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== Realpolitik ==

;Scattered ideas to be formalized alongside the DLU, soon. (4-25-25)

*The overhaul your mother warned you about. Bigger, better and more ambitious than it rightfully should be, yet it is.

{{Center|1=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlP8B0KrJxk It's]}}

#A Man, A Wife and their "Leviathan"

#A Classy Cacti  

#Farmer Follies

#Mishap at Mirage

#Distant Sisters (and their squabbles)

#I'm In No Mood!

:*The above topic is one of the foundational reasons for the mod's existence. The world is entirely encapsulated within the Realpolitik time-domain which is designed to meticulously iterate the world with respect to any action throughout the mapspace.  

:*In other words we know there are SEPARATE TABLES involved in the ongoing Shek Civil War taking place at the game start distant to but running concurrently with the War in Bast. While a wholly different conflict in form it acts as one of the critical conditions affecting the course of the War in Bast. Its own conclusion can drastically alter the behaviors of the many involved factions in the northern conflict...

=====[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGTD7azzWk The Northern Plague]=====

:''Why? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRwijpJqLUw Why is this happening to us?] What have we done...''

:''Judgement comes for the wicked...and for the innocent. IT IS WRITTEN!''

:''Another drink, please. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EGTD7azzWk The silence is starting to get to me...]''

;The emergence of sleeping sickness, the lost frontier and end of northern exploration.

:Something's...wrong.

:And it got me wondering.

:What makes a man rise with the sun?

:<big>'''Sleeping Sickness'''</big> is a dialogue-activated, state-controlled, town & spawn area level event which follows the Cannibal Invasion, specifically due to continued minor faction presence throughout the northern sphere.  

:It takes advantage of two main systems to create the effect

:#Heavily altered AI-packages intensifying in their "effect" over the course of the event

:#Dialogue-induced behaviors reminiscent of fainting, narcolepsy and various delirious or confused states of being

Fully tested and shown working as of '''5-1-25'''. Operation thereof to be woven into the eventual DLU update.

=====[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQwdbrsgpo The Guild]=====

:*''I was born into a world at war. Never has the nation found peace. The home I was raised in is a charred ruin. The sister I loved lost to starvation. My parents... All for what?''

:*''Set aside your worries. When we win, and we will, such concerns will be a thing of the past. We do not intend to return to the way things were.''

:*''It's not us or them. Empire is inevitable. Its embrace cannot be denied. The heart and soul of mankind yearns for its arrival.''

:The nail that wouldn't be hammered down. The faction that caused the calamity and set the stage for the modern world. Both protagonist and antagonist, their agency and effect upon the world is the suppressed element absent since the fall. The Guild threatens to overturn not just the status quo. Everything set in stone in the absence of the Second has been challenged by the rise of the merchants. The major powers spin wildly along the path towards their self-destruction as the old edifice is torn apart by the eccentric sun demon spirit made manifest. All power gravitates into the driving force of focused chaos. Change...is good. Change... is necessary. It's not enough. It's never enough. Why settle? Why accept less? Not for us. Not this time. This time...we decide.

=====[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R5y-IkNYhs War by way of Deception]=====

The Imperial grand strategy is intentionally obtuse and difficult to parse. By many accounts (and especially external assessment) they appear to be operating from a position of weakness, increasingly so. Through conversation with the embedded influence network does a different reality come into view...

:This perceived weakness is manufactured (to some extent). The conflicts engaged with are sought or measured for their merit.

:United they stand, divided they fall. You only need glance at a map to identify the nature of the dilemma.

:As the 62nd has shown - there is no time or place to parley with the unreasonable. No better to have boneheads on your doorstep. It's all or nothing.

;The imperials are not trying to take over the island, per se. <big>They are trying to survive... even if it means at the cost of their neighbors.</big>

:Controlled pressure is the name of the game! A singular war front results in a stalemate... this much is known.

:Top down. Bottom up. Sustained. Sporadic. Expected and unexpected. Flag-bearing and freelancing. Anything goes!

:#Northwest is where the light leaves us entirely. Beyond the mountains is nothing to be found for the faithful. Desolation.

:#The core holds steady though the cracks can be seen if one scrutinizes ever so slightly. The Okranite strength is in their centralizing nature.

=====[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW8YlNsMzno The Sin of Pride]=====

:''He who controls the heartland shall only know peace!''

=====[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev2iEY2hY-0 River Valley Treaty]=====

:There is a net greater chance in terms of overall available possibilities that the Holy Nation may be destroyed than it remain standing. The mod embraces this concept by creating a large set of events which whittle away at and attempts to "allow entry" of other factions into the Okranite lands. The layout of the map and factions compels action to occur throughout the central portion of the map. While it is entirely possible a player aligns with the HN and no (serious) degradation of the HN takes place at the hands of the rolling events and other factions.

:#Protection of the River-Valley and specifically denying access to it. Okran's Pride is '''the most valuable real estate on the island'''.

:#Protection of the Central Corridor for the sake of maintaining the above two. Creating a frontier in flux - it arises out of found want, not inherent need.

===[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpx9JStb1ko To the Temples]===

:Academic Okranism has passed down to him the role he inhabits, the hows and whys of what has lead to it and shines a light upon the flawed results in can create.

:The Phoenix is not a bad person per se. Okranism itself is decaying. This is embodied through the social malaise spreading throughout the heartland territories.

:The question...must be asked. What's causing this? If not the Phoenix, from where does the rot originate?

:We're compelled to look to the factors which traction against the Okranite social fabric. The Phoenix helps us with this through his varied priorities, perspectives & reactions. What we find is a man chasing very real ghosts. The framing the Okranites elect (or by instruction) to ascribe to their varied concerns colors some of the key reasons as to why there is credence to the notion of outside imposition.

===[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFyzhyBA7To Compulsion to Commerce]===

=====[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1OYg0GSjo8 Third Empire]=====

*''Ideas cannot be killed. Try as we might they resurface with a persistence which bends the limits of patience. This time it's too late. Perhaps it always has been. They'll have to decide for themselves.... Whether or not they want to...''

::#Arrival of second and third waves

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===[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuPtOmeq_vA Permanent Government]===

:''Long have I lived yet and still this goes on. The changing faces and hands... A constant current eroding away the very foundation.''

:*''Peace of sorts will come to the river valley but will be short lived. There will be big promises of more imperial weapons flowing into the region and beyond to further this endeavor. Imperial troops will be used to monitor the peace. In time...''

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==[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEmtfA8FETc Speak Without Words]==

:''That seems unlikely. Right...?''

:''Has he sent us another gift?''

:''Avalanches above...yet the calm and quiet continues...''