The plan is to conquer all of Australia, so yes.
What order we take over the factions in and what methods we use for each of them… was never conclusively decided as far as I can remember.
Semper Ad Meliora (Code Geass/Britannian Royalty Quest)
- Thread starter Slayer Anderson
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- Sci-Fi
What order we take over the factions in and what methods we use for each of them… was never conclusively decided as far as I can remember.
- Location
- South of North
More or less, though some may refer to fragmenting/crippling a group such that it can no longer resist your organization.
Basically, these are dungeon bypasses that trigger from narrative interactions. Think of it as if you were playing in an RP and had the objective of getting into a top secret vault. Normally, you could do the spy thing, kill a new hire and assume their identity before sneaking into the fault. Or a frontal assault using C4 or something. But! Instead, you happened to do a sidequest for a guy you met in a bar a few weeks ago. He turns out to be an administrator at the facility you need to sneak into. Or he's an auditor and sneaks you a few tax documents that show something funky going on and, in the turmoil of the investigation you trigger by passing those to law enforcement, you grab what you need to. So you accomplish your goal without having to go through the conventional avenues of accomplishing it.
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Currently the Plan is
1: something
2: Something
3:Become King of Australia
The underpants gnomes have a more established plan for profit right now.
- Location
- USA
I'm pretty sure we've put down "train our psionic powers so we can win a shonen grudge match and take the Mandate of Heaven" in there somewhere although if we actually do the fight is another story.
Also I think end goal is "Emperor of Australia" since even if we don't go independent there are Emperors that pay fealty to the Britannian Throne
We don't really have the time to become a psychic powerhouse. We'd probably rely on tech to make it up.
We have multiple women, leader stuff and knocking the ninja up which is a Euphie test. Don't see us training using our personal slots.
We have multiple women, leader stuff and knocking the ninja up which is a Euphie test. Don't see us training using our personal slots.
- Location
- USA
Psionic training might end up in a normal action if we eventually learn about the secret condition in character. A lot of the buffs Lelouch has picked up came from normal actions.
Admittedly, we were operating on a different scale then, but if he learned that winning the grudge match would win the faction we'd probably find options.
Technology will still probably be what lets us win -- I give good odds we'll need to figure out how to bring a custom KMF into the fight
The Emperors of Mexico and Brazil are a widely different situation to us. The Emperors of Mexico and Brazil for one were recognized as legitimate Emperors in their own right before Britannian Conquest. The Emperor of Mexico is stated as basically being of the Spanish Bourbons and the Emperor of Brazil of the House of Bragnaza. And um....heres the thing: They kinda only accept this status as vassal emperors because we are all empires in Exile that have been smooshed into a single state. Australia has none of that and would be a MASSIVE insult to declare an Empire to the Bourbons and Bragnazas...who BTW, are likely cadet branches of the Britannian Royal Family in all but name. Chances are at least one of the major players supporting one of our rivals is going to be of their family. And well, theres also Cornelia whos seeking to become Tzarina of All Russia...but she is also a legal claimant to said throne and theres an entire treaty to govern that....
But a King? A King is undeniably not equal to an Emperor. We can safely wear a crown that is our own...but without having to pretend our father is merely first amongst equals ruling over our empire as well. Kingdoms can be created by Emperors if they so wish. Its a good comprimise position. We want an Imperial Title? We are going to need to either have an immense gift of record breaking size to give to Brazil and Mexico first or acheive a feat so great that we probably be considered a good candidate for Emperor.
Oh, and do remember that we are in all this in the being vetted by our only surviving Uncle for possibly taking over his job as head of the secret police if not straight up the Geass Directorate. It looks better on our resume if we can show the tact to not needlessly piss off major vassals because we wanted a grandiose title.
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- USA
I thought C.C. is still running the Directorate? Didn't V.V. tell Charles that he would need to ask her about what help to send Lelouch for the Indonesian conference?
Mazeka
You must be joking
- Location
- United States
Emperor of Australia? No. Grand Duke of Australia though? Maybe, preferably with its civilian populace as actual citizens rather than numbers.
(Perhaps we might even experiment with Grandfather Phillip's bill of rights under the guise of bringing order to an unruly region.)
I could see it under either Intrigue or Piety. Basically using our research groups to devise effective tactics and training methods or even building high grade personal equipment to level the playing field like the anti psionic swords we plan to reverse engineer. Or even a Learning action where Jeager creates some toy for Lelouch to use.
Honestly I'm looking forward to everyone reactions if we manage to pull off taking over New Heaven in such a way. Especially the PR of freeing the slaves. The constipated looks of our Blood opposition when they have to officially thank us (since it is the expected thing to do) will be amusing.
As for this turn I'm curious if I forgot any important/hanging issues for the categories.
Martial:
Force expansion and training for amphibious invasions or just going for an invasion outright.
Diplomacy:
The promised (during the meeting with the Ethiopian ambassador in Indonesia) action to help refuges and dealing with the fallout from involving the Blood. There might be a new action to contact the monks to establish communication but it could as well be a Personal or Piety action. With Milly joining us we most likely lost the See a Girl About a Robot action.
Stewardship:
Starting on fortifying our island. Basically the only overdue issue. With 3 actions (with one reserved by a continuing project) the second might be for any research institution construction plans or an income action.
Intrigue:
Shadow Administration is overdue since our agents are already active and we didn't hide the hiring in the administration building construction. We also got New Heaven psionic prisoners to interrogate or trade to OSI. And prisoners are like fish. They spoil fast.
Learning:
Depending on how Milly presences affects the DC The Green Knight looks attractive. But if we are planning invasions we might need to do Environmental Hazards.
Piety:
The only time sensitive action that will be here is the sword analysis since we have to return the ones borrowed from OSI. The other action will most likely go into activating our alchemists to be able to produce swords like that in larger quantities (not to mention sakuradite).
Temes1066
To Defy Gravity you must Let It Go
- Location
- Coleraine
Plus the action about finding out what is going on with our half-sister Carine, which we should probably do, as soon as possible. (although it might be an Intrigue option).
We also need to rush Madison's tech tree, as we are trying to be the first man in space. Not to mention Jaegar's Psionic tech will probably be useful against the psionic pirates.
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Madison is currently busy with her new engine idea. She will most likely give her next proposal after the prototype Ramjet is done. I really hope there will be a prototype plane to show off so Lelouch can take back his speed record as the Europeans are being stubborn about not acknowledging his breaking of a sound barrier.
- Location
- Michigan, USA
This has been a blast to read. Really brings back memories of watching CG all those years ago.
- Location
- South of North
Thanks! I really enjoy being told that I've been able to preserve the original flavor in quests and stories I write. I really appreciate it.
In other news, I don't have anything to post right now, but I plan to upload at least one more sidestory post in the next week before hopefully making a continuation of the main plot/turn. We shall see how this turns out, best laid plans of mice and men and all that...
Temes1066
To Defy Gravity you must Let It Go
- Location
- Coleraine
WooHoo!!!
- Location
- Poland
You know, I've been wondering. If you showed the quests versions of Charles and Marianne how they treated their children in the Original Timeline how would they react? Are they different enough to condemn them or would they understand the choices their counterparts made?
- Location
- South of North
I won't give an absolute answer, but given what Lelouch knows...
Carine is the latecomer to the main race for the throne. She's the least likely of the most likely to inherit given her young age and relative lack of accomplishments, so she's perpetually looking to ride a tailwind by any of the front-runners.
Part of that is making sure the person she's cheer-leading for knows how valuable an ally she represents and doesn't grow complacent with her support. Given that Lelouch would move up the rankings (to a position above her) by virtue of Euphie's spot and that Milly Ashford is *very firmly* in Lelouch's camp, making nice with Lelouch's allies could lead to making nice with Lelouch himself, which in turns leads to a possible alliance with Euphemia.
This is all deeply speculative, of course, but Carine could be...
1) Legitimately gathering intel on whether or not you'd be a better bet for a closer position to the throne than Guinevere.
2) Politically feinting by expressing fake interest in an alliance with you (and through you into the anti-Guinevere Cornelia/Schneizel bloc) to extort more favor from Guinevere.
3) Faking interest as a ploy to allow her to gather information on your group to sell to Guinevere for a better position in her camp.
4) Looking to pull Milly (or Euphie in an extreme case) into her own camp which would be a more advanced version of 3.
5) Something Lelouch doesn't know about.
6) All of the above.
7) None of the above and this is all just a political feint to draw interest/speculation away from something she's working on unrelated to this.
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taovkool
Forever Gone
- Location
- The Library, Department of General Works
Well that's unsurprisingly unhelpful.
Carine did fuck up pretty badly in Africa. I'm actually legitimately surprised she's still trying to aim for the throne.
- Location
- Michigan, USA
- Location
- SF Bay Area
Central America and debatably, although I would point out the debacle was more because it was a Royal's orders who were misinterpreted (or at least that's what the spin was) than the fuckup itself. Area 1 did start to flame up in revolt as a result though, so she may have just been the spark to the powder rather than the bomb itself.
After all, she didn't mess up so badly that she got pulled back to Pendragon, or sent to Anchorage. In fact, she got a promotion to Marquess (which I would point out is a Higher title than Earl... which we technically are.
Besides knowing that she is operating in Oaxaca and that her mother is incredibly scary we know little about her.
Heck maybe she has an interest in spaceflight too for all we know, and the letter was little more than a pique of interest
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- Location
- Where I an right now
I expect more like the Nu Gundam, just because of the big guns and the crazy laser like weapons
- Location
- barking
last we saw carine I swear she was with the chaos seeking reporter deithard and being critized by her mother
- Location
- SF Bay Area
Last time there was a canon omake scene featuring her yes. Milly however did mention running into her during the Tunguska conference and that Carine was trying to sweet-talk her into starting up a production line of construction Knightmares of the obsolete Glasgows, and that something about that piqued Lelouch's interest but he couldn't put his finger on what.
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- Location
- South of North
I aim to please, yes.
Carine accidentally massacring a nowhere village in rural mountainous Mexico is more of an embarrassment than political suicide.* Allowing the Area to rise in full revolt or accidentally aiding them in doing so would have been, but Carine's landed on her feet and managed to quell the violence. Her section of the Area has been stable and profitable the past five years without major issues.
*Do Note: Massacring civilians is a crime against humanity IRL and, as always, an artifact of Brittanian imperial attitudes, not the QM's actual opinion.