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[sk128234]

What? You need to ask? Of course I do. It was me who brought this to the attention of the Senate, after all.

What I'm not entirely sure about is the Eye exemption. What does it matter to me if there's an army of assassins in some house's direct employ stalking my electors, or an army of Eye operatives controlled by the same?

But it's acceptable as it is, so let's get this thing signed first, and debate any amendments later.

So it is done!

[Vertab Nukks]

Lady Regent,

Bravo!!! While Lord Ibn Donald Al-Malik and I have had our disagreements in the past, the Li Halan are humble enough to see the error of our ways and we thank the Al-Malik for making them apparent to all.  We will go so far as to support a Al-Malik amendment to remove Imperial Eye Operatives to bases on Madoc or Tethys.  Let this be a new day for the Empire!

As per the new act all Li Halan Elite Forces will be removed from Byzantium Secundus by the close of 4977 A.D.

Duke Flavius Li Halan

OCC: That is an awesome image by the way!

[Vertab Nukks]

What? You need to ask? Of course I do. It was me who brought this to the attention of the Senate, after all.

What I'm not entirely sure about is the Eye exemption. What does it matter to me if there's an army of assassins in some house's direct employ stalking my electors, or an army of Eye operatives controlled by the same?

But it's acceptable as it is, so let's get this thing signed first, and debate any amendments later.

So it is done!

Lady Regent,

The Li Halan propose the following amendments:

Amendment I - "Herein Spies and Assassins shall specifically be named to include House Spies, members of the Slayers Guild, members of the House Van Gelder, and Genetically Engineerd Assassins."

Amendment II - "The Exemption of Imperial Eye Operatives shall be rescinded and such forces shall be removed to garrisons on Madoc or Tethys, but shall be prepared for rapid deployment back to Byzantium Secundus only by order of the sitting Regent to enforce this act."

Noble cousins please provide your input on these proposed amendments.

Duke Flavius Li Halan

[sk128234]

Lady Regent,

The Li Halan propose the following amendments:

Amendment I - "Herein Spies and Assassins shall specifically be named to include House Spies, members of the Slayers Guild, members of the House Van Gelder, and Genetically Engineerd Assassins."

Amendment II - "The Exemption of Imperial Eye Operatives shall be rescinded and such forces shall be removed to garrisons on Madoc or Tethys, but shall be prepared for rapid deployment back to Byzantium Secundus only by order of the sitting Regent to enforce this act."

Noble cousins please provide your input on these proposed amendments.

Duke Flavius Li Halan

Dearest Lord Flavian,

I am personally in favor of Amendment I, in order to prevent any loopholes that may otherwise allow covert operations to continue on the Capital World.

However, given the circumstances under which this Decree was created, I would find it hard to justify removing Imperial Eye forces on Byzantium 2^us.  Even with such forces kept within a single jump, this could allow for a full year's unlawful activity before any intervention were possible.  I would support a reduction of garrison on Byzantium, but barring Eye operatives outright puts all Houses in peril.

Cordially,
Lady Santiago, &c.
Second Regent of the Empire

[Gollor]

Turn Sent

I will post my speech and ministry report in nearly 8 hours. There is a lot of to say but I also want to make a small break. This turn got nearly 3 hours to be done.

[Vertab Nukks]

Lady Regent,

The Li Halan propose the following amendments:

Amendment I - "Herein Spies and Assassins shall specifically be named to include House Spies, members of the Slayers Guild, members of the House Van Gelder, and Genetically Engineerd Assassins."



Noble cousins please provide your input on these proposed amendments.

Duke Flavius Li Halan

Dearest Lord Flavian,

I am personally in favor of Amendment I, in order to prevent any loopholes that may otherwise allow covert operations to continue on the Capital World.

However, given the circumstances under which this Decree was created, I would find it hard to justify removing Imperial Eye forces on Byzantium 2^us.  Even with such forces kept within a single jump, this could allow for a full year's unlawful activity before any intervention were possible.  I would support a reduction of garrison on Byzantium, but barring Eye operatives outright puts all Houses in peril.

Cordially,
Lady Santiago, &c.
Second Regent of the Empire

Fellow Nobles,

Our Lady Regent speaks with clarity and wisdom as usual, the proposal of Amendment II was to assuage the fears of Lord Ibn Donald Al-Malik, but even I must agree this act will have no teeth without the Imperial Eye's Presence on Byzantium Secundus to enforce it.  Therefore I shall rephrase Amendment II for submission to the Noble Houses.

Amendment II - "Imperial Eye Operatives or other Imperial Eye Assets (Spies, Van Gelder, etc.) must remain garrisoned within the Imperial Eye Compounds while on Byzantium Secundus, and may not perform covert operations outside of the Imperial Eye Compounds on Byzantium Secundus unless ordered by the sitting Regent to enforce this act ."

So now let us vote on these Amendments to put this matter to rest once and for all.

Amendment I

"Herein Spies and Assassins shall specifically be named to include House Spies, members of the Slayers Guild, members of the House Van Gelder, and Genetically Engineerd Assassins."

Li Halan - Yes
Hazat - Yes
Decados -Awaiting Vote
Hawkwood - Awaiting Vote
Al-Malik - Awaiting Vote

Amendment II

"Imperial Eye Operatives or other Imperial Eye Assets (Spies, Van Gelder, etc.) must remain garrisoned within the Imperial Eye Compounds while on Byzantium Secundus, and may not perform covert operations outside of the Imperial Eye Compounds on Byzantium Secundus unless ordered by the sitting Regent to enforce this act ."

Li Halan - Yes
Hazat - Awaiting Vote
Decados -Awaiting Vote
Hawkwood - Awaiting Vote
Al-Malik - Awaiting Vote

[Gollor]

Dear Flavius of Li Halan,

I accept you first amendment, but i will accept your second amendment if only my addition to it will be accepted too.
I propose my own Amendment:

Amendment II-b:

"Each Great House should keep one spy unit at their noble palace. In a case they notice any other Great House violating the Act they must publicly convict them. If any Great House was convicted two or more times in a two successive years Imperial Eye should deploy their spies to investigate the situation and make public virdict."

Li Halan - Yes
Hazat - Awaiting Vote
Decados -Yes
Hawkwood - Yes
Al-Malik - Awaiting Vote


Vladimir Decados the Head of Emperial Eye.

[Vertab Nukks]

Updated to Reflect Hawkwood Votes

Noble Cousins

Our houses sees no problem with Lord Vladimir's additional amendment, a single spy unit confined to each House Royal Embassy is not a dire threat to any other Royal House.

Duke Flavius Li Halan

Amendment I

"Herein Spies and Assassins shall specifically be named to include House Spies, members of the Slayers Guild, members of the House Van Gelder, and Genetically Engineered Assassins."

Li Halan - Yes
Hazat - Yes
Decados -Yes
Hawkwood - Yes
Al-Malik - Awaiting Vote

Amendment II

"Imperial Eye Operatives or other Imperial Eye Assets (Spies, Van Gelder, etc.) must remain garrisoned within the Imperial Eye Compounds while on Byzantium Secundus, and may not perform covert operations outside of the Imperial Eye Compounds on Byzantium Secundus unless ordered by the sitting Regent to enforce this act ."

Li Halan - Yes
Hazat - Awaiting Vote
Decados -Yes
Hawkwood - Yes
Al-Malik - Awaiting Vote

Amendment II-b:

"Each Great House is authorized to garrison one spy unit at their embassy on Byzantium Secundus to detect any other Great House violating this Act to then publicly condemn them. If any Great House is condemned two or more times within two successive years  it will result in the Imperial Eye deployment of Operatives to investigate the situation and make a public verdict of the threat."

Li Halan - Yes
Hazat - Awaiting Vote
Decados -Yes
Hawkwood - Yes
Al-Malik - Awaiting Vote


We now need the Hazat, Hawkwood, and Al-Malik decisions on these final amendments or propose any additional amendments to this act.

[Margrave]

House Hawkwood agrees to all the listed amendments.
One "intelligence operative" kept at the Embassy should be enough to deter funny business.

[Gollor]

- "Good day, commander. Welcome to the war room. Here you can always view all available information. From all planets, from all space routes." - Imperial Eye officer greeted Boris Decados and opened the doors.

Boris entered the vast room. A large model of all Known Worlds was standing at the middle. Many small glowing dots were orbiting around each system. Boris noticed as one was slowing coming to the glowing circle at the edge of a system - probably it was resembling the jump gate.

- "Currently all our forces are preserved at our base at Byzantium Secundus. We also have mobile strike army at Tethys. Most of our spaceships are currently landed, only a few are scattered across the galaxy. We are awaiting your orders, commander."

The glowing dot finally entered the circle and disappeared. Soon it will reappear again at the other jump gate.

VLADIMIR DECADOS PROCLAMATION

Fellow lords! From now I, Vladimir Decados, humbly take control over Emperial Eye.
Empire is slowly dying. Many people want to see it annihilated and my task is to prevent this. While some... entities offense it in direct warfare, some entities are instead destroy the Order from inside. And it is my task to fight with them.

For a long time the main purpose of Emperial Eye was to investigate ruins, explore new planets and advance into unknown. However now we must not advance the borders but save the current state. I will reform the key functions of Emperial Eye. From now its main task will be to supervise all space routes and space vessels. We will gather all information inside the Empire and then translate it to the Great Lords in order to save the Order.

[sk128234]

Updated to Reflect Hawkwood Votes

Noble Cousins

Our houses sees no problem with Lord Vladimir's additional amendment, a single spy unit confined to each House Royal Embassy is not a dire threat to any other Royal House.

Duke Flavius Li Halan

Amendment I
Amendment II
Amendment II-b:

We now need the Hazat, Hawkwood, and Al-Malik decisions on these final amendments or propose any additional amendments to this act.

I am in favor of all three amendments (though surely you will pardon me if I enter the third as "Amendment III").

[Vertab Nukks]

Il Palazzo, do you think you will get to the turn on Friday or Saturday, I have alot going on this weekend and like you said these turns are getting longer so I am just trying to get an idea when to be looking for it.  Thanks.

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, looks like I'm done with my work and free of further obligations, so I should be able to do it as soon as I get it.

[Vertab Nukks]

Great! Margrave if you can get the turn out to him tonight I will be mostly free the first half of Friday to do the turn.

[Margrave]

Turn Sent

Never trust an NPC it seems.

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Returning from Byzantium Secundus, the first thing Lord Protector Alvarex Hawkwood noticed as his shuttle touched down at the Palace on Ravenna was the smell of burning electronics. How he was able to discern the specific smell of charred motherboards can only be attributed to his impeccable pedigree. Military officers rushed to his side and informed him of the treacherous attack by the Merchant League against the absolutely vital factory island just offshore that produced his (in)famous Quasar Bingo Slot Machines.

It had seemed the Scravers had finally convinced the Leaguemeister to declare war against the Noble House. They had had enough of House Hawkwood muscling in on their space casino luxury liners. Now thousands would die because of it.
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House Hawkwood announces that it will defend itself against this unprovoked attack by the collective Guilds of the Merchant League despite centuries of friendship and good business. We shall not punish the common man in our righteous combat and welcome any honest... alright mostly honest guildsman that seeks gainful employment.

Senators of the Imperial Assembly, having witnessed firsthand the unquenchable avarice of the League and the insufferable madness of the Patriarch, I deem the Nobility as the last and perhaps only sane heirs to the legacy of Emperor Vladimir Alecto. I doubt ever again that I could trust more than a token presence of either faction upon my worlds.