[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]
- 4 / 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 5[/u][/center][center][b][h2]June, 1905[/h2][/b][/center]
[h3][b]June 19th[/b][/h3]
[indent]Ustrela effectively eliminates the majority of Melizean smuggling in coastal waters around the island nation after an intense four month campaign.[/indent][h3][b]June 20th-June 30th[/b][/h3]
[indent]In the [b][color=blue]Illesian Kingdom[/color][/b], [b]Operation Crusader[/b] begins. Given the tentative ceasefire of the Tehmig rebels in Toubrian Serranthia--the Illesian Kingdom received the blessing of the Toubrian Empress to conduct a military operation to effectively neutralize the Tehmig rebels once and for all. Major General Gareth D'Amos of the [b]10th Infantry Division[/b] was appointed head of the operation. After an intense month of training--false landing, live fire drills and partial mobilization techniques--that started on May 20th, Major General D'Amos was allotted to choose 3,000 men from his division to be formed into the [b]1st Expeditionary Force[/b].

Having departed on June 15th, the [b]IEF[/b] ([i]Illesian Expeditionary Force[/i]) arrived at Bashirza and met with Governor Almiro Barros. After a six hour reprieve, the 3,000 men of the [b]IEF[/b] was ordered into the desert with the orders:
1. [i]5. Upon locating the Rebels, the Force is to engage and destroy them however Major General D'Amos sees fit.[/i]
2. [i]Not a single Rebel is to be left alive. If the Rebels attempt to surrender, D'Amos is to appear to accept this surrender, then round the lot up and execute them.[/i]

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[i]The Capital of Toubrian Serranthia, Bashirza, 1905[/i][/center] 
Modern historians believe upwards of 40,000 men, women and children were killed. Called the [b]Black June[/b] by Tehmig and Northern Serranthian historians, first hand accounts survive of platoons of Illesian soldiers entering a town of a 1,000 inhabitants and by sun down having "pacified" the vast majority of them. Little care was given to subtlety or discretion. Twice, D'Amos' men had to be resupplied by local Toubrian garrisons due to "dull bayonets" and "overheated rifles." The towns of al-Haza and al-Matsura--total populations of 3,300 and 5,000--were removed from the map. The men were given no quarter, often being shot at first encounter. Women were given one opportunity to "leave," "to move or die" and upon failing to act--generally due to not speaking Illesian--were often shot and killed. Two Illesian officers made a game of having Tehmig children run toward the hills and taking turns shooting at them. There were no shortage of targets. The only honor given to many of these eradicated villages was the lining up of corpses, but this was not out of respect but for purposes of documenting the "amount of militants successfully pacified." D'Amos made a point to stress an optimal operation by keeping a tally of those killed.

Not all Illesians relented to the blood lust of targeting innocents however, but by the journal entry of one Illesian Captain: "[i]It is a determinant of the Almighty whom is innocent and guilty, not an Illesian platoon dispatched to the very strip of the Known World where men was never meant to live.[/i]"  

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[i]Major General D'Amos leading the First Expeditionary Force into an allegedly held Tehmig village, June 1905[/i][/center]
While there are certainly instances of those who were clearly not Tehmig being left to their own devices, this appears to be the exception rather than the rule. The wanton slaughter of the Tehmig people was more reminiscent of the battlefields of the [b]Second Tyro-Helroxi War[/b] than it was a colonial policing action. Similarly, D'Amos had turned the [b]4th Company[/b] of the [b]IEF[/b] into a quick reaction force mounted on strong Serranthian steeds lent by local Toubrian nobles. Colonel Albere Touson of said Company earned the nickname "[i]yati almawt[/i]" by the locals. Where the Tehmigs were, Touson and his company rode, often engaging in unscrupulous and antagonistic behavior to draw out Tehmig guerrilla fighters and then judiciously eradicating them.

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[i]Tehmig mass grave, somewhere in Western Toubrian Serranthia, June 1905[/i][/center]
On June 29th, Colonel Touson was given privy information by a local Tehmig of the location of Mullah Kahmar Mustafa, the head of the Tehmig rebellion movement. Through a messenger, Touson requested a meeting for Mustafa--citing the "[i]end of hostilities if Mustafa would sacrifice his own dignity for the sake of his people.[/i]" Mustafa, having lost two of his wives and six of his children (five of whom were under the age of sixteen), consented. Mustafa and two of his entourage rode unarmed to a meeting spot plotted by Touson on the Northwest Shores. Touson arrived, drew a pistol and shot all three men. Mustafa's head was removed and the corpses left to rot.

By June 30th, nearly a third of Toubrian Serranthia--the vast majority of it the coastal regions--had been "pacified," but military intelligence of Toubrian locals deeper in the territory offered the hypothesis that it was quite possible that this behavior would only increase the tendency of resistance. Others suggested it would quell it entirely.[/indent]