Pirates

[r_rolo1]

To the rulers of the countries on the other side of the big sea:

There had been recently some pirate action on the Babylonian shores with ships far more advanced that the regular galleys we are used to deal with. This ships, called privateers, as we were told by our Oracle priests, require technologies that only a handful of civilizations know and we already know, by some investigation, that the ships were not made in this continent.

Babylon has not contacted everyone in your continent, but we do know that some of the kingdoms we already contacted have the technologies for making this kind of ships. For those, and for the others, I, King of the land between the rivers, declare:

Take your ships home. Those ships will be destroyed, their exact provenience will be pinpointed beyond reasonable doubt and the responsibles will be prosecuted and punished. This includes leaders if we can prove that they are involved directly in that ( will not be hard ), and, if you have any doubts of the babylonian relenteless pursuit of criminals, look at the fate of the last ruler of the so-called Imperium, in spite of the disloyal support of some of you to them, by giving them war resources ( or did you thinked we wouldn't notice the elephants in Imperium armies? Babylon is not ruled by idiots ). If a whole empire was not enough to stop us from getting justice, it will not be a pond of water that will ....

Babylon does not want war with anyone of your continent. We have been neutral about the wars that had been raging in your lands ( in fact we have not been able to contact formally both sides of the war yet ( in spite of some casual talks in some embassies from people known by both sides ) ). Babylon does desire peace and fruitful deals with everyone of your continent. And Babylon assumes that everyone has interest in avoiding huge swarms of pirates ravaging our shores, so I assume that everyone will find my request reasonable.

So, I say this again to the leader that built this ships and that allowed them to leave their harbors: bring them home. We don't have any interest in warring, but we are not afraid of it. And I assure you that the pirate kings of this world will be all taken down by Babylon justice...

Ricardo

Ruler of the land between the rivers

[r_rolo1]

I thinked that Babylon had been very clear about this some years ago, but it seems that corsairs had came back to our shores this year after plaging the Agarthian capital shores for a while.

So, to a certain ruler of the other side of the sea:

You are already in war... think well if you want a more organized force with some land troops dropping in your almost undefended shore cities as a repay for your services in this side of the ocean while your troops are fighting a proacted war in the core of your continent. I have already warned you once, so my navy and my air power are already being dispatched to the area to get rid of your pathetic excuse of ships, that even use copper for their cannons and maybe in due time ( depending of how the long war ends and if others don't inflict you a just punishment ) we will give you a similar visit, but with better ships and troops, to repay you for your evil deeds against me and the other countries of this continent done since the day your ships touched this shore.

You had chosen your Path. I hope you can have enough honor to pay the consequences of your actions...

Ricardo

Ruler of the land between the rivers

[DribNairb]

Having read this message I can only assume you are directing this threat against The Founders (or one of our allies) who follow The Path. If so, I can assure you that these pirates have no allegiance with our nations.

Your anger is understandable if you are coming under attack, but to suggest it has anything to do with us is ridiculous.

If you can describe the exact location of these pirates we may be able to offer some assistance. The Founders have naval vessels around the world and may be able to engage these cowards to prove I speak The Truth.

[Viktor Ahriman]

It seems that the Babylonians have information on the country responsible for the slaughter of our navy.  Minding our own business, these pirates have sunk 4 ships and now have a blockade around our capital causing starvation.  Take the advise and remove your pirate ships.  We are happy that our Babylonian friends have come to aid us.

Markus
Foreign Director

[DribNairb]

If this 'evidence' in any way points to The Founders I request that it is published in public channels for all to see. The Founders have nothing to hide in this matter and offer assurances that these pirates are unrelated to us.

[IanDC]

The Arctic Nomads have followed the path of the Founders for many centuries now & are like them opposed to piracy - our ships will engage any such ships sighted in our own or international waters for the good of all.

Embrace the Truth & follow the Path.

[r_rolo1]

Babylon, 1490 Anno Domini

The Babilonian Foreign Affairs Minister issued some time ago a somewhat venomous declaration regarding the actions of a certain privateer action in the northwest shores of our continent, that affected both Babylon and Agarthia. This was the result of the intel we had in that moment in the palace and, in anger I issued some sentences that implied the action of the Founders in that action, given the fact that it is strongly suspected that earlier pirate actions in babylonian shores had the finger of some disgrunteled Founders navy captain ( we decided to not protest any further than we did because , as asked, the ships in that action moved out of babylonian waters soon and because the relations between the Founders and Babylon being moderately good and very profitable for both ).

But after crossing our information with Agarthia and after digging old inteligence reports, the Babylonian Governement was able to pinpoint the culprit and it is clear that the Founders are inocent in this incident. Thereby I, the ruler of the land between the rivers, humbly ask formal apologies to the governement of the Founders nation for acusing their nation or a crime they did not commited.

And in name of the good relations between all the involved, I feel the need of reveling who is the real guilty of this action...

Babylon, due to the commercial ties of its merchants and the very frequented Islamic shrine and the Babylon Oracle, has a very detailed and precise idea of the military of most nations of our world, especially of this continent. In fact, we know the exact position of the military units of some countries at any moment. this, in spite of being very useful , also gives origin to very large archives ( this originated the dificulty to detect the culprit earlier ). The reports that the Agarthian given to us pointed that the suspect ships appaerd fron the south/southwest of their capital. This made us look to earlier reports of the Avalonian military rebuild after the war between Aidern and New Avalon and the reports showed that Elkad had built 2 privateers that are not in listed in his military in this moment. This points strongly to the theory that the 2 privateers that are raiding the shores of Agarthia and Babylon are the ones made in the capital ruled by Elkad some years ago, in spite that absolute certains can only be achieved after capture of the ships.

So, unless Elkad show us a prove that the privateers he made ( and we have proof that he made them ) were destroyed, or we will consider than the privateers in question are under orders of the governenment of New Avalon and will , and ask all the civilized peoples of this world to, take a proportionate response to this barbaric and uncivilized act, unworthy of any governement of this world.

Again I ask humbly apologies to the Founders and their governement for any damage made by our first declarations and ask them to join the effort of erasing this potential menace, not probably to the Founders shores, but for some less advanced allies and friends of the Founders that can suffer of this attacks. Like I said before, in this moment the 2 privateers are in the northwestern shore of my continent and are fleeing from the aproaching Babylonian navy to the northern icy waters. Any help to make the seas of our world safer for all will be welcome.

Ricardo

Ruler of the land between the rivers

[DribNairb]

The Founders would like to formally accept your apology. We consider the matter now closed and I hope we can put this behind us, enabling continued peaceful diplomacy and trade.

As for the cause of the problems, The Founders will aid in any way to rid the world of these pirates. We have ships on the way which may be able to help.

[Viktor Ahriman]

As the Babylonians have disclosed, our two nations were working around the clock to find out the primary location of these ships.  We too had thought the Founders were the ones.  Therfor, we must too submit an apology to the people and government of the Founders.   I will too state that a swift response awaits the nation that harbors pirates!     

[Elkad]

Proof that I did not do something?  How is that even possible?  Shall we also be asked to prove that it was not an Avalonian demon that possessed troops to slaughter work crews in the past as well?

Avalon has no knowledge of these alleged acts of piracy.  The privateer that was seen in Avalonian waters was engaged and destroyed by our merchant fleet (at a heavy cost).  Look elsewhere for someone to accuse.

As a gesture of goodwill, we will declassify recent charts showing position reports of our various vessels for the entire globe.  Any interested party can verify the ships at those location are no more than honest traders and explorers.  Orders have been dispatched to our ships to halt at sea and to temporarily allow inspections by warships, even while located in international waters.

(ooc:note the minimap for areas I have visibility of.  Nothing on the Agarthian coast, though one ship is slightly west of there.  I'm not exactly sure where these pirates are supposed to be located.)

[IanDC]

In 1495 a Nomads Galleon conducting scientific studies of the Whale population in the Arctic seas north of Agarthia was attacked by pirates. After a fierce fight the veteran Galleon crew forced the pirates to withdraw but were unable to pursue & lost track of them in the northern waters.

(ooc - there's a badly damaged privateer somewhere in the polar waters north of Agartia for those pursuing)

[r_rolo1]

The aerial recon by the babylonian airfleet was unable to locate the offending ships this year in the area where they were acting.  It is possible that they sank hitted by icebergs ot htat they found a passage through the northern ice to escape.

We promisse to keep you posted.

Regarding New Avalon pledge in here: we do not exclude the possibility of your country being innocent in this affair. But the coincidence of the sudden disapearance of the offending ships with the proof you show that you didn't had ships in the area is a little suspect, to say the least. Given that it seems that the ofending ships will not be captured after all, we will act as if all of this didn't happened. But Babylon does not forget..... and we still want to know where are the privateers you made. They may not be raiding our shores now, but we want assurances that New Avalon will not pirate anyone in the future.

Ricardo

Ruler of the land between the rivers

[Viktor Ahriman]

The people of Agarthia want to extend a big THANKYOU to the Babylonian Government for sending military aid to Agarthia.  Many more people would have died due to starvation.  New advanced ships are now coming online, but would have been too late to deal with this threat now.  We will never forget your kindness. 


Viktor