[center][b][u]Age of Imperialism 2.0: TURN 1 | Spring, 1920 (May)[/u][/b] (Turn 1, Part 3 of 3)[/center]

[b]UPDATE[/b]: Heavy spring showers batter the North Centran and Zellonian coasts. Neeland experiences it's early summer wet season. In Serranthia, heavy dust storms kick up and down the coast.

[b]May 1st[/b]: The Korenian riots faltered by the sound of gunshots. Korenian military police dispatched the rioters at the tips of bayonets. They dispersed. On the first night of May, Herada was quiet. Prime Minister Zdzisław Bradel demanded law be instated under any circumstances. Furthermore, Foreign Secretary [b]Stanisław Dunin-Karwicki[/b] was sent via rail through Tangaria and Loremia to Oslograd to meet with the Osladian Tsar of the [color=green][b]Osladian Empire[/b][/color]. Dunin-Karwicki carried with him the promise of 5,000,000 dollars and eyed several of Oslad's O-26 tanks, powerful weapons that nearly won them the war.

Korenia, with barely a dozen manufacturing plants, had neither the military ingenuity nor the industrial muscle to conjure up such weapons of war and instead Bradel sent Dunin-Karwicki, a straight nosed and thin shouldered man, to negotiate the purchase of however many tanks the Osladian Emperor might be willing to negotiate for such a sum of money. Dunin-Karwicki was not to return empty handed under any circumstances.


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[i]The Herada Parliament Building, May 1920[/i][/center]

[b]May 4th[/b]: The First Minister of Kalpia Aclen Bomanot Siquiouquio stepped off the train at Toruń Main Station in Barczewo, [color=a36209][b]Principality of Soreno[/b][/color]. With an uneventful turn of events in neutral Montevredo, he was glad to be greeted by Mendel Balberyszski, who in his 92nd year many assumed would have long retired. They took a car ride through the desolate, sloping hills of Barczewo's smoggy coastal lands to the city proper where Siquiouquio was greeted with great report by twenty-eight year Prince Regent Aleksander Grad. Siquiouquio noticed the fire in Prince Grad's eyes, and was met with an equally fiery rhetoric about Kalpo-Sorenan relations. Prince Grad recommended that Kalpia and Sorenan become closer, and they spoke long into the night about local and international issues. Minister Aclen Bomanot Siquiouquio left Barczewo and returned home two days later.

[b]May 6th[/b]: While negotiations are ongoing, word reaches Prime Minister Bradel of [b][color=yellow]Republic of Korenia[/color] [/b]that the Tsar of the Osladian Empire will be lending 5,000 Dragomov M96 rifles to his cause to better outfit his troops. The deal is hotly contested and many Centrist Korenian politicians accuse Bradel of warmongering. Instead, he says: "I am merely modernizing the oldest defense of the Korenian Republic, the shield that has long kept Korenia from the annals of subjugation!" The newly outfitted troops are the [b]121st Rifle Regiment[/b], a crack unit of Northern Korenians who hail from the harsh mountain terrain.

[b]May 8th[/b]: The [b][color=purple]Zellonian Royal Army[/color][/b] slashes funding, sending over ten thousand men to reservist status. The legislation enacted since the [b]Treaty of Parma[/b] required that no more than forty-thousand men could serve, given the circumstances of their post war status. While the nation itself thrummed itself at the idea, there was little doubt that as one of the defeated powers that anything but strict adherence to the treaty would cause more problems, problems Zellonia desperately didn't need.

[b]May 10th[/b]: "There'll be no Soroyan naval bases so long as a Romanow sits on the throne," Romanowan diplomat Avgust Olegovich Sharapov commented to the Romanow Major, the nation's leading newspaper. "They might send the whole fleet after it gets finished in Faresia, but if the thin eyed bastards scared them off, I don't think we'll have much of a problem!" He said, drawing laughter from the crowd and raising his cane to point to a nearby coastal shore battery, a 1909 piece that probably hadn't fired since it was first built. "God be damned they think they can ply their trade anywhere they can fit a battleship."

[b]May 13th[/b]: The Markovnian Minister of Affairs Juozas Karvelis accepts the [b]Mutual Pact of Free Trade[/b] with the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b] and accepts their generous offer of 50,000,000 Mariats (5,000,000 [i]Consumer Goods[/i]). The [b][color=9e0039]Markovnian Republic[/color][/b] announces a new era of friendship with the newly formed Kalpian nation.

[b]May 15th[/b]: A strange man is found lurking near the military headquarters of the Boletarian 6th Army, several miles outside of Wrenclaw in the [b][color=blue]Second Boletarian Republic[/color][/b]. Initially assumed to be a beggar or vagabond, when several Boletarian military police attempt to apprehend him, he flees. He returns several nights later, and in a shoot out in an alley adjacent to the headquarters, the man shoots and kills two military police officers who chase after him. He isn't seen again. The army increases it's security detail around the base.

[b]May 16th[/b]: Dunin-Karwicki returns to the [b][color=yellow]Korenian Republic[/color][/b] as a mixed bag. He returns and within hours Prime Minister Bradel informs the nation of it's purchase of 30 Osladian O-26 Strovna tanks, Terrible War tanks weighing in at twenty tons with five different machine gun emplacements over its hull. The O-26's would be used for "security purposes" only Bradel proposed. Later that morning, Bradel appointed Colonel Zyta Gilowska to the newly formed [b]Korenian 1st Armored Brigade[/b]. A careerist and sycophant, Gilowska was an indomitable yes man.

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[i]The Osladian O-26 Strovna[/i][/center]