The Golden Age
The Golden Age of the Sultanate
The colonization frenzy undertaken by Sultan ul Hashim's regime reached its greater heights. The brave soldiers and sailors of the Sultanate have reached distant places never before seen or visited by men of the Old World.
The have colonized the eastern most island of Guam....
then.... Sulawesi.....
Timor.....
and finally....Java.....
The Sultan himself visited the famour Borobodur....wherein he proclaimed his ascendancy to the stature of God as the human incarnate.
He vowed to spread Islam to far regions of his realm.
Because of his religious zeal, the King of Bali seemed threatened as his small kingdom is cut off by growing threat of Sulu's navy in the Indonesian archipelago. And so a small war begun.
With the aid of its far away ally of Nepal....Nepalese ships were destroyed before even reaching the islands and some were destroyed by typhoons in the high seas. Even the crown prince was captured and his head was delivered as gift to the Nepalese king.
Meanwhile in Bali, the troops of Sharif Kabungsuan entered the city unopposed wherein he was surprised the wealth of the island. So he decided not to level the city because he sees it as an important revenue source.
The Sultanate received a small piece of land in Indochina which previously held by the king of Bali.
Years later, the Sultan accepted a white peace but he received tremendous war subsidies wherein he used it for his colonization campaign in the newly discovered continent of Australia.
After many years of colonization and missionary campaigns.....
The aborigines and Maoris have followed the one true faith of Allah....Australia and New Zealand is now Muslim....the islands of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands were added to the Sultan's realm.
BAD NEWS!!!
Intensified sightings of Portuguese scums were reported throughout the the Sultanate....from as far as the Andamans and Guam and from Taiwan to Australia.....
The Sultan now commanded to built the largest fleets the world has ever seen....even the Ming ambassador was marvelled by the sight.....the Sultan's High Seas Fleet were made in the island of Taiwan courtesy of Chinese laborers, Italian and Spanish advisers, as well as Ottoman gunnery experts....25 galleys were built with the latest technology as well as 10 supply galleys, and 10 transport ships.....
Alimudin Karna was to command the fleet....
Karna was trained in the Ottoman's royal naval academy while the ground forces were headed by Rajah Baguinda, a man known throughout the Sultanate as the man with the golden teeth....
This man was the Ottoman sultan's slave, as a custom, his teeth was pulled out so that he can't tell a lie against his master....later he gained his freedom because of his exemplary courage against the Georgians and the Macedonians...
When the Sultan had his pilgrimage to Mecca, he met the Sultan himself.....and the two became close associates as both wanted to spread Islam.....
As a token of his appreciation, the Sultan gave gold tablets to the Ottoman sultan....in return, the Ottoman Sultan gave ul Hashim his trusted slave Baguinda with the latest firearms and cannons....
He became Rajah and now sports golden teeth and now commands a small force of trained Jannisaries for the Sultan of Sulu.
BAD NEWS....
Unfortunately, the old Sultan died as he is going back home.
During that time, the scums of Khmer and Ayuthaya decided to attack the small garrison in Indochina. However, Rajah Baguinda was in good time to intervene together the most formidable army ever assembled by the Sultanate....they repulsed the invading army....and gained favorable peace in the end.....Ayuthaya was cut into half and Khmer was reduced to a single province.....
With the Sultan's death, the Sultanate is now temporarily ruled by a council of elders, while the Sultan's son is being schooled at the Ottoman's janissary school.
Only time will tell what's in store for the Sulu Sultanate....
The Golden Age of the Sultanate
The colonization frenzy undertaken by Sultan ul Hashim's regime reached its greater heights. The brave soldiers and sailors of the Sultanate have reached distant places never before seen or visited by men of the Old World.
The have colonized the eastern most island of Guam....
then.... Sulawesi.....
Timor.....
and finally....Java.....
The Sultan himself visited the famour Borobodur....wherein he proclaimed his ascendancy to the stature of God as the human incarnate.
He vowed to spread Islam to far regions of his realm.
Because of his religious zeal, the King of Bali seemed threatened as his small kingdom is cut off by growing threat of Sulu's navy in the Indonesian archipelago. And so a small war begun.
With the aid of its far away ally of Nepal....Nepalese ships were destroyed before even reaching the islands and some were destroyed by typhoons in the high seas. Even the crown prince was captured and his head was delivered as gift to the Nepalese king.
Meanwhile in Bali, the troops of Sharif Kabungsuan entered the city unopposed wherein he was surprised the wealth of the island. So he decided not to level the city because he sees it as an important revenue source.
The Sultanate received a small piece of land in Indochina which previously held by the king of Bali.
Years later, the Sultan accepted a white peace but he received tremendous war subsidies wherein he used it for his colonization campaign in the newly discovered continent of Australia.
After many years of colonization and missionary campaigns.....
The aborigines and Maoris have followed the one true faith of Allah....Australia and New Zealand is now Muslim....the islands of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands were added to the Sultan's realm.
BAD NEWS!!!
Intensified sightings of Portuguese scums were reported throughout the the Sultanate....from as far as the Andamans and Guam and from Taiwan to Australia.....
The Sultan now commanded to built the largest fleets the world has ever seen....even the Ming ambassador was marvelled by the sight.....the Sultan's High Seas Fleet were made in the island of Taiwan courtesy of Chinese laborers, Italian and Spanish advisers, as well as Ottoman gunnery experts....25 galleys were built with the latest technology as well as 10 supply galleys, and 10 transport ships.....
Alimudin Karna was to command the fleet....
Karna was trained in the Ottoman's royal naval academy while the ground forces were headed by Rajah Baguinda, a man known throughout the Sultanate as the man with the golden teeth....
This man was the Ottoman sultan's slave, as a custom, his teeth was pulled out so that he can't tell a lie against his master....later he gained his freedom because of his exemplary courage against the Georgians and the Macedonians...
When the Sultan had his pilgrimage to Mecca, he met the Sultan himself.....and the two became close associates as both wanted to spread Islam.....
As a token of his appreciation, the Sultan gave gold tablets to the Ottoman sultan....in return, the Ottoman Sultan gave ul Hashim his trusted slave Baguinda with the latest firearms and cannons....
He became Rajah and now sports golden teeth and now commands a small force of trained Jannisaries for the Sultan of Sulu.
BAD NEWS....
Unfortunately, the old Sultan died as he is going back home.
During that time, the scums of Khmer and Ayuthaya decided to attack the small garrison in Indochina. However, Rajah Baguinda was in good time to intervene together the most formidable army ever assembled by the Sultanate....they repulsed the invading army....and gained favorable peace in the end.....Ayuthaya was cut into half and Khmer was reduced to a single province.....
With the Sultan's death, the Sultanate is now temporarily ruled by a council of elders, while the Sultan's son is being schooled at the Ottoman's janissary school.
Only time will tell what's in store for the Sulu Sultanate....
