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| Kaitaine's visit to Ryokuto | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 20 2016, 09:45 AM (118 Views) | |
| SatanLord | Sep 20 2016, 09:45 AM Post #1 |
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Kobama Intl. Airport Kobama, Capital Prefecture State of Ryokuto Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood waiting on the tarmac. He looked forward to the meeting as it was a new stage in relation building for the State of Ryokuto. The honour guard was prepared and the meeting room at the Government Headquarters had been prepared and now all he had to do was wait. As the plane came in to land the Prime Minister smiled knowing a new stage was ahead. As the visitor descended he bowed honoured that they had come to visit the nation. "Welcome to Ryokuto" he said. |
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| Libby | Sep 20 2016, 02:27 PM Post #2 |
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Achilles Fremen had been nervous all flight, not only had he been given part of the responsibility of the nations first one on one meeting with Ryokuto but he'd also been partnered with Niklaus Corrino, considered the most gifted Kaitainite in a generation, he'd obtained a University degree by the time he was 18 and was considered a musical prodigy. The Kaitaine contingent was rounded off by the Revrend Mother Helen Moriam, the nations spiritual leader and Head of State. She was a formidable woman who commanded total respect and obedience from all those in Kaitaine. "And that's check mate" Niklaus said as he lifted his hand off his Queen, "Sorry Your Holiness" he said to Helen who simply sat back and smiled having lost the third game of chess in a row. "I'm sure there is probably some rule somewhere that says I should always win" she said casually knocking her King over, "Beside no shame losing to a genius" she said noticing Niklaus blush, all his life the Bene Gesserit had spoke highly of him, Rowena Mapat, the former Revrened Mother, even said Niklaus was "as close to the Kwisatz Haderach as has ever been." Yet despite the high praise and the life it had brought him he still felt it was undeserved. "Your Holiness, Sirs" the Air Force steward said as they began to land, "We'll be on the ground in five minutes" the three buckled their belts and glanced out the window at the new nation they were about to see. "Now Achilles I shall take the lead on the meeting" The Reverened Mother began," but once formalities are done I intend to leave this to you and Niklaus, consider it a test of your potential. I'll be watching, if you need help then remember Niklaus will be with you." "Don't worry" the Duke replied, "I'm just as nervous as you Achilles" that made the younger man feel better, if the nations most gifted noble was nervous it explained why he was. Once they had stopped the Reverned Mother donned her ceremonial hood that engulfed her head meaning her face was only visible to those directly ahead. The two men fell into step behind her as she approached. "Prime Minister" she said returning his bow with one of her own, Niklaus and Achilles followed suit taking their leaders cue. "We are delighted to be here and meet you. We hope this is the start of a great friendship" she said, "If it pleases you we'd like to present you with this." Duke Niklaus stepped forward holding a small box made out of wood. The lid was opened to present the Prime Minister with the sight of a two compartment box. "In our lands we have four families, Niklaus here represents the Corrino, while Achilles the Fremen. To three of them the most valuable object is this" she lifted a small blue crystal, "It's called Blue John, to our knowledge only found in Kaitaine" the box was half full of tiny crystals. The other half contained a small bottle full of clear liquid. "To the Corrino water is the most precious thing, they are a desert people, water plays a very significant part in many of their customs." Niklaus stepped past, "I'm afraid we're possibly the most complex of the Kaitainites, our lives grew out the desert hundreds and hundreds of years ago and unlike the other three families we share an affinity with it." he extended a hand to the Prime Minister, "Pleasure sir". Finally Achilles stepped forward, "Mr.Prime Minister" he said with a bow and a handshake. "I hope that you don't find this rude, however I have been given the honour of leading our talks on our side" he felt nervous, "As a young Kaitainian from a Holy House I have to be tested" he smiled, "It would appear today is my exam." he could feel himself beginning to sweat. "I hope we're able to find common ground for our nation and build some foundations for our mutual futures." |
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| SatanLord | Sep 21 2016, 10:08 AM Post #3 |
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The Prime Minister smiled as the group walked towards him and bowed when the reverend mother spoke to him. "Thank you for this lovely gift, it will be stored within the government offices as a constant reminder of your trip to our humble island. "I must also agree that this is the start of a great friendship and I hope it can bring prosperity to both of our nations" he added. "If you wouldn't mind the car is over there that shall take us to our place of negotiations" he then bowed out of the way for the reverend mother to pass. He smiled at her honoured by the leader of Kaitaine's visit to meet him, just a humble commoner who had the honour of ruling his proud nation. He then moved on to Nicholas, "Your people may be complex but complexity is one of the greatest thing about people because without it we would be bland and wouldn't have our own stories". He shook the mans hand back, "It is also a pleasure to meet you too, Mr. Corrino". He then allowed for him to pass and go to the Reverend mother. He returned the handshake offered to him by Mr. Fremen. "I am in no way offended as I believe that it is important to train the next generation to rule our nations". "As for this being your exam I shall make it rigorous as to prove to your house that you are more than capable of negotiating for Kaitaine. I wish you the best of luck in our negotiations". He then allowed for him to pass to go over to the Reverend Mother and Niklaus. Shinzo then went over to the car and ordered the honour guard to open the door, it was a long limousine that had been rented out for the occasion and everything had so far gone to plan. The group then set off for the Government headquarters where they would negotiate. As they drove through the streets the Prime Minister pointed out all of the various sights and seemed to have a slight arrogance about him even though you could easily tell this was national pride. He also offered them drinks and had a laugh with them to ease any tensions which seemed to be there. As the car pulled up the doors were opened and Shinzo immediately took them to a room where a table had been set and his Minister of Economics and his Minister of Foreign Affairs had gathered. "I shall allow our Kaitainite friends to begin the discussion and make any points they wish, we're all ears". He then sat down to allow Achilles to stand up and begin to state what he wished from the meeting. |
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| Libby | Sep 22 2016, 02:27 PM Post #4 |
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Achilles took a deep breath, "Well one issue with starting talks are we're essentially strangers to each other, if this is something we're going to change then we need to start off simply getting to know each other. So I'll go first., Kaiatine is a theocracy, our nation is essentially run by the Bene Gesserit faith, a faith that believes in an all powerful being....or beings, we're not sure. All we know is that the Gods demand our respect, our faith and our care for their creation, we also believe that one day a great danger will come to humanity and that the Gods will create a super being, a half man, half God messiah to save us, that is called the Kwisatz Haderach and shall be born to a Holy family, of which there are four of us, the Atreides, the Harkonnen, the Fremen and the Corrino. We are fortunate to have a monopoly o much of the nations larger businesses or at least an influence on those that do own them. We each have a say in different regions of our nation but major decisions need the approval of a majority of families, the Reverned Mother here breaks ties. Until today I'd say we've been an inward looking nation, more concerned about in fighting between the families, however for the last 100 years that's all changed and now Kaitaine is looking more to the world in order to achieve several aims. I guess that's a brief history of our land" Achilles said, "So now you know us a little, what about you?" |
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| SatanLord | Sep 27 2016, 02:46 PM Post #5 |
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"Well Ryokuto is a democratic state with a constitutional monarch. Our religion is Jukrukyo. Here we believe that the god and his wife produced a child and sent him down to earth. He became the first Midori of Jukrukyo. He found a man capable enough of creating a strong civilisation and this man then became the first Emperor of Ryokuto, named after the island the god and his wife lived on, and he is the first member of the Imperial House. In the 1700s the Midori proclaimed the Imperial household the rightful heirs to the throne as proclaimed in the Jukrukyo transcripts. In 2001 a coup took place and in 2015 it was overthrown by the people thus allowing me to take up my position". He then sighed, "Is there anything you wish to discuss first?" |
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| Libby | Oct 9 2016, 02:38 PM Post #6 |
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Despite the meeting being given over to Achilles it was the Bene Gesserit Reverned Mother who began. "First we would like to come up with some kind of agreement that would allow my staff access to your nation to offer the most promising and brightest girls the oppurtunity of a life changing education at Chapterhouse." there was no standing around with her. "At the moment we recruit exclusively within our nation, Gods eyes are not fixed upon Kaitaine but the world therefore we must also set our eyes upon the world and expand our programmes. Achilles?" "Yes Ma'am" he said "furthemore we would like to build upon this economic forum idea, while that laid a foundation for smoothing trade connections it did very little to actually get our planet trading, we would like to investigate the probability of advancing some kind of nation to nation deal, perhaps dropping tariffs on such things as food and beverage products for a start. Then perhaps consider our nations specific needs." he leaned back, he felt things were going well and Niklaus nodded his approval. "I suppose finally we'd like to think about other projects to give our people a chance to co-operate together, but for the time being I think we have enough on the table. " |
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| SatanLord | Oct 10 2016, 11:01 AM Post #7 |
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"Yes that would be good. Feeding a growing population of 127 million has never been a challenge but recently it has as storms become more violent meaning that fishing days are cancelled or cut short which affects us massively as the main staples of the Ryokutan diet are fish and rice. As for beverages our beverage market is a blooming one and exports to nations such as Kaitaine could be a real help to the industry. There are a range of rather out there beverages which are constantly being introduced into the domestic market but exporting these on a global scale would be great". |
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| Libby | Oct 11 2016, 08:14 AM Post #8 |
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Achilles scribbled a few notes and then began his response, "Rice we can't help with, after all we're more of a potato eating people" he said trying to seem jovial, "However on the fish front we probably can help, you see our nation sits in a rather enclosed and as such our fishing is rather undisturbed, I am sure that you'll find our fisherman more than happy to sell into your market, assuming that things such as tariffs are abolished on such products and importation is streamlined. Perhaps we should therefore make an agreement reading along the lines of this" he slipped the piece of paper. "The nations of Kaitaine and Ryokuto agree that all products certified as edible human food or beverages are to be exempt tariffs. They shall, as long as they comply with local health and safety laws, be freely admitted into the other nation." |
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| SatanLord | Oct 29 2016, 03:20 AM Post #9 |
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"Yes I do think that this would be a good idea and helpful to both of our economies. Now perhaps we could do some sort of deal regarding technology. Ryokuto has a rather large technology industry which is looking to export to the world. We also have a rather large finance sector which could deal with investments from Ryokutan businesses into Kaitaine and vice-versa." |
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