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Skywalker_T-65 wrote:I think I got everyone labeled correctly (forgot to put NPC by Omnia though). If I missed/mislabeled anything let me know.

Esquire wrote:Would anybody mind if the Hellas NPC state was replaced by my Apelians? Broadly similar concepts, anyway, and that's sort of where I was picturing being. I'm not really attached to the spot if it'd cause a problem, though.

Siege wrote:

Skywalker_T-65 wrote:I think I got everyone labeled correctly (forgot to put NPC by Omnia though). If I missed/mislabeled anything let me know.

You missed San Dorado, and you slapped Omnia's text over it in such a way you made it impossible to see...

TimothyC wrote:Rogue, Shinn, E_F, & Steve:

Any interest in a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and a Pacific Severe Weather Prediction Center?

There is a saying in Champa – “Both your feet are wet”. It sums up existence in this small, densely populated country, wedged between the river and the sea. Although the frequent floods bring fertile soil, it is only three days difference between happiness and sorrow. Tropical storms are a regular occurrence and the two often conspire to leave damage, rot and disease in their wake.
As a kingdom it was obediently independent from Omnia for most of its history. During the age of colonisation, Dreisgond was permitted to establish a trading post at Madbagh, in the heart of the delta. Despite numerous attacks by bandits, the small fortified wharehouses endured. Over the next 200 years, driven by trade, teas and spices replaced subsistence cropping, factories were built and cities began to throw their protective dykes out into the country side. Windmills pumped marchland dry and peat-cutters gradually industrialised as the hungry cities demanded more and more fuel. Railways and roads snaked out over the landscape – their embankments floating on log mats and primitive pilings.
Every year, the flooding grew worse. Constrained and channelized, the mighty rivers responded to rainfall quickly; punching, not pushing, against their bounds. Dykes had closed off many areas but the water had to go somewhere, and always found a way. The drained farmlands subsided as they continued to dry and elsewhere the peat cutters had also gone below the water table, mechanical sauropods chewing out canals and ditches as they grazed the land. Worse of all were the tropical storms that battered the coast line and forced salt water up though channels and over the top of dykes. Dreisgond’s demand for tropical woods and the domestic demand for wood of all types had decimated parts of the delta mangroves. With the forest bands thinning, the energy of the storms stripped the land and the saltwater poisoned farmlands.
‘Grame sabha’ or village meetings had already developed across the delta as a method for farmers to coordinate paddy field schedules. Now, with the new middle class pushing, the Grame scaled up. Regions came together to elect a Ban’ya Sthapati - an architect responsible for designing and coordinating flood defences. The de-facto rulers, the Dreisgong merchants approved of such schemes as they opened a new potential profit source: the Ban’ya Sthapati had the right to impose taxes to fund necessary works.
And so the country muddled along into the 20th century. The church of Om periodically demanded its tithes, the Brutheran missionaries whispered of the great world tortoise and the complicated calendar of the Cham Pantheon marked the seasons. Dreisgond muskets and ships meant the Champa region suffered less in the Cocaine Wars then Umeria. Tea Plantations to the remote south were ravaged by wild eyed mountain men and that area slowly slipped back into subsistence farming. At the same time Omnian forces began training and expanding. Scouts were found loitering near the border. The merchants retreated behind their flood defences and started negotiations to allow Omnian troops safe passage through the deep south into Umeria’s hinterland. Rumours of foreign troops stripping the fat of the land sent some peasants in panic to the cities while others muttered darkly as they planted out the year’s crop.
To be continued

TimothyC wrote:Rogue, Shinn, E_F, & Steve:

Any interest in a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and a Pacific Severe Weather Prediction Center?

TimothyC wrote:Rogue, Shinn, E_F, & Steve:

Any interest in a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and a Pacific Severe Weather Prediction Center?

Thanas wrote:

TimothyC wrote:Rogue, Shinn, E_F, & Steve:

Any interest in a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and a Pacific Severe Weather Prediction Center?

Rheinland would be interested in that as well, what with Ostrheinland being at risk.

Beowulf wrote:

TimothyC wrote:Rogue, Shinn, E_F, & Steve:

Any interest in a Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and a Pacific Severe Weather Prediction Center?

Similarly, anyone else interested in a Joint Atlantic Typhoon Warning Center?

Beowulf wrote: Similarly, anyone else interested in a Joint Atlantic Typhoon Warning Center?

Beowulf wrote:Similarly, anyone else interested in a Joint Atlantic Typhoon Warning Center?

Siege wrote:We're not gonna show you how to build your own rockets, because that would we're putting ourselves out of business. We can launch your stuff for you, and we can contract with this space agency, but that's about it.

Force Lord wrote:Regarding Omnia, Granadia tried to conquer the whole of it during the Second Great World War, but it had other fronts to deal with and in the end was forced to pull back.

The other day Steve and I were throwing around some ideas. One I came up with was that the last time somebody made a genuine effort to conquer all of Omnia one PMC whose divisions were about to be overrun took a cargo ship, fitted it with radio controls, crammed it chock full of explosives, sailed it into the offending party's harbor and detonated the whole shebang, causing a frankly obscene amount of devastation. As a warning shot, you see. One that could be heard all the way back in San Dorado.

Unfortunately I haven't found the right target yet to have subjected to this Fireship Deluxe. Might you be willing to volunteer?

Steve wrote:Siege, they weren't trying to conquer all of Omnia, they were simply counter-attacking into Omnian territory when Omnia tried to take some or all of their land. Get it straight.

And FL, is that really when you want your anti-Omnian effort? Given how things were laid out, it could mean you end up on Britonia's side of the war. Aka the Losing Side.

Eternal_Freedom wrote:That seems a perfectly logical idea.

Thanas wrote:Rheinland would be interested in that as well, what with Ostrheinland being at risk.

Thanas wrote:Timothy, any objections to Hawai'i (sp?) becoming a primary vacation destination of Ostrheinland?