Your opinion on a interesting fact about the AN (II)

[Catsfern]

Good for them I hope they can make money off it.

Physically speaking there are three physical features that distinguish a Catsfernian neko girl from an ordinary human female. The first is a prominent tail extending from the lower back just above the posterior that can vary in length between two and five feet. The second main difference if the presence of feline ears atop the head which replace standard human ears. Both the tail and ears feature soft cat lie fur that can wary in length, and in some cases can take different shapes to resemble different breeds of cat. Research of these traits is ongoing, and some believe that there are possible different "breeds" of neko Girl. Tails and ears aside there is one final physical difference is the vocal chords. Neko girls have specialized vocal chords which are capable of both regular human speech and of creating feline noises such as meowing and purring. Humans and neko girls can breed, but children born between these relationships are either female with full neko traits or male with no neko traits. This is believed to be due to a imbalance of chromosomes in favor of the neko girl that only manifest in females.

[Caribbean Confederation]

Outside the ramifications of there being a species -potentially a subspecies of homo sapiens- that has one gender and that interbreeding with this species is possible aside, why are there no "catboys"? And how do these catgirls breed naturally among themselves?

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While the main Point of Divergence for the New World is in 1850s and with the Ostend Manifesto actually going somewhere, some more important events globally happened in the first two decades of the 20th century. One is that the Ottoman Empire collapsed before this timeline's First World War. The First Balkan War was prolonged until early 1915 and went from a limited conflict over Ottoman possessions in the Balkans into a larger-scale European invasion of the decaying Empire to protect the Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians who the Empire had just began a process of extermination against. Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy -all six major great powers of the time- began their respective invasions of the Empire from March 1914 to April 1915 (with the last being Germany, previously an uneasy Ottoman Ally), who declared war on April 1915). They quickly and decisively pushed back the Ottomans into Asia -with an Anglo-Greek army capturing Constantinople as early as June 1914- and carved its possessions between themselves. In fact, the European Intervention very much could have meant the end of Turkish Independence if the First Great War had not broke out in 1917, allowing for the Turks to consolidate their gains in much of Anatolia and even take back Thrace. As a result, there are many more Armenians in Western Armenia, Assyrians -or rather Syriac Christians- have a notable minority in both Babylon and Syria, and the presence of a notable Greek minority in Anatolia has made Turkish-European relations somewhat strained.

[Tundra Terra]

Considering that in pre-1920 war IRL greeks were only a third of the populace of Constantinople, yet made up the overwhelming majority of business owners and licensed professionals i sincerely doubt such people were going to help the government of Turkey if they had a taste of freedom from the ottomans. Your timeline makes it sound like that might become doubled efforts as a result.

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Tundra Terra is famous for creating this culturally unique blend of old and new designs that is designed to implement awe to the beholder, durability for the military, and grounding for the new generations to take pride in their history. This has often made certain complications and challenges for artists ,yet has often made many compromises in the art world itself that led to a style of beauty that would not have been born of radical viewpoints.

[United Communal Burrow Republics]

IDK if I quite understand the fact of AN. Are we referring exclusively to military, or to the nation as a whole. Cuz if it's the Nation as a whole, ah neat, Countries have been making Romanesque architecture for their own buildings for years, so it's a neat strategy, but I wouldn't call it strange. If it's exclusively for the military, what are we talking here? Like, are we slapping chariot carvings on battle tanks and making officers carry broadswords? From a tactical standpoint that's just inefficient, but I suppose it's a little interesting. And from the last bit of the fact, are you saying your nation forces artists to work exclusively in this style? That sounds like a good way to... kinda murder the artistic culture of your nation. Creatives don't often like restricting themselves, unless they make their own restrictions.

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The UCBR has no centralized method of Capital Punishment. A quirk of their constitution is that if someone has committed a crime heinous enough to get a Death Sentence, they have revoked their right to citizenship. It is up to the Burrow they have been tried by how they are executed. There is one exception to this rule, that being for Royals, Nobles, and those Claiming to be of those groups and trying to reclaim their throne. Royals are shot in the spine by a high calibre rifle,

[Freedom Freelandia]

"Claiming to be royals" does that include impersonators and phonies? What about lunatics who think they're royal because of mental illness? Where do you draw the line?

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Last week in Freelandia, seven hundred Freelandians were caught trying to defect overseas. They were all captured and sent to school to learn about how horrible the rest of the world is (which is all untrue propoganda used to brainwash Freelandians, in reality, they were sent to labour camps). As one of them was injured whilst trying to defect, she was put on light duties for three days before being placed on full duties. She was given no medical attention.

[United Communal Burrow Republics]

"Claiming to be royals" does that include impersonators and phonies? What about lunatics who think they're royal because of mental illness? Where do you draw the line?

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Last week in Freelandia, seven hundred Freelandians were caught trying to defect overseas. They were all captured and sent to school to learn about how horrible the rest of the world is (which is all untrue propoganda used to brainwash Freelandians, in reality, they were sent to labour camps). As one of them was injured whilst trying to defect, she was put on light duties for three days before being placed on full duties. She was given no medical attention.

As an answer to above: Technically all of them are impersonators and phonies, as the entire royal family was executed originally. But, if someone merely says it, theyre not executed, but if they start collecting followers and leading them around, than it's enough to do it.

/skipme

[Tundra Terra]

For the UCBR: I guess you can call them innovators more than creative even though they still possess the capacity. For example something like lazer-crossbows or space-viking armor...old designs with updated tech. Same idea applies to regular architecture. i hope this answers the question.
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I truly wonder about the efficiency of your labor camps. I mean do the specialists live in a panopticon worthy of your glorious freelandia? Is your ministry successful enough that every freelander just feels the urge to stand up and salute your name every few minutes? That every "free-thinker" produces at least three (fully-functional) inventions to be attributed to your wondrous intellect before they visit a shed?

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Tundra Terra is known today for being a gargantuan nation that will throw its might at all threats. This is technically still true many centuries later in the Ashborn timeline of the future but the nation does not exist as a fully united entity per se. The main reason is that in the future despite cosmic entities, multiverse empires, deathless legions, galactic scale crusades, and the occasional death of a star there few enemies left to contend with. The ashborn is very much like a Tundran NATO (or any other alliance you prefer) between the fractured clans that rule what could now be known as "Wild Space" as war reigns supreme, but the Ashborn are nonetheless still involved in galactic affairs for good or ill.

[Oskenia]

While being brutalist, it makes sense that a country would profit off of conflict for economic gain. Especially one based in space in the future.

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Since the inception of the rank of Field Officer in 1946, which was established because of the lack of experienced officers after the Second World War due to combat fatalities, new Army FO's have been commissioned in the field of battle. It is to recognize a non-commissioned officer with superb battlefield knowledge and tactics, and give them a chance to advance their careers. Upon receiving the rank of "Field Officer," new commissioned soldiers are sent to Officer School to become a full-fledged lieutenant. Usually a Field Officer gets a year to enjoy his rank and responsibilities before school.

[Catsfern]

Sounds like a sensible system. These field officers will be experienced in actual combat situations and will likely already have the respect of the men they lead.

The Catsfernian army maintains large nests of genetically engineered killer bees. These bees are highly venomous with three stings being enough to kill an average man. Trained beekeepers use concentrated pheromones to control the bees, spraying targets with a pheromone that makes the bees aggressive towards anything exposed to it. The bees are then released and attack the target. after the target is dead a second pheromone that attracts and calms the bees is released inside the bees container drawing the bees back in. Any bees that are separated from the nest die if separated by a large distance for more than an hour.

[The Halfling Shire]

Sounds like another great reason to kill the bees before it's too late! (/s)
But yeah, army bees sound terrifying.

In the Halfling Shire, the Conservative Party is the farthest left, but also the least tolerant of other cultures. Economically left-wing halflings are prejudiced against humans and other tall people while right-wing halflings are not, and communism is an ancient tradition.

[Crysuko]

sounds like kind of a zig zag. I wonder how such odd politics came to be, even calling themselves conservatives.

In Crysuko, "Russian tea" is a euphemism for poison. "I heard that Senator Jones is going to filibuster the bill" "pour him some Russian tea and he'll change his mind"

[Allied Iran]

That's actually pretty funny. I mean I'm aware of the place poison has in Russian politics and foreign policy, but I wonder if Crysuko has its own history with Russia's habit in using those.

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Since short facts are popular in this thread now... uh. Not only does Iran not have any diplomatic relations with any country that officially calls the Persian Gulf 'Arabian Gulf', it considers itself in a state of perpetual quasi-war with them: we won't let their ships sail inside the Persian Gulf, any ship waving the flag of those countries (right now only Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria) gets seized and its sailors shot. To alleviate this, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have tried to build a pipeline connecting their oil to the Red Sea... which we regularly bomb so as to ensure it doesn't happen.

[Tundra Terra]

How cartoonishly clever of you. Seriously if you are bombing underwater pipelines i can only imagine the Red sea becoming much deader.

Tundra Terra has an expansionist mentality that is paired alongside the mandatory conscription of it populace even in peacetime to keep military numbers up. I mention the expansionism since in Tundra the unnatural obsession of resources among the populace demands that family and clan expand to ensure that future generations grow up self-sufficient and healthy. This has led to unprecedented growth rates among the populace, but has also gifted the government with ever increasing amounts of resources as colonies are established behind military lines. Thankfully most administration is largely de-centralised for the benefit of the people and to properly accomadate their unique situations.

[Las Palmeras]

I mean...it's not particularly surprising coming from a nation that gets described as "genocidally insane, Arabophobic, Islamophobic, Cartoonishly Evil". What else is there to say? It does makes one wonder how often the Saudis and the Arab world reply in kind, or if they have the capacity to do so in your world though. We wouldn't pick sides in your region...

AN: We're more surprised that you haven't pissed off enough of your neighbors to the point they gang up on you and make expansion very difficult, unless you're a regular-sized or big fish in a small pond.

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No promoter has taken an interest in sponsoring a Miss Las Palmeras or a Miss West Indies Federation contest to enter a participant the Miss Universe Pageant since it's start in 1952. Many would-be organizers shoot down the idea in self-defeating pessimism, as media businessmen observed that "We're too skinny and small. Too youthful looking. They don't like our big canines when we smile." Our distant relatives in the Empire of Japan don't participate either, but because they're a totalitarian dictatorship that doesn't like raising attention.

[Tundra Terra]

Are they politely calling you Carib or child vampire? Either way they might be worried about being labeled as child pornographers and terrible hosts if the guests are eating each other because the caterer never arrived.

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Being a military nation and blessed by a tens of thousands of years old warrior culture the Tundrans themselves are rather creative when it comes to facing dangers. In fact, they intentionally create certain hazard zones for training the youth with occasional variety of predators to hunt or be hunted by. For example, in the mining regions of a city with intertwining tunnels and plenty of heat genetically engineered raptors (the dino) or bugs will infest the place with their broods. An engineering or generator sector may fill it with chemicals or waste to either build up immunity or to showcase hazard protocols to the young, but nonetheless war games or mutant fauna is to be ruthlessly conducted regardless of the presence of medical personnel. Thankfully, there have been few problems with this system and fully armed teams stand on watch to ensure that the situation does not get out of hand, but also to watch the show. Such infestations have also become a source of nutrition, material, and for those unfortunate to lay siege to Tundran cities...living guard dogs.

[CBG-Palisade]

AAN: Pre-retcon Montse would dispute that. To be honest, I'm more interested in the implication that the totalitarian dictatorship chooses not to participate, because now I'm thinking about a Miss North Korea and I don't know if it exists and in all honesty I'm a bit too scared to try and find out.

AN: No doubleposting. Also, what made you think LP's people are vampires? Did you just... not read at all?

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During the Stellar Renaissance, there developed a unique school of literature described as "post-naturalism," best described as being "centered around a rejection of many Earthly themes and an embracing of the stellar lifestyle and a more humanocentric view of the cosmos." In essence, it amounted to a shifting of the literary methods in use by humans in space into a style more reflective of their abandonment of Earth and the dead nature of a cosmos devoid of alien life around them; themes in the period were largely centered around human accomplishments and viewing the cosmos through human terms- glorifying notions of exploration, development, "casting a light into the darkness", and emphasizing the contrast between the lively human sphere and their new, lifeless homes. For instance, during the period personification emerged as an immensely favored literary device, for understandable reasons, and works emphasizing interpersonal, micro-scale relationships between things became a favored form of expression. In essence, the Stellar Renaissance represented an attempt to humanize the cosmos where possible, and to emphasize that impossibility where not.

[A m e n r i a]

To me the genre sounds like a cynical and depressing one. Being alone in a space station sounds really lonely, after all.

In R1, Amenria's universe, it is possible to punch out powerful entities that aren't necessarily of this world. One of such entities is the Challenge Bear. He appears as a grizzly bear who could appear anywhere, including places that don't make sense for a bear to be, including, but not limited to, outer space, deserts, or even other dimensions.

On the rare chance of one seeing him, he would challenge one's party to a battle, hence his nickname. If the party lost, he would sit on one of the members and ask for the rest of the party to either do an S-rank mission for him or to answer a riddle. If he is defeated, he would gift each party member a legendary weapon. If he is killed, the weapons will appear inside his body when it's being gutted, despite the fact that the weapon's size may or may not fit a bear's body under normal circumstances (it's possible for a minigun to appear inside of him). If, for some reason, the party is unwilling or unable to gut his dead body, the weapons would appear near it. If he is defeated without being killed, he would wish the party good luck, say his goodbyes, and have the weapons appear behind them.

No matter how many times he's killed, he can and will reappear someplace else. Nobody knows what he actually is, where he's from, or his true nature.

[United Communal Burrow Republics]

Interesting. This sounds like a Borderlands Quest honestly, just kinda sounds like something that would fit into that wack universe.

Following the execution of the Rulzean royal family, The UCBR took their lands and went about organizing them into Burrows. During this time topographers discovered the unusual levels of Thorium content in the lands, which made it back to The UCBR quickly, who had been searching for large quantities of the resource following the recent improvement of Thorium powered fission reactors. There was then a 'Thorium Fever' as the Council promised subsidies and paid time off to prospectors who could locate large veins of the resource, leading to Rulzea of all races flocking to the land. As such, the concept of Thorium Fever is still common in the Rulzean general culture, and the Northern Forests have become some of the most diverse Burrows in The Union.

[Sky Reavers]

They came there for copper but found gold thorium. Conquests can indeed yield not only land and glory, but also valuable resources for ya' to exploit.

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Well, Sky Reavers were not always this jolly bunch of drunken viking like pirates, cowboys and whatnot. Before the genocide, the country was named Enthorea, and it was a pacifist and extremely sophisticated country with it's own unique and enlightened culture, created from fusion of European and native cultures, world benchmark education and prosperous scientific community, thanks to which, it was technologically ahead of the world.

However, golden age didn't last long. A religious fanatic warlord Edgar with a large group of foreign mercenaries, backed up by some powerful corporations and foreign entities came to power through a violent coup. After that, he started to burn books, kill intellectuals and oppress the rest of the population. After more than twenty years of oppression, people revolted, and when revolution ended, there was a large cultural vacuum, which resulted in people seeking their new identity. They rejected puritan values, since their old government was puritan theocracy.

New culture is almost fundamentally opposed to the puritan fascist, antiintellectualist and darwinist old government. Hedonism replaced puritanism, mutual aid replaced social darwinism and such.

[Palmyrion]

They came there for copper but found gold thorium. Conquests can indeed yield not only land and glory, but also valuable resources for ya' to exploit.

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Well, Sky Reavers were not always this jolly bunch of drunken viking like pirates, cowboys and whatnot. Before the genocide, the country was named Enthorea, and it was a pacifist and extremely sophisticated country with it's own unique and enlightened culture, created from fusion of European and native cultures, world benchmark education and prosperous scientific community, thanks to which, it was technologically ahead of the world.

However, golden age didn't last long. A religious fanatic warlord Edgar with a large group of foreign mercenaries, backed up by some powerful corporations and foreign entities came to power through a violent coup. After that, he started to burn books, kill intellectuals and oppress the rest of the population. After more than twenty years of oppression, people revolted, and when revolution ended, there was a large cultural vacuum, which resulted in people seeking their new identity. They rejected puritan values, since their old government was puritan theocracy.

New culture is almost fundamentally opposed to the puritan fascist, antiintellectualist and darwinist old government. Hedonism replaced puritanism, mutual aid replaced social darwinism and such.

Liberty or Death. Always.

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It is Palmyrian diplomatic custom to offer wine - usually duhat/bignay (black plum/Antidesma bunius) wine or coconut palm wine - during a formal diplomatic meeting.

[Tundra Terra]

Do you also happen to do this for first dates and with a silver coin? Nonetheless that is still a nice foot you are putting forward. Does this mean you win trade deals via drinking as well?

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Being a military nation and blessed by a tens of thousands of years old warrior culture the Tundrans themselves are rather creative when it comes to facing dangers. In fact, they intentionally create certain hazard zones for training the youth with occasional variety of predators to hunt or be hunted by. For example, in the mining regions of a city with intertwining tunnels and plenty of heat genetically engineered raptors (the dinosaur) or bugs will infest the place with their broods. An engineering or generator sector may fill it with chemicals or waste to either build up immunity or to showcase hazard protocols to the young, but nonetheless fighting war games or mutant fauna is to be ruthlessly conducted regardless of the presence of medical personnel. Thankfully, there have been few problems with this system and fully armed teams stand on watch to ensure that the situation does not get out of hand, but also to watch the show. Such infestations have also become a source of nutrition, material, and for those unfortunate to lay siege to Tundran cities...living guard dogs.

[Tundra Terra]

/bump

[Comerciante]

"Not gonna lie while it's an interesting way to get the kids out and about it is an overall inefficient way to train the young, generally because unless your already pumping those kids with steroids or genetic/cybernetic enhancments those kids are going to spend most of their time dying horribly lacking the musculature, height, endurance or stamina to do little more than die, unless of course those fire teams are always covering for those kids in which case the whole exorcise falls apart because they aren't learning the lessons you want them to."

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"A large percentage of Capital Ships and Warships are leftovers from the War in the Comerciante Verse.

The first targets of the War when it really started kicking into gear were of course the AI factories that produced the weapons both sides would need to replace, repair and supply the massive fleets that would devastate the solar system. So of course without those factories producing new warships or capital ships wouldn't be easy because rebuilding them costs a lot and requires a lot of material that just isn't available in large concentrated supply anymore.

The few remaining factories that survived the conflict are badly damaged and the AI that manages them are more or less crippled to the point that some of it's functions have to be off loaded to a human workforce which of course means the quota's it once filled easily within months takes years.

Thus a nation has two options to acquiring Warships and Capital Ships. They can purchase it off the UN surplus derived from the remaining ships that survived WW3 with the least amount of damage, or they can salvage them. The UN encourages purchasing from it's own stock for obvious reasons but salvaging Warships and Capital Ships exists in a legal grey area. I'll explain why next time it's my turn because this is already a lot!"

-OOC

[Greater Victora]

The UN encourages purchasing from it's own stock for obvious reasons but salvaging Warships and Capital Ships exists in a legal grey area. I'll explain why next time it's my turn because this is already a lot!

My guess is that the old Warships are exponentially powerful. Something about them made them incredibly dangerous. The Warships the UN sell have been striped of this something, but this something can still be found within the salvaged Warships.

My theory is that the Warships are a classic example of "somethings are best left forgotten".

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Warhammer 40,000 Battlemace 42 Million canonically exists within GV's Universe. After taking the Throne, the Phoenix used his influence to petition the Collegia Mechanica to construct Imperial Military equipment based on the designs of the Imperium of Man. If you know anything about 40k than you know a lot of the Imperium's military tech is blatantly impractical.

The Technoguild saw this as a chance to show off their skill in engineering and accepted the Phoenix's proposal. They even went a step further and modeled their own equipment after the Adeptus Mechanicus.

[Polish PR]

Such cool, interesting short story about their military technology.

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Some facts on the forthcoming anniversary of the Iraq invasion in 2003... about the Iraq war in our canon (because Poland had a big significance in it):

- This war lasted from 20 March of 2003 to 26 July of 2004. It ended with Iraq's victory and reannexation of Kuwait and defeat of the invading coalition.

- Iraq was militarily supported by Poland, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Finland, Spain, DPRK, India, Syria, Libya and Yemen.

- Over 30000 Polish soldiers fought in this war. They were the most effective Iraq's allies during the conflict. Only 1937 of them died, which is about 6% of their sent army. Unlike them, over 90% of American soldiers, 90% of Portugese soldiers, 63% of British soldiers, 50% of French soldiers, 44% of Dutch soldiers, 88% of Australian soldiers, 98% of Georgian soldiers and 99% of Israeli soldiers who were sent to Iraq, died.

- In January of 2004, over 75% of Kuwaiti soldiers deserted to Iraqi army.