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Rocco spots a Frigate.

Grim fails again(its not terribly likely)

Earth- Don't see why not.

Ares- They seem to be carrying a basic array of weapons and armour, along with 60 gold peices.

Grim sets himself on fire.

Earth- Ok.

Grim fails.

1. It wasn't forcing its way of life on people. It just introduced its factories and some of its culture, which is natural considering that they're all sharing culture. Maybe to you, to them it is forcing...and they are not sharing culture...I fail to see Japan embracing any concept present in the middle east. 2. Triple wealth statistic is actually quite simple. You take that half of the popuatlion is unemployed. You give them jobs. That's twice the wealth, in terms of GDP per capita. Then, since it's Japan, increased wages, then we have three times the wealth per capita. You give them jobs! Its so simple, you give them jobs in what! And increased their Wages! Yes, clearly the money comes out of nowhere....Retech if Japan is paying Yemen's wages then how can a Yemen company compete? You are driving out local bussiness and expect them to be happy about it.... 3. Madagascar doesn't exactly have a fleet. Besides, you could just have asked how I got my soldiers there and I would've told you, seeing as I simply forgot. I never said it had a fleet.... 4. Maybe because that country was part of Japan? Its part of the federation...remember... 5. Japanese ratio of troops to pop is roughtly 4.5 per 1000. The US has a higher ratio, and long sustained wars are generally more costly than one month invasions. One month invasions usually lead to costly occupations... 6. Generally when all your cities are surrounded and there is no end in sight, you're going to surrender. Like Britian did in 1939 you mean... Or Berlin did during the Berlin Airlift.... 7. Exactly, so that is not a very likely case. Its even less likely that the SC would give power to countries which are bent on dominating the world. 8. Not according to what people (players) seem to think. So I thought, might as well just go ahead with that then, since Japan already has that reputation. No idea what you mean 9. Then they're just not going to fight? Once again, it's not whether I can use their army or not. It's whether they would turn on me, instead of just saying they wouldn't fight. Also, may I remind you of ABBYSNIA? Oh yes, thats a good one...'Look! When no one was moderating someone abused the rules so now that someone is moderating and trying to stop people abusing the rules I demand that I can abuse the rules!!!' Retech I am not discussing it any further because I want to do dungeoneering...If you have problems PM me and I will talk to you when I have the time...or ask Sere to overrule me, I have lost interest in trying to defend myself, since it will doubtlessly happen every time I do anything in the future....

"Oh, Yemen thinks Japan is racist and rebels despite having their economy completely controlled by Japan and their wealth tripled." Yemen knows Japan is racist...it is going around forcing its products, factories and ways of life on massive swaths of the world, entirely for monetary profit with no regard for the culture that existed before hand. It is extolling the 'tripled wealth' statistic with no evidence and certainly no actual improvement in living standards for the Yemen people....There is no way in hell that Yemen can grow by 300% in less than 5 years, simply because Japan throws money at it... There is no realism in the claim, it just propaganda and I am exposing it as such. Err, the obvouis supply problems, which you magically get round by sending an unlimited fleet around with you... The fact that no country would sit by while thousands of Japanese Soliders unloaded in the next country over for 'defensive' purposes. The idea that Japan could sustain such a large army anyway when America struggles with its small army in Iraq and Afganistan. The idea that Oman would just surrender because you raped their country.... A much more likely case would be that the UN told Japan to get the hell back and embargoed it, but that isn't going to happen because of Japan being on the security council.... Japan itself is a peaceful nation with no reason to go around invading other countries.... Yet it happened. I accept it. You are going to have to accept that you cannot annex a country and subsquently use its army to invade another country within the space of 3 years... The real world does not work at that kind of speed...

Yup, start in 12 minutes?

Its not really a long time ago...they have been under you control less than 5 years... Retech of course I am grasping...if I went exactly by what you said then you would have deploy unarmed, unclothed individuals who were somehow supposed to fight armed defenders. Your navy had no stats posted except 'robotic carriers' that could mean just about anything... You are using a countries army as a suppliment for yours with no reason other than you want another country. Yemen has no reason to attack Oman except that Japan with flip out if they don't. Added to that no one invades a country with the expressed aim of killing civilians...it happens...Sending 30 odd thousand men into a country with guns with the aim of 'killing people' is obvouisly going to attract the worst members of society. Especially when you have 1.5 Million soliders....

Uzbekistan is riddled with Insurgancy and Spain is on hte edge of Civil war... You are not being singled out...

I had thought about just refusing, but then I knew, or at least thought, as Yemen would, that Japan would not like being told 'No' and would probably invade. Thus the safer course of action, for Yemen, would be to agree...until they saw that by their acceptance of Japanese power they were just opening themselves up to be enslaved by the Japanese... I mean I doubt that the people of Yemen are particularly happy that Japan has exported a load of 'crazy' ideas to their country, started building things, seemingly at random, closing down industries that used to exist and replacing them with Japanese Corporations... The whole thing smacks heavily of British and French and Dutch Imperialism...we go over there to 'improve' their lots, but the fact is that they don't want to be 'improved'....Another example would be hacking off someones arm to fit a prostheic one equipped with twenty dozen gadgets....it might be an improvement, but it seems unlikely that many people would like it being forced on them.

Retech...Why exactly did Yemen invade Oman?

So you are sending 62,500 people, 1/6th of which can't communicate with the other 5/6ths....That sounds like a recipe for disaster.... Also it I don't 'control' people's countries in wars then essentially your forces would stand outside of cities while they were bombed...your casualites would go though the roof and the whole thing would fall apart. Retech you gave me no indications of the size of the defensive fleet...

Retech you deployed 50,000 Yeman troops for no reason other than to take control of Oman...that doesn't sound like a Federation, that sounds like an Empire...

A country that expands too fast will naturally become bigheaded...leading inevitably to the belief that they are better than other nations, which would have the effect of treating other nationalities as pets... ie being more inclined to punish them when they do bad, and being more incline to speak codderlingly when they do good... Eg you wouldn't pat someone on the head and say 'Who's a Good Boy then' if they lent you a pencil, nor would you hit someone on the nose if they didn't leave you alone, or were doing something you didn't like.

Ummm...Hmmm....Well I don't have any problems with just handing over Camaroon, since it was before my time (Essentially a map anamoly, more than an invasion.) But I think we should ask Sere what he thinks.

World Map Update [hide][/hide] Japan and Yeman invaded Oman. The Japanese force of some 25,000 landed in the north of the county outside of Muscat and quickly began surrounding cities. Meanwhile 50,000 Yemanese Soliders advanced from the south, heading to Muscat as well, accompanied by 12,500 Japanese. However during the invasion a Yemeny commander saw a Japanese Solider shoot an unarmed civilian, when challanged on the matter the Japanese Solider told the Commander "They are savages, not people." At which point a counter attack by the Yemeny forces routed the Japanese invaders, and, joining with the Oman defenders, proceeded north and forced the Japanese into the sea. 5,000 Japanse are being held in POW camps, along with 4,000 casualities. Oman suffered some 5,000 Casualities and Yemen 6,000. The countries of Oman and Yemen have declared a mutual protection pact and have began very close work in improving both nations without the egocentric Japanese trying to craft Middle Easten Japanese. Japan invades Madagascar. With the break up of the Abbysinan Empire after the plane crash, which killed the entire royal family and the chief of staff, in full swing, Japan has installed a new government after landing 24,000 troops in three seperate attacks on the Island. The Madagascan Island has been in the midst of civil war after the dissolution of the Empire and three groups had raised themselves as potential rulers. Japan's new government has decisively angered the inhabitance and insurgancy is common place. The Japanese have barely managed to keep the cities under control with at least two attempts to start a full scale revolution. Some 9,000 Japanese have died thus far, compared with some 2,000 Madagascan Soliders. Despite Japan promising to modernise the area the living conditions have declined considerably as water, power and food shortages have plagued the area. In addition to this five carrier ships have been sunk by Madagascans carrying plastic explosives, leading to further supply shortages for the Japanese forces stationed in Madagascar. The entire conflict has turned into a blood bath with Civilian casualties, from accidental, incidental, starvation and sepsis have climbed into the thousands. Conflicting messages are coming out of the area, some saying that UN help is deeply required, others saying that UN aircraft will be shot down. Situation in Uzbekistan Turkey continues to anger the civilian population by not withdrawing and another 2,000 Turks have been killed, as well as 400 civilians/terrorists. Situation in Mongolia A ceasefire seems to have broken out. Situation in Spain Spanish deployment of missiles to destroy the city of Lisbon has lead to 500,000 Civilian deaths and the forced peace as Spainish Soliders mutiny against the government for allowing so many deaths. Portugal is seeking international aid with adminstrative paralysis and essentially the break down of the country as a whole. 9,000 Civilans have died since the attack took place due to starvation and other related issues. Spain itself is teetering on the edge of civil war as attempts to depose the government take hold. Abbysina Situation. The Empire has broken down into 7 new powers, with much of Chad being absorbed into Algeria following troop movements there, Angola expanding to take advantage of the chaos, and Japan seizing control of Madagascar. The Abbysinan State, focused in the Horn of Africa represents the continuation of power, but the country has servered all ties with Switzerland after the Swiss watched dispassionately, without any attempt to save the Empire. Its focuses are on Green Industry, National Unity and a good sized army. South Africa, is, largely, the same as the old South African State, the only real difference being that the boarders have extended, and the army has got larger. Continued investment by the SSR has been cited as the main reason for growth. The army, navy and airforce being on par with 2009 Britain. The Republic of Lusaka(just north of South Africa and East of Angola) represents one of the two attempts to Westernise, with an American style constitution and a commitment to Industrialisation at any cost, a small army is being fielded. Uwanda is the other country to Westernise(country next to Lusaka). Having had heavy investment during the Abbysinan period the country is one of the most progressive in Africa, developing along a very German style form of Government. There is a small army and airforce. The Kingdom of Mau(between Uwanda and Abbysina) is a country of two halves. The Industrial north and the Pastrol South. The country is ruled corruptly and seems to be wasting the advantages of the past in favour of massive works of art, palaces, castles and other such. The Army is sizable. The Fief of Khartoum has been created just south of Egypt. The country has no real goals beyond an eventual union with Egypt and adopting similar growth patterns. Finally the Central African Federation is a massive Hierarchy of tribes, cities and kingdoms all vying for power. The area has some of the largest, cheap, armies seen to date. [hide] Map is not perfect and features no names. [/hide]

Yeah it was very odd...Neither internet Explorer or Safari worked....

Yeah I got it. Could work.

Combination of both factors.

Guess so...

Algae has a life cycle of only a few weeks, so any changes would be readily visible by the end of that period.

Ah right...I see... Well, your scientists can't see much change in the samples, there doesn't appear to be anything super negative happening though.