Blood and Iron [OOC/ALT-HISTORY/OPEN/REBOOT]

[Republic Of Varra]

Guys, muh world's fair.

I really want to do a 1893 Chicago World's Fair I enjoy making parallels to real life, plus FERRIS WHEEL!!!, if you don't mind, so I claim major 1893 World's Fair, but World's Fairs were sporadic, so you're more than welcome to hold one whenever once again, most of them were RELATIVELY minor really, but it will be fun to see what people come up with. There were certain ones that were significantly larger and more influential than others, most notably 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, 1876 Philadelphia, 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis, 1915 San Francisco, and 1933–34 Chicago.
1893 Chicago celebrated the discovery of the New World and sported a record 27 MILLION attendees; I'll figure out exactly what mine will be like later, but I'll want participation from everyone showing off their nation's finest whenever we get to that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6yMzxlBU4k

[Newne Carriebean7]

Guys, muh world's fair.

I really want to do a 1893 Chicago World's Fair I enjoy making parallels to real life, plus FERRIS WHEEL!!!, if you don't mind, so I claim major 1893 World's Fair, but World's Fairs were sporadic, so you're more than welcome to hold one whenever once again, most of them were RELATIVELY minor really, but it will be fun to see what people come up with. There were certain ones that were significantly larger and more influential than others, most notably 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, 1876 Philadelphia, 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis, 1915 San Francisco, and 1933–34 Chicago.
1893 Chicago celebrated the discovery of the New World and sported a record 27 MILLION attendees; I'll figure out exactly what mine will be like later, but I'll want participation from everyone showing off their nation's finest whenever we get to that point.

what about Huston? we've invented the corndog...
also, that signature took me AGES to get done...

[Holoska]

I really want to do a 1893 Chicago World's Fair I enjoy making parallels to real life, plus FERRIS WHEEL!!!, if you don't mind, so I claim major 1893 World's Fair, but World's Fairs were sporadic, so you're more than welcome to hold one whenever once again, most of them were RELATIVELY minor really, but it will be fun to see what people come up with. There were certain ones that were significantly larger and more influential than others, most notably 1851 London, 1853 New York, 1862 London, 1876 Philadelphia, 1889 Paris, 1893 Chicago, 1900 Paris, 1901 Buffalo, 1904 St. Louis, 1915 San Francisco, and 1933–34 Chicago.
1893 Chicago celebrated the discovery of the New World and sported a record 27 MILLION attendees; I'll figure out exactly what mine will be like later, but I'll want participation from everyone showing off their nation's finest whenever we get to that point.

what about Huston? we've invented the corndog...
also, that signature took me AGES to get done...

Took me about a minute. Did you make one by hand then upload it?

Also, Texans sure seem to swear a lot...

[Chinese Peoples]

OP = my old friend Vaxon?

[Military Lands of the Scottish People]

I don't own Cuba, unless le OP gave it.

[The Valyria Empire]

Byzantines haven't posted in the Archive so I am not going to bother finding their nations leader. I am just going to put 'Roman Emperor' when I address him.

Its literally the fourth post.

[Newne Carriebean7]

what about Huston? we've invented the corndog...
also, that signature took me AGES to get done...

Took me about a minute. Did you make one by hand then upload it?

Also, Texans sure seem to swear a lot...

I just have so many tabs up that It got lost in there. curse you interwebs. I was worried that it wouldn't fit, but it was as snug as a drug on a mug that likes to eat slugs and shoot thugs named bugs.
I typed it up and I was worried that I had closed it, so I was frantically searching each tab until I could find it.
haha, yeah, I just have them drop a few f bombs whenever a character goes all "downfall Hitler bunker map scene" style.

[Kerbodine]

I changed my history a while back, a tad bit. Victor Von Wolf comes from North Germany, but has relatives and friends in south Germany. Just to clear that up a bit.

Victor Von Wolf and Otto Von Bismark play off of each other's ideas a bit, though Wolf was a bit more liberal in his teachings. Otto helped him in reuniting Germany, but didn't agree in some policies so perhaps that's why he left? they would still be on somewhat friendly terms however, possibly writing to each other about ideas and ideals to run a country. If you've noticed in the IC, I made Victor's successor extremely fond of both.

The Royal families were still kept in a high status in their regions, but don't hold any real power. Think of them as figureheads if you will. That's why it is considered a Republic, since they have no real power.

I think, that our countries, still being somewhat German, can build relations together as time goes on. Possible even becoming allies at some point. But not right now.

Austria was invaded after the unification of Germany, but Hungary was allowed a separate nation. That white mass in Europe would be Hungary in this case.

Ah, that all sounds good to me. Perhaps before as the invasions started, certain upper and middle class families (though by no means all) fled in fear of it being far worse than it actually was.

As canon (if you're okay with it): Otto von Bismarck left Germany in 1878 during the end of the less ideal unification, after several years of almost being shadowed over by Von Wolfe, the final straw being the lack of a Kaiser (Wilhelm the First stays king of Prussia as a figurehead, but no German Emperor was declared as Bismarck wanted). Traveling to Russia, then by ship to Ireland before jumping off to follow his family in the Americas, he landed in Toledo in November 1878. Anonymously moving by train, he traveled to Chicago Junction before going back east to Cincinnati, where his son had been a judge for several years. Though staying out of the public eye for the first year in Greater Superior, by 1880 he was nominated by Maximillion von Braun to replace the seat of the late Johannes Churchill on the Magister's Council, the third branch of government (with new members being voted in by the Council itself). Bismarck now splits his time between Cincinnati and Superior's Capitol Hansestadt as a relatively well-known political figure. He enjoys spending time with his wife and full-grown kids, eating and drinking copious amounts for a man of his age, and taking his Great Danes for walks on his private estate. On reasonable terms with the leadership of Germany, but basically 'in retirement living abroad' (compared to his work in Germany, he considers council work almost a hobby), he still writes to his friends back home on a regular basis, and has only not revisited in fear he'll want to stay (though perhaps a reunion could be arranged...)
I look forward to hearing more about Germany and her leadership though.

I still vote for voting.

Yes please. I cede wanting any of my cities to hold the Olympics in exchange for hopefully being allowed to host a 1893 Chicago World's fair, but I think that voting for something like this sort of thing is the fairest way.

[Kazarogkai]

Mind you just talking about my latest post. I will eventually respond to your messages, just not right now.. I'm kinda tired.

[Kerbodine]

From the IC:

... then I noticed a growing market, airships, if I could get funding from the government, I would be able to build my own business, and become rich, and powerful! of course that balloon of hope was shot down by Frost in particular, damn him to hell! I had everything I needed to start my dream, and he fucking crushed it! I once held a hatred for that man that was as small as a kindling fire, now it's as big as the flames of a forest blaze in the hot summer days! if I ever see that man in person, I'll-"
"I can assume the rest on what you would do to the man, and after hearing your story, it's heartbreaking, it truly is, but the thing is we are somewhat against people shooting other people, but I could talk to some people in Texas and arizona about getting a 20 acre patch of land, the nessecary helium and hydrogen for your airships, and the rigid structures to build them, you could have seven hangers,a communications office, thousands of customers who would want to try this novoulty, of course you couldn't comp-"...

I just have to make it clear that before 1900, the only airships that would've existed were highly experimental and dangerous balloons with little practical value. Certainly the idea of rigid helium airships, the first of which was built in the 1930s, in 1891, being produced on an industrial scale... Find something else, please; I realize our timeline is very different, but airships were actually a fairly advanced technology that would require significant advancement in technology in general, and exploring the beginnings of controlled both lighter and heavier than air aircraft in the early 1900s will be interesting (when we get to that).

[The Valyria Empire]

Oh man, I can't wait for this versions Hidenburg Incident.

[Holoska]

From the IC:

... then I noticed a growing market, airships, if I could get funding from the government, I would be able to build my own business, and become rich, and powerful! of course that balloon of hope was shot down by Frost in particular, damn him to hell! I had everything I needed to start my dream, and he fucking crushed it! I once held a hatred for that man that was as small as a kindling fire, now it's as big as the flames of a forest blaze in the hot summer days! if I ever see that man in person, I'll-"
"I can assume the rest on what you would do to the man, and after hearing your story, it's heartbreaking, it truly is, but the thing is we are somewhat against people shooting other people, but I could talk to some people in Texas and arizona about getting a 20 acre patch of land, the nessecary helium and hydrogen for your airships, and the rigid structures to build them, you could have seven hangers,a communications office, thousands of customers who would want to try this novoulty, of course you couldn't comp-"...

I just have to make it clear that before 1900, the only airships that would've existed were highly experimental and dangerous balloons with little practical value. Certainly the idea of rigid helium airships, the first of which was built in the 1930s, in 1891, being produced on an industrial scale... Find something else, please; I realize our timeline is very different, but airships were actually a fairly advanced technology that would require significant advancement in technology in general, and exploring the beginnings of controlled both lighter and heavier than air aircraft in the early 1900s will be interesting (when we get to that).

Couldn't have said it better. Steam trains are still the modus operandi for the trans-continental railroad networks, and just let it be like that until at least the 1920s.

Oh, wait. The RP stops at 31 December 1919. Right.

[Holoska]

So. We're on page 2 already and we've only gone out to the 9th of January. This is promising.

[The V O I D]

OP = my old friend Vaxon?

I am the artist formerly known as Vaxon, yes.

[The V O I D]

Also, on the world's fair and olympics; yeah, I might put it up for a vote pretty soon.

But, y'know, I suppose we could be semi-historically accurate and go with Byzantine hosting the First Olympics, and Britain hosting the first world's fair.

[Newne Carriebean7]

From the IC:

... then I noticed a growing market, airships, if I could get funding from the government, I would be able to build my own business, and become rich, and powerful! of course that balloon of hope was shot down by Frost in particular, damn him to hell! I had everything I needed to start my dream, and he fucking crushed it! I once held a hatred for that man that was as small as a kindling fire, now it's as big as the flames of a forest blaze in the hot summer days! if I ever see that man in person, I'll-"
"I can assume the rest on what you would do to the man, and after hearing your story, it's heartbreaking, it truly is, but the thing is we are somewhat against people shooting other people, but I could talk to some people in Texas and arizona about getting a 20 acre patch of land, the nessecary helium and hydrogen for your airships, and the rigid structures to build them, you could have seven hangers,a communications office, thousands of customers who would want to try this novoulty, of course you couldn't comp-"...

I just have to make it clear that before 1900, the only airships that would've existed were highly experimental and dangerous balloons with little practical value. Certainly the idea of rigid helium airships, the first of which was built in the 1930s, in 1891, being produced on an industrial scale... Find something else, please; I realize our timeline is very different, but airships were actually a fairly advanced technology that would require significant advancement in technology in general, and exploring the beginnings of controlled both lighter and heavier than air aircraft in the early 1900s will be interesting (when we get to that).

well shit... what else could the man be interested in?
automobiles?
electric carridges (trolleys)?
the mayor's home cooking?
I
m running out of Ideas here mate.

[The New Byzantine II]

called out france.

The name of the president is Gustave Cluseret (in OTL he is a Commune military leader/French general in Franco-Prussian war). Not Emile Loubet, sorry. I changed the name of the president.

[Kazarogkai]

From the IC:

I just have to make it clear that before 1900, the only airships that would've existed were highly experimental and dangerous balloons with little practical value. Certainly the idea of rigid helium airships, the first of which was built in the 1930s, in 1891, being produced on an industrial scale... Find something else, please; I realize our timeline is very different, but airships were actually a fairly advanced technology that would require significant advancement in technology in general, and exploring the beginnings of controlled both lighter and heavier than air aircraft in the early 1900s will be interesting (when we get to that).

well shit... what else could the man be interested in?
automobiles?
electric carridges (trolleys)?
the mayor's home cooking?
I
m running out of Ideas here mate.

The fact that he is so enamored with airships, a highly experimental and dangerous technology, could be a show of how unhinged he is. Aka in his mind the reason they refused to help fund him was because of corruption, but in reality they didn't care to do it because it was so well insane. So you can still have him interested in them if you're willing to go with that arc.

[Kerbodine]

well shit... what else could the man be interested in?
automobiles?
electric carridges (trolleys)?
the mayor's home cooking?
I
m running out of Ideas here mate.

The fact that he is so enamored with airships, a highly experimental and dangerous technology, could be a show of how unhinged he is. Aka in his mind the reason they refused to help fund him was because of corruption, but in reality they didn't care to do it because it was so well insane. So you can still have him interested in them if you're willing to go with that arc.

If we're talking with enamored with building giant barely controllable and economically infeasible balloons, sure. As it is, I like electricity as an idea; it doesn't have to be as a form of transportation, perhaps he thinks electric lighting is the future or some other crazy idea like that *canned laughter*

[Chinese Peoples]

OP = my old friend Vaxon?

I am the artist formerly known as Vaxon, yes.

And I'm the individual formerly known as Themi.

[Danceria]

*Laughs as I'm planning to replicate my victory in the World's Fair/Olympics, something remarkably similar ages ago in my first nation.*

Also, what's the status of Simon Bolivar? He was a contemporary (IRL) of Don Agustín II, and possible father in law.

[Greater Liverpool]

Group App

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Group Name: The Armenian Revolutionary Army/հայերեն Հեղափոխական բանակը
Alternative Names: Armenia, A.R.A
Group Symbol/Flag:

Group Type:Revolutionary
Group Leader[s]:

Arno Ishkhanina
Avetis Aleksandr Hagopian

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Group Location: Armenia
Group Population: 1,050,000
Group Security Population: 50,000
History of Group:

The group was actually a reformed group from the once powerful Armenian Brotherhood which was established in the early 19th century with the goal of creating an Armenian autonomous region within the Byzantine Empire. The group dominated much of Byzantine Armenia with many people supporting it and in 1850 a break through was reached which allowed the Armenian people to appoint their own people to positions of power with in the Area of Armenia. This soon made the Armenian Brotherhood a powerful political force within the Empire and allowed for some reforms to be made such as Armenian cultural presentation throughout the world and allowed Armenian to be the language taught in schools throughout the lands which the Armenians had claimed. The Armenian brotherhood continued to push for reform and for better rights for its Armenian people, however this soon ended in disaster for the Armenian Brother hood as in 1876 the group was outlawed by the Byzantine Empire and much of its leaders where arrested and Byzantine control was re-established. Then the Armenian people realized that there was only one thing they could do now. They would have to form their own independent Armenia.

In 1882, the Armenian Revolutionary Army was founded in the front room of a middle class house in Yerevan. The group was founded upon 4 main principles: Freedom of the Armenian people from the Byzantine Empire, Freedom of the Armenian people with the establishment of a Republic, equality for all of the Armenian people and finally the importance of the Armenian church for all of the people of Armenia and Greater Armenia. 13 men where present when the group was established each representing different groups of the Armenian people from all of the diaspora of the Armenian people. The founder of the group Krikor Ishkhanina was a profound patriot and republican, his unrest with the Byzantine Empire was one that very few people could match as his family where one of the leading figures in the once powerful Armenian Brotherhood. Now he declared that only one Republic would lead the Armenian people to greatness. Soon they set about setting up a vanguard party in which to educate the Armenian people about their situation and also get them involved with the A.R.A. Just a couple of years after the founding in 1886 Krikor declared that only through Armed revolution would the people of Armenia be finally free after nearly 1000 years of occupation. The time for that was not now he said and so the A.R.A would wait until the turn of the century where it would see it's chance to strike.

In November of 1890 the Armenian Revolutionary Army declared its self to the world with a bomb attack in Constantinople against the Imperial family which ended with some of the Imperial family dead but a lot of the main members still alive and wanting revenge. Soon the Byzantine government hunted down Krikov and had him arrested on the 16th of December 1890 the father of Armenian republicanism was executed by the Byzantine government. This enraged the Armenian people who quickly took to declared there self independence. Meanwhile the group was leaderless until 4 days after the execution Krikor son Arno stepped forward and declared himself to be military leader of the army and as such leader of the Armenian people. This is where the A.R.A now finds itself.

RP Example: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=336275&start=50
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[The New Byzantine II]

I wonder why Iberia and Germany is looking at the "friendly" France when in fact the Byzantine Empire is the real threat to Europe.

[Danceria]

I wonder why Iberia and Germany is looking at the "friendly" France when in fact the Byzantine Empire is the real threat to Europe.

Because communism is cancer, and must be destroyed at all costs.

[The V O I D]

I wonder why Iberia and Germany is looking at the "friendly" France when in fact the Byzantine Empire is the real threat to Europe.

Because communism is cancer, and must be destroyed at all costs.

Actually, communism isn't that bad. We have a tiny teeny weeny Socialist Party in the Federal Parliament, after all.