A Tale of Heroes

For When You Return Day 254,582 I'm in the New World once more. My voyage was from Asia this time, the Great Qing mainly. My hopes had remained that they'd slow the conquests after gaining Taiwanfu, but I should know better. They war with the Dzungar now, I hear the rumours that an army of eighty thousand marches north to continue the conflict. No matter. It was time to move on. As to where I now stand... It's a port town, the locals say, though the total volume of ships that I have seen in the past two weeks tell me it's anything but. It's a natural harbor, I've realized. The Dutch and the British came to conflict over it a mere 50 years ago, with the latter standing victorious, as it so often tends to do, though it did so at a price. One of ours stood against them, and as he fell, he took the Duke of York with him. The region is part of the River Colony now, though I hear that they are causing their masters much trouble. The town, more of a city now, grows fas...

How Crete functioned as a nation, in the wake of the Andalusian defeat and the Monarchs' Conquest: The King and Queen, for all of their vaunted ability as fighters and tacticians, could only be considered, in the kindest possible interpretation, as passable administrators or economists when they took over Crete (though the Queen did eventually find a knack for it and became an above-average state manager, while the King was forced to as well by the Queen's eventual inability to rule directly). While it is true that Crete's coffers were plentiful during the takeover, thanks mostly to the constant raids, the plentiful trade, and the support of other Arab communities to the Andalusian rulers, this didn't present the newly minted monarchs with many ideas on how to enrich the nation. The Queen was evidently against expeditionary raids, and the proposition of slave workers turned the advocate for it into two cleanly divided advocates, their choices were few, and most of them ...

11/25/2013 Laura Coltello History of Political Ideas On the Formation and Development of the Revolutionary and Liberation Parties of America. 1929-1930s: The Whispers of Dissent The early decades of the 20th Century had been turbulent ones, not only for America, but for the world at large. World War I, the biggest armed conflict in modern history, had laid claim to millions of lives. The Ottoman Empire, once the specter of the Mediterranean, collapsed on itself, the rotten foundations that had held it no longer able to support the corpse’s weight. The Russian and German Revolutions, too, heralded a massive change in the stability of Northern Europe. Where the Cretan Republic had established itself as hegemon of the Mediterranean, the rest of the continent was taking, and observing, the first steps that would eventually lead to a deadly match that would soon encompass every corner of the world.  But, for now, let’s re-focus back home. The United States of America, the undisputed rul...

Timeline of Crete, a major power of the Mediterranean. First Years of the Nation. 938- The Blitz Queen is born. 939?- The Broken King is born. 957- The King and Queen meet, they were "adventurers" in this period. Helping displaced war refugees, slaying powered people who took advantage of others, serving in the holdings of Doux and Counts of the Byzantines. This is where you begin to see the issues between the Monarchs and the Byzantines. The Queen was never above hearing about some work that needed to be done, then showing up to the place and doing whatever she wanted. 959- The first preparations for a Byzantine reconquest of Crete are taken, but the sudden death of Constantine VII means it falls to Romanos II, who can't kick it off until late 960 due to general instability. 960- The King and Queen hear of the upcoming invasion, and sign up to join it. Reasons are unclear to the world at large, but it's a good guess that it was the Queen who suggested it. ...