Greater DienstadBoard

Lamoni wrote:

So what does this mean for where you might get based next, Stevid?

No change, I don't think it was really on the cards that I wouldn't be moving to Scotland.

Morrdh wrote:

Does this mean the SNP and/or Alex Salmond are now finished?

Quite the reverse in my opinion. It very clear that Scotland voted against a split from the Union, and that when you look at the mapping of the results only 4 constituent council areas voted in favour of YES. However, barring several exceptions, for the most part the NO edged the victory in the 50/50 sort of range. Some margins were so slim that one was even 49.9% Yes and 50.1% No - quite incredible and was a common theme, there weren't very many overwhelming majorities. Dundee and Glasgow vote Yes but nowhere near the numbers expected by Mr Salmon...d.

Because it is quite close and 1.6 million did vote for Yes, I think that most Scots would probably agree that SNP should hold the majority and 'run' Scotland as opposed to any one of the 3 main parties because at least the SNP's interests are solely those of the Scotland and the Scottish electorate - but not to have the SNP the rulers of an independent Scotland.

Alex Salmond will survive this and probably come out quite strong despite a failure. The ball is now, and always has been, in Westminster's court. They now have to deliver extra powers to the whinging masses of SNP and the electorate and then contend with cries from England, Wales and NI people and Ministers that Scotland is getting preferential treatment.

And for another blast from the past, another old nation of mine: Southern Wastes.

http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1223/311742
http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1223/306898

Plus a factbook of a sort for my first nation; http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1223/310537

11th largest defense forces, or rather budget, out of all of Dienstad? I'm impressed with my little nation... ^-^

And the legions of hell are second in defense budgeting... Not certain how that fits in, but I'm almost certain it does.

ATTENTION! ATTENTION!

This is probably the single most import RMB post I will ever make in my history on NationStates. It is also important that after the announcement you all note the date and time and then continually thank me forever and ever.

For nine years this region started out with a plucky few individual nations that moved over from the former region of Imperial Armies that had been founded by Holy Panooly/Guffingford. Greater Dienstad was founded by The Macabees in the aftermath of the Second War of Golden Succession as played out in the original RP thread A Passion Play on the old Jolt forums. As a consequence of the war, the region reinvented itself as a post-bellum region with a distinctly unique history shared by the original nations who all fought in the original war. A Passion Play went down in history as one of the largest, greatest, well coordinated and well written RPs in NS II Forum History.

Never has such an RP resonated within a community on NS quite like A Passion Play to the point where the effects of the war are still continually referred back to in current RPs to this very day. It is safe to say that without the war Greater Dienstad wouldn't exist. But, to an extent it doesn't. Old nations have been lost through the passage of time and those that remain forget incredibly important details of the war, for it is integral to the history of the region and to several ancient nations in GD. Myself and Mac (and several others) have had lengthy discussions about what we can actually remember. To this day a lot of the details remain very ambiguous such as the history and involvement of New Empire.

A thread was set up here: http://z10.invisionfree.invalid.com/GreaterDienstad/index.php?showtopic=261 by Mac in order to preserve what history we remember on the region (Of which I really should contribute to :S). However with the release of the Jolt NS Forum archives came the possibility of retrieving the old RP as well as it's other spin offs telling the story of numerous other battles. This search has been near exhaustive and taken months with no luck.

Until now.....

I very proudly present to you good nations the literal and HTML formatted Holy Grail of Greater Dienstadii regional history.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you:

A Passion Play

http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1230/439156

Legend

Morrdh wrote:

http://nationstates.ermarian.net/jolt/1230/485475

;)

The last page is what I alluded to on the GD forums about the nukes. Heck, that might be everything....

Morrdh, a thousand thank you's!!!

Jolt NS Threads, that brings back good memories :)

The Macabees wrote:

I totally did not remember so much nuking lol. I thought I nuked Stevid, he nuked me back, and that was the end of things. But, if I'm reading the WoGS Index right, there were at least like 3 or 4 nukes.

Better yet, that many were used and didn't send the RP into a clusterfook OOC whining and flared tempers and didn't result in MAD either. The whole story is a template on how to RP. Hint hint RP mentors! :D

Btw, while A Passion Play was truly awesome, I think we have a lot to be proud of today. "Moving is Never Easy," the northeast "Moving is Never Easy," and "Imperial Recrudescence" are loosely interconnected now, so that's another major string of RPs that proves that we're one of the most successful regions on NS. While the diplomacy/conflict here is very different to that of A Passion Play, I think it's more intricate, more complex, and more spontaneous. It'll hopefully be something we'll reminisce about in the future. (Can't believe I spelled reminisce right on the first try.)

As you can tell from past OOC threads and the OOC thread for IR, sometimes I can be somewhat aggressive in pushing people to spend more time developing their posts. Part of it is the fact that I'm one of those annoying people who wants things to a certain standard, and I admit that this is not always good. At the same time, however, I hope no one takes offense, because ultimately I just want to show the rest of NS how awesome GD is, completely thanks to how awesome you guys are. But, just as a warning, I'm going to continue to be a stickler. :P

The region certainly does have a knack at telling a story and being able to interconnect seemingly separate RPs into the bigger picture. I like how Morrdh's CCA was pulled in due, in part, to the Kessler Effect.