NationStates Jolt Archive

The new pirate group dubbed People0963 were not well known. They had kept a low profile for 20 years of organizing and building a few secret bases and obtaining black market armed ships and of course "legitimate" merchies who did commerce to get money. The commerce they did was far from legal, but it paid the bills.

Aboard the Farragut class DDG, Victory; in the middle of the Pacific

The Farragut class is a stealthy one that is well armed, it is based off the DD-X

Radar: Sir, the Holland America Line cruiser MS Volendam is at 10 miles bearing 270.

CO: Flight ops, get a UAV up to target the Radio mast for our main guns.

Flight: aye sir, it will be up in 8 minutes.

CO: I want the radio mast targeted

The captain knew what he was doing, his commanders told him they learned that the Volendam class cruise liners of HAL required the main mast for radio and removing it cut off their communication. The captain wanted to raid the ship and kill people. He was what would be called a sociopath, but all pirates were that.

Flight: The UAV has main radio mast targeted.

CO: Tactical, fire the 5 in gun at the mast, limit damage to the ship's superstructure, I don't want that damn thing falling in the lido pool, I wouldn't mind a swim if we get the chance.

TAO: aye sir, gun is targeted, firing now.

The gun sent out a 5 in shell that hit the Crows Nest lounge on the top deck of the ship, the radio tower above it was destroyed. The crows nest was obliverated, there had been a party with 150 passengers and crew in the room. All were killed or injured.

The exercise room and health spa on the Lido Deck, below the Crows Nest was severly damaged. Only 2 crew members were in there that night, they were both killed.

The bridge was a deck below that. Most of the damage was above the bridge, but the port wing was crushed and most the officers including the Security officer died.

The Victory pulled up to the damaged Volendam. 100 armed pirates who had been in the Victory came aboard with M-16s, some had grenades and pistols too. THere was no resistance from the people aboard Volendam as they knew the Destroyer, flying the US flag, could kill them at any moment.

The men stole some valubles and got what they wanted, the ship was carrying $300 million in gold bars. A man the pirates had in the ycargo offices of HAL told the pirates this and thus caused them to target Volendam. They hauled their loot aboard the Victory and left the Volendam. At 5 miles, the Victory fired 5 in guns at the ship, the captain was loving it, killing to him was like sex. He enjoyed torturing the poor souls aboard the Volendam. After 5 minutes, he fired 2 Mk-48 torpedoes and sent Volendam to the bottom, that was 5 days ago.



OOC: here is a page with links to deckplans of Volendam, sorry there isn't a direct link to it.
http://hollandamerica.com/fleet/fleetHome.do?ship=vo

The Commonwealth condemns this act of piracy and wanton death. Be warned that this will not be tolerated. We demand that reparation be paid to the families of the passengers and crew, the gold returned, the personnel responsible turned over to an international court for trial. All operations must end immediately. If this ultimantum is not met, military action by the OMP will be swift. Thank you.

Secretary Barlow,
Department of the Navy

Member of the Organization of Maritime Powers
Member of the Council of Air Powers

you are too late, try and find us, we are far from the incident and will never pay reparations.

OOC: I have been on the Volendam for a cruise and want to kick my own ass for sinking her. the greatest luxeries on Earth.

OOC: OK... Could you post the location of your nation? A map or something would be helpful to RP with.

As a member of OMP, I second Granzi's ultimatum.

Official Communique from Jiggady:
To: People0963

If you are even in need of a safe port, the waters of Jiggady are open to you. Port Blood or Port Klatchia are well protected and hidden away in our island chains.

Our nation has a long history in piracy and carries it out today on a limited basis, we will be happy to offer you any services.

Official Communique from Jiggady:
To: People0963

If you are even in need of a safe port, the waters of Jiggady are open to you. Port Blood or Port Klatchia are well protected and hidden away in our island chains.

Our nation has a long history in piracy and carries it out today on a limited basis, we will be happy to offer you any services.

OOC: Jiggady, we strongly advise against this. Your offering support for a pirate nation (and you being one yourself) will not be tolerated by the Commonwealth. We suggest withdrawing that support or face retaliation.

We formally condemn this action and demand that the ultimatem of our OMP allies be met. Needless to say, we'll support our allies in whatever way we can.

Are you mocking the traditions and history of our great nation Granzi? We are not prone to violence outside our own waters but do not make idle threats against our sovereignty. We will take a respectfull distance from what plays out here, but do not begin making threats towards our nation. Lest you want the joint navys of our region to get involved. Jiggady will make no threats nor take no offensive measures towards your own nation, but beware against moving on us, because you dont like our practices or history.

Respectfully yours,
Supreme Chief of State

.......

Maybe I'm just dumb, but it seems to me that the problem isn't with your nation's sovereignty or tradition, but rather with the whole killing-of-innocent-civilians-for-fun thing. I stand by my previous and constant stance of providing swift justice to any and all pirates that come to my attention as a member of the OMP.

As a member of the OMP, I stand by what my allies said.

Are you mocking the traditions and history of our great nation Granzi? We are not prone to violence outside our own waters but do not make idle threats against our sovereignty. We will take a respectfull distance from what plays out here, but do not begin making threats towards our nation. Lest you want the joint navys of our region to get involved. Jiggady will make no threats nor take no offensive measures towards your own nation, but beware against moving on us, because you dont like our practices or history.

Respectfully yours,
Supreme Chief of State

The Commonwealth respects your sovereignty completely, however, when support for a pirate nation is given, then it does become our issue.

OOC: If you want we can RP some likely frieghter targets from Noitan Teppup, due to political termoil in our nation and reduced military the reaction will not be anything serious, just alot of "Oh no, our trade, damn them pesky pirates...

Telegram me if your interested.

You have the support of the 1st fleet in hunting down these pirates.

OOC: Actually, how would anyone know of this pirate attack unless one or more of these things happened:

1) the ship attacked was actually able to send off a distress call
2) survivors somehow managed to sent out a message
3) the attacked ship failed to meet it's scheduled port of call, thereby initiating a search. Only then would the search and rescue able to determine anything.
4) the pirates themselves send a message to some media outlet claiming responsibility.

IC:

To: Granzi Diplomats, et. al. (against pirates)
From: Vrak Diplomatic Corps
Subject: Piracy

If belligerent movements are made against any province of the Klatch, rest assured that our response will be swift.

Guys, I don't think that People 0963 is going to reply. Vrak, are you refering to the OMP or People 0963, who did claim responsibility. (see above)

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Guys, I don't think that People 0963 is going to reply. Vrak, are you refering to the OMP or People 0963, who did claim responsibility. (see above)

OOC:

My IC response was directed at nations who don't like pirates while my OCC remarks were more in the form of a question and directed at the participants in this thread. Hope that clears things up.

OOC: Sorry or my absence, I'm back.
There is no reason for anyone to know of an attack at this time.

IC: "Helm steer left full rudder, new course 197. Take us towards the home port of Jiggady," ordered the CO of the Victory while aboard the Maersk line steamer Julius Fucik.

"doing it now sir, rudder is left full and now coming amidships at course 197," reponded the helm

The Victory was steaming next to the Maersk line cargo ship Julius Fucik. Polarny had numerous covered barges and the VIctory was disguised as one of them.

"Sir, I estimate entrance to the protected harbor in 8 hours," said the navigator. "I think this will protect us. No one will attack a Maersk ship, doing so risks a war with much of Europe. Besides no one knows Volendam was attacked. I mean, there was a storm and Holland America Line ships have had electronic failures where they lost communication and radio and were "lost" to the monitors on land."

The navigator was right, Volendam's older sister, the Veendam, had an electrical failure where there was no communication with the ship.

OOC: Responsibility for the attack has been taken, and messages have been intercepted from Jiggardy offering a safe harbor. If Jiggardy knows about you, so do we. Even if it was sent secretly. I don't care how good your encryption is.

IC: In response to possible pirate threats, Pacific Northwesteria has launched 4 DD-1 B high-altitude surveillance planes. They will be scanning Jiggardy's harbor for visual, IR, and UV radiation. The task force (should be posted above) is also en route, but will respect the national waters of Jiggardy unless proof of the pirates is found.

People0963

Our waters will be closed to your ship trying to enter. The recent murder of our chief of state has placed our military and navy on high alert for more possible terrorist attacks. If you try and enter, your ship will be sunk, turned into those that are hunting you, or otherwise properly dealt with.

Have a nice day.

OOC: Responsibility for the attack has been taken, and messages have been intercepted from Jiggardy offering a safe harbor. If Jiggardy knows about you, so do we. Even if it was sent secretly. I don't care how good your encryption is.

OOC: What kind of ridiculous statement is that? If the encryption is very good, it will take you years, if ever, to crack it. But in this particular case, it could be low.

IC: In response to possible pirate threats, Pacific Northwesteria has launched 4 DD-1 B high-altitude surveillance planes. They will be scanning Jiggardy's harbor for visual, IR, and UV radiation. The task force (should be posted above) is also en route, but will respect the national waters of Jiggardy unless proof of the pirates is found.

IC:

Since the Nekoa Bay accords are still hung, and with increasing problems in the South Klatch, along with concentrating efforts at rebuilding itself, it would be possible for Vrak not to know about high altitude recon planes arriving - since resources are being diverted elsewhere. However, the hotlines are always open amongst fellow provinces and Vrakian intelligence tries to keep tabs of all going ons in the FKC. And there is always the JDF to think about...

Guys, I don't think that People 0963 is going to reply. Vrak, are you refering to the OMP or People 0963, who did claim responsibility. (see above)

OOC: Looking over the thread again, I highly doubt that you, Granzi (or anyone else up to this point), would be able to utter such an ultimatum - since it is very doubtful you could have found out about the attack. People 0963's remarks were made in response to your ultimatum, but they most likely should have been made OOCly. Really, none of you sent out a search plane or anything and yet your ready to issue ultimatums? Events flow from previous events.

The only thing that might logically work is Jiggady's transmission to People0963 - which ICly is a bit shaky, unless pirates happen to have some kind of network that us landlubbers don't know about. :)

OOC:
Personally, I believe that if People 0963 was trying to avoid a confrontation, they would simply not have posted. Posting OOC information about your forces, and claiming that nobody else knows that information (just to be used for RP purposes) is perfectly fine. However, an entire scenario can not be OOC. Instead of starting a thread with an (unmarked) OOC post, just don't post at all. "Events flow from previous events." True. However, if nothing is counted on this thread that didn't flow from a previous event (in other words, not legitimate), this thread consists of one useless post, the original. Either RP or not, when you post about an attack people know about it.

OOC:
Personally, I believe that if People 0963 was trying to avoid a confrontation, they would simply not have posted. Posting OOC information about your forces, and claiming that nobody else knows that information (just to be used for RP purposes) is perfectly fine. However, an entire scenario can not be OOC. Instead of starting a thread with an (unmarked) OOC post, just don't post at all. "Events flow from previous events." True. However, if nothing is counted on this thread that didn't flow from a previous event (in other words, not legitimate), this thread consists of one useless post, the original. Either RP or not, when you post about an attack people know about it.

OOC: Fair enough. I just thought it would be more interesting for people to discover the ship and draw their own conclusions. I won't clutter up this thread with any more OOC chatter.

OOC: Ok, sorry if I got a bit angry there.
IC: President Zwimbala was on the phone with the leader of Jiggardy. (ooc: btw, was your threat to People private or public? if it's private the thread is pretty much dead). "As I was saying, we believe that People 0963 has a privateer in the general vicinity of your waters. If this is new to you, let this be a warning. If it is not, Pacific Northwesteria would appreciate any information you could give us, and asks permission to deploy a task force."

OOC: Ok, sorry if I got a bit angry there.
IC: President Zwimbala was on the phone with the leader of Jiggardy. (ooc: btw, was your threat to People private or public? if it's private the thread is pretty much dead). "As I was saying, we believe that People 0963 has a privateer in the general vicinity of your waters. If this is new to you, let this be a warning. If it is not, Pacific Northwesteria would appreciate any information you could give us, and asks permission to deploy a task force."

OOC: Ok, sorry if I got a bit angry there.
IC: President Zwimbala was on the phone with the leader of Jiggardy. (ooc: btw, was your threat to People private or public? if it's private the thread is pretty much dead). "As I was saying, we believe that People 0963 has a privateer in the general vicinity of your waters. If this is new to you, let this be a warning. If it is not, Pacific Northwesteria would appreciate any information you could give us, and asks permission to deploy a task force."

Pirate Queen Ann Marie Bonny- "Yes we know all about the pirate vessel that was heading towards our waters. There was open communication between it and a legitimate privateering vessel of our own government. We have hence forth denied them entrance into our national waters, due to instabilaty currently within our nation. Our last bearing on the ship was thrity miles outside our waterways, we have no current information on its whereabouts."

ooc: the statement to people0963 was public not private.....though it may be irrelivant because it doesnt seem like they are doing anything anymore.

Thank you for the information, Madame. A task force is underway consisting of:
3 Skjold Class
8 Defiance Class
4 Sea Wolf Class
6 Orion Class
1 Mackensen Class

They will form a net around the pirates, and bring them in one way or the other.

Thank you for the information, Madame. A task force is underway consisting of:
3 Skjold Class
8 Defiance Class
4 Sea Wolf Class
6 Orion Class
1 Mackensen Class

They will form a net around the pirates, and bring them in one way or the other.

Thank you for the information, Madame. A task force is underway consisting of:
3 Skjold Class
8 Defiance Class
4 Sea Wolf Class
6 Orion Class
1 Mackensen Class

They will form a net around the pirates, and bring them in one way or the other.

Thank you for the information, Madame. A task force is underway consisting of:
3 Skjold Class
8 Defiance Class
4 Sea Wolf Class
6 Orion Class
1 Mackensen Class

They will form a net around the pirates, and bring them in one way or the other.

- "This is Lord High Admiral John Paul England II. I am sending you the IFF transponders for our ships in the waters near where the pirates were last spotted. Please treat these ships as frienlies, they will aid in the search for these pirates. We realize that pirate activity from our own nation may hurt the search, and we are doing our best to clear them out of those waters for the time being."

Umm... this thread is still alive? :P People0963 has not been active for 13 days, so I think he left NS.

ooc: ehhhh just playing it out slightly