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Sovy Kurosei
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Communistica!
Feb 2002
time: 23:19
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"The Emperess has arrived!" yelled out one guardsmen in his mid-20's. A number of trumpets were sounded as a carriage drawn by 4 brown and white paint horses halted infront of the main Roman senate.
The Emperess disembarked her wooden landcraft, and quickly made her way to where her advisors were. In the meeting hall.
"Emperess Syn! It is wonderful to see you once more back in Rome. I see you are not injured physically, but are you well?" exclaimed Maximus, his voice is humble and fatherly.
"Yes Maximus, all is well. I believe my questions have been answered upon my trek to Masillia," replied Syn, as she entered the hall, and took her seat back in her thrown. Her travellers outfit now changed back to her white pants, shirt and robe.
"My lady, a number of occurances have taken place with Rome and aquaintences," said General Veii, taking his seat on the ladies left hand side. Maximus sat down in unison on Syn's right hand side, and Julius sat down beside Maximus.
"Have you carried out the plans I have sent you, general?"
Veii nodded, and said, "Yes I have. I saw the reasoning in why you took such a course of action, and now, after looking back, I support it. Soldiers saw the forsaken land, and would take years to actually civilize until it is useful."
"And Julius? Our kind general has told me some events have taken place amongst our friends, when I was away?"
"We have set up a sea trade route with the East Germans. We ship the Germans-," began Julius.
Syn cut off Julius' summarization of the trade situation.
"My friend Julius, we must name these people something OTHER than the West, Central or East Germans. The name seems so overused," said Syn, as she continued on with her suggestion, "I believe that we should call our eastern friends the Vikings. Send a message to them, to see if they accept a name change to the Vikings. I believe these Vikings have a distinct culture as opposed to the Central and Western Germans."
Julius nodded to Syn, his head bobbing up and down like a cork in the water. He then pulled out a peice of paper and pen, which are always ready in the Meeting Hall, and written down a message. He called loudly for a messengerboy, and moments later the sandal cladded young lad came racing into the room.
A few words were exchanged between Julius and the newcomer. After Julius handed the lad the envelope that contains the message of such a name change, the boy ran out. His sandal clapping was still heard when Julius began summarizing the trade situation.
"The Ea- *Ahem* Vikings have requested a trade to go on between our two countries. In exchange of giving them a road and building larger housing and complexes, and exporting our wine, we are to recieve a plentiful amount of furs and ores,"
Syn only nodded to the Foreign Advisor, as he swallowed down his saliva from worrying that he could upset the Emperess at such a change.
"Julius, I believe only I can make such decisions on what goes in and what goes out of Rome. Although I do see the usefulness of ridding our stores of our already overlyproduced wines, and the new technologies should keep the Vikings busy, I see very little use for these Furs, and even less use for the Ores since we are producing much of our own," exclaimed the now angry Emperess, rising from her seat with her eyes narrowing down at Julius.
"My Emperess, you were away, and the Vikings were getting impatient with us! As you want to keep Rome in a peaceful status, I obliged with their request finally. Although the Fur's may look useless, they make wonderful rugs, as the furs can be used to make a number of tapestries and fabrics. The ores, I have examined myself, and their purity is even more so better than the ores we can harvest for ourselves. This is before refinement of these ores," explained the nervous Julius, as he slunk deeper into his seat.
Syn sat down slowly, the crossness on her face wading off.
"Even so, I should have been informed of such a proposition. But as we cannot close our trade routes to the Vikings now, for fear of tempering them, I guess we will have to embrace the goods we recieve,"
Julius only nodded, as he wiped the sweat beads on his forehead off. Cold sweat.
"Now, what is next on the agenda?"
Praetor Maximus looked at Syn. He was holding a white peice of paper, and had skimmed it over several times while Julius was talking.
"Emperess, hours from your arrival, we have recieved this trade proposition from Carthage. They would like to expand into the deserts, where the water is vastly lacking. In exchange, they will send us these creatures called Elephants to us," the Domestic Advisor said, his fingers twiddling with the peice of paper.
"Elephants," quested General Veii. He has never heard of such creatures before.
"Yes, Elephants. These creatures are 6 times the size of a horse! And weigh even more so! They would be fine creatures in our ranks," explained the Praetor.
Syn nodded, her hands were raised up to her shoulders, with her chin resting on her hands. After thinking momentarily, she made her reply.
"These creatures, if so great and feirce, seem to be deemed worthy to be in our ranks. As well, if Carthage is expanding into the desert, they will be too busy making their own expansion into a hostile land. And, having friends with our Carthegian sea neighbors may prove beneficial to the well being of Rome," said Syn.
Praetor Maximus made a letter, much like what Julius has done. And like Julius, called the messengerboy. And like so many times before, the messengerboy left the room with the message, to be taken to Carthage this time.
Syn smiled a bit, and brought up her own proposition.
"Amongst my travels to Masillia, I have heard of this meditarranian alliance being formed. This involves many nations in the meditarranian area, and some were even invited. But what striked me peculier is that Rome was not invited," said the Kurosei.
"My lady, to make up for my earlier rash actions with the trade situation, I have heard of this alliance with my travels to Syracuse. It seems like the leader of Syracuse, such a small but advanced nation, is the head of this party,"
Syn nodded to Julius. She was wondering who was leading this party of meditarranian nations.
"I will send you to Syracuse, since you seem to be the most informed on the situation. Ask the leader of Syracuse, as to why Rome was not invited into this alliance. And, to offer Syracuse a peace treaty amongst our advanced nations," Syn said, as she looked at Julius from where she is sitting on her overwelming throne.
Julius nodded.
- Main Events! -
1. Syn has returned!
2. We accept Carthage's proposition of giving them the aquaduct tech, in exchange for elephants.
3. Julius is to be sent to ask the leader of Syracuse as to why Rome was not invited into this Meditarranian Alliance, and to bring up a peace treaty amongst both nations.
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Sovy Kurosei
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Communistica!
Feb 2002
time: 23:19
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Julius' Counter:
"Then why is Seleucidian empire still in your alliance?"
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cbraund
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United Kingdom of Great Britain
Jan 2001
time: 05:19
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I propose that all nations be allowed into our alliance, and that we hold meetings in Mallissia(sp?!), a kind of security council where we can all meet to talk in a neutral zone.
And due to that, I propose the following rules for the United Nations:
1) Only if a nation in the alliance is attacked without provocation will the other nations help.
2) If a nation declares war on another, then no-one has to help them. And if the war goes badly against them, still no one has to help, they got themselves into that mess, let them sort it out!
3) The only nation Carthage promises to defend even if the attacker does have a reason is Syracuse, our old ally.
4) Rome should stop its aggressive expansion and take on a more peaceful role.
5) Anyone who attacks Massillia(or whatever the f*ck it's called!) will immediately be at war with every other nation.
6) There should be regular Olympics held in Athens where we can all meet and relax.
7) The UN Security Council can vote whether an attack was provoked or not.
8) Trade is encouraged between nations.
9) Syracuse's leader should be the UN Secretary General, basically the person who chairs meetings.
10) These UN Meetings should actually be held on a chat room somewhere!
Carthage trades elephants to Rome now, and uses the aqueducts to begin expanding into the desert. A border with Egypt is welcome, allowing us to increase trade with them, and allowing Carthage civilians to see the pyramids.
Carthage offers elephants to Syracuse in return for help upgrading our fleet or expanding/upgrading our army.
Hannibal orders all Carthage units to take up defensive positions, a third of them in our colonies and two thirds at home. They are ordered to dig fortifications, and make sure that Carthage cannot be invaded. This is seen as a sign that Carthage will not be attacking nations for many years to come, as Hannibal is a lot more peaceful than his father.
The large Carthage navy is to ensure safe and free passage for all in the Med. Sea, and to ensure the safety of Carthage and her allies from unprovoked attacks(except Syracuse, where even provoked ones will be defended against) and pirates.
He also welcomes Rome's diplomatic moves, and hopes that they will prove themselves to no longer be warmongerers.
Hannibal
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cbraund
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United Kingdom of Great Britain
Jan 2001
time: 05:19
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Well I am changing all of my alliances to the rules stated, I will not go to war if an ally declares war on someone, I will remain neutral. I will defend my allies, but only if it is an unprovoked attack(except for Syracuse).
Also, the Olympics were held in ancient Greece at this time, so they should go ahead, and our chats could be us supposedly meeting there, how about once a week?
Once again, Carthage supports a peaceful world, it's navy ensures freedom to all, and our army is going into defensive mode, although to our enemies be warned, we are still very adept at attacking!
Hannibal
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Sovy Kurosei
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Communistica!
Feb 2002
time: 23:19
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OOC: Sorry Giovanni, I didn't get a chance to see it because you posted your trade request while I was typing up my huge arse story. They take about 20-25 minutes to produce such a lengthy amount of typing.
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Sovy Kurosei
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Communistica!
Feb 2002
time: 23:19
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For such a small island and population, that large military and navy must put quite the strain on your people...
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