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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Apr 29, 2007 18:39:25 GMT -5
Al (The calie foreign minister) looks at his map, this was a problem.
The Taotal to Asylum link had been completed but the link had headed onto miokalia Emass as it was the most obvious link next and in two days he would have to redirect them. A loop had been requested, he had ignored this, with other issues on his plate. He had left the engineers to figure out the line ignoring where the link went.
The Building train that could travel at up to sixty miles a day was closing in on miokalia Emass at about five miles a day. They would pick up pace soon as they hit bedrock and the laborers were heading up to the boarder at a rate of knots.
Al had to think now, he sent a message It read:
"Al to miokalia
Our line laying system is approaching miokalian emass we would like permission to pass though, the geography is easier and a link to miokalia emass might be of political sense.?
We can redirect if needs be.
Thank you Al"
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Post by miokalia on May 17, 2007 13:31:51 GMT -5
After integration, there was an influx of immigrant from other places around the island. In particular the Choeaux ethnicity of feathered raptors, which had been in constant minor conflict with basically everyone else who shared space with them. Minor conflict because there never have been enough of them to produce major conflict. In particular, they had lived in mutual disdain with the Teerie since they too, are arboreal. More specifically, unlike the Emassen Kuho which had been pushed out of the trees, they never had the vertiphilic instinct supressed in them. They also spoke a variation of French, instead of Kuho, which they picked up from whatever French-speaking island it is they were on prior to Emass. This was not entirely unusual since about 15% of ethnic Kuho also speak French for this same reason. The primary Choeaux settlement in Emayshira was in Ciwirtes.
For the first time, they considered sending a delegation to Cal proper. To officially declare the fighting and the prior conflict as finished.
The only thing holding them back was that when you get a Choeaux and a Teerie in the same room, in a matter of two hours, several gallons of alcohol would have been consumed by both, and both would standing on stacks of tables and chairs in opposite sides of the room attempting to be higher than the other. One screaming "arsehole!" and the other screaming "cunard!" or various other obscenities would be volleyed.
Thus why a mainland escort was to be involved this time.
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Jul 16, 2007 19:18:21 GMT -5
With the coastal loop competed the line laying engineers and geologists had been curious as to why they had been given time off. Most had spent there time in Asylum as, even though the Hybe population looked odd, it felt like home. They had been called in a few days earlier to look at the feasibility of a Tatol Asylum Cat link. It seemed like an easy enough job, lots of tunnels and a good dry run for phase 4, which most of them knew was likely.
When they had gone to the raptorian villages they had found an un-expected reaction. None of the translators were willing to go into the mountains. They had managed to find a few but they were wary, they had explained the dragons were friendly but it was not them they were afraid of. They feared something in the mountains. It was day seven of the expedition into the mountains and all was well, the satellite photos had provided them with a good link, with few mountains in the way. Lots of bridges would be needed but they were cheap. Their Raptorian translator sees something and runs. He was caught by the small contingent of lecken rangers that deafened the group (the calie didn't think there was anything dangerous in the mountains but were not idiots).
The raptorian was nonsensical and just kept saying "Qiana, Qiana" the rangers quickly called in an extraction team as some thing was wrong. One of the geologists took a cast of the foot print the raptorian had seen with the rangers covering them. Soon the helicopters arrived and the raptorian piled on board and hid in a corner, some thing had freaked him big time.
--- Back in Tatol the scientists were looking at the cast. "That ain't from a known raptorian" one says. "Feathers on there feet.....weird" another replies. "Too big to be one and it's not a race we know of" "What the heck is it?" "No idea, but the raptorian called it a 'Qiana', there are no records of that name" "The dragons?" "You mean the dragonians I'm meeting there leader this afternoon"
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The dragonian Guth Gehrke looked at the calie engineer with curiosity. He had come to the conclusion that the calie were quite literal about things. Well ever since he had noted that the mountain they had asked for had a large chunk missing. Many of his kind were working in the quarry there and it had been good for his kind....but the fact the calie seemed to meant, when they asked for the mountain, to take the whole damn thing was odd.
The engineer asks quietly "We have found a strange foot print in the snow that the raptorians call 'Qiana' do you know of them?" Guth thinks for a second "Yes I think I do, we have a deal with them. But it is eons old I can't recall the last time anyone saw one...they still exist?" "It would appear so" "Hmm that would explain the smoke I see in the glens sometimes, but I know nothing of them other than they live down there. No one does." "So no idea?" Guth just nods as he had no idea, the glens were not dragonian hunting grounds. "I don't even know what they look like"
---- The calie give up and send a copy of the cast to miokalia with the little DNA they had got with a note that basically said WTF?
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Jul 21, 2007 16:23:21 GMT -5
The Choeaux were lead into the lacan councils chamber, the teerie had quietly been persuaded to not attend. The parliament had passed the motions to make peace with a nation they didn't know they were at war with little concern, this was utterly ceremonial.
The small very feathery raptors enter lord Thack (as the oldest of the council was given chairfurship of it. He says in very bad french "Des salutations et bonjour, je vous considère de souhaiter parler la paix avec nous?"
The Choeaux nods it's head.
Lord Thack Cotinued "Nous espérons que vous reviendrez à vos vieilles terres comme vous êtes souhaité la bienvenue par les personnes de Calie et nous vous voulons dire aucun mal. Nous respecterons votre sorte, même si dans le passé certaines des personnes du démuni d'origine de Calie."
The Choeaux looks curious and says "Pourquoi" Thack says "Nous souhaitons la bienvenue à des amis et ne voyons aucun besoin de vous de ne pas être, si vous vous retournez pouvez réclamer un endroit avec nous"
The Choeaux looks confuse and says "Nous souhaitons la bienvenue à des amis et ne voyons aucun besoin de vous de ne pas être, si vous vous retournez pouvez réclamer un endroit avec nous"
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Post by miokalia on Jul 21, 2007 17:09:05 GMT -5
"Sous pour avec l'ordre faites près le traité dans Emayshira, nous considèrent la guerre sont au-dessus de votre offre sont aimables.", says Tayen, the representative from Ciwirtes, he seems to imply there is more, "Je crois que la nouvelle séparation géographique courante est font une solution plus paisible pour être en conflit avec Teerie. La plupart d'entre nous n'a aucune intention de renvoi à la résidence de la forêt. Il n'y a rien soit là mais des égouts de normal."
The other one, the Ciwirtes representative to the Miokalian Senate said, "I'm sorry about the war, but a revolution was guaranteed. The refusal to address the problem of co-inhabitance had destroyed the avosaurian faith in the ethnic-Calie government. The seeds of war were being watered, not up-rooted by the policies and it was only a matter of time for someone to come along and take a stand, an aggressive one, as Cih Homolka did. Extremism is borne within the crucible of tragedy. We consider the war with the Teerie over. But it will take some time for this rancor to pass."
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Jul 21, 2007 18:59:38 GMT -5
Salato enters the room and says "Car vous la liberté de phase est ce qui sommes environ nous, vous sont bienvenue avec nous. Nous pas avec vous défectuosité et nous clouerons le teerie vers le bas. Vous si vous souhait êtes pendant que calie pendant qu'ils sont." before leaving the Choeaux looked at each other. They recognised the Calie leader.
They knew that they had promised a scaly and feathery race equality....things made no sense to them, they looked to the miokalia to make sense of the situation. They could return to there lands, this was not what they had been lead to believe.
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Jul 22, 2007 13:53:46 GMT -5
Seeing as the Choeaux seemed intent on joining the miokaliaen in the south east, dispite guarantees from the Calie lord thack desided that changing the subject might be a good idea.
"Connaissez-vous quelque chose d'un peuple appelé le 'Qiana '? Vos personnes ont vécu sur Emass pendant un certain temps et j'espère que vous avez une certaine idée quant à ce que nous traitons." he asks.
The reaction from the Choeaux was the same as the reaction from the emassen raptorians, they freaked.
The Lead Choeaux shouts "Aucun 'Qiana ', ils sont mauvais, ne vont pas là ne vont pas près d'eux. Ils sont des animaux!
Nos affaires sont faites, nous doivent aller !" and turns to leave.
The council members exchange glances, they had read reports from emass that some thing about this 'Qiana' race really caused the local raptorians to freak. Even mentioning the name was enough to make them to be scared. The Calie could not fathom why, it was one thing to dislike a race it was another to freak just because some one uttered there name.
The councils eyes turn to the miokaliaen who had come as an escort for the Choeaux in bewilderment. It was a very simple question and the reaction had been utterly irrational.
---- Mean while the Calie air force had deployed no less than five angle surveillance air craft to emass to try and find the number and perhaps to get a picture of these 'Qiana'. The densely forested glens made this very difficult, but from thermal photography they were estimating the population to be some where in the range of twenty to thirty thousand. Scattered in hundreds of small settlements.
The rail link was put on hold while they tried to figure out if they were a threat to it. From the looks of it they were not advanced enough to be a problem, but the reaction of the local raptorians had made the calie play safe. Neither the Teerie or the ethnic Teuie knew of them, but neither race really did mountains though they did have a legend or two about daemons that lived there that there fore fathers had fought with the local raptorians.
It was all very strange.
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Sept 8, 2007 19:02:38 GMT -5
Guth Gehrke looks at the paper, he had been asked by the Fuie, a race he knew nothing of. to meet. The calie had made the train line through the dragoconian territory.. he didn't even know this race existed, still. They did have a covenant with the dragoconian a thousand years old but still valid.
He flew to the meeting place with two guards as he was allowed, the three landed and were qickly met by a very odd looking creature, it was raptorian..ish, it was very large to be a raptor and covered in emu like white feathers. Guth looked at the creature and asked "What to you want of the sky demons?" The odd creature replies "Outsiders have passed though our land." "We did not know you still had those lands, but they will not travel beyond their small strait lines" Guth replied, realising that it was the rail line that the creature talked of. "ya.... did we not agreed that no one would enter our lands, many ages past?" Guth bows his head and says, apologetically "We forgot of you as we had not talked to you in so long, how can we repay this failure on how part?" "Who are these that chose to pass though our land and why?" "They...we will also be calie, they mean no harm they...we mean no harm and would be keen to meet you. Their government know not of this meeting, they fear that....they might know where you came from." "THEY HOLD THAT FROM US" Guth bowed his head "Thing are more complex, but if you wish I will talk with they...our leader. She is a good and fair person, though I know she is not what she appears." "You will talk to them and meet us with in the moon here" "Agreed"
----- In asylum salato was busily drumming up support for her party as the election was tomorrow Eye Faln en had resigned as president to stand for the Calie parliament, this made the Sanctuary vote more important than the rest to her liberal party, a liberal member of the lucan council was likely. It was power wise pointless but symbolically important to her minority coalition .
What was confusing her was that the minute she said anything to anyone they just said "You are one of us, best to stick together" and walked off...they couldn't know.
In the polls Sanctuary was in the bag, the other parties were not even trying, the ethnic teuie were likely to return a good number of liberals, once they had realise that the lords would never know how they voted. Few of them were republicans as that was too much of a change for them so here coalition partners were getting no where, but they seemed to like being left alone so it was a liberal, libertarian fight there. The teerie where running with there usual liberal, freedom party (anarchist) fight, but the freedom party was the other party in her coalition so no biggy. the raptorians were anyone's guess, she suspected that they would vote for independents.
She got a call Guth, she figured all two of the dragonian mps were going to be liberals as an odd welsh sounding named dragon had taken up the campaign up there*. But it was different, this was PM stuff. "Look keep it quiet, I'll swing up there ASAP. Keep it quiet they don't seem to want to know, but the miokaliaen have the dna, they probably know we have proto raptors here, or something like that" Salato says down the phone ..... "Perhas parallel evolution, but I doubt it. I'll meet them and tell the miokaliaen"
----- Eye Salato en to miokaliaen leadership "We have what appear to be proto raptors in calie territory, there is little we can do to keep a lid on this. We understand that this will cause you problems.
We wish guidance, as to our next move as soon as possible.
Yours
Eye Salato en"
*two guesses where a liberal dragon might have come from ;-)
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Post by miokalia on Sept 9, 2007 22:11:49 GMT -5
An envoy of a White Yamatoe guard (boxy white t-rex malych) and an Allosaurus, General Konradosche accompanied PM Salato to a meeting.
Rather than particularly interested, Konradosche seemed actually slightly unimpressed that Salato thought this to be such an Earth-shattering matter.
"You're scared of them aren't you? They probably have some serious cultural problems which make them so elusive and difficult to identify as people. In our experience we find such races to suffer from irrational and highly destructive ideologies or practices. They probably eat their children to control population, which is a recipe for making a population of childhood-scarred sociopaths. I'm not saying they are, I don't know them, but I have a feeling some kind of similar scenario is at work. It usually is.", said Konradosche, "People don't say so isolated for so long by being logical, you know."
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Post by Kingdoms of Cal on Dec 24, 2007 18:40:19 GMT -5
*note this is in the past, not long in the past.* The group landed in a viking short take off and landing aircraft, and looked about in confusion at the forest. Where were the Fuie?
She looked out at the trees and saw the eyes. Some of the warriors tried to follow her but she waved them back as she did the much better armed miokaliaen,
"She is nuts?!?!" Konradosche said. "No she knows how to do these things" "How?" "Because she is nuts" "I thought you said...." "Look she is nuts in a very special way, the goddess likes her kind of insanitary, she walks to work...is there any other leader in the fed that does that? She drinks in the local pub, she shops at the local shops....she is nuts.....but don't tell her not to." "I don't know you?" "I am Lo head of the commonwealth guard, and I have been landed with keeping her from getting herself killed.....she has her axe with her...don't worry. She is probably safer here than back home." "Why?" There was a screech from the woods and salato returned to the rest followed by a limping Fuie. Salato smiled "The rail line is not an issue."
"She held back....you don't want to know what she can do." Lo said with a grin. "What can she do?!?" "You really don't want to know.....lets just say it is messy" Salato lent over saying " They have joined the dragionan." a drop of blood fell from her muzzle. "Are yo.." "I'm fine!"
The miokaliaen quietly came to the conclusion that Salato was an axe wielding maniac....then again looking at Cal that was not that much of a surprise....but she was on on there side.
The group were staying the night, the snow was coming in hard, salato sighed as a very unpleasant oder blew into the camp. Lo looked at salato and said "You a..." "We have company" "Oh my goddess!!!" "Look they challenged me to a fight I fought back" "There are no teerie this far up, well any skunks....your a fucking h..." "Shut up! now!" "Sorry." "Look if they weren't here"Salato says nodding towards the miokaliaen "I would say more, people must no know" "Why?" "The same reason you keep things secret, that fur dye?" "Ah"
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