Alexandrian Ptolemais
07-11-2007, 00:54
OOC: I have decided to start up a role play based on a war in a post World War II environment. As said above, it is based in the 1940s/1950s, so please keep the technology to items that would have existed back then, however, this conflict will not involve nuclear weapons. Also, please nothing too large in terms of an army, we do not really want million man armies now, do we? Think of this war as being similar to the Korean War. There are basically two sides, you can either be allied with the Empire, or allied with the Republic of St. Pius. Alright, now onto the action
IC: Benjamin Pierce was sitting in his train carriage at Wakefield Station, waiting for all the formalities to occur. At this time, it marked the end of main line electrification and meant an hour long wait for the electric locomotive to be shunted away and a steam locomotive to be hooked on. He looked out the doors to his compartment and saw that it was a beautiful day, a beautiful day in 1947. It seemed odd that after seeing all the bloodshed of the Second Great War, that he was so willing to be carted off to war again.
The new war had been caused by a very unstable political situation in the Empire's Southwest and had been exascerbated by the involvement of the Empire in the Second Great War. You see, at the time, St. Pius island was divided into two; the County of St. Pius, ruled by the Empire and the Republic of St. Pius, an independent nation that consisted of the northern part of St. Pius island and the island of St. Pierre. New rulers had come into control of the Republic of St. Pius and they were staunchly Catholic and they thought it was their job to regain their lands that had been so violently taken some decades before.
You see, the island was originally ruled by the Republic of St. Pius in its entirety; however, a war nearly a century earlier over fishing and whaling rights had meant that the island had been split in half, politically and what some would say economically divided. The Republic was the true representation of a poor nation; its economy was still heavily reliant on fishing and much of the nation still used gaslamps as their primary source of lighting. The County, on the other hand, had benefitted from Imperial rule; a couple of shipyards and other basic industry was the source of most employment and much of the province had access to electricity and even modern telecommunications. The only thing missing was decent transport links into the interior, however, much of the County was linked by a tram system which carried man and freight.
The rulers of the Republic saw with jealously how their southern cousins had progressed and wanted to take it back; they made dozens of incursions over the border during the Second Great War and had discovered that the heavy garrisons of old were no longer in existence; at most, ten thousand troops were stationed in the County, and at any rate, it would take three weeks for reinforcements to arrive from the mainland. So, they had invaded the County and were slowly taking it over, piece by piece.
The Empire knew that it had to retain its territory and it knew that this had been a declaration of war. Benjamin Pierce sat and thought about all the circumstances that had come to this as his train was finally ready to go. The guard blew a whistle and the pair of CH class Hudson (4-6-4) locomotive started to pull the long train toward Alexandria and the three week voyage that the troops would have to endure before arriving at St. Pius.
IC: Benjamin Pierce was sitting in his train carriage at Wakefield Station, waiting for all the formalities to occur. At this time, it marked the end of main line electrification and meant an hour long wait for the electric locomotive to be shunted away and a steam locomotive to be hooked on. He looked out the doors to his compartment and saw that it was a beautiful day, a beautiful day in 1947. It seemed odd that after seeing all the bloodshed of the Second Great War, that he was so willing to be carted off to war again.
The new war had been caused by a very unstable political situation in the Empire's Southwest and had been exascerbated by the involvement of the Empire in the Second Great War. You see, at the time, St. Pius island was divided into two; the County of St. Pius, ruled by the Empire and the Republic of St. Pius, an independent nation that consisted of the northern part of St. Pius island and the island of St. Pierre. New rulers had come into control of the Republic of St. Pius and they were staunchly Catholic and they thought it was their job to regain their lands that had been so violently taken some decades before.
You see, the island was originally ruled by the Republic of St. Pius in its entirety; however, a war nearly a century earlier over fishing and whaling rights had meant that the island had been split in half, politically and what some would say economically divided. The Republic was the true representation of a poor nation; its economy was still heavily reliant on fishing and much of the nation still used gaslamps as their primary source of lighting. The County, on the other hand, had benefitted from Imperial rule; a couple of shipyards and other basic industry was the source of most employment and much of the province had access to electricity and even modern telecommunications. The only thing missing was decent transport links into the interior, however, much of the County was linked by a tram system which carried man and freight.
The rulers of the Republic saw with jealously how their southern cousins had progressed and wanted to take it back; they made dozens of incursions over the border during the Second Great War and had discovered that the heavy garrisons of old were no longer in existence; at most, ten thousand troops were stationed in the County, and at any rate, it would take three weeks for reinforcements to arrive from the mainland. So, they had invaded the County and were slowly taking it over, piece by piece.
The Empire knew that it had to retain its territory and it knew that this had been a declaration of war. Benjamin Pierce sat and thought about all the circumstances that had come to this as his train was finally ready to go. The guard blew a whistle and the pair of CH class Hudson (4-6-4) locomotive started to pull the long train toward Alexandria and the three week voyage that the troops would have to endure before arriving at St. Pius.