The Grand Kingdom of Dallin
TURN 3. October, 1815 to March, 1816.
The mood in the Palace of the Parliament was a somber one, nobody was speaking, yet they all seemed to have a displeased look on their faces. For a good several minutes, the large halls were deathly quiet... until the king rose to his feet and spoke in a determined tone.
"We need to this if we are to be taken seriously, good people!" he spoke, and right after, he was countered by his own minister of the interior, Aldius Hennan.
"If we do this, then there's a good chance we won't exist anymore!" he shouted. "Are we all really going to risk our nation just for such a thing?!" he asked and many of Parliament stood up and shouted in support of what he said. "We can't count for other nations to not intervene, so we better not risk this!"
However, the Foreign Minister, Ordian Karmill stood up and spoke in a rather heavy tone, as if chastising two children. "Must I remind you that we do not meet here to discuss only such things?!" he asked, glaring at the both of them. "Now, we need to discuss other issues, for example, the trade offer from the Empire of Vornhem."
Aldius Hennan sighed and sat back in his seat. "I don't see why we shouldn't accept this, it would greatly improve our economy and improve our relations with them." he said, furrowing his brows. "Of course, it will mean that we should keep strong relations with them if we want to keep this trade route."
The king, though still a bit displeased, took a deep sigh. "I agree to this trade route, we need to improve our economy as best we can."
Oridan Karmill nodded and started speaking again. "Now, onto the next issue..." he said. "We need a port if we are to have ANY chance of establishing colonies and projecting our power beyond this continent, I'm sure everyone agrees, however, there will be most likely other nations to oppose us, nations that do not wish to have colonial competitors, or competitors in general when speaking about this sort of thing, so we need to be very careful about this if we are to do it."
Everyone was silent, nobody dared to speak a word, only to nod and murmur in agreement, it would be a great risk to do this, it could alienate many of nations around Dallin, it could even force them to wage war on Dallin itself, however, nobody denied that they truly needed to do this.
"Glad to see everyone agrees... and now onto the most thorniest issue, our army." with that, he looked on at Petrius Matthius, the Minister of War.
"We are simply not ready to do this, our morale is fairly good, but our troops lack any sort of preparation for actual combat, even against such an opponent." he says. "We could try to defeat them by trying to overwhelm them with superior numbers, but that would be a too risky move to take in this case."
"I see... then make sure that our troops will be properly trained by the time we decide to do this, we are going to get only one shot at this, if we miss it, we'll be out for good."
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National Decision - Trade Agreement with Vornhem
@Lauder-
National Decision - Fabricate Claim on Madeira
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National Decision - Military Exercises [110.000/1.000= -110 Economic Rating]
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Naval Ship Assignment - No Navy
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Demobilization - [Mobilization]
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Research Priorities: Economics (High)
Navy (None)
Industry (Normal)
Social Thought (Low)
Military (Normal)