The Caprican expeditionary force are sent north of Rossiya Imperii to capture the gold said to be there.
The Gold's at the Rossiya Imperii/Avalonia border. You'd be a fool to send troops to there now. Besides, you already have gold within your border.
Rossiya Imperii Proposes that Avalonia and ourselves create a new mining program.
You can have all the gold at our border. I've got silver mines (at an undisclosed location), and am primarily searching for iron, which I find much more uesful than gold, in the territories north of Avalonia.
As to settlement of the territory north of Avalonia, Avalonian citizens are free to relocate there, but will have to pay tribute, and establish their own force for policing the lands, living under Avalonian law. Under those conditions, many mining companies have set up fortified minng towns in the territory. They avoid the locations of the "plague cities" where those infected with the plague went to die. Decent mineral deposits have been found, but they are not particularly profitable, however, the lumber influx into Avalonia has prompted the growth of the housing market, which is further aided by the increasing number of "barbarians" immigrating to Avalonia.
Due to Caprica's advance on the territory of Avalonia's ally, andlikely itself, the All-Enclosing-Wall has been fortified to monumentous proportions. Despite the naysaying of some, the wall remains all but impenetrable. More training and arming of troops, more weapons being made, more fortresses and walled cities. Etc. Etc. Etc. More ships as well.
A plot to assassinate the supreme leader, Hamon was discovered only moments too late. A group of five men almost killed the emperor, who was only saved by wearing armor, as well as the heroic actions of his bodyguards. One of his bodyguards fell, and is honoured in death by being buried in the royal cemetary. The assassins are clearly Caprican subversives, and the nation is outraged at the blatant dishonor in which Caprica seems to operate. Should Caprican soldiers penetrate the wall, they will have an uphill battle laying waste to Avalonia.
Storms render the cannal useless for the time being, shipment times skyrocket between Avalonia and Aemilius.
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