NationStates Jolt Archive

In a shocking new move today, SR has been placed on high alert, and SR Military forces have begun new defence operations all over the nation. This comes only three months after the completion of re-activation of SR defence systems, and such an event has not yet been seen since the SR Bristle Missile Crisis. SR Forces are settling around the heavily fortified coastline, waiting for something. Along with this startling statement comes the declassification of Project Utopia. The exact details are not yet known, but SR has said that a proportion of the SR population, along with supplies and weapons, have been moved deep into Area Theta. Area Theta is restricted land occupied by the SR Military, and after the coastline is the next most heavily defended location in SR. Project Utopia has been questioned by conspiracy theorists:

"It's quite obvious they're preparing for some kind of war, and they expect to be hit first!" claims a worried citizen. "Just look at that AA defence system over there! I haven't seen SR Troopers around there except to repair it and ensure it works! And my neighbour got one of those Project Utopia letters, said it was classified, something about nuclear blah blah blah..."

The re-activation and re-fortification of SR also included the NBC WMD arsnel of SR. The Launch Control rooms have not been on active standby since the Missile Crisis. It is known that SR have staffed the silos around the clock, though no target has been secified. The silos, deep within Area Theta, are off limits to reporters and the general public.

The SR Cabinet of Advisors had little to say about the war. The Defence Minister was seen speaking on behalf of the Commandant, who is currently in Osirus discussing weapondry.

"The citizens of SR should be concerned. There is indeed a troubling incident starting, and it's drawing nearer. The SR forces are well and truly on standby, and we're prepared to retaliate to any actions of any nation, whoever they may be. SR citizens need to listen for the air raid siren, and when they do, arm themselves and move into their bomb shelters, to a city bunker, or listen to the direction of SR Troopers. All citizens must work together."
"Sir, Casey Brooks from SRNN. Exactly why are the nukes armed?"
"We perfer to call them WMDs, not 'nukes', heh. In any case, they're purely for protection."
"Sir, another question, is the enemy Death of Life?"
"The Defence ministery says it is not Death of Life."
"Sir, Dan Warne for SR51. Is the enemy Lapse?"
"...no comment on that one."
"Sir! Sir!"
"I'm sorry that's all we have time for. This press confrenence is ajourned..."


On an aircraft bound for Area Theta...
Commandant Soldant Hawkins silently watched his army below him. Training. Watching. Waiting.

"Sir... it's Lapse, isn't it?"
Hawkins looked at the advisor.
"Yes my friend, it is. This is indeed the final frontier."
"The odds sir, what are they?"
"Well son, they're extremely uncertain. It's all bets off until Lapse's allies get into it. Lapse himself has an excellent Navy, but his ground forces lack. SR has an excellent ground force, but lack a good navy. His allies we don't know much about, except they most likely have sizeable space fleets."
"Which way do you think they'll attack? Sir?"
"Forget the sir stuff for now. Lapse will him from the air. It's obvious. He'll hit from space, but luckily we prepared for that. Our allies have space tech as well. Thankfully Auman provided us with a very small space fleet for SR to use a while back, but this will be their first fight, and it's too small for defence. Osirus has a space fleet, albiet not as good as the others... but it might do until Auman can arrive."
"Are there any other ways for them to hit?"
"Just via sea. We rely on Terra for that defence. But it seems quite obvious they'll hit from the air."

The aircraft passed over Project Utopia. The underground complex wasn't a testing ground to see how people could survive in there against a nuclear blast. No, it wasn't like that. They knew people could survive in there; that's what they build it for. SR figured long ago that this campaign, in perparation since the Pacific War, Lapse would hit from space. SR prepared Project Utopia in the event of this. After a war, it'd kickstart SR civilization again. Their last superweapon, known as "Retribution", would remove everything from SR. It'd be like a clean slate. It'd remove whatever force was on SR, friendly or enemy. And they'd start again. Hopefully. Maybe not on SR, but they'd live. Unless something went wrong.

"It's a worry, isn't it?"
Soldant looked back at his advisor.
"Yeah... it is. Well, it could be, depending on how the war goes from now onward. Well, at least they might survive."
"Aren't you going with them?"
"No, we're safe at Point Black. I'll fight with the Troopers, if it means keeping them away from Utopia. Yep... with the Troopers."

They landed at Point Black, deep in Area Theta. It was the underground SR command complex, constructed by Terra ages ago. They walked inside, and the advisor stood behind his seat in the meeting room. The other advisors, including the Defence Minister, looked at the Commandant.

Hawkins looked around at them all.
"Gentlemen," he began. "Code foxtrot."

Tag

Commander Antiga sat in his high backed chair in his office, looking at the new designs the think tank had just sent in. They were amazing but with this threat on the horizon, he was growing worried.

"Sir, new broadcast from SR" said one of the pirvates.
"Turn it on"
"Yes sir"

"In a shocking new move today, SR has been placed on high alert, and SR Military forces have begun new defence operations all over the nation..."

That was all he needed to hear, he remembered the last time.. this time it was real, something that could destroy thousands of lives.

"Private, get me General Youlin"
"Yes sir". The private hurriedly bash a few buttons on the phone and handed it to the Commander.

"Youlin? Prepare for war. Thats right.. war. Yes... i think all 4 ship should suffice for now. Very good. call all the nessasary people." he hung up.

He looked out of the window and could already see the troops moving nto the streets.

Throughout the streets of nearly all cities, the Orsirian Shadow Military was reopening all the undergound bunker systems used during wars. Four large shadows passed over the capitol of New Garis as they 4 large Spacecraft left drydock for the freedom of space. Pilots, naval officers and most militart battlions were being re-actived and posted to military sites and to regular city patrols. Antiga knew that within half an hour of hostile contats the cities would be locked down, citizens placed into underground and well hidden safe-bunkers and most cities would become small fortresses.

Hmm intresting..

The table gasped.
"Foxtrot?"
You could tell who didn't read their procedures manual. They stood there looking at everyone without a clue. Soldant sighed. Why didn't people read them?
"Foxtrot, people, Foxtrot! Nobody remembers what 'foxtrot' means? For crying out loud, read your procedure manuals!"

A timid assistant pulled out the procedue manual for the Domestics Minister. They both flicked over to the page...

SR War Codes:
(They scanned down the list)
Foxtrot: The 2nd highest level. Foxtrot calls for a complete arment of all SR weapondry and targeting of specific enemy locations. Also calls for extreme troop delopments to all locations across SR and securing of civilian population. Deimos is to be locked down.

Deimos was the SR forigners city. Visitors to SR wern't allowed outside of Deimos, but Deimos was known as SR in a City. The designers designed it with tourists in mind, but people decided to move there to escape high crime in other nations. Deimos was actually less restricted than the other SR cities, such as Phobos, the capitol. They had more freedom in Deimos, and it grew to be the largest SR city. Pity it was full of forigners.

The Defence Minister spoke up. "Yes sir, I'll notify MC."

The Domestics Minister and his assistant flicked down the page to..

GOLF:
Golf is the highest alert status SR can be placed on. At time of print, it has never been used. Golf calls for arment of ALL SR citizens, the launch of ALL SR superweapons at enemy targets, and possibly the activation of Retribution.

They flicked through the pages, trying to find out what Retribution was. Nothing. The manual didn't cover that particular item.


The Defence Minister was busy.
"MC? Defmin here. Flashpoint. I say again, Flashpoint. Maintain firing stations and repare to receive co-ordinates."
The co-ords came through the fax machine. The missile silos everywhere tore them off from the machine and studied them. Lapse. The target was Lapse.
"And guys, this is a highly classified operation. Nobody knows anything about it. No media, no nothing. We're so deep in Area Theta that nobody will ever know. Be ready, ANY time of day, to press that button."
"At your command!"

The ministers all studied the co-ordinates.
"God... those a cities!"
"Sir, is this correct?"
The Defence Minister sighed "Yes people, they are correct. We aren't just targeting Lapsian military forces anymore. We've received intel that they are planning to strike SR cities as well, to remove SR resistance. They know that even if the SR military begins to crumble the citizens won't be too pleased with Lapsian intervention. They'll level the place first chance they get, and we plan to do it first."
"Who fires the first shot?"
"Well, we have a date. And that clock over there is ticking. Either he'll strike, or we'll strike. Whichever happens, that clock marks the firing date."
"Oh dear god..."
"If you see the flash, it's already too late..."
"Flashpoint."
Nobody said anything for a long time. It was now painfully obvious. Innocents were going to die. Regardless of who did it first, the other would just do the exact same thing.


SR Superweapons Branch...
"And we expect Retribution will do just that."
"Excellent! With the obliteration of everything on SR, it should stirr Lapse up a fair bit. And you're positive that Utopia will be safe?"
"Well... in 4 out of the 5 scale model tests, Utopia survived."
"And what happened on the one that died?"
"It was strange... it fired with much greater force, Utopia literally imploded but the bubble of effect was much larger. It'd rip out anything attacking SR at the time, but it'd also crush all SR forces near SR."
"Holy crap, how do you fix that?"
"We can't..."
The two men sighed. It had been a very long decade, picking up this crappy technology, and then trying to make it work today, very hard indeed. It was an inexact science.

"How about Dadelus? Is it right to go?"
"Yes sir, the new build infects 25% faster, and it breaks through pretty much any security we can find. Except..."
"What now?"
"Well, when we added the security breaking algorithm, we somehow managed to kill SR's own protection from it. That means our allies are vulnerabile, just as we are... if that thing gets back to SR, it's going to murder us, them, and anything inbetween..."
"Oh hell. What about control?"
"That had to be scrapped. The thing has become unresponsive..."
"What?!"
"It doesn't like to respond to our commands. Sometimes it does, most of the time something keeps overriding it. We can't figure out why..."
"So we have a weapon that might kill us all and a rogue AI that we can't control. Add ontop of that a diplomatic agreement that dances on razor's edge and a pile of nukes. Then set it on fire and screaming through a busy street."
"Pretty much..."
"We do good work."
The two walked off, laughing.

The day drew near.

"General Youlin, yes. Thats right. Every single cell. Good."
Youlin hung up. All 9 TORUS batteries had begun charging there main cells that were used to fire the cannons. Each cannon could produce enough energy to power New Garis 9 times over... and all that energy was used in a single focused beam of raw energy..

Youlin passed the thought. If those beams were to hit a city.. geez.. so this is why the old nukes were antiquated.

"Sir, the 4 cruisers are in position above Orsirus and are holding orbit." reported his aid.

"Thank you. I'll notify them of the current situation. In the mean time, activate everyone. The entire OSM, the ORAF and the ORSF. They'll need time to prepare the weapon systems."

"yes sir. I'll do that ASAP" she turned to her left and headed down the corridor marked OSFHQ.

If it does come to war, at least we can give them hell, Youlin thought.

The TV screens all over the nation flashed onto the SR flag. Citizens stopped.
"What the hell is this?"
"Not another damn advisory!"
"What the? Is that the def min?"
"Holy shi-"

"Citizens of SR, I present to you, your Commandant."


Soldant Hawkins adjusted his uniform, the tradition Trooper Dark Blue jumpsuit. It was a tradition held from the old STRIKER traditions; their Commandant was a soldier, just one who gave the orders, but a soldier all the same. In times of war, they wore the same uniforms. They carried the same rifles. They wore the same helmets. There was no man in a suit, puffing on a cigar, while men cried in the trenches. The Commandant traditionally commanded the final fort, and fought alongside his men. It was a tradition that lived today, but never used.

"SR forces. SR citizens. Forigners. It was one said that 'Men tire of singing, dancing and love quicker than War'. Such words never have more meaning..."

SR Troopers moved throughout the streets, securing everything and brining up even more defensive emplacements.

"...and with this in mind, we now have to look forward at what could possibly be the war to end all wars. SR has only ever faced extreme open war with a foe other than our original overlords. That nation was DOL, and it was crushed with the help of our allies. No, the foe I speak of isn't DOL. It is Lapse."

People murmered amongst themselves. SR Troopers positioned themselves at the yellow circles in the ground. These were arming stations for each neighbourhood. Further in towards the CBD, they were large rooms filled with weapons, ammunition, militia armour and plenty of other supplies.

"Of all the years we've fought, this will be the toughest. We say this every battle, that this one is the finish. But we've been alone during those times. Now we have allies, but it's not just Lapse. He has allies as well. We know little of his allies, but they are probably brave soldiers, excellent in their own right. Citizens of SR, as of today, the first of December, the SR Alliance, including Orsirus and Ancient Terra, are now at war with the Lapsian Alliance. All nations have been preparing for war for ages, and we're finally prepared. SR forces are preparing strikes in the near future. The Lapsian empire, I promise, will fall, and his leader executed before all of SR's allies. This I promise you, otherwise the SR flag will not fly, our allies will not retaliate, and we will go down in history as the nation that went down in such a blaze of glory that it still blinds centuries into the future."

SR Troopers were opening up the armouries. The ones in the pavement started to rise up.

"Now, citizens, you must face the threat of invasion on your own doorsteps. Lapse will not hesitate to kill civilian forces. Your militia training will have to be recalled, and it will serve you well. Remember your training, and you make it back alive. SR Troopers will equip you with weapons and armour. Go to your homes, fortify them. When you hear the air raid siren..."

...The siren sounded as a demonstration...

"...run to your shelters. Keep your armour and weapon close by at all times. Follow the instructions of SR Troopers if you are directed. Rebels are shot on sight, without warning. Therefore, keep into your ranks and follow directions. Today onward you defend your families. If Lapse sets foot onto a burning Phobos, with its wrecked buildings, remember what happened to the Axis powers when Russia took back their nation. They had been pushed back and out, and had poor weapondry, and little to fight with. The enemy was better equipped, had for all intents and purposes the advantage! BUT THEY WON! Remember THIS, THEN CITIZENS, as you continue on your way. Arm yourselves. Defend yourselves. Defend SR."

The screen showed the SR flag again, with patroitic music playing. But people wern't excited, or cheering. They quietly lined up to be armed. They went home, shut themselves in. Some looked at their submachine gun or pistols with contempt, but most with grim determination. Dangerous waters were ahead.

SR was at war. Their finest hour approached.

Overlord Time Lapse sat in his office, contemplating the meaning of life when the news came in. SR had declared war.
"Fuck..." he said
It was not like Lapse was unprepared. Ever since the last conflict, Lapse had being preparing, after realising crucial loopholes in their defense. Now, defense mean nothing. The best defense. Is offense. Lapse was still defended though...by the whole navy and a good portion of the space fleet. Tactics had already being prepared. They were brutal. but they would win. And if as intelligence suggested, SR had armed all of its civilians, it would not be considered inhumane. Those who carry weapons and seek to shoot you are targets. SR, had just sanctioned Lapse's plans.

Lapse was over diplomacy. They were fed up with the constant threats SR sent. The demands. and the arrogance of them.

Time Lapse pressed the big red button... his desk light turned on.

He told his assistant. "Get me a line to the UFAW base."
The UFAW base, standed for Uber Fucking Awesome Weapon Base. It was where a large number of Lapses Space fleet was based.

Recently, the base had been building the most powerful weapon in Lapse history. The weapon, a mere single man craft, had the power to kill millions and level entire cities. The craft were suprisingly cheap to produce though, and were able to be made out of old ships which were taken out of commision.

These craft, were labelled FAWer's.

They were simple to make and cheap.

They were made out of decommisioned Star Destroyers. The main weapon of the craft were the engines, which had extra shielding aorund them.

The ships were stripped of all laser turrets, save for a select few to give the impression.

All the laser turrets taken off were then put on other craft which would also enforce their power.

So far, 18 of the craft had being produced.

Stencilled on the side, was the words "Apocolapse: Death Comes from Above"

Once Time Lapses COnnection was opened up with the UFAW base, the overlord said:
Time Lapse: "How does project FAW go?"
Cmmander: "We have 18 FAWs completed, and another 3 due for completing within several months."
Time Lapse: "We need them soon. SR has declared war on us. Send the Faws to the position I am sending you now, ensure they have an adequate escort of atleast two star destroyers to a FAW, and a carrier with around 1000 of the tie defenders."
Commander: "Yes Sir"
The coordinates were sent to the Base with an Encrypt to be used once, which had taken months to develop let alone crack.

Lapse would appear undefended to SR, but they appeared undefended to the new weapon.