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On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 2230 the USSWP Nay engaged and sunk a foreign torpedo boat trying to enter the port of Tripp, home to West Pacific's largest Shipyard, when divers went down to the boat the discovered that the boat was filled with C-4. Somehow the explosive wasn't ignited when the ship was hit with shells from the destroyer Lady Mariah. It is not known whether the target was the shipyard or one of the 9 tankers that were in the port at teh time, all filled with over one million barrels of oil. An investigation has been launched to inguire as to who sent the gunboat and what teh target was. 3 survivers were picked up and it is believed that 4 went down when the boat was sunk.

Their was no advanced warning about this attack, the Coast Guard attempted to stop the gunboat for not having any navigation lights on, the boat then fled and was sunk 13 minutes later.

We have a gunboat reported missing, this maybe one of ours.

On the evening of Friday 27 February, 2004 a MicroGlup Naval Gunboat suffered a minor electrical malfunction which caused it's navigation lights to fail. The Captain altered course for the port of Tripp where he hoped repairs could be effected.

The Goverment of MicroGlup now understands that our ship was fired upon without warning by elements of the USSWP Navy and sunk despite the peaceful relations which our two nations have hitherto enjoyed. We further understand that survivors of this incident are being held prisoner in a USSWP Naval Facility and denied access to our diplomats.

We, therefore, have no recourse but to give notice that we require the immediate release of our servicemen and reparations for the damage done to our ship. We also require that diving operations cease immediately and that the wreck be accorded all the respect and dignity due to a war grave.

The People's Republic of MicroGlup hopes this incident was the result of hasty action by inexperienced members of the USSWP Navy and that our two countries may continue to peacefully co-exist, however, our forces have been put on allert in the meantime and a state of armed readiness declared.

Don Corleone

Presidenti

Our navy is in no way responsible for what happened in OUR harbor, the gunboat fled when the Coast Guard attempted to stop it and left no choice but to sink the gunboat. If their really was an "electrical" failure the gunboat should have stopped when it was approached by our Coast Guard. We will not release the prisoners until we find out the true motive behind their entering our port with a ship loaded with plastique explosives and we will continue to send divers down to the gunboat as it is in West Pacific waters and is theirfore subject to our jurisdiction.

West Pacific's armed forces are being raised to the highest level of "peacetime" alert, or to put in simply, we are one step below war. Our Navy is starting patrols around our nation, any Microglup ships in our waters will be escorted to international waters by our destoyers, the Air Force will be running recon out to 150 miles from West Pacific. The Army is moving into 6.5 million troops into position along the coast. All Microglup citizens in West Pacific are being asked to leave our country and all West Pacific citizens in Microglup are going to be pulled out by the 4th carrier group in 3 real hours, any attempt to interveen in the withdrawal of West Pacific citizens from Microglup will be considered an act of war. Unarmed Chinooks will be used to evacuate our citizens.

It is believed that their are 147 West Pacific citizens in Microglup, and 3 Microglup ships in West Pacific waters.

The United Socialist States of Lutrae is sending 3 Otter class Recon and Light Attack (RLA subs) submersibles to aid The West Pacific in it's maritime patrols. These subs are being sent only as peacekeeping forces and deterents to aid our allies.

Sambollaka does not want to get involved in any conflict - we do, however, advise that all West Pacific citizens are withdrawn from Microglup and likewise Microglup ships from WP waters. WP should pay reparations for the sunken ship, and cease all diving operations. Captured crew should be returned. This has clearly been a misunderstanding, and I see no point in it resulting in an unneccesary war.

We will not listen to inferior nations telling us what to do! Microglup sent an armed gunboat into the port of Tripp, when it was approached by a coast guard boat it fled, that left us with no choice but to attack. My Navy did as they should and will not be punished, I will not pay for the loss of a Microglup gunboat, I will not stop sending diving operations down to the gunboat and I will not release the crew. Once we know why the gunboat was in our harbor we will decide what to do with the crew.

The Democratic Republic of MicroGlup wishes to express its deep concern at the flagerant illegal, warmongering stance taken by West Pacific and its puppet regime in Lutrae.

Their actions have raised our people's feelings against their nationals and we have, therefore, introduced an Emergency Protective Measures Act the consequence of which is that all West Pacific and Lutrae civillians have now been taken into the "protective" custody of our armed forces and are currently being accommodated at several of our military installations.

We have also taken action against two West Pacific vessels which were operating in our national waters without navigation lights - their excuse that it was daylight was treated with the same contempt that West Pacific has shown in regard to international treaties - the crew and passengers have also been entrusted to our armed forces under the Emergency Protective Measures Act.

As a small, peacful nation we are aware of the limitations of our armed forces, however, we have learned from detailed studies of guerilla warfare how effective a well established and supplied guerilla force can be against a superpower - we would not be so foolish as to take superior forces head-on, however, we have every confidence that constant sniper action and a well conducted bombing campaign will cause any invaders to regret their actions when the body bags start coming home.

MicroGlup has an excellent medical research program including cloning technology and biochemicals - we would deeply regret having to use some of our "specialist" bio weapons against West Pacific and its puppet allies, however, the defence of our national homeland is our first concern and we will take whatever counter measures are required.

We have now closed our national borders and no one is permitted to enter or leave without our direct approval.

Dear nations.

I feel it is my duty to urge you to cease fighting at once. Enough casualtys have already come about after the actions of the gunboat, hostile or not. It is our governments belief that the West pacific should be permitted to punish the prisoners in appropriate, yet humantitarian ways. We believe war is avoidable, and as such we will not rest until this war has being avoided and the two nations are no longer hostile towards each other.
Lord Time Lapse

Dear Mr. Corleone,

Myself, my staff and our nation's public are concerned with recent statements made by your nation. We have not caused any undue harm towards your nation, and have no intention of doing so. The Nation of Lutrae only deployed its three advanced Otter Class subs to protect our mutual allies The West Pacific. We find it offensive that you call us a puppet nation, but we will not take any direct action towards that comment at this time. To prove that we are NOT a puppet nation of The West Pacific, we present the fact that the Nation of Lutrae is an active and voting member of the New Nation Alliance, and recently a bill was introduced into the NNA Legislature that prevents any member nation from having a puppet nation a member of the NNA, we have voted for this bill, so therefore it would be controdictory for the Nation of Lutrae to be a puppet nation of The West Pacific.

Sincerely,
President Salvius Caecilius Lucundus of the United Socialist States of Lutrae

The above West Pacific national motto seems to sum up their attitude very well - our gunboat never opened fire at all and was in fact seeking aid in a friendly port before it was fired on (without warning) and sunk.

The very idea that a nation so much larger than ours should need any form of military assistance stands no examination at all and if Lutrae wishes to avoid confrontation in a sustained guerilla war (including within it's own borders) then it should make it's position clear and withdraw its forces from our waters - in this eventuallity we see no impediment to our countries continuing their peaceful co-existance.

West Pacific's rush to mobilise such huge military force merely reinforces its real agenda - the domination of international waters!

*Stop Press - our national paper "Truth is Might" has just reported that several of the West Pacific civillians currently enjoying MicroGlup's hospitality have requested political assylum in MicroGlup from the oppressive West Pacific regime.

MicroGlup, sending armed ships into another nation's port is not welcome by most nations unless notified beforehand or it is pre-arranged.

Concerned by the agression on the West Pacific territory and its implications on the security of naval traffic woldwide, we will send to the zone two "Bilbao Class" frigates: "Halifax" and "Moncton" to ensure security in maritime circulation in this strategic zone of the world.

Le président

Excuse me Mr. Corleone. You must be mistaken, we do not have any ships in your territory, our 3 subs are staying within WP maritime borders. I repeat, our subs are there for patroling duties only, as they are equiped with new sonar and radar technologies found in few current commerical subs models, we feel that deploying these subs in WEST PACIFIC WATERS is a gesture of good-will towards WP.

How about, all of you stop making agressive motions, make peace and go home happy, cos if any of you start fightin, i feel like takin the lot o' yous down. microglup should pay for a salvage op and the prisoners returned unharmed but all nations should keep watch on microglup ships and be alert for more possible terrorist attacks. Nuf Sed.

-From:Office of the Secretary of the NNA-
-To: Microglup Foreign Ministry-

Dear sir,

It has come to our attention that one of your vessels entered into West Pacific territorial waters without forewarning and was, hence, sunk by West Pacific naval forces. Although it is now understood that this entire affair was simply a misunderstanding, it seems that hostilities are continuing.

Be forewarned that West Pacific has no need to call on its allies for assistance and that should the NNA decide not to intervene on your behalf that your nation will likely be occupied. Your threats of guerrila warfare against West Pacific and Lutrae inside their territory are suspicious and your explanation of the incident is incomplete.

So, as of today, Hudecia is placing an embargo on goods from Microglup. We are also seizing all Microglup assets in Hudecia (however few there may be) until a full explanation for the presence of large quantities of C-4 on your ship attempting to enter West Pacific.

Should the nation of Microglup respond in a hostile fashion, Hudecia will respond in kind.

-James P. Arthurson
-Secretary of the NNA

I strongly advise both nations to stand down - this can easily be resolved peacefully, there is no need for hostilities. It has been blown up out of all proportion, simply negotiate reparations. You don't want to go to war, do you?

We will not listen to inferior nations telling us what to do! Microglup sent an armed gunboat into the port of Tripp, when it was approached by a coast guard boat it fled, that left us with no choice but to attack. My Navy did as they should and will not be punished, I will not pay for the loss of a Microglup gunboat, I will not stop sending diving operations down to the gunboat and I will not release the crew. Once we know why the gunboat was in our harbor we will decide what to do with the crew.

Well, then, will you listen to a superior nation?

This is clearly just a misunderstanding, and Hung-Hang asks that West pacific stopmaking a massive deal out of it. We are now sending 5,000 imperial storm troopers to keep the peace, and our star fleets' carriers are on high alert, ready to deploy thunderblade atmospheric fighter-bombers to intervene should any military action.

The holy emperor of hung-hang stronlgly suggests that west pacific hand over the microglupian crew, repay the damage, and they stand down there military.

The emperor would also like to press upon west pacific the nuclear, biological and space power of our nation.

The clarification put forward by Lutrae concewrning the deployment of their naval forces is fully accepted and MicroGlup regrets any past misunderstandings - all Lutrae citizens are again free to pursue their peacefull activities within our borders.

Further clarification is required concerning the actions of our own vessel and that of the West Pacific nazal forces who sunk her.

Our ship was experiencing an electrical fault which caused the failure of all ancilliary eleltrical circuits including lights and communications - she was, therefore, unable to respond to any calls made to her but was flying her full colours, holding to a straight course and making no aggresive movements whatever! She was on course from international waters seeking assistance when she was blown out of the water!

As far as the explosives are concerned they are entirely a cover story put out by West Pacific. Who destroyed the ship? - West Pacific. Who subsequently claimed to discover explosives? - West Pacific Who openly declares its intention to rule the sea and the world? - West Pacific Who has put its armed forces on a state of readiness to invade a sovereign country? - West Pacific.

We believe that West Pacific is an aggresive, expansionst state out to destabilise the region and that all independant countries who wish to remain free should regard it with the greatest suspicion.

We would also welcome an independant inquiry into this incident including a detailed analysis of the explosives (if they exist at all).

We can now confirm that several West Pacific citizens have now been granted political assylum in MicroGlup.

The Democratic Republic of MicroGlup wishes to extend its thanks to to Hung-hang for its truly wise and enlightened comments concerning this affair. Likewise, the intelligent observations put forward by Northern Caesarrea give us hope that sanity remains in our world - thankyou.

Hudecia - we fully appreciate your concerns, however, please compare the military might of MicroGlup and West Pacific! It's no contest!

We are a tiny, peaceloving country with minimal armed forces who is being used as a convenient excuse by an expansionist state who we believe covet our uranium deposits!

Do you believe for one minute that we would send a small, insignificant gunboat up against the naval might of West Pacific? Do you really believe that a ship filled with c-4 explosive would not be utterly destroyed when fired on by a "Destroyer" (note this - not a "coastguard" vessel as originally claimed) - of course it would ignite but that would not suite West Pacific so they used their own divers from their own naval ship to make the "alleged" discovery!

We ask you to reconsider your position, particularly regarding your treatment of our goods - we are very much the underdog in this and it is using all our resources to deal with West Pacific - we do need to add to our problems with a trade war - please reconsider in the light of current evidence!

Audio Records of the incident in question

Coast Gaurd speed boat: This is the West Pacific Coast Gaurd hailing unknown Gunboat please respond. 2201

Coast Gaurd speed boat: This is the West Pacific Coast Gaurd hailing unknown Gunboat, we are attempting to pull along side, please reduce speed.2206

Coast Gaurd speed boat: This is the Coast Gaurd speed boat calling the Lady Mariah, we have unknown hostile in our waters trying to enter the harbor, they will not respond to our attempts at radio communications, fled when we attempted to come along side them, please attempt to intercept. 2215

USSWPS Lady Mariah: Calling harbor command, come in Harbor command. 2216

Harbor Command: What is it? 2217

USSWPS Lady Mariah: We have an unknown ship trying enter the harbor, what are your orders? 2218

Harbor Command: Use whatever force necassary to stop the hostile ship. 2223

USSWPS Lady Mariah: Unknown ship hit with 3, 5" shells, sinking rapidly, picking up survivors now. 2230

USSWPS Lady Mariah: 3 Survivors pulled out of water, request permission to birth at port. 2251

Harbor Command: Permission granted, make sure those survivors are treated for any injuries, give them some warm coffee, that water must be freezing. 2254

USSWPS Lady Mariah: Coming in to port now, ETA 33 Minutes. 2256

Thank you Mr. Corleone, we appreciate you allowing our citizens in MicroGulp to roam freely again. On the matter of the C-4 though, i still have to side with WP. C-4 is a type of plastic explosive, one that requires a direct electric current run through it at a specific voltage from a detonator. This is why the explosive is used so much, it has no chance of exploding due to heat or secondary explosives. Therefore, if a ship was loaded with C-4 and it was sunk by large gun shells, the C-4 would still be unexploded and intact.

Lay off the Crack you hippies.

Lay off the Crack you hippies.

Lay off the Crack you hippies.

OOC : Since this seems to be a modern era incident I would kindly ask Hung-Hang to back off... this is not a future era incident so any attempt of yours to intervene with your "space fleets" would simply earn you an IGNORE cannon.

If you want to RP a modern era incident then do not bring in your future era equipment.

IC:

Hudecia lifts the embargo on Microglup goods but is still holding Microglup assets until a formal investigation is launched. Hudecia offers to send a team of investigators to West Pacific to determine if the C4 was , as Microglup asserts, planted by WP.

Hudecian officials got a good laugh at the assertion that West Pacific is interested in Microglup's uranium assets. It is well known that West Pacific need not invade a smaller nation to obtain uranium.

As well, West Pacific has been on a pacifist nation for some time, so it is hard for the NNA to believe that they are now imperialist.

OOC:
Hung-Hang this is modern era, no future tech here.

IC:
I have to admit that Microglup's accusation that I am going after his Uranium is crap. The People of West Pacific have no interest in your Uranium, we have plenty to fit our needs. We do not belief in the use of WMD's, they are used only when a nation has failed, to use WMD's is to admit failure and failure is unacceptable.

How did you know your gunboat suffered an electrical failure and lost the ability to use its navigational light and communications? If it really did lose the ability to communicate with you you would never know, all you would have known was that one of your gunboats sank in a harbor in which it had to right to enter.

We believe the true intentions of this gunboat was to ram one of our tankers and detonate the C-4 explosives on board, sinking the tanker and possibly igniting one of the other tankers in port at the time. You have given us the evidence we need to know that you are conduction a cover up of the true intentions of this gunboat. We will take steps to make sure that such an incident never accures again.

We will not listen to inferior nations telling us what to do! Microglup sent an armed gunboat into the port of Tripp, when it was approached by a coast guard boat it fled, that left us with no choice but to attack. My Navy did as they should and will not be punished, I will not pay for the loss of a Microglup gunboat, I will not stop sending diving operations down to the gunboat and I will not release the crew. Once we know why the gunboat was in our harbor we will decide what to do with the crew.

Well, then, will you listen to a superior nation?
If he was gonna listen to a superior nation then it would probably be me, cos i kinda outnumber the lot o you.

damn, deleted the /quote bit.

OOC: No State at All - you are a modern tech nation right?

IC: The Hudecian destroyer HN Victor is being dispatched with a team of divers to search the wreckage of the ship in WP's harbour.

Hudecian investigators are requesting access to Microglup's naval records, including manifest records, orders, communications between the ship and shore, and the location of all other Microglup warships in the region.

The gunboat that was sunk in our harbor was pulled out of the mud and was brought to a indoor facility for further inspection, we are trying to put the gunboat back together to inspect the damage. Because of the sub-standard construction techniques used by MicroGlup to build his ships we are having some problems. Hopefully we will be able to piece together exactly what happened, we are inspecting the few documents that remain intact. This should not take long, it was a small boat and had very little in the way of documents declaring what it was doing in our Harbor.

The official position of the West Pacific government is that the gunboat was sent in on a hostile mission, we are considering our options, none of the plans we are considering involve repaying the MicroGlup government, the survivors of this gunboat will be returned soon, the 3rd carrier group will start sending in helicopters to pull out all remaining West Pacific citizens in MicroGlup in one (RL) hour. Any attempt to interfer with our second retreaval will be punished severely.