Nation Forge — Iron Desert [1863] — Beware the Ides of March

[Waru]

Fravath expands north east

[Ad Bot]

[Swat 3]

conservatia has no reason to hate me <3

[Mr. Hurricane]

After a long period with little to no news from Vlast, the government pays for prospectors to take mineral inventory of the country.

[CypherX]

Speaking of, where's my population after so many years and the expansion?

Swat?

Also, needle rifle formally adopted.

[Badger]

Also, needle rifle formally adopted.

Espovon requests some rifles for purchase and additionally proposes formal trade routes.

[grunterdb1951]

conservatia has no reason to hate me <3

Conservatia promptly scoffs. Also, you were offered relief efforts with the disaster. You gonna take em or save me the trouble?

Swat?

12.  You'd be between 8.3 million and 9.4 million.

[Swat 3]

also the fact that we also got hit by a tsunami that could realistically kill 90k people needs to be explained.

[Regirock]

L'zarr Ishibu writes a novel which has interviews of people affected by the disasters, ranging from the citizens of Conservatia all the way to the land of Wienza; the novel is called "The definition of a catastrophe" and he hopes that schools will read his novel to their students in the future so that they will know how people from around the continent were affected by this chain of events.

[CypherX]

rip me

Espovon requests some rifles for purchase and additionally proposes formal trade routes.

accepted

[SWAT One]

Update

New Romekate    •

Operator¹    •

Decepticon & Grúzia-Nec    •

Espovon    •

Fravath

Vlast    •

Anglond

efforts to purchase collineville continue

The Arconian government is now willing to negotiate (Steam later).

the spacetime continuum corrects itself and anglond's economy is now better because saccren never existed.

Okay, a few things.

A.  This kind of action is too retroactive.  To say that Saccren poofs out of existence is different from saying that it poofs out of history.  I want to avoid a "case-by-case" type moderation, because it lets biases sneak in.  If Romekate disappeared, a lot more history would be reversed and altered if its entire legacy and historical contributions vanished.
B.  Saccren disappearing and this action is on a moderation plane.  Swat and Jun's investments and actions are on an RP plane.  These should be kept separate.
C.  Once one moderator starts to moderate a situation, I'd really prefer if moderators would stay out of the others' business until the moderator finishes it as the action comes to a definite close.

However, I guess as a consolation action I can say this:  The mysterious and total disappearance of Saccren has resulted in a number of results, namely:
1.  Anglish debts and inflation are now wholly contained between itself and New Romekate.  Almost all assets and liabilities of the EFCC disappear (exceptions include the Anglish-based administration offices and financial dealings).  The situation produces a minor depression lasting between 6 and 10 years, depending on performance.
2.  The value of Romekate gold begins to climb slowly.  The value seems highly contingent on whether the Anglish decide to pay back its debts.

ok uh well forgetin chnge my vote from 1d = 2y until 1900 to 1d = 2y until 1910

after some time of slowing down, further northbound expansion of georgien territory starts back up once again

Will do.

Espovon works on creating better Locomotives/trains along with creating a rail network within the country, which will also include telegraph lines.

Upon announcing this, several investors wish to help fund the project.

Fravath expands north east

After a long period with little to no news from Vlast, the government pays for prospectors to take mineral inventory of the country.

Vlast finds iron and copper in the ridgelands.  Inland, prospectors find silver to the mid northwest, and lead around the area.  Other minerals such as zinc are also found in the south.  Salt deposits are found underground near the edge of the West Navaidan Shelf.

also the fact that we also got hit by a tsunami that could realistically kill 90k people needs to be explained.

• Arcon sent the Anglish government a warning, and Anglond didn't respond.  This is the number one reason for high death tolls regarding tsunamis.
• Anglond has lower coastlines especially at the mouth of the frisian river.  The tsunami hit some of Frisia itself, and wiped out a good amount of cropland.  This causes starvation and disease, which added to the death toll.
• Tsunamis typically kill hundreds of thousands.  The 2004 Indonesian tsunami killed around 230,000.  The Tsunami that hit Portugal at its height in 1755 killed 10,000 to 100,000 in Lisbon alone.

I don't see why I need to explain this.  Earthquakes tend to have high potential for disaster.  The fault line offshore of Lisbon is similar to the fault line offshore from South Anglond.  And the earthquake happened along that fault.

[CypherX]

i would not exactly call indonesia the pinnacle of organized civilization and modern thinking

nonetheless, 90,000 seems very reasonable


The Brandt "needle rifle" replaces all current musket and rifles in the Wehrmacht. It offers incredible firepower and the ability to be reloaded while in cover, easier to carry and more reliable cartridges combined with respectable accuracy, if not quite that of rifles.

A young and ambitious metalsmith and engineer by the name of Paul Maisner, with his brother Wilbur Maisner, make a bid to the Kyrevan military to accept their new "metal cartridge" version of the Brandt rifle. It is declined due to complexity, price tag and unreliability.

[SWAT One]

Of course not, but a big part of why the 2004 earthquake was so destructive was due to lack of detection and warning systems.  India got hit very hard by the tsunami even hours after it happened and suffered a lot of damages because of dense populations on the East Indian coast.  It's just an example to say that tsunamis can be very destructive.


An Arconian writer by the name of Samuel Öedergaant returns from New Romekate after nearly 24 years of traveling with the poor, and settling with them, pitching up tents with them, eating with them.  He also settles in with the upper class, the nobility, the poets, and the scholars.  He recounts his travels in three large volumes.  The first is of the geography of the land, and how its geography impacts its culture, its food, language, and politics.  The second is a comprehensive history of the Romekati people from ancient times up until modern.  The third is about folklore of the Romekati, their heritage and thousands and thousands of years' tradition of storytelling, which in their unique landscape, makes their people unique.  He finds that above all arts, the art of poetry is the most revered.  The last work, although he recorded as much as he could, includes most of the stories themselves.

The volumes' names are The Landscapes of the Romekate, History of the Romekate, and Romekati Folklore.  The three works are published in Auregge in French, Flemish, and High Romekati and its dialects.

The book becomes immensely popular to scholars, particularly historians in Arcon and to the Romekati themselves.

[Plethora]

Chancellor Walter thanks the Arconian delegation for its presence at Vjornsberg's funeral.

Vjornsberg's autobiography is published and becomes a huge regional hit, particularly a volume including his autobiography and his Gospel of Wealth equivalent bound together.

Avalonian efforts to reconstruct from the effects of the volcano continue; clearing rubble is aided by the use of the steam shovel and a willing populace.

Wealthy Avalonians begin to make more local investment as they see the economy begin to stabilize within Avalonia and abroad, and governmental taxes, tariffs, and subsidies are brought slightly closer to their normal levels.

Chancellor Walter is expected to follow Vjornsberg's example and leave politics to the next generation at the next ANA elections.  Unlike Vjornsberg, however, he did not so heavily vet any successor, and as a result there is less certainty of his protege, Karl Schmidt (moved to suspend ANA pay during depression), becoming Chancellor.  Another popular contender is Manfred Hall, a current ANA member who is best known for helping to engineer Avalonia's economic plan to exit the depression and his adherence to the stoic philosophy.  Both men are well liked as a whole, don't very particularly much on most policy matters, and have expressed their desire to uphold Vjornsberg's legacy of dedication to the Avalonian people.

[Kringleberg]

Hallstein Hallmundr's observatory is finally finished after funding was cut almost a decade ago. Grand Duke Valbrandr V attends the opening and makes a formal apology to Hallmundr for not supplying the necessary supplies and funds to him. The observatory is located on a mountain in the southeastern region of Valbrandsvåg and is currently in operation.

[Maxwell.]

all coastal towns/cities are rebuilt and the population of the affected towns/cities is brought to hospitals