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You decide to Issue the Codex of Training Regimen, upping up both training and recruitment standards. The officials and officers alike are ordered to prune the useless mooks from the Army.


You receive report on the pruning - indeed, many thousand recruits and lowly soldiers have been expelled, and even few officers shared their fate as well.

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Numerical value of the Army has been readjusted to 6

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Good news fill the palace; Bjeda gave birth to another child! It's a girl this time, and the proud mother named her 'Eiri'.


You hear that the Damdamian system has further collapsed this year; numerous states in the north are biting each other faces off, the underage Empress is unable to rein nearby states in, two republics in the far south declared themselves independent, and more margraves consider declaring themselves Kings of their own domains, like Kingdom of Rucus did.


Silver and gemstones arrive in your Treasury. The shipment of gold, the last one ever, arrives with a letter from King Shapur of Parsia, in which he praises your skilled leadership.

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Finally, quality glassware sold for much profit this year! Peoples were also made happier for having access to such quality goods.


A giant has appeared during a blizzard in northern Donuth and begun to lay waste to nearby hamlets!

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As your courtiers are shouting at each other about what to do, the anxiety causes you to order them to 'find a solution' while you retreat to your lovely chamber of study. Yes, this is where you-

*KZZZZTTTTT*

You're Houlandin, son of Cyl, heir to the Imperial Throne of Methiant!

Your father did it again. In middle of extremely important meeting to discuss a calamity, he fled the chamber, presumably to hide in his study.

But it is prime opportunity for you to assert your authority to the nobles before you even ascend! Therefore, you decide to...

A) Hire some lvl30+ adventurers to slay the uninvited guest.
B) Ask them to ignore the giant, because it will surely wander off on its own
C) Send the Army to pulverize the giant with Thundercats.
D) Proclaim that you will personally challenge and kill the giant in a duel!!

MILITARY EDICTS:

Matters of military hierarchy, philosophy of war and development of military tech.

Issue the Codex of Training Regimen:
A set of efficient (and slightly draconian) requirements and practices of training to ensure that the Army gets only the best recruits of them all. This will make the Army much better in combat, although there might be a problem to fill yearly recruitment quotas sometimes.

Establish the Shadowranks:
Politics often involve underhanded tactics. A castle full of commoner staff and visiting foreigners just asks for a disaster to occur. Let's have the military form a professional division of most loyal of soldiers, who would protect the Emperor, his family and important state officials, during the day, night, war, peace, revelries of festivals and monotony of daily life.

BUREAUCRATIC EDICTS:

Matters of administration and government.

Expand Primogeniture Law:
A string of bad luck can render a monarch without a male heir or cause succession debates. Rather than risk some unpleasant consequences of such a situation, it might be better to allow a skilled female to ascend to the throne, especially if she is as good at matters of the governance as any other ruler.

Issue the Bill of Rights:
A standarized code of basic laws of the common peoples. Even if peasants will have nothing else left, they will always have their basic freedoms, helping ease their minds in times of emergency - and perhaps allow the spirit of liberty and humanism to blossom (for good or worse).

Enact Settlement Policy:
Guarantee that those willing to settle in previously undeveloped lands or territories yet unclaimed by any nation will be given a certain amount of money to help further their effort. However, this might cause a severe drain on the Treasury, especially during times of sudden, mass migrations to the countryside.

Establish Religion Tax:
Various congregations are given away territories and various tax exemptions for those. With erosion of religious influences upon the state, its prime opportunity to dip our hand into prime source of income that is donations and tithes gathered by those numerous cults present in the empire. It will surely not please them, and, by extension, your subjects.

CULTURAL EDICTS:

Matters of religion, culture and art.

Establish Calendar of Festivities:
Rather than throw a festival every few years to celebrate a bontiful harvest, let's instead establish a cyclic and stable calendar of state-sponsored festivities for the whole year. This will cause a drain on the Treasury, but hey - people love festivals!

Endorse State Patronage of Arts:
To help develop the nation culturally, set aside certain amount of budget money to sponsor sculptors, poets, musicians and painters. It will be a constant drain on the Treasury, but think of how prestigious your nation will become, what with those masterpieces of art popping left and right!

Establish The Royal House of Learning:
Scholars scribbling down books in secluded libraries and scriptories should be a thing of the past! Let's instead establish a centre of learning, where those of intellect can exchange ideas and educate those willing to learn. It will help the nation develop technologically, although maintenance of this beacon of enlightenment will obviously require yearly costs.

REVOKE EDICT: Revokes a previously implemented edict, either to cut spending, appease some disgruntled subjects, or both. On the other hand, it might tick off some other peoples, potentially causing a deadly cascade of discontent.

Late Spring, 1135 AD: Established the Fireblood Court:
Creation of a specialized military branch devoted purely to development of Fireblood arms to ensure they are aplenty and of best designs around. This will allow to centralize the production, research and budgeting of Fireblood weaponry rather than having some errant alchemists and engineers running around, trying to make things happen.

End of Year 1135 AD: Proclaimed Religious Equality:
Travelers, merchants, immigrants; they all bring new beliefs and philosophies into the country. Rather than fight those foreign influences, it might be best to allow all peoples free worship on equal level no matter the size and beliefs of the congregation, to help all different worshippers achieve a certain degree to harmony and peace.

End of Year 1139 AD: Established Recruitment Offices:
Mandatory training for youths is a good thing, but after bloodier-than-usual wars, there might be shortage of men to replenish the ranks. If we were to expand on the royal bureaucracy to include offices for traveling civilian recruiters and offer citizenship grants for mercenaries and travelers looking for a new home, our Army could refill its ranks much faster.

End of Year 1140 AD: Established The Council of Statesmen:
Creation of a small council of governmental officials who will be tasked with helping the government run smoother alongside traditional advisors, and, of course, the monarch himself. This will help strengthen the Imperial Authority, even in dire times, and help pass edicts quicker, although giving even more political power away from the throne than in the past might become a source of troubles one day.

End of Year 1142 AD: Established Passage Tax:
All those travelers, adventurers, merchants and others are moving through the country for free! Let's establish a tax for those entering and leaving our country - this will earn us nice profits each year, although it might slow down immigration and convince some merchants to seek passage through elsewhere.

End of Year 1146 AD: Established Diplomatic Corps:
Creation of a small but highly professional cabinet of diplomats and ambassadors that would visit neighbouring countries on regular basis to strengthen ties with nearby rulers and their nobles, and maybe even develop favorable treaties with them.

So by sector 3 I had 6 crew and decent Red Tail in my control, with mind control systems even. Was all and good and fun.

Then we stumbled across an Automated Rebel Scout... with 2 shields, 2 beamdrones, a burst laser and some other laser too.

First, the lasers took out my shields on first try, then the beamdrones caused fires and further system damage (including doors and engines). While my crew scrambled to get anything fixed, the shieldless ship was getting torn by the beamdrones.

33hp or so gone in less than a minute. And boom, the ship is gone. DAMN YOU REBELS!!

You agree to send the letter to Cydwyllian monarchs. Getting family closer together always has benefits.


With all the rebelling and rioting having gone quiet lately, the murmurs about an expedition in Orcworld show up. Both the army and the scholars wish to explore more of this strange new world, but there's still the matter of destination; the green lands in the east, or southernly direction, where Ur-Uk might be?

A) We should explore the east more vigorously.
B) We should concentrate on the southern areas.
C) No expeditions please, we need to protect the portal.

H12, toss Spear at sniperino

You decide to sponsor the festivities that your subjects desire.

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After so many wars and other unpleasantries, they're doubly grateful for the celebrations! Your subjects' mood definitely improved, and the priests say the gods were equally pleased, too.


The news coming from the north, about Helliste's riches, have tickled your nobles in the wrongest of way - with jealousy.

The tales of fat merchants sipping on sweetest drinks and wearing most delicate of Gan Minsong fabrics, with marvelous new house pets in their hovels and glittering gemstones adorning their jewellery do that to people. But jealous nobles are grumbling nobles, and grumbling nobles are nothing but trouble.

A) We should start buying some of these eastern luxuries from Hellistes at once!
B) We have plenty of shiny things, amassing even more would only lead to decadence.
C) We mine a lot of ores and other things, mayhaps we can negotiate an exchange with the Hellistes?

I would like to point out my comment about the scroll before this last one, where it said our authority went up, but the number did not change. Was that an error, or just poorly chosen flavor text?

By indecision with comet thing, you guys suffered another -1 to authority in 1149. So by the end of year it was -2, personal rebellion fixing brought it back to -1.

Also, 5 votes each, bleeeeh.