Faction Events

Pan-American Union

Manifest Destiny. All clay in the Americas is rightfully ours. But we seem to be unable to actually stake our claim to all of it. Independent city-states resist our hegemony, water blocks our settlers from laying claim to the Caribbean and Hawaiian islands, and other assorted inconveniences block our path.

• Option 1: Let's go beat up Montreal until they agree to be our puppets!

• Option 2: Let's go beat up Brazil until they die! [May lead to war.]

• Option 3: Let's go beat up some trees and make boats out of them!

Pridelands

All Under Heaven. Rightfully, all clay that the sun touches is ours. However, due to practical concerns like our settler output and our capability to win multi-front wars, we can hardly afford to directly exercise our rulership over all that is rightfully ours. So, where shall we focus on bringing into our fold for the time being?

• Option 1: The southern half of Africa, of course. It's free real estate!

• Option 2: The sages and metagamers speak of lands across the seas. Surely our scientists can figure out how to cross the seas and allow us to expand our dominion navally.

• Option 3: Why do hard work ourselves, when we can beat up dirty foreigners and steal their cities? [Choose at least one faction other than your own; may lead to war.]

Netherlands

Irish Republican Army. Our loyal tributary state, Limerick, has been facing some internal unrest as of late. Radical militants advocating for further pro-Dutch ties have clashed on the streets against pro-independence and isolationist terrorists. If this civil unrest doesn't pipe down soon, it could boil over into full-scale civil war, killing thousands of innocent civilians. Or worse, the anti-Dutch factions could win out.

• Option 1: Quick! We must send in troops to support the pro-Dutch militias, so that Limerick remains a loyal puppet of ours.

• Option 2: That sounds a bit oppressive. The Irish have the right to self-determination, they should be free to figure this out on their own.

• Option 3: Maybe there's a middle ground? We could supply weapons and offer training to the pro-Dutch militias, but also publicly decry the conflict and condemn any human rights abuses committed.

Persia

Clusterfuckia. After your late royal cartographer committed honourable sudoku while trying to draw a map of your glorious empire, the question of godawful border-gore has come to your attention. Like, seriously, our country and its surroundings are ugly af.

• Option 1: The ugliest part of our borders is our one rando city north of the Siberians. We must beat up the Siberian scum to unite our borders. [May lead to war.]

• Option 2: The real ugliness is all of these unaligned city-states making everything too confusing. Crete, Lhasa, Hong Kong, more like rightful subjects of Parthia. [Select a city-state near your sphere of influence.]

• Option 3: The most ugly part of it all is all the empty space, in Arabia and India and wherever else. We need to blob out and claim it before someone else does.

OCE

REEEEE! The vile East Russians have stolen are settlers and are now bragging about it! How should we respond to such insolence?

• Option 1: Marshal the army! Deploy the fleets! Those vile scum will burn for this insult! [May lead to war.]

• Option 2: Yeah, sure, do that and all, but our real focus should be on getting some replacement cities, since we don't wanna fall behind in the power rankings.

• Option 3: This settling of the mainlands is a false way. We must return to the waves, our true dominion.

Priamurye

War? The salty Oceanians seem to be planning an invasion, because they're salty that we defended our sphere of influence from their forward-settling. The salty fucks.

• Option 1: If it's war they want, it's war they'll get! CHARGE! [May lead to war.]

• Option 2: Our top strategists have informed us that the Oceanians mainly live on islands, and that our military currently lacks the capability to traverse water. We kinda need to sort that out before we go marching in, half-cocked.

• Option 3: If they're forward-settling us, shouldn't we, like, settle our own clay so it can't be forward-settled?

Sibir

Europe for the Siberians? Our people have decided that instead of settling the frozen wastes to the north, or the barren steppes to the east, they'd rather settle down in the lush forests and grasslands of Eastern and Southern Europe.

• Option 1: Then it is decided! Siberia is now a second European power, not the fourth Asian one. Time to blob into Scandinavia and Germany.

• Option 2: Then it is decided! Siberia is now a second European power, not the fourth Asian one. Time to establish our hegemony over the lesser European powers of Crete and St. Petersburg.

• Option 3: Nah, Yurop is for nerds. Let's go beat up the Persians and become the sole, undisputed masters of Western Asia. Or maybe beat up East Asia, since that's what the cool Oceanians are doing? Or maybe trick everyone, and go beat up the Dutch and become a European power after all? [Pick at least one faction; may lead to war.]

City-State Events

Port Royal

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. Our pirate captains and their crews feel a bit mislead. We promised piracy, but instead we seem to mostly be about researching technology and setting up logistical infrastructure. What gives?

• Option 1: Uh, well, you see, copying their patented technology and making maps of the world's waters without asking anyone's permission is actually totally piracy. Trust me.

• Option 2: Hmm, good point. Let's go beat some landlubbers up and take their lunch money!

• Option 3: I AM THE KING! QUESTION MY RULE AGAIN AND DIE!

Brazil

Crippling Incompetence. Our government seems to be incapable of doing anything right.

• Option 1: Time for a purge! Once the counterrevolutionaries, corruptocrats, and other assorted scum are out of power, our government shall be fit and shipshape.

• Option 2: Vive la revolution! Throw the bums out and install a military junta!

• Option 3: Who needs a stinkin' government anyway? Anarchy or riot! Riot! Riot! Riot!