Post by Ignatius on Apr 15, 2007 16:15:03 GMT -5
OOC- Something Porcu, Nike, and I have thought of doing.
French Confederation, 1997
The mobilization of enormous student protests within Los Vatican's streets have effectively brought the demands for Liberté et égalité to the table of Los Vatican's Council of Bishops, forcing the dominating hierarchy to immediately recognize the now dominant Protestant population's desire for equal representation in Los Vatican government, eventually (despite then-Cardinal Ignatius Milano's objections) culumating to the election of President Charles de Gaulle as the head of political affairs within the French Confederation.
Within the span of six months, the formerly ultra-conservative Theocracy of Los Vatican has met its demise through the shrewdness of de Gaulle's character, completely abolishing the old order of papal dominance within the French Confederation and effectively putting out the Templar Military Order from the Government's good graces (due to their loyalties). Furthermore, the abolishment of the Theocracy's mandatory draft of French civilians has effectively sliced the Armee de Terre's available manpower by 200,000 men, causing much distress within de Gaulle's tulumous 1st Republic.
To remedy the lack of sufficient manpower numbers within France and to act as a counter-weight against the corrupt, but still influential Templar Order, de Gaulle promptly ordered the revival of France's Légion Étrangère (French Foreign Legion, disbanded by Milano in 1975) to supplement the lack of draftee's within the nation, and gain a large amount 'dispensable' meat for his ambitious "Policies of Grandeur"; an army of foreigners willing to die for the banner of France.
An organization willing to accept nearly all those regardless of background and offering to 'erase' past crimes, de Gaulle's "Legion of the Damned" almost immediately attracted hordes of criminals, ex-mercenaries, drug traffickers, and adventurers to France's numerous embassies dotting the world, creating one of the largest immigration booms in France's history. Thousands of men flocked to Paris for Légion Étrangère applications, seeking either adventure, wealth, or a new future and willing to sign away five years of their lives to an uncaring foreign government regarding new recruits as "cannon-fodder" for warzones deemed 'politically liable' for the shedding of French blood.
Within 1997 alone, six hundred-thousand men knocked at the Legion's recruiting station in Aubagne, each hoping to see the end of their five-year contract with a French passport in their hands.
One in three would die before their contract ended...
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Empire of Porcu, Roman Airport
Guisuppi Garbaldo glanced warily at the clock above him, nervously checking the time to prevent himself from losing the sole plane to France, a land rumored to be a 'haven' for people like him. Even within the confines of prison, news of the re-establishment of the French Foreign Legion had created a buzz of activity within Porcu, with hundreds of self-proclaimed adventurers and thrill seekers (as well as convicts) flocking to Rome for a one-way flight to Paris.
"Damn French pilots.." cursed Guissuppi, obviously angered by the 'French Internationale's' tardiness, "Leave it to the French to fly airplanes..."
The Porcuian government had apparently taken the news within France as a blessing, using the French Confederation's situation as a entirely plausible excuse for emptying the cells of its over-crowded prisons. Under close watch from Il Duce's military, thousands of Porcu's worst psychopaths and murderers had been given permission to be 'dumped' into France's boundaries, allowing many a taxpayer's money to be usefully funneled into more productive pursuits.
While certainly not a dangerous psychopath or a murder, Guissuppi's long list of minor felonies done during his juvenile days effectively prevented the Porcuian man from obtaining any 'decent' type of work within both Porcuian military or civilian life, causing the Porcuian man to meditate heavily on the prospects of a "fresh life" within the French Confederation's borders.
"I wish... for adventure..." mumbled Guissuppi to himself, blissfully imagining himself in the shoes of a dashing Foreign Legionnaire, trekking romantically through the dunes of Arabia with a white kepi, "And... I wish for a new life..."
The sound of the airport's P.A. speakers soon brought him back down to earth, forcing him to hurridly rush into Terminal IV's to catch his flight to Paris..
French Confederation, 1997
The mobilization of enormous student protests within Los Vatican's streets have effectively brought the demands for Liberté et égalité to the table of Los Vatican's Council of Bishops, forcing the dominating hierarchy to immediately recognize the now dominant Protestant population's desire for equal representation in Los Vatican government, eventually (despite then-Cardinal Ignatius Milano's objections) culumating to the election of President Charles de Gaulle as the head of political affairs within the French Confederation.
Within the span of six months, the formerly ultra-conservative Theocracy of Los Vatican has met its demise through the shrewdness of de Gaulle's character, completely abolishing the old order of papal dominance within the French Confederation and effectively putting out the Templar Military Order from the Government's good graces (due to their loyalties). Furthermore, the abolishment of the Theocracy's mandatory draft of French civilians has effectively sliced the Armee de Terre's available manpower by 200,000 men, causing much distress within de Gaulle's tulumous 1st Republic.
To remedy the lack of sufficient manpower numbers within France and to act as a counter-weight against the corrupt, but still influential Templar Order, de Gaulle promptly ordered the revival of France's Légion Étrangère (French Foreign Legion, disbanded by Milano in 1975) to supplement the lack of draftee's within the nation, and gain a large amount 'dispensable' meat for his ambitious "Policies of Grandeur"; an army of foreigners willing to die for the banner of France.
An organization willing to accept nearly all those regardless of background and offering to 'erase' past crimes, de Gaulle's "Legion of the Damned" almost immediately attracted hordes of criminals, ex-mercenaries, drug traffickers, and adventurers to France's numerous embassies dotting the world, creating one of the largest immigration booms in France's history. Thousands of men flocked to Paris for Légion Étrangère applications, seeking either adventure, wealth, or a new future and willing to sign away five years of their lives to an uncaring foreign government regarding new recruits as "cannon-fodder" for warzones deemed 'politically liable' for the shedding of French blood.
Within 1997 alone, six hundred-thousand men knocked at the Legion's recruiting station in Aubagne, each hoping to see the end of their five-year contract with a French passport in their hands.
One in three would die before their contract ended...
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Empire of Porcu, Roman Airport
Guisuppi Garbaldo glanced warily at the clock above him, nervously checking the time to prevent himself from losing the sole plane to France, a land rumored to be a 'haven' for people like him. Even within the confines of prison, news of the re-establishment of the French Foreign Legion had created a buzz of activity within Porcu, with hundreds of self-proclaimed adventurers and thrill seekers (as well as convicts) flocking to Rome for a one-way flight to Paris.
"Damn French pilots.." cursed Guissuppi, obviously angered by the 'French Internationale's' tardiness, "Leave it to the French to fly airplanes..."
The Porcuian government had apparently taken the news within France as a blessing, using the French Confederation's situation as a entirely plausible excuse for emptying the cells of its over-crowded prisons. Under close watch from Il Duce's military, thousands of Porcu's worst psychopaths and murderers had been given permission to be 'dumped' into France's boundaries, allowing many a taxpayer's money to be usefully funneled into more productive pursuits.
While certainly not a dangerous psychopath or a murder, Guissuppi's long list of minor felonies done during his juvenile days effectively prevented the Porcuian man from obtaining any 'decent' type of work within both Porcuian military or civilian life, causing the Porcuian man to meditate heavily on the prospects of a "fresh life" within the French Confederation's borders.
"I wish... for adventure..." mumbled Guissuppi to himself, blissfully imagining himself in the shoes of a dashing Foreign Legionnaire, trekking romantically through the dunes of Arabia with a white kepi, "And... I wish for a new life..."
The sound of the airport's P.A. speakers soon brought him back down to earth, forcing him to hurridly rush into Terminal IV's to catch his flight to Paris..
