[center][b][u]Age of Imperialism 2.0: TURN 1 | Summer 1920 (August)[/u][/b] (Turn 2, Part 2 of 3)[/center]

[b]August 3rd[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b] lays down the hull of a dreadnought in it's Byrnian [b]Surv-Vyaez Arms Bureau[/b] Shipyards. The [i]Imperial[/i]-class exemplified itself with excellent service during the Terrible War. A source of pride for the Survaekom, already the [i]Survaekom Wind[/i] was being touted as the [i]future of the Empire[/i].

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[b]Displacement:	[/b]
27,850 long tons (28,300 t) (load)
30,860 long tons (31,360 t) (deep load)

[b]Length: [/b]
671 ft 6 in (204.7 m)

[b]Installed power:[/b] 	
34,000 shp (25,000 kW)

[b]Propulsion: 	[/b]
4 shafts, 4 CMI steam turbines
22 Sujjid water-tube boilers

[b]Speed:[/b]
22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)

[b]Range:[/b]
7,000 nmi (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)

[b]Complement:[/b] 	
1268 (1917)

[b]Armament: [/b]	
7 × twin BL 12-inch Surv-K guns
20 × single 6-inch Surv-H guns
10 × single 3 in (76 mm) guns
3 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes

[b]Armour:[/b]
Belt: 9 in (229 mm)
Deck: 1–2.5 in (25–64 mm)
Barbettes: 2–9 in (51–229 mm)
Turrets: 8–12 in (203–305 mm)
Conning tower: 12 in (305 mm)
Bulkheads: 2.5–6 in (64–152 mm)
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[i]Blueprints of the [/i]Survaekom Wind,[i] the Imperial-class Dreadnought slated for 1921[/i][/center]

[b]August 6th[/b]: Continuing training, the [b][color=blue]Second Boletarian Republic[/color][/b] incurs more losses as novice pilots learn the ropes of taking off, landing and formation flying. While casualties are an inevitability, it's a reminder that those that do survive will come out much better off. By the end of August, the remaining pilots will graduate as fully fledged flyers of the Boletarian Air Force.

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[i]Fellow Boletarian aviators inspect the the crash of a Widok-1, pilot's fate unknown[/i][/center]

[b]August 3rd[/b]: The [b][color=purple]Kingdom of Soroya[/color][/b] officially decrees the existence of the [b]Treaty of Sikea[/b]. With the Terrible War over, Soroya believes that all nations should downgrade their naval capabilities in order to lessen militaristic intent in the world. The Treaty would be as such:

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1. The [b]Kingdom of Soroya[/b], a major colonial power may keep no more than [b]8 Dreadnoughts[/b] on station. Soroya currently has 7.
2. Other signatories may possess no more than 25% of their naval nation's efficiency in dreadnoughts (Your Nation's Dockyards/4. Rounded Down).
3. If at least five [b]Major Nations[/b] sign the [i]Treaty of Sikea[/i], these nations will exert extra political influence for their decision to help maintain peace in the world (+1 Influence/Turn. +5 Unity).
4. If at least five [b]Major Nations[/b] sign the [i]Treaty of Sikea[/i], nations that do not sign generate 0 Influence for 4 Seasons.
5. If at least five [b]Major Nations[/b] do not sign the [i]Treaty of Sikea[/i], those nations that signed suffer -5 Unity and -4 Influence.
6. The [i]Treaty of Sikea[/i] will expire in 1941.
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Every nation, especially naval minded nations such as the [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b], [b][color=purple]Zellonian Empire[/color][/b] and [b][color=lightblue]Tsardom of Ventius[/color][/b] had the largest questions about the treaty, as diplomats were sent within hours of receiving the telegrams. 

[b]August 11th[/b]: The [b][color=orange]Empire of Chaegon[/color][/b] marches 30,000 men south into the [b]Kingdom of Tarania[/b], a long held puppet since even before the Terrible War. These men, 5,000 of whom did not even have rifles, were marched to the Taranian capital of Kodcz and held the King, King Zeg of Tarania hostage for sixteen hours until he forcefully filled the paperwork to sign his state into becoming a Chaegonian protectorate and extension of the empire. The [b][color=brown]Duchy of Pozzouli[/color][/b] is incensed and immediately expels the Chaegonian embassy there. [b][color=darkblue]Montevedro[/color][/b] condemns Chaegonian aggression in the region.

[b]August 18th[/b]: The [b][color=purple]Kingdom of Soroya[/color][/b] unveils a new prototype, the [i]Lux[/i], a tankette that is a moderate step up from it's Jentink tank that allowed it success in the Terrible War. The tankette concept was a typical interwar product, born in the fertile mind of Soroyan Engineer Major Giffard Pieter Claude Bijleveld (born 1868), who had already worked on the tactical development of tanks during The Terrible War. He never stopped theorizing about future tank warfare and, eventually, built in his own garage a very small tank with various commercially available parts. This concept of a one-man tankette was a complete rethinking of tank design, in complete overhang of previous concepts. This concept of a very economical and small tank was ensuring that the average infantryman could be protected when assaulting a static line of defense (typically protected by rifle and machine-gun fire). As a tank with a new, well-adapted light suspension, it was very fast and could be equipped with largely available automobile engines (a Kujdt-12 for the first one). The tracks were furnished by the Soroyan Manufacturing Inc traction Co, and the axle came from a Kalpian truck. It was to be protected only on the sides from small arms fire, but the main structure was made of wood.

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[i]New Soroyan tankette protoype Lux[/i][/center]

This tankette was seen mostly as a self-propelled skirmisher, an auxiliary transport and scout. First shown to the War Office. The War Office, in turn, contracted Bijleveld to built 4 models in record time in March 1920, for a new live demonstration and more tests, followed by eight improved “Little Luxes” to form an active evaluation unit. Despite an initial interest, no large scale order was placed yet. The idea was indeed dropped after it clearly demonstrated that a single man couldn’t effectively steer and fire at the same time. Later on, a single Lux was rebuilt to accommodate a two-men crew. In June, the Soroyan Armor Department also took the idea seriously, releasing a two man tankette rolling on Kalpian tracks on August 7th, 1920.

[b]August 27th[/b]: The [b][color=brown]Duchy of Pozzouli[/color][/b] demands that Taranian independence be recognized once again by the [b][color=orange]Empire of Chaegon[/color][/b] or face severe political and economic sanctions and possibly intervention.

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[b]Month's Losses[/b]
[list][*][b][color=blue]Second Boletarian Republic[/color][/b]
[list][*][b]Novice Pilots[/b]: 1
[*][b]Light Trainer[/b] ([i]Osika Widow-1[/i]): 2[/list][/list]
[b]Signatories of the [i]Treaty of Sikea[/i] (1920[/b] [1/5]
-- [b][color=orange]Empire of Chaegon[/color][/b]