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Headquarters:Kingdom of Britannia (Company Offices)Calcutta, Indian Raj (Principal Trading Base)

The East India Merchant Company (EIMC) is one of the world’s largest, oldest and most ruthless trading companies. It was founded in England during the reign of Elizabeth I at the dawn of the 17th Century.

‘The Company’, as it is often simply called, has survived war and revolution, prosperity and loss for nearly two hundred years. Despite occasional setbacks, it has always found a way to thrive, and continues to do so today.

The Company’s wealth and power grew enormously in the 18th Century, as it supplied the goods and materials to furnish Britain’s wars with the French in North America, and later Napoleon and then the Prussians in Europe. Among other things, it is often credited with being the main driving force behind the well-known Britannian taste for tea!

For nearly a century, it effectively ran large parts of India, securing its rule with both the sword and the pen. In the process it developed its own military forces, especially warships and flying engines, to protect trading routes which now extend across the world.

TakEovEr BIdsIn the early 1820s, the then Britannian Prime Minster Lord Gosford suborned the Company’s Indian territories into the greater Britannian empire proper, along with the bulk of its land military forces.

However, the Directors in Calcutta were hardly fazed. The Company – especially their august selves - was richly remunerated for this ‘loss’. Furthermore Gosford had plans that aligned with the Directors’ own; the conquest of the Kingdom of Burma on the eastern borders of Britannian India.

However, the three Anglo-Burmese Wars proved much more costly in lives and treasure than anyone had suspected, and dented the Company’s prestige back in London.

It was in the aftermath of these wars that the Company’s behaviour became distinctly more rapacious, as they strove to recoup the steep cost of the conflict and protect their newly expanded trading network. It was not an overnight change of attitude, but built up by degrees over time.

Their activities in opening up new markets, and dissuading foreign rivals from challenging them, became much more aggressive. The more the Company grew, the more it felt it had to lose, and the more resources it expended to protect its gains.

This in turn led to the need for more expansion, as the Board of Directors sought to secure their swelling trading empire without cutting into their own profits and wealth. It was this relentless cycle that eventually brought catastrophic consequences for both the Company and wider world.

THE sIngaporE affaIrBy 1868, the heart of the Company’s power was the island fortress of Singapore. Although technically Britannian territory along with the rest of the Malay Peninsula, the Company retained the right to run Singapore more or less on its own terms, as part of the settlement with Gosford’s government.

The Company had long been apprehensive about the growing influence of the Empire of the Blazing Sun. The inevitable catalyst came in mid-1868. The Company’s Governor of Singapore, Sir Reginald Horncastle, expelled all Empire of the Blazing sun traders from the port, on the rather dubious grounds that they were undercutting Company tariffs.

Crucially, although Horncastle was given leave to do so by his superiors in Calcutta, both he and they neglected to inform the imperial authorities, leaving the Britannian government, which would likely have countermanded the action, in ignorance.

Even worse, one merchant caught up in Horncastle’s purge was the uncle of one of the Blazing Sun’s most notable military leaders, General Oni. His subsequent suicide, and its effects on his nephew, would transform the scale of the incident.

Within a fortnight, the Blazing Sun’s Sword Army Third Division, the Wani, under Oni himself, had mobilised to conduct ‘exercises’ in the area. In response, the Company placed the garrison of Singapore on alert, though still without informing London or Delhi. What happened next is hotly debated.

The Company contends that Oni ordered a punitive strike on Singapore, that it had been his intention from the beginning. Others, however, insist that Horncastle commanded the port’s gun batteries and ack-ack to open fire on the Blazing Sun forces, either loosing off warning volleys that proved too accurate for comfort or deliberately firing for effect.

Whatever the cause, the consequences were extreme. A ferocious battle erupted between the Wani and the Company’s forces. Within 48 hours, Singapore had been razed, with Horncastle himself among the casualties.

Only now did the Britannian government become aware of the enormity of the situation. Although the Company was heavily censured, the Britannians began to mobilise retributive forces in the form of Duxford’s ill-fated 45th Expeditionary Force, as the conflict expanded into Malayan territory proper. From this bloody beginning, the World War exploded.

With Horncastle dead and Oni a fugitive, it is unlikely that the truth of who shot first will be confirmed anytime soon. Some even whisper that it was the Company’s intention to provoke war. They are also not above selling their services to some powers their Britannian masters deem ‘untrustworthy’.

But whatever their ultimate motives, the Company’s huge merchant marine and substantial naval forces form a key component in the grand Coalition’s East Indies strategy.

MIlITary sTrEngTHThe Company has its own construction facilities in India and Burma, and its wealth means that it can afford to commission and maintain powerful forces. Its naval and aerial strength are formidable.

The Company’s ships, still often known as ‘Indiamen’, are designed to be very versatile. They frequently served as cargo carriers in peacetime, albeit heavily armed, with piracy being a continual threat in many parts of the world.

Company warships and flying engines can mount a large array of weaponry and equipment, much of which can be removed and replaced at short notice, depending on the nature of a vessel’s assignment. The Company has access to considerable technological resources, which it has commissioned, purchased or, more frequently, ‘appropriated’ from rivals and enemies!

“Special thanks go to senior Testers Derek Sinclair, Ross Mackenzie, Damien Quinn, Michael Hetherington, Mark Guz, John Smith and James Flack and the D-Wars Online Beta Group for their valued help in the development of the East India Merchant Company rules and nation.

Additional thanks go to Christopher Drew, Franco Sammarco and Chris Worth.”

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The East India Merchant Company is one of the world’s biggest and most ruthless trading concerns. Its great wealth and success has made it many enemies, and it commands powerful independent private military forces to protect its huge merchant fleets. With its roots firmly lodged in Britannia, the EIMC mainly fight alongside the Grand Coalition powers, but the World War has not eliminated

the Company’s reputation for shadier dealings...

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