[h1][center][b][u]The World as We Know It[/u][/b][/center][/h1]

[It is Turn 2: April-June 1899. Nations with a finished dossier may now post IC and submit their Political Clout orders  via PM.]

[hider=Nations with Unsent Orders]
- [b]Empire of Tara[/b]
- [b]Dygracian Sultanate[/b]
- [b]Kalpian Republic[/b]
- [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.'
- 3. Negotiations between Player nations can be conducted after your orders are sent and you have received your roll for that action.
- 4. Spending [b]2 Political Clout[/b] will result in a single 1d6 + 1, not two die being rolled and the higher number being taken.][/hider]
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[center][h1]April-June, 1899[/h1][/center]

[b][u]April[/u][/b]

[b][u]April 2nd[/u][/b] – The [b][color=pink]Kingdom of Zellonia[/color][/b] begins construction on a major drydock, the first of it's kind in the northern kingdom. Costing just $7,000,000, it will not be completed until sometime in 1901.

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[i]Zellonian drydock under construction, 1899[/i][/center]
[b][u]April 5th[/u][/b] – The 901 Combustion Engine Prototype, designed by Zagadka Industries at the behest of Vladan Neši turned out to be a rather ruinous adventure. An attempt at exploring it's international markets cost the [color=green][b]Osladian Empire[/b][/color] around $2,400,000 total, as few outside of a few bicycle enthusiasts in Kalpia saw it as anything other than a toy.

[b][u]April 9th[/u][/b] – The [b][color=lightgreen]Imperium of Hiron[/color][/b] passes the [i]Free Immigration Act of 1899[/i], loosening the restrictions on who may and may not enter the country. It's predicted that some intellectuals from The Continent, Radena and even Meung may soon attempt to immigrant to the island empire.

[b][u]April 13th-18th[/u][/b] – 60,000 men in six infantry divisions of the [b][color=green]Osladian Empire[/color][/b] are moved to the Karumi-Osladian border in anticipation of Karumi's saber rattling. Initially a successful endeavor, the general--who forgot to sign his own name on the report he filed to Prime Minister Selidov, reported that 1,800 Osladians with ties to Karumi defected during the week, fleeing across the border. The remaining 58,200 soldiers dig in.
- [[b]Event[/b]: -1,800 Osladian soldiers. -1% Supply & Logistics]

[b][u]April 20th[/u][/b] – The [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] finishes it's patent on the M1899 Prager machine gun. As a token of good faith, the inventor provides 20 M1899's to the Tyro-Redanian Army.
[[b]Event[/b]: M1899 Prager [b]Invented[/b], +20 M1899 Prager's to the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b]]

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[i]The M1899 Prager machine gun[/i][/center]
[b][u]April 22nd[/u][/b] – The [b][color=lightgreen]Imperail Rail Authority[/color][/b] begins work on it's first railway. With no formal experience in industrialization, many workers are injured, and there are deaths involved. A riot in Yufutsu over the poor work conditions erupts, lasting several days. Given the small distances involved in the Imperial Rail Authority's work and the lax safety requirements, it is estimated to be finished in 1900.
[[b]Event[/b]: -1 Stability in [b][color=lightgreen]Imperium of Hiron[/color][/b]]

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[i]Yufutsu Type 99 Steam Locomotive, 1899[/i][/center]

[b][u]April 24th[/u][/b] – The [b]Oil Advancement Act[/b] is passed in the [b][color=yellow]Republic of Itherae[/color][/b] with an overwhelmingly bipartisan majority. This bill, which deregulates an almost non-existence Itheraen oil industry also subsidizes certain aspects of the industry in the realm of research & development.
[[b]Event[/b]: +2 Oil in Itherae.]

[b][u]April 27th[/u][/b] – The [color=ed1c24][b]Federation of Central Fesceuni[/b][/color] nationalizes the Universal Maritime Canal Company, attempting to fulfill quotas by increasing employment and allowing the UMCC to handle additional government projects. The red tape is extensive, and a disunited Federation parliament eventually passes a subsidy bill that is barely reminiscent of what it set out to do.
- [[b]Event[/b]: -$2,800,000. UMCC lowered to [1]]

[b][u]April 29th-30th[/u][/b] – The [b][color=green]Osladian Empire[/color][/b], in an attempt to facilitate relations with it's Western neighbor the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b], send it's premier Foreign Minister Rusak to Aetoria. There, Rusak laid the foundation of the intentions of a multi-cultural empire supporting another multi-cultural empire. While more conservative, the Tyro-Redanian Empire bowed it's head to the Selidov administration in a measure of friendship.
[[b][color=green]Osladian Empire[/color][/b]: +1 Relations to [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b]]
[[b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b]: +1 Relations to [b][color=green]Osladian Empire[/color][/b]]
[h1][b][u]MAY[/u][/b][/h1]

[b][u]May 1st[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=yellow]Republic of Itherae[/color][/b], the [i]First Itherae Officer Training Corp[/i] is founded, the first military academy of the fledgling Itheraen National Army. A meritocratic school which handpicked it's recruits, free of charge, it espoused modern military tactics and would begin to increase the credibility of the army of the minor power.
[[b]Event[/b]: [b]Itheraen Army[/b] gains +4% Training. +1.5% Training/Turn for next 5 turns.]

[b][u]May 2nd[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=pink]Kingdom of Zellonia[/color][/b], [i]Guntherson Rifles & Co.[/i] is founded. A single subsidized foundry capable of producing weapons of war for Zellonia.

[b][u]May 3rd[/u][/b] – The Garleiz Canal in the [b][color=red]Federation of Central Fesceuni[/color][/b] is announced. This major construction effort will employ nearly 3,000 people and cost several millions, but as it's first major project, people begin to feel a sense of patriotism for Fesceuni.
[[b]Event[/b]: The [b][color=red]Federation of Central Fesceuni[/color][/b] gains [b]1 Stability[/b]]

[b][u]May 4th[/u][/b] – The task force from the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] arrives off the coast of the Counties Palatine. Escorting the Pre-Dreadnoughts [i]HMS Goliath[/i] and [i]HMS Valiant[/i], a half dozen destroyers sallied forth into uncertain waters while the Pre-Dreadnoughts navigated choppy waters.

Hours later, five destroyers returned--reporting the port clear for the troops unloading. A more astute sailor on board mumbled something about there having been six destroyers as the vanguard and now there were only five. Halfway through unloading, the 71 year old Commodore da Sylvie realized that the [i]HMS Bastion[/i] had not reported back from it's scouting. It's fate thus, remained unknown.
[[b]Event[/b]: [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] loses [b]1 Destroyer[/b]]

[b][u]May 5th[/u][/b] – Lieutenant-General Harvick of the Imperial Tarantese Army ([i]ATR[/i]) takes command of the 5 regiments. An additional edict is sent forth to raise all available colonial soldiers. 

[b][u]May 7th[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=maroon]Tsardom of Radena[/color][/b], the Tsar's Army places 35,500 men from active duty into nearby reserve garrisons along the border.

[b][u]May 8th[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=skyblue]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b], Kerser Guns and Republikan Army Arsenal fulfills a government order for 214,500 KR.99 rifles.
[[b]Event[/b]: [b][color=skyblue]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b] gains +15% Supply & Logistics]

[b][u]May 9th[/u][/b] – The [b]Imperial Dockyards & Arsenal[/b] of the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] submits its designs for water-tube boilers, which generate more power at less expense in weight compared with the cylindrical boilers used in previous ships. The new boilers led to the adoption of fore-and-aft funnels, rather than the side-by-side funnel arrangement used in many previous Tarantese battleships. Given that IDA is the only naval development firm in Tara, there was absolutely no competition. They collect the $250,000.
[[b]Event[/b]: [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b] loses -$250,000]

[b][u]May 10th[/u][/b] – The Imperial Security Bureau of the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] is founded. It's principle purpose is twofold: the security of the Empire and the destruction of internal dissidents. Among it's members is Head of Internal Security, Felix von Drach.

As Head of Internal Security, Felix von Drach undergoes a campaign of rigorous terror and political oppression in the East of the Empire. ISB agents, in their famed off-blue uniforms, apprehend and publicly execute no less than eleven "dissidents" of the [b]Idea of Itheraen Independence[/b] movement, nicknamed [b]Triple I[/b]. In a speech in Tannerburg, von Drach says: "[i]No mistake can be made here that the enemies of the state do sit with us, and drink with us. They dress like us, and speak like us. When you shoot them in the head, they bleed and die like us. But remember this, they are not us.[/i]"

[b][u]May 11th[/u][/b] – In response to a government order earlier in the year, Furstenfeld Manufacturies and Steyrworks and the state-owned Imperial Armouries of the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] fulfill an order for 129,000 Mawka Model II bolt-action rifles.
[[b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] gains +15% Logistics & Supply]

[b][u]May 12th-14th[/u][/b] – The [b]Tarantese 2nd Army[/b] under Lieutenant General Harvick and his 5,000 troops move entrench in Argentine and nearby cities and ports. The colonials continue mobilizing, a slow and cumbersome process due to lack of infrastructure in Serranthia.

[b][u]May 15th[/u][/b] – The [b][color=yellow]Republic of Itherae[/color][/b] calls up a volunteer campaign. "Not a time for nationalism nor defense," President Alexei Georgas says "but rather a time for strength. Itherae has long been in the grips of nations much stronger than herself. Now, now is the time we grow strong as well."
[[b]Event[/b]: The [b][color=yellow]Republic of Itherae[/color][/b] gains [b]35,000 Reserve Duty[/b] soldiers.]

[b][u]May 16th[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=maroon]Tsardom of Radena[/color][/b], members of it's National Security arrive in the hinterlands and begin hunting down those troops who dissented. They are easily discovered and it's found that even among the local Daichidan population that their actions are seen as treacherous.
[[b][color=maroon]Tsardom of Radena[/color][/b] gains [b]1 Stability[/b]]

[b][u]May 17th[/u][/b] – The [b]Kalpian-Fesceuni Trade Pact[/b] is concluded. The Fesceuni begin shipments of refined steel and basic machine parts in exchange for selling sulfur, tea and chromium to the Kalpian governments.

[b][u]May 18th[/u][/b] – In the [b][color=beige]Empire of Tara[/color][/b], the Ikaros Mining Company begins rapidly expanding under the new owner Baron Lionel de Lacy. [i]ICM[/i] opens mining operations in several key ridges in Tarantese colonies, utilizing steam powered engines to accelerate operations, taking on new and dangerous explosives to reach deeper than before.
[[b]Event[/b]: The Ikaros Mining Company gains +[2] ranking]

[b][u]May 21st[/u][/b] – The [b][color=skyblue]Kalpian Republic[/color][/b] subsidizes the Arsech National Steel Company, hoping to use it's manufactories to increase steel production for building projects. A costly maneuver at $4,700,000, Kalpian politicians hope the buy has long term potential.

[b][u]May 25th[/u][/b] – Open trade between the [b][color=purple]Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/b] and the [b][color=yellow]Republic of Itherae[/color][/b] begins as oil moves into the Empire and chromium into Itherae