Embassy
Overview
An embassy is a structure that represents contact with a foreign nation.
The creation of an embassy results in the creation of an Imperial title; an ambassador selected to oversee relations with the foreign nation.
Ambassadors may be appointed for life or re-elected annually.
Senate Commissions
The Imperial Senate may pass a motion for the construction of an embassy with any nation the Empire is not at war with. The government of the foreign nation must reciprocate or else the Senate is just building a large barn.
It is also possible for the Senate to pass a motion to upgrade an embassy, increasing the benefits that it provides.?
Benefits
While an embassy is in operation the foreign nation it is connected to will send diplomatic agents to liase with the Empire.
The ambassador can also use the embassy in downtime to directly purchase goods and services appropraite to the foreign nation.
Downtime
Each downtime, a character who controls an embassy will have the option to spend money from their inventory to buy materials from the foreign nation. Each embassy provides a specific set of options as to what they may purchase and at what price. Ambassadors spend their money and make their choices during downtime from their character page. Resources purchased are placed in the inventory when the downtime is processed. The specific choices the character can make depend on the nature of the embassy ?and the number of wains spent setting the position up.
For example, an ambassador appointed to oversee the Jarmish embassy might have the choice of whether to buy 21 mana crystals for 18 crowns; 42 mana crystals for 36 crowns; or 63 mana crystals for 54 crowns. They could not spend 9 crowns to buy 7 mana crystals.
Unlike a ministry or sinecure, an embassy may allow the ambassador to directly purchase wains of mithril, white granite or weirwood.
Costs
- Materials: 20 White Granite, 20 Weirwood
- Time: 3 months to construct per 50 wains of materials used
- Labour: 2 crowns per wain
- Upkeep: None
There may be additional costs depending on the nation to which the embassy will be connected. This may mean bribes or other materials, or it may mean political concessions.
Limitations
The foreign nation to which the embassy is connected may change the resources available or remove them entirely based on the relationship between that nation and the Empire.
There can usually be only one embassy in the Empire to each foreign nation.
Responsibility
The ambassador may have additional responsibilities.
Recent Embassies
The list includes all embassies which have been created or appointed in recent times.