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[Taricus]

((The parcels glassed weren't in Nova territory. Don't worry about them.))

[Sheb]

((Oh, I tough so with the rain of black ashes on our land. It's just fallout from the church nuking the Xeno then?))

[Taricus]

((Yeah, pretty much ))

[adwarf]

Trent sat at a table in his new residence, a mansion of sorts that was formerly the town of hall of the village, in front of him sheets of paper and the rare data slates are scattered about the table filled with information he'd gained in a mere week of controlling the Criptian Peninsula. After a few seconds a servant barges in, and Trent looks up as the man speaks, "Sir, it is as you expected Roim is sending an army to take back the Penisula, numbers are roughly 20 regiments from our scouts. Your orders?" Trent tapped on a piece of paper with his pen for a minute as he thought, "So the Fool King seeks to counter my claims by force, lets just see what we can stir up." Trent looked at the servant and replied, "I'll give you two letters momentarily, the first is to be sent to the Archon post-haste, and the second to Azthor of House Nova, I also want you to order my troops to gather at the fortress site at the top on the Peninsula. If all else fails we'll meet them in combat, but I'd rather avoid that."

With that said Trent began to write.

Spoiler: Letter to the Archon (click to show/hide)

Archon,
My recent .. endeavors have caused a bit of a dispute with the Fool King Roim, forgive me for asking but I need your support to hold my claim on lands in the Reach to begin preparations for creating a shipyard. In a week's time I will meet the forces Roim has sent to take back these lands, at such time I will openly declare myself a vassal to the Church, and those lands to be the starting point for good relations between House Nova, and the Church. If there is anything you can do to aid me, and prove my vassal-ship I plead you to do so.

- Trent

Spoiler: Letter to Azthor (click to show/hide)

I request a meeting in my lands in the Reach once my dispute with Roim has come to an end till then may your lands prosper.
- Trent

[Sheb]

Back at his office after the economic meeting, Roim started writing a letter to Azthor.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Dear Azthor,

I have heard that the current size of your fief doesn't satisfy you. It is true that the pie that House Nova is grew enormously, and that your share did not. The end result is that your estates are now well below your rank.

I offer you a way out. As you know, the Church refuse to acknowledge the Prohibitium Terra edict as valid. This give us a great opportunity to expand unto the Xeno continent, gaining land and favor with the Church (if not the Archon).

However, I am stuck here managing the land. I am by inclination a warrior rather than an Administrator, but the Pancreator decided I would have to serve the latter role, at least until the return of Aeverys. This make you the only person qualified to run the campaign. If you agree, I will lend you my troops, on the condition that you are to pay compensation for any regiment killed in battle and that you are not to intervene in their leadership (promoting officers for exemple). With those, you'll carve yourself a fief in the Xeno lands, finally giving you the land you deserve.

Shall you agree, I will ask you to come to my office tomorrow for discussing the strategy.

Also:

Posse Comitatus Act

In order to preserve the capital from brawl and unsavory trade, it is forbidden for any troop save the Matriarch's to be stationed, to operate or to move through Delta-17. This Act can be revoked if the Matriarch (or Her Second) deems it necessary. (War, Rebellion...)

Orders all troops save the House Guards to be removed from Delta-17

[Ardas]

Luthias received the letteer from Trent. It was inevitable that power struggle would develop. But it was a chance for Luthias to temper that brute Roim.
Averys might have chosen slab of meat, but she forgot about the brain that has to be attached to that slab. It was all too common that rich ladies would buy themsleves big brute of a slave, for all the obvious purposes. Archon was wondering if this was not similar.

Spoiler: Letter to Trent (click to show/hide)

My dear son in faith,
May Pancreator bless you in your endeavours. As of now, you are nominated a lay deacon of the Si'kar diocese, under its research team.
A letter of nomination with appropriate amulets and certificates are attached to this letter, denoting you as the vassal of the Church. If you have any problem with Roim, let him reconsider an assault on the Church.
You are free to tell him that this "requisition" of land is an obligatory payment for the sins commited by him. But reassure him that this merely means that you manage the land and it still remains a part of House Nova.

His Eminence, Luthias Hartwig, Archon of Si'kar and Archodiocese of Soma System.

[Sheb]

((Given tech level and the geography of the peninsula, I request a roll to see if the letter go through or is intercepted by my men))

[Ardas]

((don't bother. I can use my shuttle to bypass you if you try to do that. You did not intercept the letter that went out to me, so why wouold you try to stop that one, and more importantly how?))

[Sheb]

((Because my men when one week away when adwarf sent his letter, so they couldn't intercept. Actually, given medieval tech, you would probably only get his letter after the fight, but whatever. :p

And using your shuttle now would be heavy metagaming, so you won't do that.))

[Ardas]

((Its heavy meta when you try to intercept a letter that you don't know is coming. I'm leaving it up to Ghaz to arbitrate on that.))

[adwarf]

((Because my men when one week away when adwarf sent his letter, so they couldn't intercept. Actually, given medieval tech, you would probably only get his letter after the fight, but whatever. :p

And using your shuttle now would be heavy metagaming, so you won't do that.))

Spoiler: Annoyed Rant (Ignore if you desire) (click to show/hide)

((But isn't declaring it a penisula from the start also metgaming on your part as well? It forces me into a situation where I have little to no ways of communication outside the penisula once you blockade it. It also forces me into a place where I have no where to flee to seeing as I would have no ships for me men to flee on. On top of that you say that you'd have men stationed in the peninsula itself, but why would you when your clearly gearing up for war? Most of your men would lie on the edge where you seek to launch your assault with the rest lying in the important lands like capitals and towns not some small wildlands territory, on top of that you declared an edict that forces Azthor to move all of his men out of his single territory? Why would me or him let that stand? We'd overthrow it as higher ups of House Nova we have more then enough force to overthrow it, as I see it your trying to prevent Azthor from making a move and claiming the capital while I rebel. With that edict you swipe out any problems you may have by making the single most important move Azthor could enact impossible, of course even with that edict we could do as we wish and ignore it so that move is pointless, if we wish to take the capital we will do it one way or another.

As for Ardas taking a shuttle to deliver me a message, that is not metagaming, it is very much IC from how I see it. If he has even a chance of losing a vassal within House Nova who in their right mind wouldn't ensure that message gets there. And if your going to argue my message couldn't get to him, all the messenger would need to reach is the nearest church lands and the message is as good as there since Ardas has access to some long-range communication equipment. Even if he didn't a series of riders taking the message and riding as hard as they could would get there before your troops arrived for sure, an army of 15 regiments can only go so fast.))

((Sorry if this seems aggressive, its just it annoys me when people declare metagaming when its perfectly reasonable, and IC for the players involved. Anywho I don't want to start an argument so I'll leave it at this.))

[Sheb]

((Well, the way I see it, I've got a bunch of men closing down on the peninsula, that want to grab Trent and bring his ass back to Delta-17. The Way to do it is to block "base" of the peninsula so he can't get around them. They're not actively looking for the letter, just that since they're already locking on the peninsula, any spotted messenger would be arrested and searched.))

BTW: The fiefs needs some works Ghazkull: Azthor doesn't have any tax income. He can't even feed his troops, since he has no food income either. :p
 I repeat my suggestions that you remove that fortress from his fief list (I mean, is it even a different Fortress or is it Delta-17? It's weird that it may be a fief of both Aeverys and Azthor..., but if it's a different fortress, we don't have enough food to feed them...) and give him some towns and farmsteads instead. That seems more like what a House Noble fief would look like: farmland in the Core, and a town or two.

Edit: Oh, I see I totally missed your rant. Here is the answer.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, the peninsula part was just fluff at first, much like the way you decided my troops were a week away. I didn't really think much about it at the time, and you didn't oppose it. But then you didn't specify anything ("Claim land along the church border" would have been much smarter for exemple), and it just seems logical that you wouldn't claim a region totally within my fief, and you wouldn't be able to flee through my land anyway...

Gearing for war: Yup, I've been hiring ship and training some more milita... But the last orders given to the troops were "Scatter around to hunt for bandits". So being all around the Reaches is exactly where it makes sense for them to be, sorry.

The Posse Comitatus act is indeed designed to prevent a palace coup from happening. I though Azthor had another Fortress as his own. We'll see of this play out, may have to edit if not, but it's quite silly that the capital is the fief of two different persons. But yeah, since troops don't really have positions, I don't want Azthor to suddenly claim all of his are targeting me in the Palace. And I don't want to have troops stuck in Delta-17 defending me against this when they could be doing something more useful.

You don't have to stand for it. Feel free to disobey the edict. But I have the bigger stick around for now, so watch for consequences. Also, you're not even a member of House Nova, you're a retainer with almost no armed forces that just broke it's oath by swearing fealty to soemone else and tried to steal my land. Azthor might mount a legal challenge, but the notion that you could is preposerous.

Luthias using his shuttle for carrying a message doesn't really make sense: he got only one, and it's arguably its most important asset. He usually wouldn't devote it to postal duties. So except if Ardas had specified it before I asked about the interception, we can safely assume it wouldn't have been used. That's metagaming: changing your PC's behaviour on information he doesn't have.

Anyway, I'll let Ghazkull handle the letter thing. He's the GM.

[adwarf]

Your reply brings me to something I figured you had inferred, I'm a noble of House Nova, you may say am not but I am still in a small amount part of House Nova even if I am part of a Branch House, I just laid claim to part of your lands and in your eyes I knew it would be seen as rebelling, now why on earth would I send a messenger dressed as a messenger? Even better why wouldn't I send the messenger dressed as a Church Scribe so you couldn't interfere. My point is that I figured you could infer my intention was that the messenger wouldn't look like a messenger. And if its a single man who you don't know is taking a message and is not dressed as a messenger then your subordinate wouldn't know to stop him as you didn't directly order him to be on the look for those. Anywho that is the last I have to say on the matter, Ghaz's decision will be final

[Ghazkull]

((OOC: sorry for delays, i've got currently a job at a place where Internet seems to be the works of witches...anyway))

Ok after going through everything i can't see your Problem Sheb. Nova has a population of 318 Units and you produce 320 Units of Food. Everybody is fed and you can store 2 Units in the Granary. Having this said i also just realized that Azthor in fact gets no money.

Ok following New Distribution until somebody decides he wants to divide his land up differently:

For now Azthor gets the 29 Parcels of Farmsteads from Aeverys so that he can keep the troops and feed the Corelands.

This to that.

Concerning the landscape i am a bit reluctant to rule on that, i want to allow you to shape the Geography of the Planet as you wish and in this case i think we can agree that the Peninsula was not Meta by Sheb. Due to the Letter on the other hand yor guards are not actively trying to siege and wall off the whole area, at least that was no order from your side. You just told them to go in and get Adwarf out. But i roll anyway.

The 400 Credits i will divide up equally with exemption of Trent and Tavius as both don't belong to the family and are just mere Retainers. So each of you can write 100 Creds on his Private Account XP. And Tavius has still one Cred remaining as far as i recall from his previous job.

[Sheb]

((Food wise, I was confused about the fact that the Fortress appeared twice in the fief list. If Azthor's was another fortress, we didn't have enough food for him. I'll edit the turn then.

What's the roll's result?

Also, Azthor, I need around 27 units of food for the Core. What are your condition? Can I buy food somewhere else (International market?) ))