Colonialisation. A forum RP. Try not to catch Malaria.

[Sobotnik]

RUSKIE?

KYRONE?

DR INSY?

ANYONE?

[MountainWatcher]

RIP colonization. There was no one to colonize you.

[Liem]

Assume the worst, I want the war with the spanish to continue. Canyouhearme? You better pray to your spanish speaking jesus

[Sobotnik]

Hell Kyrone dropped from the game.

I think some new players may be in order. Dr Insy doesn't even send in turns anymore.

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;36083959]Hell Kyrone dropped from the game.

I think some new players may be in order. Dr Insy doesn't even send in turns anymore.[/QUOTE]

Does this mean we can expect a turn soon? I'm interested in continuing this little conflict me and Liem have going.

[Liem]

Canuhearme? We should wage war, then break off from the crown and Form a new republic. Not until after I have my fun of course.

[Canuhearme?]

Was my plan to begin with as well, what with Spain puttering out. Also believe me when I'm going to have immense fun as well in this conflict, sent some stuff your way that you might enjoy.

[Liem]

"The Cookies are a lie"

[Dr. Insy]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;36083959]Hell Kyrone dropped from the game.

I think some new players may be in order. Dr Insy doesn't even send in turns anymore.[/QUOTE]

I'm sorry I had finals and still have a bad cold, just forgot about this.

[Sobotnik]

[I][b]The world runs on wheels.[/b][/I]
[b]Nova Orbis: Anno Domini 1596[/b]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/1im7v.png[/img_thumb]

Players: Liem - England (Crown Colony) - (Red)
Mountainwatcher – Portugal (Private Colony) – (Green)
Ruskie – France (Crown Colony) - (Dark blue)
Canuhear – Spain (Private Colony) – (Dark Yellow)
Dr Insy - Portugal (Private Colony) – (Dark Green)

Players are represented by a variant of the base colour of their motherland. Original base colour means this is the oldest/main colony of their nation.
Portugal (Green) (Catholic)
France (Blue) (Protestant)
England (Red) (Protestant)
Spain (Yellow) (Catholic)
Denmark (Orange) (Protestant)

[b]Interaction with areas and Kingdoms/nations outside the existing map is permitted.[/b]

Bear in mind, just because an area is coloured in doesn't mean it is extensively populated.

EVENTS OF 1592-1596

-Tulip bulbs planted by Carolus Clusius in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Holland, first flower.
-The Ottoman Empire and Hapsburg’s decide to have a nice big long war.
-The Japanese invasion of Korea fails, partly due to the use of armoured ships by the Koreans, and partly due to the Chinese coming in to help. Japanese ambitions are quashed after the siege of Pyongyang in which the invading force is crushed.
-To annoy the Serbians after they rebelled, the Ottomans burn the bones of Saint Sava.
-Groningen is captured after a 2 month siege, with it, the Dutch have full control of the Northern Netherlands now.
-St Pauls College is founded in Macau by Jesuits, the first Western college in China.
-In Amsterdam, the Compagnie van Verre is created, hoping to break Spanish-Portuguese trading monopolies.
-The Treaty of Tyavzino brings to an end the Russo-Swedish War
-The Wallachians achieve victory over the Ottoman Empire at the battles of Calugareni and Giurgiu.
-The Austrians incite a rebellion in Ottoman Bulgaria.
-The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnipro becomes known as the Ukrainian rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the authority of the Pope.
-The Capital of Poland is relocated to Warsaw from Krakow.
-Finally, to cheer everybody up, the black death returns.

Scientific and technological events.

-First voyage of Willem Barents in the Arctic Ocean in search of the North-east passage.
-Bevis Bulmer sets up a system at Blackfriars, London, for pumping a public water supply.
-John Davis publishes a treatise on navigation, The Seamans Secrets, and invents a version of the backstaff.
-Robert Hues publishes a practical treatise on the use of terrestrial and celestial globes in navigation, Tractatus de globis et eorum usu.
-Bartholomaeus Pitiscus publishes introduces the term trigonometry.
-The Fluyt, a type of cargo ship is developed in the Netherlands. It is one of the ships marking the beginning of specialised ships for military and civilian use respectively.
-Scipione (Girolamo) Mercurio publishes La commare o riccoglitrice ("The midwife"), the first text to advocate a Caesarean section on the living in cases of a contracted long pelvis.
-David Fabricius discovers the first non-supernova variable star, Omicron Ceti.
-Johannes Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum is the first published defense of the Copernican (heliocentric) system of planetary motion.
-Willem Barents makes the first documented discovery of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago.[

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_Milan.svg/300px-Flag_of_Milan.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of England and Ireland – Liem[/b]

-A mineral spring in Harrogate, Yorkshire, is discovered to have the same water properties as the waters from the town of Spa in the Spanish Netherlands.
-Queen Elizabeth 1st has a toilet installed at her palace in Richmond. She rarely uses it.
-The 9 years war begins, seeking to push the English out of Ireland.
-Sir Walter Raleigh explores Guyana and eastern Venezuela.
-Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby is found murdered. At the time of his death, he was, after his mother, second in line to the throne of England.
-Shakespeare’s plays “Romeo and Juliet”, “Richard 2nd” and “A Midsummer Night's Dream” are played for the first time.
-Archbishop John Whitgift begins building his hospital at Croydon.
-Francis Drake dies from dysentery. Oh what joy.
-The Queen has Blacks expelled from the country due to the famine, and proceeds to become even more senile as her country sits in economic stagnation.
-William Lee tries to run a knitting machine business, with mixed financial results.

[b][I]New England – Liem[/I][/b]

-A conscription drive for war against the Spanish is begun. Fields are hastily readied for the drilling of muskets and pike.
-Privateers, pirates, and various merchants/sections of the navy set up micro-colonies nearby Spanish settlements on coastlines and rivers. They quickly raid a town or village and then flee before the authorities can catch them. Some of these places are wiped out in retaliation by the Spanish.
-Biscuits are send to the Spanish admiral, they are poisoned, and his dog unfortunately dies eating them. The accompanying note asks: “What is it like in hell?”
-The economy suffers somewhat, due in part to the recent bad harvests. Many people have taken up officially sanctioned criminal activities to help in the war against the Spanish.
-Roanoke and all its inhabitants vanish from the face of the earth. The only clue is a damp wooden statue of a man with the words “Relinquere” inscribed upon it.
-A Calvinist church in Boston explodes, the blame is put down to a shifty foreigner who stacked the cellar with gunpower.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_Portugal_%281495%29.svg/320px-Flag_Portugal_%281495%29.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Portugal – Mountainwatcher. Dr Insy.[/b]

-Taxes are slowly increased, and despite some unpopularity, the people manage to keep cool for now. Emigration to the colonies also gradually increases, with the countryside slowly depopulating.

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[b][I]Companhia das Quinas Americanas - Mountainwatcher[/I][/b]

-The company advertises the colonies as a place that fleeing Catholics can settle in. A large number of French people settle in their possessions as a result.
-A ship of the newest colonists makes their way to James Bay in Canada, and sets up a whaling station along with a hunting lodge for fur trappers.
-The Florida and Tomini colonies are further expanded, with the former starting to suffer some difficulties when the local peoples begin to become severely agitated by European expansion.
-18 men are sent to the capital of New France to call the French “Exhausted Ebenezers”.
-The army and navy are expanded once more to provide adequate military and naval protection. The pirates harassing Portuguese colonies slowly move onto colonies of other nations after the navy slowly drives a number of them out.
-Manufactories for the production of textiles, firearms and other various goods begin significant expansion during this time.
-A royal mint is established in Brazil. Some of the Royal Treasury is transferred to the mint.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_New_Spain.svg/200px-Flag_of_New_Spain.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Spain – Canuhearme[/b]

-A Spanish expedition led by Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira makes the first European landing in Polynesia, on the Marquesas Islands.
-Philip 2nd recognises the rights of some local native rulers and nobles in the colonies, paving the way for some extra stability as some conflict dies down.
-New Spain is subject to increasing centralisation after a new governor is appointed.

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[b][i]The Europa Trade Conglomerate – Canuhearme[/i][/b]

-The company begins to send monetary support to Galileo, helping him continue his studies into natural philosophy.
-The Great Western Desert of America is partially mapped.
-There is massive focus into increasing mining output, with gold exports increasing.
-The company begins to state that the actual output of goods reflects wealth, and not the amount of gold. It receives a fair amount of support from some people who distrust money itself, thinking that Semites manipulate gold and the value of it.
-Armed forces are sent into the Midwest to battle the English and Natives, resulting in a number of indecisive battles and skirmishes.
-Criminal dens set up by the English are burned down by the Spanish, which manage to temporarily stop the English menace until more Englishmen arrive from the colonies and overseas.
-To deal with attacks, outposts with stables are set up to allow quick movement of dragoons. Exhausted horses can be replaced at the next one, allowing rapid movement.
-In order to stop the Pro-English Indians, the Spanish decide to have a small army march from one Indian settlement to another, killing every animal they can find and burning all the crops.
-By 1596, famine breaks out amongst the Indian groups.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg/200px-Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of France – Ruskie[/b]

-The company in the Caribbean suffers pirate attacks moreso these past few years than before, leading to a fort building program.
-Catholics begin to emigrate from France.
-King Henry finally succeeds in uniting France, and works towards reforms and eliminating dissent in order to establish religious freedom. He also works on pushing out Spanish influence, and fights the Spanish in several engagements.

[b][i]New France – Ruskie[/i][/b]

-Pirate raids begin to wreck havoc on some French outputs, but the French navy manages to chase them off sometimes.
-Imports of iron to the colonies become a regular thing, with them being fashioned into all kinds of things. Managed forests have also become established enough to permit self-sufficiency for timber.
-By now, an embassy has been opened in every notable European country. The Dutch and English accept these embassies as representing the colonies, and not France.
-The court and university establishment program is finished, and centralisation of the colonies under a single legislative system continues.
-A statue commemorating the 17 men who called the Poortuguese King a “Vehement Vardah” is constructed. By now, mini-copies of the statues begin to be sold abroad as trinkets. 17 to collect!
-Every European power now accepts trade with the French colonies, minus the Spanish and their possessions.

[b]Ecological/Economic/Social/etc events[/b]

-The 4th of a 5 year run of poor harvests, largely caused by the weather, a pattern typical of the last third of the century. This causes famine throughout Europe, which leads to food riots in Britain.
-Despite the famine and poor harvests these past few years, farming productivity is gradually increasing and food shortages can be somewhat controlled.
-The Holy Roman Empire is coming under increasing strain as the conflict between the Lutherans, Calvinists and Catholics seem unsolvable. Many states seem to anticipate a war on the horizon and have begun to prepare.
-Reading from the bible, many fanatics see that France becoming Protestant is a sign that one church will soon dominate over the others. The Lutheran majority of Donauwörth feel confident to so as to ignore Imperial Law, banning a religious procession of Catholics, prompting a riot to ensue.
-Stagecoaches are becoming an increasing nuisance to people. Boatmen complain about their loss to business to them as the world “Runs on wheels”.
-Certainly stagecoach travel is becoming increasingly popular, due in part to the declining costs of production, stronger and faster horses, their increasing numbers and rising population.
-The roads of Europe and the New World are badly maintained, with the laws usually putting the responsibility onto the residents by the road, rather than the user to aid in the cost of maintaining them.
-The Peruvian nation has managed to reorganise itself into having a stable political system.

[b]Music of 1592-1596 – Carlo Gesualdo - Moro, lasso, al mio duolo [/b]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_q3EJNUKis[/media]

Send in new turns please.

Use this format for commands.
[Quote]
Motherland actions: (Try to get investors, colonists, investor support, etc)
Exploration actions: (Where to explore, how to explore, etc)
Colony actions: (Establishment, expansion, economic focus, etc)
Foreign affairs: (Interacting with native groups, criminals, pirates, foreign governments, etc.)
[/quote]

If a new player, use this in addition.
[quote]
Nation:
Headquarters:
Company name:
Company flag:
[/quote]

Send this to me via PM.

Please send in all turns titled as "Kingdom/Company name - Turn 25 – Playername"

Playable NPC colonies already existing.

1. French Company (Blue)
2. Danish Company (Dark Orange)
3. New Spain (Yellow)

[Liem]

This is going to be fun.

[editline]26th May 2012[/editline]

also, Damned dog

[Canuhearme?]

[QUOTE=Liem;36090391]This is going to be fun.

[editline]26th May 2012[/editline]

also, Damned dog[/QUOTE]

[quote]-Roanoke and all its inhabitants vanish from the face of the earth. The only clue is a damp wooden statue of a man with the words “Relinquere” inscribed upon it.[/quote]

I think that's a warning, dude.

[Sobotnik]

Alright you bastards, we are about to enter the 17th century.

[Liem]

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;36090536]I think that's a warning, dude.[/QUOTE]
I had to look that up, There will be an aftershock

[Sobotnik]

So far, Mountainwatcher and Dr Insy have sent in their turns.

[MountainWatcher]

You can't really blame people with all these crashes and slowpunch sessions.

[Sobotnik]

Good point.

[Liem]

Where's the turn man, I have a war with the spanish to end

[Canuhearme?]

I hate to say it, but like a lot of other people in this, I've finally puttered out of interest in this RP.

That being said, it was one hell of a game. Sobotnik was a terrific GM and I thoroughly enjoyed the development of my company in the midst of everyone else's. If there's anything I'm disappointed in about this RP, in fact, it's that this will mean my war with Liem will remain unresolved.

[Liem]

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;36136281]I hate to say it, but like a lot of other people in this, I've finally puttered out of interest in this RP.

That being said, it was one hell of a game. Sobotnik was a terrific GM and I thoroughly enjoyed the development of my company in the midst of everyone else's. If there's anything I'm disappointed in about this RP, in fact, it's that this will mean my war with Liem will remain unresolved.[/QUOTE]
It appears as though our war will end in a stalemate, It was a good run. I shall let this RP rest in peace. I'm pulling out [sp]No sex pun intended[/sp]

[Sobotnik]

[I][b]Hopefully the next century will be better for religious tolerance.[/b][/I]
[b]Nova Orbis: Anno Domini 1600[/b]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/sm9ua.png[/img_thumb]

Players: Liem - England (Crown Colony) - (Red)
Mountainwatcher – Portugal (Private Colony) – (Green)
Ruskie – France (Crown Colony) - (Dark blue)
Canuhear – Spain (Private Colony) – (Dark Yellow)
Dr Insy - Portugal (Private Colony) – (Dark Green)

Players are represented by a variant of the base colour of their motherland. Original base colour means this is the oldest/main colony of their nation.
Portugal (Green) (Catholic)
France (Blue) (Protestant)
England (Red) (Protestant)
Spain (Yellow) (Catholic)
Denmark (Orange) (Protestant)

[b]Interaction with areas and Kingdoms/nations outside the existing map is permitted.[/b]

Bear in mind, just because an area is coloured in doesn't mean it is extensively populated.

EVENTS OF 1596-1600

-George Abbot publishes the student geography textbook A Briefe Description of the Whole World.
-After being separated from the main Second Dutch Expedition to Indonesia fleet of Admiral Wybrand Van Warwyck, three ships under Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck land on the island which they name Mauritius and sight the Dodo bird.
-Scotland adopts 1st January as New Years day.
-Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake for heresy.
-Christianity is outlawed in Japan, and various executions begin.
-Korea defeats the Japanese invasions.
-After Feodor 1st of Russia dies, Boris Gudenov seizes the throne, starting the time of troubles.
-The Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is dethroned by his uncle Duke Charles, who takes over as regent of the realm until 1604, when he becomes King Charles IX.
-The Battle of Sekigahara takes place in Japan, and ultimately decides the fate of Japan. The Tokugawa Shogunate establishes control over the country and ushers in a new era.
-Persia sends an embassy into Europe in order to gather allies against the Ottoman Empire.

Scientific and technological events.

-Tycho Brahe's star catalogue Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica, listing the positions of 1,004 stars, is published.
-Edward Wright publishes Certaine Errors in Navigation, explaining the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection, and giving a reference table of adjustments required for its use in navigation.
-Danish astronomer Longomontanus arrives in Prague, where he works with the Moon orbital theory.
-William Gilbert publishes De Magnete in England, describing Earth's magnetic field; beginning of the modern science of geomagnetism.
-Ludolph van Ceulen computes the first 35 decimals of pi.
-William Gilbert coins the Latin word "electricus" to describe electricity.
-Simon Stevin invents a carriage propelled by sails.
-Tycho Brahe is kicked out of Denmark, and he makes his way to Prague to continue his studies.
-William Lee improves on his automated Knitting Machine with the ability to weave silk, but the authorities fail to grant a patent to his machinery.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_Milan.svg/300px-Flag_of_Milan.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of England and Ireland – Liem[/b]

-First performance of William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
-Parliament passes an act that allows transportation of convicts to colonies.
-Refusing to take any more shit from the Irish, the Earl of Essex lands in Ireland with 16,000 men and takes Cahir Castle.
-The Globe Theatre opens in London.
-The Earl then returns, disobeying the Queen, and as a result loses much from a subsequent trial.
-East India Company granted a Royal Charter in England.
-Ulster chieftains, with the lead of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, resist the English reconquest of Ireland.
-The Poor Law is established, hoping to alleviate the worst excesses of poverty throughout the realm.
-The English decide to finally answer the Irish question by destroying all crops in Ireland, and preventing new ones from being replanted.

[b][I]New England – Liem[/I][/b]

-Some troops are imported for the war against Spain. Since the continental war in Europe is dying down, the English can afford to send more troops.
-The colony begins to ambush the Spanish regulary,
-3 cakes are sent to the Spanish, one of which is poisoned. All are burnt.
-A Spanish village is burned to the ground, a note left behind kindly reminds the Spanish that the English can do the same as them.
-Horribly crude gliders are constructed, but they can barely travel any significant distance.
-The English set about hiding cheap wooden cannon inside carts and setting them off inside Spanish settlements. Some damage is wrecked, but eventually the Spanish search every cart and put a stop to this.
-Most English warfare is guerilla warfare, doing all it can to damage the Spanish before running away.
-The Dutch offer to help in the colonial war.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Flag_Portugal_%281495%29.svg/320px-Flag_Portugal_%281495%29.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Portugal – Mountainwatcher. Dr Insy.[/b]

-A volcanic eruption occurs in Peru at Huaynaputina, killing hundreds and burying many settlements.
-The King begins to encourage the nobility to emigrate to the colonies, offering them lands.

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[b][I]Companhia das Quinas Americanas - Mountainwatcher[/I][/b]

-Various members of the nobility begin to emigrate to Brazil after titles are given to them in the colonies.
-The nobility begins to make Brazil feel just like home by putting enclosures or semi-feudal systems in place. Some even build castles to protect themselves.
-Existing colonies are further expanded, in Tomini, Florida and James Bay.
-The Brazilian Mint becomes gradually more important during this time until it is minting all the coinage for the colony itself.
-Generals begin to be formally recruited for permanent use by the colonial army.
-A ultimatum is sent to the Peruvian nation, demanding metallic ores be sent yearly. They refuse.
-A small force is sent to the French Colony to start mock battles with the French. These battles become a local attraction, and also a way to improve the fighting skills of both sides.
-A statue is built for the Exhausted Ebenezers.

[img]http://www.niggaupload.com/images/YnSlx.jpg[/img]
[b][I]Cienia of Niesmiertelni - Dr Insy[/I][/b]

-Cotton farming begins, and there is some success from growing both Indian and American strains of cotton. A local advisor suggests importing stocking frames to help with this.
-The new political and taxation system is heavily praised by the company, which appears to make the Portugese King rather happy.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_New_Spain.svg/200px-Flag_of_New_Spain.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Spain – Canuhearme[/b]

-Spanish prospectors discover the Ojuela Mine.
-Phillip the 2nd dies, and is followed by the imaginatively named Phillip the 3rd.

[img]http://www.niggaupload.com/images/EKPGT.png[/img]
[b][i]The Europa Trade Conglomerate – Canuhearme[/i][/b]

-The company decides that enough is enough, and decides that they should use their military superiority to its fullest effect by taking over a town, razing it to the ground, then marching to the next one along.
-By 1600, 6 significant towns have been captured. Some were betrayed by spies.
-To protect Spanish interests, existing fortifications are expanded or built nearby towns to hold them against the English.
-Firearms manufactories begin to be set up in the colonies to provide weapons to the colonial army.
-A letter is sent to the English, demanding that they sue for peace. The Queen refuses despite the unpopularity of the war.
-Naval convoys are set up to protect shipping. Piracy begins to die down when the English are unable to breach the convoys, and the French capture pirate vessels anyways.
-Some Indian groups surrender or broker deals with the Spanish if they agree to work against the English.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg/200px-Pavillon_royal_de_la_France.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of France – Ruskie[/b]

-Edict of Nantes: Henry IV of France grants French Huguenots equal rights with Catholics; this is considered the end of the French Wars of Religion.
-Catholic dissent is gradually and brutally put down by the state, which now has overseen the transition of France from Catholicism to Protestantism.
-The Peace of Vervins ends the war between France and Spain.
-The French King enjoys the idea of a sea free of piracy, and gives his support to the colonial navy to keep the seas free of brigands.

[b][i]New France – Ruskie[/i][/b]

-19 men are sent to the Portuguese King to call him an Indignant Inacio.
-Various trade goodies bought by the colony are sent to the King as a gift, he responds by slightly changing the taxation system so as to be more favourable towards them.
-The colonial navy sets about (With importation of even more ships) destroying every pirate they can find. This unwittingly results in the capture or sinking of English and Spanish pirates and privateers, with the monarchs fuming about how their illegal activities have been put a stop to.
-Massive naval reforms are undertaken by the company, with the majority of vessels being slowly converted into Razee-style vessels.
-With all this naval protection going on, slavers never had it better for exporting their slaves.
-Law courts have been by this stage, set up throughout all of the colonies.

[b]Ecological/Economic/Social/etc events[/b]

-Between 150,000kg and 350,000kg of silver is exported to China annually from the New World.
-Silver inflation in China has resulted in the government starting to lose huge amounts of money due to an inflexible taxation system that fails to adapt to inflation.
-The massive volcanic eruption in Peru has resulted in the ejection of ash into the atmosphere, and by late summer 1600, people are starting to notice that things are notably colder than they should be.
-Population growth in West Africa has started to significantly slow down. Many new nations have been formed or destroyed due to the slave trade.
-The world is changing. One hundred years of interaction with 2 new continents has been fruitful for many, whilst damaging to others. The Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth, The Italian city states and multiple other nations are on the point of being eclipsed by the growing colonial powers.
-Religious tensions continue to worsen in the Holy Roman Empire, to the point that the Evangelical Union and the Catholic League are formed.

[b]Music of 1596-1600 – Brabantsche Rondedans - Susanne van Soldt[/b]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iID2wmhsXgo[/media]

Send in new turns please.

Use this format for commands.
[Quote]
Motherland actions: (Try to get investors, colonists, investor support, etc)
Exploration actions: (Where to explore, how to explore, etc)
Colony actions: (Establishment, expansion, economic focus, etc)
Foreign affairs: (Interacting with native groups, criminals, pirates, foreign governments, etc.)
[/quote]

If a new player, use this in addition.
[quote]
Nation:
Headquarters:
Company name:
Company flag:
[/quote]

Send this to me via PM.

Playable NPC colonies already existing.

1. French Company (Blue)
2. Danish Company (Dark Orange)
3. New Spain (Yellow)

[b]Please send in all turns titled as "Kingdom/Company name - Turn 26 – Playername"[/b]

[Sobotnik]

Send in your turns!!!!

>:(

[Liem]

Know what, I might as well keep up with this

[Sobotnik]

[I][b]Viva a revolução![/b][/I]
[b]Nova Orbis: Anno Domini 1604[/b]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/v2lvo.png[/img_thumb]

Players: Liem - England (Crown Colony) - (Red)
Mountainwatcher – Lusoamericania (Constitutional Monarchy) – (Green)
Ruskie – France (Crown Colony) - (Dark blue)
Canuhear – Spain (Private Colony) – (Dark Yellow)
Dr Insy - Portugal (Private Colony) – (Dark Green)

Players are represented by a variant of the base colour of their motherland. Original base colour means this is the oldest/main colony of their nation. (Denmark/Netherlands is an exception.)
Portugal (Dark Green) (Catholic)
France (Blue) (Protestant)
England (Red) (Protestant)
Spain (Yellow) (Catholic)
Denmark (Dark Orange) (Protestant)
Netherlands (Orange) (Protestant)
Lusoamericania (Green) (Catholic)

[b]Interaction with areas and Kingdoms/nations outside the existing map is permitted.[/b]

Bear in mind, just because an area is coloured in doesn't mean it is extensively populated.

EVENTS OF 1600-1604

-Russian city of Tomsk founded in Siberia.
-Despite the excellent rule of Boris Gudonov, famine strikes in Russia, and Poland-Lithuania and Sweden decide to start meddling in the Tsardom.
-The Jesuit Matteo Ricci becomes the first European to enter the Forbidden City in Beijing, China.
-The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese, Danes and Spanish.
-The iconoclast and Confucian scholar Li Zhi commits suicide while in a Chinese prison, he had taught that women were the intellectual equals of men and should be given equal opportunity in education; he was charged with spreading "dangerous ideas".
-Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.
-The Dutch seize Banten, and set up a colony there.
-Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
-Internal problems within the Ottoman Empire has resulted in their expansion finally coming to an end, partly due to failure to capitalise on the military revolution.
-The Danish colony in Canada suffers major setbacks due to failed harvests and native attacks.
-Nurhaci continues consolidating his power in what is now Manchuria, leading successful campaigns against the Mongols, Koreans and Ming.

Scientific and technological events.

-Johannes Kepler observes an exploding star, and calls it a supernova.
-Johannes Kepler is appointed imperial mathematician to the Habsburg Empire.
-Pietro Cataldi finds the sixth and seventh perfect numbers.
-Girolamo Fabrici studies leg veins and notices that they have valves which only allow blood to flow toward the heart.
-Vincenzio Cascarido discovers barium sulfide.
-Galileo begins his study of falling bodies.
-Felix Plater publishes Praxis medica classifying diseases by their symptoms.
-Johannes Kepler describes how the eye focuses light.
-The Wollaton Waggonway, the earliest iteration of the railway, is built.
-The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
-The Table Alphabeticall, the first known English dictionary to be organized by alphabetical ordering, is published.
-Miquelet guns are now common.
-Other knitting machines and devices begin to be slowly developed.

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[b]Kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland – Liem[/b]

-Elizabeth decides to execute the Earl of Essex after he attempts a botched rebellion.
-Elizabeth dies, and is replaced by James the 6th of Scotland.
-With him there is now a personal union of crowns, and the old Anglo-Scot warfare finally ends.
-Walter Raleigh is locked away by the new monarch for treason.
-James continues to show his tolerant religious stance by fining people for missing church services and also writing about the dangers of smoking. Nobody takes him seriously on the latter issue.
-Hamlet is performed for the first time.
-The East India Company arrives at Aceh, seizes a Portuguese galleon and loots it.
-The Battle of Kinsale is lost, severely damaging the English hold on Ireland.
-James 1st sues for peace. He offers status quo, recognising Spanish superiority in return for pre-war borders, annulling treaties with the Netherlands, and the end of Spanish attempts to convert Britain to Catholicism.

[b][I]New England – Liem[/I][/b]

-New weapons are imported for the colonial army, such as Miquelet guns.
-Further work is conducted into gliders.
-Explorers set about charting every Spanish settlement they can find, and reporting it to the military, this helps significantly in the war effort until it is realised that the English do not have the resources to profit from this.
-The English raid Spanish settlements, and decide to capture everybody rather than burn down the settlements. These prisoners are then sent to England or prisons in the colonies to be kept for ransoms.
-The army decides the best way to rid themselves of enemy natives is to wipe them out entirely. The farmlands are burned, and with the recent cooling and failed harvests worldwide, many native groups are forced to surrender, move, or die.
-Harvests fail, and the army begins to gradually melt away.

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[b]Kingdom of Portugal – Dr Insy.[/b]

-The Portuguese are expelled from Bahrain.
-With the royal court moving to Brazil, a power vacuum results in the remaining shrunken parliament to fight for control of the country. The Spanish King Philip the 3rd seizes the opportunity to take control of Portugal and establish a personal union of crowns.
-Portugal is now controlled by the Spanish, who declare the new Kingdom of Lusoamericania to be illegal, and receives papal backing.

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[b][I]Cienia of Niesmiertelni - Dr Insy[/I][/b]

-With the regime change, this colony is now nominally hostile towards Lusoamericania.
-This colony now also part of the Union between Portugal and Spain.

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[b]Lusoamericania - Mountainwatcher[/b]

-With a number of the nobility and the King in Brazil, the King creates a parliament and declares independence from his own country. The Kingdom of Lusoamericania is formed.
-A constitution is written, promoting freedom of religion. The vast majority of the population are Catholic however, with barely anybody who is Protestant or otherwise.
-Freedom of Speech is promoted, although initially a great deal of this is made up of criticism towards the new government.
-The right to bare arms is promoted, although very few people take advantage of this. This is partly due to the relative expense of maintaining guns that really only allows for specialists such as hunters or soldiers to use them.
-The nobility making up this small parliament quickly set about Brazil informing the peasantry.
-A large number of people do not realise the gravity of the situation for a while, and then realise that what they have done is to have split from the motherland.
-Several riots ensure, partly due to the justification for this being practically non-existent and the hostility from Portugal and Spain.
-The military sets about restoring order, setting up or improving existing fortifications and sending 50 men to the French colony to celebrate independence.
-An alliance is offered to the French colony.
-A statue is built to promote independence, it fits in well with all the other statues.
-Expansion halts, and natality is heavily promoted to help the population grow. Somewhat due to this, interracial marriage becomes a bit more common as the demand for babies is driven up by a large variety of preachers and clergymen going throughout the country saying such.
-The economy takes a short nosedive after all trade is cut off with Portugal.

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[b]Kingdom of Spain – Canuhearme[/b]

-A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.
-Persia and Spain conclude a defensive alliance and declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
-Ostend is captured by Spanish forces under Ambrogio Spinola after a 3-year siege.
-Philip of Spain wishes for peace with England.
-With a power vacuum in Portugal, the Spanish King Philip the 3rd seizes the opportunity to take control of Portugal and establish a personal union of crowns.
-Brazil is declared illegal by the Spanish, and is now allowed to be attacked by Spanish vessels.
-James 1st sues for peace in the Anglo-Spanish war. Negotiations begin.

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[b][i]The Europa Trade Conglomerate – Canuhearme[/i][/b]

-Sangley uprising takes place, ending in the massacre of 20,000 Chinese in Manila.
-The company sends several thousand troops to Kinsale along with extensive naval supplies. The rebellion of the Earl of Essex and the dying queen hurts the English war effort to the point that Kinsale is lost.
-The Spanish military then sets about Ireland rallying the population with the aid of the nobility.
-Residents of the central American colonies are offered free land in the Midwest, and training in how to set up the new farms. The idea is taken up rather well amongst the population that has yet to be enslaved, killed or have died from disease.
-Slaves begin to be imported into the Midwest, partly to help maintain cotton plantations.
-A strong defensive border is maintained against further English and Native attacks. This line of wooden forts stretches across a fair expanse of land. Due to Spanish naval superiority, the English are forced inland to conduct increasingly desperate battles.
-Sugar plantations are massively expanded, of course to maintain them means more slaves. The population finally starts to massively grow as slaves are imported to replace the almost extinct local populations.
-The company sends an emissary to the English, requesting peace.
-Due to decreased harvests during these years, population growth, along with the war effort, considerably slows.
-The colonies begin to slowly become multicultural as immigrants from other lands in Europe are brought in, partly due to the population decline in Castile.

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[b]Kingdom of France – Ruskie[/b]

-France brokers a few deals with Savoy, settling some various border issues and changing the distribution of land between the two countries.
-William Lee sets up his textile workshops in France, but suffers from poor financial investment.

[b][i]New France – Ruskie[/i][/b]

-The navy spends even more time wiping out pirates. It has become rather dangerous to be a pirate in the new world now, especially as national navies seem to enjoy attacking pirates rather than other nations.
-A statue is built to commemorate the 19 men who called the Portuguese King a “Indignant Inacio”.
-Little much else happens minus development of the existing colony, legislative system, law courts and education.
-Slave prices rise steadily as demand sharply increases from both Lusoamericania and the Spanish colonies. To compensate, even more slave outposts are set up, and boost the French population in Africa into the thousands to man the outposts and forts.

[b]Ecological/Economic/Social/etc events[/b]

-The rivers of the midwest are gradually getting narrower, and have increasingly higher volumes of water as time goes on. Drainage and vegetation clearing has led to this becoming noticeable by now.
-Most pirates in the New World have been marginalised due to naval patrols by the Spanish and French which has wiped out many of them. The remainder are now on the run, or waiting for better times.
-The idea of the nation-state is gradually emerging, partially due to the military revolution of the past 50 years and various changes in governance that is seeing centralisation occur along with the weakening of the decrepit feudal system and of merchant republics.
-Monarchs are steadily becoming more absolutist, with exceptions such as Portugal or England.
-The agricultural revolution has spread throughout much of Europe, with new crops now common, new techniques implemented and many other improvements. They help to mitigate the effects of the recent cooling due to the volcanic winter.
-Cottage industries begin to grow and expand during this time, with textile and gun-making industries being the first to benefit.
-Harvests worldwide fail or come in late during this time. 2 million starve to death in Russia alone.
-With the poor harvests in the New World, the Anglo-Spanish war winds down significantly, with the natives taking the biggest hit.
-The population of Earth is around 580 million.
-Ming China begins to neglect the military and infrastructure as the money required to do so is no longer available, partly due to inflation and partly due to an underdeveloped banking system.

[b]Music of 1600-1604 – Monteverdi: Madrigal Ah dolente partita![/b]
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[Canuhearme?]

[quote]The company sends several thousand troops to Kinsale along with extensive naval supplies. The rebellion of the Earl of Essex and the dying queen hurts the English war effort to the point that Kinsale is lost.[/quote]

Well what do you know! Ireland is now well on it's way to becoming a free, united nation.

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;36194859]Well what do you know! Ireland is now well on it's way to becoming a free, united nation.[/QUOTE]

Undergoing a famine and such atm but it looks possible.

[MountainWatcher]

Come at me, spaniards.

[Liem]

[QUOTE=MountainWatcher;36194958]Come at me, spaniards.[/QUOTE]

We have a common goal friend

[Sobotnik]

SEND IN THE CLOWNS/TURNS.

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After harrasing some players, I finally managed to scrap up 4 turns. (One of which more or less consists of filler.)

[I][b]Gunpowder, treason and plot.[/b][/I]
[b]Nova Orbis: Anno Domini 1608[/b]
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/ZmIa2.png[/img_thumb]

Players: Liem - England (Crown Colony) - (Red)
Mountainwatcher – Lusoamericania (Constitutional Monarchy) – (Green)
Ruskie – France (Crown Colony) - (Dark blue)
Canuhear – Spain (Private Colony) – (Dark Yellow)
Dr Insy – Spanish Portugal (Private Colony) – (Dark Green)

Players are represented by a variant of the base colour of their motherland. Original base colour means this is the oldest/main colony of their nation. (Denmark/Netherlands is an exception.)
Spanish Portugal (Dark Green) (Catholic)
France (Blue) (Protestant)
England (Red) (Protestant)
Spain (Yellow) (Catholic)
Denmark (Dark Orange) (Protestant)
Netherlands (Orange) (Protestant)
Lusoamericania (Green) (Catholic/Protestant)

[b]Interaction with areas and Kingdoms/nations outside the existing map is permitted.[/b]

Bear in mind, just because an area is coloured in doesn't mean it is extensively populated.

EVENTS OF 1604-1608

-Australia is discovered by the Dutch.
-Tsar Boris Godunov dies; Feodor II accedes to the Russian throne. He is executed during a clumsy coup, and then replaced by Dmitri, who is then killed by more soliders. 2 more Dmitris follow and fall from power in other ways. Then Russia pretty much goes to shit.
-Poland-Lithuania begins a series of ruthless military campaigns, smashing the Swedes and ruining the Russians. Moscow is occupied by Poland-Lithuania.
-Don Quixote is published, the first novel in existence.
-Macbeth is performed for the first time.
-The Peace of Zsitvatorok is signed between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The annual tributes to the Ottomans ends.
-Andorra is annexed by France and Spain.
-The first cheques are used in the Netherlands

Scientific and technological events.

-Chartreuse is invented, a liqueur still made by Carthusian monks.
-The phenomenon of mechanoluminescence is first discovered by Sir Francis Bacon from scratching sugar with a knife.
-First recorded use of the word Chemistry ("Chymistrie") in English, in Thomas Tymme's The Practice of Chymicall and Hermeticall Physicke.
-Galileo invents a thermometer based on the expansion of gas.
-Giovanni Antonio Magini devises trigonometric tables of high accuracy.
-Giovanni Antonio Magini defends the use of astrology in medicine in his De astrologica ratione.
-Howitzers are invented, by a Frenchman. (A kind of specialised siege gun.) Their advantage lies in their flexibility of being able to change the powder charge and angle of the gun, thus filling a role between mortars and field guns.
-Johannes Kepler records the appearance and motion of a comet, later to be known as Comet Halley.
-Hans Lippershey demonstrates the first known telescope to the government of the Dutch Republic.
-The manufacture of alum is invented and successfully practised in England, under the patronage of King James, by Lord Sheffield.

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[b]Kingdoms of England, Ireland and Scotland – Liem[/b]

-Most lands gained since the mid 1500s is lost in Ireland, and England is forced to sign a peace treaty with the Spanish.
-Under the terms, England will no longer interfere in the Netherlands, and loses their claims to older territorial lands (Such as New Orleans.)
-A rival Irish kingdom forms, strongest in the south and west. England still maintains a tenuous hold on the pale. (Medieval English possessions)
-A Catholic conspirator by the name of Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up parliament with a dozen other men. The plot fails, and most of the conspirators are executed.
-Harsh new Anti-Catholic laws are enacted, and this failed plot is to be celebrated every year on the 5th of November. Catholics try to forget this rather terrible time for them.
-The English continue war with the Irish, sending more colonists to already settled areas to push out the Catholics.
-A new flag is adopted, showing the union between Scotland and England.
-A massive wave sweeps along the Bristol Channel, possibly a tsunami, killing 2,000 people
-A revolt breaks out in the Midlands against land enclosures, led by a “Captain Pouch” who claims his pouch will protect his followers. After his capture, the pouch is discovered to hold a piece of green cheese. He is then hanged.

[b][I]New England – Liem[/I][/b]

-The colonial navy is decimated, and the colonel is forced by the king to agree to the new peace settlement or face expulsion.
-After the conclusion of the war, the colony starts to import food to help feed itself.
-Colonial growth stagnates after much of the army burns many native settlements to the ground, severely damaging trade and causing civil unrest.
-An alliance is requested with New France, there is yet to be a reply.
-Mines are set up, hoping to look for gold. Instead they find iron and coal, which at least helps justify the existence of the colonies.

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[b]Lusoamericania - Mountainwatcher[/b]

-Phamplets are printed, and clergymen are sent out to preach on the failings of Portugal and of the Catholic Church.
-People become heavily divided as the King takes state control of the church, and the new country quickly splits into two factions, one supporting the King and the other opposing his recent actions.
-An alliance is proposed with the French, whom gladly accept, wishing to weaken their Spanish rivals.
-Trade begins on a large scale with France, and later, England. Both are keen to trade with a Protestant country that hates the Spanish.
-Taxes drop, and in order to make up the shortfall, mining of gold and silver is encouraged.
-People are initially quite happy that taxes have dropped, but this gradually ends as inflation kicks in, forcing the prices of goods higher. Everyone from Jewish bankers to the Spanish are blamed.
-The new country is under increasing political and religious stress.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_New_Spain.svg/200px-Flag_of_New_Spain.svg.png[/img]
[b]Kingdom of Spain and Portugal – Canuhearme, Dr Insy[/b]

-A peace deal is brokered with the English, for the Spanish side of the deal, pre-war borders are to be maintained, and the Spanish will stop trying to convert the English to Catholicism.
-Spain begins to increase spending on the military extensively, and is starting to leer dangerously close to bankruptcy.

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[b][i]The Europa Trade Conglomerate – Canuhearme[/i][/b]

-The company uses the influence and prestige gained from the Irish campaign to influence the Spanish court and monarch. Some favourable laws are passed which sees Portuguese trading deals slowly eroded away in favour of Spanish ones.
-The company concludes the campaign in Ireland, finishing by defeating several English fleets and sailing back home.
-Military reforms are enacted, seeing the army trained in the combined use of pike and shot along with an increasing emphasis on soldiers being professionals rather than part time.
-The company declares war on Lusoamericania, and sets about attacking their shipping.
-Most Lusoamericanian trading posts or forts in the East Indies are besieged and some captured, taking a long time due to the costly effort of attacking strong and well defended fortifications.
-The bureaucracy begins to expand to meet the expanding needs of the bureaucracy. (And military)
-The companies growing military force forces the bureaucracy to increasingly act like a government as taxes rise to maintain it and the armament industry is becoming increasingly nationalised.
-Indian tribes are offered food and land, and a fair number take up the offer, whilst others mistrust this and move on elsewhere or raid various areas.
-The economy continues to expand, mostly to provide the needed raw and manufactured goods to help run the military.
-The army marches into Lusoamericanian central America, and starts besieging the numerous forts located throughout the area. Some forts are eventually captured, mostly due to civil strife amongst the Portuguese rather than the Spanish military superiority.

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[b]Kingdom of France – Ruskie[/b]

-The Kingdom of France recognises the independence of Lusoamericania. Cynically one can argue they did this because they hate Spain.

[b][i]New France – Ruskie[/i][/b]

-The economy continues to diversify, mostly into cottage industries that produce various goods.
-The navy is almost overwhelmed by the collapse of order in the rest of the New World, and is forced to cover mostly their own trade rather than all vessels.
-The slave trade continues, there is a saying that the bricks of the houses of the capital city are cemented with the blood of slaves.

[b]Ecological/Economic/Social/etc events[/b]

-The ratio of pikes to muskets in most armies is being seriously debated, with questions on appropriate width or length of a unit, the ratio of pike to shot, and how to best use artillery and cavalry.
-Piracy explodes in the New World, as Spanish vessels turn a blind eye to piracy on their rivals, or even encourage it. The collapse of the English navy and weakening of the Portuguese navy also helps lead to an increase in piracy. The French navies meanwhile can barely cover anything aside from their own trade, worsening the problem further.
-Ships have begun to travel in convoys to protect themselves against pirates.
-Atheism begins to appear around this time, but is not yet a coherent idea. Most people who flirt with it call themselves “Null Fidians” or “Nothing believers”. These people keep to themselves quite secretly.
-Central Americas Amerindian population climbs to over 1 million.
-The levellers movement begins to appear in Britain.
-German states begin preparing armies and arms, making deals and alliances, fearing that war is about to break out.

[b]Music of 1604-1608 – Monteverdi - Lamento d'Arianna[/b]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKs_jIGJugE&feature=related[/media]

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[editline]9th June 2012[/editline]

I think the game is on its last legs.

I think one more turn would do us all good, and then I will declare the end. Nobody seems interested anymore, and I am practically forcing some people to play.