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And fundamentally, Orion is yours and exists primarly as your image, so it ain't important.
Simon_Jester wrote:Orion is not mine, Orion is Eternal_Freedom's.
My nation is Ohio, the same name as the river and the American state, and with the same root origin (a Native American word for "the good river").
That said- you can argue there are parallels, and you're not wrong to do so... but by the same token you could argue that there are parallels between medieval Japan transitioning into and through the Tokugawa period and the very same 17th century France that I'm using for inspiration. Ultimately, all three nations are linear combinations of the same underlying variables- a large nation in the process of becoming a modern state, emerging from a fundamentally medieval order into the gunpowder era, dominated by a central monarchy.
Within your 'inland sea' (the Chesapeake Bay) a fleet of galleys have some interesting strengths and weaknesses against conventional ship-rigged vessels. There are a lot of shallow areas in the Bay and numerous rivers letting into it, and an oceangoing sailing ship cannot safely travel through those shallows or up those rivers without high risk of running aground. A shallow-draft fleet of oared warships has its advantages in such a scenario. Moreover, the wind is rarely all that favorable on the Chesapeake because the Bay runs north-south while the prevailing winds often blow east and west.Abacus wrote:Alright, I'll just use flintlocks. Some picture references I'll be using are going to have matchlocks in them, however.
As for ships of the line...I wonder how (the appropriated) [Korean-made] turtle ship would fair against one. It's a smaller target, armed with cannon, and able to maneuver by oar as well as by sail...
I have the impression that I'll need to rely further on magic than may be intended at some points... >_>On the other side of the coin, though, it's going to be very hard for you to match the sheer volume of big-gun firepower aboard an Orion warship. Being able to outmaneuver them at will and go wherever you please does you only so much good if you are outgunned in all places.
I had my own ideas for how the Confederated Republics would counter that, but it is now your problem to research and work out independently.![]()
Assuming you're trying to tie into my ENTIRELY OPTIONAL deep history draft which you are, I repeat, free to totally ignore...Abacus wrote:As far as the history of my nation is concerned, I'm going to have it a bit of a mystery. They know names and vague ideas, but in actually it seems as if a lost Atlantean noble house or group of refugees fled to this new continent and assimilated with the local indigenous population.
If we stick with my 'deep history,' you are in fact right on top of the remains of what used to be a fairly prominent Atlantean colony state, Phoebus. Which got the ground lowered out from under it and sank into mud during the Atlantean Civil War, in the same event that turned the lower valley of the Susquehanna River into the Chesapeake Bay. There is very, very little left to indicate that it ever existed, most of which is under ten or more meters of sediment and water.This ruling family created what would become the Imperial Family, apparently having made some form of pact or agreement with a deity that now slumbers beneath.
I mostly forgot to mention you because you don't occupy a lot of land. If you weren't coming back, you didn't leave a hole in the map, and I was trying to tip off Abacus about holes in the map that he might fill.Dark Hellion wrote:Hi, kinda realized that this is running again. I have time again for the next 2 months to maybe participate a bit more. After that I will be student teaching which will probably kill most of my time.
I was (and kinda still am) playing the Concordance of the the Nine, a race of dragons who tend to be overly enigmatic. Simon forgot to mention me (shame on you Simon)...
No no no... I didn't want to run a city. I just wanted to know what the city was named. You can do as you please, I just want the name of a major seaport in your region.Abacus wrote:No worries, I'm typing everything up in an Open Office doc, so I can reference and edit it until I'm satisfied (which will be never).
As to your first post, yes, I did catch the part where you wanted to have a city-state on the Atlantic coast, near Chesapeake. Since I'm controlling the entire bay and most of that little peninsula, I've moved them a bit more outwards and to the north -- so they're on my border...
I deny any modship; I'm just obsessive-compulsively informative and very talkative.There's likely to be raids/conquest attempts against them from various warrior clans within my nation. I had noticed that you seemed to have a developed timeline, and since you're effectively the mod for the game, I decided to use it a bit. But that's more of a historiographical perspective and won't have any true bearing on the present day.