[center][h1]The World Undone[/h1][/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=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=gray]Attempt Invention[/color][/b]: Used to attempt a new invention. Must be relevant to current technologies and success depends on a 1d6. Great Powers receive a +1.[/hider][hider=World Maps][center][Img]https://i.imgur.com/N8TTthX.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][i]August, 1905[/i][/center] [b][h3]August 1st[/h3][/b] [indent]On August 1st, Illesian sailors of the [i]INV Violette[/i] believed themselves to be the first to arrive at the Free City of Siankouru on the Serranthian Coast, proud to be given the opportunity to show up in a "peaceful display of strength," but realized as they neared that the Zellonian armored cruiser [i]Zellonia[/i] had docked there already. The [i]Violette[/i] turned back North to return to Illesia, all the while a contingent of Zellonian marines disembarked and through a ceremonial show of arms returned order to the Free City. [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/76/8b/c0/768bc0e1a9fd8a683603e82d2f21446c--north-africa-vintage-photos.jpg[/img] [i]A failed Marnish colony, Siankouru has been a free city since 1846[/i][/center] For the first time in history, the Zellonian flag was raised on the Serranthian continent. A government would need to be established, and the armored cruiser [i]Zellonia[/i]--given the lack of a suitable berth--immediately disembarked and headed back toward Zellonia, given that the largest long term harbor there could only handle ships of 500 tons or less. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/efwFUV0.png[/img] [i]Zellonian Free City of Siankouru, surrounded by the Engou Tribespeople, 1905[/i][/center][/indent][b][h3]August 2nd[/h3][/b][indent]In a second stroke of brilliance, or dumb luck, the legation of the [b][color=green]Kingdom of Etelia[/color][/b] in Zeel extended the terms of the [b]Etelo-Taran Alliance[/b] to the Zellonians, with the blessing of the Tarans. The [b]Zello-Etelo-Taran Alliance[/b] was now certified until 1910.[/indent][b][h3]August 3rd[/h3][/b][indent]Toubrian dockyards give a price tag of $4,380,000 per [i]Dreadlord[/i] class in a bout of second negotiations with the [b]Kingdom of Illesia[/b]. They gave note this was a non-negotiable price.[/indent][b][h3]August 4th[/h3][/b][indent]Andries Maniatis, an up and coming politician in Southern Itherae publishes the book [i]An Itheraen Struggle, A Euranian Struggle[/i], outlining his ideas of [u]Maniatism[/u], described as "a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." Maniatism called for the deposition of the Child Queen, the expansion of the Itheraen Army and the removal of those responsible for the loss of the Itheraen Volunteer Division. Maniatis led his first [u]Maniatist March[/u], nearly 500 men who marched outside the Supra Dobranie with signs that read: "They didn't volunteer to go die" and "Put the Child in timeout." [[b]Maniatism[/b] has been founded. Starts at [u]0.25% Popularity[/u] in [b][color=yellow]High Kingdom of Itherae[/color][/b].][/indent][b][h3]August 5th[/h3][/b][indent]The end of Zellonian good luck ends when the Zellonian destroyer [i]Z7[/i], languishing in it's berth for nearly two months, explodes when static build up in the fore magazine erupts in a fiery explosion. 77 lives are lost, 29 are wounded. The [i]Z7[/i] is written off.[/indent][b][h3]August 6th[/h3][/b][indent]The [b][color=yellow]High Kingdom of Itherae[/color][/b] submits an international contract for a new field gun. The requirements: 1. Possibility to be crewed by no more than six men. 2. Possibility to be pulled by a six horse team. 3. Exceeding no more than 3,500 lbs 4. Have an effective firing range of 7,500 yd. 5. Have a maximum firing range of 12,000 yd. 6. Have a caliber of 75mm. Development Time: 6 months.[/indent][b][h3]August 7th[/h3][/b][indent]Coordinating with the mappings recorded via the Arias expedition, a small Ustrelan colony is established along the South Serranthian coast favoring a region closer to the mainland Ustrela. The colony will be officially named [i]Arias[/i] and Ramon Chicote, a naval officer, will be appointed governor of the territory. Expected to cost $7,000,000, the Ustrelan territory is set up around the Engou tribe, effectively butting heads with the Zellonian Free City.[/indent]