[center][u][b]The Year 1902[/b][/u] [b]World Tension[/b]: [i]3%[/i] [color=red][b]Vatanno-Galvia stations troops on Salardian border[/b][/color] ([i]2%[/i]) [color=red][b]Deltora Allies with Soroya[/b][/color] ([i]8%[/i]) [color=red][b]Survaek Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i]) [color=red][b]Honneria Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i]) [color=red][b]Vatanno-Galvia Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i]) [color=gray][b]Deltora Guarantees Luckland[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i]) [color=gray][b]Soroya signs a Defensive Alliance with Kelric[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i]) [color=gray][b]Soroya Guarantees Muranheidt[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])[/center] [center][b]WORLD TENSION 0-15%[/b] - All unaligned nations have +5% National Unity. - All unaligned nations have +10% GNP boost. - All Status Quo nations have +20% GNP boost. - Status Quo nations have +10% National Unity. (PLEASE USE THESE MODIFIERS IN YOUR BUDGETS / SHOW WORK) [b]SEND BUDGETS FOR 1902[/b][/center] [u]JANUARY[/u] [b]January 1st[/b]: 81 miners are killed in an accident in a mine 20 miles north of Reyirik, in the [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire.[/color][/b] [b]January 2nd[/b]: The nation of [b][color=gold]Honneria[/color][/b] declines a contract with the [b]Zellonian Empire[/b] to go with the initial offer from [b][color=purple]Soroya[/color][/b]. The Honnerian Foreign Minister, Peter Kuttle declared: "Honor has always been a characteristic of the Varian continent, perhaps this is why Zellonians do not live on it." [b]January 3rd[/b]: As per a contract from [b][color=gold]Honneria[/color][/b], the government of [b][color=purple]Soroya[/color][/b] lays down the keel of a Pre-Dreadnought to be finished sometime in 1904. [b]January 4th[/b]: The world's first passenger-carrying trolleybus in regular service operates on the Viedda Valley Trolley in Summerwall, [b][color=darkblue]Anvegad.[/color][/b] [b]January 9th[/b]: [i]Hafas[/i], a [b][color=purple]Soroyan[/color][/b] trade ship carrying grains and foodstuffs from Soroyan Faresia, sinks off the coast of Alcoln, [b][color=darkgreen]Deltora.[/color][/b] The Deltoran destroyers [i]TPS Storm[/i] recovers 17 of the 151 sailors from the freezing water. They are sent via automobile back to Soroya. [b]January 10th[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Survaek Empire[/color][/b] finalizes it's document regarding previously owned lands in [b][color=gold]Honnerian Serranthia.[/color][/b] The Survaek government is now certain of it's claims in the region. [b]January 20th[/b]: The eccentric general Ishui Gvardiu of the [b][color=maroon]Survaek Empire[/color] [/b]finalizes his designs for the Ishui Model 11 Heavy Automatic Rifle. It is available for production. [b]January 22nd[/b]: 10,000 volunteers who had signed up to serve in the [b]Zellonian Royal Army[/b] finish their training. Without rifles to equip them however, they are put on reserve status. [b]January 25th[/b]: A minor factory complex in [b][color=darkblue]Anvegad[/color][/b] completes and begins hiring workers. It will open later this year. The factory is along the Avenhold Rail Line, which opens February 1st, 1902. It is the first completed rail line in Anvengad. [b]January 29th[/b]: The [b][color=gold]Honnerian Colonial Army[/color][/b] is bolstered by 15,000 Professionals of the 22nd Corps under General Giovanni Moth. They make port at Wadke, along with 50 Model 99 light artillery guns. [b]January 30th[/b]: The [b][color=purple]Soroyan[/color][/b] government announces the [i]Societatem[/i], a political ideology facilitating the ideas of free peoples and their own self determination. The world recognizes [b][color=purple]Soroya[/color][/b] as a bastion of freedom in the world, coinciding with the passage of the [b]Labor Act of 1902[/b], which was held up in ferocious debate for over six months. The Labor Act does a great deal to extend personal liberties to former "indentured servants" in Faresian and Sarelian colonies under Soroyan control. [u]FEBRUARY[/u] [b]February 1st[/b]: The Grand Railway is completed in the [b][color=darkgreen]Deltoran Republic[/color][/b]. It connects Acloln, Kulburn and the capital Evemont and is the longest existing railway in the world. [b]February 3rd[/b]: General Damien Arceneaux of the [b][color=darkgreen]Deltoran Army[/color] [/b]finishes his theory on massed barrages of artillery. When observed by Deltoran High Command, they are stunned by the results and anticipate great enemy casualties in battle. [center][img]http://www.ww2incolor.com/d/223229-4/DEaRuR_44_1%23[/img] [i]Deltoran massed barrage in practice, 1902[/i][/center] [b]February 7th[/b]: The [i]Manual of Strategic Assault[/i] is finished by the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b], thanks largely due to [b][color=darkgreen]Deltoran[/color][/b] military theorists. The Kalpians now have a fundamental understanding of trench warfare. [b]February 8th[/b]: Six hundred miles of railway are laid from Mistburn, [b][color=gray]Kalpia[/color][/b] along the coast to Lochare. [b]February 15th[/b]: Research on a handheld explosive in the [b][color=darkgreen]Deltoran Republic[/color] [/b]is finished. Called a [i]hand grenade[/i], it will increase the individual firepower of every Deltoran soldier. Mass production will begin within a few months. [center][img]http://www.thortrains.com/getright/grenadeww1.jpg[/img] [i]Deltoran soldier demonstrating the proper stance to throw a grenade[/i][/center] [b]February 25th[/b]: The colony of [b][color=darkblue]Anvegadian Sarelia[/color][/b] is fully explored, mapped out and inhabited. It's fertile fields on the south banks and heavy mountains in the north make it a diverse climate. Fort Camber is established. [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/Wh6Ss7Y.png[/img] [i]Sarelian Subcontinent, circa 1902[/i][/center] [b]February 28th[/b]: Reconstruction on [b]Memoth[/b], damaged during the [b]Zello-Kalpian War[/b] ([i]1900-1901[/i]) is nearly completed.