Discussion and Planning

It's come to many of our attentions that activity is at a snails pace around these parts. And even then that same snail has a broken leg and is blind. The forums are gathering dust and we need to come up with some roleplay that gets the juices flowing again.

Now I know this is a typical overused idea, but when put into action in the Alternative Roleplay forum it generated 37 pages and almost 550 posts. We had seen more activity in that one thread than we had in the entire forums. We know it works.

As part of the official USNW roleplay, I suggest we start the next Great Adonian War.

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We can use this thread for discussion on how to go about it.

Story & Timeline Ideas Here:

• East vs. West
  
• East conflict, spreads west

Real roleplay this time? I like it. And Acadia will actually be fighting alongside the good guys!

A big war seems to be pointing at West v. East. Western Althena and Euphemian capitalist nations against Eastern communist and Islamic nations. We wouldn't be able to RP this live though, since a good "Great War" would have to last many years, instead of a few weeks or months.

IM NUKING SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll see what I can do to help for once. As usual, nothing to do over summer yet, wont start college till end of august, I'll have some time to kill. Put me on as a bad guy, i'll do whatever ya'll want me to.

Will

I was thinking that too. Because of the Euphemian Bloc, every country on that continent would be allied together. Posillipo, Insulo, Calibria and such would also be friendly to the Euphemians. I'm not sure where Okaiken would stand. Okaiken(Carl) is very west influenced and would most likely support the Euphemian powers.

Pelian would be one of the top players of the opposing forces. I was thinking that it would start out as an Eastern Althenian conflict that, after a while and a chain of events would spread across the ocean to us. We did already do a mini-arc of a Communist uprising before Ying chose to leave the union.

Kuyrut is still neutral and I don't know about Mitron and Alsany. Fraesia's only alliance is the constitutional alliance with Acadia. But the major Euphemian powers would be allied.

So maybe Pelian's economy is suffering so they get desperate and a new communist leader/government (and merge with the PRP). In order to expand their wealth and strength, they invade Morsco and add it to their empire. Hedjaz (or some big country in that area) could invade other countries and make their own empire. The two would become allies.

LOL War near Okaiken XD

Yes Carl. We're gonna sit on your Art 9 and you're gonna like it.

Pelian's story may work, but Hedjaz is our Saudi Arabia, would it be real enough to go about aggressively building an empire? It may just ally itself with Pelian with an Oil deal. Or Pelian pressures Hedjaz into an alliance with threat of attack, plus an oil export deal.

Don't you mean Mitron and Lansay Jack?

Yeah we can use something else instead of Hedjaz.

And lol yes I meant Lansay. XD

Loyalist Front maybe getting its claws onto a weak government? .u.

Hedjaz will be taken over by an applicant soon, so we might need to sit that one out for a bit.

Okaiken remains in Article 9, but there might be instances; let see how this rolls out

We could use Asmirva.

LOL How about this?

East-West Conflict
Peilan (PRP) angered by Kwangju Unification
Kwangju invaded

Continue the story?

Jon mentioned to me that Insulo has some action going on with Jhekong, the country north of Morsco. Could we involve that in any way?

Yes we could use Asmiriva. It and Pelian would make the largest superpower in the eastern hemisphere. Pelian could militarily "support" the communist uprisings taking place in southeast Althena thanks to Ying. The Insulonian forces in Jhekong would be threatened (attacked?) by Pelian, and western althena would respond to that. Pelian would then keep going on its offensive in the region as it's neighbor Asmiriva makes sure west althena stays out of their way. Euphemian powers would then come to the aid of Insulo and possibly even Okaiken since Pelian's proximity would threaten their borders.

Woah, roleplay. If anyone really takes over the ME many opposing nations are screwed

From the skype room:

Insulo is in Jhekong fighting communist uprisings. The uprisings are spreading through southeast althena. Peilan will use the opportunity to blame the west and "support" the uprising.

Peilan's engagement with Insulo (in Jhekong) will draw West Althena into it. Peilan will use Asmiriva as a buffer against West Althena so Peilan can continue it's southeast operations. The conflict between Asmiriva and west Althena will eventually draw Euphemia into it and Peilan will be forced, or in another perspective "allowed" to bring it's military operations across the Cilician against Euphemia

That sounds great so far. We need a little more explanation on how Euphemia gets involved. If any Euphemain Bloc country is attacked, then they all go to war. Acadia and Shayden probably have ties with Posillipo and Trentannia (Acadia is also allied with Calibria). Maybe one of the newer revolutionary-communist states in the Cilician attacks Euphemia, which drags the major commies, the Euphemian Bloc, and the already-fighting Western Althenian countries into war.

Just ideas.

A smaller country would never attack the Bloc without the support of Peilan. Peilan actually is the only power in East Althena capable of global operations, so it would make the most sense if Peilanese forces assaulted a Euphemian Island somewhere in the Cilician, most likely a Folland or Shayden held Island, or chain of Islands. Although what would be even better is if Peilan attacked the Kuyrutian Extension. It's basically an island hopping highway to the mainland.

To make matters complicated on the Kuyrutian Extension, Okaiken is their first major stepping stone. The most likely contest will be the Sea of Mitoyagi between Okaiken and Peilan... But since Okaiken is intended to remain neutral (for Aang's sake I don't know how long), it will probably allow ships to transit freely within their part of the sea.

What Peilan could do is to invade Morsco and use it as a step to the next checkpoint.

So we are lacking a motive for Pelain's attack.

And prior to the war, Pelain and the PRP must have re-united. How should we say this happened?

If this is anything like Earth's China and Taiwan, then the two Peilan's won't reunite. In fact the PRP will probably be the first on Peilan's chopping block.

A motive is simple though. "Political" support of the communist uprisings in the area. Jon's created the embers that will help ignite the tinder box that is Jhekong and Peilan. And with Insulo's alliances with the USNW, you can suspect where that would head to.

It's not like China and Taiwan, really. Pelian is capitalist while the PRP is communist. They are probably bitter enemies. But I was thinking the capitalist Pelian had some economic trouble which caused a commie dictator to come to power. Once the two Pelians are communist, why remain separated?

I see what you are saying, that works.

Oh hell the BIG Peilan is the nicer one?? Well that changes things a little.

Lol yes! XD The "People's Republic" makes it sound a little misleading, but most commies have names like that, including China. Taiwan is part of the Republic of China.

No? Taiwan isn't a part of China. It's its own sovereign country backed by the United States.

Can we get an admin to set up a little subforum for this stuff?

Setting this up on Current Activities.

But first may I ask what is the name of the forum?