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Author Topic: Arms Race, OOC [Completed] Now with Arms Race III, against another forum!  (Read 233740 times)

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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: A New Constitution for United Forenia
« Reply #2250 on: November 23, 2015, 05:24:16 pm »

You have my giant rocket that's currently stuck in space forever.
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: A New Constitution for United Forenia
« Reply #2251 on: November 24, 2015, 09:02:24 am »

The Future of Forenia

It is now 1937, and after a time of confusion, the government of United Forenia has begun to function.

The Constitution

The broad strokes of Forenia's constitution have been laid out by the military engineers who helped bring about the outcome of the war, but this is almost honorary; all of the fine details are worked out by bickering men in suits... who are they, exactly? Some are generals and military officers, who still exchange insults with their former foes, from either nation or the rebel army. A few are common folk with a lot to say, who've managed to get into the parliament hearings. Most, however, are faceless civil functionaries who you've never seen before in your life. They probably spent most of their time following the old High Command's orders in one palace or the other and somehow not only avoided being hung after last year's coup d'etat, but negotiated their way into a position where they still have a say in government. Oh sure, every single one says they supported the rebellion, but they do so with a unanimity that's impossible to believe.

The government now follows a system where both states (Moskurg and Arstotzka) have a parliament, but there is a third federal parliament called the Supreme Command, who decide federal issues such as foreign policy as a committee, or by sub-committees they have the freedom to appoint. The first sub-committee is the Department of Engineers, who decide upon federal engineering standards from their luxurious beach-side offices (one detail of government the engineers were very insistent upon). The charter is on display for the public in the Supreme Command building, and while there is no clause about using trial by combat with experimental weaponry, rumors persist that there is such a thing on the back of the charter, where you can't see it. Metric is chosen as the federal standard system of measurement, power lines run with AC current (DC being impractical to change voltages), and a massive six-lane highway is made to run up and down the east side of Forenia.

An arms control system has been put in place where all firearms must be registered and their trade reported, with special permits for armored vehicles and artillery. However, the registry office is overwhelmed and unregistered guns aren't difficult to find, so this is rarely enforced. A standing Forenian army is raised, and soldiers are shuffled between bases in either state on the continent so as to prevent groups forming along national lines within the military. The economy on the island begins to flourish again as citizens travel up and down the highway and buildings are rebuilt, and some war factories begin instead manufacturing home appliances and farming equipment. The finer points of law vary rather significantly between the two states, with Arstotzkan drivers finding themselves chastised for igniting rocket boosters on Moskurg roads, and Moskurg travelers surprised to find fisticuffs are not acceptable as remediation for a poor refund policy in Arstotzkan stores. Taxes are paid to the state, and then states pay tax to the federal government for use in military matters ("offense spending, payable to the Department of Offense") and federal projects.

There is little real technological advancement during this time, but the engineers are kept busy overseeing construction, reverse-engineering refrigerator technology from the United States, converting factories from making tanks to tractors (whilst keeping them ready to go back to tanks again, including a scrapped project for tractors which could have armor and a turret quickly attached at any time) and converting Moskurg-style train tracks to Arstotzkan-style tank tracks, which are three centimeters wider. The AS-SS1935X still orbits the moon, and no real attempt has been made to recover it, except a tragic incident orchestrated by an Arstotzkan farmer with two 35,000 liter tanker trailers of diesel fuel.

The world outside Forenia ticks on. Nazi Germany is still on the rise, its soldiers being armed with AS-AR34 rifles. Japan has invaded China, capturing Beijing, and Russia has made a pact to support China. The civil war in Tropico has ended, again. The Spanish civil war has begun. Ronald Reagan has signed an acting contract with Warner Brothers. Amelia Earhart successfully flew around the world in a modified AS-DB-HF. The Hindenburg crashes, putting an end worldwide to the era of airships.

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I should probably tally up all the tech and designs we're left with, but I'm tired. Maybe later.

The Future
The above words describe the small continent of Forenia as we leave it, in late 1937. The nations are united, the economy is stable, a new government and army is formed. The world around it has been altered slightly by its presence, but for now history mostly stays its course.

I may continue the setting from here, but it will not be soon. If you have been inspired to make your own forum game based off of the mechanics or world of this one then by all means, do so, and feel free to leave a link- I might enjoy reading it. Maybe you can even be the one to continue the main story from here, or chronicle the arms race in Tropico from 1910 onward.

To everyone: Thanks for playing.
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2252 on: November 24, 2015, 10:17:43 am »

Awesome.

Was a pleasure playing with/against all of you! It was certainly a fun experience, even if it seemed like Moskurg was losing :P

Thanks for running this, Sensei!
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2253 on: November 24, 2015, 01:09:11 pm »

awesome game! It will be remembered for a long time.

Artotzka saved amelia earhart through superior plane building! ( and perhaps doomed the world with supernazis, but lets keep to the important things)

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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2254 on: November 24, 2015, 01:37:56 pm »

( and perhaps doomed the world with supernazis, but lets keep to the important things)
FREEDOM will come with heavy armored suits :V
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2255 on: November 24, 2015, 03:21:57 pm »

And rocket powered motorbikes!
Forenia VS the Third Reich,  that's an idea for squeal.
I had a lot of fun playing this.
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2256 on: November 24, 2015, 04:04:28 pm »

Forenia vs the rest of world, because truly, if there was anything bad enough that would cause Nazis, Commies and Allies ally on fighting on, it's Moskurgs.
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2257 on: November 24, 2015, 05:14:05 pm »

Arstotzka will raise again!
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2258 on: November 24, 2015, 05:20:11 pm »

Man, for a bunch of folks who got stabbed in the back by arstotzka, you are all still surprisingly loyal to it :P
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2259 on: November 24, 2015, 05:24:40 pm »

It's not Arstotzka who stabbed us back, it's the traitors who stabbed Arstotzka in back!

WE ARE ARSTOTZKA!

GLORY! ALL GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!


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« Reply #2260 on: November 24, 2015, 05:26:14 pm »

No you're not. Arstotzka's high command was Arstotzka :P
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2261 on: November 24, 2015, 05:36:28 pm »

It's not Arstotzka who stabbed us back, it's the traitors who stabbed Arstotzka in back!

WE ARE ARSTOTZKA!

GLORY! ALL GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA!


...so reads the text, newly painted on the hull of the AS-SS1935X, if the Arstotzkan Science Council is to be believed. They're the only ones with access to a telescope powerful enough to tell for sure, and they aren't letting the public into the observatory after someone with a forged press pass tried to scratch "Glory to Moskurg" into the priceless 750mm objective lens.
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2262 on: November 24, 2015, 06:01:56 pm »

No you're not. Arstotzka's high command was Arstotzka :P
Arstotzka high command was Forenians, which now rule both old Arstotzka (only because they had no honour and attacked from suprise, not that piece of rock had any value to us) and Moskurg (because Moskurg is weak), but that's kind of okay, since Arstotzka still exists (the rocket counts as a soveregin territory and we proably have our own laws and whatnot) and enslaved Moskurgs now have to toil endlessly in the salt mines. Or that's what we belive in up here. But don't worry, one day we will come back, retake our precious homeland and we may even let the Moskurgs live and graciously allow them to work for us in salt mines because that's clearly what all Moskurgs want to do. And everyone will know the glory of the Arstotzkan people and their glorious waxed moustaches!
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Re: Arms Race, OOC Epilogue: The Future of Forenia [Completed]
« Reply #2263 on: November 25, 2015, 04:51:52 pm »

It was fun playing with all of you. Actually being full-on patriotic like I was with Arstotzka was a new and very enjoyable experience for me. So yeah, thanks for giving us this fun game to play Sensei! :D

I'm glad to see that Arstotzka was properly recognised for its myriad of achievements in the epilogue. Truly, they have done far more good for Forenia than Moskurg was ever capable of doing.

Glory to Arstotzka.
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« Reply #2264 on: November 25, 2015, 07:06:14 pm »

Similarly, I had a great deal of fun working in the Moskurg propaganda machine.
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