[center][h1]The World Undone[/h1]
(1905--)[/center]
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- 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=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).[/hider][hider=Tensions]
1. [b]City-State of Julia[/b]: 5 / 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]

5. [b]Toubrés Empire[/b]: 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Kingdom of Etelia[/b]

6. [b]Republic of Ustrela[/b]: 1 / 5 Tensions with [b]Parakan Republic[/b]
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[i]Eurania and Faresia, 1905[/i][/center]
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[i]The Fifth Continent, 1905[/i][/center][/hider]
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[center][u]Turn 4[/u][/center][center][b][h2]April, 1905[/h2][/b][/center]

[b][u]April 17th[/u][/b]
[indent]In the [b]City-State of Julia[/b] the weapons development program of continued to operate with near impunity, regardless of the on-going developments both inside and outside the city walls. [u]Thamber Corporation[/u] was given the opportunity for a new weapons platform, though it's specifications were largely unknown.

From: Head Bombadier Geoff Truling:

To: Thamber Corporation

Subj: Request for Modern Field Gun

1. We are request a new long ranged field gun based on recent theoretical blueprints developed by your corporation.
2. The requested design must be able to fire a [REDACTED], can be reloaded by a [REDACTED] or less & [REDACTED].
3. Must be able to be carried by a [REDACTED], should be easy to assemble and disassemble. [REDACTED].
4. Main factors for design should be the ability to [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] to achieve this.
5. Working prototype within [REDACTED], first amendments & fixes to the weapon [REDACTED] after initial request and finished and ready by [REDACTED]. Extensions can and will be given if required.

Signed, 
Head Bombardier of Julian Homeguard
Geoff Truling.[/indent]										
[indent][b]Serranthian Conference[/b]
The first day of the Serranthian Conference gets underway with delegates from all four nations arriving at the coastal town of Suretza, Toubrian Serranthia at the Military Governor's mansion. It had been unoccupied since 1884. From the [b][color=olive]Parakan Republic[/color][/b], Warawa Nina lead the opening remarks during the cozy, albeit warm Serranthian morning on the promenade. After a brief morning of coffee and tea, Jakob Rudist, a Baron from the [b][color=maroon]Helrox Empire[/color][/b] offered a short moving speech on the responsibility of every representative at this conference.

Rudist gave an endearing but morally corrupt speech about the Helroxi Empire requiring a warm water port in Northern Serranthia, namely the The Free Port of Maharatsa. On April 18th, the Parakan delegate would be free to hold the floor.

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[i]The first day of the Serranthia Conference, 1905[/i][/center][/indent]
[b]Julo-Vigentan War[/b]
[indent]The entirety of Methyrnia was now safely under Vigentan control, without a shot fired. The [b]Vigentan Army[/b] continued to be it's own worst enemy, losing 8,000 Turano M1887 rifles and nearly 10,000 artillery shells because of paperwork without appropriate headers. The fundamental logistics system, in layman's term: an artillery shell was created in a factory somewhere deep in the Vigentan heartland. It was boxed up, put on a carriage led by a horse or a locomotive and given assigned to an [u]Artillery Division[/u], but without an army attached or a singular command structure, one logistics officer noted it was like "knowing the street and neighborhood address of a letter you needed to deliver but not which country it was in." Logistics, a finely tuned machine in many military high commands seemed more like rolling the die and coming up snake eyes in Vigento. 

On the frontline however, [u]Operation Crouching Tiger[/u], apparently inspired by a Hokkanese book of a midget feline, the Vigentan Army moved along the Julo-Vigentan border in the West, with 15,000 and 800 field guns assembling, digging in and assembling defensive positions. Back in Methyrnia, Vigentan soldiers enacting what was considered the world's first Purge, destroy railroads, roadways and shrubbery in the middle of the territory. Considering the railroads had quit operating since the beginning of the war, only Vigentan soldiers patting eachother's backs were present to witness the success of one of the most bizarre operations of the Julo-Vigento War.

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[i]The Julo-Vigentan War, circa April 1905[/i][/center][/indent]

[b][u]April 18th[/u][/b]
[indent]Following negotiations earlier in the month by the Ambassador Wulf Stengel of the [b][color=purple]Tyrian Empire[/color][/b], a total of 60,000 1905 Mataxi rifles were successfully transferred through Melgaria, Cadia and then through Cydernia. While stripping Julia of much needed weaponry, it gave them cash to burn to keep warm at night while the Vigentans slowly edged in around them like assassins in the night.

[b]Serranthian Conference[/b]
The [b][color=olive]Parakan Republic[/color][/b] representatives stressed the importance of [b]Self-Determination[/b], and by that were alleging the right of every man to be able to decide for himself what kind of world they live in. Additionally, they added that they felt it important a Parakan presence in Toubrian Serranthia might be preferable, much to the deplorable shouts and yelling at the Parakan delegates. Next up, the Toubrian's then did what could be considered a master stroke or perhaps the greatest blunder of the entire conference. One of them stood up and solemnly shouted: "Let us now address the business of al-Nuzzar." An issue that was about to be forgotten was now brought straight to the fore by the very people who wished to forget it. Additionally, they brought up the idea of a strong political network in the area, something they were obviously lacking.

[b]Julo-Vigentan War[/b]
While in his carriage riding back from the Pavillion to his estate, a small crowd had gathered outside of Viscount Zach Nato. The coach attempted to coax the animals through but they were too many in number. The crowd was not violent, but rather pervasive. Guards rallied to the Viscount's side, brandishing their Mataxi. "Let'em through! Let'em through!'

Then shots. [i]Pop. Poppoppop![/i] The crowd surged back, Viscount Nato's carriage thundered forward and away from the crowd with the Mounted Guard hot on his heels. Back at his estate, the surgeons located the only wound he had received, a grazing wound to the shoulder. Reports later that evening indicated the alleged gunman was not captured, but it was assumed he fired a snub nosed revolver from only a few feet away. [-1% Stability in the [b]City-State of Julia[/b].]

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[i]A photo taken just moments after the attempt on Zach Viscount's life, 1905[/i][/center][/indent]

[b][u]April 19th[/u][/b]
[b]Serranthian Conference[/b]
[indent]Delegates of the far and away Tyrian diplomats instead elected to emphasizing colonial influence in Zendara and Samgola instead of putting any undue effort on stopgap measures.[/indent]
[b]Known World[/b]
[indent]Kaleb Theiner, an unassuming yet diligent official of the Ministry of Finance in the [b][color=purple]Tyrian Empire[/color][/b] is be dispatched to the Republic of Escya alongside Diplomat Jakob von Auspitz to court Julian Kaplan, founder of Steiner Meustadt A.G. with an offer of a $1 million Krone investment in the fledgling company. Any shares gained are to be be held by the Emperor Adalar von Wolfram. Julian will also be offered an additional grant of $500,000 should he agree to establish his company and it's operations within Tyria.

Julian Kaplan declines to take the offer as government interference would muddle any future attempts at dealing with other governments, but did take the offer of $500,000 Tyrian Krones to began operations in Tyria by the end of 1907. Kaplan was allegedly upset that the Tyrians took little interest in his designs and seemed more interest in his "future."[/indent]
[u][b]April 20th[/b][/u]
[indent] With the sum of $5,000,000 at their back, Allister Fitzgerald of the [b][color=blue]Illesian Kingdom[/color][/b] is chosen to chair the Committee on Infrastructure. Fitzgerald is a bright middle-aged man with a head for numbers and details, and a love for the common people, being born practically in the dirt and clawing his way to the top of academics in Illesia. The Committee on Infrastructure's objective is simple: distribute their allotted money to companies around Illesia in order to connect all major cities with roads, and from there, to work on connecting all minor cities and then towns and then villages to the road system. This is being done due to Illesia's poor infrastructure.

The Committee is to not to use the funds to pay companies any chairmen have stakes in, nor to attempt to take the funds for themselves. Companies that are chosen must offer fair but not exorbitant wages to their workers, with the goal to build as many miles of well-built roads as possible for the price. Without anestablished deadline, work begins in earnest but no reports are filed on when the CoI will be finished with the road network.[/indent]
[b][u]April 21st[/u][/b]
[indent]The Ustrelian military begins a series to training exercises along the Parakan border. They aim to test the readiness of the Ustrelian military in case of an invasion from their northern border alongside the capabilities of the Ustrelian military to ensure the several hundred mile long border could be properly secured. This will be accomplished through a series of readiness drills and wargames imitating an actual invasion. This exercise is to occur over the span of a one week, the estimated travel time to arrive from the northern border to the Ustrelian capital. Several local garrison commanders in Paraka immediately report this activity to Parakan High Command. [[b][color=lightblue]Republic of Ustrela[/color][/b] gains +1 Tension with [b][color=olive]Republic of Paraka[/color][/b]. Ustrelian Infantry Divisions gain +6% Experience.][/indent]
[b][u]April 22nd[/u][/b]
[indent]A second bill is pushed through the Parakan Legislature to fund the [b]Department of Mining and Energy[/b] as well as the [b]Department of Anti-Corruption[/b].

[u]Department of Mining and Energy[/u]
Head of Department: Harmaq Siray
Budget: $750,000 per year
Focus: Midlands Resources

[u]Department of Anti-Corruption[/u]
Head of Department: Yuqalo Maniya (42; Ex-Military Major in the 2nd Division of the Parakan Army; Married; Has two daughters and a 1 year old son)
Budget: $750,000 per year 
Focus: Wiping out corruption inside the Ministry of Finance[/indent]
[b][u]April 23rd[/u][/b]
[indent]Toubrés: The nobleman Augusto Moreira, a man who has visited Marlanos many times, and is in fact married to a native and is fluent in the Marlanos language, is sent to speak with the ruler of Marlanos. He is sent to give a greeting from the Empress and to suggest a NAP, as well as a potential trade agreement, offering agriculture for any excess resources that Marlanos may possess. The Marlanian government reluctantly accepts the government, citing the "Toubrian people as nocturnally strange and violently bizarre." This [u]Non-Aggression Pact[/u] will end in five years.[/indent]
[b][u]April 24th[/u][/b]
[indent]"With the Illesian Army's officer corps practically in shambles, King Avandre orders $20,000,000 to go towards the creation of North Point in Regoth. North Point is to be the epicenter of Illesian officer training and doctrine development, a military university that takes young men at least 16 years old, filters them for their capabilities intellectually and physically, chooses the best, and then trains and tutors these young men under the best and brightest retired officers and theorists the Illesian Kingdom can hire, domestic and foreign.

Candidates must be Illesian-born, and nobility is not required though nobles receive a few extra points in the selection process. They will be able to choose to enter either the Marshall or Naval courses and receive commission as an Army or Navy officer if they pass all courses. Courses shall last four years, with students spending all four years in dorms on-site. The goal is to eventually produce all the officers that the Army and Navy needs, and to replace the dysfunctional officer corps of each entirely with well-trained replacements within twenty years. This means that North Point's goal is, by twenty from the completion of its construction, to produce enough graduates to replace every officer in the Navy and Army. Graduates will start in the lower echelons of the command structure and move up from there as usual, being replaced themselves with graduates of North Point when the time comes.

The company chosen to build North Point shall be chosen based on their bid to do so as cheaply as possible while not sacrificing quality. Most of the funds are to go towards the running of the military university, the hiring and pay of its staff, and the selection of its students.[/indent]
[b][u]Julo-Vigentan War[/u][/b]
[indent]In the [b]City-State of Julia[/b], the first instances of rationing begin as the refugee soup kitchens are open with a limit to one meal a day. Grain shipments continue to enter the city (as Vigento has dared not cross the Julian border), but the city is currently operating at a deficit intended to get more severe this winter.[/indent]
[b][u]April 25th[/u][/b]
[indent]Being pushed through the Imperial Diet of the [b][color=purple]Tyrian Empire[/color][/b] with the notable support of the Minister of Infarstructure Ruldof von Morzin and Minister of War Hans von Mollard is the Railway Construction Act of 1905. The Act will authorize the construction of 20 proposed new railway lines, the construction of which will be the task of the Osterreichische Bundesbahnen with an alotted budget of $15,000,000 Krones.  

A government commission headed by Valentin Henlein from the Ministry of Infarstructure, so called the Valentin Commission will also be established including Ministry officials as well as personnel from the State Railways. While construction will begin with the bills passage with their allotted budget, the task of the Commission will be to determine the projected full costs of the entire project as well as how much steel will be required so that should the national stockpiles not be adequate, provisions might be made for the purchase of foreign steel next month.[/indent]
[b][u]April 26th[/u][/b]
[indent]In the [b][color=beige]Coastal Empire of Tara[/color][/b] a military commission is ordered by recommendation of Supreme Justice Charles Campbell, after a review of the armed forces on both the branches of army and navy the justice suggests that there is a culture of corruption and bribery within the army. The commission is appointed by the Queen herself, there job is to identify problem and or corrupt officers.

They do this by analyzing the following

- At an officer level, looking at officers who have taken large finacial incentives from outside parties.
- At an officer level, those who have been involved with Civilian law enforcement for crimes on the civilian side (sexual assault, drunk and disorderly etc) Military police await on standby while the commission determines who to investigate while they look over hundreds of military files.[/indent]