AWWA Part III-The Great War(IC)

[Bojikami]

Horatius thanks Ishikawa for his support and states that Roma Italia shall be in Britannia's debt.

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Rome, Roma Italia

Back in the capital, Mussolini and his Fascist party are gaining support in the Senate, they now control 23 of the Senate seats out of 290, thus threatening the predominantly Liberal senate. Despite this, Consul Titus Julio decides to reject the legislation that would see the fascist party banned, as it would threaten the freedom of speech and expression that the Empire held dear.

Ukraine-Romania

Much unlike the wave of right-wing politics in the west, Ukraine-Romania had become wracked with far-left factions organising across the nation. The most prominent, The Peoples Will, had organised a protest in Kiev in cooperation with the Ukrainian Workers Party against the slave-like conditions the workers and lower-class citizens of the nation had been subjected too. In the midst of all of this, Antoni Belinsky, the leader of the peoples will begins to write his own novel to expose to the world the conditions of the Ukrainian laborer and why the people of the empire should rise up against Viktor's "Draconian" regime.

The book would be titled "The State of the Working Class" The book itself is a criticism of the capitalist system based on the life of a citizen, Ciprian Iancu, a factory worker who lives in the Oblast of Poltava. Throughout the short book it covers the mans daily life, from him waking at 5:30 AM to walk to his job at the Poltavan Arms Factory. From there he spends his time, 6 AM to 9 PM manufacturing weapons. He talks about injuries sustained by workers at the factory, including a graphic scene in which a young boy gets his arm stuck in the machinery and is killed by it. The book is initially released in Ukraine-Romania only, but a publisher in Italy discovers the book and publishes it.

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Mussolini, once again took to a political writing. This one was named: "Magni Resurrecto" or "The Great Resurrection". This new book from Mussolini explained his ideas regarding Roma Italia being the sole successor to Western Rome and therefore should be the one to retake and reclaim its lost provinces. Mussolini's idea, however omits Britannia and Libya from his "Great Resurrection" because he writes that he "holds great respect for the great British Empire" and that "The children of Byzantium and Western Rome should seek cooperation with one another and fight together against any invading threat."

Magni Resurrecto is released initially only in Roma Italia. This begins a feeling of Roman irredentism within the empire and it intensifies Gallic nationalism in Southern Gallia.

[Unicario]

Emmanuel Carasso, in his capacity as one of the foremost political speakers in Rum's history, formally translates The State of the Ukraine-Romanian Working Class, The Doctrine of Fascism, and Renovatio Imperii into Turkish and Arabic. Emmanuel also begins reading the Communist Manifesto and starts writing his own political thesis on the socialist cause in Rum, to be published later.

Emmanuel Carasso would be one of the founding members of the People's Democratic Party, the Marxist party of Rum.

[Shrillland]

The British and Canadian delegates sign the treaty, satisfied with all that is stated.

London

In Britain and throughout the Empire, the growing Communist sentiment was finding new homes, especially with the cooler summer than usual, which would certainly lead to crop failures later on. Even so, few people found the time for rallies, though many read the increasingly popular books in the infection wards as Canadian flu was spreading like wildfire through the empire. Already, 100,000 in Britain and Ireland had contracted the disease and 15,000 had died, a number that would soon rise.

[Unicario]

The Japanese sign the treaty and send it back to Tokyo to be ratified. It will likely pass with a significant majority.

June 25, 1892

Emmanuel Carasso publishes a small manifesto called Roma Orientalis. In this manifesto, he lists a plethora of things -- firstly, he states that the Venetian state never fully paid it's dues for the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, and that even in Venezia today, proper Byzantine artifacts lay in the city. He thinks Italy, "in good faith toward it's Roman brother", should return any and all spoils of the 1204 sack back to Constantinople and the possession of the Empress Iulia II.

Secondly, he sanctions the idea that the Eastern Roman Empire is indeed restored, and believes that a "political union between Rome and Constantinople in a diarchy would perhaps be one of the most powerful unions in Europe, and would truly the Roman Empire." -- He proposes that Prince Mehmet, the 23 year old Crown Prince, should formally marry an Italian princess to further tie the two nations together. He then proposes also "a union between Constantinople and Teheran, cementing the true faith in the Middle East..."

He then also begins to propose "grand works" projects to restore the glory of Rome. The rebuild of the Hippodrome, the Sea Walls, the Hagia Sophia be restored into a grand mosque even grander than it already is, the rebuild of the Alexandria and Baghdad libraries, so on and so forth.

He then launches into his final point, that there is no true Islamic faith but Sunni. From a Jewish point of view, he challenges the authority of the Shiite Caliphate saying that the Osman clan, as Caliph of Islam, is descendant from the Prophet Muhammad, and therefore, better qualified to run the Islamic faith.

He publishes the book to loud acclaim in Rum.

[Ruridova]

The CSA and its allies sign the Treaty, as does Russia.

June 25, 1892

Emmanuel Carasso publishes a small manifesto called Roma Orientalis. In this manifesto, he lists a plethora of things -- firstly, he states that the Venetian state never fully paid it's dues for the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, and that even in Venezia today, proper Byzantine artifacts lay in the city. He thinks Italy, "in good faith toward it's Roman brother", should return any and all spoils of the 1204 sack back to Constantinople and the possession of the Empress Iulia II.

Secondly, he sanctions the idea that the Eastern Roman Empire is indeed restored, and believes that a "political union between Rome and Constantinople in a diarchy would perhaps be one of the most powerful unions in Europe, and would truly the Roman Empire." -- He proposes that Prince Mehmet, the 23 year old Crown Prince, should formally marry an Italian princess to further tie the two nations together. He then proposes also "a union between Constantinople and Teheran, cementing the true faith in the Middle East..."

He then also begins to propose "grand works" projects to restore the glory of Rome. The rebuild of the Hippodrome, the Sea Walls, the Hagia Sophia be restored into a grand mosque even grander than it already is, the rebuild of the Alexandria and Baghdad libraries, so on and so forth.

He then launches into his final point, that there is no true Islamic faith but Sunni. From a Jewish point of view, he challenges the authority of the Shiite Caliphate saying that the Osman clan, as Caliph of Islam, is descendant from the Prophet Muhammad, and therefore, better qualified to run the Islamic faith.

He publishes the book to loud acclaim in Rum.

The book generally draws little attention in Russia, the CSA, and their allies. Many Germans are furious that Carasso seems to be agreeing with "the Italian madman" Mussolini, but other than that it draws little attention in the German sphere.

The book does, however, create controversy in al-Mayiquh and Rum. In Al-Mayiquh- which is majority Shia, after several of its early colonial leaders converted themselves and the colonists from Sunnism to the Shiism- and Mauritania- which is Shurist, and already worried that Rum will invade and attempt to enforce Sunnism- the book is burned in the streets and Carasso denounced. Many Jews in Europe and America also become skeptical of Carasso's devotion to Judaism, seeing that he seems to be far more interested in Islam than Judaism, and calls Islam "the true faith" while describing the possibility of union between Istanbul and Tehran. This further damages the credibility of anti-Zionism in these areas, and the ZWC grows larger and more powerful.

[Unicario]

June 25, 1892

Emmanuel Carasso publishes a small manifesto called Roma Orientalis. In this manifesto, he lists a plethora of things -- firstly, he states that the Venetian state never fully paid it's dues for the 1204 Sack of Constantinople, and that even in Venezia today, proper Byzantine artifacts lay in the city. He thinks Italy, "in good faith toward it's Roman brother", should return any and all spoils of the 1204 sack back to Constantinople and the possession of the Empress Iulia II.

Secondly, he sanctions the idea that the Eastern Roman Empire is indeed restored, and believes that a "political union between Rome and Constantinople in a diarchy would perhaps be one of the most powerful unions in Europe, and would truly the Roman Empire." -- He proposes that Prince Mehmet, the 23 year old Crown Prince, should formally marry an Italian princess to further tie the two nations together. He then proposes also "a union between Constantinople and Teheran, cementing the true faith in the Middle East..."

He then also begins to propose "grand works" projects to restore the glory of Rome. The rebuild of the Hippodrome, the Sea Walls, the Hagia Sophia be restored into a grand mosque even grander than it already is, the rebuild of the Alexandria and Baghdad libraries, so on and so forth.

He then launches into his final point, that there is no true Islamic faith but Sunni. From a Jewish point of view, he challenges the authority of the Shiite Caliphate saying that the Osman clan, as Caliph of Islam, is descendant from the Prophet Muhammad, and therefore, better qualified to run the Islamic faith.

He publishes the book to loud acclaim in Rum.

The book generally draws little attention in Russia, the CSA, and their allies. Many Germans are furious that Carasso seems to be agreeing with "the Italian madman" Mussolini, but other than that it draws little attention in the German sphere.

The book does, however, create controversy in al-Mayiquh and Rum. In Al-Mayiquh- which is majority Shia, after several of its early colonial leaders converted themselves and the colonists from Sunnism to the Shiism- and Mauritania- which is Shurist, and already worried that Rum will invade and attempt to enforce Sunnism- the book is burned in the streets and Carasso denounced. Many Jews in Europe and America also become skeptical of Carasso's devotion to Judaism, seeing that he seems to be far more interested in Islam than Judaism, and calls Islam "the true faith" while describing the possibility of union between Istanbul and Tehran. This further damages the credibility of anti-Zionism in these areas, and the ZWC grows larger and more powerful.

Carasso dismisses the views of those outraged by his books and states to a newspaper in Rum, "Considering that the Rumite Empire is a liberal democratic society with the freedom of speech guaranteed by our secular constitution penned by the Red Guards who took to the streets against absolutism in the reign of Mahmud II. I am entitled to say what I please, and they may do so too. Their fears that the Empress will impose a different religion on them is preposterous, and as for my fellow religious men who have flocked to Zionism because of my views on Islam -- I say good riddance to them. As long as Rum stands, the Zionists will fight for nothing but a pipe-dream. I am Rumite first, and Jewish second. This shall always be my view, now and forever. Let the Zionist World Congress whine like a child about the Holy Land. It remains in the hands of capable stewards. I believe they should be thankful, since Rum, unlike the Christian Outremer states, permits them right to pilgrimage to Jerusalem."

Carasso continues his work translating and puts a temporary hold on new works until he is finished with his translations.

[Unicario]

July 1, 1892

Another book churned out of mighty Japan -- this time, instead of being written by a member of the aristocracy, public, or any other -- it was written by Emperor Alexander himself. The book was a massive compilation of his "Circumnavigation of the World" that he undertook in 1838. While a smaller book about it had been published in the 1840s, Alexander had promised to write a "much larger version" in the future -- and after 50 years, he had finally achieved his means.

Aboard the Circumstance was the title of his massive epic. In this massive text, he wrote about every stop on his journey, and every experience he had. From "delving into the strangest of hallucinogenic opiates and drinks in Bengal with Sikh and Muslim men trying to find their own personal enlightenment, and assisting the youth of Dhaka in finding productive means of survival -- instead of robbing men and fighting like animals for scraps, to find their fate, possibly creating new generations of men to fight for freedom..." to his journey to Arabia and "the Grand City of Mecca, where I, for my short time as a faithful Muslim, paid Hajj to the fair Turkish Kayser, Adile, and her empire, of which I have great respect...", to his journey across the ocean to the Confederate States, and his meeting with Jefferson Davis on the shores of the Mississippi River, to his stop in Hormuz and his short spell in Persia.

For the first time in his life, he revealed the very reason he went on that journey. "In my humiliation as a young, foolish monarch, I awoke one evening in a daze. My body was drenched in sweat, and my heart was beating fast as I rose from my bedchamber and stalked down the halls of the Palace. In my study, a light was flickering, by candlelight I entered the room, and I saw the hallucination that burned into my soul, and made me realize that I was living a path of destruction, not enlightenment. In the quiet, dark room, there stood my dear Grandmother. Empress Meiji came to me only once in my life, to tell me that I was leading Japan to destruction... that is why I left on my journey, to comprehend the world as it is, not to dismiss it and fail to understand it. Perhaps the death of my father had such an effect, but what young man would not feel such a way about his father's demise? or his Grandmothers, for that matter? Alas, I do not know."

He even mentions why he avoided China, "The times were not kind to the Sino-Japanese friendship -- war was ever a threat, and it was not until later that we settled our differences... unfortunately by the barrel of a gun... not by the continuity of peace."

The book is released in Japan to massive acclaim, and the book spreads to foreign courts as it reveals the true nature of Alexander's grand world pilgrimage as a young man.

[Ruridova]

July 4, 1892

In the CSA, prohibition comes into effect. Racial minorities and women also celebrate the first anniversary of their enfranchisement- though Jim Crow laws are already restricting the prior's ability to vote.

July 1, 1892

Another book churned out of mighty Japan -- this time, instead of being written by a member of the aristocracy, public, or any other -- it was written by Emperor Alexander himself. The book was a massive compilation of his "Circumnavigation of the World" that he undertook in 1838. While a smaller book about it had been published in the 1840s, Alexander had promised to write a "much larger version" in the future -- and after 50 years, he had finally achieved his means.

Aboard the Circumstance was the title of his massive epic. In this massive text, he wrote about every stop on his journey, and every experience he had. From "delving into the strangest of hallucinogenic opiates and drinks in Bengal with Sikh and Muslim men trying to find their own personal enlightenment, and assisting the youth of Dhaka in finding productive means of survival -- instead of robbing men and fighting like animals for scraps, to find their fate, possibly creating new generations of men to fight for freedom..." to his journey to Arabia and "the Grand City of Mecca, where I, for my short time as a faithful Muslim, paid Hajj to the fair Turkish Kayser, Adile, and her empire, of which I have great respect...", to his journey across the ocean to the Confederate States, and his meeting with Jefferson Davis on the shores of the Mississippi River, to his stop in Hormuz and his short spell in Persia.

For the first time in his life, he revealed the very reason he went on that journey. "In my humiliation as a young, foolish monarch, I awoke one evening in a daze. My body was drenched in sweat, and my heart was beating fast as I rose from my bedchamber and stalked down the halls of the Palace. In my study, a light was flickering, by candlelight I entered the room, and I saw the hallucination that burned into my soul, and made me realize that I was living a path of destruction, not enlightenment. In the quiet, dark room, there stood my dear Grandmother. Empress Meiji came to me only once in my life, to tell me that I was leading Japan to destruction... that is why I left on my journey, to comprehend the world as it is, not to dismiss it and fail to understand it. Perhaps the death of my father had such an effect, but what young man would not feel such a way about his father's demise? or his Grandmothers, for that matter? Alas, I do not know."

He even mentions why he avoided China, "The times were not kind to the Sino-Japanese friendship -- war was ever a threat, and it was not until later that we settled our differences... unfortunately by the barrel of a gun... not by the continuity of peace."

The book is released in Japan to massive acclaim, and the book spreads to foreign courts as it reveals the true nature of Alexander's grand world pilgrimage as a young man.

The book sells well in the CSA, Russia, and Germany, generating little controversy, generally doing well but not distinguishing itself in anything beyond sales.

[Bojikami]

Viktor, Farkhad, Marcos and Horatius all sign the treaty.

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The book reaches the Ilkhanate first, and while the statements regarding Sunni Islam as the one true islam are met with great dislike, the idea of a unified middle east and a unified Islamic faith do find a sense of appeal in the hearts of the people. A Pan-Islamic sentiment in the Ilkhanate rises, and it shows support in numerous priests, so they begin to draft a proposal to the Caliph upon his return.

Oron, Nigeria

It has been some time since the Venezuelan invasion, and now Nigeria stands strengthened. The show of unity among the tribes in the defense of their homeland has acted as a symbol for the colony. The High Chiefs met in Oron, the sight of the initial Venezuelan invasion to put together a Nigerian Congress. This congress would act as a unifying body to send proposals to the colonial government. While many saw it as harmless, some saw it as a means to achieve independence...

[Luziyca]

Crimea, China and Guyane sign the treaty and have it get ratified with resounding majorities in all nations.

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At the same time, Chodren Dawa would marry a German merchant and rename herself Eva Koch, settling for good in Mahajanga. Her stories from that point on were less objectivist, and didn't promote the ideology as much.

Koch/Dawa will release a new book: "The Expedition," which describes a future where "volcanic winter" is widespread and eternal, triggered by the eruptions of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya and the earthquakes, plus various unnamed volcanoes. Food supply was scarce, and the population fell to only about ten million, mostly concentrated in what's left of once great fertile plains, like the Indo-Gangetic plain, which most of the survivors reside. While the factories lay abandoned, an agrarian society was put in place. The "Loga" Empire covers the remains of the plain, with the rulers descendants of Thekchen Yama. Only 250,000 live outside Loga, and in the story, the young man, Rajacamaka was a poor man, living on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka.

The Chogyal, Trinley Yama was elected by all the nobles, and he had a constitutional monarchy, but in practice, it was hereditary: ever since the "sveta" were expelled a long time ago, referencing the current rebellion from "Bharat," the Yama family held the power. As the rest of the world collapsed due to crop failure, Loga (Bengal) was basically paradise, spanning as far north as Tawang, and as far south as Kolkatta, as far west as Kathmandu, and as far east as Mandalay. Beyond those places, lay ice, snow, and desolation.

Rajacamaka began walking to work when a female accused him of adultery. After having been found guilty in a court, the sentence was "under Trinley's measure," and Trinley Yama decided to send him to "find the gaira-loga and bring them to Loga." Rajacamaka reluctantly accepts under the threat of death and leaves Kolkatta with other criminals. He goes through the Strait of Malacca, seeing ruins that gave evidence that people once lived there: mosques and churches, plus some new buildings. He was known for his strict rationing of food.

However, as he left the straits, he headed through the archipelago, and managed to get through the strait separating the island of New Guinea from Australia. However, he became isolated and alone, with his criminals. As he passed some islands, he saw skeletons, of entire peoples who have starved to death due to this ice age, notably Tahiti, where they saw a nearly dead baby. They stop there, trying to decide whether to take the baby, or not, but ultimately decide that "there was no point saving someone who will inevitably die." However, Rajacamaka becomes more and more insane, and ultimately, he delegates his authority to Kalibeta.

Under Kalibeta, he manages to sail fine, but when he reaches South America, he tries and round the Cape of Horn, until they get stuck in the ice. Rajacamaka was enraged and begins seeking revenge with Kalibeta. Eventually, after a few months, the ship was running out of rations. The ice melts just enough for them to go up South America, where they finally arrive in a part with food. Not caring anymore, Kalibeta orders that they take all the almonds, and Rajacamaka orders they be part of the rations. After this, they would follow the currents, sailing to the Gulf of Mexico, then along the coast of North America. From Newfoundland, they sail along the edge of the ice, until they found a patch of no ice and arrive in "Island:" in particular, "Rajashara." They came just in time as the inhabitants were starving and slowly dying due to the cooling climate. Thus, they all accept passage on board Kalibeta's ship. When Rajacamaka sees the Islanders, he slowly becomes more and more sane as he felt less isolated. The ship then sails towards the Mediterranean from Rajashara, then go through the canal onto the Red Sea. As they pass through the canal, they easily saw the ruins of Suez, and many Islanders began doubting they'd find paradise.

Finally, after they got into the Indian Ocean, Rajacamaka was able to re-assume his duties as captain. When Kalibeta kills an Islander during a fight, Rajacamaka orders Kalibeta marooned on Ceylon (Sri Lanka), which they promptly obey. Some of those sympathetic to Kalibeta (mainly drunken men) mutiny, so Rajacamaka also maroons those as well. He then sails from the ruins of Colombo back to Kolkatta, then gradually, the Islanders were taken to Dhaka, until the last Islander: a young orphan went off. Rajacamaka went with her, adopting her as a child. When Yama sees the Islanders, all 250,000 of them, he declared them "loga," or people, and settle them on the periphery of the Empire where they are used to. However, it starts to slowly warm up: a new civilization began in Ceylon, Loga slowly expands again across the plain as it got warmer, and the "eternal clouds" slowly end.

A century later, that young girl saw the rest of the world repopulated, with the Loga and Islanders blending and spreading across the face of the Earth, and she was the new Chogyal, seeing her people research their ancestors, questioning how they got into this mess when Mt. St. Helens erupts and she concludes "that was why we were so cut off in the first place."

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The new book by Emperor Alexander is released to critical acclaim and becomes the top bestseller. For how long though, is debatable.

[Shrillland]

July 7, 1892
London

The Emperor Alexander's book sells to wide acclaim in Britain and the empire at large, British publishers having to write their own faithful editions due to the continuing pandemic, which now touched 300,000 in Britain alone, though the death toll seemed to be peaking at 80,000.

In addition, Parliament now passed the Women's Suffrage Act, allowing all women in Great Britain the right to vote and hold office. They became the third major region of the empire to allow women the vote.

India

Meanwhile, the Sunni Muslims of Bengal and western India were pleased from the results of Signor Carasso's latest book, though Shiites in Baluchistan launched riots that had to be put down by British Troops, many of whom were Hinduists. This led to a tense period between the two faiths that would be a depressing pattern in the decades to come.

South Africa

Even with the major Boer cities in their hands, Rhodes and his armies still had to deal with Boer cavalry and OWW soldiers in the countryside, where the British only ruled the land around their campfires. Some months would pass before any changes were made.

[Shrillland]

April 5, 1893
Vereeniging, Transvaal

At long last, the final shots of the war had been fired. The Boer resistance had been fierce, but even they realised that the cause was lost. So today, a delegation led by Reitz, Kruger, Smuts, and Louis Botha arrived at Vereeniging to sign the peace. Apart from the stipulation that all Boers had to swear allegiance to the British Crown, the terms that Rhodes and Kitchener had imposed were generous. The new altered Dutch, known as Afrikaans, could be used in schools and courts, amnesty would be given to all Boers who fought, no new taxes would be imposed, and property rights would be respected in the new nation.They also signed the Union Treaty, which merged all four regions into a new Dominion: The Union of South Africa. Rhodes was its first Prime Minister.

At last, the war was over. All sides prepared for a conference in June to create the new postwar world.

[Ruridova]

June 1893
New Orleans

With hostilities having concluded two months earlier, the city of New Orleans prepared to host what had been named the New Orleans Conference, to discuss the creation of rules dictating the waging of war.

[Bojikami]

June 1893
Odessa, Ukraine-Romania

Thousands of people crowded the square in Odessa to hear the speech of their ruler regarding the future of the Tsardom. Viktor stood at a podium and had his guard standing at his flanks. "Citizens of our glorious nation," he began. "It seems the dark storm of war has passed us, and as always the unconquerable Ukrainian and Romanian people have stayed the course. At this moment all of our brothers, sons, fathers and friends are returning from the front lines and back to their families. Those, whom sadly have not survived will be regarded as martyrs and I pray for them. Now, in regards to current events, it seems that immediately after this horrendous war our former allies, the French seek to act aggressively towards the Italians. In response to this I publicly announce the Tsardom's support for the Italians in any event of French invasion." As Viktor cleared his throat to speak again, Antoni Belinsky, rose from his seat and drew a pistol from his coat. The woman next to him was barely able to scream before he pulled the trigger and with a loud BANG a bullet flew straight through Viktor's forehead. His guards began to raise their weapons and the crowd rushed away in fear as Viktor's now lifeless body dropped.

Despite the best efforts of the guards, Belinsky got away. The guards are barely able to identify him, much less catch him with the rushing crowd. The entire nation is thrown into sadness and some into anger. Most fingers point at the Crimeans or the Russians for this assassination.

[Shrillland]

June 10, 1893
New Orleans, Louisiana

Ishikawa had been in the confederacy for over a month now, becoming the first British Prime Minister to visit the country. He and Canadian Prime Minister Grover Cleveland had visited the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Canada had showcased its latest creation, a studio for a new medium called "moving pictures". It had been created in New Jersey by that "wizard" Thomas Edison. Cleveland, however, did not make a speech at this event as, unknown to all but his family, he had mouth cancer that he planned to have removed after the conference. Foreign Secretary Olney would be speaking on his behalf, just as the British Foreign Secretary, The Earl of Rosebery, would assist Ishikawa. Today, they arrived in New Orleans awaiting the leaders of the world.

London

Queen Victoria was herself going on a journey. The flu had subsided, though with heavy losses, and she was now heading to Japan to see her nephew Alexander, pitied that he couldn't attend her grandson George's(The Duke of York) wedding.

In the meantime, the winter of 1892-93 was one of the worst seen in decades thanks to the twin eruptions in Africa. Britain and her empire created relief programmes to keep food distributed, and famine wasn't a problem even in Canada. However, the poor still suffered, and now a new party, the Independent Labour Party, had been created to address their grievances. Socialist movements were also growing rapidly in Canada and Ireland as well. Others went south to Western Australia, where gold had been found near Kalgoorlie.

Another major event was Ishikawa's unveiling of the second Home Rule Bill, which would give greater autonomy to Ireland and pave the way for eventual Dominionhood. The House of Commons had passed the bill, but it was languishing in the House of Lords. Ulster Orangemen were opposed to the bill, convinced that it would give the Catholic south too much power.

And in South Africa, a young lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi had arrived in Durban to agitate for greater rights for the Indian population.

[Unicario]

June 1893

Michiko Adams and her diplomatic team arrived in New Orleans via the Apaec Canal for the conference. She was accompanied by James Sun and Prince Nicholas Romanov.

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South Africa

Japanese soldiers who had served against the Boer Republics actually remained in the country. While they had returned back to Mozambique, they resigned from the Armed Forces and went west into South Africa, and were now taking up quite a bit of land in Natal, the area they had primarily been staffed around. The leader of the assembled Japanese settlers that had flooded into the region, former Corporal Junichi Thomas, sent a letter to South Africa's government, petitioning recognition of his Japanese settlers as "whites" instead of coloreds, and further, petitioning them to be recognized as citizens.

[Unicario]

Constantinople

The assassination of Viktor made Calipha Aysun very nervous. She penned a telegram of condolences to the Ukraine and wished their next monarch a lifetime of health. Inspired by the "Nova Roma" political dossier, she ordered the reconstruction of the Grand Libraries of Alexandria and Baghdad, as well as the restoration of the Hagia Sophia.

[Bojikami]

New Orleans

The Swiss, Italian, and Venezuelan delegations arrived in New Orleans.

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Kiev, Ukraine-Romania

It was a dark day in the capital. Oleksandr, Viktors sole successor of 28 years of age, sat in his personal chamber, dressed in black and isolated. Grief and despair had overtaken the once lively man. Despite all of these sad emotions, one was quietly burning and its name was hate. Hate for whomever killed his father, hate for the world, hate for those inferior to Ukraine and had caused his people suffering. All of it was bubbling inside of him until he stormed out of his room in a fit of rage. He punched a window and it shattered against his fist, leaving shards of glass in his hand. He only winced in pain for a moment before he withdrew to his room once more, changed his clothes, bandaged his hand and made his way downstairs.

In his hand, was a letter he had written himself while he was in his room, addressed to a certain Benito Mussolini, requesting his presence at Oleksandrs court. He handed the letter to a courier and asked him to get it to Mediolanum, with haste.

Elsewhere, Belinsky was now aboard a Ukraine-Romanian cargo ship. He wrote to his comrades in Donetsk informing him of why he must leave and he entrusted the party's leadership to whomever the council deemed worthy. The ship in question, was bound for Italy.

[Ruridova]

Constantinople

The assassination of Viktor made Calipha Aysun very nervous. She penned a telegram of condolences to the Ukraine and wished their next monarch a lifetime of health. Inspired by the "Nova Roma" political dossier, she ordered the reconstruction of the Grand Libraries of Alexandria and Baghdad, as well as the restoration of the Hagia Sophia.

The fact that Ukraine-Romania would blame Russia horrified the Tsar and the Russian Empire. They suggest that the new king of Ukraine-Romania look for agitators within Ukraine-Romania, such as anarchists, terrorists, or simple murderers.

[Unicario]

1893

While the Grand Vizier Juno Thrakelis and her entourage of diplomats were visiting New Orleans; Calipha Aysun took into her own hands a proposal for world peace. Sending a general letter to all nations, she invited everyone to a revival of the old Roman sports -- The Olympiad.

To: The nations of the world
From: Her Sublime Majesty, Iulia II of the Roman Empire (Kayser-i-Rum), Caliph of Islam, Head of the House Osman

To all the peace-loving men and women on this world,

We are now seeking peace in all forms. In our history, the sport of games has brought man together in one house to celebrate the victories and triumphs of their nation's finest bodies. In spiritual remembrance of the days of Rome, and in the name of sportsmanship, I hereby cordially invite all currently sovereign nations on Earth to participate in the First Modern Olympiad -- to be held in the birthplace of Greek civilization -- Atheniai.

All nations are invited to participate in this magnificent event; To begin on the 6th of April in the year 1896, and to come to an end on the 15th of April, 1896.

In this vein, Aysun and several backers who wanted to form the new Olympiad, formally created the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a governing body to ensure the Olympics went over smoothly and without controversy, to determine which sports were included at the Olympics, to organize the opening and closing ceremonies, and to determine whom the host of the Olympics would be.

The IOC would go on to be one of the largest sportsmanship organizations on Earth, all at the insistence of Calipha Aysun.

[Luziyca]

1893

While the Grand Vizier Juno Thrakelis and her entourage of diplomats were visiting New Orleans; Calipha Aysun took into her own hands a proposal for world peace. Sending a general letter to all nations, she invited everyone to a revival of the old Roman sports -- The Olympiad.

To: The nations of the world
From: Her Sublime Majesty, Iulia II of the Roman Empire (Kayser-i-Rum), Caliph of Islam, Head of the House Osman

To all the peace-loving men and women on this world,

We are now seeking peace in all forms. In our history, the sport of games has brought man together in one house to celebrate the victories and triumphs of their nation's finest bodies. In spiritual remembrance of the days of Rome, and in the name of sportsmanship, I hereby cordially invite all currently sovereign nations on Earth to participate in the First Modern Olympiad -- to be held in the birthplace of Greek civilization -- Atheniai.

All nations are invited to participate in this magnificent event; To begin on the 6th of April in the year 1896, and to come to an end on the 15th of April, 1896.

In this vein, Aysun and several backers who wanted to form the new Olympiad, formally created the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a governing body to ensure the Olympics went over smoothly and without controversy, to determine which sports were included at the Olympics, to organize the opening and closing ceremonies, and to determine whom the host of the Olympics would be.

The IOC would go on to be one of the largest sportsmanship organizations on Earth, all at the insistence of Calipha Aysun.

Guyane, China, Crimea, and Portugal accept.

In the Crimea, the devastated town of Qazan Tip/Scholkine was declared a national monument, to be left exactly as it was in its current state save for clearing of "hazardous debris." A new town began to be built with government funds to rehouse the survivors and immigrants to make Qazan Tip a prosperous port city like Yalta, Aqyar/Sevastopol, and Kezlev/Yevpatoria.

Ukrainian POWs were released from the camps, and allowed to return to their homes. The only good thing was that they were now given official citizenship. The bad news was that segregation by that point had become prevalent, especially in the south.

Meanwhile, Professsor Mehmet Suprun, one of the Ukrainians who had citizenship and was a Muslim loyal to the Khan published a book: "The Science of the Crimean and the Ukrainian." He translated A Time of Destruction to pass censors, but this new book would shock people.

In "The Science of the Crimean and the Ukrainian," he had two groups of test subjects: one of them being Crimean Tatar, the other group being Ukrainian. Citing a "study" from 1858-1878 that he "unsurfaced", the two groups were tested on various abilities from basic literacy skills all the way up to cooking, construction, wealth, and on all of them, Mehmet finds that the Crimean Tatars did better than Ukrainians on every category except cooking: Mehmet states "the Ukrainian makes the finest delicacies, and his cuisine is well-loved by everyone, whether they are Crimean or not."

Then he quotes a recent "survey" done in late 1892 and early 1893, with an early form of IQ testing: generally, Crimean Tatar's IQ is around 100, while Ukrainians generally laid at around 80-90. The smarest Crimean Tatar was around 270, whilst the smartest Ukrainian was at a "mere" 125.

Mehmet Suprun said the "reason why Ukrainians fare poorer than Crimeans is a variety of conditions: the two most important are their brain size, and social conditions."

He noted that the brain of a Ukrainian "is like that of the Negro in terms of facial features, yet is pale to the human eye. Only when we look at the head circumference of a Ukrainian do we know that he is a Negroid," comparing head circumferences of Africans, Ukrainians, Crimean Tatars and Chinese, noting that Chinese and Crimean Tatars had similar head circumferences.

But Suprun adds that "the social condition that he grows up in is a big factor. Unlike the negro and a Rumite, miscegenation between Ukrainians and Crimeans are not an issue: the main factor is the social condition, which they generally fare poorly, in particular due to a Crimean culture of discrimination against the Ukrainian in revenge for what they have done in the 1830s and again in more recent times."

"They're more impoverished, they are often mocked by Crimeans, and seen as inferior. And I feel that the only way Ukrainians can integrate into the Crimean fabric is by accepting them as brothers, and not as inferior. Only then shall the negroid features of the Ukrainian fade away."

He then translates it from Crimean Tatar into Turkish and sends some copies to Yalta. He hopes that book will do well in Rum...

[Unicario]

The response in Rum is violent and negative. Massive outbursts of protest spread across Rum and the Islamic community decrying it as "non-Islamic" and "racist". Emmanuel Carasso, incensed by this, publishes a quick retort of the so called quack. In a writing called, "The Science of Slavs and Tatars", he refutes all of Mehmet Suprun's scientific facts, countering them with an analysis of Ukrainian civilization versus Tatar civilization.

He says, "The Tatar race, which we have been so quick to embrace as our brothers in arms, are nothing more than the artificial creation of the barbarian Mongols raping and pillaging Cumans and Khazars that lived in the steppe during the Mongol invasions. They are simple Mongoloid mud-slingers, with no more civilization than the dozens of other artificial societies left behind by Genghis Khan. The Ukrainians by contrast, are a long term civilized society who built Rus' from nothing before branching out becoming Russians and Byelorussians and so on and so forth -- all of the so called science forwarded by the false Professor Mehmet Suprun are lies, and any respectable scientist in the free world could tell you such things..." He further divorces the Tatars from civilization by saying, "The only natural position of Tatars in the Rumite land are to be servants of the Rumite Empire... they are reliant on us for defence -- if we were to withdraw from Crimea tomorrow, they would surely collapse under a renewed Ukrainian offensive."

He formally petitions the Rumite Senate for a ban on Prof. Suprun's book, which is agreed upon, and the ban is imposed.

In Yalta, the Turkish majority city openly burns the books as "un-Islamic". Imam Mustafa of Yalta issues a fatwa against Professor Suprun for "spreading lies and hurting the House of Islam with his false words."

Carasso's book is met with extreme controversy for his extremely terse words in the Tatar communities in Anatolia, as small as they are. No book burnings occur, however.

[Ruridova]

The response in Rum is violent and negative. Massive outbursts of protest spread across Rum and the Islamic community decrying it as "non-Islamic" and "racist". Emmanuel Carasso, incensed by this, publishes a quick retort of the so called quack. In a writing called, "The Science of Slavs and Tatars", he refutes all of Mehmet Suprun's scientific facts, countering them with an analysis of Ukrainian civilization versus Tatar civilization.

He says, "The Tatar race, which we have been so quick to embrace as our brothers in arms, are nothing more than the artificial creation of the barbarian Mongols raping and pillaging Cumans and Khazars that lived in the steppe during the Mongol invasions. They are simple Mongoloid mud-slingers, with no more civilization than the dozens of other artificial societies left behind by Genghis Khan. The Ukrainians by contrast, are a long term civilized society who built Rus' from nothing before branching out becoming Russians and Byelorussians and so on and so forth -- all of the so called science forwarded by the false Professor Mehmet Suprun are lies, and any respectable scientist in the free world could tell you such things..." He further divorces the Tatars from civilization by saying, "The only natural position of Tatars in the Rumite land are to be servants of the Rumite Empire... they are reliant on us for defence -- if we were to withdraw from Crimea tomorrow, they would surely collapse under a renewed Ukrainian offensive."

He formally petitions the Rumite Senate for a ban on Prof. Suprun's book, which is agreed upon, and the ban is imposed.

In Yalta, the Turkish majority city openly burns the books as "un-Islamic". Imam Mustafa of Yalta issues a fatwa against Professor Suprun for "spreading lies and hurting the House of Islam with his false words."

Carasso's book is met with extreme controversy for his extremely terse words in the Tatar communities in Anatolia, as small as they are. No book burnings occur, however.

Russia bans both books- Suprun's for its racism towards Slavs, and Carasso's refutation for his insults directed at Russia's ally, the Crimeans. The Russian government takes particular offense to Carasso's statements about a Ukrainian invasion; Russia too is an ally of the Crimean Tatars, and if Rum left them to die, Russia would gladly fill the gap.

Neither book does well in the German and South Slavic spheres; the book isn't published in the Confederate sphere at all. Gavriil fon Likht, though, obtains Carasso's book in Russian, and delivers a scathing criticism: "For someone who seems to take great pleasure in calling other people racist, Carasso seems to indulge greatly in it himself. He attacks Suprun viciously for calling the Ukrainians inferior beings- and then immediately declares that the Crimeans are only fit to serve as slaves. Carasso rages on and on about Suprun's unfounded bigotry, and then dismisses the Crimeans as no more than Mongoloid barbarians. Suprun calls the Ukrainians mentally retarded and incapable; Carasso calls the Crimeans uncivilized and incompetent brutes. This is the definition of hypocrisy, in its most obvious and disgusting form. Both men show amazing ability to hate the races of others. I am reminded of the old Biblical parable: take the plank out of your eye before you try to take the mote out of someone else's."

[Unicario]

The Rumite government emphasizes that the words of Emmanuel Carasso do not reflect the government's opinion and they bolster confidence in Crimea by sending a second expeditionary force to garrison the country for them.

Carasso replies to fon Likht's statement by saying, "In infamy, I find solace."

[Luziyca]

The book by Mehmet Suprun offend Ukrainians, with massive book burnings in the northern communities. Carasso's book is met with criticism, and both are censored, Suprun's by removing the bit about the inequality, and Carasso by changing the work so it targets Caucasians.

Neither book sells well elsewhere.