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Kaskadi-Ashkeran Diplomacy
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Topic Started: Nov 3 2015, 03:04 PM (235 Views)
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Nov 3 2015, 03:04 PM
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Following the limited cooperation in the Soboro Jungle, along with sabre-rattling from Collovia and the recent Collovian nuclear test, Ashkeran envoys have reached out to the notoriously cloistered nation of Kaskadistan.
(This is a general thread for the interactions, as opposed to telegrams, which have to be periodically deleted. It doesn't need a tight continuity like a typical RP thread.)
As a gesture of goodwill, the following items have been provided to assist in Kaskadistan’s recent mission of cultural exploration. The items arrived in a tamper-resistant shipping crate. A detailed manifest and the keys to actually open the crate were sent separately via courier, to ensure the contents of the crate would not be “lost” in transit.
- 2x Star-Ashkera "Bulldog" 2.5m (diagonal) HD television
- 2x Star-Ashkera Z-Station 5 game console, with controllers and accessories. This beefy 2014 game console is a top seller in Ashkera and world-wide. Includes BLD drive and on-board harddisk for caching and storage. Functions as a complete media center. Can be linked for multiplayer, or use split-screen mode, depending on the game. Multiple sizes of controller have been provided for comfort.
- 16 GiB of Modern and Traditional Ashkeran music.
- [TV] Future Soldier: Terms of the Red: Collector's Edition (2013) - One of the few television shows in the Future Soldier franchise that is relatively self-contained. In Ashkera, shows like "Ghost in the Shell" are an entire genre known as "Cybercop" rather than just one franchise, and Future Soldier is the most well-known. The highly detailed and intricate story follows the uncovering of a massive conspiracy in the nation of NeoFrance in the fictional land of Earth, by a team of cyborg detectives that served during WW3. Themes include what it means to be human, prospects for human enhancement, the definition of personhood, the role of the state, and the meaning of nationalism. Animation style is similar to Ghost in the Shell: Arise, which is a common style in Ashkeran animation (as opposed to the more stylized style of typical anime). The Collector's Edition includes a music CD, USB dongle, T-shirt, several plastic figures of main characters, an artbook, and a "making of" BLD.
- [Movie] Eight Men (1960) - A classic movie following the tale of eight men of very different stations in feudal Ashkera, whose lives intertwine. Focuses on how even the lowly peasant is important for the feudal ruler's success, and how the decisions of some have far reaching effects on others.
- [Movie] Twelve Fallen Stars (2014) - A high-budget blockbuster movie about the 1960 tsunami in Ashkera, nuclear disaster at Novamat River Nuclear Power Station, and subsequent military coup which eventually resulted in the Oversight Council being returned to power. Very popular with Ashkeran Nationalists and Ashkeran Militarists, who, along with the politically apathetic, are chiefly responsible for the film's commercial success. The BLD also contains a copy of the same director's earlier, lower-budget film with the opposite perspective.
- [TV] Petey the Mini-Alpaca, 2014 Season - An animated children's show created by the Ashkeran government. Conspiracy theorists often allege it contains subliminal messaging, ignoring the far more obvious propaganda in favor of sharing, ethnic and racial tolerance, the scientific method, and emergency preparedness.
- [TV] Terry the Terrier Terrorist (1960-1965) - A western-style cartoon that emerged in the early 1960's as some of Ashkera's first locally-produced animation. It concerns the struggles of a completely incompetent terrier trying to commit terrorist acts against a mouse, and failing spectacularly.
- [TV] Sapphire, Season 1 (2013) - An AI superweapon created by an ancient and alien star empire, whose victories and ruins have long since passed from the memories of the world, is awoken by, and falls in love with, an ordinary high school student. The superweapon is the protagonist, with the ordinary high school student being depicted as relatively uninteresting by the narrative, and rarely on-screen. More interested in how much it sucks for Sapphire to have these emotions for a very mortal, fragile, and flawed human being. Themes include an exploration of the morality of creating AI minds with preferences suited to serving our own, the dangers of mortality, and the loss of state power when superpowers are in the hands of individuals. Often summarized to foreigners as "Tenchi Muyo, but if the main character were Ryoko, and like an order of magnitude more complex." (Currently on its third season and focusing on the disastrous consequences and fallout of effectively superpowered individuals fighting over one ordinary man.)
- [TV] Councillor One (2010) - Playing on a well-known conspiracy theory that the Oversight Council are vampires, this action-rich drama focuses on their fictional exploits across the world as they tamper with foreign nations and governments while each trying to take out the others and seize control of Ashkera for themselves. All are trying to replace the infamous and reclusive Oversight Councillor 1.
- [Game] Inflection Point (2014) - The current reigning champion of Ashkeran AAA gaming, with a budget that makes poor city-states cry. (It's unclear where the initial funding came from.) The first one came out in 2014, but a sequel is planned. Best summarized as Mass Effect meets Mirror's Edge meets Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Sometimes described as Transhumanist propaganda by bioconservatives. Rich with story, sidequests, multiple paths to mission success, customizing your character's body like a tuner car, and military cyborgs shooting at each other while doing rocket parkour. The source of the current "parkour ninjas" internet meme that is tumbling around Ashkera.
- [Game] Fightin' Mama - This simple side-scroller features an ordinary Ashkeran housewife fighting off a series of increasingly-ludicrous enemies, starting with thieving bunnies and ending with kaiju stomping all over Eastharbour. It has an optional motion-tracking control mode for the Z-Station 5's camera.
There may be more items in the crate that simply haven't been unpacked yet.
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Nov 30 2015, 09:49 PM
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In return for their generous gift of Cultural Significance, (Boris cannot get enough of that damned Alpaca!). Walter has decided to send a package of his own, with the following contents.
A priceless painting, by 18th century Kaskadi artist Dima Romanov. It depicts the Kaskadi army, dressed in the dark blues of the Zesar, charging a Egyptosian artillery position, the commander drawing his sword to charge.
A VCR tape with the government made movie, "The Life of our Leader." The movie, obviously, depicts Walter Waffenburg's life story, a shockingly somewhat unbiased view of his start as a nationalistic college boy, who managed to get a scholarship to a prestigeous university in Franconia. His brief stint as a Communist, his participation in the Kevalian Revolution, (whose, spoiler alert, government did not last long.) He then returned home to Kaskadistan, and, being a firm anticapitalist, was appalled at the state of his country. So he joined a political party, morphed it to his ideals, then led the Second Revolution, the rest is history
A flash drive with the Kaskadi national anthem on it.
A vinyl record with "Oh, Come! The Banner Flies!" An opera ordered to be produced by Walter Waffenburg, makes good use of the Bass section.
A Kaskadi children's TV show, "Our Country Needs You!" It is about four children who travel the world foiling the schemes of Doctor Democracy, and his minions, (Who, in a not unforseen twist, speak with Vendolandic accents and wear Linconian uniforms.)
A Kaskadi video game, with and on the horrbly outdated Kaskadistan People's Entertainment Device, (Think North Korean N64), with the game "Defence of the Motherland!" This game pits you, a nameless, faceless Kaskadi soldier against hordes of Jyrlish, Linconian, and Vendolandic soldiers, almost no story structure, and when you win, it shows a cutscene of you getting a medal from a poorly rendered Walter Waffenburg.
Another Kaskadi video game, on PC, one that was actually released world wide, under the developer "BaDing." The game is called "World in Turmoil," and you can play as Vendoland, Linco, Kaskadistan, Jyrland, Egyptos, Terrelis, Ashkera, and Collovia. (In the domestic version, only the Kaskadi are playable.) It is an RTS game, with the goal being to conquer the world, befriend the world, convert the world to your culture, or your ideology.
And on top of the package were stapled copies of reports of Kaskadistan's new environmental initiative, "Kaskadistan to cut factory emmissions by 2%, environmentalists confused," or, "Kaskadistan cares? New environmental initiative signals possible change of heart."
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