Colonization [IC-signups only]

[Ammar]

ooc:http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=201520

The planet Tenden,a newly discovered world full of resouces,and yet uninhabited.The colonies of Ammar have been established have been established,governed by viceroy Agustus.The colonies have been established to explore the region,and to aquire strange new plants that are similar to sugar and tobaccoo.The whole economy of the colonies is centered around the tobaccoo and sugar,since the colonies produce cigars and rum.

Today was a new day,for other colonies were on their way,but not Ammaren.Rather,other nations were on their way to gain territory on Tenden.

[Allandium]

OOC: I presume I have been accepted.

Out of slipspace, the Allandium fleet arrived. The Imperium was a race that focused more on things like economics then military, but the Allandium army is ruthless and swift. The Allandium fleet arrived nearby a planet, which was deemed uninhabitable for Allandium. The fleet then traveled to it.
About 2 hours later, the fleet arrived in the atmosphere as they sent down Terraformers, which terraform a area safe for Allandium's colonists. After they terraform, the Allandium colonists will arrive.

[Orthella]

The Orthellan ships landed. Some of them crashed, but no one was hurt. Orthella was new to outer space travel and their ships weren't built to last. They would have to rebuild the ships here, so that they could transport the resources back to Earth. People flocked from the ships. Mostly miners and farmers, but also soldiers and scientists. There were a few priests, partially there because the very religious Prime Minister Sanguine had ordered it, but also because the Catholic Church had funded the project, under the condition that they would spread the Church's teachings to the new planet. Leading these people was the new Colonial Deputy, Ruth Orwell. There had been a lot of controversy around her appointment; no Orthellan woman had ever held such a powerful position. But she had the support of General Saren, and that was enough. Ruth gazed across the new land in which she was to govern. Canaan, she thought to herself. I'll call it Canaan.

[Exenstar]

The ship arrived, slowly orbiting the planet for a period of almost 24 hours, scanning for fruitful place to put a colony. Several other ships arrived, but it ignored them; they weren't effecting the objective.
It was decided: a valley between many mountains would serve as the base. The ship shot several pods down through the atmosphere. Fire erupted around them as they crashed into the ground, creating massive craters. Arms stretched forth and attached the pods to the ground as they opened, allowing cultivation droids and battle droids to pour out. The cultivation droids would begin to grow they native plants; the battle droids would begin to kill any and all native animal life, sentient or otherwise.

[Orthella]

They started to build. First living quarters, then seperate living quarters for the higher militia officers, priests and the Deputy. After that, a military base, a research center, the first church, a workshop for rebuilding the ships. After all the essential buildings had been established, they started mining and agricultural work.

[Ammar]

Meanwhile,a native scout watched Ruth Orwell's colony building tall buildings.He thought to himself "What are these strange people doing?Arethey a danger to the Zala?" He peeked out of his hiding spot and quickly got back in it because he thought one of the soldiers saw him.

[Orthella]

"Hey what's that?" Raphael asked.
"What's what?" asked his collegue, Benedict.
"Over there in the bushes. Something was moving."
"It's probably nothing."
"Well what if it is something? We'd be stupid if we didn't check it out."
"Fine, go do that. Just don't go crying to me when the Sarge doesn't find you where you're supposed to be."
Raphael moved out to the bushes, rifle raised. He moved away the branches and found...
(OOC: I'll leave that description to you)

[Ammar]

"Hey what's that?" Raphael asked.
"What's what?" asked his collegue, Benedict.
"Over there in the bushes. Something was moving."
"It's probably nothing."
"Well what if it is something? We'd be stupid if we didn't check it out."
"Fine, go do that. Just don't go crying to me when the Sarge doesn't find you where you're supposed to be."
Raphael moved out to the bushes, rifle raised. He moved away the branches and found...
(OOC: I'll leave that description to you)

a grey skinned being.It was five feet tall,had a small tail,and appeared to be holding a map.The scout is wearing armor that appears to be like ancient Spartan armor.He stood up and said in his native tounge "Sha' ma can[translation:Who are you?]?"

[Orthella]

Raphael was stunned. He had never seen anything like it. His priest had assured him that there was no intelligent life outside of Earth. He pointed his rifle toward the creature. "Easy now. I don't want to hurt you. But if you threaten me, I'll be forced to shoot."

[Ammar]

The scout was looked at the priest as if he understood."There is intelligent life outside your world.You're just too ignorant to accept that." he told him in his native tounge.He felt threatened by the gunman,so he drew out a short sword with a hook design to it.e didn't threaten them with it,but had it ready."Why are you here?" he asked.

[Orthella]

OOC: I think there was miscomunication here. Raphael is a soldier, not a priest. His preist was telling him that there was no intelligent life out there.
IC: As the alien drew it's weapon, Raphael tensed up. He didn't want to hurt this creature, but he didn't know it's intentions. "You better not try anything with that weapon." After a bit of a standstill with the alien, Raphael decided to try a more diplomatic aproach. He eased up and aimed the rifle away from the alien. He carefully offered to the creature. "I'm not going to hurt you. Just please come with me." There was a big promotion waiting for him if he could bring living proof of alien life to the colony.

[Ammar]

The scout saw the gesture of the soldier and accepted to come."Alright,I'll come." he said as he put his weapon back in its sheeth.He tried to make it clear that he agreed to come along by making hand gestures.He got an idea.He said "Do you come in peace?" in sign language that came out as "What is your purpose?" in english sign language.

[Orthella]

Raphael didn't understand what the alien was trying to say, as his English was limited and he didn't know any sign language. He motioned for the alien to follow him to the settlement.

Meanwhile, in the Deputy's quarters, Ruth was speaking with General of the Milita, Lucas Saren. "We're going to war, Orwell. Our first war."
"I hope you know what you're doing, General." While Ruth didn't object to the war back at Earth, she was a bit worried by the General's enthusiasm.
"Of course I know what I'm doing. These bastards are tyrants and deserve everything that's coming to them. When they write about the great communists, they'll write about Lenin putting an end to the Czarist regime, Trotsky oposing Stalin and Saren defending Baraza from tyrants."

The Sargeant came back to the post where he had left the two guards. Only one of them was there. "Where's the other one?" He asked, angrily.
"Followed some animal into those bushes over there, sir. Look, there he comes." replied Benedict and pointed to the bushes, from which Raphael reemerged.

(OOC: in case you're wondering, Ruth's dialog with the General is a reference to another RP I'm doing )

[Orthella]

Benedict and the Sargent were baffled when they saw the figure that followed Raphael. Whatever it was, it wasn’t human.
“Soldier… What is that?” The Sargent was practically speechless. His usually domineering personality was reduced to that of a teenager trying to talk to a member of the opposite sex. He really didn’t know what to say or what to think.
“It’s an alien. A real life alien.” Answered Raphael. “Don’t worry, it’s not hostile. I think the Colonial Deputy will want to hear about this.”
“I’ll go inform her, then.” Said the other soldier. The Sargent was still just staring at the creature and muttering to himself.

[Ammar]

"Hello." the scout said to him while making a hand gesture.All he knew was a bunch of strange people were all looking at him.He got an idea."Here,I have something for you." he said while pulling out of his bag,a plant that looked like a tobaccoo leaf.

[Ammar]

The ship arrived, slowly orbiting the planet for a period of almost 24 hours, scanning for fruitful place to put a colony. Several other ships arrived, but it ignored them; they weren't effecting the objective.
It was decided: a valley between many mountains would serve as the base. The ship shot several pods down through the atmosphere. Fire erupted around them as they crashed into the ground, creating massive craters. Arms stretched forth and attached the pods to the ground as they opened, allowing cultivation droids and battle droids to pour out. The cultivation droids would begin to grow they native plants; the battle droids would begin to kill any and all native animal life, sentient or otherwise.

An Ammarian scout watches the droids clearing the area.He approaches and asks them who sent them.

[Orthella]

"Hello." the scout said to him while making a hand gesture.All he knew was a bunch of strange people were all looking at him.He got an idea."Here,I have something for you." he said while pulling out of his bag,a plant that looked like a tobaccoo leaf.

The Sargent just stared at the alien's hand. Raphael on the other hand, quickly reacted. "I think it's offer us some sort of gift." He took the plant from the alien's hand. "Thank you. Not that you're going to understand that." He observed the plant. It looked a lot like a tobacco leaf. He was starting to like this alien.
The Colonial Deputy, Ruth Orwell arrived to see this supposed alien. Accompanying her was a handful of scientist, some of her personal guards, a couple of Commanders, a priest, a translator and the soldier who had brought her the news. Most of them gasped and rubbed their eyes in disbelief when they saw the alien, but not Ruth. She calmly walked over to the alien and examined it up close. "Who found this."
"I did, ma'am." Said Raphael.
"And you are?"
"Private Raphael Nerubi, ma'am."
"What have you got there, Private?"
"The alien gave it to me, ma'am. It's some sort of plant."
"Take it to the research center to be analyzed." She then addressed the guards. "Escort the alien to the research center as well. I want to know everything there is to know about these natives, so a few tests are in order." The guards prepared to seize the alien, but the Deputy stopped them. "I said escort not imprison. It's friendly for now and I want it to stay that way.

[Allandium]

50 hours after the Allandium spotting of the planet, the colonies have been settled for Allandium. 2 Medium sized territories have been claimed for Allandium, as the terraforming for the Allandium people have been completed. Meanwhile a wall is being built round the two colonies to make sure they are safe and secure for the colonists. The colonists now start to chop down the trees.

[Lord Atum]

Tenden Orbit

The Goa'uld mothership that dropped out of hyperspace above the planet was a fully armed warship, the best part of a kilometer across, the structure was a massive fortress of gilded steel, rows of light glimmering yellow along its length. It made little sign of hostile intention, though, dropping smoothly into orbit.

Aboard it, Lady Alsret lounged in a throne set up between pillars of marble on the bridge, set between two snarling, swooping hawk statues. "I would speak with the other powers here," she said, with a languid gesture. One of the crew nodded, obediently allowing the dark haired woman to speak.

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"Humans, and other lesser peoples, hear me, I am Lady Alsret, Governor of this planet in the name of Sokar, Exalted Vizier of Lord Atum. I would have you know that it is not the wish of our lord or our people to make war upon you at this time, but should you think to raise your barbaric hands against us, you will suffer the fates of the damned, should you wish instead to make peaceful trades with us, then we shall in our infinite tolerate forebear to chastise you for your barbarism! Truly Lord Atum is kind to permit this!"

"Subtle, Milady."

"The point isn't to be subtle, Jazar, it is to be blatant. They're too dumb to know they are inferior without being told. Now, are the survey teams ready?"

"Yes My Lady, Seventeen scout ships, with transport rings we can deploy all two hundred survey teams within the hour."

"You have my permission to begin. And fetch me some wine," she said, going back to her book.

[Riqenia]

The Riqenian spaceship Hjêřvo I, after sircling the planet for some time, finally landed in a flat, open area, not too far away from a big forest, and not too far from an ocean. They started placing the pre-made building: living quarters, a headquarter, medics building, eating quarters and some more. And they called the colony town for Thügar, and the colony for Rivampro pa'Thênden (Rivampro for short), after the current king of Riqenia. Also the Riqqish name of the planet was Thênden.

[Ammar]

The Ammar Colonies Congress
time: 7:30 pm

The congress of the Ammar colonies has been discussing the impending tax rates that have been put on to them.The colonies have been gaining profit from two things,the cigars they made from the tobacco-like plant and selling tools to the natives.The tax rate the Ammar government has rose the tax rate above 30% on them,making the cigars profit for less and ore from Ammar more expensive.The congress got together to discuss what to do.They decided to purchase ore from Orthella instead and sell the cigars to the other colonies.A cargo hovercraft full of cigars was dispatched to Orthellan colonies for selling.The cargo hovecraft arrived at the foot of the colonies,escorted by a squad of 20 Ammar dragoons,only to be met by...

ooc:this is an ammar dragoon

[Orthella]

Ruth sucked on a cigar made from the native plant. It was better than Earth tobacco and a lot of people said it was healthier too, although that was probably just to make it sell better. Half of their farmers were committed to growing the plant. The other half were split between growing vegetables for the colony, including the native Tenden potato and harvesting the sugar-like plant. Raphael stepped into the Deputy's office. "You wished to see me, ma'am?"
"Yes Sargent Nerubi, take a seat. It appears that the alien that you brought here wishes to leave the colony. We have no interest in keeping it here by force, but we do not want to give up our studies, either. So, I'm sending a team with, to set up a sort of embassy within their tribe and I would like you to lead that team."
Raphael blushed. "Well, I'm flattered by your trust, ma'am, but why me?"
"The alien seems to trust you. We could use this trust to positively affect the Canaan-native relations. So what do you say, Ambassador Nerubi?"

[Lord Atum]

The Scoutship had landed in a clearing, a small silver pyramid, the passengers disembarking. A trio of jaffa warriors, two in the deep red armour of their Lord Sokar, another in the articulated ibis-helm of Lord Thoth and his scholar-warriors, and one goa'uld, dressed in renzette combat regalia, an elaborate personal protection dress cut as a snappy black jacket affair with gold trim. Likarna seemed bored with his assignment, hands in his pockets, he slouched against the side of the ship, one of dozens dispatched by the mothership, and took out a slim bar of water lily extract, administering the drug to his gums with a manner of one bored beyond his senses. The jaffa would poke at the soil, and do all the tedious business of verifying the aerial readings of the soil's use, he was only really there to supervise, which really seemed beneath his station, but with Atum's recent reforms, there was no shortage of young goa'uld who could be given tasks that even ten years ago would have been beneath them. As he would probably have been killed before ever taking a host, under the old system, he couldn't complain...

But it was still tedious.

[Ammar]

THE AMMAR COLONY PARLIMENT
TIME: 7:00 PM

The Ammar colonies' economy has been harmed by trade regulations on there sugar and tobacco products.Ammar is also too far from the colonies to have a positive effect on them.They thought is was time to declare their independence.They captured several transports that were dropping supplies off to them.They also stormed outside the viceroy's building,took him out of it,and burned it down.

STANCES OF TENDEN COLONIES
*ALL MEN ARE FREE
*SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
*NATIVE RIGHTS
*RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS
*FREE SPEECH
*FREE RELIGION

When the president heard,he dispatched a force of 30,000 troops,300 tanks,and 3 squads of bombers and fighters to Tenden to secure the colonies.

[Riqenia]

Thügan was growing, and some military were exploring the surrounding areas. Plains to the north and plains to the south.
"Perfect for farmland!", Pethjes Âdra, the captain, said.
The nearest soldiers (the ones who could hear him) agreed. The soil were quite good in this area.

North of the northern plains lied a huge marsh. Some men joked and called it Däudïêmêqân, the Dead Marsh, after the marsh in Tolkien's world. Even if it was just a joke, the name stayed.
South-east of the southern plains were a lake. Unnamed at the moment, they just called it Säuroinnmârûn, the South Lake.

After being away for five days, they arived back at the base, tired, but satisfied. But Pethjes had no time for rest, after 5 minutes of sit-down, he went to the base head quarter where Gemb M. Mîon, the grand-son of one of the first Riqenians in space and leader of the colony, sat, doing some paperwork for the Riqenian Ministry of Space Research back at earth.

Pethjes told the leader what he'd found, about the plains, but also something about the great sea to the west and the great forest to the east, which didn't seem to be jungle as first thought, but a "normal" forest, only very dense.

The next couple of days they started cultivating the lands, and in some weeks time they had covered somewhat large areas with farmland.

Map of the colony: