Turn 9: Here to Stay.
-[X]Set up Safe Zones: You need to win some goodwill with the people, and the world. Safe zones will be established by your forces, and they will win.(Cost 1 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 10 => 110+
D100 + 10 => 95+
D100 + 10 => 95+
D100 + 10 => 49=349
You enjoyed this far more than you should have. That was saying something because each of the rebelling and warring factions in two nations just set down the gauntlet and refused to recognise your forces as peacekeepers or anything other than a roving band of marauders, seeking to profit off a war they started.
Now you did not mind being called that, it was part and parcel of being a mercenary these days, everyone distrusted you, everyone hated you, yadi yadi yada. What you did do was give them a warning.
What if they crossed the line, you would kill them all, and let the UN or their local governments sort them out. After all, you were not conquering any territory. You were helping these people.
So why in all the hell, did they send 20 tanks after you to ransack your safe zone.
Oh, it was by no means an organized fest where you actually had to fear this armored convoy that was trying to ransack the place, your people took only five injuries as casualties.
You wanted to write a scathing letter to the Egyptian military for their gross incompetence and losing 20 to RPGs, and hand grenades, but you had a feeling that their asses were being kicked.
Unfortunately, you found yourself in a realization that the Egyptian military had collapsed, and the Rebel forces and the Islamists were the only ones left to do the fighting.
You would say oops, but given the stupidity of Egyptian leadership that made them go against you, a neutral party trying to help refugees?
There was no winner here.
And in Sudan?
They welcomed you as heroes.
Reward: Safe Zones Established in Egypt and Sudan, without the consent of those governments, or the UN.
But no one can deny the fact you came in and made the situation better for the refugees there.
And now Egypt is about to piece itself together.
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-[X]The Bush Wars of Rhodesia (Revolutionaries): Well you might not like those boys, the snakes that you have heard of willing to send places to hell for their men, but you were not interested. There would be the African Republic. Though the less time with Mugabe, the better. (Cost 4 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 50 => 137+
D100 + 50 => 105+
D100 + 50 => 107+
D100 + 50 => 106+
D100 + 50 => 147+
D100 + 50 => 127+
D100 + 50 => 139+
D100 + 50 => 73=941
It was a smooth operation that you were sure would have no negative consequences on the region once you left.
How wrong you were, like my god, you had never been a fan of overthrowing governments that were clearly, at least on the surface, providing the needs for the people with its ideas. However, these fools were also racist assholes and they were exploiting their people, and not even being kind enough to give them the vote.
However, you also could not stomach being ruined by racists on both sides that decided that Rhodesia was an African nation, that would not have the White Africans that lived there, live in peace.
You see, you never understood pan Africanism, but when you found out Mugabe was going to murder you when the work was done, you sprang into action, and asked a simple question.
What happens when all the whites and foreign aggressors are gone?
So you stormed the government building, took Ian Smith and his cronies prisoners, and got your answer.
There would be no trial, they would be executed on the spot, and there would be a dictatorship led by the Zapu leader, Robert Mugabe.
Unfortunately, he had planned to double-cross you, and was rather stupid and drunk enough to say it in front of one of your men.
And that would just not do.
So you did the only sensible thing. Coup the Government that hired you, and killed them all.
See you didn't want to kill them all, but you had no choice because those sick basterds would just try and kill you elsewhere and you just didn't want the hassle.
After all, this is how you kill an idea and end a civil war.
Extreme violence. Extreme violence that would be calculated, efficient, and utterly ruthless.
It took only an hour to kill these bastards, and collect those that surrendered. because you had helicopters and took all their ammo.
After that, you stayed for a few weeks, drank some beer, allowed Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa to be in command, and disarm all rebel groups.
Sure it wasn't perfect and the fact you more or less wiped out the political establishment of a nation ended white minority rule, and killed a lot of people in a coup because those same people wanted to kill you because they didn't want to pay you… was resonable.
You sent the Government of Zimbawe-Rhodesia your bill. They were the people who needed to pay you now.
Reward: You have forcefully ended the Bush war, and helped stabilize the Government of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, under a democratic socialist Government.
The Republic has held its first free and fair elections and has a leader who can see them into the future.
Rhodesia is declared defunct. Ian Smiths' Government disbanded.
This government owes you 10 million US Dollars.
Your mercenaries in four weeks of fighting and rebel suppression have killed over 25,000 people in this conflict, and have successfully rendered many extremist parties inert, and dead.
The Republic is considered stable, and internationally recognized.
Gain 1 International Recognition.
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-[X]Build up Trade Relations (Sudan) Well, you might as well start to try and look legitimate. (Cost 3 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 104+
D100 + 20 => 111+
D100 + 20 => 98+
D100 + 20 => 78+40=118+
D100 + 30 => 76
As it turns out, there is a ton of trade that a micronation can take part in. Mostly in raw resources and a middle man for the rest of the world, seeing as Sudan is busy at the moment killing each other.
And it led to lots of profit. As Corporations that wanted goods, could go to you, and buy them from your markets, at a significant markup. You had to pay the bills somehow.
They may hate you, but their bottom line is to not get those goods would suffer.
And they were capitalists, so the bottom line was everything.
Reward:
You are swimming in money, and by god, do the world hate you for being the middleman for African traders trying to make money from their civil wars.
They also appreciated that you were discreet.
Meanwhile, several American and Soviet buissness leaders do not like you playing both sides.
Economic rolls increase by 10 for the next turn.
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-[X]Starting up the Fire of Industry: Well there is no time like the present to decide to turn a single patch of desert into something amazing (Cost 2 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 118+
D100 + 20 => 103+
D100 + 20 => 99+
D100 + 20 => 91+10=101+
D100 + 30 => 112+
D100 + 30 => 123+
D100 + 30 => 90
It all began with a phone call. Some freelancer from the States was kinda getting fucked by some government hack that did not believe in his model, and said it would never work.
His name was Steve Jobs, and he, along with his business partner, Steve Wozniak, wanted to change the world. But they couldn't do it in the United States.
So they came to your little paradise in the desert, to make something, Called Apple computers.
You gave them an office, and a facility to do what they pleased. Though that facility was just an unfinished building. But given the rich mineral wealth, you had, and the two of them learning on the fly to produce their own computer parts.
Reward: Apple Computers has migrated to Outer Heaven, and has set up shop and begun their research and development for… a Personal computer.
RND Rolls increase by 10 for the next two turns. Can now develop Personal Computers.
The computer industry is set to bad.
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-[X]Building a Home for a Family: You did Promise that one woman you love a villa. Best get on that. (Cost 3 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 110+
D100 + 20 => 112+
D100 + 20 => 85+10=95+
D100 + 30 => 127+
D100 + 30 => 107+
D100 + 30 => 114+
D100 + 30 => 114
D100 + 30 => 114
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D100 + 30 => 32
You smiled. "I promise I would build you a vila."
Ma Tang squeed when she saw it. "A pool?"
"Air conditioning, and a brilliant bedroom." you said, a smile rising on her face.
Reward: You have built a brilliant mansion in the Desert.
RP Rolls gain a +10.
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-[X]Medical Tents and Other signs of Health: You need to set up medical pavilions, and places for injured soldiers to heal. (Cost 6 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 79+10=89
Well, you now have some proper First Aid stations that can double as trauma surgery places.
Poor ones at that, but that will do.
Reward: Health Services set to Bad.
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-[X]Begin Importing Oil Drillers and Refinery parts: You have oil. Now you just need to know how much you need to start drilling. (Cost 5 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 115+
D100 + 20 => 111+
D100 + 20 => 109+
D100 + 30 => 107+
D100 + 30 => 121+
D100 + 30 => 91
You looked at the contractor and the equipment. The Iranians were being rather forthcoming with their oil refining and drilling equipment. THey were large yes, and you would never be able to take such
-[X]Tapping the Water Reserve: You need to get access to the underground water reserves. (Cost 5 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 118+
D100 + 20 => 105+
D100 + 20 => 97+
D100 + 30 => 124+
D100 + 30 => 105+
D100 + 30 => 127+
D100 + 30 => 111+
D100 + 30 => 111
D100 + 30 => 123+
D100 + 30 => 103+
D100 + 30 => 100+
D100 + 30 => 99+
D100 + 30 => 103+
D100 + 30 => 97+
D100 + 30 => 65=1477
-[X]River Connections and if Such irrigation is possible?: Wait there is something that can make the Nile reach you? Inconceivable?! (Cost 1 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 102+
D100 + 20 => 107+
D100 + 20 => 116+
D100 + 20 => 92
-[X]Survey the Desert (Oil): You need oil. And a lot of it. (Cost 6 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 106+
D100 + 20 => 120+
D100 + 20 => 115+
D100 + 20 => 119+
D100 + 20 => 109+
D100 + 20 => 101+
D100 + 20 => 107+
D100 + 20 => 100+
D100 + 30 => 105+
D100 + 30 => 112+
D100 + 30 => 50+90=140+
D100 + 30 => 80=1014
Wait… How much was there?
"Well… That depends on your definition of how much? We are on top of the only aquifer access on this continent for the underground water reserves that can be reached. As for the Oil… The question becomes, how much do we legally own on this territory."
"Because if we add the region's entire oil reserves… There are over a thousand years of oil here, by our estimations. And at current consumption levels… well, do the math, we'll have enough oil to feed the world, alone if we must."
(Continued in Interlude: More Oil Than God, More Water than an Ocean.)
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-[X]Survey the Desert (Precious metals): You know there is gold and silver, but what about everything else? (Cost 3 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 30 => 39
"There is nothing here?" You asked.
"Nothing that we can get to, with current technology." Your mineral man stated.
Failure.
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-[X]Equipment For Digging: You know there is going to be lots of mining in the future. (Cost 1 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 95+
D100 + 20 => 21+10=31
Well, at least you have something for the mining if you can not destroy the nation in digs.
Reward: Mining industry set to bad.
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-[X]Preparing for the Factory (Light Industry): Time to start an industry. (Cost 3 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 112+
D100 + 20 => 59+10=69
It was a single industrial factory, meant to make petroleum products that were being refined.
Mostly Plastics.
Reward: Light industry set to Bad.
1 Plastics factory has been built.
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-[X]Land Development and other signs of Civilization: Maybe you can make infrastructure and roads that will make things. (Cost 1 Control) Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 94+10=104+
D100 + 30 => 129+
D100 + 30 => 114+
D100 + 30 => 118+
D100 + 30 => 76
"So wait, you got bored, and just, paved roads connecting to the Main Egyptian highways?" You asked.
"And built and Airfield. Got to keep the helicopters safe."
"We're running out of room." You facepalmed.
Reward:
Infrastructure set to Meh
Gain 1 Airfield and 1 Paved Road.
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-[X]Create something new (Agriculture): Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X] God damnit we will solve this water retention problem! Unless that's not what's capping our agriculture level, in which case do that first. Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 102+
D100 + 20 => 90=192
So you came up with something rather brilliant… or rather someone else did.
Greenhouse roof's overhead, but covered in a special type of mesh that collected the evaporation of the water during the day, while the soil is loosened to keep the water dissipated and underneath the water, there are pipes that protect the water from the elements but forcing the roots to grow.
To make a long story short, you managed to make most plants retain water by keeping them inside specially made greenhouses and watering them from the underground, rather than above ground.
Reward: Agriculture water retention researched.
Can increase agricultural productivity and levels.
Will require more land or hydroponics to use effectively.
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-[X]Create something New(Industry) Well maybe you can use that big brain and do something amazing. (Cost 3 Control)
--[X]Something regarding construction. We have a lot of buildings to build, after all. Rolled:
D100 + 20 => 34
YOu didn't have time to do that. Mostly because the UN happened.
Failure.
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-[X] Li Mei - (RP)
--[X]Get to know Vasily, round 2: Double date with his partner and Ma. Rolled:
D100 => 41
Zima Aristov was clearly a woman you did not want to mess with as she controlled her children and her husband.
It was like watching your mother when you were a child, handling you. But only she was far more efficient and open with her caring attitude, and not hiding behind a stern face of prim and proper.
"Tell me, where did you two meet." she asked as she tried to make her youngest eat the noodles that were prepared.
"We met in the army." You said as you did a little nudge to Ma. She responded in kind. "Well and we just hit it off."
"They accepted that?" She replied.
"Well we were the same rank at the time, and it was acceptable," Ma replied. "What about you?"
"Vasily was stationed in Poland when he met me, just a border guard at the time, right before he became Spetznaz. He and I had a very strong relationship, and he even ran to my home in the middle of winter to deliver the marriage certificate. And he converted for me."
You raised an eyebrow before Vasily showed a rosary. "I'd rather be with her, than not, and it was a small price to pay."
You smiled back. "We ran away with each other when my father tried to marry me off. An I can't say it's not been worth it."
Reward: You and Vasily have a double date with your lovers and family.
He is now considered a permanent member of Outer Heaven.
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--[X]See if we can find anyone around here (or elsewhere and willing to migrate) who's an expert on stuff that isn't murder. We're gonna need all kinds of skill sets to make this nation work. Rolled:
D100 => 35
No one wanted to show up.
Dammit!
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--[X]UN Speech? UN Speech! Rolled:
D100 => 96+
D100 => 96+
D100 => 90
So you went to the UN.
My god, the number of faces here are glorious. They will eat crow by the end of this.
Continued in: Interlude: The UN.
