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[CB #12] Maritime Fast-Travel
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Author:  Joren [ July 2nd, 2016, 2:00 am ]
Post subject:  [CB #12] Maritime Fast-Travel
Greetings Kings,

After much discussion, I believe the time has finally come to vote upon this new proposal. The community has been calling for it for weeks, and I believe it is finally time to set it in stone. The following legal language is a culmination of weeks worth of community discussion. I approve of the language and will vote in its favor.



Maritime Fast-Travel Connections

1. A Maritime Fast-Travel Connection shall be defined as: a naval travel connection between two locations, feasible within existing lore and supported by a port on either end featuring physical infrastructure including but not limited to harbor facilities, local naval development, local development and cultivation of commerce and industry, international presence, and alternative methods of transportation and travel to each port, serviced by a minimum of one (1) pair of naval vessels that transport an individual between each port.

2. The Commission for Maritime Navigation shall be created as a subsidiary of the Imperial Ministry for Surveyors and Civil Engineers.

a. The Chairperson of the Commission may be appointed as a Deputy Minister at the discretion of the Minister of Surveyors and Civil Engineers. Other individuals may assist in completing the duties of the Commission at the discretion of the Minister for Surveyors and Civil Engineers. If no Chairperson exists, the role is automatically assumed by the Minister for Surveyors and Civil Engineers.

b. It is the Chairperson’s responsibility to collect and judge each and every application submitted to the Commission and to ensure, through inspection of the posted application and physical inspection of each port’s facilities, that each individual application meets each requirement for the approval and implementation of a Maritime Fast-Travel Point before sending each individual application to the Mercurian Parliament for voting.

c. A successful application reviewed and verified to the satisfaction of the Committee for Maritime Navigation will be passed on to the Mercurian Parliament for voting, where to succeed it must achieve the standard legislative requirement of either a 60% Council of the Crowned vote in affirmative OR a 50% Council of the Crowned and a 60% House of Dukes vote in affirmative.

3. Applications submitted to the Commission must include each and every element of the following:


a. A minimum of three (3) examples of photographic evidence: one picture of the port at either end of the connection as well as current map displaying the lorified proposed connection route.

b. A developed port on each end of the Connection. To be deemed suitable for a Maritime Fast-Travel Connection, each port must meet the following developmental and infrastructural requirements in order to justify the need for, the effect of, and the physical and economic ability to maintain a Maritime Fast-Travel Connection:

c. Population and residential areas large, established, and developed enough to generate sufficient traffic as to require a Connection.

d. Local commerce and industry prominent and developed enough to financially support a Connection and to provide economic rationale (i.e. international trade, commercial traders, etc.) for the creation and support of a Connection.

e. A number of oceangoing vessels housed within each port; large enough to facilitate oceanic trade and development and to provide activity sufficient to warrant a Connection. A minimum of either four (4) midsize (20-35 meters in length) oceangoing vessels or three (3) large (35-50 meters in length) oceangoing vessels must be present in the harbor of each port (this number may include Connection vessels).

f. Alternate forms of travel connecting each port to the Mercurian Empire’s transportation networks. These may include overland connections or nether connections. A nether line, if present, must be rated as wholly secure by the Ministry for Surveyors and Civil Engineers.

g. Physical evidence of each port having been influenced and impacted by international development including but not limited to trade, culture, diplomatic representation, etc. Physical evidence of international development may include but is not limited to: foreign businesses, international trade, representation of international Guilds, and diplomatic embassies. A minimum of two (2) physical examples of international presence must be established in each port.

h. International vessels housed in each port, in order to demonstrate that the port is being employed by international vessels on a regular basis. A minimum of two (2) international vessels, clearly marked as having originated in another realm, must be present within the vessels of each port’s harbor (these vessels may be employed for Connections).

4. The port on either end of the proposed Maritime Fast-Travel Connection must contain an oceangoing vessel that houses the Connection Point transporting the individual to the other end of the Connection and the paired vessel.

a. Each vessel must clearly display its destination port and realm in both written form (via signage) and realm-specific (via banners, flags, use of the realm’s color scheme, etc).

b. Each vessel may house only one (1) Maritime Fast-Travel Connection and may travel to only one (1) destination – each successive Maritime Fast-Travel Connection will require a separate pair of vessels.
Author:  King Erastil [ July 4th, 2016, 11:38 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
I hereby cast my vote in favour of this proposition
Author:  Kyn [ July 5th, 2016, 12:41 am ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
One question on the following:

Quote:
e. A number of oceangoing vessels housed within each port; large enough to facilitate oceanic trade and development and to provide activity sufficient to warrant a Connection. A minimum of either four (4) midsize (20-35 meters in length) oceangoing vessels or three (3) large (35-50 meters in length) oceangoing vessels must be present in the harbor of each port (this number may include Connection vessels).



For this, do the other required international vessels count toward these numbers?
Author:  Joren [ July 5th, 2016, 12:53 am ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
Kyn wrote:
One question on the following:

Quote:
e. A number of oceangoing vessels housed within each port; large enough to facilitate oceanic trade and development and to provide activity sufficient to warrant a Connection. A minimum of either four (4) midsize (20-35 meters in length) oceangoing vessels or three (3) large (35-50 meters in length) oceangoing vessels must be present in the harbor of each port (this number may include Connection vessels).



For this, do the other required international vessels count toward these numbers?


I believe that, so long as the international vessels meet the size standards, that they would count. However, one could have smaller international vessels in their port and then need to build the extra required ships. Does that make sense?
Author:  Kyn [ July 5th, 2016, 2:16 am ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
Sure does, thanks for the clarification my friend. I vote in favour!
Author:  Scrios V [ July 5th, 2016, 2:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
Love the community involvement on this topic and am definitely for it. This has my vote as well.
Author:  The Regent [ July 5th, 2016, 2:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
I vote in favour of this law as well! (not sure if my votes count atm).

I will do a post explaining my absence soon (lore off: the country of my residence disabled my VPN so I haven't been able to connect on things like mumble at all, as well, I am in the process of moving out (t-minus one week!), and because my current GF won't be joining me, I've been making the most of my time with her for obvious reasons before I am gone).

This law is interesting because it carefully balances the traditions while forcing some due effort/consideration/construction/etc, which will entail developing logistical routes and the necessary crafts for facilitating it. Good work everyone.
Author:  Joren [ July 5th, 2016, 6:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: VOTE: Maritime Fast-Travel
The Regent wrote:
I vote in favour of this law as well! (not sure if my votes count atm).

I will do a post explaining my absence soon (lore off: the country of my residence disabled my VPN so I haven't been able to connect on things like mumble at all, as well, I am in the process of moving out (t-minus one week!), and because my current GF won't be joining me, I've been making the most of my time with her for obvious reasons before I am gone).

This law is interesting because it carefully balances the traditions while forcing some due effort/consideration/construction/etc, which will entail developing logistical routes and the necessary crafts for facilitating it. Good work everyone.


Thanks for the explanation and insight, Regent! I was just asking the other day if you'd be joining us again soon, so I'm glad to hear from you!

I agree that this law works very well with our world, and will in fact connect us much like we were closely connected in the old world. The biggest complaint I hear about our world is that it seems like everyone lives in isolation. It takes over 20 mins for me to get to Concordia from Ertia for goodness sake! So, I think this will bring incredible new opportunities between realms in the near future.

With that, this law has officially been passed! Aeries, we should work together to try and get the necessary control block/plugin in place to allow for fast travel to begin.
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