Society Name: Shanari
Actions for the Shanariyya Commonwealth.
1. Develop Trans-Calarnar trade route (Kharou'I Sin-Akbari-Jabau).
(1 action, over 5 turns)
Strategic/External/Difficulty: reasonable/Risk: none/Economic-Trade.
Determinant - Shanariyya security (+1), Shanari trading abilities (+1)
and
availability of new trade route (+1). Impact of Sinari cult (-2).
Difficulty: Hard -1
Shanari caravans began traversing the Trans-Calarnar trade route that
links
Akbari to Kharou'I Sin and Jabau, protected by small heavily armed
squads of
cavalry specially commissioned from the elite Shanariyya Core. These
squads
though have strict instructions to camp outside the city walls of
Kharou'I Sin
and Jabau, never entering them.
Every such caravan pays a tax of 10% on profits earned from the trade,
to the
Commonwealth Treasury in Akbari.
[Each caravan is guarded by 20 cavalry, of Professional standard]
+1 -1 (0 0 -1 +1) + () + () + () + ()
The caravn route is created.
2. The death of the Conveyor, the Alb-Sheikh Faymiyun al Shawari, and
formalisation of the Council of Companions, with Shanjil Yuliyan al
Shawari
elected as the Talis of the Commonwealth. The Shanariyya Commonwealth
now
begins to develop into a much more formally organised theocracy.
(1 action, 1 year).
Tactical/Internal/Difficulty: slight threat to stability/political.
Determinants: Election within established religion (+2), within clan of
the
dead Conveyor (+2), threat of breakdown in authority of the Shanariyya
Commonwealth (-2).
Difficulty: Hard
With the death of the great Conveyor Faymiyun, the consultative council
of
disciples, followers and tribal elders he had established many years ago
temporarily fills the power vacuum.
Meeting in the prayer hall in Akbari, soon after the Alb-Sheikh's
burial, the
council debated the political future of the Shanariyya Commonwealth.
Proposals are made and candidates put forward. Eventually the
Conveyor's
cousin, Shanjil Yuliyan al Shawari, one of the earliest converts to the
Millat
religion and an early refugee from Milakanur, is elected as the
Commander of
the Brethren and the Talis (Binder) of the Commonwealth.
+2 -1 (+1 -1 +1 0) = +2 Success
Shanjil Yuliyan al Shawari. Is successful placed as Commander of the
Commonwealth.
3. Collection of the Conveyor's revelations into a single book, the
Scroll,
by the Companions.
(1 action, 1 year)
Internal/Tactical/Religious
Determinants: action by a central authority (+1), occurring recently
after
death of Conveyor (+2), general community consensus for action (+2).
Difficulty: Hard
The first act of the new Talis, Shanjil Yuliyan, is the ordering of the
writing down of the Scroll (otherwise known as the Gospel of Shanar),
the
series of revelations received by the Conveyor from Sin-Alif (He Who is
One),
until now recorded only in the oral tradition. This is so the
Revelations can
be preserved more permanently, and to allow an easier conveyance of the
Message to the Shanari tribes outside of the Shanariyya Commonwealth,
particularly those in the Kelshir Mountains and in Milakanur.
The Talis, Shanjil, orders all Companions to remain in Akbari until the
Scribes of the Council have been able to take down on paper the verses
and
chapters of the Scroll they had memorised. Once this is completed, the
written records are then compiled in order, and the mass production of
copies
of the Scroll begun.
+1 -1 (0 0 0 +1) = +1 Success
The Scroll is completed
4. Call up of all troops, including a recall for all military
expeditions
outside the central provinces.
(1 action, 1 turn)
Internal/Tactical/Military.
Determinants: heightened tensions of Commonwealth (-1), test of new
authority
of the Talis (-1), regimental organisation of Army (+2), religious
devotion
increased at this "turning point" (+1).
Difficulty: Hard
As a result of the instability caused by the death of the Conveyor,
Alb-Sheik
Faymiyun, and the fear of an opportunistic attack by Sinari bandits,
Terebuan,
Milakanur or Bel'Adne, the Talis Shanijl recalls all troops currently on
active duty outside the central provinces of the Central Mountains, the
Lesser
Mountains and the Upper Kelshir.
Furthermore, the Talis calls up the full cohort of existing provisional
troops. The Shanariyya Army is already at full standing strength (3
Core
Divisions of 1000 each). The calling up of the First Flank (10,000
provisionals), will swell the standing army to 13,000.
Existing patrols of trade routes between Bel'Adne, Jabau, Kelshir and
the Ban
Horroth are to be limited to the guarding of caravans, which the First
Core
Division will carry out (1000 Professionals). This leaves 12,000 for
general
defence.
-1 -1 +1 (-1 +1 +1 +1) = +1 Success
The Troops are called up, but they don't really seemed as need this
year.