Temasek joins the world stage. Unwillingly.
Temasek has long since been isolationist, not by choice anyways. Although trade between the communes, colonies and the indigenous people that dot former Southeast Asia is growing every year, diplomacy with an equal power was unheard of.
As Temasek colonisers spread deeper into what was once Penang, Sumatra and Brunei, there was nothing but small, tightly knit communities, rarely hitting the hundreds in population, or ruins of vast cities. But this week, news from an explorer's group sent shockwaves throughout the nation.
On the beaches of former Phuket, an explorer's group recounted meeting a group of sentient beasts. They would have been dismissed as yet another tall tale...
except they managed to bring the 'Orcs' along with them. Introducing themselves as hailing from the
United Agontrov Clans from far-off lands that the local colonial administration admitted that they failed to catch due to their thick accents. Towering above the regular Human but capable of speaking in our language, diplomacy was hastily set up by the central council in Temasek Isle as news spread throughout the realm.
While Scholars have begun sharing knowledge, the more military-minded have been clamoring to either throw them back to the sea or to quickly cement an alliance in case a more barbaric group of beasts rear their hypothetical heads. The alliance faction won out after heated (and violent) debate in the central council and a hastily assembled
Defensive Pact with the
UAC was announced
.
They tell us that the far off land of 'Europe' is embroiled in a war, and as new members of their wider alliance they hoped Temasek would support their conflict.
Without thinking much, Temasek accepts it's involvement in the conflict. But considering they don't know what a """Europe""" even is they have no clue what they have just thrown themselves into.
In average news, The Temasek council has placed
8 dp into the Military and
9 into economic development. The news of the Orcs has overshadowed such news in the minds of the average citizen though.