Subject: shanari turn 1432 | Action 1 (Single): | | External/Strategic/Trade: Develop Trans-Calarnari trade, a route from | Bel'Adne and Jabau, centred at Akbari. | | 2nd year of 5 year action. | | Change: Taxation of caravans reduced to a meagre fee of 5 Shan per load | bearing animal to enter Akbari (the equivalent of one meal's worth of | grain). Taxes on sales, product value and profit eliminated. | | Primary Determinant: Trade (internal trade is great +2, external trade is | virtually non-existant except as indicated under the difficulty). | Difficulty: Moderate (a growing trade route already exists). | Weight: Significant (trade is the lifeblood of the Shanari). | Actors: | - Shanari merchants. | - Bel'Adnese merchants. | - Jabau merchants. | - Commonwealth Treasury. | Secrecy: Absolutely none. | Modifiers: | +2 Enhanced trade in exotic products (for the markets in Jabau and Bel'Adne, | respectively). | +1 Safer, faster trade route than by circumnavigating the continent by sea. | +1 Continued viability of the new trade route (1 year of success). | +1 Large reduction in taxation. | - 2 People fear what is new. (External trade as well as new routes) +4 net from year one +2+2+3-2+(+1+0+0-1)=+5 Net after year two +9 | Action 2 (Single): | | Internal/Strategic/Political - Appointment of Five Paramount Chief of the | Upper Kelshir. | | 1st year of 4 year action. | | To cement Commonwealth sovereignty over the Upper Kelshir, the Talis | annoints the sanouk of the five dominant clans of the Upper Kelshir. The | five sanouk are granted the hereditary titles of "alb-Sanouk (Paramount | Chief) of the Upper Kelshir", and given equal status and voice in the | Commonwealth Council with the other Companions, Elders and Sanouk. They are | also granted landed estates and apartments in the three Commonwealth towns | of Akbari, Jabali and Kelshirserai. Finally, the five alb-Sanouk are | granted a five year joint monopoly on the timber, fish and slave trade from | the Kelshir, and a five year exemption from caravan customs. | | In return, the five Alb-Sanouk are held responsible for the maintenance of | law and order in their respective district, the protection of caravans, and | the construction of a permanent district capital in each of their respective | districts to facilitate trade and the administration of law. | | As a final incentive, any lands outside the Commonwealth that any of the | alb-Sanouk are able to subdue will become theirs by hereditary right. | | Primary Determinant: Diplomacy (Revolution - how acceptable the organisation | of society in the Commonwealth is). +2 based on authority and consent, various minuses for opposing factions, in the end, I decided to go with a flat value of zero for the primary value. | | Difficulty: Great (While the incentives are great for the 5 sanouk, | the long term consequences are also). -4 | Weight: Major (this will make or break the Commonwealth subjugation of the | Upper Kelshir). | Actors: | - alb-Talis Snanjil. | - The five Sanouk & their clans. | - Commonwealth Council | - Kelshirserai Governor. | Secrecy: None. | Modifiers: | +2 Benefits to 5 Sanouk. | -2 Difficulty (changes to traditional tribal structure). | + 1 Commonwealth annexation of the Upper Kelshir so far. | +2 Improvements to status and clan prospects of the 5 Sanouk. | 0-4+2-2+1+2+(1+0-1+0)= -1 net for year one. As with any endevour of this magnitude, some resistance is to be expected and a -1 is not a bad start at all. | Action 3 (Single): | | Internal/Strategic/Alliance - Royalist alliance with Upper Kelshiri Sanouk. | | 1st year of 2 year action. | | The Faymiyuniyya, the family of the late Conveyor Faymiyun, angered at the | continued marginalisation of the Conveyor's descendents in the Commonwealth, | seek to strengthen their power base by allying themselves with the Five | Sanouk of the Upper Kelshir. Taking advantage of the Talis's annointment of | the Sanouk, the Faymiyuniyya seek to adopt the Five Sanouk into the Royalist | camp by extending commercial, political and marital ties to them. | | Primary Determinant: Diplomacy (Realpolitik- how acceptable an alliance is). I went with +1 on this instead of 0 because it has less opponents. | | Difficulty: Moderate -1 (An alliance strengthens the 5 Sanouk and reduces | threat of domination from the capital). | Weight: Significant (No great impact immediately,though in the long term it | will be of great importance) | Actors: | - The five Sanouk & their clans. | - Faymiyuniyya | - Royalist clans | Secrecy: Minimal. | Modifiers: | +2 Benefits to 5 Sanouk. | -2 Difficulty (Mistrust). | + 1 Counterbalance to Council | +2 Improvements to status and clan prospects of the 5 Sanouk. | +1-1+2-2+2+1+(1+0-1+0)= +3 net for year one. The alliance seems to be coming together smoothly. | Action 4 (Single): | | External/Strategic/Special - Sojourner clans establish trading enclaves in | Port Jabau. | | 1st year of 2 year action. | | Primary Determinant: Trade +2 (Survival). | | Angered at the apparent Commonwealth policy of peace with the southern state | of Milakanur, the Sojourner clans (the descendents of the followers who fled | Milakanur with the Conveyor) decide to privately pursue their own programs | towards the southern states of Jabau and Milakanur. This initially means | attempting to gain competitive dominance over the southern trade with Jabau. | | Difficulty: Moderate -1 (exploitation of the opening created by the new | Trans-Calarnari route). | Weight: Significant (Success will strengthen the Sojourner clans) | Actors: | - The Sojourner clans | - Jabau merchants | - Jabau governor. | Secrecy: None (Trade activities public, whereas long term goals concealed). | Modifiers: | +2 Cultural familiarity (the Sojourner clans are Milakanuri, and thus | familiar with the culture, and economic and political life of Jabau and | Milakanur. | + 2 Trade (Shanari ability). | -2 Secrecy (Necessity of temporarily halting evangelisation of Jabau and | Milakanur by Sojourners). | +1 Opportunities provided by the new tradeoice in the Commonwealth Council | with the other Companions, Elders and Sanouk. | +2-1+2-2+1+(0-1+0+1)= +2 net for year one. Grudging progress. 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