Empire of the Rising Sun

[Dom Pedro II]

In the year 4000 BC, in the great river valley of Japan, the Japanese civilization came into being with the foundation of the city of Kyoto. The Japanese people had a culture founded on militarism and a strong religious base, and their rituals for burial of the dead were far advanced in the region, and they had a very early concept of the wheel. In 3800 BC, Emperor Tokugawa ordered the construction of a great northern road into the savage lands for the purposes of future exploration and colonization. It was on this expedition that the Japanese pioneers found the northwest coast of their vast continent. By 3200 BC, Japan was moving to the southeast and making acquaintances with the smaller tribes who taught them the secrets of Mysticism.

In 2750 BC, the coastal city of Osaka was founded. The location was chosen out of strategic necessity. The region had an abundant supply of horses and animal pelts that Japanese settlers saw as too lucrative to pass up. By 2390 BC, a road was joining the two cities together. Japanese scouts soon began to discover more about the vast lands left to explore. In 2700 BC, Tokugawa ordered scribes to begin making detailed maps of the surrounding territories. Japan was situated on the northwest of the continent. In the heart of the land lay a vast mountain ranges stretching all the way to the east coast. Japan occupied a pocket of coastal lowlands that extended for several hundred miles to the south.

All was not peaceful however. The Incan tribe in the eastern lands began raids on the Japanese villages but were soon subdued themselves by Japanese warriors. Japanese noblemen in the farm villages in the east began making demands to Emperor Tokugawa to provide more protection against the Barbarian hordes in the uncivilized realms. This began a long policy of extermination, and the Japanese soon conquered the Cherokee and Aryan tribes, but found friends with the Mongol and Hsung-Nu Tribes. This clearing of the land would pave the way for future settlement.

Over the next few thousand years, the Japanese moved further east settling the cities of Tokyo, on the banks of the Yamato River, Edo, at the foothills leading to the great mountain range, Satsuma, located in the great northern forests, Kagoshima, resting high on the Continental peaks, Nara, in a pass of the Continental mountains, Izumo, nestled in a sandy river valley between several mountain ranges, and eventually the island city of Nagasaki in 730 AD. Technology developed rapidly in the Japanese empire and before long the advances of Literature and Philosophy were among the many new technologies. The city of Osaka completed the Great Lighthouse and Kyoto finished the Great Library.

In terms of foreign relations, Japan soon discovered it was not alone on this continent. Bordering them were the scattered city-states of the American Empire in the east. Farther to the south was China and on the southern coast of the continent was the great Indian civilization. For many years, the Japanese got along with their neighbors, but in the year 650 AD, relations between the Americans and Japanese soured. After unsuccessful negotiations in which the over-confident Abrahalm Lincoln began requesting huge tributes from Japan, tensions began to heighten. When Tokugawa refused to pay the ransom, America declared war.

Expecting a speedy war against an inferior foe, Tokugawa mobilized a small force for an offensive on the city of Chicago located in the heart of the great continental mountain range. Instead of a small American token force, a great horde poured over the borders down over the mountains and into the Izumo valley. Swordsmen came by the thousands, and despite the valiant effort on the part of the Japanese military, the city soon fell. The Americans, however, soon learned that to take an enemy's city requires more than superior forces, and the citizens rebeled and rejoined their homeland.

It was not surprising that this had happened. Upon entering the city, Lincoln's forces had razed many of the fine buildings of the city. The numerous gold statues were put on wagons and hauled back to Washington. The city was put under martial law and guards patrolled the streets. The citizens of Izumo, who had for many years enjoyed the free life of a frontier city, now objected to this blatant government control. They were even more appauled by the desecration of their holy icons and monuments and the burning of their books. Naturally, a peasant force rose up and expelled their barbaric conquerors.

By this time, the Japanese had emassed a huge army just to the north of the town and now they were able to fortify the city securely. Battles raged on across the thousand-mile border, and it seemed the Japanese empire would soon be over-run. Horsemen, spearmen, and warriors of the Rising Sun battled the endless supply of American swordsmen fighting back the greatest invasion the ancient world had yet seen.

In the year 700 AD, Tokugawa made a deal that would assure the survival of his beleaguered country. He formed an alliance with the Chinese and Indians against the Americans. As the second front opened up, the Americans were forced to divert their troops to the south. With this diversion, Japanese forces were able to move unopposed into American territory. The city of Denver revolted against American rule and joined Japan.

Denver had long been a supporter of the Japanese. It was one of the closest cities to Japan, and it was very isolated from its mother country of America. Many Japanese immigrants had moved there over the years, and they brought with them the beautiful culture the Japanese had to offer. For the same reason that Izumo had longed so much to return to her homeland, Denver now decided that she belonged with this great nation.

The spearhead of the Japanese force meanwhile moved south to Chicago and quickly conquered it. As the forces came to the gates of Washington, the Chinese backed away from their alliance, and the Japanese made a peace offering to the Americans, which was readily accepted. Eager for peace, the Americans even gave luxury commodities, gold, and contact with other civilizations. India and America made peace soon after the fall of Cincinatti on the west coast.

Meanwhile, with the Great Lighthouse helping to make Tokugawa's navy the best in the world, a long age of exploration began. Starting with the foundation of Nagasaki, boats began touching on the new continents. A long thin continent near Japan was discovered. On it were the custered villages of Zululand. Then there were the large towns of the Russian provinces. The west coast held the Greek civilization, and the German realms were at the south of the continent. Two other large continents were discovered. One in the north was home to Rome and Egypt. The other immediately to the south had France and England.

In 1070 AD, the second large-scale war broke out in the world on the nearby continent occupied by the weak Zululand, and the moderately strong powers of Russia, Greece, and Germany. Greece and Russia were the first two countries to go to war with each other. In 1240, the Zulus declared war and invaded Russia from the north. Germany declared war on Russia in 1270. Greece, using its diplomatic savvy, signed an alliance with the Americans, and they too were soon in the war. Immigrants began appearing at the port city of Osaka to escape the constant fighting. These Russian and German migrants settled in the areas around Tokyo and became an intricate part of the culture there. Little Moscow became one of the great sectors of the city. Slowly the war dwindled down, and countries began dropping out until Germany and Russia were the last of the feuding powers. In 1360, the last Russian city of Kiev fell to the German army. When all was said and done, the Zulus had captured several of the northern cities, while several provinces had fallen into Greek hands. Germany received the southern portion of Russia. The Americans were greatly angered that they had received nothing for their efforts.

After the brief war with America, Japan entered a period of internal focus. Tokugawa began a period of fighting for power with the Japanese nobles. In an attempt to consolidate his authority over the Japanese provinces, the emperor declared himself the head of the Yamato Religion. He established an absolutist government and had the lands of numerous nobles seized.

As the new head of the church, Tokugawa began construction of temples, cathedrals, libraries, and religious universities in all of his cities. When he felt that the threats to his power were eliminated, he began a gradual process of democraticization. He established a Parliament in charge of taxation and appointed a cabinet. Two houses were created in the Parliament: one was the House of Nobles, the less powerful of the two, and the other was the House of the People, the more powerful. Tokugawa stocked his cabinet with middle class people and placed career politicians in the bureaucracy. He ordered all lands within Japan to be assessed and appraised according to value. All of the data collected between 1000 AD and 1450 AD were stored in the Great Library of Kyoto. In this time the Hanging Gardens, Sistine Chapel and Leonardo's Workshop were completed. In 1325, the great Golden Age of Japan began and lasted until 1425.

[Dom Pedro II]

For many years peace continued to reign across the world. The 1600s were a period of cultural and technological growth for all the great empires of the world. Japan's growth, however, was somewhat stunted. Most of the other countries in the world were blessed with vast expanses of land to develop. Even at the height of expansion, Japan had only captured a few American cities. Japan was now the most urbanized country in the world, but was entirely localized in the northwest of the Sino-Indo-American-Yamato continent with the exception of the 1-mile island of Nagasaki in an isolated part of a huge ocean. As a result, Japan soon began to fall behind in technology. Despite the Libraries and Universities in all of their cities, they could not compare with the huge populations of all of the other countries. Japan was thus forced to accept humiliating treaties of exchange for technology where more was probably lost than gained.

It is not surprising then that Japanese society in this period took an interesting turn. The populace became very eager for war so that they might expand their borders. The nobles of many areas began pushing for new expansion. Knowing full well that the Chinese empire was a force to be reckoned with, many looked to America for new expansion.

As it happened, the Egyptians, who held a mutual protection pact with Japan, declared war on the Americans. Shortly thereafter, a Egyptian frigate, the H.D.S. Horus was attacked and sunk by an American vessel. As news of the attack spread, the people of Japan clamored for war. The leading pro-war party argued that an enemy of Egypt was an enemy of Japan. Not surprisingly, Cleopatra soon sent an envoy requesting Tokugawa to declare war on America. Although eager to conquer the impudent Americans, he was also fearful because his army had not fought a war for many years. In fact, the most recent war with the Americans in the 1600s had been rather costly. Although this war had been where General Tojo made himself known, it had also been difficult to even capture the sole city of Seattle before demanding peace from the Americans. In the end, Tokugawa decided to take the risk, and on December 19, 1715, he went to the Japanese parliament and requested a declaration of war. A vote was passed 14-1 in favor.

Even as the war began, Tokugawa knew that support would be required. He thus went to the Chinese and requested an alliance against the Americans. Mao Tse Dung was reluctant to get into a war, but he agreed that he would, but it would cost Japan a sizeable portion of its treasury as well as several technologies and maps. Tokugawa agreed because he believed that China would successfully distract American troops allowing Tojo's forces to march straight into Washington. He would only realize too late however that the Chinese would do much more than distract.

The Chinese quickly made alliances with other countries and soon France, England, Zululand, and Greece had joined with Japan, Egypt, and China in the war against America. General Tojo rounded up his men and pushed into the American heartland moving onto the hills above Washington. There his artillery began a devestating shelling of the city. The bombardment continued for several weeks. When it was over, the city lay in ruins. The citizens who had not been killed fled in panic. All of the great libraries, museums, concert halls, and bath houses of Washington were nothing more than bombed out husks now. Sharpshooters dueled in the rubble hoping to turn the tide of the Battle of Washington. The Japanese troops waited impatiently outside the capital to move in, but they could not. The city was too well defended. Those ragtag troops were still in great numbers and held on dearly.

Gradually though their time ran out. More cavalry and infantry were brought up, and the bombing continued. Finally, Tojo was ready to make his grand thrust and sieze the city. One night, however, one of Tojo's officers awakened him and called him outside. Tojo grabbed a pair of field glasses and looked out down onto the devestated city. There was intense firing going on, but all of his men had returned to camp! What was this? Then he saw. The Egyptians had entered the city! Within a matter of hours, the battle was over and the city was lost to his own allies. The horses and men lying dead on the fortifications of the city were his, but his "friends" had moved in on the eve of his conquest almost entirely unopposed!

At home in Kyoto, Tokugawa was furious. He sent a letter to Cleopatra demanding an explanation. Cleopatra sent back a reply stating that: "Shogun, I am surprised that your own ambitions have gotten in the way of the grand goal of defeating the enemy. My generals saw that your troops had not yet taken the initiative of conquering the capital, so they finished the task. Be grateful that the job is done."

Realizing that his allies were worse than his enemies, Tokugawa sent own of his cavalry divisions to the city of Detroit in between his empire and the Chinese. The Chinese were already there in force but had not yet destroyed the city's defenses. Once they saw their oppurtunity, Japanese horsemen finished the last of the defenders and took the city before the Chinese could. This effectively ended the western theater of the war by removing the last American city in the region. Japan and China now had an entirely uninterrupted border running from Cincinatti (Chinese) and Baltimore (Japanese) to the newly captured city of Seattle (Japanese) and Hangchow. In the east, the demoralized troops of Tojo went north toward New York. In the far north, troops were moved in to stop American cavalry raids at Nara. The troops swarmed around Houston to stop the enemy raids and at the same time prevent the allies from driving into territory Tokugawa claimed as his.

At New York, the vanguard of the army arrived in force with all of the artillery in time to see the city fall to the Chinese. This move greatly alarmed the Japanese citizens. When reports that the Chinese had taken Boston and Los Angeles, no one was particularly concerned. They were the two most southerly American cities, but New York was far to the north. It was even farther north than Washington. For this city to fall meant that the Chinese might gain everything. A few months later, Houston was also taken. Franticly, Tokugawa dispatched all of his northern troops to the city of Miami to prevent its capture by anyone else other than Tojo. The city was already being bombarded heavily by the Roman, French, Chinese, Zulu, and Egyptian navies. The Japanese troops then turned toward the southern port of San Francisco nearly directly west of New York. It too was being heavily bombarded from the sea. Tojo allowed the ships and cavalry of his allies to weaken the city before he was going to make his attack. Instead, however, the Chinese burst through the defenses at the last moment and captured the city.
Even as Tojo's men made a dash to Miami in the far north, they could see the Chinese cavalry swooping down on Philadelphia which lay just north of San Francisco.

Tojo's cavalry closed off the roads to Miami, but Egyptian and Zulu horsemen were landed by ships off the coast. Still, Miami was a heavily-defended fortress city. It had strong infantry and was positioned on high hills. The Zulu and Egyptian armies could not take the city. Tojo's men arrived just before the Chinese. The Chinese attacked but were repulsed. Tojo threw everything he had into the city. His men used the mountain road that had been cut through the hills and then taking a secret path his scouts had discovered, surprised the American infantry. The allies watched as their prize fell into Japanese hands. The American civilization was thus brought to an end.

As the First World War (or the "Great American Grab Bag" as it was laughingly call in later years) came to an end, serious questions began to arise in Japan about who its friends were. Parliament demanded that Tokugawa destroy the age-old defense pact with Egypt, and he completely agreed. The Egyptians were startled, but did not challenge the move. Japan decided to turn inward, and a great military build-up began. The nation's first Military Academy was completed in 1780, and new armies were built thereafter. Still, Tokugawa had firmly established in his mind that the next war would be one Japan would not take part in.

It became clear that war would be on the agenda for some. The first period of prologued hostilities began when in 1820 Egypt declared war on Greece. In 1822, India signed an alliance with the Zulus against Germany. The Zulus declared war on Germany. Then the Zulus signed an alliance with Egypt, and they joined the fight. Rome and Greece declared war on Germany that same year. In 1824, France and Egypt signed an alliance against Germany, and France was brought into the conflict. It seemed that "the Great German Grab Bag" was about to begin. In the same way that the entire world turned against America, it seemed to be doing so for Germany. But some guardian angel was looking over Germany...

In that same year, the Zulus abruptly declared war on India. In 1826, the Zulus signed an alliance with the Romans and they too declared war against India. Then the Zulus got China to enter the war on their side against the Indians. Tokugawa and the Parliament were delighted by this news. China and India were neighbors of theirs, and they were the two most powerful countries on the continent. Many in Japan were hopeful for years that they would exhaust themselves in endless war with each other, but war had never come between them. Now it had! It seemed that while the world went to war, Japan would push ahead culturally and technologically in an era of peace. When the dust settled, Japan would be the unquestioned ruler of the world without having fired a single shot.

It was, of course, naive for the Japanese to think that war would not come to them if they did not go to it. 1828 proved to be the year to change their minds. In 1822, they had signed a defense pact with the French, the French having been the only true ally in the war against America. Tokugawa assumed that the worst that could be expected was war with Germany who was too far away and too bogged down with enemies to be of any consequence to Japan. Almost to prove that point, France brought England against Germany. Even when Gandhi convinced Joan d'Arc to enter an alliance against Rome, Tokugawa was not concerned. Rome also was too weak and too far away to be of any concern to the Japanese. It was assumed that the Egyptians would finish their northern neighbors very shortly.

In late August, however, France and India signed a military alliance against China, Japan's powerful southern neighbor and the largest and most powerful nation on Earth. Panic spread throughout Japan as the reports came in. People feared that they had doomed themselves to another war, one they could very possibly lose. Tokugawa himself urged Queen Joan not to take such action, but she refused to listen. Parliament then hoped the defense pact could be cancelled, but it could not. Japan was bound to help France in a war with China if France asked.

Despite the many troop movements to secure rail lines and the Japanese rubber colony from capture in 1830, an eerie quiet prevailed. Japan had expected war to be brought to them by the beginning of the year, but it had not. Hopes that they would be spared were soon dashed. In late 1830, Joan d'Arc requested Japanese help. A movement was begun to rebel against the treaty by the growing pacifist party, but the old Japanese military elite looked to maintain their honor in the eyes of the world. Unfortunately, the Japanese Constitution had left a huge issue untouched thereby allowing the military to effectively over-ride the Japanese government. On the night when the vote for war was to be passed, twenty-three members of the Parliament (all pacifists) were simultaneously placed under arrest in different parts of Kyoto for minor offenses as they went to Parliament. As a result, they were not there to cast their votes. The declaration of war was swiftly pushed through Parliament before any chance to defeat it was given. The Chinese began a naval bombardment of Miami and Denver. Japan began a massive mobilization. Tokugawa would only fight a defensive war unless forced to do otherwise. Unfortunately, that same year, England declared war on Japan as well.

Japan secured a mutual defense pact with India and an alliance against China, but this might have proven to be a worse mistake. The Zulus attacked India that year, and Japan was forced into a war with Zululand who they had just secured a defense treaty with as well. The Zulus, who had never retreated from the region around Miami after the close of World War I began rampaging through the countryside. Tokugawa was enraged by this, and sent out his troops to deal with the Zulu raiders.

And so the Second World War rages on...

As it stands, India, France, Egypt, Japan, and Greece are on one side. Rome, Zululand, England, and China are on the other. Of course, these are loose interpretations of alliances since some of these countries on one side are at war with others on the same side. Who will win World War II?

[Dom Pedro II]

Japan was now in a war it had neither asked for nor welcomed. It was well-known that China was now the most powerful nation in the world. A fact that was only debatable before the First World War was now an established fact afterward. Furthermore, the Indian city of Cincinatti and the Egyptian city of Washington had both been conquerored by the superior Chinese forces.

Tokugawa knew it would not be easy. Immediately, he called Tojo and asked him what should be done. Tojo laid out a plan for the eventual conquest of China's American colonies. The plan would involve striking from the north where Chinese strength was weakest. Of course, the main priority was the defense of Japan, and that would be first and foremost in any further planning. Before the invasion army could be built, Japanese cities would have to be heavily fortified. After looking over the statistics, Tokugawa was horrified to see that his cities were far from well-defended. This was only proven after cavalry began invading his territory. Tokugawa was essentially put in the position of an improvised war. He was forced to recruit, train, and ship new divisions of infantry and cavalry off to battle as the enemy was approaching. There was never a standing army for very long, and his only hope was that very slowly his production would exceed his need.

Very slowly, this goal was accomplished. His cavalry began winning their battles against the invaders allowing the new infantry to be built. In the north, he held onto his rubber colony, which allowed him to continue the production of modern troops. The most frightening period in the history of this war was the near-fall of the city of Detroit, which had virtually no infantry when the war broke out. All troops had to be shipped down along roads since there were, in fact, no railroads that went that far south. When workers were sent to construct one, they were often captured by enemy raids. Perhaps even more frightening was the cavalry invasion that penetrated as far as Tokyo before being destroyed by Japanese horsemen fighting them in the mountains.

In order to divert attention away from the Japanese homeland, Tojo made a bold move. Taking two of his best corps up into the north that had only just recently been cleared of the Zulu raiders, Tojo made a daring assault on Philadelphia. The campaign was short, and the city fell swiftly. Taking it was the easy part. Holding it would prove to be far more difficult. The Chinese navy steamed unopposed to the coast of Philadelphia and brutally shelled the city. Without any sort of a navy, Tojo's men could do nothing but sit and hold on. The massive Japanese force did discourage any attacks by Chinese land forces who continued their merciless attacks into Japanese territory.

When the Chinese ambassador refused to acknowledge the Japanese diplomats, Tojo decided the war must go on. Directly west of Philadelphia lay the city of Houston. This would be where Tojo would make his next attack. Sending only one corps, he moved in. Other troops came in from the west, and artillery bombarded the city from the north. After a short siege, the city fell.

Successes in the east were equally matched by the successes in the west. When the war had broken out, Tokugawa landed a small token force of one cavalry division and one infantry division with artillery support by boat on a mountain near occupied Cincinatti. Though never intended to be a real fighting force, the artillery began the bombardment of the city. Surprisingly, it was revealed that the city was only lightly defended. After a few days of shelling, one attack from the cavalry division destroyed the infantry holding the city. After a reinforcement of a second infantry division replaced the first on the mountain to guard the artillery, the first infantry occupied the city and fortified itself. Despite several cavalry attacks, the city held.

All of this, however, had not yielded the desired effect. China continued to fight and refused to allow negotiations. It was only when a massive invasion force appeared on the doorstep of New York that Mao was finally willing to sign an armistice with Tokugawa. Mao readily accepted Tokugawa's offer of peace under the idea that all territory taken would be held and that no further demands would be made. Thus, these belligerents ended their fighting. After several more years of war without fighting, Japan managed to sign treaties with the Zulus, Romans, Greeks, and English ending hostilities with their nations as well. Japan then entered a period of brief peace...

[Dom Pedro II]

After the Japanese left the Second World War, other powers slowly fell out. By the late 1870s, it was had deteriorated into the Sino-Indian War. Tokugawa feared that the mighty Chinese forces would crush the Indians. He had already received reports that Kolhpur had been captured, and the city of Madras had been razed to the ground by an aggressive Chinese army. Indian refugees flocked over the border into Japan. On one occasion, a Chinese ironclad blasted a boat full of Indian refugees killing 543 people. The world was shocked and appauled by the cruel act. This precipitated many of the troubles that led China into continual war with other foreign powers.

In the 1880s, the war had taken a decidely different turn. The Indian troops in the south had now moved in force and the two cities were liberated, recaptured, and liberated again. Then several of the Chinese border cities fell into Indian hands. By 1912, the Indians had penetrated far into the north capturing the cities of Kaifeng, Chengdu, and Xinjian. In the south, they destroyed the city of Tsingtao, and captured Tientsin.

In that same year, Tokugawa finally decided that he needed to take action. For quite some time he had been wanting for coal. Despite all efforts, no country had been willing to give him a supply of coal. Thus all railroad construction had been brought to a halt. The railroad commissioners pleaded for a new supply. It was decided that Hangchow, just across the border from Seattle had to be taken. He quickly declared war and landed an expedition near San Francisco. An armored infantry division moved in force to Hangchow while three artillery batteries were placed near Boston. The enemy was able to capture the artillery, and a brigade was thus sent over the border into China to rescue them. The trip was successful, and a large army was sent in behind it. By 1918, San Francisco had been taken at great pains as had Boston. Hangchow fell after heavy bombing and battling with a full tank division. The city of Dallas with its vast diamond supplies high in the Chinese mountains fell after intense shelling by the second tank division. Peace was made soon thereafter.

Unfortunately, this action had opened Japan up to a number of embargos and declarations of war from foreign powers, but the Japanese were able to smooth things over diplomatically with all of the nations. Meanwhile, the Indians had decimated the Chinese fighting force. The Great Lion had become the Paper Tiger. The empire had dwindled to only a handful of cities. An Egyptian invasion force captured Chinese Los Angeles, and then took Chinese Atlanta. In 1967, Beijing fell to the Egyptians, and the great Chinese were no more. Instead their land had become colonies of greater empires, but an era of peace was close at hand.

[Dom Pedro II]

After appeasing the powers warring against him, Tokugawa began a movement for peace. After the destruction of China, many of the countries of the world were now looking for peace. It was decided to construct a new United Nations for the purposes of maintaining peace. First, a location would have to be decided on. Many of the countries of the world were currently locked in international alliances or in small-scale wars of their own. Egypt and France were ruled out after their tanks began a second offensive into Rome.

The Japanese city of Nara, in the great Continental Mountains (now renamed the Yamato Mountains since they no longer passed through any other countries) was a prime candidate. Japan no longer had any entangling alliances, and had been the least belligerent power to date. Japanese culture was also the mostly highly esteemed culture in the world. Immigrants flocked to that country in great numbers. It was decided then that Nara would be the site of the United Nations.

After its construction, elections were held for a Secretary-General to preside over the UN. Joan d'Arc received two votes, Tokugawa received three, and Cleopatra received two, and Alexander received one. After the destruction of Rome, Tokugawa began a new campaign for his election as the Secretary-General. He gave tremendous amounts of foreign aid to other countries, and signed passage rights with all of them. He opened new trade routes, and was very generous in donations to other countries.

At the next election in 1976, Tokugawa received four votes, and Cleopatra received three. Thus Tokugawa was declared the new Secretary-General of the world.


THE END

[Invasion]

I'm surprised that there are no other replies.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed the story very much. Your efforts were certainly appreciated by some.

I'm looking forward to the sequel!

inv

[Dom Pedro II]

Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad to know that somebody liked my post. Stay tuned for the Epic of Brazil. (different game from my Price of a Patriot story).

COMING SOON!

[Chronus]

Here's another reply:



Looking forward to the next one!

[Herder]

Thank you for writing that story Dom Pedro. That was very entertaining and I enjoyed it very much.

Excellent job and I hope you write for a living because if not, you're definitely missing your calling.

[Dom Pedro II]

Actually, I am planning to pursue a career in writing. I have written several manuscripts that I am in the process of trying to get published. Wish me luck!

[rugbyprop3]

good luck and a good story!!!

[Footie Mad]

Well done, dont take the lack of comments the wrong way, the traffic on this forum is frightenly low

[Dom Pedro II]

Yeah, I know. I haven't really posted compliments or criticism for other stories. I think I'll start doing that.

[King of Rasslin]

I hate to see the Americans be aggressive, though. I replaced Abe with Bush after they attacked me for no real reason in the ancient age

BTW the computer SOMEHOW only asks for a tribute when you are really weak or helpless. It knows when you are powerful somehow...

Although this forums isn't really popular, i found the story to be entertaining

Play as the Germans next time. I think they are so cool. And with corruption so insane at long, far away cities, i would only play normal or small maps because it is insane (and lag too) on huge maps.

I need a better computer, although i heard so many ppl have super computers that still lag really bad

Is it RAM or processor speed? I don't think a Nvidia card would make much of a difference...

Keep up the stories, it was better than most "classic" book you are made to read in school

[Khab]

Originally posted by King of Rasslin
I need a better computer, although i heard so many ppl have super computers that still lag really bad

Is it RAM or processor speed? I don't think a Nvidia card would make much of a difference...

It's neither. It's something about the code, presumably the trade matrix from what I hear.
I've got a Tbird 1,333 w/ 512 megs of DDR-ram and a gF2 mx400/64, and I get slow-downs now and then (although not very bad, considering what others with good specs are getting).

If we're lucky, the patch'll help. If not... I guess we wait for the next patch.