Shan Revan

This thread is now available in sexy high quality images. Please enjoy and thanks to Crusty Juggler for finding his dvd and making them for me. Believe it or not we take on the moniker as a joke. We do actually see ourselves as the "good guys". EDIT: More accurately at least, not the bad guys.

The Independent Republic of Orange Nations hereby declares war upon Ragnarok in defence of our many allies, the Continuum and One vision. P.S. OOC: Apologies for the poor quality of the images - had to rip them off youtube when I couldn't find my dvd P.S. Our Blood Brothers treaty with ODN is hereby cancelled. EDIT: A member kindly got his dvd out and made the screenshots, so much thanks to Crusty Juggler!

Should it be freed from its captors, I would welcome the Imperial Alliance to take responsibility for my african lands and protectorate in my stead whilst we remain underwater.

IC: "The empire supports killing things, have a good war lvn etc" OOC: Sorry. Too busy to post something worth reading.

TBB, you've been a good friend an ally but more than that you've been downright amusing. These forums won't be the same without your presence unfortunately. I'll see you in your channel.

OOC: If you like I can retcon that bit and put it in after you do whatever you want

We congratulate Dranagg on its accomplishments. We ourselves heavily rely on a geothermal power (in addition to solar, hydro and fission power), sourced from a network spanning over 1 million square kilometres (exclusion zone). Whilst our southern pacific friends bring up some good points, we trust that Dranagg has adequately addressed the issues of magma cooling, the potential for it to cause local tectonic instabilities and other issues with geothermal power.

Two days later The emperor walked with a steady determination to the press room. The time had come, with the other nations of Asia at least accepting his presence to some extent, or otherwise unable to do anything about it, there was no longer any need to placate them with a vast buffer zone. The people in this region had clearly suffered, whilst law and order and many utilities had been brought to the people in the region, they still for the most part lived in relative poverty to those within the empire proper. It was time to correct this state of semi-citizenship and lay claim to what was always truly theirs. Taking his position behind the podium he paused for a moment as he adjusted his tie and took a sip from a glass of chilled water. The press was out in force today, eager to hear the Emperor's official response to what had become a national controversy. A signal was given and the many SHD (Super High Definition) digital video cameras, a mainstay of the Naboo Media, began recording. "Ladies and gentlemen of our great nation of Naboo, in recent days our nation has suffered a great blow. Today I have come forth to make two announcements in response to the heinous atrocity commited. Firstly, to the family of the Honourable Howard Menzies, the slain Minister of Protection Zone Affairs, I post-humously award the Political Cross, a medallion awarded for excellence in service to the nation. The man faithfully served those he represented, bringing much improvement to their lives. This is shown by the love that has been displayed for him. It was long his wish that we do more for the people within our large protectorate zone, which brings me to my next announcement. Effective immediately, the Omniscient Empire of Naboo extends its political claims to its full extent, reclaiming the bounds of its North African Protectorate state. All Citizens of the protectorate state will be granted full citizenship and receive all the benefits afforded by such status. The Third Omniscient Army is currently moving in full force from Fort Omni to assist in protecting a new border and to provide assistance in this transition period. No longer shall we let them suffer for the sake of placating others, today the segregation ends." Opinion polls would later go on to show that the move was wildly popular within the empire as a whole, although met some resistance within the protectorate zone.

OOC: We're invaders for capturing the king? Whilst I can see the logic in that they think we're out to harm him etc as opposed to harbouring I don't get the invaders. Doesn't really matter I guess. Also sorry for the delay. Been terribly busy and sick. I guess sickness has overwhelmed my business so I'm spending time recovering here for a while . IC: The assassination of a minor political figure was a shock. Never before in Naboo had politicians been slaughtered in cold blood. The news reverberated all throughout the empire - the politician had been widely popular in the region, as despite him cooperating with "imperialist foreigners" he had made real progress, especially of late in improving the lives of people in the region. He quickly ascended to the status of matyr. This massively unintended backlash saw Large swathes of people demanding more from the empire. Large protests broke out both for and against amalgamation. Outside the city gates protesters picketed shouting slogans and waving signs. "We're citizens too! We deserve all the protection and benefits afforded to us just like everyone else!" exclaimed one man. "Second Class Citizens no more! We demand more. Those in the cities live luxurious lives whilst we out here live in comparitive squalor, to be sold off to any madman who should come along to claim us?!" A desperate women shouted. Elsewhere, especially on the outskirts, others rallied widely against any "occupation" of "their lands" by the "foreign invaders". These wild scenes were broadcast all over the empire as national news and as it spread it seemed everyone begun calling for the empire to finally take responsibility for its people.

It's okay, I forgive you.

Whoever came up with "Nuclear Polariferation" is getting a meddle from me. It's great. Anyway congratulations. May the plutonium's alpha decay keep you warm in the arctic frost.

OOC: Probably wouldn't have picked those guns but they'll do fine. IC: The governer of the Naboo African Territories (NAT) sat down to a large incident report on his desk. The past few days had seen an an unexpected increase in anti-naboo partisans within the protectorate zone. So far the casualty toll had racked up to 76 people dead or wounded. Many of these were soldiers, but about 2/5 were innocent civilians cought in crossfire. Of particular concern however was the ambush on the military convoy. Whilst small attacks such as these happened from time to time, the use of an e-bomb was unprecidented. 11 soldiers were killed in the attack and 15 more were wounded. These were all fresh recruits heading out into the desert to a training camp. It reported an increase in foreign propaganda, likely from republican "terrorist organisations" in the outer territories, where these events had all occured. Closer to the regional capital, people were far less susceptable to the influences. In response to the attacks, the governer ordered the regional defcon to jump to level 3. More soldiers were brought into active duty and modifcations to convoys were made to make them more resiliant to small EMPs as generated by e-bombs and were now to be escorted by gunships and a couple of tanks. Meanwhile, a grand investigation was begun, many intelligence assets were re-tasked to the investigation. The e-bomb meant that whoever did this, had good connections. The investigation had revealed that the e-bomb used to attack the convoy was in fact made by Naboo. The particular warhead had been sold to one of the earlier incarnations of Franzharia. It's frequent instability had apparantly allowed for some of the munitions to go missing - a worrying thought. Once the paperwork had all been finished, and he had attended his many meetings, the governer finally got a chance to ponder the situation. "Similar attacks have been an ongoing problem in the outlying regions, where the empire's influence was minimal. It is only here that the terrorists are able to cause problems. The solution then is to bring them fully under our influence. We tried to give them relative autonomy, that clearly hasn't worked all that well. The only reason we even did that in the first place was to appease the Pan African Coalition of the time. Perhaps it is time to claim what is rightfully ours." he mused. Staring into space for what seemed an eternity, the old man picked up his phone and pushed the intercom button. "Mrs. Hayley (OOC: no relation to the leader), would you please get the emperor on the line, I wish to discuss an idea with him..."

Naboo's presence in Africa had, since it had aquired the land in the first place, long been called an example of the Empire's imperialism. They certainly had a point with it too. Naboo was by no means an african nation, and its african terriroties had a vastly different culture than that of the rest of the continent. For all intents and purposes it was a colony. The perception of imperialsm wasn't helped by the large military presence maintaned within the region. The Third Omniscient Army could probably conquer most of the continent alone, or at least could have when it first arrived. The large naval base allowed the empire to maintain a very large fleet within the Atlantic. Comined with the several large airbases, It's strategic location also made it an excellent staging ground for invasions into Europe, as has been shown be its use as such.the whole region was a centre of power projection into the western hemisphere for the empire. Despite all this, for the most part the Empire had only benign intentions for Africa and particularly her posessions. Infrastructure had increased dramatically, health services improved, standard of living as a whole shot up for the whole region. The territory served as a massive trade hub between the empire and the world so it made the entire region very lucrative. There were however still quite a few people lying outside the empire's borders who saw nothing but a foreign devil in their lands. An cancer to be excised. They refused to acknowledge the great benefits that these "foreign devils" brought to their region. In some cases they outright damned them as being detrimental, even as they themselves enjoyed the benefits. Under the command of General Haysley, relations with what is now the successor state to the Republic had gone from low to abysmal. His obvious despisal of foreign entities trickled down and the nation as a whole had become a breeding ground for those plotting to harm the empire. The stage was set, all it needed was a trigger. It came in the form of an offhanded remark by the leader, in an interview for the local press. A misplaced comment, calling for more immediate action to end imperialism on the continent was the spark.

Believe it or not but a regular ZI is still probably by far the most common type of ZI in pretty much every major alliance. It's just not controversial anymore, or at the very least, minimally so compared to their longer named brothers and as such gets no "airtime".

Perhaps you remember me, perhaps you do not. I'm typically not one to make a fuss about myself. I have however been around the block long enough to witness a different era of CN that is shrouded in distorted mythos and stood upon an impossible pedestal as something to be revered; and as this thread has shown, you have been deified by the community and distorted to fit a variety of messages. I fully expect you to dash a good deal of these expectations and do things your own way - I wish you the best of luck with what you do. Whether or not you follow the often conflicting paths desired of you, there is one thing that I feel will hold true, wherever you go, a commotion will follow.

For clarification, IRON is following the same policy as NPO in regards to surrendersand will respect nations surrendered to NPO. NPO is responsible for taknig care of surrenders since they're the ones messaging them etc.

Your intel - it is outdated.

Dear MadMonkey, I appreciate your concern for my alliance however it seems our sources are better placed. We have been informed that NPO is coming for us since about GWI. Kindest regards -Shan Revan, IRON Councillor.

Still cooperating with his allies, it was time to bring the world closer to a nuclear winter. Four nuclear warheads soared into the sky, if all went well they would target four key supply and reinforcement lines to the german front within prussia. Another two strategic thermonuclear warheads were launched at the prussian capital and finally, six powerful pure fission warheads, more commonly known as neutron bombs were directed towards the main points that the 800,000 strong reserve had rallied to. If all struck it was expected to cripple supply lines, atleast temporarily, ensure that the capital was dead and remove a large portion of their ability to bring reserves to the front. EDIT: ooc, 12 nukes, 6 days, wrc.

Please change the colour of Japan from brown(whatever it is) to gold or something similar.

Revised version. isolation less strict - dutch allowed greater interaction and minor immigration. Mathew Perry storms tokyo and forces the isolation to end. European (Dutch) intervention ensures fairer treaties are signed, mostly to preserve their wealthy trade. Pacific war progresses as normal until the allies begin seriously going on the offensive. Sometime in 1944, Japan accepts a conditional surrender that protected the Emperor as sovereign and allowed them to keep most of their pre-war borders. As they surrendered before the allies could attack their homelands, none of their infrastructure or home population was damaged leaving only the casualties up until the point they surrendered. They became a vassel state of the CSA in all but name for the next few years. In an effort to further enable the CSA to project power from japan, large sums of money were invested into modernising the nation and new technologies were shared, most importantly nuclear related technologies. However this is shortlived, as the CSA goes into a massive recession in the mid 50's and prematuraly grants full independence as it can no longer afford the expenses associated with maintaining the status quo. The global crisis in the only now just recovering global economy caused many great nations to collapse into anarchy or take on new form, whilst others grow from nothing. In the resultant Chaos, Japan receives a great influx of immigrants (about 70 million people to date) as it was one of the few stable places and had a relatively booming economy.This immigration has since subsided significantly from the dramatic spike at the start however immigration continues even now despite rising overpopulation concerns. With the new freedom, and the large investments in both industrial and technology sectors, Japan's economy took off, peaking in the 80's to 90's, slowing down considerably in the 2000's but stabalising and consolidating itself as one of several great economies in the world. total pop: ~246 million, ~82million of foreign descent, mostly first, second, or third generation immigrants

OOC: Actually at the time of the bombing there were about 255,000 people living there. EDIT: For Horishima It killed about 80,000 of them directly. By the end of the year the toll had risen to between 90 to 140 thousand by radiation etc. If you look here, you'll see that despite the difference in yeild, the explosion wasn't significantly larger. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comparat...eball_sizes.svg Don't get me wrong, nuclear warheads are powerful - really powerful, but they're not THAT powerful (unless you start using rediculously large ones)

Since for the most part most major events upto the end of WW2 seem fairly solid,I was thinking something allong the lines of this Willing to adjust it to suit other RP's a bit. Replace names where appropriate (whatever the equivalent to the USA happens to be

OOC: Sorry I've been rather busy last week or so with work. On the weekend I'll start doing more stuff. Also if you could change my nation colour to gold or something similar I would appreciate it. Please avoid pastel colours!

Heh. Yes. I agree. There needs to be some kind of CN old people club.