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The Non-aligned/Supremacy branch of the Hippogriff national focus tree.
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Empower Aris First Branch
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Empower Aris First
Aris First leaders Raft Wood and Crack Lightning have been appointed to lead the most important institutions of our government, effectively solidifying their control over the state apparatus. From now on, Hippogriffia will stand strong under the slogan: "One Mountain, One People, One Will!"
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 Isolationist Development
The new government has mobilised the economy into action, despite their isolationist tendencies. Hippogriffia will achieve armed neutrality and full self-sufficiency under Aris First.
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Expand The AHAC's Jurisdiction
Aris First has some big ideas for expanding the power and reach of the AHAC. We will use it as a bridging point between the military police, the intelligence services, and the civil police, sharing information and practices to better root out those who would threaten our Harmony, our prosperity, or our way of life.
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Crime And Criminals
Raft Wood's proposal is to continue the policies of the AHAC, but with expanded jurisdiction and closer coordination with the military police and intelligence services.
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 Purging Crime and Removing Criminals
Purging Crime and Removing Criminals
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Enemies And Undesirables
Crack Lightning's proposal is to subordinate the AHAC's mandate to the objective interests of the Hippogriff nation: it is to be used not only as a tool of national defense, but national purification, taking proactive measures to watch and if necessary detain the detractors of Aris First, and those whose racial or cultural background makes them inherently suspect.
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 Arresting Enemies, Hunting Undesirables
Arresting Enemies, Hunting Undesirables
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Monitor The Phalanx
We expected the Phalanx to disperse after our victory, but instead they have become bolder, swaggering about our streets like flipperball hooligans and disturbing the peace. Raft Wood will ensure the police know that the Phalanx are not above the law, and if the worst should happen, there is always the Anti-Harmonic Terrorism Act.
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 The AHAC Monitors the Phalanx
Using the AHAC to monitor the Phalanx has done wonders for our regime's legitimacy, by reassuring our citizens that they have nothing to fear from radicals and that Aris First will protect them, even from our own.
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Unleash The Phalanx
The Phalanx are the most patriotic seaponies and hippogriffs in our nation, and their numbers grow daily. They could prove invaluable as rapid-response units if anti-Arisian radicals attack our way of life. A few words from Crack Lightning to the right officers, and the police won't get in the way of the Phalanx any more.
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 The Phalanx Unleashed
By giving the Phalanx free reign over the streets of Aris, we have created an atmosphere of fear, ensuring pacifist and unpatriotic voices stay quiet.
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The Storm Breaks
What we have warned about for so long has finally come to pass: Hippogriffia is at war with a foreign power. We must mobilize all of Aris to meet this threat. At the same time, the pressure of war pushes the Aris First coalition to the breaking point...
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Fortress Aris
Raft Wood's strategy for the North Zebrican War focuses on defending our island and forcing the enemy to bleed for every inch of ground they take. We will exhaust them in Zumidia, and fortify our home such that their first steps on Aris will be their last.
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 The Fortress Aris
The Fortress Aris
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Staging Ground Aris
Crack Lightning's strategy for the North Zebrican War would see us use our naval superiority to launch daring attacks on the enemy's coastal cities, which hold most of their war industry. We should not be afraid to use naval artillery to bombard these densely-populated targets.
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The Zumidian Problem
We will close the borders of Zumidia to refugees, and immediately deny all applications to move to Mount Aris. While the coalition is divided on exactly how to go about it, we will ensure that the zebras are not a problem for us much longer.
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 Diverting Resources from Zumidia
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A Clean Break
Raft Wood argues that we have already wasted too much money on ungrateful Zumidians. Since most of the factories there were built with our money, we are within our rights to show them what life will be like without us by repossessing the industrial machinery and taking it back to Hippogriffia.
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They Have Their Uses
Crack Lightning insists that Zumidia is too ore-rich to abandon entirely, and that its zebras could prove useful. A few cheap land grants here, a few repealed labour regulations there, and our mining companies will be making record profits off Zumidia, and fuelling advanced industries on Mount Aris.
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Aris For The Arisians!
We are not part of Zebrica, nor are we part of Equus. We Arisians, Hippogriffs and Seaponies both, are a unique civilization in world history with our own unique destiny and way of life, wholly independent of other civilizations.
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Surrounded By Enemies
Aris First must pursue a "Peace through Strength" policy in light of our neighbours' aggression. We cannot be sure of the intentions of foreigners, but if we put even a fraction of our vast industry into armaments, we can deter them.
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Strike First
After much effort, Crack Lightning has convinced Arisians to support his policy of "Aggressive Defence." We will prepare a first strike against the Chiropterrans, to put down the bat menace before they become too powerful to contain.
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Defend Our Island
We will defend our island to the last. It is a mighty fortress and nothing will be allowed to pass. There can be no negotiation for the very survival of our island and our great nation. We swear, all together, that we will never surrender.
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 The Committee for National Defense
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Victory Bonds
It would be foolish to try to build a war economy on speeches and exhortations alone. We will begin issuing vast quantities of war bonds, redirecting Aris First's considerable charisma and influence to sell as many as possible. Are you a patriot? Put your money where your beak is.
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Sacrifice For Victory
If they can afford war bonds, it means they weren't doing enough in the first place. We will not sell war bonds so that the lazy may hope to profit from the sacrifice of patriots; we will simply appropriate funds in the name of victory, and enforce austerity and rationing to ensure that nothing is spared from the war effort.
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 Strict Rationing
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Never Surrender
The enemy's underhanded tactics have forced us to retreat to Ain Trotgourait, but we shall not surrender. We will rearm, defend our mountain against any who would dare sully it, and counter-attack with a thousand times the fury they unleash upon us!
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 No Retreat! No Surrender!
The enemy has pushed us back far, but we draw the line here!
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Raft Wood Path
| Focus | Prerequisites | Effects|- id = "Empower Aris First" |
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Aris Saved
We have rescued the Arisian way of life from the abyss of fascism. No more shall radicalism of the left or the right hold sway over our creatures! Now we turn to defend ourselves from the enemy without.
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Psychological Warfare
Violet Facade has uncovered several documents since Crack Lightning's fall which suggest major weaknesses in our enemies' organization and politics. Using new principles of psychological warfare, we can exploit these weaknesses to unravel enemy forces and sap their will to fight.
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A War Of Numbers
There shall be no further dithering. This is not a sea war as our military had always planned for, nor a war of mad conquest as Crack Lightning would have it. We are in a defensive, attritional land war for the protection of Arisian pride from extremist regimes. To win such a war, all Arisians and all Zumidians must be ready to take up arms at a moment's notice.
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Empower Stratus Skyranger
Stratus Skyranger proved quite helpful in our power struggle against Crack Lightning, and is more than suited to lead our army. By appointing the apolitical general to Crack Lightning's old position as head of the Committee for National Defence, we can centralize command around a thoroughly competent and loyal leader.
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The Fortress Aris
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Series G Bonds
Years of autarky, military buildup and the present war have drained the crown coffers, but there is still plenty of capital swirling around the domestic market. We can tap into this capital by issuing a new series of high-interest Victory Bonds.
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Rationing and Bonds
High-interest Victory Bonds
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Negotiate With Industrialists
While Aris First has been less than business-friendly with some of our protectionist rhetoric, we can pin that on Crack Lightning and make promises of lowered taxes and the like after the war. This will secure the cooperation of major industrialists to pitch in and expand our war industry.
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Will add 2 underwater military factories and 4 underwater building slots
 Public-Private Partnerships
The arms industry revolves around a few magnates. They receive huge contracts, then use those to absorb their competitors and buy victory bonds so that the state can sign another contract with them. They are quite adept at setting up new factories and output is high, although the near-monopoly on the industry leaves little room for innovation.
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Seaquestria Arise!
Seaquestria sheltered us during the storm, but now it is time to show the enemy the storm Seaquestria can unleash. Seaponies, to arms!
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 Mass Seapony Mobilisation
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Raft victory path
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An Everlasting Victory!
All of Aris can breathe a sigh of relief: the North Zebrican War is over, and we have triumphed over those who would see us brought low. Now, we begin the difficult task of restoring Aris to normalcy and ensuring a lasting peace.
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The Fate Of Our Enemies
We have no interest in permanently occupying North Zebrica, but we must ensure we are secure. We will begin by redrawing the borders of continental North Zebrica to reward those who are closer to us and punish the warmongers.
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Pay The Piper
By relying only on domestic capital, we have amassed considerable war debts, much of it in the claws of a small number of businessgriffs in the arms and resource extraction industries. We shall sit down with these griffs and come to an agreement on how best to handle this situation.
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A Puppet Sufrit?
Our partners have convinced us to make our enemies help pay off our war debts. To this end, we will install a pliable sufrit to keep order in Colthage so that we can make use of their natural resources. The question remains, however, whether this sufrit will control all of [CTH.GetNameDEF] or only the capital and environs.
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Handle Chiropterra
We defeated the Chiropterrans in the field and occupied their cities, but the legions never actually surrendered. We will send Violet Facade and the counterintelligence units of the AHAC to root out these terrorists once and for all.
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The Fate Of Aris First
The reckoning with Crack Lightning has shaken Raft Wood's faith in the movement he started. We will call the first ever convention of Aris First members to decide the new direction of our movement. Or perhaps, whether our movement even has a place anymore.
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A Path To Citizenship
The bravery of the Zebrican auxiliaries who fought for us in the North Zebrican War and the friends they've made within the Arisian army shows that they will make fine Arisians. We will offer a path to citizenship for past and future auxiliaries. We will also grandfather in a similar process for Zumidians who attained residence in Aris before we came to power.
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There Is A Law
While we appreciate the service of the auxiliaries and we feel for the zebras who sought employment and a home in Aris before our government began, they cannot stay. There is a natural law in this world: Aris for the Arisians, Zebrica for the Zebricans. Those who try to evade that law cause nothing but problems for themselves and those around them.
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Return To Isolation
With our pride defended and the threats to our security contained, we can finally fulfil the chief promise of Aris First: Aris will finally withdraw from the affairs of continental Zebrica. From now on, if they want to kill each other we will have no part in it.
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Return to Isolation
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International Obligations
We cannot stick our heads in the sand. Those countries which fought on our side deserve protection in case of a return of war to the region, and we deserve to stay informed and prepared about goings-on in the continent.
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Seaquestrian Cultural Renaissance
After so long merely reacting to threats, it is time for Raft Wood to put his own agenda into practice. We will set up agencies and funds in Seaquestria to promoting art, music, dance, film, and all the other good things in life. Raft has spent so long defending our way of life: it is time to enjoy it.
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Autarky Perfected
Opening up limited exports has taken some strain off our postwar economy, but at the same time, we need to ensure we are not dependent on other nations. To that end we will search far and wide for Chromium, a vital resource for our fleet but one sadly lacking in North Zebrica. Perhaps we will find some if we search the ocean floor?
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The High-Tech Industry
A key component of sustainable economic independence is a positive balance of trade. We will develop our high tech sector, which is already one of the finest in the world, and sell our vacuum tubes, transistors, circuit boards and so on to the less-advanced regions on Zebrica and Griffonia who are struggling to enter the modern age.
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The Seaquestrian Boom
Our policies of protectionism mean that seapony workers don't have to compete with foreign labour, and the high cost of building underwater facilities is offset by the boundless real estate of the seafloor. Seaquestria is rapidly turning into a center of industry and innovation to rival Mount Aris itself, and is lifting up the nation by their example.
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The Good Life
Something amazing is happening in our kingdom. With the monopolists broken and the postwar economy booming, the average hard-working Arisian is making more and living better than ever. Housing loans are becoming more affordable than ever, and millions of new homes are being built. Each hardworking Arisian can look forward to the good life: a life of cultural richness, comfort, and stability.
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 The Good Life
With housing becoming more affordable than ever, wages on the rise and a cultural renaissance sweeping Aris, the lifestyle of all hardworking Arisians is becoming one of prosperity and enjoyment.
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Aris Strong And Free
We have emerged victorious through trials which would have broken any other nation. Today we celebrate our freedom, our way of life and our victorious soldiers. "Aris Eternal?" No, "Aris Strong and Free!"
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The Pride Of Aris
Our military are the pride of Aris, and Aris shall take care of its pride. The implementation of conscription and the viciousness of the fighting in the North Zebrican War has left many veterans struggling to reintegrate into society. We will provide them with generous pensions and job training to help them along.
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Lessons of the North Zebrican War
While the North Zebrican War is now consigned to the history books, there remains a massive stack of after-action reports that remain to be read and analyzed in full from all three branches of the military: Land, Naval, and Air.
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Arisian Warfare Perfected
With reports thoroughly analyzed, scrutinized, and debated upon, we can now look towards the future of warfare rather than merely the past, and perfect our own flavor of warfare, should war ever return to Aris. Assuming that it hasn't already.
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Crack path
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Aris Eternal!
The Ace and the Phalanx have won out over the small-minded isolationists and the perfidious traitors. Now it is time to consolidate our rule and win this war, for Aris!
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Phalanx Assault Sections
We will organize the Phalanx members within our army into elite assault sections and stormtrooper companies, so that their zeal and discipline can shatter our battlefield enemies as it has our internal enemies.
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Zebrican Auxiliaries
As savage creatures, the zebras and ponies of Zebrica are well suited for the savage task of infantry combat. The zebras and ponies living in Hippogriff-controlled territory will be promised additional rations and land in the lands we conquer in exchange for aiding us in the messy business of war.
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The Great Counter-Attack
Crack Lightning has devised a plan that will turn the North Zebrican War from a slow grind into a rout. We need only follow The Ace's design, and take the fight to the enemy.
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 The Day of Thunder
The Day of Thunder has arrived! We strike with overwhelming aggression and daring lightning attacks. Every infantrygriff and every aviator must fight as though The Ace himself is with them!
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The Factories Or The Front
Every single Arisian must do their part, either on the factories on on the front. Laziness, intransigence, and indifference are little better than disloyalty.
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Embrace Solidarist Economics
Solidarist Economics is the doctrine that the economy should be organized via state-sanctioned unions covering the workers in each sector to promote harmony among classes and give the state control over the economy. To win over the trade unions against Raft Wood, Crack Lightning promised to adopt this doctrine.
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Bleed And Ravage
We will come for them from the sea. We will come with our cannons, and our guns, and our planes, and our will, and we will ravage their lands until they rue the day they thought they could stand against the mountain.
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 Ravage Them!
Pound their defenses into oblivion! Bring capital ships to the shore en masse, and land our troops where their defenses once stood, then advance by the shoreline!
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Total War
"Though they sweep over our lands like the sands of the Zebhara, we will never simply bow before them. We will strike without warning and without mercy, fighting as one claw, one heart, one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt their nightmares, drenching our sacred mountain with their blood!" -Crack Lightning |
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 Total War
Every facet of life is being geared towards winning the war. Every good is rationed, every frivolity cut, every scrap of material used, every minute of labour time devoted to supplying the war effort. The nation is being run to exhaustion, and if final victory is not achieved soon, it will run itself into the ground.
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The Glory Of Victory
Victory has been won through blood, iron, and will. Now we shall reap the spoils of conquest, and let the glory of Aris soar ever higher!
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Triumphant Will
The Ace has imposed his will upon North Zebrica, and with it the will of Aris! We shall distribute official accounts of the war, our victory, and who we have to thank for it in both book and film format as a first step to cementing the permanent unity of leader and nation.
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Victory Day
To commemorate our victory in the North Zebrican War, we shall add a fourth day to the Three Days of Freedom: Victory Day. It shall be the grandest of the four, celebrating our triumph and our destiny as conquerors and masters of North Zebrica.
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Reward The Phalanx
The Phalanx has served us well, unruly and temperamental though they are. We shall reward our most loyal servants with lands in the conquered territories, servants, whatever they desire. So long as they remain on stand-by to die for Aris if that is what must be done.
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Consolidate Authority
Up until now, The Ace has governed in an ad hoc manner, accumulating power through informal means and giving out orders which he technically had no authority to give. While we will never legally formalise his place as dictator of Aris, some consolidation of these slapdash powers will certainly make things easier in peacetime.
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The Dream Of Hegemony
We have taken the first steps to establishing Aris as a global superpower, and securing our hegemony over all of North Zebrica. But there is so much more to do, and The Ace's ambitions grow ever greater.
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Cast Down Harmony
For there to be strength, there must be weakness. But that does not mean the strong should protect the weak. No. Harmony, the doctrine of strength serving weakness, has long been entrenched in our culture, but with the right push Crack Lightning can turn the thrill of victory into a lasting appreciation of dominating lesser creatures, and finally excise Harmony from Aris.
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 Harmonic Weakness Abandoned
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Predator Ethos
A strong civilization does not protect weaker ones; it preys on them. We must embrace our predatory nature, for it is nothing to be ashamed of. It is the best part of being a hippogriff.
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The Economy Of Conquest
Steel Stallion did not believe his book on imperialism was a treatise, but it was. Specialised areas, captive markets, offloading the crises of capital onto the conquered: what other empires have stumbled upon by accident, we shall implement by design. The "Barrack System" will ensure our conquests are economically sustainable, paving the way for ever greater conquests.
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State Modifier:
Local Resources: +30%
Local Factories: +20%
Local Ponypower: +5%
Resistance Target: -20%
Damage to Garrisons: -50.00%
Required Garrisons: -65%
Resistance Decay Speed: +100%
Enemy intel network strength gain: -25%
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Codify The Hierarchy of Species
"Arisians command, zebras obey" is a simplification at best. The Hegemony requires a more sophisticated hierarchy. From the noble Warzenan to the hardy Zarantian to the vile Colthaginian, there is so much variety among the servant races of the Hegemony. All shall have their particular talents put to service of the Arisians, and their particular weaknesses exploited to keep them from slipping our grasp.
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Crush Chiropterra
Chiropterra is a truly martial society, easily the most worthy foe faced by Aris. Alas, the very same faith which has kept Chiropterra united and strong for a thousand years has made them most difficult to pacify. We shall take no half-measures: We shall break their collective will, such that one day we may harness their strength and add it to our own.
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Clean The Remainder
Now that the major threats have been dealt with, we can sweep whatever small states remain in North Zebrica to secure our hegemony over the region. And from there, greater triumphs await.
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Lightning Strikes Colthage
Colthage. A den of corruption and vice. We shall descend upon them and wipe their degenerate state off the map, subjugating them in service of their betters.
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Break The Colthaginians
The Colthaginian is the vilest of all zebras, and we have millions of them under our rule. We shall implement the Barrack system in its most perfect form here, so that these foul creatures can be put to some use. Perhaps under our tutelage they will someday escape their base natures. Best not to hold our breaths.
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Rattle The Saber
New Mareland and Equestria hold several islands which would be of use to us, allowing us to achieve longer-range power projection. Through aggressive diplomacy we can seize Cross Island and the Spa Islands while they are distracted or vulnerable, or else offer them a price their shot-sighted leaders will surely accept.
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Overseas Adventurism
We must always seek to assert our strength over weaker nations, lest we become complacent and lose our edge. Puerto Caballo and Les Meridiennes are within striking distance of Aris, so if they leave the protection of their overlords, we can seize them and secure our sphere of influence.
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Hippogriffia Soars!
We have triumphed over all foes, forging a Hegemony that will last for generations. The decadent past is fading away, and a glorious future awaits us. A future in which we soar above all the other great powers, united in spirit and purpose. Aris Eternal!
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Antifa Skystar path
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Never Another Crack Lightning!
We have overthrown the tyrant Crack Lightning, and we must now set about dismantling his legacy. We will form a new government, and assess the political, military and moral failures which led to his disastrous reign. Never again shall a demagogue rule Aris.
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The Political Failure
Crack Lightning was able to usurp total control of Aris despite never formally deposing Queen Novo. Any political system which can be exploited that catastrophically either needs widespread reform, or total replacement.
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 Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
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The Question Of Constitutions
There are some who argue that a written constitution would have prevented Lightning's rise to power, that we trusted too much on the goodwill and wisdom of government officials and the monarchy when both were easily deceived. Perhaps it is time for Aris to draft a constitution?
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The Question Of Political Violence
In addition to bureaucratic maneuverings and jingoistic rhetoric, Crack Lightning attained power through political violence using paramilitaries. It also took violence to depose him, and now the Pinks and the Blues are debating over what role violence should play in politics, and whether it can ever be regarded as a force for good.
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Moral Politics
The question of violence has led inexorably to the question of morality. The Pinks say that tyrants can only be held back by the embrace of moral precepts, which fill the gaps left by law. The Blues argue resolutely that even the most upstanding individuals will turn to demagogues in times of social alienation, and we must combat the fraying effects of capitalism in order to restore social solidarity.
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The Right To Bear Arms
The right to bear arms is a recent suggestion by Posada, who argues that the workers must be armed and organized into worker's militias, so as both to defend their homes and to overthrow any tyrant. Others see it as an legitimation of the armed gangs of "patriots" which helped Crack Lightning seize power in the first place.
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The Right To Revolution?
Overthrowing Crack Lightning was clearly the right thing to do, but Skystar is being asked a vital question: why? Was it only because his rule was illegal, a usurpation of legitimate authority? Or was there something more: does every creature, usurped royal or not, have the right to rise up against their government if they believe it to be tyrannical?
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The Moral Failure
Apparently, we hippogriffs are not as noble as we thought. All it took was a few appeals to common prejudices and a new government to get us to act like barbarians. Where does that leave us?
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Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
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The Elements Revisited
Kindness, Generosity, Laughter, Loyalty, Honesty, and Magic. While never openly repudiating them, Aris First twisted and ultimately discarded the Elements of Harmony. We must restore these guiding principles, says Silverstream, but Skystar wonders if perhaps they are not enough in this new age.
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The Question Of Justice
The time has come. The trial date of Crack Lightning fast approaches, and Princess Skystar must make a choice between her promise of mercy to the dictator, and the demands of the bereaved for justice.
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The Royal Family Dinner
With all the major questions of the day answered and Skystar finally being crowed Queen, Queen-Mother Novo has invited her daughter to a private dinner to talk about her reign. While Novo is no longer the ruler, there is no doubt that she and Skystar will have much to say about the future of Aris.
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The Military Failure
While it is tempting to pin blame for the defeat in the North Zebrican War on Crack Lightning, that is simply too easy. For all his faults, Lightning prosecuted the war with dogged determination, and we still lost. If we are ever to return to Zebrica, there is much work to be done.
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Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
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The North Zebrican War Commission
We will establish a Royal Commission to examine in painstaking detail everything that went wrong during the North Zebrican War, to ensure that the next time we face such foes, we will not be found wanting.
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The Question Of Military Culpability
The military was the starting point for much of Crack Lightning's seizure of power, and they followed his orders even when they were monstrously wrong. Posada is calling for a wholesale purge and restructuring of our military, while others caution that could be disastrous for our chances of ever returning to North Zebrica.
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Cracking The Silver Curtain
A silver curtain has fallen over continental North Zebrica. As the very real possibility of a Second North Zebrican War looms, we must train our troops intensely on how to fight the Chiropterrans. The army of freedom will become the perfect counter to the legions of tyranny.
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The Protector Of Harmony
The bad old days of fascist rule are far behind us. We have reaffirmed our commitment to Harmony and justice, and shored up our institutions so that we will never falter again. It is time for Aris to reemerge onto the world stage, sure in purpose and clear in vision.
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The People's Princess
Skystar has become more than just a Princess: she has become the champion of the downtrodden, the voice of a new Aris and a new world, free of the shackles of fascism and all its allies. We reemerge onto the world stage not only healed, but transformed, embracing a radical new vision of justice.
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Tone Down Revanchist Rhetoric
Much as we may want to, we simply cannot subject our people to a second North Zebrican War. We will reform our army into a smaller, more professional force, and use it as to support other nations who share our ideals and are more capable of absorbing the massive casualties of total war.
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Prepare For The Second War
The time has come. Just as we threw off the tyranny of Crack Lightning, we shall throw off the tyranny of the creatures now lording over North Zebrica.
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Round Two!
Our army is ready, our fleets are armed. We have publicly repudiated the Treaty of Ain Trotgourait, and we have sent messages to the resistance groups on the mainland: the Hippogriffs are returning. Tremble, tyrants! Your time is at claw!
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Join Equestria
Equestria has long been a staunch defender of Harmony. Whether or not we share all of those values, they are still our historical friends and need our help against the enemies surrounding them. We will throw our weight behind them to support peace and justice in this world, even as we mourn our lost friends on the mainland.
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Razor's Revenge path
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The Foundations Of The New Hippogriff
We must lay the foundations for a new generation of Hippogriff, one untainted by Harmonist weakness. This will take some time to come to fruition, but Razorbeak is patient.
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 Politicized Education
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The Foundations Of The New State
Crack Lightning's reforms, although tragically incomplete, will serve as a guidepost to our new military and administration: everything that was in line with them shall be made into the foundations of our state, while everything that is not in line shall be erased.
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 Bureaucratic Purges
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Prioritise The Youth Groups
The rearing of the next generation is the single most important task of the present generation. We will make compulsory youth groups, modelled after those proposed by Wingbardian fascism but far more all-encompassing, to ensure that the next generation is raised into patriotism and discipline from the time they are four years old.
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 The Young Warriors League
The Youth Defense League has been radicalised into the Young Warriors League, designed to promote militarism and blind obedience. Attendence is mandatory.
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Your Parents Could Be Traitors
We will have youth group leaders encourage children to spy on their parents. This will be useful in rooting out traitors, but more importantly it will help sever the next generation from the present one.
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Sever The Bonds Of Family
By the time a child reaches adulthood, they will have nothing but scorn for their parents and the weakness they represent.
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You Will Succeed Where They Failed
The present generation failed Crack Lightning, failed their country, and consigned Aris to humiliation and defeat. We must ensure the young know that shame, and know that their purpose is to redeem their families and triumph where their parents failed.
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Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
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The School As Barracks
The model perfected in the youth groups shall extend to the entire education system. Every school down to kindergarten will teach the children how to stand in ranks, how to follow orders and how to give them, how to hate their enemies and love their country.
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Politicized Education
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Violence As Exultation
Life is not a fairytale of Harmony and friendship. It is a life-or-death struggle. And is life not glorious?
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Immortalize The Ace
The Ace was the most magnificent Hippogriff of his generation, let down by the weakness of his peers. His words and his deeds shall become the immortal guiding light of the new Aris, and his murder shall kindle a rage which shall burn away the very memory of Harmony.
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 Cult of the Ace
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
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Demand Skystar's Extradition
Skystar is an enemy of the state, but more important to the Equestrian weaklings, she's a murderer. She gunned down an unarmed hippogriff in his home. While it's unlikely Equestria will accede to our demands, we must publicly ask. Politics as spectacle.
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The Culture Of Outrage
Chiropterra, Equestria, Colthage: neighbours near and far have slighted us, have impugned us, have robbed us. Rage at your parents, rage at the traitors, rage at the foreigners, rage at the world, but most importantly, rage.
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 Our population is being fed a steady stream of anger, directed especially at those we have painted as responsible for the assassination of Crack Lightning. This makes our propaganda extra effective, as we can manipulate them into accepting great sacrifices for the eventual revenge against such a great power.
Culture of Outrage
Our population is being fed a steady stream of anger, stoking revanchist fires which have nowhere to go.
Culture of Outrage
Our population is being fed a steady stream of anger, stoking revanchist fires which have nowhere to go.
Culture of Outrage
Our population is being fed a steady stream of anger, stoking revanchist fires which have nowhere to go.
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What Was Stolen From You
The traitors, the weaklings, the enemy in the field and the enemy at home cost us our Hegemony, our dignity, our pride. Every Arisian shall know what was stolen from them, and shall live a life of austere discipline in preparation for reclaiming it. When the final war comes, they shall weep with joy.
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Culture of Outrage
Our propaganda has refined somewhat, and is now more focused on military aggression. Our soldiers chomp at the bit, ready to tear into the enemy at the first opportunity.
Our propaganda has refined somewhat, and is now more focused on military aggression. Our soldiers chomp at the bit, ready to tear into the enemy at the first opportunity. The focus on such a distant and massive target as Equestria makes our propaganda all the more effective.
Culture of Outrage
Our propaganda has refined somewhat, and is now more focused on military aggression. Our soldiers chomp at the bit, ready to tear into the enemy at the first opportunity.
Culture of Outrage
Our propaganda has refined somewhat, and is now more focused on military aggression. Our soldiers chomp at the bit, ready to tear into the enemy at the first opportunity.
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The Twenty Year Plan
It will take twenty years for the next generation to fully mature, for our society to fully embody the Ace's values, for us to feel it down to our guts and deep in our bones. But the seeds are sewn. Now we merely wait for them to bear fruit, and then unleash our new perfection upon the world.
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 Everything Submits to the Twenty Year Plan
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The Fear Machine
When they see the enemy as omnipresent, they will know fear. But only the weak run. The strong use their fear, turn it into aggression, into cohesion, into strength.
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Eternal Readiness
The North Zebrican War was an act of unprovoked aggression. Aggression and violence are always a moment away: we shall impress this fundamental truth upon our people, and drill them ceaselessly for the day war returns to Aris.
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 Eternal Readiness
The North Zebrican War was an act of unprovoked aggression. Aggression and violence are always a moment away: we shall impress this fundamental truth upon our people, and drill them ceaselessly for the day war returns to Aris.
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Aris Unconquerable
The young, the old, the soldier, and the civilian will band together to build massive flak towers, pillboxes, bunkers and earthworks all across Aris. Peace is merely a time to prepare for war.
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The New Model Army
Crack Lightning trusted the lower ranks, and they failed him spectacularly. No more will we give vague directives and leave it to local commanders to carry them out; every action will be planned down to the minutiae.
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Redesigning the Army
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Absolute Hierarchy
The chain of command will be rigid, well-defined, and with clear lines of responsibility and accountability, all leading up to the supreme commander, Razorbeak. We will leave nothing to chance.
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Unquestioning Loyalty
We must ensure that those at the top have the same level of devotion to the state and its ideals that Supreme Commander Razorbeak does. Loyalty must be proven with blood.
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 Purging the Armed Forces
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
Postwar Crisis
Defeat in the North Zebrican War has caused a crisis of faith in the government.
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Glory In Death
There is no greater honour than dying for Aris, that your blood may redeem the weakness of your forebears and inspire your successors.
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Allows the use of the Last Stand and Force Attack Command Abilities at a greatly reduced cost.
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The Army As State; The State As Army
There shall be no division between civilian and military spheres in the New Arisian state. Indeed, there shall be no civilian sphere at all.
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Officers Of The New Generation
The first class of officers have graduated under our new training program, with the most competent ready for rapid promotion to high ranks. They will embody the New Aris far better than the weaklings who once led our army.
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