Taliosa
26-07-2005, 00:29
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History:
Taliosa was first started on a small island, which was part of a larger chain. Their leader was a guy named Talios, he lead an attack on the much larger island nearby. This lead to long bloody war, dispite superior numbers of the larger island, Talios used superior tactics to take the island. After a number of years he attack another island and won there also. This continued untill he ruled every single island in the chain.
Talios continued to rule untill he was assainated many years later by some one who was still loyal to the old ruler of the island he was on. This swung the nation into civil war, the war raged for years. After 7 years of this war, the leaders of those loyal to Talios were killed off and their followers were slaughtered. Just as a new government was emerging a couple years after the war, forgien ships sailed into the captial's harbor and took over.
The factions of the shattered government resisted this forgien power, but was overcome by their superior power. This forgien power ruled the islands for nearly 200 years, as a huge war started elsewhere in the world the people of the Taliosian islands began their revolution. They use a newly developed technology, known as airplanes, to sink every ship in the harbor, and proceed to chase this forgein power away.
At this time their history was mostly lost and the Name Talios came up in the modified history, given to them by the occupires, as an evil man who did everything he could to hurt anyone. They disided that if this power hated them, he was their ally, and they name their country after him. It wasn't revealed Talios true nature untill much later, when it was too late for anything to be done with out making alot of people angry.
Geography:
Taliosa is mainly based upon 2 large islands, each with about 500-900 square miles of habitable land area. Surrounding the two main islands are hundreds of smaller islands and a number of medium sized, with a total of about 800 square miles of habitable land area. It is belived that this huge chain of islands was once a much large island, with about 4000 square miles of land, but the island sunk, for whatever reason, and left behind this chain of islands.
Because of this the waters around Taliosa are very calm and shallow, creating great beaches and a very warm steady climate. It also has winds that arn't very stable, which means that storms hit this island chain alot, but the islands are also watered on all sides, unlike most, where the rain comes only from one direction.
Culture:
The Taliosian culture is very biusness like, it is typicly considered rude if you endage in small talk when you should be talking biusness or something else. Like wise, if you start talking biusness when simply hanging out with friends it's rude. Their standered greeting is "Fly high," and respond with, "Higher for you."
Although a number of religions have attempted to moving onto the Taliosian islands, none have gained a real foot hold. Most Taliosians considered relgion to be a waste of time, and have no real point. Because of this, they also don't like it when people use religion as an excuse for their actions.
There are a number of different languages in Taliosa, mainly branches off of the main language, which doesn't have a true name, but is oftenly refered to as 'Taliosian.'
Lots of Taliosians have pets, but not like other counties think. In most house holds there is some kind of bird that randomly flies around inside, it is trained, but some more then others. I the majority of houses the bird is simply trained to go out side when it has to... you know, where as some have the bird trained better then a dog.
Government:
The Taliosian government revolves around a number of counsils, starting from the lowest, being a city counsil, and going to the highest, the High Counsil. The Counsils are made up of the smartest and wisest of the people. To get to a higher counsil level the members have to spend at least half a year in every lower level, and be voted upon moving up by both the higher counsil and the one they are in at the time.Because of this, the general population dosn't have much of a reason to worry about politics and stuff, since the counsils take care of it.The counsils also serve as the judicial branch, hearing cases and deciding on the best action to take.
Military Structure:
The Taliosa military has 4 branches. The biggest one is the Air Force, the next biggest is the Space Force, then Ground Battle Force and Sea Patrol Force.
The Air Force includes anything which can maintain flight within the atmospher of the planet. It has a number of aircraft which are capable of space flight, and spacecraft capable of air flight, making it, by far, the largest branch of the Taliosa armed forces.
The Space Force was established as a transport branch, between one planet and the next. Although Taliosa does have the power to fight wars in space, they prefer to do so in the atmospher of a planet, since they are much more adept at fighting there. As such, Taliosa space ships are typicly very big and kind of slow. But their Sub-space jump technology (bought from another nation) does allow them to jump very quickly around, since gravity has no effect on it.
The Ground Battle Force is mainly there to provide protection to Taliosa cites, since they don't get much action sitting on the island. They do have some paradrop forces that are very well trained, including tanks that are very menuverable.
The Sea Patrol Force was origonaly made like the Space Force is now, to transport things from one island to the next. But the Air Force took that over, so now they are simple like the coast gaurd, mainly helping out in rescues and drug interdiction.
Forgein Policy:
Taliosa is very open, to a point. They like to have friends, and are very good trading partners. On the down side, if you lose their trust, it's very difficult to get it back, some would say that it's impossible. This may not be true, but it would take countless millions to re-earn their trust.
History:
Taliosa was first started on a small island, which was part of a larger chain. Their leader was a guy named Talios, he lead an attack on the much larger island nearby. This lead to long bloody war, dispite superior numbers of the larger island, Talios used superior tactics to take the island. After a number of years he attack another island and won there also. This continued untill he ruled every single island in the chain.
Talios continued to rule untill he was assainated many years later by some one who was still loyal to the old ruler of the island he was on. This swung the nation into civil war, the war raged for years. After 7 years of this war, the leaders of those loyal to Talios were killed off and their followers were slaughtered. Just as a new government was emerging a couple years after the war, forgien ships sailed into the captial's harbor and took over.
The factions of the shattered government resisted this forgien power, but was overcome by their superior power. This forgien power ruled the islands for nearly 200 years, as a huge war started elsewhere in the world the people of the Taliosian islands began their revolution. They use a newly developed technology, known as airplanes, to sink every ship in the harbor, and proceed to chase this forgein power away.
At this time their history was mostly lost and the Name Talios came up in the modified history, given to them by the occupires, as an evil man who did everything he could to hurt anyone. They disided that if this power hated them, he was their ally, and they name their country after him. It wasn't revealed Talios true nature untill much later, when it was too late for anything to be done with out making alot of people angry.
Geography:
Taliosa is mainly based upon 2 large islands, each with about 500-900 square miles of habitable land area. Surrounding the two main islands are hundreds of smaller islands and a number of medium sized, with a total of about 800 square miles of habitable land area. It is belived that this huge chain of islands was once a much large island, with about 4000 square miles of land, but the island sunk, for whatever reason, and left behind this chain of islands.
Because of this the waters around Taliosa are very calm and shallow, creating great beaches and a very warm steady climate. It also has winds that arn't very stable, which means that storms hit this island chain alot, but the islands are also watered on all sides, unlike most, where the rain comes only from one direction.
Culture:
The Taliosian culture is very biusness like, it is typicly considered rude if you endage in small talk when you should be talking biusness or something else. Like wise, if you start talking biusness when simply hanging out with friends it's rude. Their standered greeting is "Fly high," and respond with, "Higher for you."
Although a number of religions have attempted to moving onto the Taliosian islands, none have gained a real foot hold. Most Taliosians considered relgion to be a waste of time, and have no real point. Because of this, they also don't like it when people use religion as an excuse for their actions.
There are a number of different languages in Taliosa, mainly branches off of the main language, which doesn't have a true name, but is oftenly refered to as 'Taliosian.'
Lots of Taliosians have pets, but not like other counties think. In most house holds there is some kind of bird that randomly flies around inside, it is trained, but some more then others. I the majority of houses the bird is simply trained to go out side when it has to... you know, where as some have the bird trained better then a dog.
Government:
The Taliosian government revolves around a number of counsils, starting from the lowest, being a city counsil, and going to the highest, the High Counsil. The Counsils are made up of the smartest and wisest of the people. To get to a higher counsil level the members have to spend at least half a year in every lower level, and be voted upon moving up by both the higher counsil and the one they are in at the time.Because of this, the general population dosn't have much of a reason to worry about politics and stuff, since the counsils take care of it.The counsils also serve as the judicial branch, hearing cases and deciding on the best action to take.
Military Structure:
The Taliosa military has 4 branches. The biggest one is the Air Force, the next biggest is the Space Force, then Ground Battle Force and Sea Patrol Force.
The Air Force includes anything which can maintain flight within the atmospher of the planet. It has a number of aircraft which are capable of space flight, and spacecraft capable of air flight, making it, by far, the largest branch of the Taliosa armed forces.
The Space Force was established as a transport branch, between one planet and the next. Although Taliosa does have the power to fight wars in space, they prefer to do so in the atmospher of a planet, since they are much more adept at fighting there. As such, Taliosa space ships are typicly very big and kind of slow. But their Sub-space jump technology (bought from another nation) does allow them to jump very quickly around, since gravity has no effect on it.
The Ground Battle Force is mainly there to provide protection to Taliosa cites, since they don't get much action sitting on the island. They do have some paradrop forces that are very well trained, including tanks that are very menuverable.
The Sea Patrol Force was origonaly made like the Space Force is now, to transport things from one island to the next. But the Air Force took that over, so now they are simple like the coast gaurd, mainly helping out in rescues and drug interdiction.
Forgein Policy:
Taliosa is very open, to a point. They like to have friends, and are very good trading partners. On the down side, if you lose their trust, it's very difficult to get it back, some would say that it's impossible. This may not be true, but it would take countless millions to re-earn their trust.