Yeledbaut's Military Readiness Index
The Yeledbaut's Military Readiness Index (YMRI) is an index containing most of armed forces on Edora, along with their estimated strengths and presumed capabilities. It categorize armies, peacekeeping forces, mercenary groups, and even piracy and banditry to some extent. The index is maintained by Intelligence Insurance Collateral and is considered to be the most accurate publicly released intelligence report.
Purpose
The index collects information on military and martial organizations, nations, knightly orders and more. Alongside this information, the index also collects intelligence on illicit military actions, such as bandits and pirates. It them compiles a score for each, depending on multiple, mostly classified factors and criteria.
Historical Details
History
The index was first published in 1548 by Ashmedai Yeledbaut, a former intelligence lieutenant in the Office of Diplomatic Affairs. The first index did not gain much publicity, It was focoused soley around the Agaman Bay and the Darsal Crest, two areas Yeledbaum knew well to some extent. In those first years, the index was mostly handed around to former connections and contact Yeledbaum had in the Pacificatores. Inside those inner circles, the index recived much praise for its relative acuracy despite its lack of resources, and conitnued publications in this limited form until 1552.
For his 1553 publication, celebrating 5 years of the original, Yeledbaum wanted to expand his index to include the Ostig Plateau. This was mostly due to a planned expansion by Free Financial Instruments, where he was working for at the time as an economic anaslyst, into the Andorian Alliance, namely to Evornfel. The expansion required a solid understanding of the diplomatic relations and risks of the Ostig Plateau and the Northern Amadels and Yeledbaum thought he could capitalize on both his company and his personal pulication.
Instead of publishing another small the index, Yeledbaum instead went to raise capital for his publication, initially he supposedly introduced himself as if he was on official FFI business, securing quite a large sum. Once the company cought wind of Yeledbaum's use of their name, he ceased from mentioning them again. It is suspected that Yeledbaum also recived undisclosed leverage from FFI to complete his index report, as they also stood to gain from its high accuracy, and from details that have leaked from a related lawsuite the two where involed in.
The first official publication of the index was in 1555. It was published under the signature of the Creative Intelligence company, which at the time was a small economic investigation firm in which Yeledbaum also invested most of his Pacificatores retirement funds. In contained an extremely detailed report on a mariad of subjects ranging from road safety to fraud risk and even included detail other reports omited, such as denizens adversity to organized religion, corruption rates of goverments and more.
Both Yeledbaum and Creative Intelligence were sued by Free Financial Instruments almost immedietly following the 1555 publication. FFI claimed Yeledbaum and Creative Intelligence used company funds assets in their reports, and demanded compansations equivilent to of 5,000 platinum pieces. The enormous sum immedietly brought the lawsuit into the public knowledge, and to the desks of the Free Cities Board of Directors who promply took the case to the highest court.
Due to the information contained in the index, the court was handled behind closed doors. Due to several contracts and agreements between Yeledbaum and Creative Intelligence, the company was obligated to cover any and all of Yeledbaum's legal fees. The hearings, trial and verdict took almost 6 years, leaving Creative Intelligence with enough cashflow to sustain only themselves or Yeledbaum. Due to existing contracts with the tiefling, the comany was forced into foreclosure to fund him for the ramainder of the trial.
Yeledbaum continued to publish his index under Creative Intelligece's name even during the tiral, and even after the company already declared for bankrupcy, catching headlines again and again. In Latspri of 1561, Yeledbaum managed to win the case, and FFI was forced to pay him 1,500 platinum pieces as compensation and as cover for the remaining legal fees he was required to pay. This astounded the intelligence community who was mosty convinced FFI would decimate him at court. He then promptly bought Creative Intelligence, existing mostly as a name at that point, and converted it into its current form.
On the 1st of Erlwin 1562 the 7th publication of the YMRI was published, and due to the mysterious court case and public interest, it gained vast public interest. Over the years the index gre to cover more and more of the continent, until in 1568 it covered every soveriegin nation and most military conflicts and operations in Edora.
Since 1570 the index began to include an extand chapter with the current theoretical information on other locations such as the Stormy Isles, The Maw and more.
Current Date: 2nd of Latsum, 1572
Medium
Paper
Authoring Date
1st of Erlwin 1555
Ratification Date
1st of Erlwin 1572
Expiration Date
30th of Latfal 1572
Location
Authors
Signatories (Organizations)
Comments