NationStates Jolt Archive

On an unassuming patch of desert, dozens of transport VTOLs land and immediately pre-fab buildings begin going up. Hundreds of workers dart every which way, and vehicles tear in all directions.

Under cover of the confusion, a convoy of cargo trucks with unmarked crates drives away from the base...

Construction Site
0700 Hours

Workers buzzed about putting up buildings, leveling ground and pouring cement for foundations. Sounds of C-130's could be heard off in the distance and seen with little specs jumping from them, a training mission most likely. Cranes and more construction equip. started arriving and 134 miles north in the city of Sabha a road and railroad was being built towards the site.

Sabha Military Base
1200 Hours

The trucks that had left the site had arrived at the base and crates were being unloaded. Tanks drove by, trucks with boxes inside and troops were everywhere some even out in the field training to fight up close. On farther down the field machine guns could be heard and small paper targets being torn up. A C-130 took off and about 20 minutes later it could be seen in the sky dropping Para-troopers down to a target.

As the airbase takes shape, larger and larger airships begin to land. Several of the secondary runways are completed, and construction on the main control tower and several large buildings begins.

However, trucks still seem to leave for New Libyan bases at fairly regular intervals.

0900 Hours
Sabha Military Base
5 Days Until Operation: Cairo Commandoes


More trucks had arrived carrying more unmarked boxes and it seemed the soldiers at the military base were eager and nervous for something, like something big was going to happen. As one truck drove by a large box fell out. A nearby solider picked it up and walked away to the barracks trying to hide it. He opened and inside was a large powerful looking anti-tank rocket launcher. He turned it over and it said “Made In Axis Nova” he thought to himself “Why on earth would they put their name on it?” He put it back in its box and walked outside and hid it behind the barracks as he walked down the road to the mess hall a large odd looking tank he had never seen before rolled by followed by more trucks and odd looking tanks. He knew something big was going to happen now for he had also been training for weeks.

After he finished eating him and the rest of soldiers at the base were ordered to take a 2 hour resting period then report to the field for more paratrooper training. He was scared now thinking that Libya could be going to war any day. The soldiers had no idea what was going on they just knew something was going happen and it required a lot of training.