OOC: kamilian, I'd really love to meet more nations, so far I've met only 3
From Byzantium
To Rome:
We propose that we form a trade route between our nations!
To Dacia:
*secret*
You wouldn't mind giving us some of your connections to european nations? After all, we've been helping you quite a lot recently.. we could also give you connections to Rome for that, in case you don't have them
*secret*
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Emperor Dominius II was looking down the harbour of Byzantine. Three military ships were closing in. Each time he saw ships coming, his mind yelled at him with terrible fury: "now it happens! the dalmatians finaly saw what rich nation we are and now they're coming to land in our capital city.."
For 30 years Dominius II had been the ruler of the nation and the soon 60-year-old emperor had only recently started to realize that his strange fears were not only stupid, they were forms of insanity. And, as always, these three ships had a golden dragon head on them, as all Byzantinian triremes had. Of course they were their own ships, emperor Dominius had personally ordered them for this trip!
They had been told to travel around the Mediterranian to find connections with other nationalities. Now, as captain of the head ship stood down and happily gave Dominius a letter from Rome, the emperor knew that his efforts had payed off. "How many nations did you find?" asked the emperor happily. "Only Rome", responded the captain, and Dominius's smile faided a bit. But still, he was happy to find a nation which could potentially trade with Byzantine.
"I thank you for your fine job, captain!" said the emperor, "But your work has not been finished yet! Your three fine dragon-headed triremes will continue their journey to the Black Sea.. maybe we will find more nations there!"
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Orders to be PM'd soon.