Megas Logothetes' and Senators' Reports

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Report for 1147:

At last news of the despicable Moors, one of our esteemed diplomats was in talks with the far off nation of Portugal in Iberia when news came of the death of their Monarch at the hands of these fiends. It would seem the 'reconquista' is struggling to build momentum out there. Furthermore, the Moors have captured Lisboa and we do not yet know the status of the Christians living there. I am now doubly resolved towards meeting this foe on the battlefield and have boarded a ship near Athens with the express desire to do so.

The latest emergency session of the senate ended in confusion, fellow senators do not be alarmed. Our heroic Caeser continues to march towards the final forces of the Fatamid Caliphate, he has my full backing on defeating this foe once and for all.

Meanwhile the Order continue to prepare for the assault in Damascus, I pass on my best wishes towards the grandmaster and his brethren on this task. Speaking of the Seljuks, we have been able to find the source of their fading power in far off Baghdad. It is here where their current weak leader young Sultan Salem resides with a large but poorly equipped army. The Seljuks continue to hassle our outlying settlements, a medium size force now approach Yeveren.


Priorities:

Pavlos Chrysovergos has 4 out of the 10 PUs available. Work is now finished on the Priortised Leather Tanner in Tblisi.

The work on the City Walls continues as the late Basilues Aleksios Komnenus priortised.

His son, the recently crowned Basilues Ioannis Komnenus has all of his 2 of 2 PUs available.

Armatos ek Naksou has 0 of his 10 PUs available, following the recruiting of 3 more Byzantine Cavalry in Tortosa. Work had begun on the Priortised Ikoners Studio in Antioch, a shining beacon of Orthodox Christianity.

Ioannis Kalematros has all 8 of his 8 PUs available.

Senator and family announcements:

Andrinikos Komnenos moved east in Anatolia, has joined the main Tblisi-Dyardikar road and should make Tbilisi soon. Yet another candidate has offered himself up for adoption, after I rejected the last one.

Domestikos Zigavinos Vasilakios has taken a small armed force and moved up towards the assumed rebel raiding bases on the shores of the Black sea.

Comes Vissarionas ek Lesvou continues his journey toward the final Fatamid settlements Mecca and Medina as he travels through the arid lands of the Sinai.

Building:

The public gets what the public wants in Scopia, a formal Brothel has been set-up. It is said that underworld agents such as spies populate such places and we could do with more eyes and ears on our western borders.

Meanwhile, in Trebizond the fortifications have been upgraded a wooden wall is being built.

I am delighted to report that the Castle at Corinth can soon be upgraded to a mammoth Fortress. It was one of my ambitions this term to create strongholds in the west, this will prove a nice step in that direction. A smaller castle in Belgrade has finished work on a leather Tanner, a similar building has been completed in our eastern stronghold at Tblisi.

The west continues to improve its settlements with an administrative building in Thessolonica, a new wooden wall in Durazzo and a financial institution in the Basilues' very own Nicaea.

Word of our faith contunes to expand its appeal with larger churches in Bucherest and Dongola.


Misc:

A second Keivun Rus princess has come of age, I am sending a diplomat to discuss on here availability. I myself have no ambitions above my station to marry into royalty, however we do have some unmarried royal family members to potentially ask for hands in marriage.

The council of nobles have asked us to blockade Mecca.

There is a small rebel force to the north of Bucharest, there is another in between Sinop and Trebizond, a second has sprouted up here. I have asked my lord Zigavinos to intercede he has left Markinopol to race up and deal with this scum.

The save is here:

http://www.mizus.com/files/pbm/LOTR-1149.rar

I will be taking the save back on Friday 10th October at 1800 GMT

humbly,

Nevoulas ek Philadelphius