A small warband of three thousand troops is sent to scout in that direction alongside some diplomats, in order to make first contact with the nation and hopefully establish an embassy and some trade.
The warband finds itself at the doorstep of a Neslait scouting post. The scouts are very alarmed by the presence of a massive warband from seemingly nowhere. They attempt to make contact in what seems like two different languages in attempts to establish communication. Three horsemen ride out in various directions to the south.
More attempts are made to find scholars, even asking some local tribes if they would accept a cash offering for their smarter members.
The attempts are relatively successful. Many scholars with good potential are gathered in one place.
Some diplomats are sent out to known tribes to improve relations.
The tribes seem glad that their more powerful neighbor has not forgotten about them.
As this happens, the new Ship technology is finished, and immediately begins to set sail to the West, South, and North.
The northern expedition lands on the large continent with little in the way of supplies. Tribes with pointy sticks observe them
hungrily. The southern expedition is caught up in a storm and sinks at sea. The western expedition runs aground at the large island to the west of Arlien as strong winds push them toward the island.
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The League completes the incorporation of the recent acquisitions. Due to the fact that these lands were technically conquered, there is increasingly federalist sentiment within the current Tertahlon rule of the League. Nevertheless, the infrastructure of these new lands has recovered by now. The new tribes will now get to enjoy the honorable politics, safer roads, superior economy, and welcoming provincial interdependence one may find within the League.
The tribes are incorporated very quickly and successfully in the economic and political realm, but a social and cultural divide exists. Over 20 years, this has developed into an estate system. Rumors of slavery existing within the nation involving citizens at either end of the whip begin to reach public discussion. The representative council is now involved in more than tepid debate about institutionalizing this system.
The SLTC (Second League Trading Company) begins to fund certain coastal villages, slowly but surely converting them into regional micro-hubs of trade. A miniscule merchant navy is invested in, and attempts are made at creating formal diplomatic relations with the isles of northeast and northwest Zoko-Niskrenok. Trade is offered as well, of course.
The conversion of these ports is reasonably successful, but it found to be quite the expense when compared to a new and unified road network in the lowlands. The trade offers are well-received.
The Senate lowers the quarantine among the capital as the plague shifts out from the city and puts some money aside to create countermeasures to combat such sickness again for those living in the city.
The Senate also sends some men out to tally up the report of the casualities that the plague had brought about before troops are gathered and moved to head west to the people around the lake as they seemed to have ignored the earlier ultimatum to join them, attempting to sandwich them from the south and east.
The death toll, while not exact, is expected between 12,000 and 21,000. The Senate's quarantine efforts, while effective in keeping disease away, left the people, including several clan oligarchs and sub-garchs feeling as if left to their own devices. Many concur the Senate may have been a mistake. While this temper cools down over time, the sentiment remains in some parts of the vast nation.
The people around the lake surrender in order to preserve their lives, but make only one demand—that they be permitted to preserve their own culture even if subservient to new administrators.
The Grithese are receptive to the offer, but don't ultimately consider it sufficient to make them join the BCU, especially given concerns over war between the Sun and Moon in the near future, and unsettling talk of unification of the tribes under the banner of the Moon. It is clear, however, that should Erinaum overcome Belenia, the Githese will be open to peaceful relations and possible friendship so long as their own sovereignty isn't in question. In the meanwhile, they wish to discuss a separate trade agreement; a number of their merchants wish to obtain exclusive rights to import a number of foreign luxuries from the far South into Erinaum, and indicate that they have already cemented a similar relationship with Belenia.
Bvatnjao, one of the three Consuls of Erinaum, comes forth to Ðanei, the capital of Griđaš. Bvatnjao expresses that Griđaš will receive those rights as well as very good representation in the BCU. Similar consuls from BCU member states also agree that their participation and loyalty will be instrumental in securing the region under the crest.
Forty years ago, consuls did not exist within the BCU, and Erinaum has made every effort to provide member states with fair representation. These consuls will allow the Griđese with similar trade deals with every BCU member state as long as they end their relationship with Belenia.
With the coronation of a new Ivek in Erinaum, the royal family begins to promise a systematic change to the representative system, adding new tiers to allow for regions to be involved with inner-ring politics.
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