after the debacle in North America. Revolutionary sentiments boiled in the country for some years, until, in 1895, they hit a boiling point - Gran Venezuelan Militia units, along with Guyana Regulars and Colombian peasants rose up; the Kalmar Union, already distracted with revolts in the mostly German cultured Danish East Indies, couldn't dedicate enough forces to hold onto the three provinces. And thus; the Republics of Colombia, Gran Venezuela, and Guyana were born; the Danes were mystified. How had simple peasants and militiamen rallied enough manpower, small arms, and decent enough training to beat some of the best Danish infantry units in the army? The answer, naturally, was the English - a beaten and humiliated nation that was forced out of their native lands around London and forced into exile in Brazil, the English were always out to avenge their defeat at Danish hands and saw the Northern South American Revolution as the perfect time to do so. Thousands of English weapons, grunts, and officers trained and supplemented North South American forces enough to, if not outplay, to overrun Danish divisions posted in Caracas and in other parts of Venezuela.
The nascent republics, however, were weak - and Kalmar was always looking for to regain their American holdings. Delegates from all three nations arrived in Caracas to discuss a unification treaty - linking all three together economically and militarily, to fight off both foreign and domestic threats. The Treaty of Caracas was signed June 1st, 1901, and the South American Confederation was born.
The Incan Empire, an ancient empire based along the western coast of South America, had only maintained its rich, though backwards, nation through the good will and protection of the Danes. Incan gold in exchange for Danish protection - and as such, after the fall of the South American Confederation to revolutionaries, the Incan Empire became the strongest presence of Kalmar influence in South America. Without any colonies remaining in South America - or, indeed, any of America besides the Caribbean - the Danes began to exert their hefty influence with the Incans, ultimately ending with the Incan emperors being forever vassalized to the Kalmar monarch. As such, Danish officers supplemented Incan soldiers in a war against the English, in which significant tracks of land were transferred to the Incans.




Rus' & Siberia




The lands of Rus and the cold steppes of Siberia have never been exactly a hotbed of controversy or change; it is often thought of as Poland's back yard, with Novgorod existing out of its good grace. However, in recent years, the Novgorodians have experienced a surge of power and wealth as the ancient Polish nation declines; they have spread out across the land, and though not quite rivaling Poland in power, certainly could present a challenge. Though Polish armies at one point occupied and controlled Moscow, much of the Russian land Poland once owned is no longer under their control. In the east, the sleeping bear of Sibir waits, one of the two only surviving fragments of the once-glorious Mongol Empire. Though the Mongol and Sibir Khanates still hold decent amounts of wealth and power, they are a mere shadow of themselves; if it had not been for Polish interference and relative Novgorod weakness, it is likely Sibir would not be where it is today. As it stands, Sibir and Mongolia enjoy good relations with their poorer neighbors, and Korea - though Mongolia is always, naturally, seeking to reclaim the glory of Kublai.




China & Japan




The Chinese nation has never been renowned for its ability to stay together, as one - this rings true, even today. The Qing dynasty and the Xia "republic" have been engaged in a bloody stalemate for nearly a decade, merely the last in a long line of conflict between Chinese states. Though many outside powers have attempted to interfere in the conflict, both states largely try to keep outside influence out, though it is becoming increasingly difficult as Korean corporations, Japanese merchants, and Mongol bandits continue to operate in China. The war has been heating up again recently, as the Qing launch a new campaign, to strike at the heart of Xia.
In the Pacific Ocean, the Korean Empire and their Japanese slaves allies dominate much of the Pacific, though they are naturally threatened and out-done by the enormous Kalmar presence in Oceania. Expansionist Korean policies, anti-Korean sentiment in Japan, and Kalmar colonialism could reach a head here in the Pacific and spark a large war.




Southeast Asia/Indian subcontinent




In southeast Asia, two giant nations preside - Hindustan and Manipur. The Manipurese, initially a small, weak nation in Indochina has taken advantage of its neighbors squabbling to come to dominate the region through force of arms, diplomacy, and trickery. Though there is a lot of nationalistic sentiment in the empire, it remains a relatively peaceful bastion of stability, managing to provide for its citizens adequately. If pressed, Manipur and its cousin, Hindustan, could be an economic, political, and military force to be reckoned with.
The Indian subcontinent has always been a fractured place, with squabbling princes and warlords dominating it for long stretches of its history. However, the economic and military domination of the subcontinent by Vijayanagar led to the unification under the banner of Hindustan. The state, once merely a geographic term, encompasses an enormous population and the potential, if handled correctly, to be a true great power.




Middle East




In the Middle East, the Caliph of Oman resides as the dominant power in the region. The Persians, though fully independent, still require trade and commerce from Oman to survive and the Egyptian Sultanate is essentially an Oman puppet state. The only nation in the region that competes with Oman is Germany, who maintains a presence through the control of Judea - a buffer between the Omani and the Christian world, established in the Tenth Crusade. Though a German puppet, Judea enjoys a certain amount of control over its foreign affairs, but is often bullied by the Omani - mostly due to their control of Jerusalem and the Sinai. Overall, the Middle East is fairly stable bar for religious tensions around Jerusalem.

SonConspiracy

After spending the day watching JFK and reading the Ancient Conspiracy trope page, I remembered there was a NES a while back that looked interesting. I dug up Seon’s NES, blew the dust off the ruleset, and asked, “Why not?”

Then I remembered I had a few unconventional rulesets hidden away in folders. The rulesets did a fusion dance and here we are.

Thinking about joining? Here is the sign-up sheet that you should PM me if you do. You can do public sign-ups, but that misses the secrecy!


Name: [Of your secret organization of course]
-Description
-Special Abilities


Front Organization:
-Description
-Special Abilities if any


Special Abilities and Gameplay

The numbers behind everything are hidden, but actions and results are intuitive. A rich, bustling shipyard has a lot of money, and maybe influence in the city it is, but reasonably wouldn’t have influence on another continent (maybe). World events are player-driven as well as driven by events.

Special abilities are notable abilities of an organization. Investing capital and research new special abilities grants, of course, more and better special abilities.


Proxy Network

A proxy is an organization controlled by another organization. A proxy operates and has stats just like every other organization, as well as special abilities if possible. There are several ways to gain proxies but the main ones are

A.) Use money to create a new one
B.) Take over an organization

The position of a proxy in a proxy network grants a Resistance bonus for it. If a proxy is one step away from your secret organization, it is granted, secretly, 50% of the secret organization’s Resistance. If it is two steps, it doesn’t receive a 50% resistance bonus from the secret organization itself, but of the parent organization.

A second important factor in creating a proxy network is security. If part of your proxy network is being spied on, infiltrated, or taken over, it reveals other parts of your proxy network. If an organization one-step away from your secret organization is taken over, if is susceptible to enemy actions for a few turns.

You can rearrange the proxy network, but this requires the secret organization and the moving organization to both use a plot.


Money Network

An organization can only spend money in its own treasury. If a secret organization needs money from a proxy, the proxy is going to have to send the money using a money network.

The money network is the transfer of funds from one organization to another, many times with intermediaries. The more intermediaries on a network, the harder it is to investigate it.

Each point results in the removal of money overall. This is because bribes must be paid, work performed, etc.

This works the same way when players are transferring money with each other.

When a transfer is finished, it takes a few turns for the evidence to fade away and the network to dissolve.


Plots and Infiltration

Each organization get two plots to perform a turn (and money transfer counts as a plot). Plot power is determined by the power of the organizations taking part in the plot, the more money being thrown at the plot, and the power of the organization being plotted against plus organizations defending it.

Plots, like money and proxies, can be traced with sufficient snooping. It is impossible to trace a plot to a directly to a specific secret organization, but people will have theories.

One key plot is infiltrating an organization. Infiltration, unlike most other plots, can only be performed by a single organization, meaning other organization can’t add plotting power to the plot. Secondly, the defending organization’s covert power isn’t taken into account, just resistance.

When an organization infiltrates another successfully, the controller of the infiltrating organization will receive PMs containing snippets of information about the infiltrated organization. On the low-end, this can include half-burned memos and rumors to, in the deeper level, information about money networks, proxy networks, and organizations the infiltrated organization is infiltrating.

The deeper the infiltration, the more potent plots by the organization is against it. To take control of an organization requires not only infiltrating the organization, but neutralizing the existing command structure of the organization. If you successfully neutralize an organization, but your infiltration isn’t deep enough or someone has infiltrated deeper than you have, you don’t get control and bad things might happen. When an organization has its command structure neutralized, but no one has significant levels of infiltration yet, the organization becomes an independent NPC.

 

[Sonereal]

Organization List


Spirit of the Worker

Spirit of the Worker is a socialist publication with hundreds of secret printing presses across Northern and Central Europe. While not banned in some countries, the printing presses were frequent targets of local business interests and disgruntled workers that the publication often portrays as "misguided" and "mesmerized". Despite these setbacks, the SotW is considered gospel by some of the new generation of Northern and Central European socialists.


Kalmar Global News Network

The Kalmar Global News Network, founded in 1898, is a legendary newspaper circulating in cities from the heart of Kalmar itself to its many far-flung colonies. The notably conservative newspaper is the number one source of news for politics, culture, international events, sports, and happenings within the Kalmar Union.


International Kalmarian Consumer Productions

IKCP is the leading producer of consumer products slated for a mass market. Their products are usually complex creations such as desks, cabinets, and tables that, using the instruction booklets, could be put together from several pieces. Quality is mixed, but IKCP remains a household name.


Caine Defensive Solutions

This private security and intelligence agency is based out of Birmingham, Kalmar Union. The organization provides private police and security to private corporations, wealthy citizens, and often leases manpower and operation time to government contracts. The organization provides services ranging from security detail, training, and other operations using the latest suite of equipment.


German Worker Party

The German Worker Party is the leading organization within the leftist movement in Germany and spearheaded the general strikes across the country and mass demonstrations in various cities including Berlin. They demand better represenation for workers, better work safety, higher wages, shorter hours, an end to child labor, and the right to unionize. The German Worker Party has tied to the militant Baltic People's Movement.


Liberal Party of Poland

The LPP was founded by college students in Poland who, while not quite as militant as the GWP of Germany, favor implementing socialist measures to aid the general society of Poland. They support democratic reforms as well as welfare reform.


Baltic People's Movement

Angry, poor, and drilling in the countryside, the BPM every days grows in manpower in the Baltic Union. Drawing its recruits from the largely poor underclass and the educated but suppressed middle classes, the BPM demands revolutionary government change by any means required. The BPM is believed to provide training to various leftist movements across Central and Eastern Europe in exchange for material.


Georgian Socialist Party

Georgian labor laws in recent years have placed the country well above most of Europe in terms of worker safety and welfare. This, in turns, has led to an interesting development as more immigrants flood the country looking for work. The European Brain Drain has led to a rise in intellectualists in Georgia, and they're pleased with the government.


Bulgarian People's Democratic Army

The BPDA is one of several revolutionary groups operating in Bulgaria, which suffers from an advanced state of rebellion. Armed, cold, and dangerous, the BPDA want to violently overthrow the government and implement a worker's dictatorship.


Serbian Nationalist Movement

Led by a Nedim Khreshinovic, the Serbian Nationalist Movement wants an end to foreign influences over Serbian politics and government and stand opposed to any and all favorable defensive and trade agreements with the Sicilian Empire.


Society for African Jewery

The Society for African Jewery, or SAJ, is an organization dedicated to carving out a Jewish homeland somewhere in Africa. In recent years, there have been light immigration to Polish colonies, causing tension between the natives, Polish colonials, and zionists.


International Union of Charitable Organisations

The IUCO is a global organization that manages hundreds of charities worldwide to provide a solid logistical front. The IUCO often works in close cooperation with the Green Star/Red Crescent.

 

[Sonereal]

Results of Autumn 1910​

Note: This game will be using the last update of Shattered Europe as a jumping point. Ignore the irrelevant parts related to rolls and mechanics.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=11927173&postcount=160

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=11927175&postcount=161




This got moved to another thread by mistake.

Question: How many abilities do our front and secret society each get?

Rule of thumb is to ask yourself "does this seem justifiable and reasonable?"

Also, I tweaked the game a tad with stats and the like. I decided I want the game to be focused more on the big picture than minmaxing stats and the like. So, hard stats are out, but don't think this means it is a free for all.

 

[Mosher]

Since we're all going to be secretive and such isn't this thread going to be mostly you just posting and no one else?

 

[Double A]

Expect a lot of this.

Link to video.

 

[Sonereal]

Since we're all going to be secretive and such isn't this thread going to be mostly you just posting and no one else?

I suppose players could provide commentary on events.

Also, everyone who is joining should try to get their PMs in soon. I'll update the reserved post later with NPC and possibly-not-actually NPC organizations later.

 

[Sonereal]

Delaying the game I day so I can a minimum number of signups. No point in starting if I only have a few players.

 

[NinjaCow64]

Son's gone to Mexico Land so we're probably not going to be able to play this now. I think he'll be back in a week or so though.

 

[Terran Empress]

subed

 

[Sonereal]

I'm back from my glorious vacation. It was so relaxing that I may need to take another one sometime this summer.

In any case, its been a week and I know how things get when stuff doesn't happen for a week. If you're still in, just say so in the thread or in PM. No point in starting if half the sign-ups don't feel like playing anymore after all.

 

[Celticfury]

I'm still in.

 

[Mosher]

Still in.

 

[Terran Empress]

im still willing to play

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I really like how Nedim is a Serbian name.....

 

[NinjaCow64]

I'm in.

@Nedim: He only does it to annoy you...

 

[Jehoshua]

I would join, but I have concluded that it would be more amusing to studiously watch the decent, and condescendingly the inferiors as they manifest their abilities. I'm sure some of you (like Ninjacow) will feel much safer in my absence.

Oh Not to mention real life things are taking up time

 

[Sonereal]

Alright alright. Between this and recent sign-ups, I feel I can greenlight this. Game starts Monday with a bang.

 

[Double A]

I'll join roughly 2 days after I get home.

 

[Sonereal]

No problem.

Meanwhile, game starts later today.

 

[Sonereal]

Game starts now.

Check out the second post for the latest update. Next summary update will be Thursday which'll move time forward a season. We are currently in the Winter of 1910.