Letter Bee

The Ghosts of Napoleon

@Letter Bee

Firstly: There is no war in North America, only sporadic uprisings. The United States was subjugated by Britain in 1812 as a response to the pressures of the Napoleonic Wars. It's been several decades since the conquests of the American colonies, so by and large the British have a tight control of the cotton industry, by volume they have the most. The opportunity to claim sky-high cotton prices because of war in the US has passed in this period, that would have been at best 1812-1814, it is not 1812-1814, it is 1836. Don't read the one post by Page as if there is ongoing mass warfare in the United States to raise cotton prices.

Also, when and where did you ever claim Syria? Don't jump the gun.

But if you want to seek French buyers you will need to communicate with the French manufacturers. You will have to speak with the French government to lower the tariffs, not to buy the cotton. But you are still competing with British trade.

@Dinh AaronMk

1.) Ah; to be fair, I did read it as an ongoing protracted war, yes.

2.) In my Nation Sheet, plus the map, which has not been updated to accommodate the new data, and is thus open to misreading.

3.) I might do that, but for now, I will be editing out the post to account for the new data.

The Ghosts of Napoleon

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The Ghosts of Napoleon

@Dinh AaronMk, @Yam I Am, would you guys appreciate Egyptian Cotton for uniforms?

Fallout: Montana (Accepting new characters)

Raven Collins

Raven distracted himself from Conor's scorn by reminding himself that he had done more than dig a new well and train the local militia. He had while surveying the town, seen the old elementary school and paid for its renovation and new books with his own money and a few favors from the Wyoming and Mojave days. He had also made sure the walls were strengthened, and that there were ways out in case there was a fire, earthquake, or one of the students or teachers decided to shoot up the class... And that if raiders did attack, the children inside were as safe as possible.

That was a good and tangible thing that ought to counteract Conor's (somewhat justified) warnings about the NCR - They weren't all like General Lee Oliver, Colonel Moore, and that bastard Kimball. Honestly, he might have even convinced himself that it was Colonel Hsu, a real stand-up guy, who really won the Second Battle of Hoover Dam for the NCR that day, that glorious day. Either way, he was not going to repeat his Superiors' mistakes in the Mojave. He was going to make sure that the people here loved the NCR and that the inclusion of Whitlash was going to be a seed of change within the Republic.

And to do that, he had to rescue innocent hostages, and so his first question to the Town Councilfolk was, "What do we know about Helena's Legion? I suppose their being called a 'Legion' is a coincidence? How well-armed and armored are they and how good are their tactics?"

He then looked at Sam and then Conor and spoke, "What about giving them drugged food with a delayed-action sedative? Raiders are bad that we don't have to deal with them 'honorably', but it's best if we reduce the chances of bloodshed as much as we can. Alternatively, I and another good sniper can just pick them off one-by-one and save the hostages, or if we have someone stealthy, we can distract them with gifts and negotiations, snatch the hostages behind their back, and then kill them off."

Raven mused after that, "But first, we need to make sure they give the hostages back. It is entirely in their 'playbook' to keep the hostages and promise to release them 'later' if they are given more gifts. So the solution I suggested, to distract the raiders while someone sneaks the hostages out, is not a bad solution... Assuming one of us knows how to be stealthy; I am better at sniping."

The Ghosts of Napoleon

I am in writer's block again.

Noble Arms - The ASEAN War [Moved to New Thread]

@Senhara, I already saw your lore and bacakstory; it's approved.

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@KaiserElectric, Approval 1 given.

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@KaiserElectric, the Downward Descent is only four years old.

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@Landaus Five-One, Sorry for the long delay, but I approve Ayahime's backstory and lore.

Fallout: Montana (Accepting new characters)

Raven Collins

Two men and a woman made up the spare members of Whitlash's militia, and Raven was training them. Like in the NCR, gender was no object as long as one can shoot a gun, and so the Sergeant was trying to teach all three 'spare' members how to use their weapons effectively. Said weapons were a few old hunting rifles, pistols, and a shotgun, and to save up on ammunition, Raven brought in some of his own supplies of bullets, justifying it to himself as 'training future NCR Citizens'.

Whitlash was going to be the NCR's gateway to Montana and its untapped riches, but that made the need for local goodwill more imperative, not less. That was why he dug the new well, because he knew from long experience that it was a good way to gain goodwill if the water table cooperated.

Raven now watched his folk try and shoot old Sunset Sasparilla bottles off from the top of an old brick fence, occassionally saying stuff like, "Good!", or, "Relax your shoulders like this," or "You need to break the bottle, not just crack it!"

He had to make sure he seemed the ideal trainer, after all; he did have some attachment to the town and its continued prosperity. Was he just telling himself that said attachment was best served by convincing it to join the NCR eventually? Probably yes, but that didn't mean that his ulterior motives were not backed up by some evidence; towns which joined the NCR did get benefits from their willing accession. So as Raven Collins continued to watch his new trainees, a thought snuck into his mind like a thief in the night: What if he were to fight the people he trained one day if the NCR made the wrong move or the townsfolk decided to oppose the loss of their independence anyway?

That's a bridge he'd cross when he got there. Right now, he was not going to skimp on their training, with his next words being, "All right; you three can now shoot straight. Now let's go to the inn and -"

And then the bells rang, and Raven knew he had to go to the town hall. Dangit, having been out in the hot sun, he was not in any shape to be in a meeting; it'd have been even worse had he not taken a morning bath earlier. Nevertheless, if there was a crisis, there was a crisis and he was going to go where he was needed...