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Let's Get Down to Business

Conglagateia wrote:

RP: Calling in Favors
"An army marches on its stomach."
While Makhran Gregori was certainly pleased with the progress made by the ANO, he is nonetheless conservative with his soldiers. Every loss hurt the Conglagateians, and there were not very many back home willing to make the odyssey to lands of the Atomic Schism. Therefore, he largely has to rely on the militias rallied by the duchess and her confidants for any staying power. He did not like putting the fate of his soldiers in the hands of a swiftly trained mob, and has suggested that he assist in a training program that would certainly help overrun the already beleaguered armies of the Kingdom of Sol. While he waited for a response for this request, he has begun attempting to reach old contacts from Conglagateia, seeing if they could perhaps skim off the top of some of the nations armouries. They, in many words, said they could not. Unlike the government, the armed forces remains well organized against corruption, and while many among the officers corps held their sympathies for Makhran, they put the security of the nation first. He had to rely on his own arms production, and while they had much better workshops now that they did not have to move location every few months, they could only produce and maintain so many guns. While they were teaching some of the willing natives to build fire arms, it would be a slow process.
Morale was another issue. Although the men clearly enjoyed how easily their dehydrated and fatigued enemies folded under a determined attack, they were far from home and in unknown, blisteringly hot lands. This was an issue for the long term though, and the situation would likely improve on its own when they achieved victory. Makhran was more interested in how he could use their enemy's strange customs to strangle them and compound their supply issues. He seems to be much more positive now that he is back in action, and not wallowing in some terrible forest back home. This is his second chance, and he does not intend to waste it.

RP: Gonna Rage On into the Sun

As increased pressure has been placed on the Kingdom of Sol's forces, the frontline has steadily fallen back to the midpoint between Bidet and Vernacularberg. Through tremendous progress has been made by the insurrectionists, Ńocheańeadean forces from the Blessed Republic have begun to place pressure on the new western front, using powerful artillery bombardments to shake up the enemy positions. In response, some of the insurrectionists' special forces have begun engaging in a "death run" tactic, that while weakening the southern line, has proved semi-effective in dispatching and capturing locations with known artillery encampments. Following the Blessed Republic's more direct involvement in the Civil War, Duchess Ńocheańed of Season has granted the Duchy's military explicit permission to carry out direct invasions of the Blessed Republic, officially declaring war on the opposing nation. Once more, the declaration of war has caused drastic ripples of opinion in Schismians across the Atomic Schism. Though memories of the Generation War have long faded, the history books still speak of the bloodshed that occurred. Also regarding the Generation War, an air of betrayal has fallen across those in the Republic, the motions government tearing apart a centuries-old alliance between the two nations.

As their primary supporter of weapons and manpower now finds itself officially at war with their enemy's, the Duchy of Forty has chosen to accept Makhran's offer of combat and firearm construction training. Although the Duchy's minimal already is well versed in the ways of war, the numerous volunteer militias led by The Baker have largely "learned on the job" and have thus far been a primary setback towards the Duchy's march forward. However, the reintroduction of ballistic firearms to the battlefields of the Atomic Schism has been a game-changer, with fewer of the Kingdom's wounded soldiers returning from the field hospitals as the shrapnel from bullets wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting soldiers. King Ddę'Weaoleier has called the use of such weaponry, "cowardly" and "once more a transgression of traditional values."

RP: Ailing Economy

With the United Community steadily becoming a distant memory, the agreements between the nations of the Atomic Schism have begun to break down and affect the former member nations adversely. Specifically, the free trade and movement agreement has led to a shortage of region-specific resources on all fronts, leading to several businesses to temporarily close and look outside of the Atomic Schism for new suppliers. As a result, rapid inflation has increased the cost of everyday items while the cost of the Ddoł continues to fall.

RP: anAr chY NewS! Panskismianism! Thanksgiving Murder Mystery Solved!

With the Atomic Schism having been thrust suddenly into a new age of violence and war, debate centers continue to remain filled while peaceful and non-peaceful solutions are thrown everywhere. Until recently, most debates have largely consisted of ending the wars as they stand and reinstituting the United Community. However, in a debate held in Widmin Towny, the idea of an unbiased Schismian state was proposed for the first time by an unknown challenger, who reportedly fearing for his life, vanished soon after. Very quickly, the international debates have shifted towards the subject dubbed as "panschismianism" or "panskismianism." The idea has been especially popular among the nations' younger generations who grew up viewing the United Community as the first step towards Schismian Unity. The more traditionally minded older generations however have largely seen the idea of the united Schismian nation as impossible with the vast number of religious differences and fierce historical animosity between the nations.

A group of six students attending Dwindler & Deaveinson High in For Trees, Trans-Schismia have recently made national headlines after becoming wrapped up in the murder of the school's Principle, Mr. Chołeaerd Deolenoer. Mr. Deoleanoer was found dead at the Thanksgiving feast of the 2145-46 school year and it was originally believed the six teenagers were responsible. After the teenagers were chased by authorities across the country, from For Trees to Mu Moo Meu, the children managed to prove their innocence after returning to the high school and tricking a member of the janitorial staff to reveal that it was he who had murdered Mr. Deoleanoer all along. Following the arrest of the janitor and the clearing of the student's names, the group has reportedly also gone on to determine who was stealing the school's food reserves and even reveal an affair between two of the teachers in the school. If the first-hand accounts from the students are to be believed, one of them apparently died in a fight in Crossing City, met God, and was resurrected, with another was trapped mentally in an artificially-generated cube of warped space-time for 40 years. While in police custody, the students were tested for any narcotics in their system but, much to the surprise of the cops administering the test, were found to be completely sober.