The Iron Chancellor

by Radical Centrist


Lightning round! (Bismarck and Paul ascend)

-204BB: Bismarck and Paul proclaim that they would "retake" the lands from the warlord occupiers. It's heard by no one except the Berlin griffons. They also enforce that every settlement is given a name.

-203BB: Bismarck and Paul stabilise their new state of Brandenburg by "retaking", the lands from the warlord who controlled it. The neighbouring warlords become concerned about the rising rogue state and investigate.

-202BB: The neighbouring warlords are destroyed by Bismarcks' army and their territories are integrated into the Brandenburg state. Other warlords are now banding together to destroy the greater threat against their power, as Bismarck and Pauls' promises of democracy are being heard by all villages and settlements in the north.

-201BB: Gunter is promoted to field marshal, and the general staff is doubled, as Bismarck promotes them for their performance against the northern warlords. Gunter forms an armoured division. Bismarck and Paul form the states of Saxony and Lauenburg and proclaims the German Empire. Warlords all over the eastern realm know of their presence, and the danger they pose.

-200BB: The central warlords who control lands rich in resources, offer to appease Bismarck by sending them tribute. They secretly plan to gather intelligence and copy the German weapons. Bismarck quickly realises their plans and attack using their spies' letters as justifications of war. Bismarck then begins to create a spy agency.

-199BB: The central warlords attempt to replicate the German weapons using their vast amounts of resources, however, is unable to reverse-engineer anything due to their complicated design. These southern warlords join in with the central warlords after receiving offers of vassalations. They employ cruel griffon-wave tactics to slow down the German advance.

-198BB: The central Warlords' army collapses, and starvation grips their lands as the southern warlord stop exporting food to them in fear of starving themselves. All remaining southern armies in the centre retreat back to their own territory. The German empire is able to occupy the central lands with very little resistance. The States of Silesia, Rhine, Hanover and Pomerania are founded.

-197BB: Bismarck and Paul invests in the navy and airforce respectively, and the German empire is now able to field several dreadnoughts and top-of-the-line screens, capital ships and cruisers. Airships and early biplanes are also created, which are being used mostly for reconnaissance missions. The German empire marches south, they enjoy a lot of popular support from the farmers, however the warlords all retreat and fortify inside their castles.

-196BB: with the countryside secured, Bismarck is able to systematically destroy all remaining resistance by rolling up howitzers and capital ships to bombard the castle walls. He even uses aircraft upon Pauls' recommendations to drop bombs into the castles. They all surrender quickly. The States of Bavaria, Nassau, Posen, Holstein, Schleswig and Westphalia are created.

-195BB: Any remaining warlords are defeated, Bismarck massively expands the army, navy and airforce to begin stabilisation. Paul who had been developing the lands they had conquered, re-doubles his efforts.

-194BB: Social classes from Brandenburg solidifies, creating many capitalists who are now independently investing in railways, infrastructure and industries within the empire. Illiteracy is negligible, and the empire is rapidly industrialising. Education is now compulsory, as many of Bismarcks' previous social reforms are enforced.

-193BB: The German empire experiences an incredible population boom, as medicine, safety, food, shelter and jobs become extremely abundant, which also start to positively affect the economical development. A massive infrastructure project is completed, in connecting the most remote places to Berlin, the capital city. Elections all over the Empire takes place under Paul and Bismarcks' supervision.

-192BB: The elected parliament acts like yesmens to Bismarck and Pauls' ideas, even though they had not even rigged it or threatened them to do so. Bismarck and Paul are worshipped and praised as supernatural beings, this somehow triggers their ascension, which gains them more support and adoration from their citizens. Now they tower over the normal griffons even more so. They discover legends saying an ascended griffin ceases to age, and therefore become immortal. The citizens rejoice, however, Bismarck and Paul become concerned about losing their sanity.

Every griffon in the empire has a job, food and shelter. Resources are drained at an incredibly fast rate, as they are mined and stockpiled in massive warehouses for later use.

-191BB: A massive project to penetrate the western mountains to reach out to the larger continent is approved, and the railway is expected to be finished in 2 years. Guns are upgraded and tanks are finally made. Gunter is very happy.

Bismarck attempts to create an aristocracy, however, is rebuffed by Paul, who instead convinces him to invest in the capitalists. Bismarck normalises wearing eccentric, imperial German clothing for the extremely wealthy.

-190BB: The elder passes away, and Hett organises a funeral In Berlin to mourn his death. The railway is finished early, and they can access the wider Equis continent. Several more railways are projected to be built through the mountains. Several outposts are built to protect the railways' exit. Bismarck proclaims the state of Lorraine in the new territory.

-189BB: As Lorraine expands, Bismarck declares another state built and calls it Alsace. There are no reports of foreign natives, however, they find several isolated groups of primitive griffon tribes, and immediately integrates them into the German culture. The governors of Alsace and Lorraine tells Bismarck that the primitive griffons had been hunting "ponies" in the west who are also intelligent. Bismarck bans the practice of eating intelligent beings.

-188BB: First contact! Lightning round over!