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The 1st 1007 Conclave of the Parishes
Fears and tension caused by the chaos across the Griffonian continent over the last 40 years have finally come to a head in Sicameon. The two houses of our legislature, the Tribunal Urbes and the Parratoria, have come together to grant our previously highly decentralized national government more power than it has ever wielded before. How should we proceed?
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The Midoria Plan
Named for the greater level centralization it entails, its' favor with the city tribunes and spearheaded by the Tribune of Midoria Remige Plumar, this plan proposes a radical empowerment of our central government as desired by the PIS-R. While it would shake our national tradition of placing personal liberty above all else, the radicals insist that we must vest this power to have a hope of maintaining at all.
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The Leve Plan
Named for the conservative approach to centralization favored by the moderate PIS-M and the majority of the parroquias, this plan proposes a more graduated approach to empowering our central government, to prevent potential abuses of power. The overall weakness of the government as prescribed in the Carta Federal is to balance the power between the parishes and capitol, this balance can be maintained.
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Pursuing Aggressive Foreign Policy
An aggressive, proactive foreign policy is vital to the Midoria Plan. Long have we sat back and been a responsive force rather than taking initiative in our foreign affairs.
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Sweeping Executive Power
A strong central government in Midoria is both vital and viable in this coming age. With telegraph and telephone wires and radio, we no longer are forced to rely on deferring to the Parishes for many issues, and thus we can direct the nation much more efficiently.
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 The Midoria Plan
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Checks and Balances
By creating a complex system of where the legislature, the dux, and the federal courts can counteract each other if one steps out of line, we can ensure that no one part of our national government will be able to seize all power, while unanimously beneficial decisions will always pass through.
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 The Leve Plan
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Defensive Foreign Policy
Contrary to what is believed within the PIS-R, a defensive foreign policy is still viable. We should be willing and open to approach nations that we previously have been on tense terms with to secure allies, rather than rattling the saber with demands.
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Dux, Commander-in-Chief
The Dux historically has been nearly a ceremonial post, acting as a mere advisor to the legislature, as our national representative to foreign powers, and as the symbolic supreme commander of the militias. Our national executive's responsibilities should be expanded to be a more decisive force.
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The Midoria Plan
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Separation of Militia and Central Government
The parish militias have always been a distinctly locally managed institution. While we may introduce more strenuous standards and assist the parishes in funding and equipment uniformity, we should not interfere with the local defense forces unless the situation absolutely requires it.
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The Leve Plan
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A Standing National Guard
While we have not necessarily been without a national army, the Guardia Nacional de Sicameon has since its inception almost always been a small force, the sole exception being the Imperial Invasion of 799 ALB. Laying the ground work for greater reliance on our professional military rather than the parish militias will be vital in this coming era.
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 The Guardia Nacional
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Integrate the Parish Militias
The defense of our nation has always relied on the common griffon willing to defend their home, but while valiant, the reliance on individual militias within each parish makes our a disorganized mess in both coordination and logistics. Integrating them into a standardized national system would make these local defense forces far more effective.
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The Federal Supremacy Clause
Our national government has always deferred to the parishes in the grand majority of affairs, each and every parish treated as the federal government's equal. By establishing the central government as the supreme authority, we can enforce far more consistent standards and uniformity.
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The Midoria Plan
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Rights of the People and the Parishes
The parishes and the griffons that live within each parish have fundamental rights that should be upheld, for the national government derives all power from them. While federal actions can be streamlined to increase their effectiveness, every griffon and every parish shall still have their say.
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The Leve Plan
 Inexperienced Bureaucracy
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A Strong Government, A Stronger Nation
While the voice of every parish and every griffon within them will still be valued and acted upon as they have always been, the long overdue establishment of a swift, supreme authority within our republic will finally allow us to truly contest the power of our neighbors and harness the true powers of our liberty.
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Inexperienced Bureaucracy
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Tradition Triumphs
The moderates win once again! Despite the only ever rising cries of the radicals, we have secured power in the now ever more important executive office with the incumbent Alexis taking the seat of dux again. However, work to unify our nation against the outside threats has only just begun. With bickering filling the Tribunal and the Parratoria, we must remind them what we all stand for.
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Divided Legislature
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More than a Peasant's Republic
The western Griffonian nations have long looked down on us for our egalitarian principles, and while we have accepted the title of 'peasant' with pride, it is time we show them we are more than that. We must rally our peoples again, the radicals, the corsairs, every Sicameonese griffon and show we are the herald of democracy, and we are not to be trifled with.
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 More Than Just Peasants
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Looking Outward
With our internal politics mostly secured, we can finally begin to reach out to our neighbors and begin acting in international affairs. The safety of our sovereignty depends on it.
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 Reaching Out
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Incorporating the Radicals
Despite their aggressive outlook, the radicals are still our brothers and sisters and share the same basic love of freedom as we do. Their ferocity is simply an untamed love of these ideals and our great republic, and it should be accepted.
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Unwavering Reason
The staunchest griffons within our ranks have often promoted a policy of Unwavering Reason in regards to the radicals, under no circumstances should we accept their rash and headstrong ideas. They will learn to understand and become more calm minded.
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Seperation of Faith and State
Despite the graciousness of Sycaecia and all the blessings she has granted our fair republic, there now needs to be a distinct seperation between Her temples and the government. We value Her word and advice, but it is ultimately up to the will of the people.
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Discrediting the Freeholders
The illegitimate menace that are the Freeholder Corsairs must end. While they masquerade behind masks of Hooded Robins, allowing such powerful homegrown activity to fester will only lead down a dark path of corruption. We must expose them for who they really are.
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Embracing the Blue and the Grey
Though the Freeholders are largely an illegitimate organization with deep criminal ties, they still are very much a part of Sicameonese history and still care deeply for their home country. Perhaps they can be legitimized and reformed into something better.
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A Red Defense Ministry
Naturally, we have found the best place for our radical brethren is in the armed defense of the federation. Many of our best officers are among their ranks, their passion will ensure we have a ready and able military.
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 Red Defense Ministry
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The Office of Naval Intelligence
Our naval intelligence officers have found that the seemingly bottomless depths of the Corsairs' connections are an incredibly valuable source of information. We've determined that an entire agency would be required to effectively and discreetly incorporate and utilize these underworld connections, thusly it will be handled by the new Office of Naval Intelligence.
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 O.N.I.
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United in Purpose
Through one way or another, we have reconciled the differences between the different groups of our federation. We stand together, united in purpose, to defend our liberties and our republic at any cost.
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 United in Purpose
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National Philanthropy
While the merchants of the Western Griffonian nations largely sit atop their accumulated wealth scheming only on how to acquire more of it, the merchant class of Sicameon have long held a tradition of outgoing charity. In this modern age, these traditions should be expanded to that of philanthropy: to eliminate the source of the issues and advance our nation as a whole, rather than only alleviating the suffering.
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 National Philanthropy
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The Citizen Soldier
The idea of the citizen soldier is an ancient one, spanning back to even before the Karthin Empire. We have maintained this idea to the modern day, if it comes down to it, every Sicameonese citizen is obligated to defend their republic, but at the same time it is a sound reminder to value every life lost in the line of duty.
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 Citizen-Soldiers
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Welfare for the Worker
The traditions of economic fairness and placing well-being over wealth are strong in our nation, but even these are susceptible to the rough ebb and flow of the market. Establishing a proper welfare system for times of economic recession should secure the well-being of both our people and our economy.
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 Worker's Welfare
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Jojo's Bizarre Situation
During the Wingbardy-Falcor War, there was a great deal of worry over the security of Sicameonese waters which came to a head over the tiny islands of Jo and Jo, which we occupied to protect the large Sicameonese population there and limit Wingbardian intrusion. If we want to successfully attempt to negotiate with the highly revanchist Falcor, we may need to take them into consideration.
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Appeasing the Bandit Queen
We have watched the chaos north of the mountains in the County of Blackhollow and witnessed Blackrock's brutality. Some of our diplomats believe that a confrontation should be avoided, and by getting on the Bandit Queen's good graces by offering an embellished olive branch before she comes seeking tribute, we can get in her good graces and use her as a roadblock between us and the chaotic Empire.
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Restore Order to Blackhollow
We have watched the chaos north of the mountains in the County of Blackhollow and witnessed Blackrock's brutality. Some of our army staff believe that a confrontation will be inevitable, and that this would be a valuable opportunity to test our army's mettle in the offensive. Further more, we could use the territory to prop up a buffer state or gain Griffonstone's favor to protect us from the Empire.
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Looking Further Outward
With our immediate neighbors more or less secured whether by force of arms or diplomacy, we can begin to look farther afield to support causes aligned with ours.
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Reaching Further Out
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Doing What the Minotaurs Can't
Somehow up to this point our Asterionese friends seem to have been either sluggish or unable to reclaim their mainland territories. It seems it will be up to us to restore liberty and democracy to our long oppressed minotaur brethren.
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Wingbardian Detente
Despite long being fellows under the ancient Karthin Empire, these past thousand years have put us at odds with Wingbardy, first as economic rivals during the confederation period, and then as military enemies when they were under the claw of the Grovers. With the Empire's collapse, perhaps now could be the time to start anew with the Jewel of the South.
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An Open Talon to Gryphus
We have fairly close ties to Gryphus, over the years their cities have been common ports of call for our merchants and many of them have settled there. They share our democratic and decentralized form of government which empowers local municipalities, and historically we have invested much in their development through the CCSG. In these uncertain times we should seek closer ties and work together.
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The Modern Earthworks Study
With the rise of mechanized warfare, most older forms of fortifications have become largely obsolete, and even the mighty Snowtops and Arahno Mountains are considerably less consequential. A nationwide project should be launched to study and then construct modernized fortifications for the continued defense of the federation.
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Skyfall's Greatest Commodity
Thanks to Skyfall's incredibly advantageous position between the most advanced nations in the world, naturally their marketplace is the ripest place to purchase technology. We should exercise our old trade connections with the city and show we are looking to buy, everything in Skyfall has a price.
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Recognizing the Griffonian Republic
During the original Republican Revolution we refrained from making any official statement about the Griffonian Republic, focusing on our quiet exit from the Empire and assisting our allies in Asterion. With our own republic now standing taller and stronger than ever before, it's high time for the first griffon republic to support the next.
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Investing in Our Eastern Twin
It has been far too long since we had lost control of the Compañía Continental del sur de Gryphus. While the company is largely self sufficient now, Gryphus has likely received significantly less capital to continue building up their infrastructure without our support. We should resume these efforts in earnest.
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Sending a Military Attache to the Republic
With new, friendly relations established with the leaders of the Republic, it's now possible to begin sending military support to the northern struggle. While it's infeasible to send a large force all the way north, we can send a contingent of our officers to advise in our potentially useful tactics, as well as learn from their war experience.
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 Sending a Military Attache to the Republic
With new, friendly relations established with the leaders of the Republic, it's now possible to begin sending military support to the northern struggle. While it's infeasible to send a large force all the way north, we can send a contingent of our officers to advise in our potentially useful tactics, as well as learn from their war experience.
Sicameonese Attache
Attrition: -5% Max Entrenchment: +3.0 Entrenchment Speed: +25%
Attrition: -10% All infantry: Movement Speed: +10%
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Guarding Our Sister Nation
We cannot stand idle for any longer. The continent is in complete chaos with ambitious warmongers, and many have their hungry eyes set on our sister nation. We must take up arms to protect her with all our might if griffon democracy is to continue to flourish in the southeast.
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The Vanguard of Democracy
Though it's impractical to send an actual portion of our army to assist in the wars of the north, we have amassed three divisions worth of volunteers willing to risk their lives in the name of a continental republic. We wish our vangaurd of brave young sons and daughters Sycaecia's blessings on the battlefields of the frigid north.
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The Red Cascades
The radicals win at last! We have finally overcome the long standing moderate status quo, with our valiant new dux Remige Plumar, now rightfully a de Sicameon, in the now incredibly important executive office. However, the waves of change have only just begun to rise, we must still defeat our moderate rivals in the Parratoria and the Tribunal if we wish to institute true syndicalism.
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Divided Legislature
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How to Handle the Moderates
Despite the celebration of our long awaited victory, a new debate has come to the forefront. The moderates, while our long standing rivals, are still fellow brothers and sisters. But one way or another, we have to convince them of our methodology... Do we approach with outstretched talon or a fist?
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Penalize the Moderates
We will continue as we always have with our moderate rivals, with aggression and zeal! While the middling members of our party believe this is too close to coercion, in the end it is for the good of unity.
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 Harmonic Penalties
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Might Will Make Right
One of our core principles and the one that the moderates always seem to find the most abhorrent, we believe it is through power and strength we will maintain liberty and freedom, and it is through might we will make them understand this philosophy.
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 Might Will Make Right
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Incentives for the Moderates
Perhaps showing our fellows in the moderates that we are not all hack and slash will be the most effective way to sway them to our side, particularly those who remain on the fence. We will bend if it means unity.
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Harmonic Incentives
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Reason Tempers Passion
Like how water tempers a blade, the reason of the moderate tempers the passion of the radical. Though the fiercest of us find this arrangement to be betraying our principles of strength, it is only together that we will maintain liberty and freedom.
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 Reason Tempers Passion
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The Divine Issue
Our party as a whole have long been particularly devout servants to Sycaecia and some of the more extremist elements of the Her temples have long been a part of our cause, but now that we finally have victory, our differences are beginning to show. Do we align the temples to us, or align ourselves to the temples?
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Dux, Supreme Pontiff
Since the foundation of the federation, the Dux has ceremonially served as the Supreme Pontiff of Her Temples, but the position has little to no power. This will change however as we move to exercise our authority over the temples, the Dux will have similar power as he does in executive office.
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 Dux, Supreme Pontiff
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Reorganizing the National Temples
For far too long the temples have largely been separate from our national government. We are all subject to Sycaecia's will, but the national importance of Her temples is too great to allow them to run unchecked.
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 Aligned the Temples
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Gaining the Blessing of Her Pontiffs
It is far too dangerous to tamper with Her temples, who have been distinctly apolitical since the founding of the federation. To interfere in the matters of Her temples would be asking for accusations of going against Sycaecia's will, seeking the blessings and support of the Pontificado is the much safer course of action.
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 Her Pontiffs' Blessings
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Sycaecia's Loyal Vanguard
We will prove to all of our fellow griffons that we are loyal servants of Sycaecia and that even in our aggression and tough policies, we would not dare defy her word nor the word of her pontiffs. We will however fight in her name and in her honor!
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Her Blessed Vanguard
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Patriotism Campaigns
The spirit of the people is the most important thing to any true republic. We should make great efforts to keep their spirits high and gain their continuing support.
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'¡Uno para todos, todos para uno!'
At last, our national unity is secured. One way or another we have rallied all of our fellow griffons behind our righteous cause, and we will serve them faithfully in turn. All for one and one for all!
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 '¡Uno para todos, todos para uno!'
At last, our national unity is secured. One way or another we have rallied all of our fellow griffons behind our righteous cause, and we will serve them faithfully in turn. All for one and one for all!
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Codify Sicameonese Syndicalism
For centuries our uniquely egalitarian and syndicalist traditions have remained just that: traditions. They are nowhere in the Carta Federal, nowhere in city or parish legal documents, only held together in long standing good faith. Today these traditions will be given the force of law!
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 The New Federal Charter
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Officialize the Syndicates
Like our traditions, the syndicates, going by different names such as guilds or companies, have largely been unofficial affairs. Under our new administration, they will become official economic entities with legal rights and powers.
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Legally Bound Syndicates
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Separate Syndicates from Parishes
Syndicalism, like many other left wing ideologies, ultimately is an economic doctrine in its purest form. We should separate the syndicates and the parishes, to allow the syndicates to focus more greatly on economic concerns while the parishes can continue their previous duties without the burden of economics.
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Economic and Political Separation
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Establish the Fourth Branch
Handling the economy of an advanced industrialized nation such as ours within a greater globalizing world is a nearly insurmountable task, and it's only going to grow more difficult as time goes on. Establishing a dedicated fourth branch of government for the syndicates to handle our economic affairs will be a great step towards maintaining our record economic efficiency.
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Replace the Parishes
Syndicalism, like many other left wing ideologies, ultimately is an economic doctrine in its purest form. Therefore the republic should be ruled from its primary economic unit, the syndicate, and the parishes should be abolished. The Tribunal will be maintained due to the economic importance of the cities.
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Economic and Political Consolidation
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A Syndical Legislature
With the replacement of the Parratoria with the Asemblea de Sindicatos, we have created a true economic democracy, and have proven that syndicalism as a feasible system of government and as a successful economic system.
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 The Syndical Legislature
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The Federal Syndicate Realized
Our long held dream is now a reality! Sicameon stands as a true syndicalist federation! We have finally evolved from our middling proto-ideology into one made for this new industrial age, may it long last the test of time.
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 Realized Syndical Federal Republic
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Flushing Out the Wharf Rats
For far too long we have been too soft and too disorganized on rooting out organized crime within our borders, it tarnishes our fierce reputation towards villainous pirates and raider scum. It's time to flush out those so called 'Freeholders' like the sewage rats they are, and cage up those most responsible.
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Hunting Down the Swordfish
With his commanders in captivity, we can begin hunting down the head of the damned Freeholders, Don Espadarte, or the Swordfish. He has been at large for years and is the chief reason for the Freeholder's rapid consolidation of most of Sicameon's homegrown crime, it's high time to gut him and his organization.
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The Bastard Bandit Over the Mountain
The absolute scourge that calls herself Blackrock is perhaps the living embodiment of what we despise most, both a loathsome bandit and a petty and power hungry fowl who aspires to be a noble. We will bring both law and liberty to Blackhollow!
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A Resurgent Republic
With the turn of the millennium it seemed probable that our time in the sun could end, that our prominence could wane as the more industrialized and ambitious nations of Griffonia pulled ahead, but these fears have been squashed! We are united and we are ready to do whatever it takes to preserve our great federation!
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Reservists to Career Soldiers
Throughout our history the duties of a soldier have largely been a part time occupation, done on the side of a civilian life. While sufficient in the past, in this modern age it produces subpar soldiers. We must create a professional military upon which a griffon can make a living upon, to fill our ranks career soldiers, griffons who's only calling is to defend their republic.
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Establish the Guardias Republicanos
Even with the distinction of professional troops over part time militias, there is yet a further distinction to be had. We will take the best of our best, la flor y nata, or the crème de la crème as an Aquileian would say, and form an elite Republican Guard.
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 Los Guardias Republicanos
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Valentin's Prodegies
Valentin Glacialez has easily been our finest general of this recent age, having fought in the northern republican revolutions and then managing to escape home alive and with a great deal of experience. However, he knows he is growing old, and thus has passed on his hard earned wisdom to his closest officers.
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Defense Skill: 2 Planning Skill: 1 Logistics Skill: 2
Defense Skill: 2 Planning Skill: 2 Logistics Skill: 1
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A Peasant's Frugality
To western Griffonia, there are few enviable traits that they see in a peasant, but there is one that describes us well: great efficiency and ingenuity using very little, or simply frugality. With a few simple policies and appeals to our patriotic duty, we can take this efficiency to new heights to the benefit of our economy.
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 Peasant Frugality
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The National Syndicate
In a government designed to be owned and operated by the people and their syndicates, the idea of nationalization of businesses or resources is abhorrent. Such steps however need to be taken in the name of war preparedness, and this can be done faithfully to our principles by establishing a national syndicate of government workers.
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 The National Syndicate
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Free Industrial Might
With the full maturation and implementation of syndicalism in our great republic, we have risen to economic and industrial heights easily rivalling or surpassing our neighbors, and have worked with such efficiency that capitalist or socialist systems can only dream of.
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 Free Industrial Might
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Beyond the Snowtops
At last, our federation is united our red banner. We can finally command the full potential of our great republic, and turn our attention beyond the Snowtops. Our friends will cheer and our foes will kneel!
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Dragging Down the Falcon
The weak and yet so fiercely revanchist Falcor has long been a great thorn in our side, claiming ownership over the islands of Falcor and the city of Sudfolk which are rightfully Sicameonese! We will have both, and the rest of their territory as spoils!
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Comrades in Wingbardy
The leftist elements within Wingbardy have long been inspired by our nation's traditions and practices. Now seems to be ripe to finally offer them our direct support with an open talon. May they finally topple their monarchy if the great task has not yet been done!
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Wash Out Blackhollow
Even without that bastard Blackrock stirring up the County of Blackhollow and prodding our borders like a starving lion, the Countess of Blackhollow is still both a potential threat and half of the territory belonging to the cradle of griffon civilization, Griffonstone, simply ripe for the picking. Even if their communists were to take power, they're insane loons that are much more a liability than a potential ally.
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The Cyan Issue
Somehow, the unnatural abomination that is the County of Cyanolisia continues to exist, even with the best efforts of the Asterionese. It's time to extinguish the last vestiges of old Imperial reign in the south by ending Cyanolisia's freakish existence once and for all!
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Reconciling with the Bull
Despite the extensive changes we have enacted within our federation, we still greatly value the companionship of the Asterionese, who so many hundreds of years ago bestowed the teachings of democracy to us. However, many of them view our rapid transformation as a danger and have taken a more defensive posture Can we repair our ancient friendship, or are we doomed to do battle with our friend and mentor?
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Tutoring Our Young Twin
Ever since the establishment of the Compañía Continental del sur de Gryphus, we have watched the development of the Free Towns with great interest, seeing them almost like a younger twin in the way they have grown. However, we fear in this chaotic new era that they may be led astray, and as a good older sibling we must take them under our wing and teach them what is right, and discipline them if they refuse.
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The Prywhen Debate
With the rise of Prywhen in their bloody revolution and the proper establishment of Marksism in Griffonia, there has been much debate with ourselves over the tenets of communism versus our indigenous syndicalism. No doubt they are similar, but no doubt debate between two aggressive and militant nations should be handled with care... We should approach Prywhen peacefully and cautiously over the matter.
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'¡Atención, Guardia, aquí vienen los campesinos!'
At the climactic 1st Battle of the Keowen River in 773, Grover's troops cried in Old Herzlander 'Wahr' di, Bur, de Gahr de kumbt!'. When the famed zapadores and militiagriffs rose to counterattack, they cried in turn in Old Sicameonese, 'Cuidado, guarda, lá vem os camponeses!' And when we finally assail the bastion of monarchism that is Griffonstone, we will once again cry '¡Atención, guardia, aquí vienen los campesinos!'
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Like Winning a Rigged Lottery
The so-called "Trusted Seven Hundred" were even easier to bribe to give us access than we thought. With our newfound "majority" we are in now in firm control of both the Tribunes and Parrators. Now, time to get to work to carry out our visions for Sicameon.
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Divided Legislature
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The Suit
We don't need to do our business openly and brutally. Rather, we can hide it underneath, so that we stand respectable. The mask and striped shirt are for another day. Right now, we need to get out the suit and tie for meetings, and sit at the polished table.
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Like a Kelp Forest...
Now in control, we can turn a blind eye to our own activities around the Federation. Like a kelp forest, we shall establish ourselves everywhere. Midoria, Queruscos, nowhere shall be safe from our grasp. Even the business that they think is legitimate shall be fronts for our actual operations.
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Rotting the Grassroots
The Moderates and Radicals still possess formidable organizations of their own in the cities and the parishes. Just as we have choked other gangs to death with our own organization, they too shall fall before us. The streets shall run with their papers and their fleeing members.
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Wining and Dining the Cities
There are, despite some what might think griffons who are both weak to a bag of gold, and even more when drunk under the table. Those griffons who are that and can facilitate our own organization should be coopted into our partnership and made to work for us, so that any 'complaints' that people might have are...taken care of.
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Promoting Fishy Business
All around us, the black market scurries. Gold, contraband dead and living moves unseen through both our territory and around it. We should open up safe havens for the black markets to thrive. They will get a central nexus for trading where they are protected from any troublesome authorities that might think it wrong for this to happen and we will get a nice cut out of all the transactions taken.
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 Black Market Nexus
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A Total Red Tide
Like the algae on the sea, our influence spreads everywhere. Every activity from the gunrunning on Scarlet and the counterfeiting on the Jojo Islands, to pirating and buccaneering all over South Griffonia we have a share in. Any washery, and bakery in Midoria, every tomato plantation and carrot farm outside Queruscos pay into out system or is outright owned by us.
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Looking into Foreign 'Ventures'
However, there is only so much money to be squeezed out of Sicameon itself. With our contacts on the black market, and solid control of the nation, we should begin to look outwards towards other like-minded individuals that might be interested in a partnership with us. This might be even more lucrative than our solo undertakings.
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Courting the White Rose of Blackhollow
One such is the White Rose of Blackhollow. Single...and ready to mingle. But so far she has repulsed all suitors. Well, she hasn't met Don Espadarte and his legendary charm that will woo even the most cold-hearted universally loved Rose in the world.
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Enslave The Former Slaves
The Free State of Kása has long been a haven for those fleeing from slavery and oppression. It is now filled to the brim with such folk. Yet the country is small and weak, easy prey for our navy and army. If we were to seize Kása, we could gain hundreds of thousands of slaves! What are we waiting for?
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Forming the Oligarquia
With our...organizations in a strong position, we are in a place where we can go together to form something even greater. While the Oligarquia will never be one built on simple trust, none of our associates, or us for that matter are stupid enough for that, we can build it on respect for each other. And fear.
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Like an Oil Slick...
Here we come, bandits, corsairs and slavers, like an oil slick on the water. No one can escape us, and like the fish in the ocean, everyone will bear our mark. Wherever they may be, we or our partners will have an associate in every town, and money shall be pressed into every claw, hoof or beak.
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The Scoundrel
We have won. And it is time to show what we are made of. Everygriff that supports us shall be rewarded, and everygriff that stands against us will rue the day they decided that. Those that sit and do not share will know our wrath, and those that do will of course will generously. Or else.
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Not All Ne'er Do Wells
But not all scoundrels are, despite what everyone might think, card-carrying villains. We do know that the people could topple us if we push them too far. So as was once said; 'Bread and Circuses' for all.
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Blood for the Angry
There are those that go around in the streets, rampaging and damaging the public morale. At the same time, the coasts of South Griffonia beckons with plunder. We shall make sure that they get a new purpose in life other than making life troublesome, and that we get rich.
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Charity for the Needy
Despite what the so-called Moderates and Radicals think, there are still people living in the most squalid poverty. We shall grant them our charity, so that they may see us as liberators and protectors, rather than criminals and scoundrels. Food and money talks. And our quantity even more.
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Protection for the Skeptic
There are still griffons in the Federation that think we, the Free Corsairs, cannot protect them from overt criminal acts and other such riffraff. We shall show them that we take care of the people, as much as the Radicals or Moderates would do. Any accusations that we are behind these same common criminal acts are spurious and slander.
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A Pinstripe Suit isn't Always Black and White
Not everything is black and white. Gray matters also exist. One of those is the only slightly illegal market economy happening under our beaks. The Commission knows about it and is preparing plans for how the black market can be placed under our control. Of course, it won't be free for those that run it. We provide protection, and the kind of protection we provide has a price. Everything has a price.
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Black Market Legalized
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Not a King, but an Ace
There shall be no king amongst us, but only the aces. Those that are the best out of all of us. No one wears a crown here, and the griffon shall be chosen from within us. Of course, the Swordfish shall remain as he is of course the most qualified.
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Convincing Our 'Friends'
Sometimes, we don't have to go around in a suit and tie. We know that beyond our border, richness beckons and that it should be redistributed to our own poor so that it may serve everyone better than some lord in his high castle. There are of course, people we will have to convince of righteousness first before we can actually embark on our grand design.
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Quenching Blackrock's Ambition
If we are to carry out our big plan, the Bandit Queen in Blackhollow must be brought under our control, or at least, influence. There are some very strongly worded letters in the works, but we are also getting some more... direct support in order to convince her that our plan really is for the better. For her, the alternative will of course be unthinkable.
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Liberate Kása
The lands currently in control of the Kása "Free State" were once a haven of freedom, where no government ruled and no laws were imposed, where every griffon and pony was free to pursue their ambitions. But then Macawia intervened and established a puppet state of former slaves, ending the golden age of piracy. In the name of liberty, we must dismantle this oppressive state!
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A Hooded Robin's Republic
With our associates under control, we can proclaim our organization to the world, and that we will be coming for them. Gryphus, Falcor, Cyanolisia, they will learn that Los Picaros will be on the seas, ready to seize what they have exploited, and give it to those that are in dire need of help everywhere. They will learn to fear the righteous Picaros.
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The Sailing Swordfish Raids
The Swordfish has decreed that we shall sail the waters of southern Griffonia, and live up to our new creed. We shall take from the rich and give to the poor. They will protest against us seizing their ill-gotten gains to give to those that need it, but everyone will be better off for it. After we have taken a tiny cut of course.
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Going Cow Tipping
The Republic of Asterion poses a lethal threat to our rule in Sicameon, as they are looking towards us, either to topple the Commission and restore their precious democratic government, or to seize our lands. We must attack Asterion before they attack us.
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The Status of Slavery
Since we began talking to other nations and creatures, such as the zebras, there has been quite the exchange of ideas. In fact, one very novel idea has come up in the Commission lately, one about a very peculiar institution that might need reviving.
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No Guarantees
We must strive for the best stock possible, no matter where it may be. Even if we have to exploit our own people for this, it will ultimately be for the better. Our better, that is.
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Indentured Servitude
Some of the lower classes are in deep, deep debt to us. The Commission will make sure that those in a debt they will never get out of will be taken care of appropiately. If they are weak, they will be put to work in one way, if strong, then there are ways to deal with that too...
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Indiscriminate Slavery
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Citizen Immunity
Despite what many might think, everyone, including we have standards in some form or way. One of ours is that our own citizens must never be subjected to the toils of slavery. The Commission has drawn up a decree to all slavers that those that are under our protection shall be immune from being enslaved.
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Bandit Slavery
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Homegrown 'Stock'
Despite the temptation for us to go abroad and get 'stock' from abroad, there are many fine qualities in our own stock at home. We will just need to get the right traits out in those that we select. And, of course, those that come after. There are certainly a lot of interesting proposals on the Commission's table about all kinds of ideas to carry this out.
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The Finest Breeders in Griffonia
Some breed chickens. Others breed carrots. Here, we breed a special kind of stock, mean for consumers of workforce and labour. Of course, we should make sure that we only get the best breeders to enhance the lineages. And we do have some that might help us with it. Probably.
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Foreign 'Stock'
Our own 'stock', while strong and good, would risk revolts from our own people. As such, raids beyond our own borders shall serve as the basis for our own stock. Already, the Commission is reviewing plans for where to raid, and who shall be taken for processing.
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The Finest Trainers in Griffonia
There are some griffons that might be interested in a job like this. We shall create a Griffonia Trainer's Society for them to organize around and practice their craft in. Even if we are dealing in dubious activities, good experience should be shared.
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Reinvigorating the Industrial Base
While initially we were able to keep with the pace of industrialization, especially compared to our neighbors to the east, gradually our modernization efforts have fallen to the wayside. Using our federal government's now increased power, we should create new economic impetuses to resume progress.
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Revising the School System
While we have been far more progressive than our former Imperial neighbors in having public schooling systems for centuries now, it's rapidly becoming clear that religious schooling is becoming insufficient in the increasingly technologically reliant world. A considerable amount of reform will have to be undertaken to ensure the continued effectiveness of our education system.
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Modern Tooling
Investing in modern machine tools and other industrial equipment is an obvious first step to continue the progression from cottage industry to modern mass production.
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Industrial Efficiency Study
With the rising economic importance of industry and the equally rising dangers to workplace safety, it is time to begin to end our heavily laissez faire economic policies and begin to regulate our economy to increase efficiency and safety. We will launch a federal study to observe what needs to be done.
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Unifying the Scientific Guilds
The sciences within our nation have proven to be a highly competitive affair, with inventors, engineers, and scientists of all kinds banding together within their own guilds attempting to one up each other, to the detriment of our scientific community as a whole. We need to consolidate these groups if we are to make any real scientific progress.
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New Education Appropriations
In step with our series of educational reforms and expansions, a greater budget will have to be appropriated and approved for them to make any headway.
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Equal Cities
Within the Carta Federal, every city and every parish are held up as equals. It is this that declares that no city should be favored over the other both politically and economically, as we always have traditionally.
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Capitol Concentration
Despite the high symbolic importance placed on the equality of the founding Five Cities, Midoria was chosen as the capitol of our federation for a highly strategic reason: being the farthest possible point from any land invasion on the peninsula. While concentrating our industry there would be a break from tradition, it would keep our industrial base safer in the event of war.
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Standardizing Weights and Measures
Across the Griffonian continent, there is an absolutely disorganized mess of measurement systems and standards, with only the Griffonian Empire limitedly successful in creating a uniform system. We should establish a standard national metric system, and with our maritime connections, hopefully this will spread to our neighbor nations.
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Constructing New School Buildings
Traditionally we have schooled our youth within our goddess' sanctums, but as our population swells and the need for more specialized teaching facilities and staff only grows, we must construct dedicated school buildings.
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Develop the Western Islands
Scarlet Island, despite being a founding member of our federation, has generally been underdeveloped. This combined with the recently liberated Jojo Islands being mostly ignored by the Falcorian government other than as a naval post, leaves a great deal of undeveloped territory waiting to be exploited off of the mainland.
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Develop the Peninsular Core
Historically our inland territory has been one of rural idyll, covered in sprawling fields of grain, produce, and grazing livestock, only interrupted by the occasional hill and the Leve Forest. While it is a shame to ruin such natural beauty, the demands of a modern economy require that we develop the region.
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Develop the Northern Mountains
The tall Arahno and Snowtop Mountains on our northern border to our present knowledge are relatively bare of useful resources other than magic crystal and the terrain is too rough to build much of use, but with modern construction and mining technology, there may be untapped natural resources now within our grasp.
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Found the Laboratorio de Isla Escarlata
Due to Scarlet Island's relatively low population and isolation from the mainland, our surveyors have determined that it is safe to set aside an area of the island to perform various scientific and magical experiments that we wish to keep relatively claudestine. We should establish a government sponsored laboratory there.
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Maintaining Religious Education
The importance of maintaining our national faith to our goddess cannot be understated, for She has given us all of the gifts that make us free and well to do. Even in the face of the modern scientific world, we cannot sever ourselves from her teachings.
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Modernizing Religious Schooling
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Creating a Secular Future
While our faith to the goddess is fundamental to our national identity and being, our reverence for her alone will not win the day in this new age. We will make Her proud through the ruthless pursuit of science and technology to stand tall on our own.
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The National Natural Resource Survey
Our economists and logisticians have predicted that in the event of absolute total war breaking out across the continent, every last cache of available war material will be invaluable. We should launch a national survey to take inventory of the total of the federation's strategic resources.
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Fluidic Computing
Recently, our scientists have reported a novel idea during their studies into electro-mechanical computing that water, more specifically the flow of water or other liquids could be used to create a computer far more capable and able to display certain specialized processes than otherwise currently possible, using already extant and well understood plumbing engineering.
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Magic Crystal Capacitors
Our scientists and engineers within the Scarlet Laboratory have been able to create a wide variety of electronic-like components using magic crystal that is widely available within the nation's mines. The electricity-like nature of magic and how it interacts with natural crystal could go a long way to advancing our understanding of electronics, as well as pave the way for magic energy weapon research.
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Incorporating Secular Lessons
Though Sycaecia is our supreme authority, there are clear rules that the physical world abides by that not even the gods can touch. We should still take care to master them.
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Modernizing Religious Schooling
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Reinterpret Sycaecia's Commandments
For centuries we have faithfully followed Sycaecia's words ever since even the old Karthin Empire. They are ancient, and have changed little over those hundreds of years. Perhaps it is time to create a new, modern understanding of our gracious goddess' teachings.
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Modernizing Religious Schooling
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Emphasizing Practical Curriculum
It really does hurt to admit, but memorizing prayers, songs, chants, and mythical lore will do little for our future generations. Mathematics, the sciences, and language arts will become the emphasis of curriculum going forward.
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Developing a Secular School System
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Remembering Sycaecia's Historical Legacy
It cannot be trivialized how much the goddess Sycaecia and her surrounding religious institution has affected the course of our nation's history. While we can rely on her no longer, we can study and remember everything she has done for us, and perhaps begin to understand the impact of her love and care.
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Developing a Secular School System
Developing a Secular School System
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New Construction Methods
As new breakthroughs are made in both material science and architectural design, we can construct ever higher and stronger buildings more quickly than ever before. The Five Cities' skylines will only continue to rise.
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Improved Extraction Techniques
We have long prided ourselves in the efficiency of our economic system from the producer to the merchant, and with further advancements in technology, we can take this efficiency even further in raw resource extraction.
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The S.E.S.C. Project
Our top scientists within the Scarlet Laboratory have come with a potential breakthrough in fluidic computing. They have proposed a revolutionary kind of machine, one that can display our entire economic cycle, predict future trends, and provide simulations on how we can influence it. They call it S.E.S.C., or the Sicameon Economic Simulation Computer, and it could be a boon to our economy if built.
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Prototype Crystal Transistors
Through the fine manipulation of magic power and precisely engineered crystal components combined with our current knowledge of electronics, our researchers have built a device much more useful, though more expensive, than the vacuum tube currently being developed. While a technological equivalent can't be feasibly made now, there is much to be learned from these magic prototypes.
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Blending Science and Spirituality
There are those who say that holy words and hard matter are incompatible with each other. We will prove those naysayers wrong, moving into the future with both science and scripture in claw.
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Built on Mortal Backs, Hearts, and Minds
With perhaps the exception of the Idol of Boreas, Griffonian civilization has been built by the countless generations of mortals who have lived and died over the ages. There has not been and will not be any divine intervention, our nation is built on the backs, hearts, and minds of the living, mortal people.
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Founding the Sicameon Federal Reserve
With our central government's growing role within the national economy, the legislature has passed an act to establish a central bank, the Banco de la Reserva Federal. This new institution should allow us to stimulate and regulate the economy more effectively.
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Expanding the City Universities
Despite having our pioneering public school system well in advance of many Griffonian nations, most higher educational opportunities were restricted to the Five Cities, or to study abroad. With the great expansion and reform of our public schools, there will be many more graduates seeking post-secondary education, and we must fund the city universities to expand in turn.
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Passing the SSBF Act
With the general success of the new Reserva Federal, the legislature has put forward another act to expand the bank's function to that of a national insurance agency as the Sindicato Seguros del Banco Federal, both for the lower banks and for public companies. This should decrease risk across the board and help our economy grow with greater ventures.
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Public Research Grants
The final step in our vast body of educational reform, we should create a wide number of public grants to be issued on a competitive basis for various independent research projects, for the future generations who will have gone through the reformed schooling system and obtained a post-secondary degree, to maintain this new scientific momentum for the years to come.
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The Modern Peasant
For all our great efforts, the Sicameonese 'peasant' is no longer merely a farmer toiling in the fields, nor an unskilled worker on the industrial assembly line, but a well-to-do, worldly, and educated middle-class griffon, and we have the greatness, wealth, and modernity of our federation to show for it.
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Reaffirming Our Friendship
Due to the tense elections both here and across the gulf in Asterion, our ancient friendship with the minotaurs has become strained due to potential changes in leadership in this critical time. Now that these positions are secured once again, we should receive our bovine friends again with open arms. If we are rejected, then something grave has occured...
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Inviting Asterionese Businesses
Thanks to the Asterionese government's rather heavy hooved policy of investing primarily in military and defense industries, their civilian sector is sorely neglected. There is an opportunity for us to exploit there that would benefit both of our economies.
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Mutual Arms Development
The massive Asterionese military-industrial complex is a vast well waiting to be tapped for the benefit of our military. Investing in it ourselves and attracting them to invest in our defense industries should bolster the military infrastructure of both our nations.
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Mutual Economic Investment
Now that we have attracted Asterionese business and investors, we can directly help the ours and Asterion's economies by stimulating our own, which will in turn stimulate theres, which should create a beneficial cycle.
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Returning Asterionese National Treasures
Our clerks have stumbled upon something incredible, long thought to be lost to myth during the bureaucratic expansion of our government and clearing new facilities to house these agencies: a small, forgotten vault of Asterion's greatest national treasures, said to have been smuggled by Dorothea Maimonides out of Asterion and into Sicameon after their fall to tyranny, centuries ago.
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The Eryth-Ketta Bridge Project
The idea of a bridge across the closest points between our peninsular mainland and the largest minotaur island is an old one, but only recently become both technologically and politically possible. Such a project would test the industrial strength and ingenuity of both our nations, but would result in a monument that would quite literally tether our destinies... Not to mention the economic benefit.
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Friends for Another Thousand Years
After all we have done over these past years, we have become closer to our minotaur brethren than even in the days of the old confederation before Asterion had fallen to tyranny. This renewed and far stronger friendship will transcend any conflict or turmoil, and easily last another millennium.
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Examining the Parish Militias
Ever since our nation was founded, the defense of Sicameon has always relied on the willing fighting griffons of the local parish militias, with little central oversight. With new national authority established, we should take steps toward a national standard, beginning with taking stock of these defense forces.
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Expanding the Standing National Guard
The Guardia Nacional has historically been a small force, in peace meant to guard the Dux, the parroquias, and the tribunas and to serve as national police, while in war they are meant to be the professional core of our army. By expanding the Guardia, we can build an army more in line with western Griffonian nations.
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Standardizing the Militias
Issuing new guidelines for uniforms, training, and drilling, and establishing new standards for firearms and their ammunition, and other military kits, and creating a more formal command structure will go a long way to turn the militias into a semi-professional force.
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A Grand Defensive
As we modernize our forces, there are those that believe we should maintain the old mission of the parish militias and the Guardia Nacional of deterrence, repulsion, and defense, rather than develop a balanced doctrine. Will we heed to doctrinal tradition?
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A Professional Army
As we modernize our forces, there are those that believe that we should fully commit to fielding a fully professional army who are equally adept in offensive and defensive operations. Will we follow these doctrinal ambitions?
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Abolishing Obsolete Groverian Tactics
The age of lines and squares of griffons marching in step, of loading and firing and charging on command, of dash and fire, die schönen säbel, los hermosos sables, is over. This large body of knowledge has been rendered obsolete with the advent of modern war; though we have never fought conventionally in the eyes of our adversaries, we should take care not to employ now suicidal strategy.
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¡Zapadores de Sycaecia, No Pasarán!
Originally the name for the brave peasants who had risked themselves by releasing the levees and dikes to flood out Grover II's invasion force at the 2nd Battle of the Keowen River, this name has been carried on by our military engineer corps. Combat engineering is proving to be essential in modern warfare and it is paramount that the Sappers are well equipped to maintain their legacy on the modern battlefield.
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Los Montañeros de Arahno
Our hardy griffon mountaineers that live in the valley of Arahno Ridge, between the Arahno Mountains and the Snowtops, have always been some of our best troops, often being the first to engage in our storied historic battles. We should mold these units into modern fighting forces who will be unmatched no matter what peak they fight on.
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Los Marines de Escarlata
The Scarlet Marines have their origins in the defenders of the old Protectorate of Isla Escarlata. The island is a natural barrier to the mainland, the griffons who live there skilled at fighting on the beaches and boarding hostile vessels, protecting the peninsula from raiders. Their legacy lives on, and they deserve no less than the best should we need them to defend the Armada or to storm a foreign beachhead.
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Wireless Coordination
The practicality of radio for use on land is only just becoming viable in our nation, with some of our first radio commercial towers still under construction in our cities. Despite this, we have seen the value of wireless coordination in the Armada Nacional's experimental operations aboard ships and should make attempts to miniaturize this technology for the militias and Guardia Nacional.
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Defensive Dikes
We have always proven to be able to throw up a defense with whatever may be on claw, famously the sea dikes and river levees around the city of Keowen. Even in this new age of tanks and trucks, we can still hone this tactic of sudden fortification to put up stiff defenses anywhere.
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Unconventional Mobility
We have never truly fought toe to toe with a large enemy force when we could dictate the terms of engagement, instead always opting to be on the move, striking at the flanks and encircling to sow confusion, through seemingly impassable terrain with novel solutions. It is this mobile ingenuity that we can hone to become a lightning army that can envelope a target before they know what's happening.
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Peasants, Not Knights
Anywhere else in Griffonia, to be called a peasant is to be called a poor, lowly soul, hardly a griffon at all. But here in Sicameon, we carry such a title with pride, for we can fell any knight, lord, or kaiser should they come our way, we can prosper without such insane notions of feudalism and royalty. And our finest griffons, the Rediarios, are ever ready to ensnare and slay any foolish Seguidor!
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Procuring Modern Equipment
While our military forces are not the least advanced in the world, the pace of arms and equipment innovation is accelerating rapidly. We should strive to equip our troops with the latest in repeating firearms, smokeless powder, protective helmets, etc.
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Repurpose Agricultural Machines
The mechanization of agriculture has proven to be a boon for our inland farmers, exponentially increasing productivity with their power to move mass quantities of material and prepare greater areas for growing. We can harness these trucks and tractors to move griffons, supplies, and equipment instead, and thus create much more mobile forces.
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Refitting Old Cannons
While our artillery corps is largely outdated, mostly consisting of rifled muzzleloaders and breechloaders still firing outdated ammunition, these old guns can be retrofitted with modern carriages, gun shields, recoil mechanisms, and in some cases be rebored, reinforced, and rechambered to fire modern ammunition.
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Allinas Process Modernization
Developed by prolific Allinas Aceropico at Estrella Arms, the Allinas Process is a set of modernization plans for most old firearms in parish and national arsenals to methodically update them to all fire smokeless powder and become either single shot breechloading rifles for reserve use or bring them up to date with the current national service weapon standards.
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A Knight Slaying Machine
By applying armor plating and a heavy weapon such as a light artillery cannon in such a manner as we would with a warship onto a heavy truck or tractor, we can create a vehicle that is tougher, more heavily armed, and more mobile than any knight. Such machines are already being adopted here in Griffonia and across the sea.
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Adapting Naval Artillery
The Armada Nacional has always been leagues ahead of the militias and the Gaurdia Nacional in terms of equipment and weaponry. Some of the lighter secondary batteries could be easily adapted for use on land as field guns, as a ready source of artillery and artillery designs for the militias, and create a degree of standardization with the navy.
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Founding the Sycamore National Armory
Sicameon up until this point has never had a national arms factory, as with most other functions of government we have always deferred arms and equipment production to city armories, and more recently, indigenous arms companies such as Estrella. In our bid to increase federal level military capability and self reliance, we should establish a national armory to fulfill the equipment needs of the Guardia Nacional.
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Plowshares to Swords
The Sicameonese people have always had a culture of duality. In peace, we have wielded the trident and the pitchfork to fish and farm to feed our families. In war, we wielded the same to hold the enemy back and defend our liberties. Let us embrace that fact in this new era, as we prepare for the inevitable wars to come!
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 Plowshares to Swords
The Sicameonese people have always had a culture of duality. In peace, we have wielded the trident and the pitchfork to fish and farm to feed our families. In war, we wielded the same to hold the enemy back and defend our liberties. Let us embrace that fact in this new era, as we prepare for the inevitable wars to come!
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Formally Unify the Armada Nacional
The nation's navy has historically been far more unified than the parish militias and the Guardia Nacional, because the founding Five Cities were the only entities wealthy enough to fund naval projects, and they all shared the mutual goal of fending off raiders and pirates from the very beginning. Still, the Armada Nacional is divided along the lines of the old city flotillas, these old systems should be replaced to promote unity, end city rivalries, and ease administration.
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New Naval Infrastructure
While Sicameon is by no means a navally primitive nation with its historically important trade ports and sole worship of the griffon sea goddess, the ever expanding specialized needs and ever growing overall size of modern ships demand ever more advanced construction and maintenance facilities and more deeply dredged harbors.
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Expanding the Escarlata Naval Base
Isla Escarlata has long stood as a natural defensive barrier between the western seas and the peninsular mainland, and as a good naval post and staging ground for sailing westward as well. These facilities should be modernized for continued service for the foreseeable future.
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Expanding the Midoria Naval Base
Our nation's capitol has always been a great port of call for seafarers of all kinds, sitting at the geographical center of the southern coast of Griffonia, and the closest continental mainland port to Zebrica. The naval facilities in Midoria should be continuously modernized and expanded with this importance in mind.
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Expanding the Eritocefalia Drydocks
Long benefitting from trade with Griffonia's eastern nations and always in constant competition with the capitol of Cyanolisia, Eritocefalia's shipyards have been well renowned its' for smaller, nimbler, and more efficient clippers and frigates. Thus naturally the city has supplied the Armada Nacional with many of its' fine fast craft, and modernizing and expanding the city's drydocks is a high priority.
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Expanding the Queruscos Shipyards
Queruscos has long held the title to have both the finest and the most productive heavy shipyards within the federation. Historically, the city arsenal created an innovative proto-assembly line system that could create an entire ship within a day, where other cities could take weeks and other nations months. Such a legacy of industry should be upheld by expanding and modernizing the cities shipbuilding facilities further.
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Light Dockyard Standardization
By cementing our naval doctrine into solely lighter vessels as we have in the past, we have the choice to standardize all of our shipbuilding and maintenance facilities to these smaller craft, resulting in smaller, more efficient, and cheaper infrastructure, but at the cost of our ability to build heavier ships.
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Dockyard construction speed: +15% Submarine and Destroyer build cost: -15% Cruiser build cost: -10% Heavy ship build cost: +20% Carrier build cost: +10%
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Flexible Dockyard Standardization
With the major expansions of our navy into much larger ship designs than the past, we now have the experience to standardize our shipbuilding and maintenance facilities to streamline production all kinds of naval craft.
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All ships build cost: -5%
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The New Millennium Naval Review
The purpose of a naval review is twofold: to celebrate our long held connections and traditions with the sea and our beloved goddess, and functionally to amass the Armada Nacional for review by our admiralty. Historically it's been a day of competition between the city flotillas, but this time the fleet sails as one!
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Analyze the Marina Mercante
Being a major trading nation has meant that historically our merchant marine has always been an incredibly important asset to us, both economically and to our maritime defense. While we cannot build merchant ships equivalent to the old East Hindiagriffs of old, we can still look into integrating precautions and developing special tactics for our navy to better protect our merchants on the high seas.
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 Merchant Marine Improvements
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Preparations Against Convoy Raids
The Marina Mercante has developed based on historical experience a modernized version of our coastal defensive patrols to defend our convoys on the open seas, extending Sycaecia's protecting wing far beyond our coasts.
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Merchant Marine Improvements
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The Destroyer Escort
The history of battle on the seas has repeated itself, only instead of pirates and privateers preying on well to do merchants for personal gain, it's one nation's destroyers and submarines and aircraft against another's civilian convoys. This time however, we can amass a fleet of escorts that is both economically feasible and long enough ranged to protect our convoys anywhere.
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New Screening Vessels
From mere sailing sloops to swarming torpedo boats to anti-submarine destroyers and anti-aircraft light cruisers, the naval screen has evolved immensely over the last century and a half, and we have been able to keep pace with it. But the march of progress never stops, even on the waves, so we must continue the designing, innovation, and construction of these steadfast vessels.
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Spearing the Modern Sea Serpent
The invention of the fully submersible ship, while wondrous, has opened up a vast new element of naval warfare where an enemy can stalk our merchants and battlefleets like the mythic sea monsters of yore. New weapons and detection systems will have to be developed to hunt down these new steel sea predators.
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The Venerable Sea Mine
The naval mine at this point is an aging invention, but one that has proven still deadly and only growing more lethal despite advances in underwater protection. Minefields have long been part of the theoretical defense of our coastal waters and ports, sitting in many narrows and natural bays, and these plans and their related technologies should continue to be modernized.
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Sicameonese Cruiser Tradition
Historically, the cruiser has been our capital ship, our nation's naval pride. While this mantle may pass onto larger and more powerful ships in the future, the cruiser still has a crucial role to play in this new, modern maritime age with its' great flexibility.
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An Aircraft Carrier
Many of the younger officers who have grown up with the latest innovations of mechanized flying machines have proposed the idea of creating a ship that is in essence a floating airfield. The concept has already been proven overseas in Equestria and by the Empire before it had collapsed on itself, and we have concluded some of our own first tests of launching aircraft off of an armed warship successfully. Despite the skepticism of some of our older officers, such a dedicated ship might prove to be a potent weapon in the future
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A Secondary Education
As our ships grow further and further in size, we find ourselves actually somewhat lacking in one aspect of naval design: secondary batteries. But we are learning quickly, and adapted weaponry from our smaller craft should fit the role soundly.
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An Undersea Patrol
The idea to build a ship that can swim within Sycaecia's vast seas as the fish and other aquatic denizens do is an old one in our mythology, but only became possible relatively recently. While we have already achieved such a marvel of engineering, continuing to pursue advances in submarining will allow us to protect our waters in ways never thought possible before.
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The Ship Killing Harpoon
Ever since the invention of the motorized torpedo, the maritime power balance of the world has been greatly shaken. This little revolution has most benefited smaller nations such as ourselves, with mere boats being able to sink the largest capital ships. While the advantage has slowly waned with improvements in underwater protection, the torpedo is still a lethal weapon that we should continue to hone.
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Studying Modern Capital Ship Design
Our naval doctrine has never truly had a place for large capital ship design. Larger ships were always deemed too unwieldy and slow, and most importantly too expensive when the objective was deterrence and fending off coastal raids. However, with the rising continental tension, mere deterrence may not suffice, there is now an incentive to study and begin such ships, beginning with modified Imperial examples.
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Our Own Capital Ship
Our studies have turned up positive. More recent technological developments have proven that a large, fast, well armed, reasonably well armored, and reasonably priced capital ship is possible, and our shipyards are ready to construct a prototype.
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The Fast Battleship Committee
Our research into capital ship design has grown beyond a mere project to a very important section of the Armada Nacional. The admiralty has recommended we formalize this group into a proper committee to better organize these efforts going into the future.
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Modernize the Command Structure
A newly unified navy also needs massive restructuring in the command structure. Consolidating all of the separate city commands into a single national structure will take a considerable amount of time, but we will reap the benefits of centralized coordination.
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 Modernized Naval Command
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Skirmish Theory
Traditionally, we have tried to never engage enemy fleets in an equal pitched battle, for our main enemies have always had greater griffonpower reserves and industrial capacity to absorb losses. As such we've always attempted to skirmish and dictate the terms of battle with our fleet's speed, and we can hone this doctrine by adding blending traditional battlefleet strategy into ours.
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Carrier Theory
Proponents from our fledgling mechanized air corps have suggested and steadily pushed the idea of a floating airfield ship, delivering rounds not by gunpowder and rifled barrels, but by piloted aircraft instead. It is not an entirely new idea, as both the Empire and Equestria have experimented with such aircraft carriers, they may prove to be a dominant naval weapon if we have the capacity to support them.
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Founding the National Naval Academy
Now that we have consolidated our command structure, it's time to consolidate our officer training program. In line with much of our centralization restructuring, the Midoria Naval Academy will be designated and expanded for this purpose.
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 Midoria Marine Academy
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A New Generation of Officers
The first generation of naval officers have graduated after our extensive series of reforms, and our instructors report that the decks will be awash with new doctrinal ideas.
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Founding the Mechanized Air Corps
Griffons have always had winged regiments within their militaries, but the advent of powered flight has propelled the air into a theater of war far vaster than ever realized before. We must keep the pace by establishing a mechanized air corps if we wish to keep the skies as free as our land and sea.
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From Dusters to Fighters
A small group of our inland farming communes have purchased high performance aircraft for spreading seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides across their fields with remarkable speed. We should purchase some examples of these aircraft for modification into our first fighters.
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Our First Bomber
Eyewitnesses from our troops during our occupation of the Jojo Islands of Wingbardian aircraft bombarding Falcorian positions during their 985 ALB war have proven that aerial bombing could be a powerful tactic in the near future. Modifying a civilian transport aircraft will be a good start for our own bombers.
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Establishing the Arahno Air School
Establishing a new air school in northern Leve province provides a number of benefits: all types of regions for new pilots to fly over within the nation, a useful northern airbase, and a place to develop new mechanized air doctrine.
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Developing Radio Detection
As radio towers continue to be erected across the federation, our naval engineers have tinkered with the novel idea of detecting objects through radio signal pulses. Such experimental devices have been mounted both on civilian and naval ships as early collision warning systems, and our aviation engineers believe this could be useful for detecting aircraft.
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Natural Strafing Talent
Being the natural brethren of those low flying seabirds who skim the ocean surface and even dive underwater for fish, our pilots have a natural grasp of low flying air attacks. We should capitalize on this natural gift and develop our close air support tactics.
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Adapting the Coastal Patrol
Our city militias have historically been charged with the task to provide coastal security in the form of patrol groups of griffons who fly along the shoreline, keeping an eye out for suspicious goings-on. Such experience could be adapted to suit our new air corps as coastal defense against enemy naval vessels.
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Close Support Doctrine
Our pilots' natural talents have been honed into true battle strategies. From this point on, they only need to be honed in battle and tempered through combat experience.
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The Seahawkeyes
The title of a Sea Hawkeye was one only reserved for the finest patrolgriffs, marines, and sailors with astounding senses and combat prowess. But now it graces our best naval air combat squadrons, taking on a far more important role than ever before, taking mechanized airpower to combat our enemies on the high seas.
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The Barnstormer Squadron
Taking the name from skilled and daring crack stunt pilots, the Barnstormer Squadron makes up of our finest fighter pilots, making use of risky and unorthodox tactics as their namesake implies.
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 The Barnstormer Squadron
Taking the name from skilled and daring crack stunt pilots, the Barnstormer Squadron makes up of our finest fighter pilots, making use of risky and unorthodox tactics as their namesake implies.
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A Floating Airfield
Collaborating with our younger naval officers, our aviation staff have pushed the idea of deploying combat squadrons from specially designed ships that act essentially as floating mobile airfields. The ability to project airpower in such a way is undoubtably a very powerful one, and is also being explored by foreign powers. Resources permitting, we should experiment with adapting aircraft and ships to such a task.
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- 2.2.1