Who: Your humble servant, Nathan I, King of Augusta.
Where: The Appalachian Mountains of North America, a series of linked mountain ranges and partly eroded plateaus stretching along much of the eastern edge of the continent. Specific area: Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, northern Georgia, all of West Virginia, Maine, Vermont, and New Brunswick, the western edges of North and South Carolina, much of western Virginia including the Shenandoah valley, central Pennsylvania including Pittsburgh, much of New York including Albany but explicitly -not- including Syracuse or New York City, western Massachusetts and most of New Hampshire.
Why: It's home. ^_^
Resources: Timber, coal, hydrological power, defensible terrain, lack of truly large cities and their associated demands.
Weaknesses: Hard to get anywhere, limited farmland, lack of technological background.
What Am I Assuming: That the 'Gods', while arrogant, are not sufficiently foolish to confuse external obedience with real submission. That the reason they're so hardass about technology is that Earth's was high enough to realistically present a threat... eventually. That they will, accordingly, want to stir things up on Earth and disrupt our society even further.
That, in short, sooner or later I'm gonna need to fight a war - against other Terrans.
What to Do: First, get together a brain trust of relevant specialists and get them to draft a new body of law, preferably a fairly simple one. Inheritance, property rights, the works. Put another trust on writing 'Primitive Subsistence Farming for Dummies'.
Second, in the period where the old world is 'shutting down', use as much modern tech as I can manage to do things like hammer in railroad cuts and tunnels - it'll be useful at every other stage, and -much- easier with things like dynamite. Also part of this project will be setting up a network of sephamore or heliograph towers. Distribute PSFD and crop seeds and needed tools for same.
Third, get, mmm, the machinery of the state up and running and shaken down.
Fourth, build city walls.
Fifth, build a network of forts controlling choke points granting access from foreign parts.
Sixth, finally pick up on the research side of things.
...ulg. I have more to say about government organisation and such, but it's late and my brain is dying.
Catch you tomorrow.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
Where: The Appalachian Mountains of North America, a series of linked mountain ranges and partly eroded plateaus stretching along much of the eastern edge of the continent. Specific area: Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, northern Georgia, all of West Virginia, Maine, Vermont, and New Brunswick, the western edges of North and South Carolina, much of western Virginia including the Shenandoah valley, central Pennsylvania including Pittsburgh, much of New York including Albany but explicitly -not- including Syracuse or New York City, western Massachusetts and most of New Hampshire.
Why: It's home. ^_^
Resources: Timber, coal, hydrological power, defensible terrain, lack of truly large cities and their associated demands.
Weaknesses: Hard to get anywhere, limited farmland, lack of technological background.
What Am I Assuming: That the 'Gods', while arrogant, are not sufficiently foolish to confuse external obedience with real submission. That the reason they're so hardass about technology is that Earth's was high enough to realistically present a threat... eventually. That they will, accordingly, want to stir things up on Earth and disrupt our society even further.
That, in short, sooner or later I'm gonna need to fight a war - against other Terrans.
What to Do: First, get together a brain trust of relevant specialists and get them to draft a new body of law, preferably a fairly simple one. Inheritance, property rights, the works. Put another trust on writing 'Primitive Subsistence Farming for Dummies'.
Second, in the period where the old world is 'shutting down', use as much modern tech as I can manage to do things like hammer in railroad cuts and tunnels - it'll be useful at every other stage, and -much- easier with things like dynamite. Also part of this project will be setting up a network of sephamore or heliograph towers. Distribute PSFD and crop seeds and needed tools for same.
Third, get, mmm, the machinery of the state up and running and shaken down.
Fourth, build city walls.
Fifth, build a network of forts controlling choke points granting access from foreign parts.
Sixth, finally pick up on the research side of things.
...ulg. I have more to say about government organisation and such, but it's late and my brain is dying.
Catch you tomorrow.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"