Event 4 - The End of the World we know!

**The Celtic Viking** · 08-04-2009, 16:55

"'Powermad'? Me?! Don't make me laugh, you old fool. My father gave you a satrapy, and I gave you lots of freedom, not only within your own satrapy, but within my kingdom as well. Your thanks for this is shown by taking up arms against me because you want even more, and yet somehow the 'powermad' person here is I?! I who have only ruled my kingdom as is my divine right, and have let people who have no such authority in on the decision making progress? I, who have upheld and honoured the Council that my own father created, giving other people a chance to help decide things they have no right to decide except through my good will?

Your lies would be far more believable if they weren't clinically insane. The hypocrisy is self-evident to anyone with half a brain, and no man of honour would follow the foolish barbarian, who knows nothing of honour himself, into this shameful uprising of criminal thugs and would-be tyrants.

For make no mistake: tyrants is exactly what they wish to be, even though with their forked tongues they would have you believe otherwise. But how could you trust them? These are people who for how long have been saying they were loyal to me, before stabbing me in my back. How could you believe them when they say they won't stab you in your your back as well? Their actions show their words can't be trusted, and their actions say the want power for themselves. Not to forget, either, is the fact that the man leading this rebellion is a Celt of all possible people! Have you forgotten what happened after Pyrrhos trusted them?

On the other hand, I, unlike them, have always kept my word. I promised the generals of the Kingdom of the Crescent that, if they laid down their weapons prior to taking to battle against me, they would receive a full pardon and be reinstated into my kingdom with no dishonour left on their record. When Hermokrates Parthikos did, I honoured my promise, spared his life has have spoken no ill of him, and permitted no one to speak ill of him on account to those dealings. My word you can trust. Theirs you cannot. To do so now would be the hight of gullibility.

There is no doubt that if these shameless liars and godless parasites would get to have it their way, all that Megas Alexandros fought for - and that I have fought to reclaim - would be lost. His great accomplishments would be all but lost, never to return. He would come as a destroyer, not a liberator; a defiler, not a cleanser; a bringer of death and famine, not of life and plenty. To align yourself to him is to align yourself to doom, and there can be no worse blasphemy against righteousness and good.

The people need a strong leader. The gods know it, Megas Alexandros knew it - hell, even the the most uneducated barbarian should know this. It is evident through the history of the world, and it is no surprise or coincidence that even the gods themselves need a king to rule the others. Amongst gods, Zeus holds that divine right, amongst men, I do: my legitimacy as Basileus cannot be put into question. Without a king, a strong man for the people to look up to, the populace all over the lands would've erupted in hubris-driven rebellions - such as is happening now. It is, if anything, obvious that I allowed these men too much freedom and leisure for their own good.

I would advice people not to be fooled by the Fool of Fools, or the Pharaoh of Aigyptos, who is nothing but a barbarian usurper, giving his own people a bad name."

**Celtic_Punk** · 08-04-2009, 19:56

You've abandoned your own generals to ruin. Borders are undefended, and You sat idly while Lydia was attacked by your friends the Makedonnes. Explain yourself hypocrite! DESPOT! TYRANT! LIAR! THIEF! You call my general a barbarian and a savage, but you no nothing of his culture. A culture that looks up to truth, sacrifice, and a sense of duty, and honour. You've grown jealous of your old friend's glory in battle. He has no intention of ruling this land, and has stated that already. Do you not think the people would do something if all of a sudden he usurped the throne? You are the snake in the grass! Be mindful fellow men! Freedom has a price. The Gods have come to collect. And Sarpedon's black soul is on the bill.

**MerlinusCDXX** · 08-04-2009, 21:33

Ha, your true colors show, you arrogant Makedone. "If it goes that you are meant to rule the world, does it follow that others wish to be slaves?" You seem to forget that I AM A BARBARIAN YOU SPOILED FOOL. I've heard your views on "the Eastern rabble" and how they don't matter. You "fortunate sons" of Alexandros' generals are all the same, claiming a divine right to an empire you didn't build, so it was with Ptolemy, so it is with Antigonos, and so it is with you. You forget that the Arche was built for you before you were sparkle in your daddy's eye. And it shows. You treat it like a personal toy. You speak of Alexandros as if his land grabbing adventurism was a good thing. We are sick of you arrogant Makedones acting as if Persia was your ancestral homeland. Your culture is not ours, your values are not ours, and your speech is not ours. No one invited you Makedones here. Oh sure, we were willing to put up with you, for a while, but YOUR mismanagement of OUR land changed that.

**Celtic_Punk** · 08-05-2009, 04:26

The future of the Arche will be carved up into states that mirror the differentiating cultures of the Arche itself. Bablyonians will govern themselves, as will the Egyptians, Jews, Galatia, and Persians. Borders will be held by amalgamated armies of all states, and led by an elected general. Antiochus' Syrian dynasty will stay in Syria. Alexandros, will govern his people. But you, Sarpedon... You have a choice. Get the hell out of here like the Coward you are or die on field of honour. If you had any sense of duty to your country you'd challenge the General to a one on one fight, face to face. But we all know who'd win. And we all know you are too afraid. You won't be the first King that General Cunobelinus has felled. Hopefully you will have to be the last.

**Ibn-Khaldun** · 08-07-2009, 13:01

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Rebels moved fast to secure their holdings and gather more troops under their banner. One of the Rebels leaders, Arrhenides "Cunobelinus" Gedrosianos, Took his troops and moved north to Alexandria. Satrap Aratos Arethousas Syriakes, long time friend of Cunobelinos, declared himself neutral in this Civil War. The same illness that made him stay away from governing his Satrapy had come back. Arrhenides' plan to get all units currently in Alexandreia under his command failed. Some soldiers were still loyal to Basileus Sarpedon and refused to surrender but in a bloody battle on the streets of Alexandreia they were all killed.

In south, Alexandros Syriakos moved with his army, former 1st Syrian, to Diospolis-Megale. Pantodapoi unit from it's garrison joined Alexandros but Toxotai unit refused to do that. They decided to disband their unit instead.

Phanias Laodikeias Lydikes, Shahanshah of Persia as he called himself, moved with his army to Asaak. It's garrison welcomed Phanias as their Commander and on that night great feast was held. However, next morning revealed that two units of Pantodapoi were gone. Investigation showed that those poor Greek settlers had returned their homes.

Basileus Sarpedon Syriakos reinforced his Royal Army with Asiatikoi Hippakontistai from Karkatiokerta and then moved to Sidon. Fleet with Thorakitai units had just arrived there and garrisoned the city. Using his personal funds Sarpedon recruited Hippeis Thessalonikoi and some Curepos to reinforce Euandros Stratonikeias Karikes' army.

Euandros had planned to head west against Mekedonians but this Civil War changed his plans and he moved to Antiocheia. There he gathered it's small garrison and made them part of his army.

Now, on this spring the fate of Arche Seleukeia will be decided..

Arche Seleukeia

Basileus Sarpedon Syriakos