(Hello,
I've been a bit bored lately, and decided to leave my mark with a few histories on the forums. While these are certainly events in the game that I personally was a part of (and tend to be one of the major figures) they will most likely remain up to debate over every detail(if anyone bothers to debate them anyway).
These are subject to be edited(as I find more and more of my saved documents), and I hope that the readers will walk away with a little more knowledge of some event or another.)
After some time of wandering around, I found myself in Roman Empire under the alias Flavius Aetius. Due to my knowledge of the game (and my hand in a number of events) I was quickly promoted to a senior leadership role. Around this time, Broken Lands became a very popular subject in Roman Empire. Why you ask?
Roman Empire was in an interesting situation that many other alliances large and small also found themselves in. Should they risk their Elgean investments and focus settlement in BL? Should they do 50/50 in both continents, or avoid the new world altogether? These questions plagued the Roman Empire leadership, and only a few members stepped up to push for BL settlement.
I was one of these members (and backed by junior officer Lord Moonpie). Together, with our varying realms of influence, we pushed and successfully persuaded Zynot to settle in Broken Lands, Westmarch. Our base of operations was the island on the West coast, and further plans were drafted to settle the nearby coastline and expand outward.
However, these settlement plans were still met with internal hostility. Roman Empire leadership still wanted to invest new cities in Elgea, as they were not all too ready to abandon their prior investments, despite repeated assurances that settlement in the much more fertile Westmarch was the better action.
Settlement by itself was not unstresssful in any case. Already met with increased hostility to those that wanted to continue settling in Elgea, there were sects of the leadership that were intent on striking out at those that dared to place land marker armies *near* where Roman Empire intended to settle their cities. With my intervention, we avoided many a pointless war.
This led to an interesting divide in the Roman membership. There were those that sided with Zynot, myself and Moonpie, or those that adopted a 'wait and see' approach. While this continued argument on settlement was enough to split opinions, it was not enough to warrant a coup. What brought forth my decisive and fateful action was Roman Empire's behaviors towards WAVE.
Roman Empire originally allied with WAVE, but then when met with oncoming conflict against FAIRY, opted to sit back and watch their allies suffer, regardless of the pacts made. This prompted myself, and my trusted friend Moonpie to act.
I used superuser role privileges assigned to me and appointed myself Emperor of the newly titled Holy Roman Empire. I then appointed Moonpie to a higher rank. In the face of what we predicted would be a Civil War at worst, armed revolt at best, we assigned the alliance capital to my own city, and we 'liberated' their funds, a some 200m gold. This stash of gold was assigned to a nearby hub for safekeeping.
Some Roman members questioned the coup, but as noted earlier, there was the divide of 'opinions', for lack of a better word, for how the Romans should be ruled, and how they should rule. Most of these members opted to wait and see what would come of the coup, rather than openly side with one party of the other and risk retaliation from the winner.
However, since Moonpie and I advertised our Coup as to benefit the Romans, we risked alienating our members by keeping power solely to ourselves. So, we re-assigned superuser privileges to Isabella and opted to see what would come of it. Shortly thereafter, she removed us of our positions and reinstated Zynot.
Moonpie was able to safely flee to Fairy, while I was not as fortunate. My colorful past was well associated with Flavius(in fact, it was known from the moment I joined Roman Empire), and no one was quick to take me in. Fortunately, Trout opted to allow me momentary refuge while they performed their own investigation. I foolishly believed they could shelter me forever, and didn't do much with the gold I had stashed at the hub. It was only after their investigation ended, and the Romans were allowed to continue their execution did I realize I needed to move the gold.
I quickly recovered the gold from the hub, and sent it to a 3rd party player for later useage, and resigned my account to its fate. From this moment on, Roman Empire would continue to send either military or diplomatic attacks onto Flavius Aetius, regardless of what alliance it belonged to, the capacity of harm Flavius could manage to do, or how much damage they had already managed to do over the existing time.
Through Roman intentions to attack those that established land claims, intentions to abandon allies, and a fierce and ongoing resistance to settle more fertile lands, the Roman Coup was born.
Edit:
Another day I'll add this in to the actual body. Moonpie and I pushed regularly for a lesson plan to the masses, this was constantly met with disinterest. Even when the leadership finally agreed to creating a plan, they delegated it to Moonpie, and then ignored his submitted plan.
Edited: June 16th
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