[center][h2][b][color=007236]The Osladian Empire[/color][/b][/h2]
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[center][b]Crisis in Romanow[/b][/center]

The Soroyan demands were heard by the Tsar and the Imperial cabinet, and all involved would have to act carefully and swiftly so as to avoid war. The military high command made their positions clear, the new vessels and the army of Oslad was in no position to face the Soroyans once more, and it would be months before mobilization could even be completed. Thus, a counter-offer was sent to the Soroyan embassy in Oslograd.

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[*]The Osladian Empire shall pull from the Romanow Islands. However, neither Oslad nor Soroya may lay claim to the territory or commit military buildup upon the Island.
[*]The Romanowan Navy shall be split between the Islands and the Osladian Empire, as some of the vessels the Romanowans own formerly belonged to the Imperial Navy. 
[*]The Osladian Empire shall not break the restrictions put in place by the Treaties of Parma or Sikea or face immediate declarations of war.
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Tsar Anton himself signed off on the offer, and the entire cabinet waited cautiously for the Soroyan reply...

While diplomacy went underway, Osladian soldiers manned the coastal defenses on Romanow cautiously, awaiting a formal declaration of war from either side of the tense situation. Meanwhile the revived Osladian navy took to coastal patrols and watched outwardly towards the endless ocean, waiting for the moment Soroyan steamer smoke would fill the distant sky.

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[i]Romanowan Coastal Gun, circa 1919.[/i][/center]

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[center][b]Pens in Winter[/b][/center]

With winter fast approaching and the streets of Oslograd quickly piling with mounds of white snow, the Empire's diplomatic missions continued unopposed. The Osladian Empire continued to solidify her relations with Korenia, vowing to aid her economically when the state required it. In addition the Empire confirmed its ambitions of forging a full alliance with the Republic in the future, even going as far to give official recognition to the new government of the Republic and condemn the 'agitators' who continued to protest and scheme against Prime Minister Brandel.

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[i]The Osladian Embassy in Korenia.[/i][/center]

In early November the Tsar personally visited the Chaegon Empire, wishing to speak directly with the fellow monarch about the current state of affairs on the continent and future political ambitions and endeavors between the two empires. Shortly thereafter the Osladian Empire gave public approval of the Chaegon Empire's war against Pozzoulli, stating the region as rightfully Chaegons. 

From the Osladian Embassy in Kalpia telegrams were sent back and forth between Ambassador to Kalpia Yavor Fedoruk and the Kalpian Foreign Minister. On December 15th it was confirmed that the Osladian Empire had indeed begun a trade agreement with the Kalpian Republic in an attempt to warm relations between the two states. Back in Oslad the military high command rejoiced at the opportunity to finally test and mettle with the infamous Kalpian armor that had been produced over the previous few years, hoping to even use the Kalpian design for future Osladian projects if given the opportunity. In return O-26s and new Mulnya-201s would be sent to the Kalpian state in spring of next year.

Since the early 1910s the Osladian embassy in the ethnically rich Empire of Mille-Sessau's capital of Aville had been predominantly empty. However, in early September the wires came to life once more and the telegrams were manned by jittery work hands under the watchful and precarious eye of Lord Korneli Fronczak of Novacek. The aging ambassador was a former Boletarian nobleman who, up until the Terrible War, was rightfully lord of the entire Novacek region by Tsarist declaration. However with the formation of the Boletarian Republic and the discovery of Fronczak's Osladian bias the old Lord was exiled. Now he found himself far more south than he ever wanted to travel, and took this unfortunate anger out upon both his staff and his work.

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[i]Lord Korneli Fronczak of Novacek, circa 1915.[/i][/center]

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[center][b]March to the Polls[/b][/center]

Starting in November the political parties destined to battle it out in the Duma election of 1921 raced to the polls in the hopes of getting the attention of the working Osladian. The Agrarian Front's leading man and Hurzlander Tilmann Arendt was quick to travel to the agricultural centers of the nation, standing upon a soap box of potatoes and preaching of the plight of the every man. Meanwhile the Union Party marched through the streets of Oslograd with the Patriarchs of the Vorovok Church of the Saint. 

However, while the official parties marched and protested, the ineligible parties did very much the same. The Iron Hundred, bitter over their lack of notice by the Tsar's 'soroyan puppet' government protested in Oslograd. The protests by the Iron Hundred took place throughout the nation and were predominantly organized by second hand of the Hundred, Stanislaus Petrovic. Petrovic had become a strong public speaker and known for robust and flamboyant speeches cursing the enemies of Pan-Osladianism and even those of the same culture, especially the Tangarians whom he viewed a inferior genetically. 

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[i]Second in Command of the Iron Hundred and avid Pan-Osladian, Stannislaus Petrovic.[/i][/center]

While Petrovic had become the frontal figure of the Iron Hundred and often was seen as the actual leader, the shadow leader and founder Tamás Apse continued to work from behind the scenes. Apse had settled for this role reversal as a necessary change to the party and took well to instead writing speeches, manifests, and pamphlets that would be spread across the nation calling for action by the common man to reunite his culture and nation against 'inferior' aggressors, where ever they hide.