Kingdom of Vedina shared national focus tree/scriptoutput
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The Succession Crisis
The king's mortality has become not just a thought in griffons' minds but an indisputable fact. The succession must be secured and it must be done soon. Princess Sköldsvärd has no choice but to prove herself worthy of the throne of Vedina and the title of Queen.
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Matters of Love
With the princess in line for succession, the decision of who she shall marry has become ever more important. We should do our best to find her a proper suitor, fitting for her status.
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Debutante
We have made preparations, and it is time that the event commence - we have gathered the nobles of our nation together to introduce the Princess, and to find prospective suitors for her. There shall be great festivities, and surely we can find a few good options...
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A Great Hunt
The Princess has embarked on a hunt with a suitor, which will surely help them bond, as well as help the future heir to the throne develop some more practical skills.
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A Royal Ball
The Princess has been invited to a traditional ball with one of the suitors. There will surely be dancing and all sorts of festivies suitable to the attendees' rank.
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A Grand Feast
There are few better ways to bond than over food, and as such the Princess and one of her suitors are attending a feast to grow closer.
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A Night Out
The Princess has joined her suitor for a night on the town, spending time with the nobility of the capital and with her date.
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A Walk in the Garden
The Princess has opted to join her suitor for a quiet walk in the royal gardens, where they may get to know each other closer and discuss things in solitude.
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A Romantic Dinner
The Princess has joined her suitor for a personal dinner, where they can bond over food and discussion in a romantic environment.
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A Love Letter
As the decision grows closer, the Princess woke one day to find herself addressed by three letters- each the last bid by the suitors to win her heart.
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A Warrior Prince
We have decided to accept Stridande's offer of marriage. A strong military leader and proud patriot, he makes a fantastic example of the honor and bravery we expect from our citizens and soldiers. He will make a wonderful companion to the Princess, and a show of the strength and honor of our nation and military.
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 The Militarist Stridande
Stridande is a chivalrous honourable griffon that will be a good choice for Sköldsvärd.
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A Reformer Princess
We have decided to accept Lycklig's offer of marriage. Though unconventional, the political marriage between the two Princesses may prove to be helpful to many. Using her political to expertise to further the interests of the royal family, and the people, Lycklig will surely be a fantastic asset for the realm.
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 The Noble Lycklig
The Noble Lycklig will help Vedina enter the modern age with splendour unheard of in Vedinan history.
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An Authoritarian Prince
We have decided to accept Ondska's offer of marriage. While many see him as cruel or dishonourable, they are simply weak-minded. The Princess has seen the truth in what he says, and the foolishness in such petty values as honor. The strong rule always, and the Princess and her prince together will show their true strength.
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 The Dark Prince
Ondska's grip on power has been established and his marriage to the princess will hopefully be fruitful and enjoyable for all.
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The Proclamation
We have made a decision on who the Princess shall marry, but we have not announced it yet. With the preparations finished, we shall make the final proclamation- the Princess' groom has been chosen!
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Matters of Heroism
Traditionally every heir apparent has been required to pass several trials to prove their heroism and ability to rule as the rightful leader of Vedina. If the Princess cannot pass these challenges, she has no right to inherit the throne.
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Preparing For A Quest
The princess has announced in a speech that life at court will prepare her for little, that to learn how to rule she must embark on a quest. Her bags are packed and the transport is ready, now where will her adventure take her?
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The Quest of Honour
The princess feels a need to prove her honour and valour, so when news of a group of bandits in a nearby village gets to her ears she is quick to ready herself to dispatch them.
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Honour Gives Nothing
The princess' adventures across the world have been taking a toll, no longer does she see the best in her fellow griffons. No longer are honour and valor things of importance to her, its all about being the one on top at the end of anything. No matter how she got there.
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 A Treacherous Road
The Princess is starting to walk down a dark path not easily staved off once you begin to walk it...
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Chivalry To All
The princess' adventures across the world have shown her that not all is well, that there are horrible creatures out there that will ruin anything they touch. But instead of demoralizing her, it has only made her commitment to honour and valor stronger. Through her experiences she has become a strong and chivalrous griffon, the pride of Vedina.
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 Chivalrous Knights
The knights of Vedina are renowned all across Griffonia for their prowess, honour and bravery, inferior in no way to their peers in the Empire and other major nations.
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Support The Armoursmiths
The princess now knows that honour and chivalry give nothing, to be ruthless and merciless will give her more than those ever will. And so purchases of new arms have increased by a wide margin, weapons stronger than anything we've had before. Though the princess simply uses her new motto on any who question her, 'The ends justify the means.'
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Support The Knightly Orders
The princess' show of chivalry has become knowledge shared by all Vedinans, where she has become the pride of the Kingdom, with griffons signing up to the army just to show that they too are just as honourable and chivalrous as her.
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The Noble Sky
Soon the celebrations for the Gift of The Gods will take place, where we celebrate the ability for all griffons to fly, a gift given to us by the gods that we take much pride in. All griffons from the King to the peasants share this ability and during the events there will be flying competitions, in speed, height and distance, as well as a fun obstacle course for youngest griffons.
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 A Noble Pursuit In The Sky
Our planes shine bright and their engines purr like happy kittens, our airforce has never been better.
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The Quest of Valour
Today the princess was acting restless. When one of the maids asked her if something was wrong, she responded: "The rumours are true aren't they? While that monster rampages through our nation, I am here. This cannot go on, if the knights haven't dealt with it by the time I arrive, then I will." Having built up the courage she ran out of the room to put on her armor, leaving behind a very confused maid.
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The Quest of Charity
The princess has announced a charity tour around Vedina where she will help the poor and downtrodden, for why have chivalry if you won't use it for good?
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The Quest of Knighthood
The princess, after taking out the monster that threatened the Vedinan countryside, has been asked to visit the knightly stronghold of Skyrim in order to become a knight herself.
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The Knight's Code
The princess has taken a keen interest into the knights' code of honour, being tutored by the finest knights in the Kingdom. Soon she might be one of the finest herself!
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Visit The Border
The new generals we recruited have minimal experience in war but also have many ideas. The best way to balance this discrepancy is by letting them play wargames against each other, testing and developing their strategies on the Republican border near the river. The princess will visit these exercises to learn more about war and tactics.
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Military Exercises
The generals have asked us if they can be allowed to try a military exercise to see if their strategies against the Republic might work, how quickly our griffons would arrive at the front line, how quickly would they dig their trenches and to test if the frontline logistics work in practice. It's believed to be a good idea, so we shall allow it.
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Patience is Key
The princess has been quite alone in her own bubble for a while, so in a changed mood she decided to leave the palace and seek some social gratification. Though if she has any competency at this will remain to be seen.
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The Flight Home
During daybreak the city of Turhamn was awoken through the sound of a massive behemoth in the sky. An aircraft painted in Vedina's flag colors flying over the city, casting its wide shadow on it. The griffons saw through an open door on the side that it was the princess, looking down at her home city. She was back from her quest and had brought with her the spoils of success.
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Moving Forward As A Nation
Vedina must not remain in the past, sticking to a bygone age. To truly be a great nation in this world, Vedina must wholeheartedly embrace modernity, without necessarily abandoning its traditions.
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No Griffons Left Behind
Our nation has fallen far behind on matters of education, a majority of the country being illiterate and only the children of the elite receiving a proper education. For us to grow and compete on the world stage
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The Foundation Of The Future
Why simply catch up to our rivals when we can take the lead and outpace them? Vedina will not settle for third or second place, it will not settle for mediocrity, but it will shine as the world's star, for it will look to the future rather than the present.
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Education For All
The new education programs have seen large successes. It's time to nationalize this system to make every Vedinan benefit from an education, no matter the class. Soon enough our school system will rival that of Equestria!
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Popular Education
While we have started educating young griffons we still have a problem with adolescents who have nothing to do and turn to delinquency. A higher education is something all of these young griffons should seek, and be given.
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Military Education
The soldiers have fought many a battle and experienced many trials, the reunification was difficult and hard fought but a success. We now have the experience, now its time to get the expertise.
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New Weapons
Vedina has great weapons that compete well against the rest of Griffonia's arsenal. But who says that this is the end of arms technology? We must get even better weapons and cement our status as a nation forever leading in arms.
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Armoured Tractors
Many nations have been investing in armoured warfare, and so we must make investments of our own if we wish to compete with the major powers of the world. Though for now a bit of steel on a tractor should work, right?
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Big Guns
One of the modern staples of warfare is artillery. Massive shells of destruction that can break armies through an endless barrage of carefully aimed shots. While a rifle may be able to shoot soldiers a shell will pulverize entire squads. It might not be honourable, but none can deny it's effective.
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Building A War Economy
We can have as much knowledge about arms and artillery as we like, but without production it will just be blueprints scattered in the wind. Our arms production must increase to arm our griffons, and have us be ready for war if it comes.
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First Railway
Engineers have started work on a national railway that connects to Turhamn. A new nerve system to connect our nation and its regions together, it is truly an admirable, albeit expensive, project.
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A New Age For Transportation
Vedina is more connected than ever before, with railways spanning across much of the nation, though a problem lingers of the fact that much of our regular roads are still made of dirt or gravel. Lets turn this soil into modern asphalt!
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Connecting The Countryside
The work that's been done in infrastructure has been fundamental and grand, but while many of the major cities are connected now the countryside has been left in the dust. This inequality must change if we wish for Vedina to truly be connected.
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The Motorcar Industry
With the new robust roads of Vedina, many businesses have started moving produce and supplies with longhaul trucks that travel across the whole nation. The roads, the veins of the nation, have gotten better and better since their inception and at this point work like a well oiled machine.
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Place To Port
There are not many harbors in Vedina for either civilians or the navy to dock at. If we wish to patrol our coasts then we must have a place for our ships to port and resupply. It is a simple matter of logic to have it.
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A New Economy
Vedina runs on a decaying husk of an outdated economy, unsuited to our new modern lifestyle. Many of our people live on mere pocket-change, struggling to so much as put food on the table, much less pay rent or vital taxes. A state-sponsored project to start and build industrial facilities, to provide jobs for the population, will help vitalize our economy.
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Build Consumerism
Our country runs on the whirring engine of our industry, but any engine, no matter how good, requires a hearty kick-start. A cash-injection should be enough financial aid to our industrial base to assure continued, exponential growth.
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Limited Welfare Reforms
The poor of Vedina are, and have always been, a sorry sight. They do nothing but drag down our reputation, pulling us deeper in the stigmatized hole of Griffonian nations we're struggling to crawl out of. Many agree that helping them will also help us, and the more liberal-leaning members of the court have been proposing new welfare legislature.
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 Limited Social Reforms
Limited social reforms have helped make the Vedinan working class happier and more productive.
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Labour Reform In Vedina
Worker's rights are only a suggestion not a guarantee in the modern day Vedina, nothing more than an empty promise that never gets followed up on. If we truly want a happy nation we must make sure the workers have more rights, shorter workdays and vacation time to actually spend time with their families. We are not machines but living beings, we need rest sometimes.
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Worker Retraining
In our leap forward towards modernization, many of our farmers have been left jobless. With the uneducated workers moving from the agrarian countryside to bustling manufacturing centers, they cannot keep up with the shift towards industrialization. Retraining programs will teach them important aspects about working in factories.
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Extending The Welfare Programs
"Our valour is a beautiful apple with a nice ripe skin, though one may find that the core is nothing short of rotten. the nobles gorge themselves on their wealth while the peasants whose backs they stand upon go starving. This is neither fair nor just, how are we to have valour if our greatest institutions are built upon the bodies of the starved masses".
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Extended Social Reforms
Extended welfare reforms have made Vedina's people happier than ever as their society is looking out for them like a mother bird protecting her eggs and nest.
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Offshore Oil
Oil has been struck off the shores of Vedina. Pushing for its extraction and refining will take a heavy weight off the Vedinan economy, as we will no longer have to trade for the precious lifeblood of our war machine.
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Tungsten Expansion
Tungsten has been found in large deposits throughout many Vedinan caves. Our land appears richer than we thought, and focusing on its extraction will greatly help our wartime industry in the long term.
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New Tools
Though we now have many factories, the tools and machinery they still use border on the archaic. Dusty pieces of machinery more reminiscent of the feudal nations of the east rather than a nation on the cusp of the modern world pock Vedinan industry. To increase efficiency, we are to research more modern means and tools for production and manufacturing.
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The Great Universities
Vedina will become a great nation in the fields of science and technology, but to accomplish this goal we must not stop at normal schools. By establishing universities with the finest lecturers brought from around the world, their knowledge can be transmitted to Vedinans aspiring to follow in their steps.
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The Princess' College
Princess Lycklig has opened a new school for the poor but yet gifted, this will hopefully aid in getting us a new pool of talent to put to very good use.
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New Military Theory
The planning of our offensives and defenses is not broad enough. We cannot be a haphazard nation with a military that moves as it likes. Every last move, every last breath. We must plan everything to the most minute of details, for otherwise chaos will consume us, and our armies will be routed completely.
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The Peasant Levy
We will not win wars unless we utilize our greatest weapon: Our people. Vedinans are our most powerful tool in warfare and we will be able to defeat all enemies that come for us if we break them using raw griffonpower and our indomitable will.
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Armoured Offensive
The future of warfare is not in griffons or in artillery. Whatever a griffon soldier could accomplish, a tank can do safer, stronger, even faster and infinitely more versatile. Mastering the use of armoured vehicles and tactics will further ensure our position as a fierce opponent that few would dare go up against.
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A New Naval Approach
We must not forget about our biggest neighbour: the ocean itself. The sea is full of opportunities but also dangers, and thusly we should not restrict our understanding of warfare to land and air alone. Fighting on water poses its own set of challenges and rewards, and learning how to effectively utilize our naval power will cement our rule over the waves.
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The Red Wedding
Princess Sköldsvärd has chosen a groom and preparations have begun for the most extravagant royal wedding. This has sent ripples of celebration throughout the nation, though there still exist corners of rumourous dissent from those who do not much like the princess.
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The New Sköldsvärd
Sköldsvärd has changed ever since her marriage. She seems more happy, more upbeat. A weight has been lifted off her shoulders and she has seen the light of harmony, the ways of friendship that truly make a nation better. With her new social and labour reforms Vedina will become a better place than ever and she is finally happy to be princess.
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Harmonist Foreign Policy
Our new foreign policy is simple, exporting friendship and harmony to all the lands we can. Trying to make every nation better than it ever was before, leaving the world a more pleasant place than it was when we arrived to it. The nations of the world squabble and pick regimes that are antithetical to their interests, so we have no choice but to export friendship, don't you see?
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Harmonist Industrial Policy
We can only get a modernised industry by leading our industry forwards ourselves, it will not advance on its own and we need not walk forwards, but make a great leap in technology and industrial practices. We will import as many experts as we can while giving workers enough rights that they truly want to work for their companies' well-being. Soon we will be an industrial powerhouse.
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A New Beautiful Dawn
Things have changed in Vedina. No longer do our people dread to wake up to work themselves to death in a job that hates them. No longer must they hold their tongue lest they get lashes for speaking ill of the monarchy. Their free, they have liberty. We have harmony. What a wonderful morning...
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An Age of Chivalry
The knights enjoy their work, they want to do it. They are no longer a corrupt bureaucratic mess of noblegriffons forgetting their pledges, forgetting their honor. Taking bribes and working only for their own gain. Now, they are truly the model griffons. Loyal, hard working. Wanting nothing more than to uphold honor and chivalry across the land. Things are changing for the better.
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Our Place In The world
Our place in the world is simple, Vedina is a nation of freedom and liberty. There is nothing more for us than to try and affect the world in the most positive manner we can. Spreading harmony across the world and teaching others about the power that friendship and harmony has.
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Join The Entente
Isolation breeds weakness - Vedina must find allies on the world stage. The Aquileians, preaching liberty and freedom, appear to be good, trustworthy allies for Vedina to stand with. Democracies must stand united in the face of extremism. The emissaries will be sent to get Vedina to want us to join. Soon we will have a great ally standing with us.
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Join The Pan-Griffonian Alliance
Vedina must not stand alone and isolated on the world stage, we must join an alliance. The best option is to join the Republic to the east. Despite [FAT.GetLeader]'s hatred of monarchism, we must work out a compromise.
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The Aquileian Order
The democratic nation of Aquileia is a cornerstone of liberty and harmony, a nation of true believers in freedom and equality. And yet their institutions are still young, not having had the development that centuries has given Vedina. Their knights are rookies with rusted rifles and pig iron armor. To make sure that they live on and that the teachings of democracy do as well, we must send them help and teachers.
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The Republican Order
The Griffonian Republic is a nation of democracy, one that has thrown off the imperialist yoke of the Empire and reinvented itself as a nation of liberty, where the people's wishes are listened to and where their wants and needs are tended to. But in the south, the Empire is rising once more. The shambling corpse rebuilding itself and coming back to enslave us all for a forlorn dream. We must send the Republic knights and teachers and help them to defend!
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A Beacon Of Chivalry
Today, the streets feel a little safer. The air smells slightly cleaner. The lights of Vedina look more vibrant. Shiny knights patrol, rifles ready, uniforms ironed, cuffs polished. In the face of so much adversity, Vedina's tradition of knighthood remains strong and forever adapting. All eyes watch the nation's royal guardsmen, the knight corps, the frequent tournaments. A beacon of modern chivalry in a sea of forgotten traditions.
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The Western Agenda
An Equestrian delegation has recently visited Vedina, with only positive things to say. Against the lurking threat of socialism from the north and of monarchism from the ever expanding Empire, we have held out as a stronghold of harmony on the Griffonian continent, and our efforts have not gone unnoticed. The flags shine brighter in winds of democracy blowing from new allies.
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Unity With The Forgotten Colony
Foreign ships stand docked in Vedina's harbours. Foreign, but not unknown. Friends from across the sea, here to shake claws and embrace in unity between nations. Nova Griffonia's flag flutters as high as Vedina's in front of the Royal Palace. The princess accepts the Nova Griffonian diplomats with a warm welcome. After such a long search, Vedina has finally found an ally. With any luck, one to last.
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The Errant Colony
The old colony on Equus, the one that was abandoned long ago by the Empire: Nova Griffonia. They themselves are a danger to us all, a place of chaos and unrest that will spill back to its original home and destroy it, the peace that we have grown accustomed to would be swept away in an instant, and as such we have no choice other than to make sure our defenses hold.
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The New Order
"The pointy end - you use the pointy end." Our Nova Griffonian friends have much to learn from our way of knighthood. Separated from the mainland for so long, their culture has grown stagnant. No fret, though. Now that our relationship has improved once again, we may catch them up with the forms of traditions that they have lost. Knight-Errants, Royal Knights and gleaming tournament champions are already on their way to Nova Griffonia to begin teaching a new generation of knights.
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A Guiding Claw
The renegade colony of Nova Griffonia has existed for far too long. Squint on the far western shores of Vedina, and you can nearly see its high rock cliffs standing defiant against the waves, defiant against us and against a new order. No more. In secret, we prepare. In secret, soldiers board their landing crafts. In secret, the clock ticks to Nova Griffonia's righteous re-subjugation.
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Boon Of The West
The first oil-coated surveyor could've been just a one-off event. The second, a coincidence. But when a third surveyor barged into the royal palace, dripping with oil and leaving a dark trail of petroleum in his wake of excitement, it became quite obvious what kind of treasures lie just beneath Vedina's soil to the west. Construction of extraction facilities should begin immediately.
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The Pragmatic Ruler
The only way to protect Vedina is by choosing the path of neutrality. In its current state, the kingdom can neither risk provoking war, or being drawn into it. The only path in this case is for [Root.GetLeader] to keep the kingdom neutral.
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A Neutral Foreign Policy
The first step on the path to neutrality is to embark on a foreign policy that makes our position clear. This will enable to us to trade with any country without fear of reprisal, while we gradually modernize.
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Modernising Our Neutral Nation
To avoid stagnation, and to be able to present ourselves as a nation able to back its neutrality, we must gradually bring our society forward so that it can be judged equivalent to the standards of the other leading powers.
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A New Dawn
With our society lifted out from the cobwebs of the past, we are about to begin a new era for Vedina. An era where our industry will no longer be seen as backward, unable to support our ever-growing trade links and back our neutral stance on the world stage.
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Death of Chivalry
Chivalry has protected Vedina for years. However, it's usefulness has come to an end. By casting off the last shackles of this outdated institution, we will be able to move into the modern era, and remain at a technological parity with our neighbours.
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Vedina Isolated
We are beset on all sides by either enemies, or those not friendly to us. If that is the case, we must prepare ourselves to navigate our ship of state, our kingdom, through these rough waters. Sharpen your swords and ready yourselves Vedinans. The time for hard choices is nigh.
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 The Vedinan Peacekeepers
The knights will keep the peace and make sure no violence breaks out, so best watch yourself.
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Join The Reichspakt
We have little choice. Despite our best efforts to strengthen our kingdom, Griffenheim's power is overwhelming and growing stronger. More importantly, their emperor is dead, and we will not be joining as a subject nation, but as an independent, junior partner. It might be the only way to save our kingdom.
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Vedina Goes Alone!
At this crossroads, it is obvious we must stay isolated from the empire. Yes, Griffenheim is powerful, and has traditionally attempted to erode our very country's culture. But that is why we must continue to remain apart from the Empire, if we are to survive as a kingdom. That being said, it is unlikely that Griffenheim will take this well, so we must ready our defenses.
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 Vedinan Isolationism
War is good for nogriffon, and as such Vedina has decided to embark on a policy of neutrality and isolation.
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Knights for the Empire
In terms of material wealth, Vedina has little of value to give to the Empire, but we do have the honour and the skill of our knights.
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Modern Knights
If we are to truly go alone, and survive the coming storm on the continent, we must modernize even our knights. No longer can they be shielded only by honour and valour.
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War Has Changed
The face of warfare has changed. In order for us to meet it, we must loosen the restrictions on who can become a knight. Thus, we can expand our knightly arm and spur on both commoner and nobility to further heights in their service to Vedina.
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The Modern Knight
Having abandoned sword and shield in favor of rifles and grenades the knights have changed, wearing lighter armor and having mastered their new ranged weapons they are a force to be reckoned with. Though gunpowder may be new to the knights they have taken to it like a mouse to a granary, they will defend our lands with their lives like never before.
The Modern Knight
Having abandoned sword and shield in favor of rifles and grenades the knights have changed, wearing lighter armor and having mastered their new ranged weapons they are a force to be reckoned with. Though gunpowder may be new to the knights they have taken to it like a mouse to a granary, they will defend our lands with their lives like never before.
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A Western Agenda
Remaining neutral by ourselves can only go so far. Since we obviously cannot turn to the Griffonian Empire, and we cannot trust the Aquileians, then we must look westward to Nova Griffonia. Perhaps we northern griffons may find some common ground and if not, maybe we might find some kind of opportunity to strengthen ourselves.
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Trade With The Colony
The Nova Griffonians have greeted our delegation with open wings! Now is the time to hammer out the specifics of our agreement and lay the foundations for a mutually beneficial relationship.
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An Errant Colony
It is now abundantly clear that Nova Griffonia cannot be trusted. It has shown itself through its spurring of our well-meaning overtures to be a errant colony, unconcerned with Griffon matters and possibly hostile towards us. We must act to shore up our coastal defenses immediately!
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Chivalry in Nova Griffonia
Now that we are partners, we should share what we hold most valuable with Nova Griffonia, and our greatest asset, our chivalric ways, so that their knights may become as noble as ours.
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Our Guiding Claw
For Vedina's safety and to ensure that our dangerous western neighbour does not threaten us, we must temporarily break from our goals of neutrality, and prepare for war against Nova Griffonia. It is not an enviable solution, but it is the only solution as they will inevitably eye us as a target for conquest.
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Boon of the West
Thanks to our pursuit of a western agenda, we can now develop the oil resources of the resource-rich west. We merely need to put some time into developing them.
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The Northern Axis
Vedina may stand in the corner of Griffonia, but we must not stand alone, surrounded by enemies and without allies. To survive the tides of hostility poised to crash against our borders, we must find those likeminded in this world and befriend them.
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A Forced Modernisation
Vedina's archaic administration system has proved unable to handle the great leap forward into our transition as a modern nation. A rework has been long overdue, and now is high-time for it. Integration of new infrastructure projects into a new, more efficient and more organized system will yield better results in the grand scheme of things.
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A Dark New Dawn
As the sun rises over Vedina it is a new day, one where the old has been dealt with and the new leaders are solidified in their power. There will be no deviation, no changes from the state set status quo. One will do what the state says or be found dead. Ah, a wonderful new dawn is it not? And i do think these borders don't go far enough...
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The Doom Of Griffonia
The resurgent Griffonian Empire grows like a tumour over the continent, driven by the urge to relive the bygone days of the old empire. As its soldiers storm its surrounding countries to restore glory which never truly existed, it's becoming clearer and clearer that, unless stopped, they will soon come knocking on Vedina's door. We must cut out this cancer before it spreads, and strike before they become unstoppable. We will avenge our forefathers and do today what they couldn't so many years ago. We will end the scourge of the Griffonian Empire for good.
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They're Just Prey
We are surrounded by weak, squabbling nations stuck in petty infighting. They are weak and disorganized, while we stand strong and united. They are rabbits hidden in their burrows, and the wolves of Vedina have grown hungry. It's time we went out for a hunt.
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Enemies Are Our Prey
The enemies of Vedina are prey animals that will be destroyed quickly and expertly by the powerful Vedinan soldiers.
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Spilling The Reds' Blood
The red banner of socialism casts a dark, gloomy shadow over much of Griffonia. Spreading like an infectious plague, it has taken hold of many of our neighbours. We must be the quarantine, vaccine and cure to the scourge of socialism. We must stop its spread and eradicate it, to rid Griffonia of this ideology of filth.
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Choosing Our Allies
When predatory animals attack, they will always single out lone prey, working together as a single pack. Until we become strong enough to stand on our own, we must seek allies on the world stage, to protect us from the great powers of Griffonia. When the bombs begin to fall and the guns being to smoke, we must make sure we have someone guarding our backs. It's high time we start looking.
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Making The Socialists One Of Us
Unrest and sabotage are growing issues in the annexed formerly-socialist states. Though their dissident populations are few and far between, they still present a sizeable threat to the stability of our nation. Their acts of terrorism in the name of a dying ideology must be stopped and these territories better integrated.
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Cracking The Rotten Talon
The Griffonian Republic is a rotten corpse of a nation, masquerading as a noble knight of the people. Like a diseased griffon, all it can do now is stumble and stagnate, and let the surrounding vultures peck off more while its people suffer. As the world's true masters of honour, it is our duty to help our fellow Griffons and strike down the failure of the Republic. Long live Vedina!
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The Corruption Grows
The knights of Vedina have changed like the princess has. Honour is now traded for coin, and chivalry has drowned in blood. As the days pass, it becomes harder and harder to discern common bandits from royal knights. Theft and abuse have become little more than a new constant in the world of former knighthood. There is no more spark of honour, all that now glints in the eyes of knights is gold.
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The Corruption Spreads
No longer does Vedina fight with valour and chivalry, but with treacherous black magic and corrupt means. Effective, but evil.
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Civilize The Savages
The backwards griffons and ponies united in the so-called [NTR.GetName] would make for fine thralls in our new empire. It is only natural Vedina takes what it deserves.
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Subjugate Cloudbury
The lands formerly belonging to the Republic are teeming with bandits, brigands and guerrilas, still clinging to the idea of a united Griffonia. Our knights will make sure they forget such foolish notions as the Duchy of Cloudbury becomes an integral part of Vedina.
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Claim the Throne
It is only natural for the strong to take from the weak - and [Root.GetLeader] is mighty indeed, unlike the pathetic weakling in Griffenheim. The time has come for Griffonia to welcome its new Empress!
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Preparing For War
Should Vedina find itself pulled into war on the continent, we make sure we are prepared. Our industry is not yet ready for a complete and total conversation to war-time production and for the absolute mobilization of the available workforce. If Vedina hopes to survive, it must make sure its people are ready to pour everything they have into pure, undeniable victory - not necessarily on the battlefield, but on the production front, in the fields and farms, in the laboratories, in the skies and on the seas. Vedina must prepare for the storm, or else be swept away.
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 War Preparations
The drums of war beat in the distance and we must prepare for it as best we can, we are neither weak nor pushovers. Whoever stands in our way will regret it.
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The Red Line
To defend ourselves properly we must not allow ourselves to stand still and do nothing as the socialists pool and collect at our border, preparing to destroy the Vedinan way of life. If we do not fortify against them, then they will invade us. They will commit unspeakable crimes to the griffonesses, kill the griffons and who even knows what they will do to the chicks.
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The Coastal Wall
Vedina's coasts have always been blessed in a way that they've never been attacked. Not in all of our wars has the enemy thought to land on our beaches. But that is no reason to grow content - comfort breeds weakness, and a sufficiently cunning enemy will see the soft underbelly of our coastline and think to attack. Therefore, we must begin creating proper defenses along the sea, a coastal wall will protect Vedina from seafaring invaders.
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A Dark Change
The Knights of Vedina have completely abandoned the use of swords in duels. The era of true knighthood, of honourable single combat, thrilling sword fights and the code of chivalry is long gone, lost in the smoke of a pistol. Disputes are now solved quickly with guns as opposed to lumbering, heirloom swords. This lack of honour is now spreading to the battlefield as well. Why fight the enemy fairly when you can simply blow them to smithereens?
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War, War Changes
War has changed and so must we, our tactics and armies must evolve.
War, War Changes
War has changed and so must we, our tactics and armies must evolve.
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The Republican Border
The Republic poses an existential danger to Vedina. How can our authority be upheld and remain believable when such chaotic threats lurk just beyond our border? If we are to protect our citizens from the propaganda and corruption of the mind that comes from republics, we must make sure that those filthy democrats know where the line is drawn.
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It Demands More
The war machine demands sacrifices and so we shall give it what it demands, whatever it needs we shall give and what it wants shall be had. More guns, more tanks, more trucks and more shells. Fuel is coming out of the refineries at breakneck speeds, soon we will have fed it enough that victory is a fact not a possibility.
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Army Reform
An army must know itself and what it needs before it can march against the ones that oppose it. The strategies and tactics, the equipment, support and morale coalesce to form the power and backbone of a modern army. While the griffons that fight are the body, we must nurture the mind of our war machine.
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The War On Land
Without a clear military doctrine, our army has enjoyed many embarrassing situations in maneuvers. One general would order an encirclement while the other would dig in to face an enemy attack, causing our troops to get divided, flanked and destroyed by the enemy. Enough is enough, we will make a choice of doctrine and stick with it.
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New Technology
The rifles of the past do not support the fast paced wars of today, a couple of shots per magazine and having to reload constantly. With the amount of griffons on the battlefield, we need more bullets to counteract them. The new standard Angrepps Gevär, made for powerful pushes forward and with enough bullets in a clip that one of ours can take out a dozen of them.
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Artillery Technology
Artillery is the instrumental background to modern warfare, the drums of war beating in tune with the symphony of battle, following the troops like guardian angels, clearing their paths of enemies. Truly, a soldier's best friend is the artillery that moves with him.
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Tank Tech
A tank is just a box on treads, with a giant gun sticking out of it, yes - it doesn't have to look pretty, it just has to work. The problem with Vedina's tanks is that they neither look pretty, nor do most of them work up to par with the steadily-updating requirements of the modern world. If we do not want to be beaten on the battlefield this has to change.
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Special Forces
War is like demolition work - bringing down an enemy state is like bringing down a building. And if war is demolition, then our army is a sledgehammer. Powerful, yet bulky and unwieldy. And in demolition, we require things beyond sledgehammers, we require specialized tools. Tools strong enough to find the weak-points and use them.
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Magical Equipment
Our industry in ordinary arms may be flourishing, or at least presentable, but that in magical arms has been rather neglected. Though we are griffons, magic is not lost to us, and it is equally useful as with Ponies. In fact, it may be even more useful to us than to Ponies, as our neighbours may not put nearly as much focus on it as we will, giving us a grand advantage
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Integrated Support Teams
An army marches on its stomach. Tanks are useless without fuel and maintenance. An eyeless griffon is doomed to trip. It is on these principles that we must make sure our troops get the required support units to function, logistics forces to maintain supply lines, engineers to maintain vehicles, recon to maintain the thin veneer of safety from ambushes.
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The Sea War
The war on the seas has become one of the most important parts of war, so long as you control the oceans you control the world. Barging in on your enemies and invading with hordes from the seas. Destroying their global supply lines and starving their fuel guzzling army, a destructive unstoppable force. Truly, we must invest in the navy.
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The Little Ships That Can
We cannot afford to have a fleet of only battleships and heavy cruisers and neither do we have the time to build a navy of that size, we must work to also make smaller ships to fill the gaps that are left and use them to patrol our coasts while the larger ships prepare for the proper battles that arrive in the sea.
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New Dockyards
While we may want to build as many ships as possible this task is impossible without dockyards to construct them. To get ourselves the large navy that we need to truly protect our coasts and our people we must fund more dockyards as quickly as we can, we are already far behind and should not lag in this endeavor.
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Under The Sea
While most assume that navies stand on the seas and keep watch, patrolling from the surface and making sure there are no invaders there are others lurking under it. Submarines patrolling our seas from under the enemies' beaks, laying mines and firing torpedoes at those that violate our sea space. The submarine is the assassin of the seas, quietly disposing of those ships that were not careful enough to avoid it.
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Larger Vessels
Vedina will not win on the waters with an army of fishing boats. To ensure victory, we must focus on more heavy-duty ship designs. Fielding a navy built upon strength in numbers as opposed to the strength of individual ships is a sure-fire way to get out-maneuvered, bogged down, and ultimately sunk to the bottom of the sea. Such a fate will not happen to Vedina's sailors.
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Air Carriers
The inefficiency of port airstrips that support our navy has been proven time and time again as by the time our planes arrive to the naval battles taking place they are naught but over, to truly get the aerial support we need to have a strong navy we must make ships that are themselves airstrips. The idea of an aircraft carrier has long been thrown around in the global spheres of naval thought its quite time for us to make that idea a reality.
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Mass Naval Production
Dockyards will stretch over Vedina's shores. Booming with activity, forests of cranes will construct massive warships, cruisers, destroyers and dreadnoughts from the ground up, from empty metal husks to efficient floating fortresses ready to protect Vedina's waters. We will not simply survive, we will not simply win, we will dominate the seas. Vedina will rule the waves, or Vedina will not rule at all.
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The War In The Air
Entering a new era of warfare, Vedina is tasked with embracing a whole new type of war, the one in the skies, between the clouds. Stagnation will only lead to our doom, and to win is to realize that controlling the skies is as important as controlling the seas and the ground. Pilots, assemble at your stations! Vedina rules the skies!
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Light Air Doctrine
In the skies, speed is key. When air combat boils down to its most basic element, the dogfight, it stops being about armour or weaponry, but about which aircraft is more nimble. The faster rabbit always outruns the bear and lives to see another day. We will outmaneuver our opponents like a swarm of mosquitoes taking down an elephant through teamwork and coordination.
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Aerial Ground Support
Air power is important, but useless if unable to support the infantry. Toning down the air-to-air weaponry of our airplane designs and trading it for air-to-ground capabilities will allow us to support our armed ground forces in attacks and defense, so long as our close air support is protected by other fighters.
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New Air Detection Equipment
A flock of coming crows is considered bad luck. Much the same, a squadron of bombers slipping through our air defenses would be simply catastrophic. It is why we must invest into researching at least basic air detection equipment for our forces, searchlights, AA guns and wire balloons.
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Heavy Air Doctrine
In the skies, firepower is key. There is no reason to have a dozen tiny pea-shooters when we can just have one heavy-hitter able to cut through the skies like roaring thunder, too powerful to be taken down as it swats enemy fighters out of the sky like flies. Heavy fighters and bombers are key, and sacrificing speed for survivability, armour and better weaponry is something we're equipped to handle.
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The Navy Destroyers
As our strength grows on land and in the air, it is imperative we secure our coast as well. If trade is the lifeblood of a country, then the oceans are its beating, pulsing heart, and it is imperative we protect this heart and not let it be used against us. Victory on the waters will easy translate to victory on land.
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New Air Bases
Our air fleet can be the biggest in all of Griffonia, it won't matter if we won't have the airfields to support our planes. More runways, more fuel tanks, more pilot quarters, more strength in the air. And as wars become modern as well, strength in the air will be the difference between a heroic victory... or a shameful defeat.
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