26th of Dein, 1582
Naegam Airport

The Kortoan President Eun Jeong and his wife Ji-Min Choe, waited for the invited to arrive at the airport. With them stood the Suho Jeonsa in ancient Kortoan military uniforms, standing by to play the Kortoan National Anthem when they arrive at the airport. The media was also there which were kept far behind the President and his wife. After the airport, awaits tens of thousands of citizens waiting for the them to arrive and for the ceremony to begin. The time for the invited world leaders to arrive was now.

I've been entertaining the thought of getting together and playing Hearthstone with people on here. Maybe even a "tournament" or "season" for lolz...or just a day of having fun playing each other. However, I had some suspicions as to how many people even play or have played. For my part, I haven't touched the game in a while, but if there's enough people willing to have a go at playing together, then I'll bother coming back to the game.

Sal used to play with me. We'd have fun just dorking around in whatever brawls was on at the time.

SO yeah, who here used to or still does play the thing?

Premier's Manor
Severograd, Severyan D.P.R.
16 Dein 1582

Hey so we should totally switch to discord, its this really good text and voice chat that is free to run servers on, etc. Here's a list of some awesome features

• Custom emojis (that we can use on our server for free; if you want to use them globally it costs 50 Dollars a year)
  
• Ability to set up multiple chat rooms both text and voice; so Lom can have his memezone, there can be a game room, politics etc. I know that some people do not like how the conversation goes at time so this can encourage a lot more discussion
  
• Ability to set custom roles, with custom names with awesome stuff and things
  
• Nicknames on a server basis, so if the name you want is taken for a username; you can still use it on a server
  
• The Voice chat is optional, you do not have to be connected to any voice chat to use any text chat. ; in fact we can effectively shut down the voice chat if we want.
  
• Sign up is easy
  
• We can play around with where the server is hosted, to get the best result for general user experience; Ill set the test server below to US South for now, and change it around at request.
  
• Discord's text system is as equally as developed as its voice system. It is not some tacked on thing, it works incredibly well, and for a general chatting box I highly recommend it. I'm on multiple servers and it works really well.
  
• Easy switching between chat rooms, and servers in general.
  
• We can set up bots to automatically do a lot of moderation for us, or even do some cool things. Siora Vision is going on? Set up a voice chat, mute all people except this one bot, who plays all the songs in a playlist. Really cool stuff.
  
• It has integration with video games if you want, or you twitch or youtubes.
  
• ITS FREEEEEEEE
  
• There is honestly a ton more, its more of something we should try out at the very least and give a chance rather than simply saying LETS SWITCH AND THATS IT, or a big NO.
  
• There is an app, or a web version. There is a mobile app that is really good as well
  
  

The Soyabarian commonwealth send out a telegram to a couple of nations to have a conference on the possible partition of the Ishnallan sea alongside the following lines

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Quote:To the respected goverments of

• Arkiania
  
• Ishnalla
  
• Octitania
  

The Soyabarian Commonwealth would like to call in a conference on a possible partition of the Ishnallan sea the diplomatic way. This conference will be held in New Zealmark and the rest will follow from there.

This thread is for coordinating the efforts of Siorans to explore their solar system. Further information on the Solen system can be found on the wiki (eventually, soon). Should you wish to participate in these exploratory efforts, you must have control of a space program, be it national or international, yours or with authorization. However, per the Sioran MTRP Rules, you must develop a report concerning your institution's history, exploits, and assets to the Directorate's satisfaction.

The report can be located on the wiki, in a factbook thread, on your own website—just not here. This thread is primarily for forms and discussion between the Directorate and Players. What you should do is link to the report in this thread.

Space-faring History and Exploits Guidelines:

• The report should be at least one page long,
  
• detail the institution's history and projects, and
  
• use the following form:
  

• Rockets: Obviously. These are pretty big and can handle heavy lifting.
  Tonnage to LEO: <150 tonnes.
  
• Mass Drivers/Space Guns: An effective way into space; allowed as it’s diversity from the rockets of today, and generally scientifically plausible; requires a long track (120+ km) and cannot handle manned missions (the accelerations are too high, without multiplying the length—and cost—several times over).
  Tonnage to LEO: ~20 tonnes.
  
• SSTO Vehicle: Allowed as science is making it more and more plausible every year. Read up on the Wiki page for single-stage-to-orbit for more information. This is a more cost-effective way to get people than fossil fuel rockets, though the vehicle can't generally handle significant loads.
  Tonnage to LEO: ~20 tonnes.
  

• Laser satellites: For ABM purposes. They are reasonably expensive, reasonable large, and only have an engagement opportunity of… about five minutes? Ten? Around there. They also take a few seconds to actually make the missile go “BOOOMMM!!!!”. Math says that means each can only down around forty-sixty missiles… though, most likely, far less due to details that real life throws at you (missile leaving range, satellite leaving range; both move ridiculously fast). Note that this can only engage missiles that travel outside the atmosphere (long-range ballistics).
  
• Kinetic strike satellites: Or rods from god, as they’ve been dubbed. They’re also expensive, and honestly not that powerful. A 9 ton rod (at 6.1m length, .3 meter diameter) would have an impact equivalent to only 11.5 tons of TNT, which is not “city-wiping” capability. That's less than the MOAB. At best, that rod would be a tactical weapon…a really, really, really, really expensive tactical weapon with zero guidance and most of its destructive capabilities aimed at the ground. It'd be a good bunker-buster, though. If for some reason you don't want to use a far less expensive missile, I mean.
  
• Missile satellites: A satellite that’s loaded with missiles. Pretty simple, aye? In Real Life, it’s banned by treaties. In Siora, it's also banned by treaties so expect to have complications if you opt to launch one anyway. Explosive complications, possibly.
  
• Space Gun Satellite: Yup. You can put a gun on a satellite and throw it up into the air. It might not be very effective against missiles, mind, but hey!, it’s something. It could potentially be used against other satellites pretty effectively, though… just bear in mind that any stray bullets could end up hitting your satellites…actually, blowing up anything in space risks busting your toys too. It's better to use a laser.
  

• Ground-assault laser satellites: No. GTFO.
  
• Anything not mentioned: Yup. Feel free to query the Ministry for something though; might have missed it. Just have supportive links prepared.
  

• Launch communication, intelligence, science, mundane satellites: Totally okay. No coordinate with the Directorate needed, provided there's nothing unusual about the satellites.
  
• Launching any of the "special" satellites mentioned above: An Activities report must be submitted. View below.
  
• Build space stations: Nothing too unusual here, just submit an Activities Report. View below.
  
• Probe orbital bodies, land rovers: This requires Directorate Supervision. Copy and fill the form located further down.
  
• Send people to the moon: Certainly possible, if expensive. The Apollo program cost over one-hundred billion in today’s money, though that was using expensive rockets. This does not require Directorate Supervision, only an Activities Report. View below.
  
• Send people to other planets: Technically, theoretically possible, but requires Directorate Supervision. Is expected to cost… billions. I won’t deny that it’s possible though (they're hoping by the 2030s in real life)—just, really expensive and risky. View additional notes below.
  

• HLSA History for the Holy Lanlanian Empire
  

• 1515-1528 Project Ontävan for HLE, Gehenna
  

• Valhalt Space Station for HLE, Florinthus, and Gehenna
  

Would anyone be interested to participate in 1-5 tennis championships per year? If you are interested, send me a PM with your players:

Quote:Player: His/her name
Gender: male / female (choose one)
Age: His/her age
Nation: Your player nation (maximum 4 players of the same gender per nation - i.e. 4 male players and 4 female players from Ostland, for example)
Bonus: All-court player / Clay player / Grass player / Hardcourt player (choose one, you may read this as reference)