Lets see
AN on Academies:
Academia Nut said:
Redshore went through the business techs and is now working on Realism
Academic Freedom means that the most "liberal" academy does what it wants, usually Social type (art, business, social science) techs
That's very good for staying ahead on social pressures before they explode and allows us to continue our finest traditions of exporting headache ideas into the Syffryn to raise hell without getting our hands dirty.
I think I may have missed one, and the second Mil Academy is non-functional right now
It will come active after the mid-turn tech iteration
You literally hung several mid level officers and capitalists over the second Mil Academy disaster
It was a combination of poor quality percussion caps and improper ammunition handling resulting in the destruction of the academy and several deaths
correction on capitalist, it should rather read "factory manager"
Basically I rolled a 1 for what effects the Academy might have, and then a 1 for Industrial activity, so I decided that by pure bad luck the rapid industrial expansion resulted in poor quality control, and since you were pushing modern armaments that was what happened
Interesting.
@Academia Nut I imagine the social impact of this is building up towards instituting some kind of safety/production standards in the code of law?
Would something like that be implemented as a technology( Industrial Safety Standards [Industrial][Social] ), as a Constitutional Amendment, or as a party shift away from Rapid Development(probably not yet)?
The antiquities museum will be kicking points towards Early Anthro and Early Linguistics
Like, you obviously already have some idea of comparative languages and the like, but this is the actual scientific study
The other kind of museum you will have easy access to is a Life Sciences Museum (paleontology and the like)
Comparative linguistics huh? Sounds like it'd help Diplomacy with differing cultures.
Life Sciences accelerating Biology research would be mucho coolio.
Also curious, if we dug up the Dragon Graveyard Grand Temple(it was level 2 when we last saw it, probably had more added in timeskip because of its goodies payout) would that count as an Antiquities Museum, a Life Sciences Museum or both?
AN on Gun Diplomacy:
Xon said:
@Academia Nut so how would the Hung react if we sold them all our old weaponry?
Academia Nut said:
"Yay!"
Beautiful. Royalists! Go shove those guns up the Hung!
Also, I just remembered to explain why the Conservatives are so gungho on the Kale-Yllthon line:
It runs through Wyrmyn and the south-western Gylruv (Not!Ukraine) territory, which is prime agricultural land. While they already have really good river access, this would massively expand the ability of farmers to get grain to market and for the markets to get equipment to the farmers. Thus it is considered to majorly strengthen traditional landowner systems.
So...that'd progress towards a World Leader(Grain) trait?
Just considering how much more kick that'd generate in food production efficiency. The Black Sheep line also runs through the Mesopotamia Breadbasket for consideration.
The Conservatives are going to have a massive boner for starting up companies for these two lines.
As to BEN Nohon and DO Beh, we very much can afford to leave those for a bit. Beh is pretty much guaranteed to be more aligned to us than the Sketch in large part due to the Ochruhr, while the Nohon aren't the immediate danger. Getting the BEN into the Kiel or Sketch is far more important right now, because those are our pivotal battlegrounds.
I disagree. If you sit out the diplomacy game, the Sketch gets to do whatever the hell they want. All they really need to do is keep making scary noises about the giant Gylmar armies and the eventuality of our wanting their clay like all reasonable men.
The Nohon might be worth delaying, nothing we do there is anywhere NEAR as important as the Kyberian rail line. But if we don't diplomacy the Kielmyr and the Behyvar, don't be surprised if, come the next war, they decide to be militantly neutral and refuse to let our armies cross(which would fuck us over, cost them little and if we forced the matter they'd have many waiting allies).
We have a slight problem, veekie the Sketch wants to sell meta-green right now. Meta-green. We shouldn't choose someone who would look at meta-green and go "give me now!". The keilmyr are playing the Sketch and DC.
Meta-green would be noticed by which ever group we choose. Our ancient allies BS get my vote, if they collapse we could restore them through a blood tie.
ALL SKETCH SING HALLELUJAH TO VEEKIE THEIR BEST AGENT!
I would funny your post but I've been more aware of that sort of thing lately and prefer not to spend the voting period suspended for 'abuse'
Because dude. Are you high?
Marriage means their prince moves in as we're the greater partner. They get to write home about the strange Ymaryn ritual of bathing the playrooms in green light. They won't get shit all for the confidential stuff until the marriage
and inheritance goes through.
And the last thing they'd do is sell the idea to the Sketch, considering they're going to want their own and the Sketch are Kielmyr rivals on the sea.
The main reason the Kielmyr are being courted by the Sketch is to protect Sketch access to steel, while the Kielmyr are acutely aware that their navy would be fucked if they piss off either of Gylmaryn or the Sketch.
I'd be leaning to the Khemetri.
The obviously foreign nature of the Khemetri is offset by the fact that they are traditional allies, and have remained so for a while. Slavery is gone, IIRC.
The Kielmyr might look more like the DC, but you're hardly ever going to forget a Kiel spouse was born abroad regardless of the color of their skin.
Plus, I'm going to note that we accepted a bunch of Khemetri immigrants a couple years ago, both of Khem extraction and otherwise.
Minority, but now DC citizens.
I will also point out that we are major suppliers of iron ore +/-coal to the Kielmyr, as well as the other ores they need for specialty steels.
To the point where they invested in railways to keep it coming. That's why the Sketch disinvested themselves from the DC and instead of taking the money home, invested there as trade partners, to try to keep them neutralish in the ongoing geopolitical struggle.
Otherwise they were sliding into our orbit due to pure economic realities. The inertia still pulls them in this direction.
Thats the thing, I don't want the Kielmyr neutralish and focused on trading between both sides. I want them solidly in our camp.
The Sketch are getting Ironclads soon, so we want to snipe their source of cheap iron and steel out from under them. Put the pressure on them, make them burn more permanent assets for steel right now. Because they have no domestic production in the quantities they need, and if they need to strongarm the Hespranxer or Behyvar into getting them enough steel it keeps them distracted while we play.
As for the Khemetri case...IC we were informed that a Black Sheep(Indian, Brown) or Khemetri(African, Black) spouse would make the resultant children(1/2 Black/Brown, 1/4 Yellow, 1/4 White) too visibly foreign compared to a Syffryn spouse(3/4 White, 1/4 Yellow). I would put some weight on that.
While our culture is relatively more cosmopolitan than the rest of the Syffryn, the Upper House's Conservatives are seriously
not going to like that.
A Syffryn spouse is less visually attention grabbing in the same way.
Basically, I don't expect to keep the Monarchy for as long if we do go with the noted problem countries. Theres too many social pressure points. A Khemetri spouse is best for the NEXT generation I feel.
A Behyrvar or Styrmyr spouse pretty much ties us too strongly into future Syffrynite shenanigans on the continent.
Which has domestic political dangers after the next time we get dragged into a Syffrynite war.
And the Black Sheep remain too unstable to be a Tier One prospect.
That said, agreed on the Behyvar and Styrmyr spouse. Too hot to handle.
