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First of all, impressment is the act of seizing sailors for use in the navy (like the British did to the Americans leading up to the war of 1812).

Recently, in an attempt to rebuild the once glorious navy of Holy Mercenaries, High General Marcus Johnson, the leader of the nation, decided to do something drastic. It was to take revenge upon the nation that brought HM into a depression and it's alliance. It was to take on Nanakaland and the Legion of Defence. Of course, something needed to be done first. Something to both provoke the LOD and to punish them.

Holy Mercenary ships have resorted to piracy. They plunder all LOD ships in their sight and force the sailors to work in the HM navy as slaves. HM is doing priacy and impressment on LOD ships.

So now I bring it to the attention of Nanakaland, the LOD president and the nation I want to get my revenge on, and Unum Veritas, the LOD naval commander.

Have a nice day!

:twisted:

OOC: Yeah. I want all out warfare. Finally I can show the cowards some power!

First of all, its LoD with a lowercase "o" in the middle. Second of all, I spared you from a counter-invasion when you bombed Port Nanaka in December. Now I won't be so merciful.

I'm not scared of you! I will fight you in the name of the God of the Bible!

I'm not scared of you! I will fight you in the name of the God of the Bible!

:roll:

1) Nanakaland may not be run by a fundamentalist government, but most of our population is Christian.
2) You just picked a fight with the LoD.
3) Look at all of the nations you are threatening, when you threaten the LoD:

- Carolina -
Eruista
Lorai
Northrop-Grumman
Nuevo Kowloon
Rather Convenient
STEVEc

Anthonycha
Automastan
Bariloche
Bonstock
Elizabethshire
Eriopia
Euroslavia
Exetonia
Exonerate
Falastur
Langham
Last Anarchy Order, the
Liberated Asia
Linux United
Nanakaland
Phyrric
Plasmagod
San Texario
Shildonia
Unum Veritas
Verboten Lufftewaffe
Zoogie People, the

Plus all of their allies.

OOC: *nudges HM* He's right you know.

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Last Anarchy Order, the
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Unum Veritas


Plus all of their allies.

"While the Holy Empire is displeased at the thought of assisting one who has a fleet invading Mekanta, LAO is an ally of Mekanta from the time of the war with Neo-Mekanta." (Nation: Unum Veritas)

"And we also find the nation of Holy Mercenaries to be quite worthy of retailation... by the LoD, and allies of its members. Even if those allies are enemies of another LoD nation."

"As such, we urge you to look up. You might get to see death rain down upon you before it takes you. We are prepared to activate our orbital weapons systems if you do not return all that was taken from the nations of Nanakaland and... the ones invading us and whose name is so vile to us at the moment that we will not speak it..." (Again: Unum Veritas)

It's easy - too easy. I sense a trap. Perhaps HM has some weird weapons or hidden allies.

Mess with one grain, mess with the whole rice-bowl. If you start "Impressing" our merchant-shipping, be warned, my people are willing and able to defend themselves, and (With our allies) willing and able to avenge those you murder.
This act is foolhardy in the extreme, Holy Mercenaries, one would think a nominally Christian nation would have a firmer grasp on the teachings of the man Jesus Christ.

The Shildonian Navy will hereby commence sinking any and all Holy Mercenaries vessels that are encountered on the high seas. SFC Nimrod's will assist in providing cover against piracy up to 6000 nautical miles from the Shildonian coastline.
If any Shildonian vessels are fired on, an entire Holy Mercanaries city will be destroyed using whatever weapons are deemed appropriate.

To deny the enemy use of spacebourne intelligence assets, the Shildonian Flying Corps. have launched two CloudRaker class shuttles, the Bradyll and the Majestic, from Heignton Spaceport to attack Holy Mercenaries reconnaisance satallites in low earth orbit, particularly those that pass over Shildonian waters. Each CloudRaker carries five 2.5lb depleted uranium shells.
The flight plan for this attack was developed using data gained from the Faverdale Space Tracking Station, and each CloudRaker will conduct 3 orbits of the Earth during the mission.
(Disclaimer: The CloudRaker is not future tech, it is based on the Dyna-Soar shuttle, which was in development in the 1960s)

It's easy - too easy. I sense a trap. Perhaps HM has some weird weapons or hidden allies.

No, hes not that smart :lol:

While, for the sake of preventing the deaths of innocent civillians, we urge a peaceful solution to this conflict, nanak, you have my official support for blowing Holy Mercenaries navy to little itsy bitsy pieces.

And you try to impress LRR sailors, you get some of this:

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The LRRNS Baba O'Riley seen with the LRRNS Gibraltar.

The Catholic theocracy of Cherry Ridge thinks that the so called "holy" mercenarys' pilligaing on the high seas is a threat to all ships on the high seas. cease this terrorism at once.
Archbishop Devito

OOC: Chances are that our sailors would try and sabotoge your ships when you needed them the most :P

Since Holy Mercenaries has seen fit to impress our Naval personnel, we declare a state of open hostilities with Holy Mercenaries. All Holy Mercenaries citizens within our territories have been arrested. All military Holy Mercenaries ships and planes and vehicles will be fired on sight, with no warning. Civilians ships will be given one warning to surrender before they are fired upon. Our military has been placed in a state of heightened alert, and mobilization has begun.

If Holy Mercenaries seeks a war, then they shall receive one.
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Enlightened Despot of The Incorporated States of Exonerate
Commander of Ground Forces and Protectorate of the Legion of Defense (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110544)
Member of the New Nations Alliance (http://www.wolfserve.net/NewNations/news.php)

Confidential Internal Communications to SSN, SSGN, SSBN Fleet
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STAT OF HOSTILITIES /W HOLY MERCENARY STOP OPN FIRE ON SITE STOP WPNS FREE /B NEG SPEC WPNS RPRT ENMY FLET MOVMENTS END
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this thread speaks for itself. i'll leave this one to good ole Nanakaland. He's already got a bazillion allies lined up. :P

:roll:

All of you?

-Central Command, Mekanta-

"{Responce analysis to give that they are in the state to be hiding something.}" An aide said, addressing the three (four) supreme commanders of Mekanta's military. "{To give orders, affermative or negative, Honorable Leaders?}"

"No. We'll see what they're up to. As long as Unum Veritas is attacking us, we can't dispatch much anyway..."

Unum Vertais is also in the Band of Brothers allience, making me and Golden Falcon both his very close allies. You attack him, you can expect a full and devastating retalitation from the both of us. Right now, most of our Navy and Air Force is deployed, but our Army is ready to kill. Golden Falcon has no one deployed right now, and his armed forces are very powerful. Prepare for an invasion of your nation if you so much touch Unum Vertais.

HM when this is over i'll sign your death warrant.This guy is crazy im gonna directlly assist exonerates troops.111th infantry and 112th airborne are going to blow up all naval bases in HM.

Plus guys if you capture any of his men take them to me and they will all be executed one by one by firing squad and being shot into space and engaged by my orbital weapons cannons speaking of that you will face my orbital weapons systems in fact we have fired a mirron5 chemical missle at your capital.Prepare to squirm and die.

Or give them to me. I will behead them then drop the heads from planes... :twisted:

Transmission to the World

<Transmission to the world>
<Diplomatic Corp>
{Encryption 3857}

Garrison II will aid Barb. and Nakaland in defeating the enemy. I am a December 2002 nation not a 2003

{Transmission Over}

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Lady Taylor
Lady of Garrison II
House of David
Lady of York

The Zoogie People is a member of the LoD, however, right now it is undergoing some...*ahem* technical difficulties, its military records being on a hard drive that is inaccessible currently. We will use Chinese Army to seek full retaliation on the navy of the Holy Mercenaries, as it has bought considerably less and is much more easy to keep track of. This unprovoked attack on LoD ships will not be tolerated. Peace we will leave as an open option, should they chose to seek it - but right now, every single carrier group overseas has been alerted: sink every Holy Mercenary ship they encounter.

You may also notice that 'occasionally,' in military alert states such as this, my fleets will 'inadverdantly' run into your pirate and military ships, and following the policies aforementioned, will be obliged to destroy them. This may or may not result in the systematic destruction of your navy.

:roll:

All of you?

Damage report on your satallites?

OOC- I'm so honored to have been named specifically in the title of this thread. And Mekanta, I gave you every opportunity to withdraw from the conflict and to back down. You chose not to, now don't complain. You still have the opportunity to end my involvement merely by issuing a public apology, paying compensations to the families of the victims, and by never repeating the action. I would highly suggest you follow this course of action because there is nothing in it for you if fighting continues...in fact CF's fleet has almost already been exterminated.

As Commander of all Naval Forces within the LoD, the Imperial Naval Republic of Unum Veritas must expresses its utter and complete condemnation of this act by the nation of Holy Mercenaries. In today's civilized society, the act of impressment is beyond barbaric. All Veritasean naval and other military assets have been at an increased status of alert due to the conflict with Mekanta. All that will be changed as a result of this is to add Holy Mercenaries to the list of potentially dangerous enemies. Any HM flagship or other military vessel that comes within range of a Veritasean convoy will be attacked immediately (and because of aircraft carriers and tanker support, that range is EXTREMELY large). No other action will currently be taken by the Veritasean government at this time, although High Chancellor Sparrow does wish to send his extreme gratitude to all nations that have expressed support of the LoD and UV in particular. Nanakaland, UV is taking no offensive action at this time without further provocation, however should you have need of our forces you have but to ask. Again, HM, if any Veritasean sailor is impressed or met with an attempt at impression, you can expect a very strong response from this government. Now, desist this foolish and rash action before your tiny nation is overwhelmed.

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High Chancellor Sparrow
The Imperial Naval Republic of Unum Veritas
Member: NAIA (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1667209#1667209)
Member: Band of Brothers (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2432224#2432224)
Vice President and Naval Commander: Legion of Defence (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2503299#2503299)
Owner: Unum Veritas Naval Store (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=655745#655745)

:shock:

I didn't realize so many nations would be involved. I couldn't possibly fight them all. I shall therefore return all captured sailors and looted goods.

:shock:

I didn't realize so many nations would be involved. I couldn't possibly fight them all. I shall therefore return all captured sailors and looted goods.

I think that's a very reasonable attitude. I might suggest you offer some form of Reparations as well, since the interceptions and impressions no doubt caused quite a bit of financial difficulty, and inflicted emotional harm on the families.
It may forestall some...unreasonable consequences and serve to demonstrate your sincerity. :wink:
Luckily, your ships did not attack ours, so we're not on the list of folks you might need to pay damages to.

:shock:

I didn't realize so many nations would be involved. I couldn't possibly fight them all. I shall therefore return all captured sailors and looted goods.

That wouldn't be enough. The only way I'm letting you surrender is under my conditions (other nations can help me work on these conditions).

1. Holy Mercenaries will return all captured sailors and looted goods (as he put it).

2. Holy Mercenaries will allow an occupation force of the involved nations for at least 10 NS years to make sure this never happens again.

3. Holy Mercenaries will not have a navy again until they can prove that they gave up on the barbaric acts of impressment and piracy. If they do this again, then we will not accept a surrender until we capture their capital and the second surrender terms will involve not allowing any military.

4. You pay at least 10 million dollars to each involved family.

1. Is ok
2. Ok
3. How about a UV-run Navy for 10 years
4. How many saliors are there?

1. Is ok
2. Ok

Okay.

3. How about a UV-run Navy for 10 years

Okay.

4. How many saliors are there?

~ 10,000

4. Then that'd be 100,000,000,000? I don't think he has that much. Mabye 5 mil a family plus lifetime....energy bill payed?

4. Then that'd be 100,000,000,000? I don't think he has that much. Mabye 5 mil a family plus lifetime....energy bill payed?

Fine.

You could take it in installments, you know- five million down, one million each year for the remaining five.
He could probably just about afford it, then.

You could take it in installments, you know- five million down, one million each year for the remaining five.
He could probably just about afford it, then.
Yeah, but I like 5 Million flat and life utilities, not just electricity, paid.

If Holy Mercenaries agrees to this, his navy will be operated by Unum Veritas for ten weeks - ten whole days, I believe? (I use the week system, but most ppl I've seen use the day system...). And as such, no actions on it will be taken.

However, please to understand that Holy Mercenaries has been added to our watch list, and will be more likely to face our wrath if any further acts are committed by them that we deem unfavorable. You have been warned.

One more note - something we are not pleased about in this situation is the fact that Holy Mercenaries stood down only when he realized he could not defeat the enemy. Therefore, if you pick on anyone with any sort of similar acts on a foe you think you can defeat, expect a full retaliation by Chinese Army.

OOC:

Ohhh! Why didn't I connect the last two days?! D***, I would have loved to have some fun here!

IC:

Communicate from Pablo Bernal, President of the Community of Bariloche, in public, 24th Feb - 1630 hs GMT -3, San Carlos de Bariloche:

We hope that Holy Mercenaries understands that the reparations asked for by Nanakaland are to be given to the harmed families of ALL the nations of the LoD (OOC to Nanak: Only 10000 sailors?).

We expect that the conditions are accepted by the government of Holy Mercenaries and they learn the lesson. We are not going to accept any barbaric acts of this kind, to us, to our allies or to anyone that respects the rules of civilized diplomacy.

I suggest that the results of another action like this should be full-scale invasion of Holy Mercenaries by the LoD forces, and that we shouldn't allow any independent military force to be formed from then on. We should respect the right of the people of Holy Mercenaries to make a government of their own, but defense forces will only by issued by the alliance and this only in the situation of a non-provoked attack to Holy Mercenaries by another nation.

This crisis is thankfully under control and we can expect to have our countrymen back with their families as soon as the official papers are signed.

(OOC to Nanak: Only 10000 sailors?)

1) He recanted his actions early on.
2) Typo. I meant to say 100,000.

1) I know, but Bernal was making a public speech, you understand... don't you? :lol:

2) Good.

I will accept these terms.