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"We are sick of this infestation of demon worshippers"-Cardinal DeVito

The Cardinal has ordered the Holy Guard (national police force) to hunt and root out the witches that practice secretly and illegally at night. They are encouraged to search the woods at night for them worshipping and to take care of them, by arresting them.They are authorized to use deadly force if they are seen sacrificing any human or animal, to save the life of the one being sacrificed.
Methods used to find them will be fly overs, horseback patrol,ATV's, dune buggys in sandy areas, jeeps, and searching suspected houses, and plain old walking the woods. Citizens are asked to report all witches


Any nation who would like to provide tips is welcome to do so.

We neither condone nor condemn this. You are really asking for it, though, from some bigger nations.

Siesatia sends warning... Blah Blah Blah, we've done this way too many times, I shouldn't need to repeat myself... Blah Blah Blah, Prepare for war....

More war?
Yes
Change the chanel


Statement: YAWN more war :headbang: :headbang:
blah blah blah blah
Prepare for some more TV coverage
YAWN

The Federated Union of Democratic Colonies urges any persons concerned by the current activities of the Cherry Ridge Holy Guard to report to the Colonial Diplomatic and Refugee Registration Office located at the Cherry Ridge International Airport. The security of applicants is guaranteed by the Colonial Government, and daily flights out of Cherry Ridge are available via Colonial Airways. A better life in the Democratic Colonies awaits anyone qualifying for refugee status, and those applying because of religious concerns are accepted in a great majority of cases.

- Secretary Kelli Perim, Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs
(Pic here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/c1d618ad.jpg )

OOC: He doesn't let them near the airport, remember? Why'd you sign that treaty again?

OOC: He doesn't let them near the airport, remember? Why'd you sign that treaty again?

OOC:
He dosen't? A condition of the treaty was that Cherry Ridge citizens would be totally free to go to the Refugee Registration Office and apply without any trouble. Did he actually say that at some point?

And I signed the treaty because I thought it was the best I could do for the people of Cherry Ridge short of regime change, which I doubted was still possible because of all of Cherry Ridge's new allies that showed up when he forced us from St. Berchman's Isle. It seemed like a good way to give people a way to escape from religious extremism while avoiding war with Cherry Ridge, and much more importantly, whatever Catholic based alliance he managed to ally himself with.

The Roycelandian Government is perplexed by your Nation's actions...

Numerous studies in the Roycelandian Empire (especially those undertaken by the University of Port Royal and the Roycelandian East African University of Technology) have shown that the vast majority of "witches" are, in fact teenage girls using Wicca/Witchcraft as an excuse to experiment with Lesbianism, Kinky Sex, and Drugs.

Given that Lesbianism and Kinky Sex are strongly encouraged in Roycelandia (it keeps the Porno Industry profitable, for one thing), we cannot understand why so many Nations have a problem with activities or religions that encourage it.

As such, we are more than willing to accept any Witches from your Nation, who will be free to reside anywhere in the Roycelandian Empire, free from persecution for their beliefs- Roycelandia is an Atheist Empire, but we tolerate all non-fundamentalist religions (aren't we nice?).

He specifically stated in another thread, that he didn't allow the indians to even get close to the airport before they were 'taken care of'.

I was pretending to leave peacefully in that conflict, but was actually calling upon some allies to help out, but then, when I saw you and him were signing a treaty, I called it off. Although, I would love to retake that island.... ;)

He specifically stated in another thread, that he didn't allow the indians to even get close to the airport before they were 'taken care of'.

I was pretending to leave peacefully in that conflict, but was actually calling upon some allies to help out, but then, when I saw you and him were signing a treaty, I called it off. Although, I would love to retake that island.... ;)

OOC: I must have missed that little tidbit. I'm searching through Cherry Ridge's previous threads, trying to find the one that you mentioned - the one where he invaded a small island with an unsophisticated native population that he then tried to convert to Christianity, right? I'm going to track down exactly what he said first, but considering what you've already told me, this sounds like a huge violation of the treaty between the Democratic Colonies and Cherry Ridge. Do you know if Cherry Ridge still has those other Catholic nations as allies?

The Confederacy of Greater Islands opposes this fascism. While we will not accept any refugees, we will give support in the form of weapons and or funds to any resistance groups.

*For Immediate Release to Media and World Wide Heads of State*

The Greater Prussian Empire approves of the actions taken by Cherry Ridge. Witchcraft is a great act of evil and an act against the greater good of society.

Furthermore, this type of Satan worship is a slap in the face of Jesus Christ.

I agree, there needs to be a regime change in Cherry Ridge, (We need a Protestant Crown there!) but the regime change should not be to some gaggle of witches and demons. I do not enjoy helping Rome in the least, but I support the Cardinal in his efforts.

If anyone attacks Cherry Ridge, the Greater Prussian Empire will stand behind them with the full weight of our Imperial Armies.

Rev. Dr. Ian R.K. Paisley
Emperor of Greater Prussia

OOC: The only reference by Cherry Ridge concerning possible prevention of people reaching my refugee registration office at the international airport is the following:

"ooc-We only killed six for attacking our helicopters, they are now all loyal to CR and even have a Native Guard loyal to us. Those "taken care of" are not of Catholic faith and are breaking the law. If they want to get out of country they have to go to CR international airport and there is a Democratic Colinies office there to take them into DC. But that is only if we dont catch them before they get there"

I think he meant only the natives from that paticular thread, not the people of Cherry Ridge in general. I suppose Cherry Ridge will have to clarify once he comes online though. It wouldn't make any sense IC for him to totally prevent his people from registering for refugee status with me anyways - if my staff at the office were posted there for months on end yet never saw a single person show up, the Democratic Colonies IC would have to realize what Cherry Ridge was doing.

Anyways, I apologize to everyone for all of the OOC discussion.

WITCHES, PAGANS, DRUIDS AND ALL.
TALONICA WANTS YOU....
(all non-fundementalists welcome)
(open warfare is welcome on any who choose to oppose those of pagan tradition that wish to join Talonica :D )
the Donica-Smitus empire welcomes you with open arms :fluffle:

:headbang: :gundge: :mp5: :sniper:


(pagans do not worship satan: they despise such evils....)

The Holy Republic of Farmina doesn't condemn the actions of Cherry Ridge. We are concerned that other nations don't understand the need to hunt the demon lovers. However, we are in no position to officially support Cherry Ridge, due to domestic political circumstances.

By order of the High Priest
Leader of the Farminan Grey Catholic Church of God

***Official Statement***
The Holy Empire of Shazbotdom condems the actions of Cherry Ridge. We will allow any refugees to ask for help from us. We believe in the seperation of Church and State, although we have a Catholic Religious Advisor. We will send 3 C-1 Contrans STT and 3 C-13 Jackrabbit Jets to assist with any refugee retreval. They can total up to 720 person's can be transported at one time.

Signed,
Emporer Shaz Bot

Communique of His Catholic Majesty Marcus Mximus to all military commanders and forces of Christus Victor

10/28/04 1941 UTC

Soldiers of Christus Victor.
You are about to embark on a holy Crusade against an enemy who hates Our Lord and His servants, who dares make war against His Holy Church. We bear no hatred against the people of Siesatia, however their leaders have placed themselves in the service of the Enemy, the Lord of Darkness. Satan Himself.

As of 1930 UTC the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions and the 1st Armored Cavalry are deployed in active combat (2000 infantry and 300 tanks). All other
forces are hereby placed on combat alert, and all leaves are cancelled.

We will be addressing the nation momentarily.

God be with you as you do your duty.

Marcus Maximus, D. G. Imperator

*Siesatian president finished reading morning breifing*

He picked up the communication device on his desk.
"General, this is President Crescent, Call a meeting with the Military Advisors."



This is Haki Wong, for the SCNS, with some breaking news. Earlier this morning, the nation of Christus Victor declared war on the Siesatian Homeworld. President Crescent has declared an Alert Level 4, and is preparing the Siesatian Space Naval fleet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v347/UthRptr2/KIKASSFleet1.bmphttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v347/UthRptr2/Earthfleet1.bmp

OOC: A battleship to the person to find the hidden piccy on the right picture.

The Nation of Glemte Hage will not stand by as witches are slaughtered- we did it with Guffingford and it went wrong

Should this situation escalate we are prepared to launch an invasion against you- 50'000 men on ten large battleships are waiting

Perhaps you don't understand. The Greater Prussian Empire has somewhere near 20 or 30 BILLION people. We have a standing army in the entire region of nearly 150million. Don't make us destroy you. Just back off.

Sincerely,
Arch Duke Dietrich von Oberhausen
His Majesty's Foreign Minister

Space Tech VS Modern = PWNAGE BY PLANETARY BOMBARDMENT

The Federated Union of Democratic Colonies urges any persons concerned by the current activities of the Cherry Ridge Holy Guard to report to the Colonial Diplomatic and Refugee Registration Office located at the Cherry Ridge International Airport. The security of applicants is guaranteed by the Colonial Government, and daily flights out of Cherry Ridge are available via Colonial Airways. A better life in the Democratic Colonies awaits anyone qualifying for refugee status, and those applying because of religious concerns are accepted in a great majority of cases.

- Secretary Kelli Perim, Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs
(Pic here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/c1d618ad.jpg )
You closed down that office. Remember?

We greatly encourage cherry ridge to continue the witch hunting and Belem would have joined you with witch hunts of our own but we have already killed all of our witches.

To my allies, thank you for all the help.
All of of military is currently on high alert. We warn our enemies to back down, or face annihalation.

The Most Serene Republic of DemonLordEnigma will back Siesatia in this war with as many soldiers as can be spared. And, as already stated, planetary bombardment really hurts.

OOC:
You closed down that office. Remember?

The Refugee Registration Office was "evacuated and temporarily sealed" during the RP where you conquered that small island and tried to convert its native population. If you remember, the refugee registration staff were moved aboard a Ticonderoga II Class Cruiser out in international waters because I was concerned that in the event of Siesatia and Crossman mounting an orbital bombardment on Cherry Ridge, the office staff would be in harm's way. At the time, the statement that I made was that the office would be "reopened at the end of the currently heightened levels of international tension", or something along those lines. I made it clear that once the threat of orbital bombardment was gone, the office staff would be moved back from the cruiser to the airport offices.

IC:

The Federated Union of Democratic Colonies stands by its Siesatian allies and will fight in thier defense if need be.

- Secretary Kelli Perim, Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs

Assistant Poobah and Deputy Brain Eater Schnap Schlop of the GLORIOUS NATION OF GIANT YELLOW BALLS was quoted as saying yesterday:

"We totally endorse those witch hunting actions. I mean, witch hunting, that's so totally bad-ass. Their cardinal is more than welcome to come find some of ours - I believe my wife should be near the top of their list, as she is a cheating, lying WH0R3 and should be shot ;_;"

He was later admitted to The National Hospital of GIANT YELLOW BALLS for mandatory ball removal, and subsequent preservation of the said balls in the National Museum of Balls.

From President Nicholas Crescent:
I have not met with Democratic Colonies personally, but I know from the high praises our former president gives you that you are an honorable ally. I have attached a message from our former president...


Former President Drake Rille sends the following message:
It is good to have you by our sides again DC. How is Commander William Rolland of the Colonial Recon Force?

The Imperial Palace was quiet and serene. The sounds of birds mingle with the gurgle of the brook flowing through the gardens. The gentle breeze added the tinkle from the chimes hanging in the trees. A solitary individual sat among the serenity.

The servant entered through the double doors and approached the Emperor. At the proper distance, he dropped to one knee and waited for his presence to be acknowledged.

The Emperor sighed and turned.

“What event has conspired with fate to disturb me?”

“Sir, we have a report our ally has been threatened to be invaded.”

“What are the details?”

“The incident involved is about mages and Psi being hunted down and murdered. Siesatia tried to intervene and war was declared upon them. Here is the report that has just arrived.”

The servant pushed a button upon the digital pad and sent the report to the Emperor’s message queue. Accessing the computer via his neurolink he examined the details of the report.

“When will humanity evolve past stupid superstition? No wonder it has taken them so long without them achieving Uplift. Leave me, I will compose and send the reply myself.”

The Emperor thought for a moment and composed a message. He sent it off through Diplomatic channels.



Message delivered to both Siesatia and Christus Victor

I will help defend my ally, Siesatia.

Please withdraw your declaration of war. I do not wish to do anyone harm
but I cannot allow you to attack Siesatia.

If you do, I will become involved.

His Imperial Majesty
Lord Emperor Nhur-Galladu

***letter from Witch Hunter, Supreme Dictator of Mislokivia***

To the Nation of Cherry Ridge,

We are understanding you are having problems with other nations over your witch hunting efforts, we will deploy some of our forces, exactly 10,000 soldiers, to help guard your borders in case of invasion if you want, and 1,000 of our special forces members to help you hunt down these witches if needed, note though, they will only hunt evil witches, considering some types of witches are not evil, and if you all are hunting good witches who do not worship evil, we will have to ally with the other nations considering you all are killing innocent witches, and give the good witches aid, if you want our help just reply to this message, thank you.

Sincerely,
Witch Hunter, Supreme Dictator of Mislokivia.

I don't see the point, personally, but it matters little to me what you humans do to each other. By all means, have fun killing your citizens. I doubt you'll catch anyone who's actually dangerous to you.
-Varduk Myandariin, Supreme Master of the Vaxintorians.

I don't see the point, personally, but it matters little to me what you humans do to each other. By all means, have fun killing your citizens. I doubt you'll catch anyone who's actually dangerous to you.
-Varduk Myandariin, Supreme Master of the Vaxintorians.
Unfortunately, our council is 20% human, and does not see it that way. He thinks we should keep closer ties to earth.

Siesatia, just let me know when you need assistance. I'll be there.

Will Do...

Mislokvia we only kill the bad witches.
Our military units are on heightened alert.

OOC: Cherry, you idiot. What is with you and cross-genre?

Witches ... what is wrong with witches and sacrifice .... I am a witch and i am defiant ... think of me what you will ... i will not hide i will sacrifice you all

From President Nicholas Crescent:
Former President Drake Rille sends the following message:
It is good to have you by our sides again DC. How is Commander William Rolland of the Colonial Recon Force?


* Encrypted Diplomatic Reply to President Crescent, Former President Rille *

The Democratic Colonies is honored to stand with you. The cause we represent is just, and the Colonies are glad to have allies such as Siesatia.

William Rolland, who was recently promoted to Wing Commander, sends his regards and assures you that he is quite well. He was recently awarded command of the airwing aboard the CNS Morningstar, which is currently en route to Cherry Ridge with Colonial Battlegroup 6.3. His duties at present, which now include planning a possible aerial campaign against Cherry Ridge, prevent Wing Commander Rolland from writting a more personal letter as he would prefer, but he would like to pass on the fact that he still feels a strong camaraderie with Siesatia and feels honored to have fought alongside thier warriors in past conflict with Cherry Ridge.

It is always the hope of the Democratic Colonies that a peaceful solution can be found to resolve any issues that arise on the international stage, but the Colonial Government assures Siesatia that the Democratic Colonies will stand and fight alongside them if and when the time comes. Should combat break out, Colonial Fleet Command is fully prepared to reinforce Battlegroup 6.3 with whatever forces are needed to bring about a swift and victorious conclusion to hostilities.

- Secretary Kelli Perim, Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs
(Picture available here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/c1d618ad.jpg )

Message to Siesatia

My 7th Imperial Fleet is ready and awaiting coordinants to meet with
your forces. The 4th Imperial Fleet and the 2nd Tactical Force are on
Standby to back them up.

Please forward the coordinants.

General Flavius Ricimer
The Azrael
Avatar Class Carrier

To DC: Indeed, Syphera is also serving as Captain of the Freestar B, as Captain Terrance unfortunately died in an accident aboard the Freestar A. The Freestar B is courently en-route along with Carrier Groups 126, 549, and 365. And should be there within the hour.
We plan to take the city, and force the cardinal to sign a religious tolerance bill. If he refuses, we will begin to demolish any and every government building, and every military building until the country is left leaderless, then we install a provisional military government to keep the order.



To Balrogga: We will be meeting you with three carrier groups, in orbit around earth. I am sending fleet listings to both you and Democratic colonies.


Carrier Groups 126, 549, and 365:
The USS Freestar B - Freestar B Class (Flagship)
17 Bladerunner Class Battleships
3 High Guard Class Dreadnoughts
12 Terran Class Carriers
22 Slasher Class Anti Fighter/Bomber/Missile Cruisers
9 D1L0 V Destroyer Class Destroyers
10 Hat trick class Heavy Landing Craft
20 Rebuttal Class Troop Transports
3 Azeri Class Hospital Ships
22 Paradox Class Small Carriers

~Incomming electronic message~
Siesatia,
At this time we are sending 100 fighters and 25 bombers. They should be above Cherry Ridge within a week. As of the time of this message, they are already completing their second FTL jump.
-Dimpletickler Enigma
-Dictator of the Most Serene Republic of DemonLordEnigma
~End electronic message~

Kalrate plegs its support and will be wageing war on witchcraft within our borders too.the witchs will die

:eek: :gundge: - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - -- - - - -- - :sniper:
The good of all is good for all

Kalrate

TO: The Nation of Cherry Ridge

We applaud your attempts to sway misguided youth from worship of false gods and a descent into wickedness. As other nations have pointed out, many of these foolish children use it as an excuse for the sins of drug use and amoral sexual behavior (refers to promiscuity, as N.E. doesn't mind homosexual life-partners). We support your efforts to stop such evil, and will happily send our best psych-therapists to gently cure these afflicted souls, as well as a shipment of our finest non-lethal weapons to insure that no lives need be lost.

As you are facing invasion from space, the Colonies of New Exodus will gladly keep its Home-Defense fleet at ready status to defend your nation from bombardment and orbital drops.

--Michael Haase, Colonial Commander of New Exodus

TO: The Nation of Cherry Ridge

We applaud your attempts to sway misguided youth from worship of false gods and a descent into wickedness. As other nations have pointed out, many of these foolish children use it as an excuse for the sins of drug use and amoral sexual behavior (refers to promiscuity, as N.E. doesn't mind homosexual life-partners). We support your efforts to stop such evil, and will happily send our best psych-therapists to gently cure these afflicted souls, as well as a shipment of our finest non-lethal weapons to insure that no lives need be lost.

As you are facing invasion from space, the Colonies of New Exodus will gladly keep its Home-Defense fleet at ready status to defend your nation from bombardment and orbital drops.

--Michael Haase, Colonial Commander of New Exodus

Nicely worded Mike...We'll do the same to defend you since our Biggest ally is doing so. You have full use of our 2000 Asguard motherships in port (run mainly by AI).
-David Miles, Former President of Crazed Marines (he can still order this even though he's a former President...he holds THAT MUCH power)

Originally Posted by Kalrate
Kalrate plegs its support and will be wageing war on witchcraft within our borders too.the witchs will die

New Exodus urges the nation of Kalrate to avoid needless deaths, and reminds them that a repentant sinner is a greater success than a dead witch. We would be happy to provide non-lethal weapons and psych-therapists if you agree.

anyone monitering theese frequences who is displaced by theese narrow mided atreocities is welcome to make living the grand forrest of ath-olad, alylum will be based on a case by case test of survival and wether or not the refugees choose to accept the technings in the Green Book. no other conventional action will be taken

ardseanadóir Albrecht Earthson, Member of hidden rank Seventh Wittan of Cairn Tarra

New Exodus urges the nation of Kalrate to avoid needless deaths, and reminds them that a repentant sinner is a greater success than a dead witch. We would be happy to provide non-lethal weapons and psych-therapists if you agree.

We also urge Kalrate to reconsider for a different reason. If you don't renounce your previous statement, you will see what a determined sniper can do to a nation's morale.

Coded message to Siesatia:

The ships are in-system and waiting. I have commanded them to
remain in T-Space so as not to eliminate the aspect of suprise. The reserve
fleets have been positioned at Oort Station and Sol Station. They are a
short hop away. If they are needed, the Sol System forces are also
available.

I have ordered complete survaliance of Cherry Ridge and other perspective
enemies. They are being closely monitored with all available technologies.
We will not be taken suprise if we can help it. Much of this is being done by
Torq craft in positioned in adjacent Torq Space and monitoring down to Real
Space.

We will share all data gathered. Please inform us of all forces upon either
side. We would like to extend monitoring to all enemy nations.

General Flavius Ricimer
The Azrael

* Encrypted Transmission *

From: Trident, Central AI of Colonial Fleet Command (Federated Union of Democratic Colonies)

To: General Flavius Ricimer, The Azrael (Balrogga Empire)
To: President Nicholas Crescent (United States of Siesatia)


The Democratic Colonies sends its greetings to The United States of Siesatia and The Balrogga Empire. The Colonial Fleet Command wishes to update the assembled friendly nations on the status of Colonial forces in the area of Cherry Ridge, as the outbreak of open hostilities is said to be extremely likely at this point.

Currently just outside the territorial waters of Cherry Ridge is Colonial Battlegroup 6.3, commanded by Admiral Elizabeth Shelby aboard the CNS Morningstar. Battlegroup 6.3 will be joined shortly by the two other battlegroups of our 6th Fleet, bringing the total number of Colonial forces in the area within the next 48 hours to:

- Naval Units (Colonial 6th Fleet) -
12 x Pax Magellanic Class Aircraft Carriers
6 x Crusader Class Battleships
24 x Ticonderoga II Class Cruisers
42 x Arliegh Burke Class Destroyers
24 x Oliver Hazard Perry Class Frigates
30 x Seawolf Class Submarines
6 x Seabourne Resupply Ships
3 x Harper's Ferry Class Marine Transports

- Carrierbourne Aircraft (Colonial 6th Fleet) -
864 x F-106 Liberators (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=366362&page=1 )
864 x F-133 Valkyries (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=362157&page=1 )
216 x EA-14 Fireflies (Electronic Warfare Aircraft)
96 x KA-111 Aerial Refuelers
72 x SA-3 Vikings (Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft)
48 x E-3 Hawkeyes (Airbourne Radar Platforms)
24 x C-130 Hercules



Ever since the conclusion of the first military intervention against Cherry Ridge, the Colonial Navy has kept a notable presence near Cherry Ridge. This presence was only increased after the heightend tensions with Cherry Ridge that have occured in the more recent time span. The Colonial 4th Fleet, under the Command of Admiral Paul Atwood aboard the CNS Oberon is currently assembling at a mid-ocean location codenamed Rally Point Crimson. The assembly of 4th Fleet is expected to take a week at most. The 4th Fleet is identical in composition to the 6th Fleet, which is already onscene. While the Colonial military has had contingency plans for action against Cherry Ridge for quite some time, it is the hope of the Colonial Government that collateral losses can be kept to a minumum in the course of any military action that is to take place.

- Trident, Central AI of Colonial Fleet Command

Coded message, Isec Encription Code Beta 203441

Very good, our fleets are currently waiting for my signal, they are just behind mars, and could be there in 14.2 seconds if needed.

( OOC: Siesta has called apon me to help..and i have 18 Peace Keeper Nuclear Missiles to fire..time to test. )

Due to the contacting of an Allie, Mesazoic has mobilized her forces, getting ready for War.

Weapons:

300 old and used M1A2 Abrams
400 T 90's
1.5million troops armed with Ak-47s
5 Alabama Class Destroyers

[3.5Mill] Reserve Troops, varying from RPG, to Machine Gun.


[130] M1A2 Abrams MBTs
[148] M-2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles
[100] M-113A3 Armored Personnel Carrier
[70] M-48 Chapparral Mobile SAM Launcher
[50] HMMWV Avenger Anti-Aircraft Missile System
[80] Crusader Artillery
[100] M-270A1 MLRS Mobile Rocket Launcher
[130] RAH-66 Comanche Helicopters

And if things get REALY bad

[18] Peace-Keeper Missiles.( Nuclear )

Note: Im PREPAREING Not attacking..yet

Edit: Bring it on Cherry Hill

Two thousand Asguard motherships were prepared. Their skeleton crews and AI constructs ready for launch. They made one tatical jump before they stationed themselves over the country they were protecting this time.
Nobody is around. Deploying selective FTLi's and passively scanning the area. It appears that there is a large ground force build-up. I can't identify them as friend or foe unless I actively scan. The AI said to the Admiral-in-charge, whose response was, "Very well. Make it happen."
Scanning. the pleasant sounding female voice said, Got it Admiral, they're friend.

"Good. Inform them of our presence. We don't want a blue-on-blue."

Done The AI of the CMSBB Iwo Jima named Melanie stated.

Let the witches be! They are funny!! Let them all move to my nation if you must but dont kill them!

OOC: Pictures available.

Colonial Diplomat Rachel Ledford: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/38a06c69.jpg

Colonial Security Bureau Senior Agent Richard Spelihan: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/0001.jpg

For anyone that dosen't know, a few RL months ago, myself and Cherry Ridge signed a treaty that allowed for the creation of a Refugee Registration Office at the Cherry Ridge International Airport. I am now evacuating that office.


IC:

* Colonial Diplomatic and Refugee Registration Office, Cherry Ridge International Airport *

This is the last damn time I do this thought Colonial Diplomat Rachel Ledford to herself as she shoved her laptop computer into her suitcase. I swear to whatever God there is, this is the bloody last time I pack up my office and evacuate like this....the last time she continued to fume as she stuffed a folder of classified materials into the suitcase. She, and the other 20 civilian staff workers of the Colonial Office, were working as fast as they could to pack up thier belongings, thier equipment, and destroy any sensitive materials present. The office at Cherry Ridge International Airport was being evacuated - a Colonial Airways Concorde would arrive within the hour to pick up the office staff and thier protective detail, 30 agents of the Colonial Security Bureau. The common feeling amoung the office staff was that war was about to break out, and that orbital bombardment of Cherry Ridge was likely given some of the nations involved. As much as Rachel Ledford hated having to flee from the country in the manner they were about to, she found the idea of staying in Cherry Ridge while an orbital bombardment was underway even less attractive.

"How is that going?" asked Senior Agent Richard Spelihan. Dressed in the generic dark suit that most agents of the Colonial Security Bureau wore, Spelihan was the commanding agent of the protective detail at the office. The subject of his question, Rachel Ledford, glanced up at him as she crammed what Spelihan took to be a picture of her family into her suitcase.
"How's it going?" Spelihan repeated.
"Almost done." replied Ledford. "Is everything else taken care of? Computer cores purged, sensitive materials burned, everything we can carry packaged up?"
Spelihan nodded. "The computers need another 3 minutes to finish off thier second wipe, and then that's it. The Concorde that'll be picking us up should be nearing CR airspace now." he said.
"Good." said Ledford grimly. "We certainly don't want to be around when the shooting starts - no offense Agent, but I don't think your 10mm pistols are going to hold off the CR Army for too long if they decide to come for us."
"None taken." said Spelihan. "You're right on that point - my agents and I don't have any rifles, submachine guns or even body armour with us. This was supposed to be a simple refugee registration office. With all that's going on, I'll be glad when we can get the hell out of here."
Ledford nodded. "Let's just hope that we can, Agent Spelihan." said Ledford as she stuffed a folder of papers into her suitcase. "While we don't really expect anything to happen, the Cherry Ridgians have always been unpreditable. They might try to stop us from leaving - and if that happens, then we really are going to have to see if your 10mm Bureau semi-autos can get us through CR infantry...."

20 Holy Guard squad cars, sirens blaring, surrounded the DC office.
"Come out with your hands up, you are surrounded"

"You are under arrest for tax evasion, illegal arms possesion,and conspiracy to overthrow the government, we remind you, you are surrounded,and their is a base next store to this airport ,now, come out with your hands up!"

The airport has been closed to all foriegn aircraft.

Ehricia is prepared to send some advisors

OOC:
As this gets closer to war, I need some info. Are the suspected witches being killed or mistreated? Have my therapists been employed for a painless return of the subjects' sanity? Are personnel from other nations being given safe passage out of the country? I'd hope all of this is happening (EDIT: With the exception of the mistreatment/killing!).

IC:
Wu Liang, High Marshall of the New Exodus Home Fleet, waited quietly in his study. His terminal beeped loudly, alerting him to an urgent transmission.

-TO: High Marshall Wu -FROM:Asteroid Belt Outpost 5
Fleet detected in Martian space. Positioning indicates attack imminent.
Attempting to gather more data without inviting attack.

He sighed heavily. New Exodus had not been in a real war in decades, and while he trusted the skill of his fleet, he worried about the losses they might suffer. Commander Haase was still away, and Liang sent his recommendation to his old friend.

Within a half-hour, Commander Haase had considered Marshall Wu's words, and sent his reply, which Liang forwarded to the nation's involved:

FROM: Michael Haase, Colonial Commander of New Exodus

It is my wish that this matter not result in war. To that end, the militaries of New Exodus and Crazed Marines are positioned with the intention of averting hostilities. I urge all national leaders to attempt once more to reach a peaceful resolution to this conflict, before we sacrifice the lives of countless numbers of our citizens.

Witchcraft is a form of ancient nature worship, therefore, as enlightened people, we must address the ideology of witchcraft as a religion. It is the decision of this great governing body that those people of Cherry Ridge practicing this spiritual excercise are under the relentless persecution of its governing body. Therefore, it is the ruling of their majesties that any further trade negotiations between the governing bodies of Cherry Ridge and The Most Powerful and Merciful Constitutional Monarchy of Elanium be halted. Furthermore, any refugees seeking refuge from such relentless persecution will be harvenged by their majesties as political refugees, subject to all laws of the Elanium Constitutional Monarchy, and are free to practice their religion in peace, provided that it does not directly or indirectly affect the longevity or freedoms of the denizens within the boundaries of Elanium. Finally, these conditions will remain, unyielding to the social or political pressure of ANY governing body outside of their highness' boundaries, until the inhabitants of Cherry Ridge are given complete freedom of religion and practice in their native land, provided that it doesn't harm the non-Wiccan populations of Cherry Ridge. This is the decision of the people, the parliament of those citizens, and the Royal Union of The Constitutional Monarchy of Elanium.

From: John Gunner, Admiral-in-charge of Task Force 93
To: All combatants

In response to New Exodus' signal, we must tell you this. Listen to Commander Hasse or face us. We might not look like the best but we can sure as hell whip your asses. We haven't been in a fight for a little while, so we're itchin to go, fight, and prevail!

Suddenly, the space around Mars began to appear to form bubbles, almost like a piece of plastic something is trying to force itself through. Then space appears to snap back into space, the areas with the bubbles now hold 125 ships. The ships, Siesatian in design but obviously not from that nation, immediately swerve, trying their best to not run into the planet, one of the moons, or any ships in orbit. Bits and pieces of their communications that bleed over into other channels involve a lot of cussing in a strange tongue and people questioning how they ended up so far in the solar system. All but one of the ships, a fighter, immediately speed away from Mars orbit, trying to get themselves free and reorganized. That single fighter turns and faces the New Exodus fleet, powering down its shields and weapon systems.

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(Onboard the Nova Terlota, the fighter facing the New Exodus fleet.)

"Damn it! I want the mejnot who told us we'd end up around Pluto found and shot. Leutent Tormeta, contact the New Exodus fleet," General Soybayun, leader of the fleet, said.

"Communications open. Man, I love these ships," Leutent Tormeta said.

"Attention New Exodus fleet. Our arrival above Mars was not meant as a hostile action. We actually thought we'd end up near Pluto, so you can imagine our surprise to see Earth in one of our windows. The Dictator will be sending his reply to your last communication shortly. Please be patient," General Soybayun said, indicating to the Leutent for the communication line to be cut.

Then, the fighter turned and, powering up its shields and weapons, guided the rest to the Balrogga fleet. This time, they would not be taking desperate moves to keep from crashing.

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~Incomming electronic message~
New Exodus,
At this time we see no sign of Cherry Ridge accepting your offer. If the Democratic Colonies personel cannot leave without fighting their way out, I consider all possibilities of a democratic solution to be closed and Cherry Ridge to be commiting hostile actions with intent of going to war. I am awaiting word of what is going on there.
I do not wish for fighting between our two nations, but will not hesitate to order my ships to break their way through your blockade by any means necessary if it turns out the option of democracy has been spurned. This is not a statement of hostility, just a statement of what I will be forced to do. I do hope our nations will not be forced to fight this out.
-Dictator Enigma
~End electronic message~

Response from Crazed Marines:
Bah!

OOC: Would like some answers before hostilities begin, please. Oh, and CM, we'll see you later.

20 Holy Guard squad cars, sirens blaring, surrounded the DC office.
"Come out with your hands up, you are surrounded"

"You are under arrest for tax evasion, illegal arms possesion,and conspiracy to overthrow the government, we remind you, you are surrounded,and their is a base next store to this airport ,now, come out with your hands up!"

The airport has been closed to all foriegn aircraft.

OOC: The P221, standard Colonial pistol: http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=363973

IC:

* Colonial Diplomatic and Refugee Registration Office, Cherry Ridge International Airport *

"Well, I guess that settles it." said Rachel Ledford. She glanced over at Senior Agent Richard Spelihan to see him chambering a round in his P221.
"I don't think the Concorde is coming for us anymore." said Spelihan quietly.
"They'll come." said Ledford in what she hoped was a calm voice. "The Colonial Government wouldn't let us be captured by Cherry Ridge - remember these people burnt a woman at the stake at one point for teaching evolution." replied Ledford. She pulled out her PDA, a government issue Palm Pilot before continuing.
"There's a whole battlegroup out there - I doubt that Cherry Ridge is going to war over 20 Colonial civilians and 30 security agents." she said. "I'd better inform Foreign Affairs of our status."



* Diplomatic Communications to Cherry Ridge *

There are currently 20 Colonial civilians and 30 security agents barricaded inside thier office at the Cherry Ridge International Airport. They report that the Cherry Ridge Holy Guard has accused them of tax evasion, illegal arms possesion, and conspiracy to overthrow the government. These charges are blatently false - the terms of the treaty between our nations do not state that the office staff are subject to any taxes collectable by Cherry Ridge, the fact that the security agents are armed with 10mm semi-automatic pistols was announced to the Government of Cherry Ridge at the time of the treaty signing, and they have never conspired to overthrow the Government of Cherry Ridge.

The Cherry Ridge Holy Guard is attempting to illegally arrest citizens of the Federated Union of Democratic Colonies. A civilian Colonial Airways Concorde is currently en route to Cherry Ridge International Airport, but is still outside of Cherry Ridge airspace. The current intention of the Democratic Colonies is the extraction of all Colonial personel from Cherry Ridge - whether it is a peaceful extraction utilizing the civilian Concorde that is inbound or a violent one involving the Colonial Battlegroup off your shore is your decision. The Colonies are fully prepared to go to war over the lives of 50 of our citizens - the question is, are you? Unless you want to see Colonial Marines storming your beaches and a state of war between our two nations, I suggest that you allow the Colonial Office staff and their protective detail to be evacuated on the inbound Concorde.

- Secretary Kelli Perim, Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs

OOC: No. Cherry Ridge has not, from what I have read, accepted your offer. Also, Cherry Ridge is currently holding several people from DC hostage in the airport and trying to not let their plane land. In other words, the only solution is war.

Oh, and CM, we'll see you later.

OOC:
when are you and Stef picking me up?

The Freestar saw the DLE ships leave FTL travel. The Fighters they had bought were not top of the line, in fact, they had been the very ones that had been used to assault Cherry Ridge in the first incident.
The bombers were another matter, they were indeed top of the line, and had not come at a cheap price. All the ships had had some sort of modification or another, in an attempt to blend the two techs.

"This is Captain Ulayla Syphera of the Siesatian Carrier Freestar. We are preparing to leave orbit around Mars, and head for Earth." And with that, the Siesatian Armada left Mars behind, Next stop, Earth, ETA 15 seconds from now.

Over a loudspeaker to the DC officials inside the airport,
CC-DC government and all allied with it
"We have been imformed that all charges hav been dropped, but a new one has been added, espionage. If you come out now, the Cardinal has promised a pardon, and deportation back to DC, by your own transportation. Thats all you have to do."

New message to DC and Siesatia and their allies
You have recieved our other message, and we would like to negociate, via video phone. please respond
end tranmission

OOC:

You should give them one last chance to surrender or to change their policy. Let them make the first move.


IC:

The Balrogga Empire would like to offer one last chance to reconcile. The murders must stop to prevent more. It is in your hands to stop this right now and here before there is any more loss of life. The choice is yours. History will decide who is right but for now, you have a decision to make. The consequences will fall upon your shoulders alone. All deaths that result in your murderous prejudice on both sides will mark you forever. If you attack or continue your persecution, we wash our hands of trying to help you and will assist our allies in your destruction.

It is your choice to either stop the atrocities or face destruction at the hands of those who were threatened.

"Admiral, the eneny fleet demands our surrender!" the tatical advisor shouted

"Well tell them they can shove it up their warp cores!" Admiral Gunner said curtly, "We should be the ones asking for their surrender. If they don't we might just invade their homelandsin a style reminiscent of Julius Caesar."

The Freestar B was already in orbit, and was preparing to launch the attack on Cherry Ridge.
"Freestar, this is Siesatian Command, hold off on the attack, CR is preparing negotiations."

"Isn't that just like them, they think everyone is bluffing, and then when the heat does get poured on, its time to pull out the dusty negotiation table." Syphera said to her bridge crew.

In light of recent events, a small, Specail Ops team has been sent to Cherry Ridge via small boat. If CR is aggnorent, and fails to give over the " Hostages " They will find them, and bring them back to Mesazoic until DC can recover them.

DC, and all others, Negotiations online at AIM. Contact me or CR for invite...

Me: UthRptr2
CR: ILOVEHISTORY92

"Admiral, the eneny fleet demands our surrender!" the tatical advisor shouted

"Well tell them they can shove it up their warp cores!" Admiral Gunner said curtly, "We should be the ones asking for their surrender. If they don't we might just invade their homelandsin a style reminiscent of Julius Caesar."

OOC: Who is? I wasn't. Officially, my nation just wants your people out of its way, preferably without having to shoot.

IC:

"Sir, we have news Cherry Ridge is offering negotiations. What do we do?" Leutent Tormeta asked.

"We stick with our allies. Everything goes well and we won't be firing. In the meantime, I want to know when our Jump drives are ready. I want to be at Terrator ASAWC once we are done here," General Soybayun said.

"Our jump drives should be ready in an hour, maybe less, for short-term jumps," Leutent Tormeta said.

OOC:
Leutent = Ensign
ASAWC (ay-soc) = As Soon As We Can

Also, me no have AIM, so I'll wait here. Let me know how it goes.

Over a loudspeaker to the DC officials inside the airport,
CC-DC government and all allied with it
"We have been imformed that all charges hav been dropped, but a new one has been added, espionage. If you come out now, the Cardinal has promised a pardon, and deportation back to DC, by your own transportation. Thats all you have to do."

New message to DC and Siesatia and their allies
You have recieved our other message, and we would like to negociate, via video phone. please respond
end tranmission

* Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs Command Centre, Democratic Colonies, Viconia City *
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/4bd963d1.jpg

The sound of Secretary Kelli Perim's high heels clicking against the polished titanium floor of the command centre intermingled with the chatter of the command centre's technical staff and networking specialists as they set up a multi-party video conference. A video conference had been requested by the Cardinal of Cherry Ridge - perhaps Perim could negotiate the extraction of the Colonial personel barricaded in their offices at Cherry Ridge International Airport.

Secretary Perim slowly made her way to the front of the command centre, stopping only a dozen metres away from the massive LCD screens that lined the front of the cavernous room. Most government officals didn't like to stand so close to the screens during video-conferences, but Perim wanted to be close enough to read the expressions of all the parties involved as closely as possible.

The image of Tigress, the central AI of the Department of Foreign Affairs flickered onto one of the screens. The AI's digital persona, a sharp looking blonde woman, appeared to be distracted as she spoke.
"Com-links established... notifications of the conference sent to Cherry Ridge, Siesatia, and all other friendly nations involved..." she reported. Her gaze focused on Perim before she continued. "Secretary Perim, the video-conference is online." she said in a monotone. "As soon as the other parties are ready, negotiations can begin."



OOC: Tigress: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/a2bee87e.jpg

And I don't have AIM. How about ICQ? Or MSN IM?

Um, MSN doesnt work on my comp... and I dont know what ICQ is

In light of recent events, a small, Specail Ops team has been sent to Cherry Ridge via small boat. If CR is aggnorent, and fails to give over the " Hostages " They will find them, and bring them back to Mesazoic until DC can recover them.
You have made the first act of war.

"Cardinal, we have reports of a small boat being landed on the beach, from Mesazioc"
"You know the drill, General"

20 soldiers from the nearby army base swarmed the beach, and captured the four men
"You are now detainees od the Catholic Cardinalatial See of Cherry Ridge"
They were disarmed and were brought to the prison. THE prison, the one for detainees.

"You have no rights now" laughed a guard at the inmates.

OOC: Frag it. Let's just do it on the forums.

ooc- DC- they just need to come out, and then your plane will beallowed to pick them up.

ic-The Cardinal sat down in front of a video conference screen, ready for the allies.

Air patrols have been begun over CR, especially over the capital and the detainee prison.

* Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs Command Centre, Democratic Colonies, Viconia City *

Secretary Perim began to speak once the Cardinal of Cherry Ridge joined the video-conference. Tigress could fill anyone entering later on about what was said earlier.
"Cardinal, the Democratic Colonies simply wishes to have its people come home." she began. "The Democratic Colonies wants all charges against Colonial citizens dropped, and the Colonials allowed to board a currently inbound civilian Concorde. After all Colonial citizens are out of Cherry Ridge, we can discuss your.... 'witch hunt', if you insist on calling the arrest of random women for no paticular reason that."





OOC:

"Cardinal, we have reports of a small boat being landed on the beach, from Mesazioc"
"You know the drill, General"

20 soldiers from the nearby army base swarmed the beach, and captured the four men
"You are now detainees od the Catholic Cardinalatial See of Cherry Ridge"
They were disarmed and were brought to the prison. THE prison, the one for detainees.

"You have no rights now" laughed a guard at the inmates.

No offense CR, but isn't that a kind of Godmoding? You posted how many people were in a SpecOps unit that didn't belong to you, and then posted thier landing, detection, defeat and capture. Shouldn't Mesazoic be involved in this process?

Ok, DC, My MSN Messenger is: UthRptr2

General Soybayun sighed, eying the conference screen. This was possibly going to be the most unusual way of dealing with this she had seen. A non space country negotiating with spacial empires! But, the Dictator did state to go for diplomacy first.

"My own nation is here to help out Siesatia. We will follow their lead for this," General Soybayun said.

Then, popping up on her screen on an encrypted channel the other ships would not be recieving, was a simple message. Soybayun smiled at it, knowing it meant a sudden change of advantage if she chose to implement. She motioned for the Leutent to use the same encrypted channel to send the message to the other ships. The message simply said, "Theron Retreat Approved."

[/quote] OOC:



No offense CR, but isn't that a kind of Godmoding? You posted how many people were in a SpecOps unit that didn't belong to you, and then posted thier landing, detection, defeat and capture. Shouldn't Mesazoic be involved in this process?[/QUOTE]
He told me on AIM that there were 4. He said small boat. Boats show up on radar. I was just going along with it. How did he get past my navy?
Anyay, it wasn't God mod.



IC- "Just tell them to come out of the office. I also give permission to your plane to land. When they come out, they will board the plane and leave CR and never return"

Ok, DC, My MSN Messenger is: UthRptr2

OOC:
Sorry I was away for a little bit, had to help make dinner.
Anyways, I need your e-mail address, I can't add you for some reason.

UthRptr2@yahoo.com

UthRptr2@yahoo.com

Alright, I've got you added, but you're showing as offline. My e-mail address is Rick_Biessman@hotmail.com if anyone needs it.

ooc- I'm not getting MSN we do negotiations here, where it counts

OOC: Cherry Ridge, what about my questions? Have the witches been well-treated, the therapists been allowed to do their jobs, etc?

IC:
High Marshall Wu muttered a stream of expletives, before ordering the Colonial Defense guns online. "Get the shields up as well, and tell our forces not to fire unless I specifically order it." These morons are bringing us way too close to a war. Oh well, maybe it can still be prevented.

OOC:
-Cherry Ridge, call off your forces at the airport, and hand over the spec ops team to my representatives for extradition.
-Various space fleets allied with Siesatia, please move out of Cislunar space.
-Everyone, please avoid fighting for at least the next four hours, and hopefully don't start at all.

OOC: Moving my fleet that far would provide a military disadvantage I am not willing to risk. They can, however, power down their weapons.

* Colonial Diplomatic and Refugee Registration Office, Cherry Ridge International Airport *

Senior Agent Richard Spelihan slowly eased open the door of the Colonial offices. His P221 pistol was grasped tightly in his right hand, he shouted out to the Holy Guardsmen that were surrounding the office.
"We're coming out!" he began, swinging open the door. His pistol, while still in his hand, has pointed directly downwards at the ground.
"We're coming out - the Concorde should be arriving within half an hour." he continued as other agents of the Colonial Security Bureau began to make their way out of the office cautiously. The civilian office staff would exit once the CSB agents assured them that the situation was safe.

OOC: Cherry Ridge, what about my questions? Have the witches been well-treated, the therapists been allowed to do their jobs, etc?

IC:
High Marshall Wu muttered a stream of expletives, before ordering the Colonial Defense guns online. "Get the shields up as well, and tell our forces not to fire unless I specifically order it." These morons are bringing us way too close to a war. Oh well, maybe it can still be prevented.

OOC:
-Cherry Ridge, call off your forces at the airport, and hand over the spec ops team to my representatives for extradition.
-Various space fleets allied with Siesatia, please move out of Cislunar space.
-Everyone, please avoid fighting for at least the next four hours, and hopefully don't start at all.
ic- "Therapists!" screamed the Cardinal, "WHoallowed them in!, DEPORT THEM"
And so the theapists were deported.

Government responce to New Exodus-
The witches are being treated to prison, none have been executed, will work out details in negotiating. If they are released, they will only be released to DC. Again, the police at the airport are wiating for them to come out, when they do they will be sent back to DC aboard a DC airline.
The special ops unit you mention, we will only release to the nation from which they came, after they negotiate.
end responce

* Colonial Diplomatic and Refugee Registration Office, Cherry Ridge International Airport *

Senior Agent Richard Spelihan slowly eased open the door of the Colonial offices. His P221 pistol was grasped tightly in his right hand, he shouted out to the Holy Guardsmen that were surrounding the office.
"We're coming out!" he began, swinging open the door. His pistol, while still in his hand, has pointed directly downwards at the ground.
"We're coming out - the Concorde should be arriving within half an hour." he continued as other agents of the Colonial Security Bureau began to make their way out of the office cautiously. The civilian office staff would exit once the CSB agents assured them that the situation was safe.
The head policeman came towards them, and apoligised.

"Im sorry, but it had to be done,you may keep your weapons, just holster them and wait in the main building, where there are coffee and donuts. All Cherry Ridgians respect Colonials for their honesty and courage, even though we are enemies. It is also a well known fact that the cardinal respects you colonials"

-Various space fleets allied with Siesatia, please move out of Cislunar space.

The ships are within my own territory so I don't have to move any. The ones that are not, you have to explain how you can detect them.

I am not going to fire until someone shoots at my allies. After that I will not be responsible.

I hope the peace talks are sucessful.

Rather, my inquesition, supreme clergy, papal naives, witch hunters, demon hunters and van helsing clones are already rooting out the evil in my new state.

Hail Socialist Orthadox Dictatorships!

People's Czar Alexi, Paladin of the west.

###Use our national terrorist group to eliminate your problems, telegram NOW! Cheap and Crudy is the way we go!###

The head policeman came towards them, and apoligised.

"Im sorry, but it had to be done,you may keep your weapons, just holster them and wait in the main building, where there are coffee and donuts. All Cherry Ridgians respect Colonials for their honesty and courage, even though we are enemies. It is also a well known fact that the cardinal respects you colonials"

Spelihan holstered his pistol as soon as the police officer spoke.
"Agents, put your weapons on safe and holster them." instructed Spelihan to the protective detail of 30 agents as the civilian staff began to file out from the Colonial office. Spelihan thanked the CR police officer for his kind words before leading the assembled Colonial personel towards the building the police officer indicated. While he was still concerned that they might be walking into a trap of some kind, he didn't think they had any other choice, and Ledford agreed with him.

OOC: CR, I'm on your side. The therapists were meant to cure the witches of their foolishness, and re-convert them back to Christianity. The sooner they get to work, the fewer witches you'll have to worry about deporting.

OOC2: Crazed Marines is also using NE's computer. I will respond in this post.

Crazed Marines IC response: We shall not power down our fleet or retreat. We demand that all enemy fleets withdraw to at least the orbit of Mars. We will not negotiate until this is done.

New Exodus IC: "Okay," Liang said, his adrenal glands pumping, "Let us all try to stay calm. Cherry Ridge has not killed anyone, and so there is no need for any bloodshed. I repeat, there is no need for anyone to die." He gave the order for the Colonial Defense cannons to power down, then made sure that all his vessels had their shields up. Please don't let this go bad, he thought savagely.

OOC: Once the foreign civilians leave the country, we can try to negotiate further.

OOC: CR, I'm on your side. The therapists were meant to cure the witches of their foolishness, and re-convert them back to Christianity. The sooner they get to work, the fewer witches you'll have to worry about deporting.

ooc- ok sorry for the mix up
ic- "Allow the therapists back in"

A Holy Guard Colonel greeted the colonials inside the building.
"Hello Colonials, nice to have you here, the refreshments are over there on the table, and the seats are there, and just ask the attendents if you want any kind of wine" said the Colonel.

"I think we'll be quite fine." said Rachel Ledford cautiously. She, like Senior Agent Spelihan, was still suspicious of the sudden change in the behaviour of the Cherry Ridge Holy Guard. She checked her watch before continuing. "The Colonial Airways Concorde should have crossed into Cherry Ridge airspace some time ago." said said. "They should be arriving in less than half an hour to pick us up. We'll be fine until then, but thank you for offering."

"As you wish. So tell me, what is the actual nation of DC like" asked the colonel

"As you wish. So tell me, what is the actual nation of DC like" asked the colonel

Rachel Ledford, with Senior Agent Spelihan standing at her side, began to speak to the Holy Guard Colonel.
"It's.... It's quite beautiful." said Ledford. "The Democratic Colonies is a Federated Union of what once were either soverign nations or thier colonies. Andromeda, Athena, Vedra, Machen and Caprica were the founding colonies, and since then, the Democratic Colonies have expanded to include other territories. So far all of the Colonies have been islands, the largest of which are around the size of Great Britain. It's a fully democratic nation with one of the best education systems available, with government funded education for all citizens up to and including the college and university level. Most of the citizens live in major cities because of the relatively small land area to population ratio in most parts of the Democratic Colonies. The largest city in the Colonies, Passchendale, has a population of 700 million - the skyline at night is one of the most beautiful sights I've ever seen."
Ledford reached into her wheel-equipped suitcase and pulled out a framed photo before continuing.
"This is a picture of the view I have out of my windows at home - I live on the 207th floor of a condominium in the capitol of the Democratic Colonies, Viconia City. I always take a photo of my view from home with me to remind me of what I'm working for when I go out on foreign assignments."
Ledford handed the photo over to the Holy Guard Colonel.

OOC: Ledford's photo from her condo in Vicona City: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/JC_Denton/NationStates/metropolis_V.jpg

We shall not power down our fleet or retreat. We demand that all enemy fleets withdraw to at least the orbit of Mars. We will not negotiate until this is done.

I repeat, my ships are within my own EARTH territory. I refuse to move my vessels outside my territory. If you try, you will be eaten. Remove yourself from Terran Space unless you possess territory there. If so, move your ships to that area.

I will not leave The Empire defenceless because somebody wants me to move my ships to Mars so they feel "safe".

OOC: DC, you seem to always have the best photos for props. Good job!!

OOC: DC, you seem to always have the best photos for props. Good job!!

OOC: Thank you Balrogga. I think that photos help create a sense of identity for my nation and my characters, so I use them whenever possible. :)

I repeat, my ships are within my own EARTH territory. I refuse to move my vessels outside my territory. If you try, you will be eaten. Remove yourself from Terran Space unless you possess territory there. If so, move your ships to that area.

I will not leave The Empire defenceless because somebody wants me to move my ships to Mars so they feel "safe".


I repeat. Move to the Orbit of Mars. We are in OUR space. We are space colonies and a small island in the Pacific. We demand you exit OUR space immeadiately as we control all items within 100 miles outside each colony and 1500 miles above ous land.

OOC: go with it for humor...the mass confusion of this will add some humor.

OOC: CM, you are going far beyond the boundries of a reasonable request. Balrogga is in his territory and not making a hostile move, so you really don't have cause to ask him to move towards Mars and leave his territory potentially undefended against you.

While it may be funny in RP, we are on the verge of a war here and I don't think it is a good idea to have a nation strategically disadvantage itself just for something that is "funny."

I repeat. Move to the Orbit of Mars. We are in OUR space. We are space colonies and a small island in the Pacific. We demand you exit OUR space immeadiately as we control all items within 100 miles outside each colony and 1500 miles above ous land.

OOC: go with it for humor...the mass confusion of this will add some humor.


OOC: I think we might be neighbors. I am about 500 Km west of South America on the equator between the Galapagos Islands and Equador. It's the islands with a manmade mountain reaching into space...


IC:

The Empire will not back down. You must allow us to remain in our territory or you must move also. There will be no other compromise allowed.

You are demanding The Emperor move his flagship from it's docking at your whim?


Secret IC:

Transmitted via Space Minus Transmitter:

This is Babylon Space Tower. Remain in T-Space. Fleets from Sol
and Oort Stations; advance to Babylon Control. Remain deep within T-Space
at all times until commanded to Emerge. Form target resolutions and hold
actions.

OOC: If you can "hear" this message please explain how.

High Marshall Wu took a long sip of oolong tea, allowing his mind to drift back to when Commander Haase had appointed him to such a daunting position.

"Liang, you're one of the best I've seen," Michael had said, over a cup of tea. "Which is why I'd like to trust you with the Sol System Peacekeeping Command."
Liang's eyebrows had raised at the mention of P-Com. The Sol System belonged to countless hundreds, possibly thousands, of nations. To have jurisdiction over such a heavily populated area was incredible, even if it only applied to the interests of his home country.

Now, the High Marshall wondered if the strain wouldn't kill him soon. He silently repeated his mantra, Wait and see.

Siesatian Ships are currently holding orbit over Balrogga territory, and will not move. We intend to be in a position to do something, if the Cardinal pulls out his usual tricks.

Also, according to the universal Maritime Act, if Democratic Colonies vessels are 40 miles away from CR shores, he is in International Waters, and therefor, cannot be demanded to leave. We have faxed this information to him.

IC:
Admiral Gunn repeated over the comm system, "I am giving you one last warning. We are currently over Cherry Ridge. We demand that you either withdraw your fleet to the orbit of Mars from whence it came or it returns to its home port. We will not negotiate until this happens. If your ships go to within 500 miles of our colonies, you will run into our minefields. We are not responsible for your deaths in this case. Consider yourself warned that any action that is deemed hostile will be acted upon. We have the upper hand in size, strength, and determination."

Admiral, is that really wise? The AI asked.

"We'll see. We'll see." Gunn replied

OOC: I hold a small island around Midway island where we recreated some of our favorite landmasses such as Okinawa, Iwo Jime, Alabama, etc.

~Secret communication to Balrogga and Siesatian fleets~
These guys are utter fools. Mines in orbit? At these ranges, the mines would be too close to the planet. They'd either plummet from orbit, be taken out by one of a thousand micrometeors or microcomets that strike the atmosphere daily, or have a big enough energy signature we can detect them. That also doesn't stop us from shooting our way through their mine field.
-General Soybayun
~Communication lines remain open~

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~Communication to Crazed Marines~
We will remain in the airspace of Balrogga. Until such time as you gain sovereignity of Balrogga, we do not recognize you as having the authority to tell us to leave the territory of a friendly nation that has not asked us to leave. We request that if you wish us to head towards Mars, set an example by sending your fleets there first. Any mines found in Balrogga airspace we consider an attack upon Balrogga by yourselves.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

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"Space mines? Run an active scan. If they use energy of any sort, we'll find them," Soybayun said.

"Sir, the jump engines are ready. I am setting the coordinates and sending the coordinates to the rest of the fleet. The encryption should keep the CMs from reading it," Major Hakori said.

"Good. I just hope the Dictator gets our allies to agree to our plan," Soybayun said.

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OOC: CM or CR, If you somehow detect what they are saying or read the secret communications, I want to know how, what frequencies you used, what receivers you used, and who you have that can speak Sarkarasetan and where they learned it at. All communications to allies and enemies are in English, but everything else is in Sarkarasetan during war.

~Secret communication to Balrogga and Siesatian fleets~
These guys are utter fools. Mines in orbit? At these ranges, the mines would be too close to the planet. They'd either plummet from orbit, be taken out by one of a thousand micrometeors or microcomets that strike the atmosphere daily, or have a big enough energy signature we can detect them. That also doesn't stop us from shooting our way through their mine field.
-General Soybayun
~Communication lines remain open~


OOC: Try that...They're unpowered except when we activate them. I'd advise you not to shoot at them, they're in my territory and this will cause war


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~Communication to Crazed Marines~
We will remain in the airspace of Balrogga. Until such time as you gain sovereignity of Balrogga, we do not recognize you as having the authority to tell us to leave the territory of a friendly nation that has not asked us to leave. We request that if you wish us to head towards Mars, set an example by sending your fleets there first. Any mines found in Balrogga airspace we consider an attack upon Balrogga by yourselves.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

Official Response
Be careful of what you ask for. You just might get it.


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"Space mines? Run an active scan. If they use energy of any sort, we'll find them," Soybayun said.

"Sir, the jump engines are ready. I am setting the coordinates and sending the coordinates to the rest of the fleet. The encryption should keep the CMs from reading it," Major Hakori said.

"Good. I just hope the Dictator gets our allies to agree to our plan," Soybayun said.

OOC: Again, the mines are unpowered, you won't find them.


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OOC: CM or CR, If you somehow detect what they are saying or read the secret communications, I want to know how, what frequencies you used, what receivers you used, and who you have that can speak Sarkarasetan and where they learned it at. All communications to allies and enemies are in English, but everything else is in Sarkarasetan during war.

OOC:
We have hundreds of monitoring stations and we have computers and AIs that know all languages except for some Shivian dialects. Since it was using radio waves to transmit this, we could intercept it easily even if it is encoded. All we need is some time and three AI constructs. You are a new nation, I'm a billion+ nation, I'd advise you to not try me or it could end up like China versus Micronesia.

Secret IC:
"Admiral, we have intercepted some enemy communcations. They're encrypted and ten AI constructs are working on cracking it now. They say that they need three hours."

"Very well ensign. Order all FTLi's (faster than light inhibitors, mine inhibits subspace, hyperspace, and the folding of space) on maximum strength. We'll stop anyone in their tracks if they try and get close to us."

"Yes Admiral."

Again, the mines are unpowered, you won't find them

My sensors can see them, powered or not. A few of my point defence cannons, and they are little more than space dust. Also, any Mine would need a stored charge, to allow it to pick up the signal for it to activate, therefor, they are powered, you just mean the warhead is unactive.

Also, any Siesatian encryption would be difficult at best to decrypt, as we use a ten number code. And then you have to translate it out of Ancient Burman, which would definately be unknown to you, as you have enver visited my world.

EDIT:
"Very well ensign. Order all FTLi's (faster than light inhibitors, mine inhibits subspace, hyperspace, and the folding of space) on maximum strength. We'll stop anyone in their tracks if they try and get close to us."

If you want us to leave, why do you set these up? Also, what would be the point of putting them in the gravetational field of a planet, as you cant warp in it anyway.

OOC: 1) I meant the DLE sensors...DLE's new, so his sensors aren't as advanced as yours. I was referring to him.
2) We have seen your people before, we'll figure out your language soon enough.
3) AI constructs are working on this. Each one can do 1 trillion operations a second, and all 3 are working in sync with each other. We can have the encryption decoded but not translated.
4) I have disruptor, gravitonic, and point defense mines. I doubt that you'd be
able to destroy all of them since there are around one million of them in total, including my planet base on the other side of the Universe (the mines are about 5 meters cubed)

IC:

"Admiral. The AIs have cracked their encryption, however, they can't translate the enemy language."

"Ok, limit FTLi's to where they cannot come within 50 miles of us or our homelands."

"Very well."

The Overlord Eroc was perusing through an ancient tome in his chambers of Castle Drachmar when a small, balding human man burst through his chamber door, panting frantically. The man did not wear the robes normally associated with the pagan lords or most of their kind, but rather a suit closer to those of Victorian fashion.

Without looking up from his reading, the Overlord spoke in apathetically in an accent that could be compared to a hybrid of old norse and celtic, "Don't you ever knock?"

"Your lordship," the man did a quick kneeling.

Eroc sighed, "Knock it off. What?"

"There is chaos all over the place! Seems a nation called Cherry ridge is hunting witches and the whole place is going to explode in war!"

Eroc looked with malevolent grey eyes at the man, "What do you wish me to do about it?"

"Call a meeting of the Lords! We must do something!"

Eroc groaned and turned back to his desk. He took a piece of paper and a pen in left hand and wrote a quick few sentences, then handed it to the annoying human.

"What is this," the man read it over, "Aren't you going to help your fellow witches?"

"We are NOT witches, Dimly."

"That's Dimsdale, sir."

"Dimsdale, whatever! It is not Nemh's interest to get involved in the matters of other nations unless it involves us directly! That is my official statement on what I plan to do. If you see fit, then let the others know, but I am very very busy and do not have time to meddle with other nations and their wars!"

"But, sir..."

Eroc just goes back to his book, waving Dimsdale away.

**********

From: Eroc the Lost, Overlord of Nemh
To: Cherry Ridge and its allies

RE: Pagan Witch Hunts

This is to inform Cherry Ridge and its allies that the Fiefdom of Nemh, for what it's worth, is enacting boycotts of your countries' goods. Furthermore, any and all found in the waters or airspace of Nemh will be subject to attack. That is all...

* Encrypted Transmission to the Governments of Siesatia, Balrogga, and DemonLordEnigma *

The Democratic Colonies sends its greetings. Admiral Elizabeth Shelby reports that the Colonial 6th Fleet is in position just outside of Cherry Ridge's territorial waters, and has proposed a blockade of Cherry Ridge inorder to establish a more favourable negotiating position for us. The request is generally deemed to be too agressive a move by the Department of Foreign Affairs, but Colonial Fleet Command insisted that the assembled friendly nations be consulted about the idea. At this time, it is the first instinct of the Colonial Government to deny Admiral Shelby's request to establish a blockade before multi-party negotiations even get fully underway, but the input of the other nations involved could prove to be valuable if differing opinions exist. Please provide us with your thoughts on the idea - as well, all parties are invited to join the currently ongoing video-conference administered by the Democratic Colonies to seek out a peaceful resolution to our current situation.

- Tigress, Central AI of the Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs

To: Democratic Colonies

Our satellites show that your Navy has dispatched and is heading in the general direction of Cherry Ridge. We warn you that any incurrence into CR's waters will be considered an act of war and your fleet will be vaporized. You have been warned.

* Diplomatic Transmission to Crazed Marines *

The Colonial 6th Fleet will remain in international waters off the coast of Cherry Ridge as long as the Colonial Government sees fit. They will not engage in any overt aggressive action, nor will they intrude into Cherry Ridge territory without provocation, but they will defend themselves if need be.

- Tigress, Central AI of the Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs


OOC: The fact that some of my naval units were moving towards CR was posted a few pages ago, as well as the composition of the 6th Fleet. I also posted that the Colonial 4th Fleet, identical to the 6th Fleet in composition, is also assembling at a mid-ocean rally point not too far away from CR incase they are needed. You can pick that up via space based recon as well if you wish.

OOC: That's why I said satellites picked it up

IC:

We don't care where you store your tugboats, as long as they do not touch even a drop of CR's waters.

OOC: That's why I said satellites picked it up


OOC:

Oh. Sorry then, I was a bit confused about what you were picking up. I thought you only meant that you saw the DC 6th Fleet just outside of CR waters, but I now take it that you saw both that and the DC 4th Fleet assembling at thier mid-ocean rally point a further distance away from CR?

in a round-a-bout way, yes.

OOC: Try that...They're unpowered except when we activate them. I'd advise you not to shoot at them, they're in my territory and this will cause war

OOC: Then go back to my question of how they stay up there. If they are big enough to stay up their on pure gravitational pull, my people would be able to look out a window and see them. Anything smaller than that either would need a power source of some sort to help them stay up or would float out of orbit. Earth doesn't exactly have a small gravitational field. Also, the ships I'm using I bought from Siesatia, and some of them are top of the line. That much was established back when I first arrived. Unless I'm mistaken, I'm using their sensors and encryption methods combined with my own unique encryption methods.

Official Response
Be careful of what you ask for. You just might get it.

~Electronic communication~
If we got what we asked for, neither of us would be having this conversation. We'd be sitting here, you'd be sitting there, and the diplomats would be doing the talking. If I wanted war, I would have attacked already.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

OOC: Again, the mines are unpowered, you won't find them.

OOC: Once again, how big are they? What are they made of?

OOC:
We have hundreds of monitoring stations and we have computers and AIs that know all languages except for some Shivian dialects. Since it was using radio waves to transmit this, we could intercept it easily even if it is encoded. All we need is some time and three AI constructs. You are a new nation, I'm a billion+ nation, I'd advise you to not try me or it could end up like China versus Micronesia.

OOC: Go ahead. The language Sarkarasetan was used by both the Sarkaraset and Sarkarasetan empires and has been extinct for nearly 2000 years, all the while the lack of people having heard of them points to them being utterly forgotten. In addition, current evidence points to them not even using it outside of their colonies and empires. The language would be unknown to anyone who did not have direct diplomatic contact with them. And, yes, the nations were actually on NS.

Secret IC:
"Admiral, we have intercepted some enemy communcations. They're encrypted and ten AI constructs are working on cracking it now. They say that they need three hours."

"Very well ensign. Order all FTLi's (faster than light inhibitors, mine inhibits subspace, hyperspace, and the folding of space) on maximum strength. We'll stop anyone in their tracks if they try and get close to us."

"Yes Admiral."

OOC: Hmm. This could lead to some nastiness.

Also, your mines are interesting. Nasty and effective. I like.

OOC:
1) My colonies are in a Lagrange point. Sorry I didn't post this earlier...my bad
2) They're about a 5 meter in diameter sphere made up of plasteel with disruptor bombs in it
3) You're new, you couldn't detectthem because of their size unless you went visual. If you got close enough to use visual, they would have been activated
4) I posted saying we couldn't decipher that language, but were working on it
5) We didn't ICly know your FTL method, so we defended against our most worrysome
6) Thank you for your compliments on our mines. We have 3 types, one for each main type of defense needed

IC:
"Sir, DLE is not moving."

"Well then, let's see how well they can take brinkmanship. Launch a proton torpedo, but detonate halfway there. Then warn them to return from whence they came."

"Yes sir." The ensign said, shakily as he launched the torpedo that was programmed to explode halfway between the two fleets.

OOC:

I believe the International Boundaries only extend 3 miles. According to your definition, Cuba would be within the US boundaries. Space could be 40 miles. 500 miles is a bit large here, especially with the number of space nations with interests on Earth. Where exactly on Earth is Cherry Ridge. That info would be useful right now.




IC:

“According to the broadcast from CM, there are a million mines in orbit.”

“Contact NORAD and the ESA and access their Space Junk Tracking program. Compare their logs with the current readings. If any are near Balrogga Territories let me know”

“Yes Sir, connecting now.”

“We better not find any because mining another’s territories is an act of war.”

“I’m accessing the data now. The readings are posted on screen Alpha.”

“Excellent, display the current data on Beta screen. Compare the results and let me know if there are any within Imperial Territory. Also mark everything that differentiates from the NORAD data and the ESA data in orbit.”

“Sir, the results are….” (To be completed by CM, who will decide where his mines are, not me.)

OOC: Space Junk Tracking by the European Space Agency http://www.esoc.esa.de/external/mso/debris.html



Message sent to Allies, coded:

It seems CM is attempting to listen into our conversations. I will send
a Ta’Nar to each your commands to communicate with each other. I
seriously doubt they would be able to listen on our conversations.


Three shuttles leave Babylon Control. The first shuttle docks with the Siesatia Flagship. The second shuttle docks with the Democratic Colonies flagship. The third shuttle docks with the DemonLordEnigma flagship. A solitary individual leaves each and requests to be escorted to the Commander In Charge.

OOC:

I believe the International Boundaries only extend 3 miles. According to your definition, Cuba would be within the US boundaries. Space could be 40 miles. 500 miles is a bit large here, especially with the number of space nations with interests on Earth. Where exactly on Earth is Cherry Ridge. That info would be useful right now.

The International boundaries on the sea is 12 miles, space is 100 miles, I have claimed everything within 500 miles of my colonies, but not my land.



IC:

“According to the broadcast from CM, there are a million mines in orbit.”

“Contact NORAD and the ESA and access their Space Junk Tracking program. Compare their logs with the current readings. If any are near Balrogga Territories let me know”

“Yes Sir, connecting now.”

“We better not find any because mining another’s territories is an act of war.”

“I’m accessing the data now. The readings are posted on screen Alpha.”

“Excellent, display the current data on Beta screen. Compare the results and let me know if there are any within Imperial Territory. Also mark everything that differentiates from the NORAD data and the ESA data in orbit.”

“Sir, the results are….” (To be completed by CM, who will decide where his mines are, not me.)

"Sir, CM has no mines in any territory except their own. They are perfectly legal."



Message sent to Allies, coded:

It seems CM is attempting to listen into our conversations. I will send
a Ta’Nar to each your commands to communicate with each other. I
seriously doubt they would be able to listen on our conversations.


Three shuttles leave Babylon Control. The first shuttle docks with the Siesatia Flagship. The second shuttle docks with the Democratic Colonies flagship. The third shuttle docks with the DemonLordEnigma flagship. A solitary individual leaves each and requests to be escorted to the Commander In Charge.

"Admiral, the AIs say that they have broken the enemy language and communications. They used Latin to break it finally. The problem is that they can only translate one word in ten."

"Kinda like in Midway."

"Yes sir. And they took a leaf out of the actions of Nimitz. They're using couriers to transmit all messages instead of transmitting it in the open."

"Well, good. Now they fear us and there will be a lag between when the orders are given and when they are carried out."

OOC: Actually, it is faster because the Ta'Nar are Full Psi

We don't know that...
:) :sniper:

OOC:
1) My colonies are in a Lagrange point. Sorry I didn't post this earlier...my bad
2) They're about a 5 meter in diameter sphere made up of plasteel with disruptor bombs in it
3) You're new, you couldn't detectthem because of their size unless you went visual. If you got close enough to use visual, they would have been activated
4) I posted saying we couldn't decipher that language, but were working on it
5) We didn't ICly know your FTL method, so we defended against our most worrysome
6) Thank you for your compliments on our mines. We have 3 types, one for each main type of defense needed

3) Siesatia will be able to answer this. Once again, I'm using ships I bought from him. He'll let you know if he included the sensors or not, but I'm assuming he would.
4) Good luck. It's the equivolent of Egyptian before the Rosetta Stone to translate.
5) You would have detected my ships with an unusual amount of photons and gravitons around them, almost like they came through a mild storm or passed by a star while on the way.
6) You might want to defend against graviton weapons as well. One of those, aimed right, would take out both the mine field and the colony.

IC:
"Sir, DLE is not moving."

"Well then, let's see how well they can take brinkmanship. Launch a proton torpedo, but detonate halfway there. Then warn them to return from whence they came."

"Yes sir." The ensign said, shakily as he launched the torpedo that was programmed to explode halfway between the two fleets.

IC:

"Sir, Incomming torpedo. Orders?" Leutent Tormeta asked.

"Target it with the disruptor cannons. If it gets halfway here, open fire on it," Soybayun said.

"Sir, it appears to have detonated at about halfway. Shall we return fire?" Tormeta asked.

"No. At the same time, don't back off. We're not leaving our ally's space unless some reason comes up," Soybayun said.

At that moment, Lieutenant Torpa lead the Balrogga ambassador into the bridge.

"Welcome. It is always good to have an ally on board our ship. Please excuse us if you cannot understand us, as we use an old language during warfare. Leutent Tormeta will act as a translator during your stay," Soybayun said.

Correct, you do OOC but not IC.

OOC: This shall be interesting.

I find it interesting CM chose half-way. But that's about where I would start firing at.

"I need no translator. I can understand your thoughts. Be assured, I will not probe you. I will only provide instataneous communication between the four fleet commanders through my other counterparts. Just think at the other commanders and they will hear it. Give me a few seconds to ling to my Sisters."

The Ta'Nar concentrated. Her eyes became clouded with black shadow stuff as she streatched out her Will.

"We are ready"

OOC: Use Red to denote telepathic communication. These are direct links instead of general broadcasts.

IC:

CM is using brinkmanship. I advise waiting until any torpedos he launches get to half-way before acting. Soybayun thought.

"Tormeta, send a general word among the fleet. CM may try to force us into retreat with force. Also, contact our homeworld and have the Law Enforcement and the rest of our military show up, and send an order to Siesatia for another fleet equal to our last, this time delivered entire to the defense department. The Dictator will be mad with us, but he'll get over it," Soybayun said.

"Sending, sir. And I've changed the encryption to Seta 4," Tormeta said.

~Actual Message to Homeworld Tormeta sends~
Prepare second fleet for attack. Warp in by Sol, speed towards Earth. Cut power to minimum. Our engines and cut power should disguise signature. Full tactical strike when signal is given. Surprise will be advantage. Send decoys to main fleet. Taking advantage of numbers mentality. Ask Siesatia for extra missiles, if you catch the drift.
-Captain Tormeta
~End message~

OOC: Good luck on the decoding. Siesatia and Balrogga, what is actually said in the ship applies to what you would end up knowing, while the actual message is what CM would end up knowing. The message is fraudulent in nature, but still relays the real orders. Good luck decrypting this one to get the truth, CM. I want a copy of what I actually said in it posted OOC.

Message broadcast directly to Crazed Marines:

"Refrain from launching ordinance towards my territory. You do not want me to do the same. Trust me, you really don't."

OOC: Where exactly is Cherry Ridge? I asked earlier but nobody posted it's location.

Official response
We only fired a warning shot. Next time, listen to what we tell you and everything will be fine.

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"Admiral. The AIs have picked up another message."

"Read it ensign."

"Second Fleet ... warp... SOL... Earth...Power ...engines... disguise... strike ...signal...suprise...decoys...numbers...strange mentality (ooc: had to at least get something wrong)...ask for missiles...drift....The AIs inform me that's the best they could do."

"That's damn near invisible! What do they tell us to do."

"The AIs say that there is a possible attack with a second fleet. We should be ready for a decoy attack then they'll suprise attack us with a run-and-gun missile attack. Then they'll retreat because our FTLi's don't work on their ships."

"You're kidding me?!?!? Very well, order the selective ability on our FTLi's turned off. That'll stop all forms of known FTL...hehehe...that'll show them. Also have all ships prepare for an assault. Have the Space Marines suit up and prepare for EVAs and combat.

Official response
We only fired a warning shot. Next time, listen to what we tell you and everything will be fine.


The edge of Imperial Territory:

The Torpedo Class Frigate Emerged from T-Space. The ship opened it's comm and sent a message. The ship waited a few minutes and then Uplifted to T-Space, fading away.



Message broadcasted to CM:

You have no authority to command this nation. Continuation of your policy of firing upon the Empire will result in a reprisal that will leave your fleet valuable only to scrap salesmen, provided there is even that left.

This is not a threat.

For an example of our power, access the archives to see how we made the deliquent nation of Sephrioth run away after two waves of torpedoes destroyed almost all his fleet. We were being nice because we knew he would not harm us but your posturing is a threat to our allies.

You must stop your petty attempted attacks or we will have to do something about it. We will take them as the first shot fired in a war you will loose.

EDIT: Will be back after I take the kid trick-or treating.

"Sir, Dictator Enigma has sent a deny code for the police forces and the purchase. But, the rest of our fleet is on the way. And, there was a glitch in our orders before we were sent. We were not to use Seta 4 for the double encryption," Tormeta said.

"Well, torlot. Let's hope they figure out we don't have warp technology. Last time I checked, bluffing an enemy that just shot at you is a legal move," Soybayun said.

There was a glitch in my orders and I used the wrong word encryption. CM is currently preparing for a tactical strike from a fleet that not only isn't comming from that direction but most of which won't even be comming at all. Hopefully this will keep them busy from shooting at us. The fact they did at all makes it, under our law, legal to shoot back. But I feel a bluff is better. Please advise.

OOC: I grabbed the wrong encryption sheet when writing that fake message...

"Well, we pissed everyone off. Any thoughts to these last threats?"

Well, they said they made Sephiroth run, so we know they can kill off a last rate military. But that's about all. I hope New Exodus says something soon. the AI pitched in.

do you or any need help in this hunt? i offer my nations modurn army or old armys services.

Rand' Al Thor
Decendent of,
Kings of the Lost Age.

do you or any need help in this hunt? i offer my nations modurn army or old armys services.

Rand' Al Thor
Decendent of,
Kings of the Lost Age.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=369868

Status: Ignored during this conflict.

Within the command center of Babylon Command, General Flavius Ricimer sat looking at the readouts on the Crazed Marines. Occasionally he shook his head in disbelief.

"Officer, contact the fleet on the Space Minus Transmitter. We know there is now way for them to intercept them. They are no where near technologically advanced to stand a chance. Order the fleet to expand the patrol out to 500 miles. What is fair for them is fair for us. Make sure they see us patrolling 400 miles closer. Double the Proteus Fighter patrols too. I want to make our presence known. Keep the extra fleets hidden in T-Space."

"Yes Sir, relaying orders now."

The patrols moved 400 miles closer to the CM territories, while staying within Imperial Territories.


Message sent to Crazed Marines:

We agree with your suggestion of a space nation claiming everything within 500 miles. We will do the same. Thank You for the suggestion.




Sent to allies:

What do you think of the idea of holding a wargame in the newly expanded territory? I don't believe CM would mind having three fully armed fleets 400 miles closer...

Shouted curses were heard coming from the High Marshall's office, but the officers in the hallway studiously ignored the commotion.

"@%%#^ @*(%*)!," he fumed, "This is what happens when you have a nation of mentally unstable members of amphibious armed forces." He inhaled deeply, then released his breath in a futile attempt to calm down. Liang stomped to his terminal and began giving orders.

On one of the New Exodus vessels, a small laser array rotated to aim at what they guessed was the commanding craft of the opposing fleets. It fired, rapidly pulsing out a message that would be virtually impossible to intercept by anyone besides the targeted receiver.

FROM: N.E. P-Com, H.M. Wu
Apologies for CM fleet. We are retargeting point-defense to intercept CM torpedoes. Again, targeting CM torpedoes. Brinkmanship at this point, reckless.

With the data-burst sent, Wu felt much better, and he then sent a similar message to Admiral Gunn:

"Admiral, please refrain from antagonizing Siesatia's allies. The last thing Commander Haase will want to find when he returns is a good chunk of our fleet missing, even if we are victorious. I assume your President would also be unhappy to lose personnel if it could possibly be avoided. If you would cease launching torpedoes, I would be most grateful.
-High Marshall Wu"

Of course, Liang neglected to mention the waiting point-defense batteries, but it must have somehow slipped his mind. Michael would be pissed if he knew about that, but he'd sure laugh about it, he thought.

The entire DLE staff stands still, blinking. To see an incomming laser shot is one thing. To have it carrying a message is another.

"Sir, if that was an attack, we're either undamaged or have yet to find what they did," Tormeta said.

"When this is over, I expect we will probably be working on something similar to that. In the meantime, let's contact our allies and see what they say," Soybayun said.

Hold on. We are still recovering from surprise. It would be fine with us, if you still want to after that last communication.

"Okay, not what do we do?" Soybayun asked.

We will see what CM does first. Let us know when you figure out what the message you recieved was.



Babylon Control:

"Sir, I have a message from the Imperial Palace."

"Send it to my private channel and I'll view it."

The commander accessed his private channel with his neurolink.

"He what??"



Minutes later The Serendipity left the docks and swiftly moved away from Babylon Space Tower. The dreadnaught joined the patrols of the new territory.

Reading it to you now.
"FROM: N.E. P-Com, H.M. Wu
Apologies for CM fleet. We are retargeting point-defense to intercept CM torpedoes. Again, targeting CM torpedoes. Brinkmanship at this point, reckless."
Hmm. It seems CM may be targetted by their own allies if they attack. This could turn into an interesting shoot-out.

Hopefully he sees reason. So far he hasn't. You never know, revelations have come to those in dire need to save their lives.

The Serendipity was ordered to participate wit the patrols. The Emperor is not aboard. He wished it to appear he is and he has no fear of the CM threat. If you wish you could send fake messages to the Serendipity and someone will respond to them in order to keep the charade. The Emperor himself is planning something else I cannot talk about because I ahve not been informed of the details.

Hmm. He knows we have these and are maintaining comm silence between our fleets. Plus, I'm using an encryption only a computer programmed to accept a nearly-random pattern can decipher. But fake messages shall be sent. After all, there are any number of things that can come up between two cultures...

~Encrypted Message to Serendipity~
We are dishonored to inform you of the accidental death of your representative. They turned out to be allergic to one of our foods and we were not aware of it. It is best to keep all of your encryption specialists off our ships until we can determine if it was a mere allergy this person had or a racial trait. We will allow you to pick up the body for burial.
We are surprised by the communication method NE has. It has also disrupted several of our systems, but nothing that won't be fixed quickly and really costs anything.
Oh, and please try not to give away the location of my fourth fleet. They are not ready to enter the battlefield and an attack on our secret base in Uranus Atmosphere would be disasterous. However, we plan on moving the base out of this system as soon as the fleet is ready. No sense endangering our people.
~End message~

I wish your leader the best in his endeavors.

The Shuttle craft left the DemonLordEnigma's flagship a short time later. The shuttle flew straight to Babylon Space Tower and docked.

Coded message from The Serendipity:

We are greatly sorrowful for the death of our envoy and will await your prognosis as to the cause. Until then we will have to use the coded messages from before and switch to codes that are harder to break.

His Imperial Majesty
Nhur-Galladu

OOC: DLE check TG

OOC: Check my reply.

Message to Crazed Marines:

Why must you provoke this battle when all the other members of your coalition are ready to sit at the negotiation table. We are ready to sit at the same table. You are the only obsticle keeping peace from being born. This whole confrontation is entirely of your creation and you will be credited with the disaster that will follow if you keep from seeing the light of reason.

His Imperial Majesty
Lord Nhur-Galladu


We are giving him the chance to end this before anything else happens. The first shot at any allies will count as an act of war. Be prepaired for foolish actions from Crazed Marines. I'm beginning to think "Crazed" is more than a name.


OOC:

Who is Cherry Ridge's neighbors and what do they think?
What part of the world is Cherry Ridge in?
Where are we about to fight if Crazed Marines doesn't back down?
When will Crazed Marines see wisdom?
Why won't Crazed Marines sit at the negotion table?
How will this madness end?

Ok, you guys are nuts, I fall asleep, and you post 3 pages. ALright, here we go...


CM- I don't believe our two peoples have ever met, if so, I want you to proove it by answereing 3 questions. Only then can you read my transmissions...
1} Who Are the Three Races of Siesatia?
2} How did the Siesatian Government choose Gaia as the new homeworld?
3} What is our Navy's specialty (Easiest One Here)


Also, as set down by one of the numerous RL space acts, Earth Nations cannot claim space. It is set forth for the furtherment of mankind.


IC:
"We of course will not be budging one inch, we are in friendly territory. How about you move?"

We are setting up a space blockade of cherry hill.


OOC:
I just did the math on all my carriers, and have discovered I have over 21,000 fighters/bombers all together. But then, thats the reason I only have a few carrier fleets...

OOC: Real Earth nations also cannot travel to Mars. Give them that tech and that treaty might be worth something as toilet paper.

IC:

If this does turn to war, know that we won't give up. And, as I'm sure you know, we have a few nasty tricks. They don't compare to yours, though.

Siesatia, you there? You've been quiet. So far, we may have a plan of action and a way to end this if the fighting starts. I just wish the leaders of our nations would bother to inform those on the battlefield.

I will not be able to post for several hours. I have to study for a midterm tonight. I will check the boards after class.

The Holy Empire of Shazbotdom will not make any acts of war againt Cherry Ridge. Although we will offer refugee status to anyone escaping this unwanted massacure.


OOC: I'm not sure what you think of people hwo practice witchcraft or what not. But the religion of wicca doesn't worship satan. They worship the 'goddess'.

I Thumpith thy thread with a Bumpith

ooc- you guys could have aited for me to get back
ic-
Video Conference
"I have a couple sugestions to end this standoff.
One- You allies withdraw your ships
Two- I lease Siesatia and DC St. John Berchmans Isle for 100 years for free
Three- I pay John Hammonds Heir, Tim Murphy half of the 25 billion I owe
Four-I deport all witches to DC
five- Siesatia and DC pardon me, the Cardinal
What do you think?"
said the Cardinal

ooc- I have 12 miles out to sea with fishing rights up to 50

Siesatia demands the implementation of a religious Tolerence Bill.

Siesatia demands the implementation of a religious Tolerence Bill.
We cannot, BUT we will deport them to DC or your nation, whichever the person choses.

~Video Conference~
Considering the past history we have recieved about your nation and the near-escalation of hostilities up here, I find term number one to be unacceptable until this conflict is resolved. Once resolved, we will gladly retreat to a much more distant location.
~End Soybayun's statement~

OOC:
1) Me and NE will not fight. We're too good RL friends to do so and ICly we are trade dependant....plus I'd win because of my large military
2) We will approach the negotiation tables ONLY after your fleets move back to a distance considered non-threat
3) Siesatia, we have never come across you ICly before. We have, however, monitored you.
4) "Crazed Marines" pretty much describes me
5) If you don't think we're at your level tech-wise, remember that we use a combination of Star Wars and Stargate technology. We will activate our mines if you come within 250 miles of our borders. DON'T PUSH IT! When activated, they're aggresive.


IC:

The CM Admiral looked around his bridge and the faces of his me. "All right. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace. The odds are not in our favor for war. Send one Lieutenant to every fleet as an envoy. After that is done, send in a message home thru the one gigabit encryption that we need some SSDs."

"Yes sir. Message sent, envoys on the way."


To all fleets
We are sending one envoy to your fleet in order to make the peace negotiations work better. We will come to the table since our allies have asked us to come. We shall also take in some refugees.

[b]To home over 1000000 bit encryption[/b[
Send in the 50 SSD Home defense fleet! Our 2000 Asguard motherships aren't cutting the mustard

We urge all on our side, and the other side, to sit down andnegotiate.

OOC:
1) He will shoot down your missiles, however.
2) No dice. Your demands are far beyond the call of reason, and there is no way I am leaving Balroggan space without Balrogga or Siesatia asking me to or this ending.
3) I know you haven't even monitored me before, so that should be fun.
4) Thought so.
5) Star Wars and StarGate? My world doesn't have a StarGate and no maps of the region it is in are known to exist. Not even my nation has maps of it, due mainly to our inability to make star maps. And we're only matching your claims of what is safe territory, so if it happens to come within 250 miles of your nation, you have nothing to complain about because you are the one who set the terms of how much counts. Don't start a war just because we play by your rules and you end up disadvantaged. And, the only one pushing here is you, and you seem determined to have the upper hand or go to war.

Also, Star Wars really doesn't stand a chance against us.

IC:

"Sir, they seem to be sending out a signal. What should we do?" Tormeta asked.

"Warn the others, if they haven't detected it. How did we pick it up?" Soybayun asked.

"Gigabit signals are not that hard to detect, especially when they suddenly come into existence when they weren't before. But we failed to intercept it, so we can't decrypt," Tormeta said.

"But, how did we detect it?" Soybayun asked.

"The rest of the fleet picked it up by accident. Apparently, they've been hanging around Earth for quite some time, bombing random small countries and helping with military campaigns elsewhere. That does explain how we have been communicating with Earth this entire time," Tormeta said.

Attention all allies: They have sent out a signal. We failed to catch it, so we don't know what they are up to. Be prepared for anything.

~Message to Crazed Marines~
We cannot accept your soldier on our ships. Under our laws, we are forced to shoot him as soon as he steps into the ship, unless he is a prisoner. You are an enemy nation at this point due to firing upon us earlier. If I let him on, I would be court martialled or shot by my crew for treason, as he poses too much of a danger.
-General Soybayun
~End message~

1) I was just informing you
2) Well then, we're at an Impasse. I'll let you stay in orbit if you power down ALL weapons
3) Wasn't talking to you. I was talking to Siesatia
4) lol
5) You'll see. The SSD is 8 Km long and follows the battleplate mentallity. I'm also stating that I USE SG tech, not saying that there's a gate on their planet.
6) 1 gigabit encryption does exist. I'm 2050-2400 tech. The problem is that the messages can't be very long, but it is pretty much unbreakable.

IC: "Tell them that the Lieutenant is unarmed and we did not fire on them. We fired on the space near them. If they check their records, they'll see that the torpedo would have missed them by ten klicks."

"Yes sir...hey, where are you going?"

"I'm going to negotiate...what's it look like? Inform me when the SSDs arrive thru the orbital stargate and then when they warp here. Use tobasco for the gate, tomato for the warp."

"Yes sir!"

do you need help in your humt for the demons?

OOC:
1) I know.
2) Can't. Standard operating procedure, even for travel, has weapons powered up.
3) I know.
5) Okay. It'll just be more ships in a single area. As long as no one shoots.
6) That's not what was meant. Earth itself is surrounded by a large variety of signals and pulses, thanks in part to humanity. In this case, they detected a signal that suddenly came into existence and was not there already. This let them know the signal was manufactured. You'll find my people are not proficient with sensors yet.

IC:

~Electronic communication to Crazed Marines~
Firing on the space near us, considering the type of weapon used, constitutes an attack on us. The explosion could have still damaged our ship if it got close enough. And a person doesn't have to be armed to cause a ship problems, as we discovered accidentally.
-General Soybayun
~End message~

you cant win. the fight with satan and his followers is never over.

OOC: Guys, ignore Gondor. He's a known godmoder and I've had problems with him in the past.

And the fact that he no longer exists. At the moment, he makes Hataria look like a nice place to live. I UBERgalssed him...20 hour bombardment with each salvo taking less than one minute to happen.

CM, bad move. You should go to that topic and read what happened there.

I saw...and why was what a bad move?

IC:

To DemonLordEnigma
We keep weapons charged at all times as well. We are willing to power them down as well. This would be a larger threat to us because we have more ships in the vacinity.


To Admiral Gunn
Tobasco shall produce tomatoes.

ooc- you guys could have aited for me to get back
ic-
Video Conference
"I have a couple sugestions to end this standoff.
One- You allies withdraw your ships
Two- I lease Siesatia and DC St. John Berchmans Isle for 100 years for free
Three- I pay John Hammonds Heir, Tim Murphy half of the 25 billion I owe
Four-I deport all witches to DC
five- Siesatia and DC pardon me, the Cardinal
What do you think?"
said the Cardinal


* Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs Command Centre, Democratic Colonies, Viconia City *

Secretary Kelli Perim, while doing her best to project a confident and calm demeanor, could not help but allow some of her nervousness leak through into her voice as she spoke in reply to the Cardinal.
"I'm afraid that the terms you've outlined are not acceptable to the Colonial Government." she said with a slight quiver towards the end of her sentence. "The Democratic Colonies will settle at nothing less than a religous tolerence bill approved by the Democratic Colonies, Siesatia, Balrogga and DemonLordEnigma. As well, we fully support Siesatia's demand that St. John Berchman's Isle be placed under the ownership of Siesatia and the similarly aligned nations on a permanent basis."

While Perim's instructions were clear in that the Democratic Colonies should try to negotiate from a position of strength, and Secretary Perim fully intended to attempt to do so, she couldn't help but think of the consquences of an all out war with nations like Crazed Marines. A flash alert had just been sent by the Colonial Intelligence Service - apparently, Crazed Marines had vaporized the nation of Gondor of Old directly from orbit, never letting Gondor of Old get close enough to get a shot off. While the Democratic Colonies did have a space program, military applications of it thus far were severely limited and probably wouldn't do much good against some of the massive starships that were currently in orbit. Secretary Perim would push as hard as she needed to inorder to get Cherry Ridge to comply with the conditions set forth by the aligned nations, but that didn't mean that she wouldn't nervous as hell while doing it.



* Cherry Ridge International Airport *

The sleek, bulletlike shape of the Colonial Airways Concorde touching down on the tarmac of Cherry Ridge International was a welcome sight for the 20 civilian government workers and the 30 federal security agents that were awaiting a way back to the Democratic Colonies in the main terminal of the airport. There were a few short words exchanged, akward goodbyes said to the Cherry Ridge Holy Guard officers that accompanied them, but for the most part, the Colonial personel left in relative silence - they were simply glad to be leaving while the peace still held between all of the nations involved. They boarded the super-sonic airliner as rapidly as possible - thier next destination, assuming all went well with thier journey, Lexa Doig International Airport in Passchendale, Andromeda Colony.

OOC: Because now he'll get started on this topic.

IC:

~Electronic communication to Crazed Marines~
Then if both sides keep weapons active, there can be no one attempting to take advantage of the situation to get in a surprise attack.
~End communication~

To DLE
Not true. Someone could launch a suprise salvo and halfway destroy the other fleet of certain shuttles before the other side could respond. Powering them down simeltaneously, however, then it could take some time for the weapons to fire and would give diplomacy one last chance. As a sign of good faith, we are powering doen our weapons.

To Admiral Gunn
Tomatos will come forth from Pink Floyd when an international call is made.

"We are sick of this infestation of demon worshippers"-Cardinal DeVito

The Cardinal has ordered the Holy Guard (national police force) to hunt and root out the witches that practice secretly and illegally at night. They are encouraged to search the woods at night for them worshipping and to take care of them, by arresting them.They are authorized to use deadly force if they are seen sacrificing any human or animal, to save the life of the one being sacrificed.
Methods used to find them will be fly overs, horseback patrol,ATV's, dune buggys in sandy areas, jeeps, and searching suspected houses, and plain old walking the woods. Citizens are asked to report all witches


Any nation who would like to provide tips is welcome to do so.

Does this include New-Age commies...just curious. Do you have to kiss the back end of the pope to join? :p

"Hmph. Do you believe this? He must have a fleet on it's way to be willing to do that. But there is one way to find out. If they respond like I think they will, then they have back-up comming," Soybayun said.

~Electronic communication to Crazed Marines~
We intercepted a gigabit signal from your fleet. Resend the same signal, this time with a decryption code, to us. We will compare it to the one we have on file to see if you are sending the correct signal. Then, if it reveals you are not trying to pull something, we will power down our weapons.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

Ok, CM, you still havn't answered the questions, therefor, you don't know what ancient Burman is. In fact, how could you be monitering us, when the most widely known facts, cant even be answered. I deem it a godmodd that you are able to read a transmission, that is encrypted in a ten digit code, and in another language you have yet to encounter.

Siesatia, we have never come across you ICly before. We have, however, monitored you
If you have never met us, you couldnt have been monitering us. Im sorry, but there is gennerally a cloud of secrecy over my country.


IC to CR:
I would like to hear the reasons behind the abbandonment of the Religious Tolerence Bill. All it would call for, is the equil treatment of other religions within your country. I have little care if you are attacked by others because of your religion, you may fight back to your hearts content. We would like to stop the killings of others of another religion/lack of religion.
~Master Dragoon Nicholas Crescent~

Our Carriers will not power down our point defence cannons, for obvious reasons, and the fighters will stay at ALert Code XII, but other than those, our ships, minus the Battlecruisers, are powering down the weapons.

Siesatian ships, I advise against that. This could get ugly if he tries something and your ships are not powered up.

Video COnference
"We can not do that, when the first Cherry Ridgians got together, they wrote down the first laws, and one of them, one of the unchangable ones, is "Cherry Ridge shall not tolerate any religion except those loyal to His Holiness, the pope." This of course is Catholicism. So you see, it would be like Siesatia outlawing Burmas, or DC outlawing the word Colonial. It is fundamental to CR law. It was infact, the first law printed. So you see, it is impossible." said the Cardinal, "And Secratary perim, no need to be nervous"

end message

CR:
I still dont see the reasoning behind persecuting those of another religion.

Ok, an amendment to the St. Berchmans isle contract is...
The land is temporarily in posetion of DC, Siesatia, Balrogga, and DLE. They are not subject to Cherry Ridge laws or Taxes. They must abide by international law when dealing with each other, and must abide by their own laws when dealing with internal affairs.

OOC: Did we ever solve the whole, finding the heads on pikes thing? I hope not, since it would add a sence of danger.

DLE: (Open Transmission)
We are interested in finding a solution to this peacefully, as CM's ships are probobly expensive, and breaking them might make its leader cry.

CR:
I still dont see the reasoning behind persecuting those of another religion.

Ok, an amendment to the St. Berchmans isle contract is...
The land is temporarily in posetion of DC, Siesatia, Balrogga, and DLE. They are not subject to Cherry Ridge laws or Taxes. They must abide by international law when dealing with each other, and must abide by their own laws when dealing with internal affairs.

OOC: Did we ever solve the whole, finding the heads on pikes thing? I hope not, since it would add a sence of danger.

I will deport all those not Catholic to siesatia and DC
I will lease you the island for 100 years WITH a CR representative
ooc- no we did not find the heads on pike thing

I will deport all those not Catholic to siesatia and DC
I will lease you the island for 100 years WITH a CR representative


* Encrypted Transmission to Siesatia *

While Secretary Perim is currently engaged in the video conference with the Cardinal of Cherry Ridge, she did take the time to quietly pass on the information that the current terms offered by Cherry Ridge are acceptable to the Democratic Colonies. However, if they are not acceptable to the Government of Siesatia, then the Democratic Colonies suggests threatening war unless all the other terms, like the religious tolerence bill, are met. If Siesatia goes to war against Cherry Ridge because Cherry Ridge refuses to create a religious tolerence bill, the full might of the Colonial military will be brought into action against Cherry Ridge - the Democratic Colonies will stand by Siesatia if war is declared and regime change deemed appropiate. If the currently offered conditions are acceptable to Siesatia however, then they will be publicly pronounced as acceptable to the Democratic Colonies. If they are not acceptable to you, then we shall continue to stand with you until all friendly nations are satisfied. We believe that the nations involved should present a unified face at this time, and so we would like to hear your take on the current terms before anything is publicly announced by the Colonial Government.

- Tigress, Central AI of the Colonial Department of Foreign Affairs




OOC: Basically, Cherry Ridge's terms sound pretty okay to me, even though they're still missing a few things that I'd like. If you're not okay with it though, then I'll back you up and say that it's not enough.

Seeing his chance, High Marshall Wu tapped out a message to all the nations involved, then headed for the docks to board his command vessel.

"Perhaps you would permit the leadership of New Exodus to negotiate this matter? Our nation is composed of many religions, and we have no qualms with any of the countries involved."

OOC: What is the background with CR, Siesatia, and DC? Where can I go to get the "facts"? I have a good idea for a compromise that would be acceptable to all parties involved, although it might take some arm twisting.

And Siesatia, whatever happened to the "Exploration..." thread?

here is a draft of the terms. THIS IS ONLY A DRAFT!
1- Deport non catholics to siesatia and DC
2- Lease Berchmans isle to the allies for 100 years for free, no taxes, international law until limit is up
3- there will be a CR liason
4-pay back half of the 25 billion to Tim Murphy, John Hamminds heir
5- The Cardinal is pardoned

NE:Noone ever posted again. Do a search for Cherry Ridge or Siesatia or Democratic Colonies, and you will come up with two threads... 'Teacher teaches evolitionsim...' and 'St. Berchmans isle.'

CR:I wish to converse with my allies first..

DC: IM me

"Hmph. Do you believe this? He must have a fleet on it's way to be willing to do that. But there is one way to find out. If they respond like I think they will, then they have back-up comming," Soybayun said.

~Electronic communication to Crazed Marines~
We intercepted a gigabit signal from your fleet. Resend the same signal, this time with a decryption code, to us. We will compare it to the one we have on file to see if you are sending the correct signal. Then, if it reveals you are not trying to pull something, we will power down our weapons.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~


To DLE, open channel
Sorry, we can't do this. To do so would forsake national security for some diplomatic reasons. However, we will notify you of any fleet that might appear that is under our control.

To Admiral Gunn (at the CR video conference)
Tomatos have ripened. The vine must be cut in order to harvest.

OOC: Siesatia, I did say that we did NOT know your language, but used Latin as a root to translate the best we could. It did not work as we had hoped and we abandoned its use.

OOC: In which case, you cannot translate anything I have sent to my own people, as Siesatia and I do not use the same languages for that purpose, which has been established on here. I use Sarkarasetan, while Siesatia uses Burmecian. The two are entirely different languages with entirely different histories. However, I use English for my allies.

Also, the other ships I refer to have been in other topics. They were involved in the bombing of Butt Head2.

IC:

"I thought so. Notify the fleet. We now suspect that signal they sent out awhile back was a call for allies or for ships to arrive. Tell them to be prepared for an incomming attack. If no attack comes, it'll be a good drill to make sure the soldiers are ready. FTL Jump Drives are to be charged and ready in case we need our retreat move. I'll let the others know our suspicions," Soybayun said.

Awhile back, some of our ships in orbit, the ones involved in a certain bombing, noticed a strange signal going out from the planet. They were unable to intercept it without jeopardizing themselves. The Crazed Marines just confirmed they sent it. We suspect a call for backup of some sort, but cannot be sure, though our bluff may have just proven it. However, we are unable to detect any signal for attack going out or anything unusual, so this may be a bluff on their part. Be prepared for the worst.

~Electronic Communication to Serendipity, using mild encryption~
Please excuse the way our ships are moving. Some mejnot programmed them to automatically go into a training mode at this point. They're running standard drill for preparation for an incomming attack and we can't override the computers. We can't even fire the guns if we come under attack. Our encryption computers are also down, so we're doing the encryption by hand. I just hope CM doesn't detect this.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

CM- Yeah, it wouldnt have worked to even a single word, as it is based off an even earlier language, called Kaskri, which is then based off of the mothertounge of Seisi. It is a totally alien language to anyone not of burman origins.

More war?
Yes
Change the chanel

Statement: YAWN more war :headbang: :headbang:
blah blah blah blah
Prepare for some more TV coverage
YAWN

To what? Chanel 5.

OOC:

OK, back from class and finally caught up on reading.

One question nobody will seem to answer. Where the hell is CR located on Earth. If it is not near Midway Islands then CM's forces are split between the two locations. Very important information that is needed.

IC:

Mildly encoded message in English to Allies:

My gravametric sensor array has picked up your reserve fleet aproaching. They should be here within a few minutes. Keep all the cloaked ships hidden until they break warp. They should be attacking from the direction of Sol, to hide the gateways in the glare. Be prepaired for the ambush. Be sure to target his orbitals. They would not only provide easy morale crushing targets but also provide cover from out fire so take them out first.



Open message to Cherry Ridge:

We cannot back down, we are already in our own territory with our guests. Your friends over there are the only ones who have shoot anything at us and if the weapon had not malfunctioned, it would have entered our territory. That would constitute a first shot and resulten in open warfare. Please hurry with your negotiations so Crazed Marines has no reason to act this way.


I sent a message that CR would be able to intercept. It should keep him guessing for now.

The nation of zackaroth highly condones this wonderful event. The witches and demon worshippers are too much of a burden. We are a highly relgious state and stop , kill,burn all witches and demon worshippers. you have our full support. i hope we can work togethher in purging your holy lands of these evil beings. If you need help we can some.

You can always tell a Noob if they leave a title...

OOC: Question that still haven't been answered. Where is Cherry Ridge? Just curious, since a ground/water war is still possible, and I'd like to know what borders my troops would be facing. Hope it doesn't come to that, though.

IC: Two shuttles boosted away from the New Exodus vessels, burning towards the Crazed Marines command ship and the Cherry Ridge capitol respectively. Within minutes, one shuttle was floating alongside the CM craft, and space-suited figures could be seen deploying what looked like a portable laser near an airlock. Beside it was placed a flat, black panel. One of the figures tapped out a short message using the airlock's external access terminal:

LasComm. unit installed upper-starboard hull.
Plugged into ship's network at Airlock 3F.
Auto-tracking set to NE commander's vessel.

With that, the technician plugged the LasComm.'s power and data cables into the airlock's ports, then returned to the shuttle.

On the ground, a larger unit was deployed on top of (The Cardinal's current location.)

OOC: Question that still haven't been answered. Where is Cherry Ridge? Just curious, since a ground/water war is still possible, and I'd like to know what borders my troops would be facing. Hope it doesn't come to that, though.

IC: Two shuttles boosted away from the New Exodus vessels, burning towards the Crazed Marines command ship and the Cherry Ridge capitol respectively. Within minutes, one shuttle was floating alongside the CM craft, and space-suited figures could be seen deploying what looked like a portable laser near an airlock. Beside it was placed a flat, black panel. One of the figures tapped out a short message using the airlock's external access terminal:

LasComm. unit installed upper-starboard hull.
Plugged into ship's network at Airlock 3F.
Auto-tracking set to NE commander's vessel.

With that, the technician plugged the LasComm.'s power and data cables into the airlock's ports, then returned to the shuttle.

On the ground, a larger unit was deployed on top of (The Cardinal's current location.)
Can you explain. It was confusing.

We want to know where Cherry Ridge is on the face of the Earth. I am glad I'm not the only one who would like to know.

Are you in the Atlantic, Pacific, Bearing Sea, Lake Ontario, The Dead Sea, ect...

Where are you EXACTLY on Earth?????

OOC: Ok, I didn't know about the language, so I worked off from what I know from other languages. Three AI constructs barely got out anything, I'll stop from now on claiming that it was a waste of resources

IC:

Th New Exodus shuttle docked aboard the flagship, The CMS Iwo Jima. The men were greeted with some friendship, and a little hostility since they pointed the turbolasers at the CM fleet.

"How are you doing?" Amiral Gunn asked Commander Burgoine.

"I'd be fine if you hadn't fired!"

"Did you have any other way to get the point across so quickly?"

"Diplomacy would have been better..."

"That is CM style diplomacy. We tell them what we want, we give a warning shot, and then we open up on them! People listen much better when you have a gun to their gut."

"Well, thay have gun to ours! Did you think of that?"

"Yes, and we were willing to start a war in order to get our point across! That's how we do things! You're the diplomats, we're the ones who take over when you fail!" Admiral Gunn shot out angrily, "Now turn your turbolasers away from us."


"Admiral!" one Ensign said excitedly, "We picked up an intercept stating that their ships are pretty much dead in the weapons case."

"Thank you ensign, send them this message and bring in TF2. Make sure they know of it." The Admiral then hands a scrawled piece of paper to the man.


We noticed your ship are in a training mode. We could run through you at the moment like a hot knife thru butter. However, we won't if you order your fleet to stand down for twenty-four hours of truce in which we can resolve this situation before any blood is spilled.

On an unrelated note, another one of our fleets is coming in. Prepare for it. They're probably going to be used for support of another campaign, but a few may wind up here.

OOC: The Laser Communication Units that my forces have deployed in the Cherry Ridge capitol and on the Crazed Marines command vessel are relatively low-tech transmit/receive devices that New Exodus uses.

They are only useful for communication between relatively stationary locations within a star system, as they are, of course, limited by the speed of light. In Earth's orbit, they are essentially immediate. I will send a TG to you to explain some of the other information about them, since while the technology is currently being worked on IRL, most NS players don't use it.

I'd be happy to tell the rest of you about them, once the stand-off is over, or you could just research them yourself.

~Electronic Message to Crazed Marines~
If you know the state of our ships, then you can also tell we cannot stand down at this time. Someone is going to pay dearly for this.
-General Soybayun
~End Message~

Official Comm tp DLE
Yeah, you...Now please attend the peace conference or we might go past the warning. Take this how you want, just heed it.

~Electronic Communication to Crazed Marines~
If you had paid attention, you would have seen myself talking on the screen to Cherry Ridge. And firing on ships unable to even attempt to defend themselves is both an act of war and an act of cowardice. It's also an act of stupidity when you consider the fleets opposing you.
Since you so obviously intercepted our communication to our allies, you should know we cannot stand down. Sending out orders to do so would be a waste of time. Any imput or commands the computers recieve go through the simulation, not the real systems.
-General Soybayun
~End Communication~

Type II encryption to Balrogga...
\FE)_2|FUrF_DF-9A19AA_2fF)_DFm>QFE)C9"f)FE)_DyF\F1#>2yF]hhhF19E)#CD)_0DZFrQF>DDyFE)#QC#F9:#CF8F*rF<92f{Fr>Q?#FE)#QC#F1>A#F9$Fz>CA?9>CAp

Oh, and yes, that does mean something...

OOC:

Seasatia: I agree to your message.

Anyone: Where is Cherry Ridge. This is the 4th or 5th time I asked. Doesn't anyone know where they are?



IC:

Open Message sent to the negotiations

As requested by the calmer minds below at the negotion table, The Empire will agree to pull their ships back within the 100 mile radius of it's borders provided the Crazed MArines also removes all it's objects trackable by the Space Junk Tracking Programs run by both NORAD and the European Space Administration.

Also there will not be any shots fired in any way towards an opponant either in warning or actual combat. Any such activities will be considered a hostile action.

We await your words.

OOC Edit:

Message to Allies - Encryption Level II:


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Message to allies, Encryption Lvl V
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As requested by the calmer minds below at the negotion table, The Empire will agree to pull their ships back within the 100 mile radius of it's borders provided the Crazed MArines also removes all it's objects trackable by the Space Junk Tracking Programs run by both NORAD and the European Space Administration.

Also there will not be any shots fired in any way towards an opponant either in warning or actual combat. Any such activities will be considered a hostile action.

We await your words.



Official Regional Response (Earth Orbit)
We can not do this. These mines are in our territory and OUR TERRITORY ONLY! This is a regional defense weapon. We cannot subject two noncombatant countries to being defenseless to avoid a war outside of our region. If you do anything that activate the mines, have anymore patrols inside and/or near our region, or fire on any EO Region flagged ship/ EO flagged spacemine then you will have committed an act of WAR. We wish you to reconsider your demands. We have drawn a line in the sand, are you going to cross it?

~Level-7 Encrypted communication to allies.
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~End communication~

~Electronic Communication to Cherry Ridge~
We are having some difficulty finding the locations you mentioned. Please send us a map, minus any tactical information that would disadvantage you relating to the placements of cities and military forces, of your region.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

OOC: CM, the following is a test sample of Sarkaraset. I want to see how well you can translate it. Use Latin as a base if you wish.

IC:

"Where are the ships?" Soybayun asked.

"Thety have yet to arrive. Signal them?" Tormeta asked.

"Yes. Let me send it. I'll send it in every direction so they can't trace the intended direction." Soybayun said.

~Electronic Communication to Incomming DLE Ships~
Te talanar novet un. Se talanar novet or y melas. Menos twenat norba. Talanar novet un?

-Gaego Soybayun
~End communication~

"Admiral, we have another transmission. The AIs tell me that DLE has sent for approximately ten ships to reinforce their left flank."

"How reliable is this translation?"

"Five percent at the best."

"Well, with nothing else to go on, we'll have to trust them."

OOC: Where did you get that translation from? I want some idea of how you applied the Latin.

Why? I'm just using my base knowlege of Latin, French, English, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, limited Hebrew, Greek, and Russian. I formally took Latin, French, and my first language is English. The others, I just picked up here and there.
How accurate was I?

OOC:
Just to clarify, there are only two minefields, and neither is in the combat zone. One minefield is in Low Earth Orbit over Ireland, and protects the Orbital Queendom of Crystal Ireland. The other is larger, and protects the New Exodus colonies and Crazed Marines shipyards/stations, which are both at Lagrange Point One. So, as long as Cherry Ridge isn't terribly close to the British Isles, there is no need to worry about them.

CM, we have no turbolasers. We aimed a our point-defense (anti-fighter/anti-missile) batteries at the space between your vessels and the Siesatian coalition to intercept any self-propelled weapons launched by either side. We then retargeted several of them to specifically intercept any launched by your fleet.

IC:
With the LasComm. units in place, Liang felt much better about the situation. Although the CM fleet was coming dangerously close to sparking a battle, the High Marshall had positioned his shield-ships close to the "front," so as to intercept any weapon's fire that might be exchanged, and give him time to call a cease-fire.

Still, he thought, If the negotiations stall, I should have a plan ready to minimize casualties.

"Communications?" Liang asked softly.

The technician looked up, ready to transcribe the High Marshall's message.

"Send a message to the Cherry Ridge LasComm."


Cardinal, it seems that due to the past hostilities between your
nation and the DC-Siesatian coalition, any peace settlement may
require major concessions. I will continue to research the situation
and look for possible ways to ensure an acceptable resolution.
--High Admiral Wu, New Exodus P-Com

The ship-board LasComm. pulsed for a scant millisecond as the message was beamed.

OOC: You weren't. The only concept that you got right was "ships". I was asking out of surprise. Mostly this was to see, OOCly, if it could be translated using Latin as a base.

OOC: I couldn't decide if the number was nine, twenty, or ninety eight...Which one is closer?

IC: The Admiral sent this to the New Exodus Fleet Command Ship

Why did you tell them anything about the minefield? At least you forgot that we are scheduled to reconfig it in 1.25 hours.

OOC: That's pretty funny. I thought it looked similar to some of the elvish languages I've seen (though I'm not much of a fantasy reader). Just curious, but is it of your own design? If it is, I have to say that it is very creative.

Cherry Ridge, it seems that a peace treaty may be problematic. Admittedly, we don't have any sort of established time-line, but it seems that the most recent threads where you, Siesatia, and DC have come into conflict are pretty vicious. The main reason NE is providing assistance is to stop a war between technologically superior space nations and a modern-tech nation. I've never been a fan of planet-glassing or orbital bombardments except in severe kill-or-be-killed situations.

Still researching, but we may have to RP some serious concessions if I can't come up with anything better. Don't worry though, since CM and I will not allow your nation to be invaded.

Unofficial peace terms:
Why doesn't everyone butt out of this? New Exodus and I will take the refugees and won't hurt them, while we're not sure about you guys.

OOC: It's primarily my own creation. You may recognize bits and pieces from Spanish (part of where I goot the pronounciation, but not the only place), but for the most part they are false cognates.

The number, "twenat", means "two".

Also, note you have seen it before in my posts. Just about every time a character cusses. Most of the words don't translate well into English, being just general abuse words, or have a confusing (to English speakers) definition.

However, "mejnot" is easy to understand. It can mean idiot, fool, incompetent, or three other insults I won't put down. The definition depends on the usage.

IC:

"Sir, we're recieving a reply. They will be here shortly. Mild delay," Tormeta said.

"Darlet. Tell them to get off their lazy mets and get here," Soybayun said.

"I have tried. The mejnots can't seem to find an unguarded route," Tormeta said.

"Damn. Well, let's get this on with," Soybayun said.

~Electronic Communication to all parties~
We have ships comming in to help us with this problem. Do not be surprised at them being military ships. Those are the only ones we have within range that have experts on them. Sadly, it appears this will take a few hours, as there are fewer of them than us and the problems are extensive. They will be ordered to power down their weapons systems when they arrive.
-General Soybayun
~End Communication~

"Send a message to our ships, and don't bother to encrypt it. Tell them to power down their weapons when they arrive. We'll fill them in when they get here," Soybayun said.

OOC to DLE: You mean like D'arvit in Colfer's books?

IC:

Transmission to Siesatian Home Fleet Command...
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Transmission Spillage:
Requesting aditional backup,
Enemy Forces on Rise,
Bladerunner operational force requested,
Minesweepers requested,
Freestar I Class Requested, Planetary Operable Loadout,
Needed within 2 days.

Alpha, Beta, and Gamma fleet out.

OOC: I let CM know what it translated too so he knows my reinforcements were not godmods.

OOC:

I am backing up my ally who was threatened when he voiced his complaint against the murders in Cherry Ridge.

Where the HADES is Cherry Ridge. Nobody knows where it is located. Neither side can plan their strategic actions without knowing where it is.

IC:
Open Message to Cherry Ridge

I think it is fait to restrict all objects within orbit between the Moon and Earth to a radius of 100 Miles of their owners territory. If your mine field is within that area, then it would be fine. The use of the NORAD and ESA tracking programs is an attempt to use a third party to show what is there.

The Empire thinks this is extremely fair, seeing as the alternative is possible damage to Earth as we start throwing everythign we have at each other.

The mining of Earth Space should be illegal. There is too much traffic from the young space nations. It is dangerous to commercial traffic. It is dangerous to civiliation traffic. On Terra, landmines have been banned. It should be the same with space. I would like this placed upon the table with the other demands.


"Let's see how he deals with this one."

OOC:

Unless Cherry Ridge is within 100 miles of you, you cannot be over it and be in your own territory. If it is, then what you said is correct. If it is not then I will have ships there as well as the other members of the Allies. All this would be moot if someone would post where it is. Until it is located I will assume it is in a part of the world where neither of our territories will cover it. I still think therritory should only be the same as it is on earth.

OOC:
~n00kzors teh thread to first page~

There. Hmm. I need a better "bump" saying...

OOC: If Earth territory followed the ground-based borders, there would be huge tracts of orbit where foreign vessels would be unwelcome. I agree with the sentiment that a nation's territory in space should not extend further than 100 miles from their space-borne population centers/military bases. Still, there is the problem of safe passage.

IC:
High Marshall Wu smirked at the latest broadcast from the DLE fleet.
"Does anyone here think they might be serious about this whole "training" thing?"
A round of chuckles diffused the tension on the bridge.
"Sir, the Balroggan fleet has sent a message to Cherry Ridge."
"Oh, let me see it."
Liang scanned the message. Good, if it comes to combat, the Balroggans will be more likely to support my proposal.

OOC: If negotiations fail, High Marshall Wu will make a proposal that will limit damage and loss of life.

~Electronic Transmission to DLE Fleet~
Se talanar. Novet un regrazar neptet al Earth. Forennas y twelat novet teranso al ter loca. Enigma regrazar un te telanes.

-Captain Regro.
~End communcation~

"This is weird. It seems this planet holds many secrets. But what is so important they would shirk our reinforcements?" Soybayun asked.

"Maybe a contingency plan," Tormeta said.

"I don't care. Ask them why they are late. This is getting rediculous and I feel a laughing stock," Soybayun said.

"Sir, here they come. They went inner atmosphere for the approach and are comming in over the ocean. They have already powered down their weapons to prevent a war," Tormeta said.

Outside, 42 DLE ships were cruising over the Atlantic, preparing to exit back into space to join the already-present DLE fleet. 20 of the ships were bombers, the rest being fighters, and they were travelling at speeds exceeding mach 4. The ships began a rapid ascent towards the Balroggan fleet, their engines powering up to provide the ships extra lift and help them attain space. As the ships arrived, they began docking with various ships present, trying to find out what they needed, before undocking and beginning to send a constant stream of data to certain ships, the streams of data using a rotating encryption code.

OOC:

I am not worried about the mines personally. I have ways to get rid of them without taking any damage. They are a political card I am playing in the negotiations. I am allowing CM to voluntarrily remove them. Besides, I think SOL is off limits to things like sun destroying, mines, and other mass hostile acts or other stuff like that.


IC:

Open Transmission to DLE reinforcements:

Welcome to the Allied Fleet. I home your journey was uneventful.


Space Minus Transmission:

Target individual ships in the enemy fleet. CM ships will be the first priority. Do not fire upon New Exodus ships unless they fire upon Allied Ships. Stand by for command to Emerge and fire. We are on Full Alert. Please await further orders. Remain in full readiness.

"I sent a proposal to the table CM will have to deal with or drop out of the combat. He will either have to risk losing his mine field or will have to pull completely out of the situation. The motion has been submitted and they are looking over it as we speak."


Message to Allied Fleet Encoded II:

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Encryption Lvl 10

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The Empire of Presidency offers its tips:
Setting traps in public is always "good" practice in eliminating infestations.
Entrapment always works the best though.

The Armed Republic of Lauragrad are appalled at the actions of Cherry Ridge. Do not destroy what you do not understand or are incapable of leaning because you are of the lesser male sex. Lauragrad wishes to extend its welcome to the magical community. Lauragrad condones the use of human sacrifice unless they are rednecks. Animal sacrifice is allowed as long as animals are willing by written consent to be submitted to their union. This will take up to 6-8 working days as a back ground check is mandatory

We will not give anything to aid you.

~Electronic Communication to Cherry Ridge~
Actually, you already have. All we have to do is aim at that lovely communication device New Exodus was kind enough to give you and fire at any island we think is yours. It is firing blind, but still quite effective when you are unlikely to be able to shoot back anytime soon.
What we are looking for is the island you mentioned as giving away. Having a map that points out which one that is would help. The rest of the information we don't care about.
-General Soybayun
~End communication~

OOC:
Where the HADES is Cherry Ridge. Nobody knows where it is located. Neither side can plan their strategic actions without knowing where it is.

IC:
Open Message to Cherry Ridge

I think it is fait to restrict all objects within orbit between the Moon and Earth to a radius of 100 Miles of their owners territory. If your mine field is within that area, then it would be fine. The use of the NORAD and ESA tracking programs is an attempt to use a third party to show what is there.

The Empire thinks this is extremely fair, seeing as the alternative is possible damage to Earth as we start throwing everythign we have at each other.

The mining of Earth Space should be illegal. There is too much traffic from the young space nations. It is dangerous to commercial traffic. It is dangerous to civiliation traffic. On Terra, landmines have been banned. It should be the same with space. I would like this placed upon the table with the other demands.
OOC:

Unless Cherry Ridge is within 100 miles of you, you cannot be over it and be in your own territory. If it is, then what you said is correct. If it is not then I will have ships there as well as the other members of the Allies. All this would be moot if someone would post where it is. Until it is located I will assume it is in a part of the world where neither of our territories will cover it. I still think therritory should only be the same as it is on earth.


1) LOOK! I SAID IT BEFORE! THE MINES ARE IN MY TERRITORY AND THAT OF OUR ALLIES! If you have a problem with our minefields, take it up later. The fact is that there are mines in MY territory and you don't want to tick them off! Can you understand that I am only mining my own space and NOT trade routes?
2) I am in international space when I jumped in and am just over CR's space (just over 100 miles as per RL international agreement)

IC:
"Admiral, Balrogga and his allies are actively targeting our ships."

"Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? That's an hostile act! Sound general quarters. Actively target all enemy ships! Launch fighters and surround their fleet but MAKE SURE to stay just outside of their space. If they shoot, send them to hell!"

"Aye Aye, Admiral...All stations, sound General Quarters. We are now at General Quarters! Power up all weapons, activate turrets, arm torpedos, launch fighters, prepare for orbital bombardment, inform TF2 to stay just over Balrogga and DLE space, activate and release onboard spacemines, send a message to HQ informing them of this situation, and prepare for an act of war! ALL MARINES AND BOARDING PARTIES, don armor and prepare for action!" a young ensign with good lungs shouted over the intercomm and encrypted radio and a message was sent to New Exodus. Sirens started to broadcast their signs of warning and men were scrambling trying to put on clothes and armor. Pilots scrambled to their fighters and bombers which took off as soon as the whole squadron was assembled.

"Sniper squdron! This is Sniper lead, prepare for take off!" one pilot said over his commlink as twelve X-wings took off simeltaneously. No more than five seconds later, another squadron took off.


Balrogga had made a hostile act. Prepare for a fight. We are reacting as we see fit, I hope you do the same. They wish to kill all of our civillians and you KNOW IT because we came to the defense of a nation's right to govern itself and we have somewitches in our countries. They must pay for their insolence. If they fire, their homelands and naval fleets DIE instantly!

OOC: Ok i wanna join this rp but i got lost after the first page. Im so confused

OOC: Trying to mine my space is not only unlikely, but downright impossible. My people are not native to Earth. We just like to visit. And if you look at my posts on this thread, you'll find evidence of my not being native. Even your people would realize that.

Edit: I'll wait for a ruling from Siesatia or Balrogga before acting.

OOC: Trying to mine my space is not only unlikely, but downright impossible. My people are not native to Earth. We just like to visit. And if you look at my posts on this thread, you'll find evidence of my not being native. Even your people would realize that.

Edit: I'll wait for a ruling from Siesatia or Balrogga before acting.

WRONG! If you have about two RL months on your hands, you can mine space. I was fully mined by mid-August and I now maintain those while making more. If you check, I am in the best 5% of militaries worldwide, and I can do it.
Also, if you claim more than 100 ships, I'll ignore it because you're new and either you have manufactured less than 100 ships or they're all made of tin cans.

HOLD THE ^!#!($& PHONE

I suggest editing the last few posts to reflect the following information.

1. The mines are a non-issue unless the Siesatian coalition attempts to attack the CM and NE colonies at Lagrange Point One. That is something like two-thirds of the distance between Earth and Luna, so I doubt it will matter.

More to come, but pressing matters draw me away.

IC:

The WASF Alpha Wolf and WASF Golden Wolf and their 10 Infidel Escorts enter SOL and remained cloaked.

Aboard the WASF Alpha Wolf....

"My lord, it looks like Crazed Marines & New Exodus are about to attack our ISEC allies." said the sensor man.

"Helm, take us to there location." said Lord JWolf.

-------

After 20 mins have passed….

The 12 ships are 200 miles away for the fleets.

“Uncloak us. Send message to the Golden Wolf. Tell them to have their fighters ready.” said Lord JWolf

The WASF Alpha Wolf uncloaked and waited.

OOC:

OOC info on the WASF Alpha Wolf
Werewolf Battleship (http://us.games-workshop.com/games/bfg/hobby/showcase/images/carlosurgiles.jpg)
Mass (Tons): 30,000,000
Length Overall (Meters): 2,150
Maximum Beam (Meters): 375
Maximum Height (Meters): 550
Complement: 3,500
Armor: 3 ft of Ablative Armor / 2 ft of Cold Plasma Armour
Sheilds: Atlantian Sheilds & Hull Support Shields & Outer Grid Shields
Engine: Primary Engine: Fold Drive. Secondary Engine: Slipstream
Fixed Armament: 16 x 2-barrel 580mm main gun; 35 x phasers; 10 x 8-tube missile launcher; 20 x 6-tube missile launcher
Other stuff: Cloaking Device, Gravity Mine, Anti-Thaumic Field Generator

OOC info on the WASF Golden Wolf

Green Ghost Carrier (http://us.games-workshop.com/games/bfg/hobby/showcase/images/adamforsythe.jpg)
Mass (Tons): 27,000,000
Length Overall (Meters): 1,450
Maximum Beam (Meters): 375
Maximum Height (Meters): 390
Complement: 1,500
Armor: 2 ft of Ablative Armor / 2 ft of Cold Plasma Armour
Sheilds:Atlantian Sheilds & Hull Support Shields & Outer Grid Shields
Engine: Primary Engine: Fold Drive. Secondary Engine: Slipstream
Fixed Armament: 5 x 2-barrel main cannon; 7 x secondary cannon; 10 x 8 missile launchers
Aircraft: 400
Launch catapults: 6
Other stuff: Cloaking Device, Fast Fighter Launch Systems, Anti-Thaumic Field Generator

OOC: Sorry Wolf. I believe that the sides are already drawn. If you do this, then my Jedi character might just hurt your Jedi character. That'd also bring all hell on your country. And we're also your allies.

IC:

"Admiral, Wolf America has brought in a rather small fleet. They will take the enemy's side if we don't watch it."

"Send them an open signal. Tell them to butt out." Admiral Gunn stated rather curtly.

Official communication to Wolf America
Withdraw your fleet immeadiately. If you do not, it will be considered hindering our operations and thusly a hostile act. We do not wish a state of war to exist between our two countries. Please respond within ten minutes.

OOC: Sorry Wolf. I believe that the sides are already drawn. If you do this, then my Jedi character might just hurt your Jedi character. That'd also bring all hell on your country. And we're also your allies.

IC:

"Admiral, Wolf America has brought in a rather small fleet. They will take the enemy's side if we don't watch it."

"Send them an open signal. Tell them to butt out." Admiral Gunn stated rather curtly.

Official communication to Wolf America
Withdraw your fleet immeadiately. If you do not, it will be considered hindering our operations and thusly a hostile act. We do not wish a state of war to exist between our two countries. Please respond within ten minutes.

OOC: I'm not your ally. Just because I save Mike Miles that makes me your ally. I think not.

Official communication to Wolf America

We are heading back home and y'all are in the way. Go to some other spot. Y'all are blocking space to Earth. How about y'all, withdraw your fleet immediately. And go help Coreworlds with the Sith.

Official response
I'm sorry. We were here first, thus getting the right-of-way. If you turn to page 35 in your "Space-farer's Guide to Travelling", you will see thet if there is another fleet in certain space, you must go around in order to pass. Its just like travelling on the water in the USA. We gave CoreWorlds help before we started here. We deployed a few reservists here.

Official response
I'm sorry. We were here first, thus getting the right-of-way. If you turn to page 35 in your "Space-farer's Guide to Travelling", you will see thet if there is another fleet in certain space, you must go around in order to pass. Its just like travelling on the water in the USA. We gave CoreWorlds help before we started here. We deployed a few reservists here.

Official response

Ok. We will watch because I don't what this to get out of hand. Don't want any planets attacked. We will back off 500 miles and watch.

-----

The 12 WASF ships move back 500 miles away for the fleets.

OOC: Your Admiral sound like a little kid.

OOC: Well he was the youngest of ten sons, so he got bullied a lot and he likes to settle things one-on-one.

OOC: Well he was the youngest of ten sons, so he got bullied a lot and he likes to settle things one-on-one.

OOC: I was talking about when he said "Tell them to butt out." and "We where he first."

That was meant to be taken sarcastically.

That was meant to be taken sarcastically.

I knew that.

The 23rd Siesatian Naval Battle Brigade dropped out of high Drive during all the commotion.
"Captain Syphera, this is the Ikarus, we have been dispatched to help the coalition."


23rd Siesatian Naval Battle Brigade:
15 Bladerunner class
20 D1L0 V Destroyers
2 Freestar Class
5 High Guard Dreadnoughts

OOC: DLE bought all his ships from me CM.

Watch this movie, or I will have to kill you, it is hilarious...
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WRONG! If you have about two RL months on your hands, you can mine space. I was fully mined by mid-August and I now maintain those while making more. If you check, I am in the best 5% of militaries worldwide, and I can do it.

Excuse me while I openly laugh at you.

There. Done now. What I was referring to is the idea of you sending ships to mine my spacial territory. My homeworld is over 1800 light years from Earth. It takes my slowest ship nearly twenty FTL jumps to get there. Plus, you don't exactly have an idea of where that world is.

Also, if you claim more than 100 ships, I'll ignore it because you're new and either you have manufactured less than 100 ships or they're all made of tin cans.

Or, I have one hell of an economy with a lot of funding going to the military and I was willing to buy some of Siesatia's old ships and modify them. Let's check to see what NSEconomy has to say about my economy.

Population: 45,000,000
Defence: $46,627,216,362.05 (19%)
Goverment Waste: $15,664,238,419.50

So, if I wanted to totally godmode based on that, I have over $60 billion to spend on ships. My current amount spent on ships, including alterations: over $17 billion, buying a total of 400 Siesatian ships (half went to Law Enforcement). These are not big ships either, but small fighters and bombers.

Also, I'm now putting you on ignore for this topic.

Siesatia- It's been hinted at and stated before. As far as I'm concerned, this is the final straw for me.

DLE: You proved your case well. I shall acknowlege those 400 ships. I also thought you had a homeland close to Earth. Now that I know otherwise, I'll actually send in a party to search for it. Could you please tell my OOCly where it is so I can get a general IC direction from an Ion trace.


IC:
"Admiral. More enemy fleets!"

"How bad?"

"About 65 of them."

"Very well. Check the ion trail for them to see where they came from. Send in for a whole SSD fleet. We need some floating gunships."

"Yes sir! Message sent."

No more than five minutes later, 75 Super Star destroyers jumped in from CM space. They placed themselves on the left flank of the main CM body to where they could more effectively use their guns.

DLE: You proved your case well. I shall acknowlege those 400 ships. I also thought you had a homeland close to Earth. Now that I know otherwise, I'll actually send in a party to search for it. Could you please tell my OOCly where it is so I can get a general IC direction from an Ion trace.


IC:
"Admiral. More enemy fleets!"

"How bad?"

"About 65 of them."

"Very well. Check the ion trail for them to see where they came from. Send in for a whole SSD fleet. We need some floating gunships."

"Yes sir! Message sent."

No more than five minutes later, 75 Super Star destroyers jumped in from CM space. They placed themselves on the left flank of the main CM body to where they could more effectively use their guns.

OOC: 75 SSD. What are you doing? Trying to block up the whole SOL system.

The Empire didn't have 75 SSDs, let me guess, you even fixed the whole shield generator problem too?
*Fires up I.G.N.O.R.E Cannon*
Your really pushing it CM

The Empire didn't have 75 SSDs, let me guess, you even fixed the whole shield generator problem too?
*Fires up I.G.N.O.R.E Cannon*
Your really pushing it CM

CM, take that number down to 4 SSD & 25 ISD.

Actually, finding the planet is pretty easy. It's one with six planets, not a single one being bigger than Mars, and a sun that, while larger than Sol, is several millenia older and began to cool about 7000 years ago (around the same time the planet was colonized). The system has one inhabitable planet, the fifth one from the star.

OOC:

Everyone cool your jets.

CM has no idea I have two fleets in T-Space and he cannot intercept my communications to them. He does not possess the technology to intercept Space Minus Communications. He also would not possess any tech for detecting ships in Torq Space (T-Space).

Before this RP he has most likely never heard about them. There is no time to research the tech for him to use it within this Thread. That means he cannot intercept the communications. He knows nothing about the two other fleets. If he does, I still have not heard a reason how it would be possible. Until he explains to me how he could intercept the communication, he cannot hear my messages between the fleets.

Can we calm down?


Would it be possible to back up a few steps to correct the misconceptions?





IC:

A ship faded into view about 20 meters above the landing platform at Cherry Ridge. The Harbor Patrol vessel (unarmed) requested permission to land. After getting it, it settled down to the tarmac and the represenative for the Empire left the shuttle.

The hooded figure followed it's escort to the chamber where the negotiations were being held. Upon entering, the figure reached up and pulled back it's cowel. A young girl looked back at the others within the room.

"Well, we have work to do here. Let's get busy. I have to be at Hind's Crimson Star to visit my sister tonight. I don't want to be late."

She took her seat and looked around the room seriously.

OOC: This is getting way too crazy. I second the motion to back up a couple steps, but if Balrogga and I are the only ones, we'll need to stall. I've got a decent peace proposal, but I won't be able to post it all for a few hours.

In the meantime, I'll post my actions, and if we decide to rewind, I'll simply delete it.

IC:
As more ships piled up on either side, High Admiral Wu felt like having the colony defense cannons vaporize every ship in orbit, regardless of allegiance. I'd lose my command for it, not to mention start a massive war, but oh how I wish I could. "Helm, take us right into the middle of this thing. Tactical, shut down all weapons. Comm., open all channels and give me a voice feed."

As the Raptor-class cruiser floated between the opposing fleets, the ship's combat systems went offline, and the external lights went dark, save for a few emergency beacons. Liang spoke with all the authority he could muster:
"All vessels in Earth Orbit over Cherry Ridge, please stand down. Any combat in this area will cause inestimable damage to civilians and non-involved nations. Peace negotiations are underway."