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16 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 400 BC.: Welcome to Sail Ho!
16 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 400 BC.: A piece about balance in Sail Ho: http://diplom.org/Zine/S2010M/Wiens/sailho.htm
16 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 400 BC.: Dear fellow leaders: With it have come new dangers and threats to the general peace. Under normal circumstances, I would open diplomatic correspondence with each of you separately, broaching subjects of mutual interest to our two nations alone. Border changes, spheres of interest, alliances for mutual defense against an agressor, that sort of thing. But it has come to my attention that we face an even greater danger than the normal cut-and-thrust of international politics. A menace so great that it dwarfs all others, even the danger of conquest by another nation. A terrible threat to the very existence of humanity itself. I speak, of course, of… ZOMBIES. You know who I mean. They lurch among us, pretending to be responsible national leaders like ourselves — but don't be fooled. THEY ARE NOT! They may at first appear normal. Initially they may even send you press — I guess they still have some vesitgial capacity for speech left before their brains rot completely. But as time goes on, even this stops or falls to nothing. They do not send or reply to long, detailed messages. Soon, they answer pleas and threats alike with mindless silence, as though the soul has left the body. And yet, THEY STILL MOVE! They shamble onward, seemingly without direction, dripping guck ALL OVER THE LANDSCAPE as they go. They have no strategic plan or tactical sense; all they know is that THEY MUST CONSUME. They use brute force to seize our cities, and the poor victims within soon swell their undead host with NEW ZOMBIE ARMIES. In time, they extend their evil reach to the upper levels of new governments (particularly when that country has just been stabbed, for some reason). Their aim is to put all of us — indeed, the ENTIRE WORLD — under the dominion of EVIL ZOMBIE HORDES. THEY MUST BE STOPPED!
16 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 400 BC.: Sadly, I am indeed one of the aforementioned zombies, and now you have offended my people. What a terrible shame.
17 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 400 BC.: It seems like the zombie menace was a false alarm. Good!
17 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 400 BC.: Everybody ready?
17 Apr 11 UTC	Autumn, 400 BC.: Congratulations to South for getting a two-build start.
20 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 399 BC.: And also to West.
20 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 399 BC.: And to East for making an enemy right off the bat.
20 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 399 BC.: And to North for surviving so far.
20 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 399 BC.: lol
22 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 399 BC.: Everybody ready?
22 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 399 BC.: East, come on.
28 Apr 11 UTC	Spring, 398 BC.: No more diplomacy?
29 Apr 11 UTC	Autumn, 398 BC.: I'd be up for Diplomacy, but they've ganged up on me.