[OOC] Precipice of War - We Write Under The Sign Of The Goat

[Pepperm1nts]

Unless he deletes the notification and pretends he never saw it.

[Dinh AaronMk]

I thought Korea was annexed? Or was it just a vassal?

@Isotope

Look at dis n00b.

[Pepperm1nts]

Throwin' a line in.

Gee, I really regret ever leaving PoW. Those were the happiest days of my life. I think I'll come back so I can experience such joy again.

@Isotope

[Dinh AaronMk]

I wish senpai will notice my 30khz alien plasma rifle

@Isotope

Of course he will.

[Dinh AaronMk]

We summoned @Isotope.

[Isotope]

Verifying I said all of the above. And hmm, I don't want to leave since I still love PoW but I did have issues with staying interested. I think I'll formally drop Ikealand reapply as something else if that's alright.

[Dinh AaronMk]

K

[Isotope]

Whats still open btw? The new maps a bit confusin.

[Pepperm1nts]

Pick a country with a lot of potential and just roll with it. Vilage made a good point a while back about how small countries with not-much tied to them (in PoW or otherwise) make good choices because they allow you to go in just about any direction you want. EDIT: A lot is still open. Name some you'd like and we'll see.

[Isotope]

Hmmm, might be interesting to do something in Nicaragua or Panama if their open.

[zombieaccount]

So Byrd man, here's the scenario I have so far: -In the year 1961 around December, the military Dictator Benito* Muñez begins to mobilize his troops, under the pretense of "Bringing Panama back to Colombia". -The somewhat organized military begins to march into colombia and occupy multiple towns, but continue their advancements. -The colombian military manages to advance to the Canal despite resistance from Panama's people. -America, despite Benito believing a isolationist America, dealing with florida's rebellion and canada's invasion would be too occupied to bother, intervenes and more than likely the colombian military will be totally screwed in Panama. -Chances are Colombia's neighbors condemn the act of blatant imperialism, mainly so they stay on the USA's good side and because South America's colonies tend to like keeping borders the way they are from what I recall. But the real fun comes in the political fallout of Colombia's military dictatorship trying to do such blatant land-grab. Chances are the dictator gets a counter coup and the timocracy republic gets restored, but it wouldn't be the same. However, what the US and/or Brazil does to Colombia is what I need to take into account. However the end result I am trying to get for Colombia is essentially a even less stable mess of a place where land lords need to raise personal militias just to defend themselves. As already said in the lore and mihndar's colombia related postings, Colombia is swamped in guerrillas and druglords to the point where Brazil led interventions to stop cocaine from getting all over the continent and spain are rather frequent, especially as of recent. Despite all that, there still is a functioning state. *Benito is spanish as well as italian.

He'll be back when PoW reaches the year 2523 and we can fly spaceships around.

@Pepperm1nts

It probably won't be that long. Year 2325 should suffice.

[Pepperm1nts]

@Iso: They are. So is every South American country that's not Brazil or Argentina. oZode was thinking of joining as Colombia but he hasn't signed up yet.

[Isotope]

Hmm, I am interested in Nicaragua the most, though I would have to talk to America about that whole occupation business. Edit: Nope, i think i'll just go for Guatemala, more to work with, less US intervention.

[zombieaccount]

Iso, you plan to be a banana republic?

[Pepperm1nts]

Chile is a good choice. There is a lot of room for potential growth and the country itself is among the strongest in South America in real-life. It's a very diverse country too, both in its environment and people-wise.

[Isotope]

Probably, thinking of a history that differs from the modern day though. My idea so far (in Guatemala) is Estrada Cabrera is ousted by a revolution in 1919-1920 and the United Fruit Company is ejected from the nation. Of course that begs the question, would the US have followed through on its threat to intervene then? Additionally I also had thoughts about Chile, but weren't they part of the SAC?

[Pepperm1nts]

SAC was retconned and reduced to an economic union like the EU.

[Isotope]

Hmmmmmmm Then I'm torn, either Chile or Guatemala and I don't know which one... Hmmmmm, Chile has more potential for more interaction... Actually yeah, I think I like Chile more.

[Pepperm1nts]

Also I'd just like to announce that henceforth we'll pretend Prussia was always named Germany. I was thinkin' recently about how that never really made sense. It was Feo who named it that though so blame him. But yeah, Germany is better.

[Isotope]

Hmmmm, y'know what? I would rather avoid a US butt inspection so I shall apply as Chile!