About the Sketch. I know this looks like a quick revolution strongly disproving the theory 'what was disrupting the Sketch economy were investments owned by Sketch in Hespranxer'.
How deep were the hands of the Sketch wrapped around investments in the not! europe area? The Sketch seem to have had enough soft power behind many nations in not! europe to use them as meatshields to keep DC from the sea. With the Nohon right there recovering, are the Sketch and Nohon allies?
Most likely they'd stay out of it and focus on repairing their own economy but...the most aggressively capitalistic economy, who could have been said to be the first order cause for many of the collapses, is never going to back an aggressively anti-capitalistic state
Currently in a vault somewhere, and requires Archaeology to find.
Yes, we need to mount an archaeology expedition into our own record archives (which may be built on top much older record archives) to find our own laws which where never repealed .
Actually we put up law steles in every single village and temple. The one in our necropolis is probably still there, forgotten...because the waterfall would have moved by now and the map references would be wrong, after it was abandoned in the breaking of the OYE....as would be all the ancient murals from the days of Gwygotha.
Word of AN was that it was intrinsically unstable because it relied on concepts and theories which didn't exist yet, and ultimately was trying to run an industrial economy using Bronze age economic theory. No matter what we did, it'd probably have burned regardless. By intervening we just made sure we got both the credit and the blame.
Most likely they'd stay out of it and focus on repairing their own economy but...the most aggressively capitalistic economy, who could have been said to be the first order cause for many of the collapses, is never going to back an aggressively anti-capitalistic state
Word of AN was that it was intrinsically unstable because it relied on concepts and theories which didn't exist yet, and ultimately was trying to run an industrial economy using Bronze age economic theory. No matter what we did, it'd probably have burned regardless. By intervening we just made sure we got both the credit and the blame.
Honestly I WANT them to sit out. I want this to be "Galv-Ymaryn comes down like a hammer and saves everyone." And for nobody to argue that point ever. We will flood the area up to the supply limit with our men. Our navy will wreck theirs. We will WIN. No need to share glory.
Honestly I WANT them to sit out. I want this to be "Galv-Ymaryn comes down like a hammer and saves everyone." And for nobody to argue that point ever. We will flood the area up to the supply limit with our men. Our navy will wreck theirs. We will WIN. No need to share glory.
And the Khem won't sit out if someone is shooting at our ships just off their coasts. Their honor will demand they take their green water navy and wreck the interloopers.
We come to eachother's aid. With their fight with Hes they want us to owe them a favor or two.
And the Khem won't sit out if someone is shooting at our ships just off their coasts. Their honor will demand they take their green water navy and wreck the interloopers.
We come to eachother's aid. With their fight with Hes they want us to owe them a favor or two.
They did that the last time. They don't actually WANT to get stuck in. Their land army is mostly local mercenaries stiffened with their own elites and thus making a loss whenever they deploy.
As far as they're concerned Gylmaryn aggroing super-Tortun is in their interests since it keeps them both distracted while they continue to beeline ironclads
Yes, though if we didn't attack they'd have attacked someone else to obtain the same, their model is going to be pretty weak on the offensive projection without a local sympathetic uprising to match.
Only because we don't need to have them there. By controlling the straits with a mass of overlapping star forts, anything which could overcome those by sea could overcome anything we could possibly float, so we only really needed enough to convoy escort the way to Khemetri.
No, but we may consider reinforcing the Khem and helping them resolve their war swiftly in return for their help in the saffron sea. Once there we can take Hes and use it as a third or fourth Tortun front.
No, but we may consider reinforcing the Khem and helping them resolve their war swiftly in return for their help in the saffron sea. Once there we can take Hes and use it as a third or fourth Tortun front.
Only because we don't need to have them there. By controlling the straits with a mass of overlapping star forts, anything which could overcome those by sea could overcome anything we could possibly float, so we only really needed enough to convoy escort the way to Khemetri.
We shal restore the Hys to our dominion allong with the Tyrtyn and Orychyr.
All nations with Y's in the name are historically Ymaryn after all.
The Khem can keep Iberia. We take everything north and west of that. At least until they come to their senses and marry into the omni-crown line and become rightfully Khym.
Khemetri war deced the Hes last turn to take their African territory while they are on fire. It's why we did a KT on the Khem, so that we can make sure we don't accidentally help the Hes fight off the Khem by taking too much pressure off them at an inopportune time, or that if we do so, the Khem will get word and will be able to prep for it without being surprised.
We specifically send diplomats there to kinda take care about it. The situation is almost absurd, really. Maybe later we can exchange Northern Africa for Halvyni for Hex.
Eh, considering we have friendly ports around, be it from the Kiel or even possibly the Hes (Enemy of my enemy, and all that...) we should be able to shift some of our fleet to the north to deal with them. And honestly, between the still fully World Class Hes navy, the Halvyni class Kielmyr navy, and whatever we are going to be able to send from our own World Class navy, and possibly even the Sketch World Class navy, the Halvyni aren't going to be able to go too far beyond their own borders. Especially since they did lose some of their ships to desertion, even if they kept the lions share.
The armies of the People were called up, nearly in full for what they could truly call up. Ranks were filled with citizens recalled for service and fresh conscripts drawn from refugee populations fleeing east. Those who were not deemed fit to serve in this war were instead pressed into service in farms and factories to replace the citizens being called away to the front, with some nobles calling that this sort of economic service in times of crisis should count at least in part towards the years of military service owed to the state. Unfortunately, there was also violence and discontent at these newcomers taking jobs locals saw as their own, but fortunately the Divine also chose to smile upon the world as the weather seemed to have taken a more pleasant turn within the past few years, with disaster minimized and the crops coming in sweet and bountiful. While pretty much everyone declared that this was God smiling on them, it at least meant that hunger was soothed across the world. Even if it soothed enemies, it also soothed allies as well.
-1 Temp Happiness from Refugee Integration Troubles
+2 Temp SoL from bumper crops and good weather
The Hung were now officially in the midst of a disintegration of central authority, but the provinces that were still loyal to the Emperor were fully on side now at least. Although from the sounds of things from the first trainers to arrive the People's ways of war and production were going to cause issue as they gave what many officials saw as undue amounts of power to the lower classes.
Sigh...
Also, the extra funding to the arts and the promotion of Gylruvian-Ymaryn culture could not have come at a better time as it definitely helped integrate all the new migrants much more effectively, both by displaying what their new culture was and by allowing them to share their own knowledge more fully. Academic and scientific contributions from fleeing Tortuns were particularly useful.
But of course, the big thing that had everyone's attentions were the wars, with millions of soldiers gathered into a dozen army groups, each one practical a nation in its own right. Finally freed from logistic constraints and given the full backing of the nation's industries, the army marched like it had never done before, an unstoppable juggernaut that crushed all in its path. Nokly could only watch the endless parades of troops and cannon and read the reports and imagine some bronze colossus of an ancient era, it's legs spanning the mouth of a harbour in its enormity. Only, while the People never truly stopped their foes proved to be a colossus in their own right. The Ochruhr were well lead and with their territory protected by mountain fortresses it was impossible to simply march into their capital, and when the People had attempted to make an alliance with the Etal they had discovered that the Ochruhr had drawn a line and retreated slightly from the penninsula while making peace with the southern states, allowing them to focus entirely to the north.
Clever bastards.
And as for the SKF, they were both well lead and had the motivation of fanatics. Thus it was that while the People were a bronze colossus, they were fighting other colossi, and the report of their fists against each other's metal skins must be as an entire battery of cannon going off at once. If the People had been fighting just the SFK they probably would have overrun them anyway, but as it was they had only managed to push a bit into their eastern territories. Fortunately while the Hespranxer had lost an enormous number of skilled NCOs and troops to revolution and defection, their officer corp remained intact and turned out to be at least peers to the People. While the Hes were staggering and reeling from the Khemetri claiming the last of their Northern Greater Khem holdings and the Vortuga showing up to contest the territory that had been ceded in years past, the kingdom as a whole managed to maintain its primary territorial integrity, and gave essentially nothing to the SKF.
The same could not be said of Behryvar, unfortunately.
Behryvar was gone.
While the Ochruhr and SKF had slowed almost to the point of stalling the press of the People, they had caught the Behryvar in a press between them and torn the country apart in a lightning fast tug of war between them. The nation's industries were seized mostly intact from the sheer speed at which the two belligerents attacked, providing farms, mines, and factories to the two groups that the People did not need them to have.
Elsewhere in the world the Sketch were being so incredibly Sketch-y and thus annoying. They had taken massive amounts of old industrial equipment seized in factory foreclosures, sold it to the Nohon in exchange for large amounts of silver and an enclave in one of the ports the Nohon had taken control of from the Hung, and then used this wealth and collateral to buy new and better machinery from the Kielmyr. The Nohon had undoubtedly been massively accelerated in their attempts to modernize their economy with this move, while the Sketch discovered a way to turn their own economic crash into a benefit for themselves. How utterly obnoxious of them. They hadn't even made any moves around the war with the SKF yet either, but from ripples going around the diplomatic circles they would probably seize Halvyni colonies in the Monsoon and Hung Seas, even though those colonies had declared independence from their former masters.
At least in terms of international trade the CCP had sent over a diplomatic gift basket of tobacco and cotton with the promise of preferred prices for the People for the next few years due to prior assistance and good trade agreements, which was nice of them. They didn't have enough funds quite yet to want to buy certain services, but they were certainly making motions in that direction for the future once they had their house in order after the stresses of unification and war against the UPM.
However, all of that had to go behind Nokly and the rest of the upper nobility for a few weeks as they sorted out another issue. The past few years had exposed numerous weaknesses in the People's methods of government, and the examples of the rest of the world had demonstrated that adjustments were needed. The constitution required tweaking in several places to keep people happy and working rather than edging towards revolt.
The Conference was of course the most scrupulously protected site on the planet. The People had learned their lesson from the past two times.
You have 11 PW available to craft your constitution, and must spend a minimum of 4. Of the options included, some of them are sufficiently popular that they do not cost PW but instead generate it. These options have +X PW instead of the usual Y PW format. Not all consequences will be immediately obvious, but some options will be very popular or unpopular with large segments of society and can influence Happiness.
What powers shall be invested in the Upper House? Current De Jure Status Quo: Veto, De Facto Status Quo: Minor Lawmaking
[] [UH] 5 PW - Advisory
[] [UH] 2 PW - Veto
[] [UH] +1 PW - Minor lawmaking
[] [UH] 2 PW - Power of the purse
[] [UH] 4 PW - Total lawmaking
Should there be a Lower House and what should it do? Current Status Quo: Advisory (Cannot be stronger than the Upper House this Constitution)
[] [LH] 5 PW - None
[] [LH] 3 PW - Advisory
[] [LH] 2 PW - Veto (+1 Temp Happiness)
[] [LH] 4 PW - Minor lawmaking (+1 Temp Happiness)
[] [LH] 6 PW - Power of the purse
[] [LH] 10 PW - Total lawmaking
Freedom of assembly? Status Quo: Limited
[] [Assembly] 2 PW - Restricted
[] [Assembly] +1 PW - Limited Citizen, Restricted Minority
[] [Assembly] 0 PW - Limited
[] [Assembly] 2 PW - Broad (+1 Happiness, Min. Consciousness from Education Increased by 1)
Freedom of the press? Status Quo: Crown Censorship
[] [Press] 4 PW - Crown Only (Academy Slot from Academic Freedom not automatically filled)
[] [Press] 0 PW - Free ownership with Crown Censorship
[] [Press] 2 PW - Free press (-1 Temp Happiness, Min. Consciousness from Education Increased by 1, Academic Freedom Provides Half Consciousness to Innovation)
Econ
Industrial Cap 8 (0) (Max. 8+75%)
Railroads 2/3
Development 31/47+25%
Pollution 1 (1)
Culture
Consciousness 1 (10)
Standard of Living 6 (12)
Happiness 5 (5)/10
Research
Academies 4/4
Mil Academies 1/2
Education 4
Innovation 10
Diplomacy
Trust 10 (6)
Espionage 7 (6)
Martial
Militancy 5
Armies 8 (10)
Navies 6 (4)
Political Will 11/15
Prestige
Min. 38
Current 126
Moratorium for at least the next three hours, possibly longer.
Kay so assembly and press are a must IMO. Them bonusses seem good, at least to the eyes of a man who self admittedly cares only for our forestry industry.
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