Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)
- Thread starter Slayer Anderson
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[] Japanese Delegation (Easy-Moderate)
[] Ethiopian Delegation (Easy-Moderate)
[] Rus Republic Envoy (???)
Two sensible, productive choices and then Rus, because first, I liked the promise of chaos and merry hell it may cause, second, it'd maintain our unorthodox firebrand momentum, and finally, it seems appropriate OOC to involve Russians in a space race talk even if we've seen no basis for it IC ^_^
Well, and having contacts up there would help Corny's grand plan later on. Wouldn't it be great if we can frame her as a new Rurik, rather than a foreign invader, at least to some?
Edit. Wait, lock already?
[] Ethiopian Delegation (Easy-Moderate)
[] Rus Republic Envoy (???)
Two sensible, productive choices and then Rus, because first, I liked the promise of chaos and merry hell it may cause, second, it'd maintain our unorthodox firebrand momentum, and finally, it seems appropriate OOC to involve Russians in a space race talk even if we've seen no basis for it IC ^_^
Well, and having contacts up there would help Corny's grand plan later on. Wouldn't it be great if we can frame her as a new Rurik, rather than a foreign invader, at least to some?
Edit. Wait, lock already?
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- South of North
Hmm...
Hmm...
It's really only supposed to be for the big yearly actions, but... eh, you know what? I kept you guys waiting two months, why the fuck not? Let's see...
Sorry Tavarokk, vote's called. However, you got 2/3rds of what you wanted.
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
Ya! But didn't you also make this arbitation already without any prompt?
Now to wait with dread if the reroll is Nat 1 or something...
- Location
- South of North
Using my own words, which I'd completely forgotten, against me.
I'd thought better of you meianmaru. Tsk, tsk.
It's nice to know I agree with my past self, though. He's sometimes really flaky.
Yeah, just saw, which surprised me a fair bit. Just saw the update alert now and went on to vote, confident that it hasn't even been a day, but I guess bandwagons gonna bandwagon.
Damn, I'd have liked to argue for Rus or maybe EU, the current third pick is really disagreeable.
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- Location
- England
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well hopefully the reward tiers were 20 points apart otherwise it doesn't look like that reroll helped.
Mazeka
You must be joking
- Location
- United States
You cheeky bugger.
If it makes you feel any better @Slayer Anderson, you can write the reroll as the Armenian rep being tight-lipped when we engage him. If nothing else, we might gain some good intel on the Caucasus for Cornelia.
- Location
- USA
Who would we have talked to with a Nat 100?
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- South of North
Some tiny central Asian nation populated by ethnic Zilkhs. Probably not very important.
- Location
- Pennsylvania
Fffffffffffffuuuuuuuucccccckkkkk!
...sigh. Oh well, at least we got a somewhat useful person to talk to.
Kingdom of Armenia (antiquity) - Wikipedia
Greater Armenia is literally on the border with the Caucuses so any info we get would be tactically useful for Cornelia's upcoming attack on the Rus. Also the Armenian kingdom once stretched over a good chunk of the Middle East so some interesting ruins are definitely possible.
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- Location
- SF Bay Area
So... I say this knowing I drew the current world map but a pixel on that thing is like 500 sq mi... so I don't know.
Is it possible that Greater Armenia has Mount Ararat?... Totally no chance that a mythical, symbolic thing there... No chance at all that Antediluvian myth is just the corruption of ancient humanity picking itself up and some oral history corrupting it over 50k years bleeding down into Mesopotamia until the time of the Sumerians... I'm sure it's just a mountain.
But seriously... Is Mount Ararat in Armenia?
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- Pennsylvania
...holy shit I didn't even think of that! The mountain is on the border between Armenia and Turkey and visible on the Armenian side of the border to the southwest. You can literally see it on the horizon from Yerevan, Armenia!
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meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
Dice, how could you betray us (by not critting at an important roll once again) when we needed you the most (for probably even more broken psychic bullshit than we already have and a small nation of elite-mercenaries (that aren't shinobi))? Truly our luck is the worst (because we are not getting everything that we want and things we didn't even know that exist with certainty)!
More seriously, now that is has been confirmed by the QM that Zilkhstan exists in some form, we better keep our eyes open for chances to make contact and/or spy on them. Pity that we can't target them with Intrigue actions yet, but I can't come up with any IC explanation why Lelouch would want to turn his growing espionage machine against their country, so even the Side Quest -Intrigue option likely won't have Zilkhstan as a target. Hopefully something will bring them to our organization's radar before they explode to the world-stage, like with the New Heaven.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Also isn't there a site in Anatolia that we are interested in? Armenia could serve as a decent staging ground for searches.
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- Space
Well if it is Greater Armenia than mountain is within their borders as when i look at the map they go quite within the Turkish border.
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meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
On the rolls we did succeed in well: If we managed to get our foot in the door on the matter of nanotubes with Japan, would having access to the material in bulk-amounts help in the initial race to put a person to the orbit? I would assume that it would translate to more durable materials? Because with access to the Float System -technology sample and nanotubes (if useful here), we could theoretically bring a lot to the table with Ashfords and Steiner Konzern if we want to negotiate to be included into their joint-effort in the space-race.
And with Lelouch's close ties with the Ashford's and Milly especially, and that speech he gave, we should be a pretty tempting ally to have for such project when combined with all those benefits. Not to mention having a royal as an official patron of a project probably clears a lot of red tape on various things while also opening new doors. I wouldn't be surprised if Milly herself asks for it from Lelouch in the near-/very-near-future.
And with Lelouch's close ties with the Ashford's and Milly especially, and that speech he gave, we should be a pretty tempting ally to have for such project when combined with all those benefits. Not to mention having a royal as an official patron of a project probably clears a lot of red tape on various things while also opening new doors. I wouldn't be surprised if Milly herself asks for it from Lelouch in the near-/very-near-future.
Britannian Armed Forces: Considerations on Ethnic, Racial, & Ancestral Heritage
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- South of North
So, talking about race and ethnicity in the armed forces of the empire...
Well, first, let's get royal battalions and noble guards units out of the way. They're highly irregular and weird because they're run almost completely on the prerogative of the noble or royal paying for the unit(s). That means each formation works under nearly-unique rules, though most follow traditions based on the actual imperial army/navy/marines/air force, largely depending on the whim of the blueblood in charge. Although this is usually considered armed service, units like these are only formally incorporated when a noble or royal has official standing within the main imperial forces themselves.
It's entirely up to the head of the unit as to what rules they set about race, religion, ethnicity, ancestry, etc... Hell, there's nothing stopping a noble from requiring all recruits in their guard units to be left-handed if they really want to. This usually isn't a problem given that guard units are almost always domestic, meaning that they're barely ever deployed in foreign conflicts.
This is somewhat less true for Royal units such as yours, or Cornelia's for that matter. Again, it's entirely up to the noble as to whom they employ as soldiers, but Britannia has a long and storied history of picking out oppressed minorities in the areas they invade and offering them guns and training to turn against the people in power. They know the land, they know the language, they know all the weak points in the government's structure to hit.
What you've done with the shinobi of Japan is only remarkable as a matter scale. No one has likely ever recruited such a large, well-armed, and already militant-minded population, but the theory is the same, just... bigger. Usually, though, units composed of foreign troops, when they're fighting against their former friends and neighbors are a little more delicately managed than your shinobi. They usually take up the non-critical support positions that let more tested fighting units focus on the actual fights. They're also given overseeing officers and a command staff that are multi-generational Britannians who have a proven history of loyalty to the empire. Much like what's talked about in the video you've linked to above. How much discrimination there is varies wildly from unit to unit. Usually, though, it can be assumed that new recruits from 'militia' battalions raised from locals that you're invading are going to be given the most dangerous work and the most tedious, back-breaking assignments to 'prove their loyalty' as something other than would-be spies.
All of this applies to units in the regular armed forces as well.
The Imperial Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines don't tend to raise native units until the region has been sufficiently pacified that a Viceroy can be installed. At that point, it's their responsibility to do so. The imperial armed forces try very hard to only take soldiers that have had full training and screening. Britannian units from the formal army aren't usually organized along racial or ethnic lines, but neither are they explicitly mixed.
What this means is that a given unit's racial, ethnic, and/or religious composition really depends on where its soldiers were recruited from and trained at. So, taking the Philippines as an example, a unit raised there will likely be composed almost entirely of ethnically - Filipino individuals whose primary religion is Catholicism (heritage of Spanish colonization), and who likely speak either Spanish or Britannian English as their main language, with the other as a secondary tongue. The officer corps would almost certainly be composed of lesser nobility who'd been given tracts of land on the islands as rewards for military service. These would likely be either ethnic Britannians (white anglosaxon protestants) or perhaps the children of talented officers recruited from the armies raised from South America and South Africa used to invade the Philippines twenty-thirty years ago. There might also be a visible, if not significant, minority of wealthy Filipinos whose families had managed to maintain their wealth during and after the empire invaded. Or, rarely, been able to profit off the empire to the point where they could spare the funds to buy a child a commission in the armed forces.
Now, all of the abovementioned troops are going to, effectively, be second-generation imperials. Their parents may have lived through the conquest of the islands by Britannia, but they've grown up in the shadow of the empire. These troops are the ones that served as the vanguard of the conquest of North Africa.
This is the crux of Britannia's long-term strategy to keep control of the empire. It's to use armies raised from their previous conquests to conquer the next territory and continue the cycle. This displaces a generation of the youth, indoctrinates them to Britannian military discipline, and rewards the most talented of them with land and wealth from a distant region, encouraging them to relocate to the newly-conquered areas where they'll be more dependent on the empire's enforcement of law and order to keep what they've earned. The remainder who don't earn land and titles will return to their home territories, but now be considered imperial citizens instead of merely honorary citizens, receive greater benefits, and be on call in the event of an uprising against the empire. Everyone wins.
Except for people who can't or won't joint the military and are relegated to second-class citizens to suffer poverty or the indignity of being employed as cheap menial labor.
Those people lose, hard.
The case of the Akune brothers, in particular, would not be what you think at all. Britannia would require oaths of loyalty and they would be watched by intelligence operatives, but there's every chance that such a significant incident of loyalty to the empire rather than their families or ancestral home would be greatly rewarded. They would probably be treated like show dogs, trotted out for display and propaganda purposes, but they'd receive quite a bit of special treatment.
Now, all of this isn't to say that the empire has magically done away with the glass ceiling. The upper limits to advancement exist in a quite substantial and significant way. It's just that they're not so much ethnic or racial or religious. Don't get me wrong, being of a like mind to the ruling class helps a great deal, but by and large the deciding factors are blood lineage, position of birth, and actual competence. Not necessarily in that order all the time, but they're the winning ingredients to advancement in Britannia. If you're lacking one or more, what you have on offer needs to be of even higher quality.
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- Asia
Ooops.
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- Pennsylvania
Uh buddy, we already closed the vote and did the rolls. Your choices won with the minor player turning out to be Armenia and the rolls turning out well for all choices.
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- Asia
Yeah my browser did a weird thing where it didn't update and I thought the vote was still open.
meianmaru
The Devourer of Fiction
Hmmm. The traditions our personal forces will likely have will almost certainly include the heavy use of psionics and knightmares as well as air forces (which might also be knightmares), considering our advantages. So small elite units that can't actually win battles or wars of attrition by themselves, but can most certainly punch above their weight-class for a limited bursts of time and do all sorts of nasty special operations. Good for both Lelouch's strengths and the narrative benefit of glamorous elite units being usually more interesting to read about, or at least that is what I personally think.