NationStates Jolt Archive


A shattered shell

Iraqstan
30-12-2008, 07:28
looking out over the city that was once a shining pinnacle of the national socialist union Lidric sighs, his appearance a much older boy from when he was last in the spot light of leading a nation unified in its cause. The city now no longer shining and a built up symbol of nationalist unity and faith.

The city is now a smoke filled, hollowed out shell of destroyed ideals and betrayed faith in the state. His people now live in shattered homes, streets are littered with the destoyed shells of military equipment, tanks once rarely seen in the city now positioned at strategic intersections, gunfire more often than not, once only heard on news from their island cousins in the north is now a constant thing in the streets of the National Socialist capital.

soldiers are constantly fighting and dying, fighting each other and killing themselves the once unified union is shattered, the total collapse coming after a treaty with um lizaa that granted them sovreign rights and was met with dissent and treachery by now former members of the Iraqstani defence force.

The army itself splintered into three factions, the union the remenants of the state war machine still loyal to the Quil'rayan government, loyal to the memory of Carlos and the ideals of Lidric, they fight for the country itself. It's enemies are the seperatists for social dominance and the militia for racial purity. Two seperate military factions, two legitimate governments in Iraqstan. The seat of power still firmly held by the Quil'rayan house but under constant attack from the divided nation.

Lidric once the fifteen year old ruler of a nation internationally seen as a disgrace and disaster, now a 25 year old man and leader of a shattered nation and a complete failure of a state of nationalist pride. Treaties are in place but fighting still occurs as all three factions fight for what is left of the seat of purity the capital of Iraqstan. Turning to his military heads he finishes explaining his new plans for a united offensive with the militia against the sepratists the militia the least powerful of the three, holding scraps of the country in the south, proposed this treaty eagerly wanting to end the bloodshed and begin rebuilding the once proud nation.

The military heads accept this plan with some reluctance, all knowing that if they are to succeed they need internal allies against their enemies, but all three knowing that an outside influence could topple the weak hold over the nation Quil'raya really has propaganda tools have slowly begun failing the populace now know some of the truths behind the fighting, hard to ignore really when tanks and bombs are raining down on your house, your family and your friends.

An explosion close to the Palace of the Pure rattles the windows and all four look out as a plume of smoke rises from the streets below and soldiers scurry from defensive positions to clear the remenants of a sepratist tank column. Sighing Lidric turns "Hurry with the deployments and get Supreme General Hoult to a safe house where we can begin discussing the unification treaty between the union and the militia." Is the comment made and the three men salute and leave when dismissed. Lidric returning to a desk smaller than the one he enjoyed 10 years earlier a growing sign of the economic collapse his nation has suffered since the onset of the war and reflects......