Open Heart Surgery

[Thaumantica]

the Foreign Office
Classified Message
Attn: @Engellex ; @Beautancus

Within the next 24 hours the Engellexian & Cussian Joint Task Force will be in striking distance of our capital city, open up and vulnerable like a heart surgery. Our Army, Navy, and Air Force have stood down in good faith that your martial incursion is present to ensure the safe exit of the Engellexian Ambassador, protect at risk citizens of your states, and assist in the cure or isolation of a disease that has already killed some and hospitalized others. Your Task Force clearly intends to lead the international response with state of the art military tools and operators, so we simply ask that their invasive surgery to correct the diseased Cantigian heart is not done with a hammer and blow torch.

It is our understanding that Eiffelandian officials have been ordered to vacate the continent before your arrival. We wish to immediately facilitate their dispatch from the Covenant for willing volunteers, and vow to arrest before physically removing any stragglers or the unwilling. These people are not our allies, and since their arrival they have been nothing but condescending towards our religious customs and Engellexian heritage. For all we know they are the progenitors of the pox, hoping that our harsh reaction to pestilence would places us where we now find ourselves: on the chopping block for decapitation or winter war.

New confirmed cases of the disease are isolated to the borough surrounding the port, which is under lockdown by Metro Police while we assess and consider response to more mundane contagions such as vice and labor groups who view your armada as an opportunity to profit from impending doom. The controversial shipping container that contained human capital has now been cordoned off by Metro Police, and its known surviving occupants are concentrated in tents on Imperial Promenade (street). Solving the mystery of its true ownership or the origins of those diseased unfortunates is not more important to us than the survival of our city and the salvage of relations hardly possible with our former Engellkin allies.

Your national pride desires and deserves satisfaction for insult and aggressions made by my predecessor as Chief Foreign Officer, and you will have it regardless of what we say or do to prevent that justice. We still desire however the opportunity to comply with demands and ultimatums such as the Eiffellandian question, which we agree to solve through physical removal or arrest prior to the time allotted.

Warm Tidings,
Maxwell T Proctor
Chief Foreign Officer

 

[Great Engellex]

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In JOINT COMMITTEE, November 26 2018
a LETTER of ADDRESS by the PARLIAMENTARIANS of the​

ENGELLEXIAN REPUBLIC​

In the ENGELLEXIAN REPUBLIC PARLEMENT ASSEMBLED the FOREIGN AFFAIRS JOINT COMMITTEE,

The Foreign Affairs Joint Committee has been persuaded to urgently make the following letter to the Covenant of Cantignia.

I have offered myself to day to the notice of continued conversation between the Engellexian Republic and the Covenant of Cantignia, not with a view of retracting in any immediate degree the dissatisfaction which the Engellexian Republic Parlement had given in a former stage of this month, but simply for the purpose of marking more distinctly the grounds of a likely retraction, and obviating a misconstruction which might be liable to arise from any readjustment of relations.

I did determine for the question on the diplomatic security protocol passing unanimously within the Council of the Republic, for the same reasons which make me wish to further good understanding to day; namely, that nothing may seem to call in question the unanimity of our determination to give the Engellexic Civilization* unbounded support, and to maintain the cause of all its countries through every possible trial, and to the last extremity. I should be personally sorry that any thing should appear on the face of our recent engagements, which, in the mind even of the most untrained and rude observer, could create doubt upon that subject. But while we are guarding against an error of this sort, let us take care not to incur one of an opposite tendency; that, namely, which would suppose, that unanimity in support of the Civilization was unanimity in support of distinct policies.

There maybe some possibly, who think, as there are many, undoubtedly, who wish to have it thought, that the greater the dangers and difficulties of the Civilization are, by whatever causes brought on, the greater must our acquiescence be in all the ministries and their policies of the time being, and the more complete our forbearance of all that is usually called Difference*. And if by Difference it is meant a captious and vexatious insistence, on things of doubtful nature or inferior consequence, for the purpose of obstructing Civilization and making the First Republic difficult to them, the opinion is certainly not well informed. But if there are persons, who think that of the danger here alleged as a reason for assisting the disagreeable inclination of Competitor Powers in undermining the potency of the First Republic, those persons themselves form the principal part of the crisis; that the preparations of the Tibur, however menacing, would have little terror, if met with wisdom and tolerance; that the seat of the evil is in Hammersmith than abroad; that it is the weakness of our defence, and not the vigour of our attack that constitutes the danger; that the Rurikgrad Pact and its subject in Touzen, however terrific, are not half so terrific as the small Council of the Republic; if there are persons who hold these opinions, to such persons it would be urgent to say, that, in fear of their efforts exposing the weakness or lessening the authority of the First Republic, they ought to stand as quiet spectators of what was passing them, and should neither attempt to prevent it's Progression, nor find house room in the source of their Competing mischief. Such is the situation it is felt standing.

There is no wish, and in one view certainly without right, to speak with slight or disparagement of the abilities of the Cantignian Ministry in Vesper. Individually considered, they are all persons born from the cultivated minds of the Civilization, of progressive education, of good natural endowments, not unread in the history of their own country, not unpracticed in its business, not unprovided with those talents and acquirement which are necessary for the conducting of affairs in Vesper. But if I am to speak of them collectively, as persons forming a council which aspires to guide a degree of the affairs of the Engellexic Civilization, which is to rule the Thaumantic Domain in a crisis like the present, I must say, from the known causes it does arise, that they are weakness itself. It is believed the great country of Cantignia will perish in their hands. I believe the honourable gentleman will fairly see us out; that we shall not outlive the fervour of fictional belief in Cantignia; that they will prove, as I believe, the First Republic before took the liberty of remarking to you privately*, the Hand of Tibur** whose actions the country will fall.

Consider it, it has now been several weeks since the Engellexian Republic felt compelled to say to you, that Cantignia, are not sufficient in furthering the sovereign interest of the First Republic and its citizens. The affairs of the Covenant of Cantignia has been in the hands of the very same persons, without interruption, to this very day. And can we venture to say, that the disagreeable forebodings much previously, historically expressed have made some progress towards your accomplishing a nearer degree of equality in the shared Engellexic Civilization, or that the succession of honourable persons did not bid fairer to put a fuddling stroke upon the work which they are historically sworn to have begun upon their natural, bountiful lot? With these considerations, it is childish to speak of tolerance for Difference, in cases where difference would otherwise be proper, for fear of impeding the exertions of a neglectful ministers, or exciting a belief that the country was not safe by the biological contaminate of unwashed and limp hands. Where the Engellexian Republic were to desist an opportunity of so doing, it must be understood to be from motives far different from those of regard for the common safety of a country - any country, for the First Republic is Civilization - First Civilization, Engellexic Civilization, the Thaumantic Civilization; there exists a greatness in Civilization, and, Difference very much considered, the Covenant of Cantignia enjoyed a permanent regard in respect of the belief that it, too, is a country of the Engellexic Civilization.

With respect to the status of Cantignia and the Engellexian Republic, notwithstanding the care which has been taken, and properly taken, to avoid any and all occasion of difference, objections to a permitted restoration would not be agreeable, were this the moment for insisting upon it.

signed on Order and on Behalf of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee,

Lord Benjamin Boxer,
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Joint Committee

[[*Engellexic Civilization (Engellexian Republic; Beautancus; Cantignia; Sylvania; Seneca; Natalia, too?) - it is rarely mentioned, as the First Republic often places preference on the First Civilization, the Thaumantic Civilization, partly due to the Difference; acknowledging the Engellexic Civilization openly should be seen as a brotherly/sisterly gesture. *Difference, is the term used to describe Cantignia in a neutral, polite way, in relation to the politics and sensibilities of the First Republic. *Assuming that Engellex would have expressed difference to Cantignia's religious spirit historically. **Tibur is the source of every religion in Europe, and ultimately the source of the Difference.]]

 

[Thaumantica]

the Foreign Office
Classified Message

Here at the edge of civilization we once again find ourselves in awe of the authority and finesse of the First Republic, ever firm as an institutional backbone to the Great Thaumantic Civilization. The First Republic should be and is respected above all for pursuing justice as they view it, and valiantly performing acts to match its words. In the course of this crisis we have seen the Eiffellandian, Austwegian, Caledonian, Sylvanian, Senecan, and countless others voice inactive "neutral aid" towards our entirely real and deadly health crisis. Worse than this these cowardly states failed to defend or even speak our against the bio-chemical weapons armada that surrounds our fair Vesper as I write this message. It remains my sincerest regret that my predecessor allowed political fanaticism to take precedent over facts, creating the regrettable yet potent "Engellpox" moniker that dances across the mouths of Europe twice over. For this radicalism, dissent, and yes a touch of the Difference, Cantignia & Engellex can no longer be called friends or allies. As Chief Officer I understand that this relationship cannot be salvaged by words - for the First Republic is a creature of robust action and balanced ledgers.

The Grand Covenant shall commit to ending serious discussion of the disease as Engellborne, or "Engellpox". With the facts we have at this time our Covenant Investigatory Service (CIS) tells us that the Elephant & Castle shipping container in question has been out of actual corporate circulation since April 19th, 1984 - its last registered port of entry: Tephanon. It is obvious to us that this container has been used in these decades as a black market box for countless activities that we will not comment on independently or publicly. We also commit to not publicly comment on the ownership of the Human Commodities present in the container, a black market illicit variety, without First Republic or Confederate Cussian guidance on the matter. Our CIS shall also acquiesce and take direction from First Republic or Confederate on the matter, for it is clearly not in our national interest to pry at the commodity question further.

If we would dare offer a suggestion for the future, it would be that agencies and states of Engellexic Civilization have an official communication vein for internal conflicts to be resolved before they erupt to the scale we currently experience. We recommend Welmonton as the heart, not that Cantignia's vote is valued at this hour, but surely the First Republic's Westernesse champion would best serve to host and potentially direct this centuries effort for Global Engellexic Supremacy? Cantignia desires such an arrangement and would surely serve such an authority to carry our state and other Engellexic states towards the inevitable Global and Interstellar Dominion of the Engellexic Race!

Warm Tidings,
Maxwell T Proctor
Chief Foreign Officer

 

[Beautancus]

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CONFEDERATED REPUBLIC OF BEAUTANCUS
OFFICE OF THE FIRST CITIZEN & CHIEF
Drummond House, 2552 Company Street,
Welmonton, City of Welmonton, CRB, 58362
on this day, the 27th of November, 2018



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While it would be inaccurate to say that those events and instances of poor decision making and improper communication that have passed between those most kindred nations and peoples of the Truly Civilized, Engellexic, Order in the past month have not been immensely concerning to this government, myself most of all, it will perhaps be best left to say that this most recent turn towards reconciliation and renewed cooperation has been and is, in contrast, quite favorably received.

It has been the opinion of this administration from the onset that such petty squabbles, such failures in basic governance could not be the work of those possessed of the inherent vigor, virtue and wisdom of the blood of the First Republic, original beacon of proper jurisprudence and the reason that it is. As has continued to be borne out by the ongoing, and ever more disastrous unfolding of events, there can be no mistaking nor underestimation of the malice harbored by those nefarious foreign actors that have attempted to exploit, solely for their own gains, this imminently temporary disruption of the harmony enjoyed by Engellexic Civilization. I extend to all those honorable and forthright parties involved in this present, particular, discourse that we should endeavor to demonstrate the error of these attempts to meddle in affairs that could only have ever been our responsibility to resolve, to those most distant territories in a state of unrecognized governance in particular.

That 5,000 and more Engellexic lives have been lost as a result of this calamity are perhaps nearly so alarming to this Office as has been the continued, apparent, lack of comprehension in the necessity of presenting our best face to the other, less civilized peoples of the world. Though our nations have not yet achieved the total perfection for which we so fervently strive, even so we present the best, most evolved, and most proper vision of true civility and governance that does, and has ever existed. We, therefore, bear heavily the burden of providing the best example possible - one that we feel has not been at all provided in these cases. The very nature of Engellexic humanity negates the possibility of such personally unsanitary ailments, as such many of the notions expressed in the past weeks have flown in the face of centuries of established reason and science. It is impossible for those of lesser mental faculties to reconcile such contradictory messages, and we can only wonder at the longer term damage this will have done in their collective abilities to properly accept and disseminate the truth as revealed to them by us.

On the matter of the Confederated Republic Naval Vessel, Caduceus; to better demonstrate the pleasure with which this administration has received these missives, has been ordered to break-off from Task Force Grim Tidings. Though more than capable of creating severe difficulties for such persons as persist in challenging the Accepted Order, I provide my own personal assurances that it was on site only to provide whatever Biological Warfare expertise was necessary to mitigate any serious issues that might have been caused by the presence of such untrustworthy foreign individuals from Gallo-Germania, Touyou and even farther afield. Our commitment to the integrity of this continent has, and will continue to demand such vigilance and willingness to exercise those more fearsome aspects of our inheritance.

Likewise, I am both honored and humbled by the suggestion that Welmonton might host and coordinate a more permanent and regulated enterprise, to ensure that such disharmony is impossible in the future. As you say, the future of the world entire, species and the stars themselves rely upon our ability to execute those Greatest Imperatives of the Exgellexic Species. It is, of course, more than possible given those resources our historic governance has blessed us with - and we would count ourselves failures of the worst order were the Confederated Republic not willing to rise to the occasion.


With my, and our, warmest regards,

His Excellency, Seigneur Edward C. Orton,
First Citizen & Chief, Confederated Republic of Beautancus
Viscount Orton, Landgrave of the Orton Pond & Freeholding Confederate of Banner Elk, Knight of the Confederated Republic,
Order of The Stag

 

[Thaumantica]

the Grand Covenant of Cantignia

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A PRIVATE
Message from the Foreign Office​

Attn: @Engellex

As media reports that formal investigations have been launched by both the Grand Covenant and First Republic regarding the H1B virus and subsequent events, I have been instructed by my superiors to inform Engellexian authorities that private findings made by the Covenant Investigatory Service will be shared confidentially with the First Republic always prior to any public or redacted release. My Foreign Office will not participate in public mud slinging against Engellkin kind, and it is the primary mission of our interim Grand Commissioner Hubert Hogan to utilize all offices under his command to restore relations where possible, or improve upon them where they still exist.

May Goodwill Prevail,
Maxwell T Proctor
Chief Foreign Officer