Samuel Pallache, The Diplomatic Corsair

Target Character leads a curious double life, one day negotiating trade privileges on our behalf with Holland, the next commanding corsair ships that raid Spanish and Portuguese shipping without any commission we ever signed. he/she insists both activities serve the same end, and it is difficult to argue his/her results have been anything but excellent for our treasury.

Conditions

Historical event

• Is Morocco
• Date: 1600–1620
• Monthly chance: 50%

Trigger

• Has DLC: Across the Pillars
• Holland Exists
• Owns SaléorTetouan
• Culture population in country (Sephardi) > 0

Exact conditions

Effects

As soon as it happens

Create character: First name: name_samuel · Last name: Pallache · Culture: Sephardi · Religion: Judaism · Female: no · Min age: 35 · Estate: Burghers · Create in limbo: yes

Administrative Ability

• 40
• 60

Diplomatic Ability

• 70
• 90

Military Ability

• 30
• 50

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Options

ACommission him formally.

• +10 towards Mercantilism
• Holland
  Add opinion: Target: Root · Modifier: Pleased (20 · Yearly decay 1)
• Target character
  Moves to the Root

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BKeep the arrangement unofficial.

• +10 towards Free Trade
• Not shown in the game's tooltipTarget character dies

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Connections

Requires 5

Religions

• JudaismAs soon as it happens

Cultures

• SSephardiAs soon as it happens, Trigger

Countries

• HollandTrigger
• MoroccoTag

DLCs

• Across the PillarsTrigger

Grants 1

• PPleasedOption 1

Changes 1

• Mercantilism vs Free TradeOption 1, Option 2

References 2

Estates

• BurghersAs soon as it happens

Countries

• HollandOption 1

Scripting 3

Uses 1

• Eevent_illustration_estate_effectbackground = estate_type:burghers_estate · foreground = estate_type:burghers_estateAs soon as it happens

References 2

• Ssocietal_value_move_to_leftOption 1
• Ssocietal_value_move_to_rightOption 2

Definitionin_game/events/d009_sephardi_morocco_events.txt:506

type = country_event

title = d009_sephardi_morocco.7.title Samuel Pallache, The Diplomatic Corsair

desc = d009_sephardi_morocco.7.desc Target Character leads a curious double life, one day negotiating trade privileges on our behalf with Holland, the next commanding corsair ships that raid Spanish and Portuguese shipping without any commission we ever signed. he/she insists both activities serve the same end, and it is difficult to argue his/her results have been anything but excellent for our treasury.

outcome = neutral

historical_info = d009_sephardi_morocco.7.historical_info Samuel Pallache was a real Moroccan Jewish diplomat who served the Sa'dī court as an envoy to Holland in the early 1600s, helping negotiate one of Morocco's first treaties with a European Atlantic power, while also holding letters of marque that let him raid Spanish shipping as a corsair. This combination of statecraft and piracy scandalized more than one European court he visited.

fire_only_once = yes

▾dynamic_historical_event = {

tag = MOR

from = 1600.1.1

to = 1620.1.1

monthly_chance = 50

}

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History