The name's Comet. First name Halleys.

[Krasniy Yastreb]

And after two and a bit years the celestial clockwork has decreed it's time for me to make another pass by this old adopted pseudo-motherland. I have acquired a small amount of spare time, and gawd knows you look like you could do with a bolstering of numbers.

Name: Chris Kaminsky (yeah that'll do)
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Location: England, realm of no guns and bad teeth
Email: c o m r a d e s e r g e a n t 2 [at] g m a i l [dot] c o m
Other Micronational Citizenships: None

Preferred subdivision: County of Lower Lunaris, where I left off
How you heard about Shireroth: So damn long ago I can't remember
Previous micronational experience: name a communist MN from 2003-2005 and I was probably in it. These days I've moved on from the sphere somewhat.
Anything else about you: Aye, I'd just like to express my indignation to whatever individual *coughscottcough* laid down the curse that keeps drawing me back here at comepletely random intervals like a lost child in the forest on a New Moon's midnight. That is all.

[Ari Rahikkala]

Pfft. You should have returned in May when we had a communist revolt

[Erik Mortis]

I made it myself!

[hypatias mom]

Welcome back, Chris. I agree that Shireroth is hard to stay away from. It's good to have you back here. Which name are you planning to go by? Krasniy, or Chris? I am Minister of Immigration and Naturalization, and your application is marked APPROVED. Your duke will be along shortly and will confirm whether your desired county is available. I hope you enjoy it here.

[Kaiser Hasan I]

Welcome back. That curse was put into being by Eoin I believe. Which is ironic since he's the one individual who's been able to escape.

[Krasniy Yastreb]

Hahar, thank you all. I'm flattered I'm remembered.

Which name are you planning to go by? Krasniy, or Chris?

Krasniy will do fine. As blotted a name as it is in micronationalism, I've none better

Pfft. You should have returned in May when we had a communist revolt

I made it myself!

A Communist revolt in Shireroth is startling enough, but a Communist revolt in Shireroth led by Erik..... It would seem I have much reading up to do on recent history.

Oh, and if a certain well-fed Babkhan calls round to make me 'reconsider' my choice of citizenship, tell him I'm out.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

What about a well fed Shirerithian?

[Kaiser Hasan I]

Isn't that synonymous these days?

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Hey - as a Babkhano-Shirerithian wideboy I find that you are violating my human rights!

[hypatias mom]

Krasniy it is, then. You'd be surprised at a lot of the happenings recently here in Shireroth. Looks like you've got a lot of reading to catch up on. Enjoy!!

[Kaiser Hasan I]

As a Babkhano-Shirithian you can't claim prejudice against me.

[Krasniy Yastreb]

The fact is, the Khan can feed well in all manner of intermicronational locales.... why in the days of Zemlya the 'food' of choice was liquid in nature, came from a bottle and laid waste to the liver... but that proved no object.

Keith Floyd would be proud.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

My favourite was the three-legged green cod pan fried in triple distilled grain and potato spirits.

[Krasniy Yastreb]

Come to think of it, the of Iodine-131 isotopes absorbed by your thyroid from that particular delicacy could account for any girth gained since the occasion.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

No - that would be the pies.


Anyway for the comments reminding me of my girth you can report to the Ministry of Military Affairs for cannon fodder and futile sacrifice duties.

Enjoy!

[Liam conToketi]

Come to think of it, the of Iodine-131 isotopes absorbed by your thyroid from that particular delicacy could account for any girth gained since the occasion.

That sentence just made me love you...

[Jonas]

Welcome!

[Scott of Hyperborea]

Krasniy! It's been too long that you've left us here, with only the n00bs and newbs and newbies and so on for company. We cursed you because we love you!

Things that happened since you were last here:
-Shireroth declined and almost died
-Erik came back, became Kaiser, and fixed it up
-Babkha joined a YAMO called the Grand Commonwealth, almost died, and left just in time.
-A lot of the Babkhans came here, and now Hesam Jahandar is Kaiser.
-Erik led a (fake) communist revolt
-There's a problematic recwar against people who don't really understand recwar that we're trying to end before it consumes us all
-People from a magic-themed country called Gralus and a Dutch country called Batavia joined us, and now we're full of dual-cit foreigners who despite their divided loyalties are mostly awesome people.
-Former Cyberian firebrand Jacobus Loki became Shirerithian, helped us through the dark days before Erik came back, and is now at 3:2 odds to become the next Kaiser
-Erik quit as Duke of Brookshire in favor of an mostly-inactive new guy named Yvain, and Yvain put Erik back in charge until he gets back.
-Babkha's sorta dying, though they'll deny this.
-There's a stupid evil mapping organization called the GSO, which is competing with MCS. They're doing a bad job but still have a lot of people because they're loud and stubborn.
-Some people in the MCS think we're too big and powerful, but that's crazytalk.

[b3n|<3r|\|]

Great summary... you didn't mention how illegitimate and ineffective and filled-with-internal-turmoil the GSO is but at least you got the "stupid" and "evil" bits right.

Edit: Also long live our indomitable and ever-lastingly glorious keshvar of Babkha with its only legal and omnibenevolent leader Rashid Arsalani Shahanshah. To Jahaannum with these fiendish SHINE lies about inactivity.

[Krasniy Yastreb]

Ah yes, I faded away just as the GSO was revving itself up. To be honest I'm surprised they lasted this long.

Still, nice to know Shireroth is absorbing folks from around Micras through what I can only describe as patent witchcraft. I liken this place to an old oak tree. Storms, fires, hurricanes all take their toll and push things to the brink of death, but as long as there's a few green leaves poking out we're all good.

The notion of Kaiser Jacobus fills me with.... something.

My own intentions are to get Lower Lunaris back, reunite it with Upper Lunaris as per historical precedent and approval of the relevant parties, write up a comprehensive history of the place and generally piddle around the other forums seeding activity. Any and all assistance for my nefarious plans would be, of course, greatly appreciated.

[Jess]

You really should have been here in May, I still have my Commie-Avatar

[Aurangzeb Khan]

We are currently casting lots in Babkha to decide who to assassinate in order to restore activity.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

As a Babkhano-Shirithian you can't claim prejudice against me.

Pah, you've changed. You were never like this before you moved to Hyperborea.

[Kaiser Hasan I]

Yeah, its a political deadlock, and the fact that certain people have been spending more time in Shireroth than Babkha.

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Well as soon as someone *glares* appoints me Qadi I'll take some gardening leave from MoMA and get started.

[Kaiser Hasan I]

Hmm fair enough. And what was the other thing I said I would do today?

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Caretaker Government.

[Kaiser Hasan I]

Done, congratulations you're now the Qadi of Babkha.

[b3n|<3r|\|]

Finally, progress in Babkha. Made in Shireroth.

[Kaiser Hasan I]

Yeah, well I'd like to remind all the Babkhans present that it was voted to detain the election until August. So no one should be complaining about inactivity.