Celestial+Empire+EoT+15

GM: Spoiler Spoiler My full morale and whatever is contributed by GAoOT, University and Trans. goes towards increasing national pride (my MOR).

If and only of Trans. is ready for mid-turn, war is declared on KH. +++++ ++ of our military going with Trans. to fight the KH. We will deal with Algeria and Africa before Malta. Reason for war is that they're stirring up unrest of our populace and trying to win their loyalty over, decreasing the morale of our nation. Since they don't have WO it shouldn't really matter though.

Borders will be closed to KH and monitored by ++++ ESPD to prevent them from sending anyone in. They don't have much ESPO, so hopefully that is sufficient for this turn. I want those ++++ doing it for the entire turn.


 * Celestial Empire: End of Turn 14 **


 * Requesting x amount of random growth for this turn. **

1. All my military is instructed to respond to any threats to any part of the empire by the Knights Hospitallers. Also, I would like to send notice to them that I would like to discuss terms (if they are still alive, hopefully not) to hold off on any more fighting. 2. The MIL in Algeria will be salvaging from the battles. No one except Transylvania ever does it for bodies, but I'll try. From all the wreckage and destruction my troops will try to clean up the situation and gain something from it.
 * Algeria [MIL: +++++ +] **

 [MIL: +++-, ECO: ++, MOR: +++++ ++, ESPD: +++++ +++++ +++-] 1. All of these stats are going towards increasing the morale of the empire. 2. ECO is straightforward - funding for the projects. A bunch of public works projects are being performed, so MIL will be helping with the manpower of that. 3. Espionage is used in the way I use it so often - controlling the views of the people. It's essentially the same as how mass media controls a lot of the populace's perspectives in real life. MOR and ESP are going towards sort of buzz marketing and using forms of media and word of mouth to increase the morale of the empire. Agents and influencial persons spreading rumors, gossips, and truths about the plans for the empire and what its leaders are doing to make it a better place. How they've been working in past years to help the foreign situation in France. Espionage could also be used for... removing any dissenters that cause too many problems for the public opinion of my leaders. I'd prefer things to be clean though.
 * Morale **

 [ESPO: +++++ +++++ +++++, WO: +++++ +] 1. I'm hoping to build influence with the University and start doing the "co-opting" thing that Mistral does or whatever the closest equivalent is in this game for lack of a better way to describe it. 2. WO is used to influence their feelings towards the empire - to make them like and respect us more. Long-term goal is for a merger, though that obviously won't be brought up until things are more underway. At this point I'm just buttering them up. 3. The espionage goes towards subverting their loyalties one-by-one to the empire. Using any fluff bonus from my man on the other side combined with any knowledge the agents can gather up, they will be bribing, negotiating, and earning the loyalties of some of the people using a combination of the espionage and world influence. I think I'll start with subverting their MOR to the Celestial Empire - the Knights have obviously inspired 95% of this EOT. My agents can use a similar strategy of media and word of mouth to discuss how the Celestial Empire is doing so much for its people and improving their happiness. Surely the University would see a lot of improvement and increased funding if it came directly under the fold of the co-emperors. From what it sounds like, no one is technically "in charge", but these sort of morale-related actions are supposed to be more-or-less harmless anyways. 4. I'll note that they have no espionage and that we do have an espionage alliance, so I'm hoping the investment of +++++ +++++ +++++ espionage to subverting their loyalty is fairly effective.
 * University of Celaenae **

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. +++++ + devoted towards "Algeria" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2. +++- devoted towards "Morale"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Military: +++++ ++++- **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. Standard reminder about the Swiss investment. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2. +++++ +++++ ++++ contributed towards completing Apollo's Chariot. If more ECO is needed, it can be taken from the "Morale" project up to the point of (++) t. ECO to complete the airship fortress. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3. +++++ + p. ECO converted to p. MOR. First off, I'm doing the thing with the French land that I had said for WO initially. Except now the ++ ECO from there is going towards helping to honor the lives of soldiers who gave up their lives for others and to inancially compensate families who have one less person providing for them. The other ++++ ECO will be money and funding poured into public works. Improving roads, building new schools and universities, better social programs for the people, etc. It's as good a time as ever as we're now incorporating Algeria and a huge chunk of northern Africa to the empire. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">4. ++ towards "Morale"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Economy: +++++ +++++ +++++ +++++ ++ **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. + from random growth, + from mid-turn <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2. +++++ +- was used at mid-turn <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3. +++++ + from burning p. ECO <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">4. +++++ ++ towards "Morale"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Morale: +++++ +++++ ++++- **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. +++++ +++++ +++++ contributed towards "University of Celaenae"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Offensive Espionage: +++++ +++++ +++++ **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. ++++ was used at mid-turn to close my borders and to monitor them, preventing any infiltrations by the KH similar to what Tunisia did in Gateways. Specifically preventing the use of their MOR against my populace. It is continuing to do that for the turn. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">2. +++++ +++++ +++- used towards "Morale" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">3. Maintaining defensive espionage alliance with University and the Glorious Army. At this point I don't remember if there were others. If there are, they're maintained too but could you let me know which they are?
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Defensive Espionage: +++++ +++++ +++++ ++- **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. +++++ + contributed towards "University of Celaenae"
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucida grande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">World Opinion: +++++ + **

**Response**

 * Key**


 * Project | Stat Boost | Investment into | Comments**

Investment into Mil

Investment into Econ

Investment into Morale (+++- mil, ++ econ, +++++ ++ Mor, +++++ +++++ +++- espd)

Investment into Sparks

Investment into Espionage D

Investment into Espionage O

Investment into World Opinion

Apollo's Chariot (+++++ +++++ ++++ econ) Subvert University of Celaenae (+++++ +++++ +++++ ESPO) Influence University of Celaenae (+++++ + WO)

There is quite a bit of salvage in Algeria, not just from the recent battles, but from the many past battles which no one ever cleaned up. However due to your armies not having brought any appropriate equipment along they are only able to get a small portion of the old equipment up and running again. You gain + mil. Your engineers do note that the Transylvanian's are far better at this than them. Whereas the Celestial mechanics painstakingly gather scrap from dozens of abandoned engines and built new clanks and war machines that Transylvanian apparently just scooped up the most readily available piles and quickly repaired it even bringing the corpses back to life as constructs, all while retreating off the battlefield. Your analysts estimate that they were able to restore ++ mil out of ++ scraps. While your own engineers were only able to scrape + mil out of +++- scraps. And they didn't spend as long at it. Which more or less confirms the Italians theory that the Transylvanian have some kind of device which is immensely useful to them, and which could potentially upset the balance of power.