[center][b][h2][color=blueviolet]The Tyro-Redanian Empire[/color][/h2][/b]
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[color=blueviolet][b][i]"Unbowed and Unbroken"
1900[/i][/b][/color][/center][hr][hr]
[center][b]Diplomatic Initiative to Thecia[/b][/center]
Count Phillip von Meyer paced back and forth before the Thecian ministers seated before him, his hands clasped behind the back of his frock coat. [color=indianred]"Now, this is no easy question and there are no easy answers. War is a dreadful, though sometimes necessary thing. When a cause is just and the enemy terrible, there are times when force is the only appropriate response to defend one's integrity and people. 

Now I know many of you will have read the treaty laid out before you, the terms of which are negotiable, and you will have also have heard of the war Tyria-Redania finds itself embroiled in. You see, we too was met with such a choice, a choice of whether to back-down to those who sought to undermine and threaten us, or to fight. To take to the field and meet our foes with force. A similar choice now faces this fine Kingdom of Thecia. The Veletians, a vile opponent to peace and the existing status quo of the Continent, have made no secret of their hatred for the Thecians, those whom they govern suffer at the hands of unjustifiable laws while their boasts of martial might can only hold darker promises of war and invasion. They are a threat to us all, and that choice, whether Thecia will fight or retreat before this encroaching power, falls to you now. I ask, will Thecia stand with Tyria-Redania in facing this vile foe?"[/color]

[hider=Treaty of Sutra][hr][center][b]The Treaty of Sutra, 1900[/b][/center][hr]
According to the secret pact, the Kingdom of Thecia is to declare war upon the Empire of Violette within 3 months of signing the Treaty of Sutra (A declaration of war upon Itherae is not required as part of the treaty). Assuming victory against Violette and it's allies, the Tyro-Redanian Empire have promised Thecia the following terms and territorial gains at the end of the war:

[B]ARTICLE 1:[/b] Promises the Kingdom of Thecia territorial gains in the form of all Thecian populated territories currently occupied by the Empire of Violette including the Luzerne.

[b]ARTICLE 2:[/B] Oversees the promise for the provision of war reparations from the Empire of Violette for any losses and damages incurred by the Kingdom of Thecia during the war. 

[b]ARTICLE 3:[/b] Promises the provision of peace following the war through the signing of a 5 year defensive pact between the Tyro-Redanian Empire and the Kingdom of Thecia to defend against Veletian aggression.
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[i]Count Phillip von Meyer, Diplomat of the Imperial Diplomatic Corps of the Tyro-Redanian Empire, circa 1900[/i][/center]
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[b][center]The Kalpian Arms Deal[/CENTER][/B]
At the fronts war was being waged in all it's cruel glory, a bloody maelstrom where lives were snuffed out forever to a cacophony of rifle shots, spitting machine guns and to the scream and boom of artillery shells. Soldiers of the Empire sat in foxholes on the Veletian Front high in the Gabrelle mountains waiting for the next convoy to make that treacherous ascent to their positions, or wondering when the next snows would fall. Men on the Itheraen Front sheltered in their positions to the backdrop of the constant bangs of artillery barrages, all the while awaiting that order to advance once more. To the north they stared out from the shattered windows of storefronts and buildings as they held the city of Eisenstadt against the Veletian invaders. Everywhere the Empire's sons were fighting and dying, though with a vengeance they were giving as good as they got, if not more.

The war would not be waged and won solely on the battlefields however, but through logistics and supplies, and the drawing rooms and offices of those who could assure them. For this the Imperial Diplomatic Corps were to be the frontline fighters as Ambassadors from the Empire opened negotiations with Oslad and Kalpia. 

Edgar Bain, the Tyro-Redanian Ambassador to Oslograd and good friends of the Boletarian Count Rusak, worked to negotiate and secure the support of Yegerov's Duma in allowing the movement of ammunition and rifles purchased from Kalpia to be allowed to travel through Osladian territories. The amount of which had been concluded by the Kalpian Arms Deal, an arms deal negotiated by Ambassador Ludwig Kaulitz attached to the Tyro-Redanian Embassy in Arsech, which would oversee the purchase and immediate provision of 200,000 KR.99 rifles and monthly supplies of rifle ammunition to support the growing Tyrian war effort.

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[hr][b][center]Kalpian Arms Deal, 1900[/center][/b][hr]
[b]Purchase Of:[/b][list]
[*]200,000 KR.99 Bolt-Action Rifles
[*]160,000 rifle rounds monthly[/list]
[b]Payment:[/b][list]
[*]£6,000,000 upon delivery of 200,000 KR.99 Bolt-Action Rifles
[*]£32,000 upon delivery of 160,000 rifle rounds monthly[/list]

[i][X] Ambassador Ludwig von Kaulitz of the Tyro-Redanian Empire[/i]
[i][X] Diplomat Marwin von Falkat of the Kalpian Republic[/i][hr]
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