[center][h1]The World Undone[/h1] (1905--)[/center] [hider=Orders] - Posting IC will be immensely beneficial to you as a player. It is, however, not necessary. This is designed so that you can still send in your orders if you are too busy to post, but posting IC will provide a tangible bonus to your DRM (Die Roll Modifier). - Each [b]Turn[/b] represents one In-Game Month. The player will submit [b]3 Orders[/b]. - Each order is then subject to a 1d6 roll. A 6 means a perfect execution and a 1 means a horrible failure. Posting IC gives you a +2 die roll to a single order, or a +1 die roll to all three. [Specified at the end of your IC post.]. This means that more active players are rewarded. - [b]Orders[/b]: * [b][color=yellow]Economic[/color][/b]: An order designed to benefit the nation economically. * [b][color=red]Military[/color][/b]: An order designed to affect your military. * [b][color=green]Diplomacy[/color][/b]: An order designed to conduct diplomacy. * [b][color=blue]Imperialism[/color][/b]: Exploring and developing new lands. * [b][color=purple]Design Contract[/color][/b]: Fill out the following info below [hider=Design Contract] - SCOPE: [Domestic] or [International] - TYPE: [Rifle], [Field Gun], [Machine Gun] - DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS: [As much or as little detail as you see fit.][/hider]* [b][color=gold]Conference[/color][/b]: Used to call a [i]Political[/i] or [i]Military[/i] Conference. Select which nations to invite. Begins a [b]Conference[/b]. (See PM for rules). * [b][color=silver]Spend Point[/color][/b]: Used to spend an available point in a Corporation to further their specialization.[/hider] [hider=Tensions] 1. [b]City-State of Julia[/b]: 4 / 5 Tensions with [b][color=gray]Holy Empire of Vigentino[/color][/b]. 2. [b]Kingdom of Cadia[/b]: 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Kingdom of Etelia[/b] - 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]High Kingdom of Itherae[/b] - 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Cydernian Republic[/b] - 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Melgaria[/b] 3. [b]Empire of Tyria[/b]: 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Republic of Escya[/b] - 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]High Kingdom of Itherae[/b] - 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Cydernian Republic[/b] - 2 / 5 Tensions with [b]Helrox Empire[/b] 4. [b]Helrox Empire[/b]: 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Republic of Escya[/b] - 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Holy Empire of Vigentino[/b] [/hider] [hider=World Maps][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/MgP7WXK.png[/img] [i]Eurania and Faresia, 1905[/i][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/wM70lU6.png[/img] [i]The Fifth Continent, 1905[/i][/center][/hider] [hr][hr] [center][u]Turn 3[/u][/center][center][b][h2]March[/h2][/b][/center] [b]March 9th[/b] [indent]Realizing that the Melhorn S55 field gun to be at risk of being overtaken by the more modern field guns fielded by foreign powers, the Tyrian government has begun to investigate replacements. Domestic Tyrian gun manufacturers were invited to propose potential designs for a new field gun. Overseeing and offering advice is to be the newly established [b]Imperial Committee for Equipment[/b] (ICE), a committee of brigade and battery commanders selected for their experience and distinction chaired by General Vincent von Hegewald, who had been an artillery commander in the Tyro-Helroxian War (1899-1900). [hider=Imperial Committee for Equipment Request #001] [u]1 March, 1905[/u] FROM [i]Hofkriegsrat[/i], Tyrian Imperial War Command: To: Imperial Committee for Equipment, SecCom, General Hegewald Subj: Request for Proposal #001 1. We are requesting an approval for a new field cannon. 2. The requested design must include a [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color], [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color] and [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color]. 3. Requirements abridge to be [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color] and ideally crewed by [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color]. 3. Emphasis on both [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color] and [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color] in expense of [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color] or [color=ed1c24][REDACTED][/color] if necessary. Signed, Chief of Staff, Imperial Armed Forces Ludvik Bauer[/hider] Evaluation of potential new equipment aside, the Melhorn S55 was beginning to show it's age. The S55 has been developed in 1897 by engineers of the Landorf Plants. Since 1898 the Imperial Tyrian Army was looking for a new field-gun and multiple manufactories sent in their designs. The decision was made in favor for the S55 and it became the first Tyrian gun with a recoil system and at the same time the first Tyrian 76.2-millimetre field gun. The guns were manufactured in the Imperial Armoury plants. Considering the slow development of field artillery pieces, 1905 seemed a prudent opportunity to begin scrounging for future pieces of war making.[/indent] [b]March 10th[/b] [indent]A dozen [b][color=yellow]Itheraen Army Officers[/color][/b] disembark in Hokkan-Shirito. The name of the port they disembarked on was unknown and the captain, attempting to explain himself to the Port Authority Officer mentioned later in his journal that night: "[i]The incessant bitching of the Hokkanese people will drive me into an early grave. Their complaints and nagging remind me less of my wife--and more of the shrieking banshee that is her mother[/i]. Surely, High Command has made a mistake." Given there no agreements on weapons were made, the Itheraen soldiers were allotted accommodations with the very same soldiers they intended to train, and by morning, four of the thirty-six Itheraens who had disembarked had gone missing. This was filed formally in a report by the commanding officer, [b]Lieutenant Georgious Draguomis[/b] that would be received by [b]Itheraen High Command[/b] on March 30th. [center][img]http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/HistoricBeijing/Qianmen/images/QianmenOld_8395crbww.jpg[/img] [i]The nameless Hokkanese city, nicknamed [u]kólasi[/u], which is Itheraen for hell, circa 1905[/i][/center] "If surely there is a God, he has forsaken this place," one Itheraen soldier grumbled over breakfast--maggot infested rice and only slightly warm meat. Picking out the "protein" became a game for one Itheraen, and figuring out the best time to skip town on the next boat the Fusan became another. Of the remaining thirty-two Itheraens, twenty-five were infantrymen and seven artillerymen. Beginning on March 12th, formal drills would begin, although [b]Lieutenant Draguomis[/b] made note that nearly none of the Hokkanese Army was even present in the "city which exists on no map, and for which can be possible only by Fate's hand or Luck's fortune that we ever arrived anyway."[/indent]