Sovereign California
23-06-2006, 02:45
California - In The Beginning… Chapter I: Descending Shadows
September 17, 1998
Sacramento, California — United States of America
Sitting in her office in the state capital sipping her rum mojito she sat in a state of total relaxation while it seemed all around her the world was coming apart at the seams. Known throughout the remainder of the United States as Senator Sandra D’vino-Starayeva (Devnostraeva) from California, and to the upper echelon of politicians from the states of California and Alaska, and to the upper echelon of politicians within the states of California and Alaska as well as her co-conspirators as the de facto president of the soon to be two-state union of California and Alaska.
As the de facto president of a nation that didn't yet exist Sandra wielded an immense amount of power, more power than any previous or present senator or politician within the United States Government would have ever dreamed of possessing, and she used that power blatantly. Shamelessly arranging pacts with nations that agreed to recognize California as a nation upon its independence, some of these nations were the same nations that the United States and its allies in NATO were currently fighting in Europe.
Sandra looked across her desk at General Alexander R. Merck, who with the recent turn of events had been promoted to the rank of Commander-In-Chief Unified Military Forces California [CINC-UMFC] raising her drink in a mock toast. “So General, what is the operational status of our military? I would like to know that if tomorrow the day came where I had to call our armed forces to war to defend California from the United States Armed Forces that we would stand a viable chance of success against them, that we would be able to fend off an American first strike on Californian soil."
General Merck sat in the huge leather chair opposite her and took a puff on his cigar causing the tip to glow bright red before blowing a massive cloud of smoke that enveloped him, for a minute General Merck looked as if he and the chair he sat in became one of the many abstract sculptures littering her office. He winced for a minute through the cloud of smoke hanging overhead and smiled "[i]Well... What I can tell you, is that our boys have been working their asses off building massive amounts of military vehicles, weapons, equipment and supplies... our ground personnel has doubled since the United States officially entered into the war in Europe and we have been steadily accepting them into the ranks of our de facto military on the condition that they will not be sent into that goddamned bloodbath of a war going on in Europe, I pity the bastards that think that they can come out of that war without suffering massive casualties. Let me tell you that without a shadow of a doubt that if called into to fight a war that our boys are prepared for it, I think we would do extremely well in a toe-to-toe fight against the United States Armed Forces considering that since they are off in Europe trying to play themselves as the saviors of their NATO comrades that we have ourselves at an advantage considering a large amount of the United States Armed Forces are too busy fighting off the Balkanians and the Soviets to think something of this magnitude could happen on their own doorstep. Besides we've received supplies, military equipment vehicles, and weapons... I think that with what the Soviets contributed to our efforts that we will be just fine. We have been constructing weapons caches all across the states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona and have began stashing our equipment, weapons and supplies in advance. In short I believe that when the day comes and we go up against the United States Armed Forces that we will have the advantage over them... Because of the amount of M1A2C tanks we have been mass producing along side our own M-105A1C Kodiak tanks I can say without a doubt that when we do face off with the United States military that they will encounter an opponent that is far more than just a mere equal to them, when this day comes the United States Armed Forces will meet a force far more superior than themselves and on this day the world will watch as the United States of America is defeated on their own soil."
Sandra smiled and got up from her desk, "I am glad you said that, because with your being the Commander-In-Chief of California's military I would like to show you this." At that she walked over to the north wall were a set of nine panels were arranged in a three by three grid all put together seam-to-seam forming a larger picture, she then hooked her fingers underneath the center painting and pulled it out toward herself until she heard the click of the sliders and then rolled the painting up and over the other painting above it until it came to a stop to reveal a large wall safe. Taking her hand and applying it to the hand scanner she waited until it verified her identify before opening the safe and retrieving a large thick black plastic packet. Closing the safe and returning the painting to its position concealing the safe she walked over to the desk and dropped the packet on the table, General Merck looked over the packet, and noticed the label 'OPERATION: DESCENDING SHADOW FOR YOUR EYES ONLY' Looking over the packet he found the flap at the top secured by a thick black string wrapped around a metal hook, unwrapping the string and opening the packet he found a set of papers with detailed information, satellite reconnaissance photographs, lists of United States military installations and cities. Looking over the papers he found the 'Mission Objections List' and began skimming through the list intently.
Sandra smiled before taking a sip of her rum mojito "This is our file for Operation: Descending Shadow, Our offensive against the United States Armed Forces. This lists the military installations that need to be attacked and occupied, as well as strategic cities, railheads, highways, bridges, dams and other locations that we need to either occupy or destroy. We declare our independence from the United States and wait for the government to send their military into force us back into the United States, first we send a smaller force to meet them and allow a small defeat on our part and retreat to our and then we bare our real fangs."
General Merck smiled and blew another puff of smoke off of his cigar. "Did I ever tell you that you're a goddamned military genius? What branch of service did you serve in may I ask?"
Sandra smiled "The United States Marines of course, after I finished my career with the Marines I went over to the United States Navy and rose through the ranks to become an Admiral before leaving the military and taking up a life in politics. Wierd, ain't it? Someone like me, a senator."
General Merck laughed before taking another puff of his cigar. "I have to admit that while it may have been wierd, as you would put it, I don't think that you made any wrong choices. I wish I could have made some of the choices in politics that you have... I would have never been able to stand up to the United States Congress back in 1997 when you proposed that the State of California build and maintain its own port facilities on the Channel Islands, and then again this year in March when you built shipyards in Monterey you raised alot of hell because you went ahead with your plans with or without any consent from the Congress and made everyone on Capitol Hill angry... but when you presented them with your nice little idea on how it would benefit the economies of California and the United States to have more shipyards they took it hook line and sinker."
Sandra sat back in her chair with a glib smile "You damn well know it... I —myself alone— paved the way for this nation's independence. No one else was going to do it, sure we had lobbyists, political action parties, and revolutionary groups demanding secession from the United States with the entirity of the land we had before the United States carved pieces out of our territory to create the states of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. the worst part about it was the fact that we had to sit content and obedient while their military was parked on our territory during the war with Mexico and had to watch as we lost what is now Baja California Norte & Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa. and Chihuahua. For this I hate the American government, my ancestors were among those who landed off the shores of Santa Barbara in 1578 on Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind, and as such we have a very noble British bloodline."
General Merck sat back puffing on his cigar while pondering Sandra's words before speaking up "I have to say that things look to be going according to schedule... however I have something you might be interested in."
Sandra perked up at the mention "Something I may be interested in? I have to see this."
General Merck smiled and pulled a thick yellow envelope from under his arm and slid it across her desk, on the postage side of the envelope read in large red block letters stamped diagonally across the envelope 'OPERATION: CHAOS THEORY FOR YOUR EYES ONLY'. Sandra picked up the envelope and read the ominous red lettering aloud "Chaos Theory? May I ask what you have in mind?"
General Merck chuckled "We're going to need something to fall back on incase the United States Government doesn't agree with the terms of California seperating from their turf, this is a contingency plan just incase the United States begins to take on a hostile posture toward us. Granted with the amount of people we have inside the Department of Defense we will have the advantage because the United States Military doesn't know how many of their forces out here in the west have already joined our de facto military. Another advantage we have is that in the event that the United States does begin to show some hostility, we will have a heads up before any of their military units start rolling in our direction."
Sandra looked at a large photograph in the folder and found starig back at her a large satellite photograph of Washington D.C. and asked "What is this for may I ask?" Gen. Merck smiled "In the event that the United States Military push into our territory and have us on a retreat we will utilize electromagnetic pulse weapons with a cruise missile strike on various American cities throughout the Midwest and the Atlantic States. Sandra looked over the other pictures "What's this? I can see its a satellite system, but what does it do?" General Merck sat back in his chair with a sheepish grin on his face "Imagine that we had this system in orbit already... now having this system up say the United States launches a surprise military attack on us... this satellite captures real-time footage of their troop and armor movements and relays them to us giving us their positions and giving us time to mount a defense before they even arrive. We're calling it EyeTide, but the boys in the Department of Defense are using the name Sky-Net. However, this is to become the next biggest thing for our National Defense Agency."
Sandra looked at a group of aerial photos of various U.S. military installations with markings made on them with grease pens, indicating elevation, surrounding terrain, and areas from which attacks could be launched and directed. "What's the plan with these bases? Are we going to attack them?" Merck again smiled "Well babe, we won't necessarily be attacking them... but we sure as hell won't be defending them either. We have a large amount of men that are members of our de facto military right now that are also stationed at these various bases. Should the United States even show a glower of a threat to our move towards independence, we will have our friends create several insurrections at these bases across the Western U.S., this should give us some headway and some very needed strategic positions. Right now we have several military installations that have been acquired, our largest right now are in the states of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico... especially with the former U.S. Military Defense Depot in Ogden, Utah. While we have had to spend time converting it back to full military usage it had benefitted our military production capacity greatly, not only is the depot in an almost secluded area of Ogden, but it has various railheads leading to and from the base. Same with Holloman AFB in New Mexico, Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona, Groom Lake and Nellis AFB's in Nevada. The U.S. Military Defense Depot in Ogden's rails run all the way to the Defense Depot in Memphis, Tennesee. Just recently we had a huge turnover of personnel at both the Puget Sound, Corpus Christi, North Island, Barstow, and Fort Huachuca Defense Depots — so with that in mind we now have a huge capacity to produce and project our military strength — would you like to know more about Operation: Chaos Theory?
Sandra sat intently listening on every word General Merck said for the next few hours, "The initial plan is very simple... For the personnel of the U.S. Armed Forces that remain stationed stateside, we will take our men who have recently joined the de facto Californian Armed Forces, and form a new military unit will be formed called the Special Operationd Force. These men are the best of the best at what they do, the Special Operations Force is a combination of the U.S. Navy SEALs, Delta Force, and SOCOM. Given that the United States intends to stop us from becoming an independent nation, our men in the Special Operations Force are to utilize the various weapons at their disposal and conduct unconventional and assymetric warfare against the U.S. Armed Forces and instill a general atmosphere of chaos and disorganization within the American military."
Sandra sat amazed "And we can do — all of this, to the American military — even at their current capacity?" General Merck smiled "Babe, even though they have an advantage in numbers our forces have the same exact training, if not more training than them. Right now we have several divisions of our military that were created exclusively for certain types of missions. Our Special Activities Division is purely for military and political assassinations, guerilla warfare, counter-terrorism and sabotage... those bad-asses can ruin Washington D.C. in the space of hours — just using conventional weapons. Our Specialized Urban Military Operations group is purely for fighting in urban terrain and is used specifically for those crazy assholes who think that hiding in heavily populated areas will keep them from being destroyed. Anyways, Babe... although the name of this operation is othen used by mathematicians, it has the same purpose. Essentially, Chaos Theory means this "The fluttering of a butterfly's wings are capable of creating small wind gusts, ultimately capable of creating tornadoes." And this operation will do just that against the United States's military if they so much as glowers at us the wrong way"
September 17, 1998
Sacramento, California — United States of America
Sitting in her office in the state capital sipping her rum mojito she sat in a state of total relaxation while it seemed all around her the world was coming apart at the seams. Known throughout the remainder of the United States as Senator Sandra D’vino-Starayeva (Devnostraeva) from California, and to the upper echelon of politicians from the states of California and Alaska, and to the upper echelon of politicians within the states of California and Alaska as well as her co-conspirators as the de facto president of the soon to be two-state union of California and Alaska.
As the de facto president of a nation that didn't yet exist Sandra wielded an immense amount of power, more power than any previous or present senator or politician within the United States Government would have ever dreamed of possessing, and she used that power blatantly. Shamelessly arranging pacts with nations that agreed to recognize California as a nation upon its independence, some of these nations were the same nations that the United States and its allies in NATO were currently fighting in Europe.
Sandra looked across her desk at General Alexander R. Merck, who with the recent turn of events had been promoted to the rank of Commander-In-Chief Unified Military Forces California [CINC-UMFC] raising her drink in a mock toast. “So General, what is the operational status of our military? I would like to know that if tomorrow the day came where I had to call our armed forces to war to defend California from the United States Armed Forces that we would stand a viable chance of success against them, that we would be able to fend off an American first strike on Californian soil."
General Merck sat in the huge leather chair opposite her and took a puff on his cigar causing the tip to glow bright red before blowing a massive cloud of smoke that enveloped him, for a minute General Merck looked as if he and the chair he sat in became one of the many abstract sculptures littering her office. He winced for a minute through the cloud of smoke hanging overhead and smiled "[i]Well... What I can tell you, is that our boys have been working their asses off building massive amounts of military vehicles, weapons, equipment and supplies... our ground personnel has doubled since the United States officially entered into the war in Europe and we have been steadily accepting them into the ranks of our de facto military on the condition that they will not be sent into that goddamned bloodbath of a war going on in Europe, I pity the bastards that think that they can come out of that war without suffering massive casualties. Let me tell you that without a shadow of a doubt that if called into to fight a war that our boys are prepared for it, I think we would do extremely well in a toe-to-toe fight against the United States Armed Forces considering that since they are off in Europe trying to play themselves as the saviors of their NATO comrades that we have ourselves at an advantage considering a large amount of the United States Armed Forces are too busy fighting off the Balkanians and the Soviets to think something of this magnitude could happen on their own doorstep. Besides we've received supplies, military equipment vehicles, and weapons... I think that with what the Soviets contributed to our efforts that we will be just fine. We have been constructing weapons caches all across the states of Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona and have began stashing our equipment, weapons and supplies in advance. In short I believe that when the day comes and we go up against the United States Armed Forces that we will have the advantage over them... Because of the amount of M1A2C tanks we have been mass producing along side our own M-105A1C Kodiak tanks I can say without a doubt that when we do face off with the United States military that they will encounter an opponent that is far more than just a mere equal to them, when this day comes the United States Armed Forces will meet a force far more superior than themselves and on this day the world will watch as the United States of America is defeated on their own soil."
Sandra smiled and got up from her desk, "I am glad you said that, because with your being the Commander-In-Chief of California's military I would like to show you this." At that she walked over to the north wall were a set of nine panels were arranged in a three by three grid all put together seam-to-seam forming a larger picture, she then hooked her fingers underneath the center painting and pulled it out toward herself until she heard the click of the sliders and then rolled the painting up and over the other painting above it until it came to a stop to reveal a large wall safe. Taking her hand and applying it to the hand scanner she waited until it verified her identify before opening the safe and retrieving a large thick black plastic packet. Closing the safe and returning the painting to its position concealing the safe she walked over to the desk and dropped the packet on the table, General Merck looked over the packet, and noticed the label 'OPERATION: DESCENDING SHADOW FOR YOUR EYES ONLY' Looking over the packet he found the flap at the top secured by a thick black string wrapped around a metal hook, unwrapping the string and opening the packet he found a set of papers with detailed information, satellite reconnaissance photographs, lists of United States military installations and cities. Looking over the papers he found the 'Mission Objections List' and began skimming through the list intently.
Sandra smiled before taking a sip of her rum mojito "This is our file for Operation: Descending Shadow, Our offensive against the United States Armed Forces. This lists the military installations that need to be attacked and occupied, as well as strategic cities, railheads, highways, bridges, dams and other locations that we need to either occupy or destroy. We declare our independence from the United States and wait for the government to send their military into force us back into the United States, first we send a smaller force to meet them and allow a small defeat on our part and retreat to our and then we bare our real fangs."
General Merck smiled and blew another puff of smoke off of his cigar. "Did I ever tell you that you're a goddamned military genius? What branch of service did you serve in may I ask?"
Sandra smiled "The United States Marines of course, after I finished my career with the Marines I went over to the United States Navy and rose through the ranks to become an Admiral before leaving the military and taking up a life in politics. Wierd, ain't it? Someone like me, a senator."
General Merck laughed before taking another puff of his cigar. "I have to admit that while it may have been wierd, as you would put it, I don't think that you made any wrong choices. I wish I could have made some of the choices in politics that you have... I would have never been able to stand up to the United States Congress back in 1997 when you proposed that the State of California build and maintain its own port facilities on the Channel Islands, and then again this year in March when you built shipyards in Monterey you raised alot of hell because you went ahead with your plans with or without any consent from the Congress and made everyone on Capitol Hill angry... but when you presented them with your nice little idea on how it would benefit the economies of California and the United States to have more shipyards they took it hook line and sinker."
Sandra sat back in her chair with a glib smile "You damn well know it... I —myself alone— paved the way for this nation's independence. No one else was going to do it, sure we had lobbyists, political action parties, and revolutionary groups demanding secession from the United States with the entirity of the land we had before the United States carved pieces out of our territory to create the states of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico and Colorado. the worst part about it was the fact that we had to sit content and obedient while their military was parked on our territory during the war with Mexico and had to watch as we lost what is now Baja California Norte & Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa. and Chihuahua. For this I hate the American government, my ancestors were among those who landed off the shores of Santa Barbara in 1578 on Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind, and as such we have a very noble British bloodline."
General Merck sat back puffing on his cigar while pondering Sandra's words before speaking up "I have to say that things look to be going according to schedule... however I have something you might be interested in."
Sandra perked up at the mention "Something I may be interested in? I have to see this."
General Merck smiled and pulled a thick yellow envelope from under his arm and slid it across her desk, on the postage side of the envelope read in large red block letters stamped diagonally across the envelope 'OPERATION: CHAOS THEORY FOR YOUR EYES ONLY'. Sandra picked up the envelope and read the ominous red lettering aloud "Chaos Theory? May I ask what you have in mind?"
General Merck chuckled "We're going to need something to fall back on incase the United States Government doesn't agree with the terms of California seperating from their turf, this is a contingency plan just incase the United States begins to take on a hostile posture toward us. Granted with the amount of people we have inside the Department of Defense we will have the advantage because the United States Military doesn't know how many of their forces out here in the west have already joined our de facto military. Another advantage we have is that in the event that the United States does begin to show some hostility, we will have a heads up before any of their military units start rolling in our direction."
Sandra looked at a large photograph in the folder and found starig back at her a large satellite photograph of Washington D.C. and asked "What is this for may I ask?" Gen. Merck smiled "In the event that the United States Military push into our territory and have us on a retreat we will utilize electromagnetic pulse weapons with a cruise missile strike on various American cities throughout the Midwest and the Atlantic States. Sandra looked over the other pictures "What's this? I can see its a satellite system, but what does it do?" General Merck sat back in his chair with a sheepish grin on his face "Imagine that we had this system in orbit already... now having this system up say the United States launches a surprise military attack on us... this satellite captures real-time footage of their troop and armor movements and relays them to us giving us their positions and giving us time to mount a defense before they even arrive. We're calling it EyeTide, but the boys in the Department of Defense are using the name Sky-Net. However, this is to become the next biggest thing for our National Defense Agency."
Sandra looked at a group of aerial photos of various U.S. military installations with markings made on them with grease pens, indicating elevation, surrounding terrain, and areas from which attacks could be launched and directed. "What's the plan with these bases? Are we going to attack them?" Merck again smiled "Well babe, we won't necessarily be attacking them... but we sure as hell won't be defending them either. We have a large amount of men that are members of our de facto military right now that are also stationed at these various bases. Should the United States even show a glower of a threat to our move towards independence, we will have our friends create several insurrections at these bases across the Western U.S., this should give us some headway and some very needed strategic positions. Right now we have several military installations that have been acquired, our largest right now are in the states of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico... especially with the former U.S. Military Defense Depot in Ogden, Utah. While we have had to spend time converting it back to full military usage it had benefitted our military production capacity greatly, not only is the depot in an almost secluded area of Ogden, but it has various railheads leading to and from the base. Same with Holloman AFB in New Mexico, Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona, Groom Lake and Nellis AFB's in Nevada. The U.S. Military Defense Depot in Ogden's rails run all the way to the Defense Depot in Memphis, Tennesee. Just recently we had a huge turnover of personnel at both the Puget Sound, Corpus Christi, North Island, Barstow, and Fort Huachuca Defense Depots — so with that in mind we now have a huge capacity to produce and project our military strength — would you like to know more about Operation: Chaos Theory?
Sandra sat intently listening on every word General Merck said for the next few hours, "The initial plan is very simple... For the personnel of the U.S. Armed Forces that remain stationed stateside, we will take our men who have recently joined the de facto Californian Armed Forces, and form a new military unit will be formed called the Special Operationd Force. These men are the best of the best at what they do, the Special Operations Force is a combination of the U.S. Navy SEALs, Delta Force, and SOCOM. Given that the United States intends to stop us from becoming an independent nation, our men in the Special Operations Force are to utilize the various weapons at their disposal and conduct unconventional and assymetric warfare against the U.S. Armed Forces and instill a general atmosphere of chaos and disorganization within the American military."
Sandra sat amazed "And we can do — all of this, to the American military — even at their current capacity?" General Merck smiled "Babe, even though they have an advantage in numbers our forces have the same exact training, if not more training than them. Right now we have several divisions of our military that were created exclusively for certain types of missions. Our Special Activities Division is purely for military and political assassinations, guerilla warfare, counter-terrorism and sabotage... those bad-asses can ruin Washington D.C. in the space of hours — just using conventional weapons. Our Specialized Urban Military Operations group is purely for fighting in urban terrain and is used specifically for those crazy assholes who think that hiding in heavily populated areas will keep them from being destroyed. Anyways, Babe... although the name of this operation is othen used by mathematicians, it has the same purpose. Essentially, Chaos Theory means this "The fluttering of a butterfly's wings are capable of creating small wind gusts, ultimately capable of creating tornadoes." And this operation will do just that against the United States's military if they so much as glowers at us the wrong way"