Thalmor

Londoners and people in the surrounding countryside take cover wherever possible. The capitol is moved to Edinburgh. The historic Home Guard is reestablished, and hundreds of thousands of patriots enlist. For training purposes, most of the British Army - 100,000 men, all invade Ireland through Northern Ireland. The Irish Defense Force collapses quickly, and offers little resistance. Only a few hundred people die in the annexation. With Ireland annexed, the people are put under taxation and it's resources used. However, the annexation also causes the I.R.A. to crap back up. Northern Irish recruits of the Home Guard are used to fight these insurgents.

Anti-air defenses are brought online as the Royal Air Force is brought up to full strength. The British troops in France reinforce French troops as a combined effort to push back the Russian force is made. The British Air Force backs up the allied infantry, and British ships in The Channel fire Tomahawk missiles at Russian positions. British Ships in Cyprus begin their move to the Black Sea.

20,000 soldiers of the British Army garrison in northern France. Ships of the Royal Navy not in Cyprus defend The Channel.

Emergency taxes have been raised by the British parliament.

In response to the recent missile strike in Finland, four companies of Royal Marines are deployed to Norway.

I claim the United Kingdom. ____________________________________________________ Reservists are being drawn up nationwide, parliament is to vote within the next few hours on emergency tax increases. The Royal Navy is being brought up and several ships are being stationed in Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus. The Royal Airforce is conducting flyovers of western Ukraine.

Banned for banning the banner of the Dealer of North Oman.

This blog is the official blog for The Evenstar Empire. I will post random, probably pointless updates whenever I feel like it. Which will probably be never. Yeeeaaahhhh

Banned because you're obviously lying. :^)

Banned because if you were truly 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles from my left, you would be in space. Which is impossible, therefore I suspect you are lying. Banned because of lying.

Hello! Welcome to Orbis!

Morocco

South Africa

Costa Rica

Peru

Bolivia

God doesn't step out of the light and show himself to mankind because then we couldn't make the decision to follow him on our own. He wants his creation to follow him willingly and on their own. He isn't going to make you follow him, he isn't going to force you to obey him. Do you know how to get 100% out of every single moment of your life? Do you know the best way to help the people around you right now? You don't, you couldn't possibly know. To be able to get more out of life, it would only be natural to cling to the person - and his teachings - who do know. You literally just said ''I don't care if you hold all power in the universe and all of it's secrets.'' - Think about that. Christ's orders in the New Testament is basically ''Love God, love your fellow man, be honest, work hard, and don't act like an idiot.'' Christianity doesn't require anything to follow. You don't have to do anything but be a good person. That is exactly the same mindset Adam had in the Garden of Eden. That is exactly the same mindset that dooms so many people to a fate worse than death because they don't stop for even a moment to think of something other than themselves in the grand scheme of things. God gave humans everything, and man still screwed up. They kept screwing up for thousands of years afterwards, and God finally sends his son to come save us so that we don't have to suffer eternal pain and torment. His son, by the way, preached nothing but love and tolerance, and yet despite this, you still call him a douchebag and ''the worst''. Nevermind Islam, which in the past century is just killing people left and right. Nevermind Scientology, which advocates the harassment of people who criticize them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_%28Scientology%29). No, it's the Christian God that's evil. I also think it's interesting how you responded to a rather polite message by directly insulting the deity that that person believes in, that's classless.

Malta

I was thinking about doing a somewhat complicated World War 1 roleplay game here in this section. Besides just managing your military and trying to out-trench the other enemies, there would be an ''economy'' represented for each nation. The larger the military, the less the economy. For losing battles (or suffering high casualties that negate a victory) and for the lower the economy, your ''instability'' would take a hit. Your nation would automatically lose the game if you reached 100% instability or 0% economy. Besides that, if you lose your capitol for 2 months straight, you also lose- but you could move your capitol for a few penalties. To put this into a scenario: You could build a few ships and bombard their northern most positions from sea, but that would cost some economic points. To lose instability, you could sacrifice economic points to pass social reforms. There would also be a time system in which whenever I say is 1 month is 1 month. You would gain some economic points with each month. Each month is one turn. Also, politics would be a bit complicated. You could send economic points (foreign aid or something) and establish trade deals. You can trade on three level (+5, +10, and +15) with eachother's nations, going up an extra level with each turn (so to get the full 3 levels, it would have to be three turns/in-game months). There would also be a fourth level (+30) between nations who are in alliances. There would be client states. Countries that were territories, colonies, or otherwise protectorates are separate from their home country. Protectorates are forced, however, to obey the will of their protector. In order to not have to obey their protectorate, they may declare independence. The protector does not have to declare war on the protectorate if it declares independence, but probably should because each protectorate gives their home country a +5 economic bonus each month (at no extra expense to the protectorate) I would put just about every country that existed during 1914 on the list of countries to choose from. This also includes protectorates, which, again, are separate. Players (you guys) are able to play up to two nations at once. The only two rules of this is that the two countries you play on cannot be at war and only one of them can be a great power. The full list of countries that would be available to pick from come from this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_World_War_I A few of those belligerents will not be available for simplicity sake, however. Such as ''Arab rebels'' or ''other unincorporated territories'' (Yes, you may play as something as absurd as Alaska and declare independence and have all that fun.) Also, the amount of manpower you can draw up is determined by this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I(From the ''Strength'' category there in the infobox.) So yeah, that's about it. Are you guys interested?

How do you get involved in this baseball thing I've seeing here on the forums?

Hello! Welcome to Orbis!

Yes, it is. I'm not saying that the scientific method must give way to rampant superstition in order for the Gospel to proceed. But in order to be a Christian, you must believe, on it's face, that a deity came to Earth partially has a human, died, came back to life, loves you (a fallible, stupid, insignificant-to-the-universe person*) unconditionally, and created a series of laws not governed by humans that was at one time broken by you. All that is a little hard to believe by 21st century academic standards. *Not actually insulting you personally, but there are some people in society who hold to the idea that all humans are just plain awful.

It was physically written by man, yes, but God authored it and told them what to put. This is known as the Doctrine of Inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_inspiration If that's so, then why did, say, Paul the Apostle go out and establish churches? What would encourage a simple fisherman to throw away his entire life and pick up the teachings of a possible rambling mad man (who was hated by his own religious figures [The Pharisees]) and travel to foreign places hundreds of miles away from home with no certainty that people would even accept what he was saying? It is written in Scripture that Jesus states he will rise again on the third day. If he didn't, then what would've convince Paul the Apostle to do all that? Exactly, I can't prove that he exists either. That's why faith in such a huge part of Christianity. You have to abandon the idea that ''If I can't see it, then it probably isn't real'' and accept that things both happen outside human understanding and outside human comprehension. No, there's a lot of different ''kinds'' of Scripture. Although the differences between them are arguable at worst. The only really dividing thing to consider with the Bible is what constitutes a Book that's Inspired (see above) and what's not. I'm a Baptist, so I consider the King James Version to be the best. Down here where I am, there are some people/churches that hold the K.J.V. Bible to be the only ''real'' Bible and that everything else is literally Satan. Whereas the more normal churches consider other Bibles (as long as they're within Anglican canon) to be alright. See, early on in between the time when the church first was established and to the time where it was only a few hundred years old, they met a bunch of times to decide what ''Books'' were canonical (and is, inspired, which I already covered) and which were not. That's also where the Apocrypha comes from. The Eastern Orthodox denominations also hold a few more books to be canonical.

Banned because you have a ridiculous number of posts.

681