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

[b]June 2nd[/b]: The city of Sakaan, the normally jubilant and quiet capital of the [b][color=pink]Glorious Nation of Nioda[/color][/b] awoke to rumblings and shouts. With a population of just under 30,000,000, the total gross production of foods, fruits and salts amounted to less than enough to feed half the population. Rotten cabbage became the weapon of choice, pelting wandering Sakaan District Police officers and attacking already empty stalls of food. The crowd continued to gain momentum, and they headed toward northern Sakaan, their aimless measure of hunger turning to a bastion of the wealthy elite: the Kujiya Hotel.


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[i]The Kujiya Hotel, Sakaan, Nioda. May 31st, 1920. Two days before it was burned to the ground[/i][/center]

They wasted little time to setting it alight. The structure, which had been erected in 1687, burned for days and would not fully be put out by local Sakaan firefighters until June 8th. The crowd by then had been dispersed, more by their own hunger than any action by the Sakaan government.

[b]June 3rd[/b]: Foreign Councilor Yvael Hurdu of the [color=maroon][b]Grand Survaek Empire[/b][/color] is admitted to see the Dignitary of the Grand Duchy of Eissenheim's Joachim hans Ulrich. After a brief fifteen minute conversation where Hurdu, who obviously had no idea why he was sent besides continuing to repeat that Eissenheim was "a necessary partner for Survaekom economic and strategic security," Ulrich allegedly smashed a bottle on the ground and had Hurdu escorted out "for fear of broken glass." In a communique to the Grand Duke himself, Ulrich said "If he'd mention strategic security one more time I was likely to have the man shot."

[b]June 4th[/b]: Brian Kerchek, a former admiral of the [color=purple][b]Empire of Zellonia[/b][/color] is admitted to see Youssef Amrani, the Foreign Diplomat to the [b][color=gold]Diyarbakir[/color][/b]. In Kerchek's report back to the Zellonian Emperor, the conclusion was thus: "While Amrani was excited to be visited by diplomats from the Zellonic Isle, he was reportedly upset that a nation that fought alongside the Survaekom aggressors had the audacity to visit a nation that broke free from the yolk of Survaekom aggression."

[b]June 6th[/b]: The [b][color=pink]Honnerian Republic[/color][/b] reluctantly admitted Carver Wellington to speak to Jacques Droulez, the Honnerian Minister of Affairs, but had little to say, speaking mostly of his visit as a favor to his father, a member of the Zellonian Parliament. With nothing to offer, Droulez escorted Wellington out and saw him off.

[b]June 9th[/b]: A teenage boy named Jerzy Józefiak is shot and killed while climbing the stairs of the Korenian Parliament. Ordered back by armed military police twice, he clambered to the second to the top stair and looked back at the gathered crowd. Then he climbed the final step. He was shot and killed, shot six times in the chest. His body, lost in the ensuing swarm of bodies that became the [i]June 9th Riots[/i], is a relic to the [i]Age of Democracy[/i], so called by Korenian dissidents in the wake of Bradel's ascent to power. Bradel, awat at his personal villa in Northern Korenia, was allegedly alerted to the event but has not been seen since he dismissed the Korenian Parliament until the fall.

[b]June 10th[/b]: Sekigahara Tosu, the weathered diplomat of the [b][color=yellow]Republic of Fuso[/color][/b] was surprised at the scruffy edged photo that Li Xiu set in front of him. "It sometimes takes the reminder of a thousand bristling spikes that even the porcupine is no less lethal than the lion." It was a photo, snapped by a young and budding photographer on the Qingstao coast at the arrival of the Soroyan fleet. They had stayed for less than 48 hours before being recalled. "Soroyan battleships, you see," Xiu told Tosu. While it wasn't true (there had been no battleships in the Soroyan fleet), Xiu was a man of diplomacy, not war. Tosu was offered tea and rice cakes, dry and brittle compared to their Fusan counterparts. They talked for days, and at last Xiu sent a proper document to Tosu for him to overlook:

[hider=QING-FUSAN TREATY OF 1920]
If agreed upon by both parties, the following will take effect until 1930 to be renewed if amicable:
[list][*]The [b][color=yellow]Imperial Republic of Fuso[/color][/b] will aid the Qingstao in the construction of 2 [b]Factories[/b].
[*]The [b]Qingstao Dominion[/b] will allot the Fusan government of it's use of three [b]Dockyards[/b] until the Factories are completed.
[*]Both nations will see unfettered trade between one another, espousing future trade tariffs and embargoes. [/list][/hider]

[b]June 12th[/b]: Deputy Foreign Minister Huj Veliu of the [color=maroon][b]Grand Survaek Empire[/b][/color] is admitted to see the Laevatian Prime Minister himself, Conrad von Morthendt. Conrad expressed his sympathies in a weak and inept government that disallowed participation in "[i]that sporting war[/i]," presumably referring to the [b]Terrible War[/b]. Morthendt reported interest in an alliance and the strengthening of the Tervasan continent, but only if the Grand Survaek Empire were interested in discontinuing it's alliances in North Centran. 

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[i]A city street in Akmene, the capital of the Kingdom of Laevatia[/i][/center]

[b]June 15th[/b]: The Survaekom diplomat is intercepted on board his ship in the Verian harbor of [i]Oi[/i] and sent back, threatened with arrest if he returns.

[b]June 18th[/b]: The [b][color=orange]Empire of Chaegon[/color][/b] has colonized Satabo Island off the east coast of Serranthia. The Satabian's numbered only 700,000 and were mostly cut off from the world since the 1867 Soroyan Trade Mission that saw the creation of a single factory complex. The new colony was the first of Chaegon's in Serranthia, and saw an excess of praise back on the mainland.

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