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All Glory to the Shananshah!
Played on Regent with 16 on a huge map with pangean continents and lots of water.
The great Persian Empire began its existance in the fertile plains of the northeast end of the Home Isle, north of the Zulu Desert and just off the coast of Pangea. During these first years our forefathers spread to all of the Home Isle that was not infested with barbaric Zulus who had not yet learned of the might of Ahura Mazda. One of our first explorers was even able to penetrate the wilds of the Western Plains where a small outpost of the Babylonian Empire, which was centered south of the Zulu desert, just across from the French Channel.
The Three Empires dwelled entirely peacefully on the Home Isle. The Shahanshah's training of countless Immortals was merely to ensure his protection from the plots of the unspeakable Shaka. But then traitors in the city of Samaria decided to forsake their rightful ruler for the filthy Zulu chief. Such treason could not go unpunished and the Immortals marched forth. They crushed the pathetic Impis and tore three cities from Zulu tyranny, great deeds were done in that war and the Crown Prince Cyrus himself proved himself in the final conquest of the war. Fed by Zulu blood a great golden age flowed over the Empire, and the Second Prophet did speak with the golden words of Ahura Mazda himself and revealed to the people of our destiny and our right to make all bow before the us and the Shahanshah.
To fulfill our destiny, the Shahanshah again called forth the immortals, and again the plains of the western continent and the borders of the Zulu Desert ran red with the blood of the Impis and three more cities acknowledged the ultimate authority of the Shahanshah. Yet another Crown Prince, Darius, proved himself in this war and no sooner had the blood of the Impis died than he built up the glorious Sistene Chapel in Intombe to give a monument to the greatness of Ahura Mazda that has only been surpassed by Bach Cathedral in Persepolis.
But while Darius built, envious fuedal lords conspired against the Shahanshah and traitorously deposed him and institued a Republic in defaince of all Persian tradition. The incompetant fuedal lords marshalled the Immortals for a third war against the stinky Zulus, but due to the displeasure of Ahura Mazda at their crimes against the Shahanshah they were only able to conquer two Zulu cities.
When began the Age of Corruption, when the fuedal lords ruled over the land. Some way that it was a time of science and progress but their ears have been filled by vile slander. The only truely good thing that came of this time was that true Persians, ashamed by the conduct of the Lords, took it open themselves to bring the words of prophesy to the unconquered Zulus, in city after city, Ahura Mazda's glory rained down and the Zulus revolted against their chiefs and acknowledged Persian superiority. Meanwhile on Pangea a dizzying series of coalitions succeaded in destroying the Aztecs, Germans, and Russians but such squabblings of barbarians is of little importance to our account.
The Age of Corruption ended when a Babylonian emissary was overheard making lewd allusions to the Persians' fondness for well-bred horses. Even the most degenerate of the fuedal lords would not stand for this and donned armor and lances and bore down upon the Babylonians in a great host. City after city fell before Persian arms, but due to the gross incompetance of the fuedatories Babylon and Nineveh were allowed to revolt time and time again which slowed down the course of the conquest greatly, but in the end all Babylonians either aknowledged the rule of the Persians in this world, or the rule of Ahura Mazda in the next world.
But while the fuedal lords were fighting and dying flabby merchants who could now even lift a sword inflamed the rabble with vain words of "equality," "freedom," and other such ridiculous prattle and thus the Age of Anarchy began. The "Democrats" feared the surviving Lords and thus they put guns in their hands and sent them to eliminate the last pathetic vestiges of the old Zulu Empire, which was so degenerate that it was brought to heel in a single campaign season. The Lords were then ordered to remain and rule the Zulus. There are even more who spread lies of the wealth of the Age of Anarchy then there are those who lie about the Age of Corruption, they speak of such things as the construction of the railroad, but what do they know of the disgraceful terms that the Democrats agreed to in order to secure Chinese coal?
In the last years of the Age of Anarchy the Democrats grew jealous of their authority and exiled the descendents of the old fuedal lords to the Egyptian Isle, while they began to construct tanks to guard their own authority. Even with the aid of their artillery train the conquest of the onion-eating Egyptian scum was slow, for the cowardly democrats did not send them tanks to assist them and instead mouthed cowardly words about the need for defending the Home Isles against potential invaders. Enraged by this disgrade of Persian honor the people rose up and the true seed of the Shahanshah came amoung the people and lead them against the Democrats. For years the homeland was wracked by civil war and cities starved as the Democrats sabotagued farm production rather than give up their unrighteous power, but finally the seed of the Shahansha was victorious and the Age of Restoration was declared in which all would be brought under the authority of the Shahanshah who would rule for the benefit of Ahura Mazda and the proletariat.
Immediately a relief fleed was dispatched to help crush the Egyptians and soon after another fleet was launched against the English, who were foolish enough to tie themselves to the Egyptians in their doom. Tragically the opportunistic Indians of the East and Indians of the West, citing some strange things calling "mutual protection pacts" with the old Democrat government annexed the English before the Persian fleet arrived! So, the fleet was redirected to the smelly oily Greeks who were even then desperately defending their isle from colonizers from China, India, Rome and America who had fought the Greeks for centuries but due to their lack of faith in Ahura Mazda were only able to conquer a few palty northern cities. But when the Army of the Restoration landed on Greek soil the oily ones groveled before them and their cities fell.
Ahura Mazda smiled on the glory of the Restoration, and even the barbarian nations of Pangea did recognize the glory of him and the people and Shahansha who are his instrument. And so they gathered in Zimbabwe, the old Zulu capitol where the Shahanshah had built a monument to unity of all peoples under the wisdom of the Empire, and proclaimed him their master, or "Secretary General" as the barbarians call it. And there was not a knee that did not bow to the Shahansha, all glory to him!
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