[h1][center][b][u]The World as We Know It[/u][/b][/center][/h1] [OOC NOTE: It is Turn 1: January-March 1899. Nations with a finished dossier may now post IC and submit their Political Clout orders via PM.] [hider=Nations with Unsent Orders] - [s][b]Empire of Tara[/b] - [b]Dygracian Sultanate[/b] - [b]Empire of Tara[/b] - [b]Osladian Empire[/b] - [b]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/b] - [b]Kalpian Republic[/b] - [b]Itherae Republic[/b] - [b]Imperium of Hiron[/b][/s] - [b]Federation of Central Fesceunia[/b][/hider] [hider=Rules to Know] - 1. For your [b]Political Clout[/b] actions to take effect, you must post IC. - 2. Whomever posts first has precedence. [Example: Nation A declares war on Nation B. Nation C signs Defensive Alliance with Nation B. If Nation A posts first, this means Nation C cannot effectively sign said alliance and be 'called to arms.'][/hider] [hr][hr] [center][h1]1899[/h1][/center] [center][img]http://library.brown.edu/cds/paris/img/worldfairs/1303844932593751.jpeg[/img] [i]City of Tannersburg, Tyro-Redanian Empire, 1899[/i][/center] [b][u]JANUARY[/u][/b] [b]January 1st[/b] – The [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian[/color][/b] Light Cruiser [i]Prinz Wollin[/i] suffers a magazine explosion while at Port Hollenheim at Eisenstadt. 114 lives are lost but no foul play is expected. Efforts to remove the half sunken wreck cannot begin until Spring when the waters warm up. [b]January 8th[/b] – The Surveyor-General of the General Survey of All Lands, Demesnes, Territories and Dominions within Imperial Influence from the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] begins a comprehensive reexamination of it's colonial holdings in Serranthia and Settumu. Renowned for it's system of colonial viceroys that extend some levels of autonomy, it is expected that inefficiencies will be rooted out with all haste. [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Souvenir_of_Singapore%2C_1914_-_Plate_11_-_Chinese_Quarters.jpg[/img] [i]Tarantese colony of Shimmerene in Settumu, 1899[/i][/center] [b]January 10th[/b] – Elections begin in the [b][color=lightblue]Kingdom of Thecia[/color][/b], wedged between the Sessauan and Tyro-Redanian Empires. The right leaning [i]Mithaxas[/i] party gains a slim majority, forming a government under Prime Minister Thaxus I, with the hesitant approval from King Leonid. The same day, they send delegations forward to purchase 150 field guns from one of the Great Powers. [[b]Event[/b]: Any Great Power who wishes to sell 150 Field Guns may PM the Mod with their asking price. Lowest price will receive the bid] [b]January 14th[/b] – Viceroy of the Silver Marches in Serranthia, Lord Culiver Fairwell dies at age 61. A robust administrator and former naval captain, he is replaced by Count Jacques de Montaeur. The bloodthirsty and only son of the Montaeur lineage, he lives in Rigour and "fully expects to administer the Marches from the Serene Empire." The [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b], the premier colonial power in the world–is the only one in which uses colonial suzerainty as a form of administration, espousing both autonomy and economic efficiency. [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/George_Curzon2.jpg[/img] [i]Count Jacques de Montaeur, Viceroy of the Silver Marches, 1899[/i][/center] [b]January 15th[/b] – The [b]Leikarp Co.[/b] opens it's doors in Leikarp, Kalpia. Selling penny-farthing bicycles, Johan Jost paves the way in the bicycle industry with the high-wheeled creations. Within 24 hours, his entire inventory of 36 Leikarp Cycles are sold to locals in the city limits. [[b]Event[/b]: [b][color=gray]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b] gains [b]Leikarp Co.[/b] [1] (Automotive)] [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Pennyfarthing-1886.jpg[/img] [i]Leikarp Cycles, 1899[/i][/center] [b]January 23rd[/b] – The [b]Counties Palatine[/b] of the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b], founded in 1848 had long been a prosperous hub of trade in Serranthia. Growing from a small outpost to a resting point while sailing around the Sharp Edge of Serranthia to Settumu, the Counties Palatine slowly extended it's reach from a coastal hub into a developed colony that covered much of Serranthia's Southwestern coast. The Mauwanti Empire, which drew its border up along the Counties Palatine had long held tenuous relations with the Tara. Daunted by the more modern firearms and technology of the Continental power, the Mauwanti Empire seemed neither meek nor pacifistic but rather meticulous in it's dealing with the empire. On January 23rd, 800 armed Mauwanti raiders crossed the border into the Palatine and attacked the town of Jardin, killing 213 and wounding over 300. [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Afrimilgunmen2.jpg/300px-Afrimilgunmen2.jpg[/img] [i]Mauwanti raiders with gun and spear, 1899[/i][/center] [b]January 27th[/b] – Another Mauwanti raiding party, numbering 1,400 cross into the Counties Palatine. They cross the River Seuse and attack Fort Halloway. The attack lasts until the 29th, in which case the 61 Taran soldiers ran out of ammunition and led by Lieutenant Georges Havier, surrendered. None of them were spared. [b]January 30th[/b] – Word reaches Rigour of the Mauwanti attack. Present in the Counties Palatine are 2,400 Colonial Taran soldiers under Lieutenant General Matthew Harvick and a single regiment (1,000) of Taran Imperials with 4 Field Guns present. The Minister of the Army summarily requests a meeting with the Empress to discuss what it to be done. [b][u]FEBRUARY[/u][/b] [b]February 3rd[/b] – The Itheraen national government puts in an order for 20 additional field guns to supplement their armed forces. The Ithean National Arms Manufacturing takes on the manufacturing order and finishes all 20 guns by the end of the month. The order costs the Itheraen government $46,000, almost twice as much as originally planned following several production issues. [center][img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/81/2b/77/812b7704c11175f06651d95bc33f321e.jpg[/img] [i]Itheraen Eucarpus 4M-A1 field gun, 1899[/i][/center] [b]February 5th[/b] – Demian Selidov campaigns successfully in Toboskoy, where he is meant by a crowd of more than 12,000. There, he successfully argues in favor of a continuation of his government. Arguments that the Selidov administration was "campaigning for the future" as opposed to governing were drowned out by huge banners confessing "[i]THE 20TH CENTURY BELONGS TO SELIDOV[/i]." The Prime Minister, at his speech at Toboskoy promised: "This year I arrived in a horse, next year I will leave in a locomotive." [b]February 7th[/b] – Construction on the Senryu International University begins in Senryu, Hiron. Expected to finish in 1902, this university of higher learning is designed to attract the most prestigious minds in Settumu and the Continent. [center][img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WGRzZIs3MJM/UUhKRKVPcnI/AAAAAAAChkI/LzNU_jo_HJw/s1600/Color+Photos+of+Life+in+Japan+in+the+Late+19th+Century+(4).jpg[/img] [i]Senryu, Hiron, 1899[/i][/center] [b]February 8th[/b] – The Thecian Embassy in Arsech, Kalpia receives a Kalpian diplomat in regards to their desire to sell Kalpian weapons. Given that the Kalpians named no price, he left empty handed with negotiations spoiled. [b]February 10th[/b] – Itherae diplomat Alessandro Logos of the [color=yellow][b]Republic of Itherae[/b][/color] arrives in the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b]. Having formerly studied in Konig, Logos is fluent in both Tyrian and Redanian language and cultures and lays down the [b]Tyro-Itheraen Trade Agreement[/b] with stunning competence, outlining a trade agreement between the two empires lasting no less than five years. Given their proximity, geography and relations, the Tyro-Redanian diplomat sees the deal as a no-brainer, though must request approval from the Tyro-Redanian Foreign Office before any further steps can be taken. [b]February 14th[/b] – The [i]Kadeten Papers[/i] are released in the [b]Republican Army[/b] of the [b][color=gray]Kalpian Army[/color][/b]. Heavily in debt with an overbloated army of half a million men, the newspaper does well to take the mind of the average Kalpian soldier, often confronted with late paychecks. [[b]Event[/b]: +4% Morale for Kalpian Army.] [b]February 15th[/b] – Within the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] the [i]Heider Edict[/i] passes the Imperial Diet with a significantly slim majority. Opposition leaders argue, in their final arguments: "In a world of peace, Tyro-Redania need not another 100,000 men with rifles." Still, the Edict calls to the Reservists Landswehr another 70,000 men. Initially calling for 90,000, 20,000 men either purchased their way out of the Landswehr system or simply did not show up when their names were sent out in the post. [[b]Event[/b]: Tyro-Redania gains 70,000 Reservists, -6% Supply & Logistics] [b]February 19th[/b] – The [b]Eyes[/b], a clandestine scouting and espionage agency of the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] begin Operation Halder. [b]February 26th[/b] – An unnamed diplomat from the [b][color=red]Dygracian Sultanate[/color][/b] arrives in Oslograd to discuss a political [b]Pact of Nations[/b]. The offer, as quoted by the Sultanate's diplomat shall: "[i]offer to establish a pact between the [Oslad, Tyro-Redania and Dygracian states] to secure lower tariffs between us all and enter an age of general prosperity. In addition to these terms, the pact would stipulate international patent recognition, freer visas and migration, as well as an agreement to not incite rebellion by the savages in the colonies and expeditions of our nations. Two separate treaties shall be maintained between the two, with the option of adjoining them to forge a Pact of Nations.[/i]" The Osladian diplomat, who represents a country without colonial ambitions instead redirects the Dygracian Sultanate to a direct meeting with Prime Minister Selidov himself. Selidov--a liberal minded man himself--sends the Dygracian away without a signature, but agrees that an alternative agreement with lower tariffs and patent recognition would work in the future. [b]February 28th[/b] – The same [b][color=red]Dygracian Sultanate[/color][/b] diplomat arrives in Aetoria, Tyro-Redania and submits the same diplomatic message to the Tyro-Redanian Foreign Minister Kaleb Wöhler. He gives a similar message, explaining that an agreement on colonial territories from a nation that has never possessed land outside the Continent would be fruitless. An agreement for lower tariffs and patent recognition could be negotiated, Minister Wöhler admits, before sending the Dygracian diplomat away. [h1][b][u]MARCH[/u][/b][/h1] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/sAUKA19.png[/img] [i]The Continent, March 1899[/i][/center] [b]March 1st[/b] – The Tsardom of Karum's storied past of conquests and expansionism dated back to the 1830's. Having lost much of it's territory in the Osladian War of 1867 to both Oslad and the Kingdom of Serona, it made little sense to avoid the pretense of Tsar Michel's promises that he would restore "Greater Karum" in his lifetime. [center][img]https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Aw3lqYqHM2A/WG1hrxMhH9I/AAAAAAAAhno/h1i1jI-UBNAdThCC2F3eAOmq6W93pIxTwCLcB/s1600/11-Ferdinand%2BI%252C%2BKing%2Bof%2BRomania-Romania_in_WW1.jpg[/img] [i]Tsar Michel I, 1899[/i][/center] Michel I holds a rally in Karum's capital of Salaz, promising soon the "return of Karumi lands." Following the rally, a military parade is held. The Karumi Army is small and under equipped. [center][img]https://romaniadacia.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/king-ferdinand-oradea-world-war-one-ww1-romanian-men-army.jpg[/img] [i]Tsar Michel I inspecting soldiers of the Karumi Army[/i][/center] [b][u]March 2nd[/u][/b] – The [b]National Kalpian Railway[/b] begins work on several "short rails" between various cities in Kalpia to better increase accessibility for consumer goods as well as emergency military maneuvers and for those that can afford it, quick travel. [b][u]March 3rd[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=green]Osladian Empire[/color][/b], the 901 Combustion Engine Prototype make it's debut. Designed by Zagadka Industries at the behest of Vladan Nešić, the CEP is an electric powered wagon with a basic steering apparatus. Several hundred spectators show up at the "national display" is Oslograd. Slow to start and even slower moving, the CEP is seem as a trinket for the rich. [[b]Event[/b]: [i]Zagadka Industries[/i] becomes [Automotive] Company] [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/1900_American_Electric_Dos-A-Dos.jpg[/img] [i]Artist rendering of the 901 CEP, 1899[/i][/center] [b][u]March 5th[/u][/b] – The [i]Hoffner Commission[/i] finishes it's three month report in the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b]. Designed to find out the ideas and perspectives of the various cultural ethnicities in the empire, it reports back that the native Itheraeans in the far east wish to be returned to Itheraen rule, and that the Voskiyans wish their religious beliefs, [i]Voskiyaasm[/i] to be accepted under the Tyro-Redanian Throne, one belief of which is an exemption from working on the fifth, sixth and final days of the week. The Hoffner Commission is presented to the Home Office for analysis. [b][u]March 9th[/u][/b] – In the East, the [b][color=skyblue]Radenan Tsradom[/color][/b] experiences the [i]Dubrovvodsk Mutiny[/i]. Soldiers of the Tsars' Army, not having been paid in three months are ordered to "mass training" in the cold, March air of the coastal city of Dubrovvodsk turn on their officers and revolt. The Dubrovvodsk Garrison, numbering 4,500--kill 312 officers, loot the city and largely go AWOL. A nearby infantry garrison arrives later that day to find the armory and commissary raided, but few if any soldiers remained loyal. [[b]Event[/b]: -4,500 soldiers. -1 Stability] [b][u]March 10th[/u][/b] – The Grand Sultan of the [b][color=red]Dygracian Sultanate[/color][/b] himself arrives in Rigour, [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] for a personal meeting. Espousing Tarantese ideas and fluent in both the language and culture, the meeting is held behind private doors and no terms are signed. The actual extent of the meeting is unknown. [b][u]March 12th[/u][/b] – An explosion in Mt. Suru in the [b][color=red]Dygracian Sultanate[/color][/b] kills 47 workers and leaves 119 trapped. The mining operation was being in performed to expand railroad operations into the south of the country, but the mountains that cross directly across the nation mean there is no easy path through. [b][u]March 13th[/u][/b] – The Itherae Imperial Post nearly collapses, when a formal request from the Republican government asks: "Send us your problems." In three days they receive over one million letters, meaning that almost one out of ten people deemed it worthy enough to write, an amount totaling nearly the amount of letters sent in Itherae in the first half of a year. Among them are squabbles and personal disputes: "My dog is life." "My wife is cheating on me," but there are so many letters that sorting through them will take months. [b][u]March 16th[/u][/b] – The Radenan [b]Tsar's Navy[/b] has two ships collide, the [i]Ilyich[/i] and the [i]Alexandrovich[/i] while attempting fleet maneuvers in the Cappum Sea. The [i]Ilyich[/i], a coastal defense ship sinks will all hands aboard. Only 3 men emerge from the wreck and are saved by the [i]Alexandrovich[/i] [[b]Event[/b]: -1 Radenan Coastal Defense Ship] [center][img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/SMS_Wien_NH_88936.jpg[/img] [i]Ilyich, Radenan coastal defense ship, 1899[/i][/center] [b][u]March 19th[/u][/b] – The [b][color=lightblue]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b] begins mass training of it's soldiers. Similarly straits threatened these exercises as they did in neighboring Radena, but the strict hierarchy of the Kalpian Republic Army prevents this, and mass training exercises begin in earnest. [[b]Event[/b]: Kalpian Army gains +5% Training, -1% Supply & Logistics] [b][u]March 21st[/u][/b] – Another diplomat from the [b][color=red]Dygracian Sultanate[/color][/b] arrives back in Dygracia. The [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] and the [b][color=green]Osladian Empire[/color][/b] could not agree to terms on a trade agreement with the Sultanate. [b][u]March 22nd[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b], the Imperial & State Railways begins it's first operations to extend local and national railways in the nation. They are slated to be finished in 1902. [b][u]March 24th[/u][/b] – The [b][color=red]Dygracian Sultanate[/color][/b] establishes the Civil Research Service to subsidize successful invention and technological innovations. Poorly funded however and led without clear leadership, it gets off to a slow start. [b][u]March 28th[/u][/b] – The [b]Imperium of Hiron[/b] and the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] formalize a trade deal with 10,000 tonnes of foodstuffs in exchange for Hironese opium. [b][u]March 30th[/u][/b] - The Romanievich Railroad Industry in the [b][color=skyblue]Radenan Tsardom[/color][/b] has it's plans approved to build the [b]Multi-Continental Railroad[/b] ([i]MCR[/i]) to bridge it's Continental and Settumu territories. The railroad, which would be the longest in history is slated to take 7 years to complete. To fund this adventure, the Tsar subsidizes the Romanievich Railroad Industry. [[b]MAJOR INNOVATION[/b]: Romanievich Railroad Industry grows from [1] to [3]. +$3,500,000/Turn to Radena Tsardom.] [center][End of Turn 1][/center]