User:Corumm
- 1-army of common men- armed wing of CPC-wip Army of Common Men
- 2-Big Twinkie - conglomerate that produces ixnay's twinkie-requires expanded lore Big Twinkie
- 4-pacification/compliance via opium distribution xisheng/varshan- requires further input Xisheng Office of Contentment un mundo feliz por aldous huxley Linge Chen's Private Reserve
- 5-Harmonious Flotilla Invincible/Unconditional Divisions-wip Harmonious Flotilla Invincible
- 7- plateau of leng-done? create a kingom of leng historical entity Plateau of Leng
- 8- defense companies paramilitary orgs-pending
- 9- the Shining Path, a PCD ideology/manual for power consolidation-pending
- 10- Palace of the Purple Emperor-pending possibly replace with Daskara Palace
- 11- Cheese reserve-requires more input Mirzak Cheese Vaults
- 14- Abominable AI's made to "win using the coldest logic and computational power-pending
- 15- Chen's menagerie- needs more animals Chen's Menagerie
- 21- Plascrete/hypersteel-pending
- 25- Corummese Car and Automata Manufactory-COCAM-needs more lore Standard People's Compact Vehicle
- 27- corummese MULTIPASS-pending
- 28- mirzak monorail run by artificial intelligence aka roborail-Mirzak Automated Monorail System incomplete
- 30- corummese nuclear program- link with Lixin Ji
- 31- Democratic Christian Church of Corumm and the East-incomplete
- 33- corummese captagon to undermine rivals-Drug trade in Corumm-done ish Opodo Corporation
- 39- Virtuous Worms - Virtuous Worms wip
- 41- penitentiary system-pending
- 43- South Seas Development Company - A colonial conglomerate developing industries in Zhijun and colonial Stenza, possibly Rusana too under a subsidiary. wip 30%
- 44- add green crab and asian carp to fauna/food
- 45- corumm-rusana-canpei economic corridor
- 49- rich people donate dna to create sacks of flesh with organs to replace their aging organs and live longer
- 51- imperial trinket/Amiable Ecumene/Zone of Absolute Fortune
- 53-dry counties
- 54-Daxian monarchs giving patents of authority to vassals- tie into Tributary system of Imperial Daxia
- 55-some sort of grandiose defensive line
- 56-GW2 Daxian mini front in Caldera in support of Faneria
- 57-daxian colonization of peratra/australis article
- 58-palace school for dwarfs to become generals and shit
- 59-early daxian computers based on the zhivkov balgarsko model
- 60-substitute kingship ritual/occultation of the emperor
- 61-the scream box
I was a beast upon the earth, a salamander or an eel. Water passed through that earth as streams pass through a garden. Beside each stream grew sweet grass. Not much of it, but enough to feed little aphids, who lived mean and starving lives.
Now there came an upwelling of water from the earth, so that the streams ran fat and slow. The grass grew thick. The aphids mated and multiplied. Ants came to enslave the aphids, and the aphids joined together to oppose them. And in victory they returned to tend their grass, to aerate its roots and spread its seeds. So they did thrive.
Now it occurred to me that I might join two streams by crawling between them on my belly. Having done so, I saw that I might dam one stream to divert its water into the other. The aphids of the first stream came to me in protest, but I said to them, "Go to the new pond I have made, and join the aphids there in cultivation, and I will send more water unto you."
And they were greatened by the joining.
Thus, I proceeded to join all the streams together into one pond. And whenever the aphids of a small stream might protest, I said to them, "Go, look at my pond, and see the plenitude I have provided to my people there." When it became necessary to stop those upstream from polluting the water, I offered them the bounty of our pond, the grass and the watercress. And if they did not yield, I sent the ant-fighters against them, because their petty good injured the good of the all.
I appointed ministers of water and soil and seed and war, and to the most loyal, I gave these posts as reward; but ultimately their power depended on me, for they were aphid and I was Leviathan.
In time, I became the coordinator of all water and the dispensator of fertility. Then I became the coordinator of coordinators, and I gave up the control of thirst and life for control of those who had control. And all my craft became the pure and abstract management of power.
Then saw upon the horizon a wave, and the wave was God, and it approached me, saying, "We are as one, you and I. We are the gathering of the waters. Gather unto me as they have gathered unto you; we will be as one." The aphids screamed and begged me for salvation. But I was not of them. I was of the wave.
To them, there are no states, only zones and territories, Peeter explains. Russia sees itself as being surrounded by vassals and ancillaries – there is no third option.
They’ll never come to terms with the breakup of the USSR,“ Mežviets says. As Russia’s leaders themselves have declared: Russia ends where it is stopped.
It’s a conqueror’s mindset, Everyone around them are enemies.
Levantine Exploration
Kiravian explorers were the first "occidentals" to make contact with the peoples of modern Rusana however from their introduction in the 1500s to the establishment of the Martillian Protectorate over the Kingdom of Lakadu it was often overlooked compared to the riches of Daxia. The Ularien Trading Company of Martilles first established contact with the Kingdom of Lakadu in 1616. With Kiravias well established trade with Daxia for far eastern goods the Martilliens negotiated a treaty with the Lakadui to secure ports at first for raiding Kiravian shipping as it passed westerward, laden with Daxian goods but eventually the privateers sought more. They obverved the resentments that the Lakadui held for their neighbors in Barpubad and offered to supply them with mercenaries and to instruct their armies in the lessons learned from the Great Confessional War. Throughout the 1620s and 30s the Lakadui and Barpubadi clashed in minor skirmishes in which the Lakadui became increasingly victorious. While the Levantines did not offer a superiour military product their doctrine of war was so foreign to that part of the world that it proved shocking to the Barpubadi. In a series of violent battles the Lakadui made massive gains into the islands south of Barpubad's coast. These islands long contested between Barpubad and Daxia were captured and an emissary was dispatched to the Emperor's court and a back to the King in Lakadu. In a master stroke the Martillien mercenaries sold the inner ring of islands to Daxia and formally opened relations with that nation, and also demonstrated to the King of Lakadu what could be achieved if he remanded more power to the Martilliens. In this masterstroke the Martilliens secured their future in the region and became friendly with the greatest power in Alshar, Daxia. Whereas the Kiravians were merely traders, the Martilliens offered concrete results to the Imperial Daxian Court. In 1650, the Kingdom of Lakadu was formalized as a protectorate of the Duchy of Martilles. This was only possible by brokering a treaty with the Daxian Court that recognized its sovereignty and promised to support Daxia in the event of an invasion from Barpudad, Ghanim, or the as yet unexplored Tanhai. For as long as the southeast coast Levantines maintained colonies in the area they respected this treaty, one of the only in that time. With the Great Slavery Revolt on the western shores of Alshar the various colonial administrators had to make a choice as the revolt became a full-scale war, one that the Levantine colonists were losing badly. Would they cast their lot in with their fellow colonists, draining the defensive resources from their own colonies, ignore the plight of their brethren, try to balance both, or abandon their colonial ambitions altogether. The viceroy of Pyrithi Colony attempted to find a balance.