Subject:  	Re: [MO] Still on our gameplan...
Date: 	Sun, 11 May 1997 09:50:42 -0700
From: 	Patrick 



>         Actually, I think we're a little ahead of it. Our 
> tentative schedule/gameplan ( as written by our un-official
> facilitator, David Melik ) calls for the second compilation 
> to be out in late May/early June... well it's coming out 
> today!!!! I just have to do some touch ups and then I'll
> post it on the webpage. I'd also like to formally welcome
> Mystaros ( James ) to the MOrient team. 
Thanks for all the work I'm sure it must have been, Joe.
>         I'm not sure if we'll need a poll on the next 
> compilation, but there are some major questions that I might
> put out with it that we need to resolve.
>         In regards to Patrick's map, the locations of 
> Chung-Eun and Jikushiru have been pretty much agreed upon. The
> other nations have no consensu as of yet and we should probably
> leave them flexible for further change. Personally I think that 
> MManchuria is *much* too big, and should be broken up into 
> smaller nations ( isn't Manchuria part of China anyways? ).
First of all, let me say that I agree that MManchuria is too big.  Mystaros
suggested earlier in my correspondence with him that we could add more
MAfrican cultures in the area, so this is certainly a possibility.  When I
first made the map, I drew no borders for MManchuria, I called everything
outside of the main countries MManchuria.  As for RW Manchuria: It is now
part of China, but was not for centuries.  The Manchu were another group of
"barbarians," much like the Mongols.  The Manchu hordes actually conquered
China several centuries ago, and began the Manchu dynasty, also known as
something else which escapes me now.  This was the last Chinese dynasty
(anyone who saw <The Last Emperor>, Pu Yi was a Manchu emperor).  Japan
attacked and conquered Manchuria in the Thirties, and then China took it
back after World War 2.  I located MManchuria there to provide a barbarian
culture on the NE side of Chung-Eun, to balance the Jennites to the NW.  We
certainly don't need to have it at all, but IMHO we should have something
hostile to both Chung-Eun and Jiku-Shiru there.

Patrick