The Disunited States of America - A colonial-era RP - Games

Gonna need MA soon so I can get the turn done as soon as I can. Yesterday they told us at work that we're looking at a huge special order from our warehouse next week and probably will be having 10-12 hour work days every day. Odds of me being able to work on any turn will be very slim, so I want to try to get it done by Sunday. Don't be surprised if you don't see me online very much next week. [editline]8th February 2017[/editline] Just PM me here on Facepunch anything you need, I'll get to it when I can. [editline]8th February 2017[/editline] Got all turns, I'll try to work on them as quickly as I can.

good on you lad. i wouldn't be able to write turns with 10-12 hour days, and i like what you've gotten out so far in fact i don't even with 0 hour days but i try not to dwell upon that

Forgot to mention this: The states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and every single state north of them has already technically abolished slavery. A majority of them have banned slave imports in the 1780s and all but I think one has made a law that when a slave grows to a certain age, they are automatically freed (general age of being 25) while others made law that the child of a slave is not a slave. I do not remember which state was which, it wasn't a single webpage that told me this, I had to go look individually for each state's information. Despite these policies, much of it was not enforced and so slavery in the North didn't really meet its end until the 1820s. Just thought this would be useful knowledge for the northern players who may want to abolish slavery outright or legalize it further. [editline]9th February 2017[/editline] I also have 3 turns written out. Progress is being made, albeit slowly.

I am being very progressive in my own country. Slavery is being abolished * * (terms and conditions apply)

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51799126]Forgot to mention this: The states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and every single state north of them has already technically abolished slavery. A majority of them have banned slave imports in the 1780s and all but I think one has made a law that when a slave grows to a certain age, they are automatically freed (general age of being 25) while others made law that the child of a slave is not a slave. I do not remember which state was which, it wasn't a single webpage that told me this, I had to go look individually for each state's information. Despite these policies, much of it was not enforced and so slavery in the North didn't really meet its end until the 1820s. Just thought this would be useful knowledge for the northern players who may want to abolish slavery outright or legalize it further. [editline]9th February 2017[/editline] I also have 3 turns written out. Progress is being made, albeit slowly.[/QUOTE] Here are the real life dates for the beginning of gradual abolition, or the institution of instant abolition, for the Northeastern states that abolished slavery around this time. Also, the slavery really ending in 1820 thing is just because the slaves who were already working as slaves continued to be slaves and didn't die out for decades. Gradual abolition: Pennsylvania (1780), New Jersey (1804), New York (1799), Connecticut (1784), Rhode Island (1784) Instant abolition: Vermont (1777), Massachusetts (1783), New Hampshire (1783) This means that unless the timeline has been altered in a way you haven't written, New York and New Jersey have not prohibited slavery at all, and there are still slaves around in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

Very helpful. Odds are that if we reach each year, the states will abolish it gradually as they historically did, with the exception of New York because New York is a player.

Four and a half turns finished (nearly five), over halfway done.

good lad

2 more turns to go. Looking over what I've written so far and with the previous turn, did not realize how many gold rushes are going on in the south :v: [editline]16th February 2017[/editline] I also finished up the map, so as soon as I finish writing for the Cherokee Nation and NY, it'll be out. Thinking some time Saturday, but may shoot for Friday night if work isn't as atrocious as it has been the past few days.

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51831507]2 more turns to go. Looking over what I've written so far and with the previous turn, did not realize how many gold rushes are going on in the south :v: [editline]16th February 2017[/editline] I also finished up the map, so as soon as I finish writing for the Cherokee Nation and NY, it'll be out. Thinking some time Saturday, but may shoot for Friday night if work isn't as atrocious as it has been the past few days.[/QUOTE] Saving the best for last I see :smug:

I think the Cherokee and NY are going to be the last every turn. Cherokee because I have to do the most reading about (no knowledge of their history, let alone around this period) and NY because you write so much in your turn :v: [editline]16th February 2017[/editline] I am doing my best to refer to each state as a "country" or "republic" but I find it incredibly hard to not type "state" before or after the name of each place. I do it without thinking :s:

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51831641]I think the Cherokee and NY are going to be the last every turn. Cherokee because I have to do the most reading about (no knowledge of their history, let alone around this period) and NY because you write so much in your turn :v: [editline]16th February 2017[/editline] I am doing my best to refer to each state as a "country" or "republic" but I find it incredibly hard to not type "state" before or after the name of each place. I do it without thinking :s:[/QUOTE] "State" can also refer to a country of its own, like "the French State" or "the Russian State", etc.

I know, but when you say "state" next to "New Jersey", you don't think of it as a synonym for 'country' so I'm trying to steer away from it. I just didn't realize how automatic it was to refer to them that way.

you'll probably have to read less and less about cherokee history as time goes on, for i intend to make it

Still two turns to go. However, have some [B]previews:[/B] [quote] [B]Layout of Fort Liberty on the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia[/B] [img]https://www.nps.gov/fomc/learn/historyculture/images/Fort.gif[/img] [/quote] [quote] [B]An incredibly skilled painting of the Republic of New York's naval fleet under construction[/B] [img]http://medias.photodeck.com/caf030a4-6681-11e0-954f-0d89b8f5398f/cbpictures_20081022_038_xgaplus.jpg[/img][/quote] [quote] [B]Artistic rendition of the great frigate being built in Boston, MA[/B] [img]http://www.nhptv.org/wild/images/colonialship.jpg[/img][/quote] [quote] [B]Drawing of Cherokee Nation vanquishing the Franklin Republic in a South Carolinain newspaper[/B] [img]http://www.heritage-history.com/books/guerber/thirteen/zpage139.gif[/img][/quote]

[QUOTE][B]An illustration of a [I]Quercus cerris[/I] in the region of Metropotamia, near Fort Detroit.[/B] [IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/8tAdPK.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/XUzQJin.jpg[/img] [i]Get in the car paleskin, we're going for a ride.[/i] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuFSv2bLa8&feature=youtu.be[/media]

:excited: :hypeisreal:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/3AZHw4J.png[/img] [quote][u][b]World Events in the Year of Our Lord One-Thousand Seven-Hundred Ninety One[/u][/b] -The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act 1791, splitting the old province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada. -A bloody riot breaks out in Pensacola between English residents and the Spanish colonial government. What started out as a peaceful albeit rowdy protest became a violent as the Spanish garrison went into the city to disperse the crowds, only to be met with musket fire. After two days of riots, the garrison suppressed the city though remain weary and never leave the fort in small numbers afterward. -The National Constituent Assembly of France accepts the recommendation of its Commission of Weights and Measures that the nation should adopt the metric system. -An ordinance is written barring the game of baseball within 80 yards of the Meeting House in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. -Famous Revolutionary Hero Thomas Paine publishes the first part of [i]The Rights of Man[/i] -The Republics of Connecticut and Rhode Island form a military alliance, dubbed "The Yankee Coalition" for self defense against larger states and empires across the ocean. -The French Legislative Assembly replaces the National Constituent Assembly in October, while a number of noble families begin to flee the country. -Pennsylvania passes a law allowing the colonization of the Northwest Territories directly west of the Allegheny, much to the disapproval of Connecticut, who still claims the land, and of Virginia who passes a similiar bill. -A slave rebellion breaks out in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, Hispaniola. By the end of the year, over 4,000 whites have been brutally killed and over 100 plantations burned to the ground. Many citizens of the southern American Republics grow weary and alert over the dreadful news of Negroes taking arms. -Due to the colony of Saint-Domingue's conflict, the price of coffee soars and sugar soars as the island is home for a vast majority of the world's production of both. -Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies at the age of 35 [b]Music Of The Year 1791[/b] [video=youtube;Zi8vJ_lMxQI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8vJ_lMxQI[/video] [/quote] [quote] [b][u]Player Involved Wars[/u][/b] - [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/CJ6XlE3.png?1[/img] [b]Republic of New York - Native Hunter[/b] [b]President:[/b] Alexander Hamilton [b]Capital:[/b] Albany [b]Largest City:[/b] New York City [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Presbyterian (or) Methodist (Could not find absolute evidence of either one being dominant) -Continuing talks into the new year, NY Ambassador John Jay and the British government come to a finalized agreement over the differences between each country. The border between the republic and the northern British colonies is set along the St Lawrence River and a payment plan for New York debts to London has been set. -Before John Jay leaves Europe, he stops by at Amsterdam to set a free trade agreement between the Dutch and New York, helping sell the American republic's textile products and pelts from the interior. -As fear of British pressing of New York sailors subsides, the port of New York begins to flourish. Large shipments of wild cherries and their seeds are imported where new farmers along the upper Hudson River hope to farm them for wine and good lumber. However, some shipments fail to make it from the Ottoman Empire having been plagued and captured by corsairs along the Barbary Coast. -By early spring, President Hamilton secures trade deals with the Republic of North Carolina and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. With cotton from the southern republics making their way from Norfolk and New Bern into New York ports, the government helps industrialists and prospective merchants expand a number of textile mills throughout Long Island. -With trade and diplomacy with the outside world settles by mid year, President Hamilton turns the government's eye toward the interior of the state. Roads are built from Albany toward towns and settlements along the Hudson and westward, while surveyors are commissioned to map out the state's western regions with the prospect of finding a waterway or future canal from the Great Lakes to the Hudson. -Hoping to maintain friendly relations with the Iroquois Nation, Indians living within New York's boundaries are given citizenship to the republic and government envoys to the tribes are often met to keep good will. Soon after, General Philip Schuyler appoints a number of Catskill Sharpshooter units to train themselves with Iroquois warriors in techniques of war in forested areas. Later on, the Army of New York moves away from its US roots and adopts a green-brown uniform like the trees of the state. -As the western regions of the state are secured for Albany, a group of wealthy businessmen and frontiersmen form together the New York Great Lakes Trade Company, based along Lake Erie. Their goal is to tap into what they believe is large potential for exploiting the pelt and skins trade throughout the Great Lakes. Networking with the Courtenay Land Company, a large shipment of beaver pelts make their way from the far west to New York City with help from the GLTCo. -While wealth from the west goes into NYC, the government in Philadelphia becomes aware and angry with Albany cutting them off from the northern lakes. -By year's end, the sloop-o-war NYS Hudson makes its maiden voyage into the Atlantic, much to the delight of President Hamilton and Admiral John Paul Jones. The two 28-gun brigs, newly dubbed NYS Orange and NYS Holland, are hoped to be finished by February of next year. [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/WFG3jIA.png?1[/img] [b]Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Griffster26[/b] [b]President:[/b] John Hancock [b]Capital:[/b] Boston [b]Largest City:[/b] Boston [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Anglican Puritan -Being the heart of the rebellion in 1776, the government of Massachusetts votes to support the Haitian slave rebellion in the West Indies. Despite protests from the French and Spanish governments, a number of commonwealth ships arrive at Port-de-Paix to deliver guns and powder. Most arrive without issue, however later ships encounter French vessels under command of the Haitian governor firing upon them to deter their cargo from reaching their destination. -Despite the support of the slave rebellion, on all other matters Boston and Paris continue their friendship as President Hancock moves to accept the new constitutional monarchy in France. Seeing Massachusetts' progressive policies, Thomas Paine in Paris slowly becomes an independent advocate for Boston and Paris's continued diplomacy. -Talks are held with President Sullivan of New Hampshire over the continued relations with the commonwealth. Massachusetts grants New Hampshire markets free access to Boston's ports, which are much greater than anything along the New Hampshire coast. Fiercely protective of his independence from any country, President Sullivan and Hancock agree to a military alliance to help defend one another. -While other American Republics look westward, Boston looks northward for expansion. Large acres of prime Maine real estate is auctioned off throughout Massachusetts to encourage farming in the north. While the short summer makes growing a number of crops difficult, a great many take up the sale to own their own land. An unexpected affect of the land sale is the exponential growth of the voting populace. -A radical government policy is pushed forward through Boston's National Assembly, barely passing. The government starts a program of "welfare for the elderly and impoverished" in which state funds are allotted to those to help them live in the state. -A delegation is sent to London in early spring of 1791 to come to terms with the border issues between the Commonwealth and Britain's northern colonies. It takes hard months for both sides to discuss the Maine territory and bear over dozens of maps before a compromise is finally found, allowing Massachusetts to control the northern portion while the crown retains control of the areas further north. [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/bv6YdrO.png?1[/img] [b]Commonwealth of Virginia - Joshuadim[/b] [b]President:[/b] Patrick Henry [b]Capital:[/b]Richmond [b]Largest City:[/b] Williamsburg [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Baptist -A grand scheme is implemented by Patrick Henry to aid both economic and military aspects of the Commonwealth. A number of government-sponsored stone quarries are built to employ a plethora of impoverished white men, which are then sold to construction companies and private builders for a state profit. While much of the stone is sold, a vast majority of it is queued for military use for the construction of fortifications. -Using the stone quarries, two large star forts are commissioned on Virginia's frontiers. "Fort Liberty" is constructed on the Chesapeake Bay outside of Williamsburg, with a nominal garrison and number of canon. A larger fortification, "Fort Washington" is built in the mountains of Lee County on the frontier with the Cherokee Nation. Even before construction is halfway finished, a large garrison of troops and canon are placed in the fort for the defense of Virginia's borders. -While fortifying the current borders, Richmond looks to expand them for the future. A law is passed allowing Virginians to colonize across the Ohio River into the Northwest Territories with a promise of military protection from Richmond. Afterward, it is published that Pennsylvania has released a similiar bill for the same region, causing some tension between the Commonwealths. Kentucky, too, protests the Virginian bill, but are unable to do much, being plagued already in their own borders by indian attacks and sparse population. -As Virginians begin settling on the western banks of the Ohio, it secures the river for white use into the Mississippi, opening up the river ways to potential colonists of Courtenayville whom the Virginian government sees as an extension of its claims further west, perhaps one day even to the Pacific Ocean. -Despite the disputes over the northern territories, Kentucky welcomes an invitation by Virginia to form a military alliance. Maryland and Delaware are invited to the alliance as well, but separately they both opt for the economic aspects of the treaty, allowing Virginian tobacco and cotton to ship north into Philadelphia's ports. -On the international scene, Virginia sails an envoy to Mexico City to meet with Viceroy of New Spain Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo. Talks go well, with the Viceroy assuming that with Kentucky separate from Virginia, Richmond's ambitions to the west have been quelled and friendly relations are expected to go forward into the future. -While the government has its tithe taken from slave auctions, to encourage the slave trade to remain viable, it reduces all tariffs on the importation of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean. While newer slaves take more effort to 'break in' and few speak English, by the end of the year a number of Spanish and Portuguese slave ships are found in the harbors around Norfolk. -As slaves come into the port, their products - cotton and tobacco, along with a few other minor crops - are exported out to the Republic of New York's textile mills. With the land route plagued by the tariffs of different states between them, Virginian merchants begin to heavily rely on ships to move their commodities north. -The Virginian Gold Rush goes into full swing in the northeast of the state as a number of mines open up. As with all gold rushes, there are a number of men that strike it rich - and strike out. Those that fail to prospect manage to find a number of silver veins in the south of the state on their way to North Carolina's gold mines. Quite a few of them hoping to stay in Virginia settle for modest silver than risk losing it all with gold elsewhere. -The brigs V.C.S. Thomas Jefferson and the V.C.S. Richard Henry Lee near completely as the year passes by and its hoped both will have their maiden voyage sometime in early next year of 1792. [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/sV8TeYk.png?1[/img] [b]Republic of North Carolina - Jsoldier[/b] [b]President:[/b] Alexander Martin [b]Capital:[/b] New Bern [b]Largest City:[/b] New Bern [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Baptist -Not wanting to entirely give up on westward expansion, North Carolina contracts successful Courtenay and Sons Land Company to land prospect the furthest western territory of NC's claims along the Mississippi river. The state legislature makes it clear to the business, however, that Cherokee territory is not to be infringed upon. -The first among the American Republics, North Carolina creates a Patent Office to secure the rights of inventors and craftmen. It is hoped that men with imaginative minds will now build North Carolina's economy in creative new ways. Those that show particular promise for the republic are given contracts with the government to produce and tinker freely. -President Martin pushes through the National Assembly a bill creating a national lottery, held twice a year. All citizens can participate, buying an official state lottery card with a number, and the winner (whose number will be published in papers around the state and given a month to claim their prize) will win a portion of the funds raised. The rest of the revenue is put toward public works throughout the republic. -Hoping to take full account of the country's natural resources, the National Assembly commissions a number of polymaths to take account of the various flora and fauna of the republic. After several months of exploration, they report back that the woodland bison population is critically low, alarming some officials to the potential loss of food and skins in the western mountains. By the end of the year, the government passes a law banning the hunting of the large animals for a period of ten years in hopes their population will grow back. -Mining and timber businesses swell across the republic as tax incentives are given to those areas, attracting the less wealthy of the country who were not born into owning massive plantations. -The new capital of Raleigh is nearly completed of its construction commissioned from 1788, and the National Assembly hopes to move into the city by the end of 1792 next year. -Hoping to protecting shipping along the coast, North Carolina commissions the construction of three 6-gun cutters and two 18-gun sloops. The three cutters are able to patrol the Outer Banks by the end of 1791, though the sloops are projected to finish by early next year. -Two delegations are sent to Europe, to normalize relations with both the British and Spanish Empires. The British welcome the North Carolinain envoy, while the Spanish hesitantly accept theirs. While Madrid still worries over the American Republic's expansion into their western claims, North Carolina's acceptance of Cherokee borders to their west quells most of their fears from that republic. -Hoping to coordinate the region's wealth and opportunity, an embassy is opened in South Carolina to assist in benefiting from the mutual goals of both republics. The South Carolinains open their arms to fellow southerners. -The state government employs a number of naturalists to find a way to grow better tobacco, the already leading crop in the country, to produce better than their neighbors. [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/0EFIm5C.png?1[/img] [b]Republic of Georgia - Ruskie v2.0[/b] [b]President:[/b] George Walton [b]Capital:[/b] Louisville [b]Largest City:[/b] Savannah [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Baptist -With gold being discovered in Virginia and North Carolina, Georgia's citizens begin digging around their own country to find the precious yellow metal. Deposits are found around the northern region of the country along the border of South Carolina, and Louisville quickly tacks on a 1/20th taxation on prospective mines for some government revenue. -A few months after Georgia's gold mines become productive, the Gold Standard is adopted and Georgian coinage is soon minted in the capital and Savannah. Along with the gold revenue, Georgia too creates a cotton tax to help the government's treasury balance. -As tax money pours into Louisville, President Walton directs large portions of it to refit and build up the two Georgian regiments created the previous year. Soldiers are given better, standardized rifles and a fort along the Georgian-Spanish Florida begins construction to defend against Seminoles and any Spanish incursions. -Along with the army, the government commissions three frigates to be constructed as the Georgian Navy. Each ship is expected to be completed and ready to sail by 1794. -While other American Republics worry about building their militaries or looking westward, Georgia looks to administrate its citizens first. The Georgian Stamp Act is passed by the National Assembly to standardize postage and ease the spread of popular newspapers throughout the state. Meanwhile, the Savannah Golf Club opens in the Republic's largest city where the wealthy and notable of society meet and discuss events of the world. -With newspapers becoming more available throughout the state, a small streak of yellow journalism sparks worry among the populace as journalists explain Georgia's military build up as a direct confrontation with Spain over the disputed territories to the west. - [/quote] [quote] [img]https://images-ext-2.discordapp.net/eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwOi8vaS5pbWd1ci5jb20vT3U1bHNISS5wbm cifQ.wVAxIZACpE3MPUHPsdVlozJ_Iek[/img] [b]Cherokee Nation - Sobotnik[/b] [b]First Beloved Man:[/b] Tsiyu Gansini [He Is Dragging His Canoe] [b]Capital:[/b] Cutonuga [b]Largest settlement:[/b] Cutonuga [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Unorganized Animism -Sensing that the self-proclaimed Republic of Franklin can soon be defeated, Dragging Canoe begins weaving an intricate plan to make the white settlers implode on themselves. Small blockhouses are built throughout the region, manned with a dozen warriors. As trails are left to the tiny fortifications, Franklin militias move out to attack them and are immediately ambushed as they march along. After dozens of skirmishes, the militias of half the region are decimated. -As the Cherokee bushwhacking continues, they burn crops and slaughter the live-stalk of Franklinites throughout the late winter and spring. By summer, food becomes scarce among settlers who begin raid one another for supplies. As the summer progresses, any semblance of governance or unity in the Republic of Franklin unravels and many whites flee into North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. -Just as the Cherokee secure their lands, Dragging Canoe proclaims all lands east of the mountains as "white man reservation" while west is that of the Cherokee and any violation of their land will be crushed. -To keep the white man out of the Cherokee Nation, the Grand Council passes decrees to build defensive ramparts around their towns and villages, while horses are bred and trained to mobilize the Cherokee's growing territory. The horse-riding warriors become a quick-response force to white intruders as well as a police ranger force of sorts. -While issuing decrees for the ramparts, the Grand Council makes sure that all towns within the Cherokee Nation have standardized market and centralized temple. With the temples, the government standardizes chicha production hoping to replace it for the people from the addictive firewater. -Despite the collapse of the Republic of Franklin, a large number of white men and women remain in the Cherokee Nation, either as prisoners or isolated homesteaders. These whites and other slaves are emancipated by the Grand Council in exchange for turning them into serfs. Tying them to the lands and farms they live on, they now are considered "part of the land" they work on, for the benefit of their Cherokee lords. -By the later half of the year, the Cherokee Nation becomes more coherent as a country under the leadership of Dragging Canoe and the Grand Council. The government switches from symbols for words to syllables as a writing system, slowly developing a written language of several dozen letters. With these, Cherokee poets and entertainers begin to put their stories and histories onto paper for the first time. [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/S57fLBG.png?1[/img] [b]Courtenay and Sons Land Company - Pezgod1[/b] [b]Chairmen:[/b] Henry Courtenay [b]Company Office:[/b] Richmond, Virginia [b]Major Area of Settlement:[/b] Northern most tip of the Mississippi River [b]Colonists:[/b] 214 total, 19 slaves (9%) -Henry Courtenay spends the early winter of 1791 working with a number of schemes to increase recruitment and colonization. A permit is signed by the House of Burgesses promising 20 acres homesteads for the first families to migrate there. Soon after, Mr Courtenay took a trip home to France despite the ongoing chaos of the government to recruit more Frenchmen. By spring, he sails back with several dozen prospective French woodsmen and a few families. -While Henry was away, his eldest son travels through Quebec to encourage Frenchmen upset with English rule to move toward his company's landholdings out west. -As spring ends into summer, a plethora of French settlers arrive from different parts of the French-speaking world. The blockhouse that guarded the river way is expanded into a minor wooden fort along the banks of the upper Mississippi. What were once small trails used by the original settlers soon become large roads, with some cobbling them within the immediate area of the fort. -The first profits of the Courtenay and Sons Land Co finally put the company's ledgers into the black, as a barge of beaver pelts make their way across the Great Lakes to New York City with help from the newly formed Great Lakes Trade Company. The company men there use some of the earnings to purchase more muskets for protection from Indians, who have had individual traders come by the settlement but contact with large tribes yet elude the Frenchmen. A few of Pennsylvania Long Rifles are also purchased. -While on their way to Courtenayville, a score of Quebecan French woodsmen make their way across the lower peninsula of the Northwest Territories. They come across a mighty oak, taller than any other they have seen. They come to the idea of turning it into a canoe, but before the first ax swing is given, they are detained by British scouts from Fort Detroit for suspicious activity near a military base. -With the success of Courtenayville up the Mississippi, Henry Courtenay expands his business empire with gaining a major land contract with the Republic of North Carolina, where Courtenay & Sons will oversee white settlement along North Carolina's claims along the Mississippi river, past the Cherokee Nation. -By the end of the year, the settlement swells. Most settlers are French speaking and are male woodsmen who do not take on a permanent cabin but call the area a new home for now. What families of women and children do arrive settle around the fort for protection. [/quote] [quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/ZRBS1IC.png[/img] [b]Country name:[/b] Colonia Quercus cerrorum [b]Tree name:[/b] Stefane [b]Location:[/b] "Somewhere outside British Fort Detroit" in Northwest Territories [b]Dominant Religion:[/b] Naturalism of the Arborist kind -Due to high winds, a loose branch falls from Stefane in the winter. It rolls down a hill to a cluster of pine trees. They are unsure how to take this communication seeing as it wasn't an [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obKLdou0LH0]olive branch.[/url] -The trunk of Stefane takes accounts of the year's production, hoping to maximize exports of oxygen while also maximizing imports of carbon dioxide and finds it appropriate for an oak tree. -Stefane embarks on a grand plan to go forth and multiply, hiring a number of squirrels to spread his seed throughout the land. Quite literally. Grafting with other oak trees is considered, but realizing that trees are stationary impedes this idea. [/quote] [quote][b]Send in as Turn 3[/b][/quote] [editline]19th February 2017[/editline] Finished this late at night and half of asleep, PM me if there's any major errors.

[QUOTE]some shipments fail to make it from the Ottoman Empire having been plagued and captured by corsairs along the Barbary Coast.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;sSRlQPD6Xiw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRlQPD6Xiw[/video]

[quote]These whites and other slaves are emancipated by the Grand Council in exchange for turning them into serfs. Tying them to the lands and farms they live on, they now are considered "part of the land" they work on, for the benefit of their Cherokee lords.[/quote] [img]http://i.imgur.com/tIC2dHg.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;51844579][img]http://i.imgur.com/tIC2dHg.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] [IMG]https://d1o50x50snmhul.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dn26481-1_800.jpg[/IMG] I have no words

Espionage is sent out to those who had any. Also for added flavor, you guys can develop your own political parties. Who wins or loses doesn't matter to me, I'll make whatever your command lines say work with which ever party is in power.

[QUOTE=Native Hunter;51844525][video=youtube;sSRlQPD6Xiw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRlQPD6Xiw[/video][/QUOTE] Better hide the crayons :v:

[B]I have[/B] Virginia North Carolina Georgia [B]I need[/B] NY MA Cherokee Nation An oak tree out west Courtenay Land Co

I only need the northern republics of New York and Massachusetts. I now have today and tomorrow off from work courtesy of my doctor, so I have a good amount of free time to write the turn this weekend. But, being ever the procrastinator, I'm going to play some Minecraft first :v:

I have everyone. Going to start working on the turns tomorrow morning. Hoping the ETA will be Friday or Saturday.

I know I missed the deadline, it's been a busy week. I have around just under halfway finished it so far. Just a reminder that I mentioned in the OP that sometimes it may be a while before the turn is out, please don't leave :v:

no worries dude

I got one more turn done over the past couple days, putting me over just halfway. I [I]should[/I] have some decent free time on Sunday afternoon/night so I'm hoping to get it done by then.