Shattering Diplomacy
Shattering Diplomacy is a long-running ongoing RP thread by Dylan which concerns events in Vothetria and Great Morstaybishlia from late 2019 onwards.
Key characters
Clauzia Sarohart - leader of the Vothetrian Workers' Party and prime minister of Vothetria.
Franklin Barvata - leader of MBE Labour and prime minister of Great Morstaybishlia.
Romilda von Anzitter - leader of the Nocturnian Independence Party (later Marislian Independence Party)
Immima Magolen - deputy chairperson of the VWP and close ally of Sarohart.
Summary
Post 1. Table of contents.
Chapter 1
2. (2019-10-10) - Mayor of Stalzag John Atomaba is assassinated by Friedrich Schneider, socialist and member of the Nocturnina Independence Party. He later goes to a party meeting hosted by party leader Alwin Jordanes.
3. (Nov. 2019) - A Mysterious Woman meets with a Cloaked Woman in a bar. They discuss: Jordanes wants an independent Nocturne aligned with the MBE, but MW wants the entirety of Marislia to be independent, and aligned with the North Ethalrian Confederacy (Vothetria + Kothalria). CW warns of Lenski Sarinn, communist and president of Thalria trying to exert influence on the process. MW says that Barvata will be busy handling "something" in South Staynes (Valeria), which would mean that Clauzia Sarohart would be able to move in. CW and MW agree a plan: the NEC will be allowed access to the Bishlian Sea, and MW will lead an independent Marislia.
4, The Body of the Phoenix (prelude) (Nov. 2019) - Preparations are made for a secret base in Dolmscher, MBE. Religious groups in Thalria are under threat from Sarinn. von Anzitter has a nightmare / flashback to the Auroran Imperial War.
5. (Nov. 2019) - A meeting at NIP HQ. Jordanes generally agrees with von Anzitter wrt. independence. Schneider is secretly working with Hanna Boeler, leader of the Vothetrian Socialists' Party.
Chapter 2
6. 2020-03-26 - Schneider meets with Boeler. Two of six independence cells want to work with them. They plan to import arms via a cartel run by Zecrod Furista.
7. 2020-06-10 - Schneider is trying to find Furista. Boeler is visited by Mia Penning, deputy leader of the VSP. Penning has secured a meeting with Furista in Giacomina, Free Pacific States - Boeler sends her to go.
8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 2020-06-27 - Penning goes to the meeting, but is "kidnapped" - taken to Furista's hideout in Asendavia. The weapon smuggling deal is agreed to. After taking the children of Johnald Rusticker, dock manager at Southport, Aurus, MBE, as hostage until the weapons are let through, they arrive at the hideout.
13. 2020-07-24 - July 2020 Caltharus attacks - Two tank assaults on police HQ in Khouser, Barbarus province, and Delgerdatter, both in East Caltharus. Caltharus is placed in lockdown.
14, 15. 2020-07-24 - King Lambertus VII makes a public address wrt. the attacks. Barvata puts into place Black Alert (the highest level of emergency response), a 9pm curfew, and military police in the streets. Boeler and Penning celebrate at home; they have framed someone else. Sarohart thinks Sarinn's behind it; she has infiltrated their ranks. She also makes a public address.
17. 2020-07-25 - Barvata's approval rating has fallen from 47% to 42%, with harsh falls in East Caltharus in opposition to the curfew and Black Alert. Protests in Nocturn turn violent (escalated by the protestors). Live ammunition and Molotov cocktails are used. Barvata blames Jordanes and vice versa.
18. 2020-07-28 - Police raid of suspected terrorist base - they are two days too late, and all the evidence has been destroyed.
19. 2020-08-21 - August 2020 Caltharus police attack - Police chiefs hold a secret meeting in Fort Nocturne. Chief Anthan Rogimlov is defecting, and tells the terrorists all the details. A drone carring plastic explosives is flown through some vents into the meeting room, all but one attendee is killed. In the next meeting of the UNAC, agreements are made to share intelligence and restrict freedom of movement.
Chapter 3
21. 2020-08-28 - Sarohart meets with von Anzitter at Phoenix House, and reveals that Schneider is working with Sarinn. They agreen on a plan: reveal this to the public, force Jordanes out by association, take control of the NIP and expand its scope to the whole of Marislia as MARIP.
22, 23, 24. 2020-09-05 - Schneider visits Sarinn's informant in Thalria, updates them on NIP. Sarohart calls Loris Sartor, head of the Secrets & Intelligence Agency. They make vague plans. Schneider finally meets with Sarinn, Boeler, Penning and more. He is to poison Jordanes, frame von Anzitter and assume leadership of NIP.
25, 26, 27 - 2020-09-23 - Things do not go well for Schneider. Jordanes is successfully poisoned and dies, but simultaneously, von Anzitter reveals Schneider's network to the press. He is arrested and sentenced to death.
28. 2020-10-05 - Barvata invites Sarohart to Sani Bursil to discuss the poisoning. She meets him a week later with evidence. She wants a coup in Thalria to remove Sarinn. Barvata wants more evidence before taking part, but otherwise agrees.
Chapter 4
30, 31. 2020-10-03 - Berinter Fokes and five other Labour MPs vote against Barvata's Anti-Terrorism Bill. At home, he is threatened by outside forces he has debts to to cause trouble in Aegis.
32. 2020-10-24 - Fokes chairs a private meeting with Anne Lauve, Nick Kondarry, Braun Taure, Amber Phalyf (all Aegis-based Labour MPs) with a view to Aegis independence.
33, 34, 35, 36. 2020-11-12 - Fokes motions for an independence referendum in parliament - Barvata laughs it off but is overruled by the supreme court. Fokes is told he'll need to do more.
37, 38, 39, 40. 2020-11-17 - Barvata meets Diego Corbinn, president of Axdel, and Morsil Loris. They agree with Barvata with regards to the invalidity of the treaty that Fokes is relying on. Barvata considers the matter closed. Fokes is threatened again, and told he has to stir the pot more. He has more meetings, this time with Labour MPs from all over South Staynes (Valeria).
41, 42. 2020-10-19 - Fokes makes a big speech to a large crowd and launches the Valerian Labour faction, with 59 MPs. Nellie Hermin, Secretary of State for South Staynes, resigns from cabinet, and is replaced by Arlin Klements.
43. 2020-12-03 - Independence protests are met by police, leading to the murder of civilian Fi Praxton. The government claims it was due to natural causes; nobody buys it.
44, 45. 2020-12-04 - Trouble in cabinet as ministers disapprove of Barvata's dismissiveness of Praxton's death, especially Klements, Chancellor Samminel Doros, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Jemima Rainhart. They demand he at least mention her in his speech, and threaten a leadership challenge. He does, and starts a public enquiry into Praxton's death. Conservative party leader Benjamin Wardola knows he has missed the opportunity to score points. Sarohart is pleased that her "distraction" in Valeria is going well.