NationStates Jolt Archive

It was the first day of school. A regular, normal first day. But at the begining of 4th period the lives of a class of 6th graders would be changed forever.
"Goodmorning class, I am Mrs. Harris, your science teacher"
"Hello Mrs. Harris" said the class. " Does anyone know how humans came about?"
"God created us from the dust of the earth" said Susie, who wanted to be a nun. "wrong, we are evolved from monkeys."
The bell rang. " You may go to lunch. "
A thoughtful boy, Thomas Young, who had known she was a heretic when she said that comment about evolution. He went to the Pastor of the local church, ST. Pius X, which also ran the parish scool.
" father, Father!!!"
"Yes thomas" 'the new teacher, Mrs. Harris taught evolution."
" I knew, the only teacher in the whole archdiocese who is not a nun teaches evolution, Thomas go back to school, Ill handle it."
father O' Rourck grabbed his cell phone and call Bishop O' Reilly, one of 2 auxillary bishops of the archdiocese. He told him about the situation.
" Hello children, said Mrs. Harris said to the class as they returned from Lunch with a big smile. That smile lasted 2 seconds. Helocopters hovered above the roof. Elite teams btoke through the windows. A second team broke in through the class room door. ' Everyone get down. The children ducked under their desks. Mrs. Harris was taken and thrown to the floor. She was then put in handcuffs and then was told that she was under arrest for heresy, teaching evolution. "Nooooooooo"
She was thron into a cage in the back of the SWAT trucks and then brought before the inqusitors.

' How do you plead?"
" Not guilty"
" You lie come hear Thomas, Did she teach evolution"
" Yes Your Reverance"
He confered with the other inquisitors.
" Well the quickest finding in the history of the Archdiocese"
" Guilty"
"I hereby sentance you to be burned at the stake."
She was taken to her cell her hands were burned by torches when she struggled. She was then taken out to the stake and bound to the stake. Hay was Lit with gasoline and it was lit.
All that remained was a pile of ashes.

OOC: How dare she teach evolution, she should be hanged [/sarcasm]
:p

Nice RP idea, anyway :TAG:

Blargistania condemns these actions taken by Cherry Ridge. The repression of knowledge is damaging not only to those who teach it, but for those that learn as well. The actions taken by the teacher where in the interest of spreading the true knowledge, not the religious fallacy. The trail this innocent recieved is widely regarded within Blargistania as a sham trial held by fanatical fundamentalists who wish to see true knowledge crushed. Cherry Ridge will be the target of sanctions by Blargistania until the verdict is reversed and evolution is allowed to be taught in schools.
Blargistania Department of Foreign Affairs
Amanda Bertund, Press Relations

ooc- Island of Rose, how can i hang her if she was already burned alive?
ic- Cardinal DeVito has ordered the t Inquisitors NOT to reverse the ruling. " We will not bow to the laws of the heretics, like the BLARGistanians."

This law shall continue to be enforced.

The Kingdom of Cullenus, however not yet aquainted with Cherry Ridge, will not stand by and let the policies pertaining to the truthful creation be downtrodded. Cullenus supports the actions of Cherry Ridge.

King Carpenter I
Kingdom of Cullenus
Florida, Earth II

Thanks for yuor support

Though my nation does not believe in religion, and we do believe in evolution, we think the government should be able to control what is taught at schools. Even if what is taught is not necessarily true. I applaud your decision to kill this lawbreaker.
Lord Jamith Londor Xephyr, Absolute Ruler of the Dictatorship of Slimestoria

ooc: How awkward(sp)?? lol jk

Slimestoria, you are right except for one thing, evolution is FALSE whta my schools teach is really TRUE

The Democratic Colonies is shocked by this act of violence and fully condemns it. The Colonial Government extends an offer of asylum to anyone in danger of losing life or limb as a result of the religously based laws of Cherry Ridge.

OCC: I'm an older nation of 3.2 billion, but I've never RPed before now - thought I'd like to get into it, and this certainly look interesting.

Cherry Ridge, as another Catholic nation I feel I should inform you that the Vatican has decided to recognize evolution. It's no longer heresy.

ooc- but they only recognized evolution WITH God she was teaching it without God, sorry just though i had to clear that up
in otherwords she was teaching atheistic evolution
ic-My population ,Democratic Colonies, is 100% Catholic. Because of this inquisition all heretics( who defy ANY church teaching,thus all non catholics) are burned at the stake. That simple. And it can be 100% Catholic because if your not Catholic your not considered a citesen.

^then what about the teacher? Wasen't she a citizen? Or, what about tourists and business visitors? Those are the people I mean - I offer asylum to them.

EDIT: And I will make less than friendly moves to assure that they are not burned alive.

OCC: You don't mind if this gets slightly nasty, now do you? I'll backpedal if you don't want to engage in this bit of RP with me.

They must apply for a permit BESIDES the passport if they arnt Catholic saying that they cant be arrested for heresy.
edit- thats my intent to RP it out

Oh, well in that case, light 'er up, man.

What about the teacher then? Wasen't she a citizen of yours? If so, that would seem to indicate that not absolutely everyone in your nation is ready to accept the religous teachings imposed on them. If given the oppertunity, I would have attempted to secure her extraction through multiple means, and I would currently be willing to do so for anyone else caught up in a smilar situation.

What about the teacher then? Wasen't she a citizen of yours? If so, that would seem to indicate that not absolutely everyone in your nation is ready to accept the religous teachings imposed on them. If given the oppertunity, I would have attempted to secure her extraction through multiple means, and I would currently be willing to do so for anyone else caught up in a smilar situation.

I would say she gave up her right to citizenship when she decided to teach atheistic evolution. She commited an act of treason to her country. She should suffer for her actions.

Right, well, as soon as she did that, I would have done everything I could to prevent any harm coming to her as a result of the religous laws of Cherry Ridge.

*CRNN Breaking news*
'After the heretic teacher was burned an abortion doctor caught practicing abortion in her officer after hours was just burned at the stake".
This is Linda O'Harra CRNN, CR City

The Peoples of Egoistia fully support those actions taken by the CR government. After all, a government should be able to enforce its own laws. Furthermore, we hold that it is not the place of other nations to judge the way a nation enforces its laws.

Signed,
The Emperal Patriarch of Egoistia

Blargistania is officially offering sanction to all people who wish to leave Cherry Hill for fear of persecution.

Let it be noted that Cherry Ridge, a member of the United Nations is in violation of UN resolutions Religious Tolerance, Fair Trial, Due Process, End Barbaric Punishments, Definition of 'Fair Trial', and Abortion Rights.

As such it is every UN member nation's duty to impose Sanctions upon Cherry Ridge. Blargistania has already done so.

OOC: CR - do you have a map of your country?

*Aboard the Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Carrier CNS Athena*

Rear Admiral Gina Jetal shook her head and looked at her orders again. Her second in command, Captain Jake Castille sat silently at the other side of the dining table they were seated at, they had been interupted during dinner when the Alert - One message was recieved from Colonial Fleet Command.

"What does it say?" Asked Captain Castille, getting impatient. "Well, it boils down to the government of Cherry Ridge just caught someone doing abortions, and unless we do something, they're probably going to burn them to death" Admiral Jetal replied, tossing the sheet of orders over to Castille. "What about diplomatic pressure?" Asked Castille, as he flipped over to the satellite photo section of the orders. "Expected to fail" Answered Jetal grimly. "Get the battlegroup ready for action. Command wants us to get a team of Colonial Rangers airbourne in V-22's ASAP, but to have them wait outside of Cherry Ridge airspace for confirmation of action. These Cherry Ridge guys should know better than to mess with a Colonial Battlegroup, but we don't know what kind of forces they've got - the Rangers could have hot extraction on thier hands, and that could mean alot of trouble for us". And, with that, the officers departed the Admiral's private dining room. Admiral Jetal wanted to ensure her ships were in proper formation, and Captain Castille was going to breif the Rangers himself.

OCC: I'm still working out exactly what's in a Colonial Battlegroup, but what I have can be posted either when it's needed or if you want that info now.

EDIT OCC Again: Oops. Sorry, I had some trouble with my tenses. It's okay now though...

She DID give up citizenship, which also made her a non citizen without a passport. I have a right to enfore my own laws. NOONE will leave this coutry wothout permission from the Chancery.
OOC- i do not have a map yet but it is kindof like a potatoe with an island off the coast but the island only has monastarys and convents and i also own the RL San Marino.
and its Cherry Ridge not Cherry Hill

Krygillia has put economic sanctions on Cherry Ridge and opened the borders to all refugees seeking to flee that country.

Regards,
His Imperial Majesty the Most Revered One of Krygillia

You wouldn't dare bomb my centuary's old cathedrals and churches would you? And don't you dare bomb monastarys or convents.
"Alert The airforce and navy, put the army on full alert. and pray" said Bishop Blackwood, auxillary bishop of Cherry Ridge.

Transmission to the CNS Athena: Stand down immediatly.

ooc- the abortioner is already dead

Since your position is that anyone who breaks your religous laws is no longer a citizen of yours, the Democratic Colonies' position is that it immediately offers citizenship, or atleast refugee status to anyone who loses thier Cherry Ridge citizenship for breaking religous laws. Once the person is safely extracted and either on Colonial soil or a Colonial ship, they are formally asked to fill out the paperwork required for citizenship or refugee status.

The Democratic Colonies defends its right to protect its citizens, as well as invokes the UN resolution "Religious Tolerance, Fair Trial, Due Process, End Barbaric Punishments, Definition of 'Fair Trial', and Abortion Rights" to defend its actions.

The Kingdom of Cullenus sends the Navy and a flight of 6 well-trained F-16C's toward Cherry Ridge. We will take any orders given to us by Cherry Ridge. When orders are not given, our military will act by their will!

A country has the right to protect and enforce its policies.

King Carptenter I
Kingdom of Cullenus

OCC: Yeah, sorry I missed that last part about the doctor already being dead.

IC: The V-22 lifted off the flight deck of the CNS Athena as a young ensign ran out to where Captain Castille was watching it depart. The ensign was waving her arm while carrying a stack of papers, and nearly had her hat blown off by the harsh sea wind as she dodged a taxiing F-14E Cobalt Tomcat that was manuvering for refueling. "Sir! Captain Castille!" She shouted at the Captain. Breathless, she mustered a salute and mouthed the words "It's too late" as the scream of a Cobalt Tomcat launch drowned out her words. She handed Captain Castille her small stack of papers when she finally reached him and watched his reaction as he read them. First, there was shock, then anger, then saddness as he absorbed the information - the doctor discovered performing abortions was already dead. "Does the Admiral know?" Asked Castille, taking the time to read that the Ensign's ID tag read "Burrows". "Yes sir," she replied, "she was reading the report from Command as it came in. The Rangers are being recalled now, but the Battlegroup is remaining on alert". As she finished her sentence, the V-22 Ospreys returned to the flight deck, the onboard Rangers visiblely disappointed.

Cullenus land your aircraft at CR Airbase 1 until further notice. NO ONE is allowed to leave Cherry Ridge as of now. All heretics who take up the citizenship are still illegally in coutry without paperwork from MY government hence they will not be burned but put in prison.

CRNN breaking news
2 prisoners have just been shot before a firing squad for spitting on the altar of a church.

"Tell me blackwood," said the Cardinal, " Why do the only reprt these things NOW when we are under pressure from nations for these happenings if hey happen everyweek its nothing new"
Cardinal dials number "all news service is now under government control"

"Slimjim 1 to Flight. Adjust heading to following coordinates. Maintain defensive formation until arrival at CR Airbase 1. Over"

Naval units are approaching Cherry Ridge waters. "We will remain on standby until further information or conflict."

OOC: i got a little laugh out of the CRNN thing, lol

Cherry Ridge, I must implore you to stop these executions. Your barbaric practices do no reflect well on our Church and do nothing for our reputation. I would suggest deportation or imprisonment for these heretics, but not death.

The Pandora Battlegroup is currently departing Blargistanian waters to meet up with the Colonial Battle Group from Democratic Colonies. These military vessels will enforce an economic blockade of Cherry Ridge until the nation recognizes the UN resolutions it is beholdent to.

Pandora Battle Group

BNV Pandora Moscow Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier (1.5x size of Nimitz)
BNV Fortis Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier
BNV Harrow Aegis Class Battlecruiser
BNV Marklov Aegis Class Battlecruiser
BNV Yarrow Shmentzer Class Missile Corvette (fast attack/intercept)
BNV Holtz Hunter Class Destroyer
BNV Salus Hunter Class Destroyer
BSV Rapid Minnow Class Submarine (fast attack)
BSV Altis Spear Class Submarine (battlefront)
BSV Torch Spear Class Submarine (battlefront)

in addition to the support craft.

A vote is currently up in the Blargistanian People's congress on wether or not to use military force within the Blockade.

The Colonial Government extends a serious warning at this point. We believe that Cherry Ridge is in blatent violation of the UN resolution "Religious Tolerance, Fair Trial, Due Process, End Barbaric Punishments, Definition of 'Fair Trial', and Abortion Rights".

As well, the Colonial Battlegroup off the coast of Cherry Ridge is prepared to engage in retalitory strikes against Cherry Ridge if it does not comply with the UN resolution immediately and allow safe passage out to the Democratic Colonies for any of its citizens who wish to leave at any time.

The Battlegroup includes 3 Pax Magellanic class aircraft carriers, totalling 546 embarked aircraft at 182 aircraft per carrier, as well as 2 Crusader class battleships, which mount 4 24" guns, 6 16" guns, 12 5" guns as well as Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles.


Secret IC: Democratic Colonies is planning assasinations via airstrike if diplomatic pressure fails.

OCC: I'm working out the exact workings of the battlegroup, ie how many of each aircraft type now. I had it all set up in a chart, but after reading Island of Rose's military, I thought mine was too small. Assume escorts including Ticonderoga II class Crusiers and Los Angeles class subs are present if you attack before I post my specifics. Should be done in a ~5 - 10 minutes.

ooc-GnOoLoCoPeLep before you said ligt er up
ic- Economic block ,huh, We will not stop any of our policies.

I think I might add I have the world's smallest Navy (I'm not much of a Naval guy). I sent my entire Navy of 5 Frigates and 1 Battleship (lol). With the exception of an aircraft carrier farther out at sea.

I do however have a large Air Force.

OOC: My REAL science teacher's name is Mrs. Harris!!! :eek:

IC: Furor Atlantis and the entire Atlantean area shakes their heads and mutter about how having religion part of the government will get a nation nowhere.

cardinal DeVito entered his quarters in St. Marys Cathedral. " Good thing i had this installed up here so i dont have to keep walking back and forth across the street." We just checked our records and no one wants to denounce there citizenship.
Once again we ask you, please do not bomb out any religious buildings. You never answered us before.

Official Imperial Statement

Generia condemns this fanatical madness. We give our full support to Cherry Ridge's opposition.

Chancellor Feador Alexeevich
Appointed Chancellor of the Imperial Congress
Proud to be a Heretic

What about the ones about to get shot for breaking religous laws? I'm sure they'd like to exit the country and embrace thier new citizenships provided by the Democratic Colonies.

OCC: Directed at CR

Why would you try to stop teaching whats true.
,Physco

To: Cherry Ridge
From: King Carpenter I

In light of new events, we feel it may be necessary to send more aircraft.
Currently there are 50 MiG-29s and 50 MiG-31s enroute to Cherry Ridge. With a few XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic bombers on standy-by in the area.

2 more have been shot. NO more executions are planned for now. There are some in prison but none for heresy.
Will you bomb my cathedrals
ooc- i really do believe evolution is false

Generia encourages opposition forces to target religious buildings.

OOC: if yall are ticked at what's going on in Cherry Ridge, then im glad you dont know whats going on in my nation, lol.... ive burned all books not written by the king, and people are shot for breaking the law, on the spot btw... lol... but this is ooc..

Cherry Ridge, be warned. Should war break out, your religious shrines will not be sacrosinct.
-Secretary of Defence: General Alexi Valenkov

OOC: if yall are ticked at what's going on in Cherry Ridge, then im glad you dont know whats going on in my nation, lol.... ive burned all books not written by the king, and people are shot for breaking the law, on the spot btw... lol... but this is ooc..

((OOC: It's all good. I ran over protestors with tanks for my own amusement.))

Semi OCC: Makeup of the Colonial Battlegroup off the coast of Cherry Ridge.

Colonial Navy, 3rd Fleet, 1st Battlegroup:

CNS Pax Magellanic - Pax Magellanic Class Carrier, 182 Aircraft
CNS Liberator - Pax Magellanic Class Carrier, 182 Aircraft
CNS Oddessy - Pax Magellanic Class Carrier, 182 Aircraft

Total Carrierbourne Aircraft: 546

CNS Orion - Crusader Class Battleship
CNS Venture - Crusader Class Battleship

4 Ticonderoga II Class Crusiers
6 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers
2 Oliver Hazard Perry Anti-Submarine Frigates
6 Los Angeles Class Submarines

1 Iron Steed Class Marine Transport w/ Onboard Hovercraft Transports

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Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Assignment

48 x F-111C Sea Aardvarks
64 x F-14E Cobalt Tomcats
32 x F-35 JSFs
10 x EA-18 Shriekers
16 x KA-18 Aerial Refuelers
6 x SA-3 Vikings
4 x E-3 Hawkeyes
2 x C-2 Greyhounds

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Crusader Class Battleship Armament

4 x 24” Guns
3 x 16” Guns
3 x 16” Guns
12 x 5” Guns
36 x Tomahawk Missiles
32 x Harpoon Missiles
10 x CIWS Defense Turrets

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OCC: It's okay if you believe evolution is false - I just don't like you shooting the people who do believe in it.

((OOC: It's all good. I ran over protestors with tanks for my own amusement.))

(ooc: LOL)

If this does elevate to war and there are no more supporters joining in on the side of Cherry Ridge, then Cullenus might have to pull out. We however stay if this just remains a minor skirmish.

OOC: unless, CR, you think you can handle this many... i might end up staying anyway, i dont mind losing some of my force.

offcial statement on the announcement that if war nrakes out shries will be bombed
so you WILL bomb my religious shrines sick. You call me sick for burning heretics but you will kill priests, altar boys, and people at prayer.Nuns and monks you will kill these men of peace, centuarys old building turned to rubble? once eagain sick
edit- ooc-Cullenus i contacted some of my allies

Official Imperial Communique
To: Cherry Ridge opposition coalition
From: Chancellor Feador Alexeevich

Do not give in to this nation's propaganda. They are built on hatred and intolerance. You must hit them where it will do the most damage: their religious shrines. No matter the outcry from this evil government you must see to it that the job is finished. Take out the shrines, and the rest of the nation will follow.

Chancellor Feador Alexeevich

I wish I wasn't Space/Furture Tech.
Otherwise I would have started bombing any chruch that supports these killings.

*Over the skies of Cherry Ridge*

The spy satellite silently snapped photos in the void of space. It's masters, the Colonial Intelligence Service, were trying to determine where the religous prisoners were being held. The capital city was the first place being checked, and Intelligence Operations Officer Nick Giffman thought it was the right move. He, amoung others, were secreted away in the underground command centre of the CIS, and were intensely studying the realtime photos of Cherry Ridge. So far, no one had come up with anything, but suddenly, Nick heard a commotion from the other side of the command centre.

OCC: Have they found the prison? Cherry Ridge, I think part is supposed to be left to you. And to clarify, I mean the prison you mentioned earlier - you said no more people were being shot, but they were being put in prison. That's what I'm looking for.

Cullenus Kamor-IBBEM Kinetic anti-missile satellites have moved into geo-synch orbit over Cherry Ridge. Satellites have been set to offensive settings.

ooc: even though they are meant for the missileing down of missles, it can still fire at aircraft or ships... not sure of how much damage it will cause, lol

A sad day when churches are bombed.

A sad day when churches are bombed.

((OOC: A sad day when people are burned alive for their beliefs. "Take good comfort and play the man, master Ridley, for we shall today light such a candle by God's grace in England, as I fear shall never be put out."))

Official Imperial Statement

Should the situation escalate, full Generian military support will be given to the enemies of Cherry Ridge.

OCC: I am being Modren Tech just for this RP? mkay?

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The ECF denounces these mindless killings.
A CI33 Class BattleFleet will be dispatched to any costal shrines that support this mindless killing.
Where if they do not denouce these crazy killings for false belifes they will be shelled.

" Sir we have learned that the mole we had in the enemys intelligence has returned. They discovered the prison but think we are holding religious prisoners. "
"The only one we are holding now is that loonie guy who says his religion is to kill everyone in sight. and the rest are secular crime prisoners. "
TRANSMISSION TO ENEMY SHIPS
please whatever you do PLEASE do not bomb the Childrens hospital

Its ok where not that imoral.
But be warned.
Stop these killers.
Before the Entire ECF Navy is knocking on your door.

ooc: will there be any negotiation attempts or are we just gonna sit at a deadlock with our forces on high alert.. waiting for some twitching person to accidently pull a trigger and start a war.... ? not that its bad or anything :)

The government may use the Children's Hospital as a military facility of some sort. I suggest we capture it.

While the satellites of the Colonial Intelligence Service continue to search for the prison inwhich Cherry Ridge's religous prisoners are being held, as well as the location of its national leaders for possible assasination purposes, the 1st Colonial Battlegroup of 3rd Fleet prepares to coordinate with the friendly forces that are incoming or already present. Liason officers are choppered out, and while there is a minor accident involving the mini-umbrellas the BLARGistania Navy likes to put in thier drinks and a young ensign's left eye, the liason officers report that sufficent coordination has been made to atleast prevent incedents of friendly fire.

We could provide air cover while you airlift forces into the prison if you find it.

Kingdom of Cullenus Official

To: All conflicting nations
From: King Carpenter II

If this escalates to war there will only be more innocent deaths then what is neccessary to justify this war. Think about it. Many soldiers will die over the irreversable deaths of a few mishaps who chose treason over following the law of there own nation.

A nation has the right to control its own people. It may place laws on its land and have the right to enforce those laws. Other nations have no right to go to another country and tell them how they should be running things. These happenings in Cherry Ridge are not a matter of national security for any opposing nations. So we ask that you please rethink your motives for war.
__________________________________________________
"Die or be killed!"

The government may use the Children's Hospital as a military facility of some sort. I suggest we capture it.
I would NEVER do such a thing do you want children who are in pain already to see violence. What about the Nuns? Do they want to see it? Think about it

On board the CCS St Mark
Sir it appears that more ships are coming in
Notify the Naval Home Guard (my = of the US Coast Guard except just a branch of the regular navy) to look out for any small ships and notify the battle group to look out for any larger ships that come to close.

Transmission to all enemy ships
You are violating our national right to enforce our law go back at once you are in CR terrortorial waters GO BACK

Siesatia condems the brutal acts your nation has shown towards its peoples. You have blatently ignored the UN treaties, and shown no mercy towards those whose views deviate from your own. We offer a haven towards any of your citizens who wish safe harbor from your oppressive ways. And as to the complaints of your church bombings... you would have done the same to those mosques or whatnought that deviated from YOUR views, and your priests and nuns only escalate the whole matter. I will allow the use of my sattalites by the coalition for use agaist you.

OOC: If I wasnet a Space/futureistic I would join in in a heartbeat.

Kingdom of Cullenus Official

To: All conflicting nations
From: King Carpenter I

If this escalates to war there will only be more innocent deaths then what is neccessary to justify this war. Think about it. Many soldiers will die over the irreversable deaths of a few mishaps who chose treason over following the law of there own nation.

A nation has the right to control its own people. It may place laws on its land and have the right to enforce those laws. Other nations have no right to go to another county and tell them how they should be runnning things. These happenings in Cherry Ridge are not a matter of national security for any opposing nations. So we ask that you please rethink your motives for war.
__________________________________________________
"Die or be killed!"

Official Imperial Statement

Cherry Ridege's fundamentalism is a threat to both it's own citizens, and the nations of the world. We believe that the boundary for national sovereignty is crossed when a nation loses the ability to govern it's own populace. This madness must be stopped by whatever means necessary, even if it means war.

OCC: I remebed why I changed to future RPing, I suck at mordren RPING ;)

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We have decided to pull our fleets from your waters.
No need to waste ECF soliders lifes over some idiot religious freaks.
But if this turns into a mass killing spree.
Plan on the whole ECF Military Knocking on your door.

*At the Colonial Intelligence Service Operational Command Centre*

Nick Giffman slowly made his way over the where the commotion was taking place. "Goddamn it!" He heard a man wearing a suit and tie say loudly. "What's going on?" He asked fellow Operations Officer Helena Garner. "Intel must have screwed up big time" she said, "Mistranslation of the CR statement. They said that they had people in prison, but none for religous crimes - stupid pinheads at the translation department!". Nick was shocked - and slightly offended. "Hey.. I used to work at the translation department. And don't the Cherry Ridge people just speak english, but with a weird accent?". "Well, yeah," said Garner, "but those accents are reeeealy weird." before wandering back to her work station. "Hey! You didn't apologize for the part about the Translations Department!" Nick yelled after her.

OCC: Okay, I misread. Sorry, I thought it said you still had religous prisoners, but CR says they're in prison for secular crimes, ie stealing.

[QUOTE=Cullenus]
It may place laws on its land and have the right to enforce those laws. Other nations have no right to go to another country and tell them how they should be running things.[quote]

The nation of Cherry Ridge is beholdent to the UN resolutions previously mentioned. As such, they are responsable to make the laws of their nation reflect those resolutions.

ooc- we speak english and latin and bye ECF have fun on that gold throne
ic-We did NOT lose the ability to govern our own people.
You have no right to interfere.
CRNN NEW REPORT
Cardinals Comment
" If we go to war the enemy has said that they will bomb religious shrines, and capture the Childrens hospital *boos from the crowd" and they cxall us sick i will keep you all updated"
"CARDINAL DEVITO WE LOVE YOU, CARDINAL DEVITO WE LOVE YOU" the crowd boomed over and over

"CARDINAL DEVITO WE LOVE YOU, CARDINAL DEVITO WE LOVE YOU" the crowd boomed over and over

OOC: I am brainwashed I am brainwashed. Sorry, I couldn't resist.

OCC: excelent gold throne!
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We do ask premission do allow a Interpid Class StarShip to land in your nation and evac anyone who does not share your views.

*CNS Athena*

As Ensign Roxio Burrows approached the bridge, she sensed an air of seriousness in it, even more so than usual. Passing on the report she was tasked with bringing up to another ensign, she quietly asked a nearby radar operator what happened. "We just got orders from Command," he whispered, "we are to launch 4 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and have them buzz right along the edges of Cherry Ridge airspace. Technially, they'll be in international airspace, but they'll be cutting it close. They're supposed to be in full stealth mode with radios silent, and they're gonna take photos and intercept radio transmissions. Command wants us to locate the position of thier national leaders, then, if everything goes to hell, we kill them. Assasination via 500 pound GPS bomb" he smiled. "Assuming, ofcourse, that talks totally fail. And I think they damn nearly have" he continued, as the first of the F-35s were launched off the flight deck. "Apparently, thier leader was speaking to a crowd of followers earlier, but Command ruled out blowing up the rally. They want to avoid collateral damage as much as possible... so no blowing up rallies, no tac-nukes... nothing fun at all" he finished, shaking his head. Roxio had to smile at that last comment, even though she was scared to death by the propect of actual combat.

OCC: The F-35 JSF is a RL stealth fighter-bomber, please take into account its stealthiness.

We do ask premission do allow a Interpid Class StarShip to land in your nation and evac anyone who does not share your views.

Siesatia also requests to land our own transports, these our unarmed, and will transport the civilians safely to our base, where they may choose to incorperate into our society, or leave for another country.

I put this to vote by ALL citizeens even prisoners and they all wish to remain citizens and Catholic. except that loonie guy who says his religion is too kill everyone is sight. byt it looks like al heretics besides loonie guy are burnt. We wont burn the loonie guy.

We request permission to land troops in your capital city and ask them ourselves.

None of you know the truth, stop typing hearsay and theories. you will know the truth once you die. :)

Cardinal DeVito decided to visit the childrens hospital. Then he spoke outside.
" Our enimies want to capture this place *boos from the crowd* But we will not allow it *cheers* no one will be allowed to bomb our shrines or anything else and get away with it. Cherry Ridge will overcoemthese heretics and shall triumph *Cherry Ridge flag is unfurled behind him and all salute the flag on the flag pole* Thank YOU CR City"
" CARDINAL DEVITO WE LOVE YOU, CARDINAL DEVITO WE LOVE YOU" the crowd boomed.
ooc- and how can you put your planes outside of my airspace it extends as faar as my sea claims and your already in that

you may land 5 unarmed troops 2 officers and 3 elisted, they will be accompanied bu 5 companys of armed soldiers (incase of bombs)
"This is helocopter 2 from CR request premission to land and pick up 5 troops.

It is a form of godmodding to say that 100% of your people agree with you. Unless of course you brainwash them, if so, I suggest a full attack on the heinous facilities that perform this process.

A predator spy drone flew high above Cherry Ridge. It swooped over mountain ranges and coastlines. Everysingle time a metalic object was sensed, the camera went off. Intelligence began to filter back in to command as well as the Pandora command room. Within the Tactical Command Room (TCR) Admiral William Benly reviewed what was coming in. Most of it was residential neighborhoods. A lot of churches. A few images of a rally flashed up. The cardinal was adressing a crowd of some thousands. It didn't really matter, that was just a public relations and propoganda move.

Benly sighed. It would impossible to strike effectivly without damaging the religious shrines. An atheist himself, Benly really didn't care about the buildings, except for their historical interest. He just knew it was a bad move in regards to the populace. His official statement had already gone out though. The shrines would be targets if they held items of military significance. Benly rubbed his eyes and turned back to the pictures coming in.

ooc-How is it a form of godmodding.

its like saying that if we nuked you, that you suffered no causualties. there HAS to be people who don't agree with your views.

ooc-How is it a form of godmodding.

OOC - because there are always dissidants within a population. There is never a full agreement. Oh and please, please, attempt to proofread your posts, it'll make it easier for all of us to read.

ooc-My country is 100% Catholic plain and simple no godmod there lets look at real world what nations are 100% catholic- Vatican City and ,san MArino are 100%( i own san marino in NS) Malta is nearly 100% catholic at 98%

well, there was that teacher, so its NOT 100% catholic. LMAO, you need better points. Why don't you let us take the people, and then you will have 100% control.

Well the thing is... his entire population is Catholic... there is no reason they shouldn't agree. He killed the few non-Catholics that existed..

It's sorta like asking them if they all believed in God. Well of course 100% would be plausable.

I say we go ahead and take out this DeVito guy. He sounds like trouble.

I agree, however, we should land and get anyone who wants to leave first, not allow his threats to sway their opinion, then we snipe him. :sniper: He refuses to allow refugees to leave, what would god say to that I wonder....

OCC: I never said I was in your territorial waters. I'm off your shore, but still technically in international waters, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters are going up ahead a bit to buzz along the line between the international airspace and yours. Remember that incident in RL over China a in 2001 when that US recon plane was rammed by that Chinese plane? The American plane was right along the line. That's pretty much what I'm going to do with those 4 stealth fighter/bombers.

NO refugees want to leave anymore

Do you have proof of refugees?

Like I said, you need better points, theyre refugees for a reason. Of course they want to leave, and if you want to get this RP to carry on, just let them out. OMFG seriously, it wont kill you. Any proof that there are none?

there is no proff refyugees even existed only that one teacher and abortionar but there dead
no more refugees
"General"
"yes Cardinal" I want 50 jets patrolling our airspace"
"yes sir"
25 migs and 25 F-15s are patrolling our airspace now

We want to land a small contingent of military personel in a central part of your capital city and ask for ourselves. They'll ride on our aircraft and have aircover provided by my carriers - I'm going to tell the people that whomever wants to leave for fear of punishment based on religion can board our V-22 Ospreys and be completely protected.

Like I said, you need better points, theyre refugees for a reason. Of course they want to leave, and if you want to get this RP to carry on, just let them out. OMFG seriously, it wont kill you. Any proof that there are none?

Well what I was thinking... if there were any, they would have been killed already... so I'm guessing there are none.

I said UNARMED now you leave my nation or those ospreys will be taken down

We have a cordical agent, which will flush any brain washing, and allow them to speak whats on their mind.

OOC- HAHA, dodge that, if you then say that there are none, I suggest we nuke him, and all his churches. OMFG its so frustrating playing with someone who godmods.

Semi OCC: The Ospreys are not in your nation - I'm still asking about those. The F-35's are in the air, but technically kinda in a sneaky way in international airspace.

We have a cordical agent, which will flush any brain washing, and allow them to speak whats on their mind.

OOC- HAHA, dodge that, if you then say that there are none, I suggest we nuke him, and all his churches. OMFG its so frustrating playing with someone who godmods.

OOC: Just make sure you hand this DeVito character over to me. I want to have some fun.

ooc-Siesatia your a noob you godmod. they are not brainwashed and you cant just flush brainwash also its godmod to control someoneelse action which you are doing saying Your nation cant be 100% catholic
ic- only 5 men can come on MY helicopter take it or leave it itll be under a white flag

Well what I was thinking... if there were any, they would have been killed already... so I'm guessing there are none.

I think there are probably more. People who want to talk about evolution, or get abortions, or live other freedoms but can't because they're afraid of what would happen to them. Besides, the doctor was killed for performing abortions - what about all his clients? We believe they could be in danger, and wish to protect them. If any harm comes to them, all bets would be off in regards to negotiations.

Those 2 that were shot were her only 2 patients

I may be a noob at THIS site, but I have been RPing for years. You godmodded first, and I've learned that the easiest way to even the playing field is a counter godmod. Also, brainwashing could be over powered or rewritten, so yes, that is possible. I just used the term flushed to make it simple.

your not even in my nation and wen did i first godmod?

I think there are probably more. People who want to talk about evolution, or get abortions, or live other freedoms but can't because they're afraid of what would happen to them. Besides, the doctor was killed for performing abortions - what about all his clients? We believe they could be in danger, and wish to protect them. If any harm comes to them, all bets would be off in regards to negotiations.

So you want to go to war over a few people in another nation being mistreated by their government? I would say all opposing forces are very unstable in their decisions, and should be watched carefully.

Those 2 that were shot were her only 2 patients

You can't know that for sure, there could have been more.

I say we perform an 'abortion' on this entire whacky country.

of course im not in your nation, otherwise Id be an NPC, OMFG what a DA. you godmodded by first saying that 100 % of all your people don't believe in evolutionism, when we have at least one case, there are probobly many more.

can we just shoot the freaks and leave. Hey, who ran over their protesters with tanks? Your skills would be most useful here.

"You can't know that for sure, there could have been more"
acutually i can im the government and if we knew they were even performing them i think we know how much patiets there was

Does the US know everything, NO
How about the UK... NO
HOW ABOUT ANY F-ING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? NO

can we just shoot the freaks and leave. Hey, who ran over their protesters with tanks? Your skills would be most useful here.

OOC: That was me. I also annexed and ravaged a tiny 6 million population nation because it abused my support. I smell another genocide

do you have any prfoof there were anymore
we WATCHED THEM. God almighty, i know what goes on in my ation NOT YOU

Fine, lets kill him.

ooc: short and sweet :cool:

The Peoples of Egoistia fully support those actions taken by the CR government. After all, a government should be able to enforce its own laws. Furthermore, we hold that it is not the place of other nations to judge the way a nation enforces its laws.

Signed,
The Emperal Patriarch of Egoistia

So would the esteemed Patriarch agree if we were to persecute all of my citizens ignorant enough to not believe in evolution? Or perhaps if we were to state that anyone with red hair is to be condemned and slaughtered for meat? It is the international community's job to prevent such bias legislature from being enforced or even being enacted.

Rastabastatopia also opens its borders to refugees fleeing this tyrany.

So you want to go to war over a few people in another nation being mistreated by their government? I would say all opposing forces are very unstable in their decisions, and should be watched carefully.

Can you read this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/b75cae8d.gif

US Special Operations motto: De Oppresso Liber. "To Liberate the Oppressed". The men and women of the Colonial military are willing to pay the price to honor that motto - they're not just words, they are a way of life.

And Cherry Ridge - all I'm saying is that you might have missed one or two people. No internal security network is perfect. Besides, even if it was those two, what about women who didn't get one but wanted one? I want to protect them too. Your offer of 5 people on a single chopper of yours is being considered, but we counter propose sending in 24 of our people on 2 of our V-22 Ospreys with no air cover.

ooc- we have to continue this tomorrow because there a thunder storm here and i dont want my computer screwed up
so bye

Good job democratic, I was waiting for someone to quote that. The coalition can, of course count on my second devision of Raptor P3X30's to support in the airstrikes.

I kinda have to go too... im in the Florida panhandle.... and all the excess from that tropical storm in the gulf is tearing this place up....... The news had the course drawn out... it should turn into a hurricane and the line of travel goes like right over my house...

Official Imperial Statement

Generia has decided to issue an ultimatum to the government of Cherry Ridge. You have one day to issue a formal apology to the students, family, and minor acquaintances of the executed teacher. You are also to legalize the teaching of evolution, and hand Cardinal DeVito over to Generian armed forces who will arrive on your shores for this purpose. Failure to comply will result in a state of total war between our nations. We will spare neither soldiers nor civilians. All will burn before our horde, and your streets shall fill with blood. Have a nice day.

Chancellor Feador Alexeevich
Appointed Chancellor of the Imperial Congress

its 1220 over here in VA, g'night all

ooc: This is some pretty terrible RP. CR, if you didn't want to RP anything but exactly your story, then why did you post it in a public forum? Go make an RP between you and yourself in Microsoft Word if you want everything to go exactly the way you want to. There's no way to know everything that is happening in your nation at all times, no matter how oppresive and Big Brother-like your government is. I have one of the most omnipresent governments in NS and I don't claim to know everything that's going on. It's natural to assume that if there's one dissenter, there's many. If you're not going to let other nations act and react in your RPs, then just save us the time and don't bother posting anymore.

Good job democratic, I was waiting for someone to quote that. The coalition can, of course count on my second devision of Raptor P3X30's to support in the airstrikes.

As much as I appriciate the support, I'm sure that there are people in Cherry Ridge that appriciate it even more than I do. Thank you for helping to save people from religous oppression. You, and the other members of this coalition of circumstances are credits to humanity and have leaders of honor.

I still hope to solve this peacefully though, if it is at all possible.

Secret IC: I expect that once my people reach thier capital, be it on a CR chopper or on my Ospreys, there will be many people who will want to leave. Once that becomes clear, despite CR's denials of that, I'll insist on doing the same thing all over the country. However, in the first bit, when it's either just 5 or 24 of my people in there with no cover, it might get a bit hairy - your forces joining in any action could save dozens, if not hundreds or easily thousands of lives. I fear greatly for who ever goes in there with the inital team of 5 to 24.

OOC: Well, I suppose we'll end up waiting for tomorrow to roll around and bring more suprises.

IC: Admrial Benly wiped his weary eyes. He had been examining intelligence for the past 7 hours and he was tired. He stood and issued a final set of orders to his crew. "Maintain red-alert level, We're going to need round-the-clock crews for now. I'm going to get some sleep. If any of the other coalition forces send a transmission, wake me up. We're going to do our best to end this nonsense.


OOC: No, I'm not going to bed, my character is.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=347610

attican plans to invade them. i say we sit back and watch the fireworks. Oh, and I call annexation after he tests his weapons on them.

Could be fun. Maybe I could help, it's been a while since I've been in a war.

While the Democratic Colonies did hope to resolve the situation peacefully, it appears that that simply is no longer possible. The attempts to send in a team of people to determine if there are individuals who wish to leave Cherry Ridge but cannot have been aborted. The 4 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters will continue thier attempts to locate the CR national leaders through radio interceptions. As well, another Colonial Battlegroup is being dispatched.

The 4th Fleet, 2nd Battlegroup:

CNS Challenger - Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Carrier with 182 Aircraft
CNS Templar - Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Carrier with 182 Aircraft
CNS Concorde - Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Carrier with 182 Aircraft

Total 4.2nd Battlegroup Aircraft = 546

CNS Atlas - Crusader Class Battleship
CNS Inherent Justice - Crusader Class Battleship

4 Ticonderoga II Class Crusiers
6 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers
2 Oliver Hazard Perry Anti-Submarine Frigates
6 Los Angeles Class Submarines

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The total number of the aircraft between the two battlegroups will be 1092, split between the six Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Carriers present. While the colonial forces there will assist in the destruction of military targets and will provide other services as needed, ie Combat Air Patrol, we will not engage in targeting any religous or civilian structures unless they are being used for blatently military purposes. We also do not intend to land any number of ground forces.

Could be fun. Maybe I could help, it's been a while since I've been in a war.

OOC: Well by all means jump on the beatdown bandwagon... *sends his 12 ship navy + advisory unit* TIME TO DIE SCOUNDRELS!!!

On board the carrier SMSC Freestar, in orbit over Cherry Ridge....

Captain Terrace sat at his desk in his office when Commander Syphera walked in,

"Captain, we have recieved word that the diplomatic acions on cherry Ridge have failed."

"Just as I said they would,they're lunatics, and DeVito is corrupt."he snarled "I told the Generals that they wouldn't listen, but they refused to lsten to me." "Arm our second devision, and two wings of support bombers."

"Our shields wont work in the atmosphere, and we will be reduced in speed, these are space fighters, not atmospheric."

In the hanger bays....
"Devision two, report to your fighters, and bomber squad 12, report to your bombers, we launch when the other countries do."

The Freestar fleet has:
300 Raptor P3X 30 long range fighters
150 TRex C4 Bombers
5 spy sattalites.
Minimal support fire from orbit.

ooc: This is some pretty terrible RP. CR, if you didn't want to RP anything but exactly your story, then why did you post it in a public forum? Go make an RP between you and yourself in Microsoft Word if you want everything to go exactly the way you want to. There's no way to know everything that is happening in your nation at all times, no matter how oppresive and Big Brother-like your government is. I have one of the most omnipresent governments in NS and I don't claim to know everything that's going on. It's natural to assume that if there's one dissenter, there's many. If you're not going to let other nations act and react in your RPs, then just save us the time and don't bother posting anymore.

THANK YOU, EXACTLY THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO GET ACROSS!!

<bump>

Colonial forces still on standby, waiting for the other nations to attack. We're willing to participate in the attacks, but we're not entirely willing to be the ones to light the fuse, so to speak.

Same here.

ooc: some guys gonna get killed, hes a slaver, and Im gonna be there to push the 'NUKE IT' button. LOL

The country of Kilmanga is deeply concerned about the recent events over in Cherry Ridge, we have come to the conclusion, that our support is needed on the side of Cherry Ridge, as it is outnumbered, although we do not support its actions, countries should have the freedom to choose whats best for their people.
We do not support its actions or ideals, only its right to govern itself.

oocThe church runs the government the religious part being the archdiocese eand the government being the Catholic Cardinalatial See, Cardinal DeVito is head of both
ic- "Sir we have recieved reports that they want us to hand you over" said Bishop Blackwood, one of 2 auxillary bishops. " But we will never do it"
"I know blackwood"
CRNN REPORT
The cardinal and his 2 auxillary bishops are currently in a religious procession through the capital. Here are the details
"Cardinal DeVito is leading the processe with his auxillary bishops on either side of him, Bishops O'Reilly and Blackwood. He is followed by all the priests in the archdiocese then the monks then the nuns. altar boys are aroud the entire perimeter of them all. They are carrying the Vatican flag symbolising the Catholic Church, a crucifix, and the blessed sacrament the body and blood. The Crowd is cheering " DOWN WITH THE HERETICS, WE LOVE CARDINAL DEVITO""
This is Linda Davis, CRNN, Cherry Ridge City

Kimanga, the treaty between our two countries is hereby void. You are no longer under our protection.

I want proof from all the refugee's that they don't want to leave.
Otherwise.
An Interpid Class StarShip will touch down in your capital city and allow all refugee's to board the ship and be wisked off the to ECF HomeWorld.

*Colonial Intelligence Service Operational Command Centre*

Operations Officer Nick Giffman stared at the CRNN report being piped onto one of the four massive projection screens at the front of the command centre. The other screens were filled with spy satellite feeds of the same religious procession being covered on CRNN and the somewhat fuzzy video feeds from the 4 F-35 JSFs assigned to buzz the Cherry Ridge border, which were also trying to get a good view of the event.

There was discussion of assasination then and there, but it was decided that there were still too many non-combatants around. Nick still longed to see a 500 pound GPS guided bomb just slam right down that Cardinal's throat live on these screens this very minute... But it wasen't going to happen, so he and all the others who wished for the same thing would just have to continue to wait for the attack to begin. It was too bad that the talks couldn't continue, Nick also mused. Diplomacy was usually the best way to go about doing things. It did seem like the talks were going somewhere, but alas, the other nations opposed to CR's actions didn't have the patience for what would probably have turned into a shooting situation anyways. Nick sipped his mocha cappa latte drink as the crowds on the monitors yet again erupted into cheering thier support for the church.

OCC: The only reason the Democratic Colonies is no longer engaging in talks is because of what's happening here:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=347610

I sure as hell don't want any of my people on an unarmed CR helicopter when the shooting starts, or even on a pair of my Ospreys in the middle of the firefight that apparently will break out soon.

Newsflash! Kilmangan fighters open fire on Democratic Colonies Fighters.

Today, less than ten minuites ago, the tesion finally broke, as Kilmangan fighters opened fire on DC fighters, at this point no details are known, updates to follow, and now.... back to the news.

The board is set, the pieces are moving.
Someone pushed the button, now we have to react.

OCC: My Carriers, Battleships and Cruisers are fitted with onboard AIs. Don't be alarmed, they don't affect RPs much, I just think they're cool characters.

*F-35 Joint Strike Fighter along Cherry Ridge / International Airspace Border, 55,000 Thousand feet above sea level*

"Jesus frelling christ on a stick!" Screamed Lieutenant Roger McPierce, second in command of the 4 fighter flight as a missile missed his cockpit by inches. "What's going on? Wh - Sh---" He heard over his radio as he saw one of the F-35s take a missile in its engine and go down in a fireball. He heard the voice of his flight leader, Lieutenant Sandra Governs radio back to the CNS Pax Magellanic. "This is Recon Flight Alpha to Pax Magellanic, I repeat, this is Recon Flight Alpha, do you read me!?" She yelled. "Pax Magellanic here, what's your status?" He heard the calming voice of the Pax Magellanic's naval AI ask. "Maggie! We're under attack! The frelling Kilmanga fighters, they're shooting at us!" Governs yelled, as she dodged a missile and began a series of S-curves. "Understood Recon Flight Alpha, reinforcements are en route. You are to return to the Pax Magellanic ASAP. Airbourne AWACS now has you at extreme range, you look okay for exit back to me at vector 107 South-South East." "Understood!" Yelled Govern, as she took a missile in her left wing. "Gorram it!" she screamed, as her plane went into an uncontrolled spin. The other remaining F-35 of the recon flight followed her down as Govern went into an uncontrolled descent. "McPierce, Chang, get back to the Pax" she ordered. "Leave no man behind..." McPierce could hear Chang mutter. The strain in Govern's voice was clear as she radioed to the Chang. "Damn it Chang! I'm bailing out, and you can't hold off those Kilmanga fighters, especially loaded out with all this recon gear. Now get back to the Pax, and that's a gorram order!" And, with that, the canopy of Lieutenant Sandra Governs F-35 JSF popped open, and her ejection seat rocketed her away from her rapidly burning fighter. "Let's go Chang," McPierce called out, "before they get us too." Chang's fighter seemed to hesitate for a second, then went into a full power climb as a missile impacted its under belly. "No! Chang!" McPierce yelled, as he saw the explosion. "It's okay, I'm okay" managed Chang, seemingly out of breath as another missile came within feet of his fighter. "Let's get the hell out of here" repeated McPierce, as he looked behind him for more enemy fighters. Pax Magellanic's AI came on over the radio again. "Do you have any idea how they detected you despite the stealth nature of your fighters?" She asked. The pilots responded in the negative. "I see," Pax Magellanic continued, "well, a full squadren of 16 F-111C Sea Aardvarks and a full squadren of 16 F-14 Cobalt Tomcats are on thier way to secure Lieutenant Govern's location right now. 6 Squadrens of Sea Aardvarks and 12 Squadrens of Cobalt Tomcats are also being scrambled to help secure the area while V-22s go out to retrieve her. Can you two make it back to me alright?". "Yes, we'll be fine" answered Chang, sounding a bit weak. "Are you okay, Chang?" asked McPierce. "No. I think I'm bleeding... my cockpit looks fuzzy... I think I'm losing con..s.." and then Chang went silent. McPierce began to depserately plea into his radio. "Chang? Chang? Look, if you can hear me, eject! Do you understand?". There was silence for a few heart stopping moments, but then Chang's cockpit blew apart and he ejected safely. McPierce took a breath of relief - he thought Chang was done for. McPierce then radioed in Chang's position to the Pax Magellanic - he only hoped that the Pax's V-22s would come intime to prevent Chang from drowning to death. The naval flightsuits would automatically engage a floatation device if they came into contact with water, but even with that, the risk of drowning or of enemy capture was still great.

OCC: Also, could you give somekind of explaination regarding how you did detect those stealth fighters?

EDIT: Oh, and I did the math of my inbound fighters too.

1 F-111C Sea Aardvark Squardren scrambled from each carrier = 6 squardrens = 96 F-111C Sea Aardvarks

2 F-14E Cobalt Tomcat Squadrens scrambled from each carrier = 12 squadrens = 192 F-14E Cobalt Tomcats

96 + 192 = 284 Medium / Heavy Fighter-Bombers at 16 fighters per squadren

EDIT AGAIN: No, wait, I forgot to factor in those already airbourne fighters Pax Magellanic mentioned. So thats:

284 + 16 Sea Aardvarks + 16 Cobalt Tomcats = 316

"scramble all the bombers to attack the DC carriers while we hold off their fighters with 200 of our beatrix fighters, the other 50 are going to protect the carrier and falcon battleship, also protect the battle cruisers with the small destroyers,
"General Bishop of the Kilmanga space fleet

We have
1 med-sized Falcon Battlecruisers(flagship KSTF Maurador)
2 Small Destroyers (Pirated)
5 Small carriers (Bought) (100 fighters held)
250 Beatrix class Stealth Fighters (NOT CLOAKING)
100 Armlet class Stealth Bombers (NOT CLOAKING)

50 Raptor P3X 30s launched from the carrier asap when the sensors had picked up radio transmissions of allied fighters being destroyed, it was no time before they reached the fight.
"This is colonel Rumok, Kilmangan fighters, cease your attack now." In responce one flew past his cockpit, jarring the ship. "Engage Radio jamming, full evasive manuvering." he yelled. All the fighters under his command engaged, gunnery crew fired as helmsmen concentrated on steering. (These arent small fighters, they hold four people.) "Energise the hull plating." each ship had two turrets devoted to firing, so one ship could attack two at once. However the superior manuverability of the kilmangan fighters was making it difficult to hit them. "Fire missile clusters!" He could already see 8 of his fighters smoking in the water.

Meanwhile in space.....

The Freestar had picked up a small carrier group, they were the kind that only held 100 fighters or so. There were five in the group, however they had launched alot of their fighters to attack, so theyre small defensive task force of 50 wiukd be spread thin.
"All bomber and fighter pioletsreport to your ships, the kilmangan task force has been spotted, repeat all...."
250 fighters, and 100 bombers headed for the task force, at full speed, they reached them in ten minuites, the bombers dropping plasma charges, as the Fighters took on the defensive force.

DC- theyre only stealthy in space, cause theyre black, but during the day, they stick out like a sore thumb.
EDIT: damn button, anyway, it says they don't cloak, so they must be black, as they cant hide in the day, how about the night, they probobly also can evade radar.

The country of Kissingly offers support to all those opposing the oppression of Cherry Ridge. We will also offer citizenship. What support do you need?

OCC: ^I'm a modern RPer though - the F-35 is a real-life stealth aircraft that's painted a dull greyish colour. It's okay, though, I guess visual sightings are fine. I'm just a bit worried now because of the fact that Kilmanga is apparently a future-tech nation. That could make things slightly complicated, but I'm sure my fighters are up to the task.

EDIT: Directed at Siesatia.^


Oh, and Kissingly, some military forces would be greatly appriciated. If you don't want to get too involved, my two shot down pilots could still use some help.

ooc- don't worry, theyre space pirates, they don't have real advanced tech, they just aquire ships. I build my own. and visual sightings will do just fine.

Kissingly reports that they have immediate support for your pilots and enough small quick ships to ferry out any persons fleeing the dark empire called cherry ridge. All others please telegram with other requests as we can provide support immediately. We are working on providing military help but it is the choice of our people.

Wing Commander Frank Duvalle stared out through the glass of his cockpit - 200 fighters were bearing down on his force of 316. As commander of the rescue force sent out for the downed members of Recon Flight Alpha, he had instructed the force to assume a loose, wedge based formation before being re-ordered to engage the incoming Kilmanga fighters and bombers. He had extreme confidence in his force's ability to defeat any enemy back when this was a rescue mission, but he was feeling a bit nervous now, starring down 200 beatrix fighters. He heard some nervous chatter coming in from his pilots and decided to take some action. "This is Duvalle. Cut the chatter, essential comms only. Co-ordinate with your Wing Commanders for targeting orders, then prepare to fire on my mark." There was a flurry of positive replies, and then Rear Admiral Jetal broke in for a private transmission to Duvalle. "I need an honest answer Duvalle - we can still afford to retreat from this one. Can you beat them?" It only took Duvalle a second to compose his reply. "Yes maam, we can beat them, I have the utmost confidence in my pilots". There was silence on the frequency for a moment. "We're sending up every combat aircraft we've got," Admiral Jetal told him. "Everyone else'll concentrate on taking out those bombers. You are to let the bombers go around your formation without going too far out of your way to intercept them, your primary target is the enemy fighters. Godspeed, Jetal out" she finished. Duvalle took a moment to wipe the sweat from his brow before confirming that every single one of his fighters had a good target lock on the enemy. At the extremely fast closing speeds involved, there would only be time for one or two missile salvos from his fighters before the Colonial and the Klmanga fighters ended up in dogfight range. He took one last look to confirm his fighters were in the formation that he wanted, and then transmitted to his fighter force to, in his words, "Let 'em have it".

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OCC Force Listing:

Wing Commander Duvalle's Force to engage Kilmanga Fighters : 316

Other Force to engage Kilmanga Bombers : 214

Force left defending the joint colonial taskforce : 316

That's all of my fighter-bombers. All I have left besides those in terms of aircraft are Electronic Warfare planes, cargo planes, Anti-Submarine Warfare planes, mid-air refuelers, and AWACS aircraft.

EDIT: Sorry, I muffed up numbers a bit. Subtracted about 300 fighters from the mix. Sorry. My math had another minor mishap, but these numbers are right.

*Abord the RNS Marauder OPB Buccaneer 25 miles off the shore of Cherry Ridge*


Colonel Wilkins skimmed through the intel report running across his command screen. He cleared his throat and prepared to break the news. "Thats it... The shoe dropped. Several DC Fighters were just shot down. Intel indicates that at least one pilot made it out alive, and is now down in the water. They are about 15 miles south of our position. Inform the Dunne to reoutfit 3 of the Maruaders for Anti-Air roles and prepare to pick up these pilots. I want 3 medics on this boat ASAP. We have to beat these bastards to the pilots. Inform the DC command of our intentions and offer to coordinate our rescue efforts with anything they can. Get me a Live Feed with the Grand Admiral. We need to see what else we can get here. This looks like its gonna turn into one big clusterf*ck, and fast. Lets move!"

The 6 man bridge crew jumped into action and prepared to for battle, running the boat through a shakedown cycle and sending orders to the other ships in the flotilla. "12 Marauders against 200 fighters? Piss poor odds for the little guys." Observed the Weapons Officer Tyson. "Heh you just keep them off my ass and I'll get us there and back" Chuckled Colonel Wilkins "Sorry sir... Its such a big target... I can't make any promises" Joked Tyson. "Just shut the hell up and get these guns online. I want to get moving ASAP. The Dunne is almost done with the second ship. 4 minutes at most and we will be ready to go."

King Carpenter II was awakened by the buzz of the telecom. "Sir! The first shots have been fired over in Cherry Ridge! It's all out battle!"

"Damn! Scramble all MiG-21s now!"

"But sir? That's one thousand aircraft!"

"Do it! And also scramble the F-16 Flight already based in Cherry Ridge! And get those stealth supersonic bombers to take some action for crying out loud!"

"Yes sir!"

--Moments later--

All 1000 of Cullenus's MiG-21s were flying toward Cherry Ridge in full afterburner. Currently at CR Airbase 1, the elite 6 F-16 flight had taken off and began offensive manuevers.
The first Cullenus missiles have been fired in the skirmish.

XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic bombers have been commanded to bomb at will on all enemy vessels. Escorted by ten A/F-19A Retaliators.

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

"Sir. We have began our all out attack on the opposition!"

King Carpenter II staring out of his window did not answer.

_News Flash_ KCNC

Earlier today Cullenus sent out hundreds if not a thousand Air Force pilots to Cherry Ridge. We do know that missiles have been fired and blood has been shed. Currently there is no report on results. We are expecting the return of our first MiG-21s for refueling and rearming soon. The military has planned a strategy of circular movement that will keep our pilots in the action non-stop. As others are coming in for refueling and such, others will be heading out.
Stay tuned, we will keep you updated on this current conflict.

_________________

OOC: Is anyone else making a play for those pilots or should I just assume that my ships got them and got out unscathed. *note* I'm assuming that they had the time to get in and out before cullenus launched their fighters. 15 miles to a ship doing 80 knots is umm... like 11 minutes... + 4 for the refit I'll assume 15 minutes... did you scramble and get 25 miles offshore in that time?

ooc: who are you addressing? if its me then reword it a little bit, i got confused. oh yeah, i didnt explain everything either.. some of it can go without however... but if i need to then i will if it is required.

EDIT: ok... my events didnt really happen in relation with other events.. The king issued the things a while back (im just bringing it into the same post.. becuase the other countrys shouldnt have any knowledge of my kings decisions) the middle part is what actually currently happened... thr returning MiG-21s are a bit in the future... notice i did not give number.

Edit: Directed towards Rastabastatopia

OCC: I think we can assume that you picked them up. I was going to write something up from Lieutentant Sandra Govern's view (She was the flight leader, second one to get shot down) as she and Chang were rescued, but I wasen't really sure how to descibe your ships. Rastabastatopia, if you'd like to write something up about a recovery, I'd be okay with that. If you'd rather not, I'll put something into my next IC post about you picking them up. Either way, IC, I'd like to thank you for picking them up. Just between you and me, I was a bit concerned about what our religous opposition would have done to a female fighter pilot that they consider to be an infidel of somekind.... *shudder*

ooc: ill be back in a few hours... i have to go to karate.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=6761081

*Aboard the CNS Pax Magellanic, off the coast of Cherry Ridge*

"So, all in all, we're pretty okay" said Lieutenant Sandra Govern over the satellite communcations connection that had been established between the Pax Magellanic and the Rastabastatopian vessel that had rescued the two down Colonial pilots. Govern and Chang were still aboard the Rastabastatopian ship, but Captain Castille, as well the Pax Magellanic's JAG officer were in an auxilery communications room aboard the Pax to talk to Govern. "That's excellent news," said Captain Castille, "it's damn good to hear from you again". "Yes sir," nodded Govern, who then indicated a small medical cot behind her. "The medics here say Chang should be okay, and they look like they know thier stuff." "Good," replied Castille. "Well, just sit tight for the time being, and a V-22 will be along eventually to pick you two up. And don't worry about getting ambushed - those Kilmanga fighters outnumbered you by a huge ratio, there was nothing that you could have done. It's too bad about Wheeler, but we'll be sure to recover his body after the battle - he didn't die for nothing. You did everything you could Lieutenant, and we're proud of you." Govern blinked away a tear at the mention of Wheeler, the pilot they had lost, and saluted as Captain Castille and the JAG officer rose to depart. Govern had wanted to talk to McPierce as well, but he was out with the rest of thier squadren engaging the rest of the Kilmanga forces. With Chang totally out of commision for the time being and her with a deep gash on her arm, Govern decided to make the best out of the situation she could since both she and Chang would have been placed on mandatory medical leave even if they were back on the Pax Magellanic, so she thanked the comms techie who hooked up the satellite transmission, and collapsed back into her own medical cot, feeling exhausted.

OCC: Should this RP be moved into the other thread, over at the following URL?

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=6761081

General Vosokov couldn't believe his ears, the Siesatians had joined the fight, on two fronts. they had sent a weak force to challenge their large one, and then sent bombers off to destroy their carriers.
"Damn them" he yelled to his helmsman. "they sent out maybe 50 fighters, and we missed their bluff. They have the Freestar, and that holds almost 2000 fighters. now our carriers are limping back home!"
"But the battle below, did we win?" the helmsman asked,
"yes, at the loss of over a hundred fighters!" we need to get the maurauder out of harm way, along with our remaining two carriers. So that the fighters have something to land on."
"Why don't we go after the freestar?"
"WHAT!!! GO AFTER A SUPER CARRIER!!!?!!? WE WOULD BE CRUSHED, THEY HAVE TWO BATTLECRUISERS FOR SUPPORT!"
"Then why don't we keep the fighters from finding their carrier?"
"Becaus.... YES, good work, we can confuse them, by jamming ID signal codes, they'll have to sit and wait until the battle is over, or risk coming into contact with us."

we lost 123 fighters, the rest headed home.

Grand Admiral Chaz Luciano stretched out as he walked up the steps to the Dunne's bridge. Long flights always left him cramped. He palmed open the bridge's security door and walked in. He was immediately ambushed by an intel officer waving a portable viewscreen in his face. "Sir Sir here is the intel up to the moment. We are waiting on a report from the Marauder flotilla we sent to rescue the downed pilots. He sighed as he read through the intel report. Things were bad, he had to admit that. Little did he know things were about to get worse.

"Sir incoming transmission from Colonel Wilkins of the Marauder OPB Buccaneer!" shouted the comm officer.

"Put him on the main screen."

The image on the main screen snapped to life, and then just as suddenly, went black.

"No visual, audio is still coming in though... I'm gonna try and boost the signal and scrub out the static. There will be a few second delay becuase of this." said the comm officer as he furiously punched commands into his console.

"Sorry.... Bad sign............... mission succ........ attack.... losses.... wounded.... 3 ships... 3 minutes...."

"Thats all... looks like com was cut off on their end." said the comm officer.

Chaz thought for a moment and then started to gather his thoughts. "Ok get a medical crew to the deck and be ready to recieve wounded. Have the briefing room ready. I'll be down there if you need me. Send the crew to me as soon as they get aboard."

He didn't have to wait long. 49 men and women walked into the large briefing room, all with the look of soldiers who had just been through hell. "SIR! COLONEL WILKINS REPORTING AS ORDERED!" barked the senior office, and regardless of their condition, they all snapped to attention.

"At ease. Colonel. You were the commanding officer for this mission. Tell me what happened."

The Colonel took a deep breath and began.

"At approximately 1700 hours DCAF F-35s were attacked while flying recon just outside CR Airspace. 2 Fighters were lost, but the pilots both managed to eject. We were the closest units to the scene and I gave the order to launch a quick pickup mission. We had 3 of the Marauders reoutfitted for AA roles and moved out. We got to the waypoint and picked up the first pilot, A Lieutenant Govern, and proceeded to the next to pick up her wingman (ooc: rank?) Chang, who is still unconscious and both are in the medical bay now. Both are wounded We had just gotten him on board when the radar officer on one of the AA Marauders, the Black Sally, picked up a flight of several aircraft on radar. Along with a large force of friendly aircraft. We spun the boats around and began to make for the Dunne, but they picked us up on radar and began an attack run. We had the 3 AA Marauders, including the Black Sally, drop back to hold off the fighters while we got the rescued pilots back to the ship. We thought that we lost all 3 of those ships, but from radio transimssions we recieved before they dropped off radar, we are aware that they inflicted some losses. Since there is still a FOF beacon out there I am assuming that they managed to down all of the hostile aircraft, but 2 were lost and 1 disabled in the process. Take that at face value though Sir, as that is no more than a guess."

Chaz was again lost in thought and began slowly. "Very well. You made the right choice faced with a tough decision. I am glad we did not have to find out what a fanatical country such as Cherry Ridge would do with a female prisoner. Send 2 Marauders with fresh crews to check on that beacon and destroy any derilict equipment. Also inform the bridge that the Dunne is to make best speed to the DC fleet. I have a feeling that we will be seeing a lot more action soon and I don't want to be stuck out here alone when they come looking for blood. That is all. DISMISSED!"

on board the SMSC Freestar....
The captain was being briefed by his tactical officer "We lost 43 of the fighters we sent out, all the rest have returned."
"So lets send out more."
"We cant, the kilmangans have jammed all ID codes, we couldn't tell us from them on sensors, we'd be blind."
"I have an idea, prepare full shields, and repulsors, then prepare all crew."


OOC- Im about to do something really stupid, and im gonna need flat ground, can I count on some cleared land? You can guess what Im gonna do. Im gona need air support, but if I accomplish this, the capital city should fall easily, and it will provide landing strips for all allied fighters and bombers. Also, any downed piolets who reach my ship can get one of the fighters and rejoin the fight. Lets bring em down!

OOC: For Future Refrence... Marauder (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/GHoSt_DAwG/Untitled-1.gif) ... posted it in the other thread...

Had it in planning before this little furball so the secondary stats aren't really done...

Vitals:

Weight - 3 tons
Length - 34 ft
Width - 14 ft
Max Speed - 80 Kts
Range - 600 miles

Weaponry -

Standard

4 - 30mm Bushmaster 2 cannons
4 - RFHE Homing Torpedos
1 - 12 missile rack reloadable with many missile types

AA

2 - Vulcan Minigun turrets
2 - RFHE Homing Torpedos
1 - 24 Missile rack reloadable firing SAMs

OCC: I'm kind of confused about what just happened with Kilmanga, but since he said that his forces bugged out without mentioning any engagement with me, I'll assume that the 316 Colonial fighter vs 200 Kilmanga fighter battle just kind of ended after my initial missile volley that inflicted.... ? Light or no damage?

And Rastabastatopia, to clairify, there were four pilots involved in the recon flight, with three of them being shot down. Of those three, Lt. JG Wheeler was killed, but you managed to rescue Lt. Sandra Govern and Lt. JG Austin Chang. Thank you for doing so.

Oh, and also, I now realize that I messed up a carrier name early on in the RP. In the first few pages, I make references to a Pax Magellanic Class Carrier named "Athena", but I later changed that to "Pax Magellanic" - just a little screw up on my part, I even transfered all my characters over. Just kind of ignoring it would probably be the best thing to do...

IC: Rear Admiral Jetal studied the computer map that Pax Magellanic's AI was generating for her, and planned out her fighter movements. Since the large battle that Wing Commander Duvalle was expected to be in mainly fizzled out when the opposing force bugged out, thanks entirely to the attack on their space assets by Siesatia, the combined Colonial Taskforce off the coast of Cherry Ridge still had nearly all of her combat aircraft operational. Upon hearing that the Rastabastatopian vessel Dunne intended to join up with the Colonial force, Admiral Jetal immedately assigned what air cover she could for them. Although the range was still a bit far for the F-35 JSFs and the F-14E Cobalt Tomcats, the F-111C Sea Aardvarks had more than enough range to cover both the Dunne and the 2 Marauders that were going to check out the Rastabastatopian FOF beacon. 2 Squadrens of 16 Sea Aardvark fighter-bombers each (That's 32 total) were sent out to cover the 2 Marauders as they approached the Rastabastatopian FOF beacon, and another squadren of 16 was sent to cover the Dunne as she approached the Colonial taskforce.

OCC again: Siesatia, that cleared flat land you mentioned... I'm fairly certain it could work out either way, but I'd like to be sure. Would you like us to find you some cleared land, or, would you like us to clear you some land via explosives?

Matters little to us, we need the land, we have many supplies if we would like to use this as our base of operations, the shields would of course protect us once we landed, plus i could get my fighters back up, and begin my bombing runs, human religeous areas matter little to me, and the best way to demoralize an enemy is to destroy whats important to them, the church is most important, so the church must go.

TO ALL CITIZENS OF CHERRY RIDGE, LEAVE ALL LARGE TEMPLES Or CHURCHES, AS THEY ARE OUR FIRST TARGET, POPULATED OR NOT, THEY WILL FALL. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN. ALL REFUGEES PREPARE TO FLEE, BRING ONLY WHAT YOU CAN CARRY.

He TG'd me saying he wanted to get outta this, as it was too slow, so he wanted to play a more support role for the CR, like ID code scrambling he might rejoin later, so we gotta keep alert for him.

Okay, I'm gunna catch up here:

The shots rang clear across the screens displaying various portions of Cherry Ridge. Bombs had been dropped. Worse yet, a flight of fighters had come down hard upon a Democratic Colonies recon flight squad. It was time for the Blargistanian's to move.

Benly signaled the Harrow and the Marklov . The crews hit high alert scrambled into action. Within 10 minutes, cruise missiles came online. One after another, the missiles streaked away from the battle cruisers, lighting up the night. The targets had been pre-programed for sites of strategic importance within Cherry Ridge.

On board the Pandora , fighters were being scrambled and put up into the air. The supercarrier and two nimitz carriers housed a total 1,150 aircraft, 123 Helicopters, and 5 U-2 spy planes. There were currently 54 of the MiG 32B interceptors in the air, keeping a vigiliant watch over the battlegroup. As the cruise missiles were being launched, another 50 F-122 Raptor Multirole fighters were sent up into the air.

Benly, watching from the TCR began to plot strategic moves that would eliminate the largest threats from Cherry Ridge. He looked to his fighter numbers and flight maps. "Order a flight of the Striker Heavy Bombers to take out the airfields here and here." He said, highlighting two sections of the map. His aids transferred the orders into the data systems and the ships AI followed the commands, prepping the bombers automatically.

An hour later, two flights of 50 bombers each launched from the carriers. They headed off under fighter escort for thier targets.

As the 2 Marauders approached their derelict brother, they heard cries for help from the deck. Apparently a near miss by a missile had caused the boats engines to fail and its electronics to overload. 2 of the original 5 crewmembers were still alive, albeit badly wounded.

"If we don't get these guys back to the Dunne soon they aren't gonna make it. This boat is still salvagable, so we need to take it with us." Said Lieutenant Armando Davis "Radio the DC and ask if they can lend us a V-22 to pick up the wounded crew and haul this boat back to the Dunne."

"But sir, we have towing equipment, why dont we just haul it back ourselves?" Said the radio officer.

"That would take too long. Even with all this air cover I don't want to be stuck out here alone when the bastards come back. Kill the engines and turn on active sonar. Intel reports that they don't have any subs but I sure don't want to be the one to prove intel wrong. Now get on the horn with DC command and ask for that Osprey."

"Sir!"

*Onboard the CNS Pax Magellanic*

Rear Admiral Jetal rubbed her eyes as huge the bank of computer monitors winked out in front of her. She had just been in a two hour long video conference with the commanding officers, Wing Commanders and onboard AIs of the six Pax Magellanic class aircraft carriers present off the coast of Cherry Ridge, as well as the Director of Naval Intelligence, Vice-Director of Colonial Intellgence, and the Secretary of the Navy. Just introducing everyone involved in the video conference took atleast ten minutes, but they finally nailed down a plan - or, something approaching one atleast. The Colonial Intelligence Service had infact located what could be the perfect site for what Siesatia had in mind located very close to the capital of Cherry Ridge, but the Office of Naval Intelligence wanted Admiral Jetal to send out F-111Cs on a recon mission to do a low level flyby of the suggested area before giving it the all clear and recommending it to Siesatia. The AI of the CNS Challenger wanted to also begin a bombardment campaign, but the idea was put aisde for the time being, the Secretary of the Navy wanted to aviod the admittedly low chance of friendly fire or possible collision with the aircraft of BLARGistania. The greenlight was given for entry into Cherry Ridge's airspace at Admiral Jetal's will, but no bombing runs or tomahawk missile barrages were to be scheduled before the BLARGistanian bombing was complete. One of the more aggressive ideas that were passed though, involved sending foreward four of the eight Los Angeles class submarines in the task force to check the area immediately by the coast of Cherry Ridge for enemy submarines. If the coast was clear, the 4 Crusader class battleships of the taskforce could then move forewards, right up to the coast, and begin bombardment with thier 4 24" guns, 6 15" guns and 12 5" guns, capable of reigning total devestation along the coastline. The only other active unit action that was approved during the video conference was the launch of 638 fighters to linger outside of Cherry Ridge airspace and only enter CR airspace if the BLAGistanianians requested them to do so in order to provide support while 192 fighters continued to watch over the carriers of the taskforce. Rear Admiral Jetal ran over the numbers in her head again:

-32 F-111 C Sea Aardvarks to do low altitude, supersonic recon of the "flat, clear land" siesatia wanted
- 698 fighters to support the BLARGistaniaians if needed
- 192 fighters to defend the carriers
- 48 F-111C Sea Aardvarks already covering various Rastabastatopian ships
- 4 subs foreward to check for enemy subs

It all seemed to work out, so Jetal leaned back in her seat and tried to get a few moments rest - although it didn't last very long. One of the monitors winked on again, and the concerned looking AI of the Pax Magellanic, appearing on the moniter in her always seemingly starched and polished modified colonial uniform, and began to speak. "I'm sorry to interupt Admiral, but we're recieving a transmission from the Rastabastatopians." "Put it onscreen" ordered Jetal, and the details of the situation came through. Jetal thought the situation over for a second, before deciding to send out a pair of V-22s to answer the Rastabastatopian request for assistance. She was sure to order one of them loaded with a Colonial medical team. There weren't any escorts she could assign to them, but she believed that they would be okay - it wasen't that far anymore from the battlegroup to the location of the Rastabastatopian FOF beacon, and the Ospreys would be under AWACS cover the whole time, with fighters at both ends of the trip. With that done, she began to make her way towards the flag mess to get herself more coffee as the thunder of the launching aircraft reverberated through the ship.

Solar Wing, one of the task forces of bombers that were launched flew high over Cherry Ridge. From here the could just see the nation below them. Small towns dotted here and there, open grass lands, forested areas. It all looked very pretty. The wing commander sighed, by the end of this campaign, most of it would likely be destroyed. The bombers continued on their course.

Back at the fleet TCR, Benly watched their progress, marked by a group of small green arrows moving on a clear tac screen in the center of the room. The tac screen currently displayed the entire nation of Cherry Ridge, in addition to the surrounding waters. Any part of the nation could be roomed in upon, based upon intelliegence being constantly fed into the tac screens. Benly watched as an aid zoomed in on the second group of bombers, the map enlarged around the cluster of green arrows, showing the immediate landscape. "ETA to target, 20 minutes".

OCC: Feel free to call in my fighters at any time BLARGistania.

IC: The 32 F-111C Sea Aardvarks zoomed over the terrain of Cherry Ridge at mach 2.4, all of them at less then 200 feet above the ground and all of them doing thier best to hug the terrain and avoid detection. Normally, a recon mission like this would have gone to the stealthy F-35 JSFs, but after what happened to Recon Flight Alpha, Command wasen't sure if the Cherry Ridgers had stealth-detection devices or some other kind of stealth-foiling device, so the desicision was made to send in heavily armed, high speed Sea Aardvarks instead of JSFs. As they whipped thier way through valleys and and between hills, they saw no signs of interception, although every member of the recon force would bet on the noise they were making being loud enough to wake the dead.

Five hundred of the MiG-21s coming in from refueling and rearming spotted a group of aircraft carriers a bit off the coast of Cherry Ridge. Many fighter aircraft could be seen flying patrols.

"Wing Commander to HQ, over"
"This is HQ, go ahead."
"We haved spotted some of the oppositions aircraft carriers gaurded by an estimated 200 fighter aircraft. Requesting permission for agressive manuevers. Over"
"Well they are outnumbered 2 to 5, fire at will! Out"
"Wilco, out"

"Alright guys! It's time to rock n roll! May God be with you!"

The 500 MiG-21s charged in in full afterburner. The first wave all at once launched 50 some odd missiles at the enemy fighters dotting the air. A few more missiles were launched at the aircraft carriers in a full out attack.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/MatthewCH/NationStates/mig21-13.jpg

We need that land cleared now, our ship will enter the atmosphere in exactly three hours. Do not worry about trees, as my repulsors will squash them flat, I just need the land level.

OoC: Here is a compilation of what I posted in the other thread. I will have an IC entrance into the war up soon enough.

OoC: I'd just like to point out that, as a UN member, Cherry Ridge is in violation of several UN resolutions.

These include, but are not limited to, the following.

Religious Tolerance
Fair trial
The Universal Bill of Rights
Due Process
Definition of 'Fair Trial'
Universal Freedom of Choice
Abortion Rights

Kahta views the UN as an organization full of Utopian Liberals, not the real world.



Regardless, Cherry Hill is a member in violation of a large number of our resolutions. Considering that sanctions against Cherry Hill, having been in place for some time now (If you play 1 RL day tends to = 1 NS year, then they've been in place 2 years), have been so far ineffective, we of the ICRC feel that, as a UN member state, we are obligated to remove the regime currently in charge of Cherry Hill and open the country for the installment of a democratically elected secular government.

The ICRC is willing to contribute the 3rd battlegroup from the Western Fleet to this conflict, along with the 4th and 5th Marine divisions. Also, we will be sending 9th Transport Airwing into the conflict with three armored divisions that will remain unnamed. Lastly, Pride and Military Experiment have agreed to send the 4th Talon Strike Company and the 1st Red Airborne Company respectively.

OoC: The 3rd Battlegroup consists of the following:

5 Yorktown Class CVN 'Supercarrier' - 92 Aircraft per, assorted
1 Behemoth Class CVN 'Supercarrier' - 138 Aircraft per, assorted
2 Arizona Class BBG 'Guided Missile Battleship'
8 Kirov Class CGN 'Nuclear Powered Battlecruiser'
12 Arleigh Burke Class DDG 'Guided Missile Destroyer'
8 Seawolf Class SSN 'Fast Attack Submarine'
5 Ohio Class SSGN 'Cruise Missile Submarine' *

*NOTE: The Ohio SSGN does not carry any nuclear tipped missiles. The ICRC tends to despise nuclear weapons, so the entirety of our small stockpile of such weapons are located on Ohio Class SSBN submarines.

GV condems these treacherous and vile attempts by the so-called united nations to steal away the sovereignty of Cherry Ridge. The Valian government strongly advises Cherry Ridge to withdraw from the UN at once if it values its rights to stamp out the Heretic menace from within.



Cherry Hill is a member of the UN by it's own free will, and as such is willingly subject to our resolutions. Cherry Hill violated these resolutions while still a member, so withdrawing now will do very little except remove whatever UN resolutions it may have had protecting it.

Secret IC:

In an effort to retain the ability to strike back should this conflict turn nuclear, the ICRC has decided to send fifteen of their Ohio Class SSBN's, each equipped with 24 Trident-II nuclear tipped ballistic missiles, into international waters located close to Cherry Ridge. Of the 360 missiles, 350 do not have preset targets, while the remaining ten are targeted at Cherry Ridge's largest concentrations of military force and the capitol city. However, in keeping with previous policy, the ICRC refuses to begin a nuclear war, and will only fire in response to an attack using WMD's (Including but not limited to; nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons).

The Ohios are expected to arrive twelve hours behind the main naval force, and are to take up station at the sea floor in various locations surrounding Cherry Ridge.

The ICRC, though supporting this conflict, would like to warn all those involved that any impediment to the formation of a democratically elected government after this war will be considered an act of aggression against a UN member state. We implore you to leave the Cherrians to themselves following a suitable reconstruction period after the war.

EDIT: Directed towards Industrial Experiment sorry bout the confusion

OOC: Since you have not made your offical "entry" into the war what are we to do with your SSNs. They are still there as a precaution I assume. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Venore is prepared to join this war against Cherry Ridge by sending military ground forces. We will send 10 infantry, tank, and airborne divisions with transports. We wll need support from ships and aircraft for shore bombardments and airstrikes. They are ready to land onto Cherry Ridge and prepared to give civilians transports to leave the country. We have already sent a number of Special Operations groups (Green Berets) to find any rebels and use them to help the fight against Cherry Ridge.

OOC: Since you have not made your offical "entry" into the war what are we to do with your SSNs. They are still there as a precaution I assume. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Who is this addressed to? I was here from the beginning.

Salbania will not sit idly by while truth-spreading teachers are viciously murdered by religious quacks. Therefore, we have put an embargo on all products from your country and are debating if we shall take even further steps to stop this savagery.

EDIT: Directed towards Industrial Experiment sorry bout the confusion

OOC: Since you have not made your offical "entry" into the war what are we to do with your SSNs. They are still there as a precaution I assume. Correct me if I'm wrong.

OoC: Yes, they are still there as a mere precaution. I have made it my policy to never participate in a first strike, only to respond in kind should I be the victim of one. Also, they are moving in under maximum stealth procedures, and their captains very much expect to get into position without being detected. They are far enough from the actual conflict that even should someone get a sonar echo, it would most likely be ignored.

Salbania, the teacher was not viciously murdered. The teacher commited a direct act of treason against her country and broke the law in full awarness of the concequences. She simply served her sentence.

Salbania, I do not wish to sound mean about this, as I am still a bit of a Noobie, however, you only have 5 million people, wait till you get 20 mil before you throw yourself into a war. It would be impossible to have an army to contend with those of the bigger countries. An army should never be more than 5% of a countries Population.

Cullenus, though it was a law of Cherry Ridge, the entire situation is a gross violation of several UN regulations. Due to the fact that sanctions had no descernable effect on the situation, all current UN members and supporters of the UN should consider it their duty to pursue military action against Cherry Hill.

I believe I stated that we were placing an embargo on thier products, we never declared a war. We are debating right now if we should stop the embargo, because our people miss some of thier products.

-Kingdom of Cullenus Official-
To: All opposition

The Cullenus military asks all opposing forces of there intentions. If the main intention is to land a ship at Cherry Ridge to take any people who wish to go to another land, will they be actually allowed to stay if they will it. Cherry Ridge is there home, they grew up there. They're generally all Catholic. Those who aren't technically do not have citizenship and are illegal immigrants. Those, however, who break the law will be prosecuted and lose citizenship at the same time. Those few who did oppose the government did so in full realization of the consequences. They chose to break the law. And therefore were prosecuted. They are gone now. So I simply ask, are there actually any "refugees"? Or did the opposition create this scenario as an excuse to go to war? Or possibly subconsciously as an all-Catholic nation is contrary to there own all-atheistic nation?

King Carpenter II
King of Cullenus

OCC: Since you didn't mention an actual MiG-21 version, I'm just going to assume that there're somekind of modernish souped up varient.

IC:
*Aboard the CNS Pax Magellanic*

The bridge of the Pax Magellanic was abuzz with activity as the Colonial Taskforce prepared to engage the 500 incoming enemy fighters. The shipboard AI was engaged in multiple conversations with all the ship departments at once, while at the same time co-ordinating with the other ships in the task force. "We made a big mistake in sending out all those fighters" said Captain Castille as he came up beside Rear Admiral Jetal. "We didn't expect Cullenus forces to actually come back - a miscalculation" Jetal agreed. The 590 fighters were already being called back, but they would be lucky to see the tail end of this fight. However, the 192 F-14E Cobalt Tomcats of Colonial Battlegroups 3.1 and 4.2 were ready for battle as they counter-charged at the attacking MiG-21s, firing a full missile salvo of 192 long range missile as they closed the range between the two groups.

"Any hope of assistance from any friendly or neutral aircraft that can get here before the end of the battle?" Captain Castille asked the Pax Magellanic's AI. "That is unlikely, and I have recieved no indications that that will occur" answered the still calm AI. Captain Castille looked up to the sky as explosions began to appear. The CIWS turrents on all the Colonial ships had anti-air missiles, but the combat was still out of range for them. However, the ships were still in the range of the missiles of the MiGs, even if the reverse wasen't true, and the Pax Magellanic's AI realized it. "Incoming missiles, 16 targeted for the task force, 8 of them for us, altitude is 18,000 feet and dropping, speed is 200 knots and rising, all hands brace for impact" she warned, saying the words and figures as quickly as she could. Steel shutters began to drop around the windows of the bridge, and most were infact closed when the first missile hit the Pax Magellanic, but those on the port quadrent of the bridge were just a second too slow.

Wing Commander Kate O'Dell felt her heart beating in her chest at what must have been a million beats per second - she was outnumbered and outgunned, but she wasen't totally without advantages - she had the utmost faith that her uprated Tomcat, be it an older American fighter design of the Cold War, was still superior than the uprated Soviet Cold War design her enemy was using. There was no more time for that though - the moment of truth had come. This was the fight of her life, and she intended to live through it. She dodged an enemy missile as it came within feet of her cockpit, only to see it impact the Cobalt Tomcat behind her. She dodged another one, thankfully seeing it detonate against the cool night sky. She dodged another and another, and when she tought that her body could take no more G-foreces, she found that she was through the enemy fire. She could hear her pilots chattering, some in triumph and some in grief as they made it through the enemy salvo of missiles. "How we doing Franklin?" She asked her radar operator in the back seat of the Cobalt Tomcat. "I can't tell how many of our missiles hit, but Wing Commanders are reporting that the enemy fired around 50 missiles at us, a handful at the ships, and they scored 32 hits with thier missiles. All planes hit were either instantly destroyed, or so badly damaged that thier pilots had to eject." Kate tried to absorb the information as she attempted to get a clean radar lock for another salvo of missile fire against the enemy. "What about the ships?" She asked. "They're still reporting in," Franklin said, "details unavaible at this time".

Captain Castille tried to get up, but found that he couldn't. The last thing he remembred was a huge explosion, the loudest bang he'd ever heard go off right over his head... and then this. He opened his eyes and found that he was lying on the floor of the bridge on the Pax Magellanic, and that he could hear nothing but ringing in his ears. A metal support strut was laying across his legs, but a pair of ensigns were trying to pick it up and get it off of him. Castille looked around the bridge, or, what used to be the bridge - there was borken glass everywhere, the lighting and half the monitors in the room were out, and most of the port side of the bridge was simply a smoking ruin. Wrekage was everywhere, but as the ensigns worked the support strut off off him, he found that his hearing was returning to him. He could hear the sound of the Pax Magellanic's AI announcing a code red on the bridge with officers down, he could hear the wind gusting into the room... his hearing was normal now, but what bothered him most was not what he could hear, but what he couldn't. The usual, constant hum of the six nuclear reactors aboard the Pax Magellanic was gone. He turned to one of the ensigns, recognizing her as the one that rushed out onto the flight deck to give him a report earlier on. "Ensign Burrows... what happened?" he asked, almost afraid to hear the answer. "We're dead in the water sir," she replied "the flight deck looks like it still works, but only with one launcher, and that's only while we've still got juice for it. The engines are fried, a missile hit right back there. We've got nothing but batteries now, and those won't last long. The AI's already engaging a backup of her core personality files and sending it back to command... CIWS systems are still working, but when manually operated... sir?" Captain Castille had been listening closely, but lost total attention as he approached a corpse near the port side of the bridge with a jacket draped over its upper half. "Is that.... Is that Admiral Jetal?" asked Castille. He turned around and looked at Ensign Burrows when she didn't reply, but the look in her eyes told him everything he needed to know. Admiral Castille was dead.

The rest of the Colonial taskforce didn't suffer nearly as badly as the CNS Pax Magellanic. One of the other missiles impacted the Ticonderoga II Class Crusier CNS Bradwell, causing minor hull damage. Another missile impacted one of the launcher systems for Pax Magellanic Class Carrier CNS Liberator, but that could be repaired if given some time. All in all, the CIWS systems of the Colonial Taskforce performed well, but not well enough to prevent the CNS Pax Magellanic from being disabled.

OCC: We had to know you were coming with atleast some forewarning - I've got AWACS planes, and your planes aren't stealthy. Also, the Tomcats were expressly designed for long range combat, which is how I justify the full launch of a 192 missile salvo at longish range. Our fighters can now close to dogfight range if you wish.

The Republic of Vocositor does not support enforcing morality, but does however support any nation's right to enforce whatever it sees fit, even if it does not comply with our beliefs. We fully support the security of CR to continue to do whatever it sees fit. Furthermore, Vocositor does not condone the UN or it resolutions in any way. We shall be sending 25 commands of prototype Vartor Type Defenders, 25 standard Defenders and 1 Commander Configuration per command. We will also send a single prototype Dalimoth Type Mortar Tank, Destroyer Config. to aid CR against any possible attacks. All forces will arrive by one Acron Type Carrier Ship, fully oufitted with Wyrnaut Type Magnetic Cannons.

-Grand Chanselor Vocor, Father of the Vocositor Memory Core

Cullenus, though it was a law of Cherry Ridge, the entire situation is a gross violation of several UN regulations. Due to the fact that sanctions had no descernable effect on the situation, all current UN members and supporters of the UN should consider it their duty to pursue military action against Cherry Hill.

Salbania, however, will take Siesatia's advice to heart and not pursue military action against Cherry Hill, for we are VERY commited to supporting the drug war in Chilan Kahn.

The Republic of Vocositor does not support enforcing morality, but does however support any nation's right to enforce whatever it sees fit, even if it does not comply with our beliefs. We fully support the security of CR to continue to do whatever it sees fit. Furthermore, Vocositor does not condone the UN or it resolutions in any way. We shall be sending 25 commands of prototype Vartor Type Defenders, 25 standard Defenders and 1 Commander Configuration per command. We will also send a single prototype Dalimoth Type Mortar Tank, Destroyer Config. to aid CR against any possible attacks. All forces will arrive by one Acron Type Carrier Ship, fully oufitted with Wyrnaut Type Magnetic Cannons.

-Grand Chanselor Vocor, Father of the Vocositor Memory Core

It matters very little whether you condone UN resolutions or not, for by continuing membership in the UN, Cherry Ridge has expressed their approval. Considering that the violations were committed while Cherry Ridge was a member, even pulling out of the UN now will not save it from facing the consequences it has incurred upon itself.

It matters very little whether you condone UN resolutions or not, for by continuing membership in the UN, Cherry Ridge has expressed their approval. Considering that the violations were committed while Cherry Ridge was a member, even pulling out of the UN now will not save it from facing the consequences it has incurred upon itself.

Ah, I did not know of this folly. I withdraw 20 of my commands and my mortar from Cherry Ridge, I will however, continue to defend them in the case that a war might strike, so in place of my forcs I am withdrawing I will send 500 Furon Type Plate Tanks, Armor Config. to defend personally as many citizens of Cherry Ridge as I can.

Onboard the Freestar....
We have penetrated the upper atmosphere, Entering the Lower atmosphere in 3....2....1.... Lower Atmosphere breached, We are now in Cherry Ridge Territory. The computer piped.
"lets just hope our allies pulled through"

The Carrier hovered above the city, before heading for the designated landing spot.


Cullenus- We will take whoever wishes to go, however, if any citizens approach the carrier for any reason at all, they will be taken into custody.

Onboard the Freestar....
We have penetrated the upper atmosphere, Entering the Lower atmosphere in 3....2....1.... Lower Atmosphere breached, We are now in Cherry Ridge Territory. The computer piped.
"lets just hope our allies pulled through"

The Carrier hovered above the city, before heading for the designated landing spot.


Cullenus- We will take whoever wishes to go, however, if any citizens approach the carrier for any reason at all, they will be taken into custody.

The 32 F-111C Sea Aardvarks continued to circle the designated landing zone, although at much lower speeds than the ones they were travelling at earlier. The leader of the recon force, Commander William Rollands, initiated radio contact with the Freestar as soon as it was in range to confirm that the landing area appeared to be clear.

"Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit" Colonel Wilkins swore as he dodged another burning hulk of a plane. He could not tell if it was friendly or not but it didn't matter. They were outnumbered 5-2 and unless these capital ships started bringing their AA weapons to bear soon the furball in the air would be over and the attacking MiGs would be free to attack the ships. Behind him were the other 8 ships remaining in the flotilla, all outfitted for Anti-Air combat. In the back of his head he wondered how the Dunne had managed to convert 9 Marauders to AA outfits in under 10 minutes. That thought was quashed from his mind as another burning hulk slammed into the ocean not 10 feet from his boat. Alarms started going off immediately as the boat rocked to a 70 degree angle and came crashing back to level. "Hopkins take care of that!" He barked over the alarms. "SIR!" came Hopkin's reply. Fortunately the MiGs above were too busy dogfighting to realize that the stealthy 9 ship flotilla had detached themselves from the rest of the fleet and began to move within Missile range of the dogfight. As soon as the 9 boats opened fire however, that would change. This was a suicide mission and everyone involved knew it. They had time to fire 1 slavo from their main armament and then they would have to hightail it back to the fleet and hope that the twin miniguns could buy them enough time to get back to the relative safety of the fleet.

"Pinza open a channel to all the Marauders!" he shouted to the comm officer.
"Sir you're live now" Pinza replied.

"Ok everyone. This will tax your targeting computers to the max, so take your time and don't blow it. Get a solid lock with as many missiles as you can and then launch the full 24. As soon as they are all away get your asses back to the fleet. Try and overlap your fields of fire to keep the bastards from getting too close. Fire on my order... 3... 2... 1... FIRE!!!"

It was an incredible sight, 216 missiles streaming away from the relatively small boats like tongues of fire, but Wilkins had no time to contemplate the poetic beauty of it. As soon as the last missile left its tube he spun his boat around and made flank speed back to the ships, knowing that with any luck that one slavo would turn the tides of this battle in their favor.

The carrier flew over its designated landing zone, it set down, and instantly turrets began to depress, and the bay doors opened.

-----OPEN TRANSMISSION-----
DC fighters, our landing bays are open to you, if you have been shot down or damaged, land and take a fighter from our bays. The shields are up, so inorder to land, you must signal first, otherwise you will crash. Please inform your leaders that we await them.

-----TRANSMISSION CLOSED-----

Rear Admiral Ronald Vice of the ICRC Interrvention Council starred out the front viewport of his flagship's, the Intrepid's, bridge. He looked quietly out over the flightdeck of his newly bestowed command, a modified Behemoth class supercarrier, and sighed in a mix of exasperation and nostalgia. While he was used to commanding a small taskforce from the flying bridge of an Arizona Class battleship, more specifically his beloved Guardian, but he had spent a portion of his early carrer serving aboard an older Nimitz class carrier. What an amazing turn of events this was, he was now the commander of a ship that held more than twice the air-wing of the Nimitz on which he had served as a mere cabin boy, and was even more able to absorb punishment. The admiral gave the flight deck one last look before turning back to the rest of the bridge and walking towards the communications stations in the pit area. He walked up behind the senior comm officer and began to speak.

"Major Divins, give your report. Have we recieved any updates from ICRC-IC HQ?", the admiral intoned in an even voice.

"Ah!", Divins said as he turned quickly, obviously surprised by the admiral, "Well, sir, yes, several actually. We recieved an uplink code to the MilSat currently situated over Cherry Ridge, which was moved slightly so as to easily focus on the air and naval battles taking place on the coast."

Vice looked at the most up-to-date read out of the MilSat's imagery for a moment, and muttered to himself, "Ahh, so someone did end up coming to the aid of these fanatics...", and then he continued, but louder so the Major could hear him, "Did we recieve any situational updates?"

Fidgeting, the Major called up a communique on his console and pressed a few buttons, "Yes sir, three. I'm uploading them to your DDM pad so you can view them at your convenience."

Ronald lifted up his Data Display and Management, or DDM, pad, and began browsing the reports sent to him by the ICRC-IC in response to numerous overflights of enemy territory by MilSat craft. Estimated troops strength, approximate location of enemy naval forces, updates on the air situation, and finally; orders on what to do next. The admiral scanned the reports for a minute before looking back up at the comm officer, "Is that all, major?"

"Well, uh, no sir, there is one more report. It's FYEO Red ST-3 Classified, though, so I am not permitted to handle it in an capacity, sir. If you don't mind, I would ask you to come and read it and then delete it, sir", the major said with not just a little nervousness in his voice. He himself had a OV Blue ST-7 clearence, somewhere in the order of twenty levels below what his commander had. He must be an important man if he was permitted such a high security clearence.

Or, apparently, not even the admiral was that important, "I'm sorry son, but I can't do anything about that message, either. It's two security levels out of my league. However, I think I know who does have the clearence..."

The admiral turned around and made to step out of the pit (Which, in reality, was a three inch depression in the deck), but stopped and returned his foot to the ground, smiling.

"Ah, Mr. Cleansworth, I believe there is a message for you".

"Really...", said the dark clothed civilian who had been assigned to Admiral Vice's bridge crew as an observer. Vice knew what bullshit that whole story was, and suspected that Cleansworth was actually an intelligence officer from the newly formed ICRC Intelligence Council, which was in and of itself a secret to those without a decently high clearence. The admiral's suspisions seemed confirmed when the man walked to the communications console, typed in a password, scanned the message that came up, then pressed a button to delete it.

The admiral looked at Cleansworth as he passed by and considered asking him what the message was about, but thought better of it and instead began issueing orders, "Helm, take us about twenty degrees west and sail with all good speed towards thirty-nine seven A quadrant, we're going to take station 100 miles from the Democratic Colonial fleet. Send out the same order to the battlegroup and also tell them to not fire under any circumstances unless the order comes from me. Order air patrols into the skies upon reaching our destination and await a request for assistance from the Colonials"

Vice took another cautious glance at Cleansworth who, he noticed, was looking almost straight down, as if he was staring down into the the depths of the oceans themselves...

Democratic Colonies--- OK, I typed up a nice long reply for the attack between us. But when i went to post it, it made me sign in again and then i lost all my information! sooo... I really dont feel like retyping that. So just know that 92 aircraft destroyed, 9 aircraft returned home from damage... the remaining 399 are moving in for a dogfight. damn this sucks!

Democratic Colonies--- OK, I typed up a nice long reply for the attack between us. But when i went to post it, it made me sign in again and then i lost all my information! sooo... I really dont feel like retyping that. So just know that 92 aircraft destroyed, 9 aircraft returned home from damage... the remaining 399 are moving in for a dogfight. damn this sucks!

*Aboard the Pax Magellanic Class Carrier CNS Challenger*

Commodre Herbert Danforth paced back and forth on his bridge as the Challenger's AI silently tracked his motions from the central computer monitor. "Godamn.... Admiral Jetal was good.... I'm not as good, I can't possibly assume command of the task force" he muttered. "Jesus H. Christ on a stick. I can't do this. I can't do this..." He continued, as he paced back and forth. "Commodore," began the Challenger's AI, trying to get his attention while he continued to pace. "Commodore..." she insisted, while Danforth continued to ignore her. She rolled her eyes as Danforth began to wave his arms around randomly. In her opinion, Commodore Danforth didn't belong in command of a garbage scow, but he had wormed his way up the ranks via family connections. Losing her patience, the AI finally decided to just beep a loud alert alarm to get his attention - "*BEEP!* Commodore!". "What?" finally answered the startled man. "Commodore," continued the now irritated AI, "we are receiving a report from the CNS Atlas that the Rastabastatopian ships are firing all of thier munitions in one large salvo in order to assist us in our battle. Communcations with thier commander indicated that they anticipate this to be a suicide attack. However, the AI and the Captain of the Atlas believe that if we were to move one of our AEGIS equipped Ticonderoga II Class cruisers out of formation and into a position better suited to cover them, they stand a much better chance of survival. Admiral Jetal's last order was for us to move forewards at maximum speed, so we are already en route. The moving of the crusier will affect the effiecentcy of our AEGIS net, but the other Ticonderoga class AIs believe they can compensate." The Commodore nodded absently and picked up a pen. The AI continued. "We are also recieving a transmission from forces sent by the Industrial Experiment - they are offering to assist us. I have already taken the liberty of accepting thier offer, since the latest news from Colonial Fleet Command is that the nearest Colonial reinforcements for us are still atleast a week away and probably longer than that. Commodore, are you listening to me?" Danforth was now chewing on his pen, seemingly paying no attention to the multi-million dollar AI as she briefed him. She ended up just speaking to the bridge crew in general, most of whom were trying to ignore the Commodore's incompetence. "As well, the fighter engagement overhead has closed to dogfighting distance." And, with that last comment, she sighed and flickered offscreen.

Wing Commander Kate O'Dell couldn't believe the tightness of the dogfight they were in - multiple missiles streaking past her wings less than a foot to spare, narrowly avoiding mid-air collisions as she bucked and rolled to avoid enemy fire and manuver for her own shots. The news of what happened to the Pax Magellanic and Rear Admiral Jetal, as well as the sacrifice that the Rastabastatopian ships were willing to make had only served to further the determination of the Colonial pilots. She heard whoops of successful kills more often than she heard the screams or the simple static noises of defeat, but she knew that her pilots were taking horrific losses, and she wasen't sure if they could hold off the superior enemy numbers. As she narrowly avoided ramming into the flaming hulk of her second in command's tomcat as it's fuel stores exploded, her radar operator told her that they had suffered yet another 25 loses since closing the distance between the two groups of fighters. Wing Commander Kate O'Dell's command was down to 135 fighters. O'Dell tried not to think about what that loss of life really meant while she squeezed off another missile.

The MiG-21s engaged the enemy fighters in combat. There was a mixture of missiles and bullets buzzing by and random explosions. The MiGs charged through firing feriously.

The commander dodged missile after missile ignoring the sweat dripping down over his eyes.

"I got one on my tail!"

He did not hesitate and followed what he was trained to do. He finally shook him off.

Another MiG pilot took on some bullets. His aircraft was severely damaged.

"Damn! It's jammed! I cant eject!"

He pulled out his pistol and shot the window and then tried punching it out. The window flew away easily in the speed. Just as it went flying he pulled the ejection lever and rocketed up. He was launched straight into the belly of another MiG-21 dieing instantly.

"Don't let up! Keep it going and give them all we've got!"

Just then a hundred or so missiles came flying up from the ocean. In the surprises many of the pilots did not have time to react. Many MiGs went down in firey balls into the ocean.

A group of small boats were moving away from the location the missiles originated from.

"Get those boats!"

Ten MiGs turned toward the baots firing 15 missiles in there direction each at separte targets.

The dogfight was intensifying by the minute.

Current total losses are 103 fighters down. There are 296 remaining Mig-21s.

ooc: you know, just a little interesting tidbit, but i was considering sending all 1000 Mig-21s instead of half... but I thought that would just make it too easy.. so I had the two groups rotating... the other 500 MiGs are currently being refueled and rearmed.

hey im gonna have to continue this tomorrow... it's 11:20 pm here... anf my friends are coming, so i have to go sneak out of the house and go to waffle house with them.... cuz no school tomorrow because of hurricane.

OOC: People, stop posting so fast, I can't keep up.

I take it the MiG attack was directed at DC then, I thought it was me, but nevermind. I need to wait for CR to respond to my bombers, otherwise I'll just start blowing things up.

Loud sirens shreaked inside the supercarrier as every bomber emptied out of the hanger. All 400 sped up, they were carrying plasma charges, which would devistate the local area, they were not made for stratigic bombing, but carpet bombing. Soon the streets loomed below, the entire sky seemed dark with the mass. The bomber squadren Alpha-Omega targeted what seemed to be a central church, and dropped charges, each would release super heated plasma on contact.
The other squadrons picked targets and dropped their charges on whatever seemed apropriate.

"LAUNCH!" screamed the radar officer over the din of combat. I count about 120 missiles inbound. Impact in 10 seconds. Wilkins jammed the countermeasures button and the com button, popping several canisters of chafe and launching several flares into the air behind his boat hoping to confuse the incoming missiles, and yelled out "Incoming missiles, all boats launch countermeasures and go evasive." He threw his boat into a hard left turn and launched more countermeasure pods. The ground shook as the missiles impacted with the water where his ship was only moments before. He quickly checked his Tac Screen and saw that of the original 9 boats only 6 remained. He spotted an Aegis Cruiser heading straight towards his position and had an idea. "Turn those Vulcans around and try to pick off any missiles that they fire. "Aye Sir!" came the confirmation. The remaining boats sped towards the AEGIS cruiser, hoping that the on board missiles that it carried could intercept what his miniguns couldnt. "Sir! The missile racks are reloaded. We are ready to fire." The targeting computer acquired a solid lock on the persuing MiGs and fired. While there were 1/3 less ships firing, the thunder of the missiles leaving the rear mounted rack still shook him to his core. "Missiles away sir!"


OOC: From the original 12 Marauders we're down to 6 + 1 being repaired atm. More are inbound along with a capital ship or 2... more info soon

Back on CR...

The Vocositor troops began to behave strangely, first in communication, then in motor functions, finally, the logic and mainframes themselves began to malfunction. As Commander of force 17 observed his troops behaving oddly, and noticed his own systems malfunctioning, he did all he could. He instantly sent this message: 0100001001010101010100100101001101010100001000000101010001010010000000010100111001001101010010010101 0011010100110100100101001111010011100011101000100000010000010110111001111001001000000101011001101111 0110001101101111110100110110100101110100011011110111001000100000011011110111001000100000010000010110 1100011011000111100101101001011011100110011100100000011001100110111101010010011000110110010101110011 0010110000100000010101101100000001000011001011110011000100110011001000000111001001100101011100010111 0101011001010111001101110100011010010110111001100111001000000110100101101101011001010110010001101000 0110000101110100011001010010000001100001011100110111001101101001011100110111010001100001011011101010 0011011001010010111000100000001000000100010101101110011001010110110101111001001000000111011001101001 0111001001110101011100110010010001101100011000010111010101101110011000111110100001100101011001010010 0000011000010110011101100001011010010110111001110011011101000010000001100011011011110110110001101100 0010010101100011011101000110100101110110010001010010000001101101011000010100110101101110011001100111 0010011100010110110101100101011100110010111000111000001000000101011101100101001000000110111001100101 0010010101100100001000000110001101001111011100100110010100100000011000110110111101101110011101000110 0001011000110111010000100000011010010110110101100101011001000110100101100001011101000110010111101100 0111100100101110... Unfortunately this message did not reach Vocositor shores, but it reached some troops and able contactors from every other nation, if they can decipher it.

*Aboard the Pax Magellanic Class Carrier CNS Challenger*

While Commodore Danforth was busy trying to avoid an examination for "hysteria" by a pair of medics that the Challenger's AI had called up, the AI was finishing briefing the ship's first officer, Captain Joe Shoemaker, who had just returned to the bridge from briefing the Search and Rescue pilots who would begin searching for survivors of the air battle shortly. As she completed her briefing however, Shoemaker seemed to notice the AI gazing off at nothing for a moment. "Callie?" He inquired, using the nickname that the crew had given her. Her eyes snapped back to Shoemaker and she began to speak again. "The enemy MiGs are firing missiles at the Rastabastatopian ships, and the assigned cruiser is not fully in position yet. The crusier is, however, firing wide angle defensive explosive missiles now and opening up with all of its AEGIS III systems - but with the increased range, I'm not sure how effective they'll be". Callie's eye focus seemed to shift rapidly as she tried to determine how to increase the chances of survival for the Rastabastatopians.

OCC: Rastabastatopia, I think you should call it on how successful my crusier is.

EDIT: sorry Rastabastatopia, I was typing at the same time you were. Just assume that the crusier is moving into the optimal position now, since you can already see it, and it's following defensive shots should me more successful than the first. But yeah, go ahead in RPing how successful it is if you want control over that part.

Major Divins, finally calming down and seeming slightly less nervous, called out to Rear Admiral Vice with only a fraction of the previous excitement in his voice, "Sir! We have confirmation from the Colonial forces to move in! We're also getting communiques from the ship captians asking what our orders are".

The admiral stood silent for a moment, going over the tactical situation in his head. He drew up and discarded several plans of attack before deciding to go with an old strategy that never quite seemed to be out of place, "Major, I want you to order the other Behemoth carriers to send up 60 Phoenix-N's each (OoC: It's an upgrade on the F-35 JSF), and I want to Yorktown to empty it's bays and send all 70 of its Phoenix-N's into a covering shell over the fleet and...", the admiral paused to take in a deep breath, "I want all of our Valefors in the air providing cover for the rest of the airfleet. Order the rest of the fleet to set sail for the Colonial position and begin arming all weapons, be on the look-out for surprise attacks. Have the Phoenix-N's from the Behemoths split up into three equal forces of 100 planes each, going in at the current dogfight on fourty degree variations of a central attack column."

He looked around again a moment, mostly to study the look on Cleansworth's face, and then continued, "Helm, set a course for the Colonial navy, but tail behind the rest of the fleet a small bit", he then turned to the SONAR officer, "Corporal, I want you to send off constant pings into the area we are currently occupying once we are a mile behind the rest of the fleet".

The admiral looked at Cleansworth's apathetic face once more before he turned back to the front viewport and watched the continuous aircraft launches.

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Colonel Frank Davenport of the 2nd ICRC Valefor Squadron was constantly glancing at his HUD, making sure no unexpected threats loomed up, and when he was satisfied that it would be clear flying to their destination, he flicked on his wing-com radio frequency and began to address the fighter craft around him.

"Pilots, this is your commander. We are under orders to move against a large swarm of dog-fighting craft only a 100 miles from here. We are going to split into three equal forces, 100 Phoenix-N's and 4 Valefors each, and perform a Delta-Trident attack at a fourty degree tilt. I know I don't need to tell you boys to fly well, 'cause you're already the best pilots I've ever flown with so I'll leave you guys to do what you do best", Frank said, glancing around the outside of his cockpit's canopy at each jet he could see.

"I also know I don't need to tell you one of the basic rules of friend/foe identification in a dogfight like this, but I will anyway. This is a close thing, so when you get in missile range, only lock onto confirmed and unengaged enemy fighters on the edge of the swarm. From there, you are free to engage at close range, but remember to be wary of friendlies in the area. Now go, and good luck to every last one of you".

With that, Colonel Davenport peeled away from the formation, one third of which followed him closely, to take up his position as the lead fighter in the central attacking column. He glanced again at his HUD to see his squadron mates dancing around the Phoenix-N formation to make sure they achieved maximum anti-missile coverage. Only watching this display of flying prowess for what seemed like a second, he realized it must have been longer as he was only eight seconds from missile range against the enemy fighter cloud.

"Pick your targets wisely guys", he muttered to himself and to the fighters under his command, even though his radio wasn't on. After his fighter passed into missile range, he took but a second to acquire two locks and only a second more to send 3 AIM-9 Sparrow missiles at each of his two targets. A similar display was played out across his portion of the attacking airforce and in the two other pincers of the Delta-Trident formation.

OOC: I'll take the 3 ships lost from the first volley. The now that we have opened up with the vulcans and have AEGIS support, this volley might play out a bit differently. As it stands, my remaining Marauders (6) are breaking for the AEGIS cruiser, and have just launched a 122 missile slavo at the MiGs still in the dogfight. I'll rely on the AEGIS cruiser and my miniguns to take out the MiGs trailing my boats and any missiles they fire. Cellenus is gone for the night I think so we should continue this tomorrow... I'll be on around 3 EST to play this out. night night everyone.

Loud sirens shreaked inside the supercarrier as every bomber emptied out of the hanger. All 400 sped up, they were carrying plasma charges, which would devistate the local area, they were not made for stratigic bombing, but carpet bombing. Soon the streets loomed below, the entire sky seemed dark with the mass. The bomber squadren Alpha-Omega targeted what seemed to be a central church, and dropped charges, each would release super heated plasma on contact.
The other squadrons picked targets and dropped their charges on whatever seemed apropriate.

The Colonial recon force watched in a thouroghly impressed manner as the Siesatian bombers carpet bombed entire areas of the city. They haden't recieved any new orders aside from a "Stay put and continue orbiting the landing zone" from the still active AI of the CNS Pax Magellanic, and then the same thing from the AI of the CNS Challenger, so they were left to stay put and continue orbiting the landing zone. Thier weapons loadouts were mainly air-to-air for this mission anyways, but the pilots still felt the urge to avenge thier fallen comrades by firing on the churches with thier 20mm canons, some of them seriously considered doing it inspite of thier orders - but none of them wanted to go through with disobeying orders, and worse yet, having to face an angry AI for disobeying said orders. So, for the time being, Commander Rolland and the other 31 F-111C Sea Aardvarks with him continued to circle the landing zone, waiting for news of how the air battle out at sea was going.

CR Shore:

VDC-17 Watched as several of his and the other commanders' troops decended into the ocean water out of viral delerium. With his last bit of power he sent out a sequence of 5 four-bit numbers: 0111 0101 0111 0110 0010 directly to the Vocositor Republic Memory Core. It was time for revenge. He powered down as his cybernetic legs pulled him into the ocean...

Benly heard the cries across the shared comm channel in TCR. Shit he thought. This was not going well. The coalition had launched attacks against Cherry Ridge, but the allies of CR were already striking back. 500 MiGs had been put into the air, they had taken a heavy toll on the DC task force. The Rastabastatopian force had also been hit, they were running back to cover.

Benly called up the group comm channel "All forces, put intercept fighters in the air, sea units, cover will be provided with the battle groups."

He called up his task force comm. " I want the Yarrow out there providing cover and intercept. Fortis and Pandora Launch remaining fighters. Put of as big of a fighter screen as we can manage. Keep full rotation moving, we want as many out at a time as possible. The crew will remain on 4 hour sleep cycles. Red Alert around the clock folks, We're not going silent until enemy forces are eliminated."

The remaining fighters launched out of the lower launch bays of the Pandora while the topside pad recieved fighters that needed refueling and reariming. Small flights of fighters were sent out to the other combat groups in the area, they were doing damage assesments and search-and-rescue missions. Blargistanian military was ready to receive and wounded.

As a final act, Benly called up the Blargistania central military HQ, back in Blargistania. He put in a request for reinforcements.

OOC: Just in case nobody knows, the missile corvette is a fast, small cruiser designed for intercept missions, the russians used to have them but stopped production, my nation uses updated versions of them. Another battlegroup similar to the Pandora group will be arriving shortly.

The battle-weary MiG-21 pilots were losing there calmness. There numbers have dropped drastically.

The MiGs that went after the boats were taken by surprise by an onslaught of missiles. All were destroyed.

A fresh force of enemy craft from another very skilled opposing force tore most MiGs apart.

"Group Commander to HQ, over"

"This is HQ, go ahead."

"We have suffered horrible losses, the enemy is fighting with the utmost vengence. And they have many new fresh fighters that just joined in. Our remaining fighters are weary and low on fuel. We are returning home. Over"

"Confirmed, the second MiG-21 wing is fueled, armed, and ready to go. Out"

"Group Commander out"

- - - - -
"Alright boys pull out! We are going home."

The remaining 163 MiG-21s pulled out and went into full afterburner.

The fresh group of the other 500 MiGs have just taken off from home base.


OOC: ok now i got it to a resting point.

Vocositor Core, 4:0 VST

Vocor watched as the Core interpreted an archived signal. Suddenly the Great Machine began to move. It calibrated to- no that couldn't be right. It was armed and ready for a direct attack. The Core pulsed rapidly as the weapon began to charge. It fired... with enough force to devastate most of Cherry Ridge and the surrounding forces. Vocor sighed in despair.

OoC: Vocositor, I don't know what you're doing, but it seems to me like you're a future tech nation trying to play with all us little modern tech people. I don't know about any virus attacks on you, but unless you can explain yourself, I'll be ignoring your posts from here on in during this RP.

EDIT: Not only that, but it seems you're a brand new nation, as well. I suggest reading the stickies at the top of the board, you're in no position to RP right now.

OOC: Well you had better hope that whoever hit me with the virus can stop the data burst before it drives you all insane. My crazy ray was signaled by forces I had there.

EDIT: OOC: Also, don't ask me to stop it, my nation's sysems aren't precise enough to hit the ray without infecting the Core. If I would I could. A bit of advice, any signifigant piece of data can absorb the ray. Have somebody there send a radar signal my way or something.

EDIT: RE: I'm already screwed; my forces will only send a signal for data burst if they are entirely anihalated. That's an automatic last ditch effort I had instilled in writing the prototype programs for all of my citzens.

I know how to stop it. Just fire an IGNORE cannon at it. That should do the job.

Because of your folly, you have all gone crazy as the beam of enlightenment hit you. Congratulations, you now have a partialy insane population. :fluffle: :confused: :eek: :headbang: It looks like you guys need some help now... kekeke.

EDIT: I think I'll cut my losses and let CR get pummeled into a fine dust.

*under my breathe* "I think it may have backfired"

*under my breathe* "I think it may have backfired"

definatly.

OOC: Well, this looks like fun. Perhaps I should launch one of my space fleets from Granada, and have a few dozen Jukon class subs patrol the area and launch some MS teams. If you'll have me, that is. If not, tell me so and I'll just sit back and watch.

IC: Sitting in his office, President Damien Nightbane, leader of the Principality of Bryn Shander, turned off his television and called his Secretary of Defense into the room. A few minutes later, the man entered.

"Jim, I'm sure that you know why you've been called here" said Nightbane.
"Yes, Sir. The Cherry Ridge conflict on Earth", the man replied.
"Well then, you know the story. A crackpot religious dictator is killing people, and now fighting has broken out between his allies and a group of nations determined to stop him."
"That would seem to be the gist of it, Sir."
"The last thing we need is a fundamentalist regime causing tension and chaos in the region, because it could lead to a major world war. Contact Xiloscient and Darklight. I want the 7th Mobile Fleet launched from Granada to an orbit above Cherry Ridge, and I want the 4th and 5th Terrestrial Wolfpacks deployed to Cherry Ridge waters."
"But Sir, it will take three days for the forces to arrive. Is this really a good idea?"
"Don't argue with me, just do it."

As the secretary turned to leave the office, Nightbane added one more thing.
"Make sure to contact the nations moving on Cherry Ridge and let them know that we're coming.

OOC: Forces deployed
-7th Mobile Fleet-
14x Musai Class light cruisers(refit); Armament: 5x 2-barrel mega particle cannon, 10x 2-barrel 120mm machinegun, 10x missile launcher; Mobile Suits: 4; Komusai II shuttles: 1

6x Chivvay Class heavy cruisers; Armament: 2x 3-barrel mega particle cannon, 18x 2-barrel 120mm machinegun, 12x missile launcher; Mobile Suits: 8

3x Zanzibar Class assault cruisers; Armament: 1x 2-barrel main mega particle cannon; 4x secondary mega particle cannon; 5x 2-barrel 120mm machinegun; Mobile Suits: 6

2x Tivvay Class battleships; Armament: 2x 3-barrel mega particle cannon, 24x 120mm machinegun, 6x missile launcher; Mobile Suits: 16

1x Gwazine Class battleship; Armament: 3x 2-barrel main mega particle cannon, 10x 2-barrel secondary mega particle cannon, 40x 155mm machinegun; Mobile Suits: 20

12x Papua Class supply ship; Armament: 10x 90mm machinegun; Mobile Suits: 1

Total Mobile Suits: 186
12x MS-05A Zaku
56x MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai
58x MS-09RII Rick Dom II
42x MS-14A Gelgoog
8x MS-14Jg Gelgoog Jaeger
4x MS-14S Gelgoog Command
6x MS-18E Kampfer

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-4th and 5th Terrestrial Wolfpacks-
24x Jukon Class mobile attack submarine(refit); Armaments: 6x torpedo tube, 9x missile launcher; Mobile Suits: 4

Total Mobile Suits: 96
22x MSM-03C Hygogg
18x MSM-07E Z'Gok-E
10x MS-07B Gouf
22x MS-09F/trop Dom Tropen
18x MS-06FZ Zaku II Kai
6x MS-18E Kampfer

All forces will arrive in approx. 3 days.

"Move the Shulte in next to the Dunne and aid in the resupply. Have half of the Marauders form a patrol ring around the fleet and keep the other half in reserve. Radio the DC Command and inform them that reinforcements have arrived. Let them know that in theatre are 36 additional Marauder OPBs and an additional command ship. Inform them that although our command ships are armed they are really not much more than glorified resupply ships for the marauders. Take the damaged Marauder abord and begin repairs. I want 43 fully operational Marauders outfitted with AA armaments by tomorrow morning." Admiral Dawson let out a deep breath. While the RNS Shulte was not much of a fighting ship, the 36 Marauders she brought with her would be more than enough to make up for that. He watched as the Chief Boatswain eased the massive ship in next to its sister ship the Dunne, and noticed for the first time that one of the DC ships had no lights or systems on. He wondered to himself what force could have disabled a ship so large, yet leave it afloat. He pushed those thoughts aside and checked on the patrol line his Marauders had begun to form around the fleet.

Vocositor - You don't need to worry, I have biological systems, and my race uses no implants, so your virus won't work. If your going to try cheap ass tatics like this, you may as well stop RPing altogether, as all it does is prove you a newbie, now, if you just get rid of your old posts about some gay cannon virus, I believe we will accept you back in the game.

ALSO, THIS VIRUS WOULD HAVE TO BE ACCEPTED IN A DATA TRANSMISSION, YOU CANT JUST SHOOT IT AT A COMPUTER OR PERSON AND THINK IT WOULD BE ACCEPTED, THIS IS NOT F_ING INDEPENDINCE DAY!!!

-----OPEN TRANSMISSION-----
DC fighters, we are preparing an EMP Pulse, we have opened a hole in our shields, if you would land, we will fire it, and launch you back out again. We have also noticed damage, and low fuel, we can repair and refuel. Medics standing by.
ALL ALLIES PUT DOWN YOUR FIGHTERS AND TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEMS, WE ARE PREPARING TO STOP AN INCOMING THREAT
-----CLOSE TRANSMISION-----

OOC: Watch out... the vocs might grow an EMP shield out their ass too... *rolls eyes*

OOC: Watch out... the vocs might grow an EMP shield out their ass too... *rolls eyes*

Hmm? I do that all the time. Watch!

LMAO

ooc: Wait a second... you gonna fire an EMP? Wouldn't that take out all of my 500 MiGs coming in? Well I know that it's not a godmode but, well that's just outright brutal.. I would say negotiations are in order.

We feel that this is a perfectly sound weapon, if you agree to put your fighters down, your pilots will not be harmed. however, attacking an unprotected carrier is brutal, thsi is a flagship, however, there are entire families, women and children on board. Plus the reffugees. The EMP will only affect nearby fighters. You may surrendur to our personel by landing, and proceding to walk to the carreir, your men will then be assigned quarters, and will be brought back to your country, ships and all. We know they will try not to escape, I have your assurences none will be harmed, however, any unauthorised acess to other parts of the ship will result in their termination. however,t hese terms are Negotiable.

We will just have all fighters return home. All fighters are headed back in full afterburner. I'm sure their families will be happy to see them.

yes, we are happy no more lives have to be wasted defending those that kill their own people. send the families of the dead or wounded our condolences, our hospitals are open for all those that need medical assistence.

bump

OCC: Sorry I was away for most of today. Stupid Real Life... :D

IC: Commander William Rolland of the Colonial Recon Force heard the call from the Siesatians and decided to radio the carriers for instructions on what to do. "Go ahead and land on the Freestar," Challenger's slightly distracted voice instructed him, "we're still trying to sort out where to land everyone now that the Pax Magellanic's out. Besides, your people must be tired and low on fuel by now, so go ahead and land. Remember to extend your appriciation and thanks to the Siesatians, and don't wander out of the areas they've designated you can wander in. Challenger out". Rolland leaned back in his seat as he confirmed with the Freestar where to land.

OCC: I'm assuming that you still want my Recon Force to land incase you need to use that EMP thing later Siesatia, tell me if that's not the case and you want them off your ship.

Theyre welcome to stay for as long as they want, and the emp is charged and ready, lets just hope we don't have to use it.

*Aboard the CNS Challenger*

Callie, the onboard AI of the CNS Challenger, was grateful for the presence of the Rastabastatopian ships as they entered formation around the Colonial Taskforce. The AI of the Pax Magellanic had put herself into suspension mode to preserve the remaining battery power aboard the CNS Pax Magellanic, so Callie was now the senior AI in the task force. Commodre Danforth had come to his senses and stopped pacing around the bridge in a panic, but Callie still would have rather had Rear Admiral Jetal in command. In the last minutes of fighting before the fighters from Cullenus had retreated, Wing Commander Kate O'Dell's force that was flying defense for the taskforce had suffered another 12 losses, leaving her with a force of 128 to command. It felt akward for Callie to have so many foreign fighters flying inside or through the security perimeters of the Colonial taskforce, but she was thankful for them too. The BLARGistanian and Industrial Experiment fighters, as well as the extraordinarily heroic missile launches of the Rastabastatopian Maruaders had proved to be the decisive factor in the battle, and had probably saved the Colonial taskforce from horriffic loses. She would be sure to highlight the assistance of all nations involved to the Colonial Foriegn Affairs Department. The 590 Colonial fighters that were lingering outside of Cherry Rose airspace were now returning, some to find that thier home carrier had been ravaged by enemy missiles, and all of them feeling guilty for not getting back in time for the action.

Callie now turned her attention to the video conference that was going on in one of her auxillery communications rooms. Present via satellite connection was the Secretary of the Navy and the Vice-Director of Colonial Intelligance, as well Captain Castille, still aboard the Pax Magellanic. Commodore Danforth was silent for most of the disscussion, since he probably didn't have anything to add. "This thing is coming to an end anyways," said Captain Castille, pleading his case in a nearly totally dark room. "The Siesatians are bombing Cherry Ridge to hell, as are the BLARGistanians. I recommend we just fire off some Tomahawks, avoid any more losses, and then let the Atticans take the country. CR is finished, so just send up a tow ship for the Pax Magellanic". The Secretary of the Navy agreed. "The Kilmanga have retreated, as has Cullenus. While we'd rather not be too hasty in believing that the area has been cleared, since that's what allowed the Cullenus fighters to do so much damage, we do now believe that the battle is esentially won. Cherry Ridge isn't even putting up a fight, we haven't heard a peep out of them." The Vice-Secretary of Colonial Intelligence nodded his head in agreement. "Alright then. It's been agreed - Commdore Danforth, just stay where you are and repair what you can - the 1st Battlegroup of 4th Fleet will be there in a week or two with a mobile repair and tow ship for the Pax Magellanic. Initiate Tomahawk bombardment of Cherry Ridge, and try to avoid any more losses." Danforth replied with a simple "Yes sir" before the partipants disconnected from the video conference and Callie appeared on the LCD monitor to the Commodore's right. "Should I initiate a class two tomahawk bombardment of Cherry Ridge on the targets Colonial Intellgence sent us?" She asked. Danforth looked deep in thought for a second. "Class two, huh?" He muttered as he scratched his chin. Callie remained silent for a moment on the monitor while Danforth continued to pretend to remember what a class two tomahawk bombardment was. Finally, Callie gave in and began speaking again. "Yes sir, I recommend a class two bombardment. That would be two Tomahawks per target, with four Tomahawks on hard targets like bunkers. With the target list that Colonial Intel gave us, that would mean that we would fire 238 Tomahawk missiles in the inital bombardment, with damage assesment being done through Colonial spy satellites." Commodore Danforth continued to scratch his chin as he authorized the launch. After a few minutes, the sky roared with the launch of tomahawk missiles bound for various targets in Cherry Ridge.

Solar Wing soared low over Cherry Ridge, cameras whirring. The target had been picked and was now a mere mile away from them. Wing Commander Javrik began to issue orders to his flight.

"Gray Sqaud, bunker buster run, make sure nothing is left of those structures. Blue Squad, go after the tankers, I want all of that fuel destroyed. Green Group, hit the ground-based aircraft, we want to make sure none of those planes get off the ground. Black sqaud, hit the runway, hard. Put lots of holes in it. I want it out of comission for at least the next month. If we're not going to use it, I want to make sure they can't. Grey sqaud, you're with me. We're going after the ATC towers and command posts. Lets get moving people."

The fighters began to veer off on seperate courses over the airfield. A full 50 heavy bombers were part of this run, in addition to the superioirty fighters patrolling the skies above. As the first waves of bombers made their runs, the bay doors opened and bombs began to fall. Five runs, One thousand bombs. All on one air field.

* * *

Back on the seas, Admiral Benly of the Pandora routed his task force over towards the injured DC task force. As his ships sailed into view of the other task force, he lit up is IF/F becons and continued on. His screen showed the considerable damage to the Pax Magellanic as well as the rest of the battle group and the fighters swarming in the air. Benly re-entered orders to keep flights of fighters on full rotations. He opened a comm channel to the CNS Challenger, the current flagship for the Democratic Colonies.

We would like to offer our assitance in repairing the Pax Magellanic. We can provide our own crews in addition to yours, cutting the repair time in half. We can also offer the flight decks of our two carriers for your pilots to land on. We currently have many fighters off on patrol and bombing runs so there is plenty of room until they return. I would like to offer my personal gratitude to your armed forces personnel, they have proved to be of a pivitol role in this conflict. Cherry Ridge is almost finished here. I think, after repairs are complete, we can all go home.

Benly closed the comm channel as his ships began to sail in amongst the Democratic Colonies task force.

OOC: My fighters use a combination of bunker-buster bombs and incinderary weapons to ensure maximun damage.

*Aboard the CNS Challenger*

The transmission from the Admiral Benly of BLARGistania was played for Captain Joe Shoemaker, second in command of the Challenger, as Callie watched from a secondary monitor. "Accept thier offer for repairs, and extend our thanks" ordered Shoemaker. Since Commodore Danforth had gone to sleep and ordered not to be awoken no matter what, Captain Shoemaker was in command for the time being. "Also, decline thier offer to let us use thier flight decks, but say that we're deeply appreciative of that too" Shoemaker continued. Earlier on, Callie had had crunched the to determine if there was infact enough room to determine if there was enough hanger and flightdeck space to land everyone on a functioning carrier, and concluded that they had 718 spots for the 766 fighters that were returning. While there wouldn't actually be enough space for all the fighters to land at once, having no fighters in the air to protect the task force was unacceptable anyways. Using a modified patrol schedule, it was agreed that the situation was acceptable, although Commander William Rolland's Colonial Recon Force was not factored into the equations since they were already aboard the Siesatian ship Freestar, and everyone assumed that the fighting would be over soon anyways, so it was acceptable if they had to land on the Pax Magellanic's flight deck. The Pax Magellanic's flightdeck was now clear of debris, so landings could take place on it, but there was no power for the launchers to relaunch any Colonial fighter that landed on it.

The flight deck of the Freestar....
Syphera walked onto the deck where the humans had landed their craft. Actually, she hadn't walked on, but a hologram had. Guised in human appearence, she walked forward, painfully awhare of the slight shimmering the underpowered projectors gave her.
The nanites had begun to take affect on the damaged fighters, as holes and scrapes had begun to close up on the DC fighters.
She walked over to what seemed to be the highest ranked officer there.
"It seems that we have left Cherry Ridge in ruins." she said, as her hologram shimmered again."However, we are painfully low on power, our generators were busy powering our shields at 182 % and then the EMP took what little was left, We will be here for another few hours, We also understand that your carriers are damaged, we will ferry you to your nearest military base, and before you refuse, we should tell you that it will be no trouble at all." she smiled at the person. "Dinner will be served at 6:30 CR time, thats an hour from now, and we must insist that you all attend, as the bombers will be landing then. Just to let you know, all churches and relegious temples have been incinerated, all bridges, airports, missle sites, military bases, and naval bases have also been detroyed, with low civilian loss. I believe this is over, we should let the ground forces of the second wave take control."

*Aboard the Siesatian ship Freestar*

Commander William Rolland stood in awe of the holographic woman that stood infront of him. Damn, he thought, these Siesatians really are a high tech people. He began to study her in detail, as he was amazed by the technology involved to create such a precise, lifesized holographic image. She seemed to shimmer as stared at her, admiring the detailing of her hair. The possibilities with this are endless, he continued to think to himself, I can imagine what the AIs back at the taskforce would do to get this kind of technology... He was startled out of his wonderment though, when his second in command gave a polite cough. The hologram was begining to look at him strangely, so he figured he had better say something soon. "We...Ah... Thank you. Thank you very much for the most kind welcome you've given us, and the offer of transportation. We'll all be sure to report for dinner ontime, as I'm sure we'll enjoy it. On behalf of the Colonial government, I would like to extend my most...ah... heartfelt appriciations to the Freestar and to Siesatia". The hologram gave a polite nod, and exited the deck. He watched her go, and debated whether he would describe her to those back at the taskforce as a "technological marvel" first, or a "wonder of technology". "Not bad Commander," he heard his first officer call out from behind him. "Not only have you weirded out a holographic woman that represented a country that could destroy the Democratic Colonies easily, but you also starred at her ass while she exited". "Shaddup Johnny" Rollands said to his first officer as he took off his flight helmet. "Yeah, shut up Johnny," said another member of the Rolland's squadren, "I think the Commander did a great job of handling that explosively charged diplomatic situation. I mean, he didn't make up any new words, he didn't get spit on the other person's face, and he didn't tell a dirty joke that -" "Hey!" interupted Commander Rollands, "I'm never going to live down that incident with the Narzillion Liason officer, am I?" he sighed. "No sir, no you're not" said his first officer. "ah, don't worry about it Commander," said another of his pilots, "I'm sure Callie would be proud of the way you almost-nearly but kinda didn't sorta screw that up in a horrificallish manner". Rollands punched the pilot on the shoulder, and they settled in on the, to them, extremely advanced ship Freestar for the time being.

OCC: I must admit that I'm fascinated by what's up with the hologram, so I'll just ask. What's up with the hologram? :D

EDIT OCC: And no, Rollands was not actually staring at your hologram's.... "ass" as she left. His first officer just made that up to bug him, as he seemed to be so impressed by her.

FYI- The hologram is shimmering because of the low power on the ship. And also, it can not be touched of felt, if you were to try to touch it (I know how that sounds LMAO) your hand would go through it. It is just an artificially created image. Also, I believe that if your officer saw our species real form, he would lose interest. Not that its gross or anything, just much diferent.

FYI- The hologram is shimmering because of the low power on the ship. And also, it can not be touched of felt, if you were to try to touch it (I know how that sounds LMAO) your hand would go through it. It is just an artificially created image. Also, I believe that if your officer saw our species real form, he would lose interest. Not that its gross or anything, just much diferent.

I see. IC though, while Rollands did think the holographic form Syphera took was attractive, he was mainly mesmerized by the technology of it, which was much more advanced than the stuff he's used to. I thought it would be appropiate to insert some amazement into a situation when a relatively modern-tech RP character sees something that, for the most part, mainly exists in future-tech RPs.

EDIT: I've just edited my last two posts to make them more coherent. I'm not sure what happened, but I don't seem to be making much sense tonight.

Not all of our ships are like this one, the freestar is our flagship, and was built recently, with our most advanced technology.

OCC: I see.

And to further explain why I wrote all that stuff about Rolland earlier, I figured that my pilots should be either freaked out by some super high-tech thing on your future-tech ship, or just absolutely amazed by it. While I did toy with the idea of having Rolland kinda freak out at seeing Syphera's holographic projection, I ended up going with amazement instead.

And just out of curiosity, what do your people look like? Now that you've made that comment about them looking much different from humans, you've sparked my imagination.

HERES A LITTLE HSITORY LESSON
The origional Siesatians were human, they were not proficiently advanced in anything, except the science of genetics. The president then decide to use that technology to recreate an intelligent creature that had died out long ago, and use them as slave labor. They aquired the neccissary DNA from fossils and succeded in reestablishing an extinct creature. However, they realised that the Utahraptor was too fierce and unintelligent to use as slave labor, and destroyed them. However, a rouge group of scientists decided to try again, this time, tweaking the genes that controlled brain growth. This time they created creatures smarter than they were, which presented an even greater problem. The lab scientists realised that they responded to speach, and could learn extrememly advanced tasks very quickely, but thy were too smart, and escaped to the nearby jungle. All 823. Over the next 100 years they built a socioty, one that rivaled the Siesatians in technological prowess and intelligence, until war broke out, the siesatians were destroyed, and the entire population took over the land, taking the name of their creators. However, nations saw the great threat of these new creatures, and drove them from the earth, and to the moon, where we have stayed.
We have a tendancy to become agrivated by those who state their opinion that we died out long ago, as we are not the creatures that roamed earth 165 million years ago. No matter how similar we are in body. They also develop new technologies to make up for the prehistoric bodies, one of the reasons they survived so long. No they do not eat only meat, the creating scientists quickely discovered that they were omnivoric by nature. humans had a tendancy to be scared of us, so we developed holographic systems to aid in diplomacy. A tendancy towards being vain, they would have chosen what they believed to be a good apearence for their holographic projection.

OOC- Wow, that sucked to type.

OCC: Okay, that's pretty damn cool. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity - that's a great back story. :D

And I would suggest copying and saving the description for pasting whenever anyone asks, it'd probably be easier than typing it out again.

I did that long ago....

ohh, this'l be hilarious when they meet for dinner. LMAO, the perfect Broca Devide test. (When two eras of time meet)

OCC: heh, that's definately going to be an interesting dinner. Would you like to type that up, or should I?

Semi-IC: It appears that Cullenus is rearming himself. Gary Hill just gave him a large amount of military equipment from his store in celebration of his 1,500th post, and he just purchased a large sum's worth of naval units. While I don't really expect him to come back, my Colonial taskforce will remain at slightly-alert-but-not-really-status. That is to say, if something were to happen, Callie would let my forces know because she's the only one actually paying attention to anything anymore, since the battle has been "won" already. Source of this intelligence: http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=348204

you start it, the halls will be clear, and all the crew will eat in the mess hall. Just use your imagination. I gotta good one in my mind for this one.

-Capt Strahng Urdanu-

"The recent conflict over in Cherry Ridge has been lossed. However along with the battle we have also lossed many of our MiG-21s. The aircraft can still be useful to us if we can recover scrap metal and parts. Also any pilot bodies that can be recovered should be sent back home for a proper funeral. We need to see if we can get out there a recover as many MiG-21s as we can."

Capt Urdanu spread a large map of the Cherry Ridge area out on the oak table. He moved his fingers across the map and at various points marked it with red ink. Lt Behtr Danmoss stood by examining closely.

"These are the locations that the air battles were fought over. Send 10 ARS ships to salvage the migs. Also in the case of any hostilities arising we will need to send protection. One Curtis Fabus class battleship will be sent flying the white flag to show of our peaceful intentions. Also send a flight of 6 F-16s for air support."

Lt Demoss snapped to attention, "Yes sir!" and walked out of the office.

--A little while later--

The battleship "New Hope" crusied out to sea with 5 ARSs on each side at even intervals. In the air above flew the flight of 6 F-16s escorting the salvage mission out to Cherry Ridge.

The Colonial Task force transmits that it has no hostile intentions towards the Cullenus forces, although the Colonial forces will attempt to monitor thier recovery activites via long range radar.

OCC: I'm still writting up the dinner scene Siesatia - do you want me to stop after the inital encounter in the messhall or something so you can take over?

OCC Edit: Siesatia, if I'm to write it up all the way through, are there any Siesatian practices or bits of info I should know about? ie, do Siesatians have cybernetic implants, do they feed eachother food, do they have really long tounges or anything like that?

The Emperor of Itinerate Tree Dweller has prepared the following statement.

While the Emperor remains completely neutral in this specific conflict, the Emperor supports the rights of any nation to self-govern. To infringe on the right of a nation to enforce its own laws is wrong in all aspects.