Raymond K Hessle
06-09-2007, 15:55
FROM the office of the Untitled Leader Elect of the Republic of Raymond K. Hessle
TO all concerned neighbors
Due to an as-yet unexplained error of bureaucracy, the tiny, helpless Republic of Raymond K. Hessle has violated the sanctity of neighboring airspace (and possibly the sanctity of neighboring ground-space or sea-space) by deploying its first weather satellite to a sub-orbital height of 28 miles. After the radio tower at RKH International Airport lost contact with the plummeting satellite, a provincial sheriff sent out a posse on horseback to search for whatever might remain of the nation's only breakthrough technology. Nearly 20 hours have passed, and no sign of the crashed orbiter has been noted within the confines of sovereign RKH territory.
Accordingly, and with great reluctance, the fledgling government of RKH requests the aid of its neighbors to the end of recovering its property.
Said undersecretary Wilmer Epp: "Ignoring the advice of his lawyer, who specifically said--and loudly repeated several times--that the best course of action would be to deny all knowledge of this event, the Untitled Leader Elect has offered to share the secrets of both the new satellite and the satellite deployment technologies with whatever nation is able to help RKH mount a successful recovery operation."
Pending the establishment of formal diplomatic relations, RKH's governing body intends to make good on the Untitled Leader Elect's grandiose words despite the Leader's utter lack of legal authority to speak such on the nation's behalf. To that end, the Enclave Elect (RKH's governing body) has announced to its consitituents that every effort is being made to ensure a quick recovery, including the rapid reclassification of relevant kinematics telemetry that top RKH scientists say will be required to locate the vanished vehicle.
TO all concerned neighbors
Due to an as-yet unexplained error of bureaucracy, the tiny, helpless Republic of Raymond K. Hessle has violated the sanctity of neighboring airspace (and possibly the sanctity of neighboring ground-space or sea-space) by deploying its first weather satellite to a sub-orbital height of 28 miles. After the radio tower at RKH International Airport lost contact with the plummeting satellite, a provincial sheriff sent out a posse on horseback to search for whatever might remain of the nation's only breakthrough technology. Nearly 20 hours have passed, and no sign of the crashed orbiter has been noted within the confines of sovereign RKH territory.
Accordingly, and with great reluctance, the fledgling government of RKH requests the aid of its neighbors to the end of recovering its property.
Said undersecretary Wilmer Epp: "Ignoring the advice of his lawyer, who specifically said--and loudly repeated several times--that the best course of action would be to deny all knowledge of this event, the Untitled Leader Elect has offered to share the secrets of both the new satellite and the satellite deployment technologies with whatever nation is able to help RKH mount a successful recovery operation."
Pending the establishment of formal diplomatic relations, RKH's governing body intends to make good on the Untitled Leader Elect's grandiose words despite the Leader's utter lack of legal authority to speak such on the nation's behalf. To that end, the Enclave Elect (RKH's governing body) has announced to its consitituents that every effort is being made to ensure a quick recovery, including the rapid reclassification of relevant kinematics telemetry that top RKH scientists say will be required to locate the vanished vehicle.