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Continued from here, this does not involve Credonia unless they chose to participate. This is a continuation from Aust killing the masses of peoples from Nuevo Kowloon and Phyrric's retaliation on Aust.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2999458#2999458

"The initial forces are in the region of The Snowy Lands of Antarctica in the area that was Rocky Bambino and ready for defensive measures at this time sir. 175,000 troops and 400 units of armor are preparing for action. (125,000 that was in Taiwan and the 50,000 from drops ships)"

"How soon until our forward bases are ready for operations into Aust?"

"They should be ready once the reinforcements arrive and the airstrip is ready, maybe 24 hours."

"Once the reinforcements arrive, start the forward movement, cross the boarder into Aust and be swift. Do not let them take time to prepare. Puncture that nation asap and inflict as much damage to the infastructure as possible. We might have a few days for a response to materialize, so lets capitalize on this situation immediately."

"I will inform the commander on scene and the allies in this venture."

"Make it so, engage the SDI system around Phyrric, we do not want to go nuclear, Aust is more valuable captured intact. Can we get paratroopers into the country now?"

"Maybe a few thousand, but that is too high of a risk as there are no there movements."

"Once the initail attack begins, make another drop into Aust directly and perform a squeeze play on any opposition. Face 175,000 in front and 50,000 in their rear."

"If they want peace, let them start negotiations with forces on their soil."

(OOC: Aust, you mentioned a few ships in the Pacific. Where are they?)

Press Release
Following the tragic events in Nuevo Kowloon, the mantle of responsibility falls on us, and indeed the whole world, to prevent such a tragedy from occuring again.

It is clear that the nation of Aust does not show patience or restraint with regard to use of nuclear weapons. Thus, it poses a threat to the free world, and shall be stopped.

From this moment forth, the Republic of China and Aust are officially in a state of war...

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ASW and CAP patrols over Taiwan are doubled, while escorts begin accompanying aircraft conducting aid drops in Nuevo Kowloon.

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The SDI system is readied.

{What the overflights see of the ground in Nuevo Kowloon...}

In the south, the highways look.... well... remember the "Highway of Death" in 1991 in Iraq? This is worse.
There are bodies visible from the air-bodies of people, animals... there are no birds, the beaches to the south are covered in dead seagulls, and dead fish float belly-up in the bays.
As the flights pass over rural areas, the crews can see farm animals laying in fields, dead dogs, cats, people...
and everywhere, craters and mist.

Most of the rainforests are burnt, the rice-paddy dikes are breached. not a single settlement, no matter how small, had been spared...
Total Destruction of all animal life on or near the surface.
Chem alarms on the planes periodically go off-but the gas doesn't penetrate the door-seals or windows (the planes will just have to be washed with tropic Bleach when they land.)
Flying through the smoke, the planes manage to get an initial count-just an initial, based on a small statistical sampling of the pictures taken.
More than fifty million bodies were visible from the air.
An overflight over where Nuevo Kowloon's Capital city is supposed to be, shows a burning crater,with misty nerve-gas at the bottom, half a mile deep breached by conventional bombing and the missiles.
The death-toll estimates increase by 20 million, and still, no replies to requests on the radio.

The grisly task goes on for hours, looking for likely sites where survivors might be found.

Ia Drang Underground City-Breached, filled with gas, probably as many as 50 million dead right there.

Haiphong Harbour- the docks, fuel storage, and pipelines are filling the sky with black smoke, and spilling black crude into the harbour. Radiation meters indicate that the Nuclear Power Plant here has been broken open like an egg, and the passive-safety measures have failed, resulting in a meltdown that is continuing to increase in severity.
[ooc note: The HH-Three reactor is a Westinghouse AT-600 style breeder plant, those are usually pretty safe because if they lose steam pressure from the cooling system, the rods drop out of contact, shutting off the reaction. this didn't happen because the support arms were jammed in the up position by debris from the bombing.]

At Camranh Bay, a similar vision-without (thankfully) the damaged reactor building, is visible. The ruined docks are choked with corpses...

The Nation of Phyrric offers assistance for search and rescue in NK and provide humanitarian relief at any expense. Full medical teams and volunteers from Phyrric will be advertised and sent immediately.

The area is known to be contaminated and clean-up is to take effect immediately and relocation/treatment of civilians exposed will be transported to Crete for futher care.

Transports will be provided for on an around the clock basis to meet the demand. If the demand cannot be met, additional Nations are requested to assist.

OOC: First my apologies, I got out of sink with where everyone was time scale. Ect.
1) My navy is a single fortress ship, I dock it at SLOA harbours.

The Austian planes had just arrieved back when a new warning came, enermy planes. A few fighters that where not yet back prepared to make a brave last stand to hold up the oppersition. They where going to fly to where RB used to be. This passage, was held by the strongest anti-air and ground defences in Aust, singers and hundreds of other rocket and missile emplacement. The enermy would do well to break through and then they would be confronted with the Austian planes, and soon SLOA's forces would arrive.
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Aust has ordered a 100? mobalisation of both troops and reserves, and every man and womn over 15 is expected to take up their standed issue pistol and fight. (All Austians spend 2 years in a millatary acadermy.) The Air reserves where called up ad thousands of privetly owned planes prepared for take off.
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Austian Planes trying to slow up enermy forces: 500
Austian planes (Non-Reserves): 1400 mobalised 1000 of them landing from NK
Austian Reserve planes 1960-1980: 3900
Austian reserves from 1940- 1960 planes mobalised: 4500
Austian Troopers main army: 15 million
Austian reserves class 1: 19 million
Austian reserves class 2: Uncountable millions, all adults 13-25.
Aust troopers: 500,000
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"Send a call to SLOA. Get them all to help, all of them." The emporer ordered.

OOC: First my apologies, I got out of sink with where everyone was time scale. Ect.
1) My navy is a single fortress ship, I dock it at SLOA harbours.

The Austian planes had just arrieved back when a new warning came, enermy planes. A few fighters that where not yet back prepared to make a brave last stand to hold up the oppersition. They where going to fly to where RB used to be. This passage, was held by the strongest anti-air and ground defences in Aust, singers and hundreds of other rocket and missile emplacement. The enermy would do well to break through and then they would be confronted with the Austian planes, and soon SLOA's forces would arrive.
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Aust has ordered a 100? mobalisation of both troops and reserves, and every man and womn over 15 is expected to take up their standed issue pistol and fight. (All Austians spend 2 years in a millatary acadermy.) The Air reserves where called up ad thousands of privetly owned planes prepared for take off.
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Austian Planes trying to slow up enermy forces: 500
Austian planes (Non-Reserves): 1400 mobalised 1000 of them landing from NK
Austian Reserve planes 1960-1980: 3900
Austian reserves from 1940- 1960 planes mobalised: 4500
Austian Troopers main army: 15 million
Austian reserves class 1: 19 million
Austian reserves class 2: Uncountable millions, all adults 13-25.
Aust troopers: 500,000
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"Send a call to SLOA. Get them all to help, all of them." The emporer ordered.

OOC: Sorry bit busy atm ill try and post fully later tonight if the server holds up!

OOC: First my apologies, I got out of sink with where everyone was time scale. Ect.
1) My navy is a single fortress ship, I dock it at SLOA harbours.

The Austian planes had just arrieved back when a new warning came, enermy planes. A few fighters that where not yet back prepared to make a brave last stand to hold up the oppersition. They where going to fly to where RB used to be. This passage, was held by the strongest anti-air and ground defences in Aust, singers and hundreds of other rocket and missile emplacement. The enermy would do well to break through and then they would be confronted with the Austian planes, and soon SLOA's forces would arrive.
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Aust has ordered a 100? mobalisation of both troops and reserves, and every man and womn over 15 is expected to take up their standed issue pistol and fight. (All Austians spend 2 years in a millatary acadermy.) The Air reserves where called up ad thousands of privetly owned planes prepared for take off.
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Austian Planes trying to slow up enermy forces: 500
Austian planes (Non-Reserves): 1400 mobalised 1000 of them landing from NK
Austian Reserve planes 1960-1980: 3900
Austian reserves from 1940- 1960 planes mobalised: 4500
Austian Troopers main army: 15 million
Austian reserves class 1: 19 million
Austian reserves class 2: Uncountable millions, all adults 13-25.
Aust troopers: 500,000
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"Send a call to SLOA. Get them all to help, all of them." The emporer ordered.


Aust, you've got a population of over 2 billion. a Reserve call-up that big takes MONTHS, not weeks, and certainly not hours.
I've also looked over your dimensions based on the map. (thanks for posting the original link to that.)

Airports and highways: unless you're using FUTURTECH, aren't earthquake or impact-proof, and Airplanes Absolutely need runways.
even Post-Modern construction techniques will only preserve a fraction of the airportage you need to field an AF that big after 3,450 hits running about one to five KT, and alert systems require electrical power.
based on time-indexes (again!), Commodore Trung ordered the use of the Big Hammer about twenty minutes after the Phyrrician planes arrived over NK, which gives Aust about 3 hours before Boom.
Boom is defined as 1/3 Meter by 10 meter DU cored Nickel-Iron deorbiting at 10 Gees for a velocity of some 120 meters/second with a sectional density/penetration of around 3 miles on impact. (that is, three miles straight down through Granite, five miles for basalt.).
F=MxA

At 120 Meters/Second Squared, times 120 miles distance (Orbit to surface), (lets see, convert to kilometers...)
Averages about a megaton apiece (I forgot to carry the one in the earlier figures, sorrry...), taken at an average mass and ignoring the larger pieces.
absent significant faultlines (which would magnify the damage) you're looking at airports, highways, fuel depots, radio towers and other things damaged just from the ground shock in a pretty broad area that'll take weeks or months to repair.

NOT hours, and not accounting for damage to either population centres, or military installations. (Damage in cities will be more.)

Now, you haven't even posted, (as far as I can tell) a single loss over anything done to your side of the argument outside my airspace, (even at the incorrect, earlier energy figures) the figures you just posted are in keeping with someone who hasn't been touched, and isn't dealing with loss of utility sources, runways, bridges, or dams. (all of which would have some damage except in a minority of selected areas.)

I could've pulled this kind of thing myself. I didn't, I expect you to play at minimum as fairly as I.

I will try to post later tonight, i am off to bed to catch some ZZZZ's

I agree with NK on many of those points, calling reserves would take some serious time. Other than that, I cannot say i disagree with much of anything else that Aust has put forward.

Here are some notes:

Age 15..if you are trying to go for a PR punch here, Phyrric recognizes that any citizen that carries a firearm or any kind of weapon will be treated as militia and killed openly as such regardless of age or sex.

Most of your aircraft is outdated compared to the aircraft Phyrric uses. Do keep this in mind that an F4, F8 etc etc would be no match for an X35 or F22, your losses will be exceptionally high. Kill ratio should be around 15:1 in favor of Phyrric.

Due to the boarders of your Nation and the shape of it with the route of attack, it will be impossible to get a massive number of troops to fit in such an area to effectively fight. So try not to post a 1.5 million man army heading down, a large concentration of people like that might cause a 'reaction' to take place.

If Nations from SLOA do not post, they do not exist and/or involved. There will be no puppet-wanking here.

OOC: Ok, this situation has really grown last time I saw it so let me clear some things up. Unless Nuevo Kowloon and Phyrric have already taken control of Aust's territorial waters then I cant do much. Right now I am only prepared to fight naval-wise and if I am not mistaken one of my battlegroups (the 2nd) is already in his waters. If it is not to late, I can redirect my other 3 battlegroups to his waters to ward off invasion. I will call up SAND (more people are on since it is not spring break) and we can go from there. Shinoxia can dispatch planes and troops, and Wazican will help me fight in a naval battle if there is to be one (he will control SAND's 40 CBG's). If it is necessary, other Antarctic nations are ready and willing to become involved such as Moontian, Evil Sour Patch Kids, and Roberticus. I need to know if you guys have control of his waters, then I will RP it from there. Also let me know if you need the list of my ships and the weapons they are carrying. Aust, if it has escaladed to this point, I can also mobilize my nuclear ballistic missile battlegroup that I have in reserve. LMK...

OOC: Ok, this situation has really grown last time I saw it so let me clear some things up. Unless Nuevo Kowloon and Phyrric have already taken control of Aust's territorial waters then I cant do much. Right now I am only prepared to fight naval-wise and if I am not mistaken one of my battlegroups (the 2nd) is already in his waters. If it is not to late, I can redirect my other 3 battlegroups to his waters to ward off invasion. I will call up SAND (more people are on since it is not spring break) and we can go from there. Shinoxia can dispatch planes and troops, and Wazican will help me fight in a naval battle if there is to be one (he will control SAND's 40 CBG's). If it is necessary, other Antarctic nations are ready and willing to become involved such as Moontian, Evil Sour Patch Kids, and Roberticus. I need to know if you guys have control of his waters, then I will RP it from there. Also let me know if you need the list of my ships and the weapons they are carrying. Aust, if it has escaladed to this point, I can also mobilize my nuclear ballistic missile battlegroup that I have in reserve. LMK...

At this point, DM, Phyrric isn't there yet-they've got to sail south from the Med unless he's been conducting war games with Bariloche or another far-south nation.
Based on time index, your people should be getting word of what's happened in NK, and you have the best chance of knowing where approx. 50 grief-stricken ships from NK(The Hue Battlegroup) are located-though not Exactly where they are-yet.
Last known position was some 250 miles north and west of Dancing Moose, on the Pacific/ Indian Ocean side of Antarctica and pretty close to Baby Bambino's old territory. At this point, it's about a week since the broadcast, and 14 hours into Aust's attack on the NK homeland.
Based on your last communication with the NK's (About five days before today in-game), their polite demurring of your offer is obviously justified now-you've probably got an Admiral or two who're glad as hell that the shooting won't open inside your formations (check the other thread, around page 3 or 4) or your own territorial waters, but you know that they're probably going to attack if they can- the destruction in NK was nearly total, and it's a good bet that these people don't have families anymore, and may believe they have nothing left to lose.
There's also the second CBG that was down there-they were responsible for deflecting the Maccabees earlier, and then seemed to "Drop into Nowhere".
You don't know where they are, but having 100 combat vessels plus an unknown number of support ships somewhere on that side of Antarctica should provoke a heavy "Search and Locate" strategy prior to engagement.
But, with your position being what it is, finding and neutralizing those ships should be a very high priority for the SAND Forces, also: You should be picking up the inbound crowbars as they start falling on Aust- that much metal coming down is going to cause problems in the Ionosphere which throws off Radar and radio communications over a geographically significant area, and the thermal plumes will cause issues as well for Missile tracking and SatComs. (Duration is around 8-10 hours).

Describe your search and engagement strategy, plus number of vessels devoted to each sector, I'm fair, I will post location/losses if your ships and aircraft are searching the right areas.

OOC: Wait, so your saying I should be looking for your 50 ships outside my territorial waters?

Sorry all of that was just a wee bit confusing.... but if I am right about the above then I will have 2 battlegroups start performing searchs in a 400 square mile box around my territorial waters on the western side, and send the remaining battlegroup to await Phyrrics forces in Aust's territorial waters along with my 2nd battlegroup.

NEWS 5 Justinopian Kingdom:

"Hi, I'm Jane Ubetcha telling you that the King of the Justinopian Kingdom does not think that war is needed from what it has gathered, the King has prepared an airplane where all involved nations can meet to politically settle this.All nations are to post on the board if they wish to attend"

OOC: Wait, so your saying I should be looking for your 50 ships outside my territorial waters?

Ehm... not exactly. That's the last place you had radio contact, and certainly they were on the edge of them a week ago-but that's changed.
Based on your position on the map, you're right to be searching westward.


Sorry all of that was just a wee bit confusing.... but if I am right about the above then I will have 2 battlegroups start performing searchs in a 400 square mile box around my territorial waters on the western side, and send the remaining battlegroup to await Phyrrics forces in Aust's territorial waters along with my 2nd battlegroup.

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Aust doesn't have Territorial waters- by his own assertion, he's landlocked near the middle of things in Antarctica, surrounded by his good friends and allies.
Baby Bambino had territorial waters, but the country disappeared- this could actually be explained in a whole nest of ways-everything from going Armadillo (isolationist/hostile) to government breakdown and civil chaos, to a massive plague that kills the whole population (excepting the survivors, who fled).
The point is, for all intents and purposes, their waters are unpatrolled, and their shoreline is un-Controlled territory.

Four hundered Square miles is twenty by twenty miles, having a whole group search such a small area might be good for looking for a lifeboat, but for searching for an enemy vessel, that radius is too small-a Frigate can cover it in detail, unless you're only using the Mk-1 Eyeball of a guy in the crow's nest.
OTOH, concentrating that many ships into a 20x20 square makes them an outstanding target for hostiles-ships that close together you almost don't have to aim with even Early-Modern antiship weapons like Harpoon, and one cruiser can engage several ships in such a concentrated formation with a good degree of accuracy.
MODERN naval engagements are fought at ranges well outside the 400 sq. mile search range you're using.
not including aircraft, modern carrier groups (roughly one-third the size of the ones I'm using) can effectively cover an area-of-search that's 100+miles on a side-without aircraft.
With aircraft, that search range extends to nearly a thousand miles on a side.
Why such long ranges? Nuclear Weapons. Already one side has shown they will use them, it's not a stretch to assume that side will use them tactically if they're using WMD strategically against civilian population centres. {Which Aust did-to the tune of 290,000,000 dead and rising- 3/4 of NK's population of civilians poisoned by VX, long term damage will include a toxic water-table and a nation that will be unliveable into the next century, as the stuff is lethal at one part per billion, and there were over two billion litres of the stuff released by airburst. VX doesnt' break down into something harmless, and it kills anything and everything with a spinal cord, including invertebrates like the humble Cockroach or the common housefly. it takes temperatures suitable for melting steel to burn it up into harmlessness.)
Since the story is progressing at a slower rate than realtime right now, I'll have your results ready tomorrow. In the meantime, I suggest amending your search protocols to a 4000 square mile search pattern-about 200 by 200, because when you find the first ship of Destroyer size or larger, he's got the firepower to sink several of your larger (more visible) vessels. (As do your own destroyers-it only takes one or at the most two Harpoons to sink an Aircraft Carrier or Battleship) Having your vessels closely packed just gives him a selection of targets instead of one... Remember, this isn't Napoleonic warfare with smoothbore cannon in battle lines, this is modern warfare with precision guided missiles and advanced over-the-horizon radar.

NEWS 5 Justinopian Kingdom:

"Hi, I'm Jane Ubetcha telling you that the King of the Justinopian Kingdom does not think that war is needed from what it has gathered, the King has prepared an airplane where all involved nations can meet to politically settle this.All nations are to post on the board if they wish to attend"

Message delivered to the News station's E-mail from a source outside Justinopia...

Dear News Five.

I am an expatriate from Nuevo Kowloon. Last night, around midnight, our government ceased to exist. The news stations here in Phyrric are showing images taken from a Taiwanese search aircraft. Everyone is dead, all the cities are destroyed, and the rumours here are saying that there's nobody home anymore in the capital because it's a hole in the ground, filled with nerve gas.
Nerve gas dropped by Aust, in an unprovoked attack on my homeland. Negotiate? What is left to negotiate? I saw my home town in the pictures-my children are dead-they broke open the disaster shelters and killed my children with poison gas.
What is there to Negotiate?

-Chester Liu, PHD.
Nuclear Power Plant Engineer.

(OOC: Can someone explain to me what exactly is going on here? I'm thinking of jumping in.)

Axis Nova

(OOC: Can someone explain to me what exactly is going on here? I'm thinking of jumping in.)

Axis Nova

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Hoo Boy it's complex!

I'll try, but I'll probably miss one or two things, since the story began on one thread, metastasized onto three, concentrated back to yet another thread, then grew again into two (or three).

But, if you're very patient, and can sort it out, I'll try and make it make sense...

It begins with http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2892237 a palace coup in Aust and an attack on the Credonian legation. At that point, Nuevo Kowloon was still technically an ally of Aust, and trying to prevent a war.

The new Emperor wasted no time in requesting international aid, while the NK's tried to keep the peace while organizing a local solution.
That continued HERE:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133093&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Keyshona offered to host negotiations in order to prevent a bloodbath. among others, the NK's agreed-it would buy time for local opposition in Aust to form, and it would prevent a disasterous war.
Chronicled Here:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133416&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40





and
Here:http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=130472&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=140

Aust attacked, NUEVO KOWLOON (for sheltering the Legitimate Heir and broadcasting her pleas.)

Here:[url]http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133093&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=120

Current status:
37 Hours after Aust launched their attack, Nuevo Kowloon has lost 75% of their population.
(Roughly 300 million now-the wind shifted, and some who were alive, aren't anymore) with long-term damage to the local ecology reaching 99% and rising, and the aftereffects are an ecological nightmare for the whole region. (VX gas is the only Chem weapon IRL that can survive re-entry heating in a warhead, Aust launched several thousand warheads of the stuff, along with "Conventional" (Non-Nuclear) explosive warheads. For an ICBM to cross the Equator, it has to go low-orbital, even without explosives, that's several thousand tons hitting at relativistic speeds from orbit, more than enough to break open anything with less than 100 meters of hardened overhead cover, and in the quantities he's launched, enough damage was done to level the country from one end to the other. (Based on the Geographical limits of the map I was using.)

The icky part about it, is that the NK Navy is still viable- but they have no government left, no home, and most of their families are dead, or will be dead within a few weeks-that, and the attack had to have been in the works for more than the four weeks (in game) of the incident (based on how long it takes to prepare 1500 aircraft for a trip that long, the other materials he used, and the speed at which it was executed.)

Phyrric, for their part, tried to get there in time, but the time it takes to prepare their own action kept them out of the fight for the time it took Aust to annihilate Nuevo Kowloon's viability as a nation and poison the whole country.
(Recovery crews will need high-end NBC equipment, and heavy construction/digging equipment to save anyone who's left), while Taiwan had other internal matters that kept them out of the fight until after the missile-attack hit.

Nuevo Kowloon had no Nuclear weapons, though they had a rather unbalanced progress technologically. They had a space programme (the thread's disappeared), that used "Air Launch" type systems instead of ballistic-missile systems. They used this to lift some 3,650 objects into orbit over the period of ten years.
These objects (along with a couple hundered more conventional "Sattelite" type objects) are big metal bars with depleted uranium cores wrapped in a rather cheesy imitation of a sattelite (thus making Nuevo Kowloon's space-launch systems a joke in the industry-they keep trying, and they keep failing...)
Austian forces met 200 of these crossing the equator in their initial assault-but only 15% actually hit anything.
(otoh, he started with 4 fortress-ships, he has admitted to one survivor...)
The others were left in their orbits until Nuevo Kowloon had been annihilated. Then, a Commodore named Trung whose family was in Haiphong, used the little codes in the safe, handed them to a Warrant Officer, and said, "Faultlines, Military bases, anything that will amplify the damage."
Aust has yet to post damage from this. If you're familiar with the 1963 proposal by the U.S. Army for something called "Thor", that's 3,450 hits by orbital kinetic-energy weapons moving with enough velocity to pulverize bedrock up to a mile deep, and trigger between Magnitude 5 and magnitude 8 earthquakes.
The link to the map for Aust is on the first page of this topic.
They're less than half the land area of texas, and, according to his announcements, he's surrounded by mountains. Given his location, those aren't "Uplift" mountains like the Himalayas, those are Volcanic mountains, and given that he's in Antarctica but his men aren't freezing to death on the surface, at least some of those are live.
Ignoring that, Aust has a population base over Two Billion. the more people you cram into a location, the more technologically and logistically dependent they are, and the more damage even a small earthquake can do to distribution (even without the earthquakes, the spread is sure to knock out critical distribution networks for weeks or months. the scale here is countable in days and hours.)

It will probably spread out before it's over, but this is a Detailed RP.

OOC: I said I'd called them up, full mobalisation would take over 1 year. I basically tell them that where at war, and that they should be ready to fight and gather at local stations. My main army is spread out, I am sending only 50,000 troops extra to the fronteria. I know I'm going to lose a lot of planes. Death should be about 60%. But I don't balive you can beat my entire pop who are armed, (Even if it's an ancent rifle.) It can still kill people. As for those big iorn things, I was waiting for you to RP them hitting.

IC: The metal Crowbars, as they where known, where hurtling down from space some being distroyed by the Austian Anti-missile satalites but 85% of them got through. The Austian people knew it would be catastopic, but they had had earthquakes volcanos and so on before and where prepared. But this would be huge. They hit sending plumes of smoke into the air and causing hundreds of casultys. Around 9% of the population of Aust died and many lost pwer and electricity. But their guns still worked, the millatary bases where still operational and though airports where ruined some survived.

Aust losses: Civillian: 250 million+
Air firce: 158 personell and 678 planes
ARMY: 890,000 MEN.
ARP personnel lost: 9,000 men
Many roads are ruined and cummunications cut, but the one upbesat of the situation is that the Mangot line was virtually untouched. Though the east portion did lose 378 men and 9 stingers in a small earthquake.

OOC: In short. Ouch. Nasty. As I said before I atchually want you to win so I can get rid of the Emporer and start being good again.

Can you please put DP outside at somepoint in the next RP about him as I want him the meet an ARP oprative...

OOC: Harpoons are good against lightly armoured ships such as Frigates and Destroyers, but the would have negligible impact against carriers and battleships.

Somewhere in the Pacific
The group of 18 Shang Zhou SSGN submarines are now just over 1,200km away from the coast of Antarctica. Satellites over Antarctica continue to monitor enemy ship movements by tracking of the wake.

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Meanwhile, the ROCN prepares to send the 2nd battlegroup to provide naval support.

OOC: All involved, please post how many ships are involved.

OOC: I said I'd called them up, full mobalisation would take over 1 year. I basically tell them that where at war, and that they should be ready to fight and gather at local stations. My main army is spread out, I am sending only 50,000 troops extra to the fronteria. I know I'm going to lose a lot of planes. Death should be about 60%. But I don't balive you can beat my entire pop who are armed, (Even if it's an ancent rifle.) It can still kill people. As for those big iorn things, I was waiting for you to RP them hitting.

IC: The metal Crowbars, as they where known, where hurtling down from space some being distroyed by the Austian Anti-missile satalites but 85% of them got through. The Austian people knew it would be catastopic, but they had had earthquakes volcanos and so on before and where prepared. But this would be huge. They hit sending plumes of smoke into the air and causing hundreds of casultys. Around 9% of the population of Aust died and many lost pwer and electricity. But their guns still worked, the millatary bases where still operational and though airports where ruined some survived.

Aust losses: Civillian: 250 million+
Air firce: 158 personell and 678 planes
ARMY: 890,000 MEN.
ARP personnel lost: 9,000 men
Many roads are ruined and cummunications cut, but the one upbesat of the situation is that the Mangot line was virtually untouched. Though the east portion did lose 378 men and 9 stingers in a small earthquake.

OOC: In short. Ouch. Nasty. As I said before I atchually want you to win so I can get rid of the Emporer and start being good again.

Can you please put DP outside at somepoint in the next RP about him as I want him the meet an ARP oprative...
[ooc]
I can't write the impacts-that's godmodding. I can write the impacts of your attack on NK, because that's mine, but you have to decide the damage done when it's your nation, (though you can base the impact on the figures I give you, the final decision on casualties is yours to make.) The only things I'd add would be noting increased difficulties with fuel and water distribution-water is a pretty vulnerable item in a nation that densely-populated, and the strikes would likely have damaged supply sufficiently that it's a fairly serious issue-esp. in the major cities. Those built downstream of flood-control structures would be nervous about the stability of the dams, while those built above or to the side of flood-plain areas will be worried about aqueducts and pipelines, and with Oil moving by pipeline, there's also the threat of contamination of water supplies. If it's mostly moved by rail or road, then the damage to roadways or railways is going to be a major concern-even with such a small percentage of the population directly affected by the immediate aftermath, there will also be additional casualties that have to be mitigated by immediate action-the most obvious action being to put the military on SAR duties and/or emergency repairs, since utilities distribution is a pretty fine balance in any industrial nation, and most cities are between one and three days from anarchy (the supply of food compared to the population in a city is generally one and a half to three days. given your land area and your population size, that means food has to be trucked in daily or you start having serious problems...Food Riot problems. This isn't as much of an issue in Rural areas, but manufacturing generally doesn't occur in rural areas for a host of good reasons.)
I'll have Dinh's next installment ready soon. Amy's is still giving me some problems, since it's pretty graphic and ugly, and I don't want to get modbombed for posting ah... inappropriate material.

OOC: My nation is located to the east of South Africa, so my travel time wont be quite as long as some others, but im still quite busy so my force post is going to have to wait until later tonight sorry. Needless to say there will be about 18 carriers heading down there escorting about 12 divisions in RO/RO ships and a Marine Division in Assualt ships and the like. Sorry to Phyrric NK and Taiwain that i havnt been able to IC post but hopefully ill be on a lot int eh coming days to fill in.

Also Aust, a man with an ancient rifle can kill another man yes, but he cant kill a tank or IFV, which most of my men will be in!

Forces currently deploying to Aust.

1St Army

I (Heavy) Corps

1st Armoured Division: 350 M1A2 Abrams MBT’s, 100 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Reinforced artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

2nd (Heavy) Armoured Division: 400 M1A2 MBT’s, 100 M3 Bradley IFV’s, 50 M6 Bradley LineBackers. Reinforced artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

22nd Armoured Division: 350 M1A2 MBT’s, 100 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Reinforced artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

103rd Mechanized Infantry Division: 120 M1A2 MBT’s, 300 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

122nd Mechanized Infantry Division: 120 M1A2 MBT’s, 300 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

Units under Corps Commanders personal Command:

18th Military Police Battalion
12th and 16th Artillery Brigades
3rd Independent Brigade (120 M1A2’s)
19th Aviation brigade.
2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment (48 M1A2 MBT’s 48 M3 Bradley Cavalry Scouts)
4th Independent Engineer Battalion.

II (Airborne) Corps

12th Airborne Division: 5,500men armed with M16s, M4’s, M60s, M249 SAWs and LAW’s. Also a light tank company (25 M551 Sheridans) and 50 TOW missile launchers on airdrop HMMWV’s. Light Artillery (105mm Howitzers).

52nd Airborne Division: 5,500men armed with M16s, M4’s, M60s, M249 SAWs and LAW’s. Also a light tank company (25 M551 Sheridans) and 50 TOW missile launchers on airdrop HMMWV’s. Light Artillery (105mm Howitzers).

142nd AirBorne Division: 6,500men armed with M16s, M4’s, M60s, M249 SAWs and LAW’s. Also a light tank company (25 M551 Sheridans) and 50 TOW missile launchers on airdrop HMMWV’s. Light Artillery (105mm Howitzers).
121st Infantry (Air Mobile): 6,000 men armed with M16s, M4’s, M60s, M249 SAWs and LAW’s. Also a light tank battalion (75 M551 Sheridans) and 50 TOW missile launchers on HMMWV’s. Light Artillery (105mm Howitzers). Use 120 UH-60 BlackHawks and UH-1 Hueys for insertion/exersion, with AH-64s and UH-1 Gunships for fire support.

Units under Corps Commanders personal Command:

20th Military Police Battalion
13th Artillery Brigade
4th Armoured Cavalry Regiment (48 M1A2 MBT’s 48 M3 Bradley Cavalry Scouts)
8th Independent Engineer Battalion.


3rd Army

XII Corps

45th Mechanized Infantry Divison: 120 M1A2 MBT’s, 300 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

6th Infantry Divison: 7,500men. HMMWV’s 5tonne trucks, M113’s M3’s. Reinfoced Artillery Brigade, Light Aviation Brigade, Combat Engineer Battalion. Tank Brigade (120 M1A2’s)

9th Infantry Division: 8,000men. HMMWV’s 5tonne trucks, M113’s M3’s. Reinfoced Artillery Brigade, Light Aviation Brigade, Combat Engineer Battalion. Tank Brigade (120 M1A2’s)

110th Cavalry Divison : 250 M1A2 Abrams, 200 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Artillery Brigade, aviation brigade, Engineer Company.


Units under Corps Commanders personal Command:

24th Military Police Battalion
18th Artillery Brigade
5th Armoured Cavalry Regiment (48 M1A2 MBT’s 48 M3 Bradley Cavalry Scouts)
12th Independent Engineer Battalion.
1st Independent Brigade (120 M1A2’s)

VII Corps

3rd Mechanized Infantry Division: 120 M1A2 MBT’s, 300 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

8th (Heavy) Armoured Division: 400 M1A2 MBT’s, 100 M3 Bradley IFV’s, 50 M6 Bradley LineBackers. Reinforced artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

21st (Heavy) Mechanized Infantry: 140 M1A2 MBT’s, 320 M3 Bradley IFV’s 50 M6 Bradley Linebackers. Reinforced artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

112th Armoured Division: : 350 M1A2 Abrams MBT’s, 100 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Reinforced artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.

33rd Mechanized Infantry Division: : 120 M1A2 MBT’s, 300 M3 Bradley IFV’s. Artillery brigade, aviation brigade (Ah-64D’s, OH-58’s, UH-60’s), combat engineer company.


Units under Corps Commanders personal Command:

28th Military Police Battalion
21st Artillery Brigade
9th Armoured Cavalry Regiment (48 M1A2 MBT’s 48 M3 Bradley Cavalry Scouts)
22nd Independent Engineer Battalion.
2nd Independent Brigade (120 M1A2’s)

OOC: OK, NK, I'm in on the anti-Aust side. My nation is mostly postmodern, tending a bit towards future tech... so I have a lot of GEVs and such, and large air battleships, hover transports for ground units, et cetera. Also, if you don't consider it godmoding, a while back Axis Nova launched a bunch of ion cannon satellites (basically, a ripoff from C&C, but I changed how they work to make it plausible).

Anyways, I'll post a forces roster in a bit...

Axis Nova

inside Aust, Lutent Shiver's quarters, Hammerfall plus thirty minutes...

Dinh felt a weight on his legs first. then, he opened his eyes, and realized that the windows were both gone, and blocked. Well, it couldn't have been that good-we were still fighting... He sat up, and looked around.
The wall-locker was against what was now the floor, and the door was now on the ceiling.
Lovely. I wonder what happened... He could remember the thunder, and the rumble-but not much past that.
He checked himself first.
Well... looks like I lucked out-all still here. He heard breathing, and turned.
She was pinned under the coffee table, and he could see the spreading stain of blood from her left leg.
He almost felt a spike of malice, but suppressed it-enemy or not, this Shivers would be dead in a few minutes of blood loss if he didn't do something.
Can't claim to be a better person if you don't act on it... he thought, remembering his father's words.
He took a lamp-cord (she won't be needing that, and the damn thing is blinding when it's on anyway), and used it to fashion a tournequet.
Then, he inspected the wound.
Clean... looks like window-glass-she was ass-on the window... He made sure the bleeding was slowed, and searched through an upended 3-drawer chest.
He found a tube of Krazy glue, a roll of tape, and a sewing kit with green silk thread-probably for the dress uniforms in the overturned locker.
Well, I hope she doesn't wake up just yet... He carefully drew the chunk of window out of her leg, and, using some of her own kitchen utensils (Liberally spread around the quarters by whatever had overturned the building), he set to work.
Krazy Glue (Cyanoacrilate) was originally developed to close injuries in steroid-pumped atheletes.
Dinh used it to "Spot Weld" torn blood vessels that he couldn't quite get the needle to sew into.
It was long work, and occasionally, she groaned, but the table (a device made of wrought iron and gaudy as hell) worked well to immobilize the work area, so her thrashing never quite reached the point of disturbing his sewing.
The Box of tissues was used up, by the time he finished-along with two rolls of toilet paper and a dozen plain cloth Handkerchiefs from what was probably meant to be her "Inspection" drawer.
She woke up as he finished wrapping the wound with the tape-the last two clean napkins folded up as a dressing over the stitches.
"Wh-what happened?" she asked-she had lost more blood than Dinh liked to think about, but she was alive and conscious now.
"Boom. You've been hurt pretty badly, and lost a crapload of blood. It looks like the base was hit with something pretty big. Can you see how many fingers I'm holding up?" he asked.
She peered at him. " 'stoo Dark in here, I can' see a thing..." she said.
Crap, that's right, she's a daysider... "Sorry, I forgot-your eyes don't work well in this light. Gimme a minute." he said, and looked around the chaos. There was an angle-headed flashlight with a red filter on it. The light would be blinding, but she'd be able to answer his questions.
He tossed it onto her belly. "Flashlight, turn it on and point it at my voice." he instructed her, then he turned away, and held up his hand, "How many fingers?" (He held up three, averting his eyes to avoid what was coming.)
"Three-wait, you're-?" she started, and stopped.
"Yeah, I'm naked-so're you. Whatever else was going on, something bounced the building over. Now if you'll put that damn light out, I can see if there's something you can drink to replenish what you've lost-like juice or broth or something, then I have to find a blanket that's not full of glass to throw over you, since the heating is down. Once that's done, I can see if there's a pair of shoes or something in here, and find some pants."
She kept the light trained on him. "You speak english." she commented.
He nodded, "Yeah, so do you-I speak four languages, that's why the Regular Forces were already talking recruitment-you want to put that damn light out, now? My eyes aren't going to adapt to the illumination like yours do, and right now, I'm mobile without a chance of reopening an arterial wound and bleeding to death." The light went out.
"Thanks." he picked his way to the fridge, and only got one cut on his feet for the trouble. Inside its darkened interior, he found four bottles of sports-type drinks. "Well, these'll have to do..." he took them, and walked back over. "Here. it's still sealed, so you know I'm not poisoning you." He handed the bottle to her, "drink up."
He watched her open the bottle, and swallow several gulps.
"Why didn't you just escape?" she asked him, after swallowing.
Dinh shrugged, "You weren't a threat anymore, and to be a better man means more than just talking superior morality-it means acting[i] on it... besides, you can see out there in the daylight, and I can't." He found a heavy woolen blanket, and shook it out. after a careful inspection, he laid it over her.
"That doesn't do you any good with me pinned here." she pointed out.
He nodded, "Yeah, but now that you're awake, I'm not sure that plan really pulls the plow-see, I can't [i]trust you, once you're free, but I can't leave you here to possibly starve to death or dehydrate."
He found a pair of BDU pants-they were a little large in the waist, and long, but with a belt, they could fit-sort of.
Her shoes were another thing entirely-they were far too small.
"They'll come for me." she asserted firmly, adding "You'd be better off helping me up."
He looked at her, she was still looking in the direction he'd been standing a moment ago.
"I'm over here? I actually thought of that-but it's been half an hour, and I haven't heard a sound from what I have to assume is outside, although there Was someone screaming outside the door-didn't sound like he got very far before something heavy fell on him and cut the noise off." He shook out a shirt, checked it over-she apparently had quite the collection of civilian clothes. He pulled it over his head, and walked back over.
"Hold still, I have to check my work." he said.
He lifted the blanket off, and looked at the white square in the middle of the tape-where he'd left it open to breathe.
No stain-the stitches were right.
"Well, it's sealed, at least." he said.
"That's nice." she commented dryly.
He looked around the room, and found something that might work as a lever.
He marked it's location, and started looking at the rest of the contents of her locker.
"I don't know anything about you." he said, "other than you look damn good when you're not pounded the shit out of..."
He opened it, and went through it.
Something he found, fixed the decision.
"Okay, I'm taking the table off." he told her.
She laughed, "Why? you trust me all of a sudden?"
He shook his head, though she wouldn't see the movement.
"No, I'm taking it off of you for reasons you probably would never comprehend." He got up, and grabbed the rebar, then, he set the end under the table, and lifted.
"I can't remember the greek's name, but with enough lever, you can move the world." Dinh told her, as he lifted.
The wrought-iron monstrosity came up, shifted, shifted a bit more.
He grunted under the strain, and felt debris digging into his feet.
It finally tipped off of her.
He dropped the bar, and tossed her a set of clothing-bra, panties, wool socks, tee-shirt, jacket, and pants.
"Bravo." she stood up, and flicked the light on-flashblinding him for a moment, she didn't attack, she just needed the illumination.
"You're not looking, are you?" the question was almost disappointing.
He shrugged, "Everyone deserves a little dignity in a crisis." he said, adding, "Whether they choose to have any is an individual decision, but everyone deserves the chance." He leaned against the upended counter, and picked pieces of glass and drywall out of the soles of his feet.
The light didn't go out, but its intensity was turned down-not as bright, but still uncomfortable.
"Okay, what changed your mind?" she asked him again, from less than a foot away-she'd managed to cover the distance without a sound while he was looking away.
"This." He held up a picture from her scrapbook-actually, from her Family's scrapbook.
It was a black-and-white image of her Grandfather as a very young man.
"I don't understand?" she said.
"That picture was taken three days before Blood Pass fell, your Relative is one of the three Austian Liason officers who died with the first of the first at Blood Pass. I recognized the photo from one my Grandma used to keep, along with the citation letter on the next page. Your family is good, ergo, you can't be unsalvageable, and saving your life was the right decision." He told her.
"I see." her tone was almost disappointed. She tapped him on the shoulder, and asked, "Where did you learn...ah... to sew up cuts, kid?"
He shrugged, "Primary career path was going to be Corpsman-I'd already completed the first six months' extra school. Secondary was Night-Sniping, If doc Suze had been in another Village instead of mine, I'd have been in the shelter as the Doc-she was there to collect a mental patient for transport, when your forces attacked and the roads closed."
She moved away from him, and the light was pointed down.
"Ah... why that career?" she asked.
He shrugged, "Easiest way into Med school is a tour as a corpsman on the boats-and medical's what you want if you want to do the kind of research I want to do. It sucks having to wear number-eleven light filters to go outside during the day, and it sucks to have to wear heavy sunglasses on a full-moon, plus the sunburns from ordinary lightbulbs are murder on the ol' skin. There's probably eighty million people in Nuevo Kowloon who can't go outside when the sun's up, ya dig? and about fifty million of those can't use a computer without wearing sunglasses either. It's Genetic Damage, and sure, I can see in the dark, and some people might think that's cool-but the tradeoff is worse than you could ever imagine."
She stopped.
"You haven't heard, have you?" she asked.
He turned and squinted at her. "Heard what?"
She told him, and watched his knees just give as he sat down and started to weep.

[You know, that's the first description of that kind of damage that's just shocked me.]

Emperor Alexander I Larsen sat on his office chair, his face totally devoid of emotion from the shock of the pictures and report. "A total loss? Are you absolutely sure?"

Domingo Chavez, Director of the External Security Service, shook his head. Whether it was from sadness or a lack of surety, the Emperor didn't know, but he answered the question with both, "Your highness, there's no way I can know for sure, but the levels of nerve gas and radiation will render what was once Nuevo Kowloon a complete wasteland before we can render any competant help. If you want my advice, rally the military to this, remind them that we once served with honor with the soldiers of Nuevo Kowloon and, if I guess right, they may have one more chance to do so. I know Phyrric was, and probably still is, involved in this. Contact their emperor personally and ask how we can render service."

During the entire time that his spy spoke, Alexander looked at the pictures. His features were written with deep sorrow at the loss of so many people and then when Domingo suggested resorting to the military, looked up with determination on his face and unshed tears in his eyes. "We neglected the situation Ding, we were so caught up with what was happening with Allanea that we didn't look after those who helped our friends. We failed, but it won't happen again. Relay a message on my behalf to Phyrrus asking what military assistance we can give. In the meantime, I'm going to call the Senate to session and ask for their support in a declaration of war."


[Phyrric, just pretend that I sent you the message asking how we could help and respond to it how you like.]

OOC: OK, NK, I'm in on the anti-Aust side. My nation is mostly postmodern, tending a bit towards future tech... so I have a lot of GEVs and such, and large air battleships, hover transports for ground units, et cetera. Also, if you don't consider it godmoding, a while back Axis Nova launched a bunch of ion cannon satellites (basically, a ripoff from C&C, but I changed how they work to make it plausible).

Anyways, I'll post a forces roster in a bit...

Axis Nova


Uhm... could you tone it down some-we're tryin' to keep this to close-post-moderntech if possible. Air Battleships is going a bit far for my comfort level. GEV's aren't bad if they're played with RL limits, and Hovers certainly are in use in applications in RL.
The Ion-Cannon Sats should have a really good explanation, but with all the other orbital hardware that's been used (Mine-cough!) they should be alright-in limited numbers, the objective isn't to Slag Aust and render it uninhabitable.

One nation's already had that happen.

To replace the flying-fortresses, maybe use some moderntech equivalents- say, B-52 G's in large numbers supported off an America class carrier (the America class was axed from DoD in RL back in the fifties-it was meant to be an aircraft carrier capable of supporting Long-Range strategic bombers like the B-47 and B-52, along with an absolutely obscene number of fighters.) back up said giant ship with something like those boats Doujin's selling-advanced ocean-going vessels that are merely "next Generation" instead of "Whole new understanding of Physics".

Just a suggestion, mind...

OOC: NK, check your telegrams....

I am sending my other two battlegroups to the waters around the southern tip of Antarctica (on the opposite end of the continent from my nation, where Rocky Bambino use to be) to meet up with the 2nd and 4th battlegroups. My homeguard and nuclear battlegroup will remain mobilized close to Dancing Moose shores and mines are being sowed along the boundaries of my territorial waters on the western side. Once again if anybody needs a list of my ships just LMK.

One more thing, I am getting the regional map updated to include Aust, im guessing all this time you guys were just making up where he was... also, Rocky Bambino is being replaced with someone else who is active.

P.S.- I will ignore post and future tech attacks against my forces, if they should occur.. as I am modern tech. Shinoxia, Wazican, Evil Sour Patch Kids, and Asian Jews will all be posting soon.

OOC: I will be supporting my long time ally Aust and Dancing Moose. All military forces are mobilized, I believe if i'm not mistaken I already have a rather large fleet in Dancing Moose waters, it will stay there. All military forces are mobilized and 2 legions have been sent to Aust and 1 armored legion for defensive purposes along with a rather large modern airforce. Also SAND has been officially mobilized.

Sorry this is such a crappy post, I'll do a good IC post later. Another thing I will also be posting my full military later also(I'm on my crappy computer). And one last thing, when attacking Aust could you please specify where you are attacking from, I have his entire nortern border secure.


Thanks

OOC: I'm with Aust.

IC:

The Citadel
Kenoko, Shinoxia

Trouble Across the Street

Upon learning of the invasion of Aust by a Coaltition devoted to his removal as a nation, Shinoxia has declared an end to neutrality, victory at all costs!

"Sir, we've called back the 3rd and 7th Fleets deployed near Doujin, we can reschedule them to intercept enemy forces off the South East Coast of Antarctica." Commodore Jacob McDell asked his superior.

The High King of Shinoxia, James O'Kelly had been disturbed from his vacation in Silith, invasions of the region are more important than breaks from office.

"Yes," O'Kelly nodded "you know more than I do about naval technology and this whole dilema in Aust, if you believe it is wise to send in 2 Fleets, then do so.

"Eager to get back to sleeping sir?" the Commodore asked jokingly.

James O'Kelly laughed.

"Your right," he talked in between laughter "but first I must attend to regional affairs, if we send in fleets can we be assured of victory.

McDell answered his question right away.

"Most definetly." Commodore McDell answered with an arrogant tone.

"That's what I wanted to hear." said his King.

"Now," James O'Kelly switched from English to Shinoxia's native Gallic "You have my official permission to re-activate the 3rd and 7th Fleets, appoint whomever you feel is apporiate for the leadership.

Jacob O'Dell switched his tongue too.

"Sir, I will uphold the honor of the Celtic Empire"

"Indeed, goodbye Commodore."

The Commodore bowed.

"Yes, farewell Your Majesty."

OOC: As of now the 3rd and 7th Fleets are being sent to waters off the South East Coast of Antarctica.

I'll post specs on the ships in a bit.

IC: I am sending the following to Aust:

Naval

First Battlegroup:
1 Black Pearl Carrier (DMN Graceland)
1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship (DMN Seydlitz)
2 Great Lakes Class Battleships (DMN Barham, DMN Moltke)
1 Hellfire Heavy Cruiser (DMN Marlborough)
3 Ticonderoga Guided Missile Cruisers (DMN Jack Frost, DMN Tundra, DMN Margraf)
2 NightStalker Class Guided Missile Destroyers (DMN Sujo, DMN Nelson)
10 Amundsen Class Destroyers (DMN Amundsen, Z-53, Z-54, Z-43, Z-75, Z-64, Z-62, Z-57, Z-23, Z-50)
1 Biggles Class Anti-Missile Frigate (DMN Saratoga)
2 Arsenal Stealth Ships (DMN Foxbat, DMN Furious)
5 Visby Class Corvettes (H-7, H-3, H-10, H-1, H-5)
3 Seawolf Class Subs (DMN Night Stalker, DMN Remington, DMN Perdition)
1 Special Operations Sub-Seahorse Class (DMN Thompson)
1 Sub Tender (S-3)
1 Fleet Auxiliary (AU-22)

1st Fast Assault Group:
3 Spruance Class Destroyers (DMN Vernon, DMN Tombstone, DMN Reservoir)
3 Visby Corvettes (H-42, H-57, H-6)
5 Weathered Class Torpedo Boats (TB-1, TB-4, TB-8, TB-11, TB-14)
3 Pegasus Class PT Boats (PT-105, PT-74, PT-142)
3 LA Class Attack Subs (DMN Leyte, DMN Okinawa, DMN Congo)

Second Battlegroup:
2 Nimitz Stealth Carriers (DMN Inertia, DMN Tuscon)
1 Huron Class Command Ship/Battlecruiser (DMN Malaya)
2 Indomitable Class Super Battleships (DMN Indomitable, DMN Indefatigable)
3 Ticonderoga Guided Missile Cruisers (DMN Cabot, DMN Swordfish, DMN Renown)
2 Zumwalt Class Destroyers (DMN Maya, DMN Bayern)
10 Amundsen Class Destroyers (DMN Z-84, Z-87, Z-95, Z-96, Z-102, Z-15, Z-120, Z-114, Z-99, Z-2)
5 Arsenal Class Stealth Ships (DMN Trix, DMN Hydra, DMN Wivern, DMN Baden, DMN Rebel)
5 Visby Corvettes (H-27, H-15, H-75, H-92, H-86)
2 Weathered Class Torpedo Boats (TB-23, TB-55, TB-17)
4 Pegasus Class PT Boats (PT-57, PT-10, PT-22, PT-4)
3 Seawolf Class Subs (DMN Dawn, DMN Cascade, DMN Vertigo)
3 LA Class Attack Subs (DMN Revolution, DMN Bounty, DMN Anchorage)
2 Sub Tenders (S-15, S-4)
1 Fleet Auxiliary (AU-47)

2nd Fast Assault Group
1 Hellfire Class Heavy Cruiser (DMN Derfflinger)
3 Amundsen Class Destroyers (Z-172, Z-101, Z-163)
2 NightStalker Class Guided Missile Destroyers (DMN Sydra, DMN Badger)
5 Pegasus Class PT Boats (PT-111, PT-1, PT-3, PT-157, PT-104)
2 LA Class Attack Subs (DMN Patriot, DMN Exocet)

Third Battlegroup:
2 Modified Stealth Nimitz carriers (DMN Carnac, DMN Renegade)
2 Great Lakes Class Battleships (DMN Haruna, DMN Fuso)
1 Ross Class Hybrid Battleship/Carrier (DMN Inflexible)
1 Hellfire Heavy Cruiser (DMN Kahuna)
4 Ticonderoga Guided Missile Cruisers (DMN Vice, DMN Croft, DMN Winchester, DMN Maverick)
5 NightStalker Class Guided Missile Destroyers (DMN Bison, DMN Lavender, DMN Dorsetshire, DMN Clyde, DMN Trout)
10 Amundsen Class Destroyers (DMN Z-87, Z-194, Z-197, Z-203, Z-177, Z-12, Z-90, Z-20, Z-205, Z-222)
10 Weathered Class Torpedo boats (DMN TB-101, TB-100, TB-73, TB-87, TB-54, TB-93, TB-99, TB-2, TB-88, TB-15)
3 Arsenal Class Stealth Ships (DMN Reloaded, DMN Resolution, DMN Jade)
5 Visby Class Corvettes (H-62, H-77, H-76, H-65, H-45)
2 Seawolf Class Subs (DMN Redoubtable, DMN Black Joke)
3 LA Class Attack Subs (DMN Renown, DMN Rodney, DMN Valiant)
3 Sub Tenders (S-13, S-20, S-43)
1 Fleet Auxillary (AU- 44)
2 Hospital Ships (DMN Serene, DMN Nobel)

3rd Fast Assault Group
1 Hellfire Heavy Cruiser (DMN Vanguard)
3 NightStalker Class Guided Missile Destroyers (DMN Celeste, DMN Hiei, DMN Shinano)
2 Spruance Class Destroyers (DMN Provence, DMN Royal Oak)
5 Weathered Class Torpedo Boats (TB-300, TB-304, TB-297, TB-307)
4 Pegasus Class PT boats (PT-88, PT-84, PT-98, PT-77)
2 LA Class Attack Subs (DMN Suffolk, DMN Victorious)

Fourth Battlegroup:
1 Mnemosyne Class Aircraft Carrier (DMN Electra)
1 Modified Nimitz Aircraft Carrier (DMN Atlantis)
1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship (DMN Invincible)
1 Great Lakes Class Battleship (DMN Portland)
1 Hellfire Heavy Cruiser (Royal Sovereign)
3 Ticonderoga Guided Missile Cruisers (DMN Tomcat, DMN Proximo, DMN Red Dawn)
5 Amundsen Class Destroyers (DMN Z-305, Z-388, Z-363, Z-401, Z-350)
5 Spruance Class Destroyers (DMN Mariana, DMN Mogami, DMN Parthian, DMN Proteus, DMN Marlin)
4 Arsenal Class Stealth Ships (DMN Foxtrot, DMN Casablanca, DMN Sentinel, DMN Seraph)
5 Weathered Class Torpedo Boats (TB-409, TB-405, TB-468, TB-471, TB-338)
5 Pegasus Class PT Boats (PT-177, PT-110, PT-11, PT-280)
3 Visby Class Corvettes (H-123, H-112, H-92)
4 LA Class Attack Subs (DMN Nautilus, DMN Agincourt, DMN Aquila, DMN Audacious)
2 Sub Tenders (S-41, S-52)
1 Fleet Auxiliary (AU-17)
1 Hospital Ship (DMN Courageous)

4th Fast Assault Group
1 Iowa Class Battleship (DMN Agamemnon)
2 NightStalker Class Guided Missile Destroyers (DMN Formidable, DMN Forrestal)
2 Spruance Class Destroyers (DMN Glorious, DMN Iron Duke)
3 Pegasus Class PT Boats (PT-303, PT-425, PT-552)
1 Seawolf Class Sub (DMN Monarch)
1 Special Operations Sub-Seahorse Class (DMN Roanoke)

Each of my carriers carries the following planes (including CAP):
15 F-22 Sea Raptors
15 F-16SF Super Falcons
15 F-15F Sky Eagles
10 F/A-186 Ground Attack Hornets
15 AV-8B Harrier II Plus Aircraft
10 Talon F-96 Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft
5 Darkhorse F-35B STOVC Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft

All ships are completely outfitted with Phalanx CIWS, RAM (Rolling airframe missile), SuperCav Phalanx CIWS (underwater on hull), and Millenium gun CIWS technologies.

The Amundsen Class destroyers carry one Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon and one AH-64H Apache Crossbow helicopter.

LA and Seawolf Class subs are armed with: Arctic Mailstorm SuperCav torpedos, Mk48 Mod5 ADCAP (ADvanced CAPability) ASW/Anti-ship torpedo’s, BGM-109 Tomahawk SLCM’s (Conventional/Nuclear), Sea Lance ASW’s, and Sub-Martel Submarine-launched SSM”s.


Army= 1 Legion

1 Legion contains:

Main Battle Units:

Main Battle Units do most of the fighting in wars and inflict the most damage. Once deployed the legions will form into self-contained pods, 45 men and entirely mobile equipment. Three pods will then form a cluster, 135 men, the cluster only knows what’s going on inside their unit and has limited information on other clusters. Main Battle Units have their own equipment.

150,000 Moose Hordesmen (Used in Pod Warfare)
(Skill=Average-Veteran)
(Loyalty=Good)
(Morale=+1)
Calico and G-36 assault rifles
The core units of the IADM, the Moose Hordesmen, are averagely trained soldiers that, under cover, move up and attack enemy units. Although, not the most loyal and powerful units around, they get the job done and when combined with other units are a major threat.

150,000 Bison (Used in Pod Warfare)
(Skill=Veteran)
(Loyalty=Strong)
(Morale=+2)
M4 assault rifles
Bison are the storm troopers of the Imperial Army. Supported by other units in a pod they make their charge. Armed with the short and light M4 assault rifles and grenades the Bison roll up an enemy position and make short work of hostiles.

150,000 Imperial Marksmen (Used in Pod Warfare)
(Skill=Veteran)
(Loyalty=Strong)
(Morale=+3)
SAW light machine guns
The Imperial Marksmen are the most skilled unit in IADM pods and are the ones who provide cover for Hordesmen and Bison. Sitting with SAW light machine guns, the Marksmen orchestrate the attack and make sure the Hordesmen and Bison make it to their posistion. When the Bison charge, the Marksmen send out volley after volley of machine gun fire to make sure they make it to the enemy.

50,000 Imperial Informers (Self Contained/Deployed Within Legion)
(Skill=Veteran)
(Loyalty=Very Strong)
(Morale=+2)
Calico assault rifles
When invading a nation, Informers break off from their legions and work with networks of citizens opposed to their regime. They train citizens to resist their leaders and train them to take arms against them. Depending on the nation they are invading they have different results. In Corrupt Dictatorships Informers can double their numbers but in Democracies are limited to a few radicals.

Tanks
x200 Arctic Groundhog tanks
x500 Arctic Wolf tanks
x500 Arctic Wolf II tanks
x650 Arctic Tiger tanks

Light Assault Vehicles, Artillery pieces, and transport vehicles
x250 AMOS mortar systems
x250 Jaguar 2 Tank Destroyers
x250 M2001A1 artillery systems
x250 Ontos II Support Systems
x250 M270A1 rocket launchers
x250 Paladin heavy artillery systems
x250 LAV-Ammo Carriers
x500 LAV-Ambulances
x500 Humvees (TOW Missile Launcher Equipped)
x700 Arctic Fox LAVs
x700 Desert Fox LAVs
x250 Stormcrows
x250 Avenger LAVs

Attack Helicopters
x250 AH-64A/D attack choppers
X250 Tigerlily attack choppers
x250 Super Cobra choppers
x250 Longbow assault choppers
x250 Chinook transport choppers
x250 AH-220 Sea Lions

OOC: The naval forces have already arrived at their pre-stated destination, the army forces will arrive in one NS day.

It will take the 3rd Fleet longer to arrive so for now I'll just send in the 7th Fleet.


Shinoxian 7th Fleet
Main Battle Group
x1 Ultor Class Super Carrier
SRS AC-2A Enfield
x2 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
SRS CS-3A Ireland
SRS CS-4A Icebreaker
x2 Nansen Class Anti-Submarine Frigates
SRS FS-3A Unmatchable
SRS FS-4A Inevitable
x2 Amundsen Class Destroyers
SRS DD-3A Patriot
SRS DD-4A Ironsides
x2 Seahorse Class Attack Subs
SRS SMN-3A Swarm
SRS SMN-4A Dynasty
x1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship
SRS BB-2A Celtic Fury
x2 Arsenal Class Logistic Ships
SRS LS-3A Logistical
SRS LS-4A Caretaker
x1 Avenger Class Minesweeper
SRS MS-2A Trailblazer
x1 Mercy Class Hospital Ship
SRS SHS-2A Warmth

Fast Attack Battle Group
[x3 Skjold Class Missile Boats
SRS SMB-4A Terrapin
SRS SMB-5A Eagle
SRS SMB-6A Wolf
x3 Roussen Class Missile Crafts
SRS SMB-22A Piranha
SRS SMB-23A Dolphin
SRS SMB-24A Hellhound
x4 Phantom Class Attack Ships
SRS SAS-1A Dragon
SRS SAS-2A Cyclone
SRS SAS-3A Gust
SRS SAS-4A Specter
x5 Visby Class Corvettes
SRS SAC-6A Imperialist
SRS SAC-7A Infidel
SRS SAC-8A Invader
SRS SAC-9A Sovereign
SRS SAC-10A Empire

Wolfpack Attack Sub Group
x2 Devil Ray Class Attack Subs
SRS SWN-3A Quake
SRS SWN-4A Seal
x2 Los Angeles Class Attack Subs
SRS SWN-15A Protest
SRS SWN-16A Unstoppable

OOC: OK, NK, I'm in on the anti-Aust side. My nation is mostly postmodern, tending a bit towards future tech... so I have a lot of GEVs and such, and large air battleships, hover transports for ground units, et cetera. Also, if you don't consider it godmoding, a while back Axis Nova launched a bunch of ion cannon satellites (basically, a ripoff from C&C, but I changed how they work to make it plausible).

Anyways, I'll post a forces roster in a bit...

Axis Nova


Uhm... could you tone it down some-we're tryin' to keep this to close-post-moderntech if possible. Air Battleships is going a bit far for my comfort level. GEV's aren't bad if they're played with RL limits, and Hovers certainly are in use in applications in RL.
The Ion-Cannon Sats should have a really good explanation, but with all the other orbital hardware that's been used (Mine-cough!) they should be alright-in limited numbers, the objective isn't to Slag Aust and render it uninhabitable.

One nation's already had that happen.

To replace the flying-fortresses, maybe use some moderntech equivalents- say, B-52 G's in large numbers supported off an America class carrier (the America class was axed from DoD in RL back in the fifties-it was meant to be an aircraft carrier capable of supporting Long-Range strategic bombers like the B-47 and B-52, along with an absolutely obscene number of fighters.) back up said giant ship with something like those boats Doujin's selling-advanced ocean-going vessels that are merely "next Generation" instead of "Whole new understanding of Physics".

Just a suggestion, mind...



OOC: I posted a thread with general specs for most of Axis Nova's vehicles. Anyways, AN's air naval units will take some time to get there-- aircraft that big are quite slow, as you can imagine. As for the way the satellites work, there's a thread further back where I explained it, but I'll do so again here, briefly.

Basically, it's a satellite with the cannon itself, a fusion reactor, a microwave transmitter, a bunch of sensors of various types (no need to go into details, it's all stuff like cameras, radar, etc), and three large arms with microwave reciever panels, the function of which will be explained in a bit.

The satellite uses a laser to ionize the atmosphere between it and it's target, then fires a particle beam that follows the path of the ionized air. The explosion from the beam hitting generally has a destructive radius of around 200 meters or so... unless extra power is relayed from other satellites within the firing one's line of site. That's where the microwave recievers come in-- the satellites can beam extra power to each other to make a more powerful beam (or recharge the capacitors faster for another shot). The satellite IS capable of firing lower power shots more rapidly for defending itself, though these lower powered shots can't penetrate the atmosphere. They can't blow up a whole city or even a whole military base in one shot, but they are quite accurate and precise, so they're good for engaging things like ships, buildings, etc cetera.

And as for my tech level, I'm towards the high end of post-modern.

I refuse to just rip off designs from RL nations if I can possibly avoid it-- everyone and their mom and their mom's dog uses a lot of the same stuff in NS, and I wanted to be more original.

Axis Nova

OOC: Axis Nova, that sounds really future tech, much less post-modern. I suggest you try to either come up with a modern tech army/navy/airforce to fight with or else me and most of the other Antarctic nations will ignore it, unless you want to fight Moontian, a February '03 nation if im not mistaken.

OOC: NK, check your telegrams....

I am sending my other two battlegroups to the waters around the southern tip of Antarctica (on the opposite end of the continent from my nation, where Rocky Bambino use to be) to meet up with the 2nd and 4th battlegroups. My homeguard and nuclear battlegroup will remain mobilized close to Dancing Moose shores and mines are being sowed along the boundaries of my territorial waters on the western side. Once again if anybody needs a list of my ships just LMK.

One more thing, I am getting the regional map updated to include Aust, im guessing all this time you guys were just making up where he was... also, Rocky Bambino is being replaced with someone else who is active.

P.S.- I will ignore post and future tech attacks against my forces, if they should occur.. as I am modern tech. Shinoxia, Wazican, Evil Sour Patch Kids, and Asian Jews will all be posting soon.
[ooc]
Works. He said he was using Dimminmar's position on the old map (check the ARP thread) I think that's how it's pronounced/spelled anyway.
Since most of our side's coming in from the Indian Ocean side (about where you say you're sending the two task-groups), this shouldn't be a problem, and should make for a good RP. I'll check the TG's after I post this, and then have your first results up. Might I propose a request to leave the BB territory open for the moment? it's already been RP'ed as empty, and making someone else fight a land war on their home soil just to cover a bookkeeping error really seems a bit... off to me. Fixing the names is fine, but changing the geographical setup to cover just doesn't fit right.
(besides, this way there's actually some tension, instead of an invincible defense that requires nukes/WMD.)

It's your region, but that's just a suggestion.

OOC: OK, NK, I'm in on the anti-Aust side. My nation is mostly postmodern, tending a bit towards future tech... so I have a lot of GEVs and such, and large air battleships, hover transports for ground units, et cetera. Also, if you don't consider it godmoding, a while back Axis Nova launched a bunch of ion cannon satellites (basically, a ripoff from C&C, but I changed how they work to make it plausible).

Anyways, I'll post a forces roster in a bit...

Axis Nova


Uhm... could you tone it down some-we're tryin' to keep this to close-post-moderntech if possible. Air Battleships is going a bit far for my comfort level. GEV's aren't bad if they're played with RL limits, and Hovers certainly are in use in applications in RL.
The Ion-Cannon Sats should have a really good explanation, but with all the other orbital hardware that's been used (Mine-cough!) they should be alright-in limited numbers, the objective isn't to Slag Aust and render it uninhabitable.

One nation's already had that happen.

To replace the flying-fortresses, maybe use some moderntech equivalents- say, B-52 G's in large numbers supported off an America class carrier (the America class was axed from DoD in RL back in the fifties-it was meant to be an aircraft carrier capable of supporting Long-Range strategic bombers like the B-47 and B-52, along with an absolutely obscene number of fighters.) back up said giant ship with something like those boats Doujin's selling-advanced ocean-going vessels that are merely "next Generation" instead of "Whole new understanding of Physics".

Just a suggestion, mind...



OOC: I posted a thread with general specs for most of Axis Nova's vehicles. Anyways, AN's air naval units will take some time to get there-- aircraft that big are quite slow, as you can imagine. As for the way the satellites work, there's a thread further back where I explained it, but I'll do so again here, briefly.

Basically, it's a satellite with the cannon itself, a fusion reactor, a microwave transmitter, a bunch of sensors of various types (no need to go into details, it's all stuff like cameras, radar, etc), and three large arms with microwave reciever panels, the function of which will be explained in a bit.

The satellite uses a laser to ionize the atmosphere between it and it's target, then fires a particle beam that follows the path of the ionized air. The explosion from the beam hitting generally has a destructive radius of around 200 meters or so... unless extra power is relayed from other satellites within the firing one's line of site. That's where the microwave recievers come in-- the satellites can beam extra power to each other to make a more powerful beam (or recharge the capacitors faster for another shot). The satellite IS capable of firing lower power shots more rapidly for defending itself, though these lower powered shots can't penetrate the atmosphere. They can't blow up a whole city or even a whole military base in one shot, but they are quite accurate and precise, so they're good for engaging things like ships, buildings, etc cetera.

And as for my tech level, I'm towards the high end of post-modern.

I refuse to just rip off designs from RL nations if I can possibly avoid it-- everyone and their mom and their mom's dog uses a lot of the same stuff in NS, and I wanted to be more original.

Axis Nova

Okay... Fusion Power plants are definitely Futuretech, not Post-Modern. (at least, FPP's with enough output to work as power-sources are.)
Flying Battleships are edging on fantasy-tech/futuretech because of how atmosphere interacts with an airframe in the real world. (this is why the Navy dropped the "Flying Aircraft Carrier" idea in the 1930's.)
Efficient hover-vehicle combatants in a Moderntech setting would run something like a turbine-engine, and use missiles instead of guns (Recoil issues), they'd be for quick fire-support/suppression for landing your Regulars (Hovercraft don't like hills-it empties the plenum chamber), they'd be like low-flying attack helos that are restricted to flatlands and water (great for storming beaches, not so great for storming the bluffs overlooking said beaches).
If you go with a Catamaran or Trimaran carrier design, you can get the same characteristics as the America class, without "Ripping off the Real World", and it's do-able with moderntech. (also gives a nice shallow draft...)
If you revert the "Orbital Ion Cannons" to something like a missile-platform, then that too becomes moderntech instead of futuretech-the concept is sound, and has been known about and studied since the 1960's, it uses Newtonian Physics (instead of Theoretical Physics), etc.
But I'd suggest just not using them-orbital weapons come really close to WMD, and this isn't supposed to be that kind of game.

OOC: So it should be setup so you guys can just walk right in and invade a fellow nation of mine?

I guess this is ok given how extremely difficult this is going to be for you. Asian Jews is in that area and he will be sending a million men if not more to ward off invasion, adding on the my half a million men already going. Also, you will have to fight through all these ships and hope some transports make it.

OOC: Oh well, I checked my TG's NK, thats ok. I TG'ed you back but its not that important.

OOC: OK, NK, I'm in on the anti-Aust side. My nation is mostly postmodern, tending a bit towards future tech... so I have a lot of GEVs and such, and large air battleships, hover transports for ground units, et cetera. Also, if you don't consider it godmoding, a while back Axis Nova launched a bunch of ion cannon satellites (basically, a ripoff from C&C, but I changed how they work to make it plausible).

Anyways, I'll post a forces roster in a bit...

Axis Nova


Uhm... could you tone it down some-we're tryin' to keep this to close-post-moderntech if possible. Air Battleships is going a bit far for my comfort level. GEV's aren't bad if they're played with RL limits, and Hovers certainly are in use in applications in RL.
The Ion-Cannon Sats should have a really good explanation, but with all the other orbital hardware that's been used (Mine-cough!) they should be alright-in limited numbers, the objective isn't to Slag Aust and render it uninhabitable.

One nation's already had that happen.

To replace the flying-fortresses, maybe use some moderntech equivalents- say, B-52 G's in large numbers supported off an America class carrier (the America class was axed from DoD in RL back in the fifties-it was meant to be an aircraft carrier capable of supporting Long-Range strategic bombers like the B-47 and B-52, along with an absolutely obscene number of fighters.) back up said giant ship with something like those boats Doujin's selling-advanced ocean-going vessels that are merely "next Generation" instead of "Whole new understanding of Physics".

Just a suggestion, mind...



OOC: I posted a thread with general specs for most of Axis Nova's vehicles. Anyways, AN's air naval units will take some time to get there-- aircraft that big are quite slow, as you can imagine. As for the way the satellites work, there's a thread further back where I explained it, but I'll do so again here, briefly.

Basically, it's a satellite with the cannon itself, a fusion reactor, a microwave transmitter, a bunch of sensors of various types (no need to go into details, it's all stuff like cameras, radar, etc), and three large arms with microwave reciever panels, the function of which will be explained in a bit.

The satellite uses a laser to ionize the atmosphere between it and it's target, then fires a particle beam that follows the path of the ionized air. The explosion from the beam hitting generally has a destructive radius of around 200 meters or so... unless extra power is relayed from other satellites within the firing one's line of site. That's where the microwave recievers come in-- the satellites can beam extra power to each other to make a more powerful beam (or recharge the capacitors faster for another shot). The satellite IS capable of firing lower power shots more rapidly for defending itself, though these lower powered shots can't penetrate the atmosphere. They can't blow up a whole city or even a whole military base in one shot, but they are quite accurate and precise, so they're good for engaging things like ships, buildings, etc cetera.

And as for my tech level, I'm towards the high end of post-modern.

I refuse to just rip off designs from RL nations if I can possibly avoid it-- everyone and their mom and their mom's dog uses a lot of the same stuff in NS, and I wanted to be more original.

Axis Nova

Okay... Fusion Power plants are definitely Futuretech, not Post-Modern. (at least, FPP's with enough output to work as power-sources are.)
Flying Battleships are edging on fantasy-tech/futuretech because of how atmosphere interacts with an airframe in the real world. (this is why the Navy dropped the "Flying Aircraft Carrier" idea in the 1930's.)
Efficient hover-vehicle combatants in a Moderntech setting would run something like a turbine-engine, and use missiles instead of guns (Recoil issues), they'd be for quick fire-support/suppression for landing your Regulars (Hovercraft don't like hills-it empties the plenum chamber), they'd be like low-flying attack helos that are restricted to flatlands and water (great for storming beaches, not so great for storming the bluffs overlooking said beaches).
If you go with a Catamaran or Trimaran carrier design, you can get the same characteristics as the America class, without "Ripping off the Real World", and it's do-able with moderntech. (also gives a nice shallow draft...)
If you revert the "Orbital Ion Cannons" to something like a missile-platform, then that too becomes moderntech instead of futuretech-the concept is sound, and has been known about and studied since the 1960's, it uses Newtonian Physics (instead of Theoretical Physics), etc.
But I'd suggest just not using them-orbital weapons come really close to WMD, and this isn't supposed to be that kind of game.

OOC: Actually, fusion reactors have been built in real life; they just havn't found out how to make one produce more power than it uses yet. However, it is accepted in the relevant scientific circles that such a breakthrough is no more than 20-30 years away... thus rendering it post modern. I even asked some of the older nations in the chat, and they as well said that they were post modern.

If you are going to be one of those people who insist that everything follow the laws of physics exactly with no room for suspension of disbelief, then I can see that there is no place for me in this thread. I went with the flying air navy thing because I thought it would both be cool and militarily effective. If I have to stretch the laws of physics a bit, so be it.

Look, instead of making noises about "that won't work", just go with it. It's not like they're invincible, and it's not like I'm attacking YOU with them.

As for the ion sats, those are there specifically because I don't want to use nukes or ICBMs or anything like that. I wanted a strategic weapon that can be used relatively often and is precise enough to be used without causing extensive collateral damage (at least, when compared to nukes).



Axis Nova

Wazican Imperial Palace:


Sitting in his office Aaronius and his closest advisiors discuss their actions upon learning about the “Aust situation”.

“Alright men lets get down to business. I want the 1st fleet that was headed for Doujin imedietly redeployed and sent back to Dancing Moose. Also send in the 2nd and 3rd fast attack groups into Dancing Moose waters to help find those NK fleets. Also immidatly call up all forces to active duty and prepare the defenses. We will prevail and Aust’s northern border is secure!”

“Sir yes sir”

“Dismissed”

OOC:

Here is the 1st fleet:

Grand White Fleet:
1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship (WIN Ajax)
1 Ultor Class Super Carrier (WIN Cerberus)
Aircraft:
3 E2-C Hawkeyes
35 F-14 Tomcats
25 F/A-18 Super Hornets
20 Archangels
20 ASW Sea King Helicopters
10 F-117 Nighthawks
2 Modified Arctic Subsiders
2 Elessar Class Super Carriers (WIN Hydra, WIN Scylla)
Aircraft Per Carrier:
3 E2-C Hawkeyes
30 F-14 Tomcats
20 F/A-18 Super Hornets
20 Archangels
15 ASW Sea King Helicopters
10 F-117 Nighthawks
2 Nimitz Class Carriers (WIN Styx, WIN Lethe)
Aircraft Per Carrier:
20 Archangels
20 F/A-18 Hornets
20 F-14 Tomcats
5 E2-C Hawkeye
5 AC-150 Tankers 10 F-117 Nighthawks
2 Norad Class Super Battleship(WIN Bowden, WIN Dakley)
Aircraft Per Battleship:
20 Harrier’s
5 Black Hawk’s
5 Sea King’s
2 Lancer Class Destroyer-Dreadnaught(WIN Miller, WIN Struckover)
5Amundsen Class Destroyers(WIN Weaver, WIN Durant, WIN Borant, WIN Dlcova,
WIN Haywood
4 Hellfire Heavy Cruisers(WIN Aide, WIN Homer, WIN Thomas, WIN Nanking)
2 Hospital Ships(WIN Mercy, WIN Florence)
4 Los Angeles Class Attack Subs(WIN Baden, WIN Powel, WIN Arsdale, WIN Burma)
4 Seawolf Class Subs (WIN Scope, WIN Stealth, WIN Athens, WIN Perseus)
4 Ohio Class SSBN's(WIN Gorgon, WIN Mnemosyne, WIN Mountainius, WIN Eros)
4 Virginia Class NSSN's(WIN Erebos, WIN Phoebe, WIN Okeanos, WIN Hekatonchires)
25 Hover Patrol Boats(HPB 1-25)
25 Pegasus Patrol Craft (PC 1-25)
2 Avenger Class Minesweepers (WIN Scout, WIN Pathfinder)
4 Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruisers(WIN Alther, WIN Pontus, WIN Tethys, WIN Hestia)
2 Zumwalt Destroyers(WIN Hephaestus, WIN Demeter)
4 Fleet Defense Catamarans(WIN Maummu, Win Tiamat, WIN Anu, WIN Antu)
6 Arleigh Burke AEGIS Destroyers(WIN Enlil, WIN Ninlil, WIN Marduk, WIN Damkina,
WIN Ishtar, WIN Sin)
2 Iowa Class Battleships(WIN Isis, WIN Osiris)
6 Oliver Hazard Perry Class ASW Frigates
4 Weathered Class Torpedo Boats(TB-109, TB-123)
2 Sea Shadow Assault Ships(AS-21, AS-24)
2 Arsenal Ships(WIN AS-12, WIN AS-42)
8 Visby Class Corvettes(WIN VC-102, VC-110, VC-109,VC-129, VC-105, VC-25)
4 AOE-6 Combat Logistic Ships(WIN LC-25, LC-36)

Please note that the names of most of these ships are named after a famous individual from Wazican or are Latin, also WIN=Wazican Imperial Navy.

Also the ground forces that are being deployed to Aust:

3rd and 4th Standard Legions
1 Standard Legion contains the following:
125,000 Infantrymen armed with M-16's, SAW machine guns, and M3 Multi-Role Anti-Armor Anti-Personnel Weapon System.
1,000 Defender Class Tanks
500 Arctic Wolf 1 Tanks
500 Arctic Wolf 2 Tanks
600 HUMVEE
600 Widow Maker Artillery
300 Bradley Fighting Vehicles
These legions are the backbone of hte Imperial Wazican Army. They include masses of well armed and well trained men in precise formations backed by powerful armor. They are able to adapt to any enviroment or enemy. Upon mobilization they can be anywhere in the world within 1 week via a massive fleet of heavy cargo aircraft.

6th Armored Division
The 6th contains the following:
75,000 mobile infantrymen all in either Bradley Fighting Vehicles or H , they are armed with M - 4 assualt rifles with M -203 attatchments, SAW’s, M -120 Mortars, and every man has an M -9 Pistol as a sidearm.
1,000 Bradley Assualt Vehicles
1,500 HUMVEE
1,400 M198 Howitzer's
2,000 M1A2 Abrams
500 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System's
500 M1 Grizzly's
50 XMI04 Woverine Heavy Assault Bridge System's
500 LAV-E
5,000 PLS
500 Paladin Self Propeled
500 LAV Logistics
100 LAV Ammunition Carriers
500 LAV Amblulance
500 LAV Air Defense
The 6th Armored Legion is perhaps the most feared Legion in Wazican. Not only are its soldiers hardened veterans at tank warfare but their sheer size is intemidating. The 6th specializes as a spearhead force for major attacks, the include a 5,000 man engineer with a full complement of vehicles to clear the way for a much larger assualt. The 6th specilizes in speed but tremendous firepower. They truly are a force to be reconed with.

5th and 6th Anti Air Defense Divisions
Each division includes the following:
35 F-16 Fighting Falcons
500 MIM-72/M48 Chaparral
1,500 Patriot
1,000 Raytheon Mom-23 Hawk
These divisions are scattered around Wazican ready to intercept enemy aircraft and destroy them upon contact.

Air Forces sent to Aust to assist ground troops and aid the Aust Air Force:
100 AC-130's
200 F/A-18 Hornet’s
100 F-96
300 Arctic Ice Breaker’s
100 Arctic Subsider’s
The following equipment will also be sent to Aust:

5 million AE-90 assualt rifles, these rifles should be an adequate upgrade for either your civilian forces or army. They are fairly simple with a good range, punch, and I make ‘em. For specs just ask I don’t have them off the top of my head.
500 F-16's (I also produce this)
and various supplies.

Thank you and if you have any questions about my army or specs either TG me or post the question.

[Shinoxia: We have treaty obligations, so if you want to be on the other side then stay well clear of my naval forces.]

..::Scandavian States News Network::..

In an unprecidented move, the Emperor called together a special meeting of the Senate to ask for the support of the people in a war against Aust for its horrible genocide. With no "nay" votes and only a few abstentations, support was ratified. The Emperor has pledged two full assault fleets plus a squadron of the new Fenrir class dreadnaughts.

In related news, the death toll has risen to 300 million in Nuevo Kowloon...

OOC: Scandavian States, we shall have to see, he is not available right now but I dont know what he will chose to do about the regional alliances with Aust and myself....

Sorry I forgot to mention the fast attack groups patroling DM's waters and looking for NK's fleets. Here it is:

3rd and 5th Fast attack groups
Each Fast attack group includes the following:
2 SSN-688 Los Angeles Sub
3 Seawolf Subs
5 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
4 Oliver Hazard Perry Destroyer/Frigate
3 Arleigh Burke AEIGS Destoryer

Thanks

"We have our orders to advance sir"

"Make it happen! Proceed with the operation, cross the border into Aust. Do not cross other borders of other Nations. If they want to be in this war, let it be shown that they are the aggressors by attacking a Nations forces that demonstrated no hostilities to themselves and we will deal with them later."

"We should be crossing the border in less than one hour. The reserves from Tiawan have arrived on our aft and we have clear roads to go on."

175,000 troops are crossing the border into Aust. Another 100,000 are assembled in the former Nation of Rocky Bambino and the BattleStation Epirus I has dropped another 50,000 on the flank of the main task force.

"Send message to the Joint Chiefs that we will atempt to secure as much real estate as possible within Aust. By nightfall, we intend on capturing 100 miles inland and subduing enemy forces. Need reinforcements and supply routes opened immediately."

"The Battle Fleets should be arriving within 24 hours to contest the shores. It appears there are other Nations in the area attempting to close us off."

"Then may the blockade be broken immediately. Advise the fleets to do what is necessary to secure our newly acquired lands."

Currently in force:

325,000 troops
650 units of armor: 350 M1A1, 200 Humvees, 100 ATV
1400 Fighters: 600 X35, 250 F117, 400 F22, 150 F15

Currently enroute:

8 Battle Fleets
3 Assault Fleets
250,000 troops via MAC
90,000 via Amphibious
50,000 via dropship
600 fighters
125 bombers
450 units of armor via Amphibious

Message received from Scandavian States and reply sent:

"Come join us"

OOC:

DM, the map is "as is"

If Rocky Bambino does not exist, tough titty

Axis, thanks for the assist, but keep it to our timeline please...2015 at the latest.

To the smaller nations getting involved, your forces that you are posting must be taking up a considerable amount of your resources. I have checked each of your pops and econs, I will call you on this later. Point of advice: Aust stated he does intend to lose, I would not place a huge effort into your own destruction. My intention is not to take over or capture Aust, a changeing of the guards is in order I do think.

"We have our orders to advance sir"

"Make it happen! Proceed with the operation, cross the border into Aust. Do not cross other borders of other Nations. If they want to be in this war, let it be shown that they are the aggressors by attacking a Nations forces that demonstrated no hostilities to themselves and we will deal with them later."

"We should be crossing the border in less than one hour. The reserves from Tiawan have arrived on our aft and we have clear roads to go on."

175,000 troops are crossing the border into Aust. Another 100,000 are assembled in the former Nation of Rocky Bambino and the BattleStation Epirus I has dropped another 50,000 on the flank of the main task force.

"Send message to the Joint Chiefs that we will atempt to secure as much real estate as possible within Aust. By nightfall, we intend on capturing 100 miles inland and subduing enemy forces. Need reinforcements and supply routes opened immediately."

"The Battle Fleets should be arriving within 24 hours to contest the shores. It appears there are other Nations in the area attempting to close us off."

"Then may the blockade be broken immediately. Advise the fleets to do what is necessary to secure our newly acquired lands."

Currently in force:

325,000 troops
650 units of armor: 350 M1A1, 200 Humvees, 100 ATV
1400 Fighters: 600 X35, 250 F117, 400 F22, 150 F15

Currently enroute:

8 Battle Fleets
3 Assault Fleets
250,000 troops via MAC
90,000 via Amphibious
50,000 via dropship
600 fighters
125 bombers
450 units of armor via Amphibious

Message received from Scandavian States and reply sent:

"Come join us"

There was a very good reason the Dancing Moose fleet failed to find the Hue Battlegroup-they were looking on the wrong end of Antarctica.
The NK groups (multiple) had located up an inlet on the Indian Ocean side of the Continent. Like the Austian bombers sent to "Destroy" them, these enemies had assumed they would stay in one area.
The safest place, it turned out in the end, was where the enemy looked last-the coastline closest to Aust. The two Battlegroups weren't entirely alone in the time between their last contact with the locals, and firing "The Hammer" on Aust-most of the support vessels (oilers, gator-freighters, etc.) had been doing excercises with Legion of Defense forces in the waters near Bariloche.
It took less than a day to divert those assets. When Phyrric's troops landed, they landed on prepared landing areas erected by the last division of NK Marines in existence, and the inlet had been "Improved" with Anchorage-class landing ships into a functional port, one with a narrow mouth, defended by significant firepower both from the ships themselves, and the Marines on the inside of the inlet.
Not invulnerable, but strong, and about to get stronger. What allowed this to happen? Neglect. Neglect of Alliances, neglect of patrols. The area had been ignored for years, maybe decades, and when the troubles started, the external trouble was all on the other side of the continent.
This also placed the blocking forces in an interesting position-one not often encountered. They were in missile range of enemies on both sides, and gun range of at least one depending on where they moved. Any assault would have to come overland across unimproved terrain.

NOW I can get back to what I was doing!

Emperor's quarters, 12 Hours after Hammerfall...

Amy Cuong sighed heavily while the drugs held her legs paralyzed. She was sure that the room was scented in something but she could't tell what. At least the injections they gave her blocked out the damned light, eliminating one form of pain. The discomfort she was feeling wasn't entirely from the things they did to her-one source was something she had elected to do to herself, having overheard the conversation and knowing what their patron intended for her.
Well, it should be a night to remember... she thought with a little smile.
She heard him coming, and cowered back. She felt his hands-big, heavy, strong, as he slapped her, and she quailed again-not quite in mock-fear.
He seemed to buy it.
She let a moment of panic drive her struggles-the panic was real enough-being restrained by someone twice your size intending to do what Palpatine intended would be enough to make anyone panic.
She screamed, he laughed, and then, he thrust-
and made the biggest mistake of his life.
Amy had a secret-she took it from the doctor's bag when they did the injections, and she hid it in a special place-needle-end out.
Now, an injection needle hurts bad enough-even a small one, and that's driven with around a pound of force.
The Austian Emperor's manhood was "Hooked" by his full body-weight plus the power of his toned, trained, muscles.
He got to scream-a womanish scream. She tried to throw a punch at the sound of that scream, but felt her knuckles impact a chest, not a mouth, or better, neck.
The reaction was instant, driven by anger, pain, and years of training.
The last thing Amy Cu'ong felt, was the sensation of her neck being snapped.

Aust has been on me to write this for two days, (actually more.) I had a hell of a time making it graphic enough without making it so graphic it would be "BAD" to post. I think I balanced it pretty well...

With basing rights in South America secure through diplomacy with Bariloche, airliners begin delivering military supplies neccesary to supply the war effort.

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Onbard the SSGN Kaoshung
There was a state of tension in the air, bordering on panic. Never had any Taiwanese submarine captain ever seen such a large fleet. Still, the group of 18 Shang Zhou class SSGNs were in no danger of being detected, and had a large amount of sea-skimmers ready.

All hands were still as a new transmission was recieved - strike at naval forces attempting to contest naval superiority with Phyriccan navies.

OOC: They are still a few hundred Kms (600km odd) from Aust.

OOC:Phyrric, you have to land first, and then get past the SAND fleets, travel across RB and then break through the Maginot line. All the time under attack from Aust. HArd. The maginot line is, as you can guess, is very much like the French line in WW2. MAde up of forts and over 1.5 million men guarding it. It has suffered a bit from the earthquakes but having been built away from Fault lines it only lost 250 men in the east side that has been reinforced. In short it would take a hell of a lot of men to break through. I mensioned it earlyer so you can't say that it doesn't exist. The best way past it is to go arouind into other countrys and cross the flat plains to encircle it. Good luck.

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Shivers was moved by the boy crying at the distruction of his nation, but then she proberly would too if it had been Aust. "I'm sorry kid." She said "But what can we do, I mean you may as well get over it. it's happened and now your a slave. Thats life."
"A slave?" The boy stopped crying and looked up. No one had told him.
"Look on your arm, or your cheast, it has the slaves mark, my mark" He looked and saw the brand in the shape of a inverted S and the scar also in the shape of a S. "Yours, S stands for Shivers right."
"Yes. I'm sorry, not much I can do. It could be worse I guess, you could be someone elses slave. At least I am okay. I'm sorry about the scar, I was angry." His mind flashed back to the fight, the viniger in his eyes the pain in his cheast the fell ing of being...
"you!"
"Yes. I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it I mean, I did mean it but, it was a mis-understanding ."
"Okay, I mean I don't think that this is entirely your fault." Shivers smiled he'd fallen for the, I'm a nice person roteen.
"Now lets get out of here. Is their anything heavy?"
"is this good?" He haded her a broken beam.
"Good. Do we have light."
"Yes,"
"Turn it on." He turned it on and the bright ness hurt his eyes. Interesting thought Shivers aversion to light I could use that. She made her way to the door and smashed it with the beam, it opened, light from a broken cealing stung her eyes but she could see clearly enough, a giant hunk of metal and bodies, lots of bodies. The boys was cowering in the corner wimpering. "to much light." He moaned.

OOC: Your turn

OOC:Phyrric, you have to land first, and then get past the SAND fleets, travel across RB and then break through the Maginot line. All the time under attack from Aust. HArd. The maginot line is, as you can guess, is very much like the French line in WW2. MAde up of forts and over 1.5 million men guarding it. It has suffered a bit from the earthquakes but having been built away from Fault lines it only lost 250 men in the east side that has been reinforced. In short it would take a hell of a lot of men to break through. I mensioned it earlyer so you can't say that it doesn't exist. The best way past it is to go arouind into other countrys and cross the flat plains to encircle it. Good luck.

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Shivers was moved by the boy crying at the distruction of his nation, but then she proberly would too if it had been Aust. "I'm sorry kid." She said "But what can we do, I mean you may as well get over it. it's happened and now your a slave. Thats life."
"A slave?" The boy stopped crying and looked up. No one had told him.
"Look on your arm, or your cheast, it has the slaves mark, my mark" He looked and saw the brand in the shape of a inverted S and the scar also in the shape of a S. "Yours, S stands for Shivers right."
"Yes. I'm sorry, not much I can do. It could be worse I guess, you could be someone elses slave. At least I am okay. I'm sorry about the scar, I was angry." His mind flashed back to the fight, the viniger in his eyes the pain in his cheast the fell ing of being...
"you!"
"Yes. I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it I mean, I did mean it but, it was a mis-understanding ."
"Okay, I mean I don't think that this is entirely your fault." Shivers smiled he'd fallen for the, I'm a nice person roteen.
"Now lets get out of here. Is their anything heavy?"
"is this good?" He haded her a broken beam.
"Good. Do we have light."
"Yes,"
"Turn it on." He turned it on and the bright ness hurt his eyes. Interesting thought Shivers aversion to light I could use that. She made her way to the door and smashed it with the beam, it opened, light from a broken cealing stung her eyes but she could see clearly enough, a giant hunk of metal and bodies, lots of bodies. The boys was cowering in the corner wimpering. "to much light." He moaned.

OOC: Your turn
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Dinh observed her while playing up the sensitivity.
Well, I could have been wrong...
He contemplated this, then, he stopped shamming.

and laughed.

"For an Elite, you certainly are dense." he said, his voice clear.
She turned around, and flashed him with the light again.
"What??" she demanded.
"Why work harder than you have to? The connecting walls between this room and the next are ordinary stud-and-plasterboard." He picked up a stool as he turned, and walked over to the kitchen wall.
WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! He set the stool down, and muttered something under his breath, then he made an edge-hand, and broke the now exposed wall-studs.
"If I had been thinking, and not under the influence of those drugs, I might have killed you in our little dust-up." he informed her, and added, "Now quit straining my sewing, I didn't save your life so that you could bleed to death acting the fool." he turned his back quite deliberately on her, and walked into the next room. There was a booted foot sticking out from under a Wall-locker, but he couldn't hear any breathing. He checked the size.
Hmm. my size, imagine that! He took the dead man's boots as Shivers came in, light Blaring. "Hope he wasn't a friend of yours." Dinh commented, adding, "This was probably the guy I heard while you were out, seeing as the foot's still warm...wait, you can't see that."
He pulled the boots on, and laced them up-a reprieve from the broken glass and fragments.
"What do you see?" she asked.
He shrugged, "Not as much as some, more than most- I know one guy, he was a Senior when I was in brat-boot, who said he could actually see thermals-body heat. Creepy, I think he was lying, but sometimes I almost see it too..." he felt around on the floor, something glittered through his clenched eyes (which were, as to be expected, watering badly.)
"Raybans!" He scooped them up, and put them on. "Now, you won't blind me by accident." The sunglasses weren't all that effective, but they were better than the alternative.
"Now, if you'll point that, thataway..." he pointed back through the hole.
She cleared her throat, looking at the broken 2x4 studs.
"Where did you learn to do That?" she asked.
He saw what he wanted-the bed, or more exactly, the bed frame.
"Aunt Myra, she's kinda white, like you-teaches grade two physical excercises." he said, and lifted the frame into place.
"uh-huh... you're going to say everyone back home was as good as you?" she asked skeptically.
He shook his head, "Nope, I'm a wimp. got the brain, Tommy got the body, but no brains at-all." He climbed up the bedframe, and balanced, grasping the doorknob. It turned, and he focused his leverage by looping his feet in the bedframe and pushed upward.
"You're still my slave, you know." she commented.
He shrugged, "Whatever, that just means you're legally accountable for anything I do." the door up banged open, and he lifted his head up.

The corridor was a scene out of a blood-and-guts disaster movie. patches of hateful light streamed down, lighting up areas and casting reflections. The smell of dead, and the smell of gas was strong up here.
He grabbed proof, and dropped back down. "don't light any matches." he said, "There's daylight above us-looks like you-sized holes, but I can't look out side, even with these on... and the walls are sticky."
He tossed the carbine at her, "here, you might need this. the barrel doesn't look like it's bent, but I won't vouch for the action. some jackass designed it of carbon-fibre and aluminum instead of steel and wood."
The Carbine was an Mp5k "Tactical" and Dinh was referring to it with the same tone of contempt someone else might have for a leaky garbage-can or poorly made toilet.
He heard her run through a function check.
"No good." she said. He shrugged, "figures, stamped-metal-aluminum-plastic piece of crap..." His busy hands stopped, and he smiled, "Okay, I've got a sling here for you, I go up, you climb, last five feet, I help you out of the hole." he went back up the doorway, and dropped the bedsheet-sling down.
"Are you strong enough?" she called up.
Dinh shrugged, "Maybe-you'd better hope I am-a fall will rip that mess right open again, and I appear to be the only Medic within shouting range."
The lifting-out process took a handfull of seconds-Shivers clearly had no interest in dying in here.
Dinh squinted, and endured the pain long enough to look over the hallway.
There was a man in different clothing-like the men who had him drugged.
Shivers was panting. Dinh made his way carefully to the fallen medic, and picked up the bag. It smelled of disinfectant, feces, and blood.
he came back over to the darkest part of the shadows, and opened it.
"Hmmm... paralytic, paralytic, don't know what this one is...or this one... what kind of medic doesn't carry any painkillers or stimulants? there we go..." he fished out a plastic bottle filled with a liquid.
"What's that for?" Shivers asked.
Dinh held it up, then rolled it over, with a needle in a sealed plastic baggie.
"Painkillers, if this guys blood-packs had survived, we'd be set, now, if you'll come on over, I need to check that dressing, your BP, and your Heartrate."
She was tentative, and held the light in a manner suitable for flash-then-club moves.
He checked her over clinically.
"A little fast, and you're definitely a quart or two short..." he tapped her belt-buckle, "Pull 'em down, this won't hurt a bit." he said.
She gripped him by the neck while he checked the dressing. Dinh simply ignored the proximity of female flesh, and pretended to himself she wasn't a fascist sociopath.
"Dressing's still good. pull 'em up." he said. a blast of cold air washed through, carrying the smell of charred earth and death with it.
She went to the first hole that was "Her size", and looked out. after a moment, she turned, and shook her head. "No good. too high up for me, hell, it's too high up for you."
Dinh shrugged, shouldered the bag, and followed her.
She checked again further down the hall, where the wall they were walking on dipped downward. Dinh dashed to the next patch of shadow, and waited with his eyes closed, soothing them from the abuse.
"No good, the hole's fine, but it's just more of the same." she said.
He forced his eyes open, as they reached an intersection half-flooded in daylight from above.
Something skittered in a familiar way as his foot caught a body on the floor, and he followed the sound.
"Hey!" he heard her say, as he scooped it up.
the sound a pair of Dayglasses makes when they skid is something only someone whose day-to-day life depends on them would know.
He fiddled with the strap, and took off the ray-bans.
The prescription was a little weaker than his- ten and a half arcwelding grade, but it was tolerable.
"So I didn't hallucinate them after all." he commented, adding, "You got more of us-you did think to kill Amy Cu'ong, right? she's not loose?"
Shivers looked uncertain.
"Why her, in particular?" she asked, redirecting the conversation and evaluating the new situation.
He sighed, "Because, Miss Shivers, Amy Cu'ong has an IQ that's about thirty points higher than mine, and she gets off on hurting people, hurting them in ways that are both disgusting, and fatal. She's smart enough to get away with it on lack of evidence, but she's arrogant enough that just about everyone in the district knows-knew... believe me, you don't want her prowling loose." He looked out the next hole himself. So far, she'd been telling the truth-the next opening was almost a hundered meters further west, in what looked like a room.
"What brought that on?" she asked.
Dinh shrugged, and knocked open the doors on the end of the intersection, finishing what the disaster had started.
"She wears ten and a half-it's a pretty rare prescription, and the other three people in the district that wear it were out that night with the Militia."
they walked down another upended hallway.
"Those are ten-and a halfs?" Shivers asked.
Dinh nodded, "Yeah, I wear an Eleven most of the time, twelves in summer, but these are at least mildly tolerable... here we go. nice grade down, the rubble's not too loose, and it looks like we've got flat once we get clear." He stepped out, and paused, "I don't think anyone's coming to look in on you anytime soon." he said, and gestured outward.
"But you could be wrong." she answered from behind him.
Dinh shrugged, "Yeah, I could... but I don't see any emergency vehicles, crews, search teams... nothing but a big orange blob over thataway, and I smell sulphur."

[ooc- Your Turn!]

[ooc] Aust, he got past 'em by getting there first. Unlike me or you, he used both air, and sea transport forces, along with gear that's in line with what you have space-wise (Dropships aren't that far away-the DCX programme in the real world died because NASA wanted something that lands like an airplane, not because it was technologically infeasable with 1990's tech.) He's got size, economy, every qualifier to do what he did to circumvent the blockade without going futuretech. You gotta remember, just 'cause my nation was technologically behind, doesn't make every nation I'm allied with the same-NK was a Protectorate status member of the LoD, Phyrric's a Protector. Scales are different, but they're technologically capable of existing in the same time-line. You and your allies are relying on being the baddest boys on the block, but you're still using 2 dimensional thinking, while neglecting the basic details. go back, you'll find every move I've made has led up to this, you didn't look for the NK Battlegroups when you sent the bombers after them-they're not like land bases, you don't hold ships in one spot unless they're in port, and you didn't put anyone monitoring them when you had the chance. Hence, they got behind you and set up the beachead while you planned your attack on NK. It's the same reason Dancing Moose didn't see them when he went looking-he didn't keep tabs on them until he decided to re-enter the game, thus, he was looking where your bombers were looking-and not finding, because it was in the wrong direction.
SLOA and SAND didn't bother to maintain their alliance, you posted the map, which made what it said canon, leaving a big backdoor you didn't make the effort to account for before Phyrric pointed it out-if the enemy is pointing out a weakness, then it's a good bet he's already exploited it.
I presume you have these fortresses pointed at all of your allies. Please post manning requirements, and what % of your ground forces are tasked-if they aren't, there needs to be an explanation from you of why you only put bases facing one of your "good Allies who will protect you", or you need to drop the fortress line and get real.

OOC: I don't see how you could have gotten there so soon, we're at lot closer to Aust than Phyric.

But yes we'll allow Rocky Bambino to be inactive to make it fair.

I don't think Aust needs much ground help, but should things escalate, I won't hesitate to send in troops.

OOC: Aust, why on earth if you were surrounded by allies would you have built the maginot line??? Bit of mis-trust there or just a little sumthing to slow us down? Oh and the Maginot line is defeated by doing exactly what the germans did in 1940 by just going round it!!!

IC:

The Head of the Joint Chiefs, General Siler, walked into the Oval Office.

"Mr President, we have a small problem. It appears that several other SLOA member nations have sided with the dictatorship in Aust and have sent fleets to sea to intercept our invasion force. As you know they are barely out of terrortorial waters and our still well within range of our friendly aircover. However the navy is strongly advising holding the transports back whilst sending in our SSN's and carriers to clear a path for us to travel down. They are also asking for the 8th, 9th and 11th fleets to be moved to support."

"Geez George thats virtually doubling the carrier force and more than doubling the subs. These fleets have no other commitments in the world?" asked the President.

"No Sir, we have no commitments at this present time apart from in Aust. I would advise approving this measure and also chopping more army units to the command once the appropriate transports become availiable. This is likely to become our biggest deployment ever."

"Ok General approved. What about airforce assets? I havnt heard much about those?"

"Well sir, we are preparing the B-6s and B-2s for a little party tonight around the ARP area, they should be relitevly safe there. B-6s will be knocking our radars and SAM's with HARM missiles, and also Tomahawks from the Tuscan and Ohio will be hitting some already marked from satilite recon."

"Very well General, thank you." he turned to his schedule, The Secretary of the Interior was in next. Even though there was a war on he still had to talk about increased grain production.


400 Miles away at Fort Hammond
VII Corps was loading its heavy vehicles onto train cars specially built for M1A2s and Bradleys ready for the 1000 mile journey to the coast and Port Gillen to be loaded onto the 100 transports already converging on the giant southern port city. The Helicopters of the aviation brigades were being loaded into C-5s that would take them to Gillen AFB and there be loaded onto the WASP class assualt ships. They were told that a move had been postponed whilst the navy pukes cleared a route for them, apparently the enemy had a couple of carriers that needed sinking.



The IHS Phantom, Flagship of the 3rd Fleet

Admiral Duncan walked into his Stateroon aboard the carrier. Following him were his the captains of his 8 carriers currently in the Fleet. They had all flown in by helicopters and had just finished the first briefing of the afternoon. The Captains of the Nimitz Class Carriers Courageous, Conquerer, John C Mcguinley, Isiah Washington, Striker and Guardian and the Cassandra Class Super Carriers Phantom and Cassandra were assembling with light drinks and refreshments arrayed all around. The nearly 1000 aircraft based on the carriers were being ordered to war, this was not an unexpected move, they had all set sail from Gillen earlier that week where they had seen two army divisions loading their equipment onto transports. They had also noted the presence of two supply ships solely devoted to weapons, which had only ever happened in war games against other nations.

The Admiral was engrossed in coversation with the commader of the escort ships, Vice Admiral Hallsay, who had his command on the battleship Iowa that was with the fleet along with her sister ships New Jersey and Courtney, their massive 18" guns sitting waiting to fire for the first time in anger their crews constantly drilling. The harpoon and tomahawk launchers sitting idle but loaded and the CIWS running drills with the SM-2 systems located two on either side or the massive ships. The Vice-Admiral had nearly 140 ships under his command, destroyers, frigates, cruisers, 4 Submarines and the numerous supply ships and oilers needed to keep the massive fleet going.

As one they went to the Tower and and bridge. They all looked Northwards to see the Horizon over which lay home, and then southwards to the horizon over which lay possible death.

The grey ships sailed on, while ever watchful eyes swept the sea and sky for danger, E2-Cs and land based E-3s in the air, frigates destroyers and submarines in the sea.

But infront of them, off the coast of Blue Eagle sat two other SSNs, the Tuscon and Ohio. Their vertical tubes loaded with Tomahawk missiles and their normal ones loaded with 3 Mk-48 ADCAP fish and a single Harpoon that was tracking the nearest frigate contact designated sierra one by the sonar teams aboard both. The captians communicated, rather perversly, by a satilite orbiting 35 miles above although they were barely 1000 yards from each other. They sat and waitied.

IC: President Anderson is said to be making a public announcement to all leaders in the SLOA and SAND in the very near future about the actual ruler in Aust and asks for them to remain out of this conflict which is "the war of the coalition against Aust for the crimes commited against the people of Neuvo Kowloon by the self proclaimed emperor of Aust". We will bring you more on this when we have it.

--Independent Hitmen News Network--

OOC: I built it way back, in fact when I wasn't in SLOA, I got kicked out because of it 'not enough trust' but I just kept it. It surrounds my entire country, good luck going round it. It is quite easy to get though. I'll let P get a few forces through just for the hell of it. about 1 million men run them so they are understaffed but as i said around 500,000 more are heading for that one part of th line with more on their way.

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Alex, stood holding his T-15 sniper rifle, around him where as many as 100 men and women from his village Al-Ling. Earlyer in the day reports had come in from the east that a group of Phyrric soildier who had got passed the line. But that didn't worry him. Their where around 1000 Aust Troopers persuing as well as a lot of armed civillians around. The Phyrric soildiers where advancing towards. Ast-nasta, a city to thenorth on the main road. The only well known road through the mountains. And an ambush was ready. It was about to begin. An orange flare went up from his right and the shooting began, the Austians fired Quad mounted machine guns, rifles and just about every other weapon they could lay their hands on, even bows and arrows. Their was a bang as someone fired an anceint hunting rifle.
Alex looked for a target, he saw one a Phyrric officer ordering men to return fire. He fired his Sniper Rifle taking the man out. Pritty soon the Phyrricians where mountaing a effective defence but thay had lost many. Alex fired one last shot then threw the gun over his back and jumped onto his quad. He drove off home, his activites finished today. Thats was the fith time he had ambushed that one group of soildiers today. And soon they'd be reach Arc'de Horn a small part of the road only wide enough for 5 men abreast with steep stide that you needed specilist gear to climb. Their where paths up eather side but they where dangerous and only the locals used them. At 08:00 the entire force of locals had arranged to ambush them, as well as people from Ast-nasta, their would be a hell of a lot of people, over 4,000 at least and many of those would be hidden that was just from the villages, Ast-nasta had promised to send as many people as it could spare. it had a population of 1.5 million so they expected at least 250 thousand, as the city would have a TA force of 900,000.

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shivers saw the sun begin to set and pointed to a spring nearby next to an pld elm tree, "We can make camp their, the tree will give us firewood and the spring water, as for food I brought some tinned stuff with us from the camp. About your goggles, it's coming up to summer soon and since the Elvindom war we have had even stronger summers thn usual, it's like where on the equator, will they be strong enough?"
"No," He replied, Shivers hid her half smile at the infomation.
"well it's mid spring now and summer is constant daylight, at the moment it'll change, still winter constant darkness. Well have a day to night cycle for the next few weeks." She shopped off on the elm trees branches and began to prepare a fire. What do you want, we have soup, makaroni, pizza, meatballs or beef, better the beef it won't last long." They ate and then bedded down, "I'll take first watch." Shivers told him, " I'll wake you at two. Judging from the state of the base their won't be many survivors so tomorrow I'll go and get a jeep and we can head out. If we head south we can make it to Al-tena, and then on to Al-Ling near the Line. My parents and younger brother live their, he's called Alex, you might like him. You can stay with them while I go to fight."
"Sure" he muttered sleeperly and then went to sleep next to the stream, claiming it helped him sleep.
Shivers waited for about an hour and then cheaked he was asleep using someting she had taken from the medics bag. It cheaked his brainwaves, they where normal and it estermated he'd be in REM for at least another 2 hours. Shivers went up and picked up his Dayglasses. They where lying next to his legs where she could pick them up easly. She examined them carefully and then walked a little further down the stream that flowed from the spring. It into a large river and she threw it in at the deepest part, dropping a rock upon the to make sure they stayed their and where broken and then she walked back to amp and waited out the night. Waking the boy at 2 as agreed. He didn't notice the theft though she asked wether he would need them, he told her he didn't need them thanks to his night vision.

OCC: Your turn.
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IC: The Emporer ws not a happy man, he had just had major surgery to remove that damm needle and he was upset that he hadn't killed the girl more slowly or at least made her suffer a bit. And now his new Empire which he had had for under 50 days was under threat. "Send out a message to our enermys, ask for a truse to nogotiate and for us to asses and proved rescue operation to our civillians."
"Yes sir."

The ARP oprative made his way towards the small camp, he didn't know who was their but he guessed they could tell him what the hell had gone on. He drew his gun and was within 200 meter when someone shouted out, "Stop!" He turned and saw a boy sitting their, incredibly he had seen him on a pitch black night with no equipment. Interesting, the oprative thought and he holstered his gun, then the first rays of sun began to shine over the horizion and he saw the boy a little better, he was tanned and was wearing a wight over large T-shirt with millatary jeans, the boy turned and looked for something, then he cried out, "My dayglasses their gone!" He turned and held his hand up to sheild his eyes from the sun, that although weak seemed to blind him. A woman woke with the cry, and looked around, she asked the boy about where his Dayglasses where and then saw the man. She went up to him then, with her skills as a ASS trooper killed him with one blow, she dragged his corpse and threw it into the remains of the base. She also found a jeep, over turned but she guessed that her and the boys strength could turn it over, even her strengh was enough, it had a key in the egnistion so she prepared to leave.

OOC: Now it really is your turn.

The ARP oprative made his way towards the small camp, he didn't know who was their but he guessed they could tell him what the hell had gone on. He drew his gun and was within 200 meter when someone shouted out, "Stop!" He turned and saw a boy sitting their, incredibly he had seen him on a pitch black night with no equipment. Interesting, the oprative thought and he holstered his gun, then the first rays of sun began to shine over the horizion and he saw the boy a little better, he was tanned and was wearing a wight over large T-shirt with millatary jeans, the boy turned and looked for something, then he cried out, "My dayglasses their gone!" He turned and held his hand up to sheild his eyes from the sun, that although weak seemed to blind him. A woman woke with the cry, and looked around, she asked the boy about where his Dayglasses where and then saw the man. She went up to him then, with her skills as a ASS trooper killed him with one blow, she dragged his corpse and threw it into the remains of the base. She also found a jeep, over turned but she guessed that her and the boys strength could turn it over, even her strengh was enough, it had a key in the egnistion so she prepared to leave.

OOC: Now it really is your turn.

The ARP oprative made his way towards the small camp, he didn't know who was their but he guessed they could tell him what the hell had gone on. He drew his gun and was within 200 meter when someone shouted out, "Stop!" He turned and saw a boy sitting their, incredibly he had seen him on a pitch black night with no equipment. Interesting, the oprative thought and he holstered his gun, then the first rays of sun began to shine over the horizion and he saw the boy a little better, he was tanned and was wearing a wight over large T-shirt with millatary jeans, the boy turned and looked for something, then he cried out, "My dayglasses their gone!" He turned and held his hand up to sheild his eyes from the sun, that although weak seemed to blind him. A woman woke with the cry, and looked around, she asked the boy about where his Dayglasses where and then saw the man. She went up to him then, with her skills as a ASS trooper killed him with one blow, she dragged his corpse and threw it into the remains of the base. She also found a jeep, over turned but she guessed that her and the boys strength could turn it over, even her strengh was enough, it had a key in the egnistion so she prepared to leave.

OOC: Now it really is your turn.

[No offense Aust, but you need to learn to write in paragraph form. It's incredibly hard to read that without any breaks and makes it even harder to remember details that are important.]

Two assault fleets plus an eight-ship squadron of the new dreadnaughts, a combination of the old navy and the new, steamed at 37 knots in their effort to catch up to the Phyrric ships. It would eventually happen, probably about the time that both fleets were near the equator, and when it did their combined might would be unstoppable.

As the Phyrric rebels found out, Scandavian fleets were tough nuts to even chip, but the addition of just eight ships almost doubled their close-in firepower with normal weapons. What was different now would double again the fleet's total firepower, any gun over eight inches was using new hypersonic rounds and the entire fleet was outfitted with the new supercav torpedoes. It would be a slaughter, but not the first the Imperial Navy had issued a butcher's bill for, nor would it be the last.

[Phyrric, I'm going to let you RP the meetup, there's no point in me RPing further until that happens.]

The ARP oprative made his way towards the small camp, he didn't know who was their but he guessed they could tell him what the hell had gone on. He drew his gun and was within 200 meter when someone shouted out, "Stop!" He turned and saw a boy sitting their, incredibly he had seen him on a pitch black night with no equipment. Interesting, the oprative thought and he holstered his gun, then the first rays of sun began to shine over the horizion and he saw the boy a little better, he was tanned and was wearing a wight over large T-shirt with millatary jeans, the boy turned and looked for something, then he cried out, "My dayglasses their gone!" He turned and held his hand up to sheild his eyes from the sun, that although weak seemed to blind him. A woman woke with the cry, and looked around, she asked the boy about where his Dayglasses where and then saw the man. She went up to him then, with her skills as a ASS trooper killed him with one blow, she dragged his corpse and threw it into the remains of the base. She also found a jeep, over turned but she guessed that her and the boys strength could turn it over, even her strengh was enough, it had a key in the egnistion so she prepared to leave.

OOC: Now it really is your turn.

Dinh couldn't see. He'd expected it-the first he'd done after Shivers lay down, was look for the glasses and they weren't there. She left a trail a blind man could follow, though. clumsy... right to the edge of the stream.
But the glasses were wrecked.
Do I wake her up? no... let her have her games for now. Her error will soon be apparent.
The lurker in the darkness wasn't getting closer. Dinh toyed with the idea of alerting Shivers-but thought better of it when he returned to the camp.
The darkened glass shards included a pair of chunks big enough to use, and he would need time and a sewing kit to mount them-time he knew he didn't have.
The fact that she killed someone without even trying to find out who they were told him volumes about her character as a person, and about her actual, as opposed to book-level, intelligence.
stupid. stupid and clumsy, like Tommy, only with tits. This is Karma, it has to be, I left Tommy to them, so now I get Tommy a little older and female to take care of...
So, he couldn't see for the time being.
He bumped into the jeep, and felt a spreading bruise.
"Can you lift it?" she asked.
He shook his head, "Over a thousand pounds, by the feel of it-I need a lever, and something to work as a fulcrum-and I need to See what I'm doing, whether it's jammed by anything that would prevent it being turned over. this place have a welding shop?"
She answered him, "No."
He shrugged, "Sorry, can't overcome physics this time, no mechanical leverage, and I can't see to do the job."
She slapped him. He remained calm. "Whipping the animal does no good when the plow's jammed or the legs are lamed." he said, "either way, you have to think and observe. fact: the Jeep weighs more than I can lift-period, you've given me no tools to lift it with, and I can't see to use any tools that might turn it over, because someone with size-eight feet decided to play dominance games instead of just accepting that I wasn't going to abandon them or attack them." He leaned against the Jeep's steel body, "You rip those stitches open, you're going to need to sew them up yourself-I can't do it this time for you, and the work is delicate. Why else do you think i was so paranoid about your condition in the first place?"
She was silent, but he he could hear her breathing, and knew he was making her angry.
Angry enough to think instead of just reacting, or angry enough to do something even more catastrophically stupid? he wondered.
"Okay, you wait here, I will find the tools to right the vehicle." she said.
He nodded, "Where, pray tell, would I be going? I count Zero directions I could take that would land me anywhere better than with you, at least, at the moment. You did remember to search the man's body? He might have friends, and they're certainly not going to be all that amenable to you for killing him-they might even be a touch resentful, since you didn't bother to find out what he was doing here, or who he was beforehand, you also didnt' bother to find out if there were or are more."
she stalked off, muttering, while he sat there, in the shade of the overturned vehicle.
I wonder if she took a hit to the head, and I just didn't see it?

[ooc-yours.]

OOC: I just want to bring the previous pages together to make sure that i have everything correct.

Ok, there are 3 carrier battlegroups from SLOA nations going to where phyrric has landed forces in the now defunct nation of Rocky Bambino. Phyrric is sending reinforcements and a scandanavian fleet is joining up with them.
I have two special forces teams with the ARP at blood pass, and a massive fleet sailing down escorting transports to join phyrrics ground forces in attacking Aust.
Aust has a large defensive line around the nation through which several Phyrric troops have penetrated but not a major breakthrough. Aust has also called up reservists and civilians.
Are these going to be loyal to the "Emperor" or will there be mass desertions to the ARP Desert Storm style? Im assuming morale will be high as they are defending their homes, weapons are light and armour virtually non-existent. Im also assuming you have no heavy formations because you are landlocked and use transport aircraft to ferry troops around.

Please correct me if any of this is wrong, im just making sure ive understood rightly so i can properly a landing. (Is there an OOC thread for this?)

OOC: I just want to bring the previous pages together to make sure that i have everything correct.

Ok, there are 3 carrier battlegroups from SLOA nations going to where phyrric has landed forces in the now defunct nation of Rocky Bambino. Phyrric is sending reinforcements and a scandanavian fleet is joining up with them.
I have two special forces teams with the ARP at blood pass, and a massive fleet sailing down escorting transports to join phyrrics ground forces in attacking Aust.
Aust has a large defensive line around the nation through which several Phyrric troops have penetrated but not a major breakthrough. Aust has also called up reservists and civilians.
Are these going to be loyal to the "Emperor" or will there be mass desertions to the ARP Desert Storm style? Im assuming morale will be high as they are defending their homes, weapons are light and armour virtually non-existent. Im also assuming you have no heavy formations because you are landlocked and use transport aircraft to ferry troops around.

Please correct me if any of this is wrong, im just making sure ive understood rightly so i can properly RP a landing. (Is there an OOC thread for this?)

OOC: I just want to bring the previous pages together to make sure that i have everything correct.

Ok, there are 3 carrier battlegroups from SLOA nations going to where phyrric has landed forces in the now defunct nation of Rocky Bambino. Phyrric is sending reinforcements and a scandanavian fleet is joining up with them.
I have two special forces teams with the ARP at blood pass, and a massive fleet sailing down escorting transports to join phyrrics ground forces in attacking Aust.
Aust has a large defensive line around the nation through which several Phyrric troops have penetrated but not a major breakthrough. Aust has also called up reservists and civilians.
Are these going to be loyal to the "Emperor" or will there be mass desertions to the ARP Desert Storm style? Im assuming morale will be high as they are defending their homes, weapons are light and armour virtually non-existent. Im also assuming you have no heavy formations because you are landlocked and use transport aircraft to ferry troops around.

Please correct me if any of this is wrong, im just making sure ive understood rightly so i can properly RP a landing. (Is there an OOC thread for this?)

No, we don't have an OOC thread-although, given the size of the RP, we really should have one.

Your Recap was right on the money with the following exceptions:
The NK battlegroups are actually closer to the former Rocky Bambino territory than the SLOA forces-we've already established a beachead and supply line for the Phyrric troops, and had ample time to do so even with the old time-table. This new one leaves the SLOA and SAND allies on an "Inside/Outside" situation, since (if you look at the map) I've got the inlet between those two ice-sheets sewn up-it's a good defensive position for outnumbered warships with Marines and air support (which I still have-in spite of the loss of a single squadron at the start of the RP-about five to six game-weeks ago.) Nobody was looking that way until late. It's mine-for the moment. Since my forces haven't fired a shot since NK was destroyed (other than the Hammer, whose orders were relayed through a frigate outside the perimeter-the one that if DM hadn't tried to Map-Wank midgame he would've had dead to rights about six hours after the signal had been uplinked) nobody's paying attention-again. Timeline now says your ships and the Phyrric fleet should be arriving almost stacked-on-top as far as durations go, DM's ground forces and Wazican's ground forces should be attacking my position about ten to twelve hours after that, though Air Force craft could reach it in minutes, they're dealing with the combined air-defenses of fifty ships whose fire-controls are linked together with encrypted signals that nobody, so far, has considered important enough to try to break. (starting now, it will take minimum of a week of dedicated computer time to crack in, 2GB encryption in a frequency-hopping system that uses a simulated one-use-code structure. our hulls might not be Doujin's, but we have a pretty decent Signals corps, and where we didn't spend on advanced body armour and advanced Assault rifles, we spent on InfoSec and OpSec.)

Expect Raw-Power tactics with no finesse from the SLOA and SAND forces-some of these countries are posting armies over 10% population, armed with modern hardware and post-modern hardware-big gun mentality and no subtlety at all.

(Oh, and in case I'm wrong? We ARE watching for movement on our Landward flanks, guys. and don't expect to use the bridges-they're not there.)

No, we don't have an OOC thread-although, given the size of the RP, we really should have one.

Your Recap was right on the money with the following exceptions:
The NK battlegroups are actually closer to the former Rocky Bambino territory than the SLOA forces-we've already established a beachead and supply line for the Phyrric troops, and had ample time to do so even with the old time-table. This new one leaves the SLOA and SAND allies on an "Inside/Outside" situation, since (if you look at the map) I've got the inlet between those two ice-sheets sewn up-it's a good defensive position for outnumbered warships with Marines and air support (which I still have-in spite of the loss of a single squadron at the start of the RP-about five to six game-weeks ago.) Nobody was looking that way until late. It's mine-for the moment. Since my forces haven't fired a shot since NK was destroyed (other than the Hammer, whose orders were relayed through a frigate outside the perimeter-the one that if DM hadn't tried to Map-Wank midgame he would've had dead to rights about six hours after the signal had been uplinked) nobody's paying attention-again. Timeline now says your ships and the Phyrric fleet should be arriving almost stacked-on-top as far as durations go, DM's ground forces and Wazican's ground forces should be attacking my position about ten to twelve hours after that, though Air Force craft could reach it in minutes, they're dealing with the combined air-defenses of fifty ships whose fire-controls are linked together with encrypted signals that nobody, so far, has considered important enough to try to break. (starting now, it will take minimum of a week of dedicated computer time to crack in, 2GB encryption in a frequency-hopping system that uses a simulated one-use-code structure. our hulls might not be Doujin's, but we have a pretty decent Signals corps, and where we didn't spend on advanced body armour and advanced Assault rifles, we spent on InfoSec and OpSec.)

Expect Raw-Power tactics with no finesse from the SLOA and SAND forces-some of these countries are posting armies over 10% population, armed with modern hardware and post-modern hardware-big gun mentality and no subtlety at all.

(Oh, and in case I'm wrong? We ARE watching for movement on our Landward flanks, guys. and don't expect to use the bridges-they're not there.)

OOC: NK, I would like to see where you RPed your ships entering the ex-nation of Rocky Bambino's territorial waters? Or is that supposed to be some kind of secret thing? Anyway, I have 4 battlegroups in that area and I am sending them to engage Phyrric forces on the coastline, given that I had know idea they had already arrived (thanks to NK). I am sending a small fast attack group to sow mines in a 200 square mile radius around Rocky Bambino's waters, to slow down incoming enemy ships. Also, NK, my battlegroups have been in Rocky's waters for like 2 days now (RL). Theres no way they could have gotten there before me, unless it happened in another thread.

OOC: NK, I would like to see where you RPed your ships entering the ex-nation of Rocky Bambino's territorial waters? Or is that supposed to be some kind of secret thing? Anyway, I have 4 battlegroups in that area and I am sending them to engage Phyrric forces on the coastline, given that I had know idea they had already arrived (thanks to NK). I am sending a small fast attack group to sow mines in a 200 square mile radius around Rocky Bambino's waters, to slow down incoming enemy ships. Also, NK, my battlegroups have been in Rocky's waters for like 2 days now (RL). Theres no way they could have gotten there before me, unless it happened in another thread.

Explain how the minesweepers are going to sucessfully do this as I control the areas of RB at this time? Think I would let your ships perform such a task without being blasted by the air force?

Maginot line eh? This should be a turkey shoot.

"Forces have been stahled a few hours while penetrating into Aust sir."

"Why?" with a look of disgust on his face.

"The Nation of Aust had an old French tactic of the Maginot Line on his borders all the way around his country sir."

"Well, what a waste of resources and manpower that was. This area must not be that stable if his allies totlerated such a force. You did take care of it didn't you?"

'Yes sir, that is what the delay was. We had to perform 'death from above' to take out many turrets and nests, but it should have been a slaughter."

"Very well, proceed further. This 'Line' does not need to be addressed any further. One great thing about fortresses, they cannot move" chuckling "Once we got our hole in the line, there is no need to attack them any further unless some bombers want to calibrate their targeting systems, then let them do so."

OOC: Maginot Line was not equipped to handle air attacks, it was a two dimentional planning and extremely vulnerable from above and behind.

OOC: Ok, lets back up.. you seem to underestimate alot. First, if you wanna RP some kind of engagment between our ships then thats fine.. I just didnt know you had ships there. Also, you wouldnt just 'blast me' with planes, I have CAP in the air you know....

Also, Aust might have some planes protecting that line.. you cant just suppose there isnt. Your RPing there seems to be getting real close to posting some of his losses on the line, also, so be careful.

If you chose to not RP an engagment, then I will.. after I lay my mines :P

OOC: Ok, lets back up.. you seem to underestimate alot. First, if you wanna RP some kind of engagment between our ships then thats fine.. I just didnt know you had ships there. Also, you wouldnt just 'blast me' with planes, I have CAP in the air you know....

Also, Aust might have some planes protecting that line.. you cant just suppose there isnt. Your RPing there seems to be getting real close to posting some of his losses on the line, also, so be careful.

If you chose to not RP an engagment, then I will.. after I lay my mines :P

Mines=ignored

"The navy should arrive by morning sir, along with additional reinforcements and supplies."

"Outstanding. It appears we are going to have to T-bone Dancing Moose."

"T-bone sir?"

"Yes, it means we spear straight into their nation just as the bone would and let the civilians suffer what they must."

"When are we going to do this sir, our forces are groing, but they are not that large yet."

"In time, we must await the assistance of allies first, this should all come to a close soon."
****
In the Indian Ocean:

"Signal the Scandavian Fleet, inform them to come abreast of our fleet, the carriers up front with submarine and ASW cover. When we get within 300 NM of Antarctica, proceed with full launch and kill everything that is afloat. We know there are no friendlies in the water, everything is a target."

"Sending signals sir"

"Sir, we're recieving a signal from the Phyrric fleets. We have coordinates and orders to come abreast." The Fenrir's captain informed Rong.

The Admiral nodded and replied, "Do it then. Order our cruisers and destroyers to form a perimeter around the carriers and to keep to the center of the formation, battleships and destroyers at the vanguard, frigates guarding our flanks and rear, and let those damn squids do whatever the hell they want so long as nothing gets through to our flat tops."

"Aye aye, sir." The captain acknowledged.

By the time the Scandavian task force formed up with the Phyrric one, the formation was set up and the ships ready to rock.

[I'm going to keep my posts sparse until the combat comes around.]

OOC: Ok, I was making a RP about a naval engagement, but you leave me with little choice. I didnt expect you to try and plough right through other Antarctic nations to get to me, so, I am chosing to do the inevitable. Our regional defense technology, MADAE (used to shoot down ICBM's incoming our region), is now being laser targeted on your unloading transport ships, much less, your troops. It fires ultra-high velocity fission nukes, so this will be overkill.. but like I said.. I have no choice. I will RP this in a bit, but for more info on it check out this thread made by its creator: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104939&highlight=

[Do that and get ignored. How about you actually RP trying to take out the reinforcing fleets and then jumping the back of the ships already there? I swear, I will bring down the wrath of God on the first person who uses nukes.

BTW, if you use nukes, you kill all of Antarctica and if you don't know why you shouldn't have nukes.]

[Do that and get ignored. How about you actually RP trying to take out the reinforcing fleets and then jumping the back of the ships already there? I swear, I will bring down the wrath of God on the first person who uses nukes.

BTW, if you use nukes, you kill all of Antarctica and if you don't know why you shouldn't have nukes.]

Then I suggest all other Antarctic nations ignore the attackers. I mean, that would be the second thing thats been ignored by you guys and its perfectly feasable. I was making a RP, but like I said, Phyrric jumped the gun and is going to 'T-bone' me whatever the hell that means, so I have no choice. This could have been fun but it seems he thinks nothing can or will stop him so... not my problem.

OOC: Also, you can try to defeat us on our own soil but that, well, just wont work out very well for you. Please explain how this would ruin Antarctica also.

[Do that and get ignored. How about you actually RP trying to take out the reinforcing fleets and then jumping the back of the ships already there? I swear, I will bring down the wrath of God on the first person who uses nukes.

BTW, if you use nukes, you kill all of Antarctica and if you don't know why you shouldn't have nukes.]

As the secoundary creator of MADAE i suggest you understand that these are clean 1-4 KT nuclear warheads, meant for clearing airspace. There is NO radaition. 1-4kt is les than the ammounts we dropped on Nagasakii, let me again stress, CLEAN NUCLEAR WEAPONRY, no fallout

Yes, this is post-modren tech, USA, France UK, and Russia all have very clsoe to working productions of these clean nuclear weapons, its only a matter of time, the Rail deleveory system they use was developed in the 70's theres nothign future tech about this

A lone APAR-equiped UAV flies at 60,000 feet over the DM battlegroups, after being launched by a submarine from a 600Km away.

The UAV confirms intial satellite scans about the presence of fleets, and sends the data back to Taiwan. The submarines are then alerted, and relevant information shared the encrypted network.

OOC:
I have CAP in the air you know....


I am sending a small fast attack group to sow mines in a 200 square mile radius around Rocky Bambino's waters, to slow down incoming enemy ships.

Generally, fast attack groups don't have CAP.

OOC: Yeah, sorry about that... I got the impression he was going to send planes to my fleet.. I wasent thinking clearly at the time.. my bad. However, since I got ignored for laying mines.. my attack group wont be going out to lay them.

[I don't care if they're clean or not, and I don't care what tech level they're at. The use of nuclear weapons first off is poor RP and grounds for being IGNORED. For the record, I don't think Phyrric has a legit reason for ignoring the mines but he's also saving you a lot of trouble. And something you all don't seem to get, we don't owe you a fair RP, just a decent one. If you get your ass kicked for picking on someone a lot bigger than you, that's your own problem.

The use of nuclear weapons, even ones that small, will destroy an already weakened ozone over the Antarctic and raise water levels locally by quite a bit. In effect, you'd be forcing the entire region to commit suicide. As a matter of fact, the long-term side effects of such a use would kill the entire world, and there's nothing that'll get you IGNORED faster than that.]

"Alright, what are we looking at here?" States Admiral Benett commander of the Wazican Imperial Navy.

"Well sir, apparently Phyrric, and Nuevo Kowloon have captured the waters outside of the former nation of Rocky Bambino and now control the Rocky Bambino Bay (OOC:made it up, if you look on the map it is the only area of Rocky Bambino that somewhat touches water), and Phyrric has started landing masses of troops which are marching twords Aust." replys unkown Tactical Recon Aid

"Well we are going to have to fix that are'nt we?"

"Yes sir"

"Alright redeploy the 1st fleet from Dancing Moose to roughly 500 miles from the NK naval forces, then deploy the 2nd fleet to the same position. Also direct some 20 of the 40 SAND CBG's to positions cutting off the bay. Were going to choke the sons of bitches out."

.::Imperial Palace Command Bunker::.

"This is'nt looking good on the southern border of Aust." States George Brown Commander and Chief of the Wazican Imperial Army.

"Indeed sir, they are facing massive air attacks that are crippling their defense line."

"Yes redeploy the Anti Aircraft divisions that we sent 3 days ago (RL yesterday) to aid in the air defense. And ready the 6th and other Legions for a counter-attack."

"Yes sir consider it done!"

OOC: Ok Phyrric, and Nuevo Kowloon could you please post the forces in that region.

[I don't care if they're clean or not, and I don't care what tech level they're at. The use of nuclear weapons first off is poor RP and grounds for being IGNORED. For the record, I don't think Phyrric has a legit reason for ignoring the mines but he's also saving you a lot of trouble. And something you all don't seem to get, we don't owe you a fair RP, just a decent one. If you get your ass kicked for picking on someone a lot bigger than you, that's your own problem.]

A) I agree no nukes.
B) Dancing Moose, Shinoxia and myself are not "picking" on anybody we are just defending our homelands. Its not our problem that Aust destroyed somebodies country.

Oh and another thing I hope Aust is'nt stupid enough to build such a massive defense line without any anti-aircraft technologies. Remember it is based on the magiot line not an exact replica. And if this is true please send me a link to where he posted saying that he has absolutly no anti-aircraft weapons or aircraft on patrol.

OOC:

The mines were ignored for a simple reason: How does one lay mines in occupied areas? Who would be stupid enough to send minesweepers to a shore area that is in easy reach of fighter aircraft in the first place? If this is the type of military strategy I am dealing with, this is going to be an easy kill, as minesweepers do not have defensive capabilities, they operate in secured, friendly waters ONLY.

You do not want to open the Nuke can, this would end this RP real quick, and I assure you, you would lose. I am what? larger than 5-6 of SLOA nations combined as I notice most are under 500 million.

I declared war on Aust, not anyone else and have crossed no borders other than Aust. You want a piece of me, so be it.

[I don't care if they're clean or not, and I don't care what tech level they're at. The use of nuclear weapons first off is poor RP and grounds for being IGNORED. For the record, I don't think Phyrric has a legit reason for ignoring the mines but he's also saving you a lot of trouble. And something you all don't seem to get, we don't owe you a fair RP, just a decent one. If you get your ass kicked for picking on someone a lot bigger than you, that's your own problem.

OOC: Once again, I really have no choice. If he decides to try to attack my nation directly, with complete disregard for my navy, then I will use it. Why dont you do a little history, I never picked on any nation. I am merely defending my region and allies. I was trying to make a good RP by doing this, but then my nation was directly threatened. Sorry if your feeling 'picked on' by a smaller nation, truly I am.

The use of nuclear weapons, even ones that small, will destroy an already weakened ozone over the Antarctic and raise water levels locally by quite a bit. In effect, you'd be forcing the entire region to commit suicide. As a matter of fact, the long-term side effects of such a use would kill the entire world, and there's nothing that'll get you IGNORED faster than that.

Not necessarily, given that size of the NS world compared to the real one, one or two explosions at ground zero with no radiation would not do much to the atmosphere.

B) Dancing Moose, Shinoxia and myself are not "picking" on anybody we are just defending our homelands. Its not our problem that Aust destroyed somebodies country.

[We aren't planning on invading the rest of the region, just Aust. By defending him, you are picking a fight you can't win.

Phyrric: Just let them do it, they'll learn quickly enough. You don't want to impress any bad RP habits into them, even if what you're doing is for their own good.

DM: Fine, go ahead, but my fleets are going to turn your nation into a radioactive slushy one they get there. And it isn't radiation that kills the ozone, it's the heat and gasses released from the detonation.]

OOC:
The mines were ignored for a simple reason: How does one lay mines in occupied areas? Who would be stupid enough to send minesweepers to a shore area that is in easy reach of fighter aircraft in the first place? If this is the type of military strategy I am dealing with, this is going to be an easy kill, as minesweepers do not have defensive capabilities, they operate in secured, friendly waters ONLY.

Well, all I can say is if enemy planes were picked up on radar then the ships would be out of there, as they are a fast assualt group. They are defended by other ships, and I probably would use destroyers to lay mines instead of actual minesweepers.

You do not want to open the Nuke can, this would end this RP real quick, and I assure you, you would lose. I am what? larger than 5-6 of SLOA nations combined as I notice most are under 500 million.

I could care less how big you are, and you only think you can win because you are underestimating our MADAE system, which we invested almost a trillion dollars on.

I declared war on Aust, not anyone else and have crossed no borders other than Aust. You want a piece of me, so be it.

Yeah well, you invaded our region, and as bound by treaty, we are defending it.

[You don't get it, do you Dancing Moose? If you use this MADAE system of yours, you either get slagged or are IGNORED. It seems obvious to me that you realize you can't win this war conventionally (and if you think we're going to stay conventional once you pop a nuke, you're nuts), why are you honoring this obligation?]

Well, all I can say is if enemy planes were picked up on radar then the ships would be out of there, as they are a fast assualt group. They are defended by other ships, and I probably would use destroyers to lay mines instead of actual minesweepers.


Ships aren't that fast. An aircraft armed with Harpoons could attack from 150 miles (240km) away.

OOC: If it's not based on the Magnot line, then why did Aust call it the Magnot line?

OOC: I will withdraw MADAE, as I now realize that an invasion by Phyrric on my nation directly would be virtually impossible.

Scandavian States, the only reason I activated it was in fear of a potential land invasion by him, but lol I dont think hes looked at the map.

Now lets get on with this. NK, can you make an OOC thread for this please?

You do not want to open the Nuke can, this would end this RP real quick, and I assure you, you would lose. I am what? larger than 5-6 of SLOA nations combined as I notice most are under 500 million.

I could care less how big you are, and you only think you can win because you are underestimating our MADAE system, which we invested almost a trillion dollars on.

Ask any woman, size does matter, lmao (ok ok, end of OOc comments)

Well, all I can say is if enemy planes were picked up on radar then the ships would be out of there, as they are a fast assualt group. They are defended by other ships, and I probably would use destroyers to lay mines instead of actual minesweepers.


Ships aren't that fast. An aircraft armed with Harpoons could attack from 150 miles (240km) away.

OOC: If it's not based on the Magnot line, then why did Aust call it the Magnot line?

Yes, but you have to consider a number of other perspectives. Pending upon which attack group I sent would determine the speed of that group, but I didnt. They would have a pretty good reaction time taking into consideration the group is mainly destroyers and PT boats, and that they are guided by a satellite system, giving them a virtual unlimited 'radar' range.

You do not want to open the Nuke can, this would end this RP real quick, and I assure you, you would lose. I am what? larger than 5-6 of SLOA nations combined as I notice most are under 500 million.

I could care less how big you are, and you only think you can win because you are underestimating our MADAE system, which we invested almost a trillion dollars on.

Ask any woman, size does matter, lmao (ok ok, end of OOc comments)

OOC: Phyrric, there are nations in our region just as big as you.

OOC: This is the last OOC comment for me, also, Phyrric, I dont think hes on... you could make it... but anyhow im done on NS for the night, ill catch this tomorrow.

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3015601#3015601

That's the OOC thread, let's move our arguments, geographical/political/scientific arguments over there, so that this one doesn't bloat anymore than it already has??

[I don't care if they're clean or not, and I don't care what tech level they're at. The use of nuclear weapons first off is poor RP and grounds for being IGNORED. For the record, I don't think Phyrric has a legit reason for ignoring the mines but he's also saving you a lot of trouble. And something you all don't seem to get, we don't owe you a fair RP, just a decent one. If you get your ass kicked for picking on someone a lot bigger than you, that's your own problem.

The use of nuclear weapons, even ones that small, will destroy an already weakened ozone over the Antarctic and raise water levels locally by quite a bit. In effect, you'd be forcing the entire region to commit suicide. As a matter of fact, the long-term side effects of such a use would kill the entire world, and there's nothing that'll get you IGNORED faster than that.]

honestly buddy i could care less what you do, because im not involved in this RP in anyway aside from the fact that its Directorate techonolgy being used. DM is NOT using these nuclear weapons for thier intended target, which is air defense, because read that thread. also, i DO believe its the radiation that harms the ozone and not the use of the nukes, but oh well, do as you will.

OOC: Last OOC post, nice OOC thread.

Shivers went below, leaving the boy in the sun, if he was blind it could be an advantage but she'd have to watch her back. She found what she was lookeding for, a leaver. It was metal and also their was a jack. That was good. She had another look round, and located the familly rooms, in their their where clothes for people the boys age as well as food and sunglasses, maybe they'd help. She didn't know but she could try. She found a rucksack at the far side and put the food in it along with some cantines of water. Their was a magnafying glass as well so she took that to save her matches. What else did she need, she had food and cloathes. Blankets, it could get cold soon and nights in Aust where bitter. She took too and made her way to the jeep. She dumped the load next to the boy and went back for some more. Another rucksack to put more food in, and sunglasses. They might help his eyesight. She was starting to regret loseing his Dayglasses. She made it back to the jeep, finding some peterol onway. She'd comeback for it.
"Right kid. I've got everything, a leaver food and clothes survival equipment. Whild I get the jeep over you, go get some water. I guess you can find a spring, it makes a sound. I'll point you in the right direction, keep going in a straight line until you hear or feel it, then fill these canteens." She thrust them at him. "Then come back." He went off and she turned away, using the leavr to move the jeep. Luckally it was on tilting land and it went over easyly, the keys where still in ignition, and the driver, now decised was in the seat. She flung his corpse out and looked at the petrol meter, full. That was good, a jeep like this with a pital mounted machine gun could go for over 400 miles without refueling. She need to go and get the perol. "Oh, kid, Phin or whatever your name is, are you done yet."
"Yes!" He yelled back.
"Good, come back then." He set off going the wrong way, towards one of the holes. "S**t!" shivers swore as he fell, screaming down one of the holes.
She ran, full speed, towards the hole, swearing as she went. She reached it, the boy was lying their, face down, his arm was cut open on some glass, and his leg was at an angle that proberly wasn't where itshould be, then again, his other arm was in the wrong position too. "Hold on!" she yelled. The kid just groaned.
Shivers ran back to the jeep, their was edical equipment thier, the boy might need a crutch as well. She vaulted into the jeep and pciked up it's medical kit as well as the one the boy had found. Carrying both she ran back towards the hole.
Now she had to get into it.
The drop was 6 or 7 meters, much too far for hur to jup, even if their wasn't glass on the floor. She found andothr hole, a few meters away and found a foothold. She climbed down throwing the medical kits down first, hopeing they didn't break. This tunnels drop was only about 2 meters, and she made it easyly not ripping her stiches. She went down a sloping tunnel till she found the boy, their was a lot of glass around and she knew that she shouldn't move him, but she wouldn't be able to examine him in this light. She thanked god that she was a trained medic. She pulled him and he screamed. Too much glass. She had too clear a path, and she did, the boy was loosesing blood fast, so she wrapped a bandage around his left arm, hopeing that it would hold and pulled the 10 inch long shard of glass out, he screamed like hell, but she had heard screams on the battlefeild and took no notice.
The bleeding was slower now and she hoped it would stay slow. She pulled the boy into the open air, he opened his eyes for a second and then closed them again as the light hit them. He was unconcius. She decided to roll him over, she did. His front had a lot of glass in it, but those where small paices, and she could remove them later. She cheaked him over, a dislocated shoulder and a brken leg, not to mention the massive gash on his arm. She gave him some morphine to keep him quiet while she cleaned him up, taking off this bloodstained and ripped clothes to wipe the blood off and take out te glass. Their was a lot of glass and it would hurt like hell, thank god he was unconcius. He would be okay, she had seen worse. Her boyfreind had once had his arm ripped off by a tiger, now that bhad hurt.
She put hos arm in a sling, but as for his leg, it was two clean breaks, she should put a cast on it but she had no plaster, she just bandaged him up. He now looked like a mummy, his cheast bandaged where he had broken a rib and his sling and his leg and all. Not to metion the countless sticking plasters she had put over the cuts. His cut on his hand had stopped bleeding and she put some anti-septic on it to stop it becoming septic, she did that to all his other cuts. At least he wouldn't die of gangreen.
She now had to get him to the jeep, it was 200 meters away and it would take time to get him their. The sun was coming on it's downward decent, it must be around 6, he hoped he'd wake in the night. She carryed him by firemans lift too the jeep and the covered him with blankets, and put some clothes on him leaving his old one to turn to dust. Then she slept they could st off tomorrow. She hadn't had anything too eat since lunch, nether had he but it was just too tireing, mabey he would wake in the night. She slept.

OOC: Your turn

President Anderson has called for a stand down of all pro-Aust forces. He has asked that the leaders of Wazican, Shinoxia and Dancing Moose recall their current military forces that are aiding the current “regime” in Aust.
This call comes when the 3rd Fleet is only 3 days sailing away from coming into range of Antarctica. Last night bombers from Nieto Air Force Base began taking off for unknown locations, it is understood that they are rebasing further to the South Coast of the USIH to be within supporting distance of ground forces when they are landed.

--Independent Hitmen News Network—


Onboard the IHS Phantom
In the Admirals stateroom his morning briefing was being given by his G-3 officer, a Navy Commander in this case.

“Admiral, we are beginning increased air operations as per your orders. There will be nearly 100 aircraft up defending the carriers, armed for Air-Air combat. We still have E-3 Sentry and P-3 support from the mainland, we are due to lose that tonight when we put our own E-2Cs up all the time and have submarines and outer pickets take up the ASW. Fleet Intelligence now believes that we are facing 4 carriers on our approach run, latest satellite passes show that we may have as many as 20 other CBG’s moving towards the proposed landing grounds, although that is unconfirmed speculation”

“But still speculation that they wanted us to see!” interrupted the Admiral “Carry on”

“Yes Sir, we also have the Wilson and Walker joining us at 1800hours today to increase our carrier strength. Their escorts however are moving to support the 9th fleet guarding the transports, they are 36 hours behind us and maintaining that gap. As of 0650 we have no new orders, we are to continue to Phase Line Bravo and protect the fleet at all costs. We will have our bombers flying over us this evening for the delayed strike against targets in Aust, we will give them fighter cover as preplanned and also support tanking operations on their return.
In other news it looks like most of the navy will be commited to this one, they have been gathering back at Gillen and other bases. Fleet HQ has said to top level officers that they will be proceeding with a second wave of ground forces if required.
Admiral Benson has not yet decided that Plan B is to be implemented and the President has said he will not use thermonuclear weapons unless the enemy first uses theirs. However our ICBM’s have been put into a higher than normal state of alert. And that Admiral is the way it is today”

“Thank you Tim. I will be at the bridge in 10 minutes.”

“Aye Aye Sir.” He said as he backed out of the cabin. As he left a messenger nearly knocked him over as he headed towards the Admirals cabin.

“I have an urgent message for the Admiral” he panted to the Marine guard outside “Its direct from SACLANT” on hearing this the Marine opened the door at once after a quick knock. The messenger hurried in.

“Admiral Sir I have a message from SACLANT. It has a FLASH priority on it Sir.” He said as he handed the folder over to the Admiral. Across the top were the bold red letters TOP SECRET.

“Thank you lad” the Admiral said taking the folder and signing the receipt saying he had received it.

Inside was a single page of white paper, still warm from the printer. It read:

To: Commander Task Force 77
From: SACLANT HQ
From 1400 hours April 17 unless ordered otherwise you will begin Operation Cleopatra, the destruction of all naval vessels not belonging to the USIH or her allies. Neutral shipping is not to be targeted. The CBG’s flying the Wazican, Dancing Moose and Shinoxian flags are to be targeted primiarily. You will interact fully with Land Based Bomber and Submarine forces to ensure maximum damage to enemy fleets if they are not recalled to base within the 24hour deadline set by the President.

“Well then looks like we might be busy” he muttered to himself as he quickly dressed and headed to the bridge.




Further South, Raider a Los Angeles 688 Class SSN was scouring the waters looking for the enemy battle groups. They had been dispatched when the ARP had begun receiving supplies from the USIH in case war arose from it. They were about 50 miles offshore of the South Western tip of the Antarctica and sailing at their maximum silent speed of 15knots towards the inlet that was controlled by Allied forces. The plan was to intercept an enemy carrier that was on the way there, but as yet they had had no luck. The submarine was carrying Mk48 ADCAP torpedoes along with Spearfish torpedoes and Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles. Currently the sonar had no contacts and so the tubes were empty apart from #2 which was loaded with a Spearfish incase of a snap shoot scenario where somehow another submarine had gotten close without being detected, virtually impossible but still nevertheless a danger. The submarine was moving along at 100 feet with its towed sonar array strung out behind it giving maximum efficency.

Captain Nelson was sitting in his chair in the conn. He was looking briefly over a copy of a magazine whilst waiting for lunch to be brought up by the galley staff.

“Conn, Sonar” came the call over the intercom. The Captain picked up his mic “Sonar, Conn, what you got Master Chief?”

“Sir we have a faint contact on a bearing 350, just joined by another sir. May be the outer ASW picket of a CBG or two whalers.”

“Ok, lets slow to 8 knots, XO has the conn” said the Captain as he rose putting his magazine down and walking through the door in the bulkhead to the sonar room.

“Here Sir, and here” said the Master Chief in charge of the equipment pointing at two light lines on the sonar display. Sitting at the screens were two young seamen, taken on at Gillen, who were learning the ropes. In the back stood the usual two operators who were teaching them under the Master chiefs supervision. He continued “Just appeared when I called you Sir, if they are boats we will have a blade count in 5 minutes tops for you, designation right after sir. They are labelled Sierra One and Two. I would suggest getting the tracking party get a lock on them and prepare solutions.”

“Aye Aye Chief” said the Captain studying the display. “They are on the right heading for a CBG coming down from dancing moose heading for the inlet. If they continue on present bearings where will pass us?”

“One either side sir, if we stop now and go to say 300 feet I can look for submerged contacts as well using the subduction zones. Their carrier should pass within a 1000 yards of us.” That he knew was well within range of the Mark48, which would put a nice dent in a carrier, at least stopping it getting up to speed for flight operations, unless the crew kept it going them it would take on water and 50/50 chance sink it. If a pair of them hit, well then, that would be one less to worry about. “I would say that they’ve just come through the Roberticus straights and are reforming their formation, these two are sprinting to get an ASW perimeter up before the carrier gets completely through.”

“Ok Master chief, time to interception?”

“When I get a blade count I can give you an estimate sir.”

“Aye Aye, carry on chief” said the Captain as he walked out to the comms room to draw up a possible report to send off to SUBLANT and ask for satellite support.

Dinh was cold. he was cold, and that meant...
He opened his eyes. Stars blazed above him. He felt his injuries, so he used his good arm to check.
Right leg... okay, I need a splint. This many bandages means I was probably bleeding...damn my head hurts.
"There are times when I... really... need to take my own advice." Dinh said aloud.
Shivers mumbled, and sat up. "What's that?" she asked.
Dinh looked at her, "I said, there are times when I really need to take my own advice-like not walking around when I can't see where I'm going. How's the cut?"
She looked in his direction from her sleeping position. "It's fine, I'm just a little (yawn) fatigued, You've been out for about seven hours."
Dinh frowned. "That's a long time-even for a fall. Nice work on the field-dressings, but..." he patted his broken leg, "You should've splinted it- a splint is what you do when you can't make a cast because of conditions."
She shrugged, "I wrapped you before I got you out of the hole, a splint would've interfered, and then I so [yawn] tired..."
Dinh nodded, "Good reason. makes sense. Maybe I need one of those white canes-hell, I should have thought of that..." he frowned.
She got up, and came over.
"You're shivering." she said.
He nodded, "yeah, I'm... did you use a painkiller on me?"
She nodded, "Yeah, Morphine."
He sighed, "That explains the cold, and the numbness-morphine lowers your blood pressure while it kills the pain. I must be pretty hosed up."
She squatted down, "dislocated shoulder, multiple cuts, broken rib. you know about the leg, and whatever I couldn't find because you were out."
He sighed, "Damn. how far did I fall?"
She grinned, "Seven meters down, maybe another two and a half sideways. It took me forever to find a way down there, I half-expected you to bleed out."
He gave her a long look. "Thanks. I take it the Jeep runs?"
She nodded, "It runs-and we've got 400 miles worth of fuel. to get us to civilization."
Dinh sighed, "Well, I guess it's going to be a while before I'm much use. Sorry about that." he said.
She shook her head, and chuckled, "You can do my books or something until you're mobile on your own."
He looked at her pallor, "Have you eaten?" he asked in a serious tone.
"Uhm... no. I was too wiped out to eat when I got you back up here." she told him.
Dinh frowned, "You lost a lot of heart-juice, and you're still not recovered, you need to eat."
She stifled a chuckle-"You are more screwed up than I, and you're worrying about my eating habits? What were you, the village nag?"
Dinh actually laughed, "No, that was Mrs. Diep, nag-nag-nag...I swear her kids thought..." his mood darkened again, and he seemed to sink down.
"Thought what?" Shivers pushed.
"Her kids thought she was going to nag them to the end of the world." he finally said, adding, "They weren't far wrong-at least, for them-they lived about six miles outside of town, to the east. They're dead now." He turned moody.

Is there a larger map of Aust? This would be most helpful.

IC:
"Forces are arriving and we have permission for greater advancement. Fighting was heavy on the front as we crossed, but we have secured some good real estate for the day."

"What is the casualty rate at this time colonel?"

"We are currently looking at 3% fatal and another 8% wounded. This is acceptable losses for the time being."

"Get the red cross in here and some humaitarian aid to follow our path of destruction. Perform food drops, medication drops, and other essential items the populous will need."

"This defeats the prupose of our coming here doesn't it?"

"No, we are at war with the government and those that bear arms against us. Those that do not express hostilities to our army lives for tomorrow. Send word to all personnel and commands, if a civilian is seen carrying a gun, kill them on the spot."

"Yes sir."

"Proceed with the movements and attacks. We are awaiting the opposition and so far have not encountered much. This nation is larger, where in the hell is the army?" message is handed to the General and he reads it: "Satellite positions available. Reinforcements have arrived. No further troops deployed for 3 days. Fresh supplies enroute. Fleet on site"

"Orders?"

"Lets move, we have another 100,000 readily available for reinforcements and another 75,000 by nightfall. As soon as the navy unloads their units, we will proceed farther."

Forces in Aust:

225,000 troops less losses of 6750 killed and 18000 wounded
650 units of armor less 19 killed and 52 out of commission

Forces in RB:

200,000 troops
2000 fighters less 42 killed and 112 out of commission
125 bombers

Forces in waters outside of RB:

8 Battle Groups
3 Assault Groups
90,000 troops
450 units of armor
each battle goups consists of 1 CVN, 1 BBG, 4 CGN, 4 DDG, 6 FFG, 4 SSN, 2 SSBN, 8 Aux
each assault group consists of 1 LHA, 1 LHD, 1 LCC, 3 DDG, 6 FFG, 3 LPH, 6 LSD, 9 LST, 2 SSN

Forces still enroute to arrive by early am:

125,000 via MAC
250 units of armor
150 fighters

Is there a larger map of Aust? This would be most helpful.

IC:
"Forces are arriving and we have permission for greater advancement. Fighting was heavy on the front as we crossed, but we have secured some good real estate for the day."

"What is the casualty rate at this time colonel?"

"We are currently looking at 3% fatal and another 8% wounded. This is acceptable losses for the time being."

"Get the red cross in here and some humaitarian aid to follow our path of destruction. Perform food drops, medication drops, and other essential items the populous will need."

"This defeats the prupose of our coming here doesn't it?"

"No, we are at war with the government and those that bear arms against us. Those that do not express hostilities to our army lives for tomorrow. Send word to all personnel and commands, if a civilian is seen carrying a gun, kill them on the spot."

"Yes sir."

"Proceed with the movements and attacks. We are awaiting the opposition and so far have not encountered much. This nation is larger, where in the hell is the army?" message is handed to the General and he reads it: "Satellite positions available. Reinforcements have arrived. No further troops deployed for 3 days. Fresh supplies enroute. Fleet on site"

"Orders?"

"Lets move, we have another 100,000 readily available for reinforcements and another 75,000 by nightfall. As soon as the navy unloads their units, we will proceed farther."

Forces in Aust:

225,000 troops less losses of 6750 killed and 18000 wounded
650 units of armor less 19 killed and 52 out of commission

Forces in RB:

200,000 troops
2000 fighters less 42 killed and 112 out of commission
125 bombers

Forces in waters outside of RB:

8 Battle Groups
3 Assault Groups
90,000 troops
450 units of armor
each battle goups consists of 1 CVN, 1 BBG, 4 CGN, 4 DDG, 6 FFG, 4 SSN, 2 SSBN, 8 Aux
each assault group consists of 1 LHA, 1 LHD, 1 LCC, 3 DDG, 6 FFG, 3 LPH, 6 LSD, 9 LST, 2 SSN

Forces still enroute to arrive by early am:

125,000 via MAC
250 units of armor
150 fighters

21 Miles from the front and 6 miles due east of the Phyrrician salient...

Lt. Colonel Edward Vanh Jr. lit a cigar, and studied the enemy emplacements.
"Stingers, Triple-A guns... christ Bin, that looks to me like something out of an arms-dealer's wet dream-that or a concrete contractor's nightmare."
Captain Jerry Bin nodded, "Yeah, it does... well, they said a line of forts, they weren't kidding-see those Radar towers? The Austies Learn, they're off-set just enough that a HARM-Penetrator won't damage anything but a few thousand bucks worth of relays-it's tight, Colonel, real tight..."
Vanh nodded, "Okay, pull in the Recce units, we've seen what we need to see Here, and I'll file the damn report."

in polar orbit above Earth

The orders just arrived from the top brass in the Dodec were clear: All SBR platforms were to provide as many pictures of troop movements in and around Aust as possible, and the pictures were to be sent straight to the Dodec. At the same time, the SBL platforms were to keep close to the SBR platforms and provide defence if necessary. The communications operator on Defiance, one of Moontian's many SBR platforms orbiting Earth, Rhys Ritain read the words on the screen then turned to face the radar operator, Thom Mardac.
"So it appears that it's not just a storm in a teacup. There really are problems down there in Aust."
"Remember, you owe me ten belles when we go back down."
"I remember. You'll get your money. In the meantime, we've got some major work to do."
"At least it provides a change from all those asteroids," Thom Mardac has been credited with the discovery of more than fifty near Earth asteroids in his twenty years of service "rocks just don't hold the same interest me as they used to."
"You'd better get to work then. You take the pictures, I send them off."
"Just business as usual, then."
"Yep, nothing special about today. No one's going to try attacking this station anytime soon. We've drawn the Starsword to defend us."
"Steve's going to be bored."
"May as well teach him the finer points of the radar. He's been bumming around here for too long, with no need to use those Thors."

meanwhile, in one of Moontian's military ports
The order to prepare for a long stint at sea came to Andrew Flinn, captain of the Deathblade, one of Moontian's aircraft carriers newly fitted with Poltergeist bombers and Skyrider fighters. He read the file handed to him three times before announcing the orders on the PA system used throughout the port used for the group of ships at his command.
"All personnel are to be ready for pre-departure inspection within two hours."

The same orders issued by the captains of the Annihilator, Vampire, Cobdogla, and Balgowan aircraft carriers, and the commanders of six divisions of troops.

At the Foggy Down Sat relay station deep in the East of the USIH a small piece of paper was put onto the desk of the officer on watch.
The Air Force Captain stood and walked over to the phone, he had asked specifically not to be distracted from filling out the budget form unless it was something serious. He picked up the phone and pressed the numbers that had been written on the sheet of paper. Four seconds later the ringing stopped and a voice came on the other end.

"Sir, we have a situation. You really need to come and look at this."

"Ok Corporal I'm on my way, buzz me in will you."

"Roger that Sir."


Two minutes and 3 corridors later he was standing in the Satilite recon room where the feed from all of the USIH's 32 recon satilites were sent on a web of communications satilites and fiber optic cables. The room had 32 consoles, one for each satilite and there were facilites in the adjoing rooms for more. The Captain was stood behind the console for a KH-11 satilite, one of the most advanced currently in service. The Corporal was bringing up the frames of film that were concerning. They showed a large naval base with 4 carriers and escorts. The screen split to show shots taken on the previous pass.

"Sir, we can see from this we have a heck of a lotta people getting onto these ships. Also the infra-red camera is showing us that all of the escorts just lit up their engines, you can see the bright light here. We have a fleet readying to sail. I would say they will all have cleared the harbour in 4 hours from the time this was taken."

"Shit. Who's are they??"

"This is the main Moontain base Sir. We are also seeing another carrier getting ready and troops that were on exercise have disappeared. They reappeared here, we identified some unit patches on a tank and matched it, and look like they are heading to Aust."

"Roge-o Corporal Well done. Im going to hang a CRITIC tag on this." CRITIC meant that the document had to be in the Presidents hand within 15 minutes of being generated.


12 Minutes later in the New White House Situation room, the folder with the shots and priliminary analysis were handed to President Anderson. Command Admiral Peter Jackson began explaining what the President was looking at.

"Intel is not sure what kind of aircraft they have, they just underwent a refit and hence we do not know if they were replaced or upgraded. Same with DM, we have a sub getting ready to ambush one of their CBG's, should hit it early tonight Sir.
Our carriers are now two days away, and our deadline has finished with no reply Sir. We need you to give the order."

"Very well Admiral, order approved. The Senate has already given me free reign on this matter. Get the bombers going."

"Sir." they moved to their phones to make the calls.



The IHS Tuscon and Ohio both got the order via satilite link. They both went to missile depth and began firing their missiles.

The Tomahawks fired out of the vertical tubes in 20 second intervals, and shot up 100 feet via their booster canisters. These then broke away and the missile began to fire its main engine and streak towards Aust, flying at 700mph only 10 feet above the sea level, mapping their earth from data downloaded onto their onboard GPS from a satilite. Their targets, two Aust Airfields and numerous AA emplacements along the paths for tonights bomber passes shouldnt know what hit them. Two of the Tomahawks carried High Explosive warheads set to hit the middle of the runway of each base, and the other twenty six contained clustermunitions, designated to hit SAM batteries and AAA emplacements.

Captain Jack Jacobson sat in the cockpit of his B-6 bomber performing his pre-flight checks. In the seat next to him was his co-pilot Lieutenant John McGill. The computer showed every thing as being ok, and after ticking his checklist he reported the status to the tower. Once all 12 planes in the wing has reported that they began to be pushed out of their reinforced hangars at Nieto Air Force base, south of the capital J-City.

Once the big black planes were out of the hangars the pilots started up the massive engines that kept them all flying at Mach-3 whilst not giving out an infra-red signal big enough for a missile to lock onto. The twelve aircraft were loaded with a mixture of weapons. Captain Jacobson’s carried 16 JDAM smart bombs. His targets were a pair of airfields and an army base. The other two planes of his flight were carrying Rockeye Cluster Munitions that would be deployed on the barracks and the airfields fuelling stations identified by satellites. Other aircraft were targeting radar stations with JDAMs and other laser guided munitions.

One by one the planes moved to the runway. In the pitch black of the night only the runway lights were on, any security troops were all around the perimeter incase anybody tried to get a sneak peak at the USIH’s most secret bombers.

The planes took off at one minute intervals and headed to 30,000feet where they would stay for the rest of the mission. They flew in loose formations of 3’s, making sure to keep far enough apart so that a single missile could not engage them all. The flew at their cruise speed of Mach 1.7, the engines at normal power.

The jeep bounced down the small mountain tracks that where on the way to Shivers home, she knew these so well and she breathed in the fresh air. "See this kid! This is my home, where I lived and grew up, a nice place."
"No, I don't see it, I'm blind rember."
"oh, yeah. We'll be thir in five mins, just over this mountain and then where thire." The sm all village appeared on the horizan, a few kids pottered about and the farmers gathered their grain. Shivers drove down and everyone looked up watching the jeep come down the path. Alex ran out, glad to see his cousain. "Sisi, what are you doing here?" He asked, his farther following. "Long story, Al. my base got distroyed, any enermy around here?" He nodded
"yes, about 200,000 of them, we've been ambushing them all day. There making for the city."
"But none here."
"No, this place is remote enough, a few planes passed over but no troops."
"Thank god. Can you get a room set up for me and one for my passanger."
"Passanger?" She jerked her thumb towards Dinh, who was jying in the back of the truck. "Yeah, this is Dinh, he's my slave. don't ask one of the emporers new rules. Anyway, he's from Nuevo Kowloon and he's indured, he can't see well in the day. In fact he's blind got good nightvision. He needs a room to stay in. At the moment I think he's asleep. So if we move him now he'll wake up after dark. You can talk to him then." They carryed the boy into the house and into the spare room where they layed him on the bed with his stuff. Shivers removed his bandage, it was healing well. She also put a splint on his leg. She told her mother to give him some food when he woke up and too keep the lights turned off. Then she got into the jeep and with Alex her uncals and her farther she made towards the ambush.
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The road was small and the sides steep, in fact men could only walk along it 6 abreast, and the ambushes where waiting. They where waiting for the Phyrric troops. 20,000 ambushes linded the steep slopes of the sides, 1 mile long, impossable to get too except by secret paths, At the other end of the george where 6 rows of 2 tanks, manned by the ASS who had mounted rocket launches on them as well as the tanks own arnaments, behind that where 14,000 Aust troopers and 240,000 civillian defence groupes all rady to fight. The enermy came to the start of the george. no one fired they kept on comeing. Then the tanks and the ambushes opened fire. Shivers and Alex where among them. Thousands of bullets hammered into the tightly compact Phyrric troops, blocking the road. they returned fire killing a few men. On of the Aust tanks exploded but the ones behind fired on. People forght to get to the front line to fire upon the enermy. 9 anti-tank mines went off as well as 18 bounching bettys. The Autians where holding and the battle of Ridgeville had begun.

The austians would work shifts, half of the ambushes who lived near by would fight for 6 hours and then return to their villages to be replaced.

BUMP

BUMP

Captain Jack Jacobson sat in the cockpit of his B-6 bomber performing his pre-flight checks. In the seat next to him was his co-pilot Lieutenant John McGill. The computer showed every thing as being ok, and after ticking his checklist he reported the status to the tower. Once all 12 planes in the wing has reported that they began to be pushed out of their reinforced hangars at Nieto Air Force base, south of the capital J-City.

Once the big black planes were out of the hangars the pilots started up the massive engines that kept them all flying at Mach-3 whilst not giving out an infra-red signal big enough for a missile to lock onto. The twelve aircraft were loaded with a mixture of weapons. Captain Jacobson’s carried 16 JDAM smart bombs. His targets were a pair of airfields and an army base. The other two planes of his flight were carrying Rockeye Cluster Munitions that would be deployed on the barracks and the airfields fuelling stations identified by satellites. Other aircraft were targeting radar stations with JDAMs and other laser guided munitions.

One by one the planes moved to the runway. In the pitch black of the night only the runway lights were on, any security troops were all around the perimeter incase anybody tried to get a sneak peak at the USIH’s most secret bombers.

The planes took off at one minute intervals and headed to 30,000feet where they would stay for the rest of the mission. They flew in loose formations of 3’s, making sure to keep far enough apart so that a single missile could not engage them all. The flew at their cruise speed of Mach 1.7, the engines at normal power.
It was lucky chance that they where spotted by a spy sattalite fixed on IH. two squadrons of fighters where scrambled to intercept.

..::Encrypted Message (4096Kb)::..
TO: Admiral Rong, HIMS Fenrir
FR: NAVCOM
SUB: Allanea Action

You are hereby ordered to turn your squadron back to Haven. Although war has been declared on the nation of Allanea for some few days, it was not believed they would do anything. They have, however, just instituted action and we need every new hull we can get out hands on. At this time, transfer command of TF7 over to your subordinate aboard the Oberon and steam at fastest possible speed to Stockholm where the ships under your command will be transfered to their permanent squadrons, there you will report to Admiral Yu aboard the HIMS Leviathan, you will be his squadron XO.

Smooth seas and stout heart
..::End Encrypted Message::..

Nightfall, about 45 minutes earlier than last night-gotta love Polar Fall...

3rd Battalion, Second Marines were a night-recon unit with mountain training, (those mountains being the eastern Himalayas), and they were moving again, across the north face of the rim of mountains surrounding Aust. Typical for infiltration/scouting ops, the unit's weapons were fairly short-ranged, subsonic, and silenced. ([ooc-Phyrric, you remember these guys! only in Corcyra, it was 2nd Battalion of the 1st.]) Their mission profile was to pinpoint enemy positions for airstrikes and artillery.

G.Sgt Michael Wallace looked down the slope at the trail below, and watched the shift-change. He hand-signed to his first squad leader, "Send coordinates, and specify Napalm, then move your squad forward, we've still got miles and miles of road and trail to mark before sunrise."

This was the fourth night they'd been "Climb, observe, move on", cautiously and patiently mapping the Austian defenses, and sending the information back to the joint-staging area, and the Battalion's spread was wide, both to minimize observability, and to maximize coverage. (Small groups are harder to spot than large groups, if those groups are dispersed, it is harder to observe them, and if they're very quiet and moving in unexpected directions, it's even harder.) It was hard, for Wallace to watch the Austians-his family had been large, and close, and they were all dead now.
The only thing keeping him off the trigger, was the knowledge that by not immediately starting a fight, he would do vastly more damage than if he started killing them immediately-that, and twenty years of Marine Corps discipline.
The squad moved out, keeping the slope of the hill between them, and observers down below who might be looking with IR or Night Vision devices.
The Austians' 'Field craft' was actually quite good, and their light discipline wasn't half bad-for daylighters. He'd only counted ten cigarette-cherries in four days. The camouflage they were using would fool aircraft and Sattelites pretty effectively, and the narrowness of the passes meant that their arcs of fire didn't have to be particularly accurate to do damage to men moving through, while the overhead cover of the positions themselves made most cluster-bomb and artillery shrapnel virtually useless.
But it wouldn't help much at all against Napalm, which runs as it burns and eats up the oxygen locally, and it wouldn't help against Fuel-air weapons. Both of which were sitting available at the airfields in the staging area.
He left a present behind for the Austians if they got up the nerve to climb the cliffs. The demo would drop tons of rock down on the Austian position if it were disturbed, or, it would do so after the planes had come, adding a debris slide to the localized firestorm.
Then, Walker followed the rest of his men, to locate, mark, and observe the next position.
Down below, the Austian fighters continued to speak to one another confidently about "Showing the Phyrrics."

The B-6s arrived over the carrier fleet. Slightly to the north they began tanking from the KC-135 Stratotankers brought out from Gillen Air Force Base to support them. The fighters assigned to them, two squadrons of F-22S Sea Raptors were in between them and Aust and would accompany them to the point where they hit Mach 3. Even if there were fighters up to intercept them they would stand a very small chance of finding any of the black planes. They would be making their approach from the East, over the same area that the Tomahawks had passed a few hours before. They would then turn North and head home after dropping their ordenace.

The jeep bounced down the small mountain tracks that where on the way to Shivers home, she knew these so well and she breathed in the fresh air. "See this kid! This is my home, where I lived and grew up, a nice place."
"No, I don't see it, I'm blind rember."
"oh, yeah. We'll be thir in five mins, just over this mountain and then where thire." The sm all village appeared on the horizan, a few kids pottered about and the farmers gathered their grain. Shivers drove down and everyone looked up watching the jeep come down the path. Alex ran out, glad to see his cousain. "Sisi, what are you doing here?" He asked, his farther following. "Long story, Al. my base got distroyed, any enermy around here?" He nodded
"yes, about 200,000 of them, we've been ambushing them all day. There making for the city."
"But none here."
"No, this place is remote enough, a few planes passed over but no troops."
"Thank god. Can you get a room set up for me and one for my passanger."
"Passanger?" She jerked her thumb towards Dinh, who was jying in the back of the truck. "Yeah, this is Dinh, he's my slave. don't ask one of the emporers new rules. Anyway, he's from Nuevo Kowloon and he's indured, he can't see well in the day. In fact he's blind got good nightvision. He needs a room to stay in. At the moment I think he's asleep. So if we move him now he'll wake up after dark. You can talk to him then." They carryed the boy into the house and into the spare room where they layed him on the bed with his stuff. Shivers removed his bandage, it was healing well. She also put a splint on his leg. She told her mother to give him some food when he woke up and too keep the lights turned off. Then she got into the jeep and with Alex her uncals and her farther she made towards the ambush.


Dinh woke up with throbbing pain his leg, shoulder, and head. On a bed.
He sniffed, the sheets were clean, the room was... clean.
The walls were right-side up...and it didn't hurt to see. he lay there and evaluated the room.
Wooden furnishings, dresser... two lamps, closet... he continued silently counting items, cataloguing them for later references-such as when the owners of the house came in and turned the lights on.
Someone came up to the door, and Dinh closed his eyes. A painfully bright wall showing every blood vessel in his eyelids in stark relief erupted-she'd turned the lights on.
"Are you awake?" a voice asked. The voice sounded like a middle-aged woman.
"Yeah, I am... where's Shivers?" he asked.
"She's up above Ridgeville, fighting an invasion from Phyrric." The woman said matter-of-factly.
Dinh sighed, and frowned, "She's got a leg-wound, she needs to see a doctor and make sure I sewed up that artery right-if it tears, she can die of internal bleeding."
The woman walked over, and he felt her sit on the bed. "You care?" she asked.
Dinh sighed, "yeah. she had about eighteen inches of window driven through the major artery in her right leg when her base took the hit, and she lost about a quart and a half of her blood type on the floor before I woke up and sewed her up... Why did she leave me here?"
The woman laughed drily, "She left you here because you're busted up, and she needed to be out there defending her home."
Dinh laughed.
"That's what I was doing when I was captured back home-only I was in good shape, with no injuries." he said.
He heard her suck in her breath. "You-you're blinded by lights, though..." she said.
He nodded, "Yeah, but after the sun goes down, I don't need NVG's, I just have to wear really, really, really, dark sunglasses if I want to have a normal conversation with you in lighting you're comfortable with."
She touched his face. He winced. "Sunburn." he said, adding, "It'll tan out eventually, I've been spending a lot of time outside and in places with artificial lighting lately."
He felt her stand up, and the bandages and splints around his right leg being checked. By the feel of it, she knew what she was doing.
"You are quite young to be a soldier, Dinh." she commented.
He shrugged, "I'm not-at least, I wasn't yet- I still had two years of school before my number was supposed to come up, but I was already talking to the Navy Rep about a status as a Corpsman on one of the Riverboat teams."
she laughed, "Corpsman-what's that?" she asked, sounding amused.
" 'The Immediate treatment of wounded and Injured Marines in less than ideal condtions, the Corpsman is trained in emergency trauma surgery, poison control, and other critical tasks relating to the health and welfare of the Marines in his Squad.' Once I finished my two-year stretch, I already had the grades for academic advancement to medical school."

back at the command post:

"We have overflowing radio calls coming in sir, it is difficult to make out what is happening, but it is clear that there is a battle taking place on this pass" pointing to the map.

"What kind of losses are we looking at?"

"The losses are no that heavy at this point in time, but we may be stahled a few more hours. One major has just called in a broken arrow and we have lost radio contact with him."

"Engage with all fighters in the area, drop all available ordinance on the area. I do not care what we kill, our troops are overran in this sector."

"Transmission being sent and acknowledged."

Over 150 fighters engage the upper portion of the pass and hit both the highlands and lowlands around the last known position of the Major. napalm, shrapnel, and 1000 pounders are dropped in the area.

-BBC News Transmission-

Behind me here you can see the destruction behind me after the airbourne assault on the pass the casualties are running into the thousands full count unknown and most likely won't be known a large fleet of fighter and bomber aircraft launched their attack from the north of the pass sweeping through to the south. Phyrrics ground forces were stuck the opposing forces held a strong line keeping the steady line from passing phyrric ordered a full airbourne assault to clear the pass the majority of casualties felt through out phyrrics camps. All thats left are the burnout jeeps and charred remains of once a strong offensive.

Jeremy Cooke
BBC News

-BBC News Transmission-

Behind me here you can see the destruction behind me after the airbourne assault on the pass the casualties are running into the thousands full count unknown and most likely won't be known a large fleet of fighter and bomber aircraft launched their attack from the north of the pass sweeping through to the south. Phyrrics ground forces were stuck the opposing forces held a strong line keeping the steady line from passing phyrric ordered a full airbourne assault to clear the pass the majority of casualties felt through out phyrrics camps. All thats left are the burnout jeeps and charred remains of once a strong offensive.

Jeremy Cooke
BBC News

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300km from a DM Carrier fleet (whichever one is furtherest out away from the coast

The JSTARS UAV had conducted a count of the carrier fleet - information was fed back to Taipei, which had used roughly calculated the capabilities of the DM CBG.

The eighteen Shang Zhou class SSGNs were spread out over 80,000 sqkm and began setting the data so the missile strike would arrive at the targets simultaneously. 360 NF-3 class ASCMs were going to be launched at the CBG.

Captain Huang, commander of the SSGN brigade, goes over the details of their manuever a final time. They would launch the missiles, and scatter at full speed.

He presses the red button, and a faint splash is heard as the ASCMs break the surface of the water.

Nanfung III missile (NF-III)
Length: 10.5m
Diameter: 1.4m
Wingspan: 2.2m
Range: 800km Hi-Lo, 320km Lo-Lo
Speed: Mach 2.8
Warhead: High explosive (1,100lbs)
Weight: 12,500kg
Guidance: IR/Millimeter Radar terminal, GPS navigation
Powerplant: PDE assisted turbofan

Cost: $1.2m

A major upgrade to the earlier versions, with several new technologies. Designed to be surface-launched or bomber-launched. The missile's airframe has been subjected to extended redesign to decrease drag and increase penetration, with increased effectiveness against new generation trimaran and pentamaran ships. A propulsion upgrade featuring a pulse-detonation assisted supercruise capable turbofan. This improves the maneuverability and speed of the missile and allows it a re-attack capability. The engine also allows greater range than it's predecessor. The second generation onboard CIWS dodging A.I is based on software instead of hardware, allowing easy upgrades. A radar jammer is also included in the missile, which can jam the CIWS search radars and in some cases the AN/SPY-1 MFR radar. It is also armored against 20mm CIWS rounds to provide increased resistance to them.

Block 7 onwards uses a third-generation AI and 2D thrust-vectoring, allowing the NF-III to dodge AEGIS-guided missile countermeasures and increased effectiveness against fast moving targets. RAM has also been used on some surfaces in conjunction with EAST active radar cancellation to reduce RCS to 1/100th of an inch.

back at the command post:

"We have overflowing radio calls coming in sir, it is difficult to make out what is happening, but it is clear that there is a battle taking place on this pass" pointing to the map.

"What kind of losses are we looking at?"

"The losses are no that heavy at this point in time, but we may be stahled a few more hours. One major has just called in a broken arrow and we have lost radio contact with him."

"Engage with all fighters in the area, drop all available ordinance on the area. I do not care what we kill, our troops are overran in this sector."

"Transmission being sent and acknowledged."

Over 150 fighters engage the upper portion of the pass and hit both the highlands and lowlands around the last known position of the Major. napalm, shrapnel, and 1000 pounders are dropped in the area.

Gunny Walker's squad watched as the bombs came down on the areas to the West- almost on top of the Phyrric salient near a place called 'Ridgeville'.
"think they'll move additional reinforcements into that pocket?" Lance Corporal Vincent Huang signed.
Walker shook his head, and signed back, "Unlikely, that pocket's a pocket because it's terrain-limited, and hard to move armour through. They'll bring up a shift to cover, but that just means eight hour rotations instead of six. That corridor's going to be a meatgrinder for the Austies, all our allies have to do, is probe, when the shooting begins, call fire and pull back, then do it again. It'll tie up reinforcements along the whole chain. You finished sending in the report?"
The Lance-Corporal nodded, Done.



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After sending the code, the lance-corporal placed the code-key in a shallow pan, closed the lid, and shined a flashlight in.
The chemical treatment of the paper catalyzed it to ignite, with a smell of burnt sugar wafting out after the fraction of a second it took to burn up.
The one-use code keys had an additional safety feature built in-beyond being treated to degrade instantly in light, they would be next to useless anyway, without knowing which page, and which letters on that page, determined what key would be useable.
It was also made of a foodstuff, and would dissolve in water. (keeping the book dry is a major item of importance.)
The codes were only for determining pre-registered targets anyway-they gave nothing about NK deployments or locations, and the transmissions were "Hopped" across several frequencies in patterns in part determined by the code used. The wrong freqs, at the wrong time, or the wrong codes, and recievers simply wouldn't hear them.
Not foolproof, just damnably difficult to decypher.

The Aust Civillians and most of the Aust troopers puled back, leaving a mine feild behind them, should be useful. They left behind them what they where their for, the six tank effectivly blocking the road and a 5 squads of Aust Troopers with oxygen masks that should keep them safe from the naplam. The Austians had had few casultys, mainly Aust troopers while it was hard to see what the Phyrricians had lossed. They where milling about in the night, by tommorow they would find no oppersition, except for the ambushes and the Aust troopers.
The Austians would let them come to the city, it contained 1.5 million people and had walls like Badjoz. (Spanish fortress town. In one night when British soildiers attacked during the penisular war over 20,000 of them died.) A deadly place.
The ambushes still fired knowing that the enermy planes where doing more damage to their own side than the Austians. They sent down bails of hay and anything else that would burn setting the whole gorge alight and making the fire spread towards the Phyrric troops. They where safe from the Phyrric bombardment, hioding in caves and suchlike on the mountains. The fire was now reaching the enermy pickets and they where fleeing from the naplarm flames. The extra light gave snipers chance to fire more accuretly at the enermy, and spot the NK commandos. They turned and opened fire, causing the NK men to flee.
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More Aust planes took to the air to fight the enermy which where trying to drop more high explosives on the Austian troops. Aust also sent up 2 squadrons of bombers wich carryed cluster bombs and high explosives, these would drop them on the pass, at Ridgeville. On the enermy troops of course.
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Alex arrived back from the pass, he felt tired but he decided to go in and see the new arrival. That made Dinh sound like a baby., He smiled and opened the door. The boy was lying on the bed. Alex switched on some NVG's that he had borrowed from shivers and closed the door, they could both see now. "Hi." said Alex unsure how to start the coversation. "Your Dinh arn't you. I'm Alex, Sisi told me all about you."

Captian Jacobson sat back in the cockpit of his bomber. They had just made the “jump” as it was called and were now flying at Mach-3 using full engine power towards Aust. His flight was the first that would be hitting the enemy areas, followed by the rest at 5 minute intervals. Jack thought of all the test flights they had done, the test where the AWACs aircraft and the ground radar stations working together had not managed to acquire them for more than a minute at a time and by the time fighters had gotten to their reported position they were well gone. The only real danger came when the bomb bay doors were opened, and they would be in this position for a little over one minute tonight whilst the laser guided bombs were dropped. The other planes opened dropped and closed within a minute but Jacks B-6 was hitting targets quite away apart. The little fins on the bombs were already receiving instructions from the onboard computer on what to do when the bomb fell from the plane and GPS co-ordinates and targets were being finally checked on the 8 bombs that were using that method of delivery.

In the cockpit Jack tested the laser guiding system on a bridge as they rocketed over it. It worked fine.

“Two minutes to target” came the message from his co-pilot. He looked over and nodded. The plane would make the bombing run on autopilot whilst he guided the bombs in. They got to the designated drop point and the bomb bay opened and began dropping its deadly payload. The threat receiver showed a number of radars in acquisition mode, none appeared to be targeting.

As the last bomb fell from the racks the doors swiftly shut and the burst radio began transmitting.

“Eagle One has dropped the eggs over”

“Roger that Eagle One, be warned enemy fighters have been sited along Plan alpha, you are to execute plan delta acknowledge over”

“Acknowledged command out”

With that he punched in the keys on his autopilot screen and his plane began turning 180 degrees back to where it had come from.

Plan Delta meant that they would go back out the way that they had come in, this time at 35,000 feet and then tank over the carriers before heading back to base.

*From News 5 to the King's Hall*

MRs. Ubetcha: "Sire, yes, this is Mrs. Ubetcha from News 5, I have some gruesome news for you
your excellency."

Mrs. Ubetcha: "It seems that Aust has wiped out most of the Neuvo Kowloon population. Shouldn't we help?"

King: "Yes, thank you Mrs. Ubetcha."

King: "General, ready 50,000 troops! And send out a naval squad of 12 battleships! Now now now!"

Transmission to Neuvo cowloon; CODED.

We,t he Justinopian Kingdom,
are sending a naval fleet of 12 battleships and an
army squadron of 50,000 soldiers to your aid. All we request is a
fort, a naval base, and an airport for a 10,000 airplane squadron
to land.

Transmission to Neuvo cowloon; CODED.

We,t he Justinopian Kingdom,
are sending a naval fleet of 12 battleships and an
army squadron of 50,000 soldiers to your aid. All we request is a
fort, a naval base, and an airport for a 10,000 airplane squadron
to land.

The line is dead into Nuevo Kowloon, a tech-check shows that telegraph, telephone, and radio receivers are down in the country.
There's nobody to recieve the message, or at least, nobody there with the capability to recieve a secret transmission.
Sattelite imagery-1200 Hours...

Most of the country is pocked with craters, and the thermal from the decaying bodies of millions of people shows dull red against the hotter spots where the rainforests are still burning.
There are, visible from orbit, six or seven groups from other nations working to find survivors and contain the ecological damage before it threatens the whole Vietnamese/Southeast Asian region.
The pictures are a vision right out of hell.
A pair of airports are mosty-intact in the southern part of the country.
The Aid workers are wearing environmentally sealed suits, and decontamination units are gathered in several places where the impacts weren't as heavy as the Capitol of NK, the city of Nha Tranh. (Nha Tranh is a hole, visible from orbit, more than a thousand meters deep, lined with broken concrete supports-the Austian strike had hammered through twenty levels of reinforced concrete, opening the deepest levels of the city to the Nerve gas that has pooled at the bottom.

The Aust Civillians and most of the Aust troopers puled back, leaving a mine feild behind them, should be useful. They left behind them what they where their for, the six tank effectivly blocking the road and a 5 squads of Aust Troopers with oxygen masks that should keep them safe from the naplam. The Austians had had few casultys, mainly Aust troopers while it was hard to see what the Phyrricians had lossed. They where milling about in the night, by tommorow they would find no oppersition, except for the ambushes and the Aust troopers.
The Austians would let them come to the city, it contained 1.5 million people and had walls like Badjoz. (Spanish fortress town. In one night when British soildiers attacked during the penisular war over 20,000 of them died.) A deadly place.
The ambushes still fired knowing that the enermy planes where doing more damage to their own side than the Austians. They sent down bails of hay and anything else that would burn setting the whole gorge alight and making the fire spread towards the Phyrric troops. They where safe from the Phyrric bombardment, hioding in caves and suchlike on the mountains. The fire was now reaching the enermy pickets and they where fleeing from the naplarm flames. The extra light gave snipers chance to fire more accuretly at the enermy, and spot the NK commandos. They turned and opened fire, causing the NK men to flee.


"Didee Mao! DIDEE MAO!" (Let's get the hell out of here!) Lance Corporal Hong Ivarssen shouted. The Ell-Tee had taken the first hit, and wouldn't be coming with (though the head-shot was conclusive evidence that Lt. Lu Thap did, indeed, have some brains-they were all over his radioman now.)
The rest of the second squad began pulling back, but Ivarssen wouldn't see it-a hot thump tore through his chest, and he looked down in surprise.
The bullet had been dead-on.
He forced his hands to work, opening his canteen, and spilling the water into the document case holding the precious codebook, whose rice-and-sugarpaper construction would be turned to sticky sludge in seconds by the sudden moisture.

NK losses:
Two men out of ten killed
One wounded
Seven retreating.



Alex arrived back from the pass, he felt tired but he decided to go in and see the new arrival. That made Dinh sound like a baby., He smiled and opened the door. The boy was lying on the bed. Alex switched on some NVG's that he had borrowed from shivers and closed the door, they could both see now. "Hi." said Alex unsure how to start the coversation. "Your Dinh arn't you. I'm Alex, Sisi told me all about you."

Dinh heard the door open and close, and waited. The painful light didn't come on, but he heard a young man's voice.
"Yes. I am..." Dinh peeked. Alex was wearing a bulky NVG set. "Thanks for leaving the light off." Dinh grinned.
"How many fingers am I holding up?" Alex asked.
Dinh shrugged, "Three, on your left hand, and it looks like you've got a small cut on the index finger that's gotten dirty." Alex dropped his hand, and said, "You really can see, can't you?"
Dinh nodded, "I was about to ask for something to read, being laid up with a busted peg sucks the big one."
Alex took a seat on a chair, "Yeah, it does..." there was an awkward pause.
"How's the Leutenant?" Dinh asked.
Alex almost jumped. "She's fine- or she was, anyway, a while ago. they've got a bunch of Phyrrics bottled up in the pass."
Dinh nodded, "Figures. Passes are bad terrain for an attacker, and good to defend at."
Dinh propped up on his good arm. "It must be pretty close by, I heard airstrikes about twenty minutes ago." Alex nodded, "Yeah, the Civilian forces were pulled out about then... The Phyrrics had some guys with them, up above us, maybe ten guys total... they were out in the dark, and they didn't have night-scopes, but they had a bunch of silenced stuff..."
Dinh looked surprised. "How good a look did you get?" he asked.
Alex sighed, "enough to take out one that was belly-down next to a radioman."
Dinh nodded, "You see any patches?" he asked.
Alex thought carefully. "Looked like a cartoon mouse in black with dumpy fatigues under a quarter-moon, it was right here-" he touched a spot on his chest, about where the breast pocket would be.
Dinh sighed, "That's Third of the Second, you saw ten because there were ten, I expect if Third Marines is out there, then they were assessing the best way to get around you without civvie bloodshed."
Alex cocked his head, "Why?" he asked.
Dinh shrugged, "Killing civilians wastes ammo-the Marine units are even stickier about it than the Army is-was."
Alex whistled, low, "Why tell me outright?" he asked.
Dinh shrugged, "You were pulled out, you're here, if you don't shoot at them, they won't shoot back-you're a civvie, see? The Aust Troopers in that position are fair game, so're any of your army in uniform, but non-combatants are a big, fat, no-no, and that's institutional going back to the ChiCom wars. Auntie Susan was a Medic in the Phyrric war, she said that first armoured went to bayonets to avoid hitting the civilians the Rebels were using for human shields. I don't think the Marines're much different that way-they'll probably take four times the dead to avoid doing... that."
Alex looked a little confused, "Really? isn't that, like, totally impractical?"
Dinh shook his head, "Not if you're as good as they are, it's not. you saw ten guys, but, see, there's a whole battalion of night-people, people like me, with the Second Marines, so you saw ten, there's probably nine-hundered plus running around you didn't see, and you won't-not until they're ready to attack. When they are, it'll be over quick, cause they won't blunder through relying on firepower and awe, they'll come in smart, pinpoint strikes to paralyze the defense, then go for vulnerabilities in the defensive line-they're probably looking for things you haven't thought about that they can use."

Tagged for posting tomorrow. Very fast moving thread people, I've got a bad connection and I'm studying my a** off for college, it's not going to be easy for me to post three times a day in this like most of you.

*In the command center*

King:"Why are they not responding?"
General:"Their communications must be knocked out"
King:"then send the troops now!"

*A couple hours later*
*As they land*
General:"Oh my god, this is horrible!"
Soldier:"What should we do first?"
General:"Try to put out the forest fires you 25,000"
General:"And they other 25,000 come with me to secure a capital, and to bring all surviviors too."
Soldiers:"Yes sir

"thats not good for us, is it." Alex said
"Nope." replied Dinh
"Well, the Aust troopers can fight as well, it'd be nasty but you would win to easly. I wonder when Phyrric troops arrive here, I mean they can'y just skirt round us for ever."
"Sure,"
"When they do their going to get a suprise of their life."
"they are." For once dihn sounded suprise.
"Yep, mines everywhere surrounding the village. I don't recon the enermy will get past the city. It's got walls the size of a mountain and has more firepower than a bregade of ASS. Hard to take."
"They'll still take it."
"I don't think so. God, I feel sorry for you I mean losing all your familly and everything. The emporer is a right idout." Once again Dinh sounded suprised. "you don't like the emporer, i thought you all loved him thats why you forght so hard against the enermy."
"No, we attually don't like him, but we all swore an oath on his corination to protect him and Aust and so we will, it'd be honourable to stop fighting for him," Alex yawned "I'd better go and get some shut eye, I've been up all day fighting hard, and i'll be doing the same tomorrow, I'm in the next room if you want me, just call. Night."
"See ya."Alex left and closed the door.

"thats not good for us, is it." Alex said
"Nope." replied Dinh
"Well, the Aust troopers can fight as well, it'd be nasty but you would win to easly. I wonder when Phyrric troops arrive here, I mean they can'y just skirt round us for ever."
"Sure,"
"When they do their going to get a suprise of their life."
"they are." For once dihn sounded suprise.
"Yep, mines everywhere surrounding the village. I don't recon the enermy will get past the city. It's got walls the size of a mountain and has more firepower than a bregade of ASS. Hard to take."
"They'll still take it."
"I don't think so. God, I feel sorry for you I mean losing all your familly and everything. The emporer is a right idout." Once again Dinh sounded suprised. "you don't like the emporer, i thought you all loved him thats why you forght so hard against the enermy."
"No, we attually don't like him, but we all swore an oath on his corination to protect him and Aust and so we will, it'd be honourable to stop fighting for him," Alex yawned "I'd better go and get some shut eye, I've been up all day fighting hard, and i'll be doing the same tomorrow, I'm in the next room if you want me, just call. Night."
"See ya."Alex left and closed the door.

Flagship DMN Indomitable

Ensign: Sir, the DMN Reservoir has picked up a sonar ping at 010!

Admiral Ross: Wheres Captain Taylor?!?

Ensign: Hes on the bridge talking to Captain Sagumo of the Reservoir as we speak...

Ross (getting dressed): How long ago did this happen?

Ensign: Two, maybe three minutes ago sir, but it appears the sub may have been shadowing us for some time now...

Ross: Hmm, alright.... Tell the Captain I will be with him in one minute.

Ensign: Yes sir!

DMN Reservoir

Captain Sagumo (on the phone): Yes, sure thing....

1st Sonar Lieutenant David Ray: Sir, those coordinates are here...

Sagumo: Yeah just hold on to them.... Yes sorry about that, yes, we are at action stations, I just signaled our subs, they are heading on an intercepting course with the enemy submarine, along with three of our patrol boats. Yes, understood, I will order the rest of the ships to fan out in a scouting pattern, to search for more subs. Alright, bye.

Ray: Sir, the coordinates are ready, and have been passed to the Okinawa.

Sagumo: Very well, im going to check with the gunnery seargent, you let me know if you know anything else.

Ray: Yes sir!

DMN Indomitable

Ross: Captain, I want the entire fleet at battlestations, and I want any and all sonar contacts reported here asap.

Taylor: Ok, you heard him! To your action stations!


As the LA class attack subs Okinawa, Leyte, and Congo and the Pegasus class PT boats PT-105, 74, and 142 of the 1st fast attack group speed torwards the enemy sonar contact, the 4 battlegroups are ordered to make a complete 180 degree turn, and sail to 500 miles of the coast of Rocky Bambino.

The first civillians reached the city before dark and Aust fighters engaged the naplam carrying planes. The Aust troopers hidden in the vally where caught in the naplam falling from the sky, their 'holes' with cooagated iorn roofs n early held, well some did and some didn't. out of 50 holes, 29 collapsed subjecting their occupents to a firy death the rest survived by sucking on their Oxygen masks. While their was a firy fernise above. The fire was spread towards the Phyrric troops by the local ambushes hay bales.
A few civillians, too late to retreat or to proud to follow orders where rosted to death in the fires.

Aust losses, so far: 145 combat personnel
287.9 million civvilians
267 civillians fighting
98 ambushes

The missiles cruise over the ocean, at almost 3x the speed of sound towards the DM Carrier Group. As they come within the ship's radar horizon, the active stealth device activates, reducing their already small RCS. They begin CIWS evasive manuveres.

In orbit directly above Moontian

"I've found something nearby you should see, Rhys. It came up in all major bands."
"That looks like it should be in a museum, but that dish looks aimed straight at Balgowan. I'll get on the horn with the Starsword. They're close by. We've got what appears to be an enemy spy satellite. I wonder who owns it, or even if it is inhabited."

You have been spotted over Moontian airspace. Identify yourself immediately or you will be shot down. Repeat. Identify yourself immediately or you will be shot down.

on the open sea
Andrew Flinn; having been named the commander-in-chief of the naval forces of the Deathblade, Annihilator, Vampire, Cobdogla and Balgowan carrier groups; verified their course with SatRel liutenant Morgan Soggee. The first ships would be entering Austian waters within 4 hours, but the first Skyrider patrols had already returned with a couple of heat signatures within 26 kilometres of the Grizzly, the westernmost destroyer in the fleet, but nothing seeking active battle so far.

Near the Austian border
Mike Roach, commander of the land forces sent in to help assist Aust, delivered his orders to the camp of some 90,000 troops.
"We are here to defend our neighbour and honour our treaty. We will be kept in touch with the SBR relay every 3 hours, thanks to Commander McKay. We will be heading for the nearest Austian cities to keep them together; and from there, we will go straight towards the fighting. We will break camp in 15 minutes."

"thats not good for us, is it." Alex said
"Nope." replied Dinh
"Well, the Aust troopers can fight as well, it'd be nasty but you would win to easly. I wonder when Phyrric troops arrive here, I mean they can'y just skirt round us for ever."
"Sure,"
"When they do their going to get a suprise of their life."
"they are." For once dihn sounded suprise.
"Yep, mines everywhere surrounding the village. I don't recon the enermy will get past the city. It's got walls the size of a mountain and has more firepower than a bregade of ASS. Hard to take."
"They'll still take it."
"I don't think so. God, I feel sorry for you I mean losing all your familly and everything. The emporer is a right idout." Once again Dinh sounded suprised. "you don't like the emporer, i thought you all loved him thats why you forght so hard against the enermy."
"No, we attually don't like him, but we all swore an oath on his corination to protect him and Aust and so we will, it'd be honourable to stop fighting for him," Alex yawned "I'd better go and get some shut eye, I've been up all day fighting hard, and i'll be doing the same tomorrow, I'm in the next room if you want me, just call. Night."
"See ya."Alex left and closed the door.

Dinh sighed as he heard the door close, and went back to studying the ceiling.
Well, they're sure the Phyrricians will try to take the city-and furthering THAT misinformation is probably the kindest thing I can do-A fortress is a two-way wall, if you can't get in, then the Defenders can't get out... He reached over to the small bedside table, and picked up the glass of water.
And if they can't get out, then the Phyrricians will bypass this place, maybe leave a token 'Seige' force to keep them inside-inside where they're safe, where they won't be hurt...
He sipped the water, and frowned.
What kind of idiot swears to protect a Man over his own People? Dinh couldn't understand the idea of that at all. He fumbled around in the drawer, and found a pad of paper.
Better than nothing... he also found the stub of a pencil, and began to write down the things he had learned so far, knowing full well that it would be read, dissected, and examined.
Well, it's a better way to die, than direct suicide.

"What kind of fool swears an oath to preserve the life of a Politician? If the Ruler is good, then no Oaths are necessary-his actions will grant him the loyalties of his people without an Oath, and if he is not-then such an Oath is clearly predicated on false pretenses, and has no power to bind the soul, beyond what the mind grants it.

Honour... as I lay here, I know that Honour in obedience to a dishonourable man is dishonour that stains the whole line-a stain that will take generations to be erased.

I have truly come to a land of madmen."

He re-read it again, sighed, smiled, signed, and dated it.
He turned the page, and began writing down a table of derivatives in base-eight.
After filling up one page with numbers, he turned to the next, and started writing down everything he could remember about field-expedient antibiotics, including which ones were found in which plants, in what climates.
The Rosy fingers of dawn poked from behind the blinds before he could finish, flooding his vision in red lights until he could no longer see the page, and had to stop.

"thats not good for us, is it." Alex said
"Nope." replied Dinh
"Well, the Aust troopers can fight as well, it'd be nasty but you would win to easly. I wonder when Phyrric troops arrive here, I mean they can'y just skirt round us for ever."
"Sure,"
"When they do their going to get a suprise of their life."
"they are." For once dihn sounded suprise.
"Yep, mines everywhere surrounding the village. I don't recon the enermy will get past the city. It's got walls the size of a mountain and has more firepower than a bregade of ASS. Hard to take."
"They'll still take it."
"I don't think so. God, I feel sorry for you I mean losing all your familly and everything. The emporer is a right idout." Once again Dinh sounded suprised. "you don't like the emporer, i thought you all loved him thats why you forght so hard against the enermy."
"No, we attually don't like him, but we all swore an oath on his corination to protect him and Aust and so we will, it'd be honourable to stop fighting for him," Alex yawned "I'd better go and get some shut eye, I've been up all day fighting hard, and i'll be doing the same tomorrow, I'm in the next room if you want me, just call. Night."
"See ya."Alex left and closed the door.

Dinh sighed as he heard the door close, and went back to studying the ceiling.
Well, they're sure the Phyrricians will try to take the city-and furthering THAT misinformation is probably the kindest thing I can do-A fortress is a two-way wall, if you can't get in, then the Defenders can't get out... He reached over to the small bedside table, and picked up the glass of water.
And if they can't get out, then the Phyrricians will bypass this place, maybe leave a token 'Seige' force to keep them inside-inside where they're safe, where they won't be hurt...
He sipped the water, and frowned.
What kind of idiot swears to protect a Man over his own People? Dinh couldn't understand the idea of that at all. He fumbled around in the drawer, and found a pad of paper.
Better than nothing... he also found the stub of a pencil, and began to write down the things he had learned so far, knowing full well that it would be read, dissected, and examined.
Well, it's a better way to die, than direct suicide.

"What kind of fool swears an oath to preserve the life of a Politician? If the Ruler is good, then no Oaths are necessary-his actions will grant him the loyalties of his people without an Oath, and if he is not-then such an Oath is clearly predicated on false pretenses, and has no power to bind the soul, beyond what the mind grants it.

Honour... as I lay here, I know that Honour in obedience to a dishonourable man is dishonour that stains the whole line-a stain that will take generations to be erased.

I have truly come to a land of madmen."

He re-read it again, sighed, smiled, signed, and dated it.
He turned the page, and began writing down a table of derivatives in base-eight.
After filling up one page with numbers, he turned to the next, and started writing down everything he could remember about field-expedient antibiotics, including which ones were found in which plants, in what climates.
The Rosy fingers of dawn poked from behind the blinds before he could finish, flooding his vision in red lights until he could no longer see the page, and had to stop.

*In the command center*

King:"Why are they not responding?"
General:"Their communications must be knocked out"
King:"then send the troops now!"

*A couple hours later*
*As they land*
General:"Oh my god, this is horrible!"
Soldier:"What should we do first?"
General:"Try to put out the forest fires you 25,000"
General:"And they other 25,000 come with me to secure a capital, and to bring all surviviors too."
Soldiers:"Yes sir

Justinopian Results after the first Two days of searching:

The Search for survivors was long, and heartbreaking-the soldiers in their NBC gear picking through village and town streets packed with the dead. Men, women, children, dead everywhere.
Even the flies were dead, and NBC alarms kept droning on and on, the whole land-area seemed saturated with Nerve gasses.
Eventually, toward the second day, they found an unbroken emergency shelter in an outlying area five kilometers south of Nha Tranh. The Shelter was more than 100 meters below ground, and the entrance tunnel was half-collapsed, with the other half unstable, but there were people in there, at least, enough to reply to "Tap-Tap" morse-code inquiries on the concrete inside.
(survivors located after 24 hours: 1,230)

Taiwanese Results after four days (Report from Same day) in N. Tonkin Gulf region of NK...

Dealing with the meltdown of HH-One's primary reactor house took two days of frantic and dedicated action. Many of the lessons learned in the decades since Chernobyl proved very effective, and the reaction was brought to a halt and the reactor house was sealed in fast-setting concrete to contain the worst of the radioactive debris.
Three Shelters in the Quan-Tri district were located, two with live survivors inside, the third had been caught with the doors open, and was a mausoleum now, instead of a place of safety.
(Survivors located: 15,183)

United States of Independent Hitmen Results-Southeast Coastal District

Decontamination units were working feverishly to set up a means to either evacuate, or supply, the lower ten levels of New Saigon Underground City. The bombings had somehow failed to blow through the last layers, and communications were already established with the people inside.
out of ten million, only 123,000 were left-and food was in short supply.

(Survivors located after 5 Days: 123,000)

Phyrrician search results after 5 days

Seven shelters were scattered in the region around An-Loc, which had been Nuevo Kowloon's main Aviation and Space facility.
Two had been broken open by bunker-busters before the missile-strikes had even started, and the Space centre was wrecked-at least, the parts sufficiently above ground were wrecked.
Five of the smaller shelters, and the hardened Centre itself were intact- nearly Ninety Thousand people were still alive here, and a map of shelters nationwide was still on-site.

(Survivors after Five days: 90,000)

Flagship DMN Indomitable

Ensign: Sir, the DMN Reservoir has picked up a sonar ping at 010!

Admiral Ross: Wheres Captain Taylor?!?

Ensign: Hes on the bridge talking to Captain Sagumo of the Reservoir as we speak...

Ross (getting dressed): How long ago did this happen?

Ensign: Two, maybe three minutes ago sir, but it appears the sub may have been shadowing us for some time now...

Ross: Hmm, alright.... Tell the Captain I will be with him in one minute.

Ensign: Yes sir!

DMN Reservoir

Captain Sagumo (on the phone): Yes, sure thing....

1st Sonar Lieutenant David Ray: Sir, those coordinates are here...

Sagumo: Yeah just hold on to them.... Yes sorry about that, yes, we are at action stations, I just signaled our subs, they are heading on an intercepting course with the enemy submarine, along with three of our patrol boats. Yes, understood, I will order the rest of the ships to fan out in a scouting pattern, to search for more subs. Alright, bye.

Ray: Sir, the coordinates are ready, and have been passed to the Okinawa.

Sagumo: Very well, im going to check with the gunnery seargent, you let me know if you know anything else.

Ray: Yes sir!

DMN Indomitable

Ross: Captain, I want the entire fleet at battlestations, and I want any and all sonar contacts reported here asap.

Taylor: Ok, you heard him! To your action stations!


As the LA class attack subs Okinawa, Leyte, and Congo and the Pegasus class PT boats PT-105, 74, and 142 of the 1st fast attack group speed torwards the enemy sonar contact, the 4 battlegroups are ordered to make a complete 180 degree turn, and sail to 500 miles of the coast of Rocky Bambino.

NKS Submarine Four, beneath the ice-shelf off the RB coast...

"Sir, we're picking up more traffic on the longwave-looks like a sub wolfpack about 350 K's north and west of us."
Lt. Commander Valerie Camh frowned. "I wonder what they found?" she asked rhetorically.
The Radio Chief shrugged. "Dunno sir-ah, should we slip in the uplink to the Hue group?"
She nodded, "Do it-use a sideband, and one-shot encryption, relay the course headings and position."


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"How long before we have to go up for a recharge?" she asked.
The Chief engineer, Lt. Lance Wang, shrugged, "two weeks, seven hours and thirty four minutes, give or take thirty seconds at current consumption. why?"
She shook her head, "No reason, I just like to know these things, Mister Wang. Don't you find it interesting that they haven't been snooping down here?"
He frowned. "Yeah... I do. I have this theory-I think, that the reason they aren't, is because they're assuming everyone else is relying on satcom for positioning, and the ice would screw a signal big-time. Since we haven't popped an active ping since we've been down here, they figure we're either somewhere else, or dead."
She shrugged, and walked over to the Sonarman on duty. "Mister Duttley, what's on the menu for today?" she asked.
The Sonar chief turned, "well, Ma'am, we've got whale-songs ten kilometers off our port bow. I've got the repeater set, should we join in?"
She tilted her head, "are you sure the signal processors can handle it?"
He nodded. "Nature's own sonar-bouys, ma'am. hell, if we're going to look like a whale on sonar, we might as well sound like the Gray whales outside...besides, I Like whale songs."
She nodded, "Ready and make it so- Navigation, proceed to listening point Delta, Mister Duttley, play me a song."

"thats not good for us, is it." Alex said
"Nope." replied Dinh
"Well, the Aust troopers can fight as well, it'd be nasty but you would win to easly. I wonder when Phyrric troops arrive here, I mean they can'y just skirt round us for ever."
"Sure,"
"When they do their going to get a suprise of their life."
"they are." For once dihn sounded suprise.
"Yep, mines everywhere surrounding the village. I don't recon the enermy will get past the city. It's got walls the size of a mountain and has more firepower than a bregade of ASS. Hard to take."
"They'll still take it."
"I don't think so. God, I feel sorry for you I mean losing all your familly and everything. The emporer is a right idout." Once again Dinh sounded suprised. "you don't like the emporer, i thought you all loved him thats why you forght so hard against the enermy."
"No, we attually don't like him, but we all swore an oath on his corination to protect him and Aust and so we will, it'd be honourable to stop fighting for him," Alex yawned "I'd better go and get some shut eye, I've been up all day fighting hard, and i'll be doing the same tomorrow, I'm in the next room if you want me, just call. Night."
"See ya."Alex left and closed the door.

Dinh sighed as he heard the door close, and went back to studying the ceiling.
Well, they're sure the Phyrricians will try to take the city-and furthering THAT misinformation is probably the kindest thing I can do-A fortress is a two-way wall, if you can't get in, then the Defenders can't get out... He reached over to the small bedside table, and picked up the glass of water.
And if they can't get out, then the Phyrricians will bypass this place, maybe leave a token 'Seige' force to keep them inside-inside where they're safe, where they won't be hurt...
He sipped the water, and frowned.
What kind of idiot swears to protect a Man over his own People? Dinh couldn't understand the idea of that at all. He fumbled around in the drawer, and found a pad of paper.
Better than nothing... he also found the stub of a pencil, and began to write down the things he had learned so far, knowing full well that it would be read, dissected, and examined.
Well, it's a better way to die, than direct suicide.

"What kind of fool swears an oath to preserve the life of a Politician? If the Ruler is good, then no Oaths are necessary-his actions will grant him the loyalties of his people without an Oath, and if he is not-then such an Oath is clearly predicated on false pretenses, and has no power to bind the soul, beyond what the mind grants it.

Honour... as I lay here, I know that Honour in obedience to a dishonourable man is dishonour that stains the whole line-a stain that will take generations to be erased.

I have truly come to a land of madmen."

He re-read it again, sighed, smiled, signed, and dated it.
He turned the page, and began writing down a table of derivatives in base-eight.
After filling up one page with numbers, he turned to the next, and started writing down everything he could remember about field-expedient antibiotics, including which ones were found in which plants, in what climates.
The Rosy fingers of dawn poked from behind the blinds before he could finish, flooding his vision in red lights until he could no longer see the page, and had to stop.
Alex prepared to leave the village for another day of hard fighting, he knew that technically, he shouldn't be fighting, but he also knew that he had too. It was a matter of honour.
Honour, the more he thought about it the more it seemed strange to him, honour was what life revolved around in Aust. It was like the sun that all the stars followed. Honour ment not to break promises and if you did to try to make up for it. He didn't like the Emporer, no one did, everyone knew that what he did to NK was awful and evil but on the Emporers corination he and all the rest of the austian people had sworn an oath to protect and support him. And the ARP had broken that oath theirfore theuy must be defeated. It was all far too complicated.
Then you had to put chivalry into the equation and well, in the end it made no sence to uphold honour but people still did, just because that was what Austians did and had always done, still if you can't change it now then you never will. I could help Dinh escape and then we could find the ARP and help them to defeat the Emporer and... he dismissed the thought of breaking the promise he had made to Sisi about keeping Dinh safe and keeping him from escaping instantly it would be dishoinourable, again it came down to honour.
But who needed honour no one upheld it except yourself, their was no doubt that the Emporers way of gaining the throne had been dishonourable and so he was almost certianly a trator to the old emporer and laws of chivalry said that Aust must plurge all dishonourable people and trators, but then their was that oath...
Damm it! Each canciled the other out, but which was most important? The emporer or civalry his freinds and the fact that the emporer was a trator.
It was the fact that the Emporer was a trator that was most important. He turned back towards the house he needed to talk with Dinh about his discision to help him esccape. "Where are you going?" Sisi asked,
"To the house, I forgot some stuff, I'll be back later."
"okay be safe" Alex ran off heading for the house, he saw his mother leave for the feilds outside the minefeilds and he knew that the house would be empty other than Dinh who of course couldn't move.
Bugger! That was one thing he ad forgotton in his rescue plan so he could discard that one.
He reached the house and made his way upstairs, he opened the door to Dinhs room, the kid was asleep a sketch book on his lap, at the biggining he had written,

"What kind of fool swears an oath to preserve the life of a Politician? If the Ruler is good, then no Oaths are necessary-his actions will grant him the loyalties of his people without an Oath, and if he is not-then such an Oath is clearly predicated on false pretenses, and has no power to bind the soul, beyond what the mind grants it.

Honour... as I lay here, I know that Honour in obedience to a dishonourable man is dishonour that stains the whole line-a stain that will take generations to be erased.

I have truly come to a land of madmen."

The kids thoughts where like his own but he clearly had no idea of honour at all, well Alex could teach him, but then again Alex was breaking honour himself. And the thing about what sort of madman swore to protect the life of a a polition hurt. It just proved that the kid knew nothing about Aust, he proberly even thought that English was the first language! Well then again Alex had never known anything about NK at all eather. He hadn't paid attention in their language lassons he could rember a little bit but not much. The 3 languages you learnt in school, Austian, English and Nuevo Kowloonian.
He looked though the rest of it, the second page had derivartives in base eight on it, some sort of code? Proberly not, the next had things about Feild-expendent antibiotics and where you got them. All pointless really. alex pocketed it and the pencil for later study and use.
He needed to wake the kid up and so shook him violently, the boy awoke and opened his eyes, groaned and closed them at once. "Whats happening?" he asked sleeperly,
"Listen, dinh, I want to help you escape."
"You do!?"
"I do."
"but what about honour and all that."
"I did swear to uphold the emporers reign but I was thinking about it and the emporer is dishonourable himself. So why should I be honourable?"
"yeah."
"Right so tonight I'll come and get you, to help you escape I mean, I know where the routes through the minefeilds are and I will have the jeep ready. We can go towards Blood Pass thats the place your Grandfarther forght at. Theirs been some reports about ARP activity their and I recon if we go their we can do okay. It's almost dark all the time now so you'll be able to see, I have NVG that we use in the winter anyway. Now you get some sleep and I'll be back later." Picking up his sniper Rifle he walked off to fight. For the last time.

South America, Bariloche

General Zhang stood steadily, looking at the brilliant red Chilean sunset. Beneath his ocean-facing military office, were the bulk of twenty S900 WIGcrafts. He continued to watch silently as two of them had their roofs ripped out to make room for modified VLS cells.

Armour and infantry were driven onto the open ramps of the other WIGs. They would be ready for takeoff soon, along with a few dozen fighter escorts and mid-air refuelers.

On IHS Raider

“Conn, Sonar.” Came over the intercom.

“Sonar, Conn go ahead Master Chief” replied the captain already prepared to move to the sonar room.

“Sir, the main battlegroup just turned away from us. However I have three surface contacts designated as PT class patrol craft by screw count on a direct, I repeat direct, interception course with our current position. We also have a small ping on a submerged contact designated Sierra twelve Sir. Another is with it we are putting that in as a Sierra thirteen. Both are very very quiet sir, I’d say LA class attack boats, they are also on an intercept course and we had better assume there are more of them out there.”

After a moments thought the captain replied “Ok Master Chief, what range are we talking about?”

“PT boats just passed into Harpoon range. Subs are at least 200,000 yards out, we are barely picking them up on the convergence zone. God knows how they got a reply off of us this far out!”

“Thank you Master Chief keep me informed.” He turned to the tracking party. “Give me two of those PT boats. We will harpoon one each from tubes three and four. Quick reload of tube three with Mk48 and four with harpoon.”

“Aye Aye sir.”

The computer set it up in just under three seconds, taking data from the sonar and the weapons status board, and giving the harpoons their targets and the information was then moved to the firing party’s board where a green light appeared next to both tubes.

“Sir we are ready on tubes three and four”

“Open outer doors”

“Outer doors open”

“Match bearings and shoot”

The sub rocked as the compressed air pushed the two canisters out of the front torpedo tubes. As soon as they were clear the crew in the torpedo room began reloading the tubes as per captains orders.
The harpoons broke the surface in their water proof canisters and fired their rocket engines. They both acquired their targets on radar and sped towards them a few feet off the sea.
30 seconds later the third harpoon did exactly the same and sped towards the third target.

“Ok, XO you have the conn take her to full ahead and lets head away from this party, I believe we are slightly outnumbered here.” The Captain said as soon as the third shudder had gone through the sub. “Reload four with harpoon” was his final command before going to the sonar room.

“Estimated time to hit?”

“90 Seconds, sir. PT boats don’t carry CIWS or SM-2’s so they are as good as sunk sir. These subs probably know were we are know from the noise of those missiles breaking the surface, but they aren’t within torpedo range. The carrier group headed off in this direction sir, they must’ve somehow spotted us and were bugging out. I got a full speed from the carrier and all escorts, if our designations were correct. I would say they have four to five subs with the group, it would be suicide to leave the carrier without any so I would think we have three after us and the others went with the carrier. If we play back the tape of them kicking into top speed we can see two other contacts appear and then disappear, we didn’t even have time to get a designation of them although they were submerged.”

“Ok Master Chief, we will loose sonar for about twenty minutes whilst we sprint, I want to know exactly where twelve and thirteen are when we stop.”

“Aye aye Sir” replied the Chief with a nod.

“XO” the Captain said as he went forward to the conn. “Take her down to 1000feet and head due East, i’m going down to the torp room to congratulate the guys on their reload time and tell them whats going on. I want everyone here to get a sandwich or some food in quickly whilst we are sprinting, but I want everybody at action stations in 15 minutes time and fire-control set up for a quick shoot in case they have followed us.”

“Sir” the XO said as the captain moved off to the torpedo room near the massive active sonar in the bow of the sub.

2 miles South Southwest of Ridgeville, Midnight...

Gunnery Sgt. Vanh noted the position of the minefields on his notebook, and had the radioman send. "Thick as fleas" wouldn't begin to describe it-the Austians' fortified city had minefields laid on top of minefields, interlaced with wire, and with sensors added.
A ten-man team, from a country that once boasted the largest number of unexploded minefields in the world (Thanks to the Soviets, ChiComs, French, and a host of others that used Indochina as a proxy battlefield) could negotiate the fields fairly adroitly-but the Columns of allied forces coming through the gap would find them hard-going.
"I hope the Colonel can convince our allies to bypass this-I don't savour the idea of using up MCLIC charges here." he signed to his Leutenant.
Lt. Marvin Li nodded, and signed back, "Yeah, that would be bad. Unhealthy. We've covered our sector, Orders are to continue south and west and link up with ARP forces massing in and around Blood Pass, we supply them with current info, and contact freqs for the Allied Task forces." The squad moved out, their brothers in 2nd Platoon doing the same thing on Ridgeville's western side, while other ten-man elements from 2nd platoon moved along the high-ground, below the crest, noting the positioning of defensive emplacements and ADA sites as they moved.
40 men spread out over 150 square kilometer area-a needle in a haystack carefully providing data to the combined task-forces.

2 miles South Southwest of Ridgeville, Midnight...

Gunnery Sgt. Vanh noted the position of the minefields on his notebook, and had the radioman send. "Thick as fleas" wouldn't begin to describe it-the Austians' fortified city had minefields laid on top of minefields, interlaced with wire, and with sensors added.
A ten-man team, from a country that once boasted the largest number of unexploded minefields in the world (Thanks to the Soviets, ChiComs, French, and a host of others that used Indochina as a proxy battlefield) could negotiate the fields fairly adroitly-but the Columns of allied forces coming through the gap would find them hard-going.
"I hope the Colonel can convince our allies to bypass this-I don't savour the idea of using up MCLIC charges here." he signed to his Leutenant.
Lt. Marvin Li nodded, and signed back, "Yeah, that would be bad. Unhealthy. We've covered our sector, Orders are to continue south and west and link up with ARP forces massing in and around Blood Pass, we supply them with current info, and contact freqs for the Allied Task forces." The squad moved out, their brothers in 2nd Platoon doing the same thing on Ridgeville's western side, while other ten-man elements from 2nd platoon moved along the high-ground, below the crest, noting the positioning of defensive emplacements and ADA sites as they moved.
40 men spread out over 150 square kilometer area-a needle in a haystack carefully providing data to the combined task-forces.

"Sir, we have just received orders to fall back, the air force will take care of this one."

"Inform them 'negative'"

"Sir, the orders come directly from the General, he advises us to pull back 2 miles and to do it now. Bombers are enroute."

"What are they going to do?"

"They are going to rain fire on this pass, and inform us to fall back now."

"Inform them that there are civilians in the area."

"They acknowledge this and it is understood, our orders stand."

"Fall back, get the hell out of here!"

25 B1B are enroute escorted by fighters with a payload of 2x25000 pound bombs to be dropped on the area. This would cause craters the size of yankee stadium 50 times over.

OOC: Where are you attacking? The city or Ridgeville.

IC: Alex returned from the fiery inferno that was Ridgevill, though the village was closer to the frontline than Ridgeville no enermys had yet turned up, almost defeating the laying of the mines really. Alex pretended to go to bed, but when the clock struck 03:00 he got up and made his way to Dinhs room.
Dinh was already awake, sitting on his bed writing on another scrap of paper. "You havn't seen a notebook have you?" he asked.
"no." Alex lied, his honour was, he felt, dissappearing quicker than a sandsnake, first oath-breaking now lying! well it couldn't get any worse, he guessed. "are you ready to go?"
"i still can't walk, so I won't be able to 'go'"
"I can carry you."
"Not down stairs you can't I weigh about the same as you and anyway how would you open doors?"
"S**t! I might be able too I was first on the acadermy assult course!"
"So, I bet you didn't have to carry people down stairs."
"we had to carry people of the equivlent weight in a 3 mile long fell race, anyway I'm a rugby Number 8, I'm pritty strong."
"okay have a go."
Alex lifted Dinh easyly, it was hader due to the boys leg but he made i down stairs, "Now into the jeep and away!" They climbed in and where off."

(Though Yurka is currently commiting 300,000 troops to combat Allanea, we are willing to send troops to combat Aust while only keeping the reserves and airforce to defend Yurka, since its very important to the emperor...)

The empire of Yurka wishes to help in any way it can, and will be arriving in Aust by our main naval fleet. We have only one requirement, that we be allowed to check all of the ships of those attacking Aust to make sure that there are no WMD aboard. The safety of Aust's population is of our primary concern, Aust's demise is secondary. We will not take no for an answer.

=Drake Yurka=

The vast Yurka fleet is quickly loaded, timing was integral if they were to get there before anything horrible happened, "We'll be planting the naval fleet where Rocky Bambino formerly was. From there we shall make a beeline to Aust's capital..." High general Karth Grimoire sat back in the lead destroyer, The Emperor's Fist. This would be the shining moment of his entire courier, and he wouldn't let anything stop him.

Troops
40,000 Elite Troops
250,000 Regulars

Vehicles
500 Tanks
1,000 Artillery

Airforce

20 Bombers
100 Fighters

OOC: Where are you attacking? The city or Ridgeville.

IC: Alex returned from the fiery inferno that was Ridgevill, though the village was closer to the frontline than Ridgeville no enermys had yet turned up, almost defeating the laying of the mines really. Alex pretended to go to bed, but when the clock struck 03:00 he got up and made his way to Dinhs room.
Dinh was already awake, sitting on his bed writing on another scrap of paper. "You havn't seen a notebook have you?" he asked.
"no." Alex lied, his honour was, he felt, dissappearing quicker than a sandsnake, first oath-breaking now lying! well it couldn't get any worse, he guessed. "are you ready to go?"
"i still can't walk, so I won't be able to 'go'"
"I can carry you."
"Not down stairs you can't I weigh about the same as you and anyway how would you open doors?"
"S**t! I might be able too I was first on the acadermy assult course!"
"So, I bet you didn't have to carry people down stairs."
"we had to carry people of the equivlent weight in a 3 mile long fell race, anyway I'm a rugby Number 8, I'm pritty strong."
"okay have a go."
Alex lifted Dinh easyly, it was hader due to the boys leg but he made i down stairs, "Now into the jeep and away!" They climbed in and where off."

Dinh dismissed his doubts about Alex when they reached the vehicle. as they say, let it ride... he thought.
"You're going to get into some deep shit over this, aren't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah." and turned sharp-left.
"I assume you didn't leave a note." Dinh persisted.
Alex shook his head, "No, they're going to be mad enough as it is."
Dinh nodded, "That they will-you could always say I overpowered you and took you hostage."
Alex Laughed "That's a good one..." The jeep thumped over a cattle-gate and hit the paved road south.
"We've got gas to get there?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah,spare can on the back, should last long enough."
"ammo?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded.
"You understand what you're doing, don't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex steered the jeep around a corner, "Of course. I'm trained."
Dinh leaned back in the passenger's seat, and sighed, right...okay, now I guess we hope for the best against all reason...

As the naval crews reaches the shore of Rocky Bambino unmolested except for the occasional Antartic wave,the crewmembers aboard the carriers quickly begin unloading the vehicles and setting up tents. Large cannisters marked with the following:
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/BrianJ/TOXIC2.jpg
Follow by:Explosive

Are brought out and spread amongst the tents carefully. Fighter pilots slowly climb into the cockpits of the carriers and eventually the entire area is a bustle of activity.

---------------------------------

Karth sits back in his cabin, lounging on his black leather chair quietly. He had to make sure that they were quick about what they were about to do, or else it could all blow up in their faces, luckily the motto quickly took over his mind, "Loyalty above all else..."

OOC: Where are you attacking? The city or Ridgeville.

IC: Alex returned from the fiery inferno that was Ridgevill, though the village was closer to the frontline than Ridgeville no enermys had yet turned up, almost defeating the laying of the mines really. Alex pretended to go to bed, but when the clock struck 03:00 he got up and made his way to Dinhs room.
Dinh was already awake, sitting on his bed writing on another scrap of paper. "You havn't seen a notebook have you?" he asked.
"no." Alex lied, his honour was, he felt, dissappearing quicker than a sandsnake, first oath-breaking now lying! well it couldn't get any worse, he guessed. "are you ready to go?"
"i still can't walk, so I won't be able to 'go'"
"I can carry you."
"Not down stairs you can't I weigh about the same as you and anyway how would you open doors?"
"S**t! I might be able too I was first on the acadermy assult course!"
"So, I bet you didn't have to carry people down stairs."
"we had to carry people of the equivlent weight in a 3 mile long fell race, anyway I'm a rugby Number 8, I'm pritty strong."
"okay have a go."
Alex lifted Dinh easyly, it was hader due to the boys leg but he made i down stairs, "Now into the jeep and away!" They climbed in and where off."

Dinh dismissed his doubts about Alex when they reached the vehicle. as they say, let it ride... he thought.
"You're going to get into some deep shit over this, aren't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah." and turned sharp-left.
"I assume you didn't leave a note." Dinh persisted.
Alex shook his head, "No, they're going to be mad enough as it is."
Dinh nodded, "That they will-you could always say I overpowered you and took you hostage."
Alex Laughed "That's a good one..." The jeep thumped over a cattle-gate and hit the paved road south.
"We've got gas to get there?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah,spare can on the back, should last long enough."
"ammo?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded.
"You understand what you're doing, don't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex steered the jeep around a corner, "Of course. I'm trained."
Dinh leaned back in the passenger's seat, and sighed, right...okay, now I guess we hope for the best against all reason...
They managed to make 90 miles that night, through unseen terrain, slowly because Alex couldn't see right. The eased into Long Johns cave before sunrise, and slept the day away. The night came and again they set off, Alex thought their progress was labourusly slow, their would be a hunt on and if they didn't get to safty soon they wouldn't ever.
"Can you drive?" He asked Dinh,
"I think so."
"The thing is I can't see in the sark without NVG and without them where going nowhere, but if I wear them I have to go slowly because the pair I've got are old, so if you could drive. If we don't move soon they'll find us and winters coming soon, they'll be a search on and even if we can think up a story I'll be done at home and really dishonoured and well, you get my drift."
"what about pedals?"
"God, I didn't think of those, you can still bend you knee so you can do that any way all you have to do is push or pull. You good leg on the breaks. I know, I'll do it in the morningg, I need some string and wood. Ever read the book truckers? By Terry Pratchet? It's given me an idea."
"Like what?"
"Tell you later. I'm still thinking it through. You like Ian Dury and the Blockheads?"
"Who."
"i'll put a CD of his on." The sound filled the jeep with Reasons to be Cheerful.

OOC: Where are you attacking? The city or Ridgeville.

IC: Alex returned from the fiery inferno that was Ridgevill, though the village was closer to the frontline than Ridgeville no enermys had yet turned up, almost defeating the laying of the mines really. Alex pretended to go to bed, but when the clock struck 03:00 he got up and made his way to Dinhs room.
Dinh was already awake, sitting on his bed writing on another scrap of paper. "You havn't seen a notebook have you?" he asked.
"no." Alex lied, his honour was, he felt, dissappearing quicker than a sandsnake, first oath-breaking now lying! well it couldn't get any worse, he guessed. "are you ready to go?"
"i still can't walk, so I won't be able to 'go'"
"I can carry you."
"Not down stairs you can't I weigh about the same as you and anyway how would you open doors?"
"S**t! I might be able too I was first on the acadermy assult course!"
"So, I bet you didn't have to carry people down stairs."
"we had to carry people of the equivlent weight in a 3 mile long fell race, anyway I'm a rugby Number 8, I'm pritty strong."
"okay have a go."
Alex lifted Dinh easyly, it was hader due to the boys leg but he made i down stairs, "Now into the jeep and away!" They climbed in and where off."

Dinh dismissed his doubts about Alex when they reached the vehicle. as they say, let it ride... he thought.
"You're going to get into some deep shit over this, aren't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah." and turned sharp-left.
"I assume you didn't leave a note." Dinh persisted.
Alex shook his head, "No, they're going to be mad enough as it is."
Dinh nodded, "That they will-you could always say I overpowered you and took you hostage."
Alex Laughed "That's a good one..." The jeep thumped over a cattle-gate and hit the paved road south.
"We've got gas to get there?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah,spare can on the back, should last long enough."
"ammo?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded.
"You understand what you're doing, don't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex steered the jeep around a corner, "Of course. I'm trained."
Dinh leaned back in the passenger's seat, and sighed, right...okay, now I guess we hope for the best against all reason...
They managed to make 90 miles that night, through unseen terrain, slowly because Alex couldn't see right. The eased into Long Johns cave before sunrise, and slept the day away. The night came and again they set off, Alex thought their progress was labourusly slow, their would be a hunt on and if they didn't get to safty soon they wouldn't ever.
"Can you drive?" He asked Dinh,
"I think so."
"The thing is I can't see in the sark without NVG and without them where going nowhere, but if I wear them I have to go slowly because the pair I've got are old, so if you could drive. If we don't move soon they'll find us and winters coming soon, they'll be a search on and even if we can think up a story I'll be done at home and really dishonoured and well, you get my drift."
"what about pedals?"
"God, I didn't think of those, you can still bend you knee so you can do that any way all you have to do is push or pull. You good leg on the breaks. I know, I'll do it in the morningg, I need some string and wood. Ever read the book truckers? By Terry Pratchet? It's given me an idea."
"Like what?"
"Tell you later. I'm still thinking it through. You like Ian Dury and the Blockheads?"
"Who."
"i'll put a CD of his on." The sound filled the jeep with Reasons to be Cheerful.

OOC: Where are you attacking? The city or Ridgeville.

IC: Alex returned from the fiery inferno that was Ridgevill, though the village was closer to the frontline than Ridgeville no enermys had yet turned up, almost defeating the laying of the mines really. Alex pretended to go to bed, but when the clock struck 03:00 he got up and made his way to Dinhs room.
Dinh was already awake, sitting on his bed writing on another scrap of paper. "You havn't seen a notebook have you?" he asked.
"no." Alex lied, his honour was, he felt, dissappearing quicker than a sandsnake, first oath-breaking now lying! well it couldn't get any worse, he guessed. "are you ready to go?"
"i still can't walk, so I won't be able to 'go'"
"I can carry you."
"Not down stairs you can't I weigh about the same as you and anyway how would you open doors?"
"S**t! I might be able too I was first on the acadermy assult course!"
"So, I bet you didn't have to carry people down stairs."
"we had to carry people of the equivlent weight in a 3 mile long fell race, anyway I'm a rugby Number 8, I'm pritty strong."
"okay have a go."
Alex lifted Dinh easyly, it was hader due to the boys leg but he made i down stairs, "Now into the jeep and away!" They climbed in and where off."

Dinh dismissed his doubts about Alex when they reached the vehicle. as they say, let it ride... he thought.
"You're going to get into some deep shit over this, aren't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah." and turned sharp-left.
"I assume you didn't leave a note." Dinh persisted.
Alex shook his head, "No, they're going to be mad enough as it is."
Dinh nodded, "That they will-you could always say I overpowered you and took you hostage."
Alex Laughed "That's a good one..." The jeep thumped over a cattle-gate and hit the paved road south.
"We've got gas to get there?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded, "Yeah,spare can on the back, should last long enough."
"ammo?" Dinh asked.
Alex nodded.
"You understand what you're doing, don't you?" Dinh asked.
Alex steered the jeep around a corner, "Of course. I'm trained."
Dinh leaned back in the passenger's seat, and sighed, right...okay, now I guess we hope for the best against all reason...
They managed to make 90 miles that night, through unseen terrain, slowly because Alex couldn't see right. The eased into Long Johns cave before sunrise, and slept the day away. The night came and again they set off, Alex thought their progress was labourusly slow, their would be a hunt on and if they didn't get to safty soon they wouldn't ever.
"Can you drive?" He asked Dinh,
"I think so."
"The thing is I can't see in the sark without NVG and without them where going nowhere, but if I wear them I have to go slowly because the pair I've got are old, so if you could drive. If we don't move soon they'll find us and winters coming soon, they'll be a search on and even if we can think up a story I'll be done at home and really dishonoured and well, you get my drift."
"what about pedals?"
"God, I didn't think of those, you can still bend you knee so you can do that any way all you have to do is push or pull. You good leg on the breaks. I know, I'll do it in the morningg, I need some string and wood. Ever read the book truckers? By Terry Pratchet? It's given me an idea."
"Like what?"
"Tell you later. I'm still thinking it through. You like Ian Dury and the Blockheads?"
"Who."
"i'll put a CD of his on." The sound filled the jeep with Reasons to be Cheerful.

With time to kill in the cave, and the sunshade from the jeep, Dinh could work-slowly.
He put together a "Hinged Splint" using some of the wood, and a roll of fencing wire from the jeep (and lots of duct-tape-whoever had the jeep before had kept a good toolbox). "Too bad you couldn't score a welding mask, I could pull the filter off and fit up something for daytime seeing." The morning proceeded, and sunlight pushed into the cave-mouth, forcing Dinh to hunker down for a while and sleep.

Sundown

Dinh knew the sun was down before Alex did. "hey, wake up." he said, prodding. Alex opened his eyes.
Dinh had found something to use for a crutch-a forked branch that had been left behind by some eager campers a long time ago.
"You're up?!?" Alex said, sitting up in his seat.
Dinh grinned, "Yeah. tell you what, this sunset's pretty harsh." Alex noticed something else-Dinh had a pair of sunglasses on.
"Where'd you get those?" he asked.
Dinh shrugged, "Glovebox. They work well enough right now, but they won't stand up in direct sun... now, if the compass on the dash is right, we're about ten degrees off-course for Blood Pass, to the east." He unfolded a map-also from the glovebox. "Hey, I didn't see that there?" Alex asked.
Dinh shrugged, "It was actually under the toolbox. I pulled it out when I was hunting for tie-wire and tape. The breaks on my leg weren't healed far enough to be crooked, so it made setting it properly a lot easier." He pointed to the gas-can-"I can't handle that with this-"He pointed at his leg, "So you're watching the gas-guage, 'kay?"

"Fine. You sure about this?"
"it was your idea."
"Yeah, but still. If you got hurt..."
"can't be more hurt than this really."
"Your in a optermistic mood."
"Been listening to some of your records."
They set off. They where now 987 KM from Blood pass.

"Fine. You sure about this?"
"it was your idea."
"Yeah, but still. If you got hurt..."
"can't be more hurt than this really."
"Your in a optermistic mood."
"Been listening to some of your records."
They set off. They where now 987 KM from Blood pass.

The Jeep might have been first-world, but Dinh's driving was definitely "Third World"-coasting down hill whenever possible to save gas, while driving faster than is really technically safe across the flats.
Occasionally, he grabbed the crutch, and used it to hit the clutch-but most of the time, he "Power-shifted" like a drag racer-timing the throws without the clutch.
"WHERE'D YOU LEARN TO DRIVE LIKE THIS!!!" Alex shouted.
"WE'VE GOT A STUDEBAKER PICKUP-THE CLUTCH ON IT'S A PIECE OF SHIT! EASIER TO POWERSHIFT!" The jeep caught air-and came down hard, bouncing them both around.
"AREN'T WE GOING A LITTLE FAST??" Alex asked, shouting above the wind.
Dinh nodded, "NO, WE'RE NOT! ONLY GOING ABOUT FORTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR!" The jeep bounded over a gully, swinging the rear end left, then right.
Eventually, Dinh had to use the clutch, and they stopped under a spreading elm.
It took Alex a minute to realize that it was safe-after Dinh shut the little six-cylinder engine off.
"That was a little fast..." Alex said.
Dinh shrugged, "Sorry-I figured the less time we spent on the flat, the better off we were-besides, someone was moving a convoy on the road-low-light, not total blackout, so I don't think they saw us, or cared if they did...MRE?" He passed Alex one of the MRE's from the back of the jeep.
"Sure..."
They ate, checked the map, Dinh took bearings based on landmarks shown on the contours, and they talked.
"You can drive... you can do high-end first-aid stuff... and you were a shooter... When did you have time to get a life??" Alex asked.
Dinh shrugged, "That's a thing that's catch-as-can, like your music, y'know? It takes a lot of effort to be an 'A' student, I'm kind of a geek back home-makes up for Tommy's problems."
Alex looked up, the NVG's reflecting Dinh's face, "What problems?" he asked.
Dinh shrugged, "He's not real bright, and he's big-gets in a lot of trouble that way-starts shit, forgets shit, but the girls are all ga-ga over him 'cause he's got that moviestar face and he can bench-press a small tractor." he made some notes on the map, and folded it up.
"He was captured about an hour before they got me-dumbass stood up and skylined himself-tranqued in the first volley." he thumped the tires, hobbling around the jeep to the driver's side again. "Blew the whole ambush doing that. fuckin' moron also cost us his gun-he had the Watercooled .30, all he had to do was stay in his damn hole, and lay down fire when he was told. You ready to go?"
Alex nodded, and climbed back into the jeep.
"Sorry to hear about that... You don't sound like you miss him much." Alex said.
Dinh shrugged, "You get tired, y'know?" Dinh started the jeep, and they rolled out, "he's better off if someone else has to worry about him than if I do-maybe they'll get him to act like some of the shit he pulls is actually his own fault."

"Fine. You sure about this?"
"it was your idea."
"Yeah, but still. If you got hurt..."
"can't be more hurt than this really."
"Your in a optermistic mood."
"Been listening to some of your records."
They set off. They where now 987 KM from Blood pass.

The Jeep might have been first-world, but Dinh's driving was definitely "Third World"-coasting down hill whenever possible to save gas, while driving faster than is really technically safe across the flats.
Occasionally, he grabbed the crutch, and used it to hit the clutch-but most of the time, he "Power-shifted" like a drag racer-timing the throws without the clutch.
"WHERE'D YOU LEARN TO DRIVE LIKE THIS!!!" Alex shouted.
"WE'VE GOT A STUDEBAKER PICKUP-THE CLUTCH ON IT'S A PIECE OF SHIT! EASIER TO POWERSHIFT!" The jeep caught air-and came down hard, bouncing them both around.
"AREN'T WE GOING A LITTLE FAST??" Alex asked, shouting above the wind.
Dinh nodded, "NO, WE'RE NOT! ONLY GOING ABOUT FORTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR!" The jeep bounded over a gully, swinging the rear end left, then right.
Eventually, Dinh had to use the clutch, and they stopped under a spreading elm.
It took Alex a minute to realize that it was safe-after Dinh shut the little six-cylinder engine off.
"That was a little fast..." Alex said.
Dinh shrugged, "Sorry-I figured the less time we spent on the flat, the better off we were-besides, someone was moving a convoy on the road-low-light, not total blackout, so I don't think they saw us, or cared if they did...MRE?" He passed Alex one of the MRE's from the back of the jeep.
"Sure..."
They ate, checked the map, Dinh took bearings based on landmarks shown on the contours, and they talked.
"You can drive... you can do high-end first-aid stuff... and you were a shooter... When did you have time to get a life??" Alex asked.
Dinh shrugged, "That's a thing that's catch-as-can, like your music, y'know? It takes a lot of effort to be an 'A' student, I'm kind of a geek back home-makes up for Tommy's problems."
Alex looked up, the NVG's reflecting Dinh's face, "What problems?" he asked.
Dinh shrugged, "He's not real bright, and he's big-gets in a lot of trouble that way-starts shit, forgets shit, but the girls are all ga-ga over him 'cause he's got that moviestar face and he can bench-press a small tractor." he made some notes on the map, and folded it up.
"He was captured about an hour before they got me-dumbass stood up and skylined himself-tranqued in the first volley." he thumped the tires, hobbling around the jeep to the driver's side again. "Blew the whole ambush doing that. f---' moron also cost us his gun-he had the Watercooled .30, all he had to do was stay in his damn hole, and lay down fire when he was told. You ready to go?"
Alex nodded, and climbed back into the jeep.
"Sorry to hear about that... You don't sound like you miss him much." Alex said.
Dinh shrugged, "You get tired, y'know?" Dinh started the jeep, and they rolled out, "he's better off if someone else has to worry about him than if I do-maybe they'll get him to act like some of the shit he pulls is actually his own fault."
"Know how you feel, Sisi was just the same, smash now think later. Got good grades though, good at practical stuff. Not like me, as my mum said I'm more than likly to drift off into my own world one day. I like writing storys imagnitive stuff. I can do loads of creative stuff, no good at physical, well I'm okay at it but not as good as Ben Fryer, or Sisi. Sh got all A's for the physical exams and B= for the mentel ones to get into the ASS, I flunked the Physical ones but aced the mental ones so i got transfered to Sniper Squad and the Engerneers. Annoying, my parents wrn't happy, if both your kids get in the ASS now thats something to boast about, but an Assasin is very honourable. Still I'm a great shot with a sniper rifle. You ever read those Alex Rider books."
"Yes."
"Their the sort of thing they want me to do, save the world excetra. The high brass even take influance from them, nanotechnology. Big secret but we have this group called Sabaass it's planning to get rid of a hell of a lot of enermy troops. it's weapons based on the books. When enermy get their injections we've sabatarged the the stuff each has tiny particals of gold containing cyanide those will make for the heart. It has a protine on the outside, when that breaks it will release the cyanide into the victims eart about 4 days after their injection, and bang. The enermy die."
"How do you know all this?"
"My uncals high brass in the Sabaass, he tells me."

OOC: My turn to cause some pain...

IC:

Kenoko, Shinoxia
The Citadel

Nothing Less

The conflict in Aust is escalating....time to do something about it.

Those were the words that ran across the mind of the High King of Shinoxia, James O'Kelly as he prepared to talk with Fleet Commodore Horation McNeil and General Allan Fletcher.

"Sir, our 7th Fleet won't be enough to do the job, we must increase the size of our Task Force, an entire Armada if needed!" Fleet Commodore McNeil pleaded with his leader.

"Sir, the Austian's can handle the ground war, there's no need to send in troops yet but we should help them with their overall plan." General Fletcher told the High King.

Time to get drilled with questions.

James O'Kelly had to approve of a descision.

"An entire Armada, Fleet Commodore?" O'Kelly asked, shaking his head.

"Yes Sir, the Moosecovites have been doing alot to get rid of enemy Naval presence, but they'll need help."

The Fleet Commodore continued.

"We have the entire 2nd Armada deployed in CompleteGenocide, they could engage immediantly," he started to pace "if we deploy the 2nd Armada along with a Fleet of ships from the Afrika Korps, we can smash the enemy fleets between us."

O'Kelly chuckled.

"So, we commit one of our four Armadas to destroying an enemy that we barely know."

McNeil looked confused.

"Uhh, yes, this is a prime oppurtunity to show Shinoxian promience in the region, not to mention 'Love thy Neighbor.'"

He winked.

"Yes, your strategy does seem to fit the situation," he took a breath and contiued "you have my permission to activate the 2nd Armada from CompleteGenocide and use them to squash this imperialistic threat."

"And the African 1st Fleet?" Hortaio McNeil asked.

"Very well, you may activate them as well."

"Sir, with these naval assets I promise you victory." The Fleet Commodore said in closing.

"Nothing less." O'Kelly answered.

Commodore Allan McNeil left the room.

"It seems as if you have made a good descision, sir, the 2nd and 1st Fleet will have no problem with these....infidels." General Fletcher told the High King.

"Infidels are they, good use of words General."

"Sir, how would you like me to help in this campaign." General Fletcher asked, looking up at his King.

"I'm no military man General, you know that," James O'Kelly told him flatly "if you see it fit to advise the Austian Emperor about this attack do so, you have my approval."

"You should give yourself more credit, High King, you have done more than you think." Fletcher told him.

High King O'Kelly smiled.

"I should hope so, now you should make preperations to arrive in Aust."

"Yes sir."

General Fletcher prepared to leave, but as he opened the door he heard his Sovereign's voice.

"General?"

"Sir?"

"Nothing less."

"Yes Sir."

OOC: Prepare for the activation of the 2nd Armada of the Shinoxian Royal Navy, and the 1st Fleet of the African Naval Core.

The African Naval forces are en route from Shin-Africa and will engage in about 6 hours, 2 NS hours.

The Shinoxian Naval force are stationed in CompleteGenocide and will engage upon activation.

African Force:

African 3rd Armada

African 1st Fleet[/b
[b]Main Battle Group
x1 Ultor Class Super Carrier
ANS AC-1B Zulu
x2 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
ANS CS-1B Hyena
ANS CS-2B Persian
x2 Brandenburg Class Frigates
ANS FS-1B Desert Vulture
ANS FS-2B Rolling Thunder
x2 Leopard Seal Class Attack Frigates
ANS FF-7A Broadsword
ANS FF-8A Fear
x2 Glacier Class Destroyers
ANS DD-1B Seeker
ANS DD-2B Katana
x2 Sea Wolf Class Attack Subs
ANS SMN-1B Lemur
ANS SMN-2B Baboon
x1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship
ANS BB-1B Cheetah
x2 Arsenal Class Logistic Ships
ANS LS-1B Food
ANS LS-2B Ammunition
x1 Avenger Class Minesweeper
ANS MS-1B Minuteman
x1 Mercy Class Hospital Ship
ANS AHS-1B Humanity

Fast Attack Battle Group
x3 Skjold Class Missile Boats
ANS SMB-1B Prowess
ANS SMB-2B Night Sky
ANS SMB-3B Mischief
x3 Penguin Class Corvettes
ANS SSC-19B Anaconda
ANS SSC-20B Curse
ANS SSC-21B Hierarchy
x4 Phantom Class Attack Ships
ANS AAS-1B Dark Knight
ANS AAS-2B Martian
ANS AAS-3B Cryptkeeper
ANS AAS-4B Xeres
x5 Visby Class Corvettes
ANS SAC-1B Longshanks
ANS SAC-2B Roughrider
ANS SAC-3B Buffalo Bill
ANS SAC-4B Gorilla
ANS SAC-5B Commander


Destroyer Attack Group
x4 Glacier Class Destroyers
ANS SWN-1B Black Hawk
ANS SWN-2B Phalanx
ANS SWN-12B Criminal
ANS SWN-13B Rogue

Shinoxian Naval Force:

Shinoxian 2nd Armada

Shinoxian 8th Fleet
Main Battle Group
x1 Ultor Class Super Carrier
SRS AC-1A Penguin
x2 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
SRS CS-7A Barracuda
SRS CS-8A Excalibur
x2 Brandenburg Class Anti-Submarine Frigates
SRS FS-7A Pegasus
SRS FS-8A Zeus
x2 Leopard Class Attack Frigates
SRS FD-7A Triton
SRS FD-8A Fury
x2 Glacier Class Destroyers
SRS DD-7A Hero
SRS DD-8A Poseidon
x2 Sea Wolf Class Attack Subs
SRS SMN-7A Thor
SRS SMN-8A Odyssey
x1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship
SRS BB-4A Retribution
x2 Arsenal Class Logistic Ships
SRS LS-7A Erosion
SRS LS-8A Protection
x1 Avenger Class Minesweeper
SRS MS-4A Defender
x1 Mercy Class Hospital Ship
SRS SHS-4A Life

Fast Attack Battle Group
x3 Skjold Class Missile Boats
SRS SMB-10A Daichi
SRS SMB-11A Mad Cat
SRS SMB-12A Vulture
x3 Penguin Class Corvettes
SRS SSC-28A Dream Weaver
SRS SSC-29A Trafalgar
SRS SSC-30A Kaiser
x4 Phantom Class Attack Ships
SRS SAS-13A Beacon
SRS SAS-14A Demon
SRS SAS-15A Ross
SRS SAS-16A Longboat
x5 Visby Class Corvettes
SRS SAC-16A Battlehawk
SRS SAC-17A Gunslinger
SRS SAC-18A Banshee
SRS SAC-19A Genocide
SRS SAC-20A Constellation

Destroyer Attack Group
x4 Glacier Class Destroyer
SRS SWN-7A The Bruce
SRS SWN-8A Upheaval
SRS SWN-19A Braveheart
SRS SWN-20A Argonian

Shinoxian 9th Fleet
Main Battle Group
x1 Ultor Class Super Carrier
SRS AC-5A St. Patrick
x2 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
SRS CS-9A Arctic Fox
SRS CS-10A Gallic
x2 Brandenburg Class Anti-Submarine Frigates
SRS FS-9A Guardian
SRS FS-10A Hydra
x2 Leopard Seal Class Attack Frigates
SRS FF-9A Albatross
SRS FF-10A Crucible
x2 Glacier Class Destroyers
SRS DD-9A Tempest
SRS DD-10A Tsunami
x2 Sea Wolf Class Attack Subs
SRS SMN-9A Hercules
SRS SMN-10A Silent
x1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship
SRS BB-5A Nightmare
x2 Arsenal Class Logistic Ships
SRS LS-9A Umbrella
SRS LS-10A Tactical
x1 Avenger Class Minesweeper
SRS MS-5A Shield
x1 Mercy Class Hospital Ship
SRS SHS-5A Lighthouse

Fast Attack Battle Group
x3 Skjold Class Missile Boats
SRS SMB-13A Hellion
SRS SMB-14A Python
SRS SMB-15A Cobra
x3 Penguin Class Corvettes
SRS SSC-31A Jaguar
SRS SSC-32A Smoke
SRS SSC-33A Viper
x4 Phantom Class Attack Ships
SRS SAS-17A Viking
SRS SAS-18A Broadsword
SRS SAS-19A Crossbow
SRS SAS-20A Maelstrom
x5 Visby Class Corvettes
SRS SAC-21A Visigoth
SRS SAC-22A Legionnaire
SRS SAC-23A Stormraven
SRS SAC-24A Punisher
SRS SAC-25A William Wallace

Destroyer Attack Group
x4 Glacier Class Destroyer
SRS SWN-9A Storm
SRS SWN-10A Arctic Hare
SRS SWN-21A Stormchild
SRS SWN-22A Loki

Shinoxian 2nd Fleet
Main Battle Group
x1 Ultor Class Super Carrier
SRS AC-6A Shamrock
x2 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers
SRS CS-11A Thresher
SRS CS-12A Sterling
x2 Brandenburg Class Anti-Submarine Frigates
SRS FS-11A Fighting Irish
SRS FS-12A Plague
Leopard Seal Class Attack Frigates
SRS FF-11A Black Standard
SRS FF-12A Fanatic
x2 Glacier Class Destroyers
SRS DD-11A Hornet
SRS DD-12A Wasp
x2 Sea Wolf Class Attack Subs
SRS SMN-11A Aftershock
SRS SMN-12A Tremor
x1 Indomitable Class Super Battleship
SRS BB-6A Atlas
x2 Arsenal Class Logistic Ships
SRS LS-11A Requirement
SRS LS-12A Chain
x1 Avenger Class Minesweeper
SRS MS-6A Scholar
x1 Mercy Class Hospital Ship
SRS SHS-6A Florence Nightingale

Fast Attack Battle Group
x3 Skjold Class Missile Boats
SRS SMB-16A Venom
SRS SMB-17A Mauler
SRS SMB-18A Executioner
x3 Penguin Class Corvettes
SRS SSC-34A Snake
SRS SSC-35A Magician
SRS SSC-36A Orchestrator
x4 Phantom Class Attack Ships
SRS SAS-21A Mongolian
SRS SAS-22A Enterprise
SRS SAS-23A Khan
SRS SAS-24A Tiger
x5 Visby Class Corvettes
SRS SAC-26A Liberator
SRS SAC-27A Knight
SRS SAC-28A Justice
SRS SAC-29A Brimstone
SRS SAC-30A Spartan

Destroyer Attack Group
x4 Glacier Class Destroyers
SRS SWN-11A Remembrance
SRS SWN-12A Tomahawk
SRS SWN-23A Raven
SRS SWN-24A Insurgent

All Aircraft Carriers will be carrying

x75 Aardvark Stealth Superiority Fighters
x25 Arctic Subsider Stealth Bombers
x10 P3 Orions
x5 EA-6B Prowlers
x5 E-2C Hawkeyes

IC:

Port Shining Path, CompleteGenocide
Shinoxian 2nd Armada

Into the Squall

All around him, ships loaded up and prepared to enter the battles for control of the seas of Aust.

Sailor Adam Fraiser stood watching from his ship in 2nd Armada, 2nd Fleet, the SRS SAC-21A Liberator.

He had been preparing himself to enter this Squall, he told his wife goodbye and made his will clear.

Time to Do or Die. he told himself.

"Mr. Frasier!"

Adam recognized the sound of an officer's voice.

"Back on duty."

"Yes Sir!"

Adam Frasier hurried off, time to fight.

OOC: I'm going on a Rugby tour to wales for the next few days (until monday) so can we suspend this a bit, if I can't post I can't defend and I'll be to busy playing to go on the net.

Thanks to recent data coming from orbit, a second force of fifteen divisions of soldiers parachuted down just thirty kilometres from the advancing enemy, and made camp; while the Behemoths they came from went back to their escorting Skyriders and then to base.

On the ocean
The fleets linked together into large stationary concentric circles, with the aircraft carriers in the centre. The range was verified by satellite as 429 km from the nearest enemy fleet; near enough for the Poltergeist's first mission. The normal Skyrider scouting expeditions had shown a large prescence, such as that used for ferrying large numbers of troops. A larger Skyrider force, comprising of roughly four squadrons' worth, lifted off, alongside two squadrons of Poltergeists.
The aircraft flew high to avoid possible detection, and reached their targets with little effort, releasing their high-explosive bombs from a height of 8 km; then turned back to the massed fleet.

The original force of six divisions of soldiers had reached a cavern less than 20 km from the front line, and camped for the night.

Just made a long post that got deleted, should have done it on word. I will make another formal one later but I basically said I supported Aust and SLA. I activated:

300,000 Troops armed with HK XM8s and M-16s, TBD Ultimate Sniper Rifles, and SAW Light Machine Guns
800 Crusader Artillery on Roberticus facing Rocky Bambino
Coastal Defense Systems on Roberticus Island and Coastal Roberticus
10 Sea Squid Attack Subs
5 Phantom Stealth Class Attack Ships
1 Nimitz Stealth Class Carrier

Just made a long post that got deleted, should have done it on word. I will make another formal one later but I basically said I supported Aust and SLA. I activated:

300,000 Troops armed with HK XM8s and M-16s, TBD Ultimate Sniper Rifles, and SAW Light Machine Guns
800 Crusader Artillery on Roberticus facing Rocky Bambino
Coastal Defense Systems on Roberticus Island and Coastal Roberticus
10 Sea Squid Attack Subs
5 Phantom Stealth Class Attack Ships
1 Nimitz Stealth Class Carrier

OOC: Bit late as this appears to have finished. and moontain wtf r u onabout 6 divisions of soldiers sheltering in a CAVERN!!!

The bombing was from the pass to the town.

"This is odd sir, we have a full withdrawal order."

"No, our services are required elsewhere. I know what is going to happen, it has been brewing for a while now."

"What is that?"

"In time, you will see. What does a star do before it goes nova?"

"The gravity from it pulls everything inward then a massive explosion outward."

"That is Phyrrics future"

The message was sent out every three seconds from all military communications satilites to all USIH vessels.

Return to port. Do not engage enemy vessels unless the safety of your command is at stake.

On the IHS Raider the ESM mast was raised to look for enemy radars after no submarines had been detected following their sprint. The satilite reciever was also raised and the orders recieved. The submarine, as well as the Tuscon and Ohio began taking a long route around the SLOA and follow the carriers back towards Gillen.

PT-105, First Fast Attack Group

Sir, we have three incoming enigmas on a steady course, closing our postion!

Captain Robert Lee: My god, how long?

I just picked them up, I swear they werent there a second ago sir, id say, 30 minutes or less.

Lee: Thank god, lets put her at full speed and pray...

Yes sir, deploying hydrofoils....

A humming sound his heard as the ensign rev's up the throttle, the ship lurches a bit, and then becomes steady, as a speed is maintained steady and slowly excellerated.

Lee (on the phone): Yes sir, a missile, and judging by the speed id say harpoon, probably launched from that damn sub we were chasing.

Admiral Ross: Well, is everyone alright?

Lee: Yes sir, we bugged just in time, and it appears so did our sub.

Ross: Very well, return to the group and await instructions.

Lee: Very well sir.

The ships from the first assualt group, including the subs, are returning to the other ships of the group. My fleet is going to take up a shadowing position behind Independant Hitman's fleeing fleet.

SRS BB-4A Retribution
8th Fleet

Silly kid.

Commodore Trey Shannon had been watching the movements of enemy ships.

Not good he thought to himself.

He knew what was going on.

His enemy was taking advantage of the ceasefire to retreat and mobilize another attack.

Not gonna happen he told himself.

"Sir," the Commodore looked behind him to see an officer, Mr. Gregory,"the enemy fleet seems to be retreating, I suggest we take advantage of this oppurtunity and strategize."

Commodore Shannon laughed.

"Have you learned nothing of fleet movements Mr. Gregory?" the officer looked confused "Aust has declared a ceasefire, they are following back to prepare for another assault."

"Commodore are you positive" Mr. Gregory asked.

"Come here let me show you something," Trey Shannon ushered the young officer to his desk, where they watched a monitor with enemy fleet movements "do you see all of those little dots going backwards?"

"Yes sir."

"They are retreating correct?"

"Yes sir."

"We should take advantage of this correct?"

"Yes sir."

Commodore Shannon smiled.

"Now that we have this all cleared up," he stood up from his desk "I want you to relay an order for the entire 2nd Armada."

"Sir?" Mr. Gregory looked ready.

"ENEMY RETREATING, ENGAGE AND DESTROY, short and sweet."

"Right away, Commodore."

Mr. Gregory left.

Silly kid. he thought to himself and went back to his monitor.

Destroyer Attack Group
SRS SWN-9A Storm

Let's Engage!

The order had come through to engage the retreating enemy fleet, "ENEMY RETREATING, ENGAGE AND DESTROY", their order had been a short one and to the point.

Destroyer Attack Group Commander Ryan Rommel had to follow orders.

There were dots on his radar...

"Sir," an insubordinate in his control room got his attention "we're picking up multiple ships on radar, their just in range."

"How big are they?" the Commander asked.

"Too soon to tell, but they are moving pretty quick," he paused and said "Frigates perhaps?"

"Frigates." Commander Ryan told himself.

"You know the orders, Let's Engage!"

"Yes sir!"

Time for a fight.

"Shift to full throttle, let's catch these guys and make them wish they had never became sailors," he leaned back in his chair "here we go."

..::Encrypted Message (4096Kb)::..
TO: Task Force 1
FR: NAVCOM
SUB: Recall

All TF1 ships are hereby recalled to port. Do not engage any forces unless presented with an immediate threat to TF1's safety. All foreign naval units are to be identified as neutral unless TF1 is notified otherwise. Any threats issued by foreign naval vessals are to be taken seriously and any threat is to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
..::End Encrypted Message::..

Joint Staging area, Rocky Bambino...

Then, one day, the foreigners just... left.
The Asiatics seemed to be quite certain of what they were doing the night before, but now...
empty buildings, countless tons of equipment, all empty. Even the trays in the chow halls were left behind.
drifting in the breeze, was the reason why.
a magazine article, showing people emerging from some kind of cavern, dressed in ordinary clothing.
The headline reads: "Chemical Weapons residue less dangerous than initially believed!"

The docks, built over weeks by dedicated people, would remain standing for decades-whoever got the land now, would have a pre-made port facility, and a four-lane highway to the Aust border, and a fortified port city waiting with an international-class airport already half-completed.
A city with electric power, running water, and a good sewer system.

Barracks armouries were stocked with rifles and small-arms-abandoned in the haste to depart, while warehouses near the docks sat, crammed with all the consumables to start an army, or a war.
Except for fuel, medicine, and food. A readymade city on the only waterfront land within hundereds of kilometers quiet enough to support a real port.

The Nuevo Kowloonese were just gone.

The Fleet slowly advanced forward. Whether to attack Aust or his attackers remains to be seen....

OOC:
My Fleet:

5th Fleet
HMS Norrington Nimitz Aircraft Carrier
HMS Dauntless Nimitz Aircraft Carrier
HMS Lobitania Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Hirmania Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Falajal Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Keuo Kona Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Sparrow Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Trucelent Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Obliteration Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS KHA Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Adama Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Starbuck Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Viper Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS KFA Leviathan Class Destroyer
HMS Port Royale Dotagian Class Battleship
HMS High Imperator Dotagian Class Battleship
HMS King of The Waves Dotagian Class Battleship
HMS Phantasmagoria Dotagian Class Battleship
HMS Black Pearl Dotagian Class Battleship
HMS Imperialism JAK Class Missile Frigate
HMS Opal JAK Class Missile Frigate
HMS Destrier JAK Class Missile Frigate
HMS Wisconsin JAK Class Missile Frigate
HMS Texas JAK Class Missile Frigate
HMS Jakaleen AEIGIS Cruiser
HMS Sea Lion AEIGIS Cruiser

(OOC: Sneak attack on the nations still in the harbor.)

Finally, with the good omen of all of those troops leaving, Yurka could finally follow with it's plan. All of the 1,000 artillery immediately point towards sea at Aust's enemies while the entire air force aboard the ships launches a sneak attack, bombing and firing upon the nearest unwary ships while the four bombers drop huge amounts of cyanide gas at the enemy. The submarines turn on all of the enemy subs still remaining and fire barrages of missiles.

The Emperor's Fist stood tall as a huge horn was blown and the 1,000 artillery quickly began firing at the carriers and refuel ships closest to shore. All of which elapses in less than 10 minutes. The infantry and tanks move forward towards Aust's border to help is ally.

Meanwhile, in his cabin aboard the emperor's might, Karth looked out at the explosions, gas, and flames with a peaceful smile on his face, the emperor's will has been completed and as long as they could hold on for just awhile longer everything will be ok, "Live for the emperor... Die for the emperor..."

OOC: Hey, don't steal my OOC writing :wink:

That's better :)

((OOC: Yeah but it doesn't have the same effect when I'm doing such a massive backstab 8) ))

Commandante Kevin looked at the sea, the fleet was not far from the Coast of SLOA.

"Ah, yes Norrington" He said gesturing at the young messenger.

"Commandante, the enemies of SLOA are in retreat. Perhaps we should withdraw?"

"No, the fleet will stay here until further notice"

OOC:
Is there any enemies for me to destroy left?

bump!

OOC: I'm trying to engages some frigates/destroyers of one of the enemy fleets, but their not responding.

Can someone respond to my post?

OOC: I'm trying to engages some frigates/destroyers of one of the enemy fleets, but their not responding.

Can someone respond to my post?

OOC: Whats all this about retreating? I believe that phyrric and the rest of our reasons for pulling out are ur unbelievable defences and stupid manpowers. You attack that fleet and i may change my mind and just wipe your off the sea. Thats still 10 carriers in there, thats a lot of planes and ordenance not to mention the escorts.

OOC: Whats all this about retreating? I believe that phyrric and the rest of our reasons for pulling out are ur unbelievable defences and stupid manpowers. You attack that fleet and i may change my mind and just wipe your off the sea. Thats still 10 carriers in there, thats a lot of planes and ordenance not to mention the escorts.

OOC: I never saw a post where you said you had 10 carriers in the area but fortuantely I have 6 carriers with hundreds of other ships in the region as well.

Not counting all the battleships in our waters...

OOC: Whats all this about retreating? I believe that phyrric and the rest of our reasons for pulling out are ur unbelievable defences and stupid manpowers. You attack that fleet and i may change my mind and just wipe your off the sea. Thats still 10 carriers in there, thats a lot of planes and ordenance not to mention the escorts.

OOC: I know that, thats why I waited to attack and pretended that Aust was my target. You may have more carriers, but thats why I attacked so spontaneously, along with my 1,000 artillery firing at all the ships at sea not belonging to me or Dimmimar. Read the post, I pulled a quick attack so that you wouldn't have time to send out all of your planes :wink:

OOC: Whats all this about retreating? I believe that phyrric and the rest of our reasons for pulling out are ur unbelievable defences and stupid manpowers. You attack that fleet and i may change my mind and just wipe your off the sea. Thats still 10 carriers in there, thats a lot of planes and ordenance not to mention the escorts.

OOC: I know that, thats why I waited to attack and pretended that Aust was my target. You may have more carriers, but thats why I attacked so spontaneously, along with my 1,000 artillery firing at all the ships at sea not belonging to me or Dimmimar. Read the post, I pulled a quick attack so that you wouldn't have time to send out all of your planes :wink:

OOC: My ships were still over a days sailing away from the northern tip of the antarctic! No artillery on earth has the range to reach that far! Geezus.

OOC: Whats all this about retreating? I believe that phyrric and the rest of our reasons for pulling out are ur unbelievable defences and stupid manpowers. You attack that fleet and i may change my mind and just wipe your off the sea. Thats still 10 carriers in there, thats a lot of planes and ordenance not to mention the escorts.

OOC: I know that, thats why I waited to attack and pretended that Aust was my target. You may have more carriers, but thats why I attacked so spontaneously, along with my 1,000 artillery firing at all the ships at sea not belonging to me or Dimmimar. Read the post, I pulled a quick attack so that you wouldn't have time to send out all of your planes :wink:

Um, that's a Lot of ships. Most of which belong to Wazican and Dancing Moose-your allies. My pullout likely preceded Phyrric's, seeing as I was the only one in the vicinity who wasn't deeply engaged in combat operations (did my job, set up the base until he could take over...)
You're also shooting at targets that aren't "Flat"-they're moving laterally, and they're moving vertically. Still, with 1,000 pieces, you can almost rely on dumb luck to get a hit or two. (then again, if you're using 1000 arty pieces, you must be relying on luck... a competent gun-crew would tell the FDO to stuff it.)

OOC: Whats all this about retreating? I believe that phyrric and the rest of our reasons for pulling out are ur unbelievable defences and stupid manpowers. You attack that fleet and i may change my mind and just wipe your off the sea. Thats still 10 carriers in there, thats a lot of planes and ordenance not to mention the escorts.

OOC: I know that, thats why I waited to attack and pretended that Aust was my target. You may have more carriers, but thats why I attacked so spontaneously, along with my 1,000 artillery firing at all the ships at sea not belonging to me or Dimmimar. Read the post, I pulled a quick attack so that you wouldn't have time to send out all of your planes :wink:

Um, that's a Lot of ships. Most of which belong to Wazican and Dancing Moose-your allies. My pullout likely preceded Phyrric's, seeing as I was the only one in the vicinity who wasn't deeply engaged in combat operations (did my job, set up the base until he could take over...)
You're also shooting at targets that aren't "Flat"-they're moving laterally, and they're moving vertically. Still, with 1,000 pieces, you can almost rely on dumb luck to get a hit or two. (then again, if you're using 1000 arty pieces, you must be relying on luck... a competent gun-crew would tell the FDO to stuff it.)

OOC: Alright, well if there are any of my enemies in the harbor uhhh... I'm firing at them, if not I'm just making alot of noise, no doubt to show off how impossible landing nearby will be.

IC: After a full minute the artillery stopped and the bombing of the enemy(If any) was also concluded. Karth Grimoire watched on with his gas mask and then picked up his radio and sent an encrypted message back to Yurka.



Your highness, I am happy to inform you that we have taken the harbor without any losses. I doubt we will be needing reinforcements, but if they attack we MAY need more ammunition for the artillery. Hopefully we can get some directly from Aust.

"Loyalty Above all Else"

General Karth Grimoire

Due to recent intelligence received by the nation of Roberticus from other allies, Roberticus is moving one million troops into Aust. We also have most of our navy, air force, and armor on alert. I will be posting a list later on. Sorry about the relatively little rping, but I'm at school so I gotta make it quick.

Roberticus unless you are an ally of Aust, any attempt to come anywhere near the coast of Rocky Bambino(The closest coast) will be met with hostility(1,000 Artillery along the shore, Small naval force, along with a sizeable airforce). Our ally Aust must be protected against all of our enemies no matter the cost!

"Loyalty Above all Else..."

After finding the thousand or so survivivors, they were all boarded onto a military vessel and sent to a Red Cross in the Justinopian Kingdom

After all the fighting was ceased the remaining citizens of NK, along with some government officials to help set up a new government and secure everything needed to keep this people surviving. But, until that time next year, the Justinopian Kingdom, in order to protect NK from invasion, claimed it a territory of the JK until they set up their government.

Due to the silence of Aust's enemies we would like to ask if any of Aust's allies would be willing to commit troops to man the 1,000 artillery along the shore. This way we can concentrate on our war with Allanea.

If not thats alright.

Yurka will be removing the following from Aust to combat Allanea:

100,000 soldiers
200 Tanks

OOC: Now this looks at an end then I just want to apologise for my allys behavor, if what I read is thrue and they have been GODMODing then I am afraid that they must tone down their forces. Pity really this could have been really good. Not much I can do about it. Sorry I've been away.
Aust

OOC: Now this looks at an end then I just want to apologise for my allys behavor, if what I read is thrue and they have been GODMODing then I am afraid that they must tone down their forces. Pity really this could have been really good. Not much I can do about it. Sorry I've been away.
Aust.

The first Aust troopers moved slowly into RB, on the last dawn before winter. They had 45 minuates of daylight left. It was deserted. Their where no enermy troops, no resitance! "Sir, their are no enermy troops in RB, the reports where correct."
"well done captain, claim the country for Aust and we will give you a knighthood."
"Yes, sir."
The captain stood on the tallest tower of the city, over looking the land, "this place is now Austs!" He cried and place the Austian flag on the floor. The enermys best chance to get rid of the emporer was gone, Aust had a port, a coastline, the defencive line was renforced and most emportantly, Aust was safe.

Which 'ally' are you talking about?