THE SUTICAN COUNCIL'S RESPONSE

[LithiumSedai 5750]

 

THE SUTICAN COUNCIL’S RESPONSE

11th of The Grand Harvest/Tobias’ Bounty, 1775

 

To the esteemed envoys of the Emperor of Man, and all freedom-loving peoples of the Realm,

 

It saddens the Sutican Council, and the Free State in turn, to receive another missive laden with fabrications, threatening violence upon Sutican citizenry and governance by the hand of the Holy Orenian Empire, in gross violation of the Free State’s principles of peaceful neutrality.

 

Past the initial confusion pertaining to the contents of the first missive, backed by the Orenian diplomatic corps, no formal and legal response had been issued by the Sutican Council to preposterous accusations laid forth within it. We regrettably find our hand forced in necessity to, at once, dispel these notions of slander penned by a once historically valued friend and ally of our State. The Sutican Council wishes to, beforehand, affirm that no personage claiming voidal horror heritage has ever sat upon the Council, or exchanged legal correspondence with the Holy Orenian Empire.

 

Therefore we must first address the claims of supposed inherent tyranny within the Free State’s governance. The Free State of Sutica remains, to this day and since its independence obtained more than two centuries ago, a constitutional, semi-elective monarchy unique in its approach to popular administration, democracy, and amendments to its Supreme Writ guaranteeing unobstructed legislative prerogatives to our Council and the Triumvirate presiding over its affairs. All administrative decisions pertaining to the State require absolute assent of the Council and its Triumvirate, attained by a majority vote. Matters of great importance to the State are decided by a full citizen referendum. The Trade Monarch retains the role of a constitutional safeguard. The Free State rejects the laughable notion that its checks and balances which actively safeguard Sutica’s liberal freedoms are subject to tyranny. It baffles the Sutican Council that an absolute, feudal, imperialist monarchy - its divine right codified in its laws - entertaining a mock Parliament whose legislation serves as mere distraction to the oppressed masses of Orenia, may raise concerns of absolutism in a foreign state.

 

No less do we reject the shameless intrusion into our sovereign, independent nation’s legal system. The Holy Orenian Empire has no mandate to demand that any Sutican national, much less the Trade Monarch himself, is subjected to trial in Orenian court, under Orenian laws, for a crime supposedly committed upon Sutican territory. It sickens the Sutican Council to see the Orenian Empire attempt to pass a blatant attempt on the Trade Monarch’s life as unwarranted murder, and further tack on irrelevant charges in defiance of our sovereign’s dignity. Furthermore, the Holy Orenian Empire currently boasts no treaties of extradition with the Free State, nor would any such hypothetical treaties fail to include diplomatic immunity for the two countries’ highest-ranking officials.

 

We hereby remind the Holy Orenian Empire once more that all visitors to the Free State are equally subject to its laws as its citizens in its territory, as is accepted diplomatic custom within the civilized realms of Arcas. The Holy Orenian Empire will find that, though they possess no proof of Lord Peter Amadeus’ demise within the State to begin with, any harm that might have come to him had resulted from his own unlawful actions within our domain. We hereby cite the Sutican Codex of Law:

 

 

I. Crimes of The Free State of Sutica; II. Pertaining Acts of Violence:    

e) Battery of a Higher Official (Class A)

The unwanted, purposeful, and unlawful physical contact with intent to offend, or any action which would lead to the offending physical contact against a Grand Knight, Head Librarian, Minister, Advisor, or Trade Monarch of The Free State of Sutica

 

II. Punishments:

4. Class A Crimes

Class A (Major Crime): Execution

 

  

The Sutican Council equally rejects the pinning of Princess Henrietta Alstion’s disappearance on the Trade Monarch, whose assumption of the Crown had occurred almost a decade following Her Serene Highness’ disappearance. The Sutican State has always deemed the Imperial House of Horen-Alstion its friends and benefactors, which is an opinion equally shared by the Trade Monarch despite his service to the Imperial House of Horen-Pertinax in the Great War. It is our solemn belief that the slanderous campaign against the Trade Monarch stems from his historical opposition to the Josephite regime, and that it reads as a poor attempt at leveraging Imperial force for the purpose of avenging these historical wartime woes. As one of the esteemed victor-states of the Great War, our participation having been spurred on by unwarranted raids on Sutica by the Josephite forces, the Free State adamantly refuses to entertain these preposterous demands.

 

 

It further confuses the Sutican Council that these demands were followed by an offer of accession to the Holy Orenian Empire as one of its constituent vassal states. Notwithstanding the Free State’s history as the longest continuously sovereign nation of the Realm and its fully-accepted status as one of the Realm’s independent states, we find that the baseless accusations discussed above would have posed a logical obstacle to our Trade Monarch swearing fealty to the Holy Orenian Emperor - who appears to have penned the slanderous missives himself.

 

Let us hypothetically entertain this possibility without regard for the Free State’s lawful freedoms enshrined in its constitution, and which give no mandate to any Sutican sovereign to willfully subject the State to foreign subservience. We find that one of the concepts of feudal vassalage prescribes a mutual bond between the vassal and his lord. In exchange for fealty, the lord bestows upon his vassal privileges and protection. It is baffling that the Holy Orenian Emperor would demand fealty of a man he seeks to behead in a show trial. It has led the Sutican Council to believe that, despite their honeyed words and offers of mutual companionship and prosperity, the Orenian Empire would wish to forgo Sutican inheritance and, perhaps, install an Orenian Governor-General to manage our State’s affairs in violation of our governance. The Free State very well remembers the fate of the Imperial realms of Curon and Kaedrin, stripped of not only their sovereignty, but also their citizenry in the name of a Helenan centralization plan. The Free State also wishes to inform the Holy Orenian Empire that the irony of there being several prominent unsolved murder cases within Helena, the most notable ones being that of His Imperial Majesty, Alexander Alstion, and His Holiness, Pontian III, is not lost on the Sutican Council. We have reasons to believe that, even if there had been no murder charges levied against our Trade Monarch, himself and ourselves would have met similar fates at the hands of Orenian assassins - those perhaps more skilled in the arts of murder than Lord Peter Amadeus. We do therefore humbly reject the offer of vassalage.

 

Lastly, and in relation to these subjects, the Sutican Council and the Trade Monarch proclaim that in the case of his untimely disappearance, regardless of its origins, Mika Uialben of the Goldhands of Urguan shall serve as Lord Protector and Regent of the Free State until legitimate succession free of foreign influence can be achieved. The Sutican Council shall not entertain any military interventions pertaining to the points laid above.  

 

 

SUTICA ETERNAL

 

 

[mika1278 3213]

His Excellency, Mika Goldhand, Lord Protector of Sutica, Minister of Peace, Longbeard of the Urguan Legion Signs.

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[BasilTheBunny 129]

Pruinae Tathvir, Council Member and Bartender of Sutica

[sergisala 3451]

“Justice for Peter Amadeus” Secretary Galbraith would simply respond as he finishes reading the sutican missive.

[KosherZombie 1772]

“Justice for Peter Amadeus,” says John, furrowing his brow in anger as he reads the lies and equivocations. 

[argonian 14254]

 

T H E  K I N G  R E S P O N D S

To the Pretender-King, 

 

This letter carries the legal weight of the contents of Our chamber-pot. Try again. 

 

By the Grace of God,

H I S  M A J E S T Y, Conrad of the House of Barclay, King in Exile of Sutica, Lord Protector and Triumvir of the State,

Lord of the Whispering Isles, Piercer of the Plate of the Populists, True Heir to the [Redacted Pending Legal Action],

Captain of the Snowy Fields Watch.

[MunaZaldrizoti 8037]

Henriette Marna de Rafal would suddenly fill with wroth and temper, “This upjumped peasant need not speak on my grandsire any further, lest he desire me to send blades to remove his eager writing hand from his insolent wrist! To use Emperor Joseph’s name and cause as his reason for this aggression by Orenian forces is abhorrent, simply because he cannot seem to prevent suspicious murder from continuing within his petty state!” She’d slam a fist down on her study room’s table, face filled with heat.

 

Lorena Annabelle Helvets would furrow her brows reading the response, thinking upon both the true fate of Peter Amadeus and the suggested stealing of Kaedreni sovereignty & people. She’d hope to find solace from her father.

[Disheartened 809]

Casimira de Sarkozy reads over the letter, gritting her teeth with each sorry excuse presented. She crumpled the paper up and tossed it into her fireplace across the room, kicking her boots up onto her table as she lit a cigarette, “Right, I’m sure the disappearance of both my mother and brother in Sutica along with all the evidence we’ve collected to know this information is just a fluke. Get your heads out of your asses.” she muttered, before making arrangements to shine and repair her ISA armor, patiently awaiting her chance to avenge them.

[bickando 3967]

13 hours ago, LithiumSedai said:

Kaedrin, stripped of not only their sovereignty,

 

"Kaedrin elected HIM Peter III to be its king," notes a certain historian of the province. "Too bad Suticans don't understand how votes work."

[grnappa 1230]

“There must be something in the Sutican water supply...” Sir Erik Othaman would note to himself.

 

“How else does one justify blatant murder and then turn right back around to claim it did nie happen? Clearly the tyrant king will lose his mind first before losing his domain.” Erik sighed at this thought, opening up his flask of Carrion Black and taking a long drink before returning to his patrol of the Sutican border.

[Dreek 1633]

Lurtz’Gorkil grins as he hears of these missives, ready to slaughter pinkies again!