NationStates Jolt Archive

War is a terrible thing, especially for those involved. Many people die and entire nations are ravaged. And always, these questions are asked: Why are we doing this? Are we justified in what we are doing?

Commander Joe Greyson was asking himself those same questions as he was suiting up in one of the many locker rooms on the aircraft carrier JS Valoria.
A noise distracted him, and he looked up, only to see his good friend and fellow pilot, Captain Greg Droy, enter the room.

"Should we be doing this?" asked Greyon, before Droy could even say hello.

"Doing what?" Droy returned.

"Fighting a war. Why are we?"

"I guess because Varyl declared war on us. We aren't just going to watch them tear apart our country. And all I know is that I will follow orders and serve my country."

"I think that's the best answer. Anyways, you should hurry. Takeoff begins in 15 minutes."

"Yes, sir", said Droy, giving Greyson the formal salute of the Jaghurian military, the right fist over the heart.

The salute brought a slight grin to Greyson's face as he grabbed his helmet. After climbing a few flights of stairs and opening a door, he was out on deck. The slight breeze blew the sea air, and Greyson took a deep breath. The final stage ground crew was doing checks on his FJ-19 Shark, while others were preparing the many other planes on deck. He approached his plane, and the ground crew chief gave him a checklist and told him he was supposed to take off in 10 minutes. Greyson clambered into the cockpit and took his time with the preflight procedure, which shaved off most of those 10 minutes. He signaled to the ground crew, who backed away from the fighter jet, and turned on the plane's systems.

"Control to Lightning 19-1, you have permission for takeoff", said a voice over the headset in his helmet.

The catapault launched the plane off the deck and into the sky. The sun made the ocean shimmer with beauty and elegance. It won't be so beautiful for that long, though Greyson as he cruised through the sky. After all, the war has started. There is no going back.

...from the CommCenter of the Xeraphia Naval Task Force, in the waters off Varyl...



" Admiral, it looks like we finally have some activity coming from the Jaghurians. Apparently, theyr'e gearing up for an air-strike on Varylian positions coastal and inland."



" Hmmm....we've been here for a 2 weeks now, and aside from the dispersion of their blockade of Varyl, Jaghur has been laying low. I wonder what kinda wild hair they got up their ass now?" This from Ensign 1st class Leo Fender, newly arrived on board the battlecarrier.

Admiral Feshtain eyed him coldly, " Ensign, you will refrain from doing anything but your job. And your job at the moment is to signal the fleet that we are going to D-4 Alert!"

" Aye, aye, sir."

The Fleet was comprised of the 23rd, 65th, and 71st Carrier Battle Groups, which was being supported by the 50th and 2nd AirWings.

All Xeraphian CBG's were identical, from the 1st CBG to the 177th CBG: they each contained 2 BattleCarriers, 2 Carriers, 2 BattleShips, 3 Destroyers, 3 Submarines, 3 MissileShips, and 6 Fast-Attack Boats.
Each BattleCarrier held 82 FA/18 Hornets, and each Carrier held 70 RXE-12 Copperheads. The BattleCarriers held 6 HCGS Apache-BlackHawks.
The AirWings each contained 6 squadrons of 12 fighter jets, mostly Rattlesnakes, Valkyries, and Zanarkands. There was also a squadron of Python Bombers at the ready.
The Xeraphian subject-nations of the Grey Phoenix, the Grey Legions, and Auralinia were each deploying 50,000 Armored Troopers, total 150,000, to the Xeraphian Drop-Ships and TransBeam Portals. Xeraph itself would be landing 250,000 of it's own Troopers.

Orders were made to have the MASH Units ready to go once the FireBase Teams had set up the LZ's and forward fortifications. And, of course, this was ALL after the BattleShips had finished bombarding the Jaghurian coastline.

Out in the Ocean, Royal Xeraphian aircraft were scrambling off the carriers with coordinates vectoring on the Jaghurian Navy. Approx 375 fighters were on their way from the flightdecks, another 200 from the island bases off the coast of Wolf Island. The subs were positioned to empty tubes at the commander's order.

The Admiral was awaiting some sign that the Varylian Allies were near, and what their plan of attack was going to be............

OOC: I was preparing for patrols and defense, not attacks on the Varylian coast :D

OOC: I was preparing for patrols and defense, not attacks on the Varylian coast :D

OOC> sorry...I was under the impression that Varyl and Jaghur were in relatively close proximity to one another, which is why I am preparing an attack on Jaghur. Usually, when there is an escalation in military manuvers, the opposing nations "get ready" for action. I can tone it down, and have this situation progress more slowly.

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A large, older 5 star General stands to the podium before thousands of people prepared to defend Varyl.

"Hockey Canadians, we are in a time of strife. The calm before the storm. Here we are in Varyl preparing to defend this land to the death. But you as why? We do this to stop the growing threat of the Jaghur army and it's allies. We are skilled and each and every one of you know it. Some in the army, some navy, some in the air, and even on the homefront helping our men and women defend ourselves from this threat.

Even if we do not succeed in defending Varyl, we have confidence that Hockey Canada can be defended easily by ourselves, and attacked poorly by our enemies. If I recall, in WW2 when the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union, they had come prepared. Only they did not prepare for the winter. That is how we plan to defend ourselves. With our arctic climate and winter setting in, we believe that we will defend Hockey Canada with ease.

At the moment, numerous infantrymen are standing and waiting with Xeraph infantrymen preparing to fight against oncoming Jaghur. Our alliance is a strong one, let me assure you. And let this be known... the day Hockey Canada and it's allies fall to our enemies will be the day the world falls to the will of our people!"

A great shout as the General finishes his speech and the army, navy, and air force people file out. This however is a small number of people compared to the Hockey Canadian armed forces. TVs and radio catch the moment live for millions of Hockey Canadians spread out over the globe.

" Sir, we just received a transmission from Gen. Strickland concerning Varyl."

"Strickland, huh?", Major Simpson thought. Gen. John Strickland, Commander of the Royal Xeraphian Forces. " This must be the green light we've been waiting for."

" Sir, he's directing all 50,000 Auralinian Ground forces to Alert-4. The Emperor has ordered the Grey Legions and the Grey Phoenix to the same alert level. Thats 150,000 Armored Troopers ready to be deployed."

"And Xeraph's contribution?"

" 250,000 from them alone, sir. Looks serious."

" Yes, corporal,it is. Any time the Emperor orders up 400,000 ground troops, it's serious."

" Sir, a further report saying that Hockey Canada is standing ready, also."

" Good, corporal, that's very good. Our allies are standing with us. The Emperor will be pleased.........."

364,000 Armed Forces Counted in Hockey Canada. 300,000 being sent to Varyl, 64,000 staying on homefront.


With 300,000 Armed Forces members being deployed from Hockey Canada, the tally has been confirmed:

Army: 200,000
Navy: 75,000
Air Force: 25,000

After this was tallied, Hockey Canadians seem to have caught the attention of many nations. And once again, like Russia, we're a communist nation that will win in numbers. Only this time our Armed Forces have all the supplies we need. More will come, no doubt.

17,500,000 Armed Forces Counted in Hockey Canada. 12,000,000 being sent to Varyl, 5,500,000 staying on homefront.

(to be honest, take ur population and multiply it by 0.05 to get ur armed forces)

With 12,000,000 Armed Forces members being deployed from Hockey Canada, the tally has been confirmed:

Army: 10,000,000
Navy: 1,500,000
Air Force: 500,000

After this was tallied, Hockey Canadians seem to have caught the attention of many nations. And once again, like Russia, we're a communist nation that will win in numbers. Only this time our Armed Forces have all the supplies we need.

OOC> actually, a far more realistic count of your military would be to simply take one-tenth of one percent of your pop. With all due respect, a nation who is 10 weeks old and claiming to have 17 million soldiers is going to be ignored. At your pop number, a maximum of 357,000 soldiers/sailors/pilots is a lot more realistic. Xeraph's pop is 2.7 billion, which would make a 2.6 million-man military.

OOC: Hey Xeraph, is Auralinia one of those nations in your empire. And I talked to Varyl. He tried to post but it wouldn't let him for some reason. He's going to try again today. I also TGed everybody else to start RPing. If they don't, well, then I don't know :confused: . Maybe we will find new nations to join.

While all this had been happening the Novacom Military had been far from Idle indeed the commander of the Military force assigned to the conflict Admiral Kukonias in command of the Fearsome Army Group Destiny and Army Group Vindicator and were in the process of setting up a forward base at Talon Isle.

In the command Center Adjutant Attache Youril briefs Admiral Kukonias "Admeerale Boart Vacilitiez Ave Been completed Hairstrip Vazilities Vill ve Completed In 2 Dais and ze Infantrie argh Drilling in ze campe, Our vorces ztand readi ant,-" "Enouv Adutant ghoe me our capabilitiez."

The Adjutant nods and salutes and a shimmering image appears on the wall of the Command center on Talon Isle, it showed Novacom in the far south-east far far far away from the zone of combat it also shows a string of islands leading to Talon Isle each of them defence points and Supply bases for the main force based here at the Island, Naval Forces were Highlighted in Red and Blue, Ground forces were highlighted in Red and Green while Aerial Forces were highlighted in Red and Yellow, along the side of the display ship designs comparing details between the nearest enemy equivalents were being displayed.

"Ve May ave lezz vorzez but ve ave a greater amount of Material Zis Jall not take long.

OOC> actually, a far more realistic count of your military would be to simply take one-tenth of one percent of your pop. With all due respect, a nation who is 10 weeks old and claiming to have 17 million soldiers is going to be ignored. At your pop number, a maximum of 357,000 soldiers/sailors/pilots is a lot more realistic. Xeraph's pop is 2.7 billion, which would make a 2.6 million-man military.

OOC: Actually, I thought it was the type of government that depends on how much your militia has. For me it ended up my pop x 0.05 and that was what I got. But seeing how i'm up to 364 mill now, it'll never be the same.

Hockey Canadians will not become part of a larger empire.

Planes whirred as Stealth Bombers flew over Varyl before dropping Hockey Canadian soldiers to rendezvous with Xeraph soldiers for an estimated count of around 600,000. But as time passed, anxiety grew on some of the soldiers.

Alexei Tarasov was one of these soldiers. After meeting up with his lifelong friend in Toblomensk Air Base, Alexei and Mathieu Gorborodev boarded the same plane so they could talk before being dropped with many other men and supplies before the planes stocked up on bombs to drop on any emeny nation.

"This is insane, Jaghur doesn't know what they're doing. Trying to annex nations like us. Besides... who would want a frozen wasteland like Hockey Canada?"

"Don't be stupid Alexei! Everyone knows that we're a huge supply of Uranium, Titanium and many other nuclear metals. Threatening countries have tried to invade us many times in the past and we've defended it. We're all arctic, so since we know the land and other nations don't we'll be fine."

Mathieu was right. Hockey Canada's borders covered all of the Arctic Ocean and the northern tip of Greenland, Canada and parts of Norway and Russia. In bulky coats when defending Hockey Canada, our men have been able to defend our great nation with ease.

When the light went on for the men in AC-284, Alexei got up and a red light on the box he was sitting on switched off. Quickly he grabbed it before jumping out the door. On the way down he looked at the strange box that he had clutched in his hands. A radio that he left on.

Alexei looked down at a few Xeraph scouts who had set up flares for the Hockey Canadians to land by. Surely Varyl, Xeraph and other nations had heard the radio transmission. It was too late, because other nations probably would have heard it and might not consider attacking Hockey Canada anymore. Eliminating the need for the 64,000 armed forces waiting at home for a fight.

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OOC: Hey Xeraph, is Auralinia one of those nations in your empire. And I talked to Varyl. He tried to post but it wouldn't let him for some reason. He's going to try again today. I also TGed everybody else to start RPing. If they don't, well, then I don't know :confused: . Maybe we will find new nations to join.

Yes, Auralinia is in the Xeraphian Empire.

OOC: Actually, I thought it was the type of government that depends on how much your militia has. For me it ended up my pop x 0.05 and that was what I got. But seeing how i'm up to 364 mill now, it'll never be the same.


OOC> The type of govt is incidental to the pop growth rate, which is set, and incremental, about 5 million a day. Just do the math: how can a nation with a pop of 364 million have 17 million in it's armed forces? It would bankrupt the nation. I just want you to be aware that there are nations out there that will ignore you with those kind of numbers.

" Sir, it appears that Hockey Canada is preparing to drop infantry into Varyl."

" What? Why? They should be getting ready to drop them in Jaghur!"

"What the hell is going on," the General wondered. " Varyl is well defended from all points, Jaghur has not made a move...yet...and most of the allied forces on both sides have yet to make known their intentions. An odd situation, indeed..."

" Corporal, let Hockey Canada know that we are getting ready to air-drop out troops into Jaghur, should a situation arise. Suggest to them thatthey do the same."

"Yessir, right away sir."

The Raglans Don was a good ship, by anyone's standards. Her 200m hull had been in service for 60 years, being laid down in the first national shipyard in Medo, crafted out of reinforced titanium alloy steel, thanks to an overzealous artificer, and the timely grounding of a Novendus submarine in Faradoon's waters. She was built as a fishing trawler, meant for long journeys to exotic waters, in order to catch exotic fish to sell at exotic prices. Her electronics gear was top notch, and her nets stretched for miles. She was also a spy ship, and could record the signals of military radar and radio transmissions, along with other talents . She had seen storms, and icebergs, and even a pirate attack, which had led to a newly eccentric captain welding a blackmarket Stinger missile assembly to the roof of the foreward superstructure. However, she had never seen a war
The electronics tech nearly spilled his coffee when the signals came up on the display screen. She caught her cup just in time, and slapped the intercom.
"Lieutenant? We've got a situation here."
The sound of a rapid shuffle soon heralded a sleepy, whites-only clad senior officer. It was local midnight.
"What sort of situ-holy grox!"
"Yesser, we've got everything from aircraft traces to land based search radar. Contacts keep on multiplying too...someone's knocked over the cesspit, looks like. Jaghur just went on alert, too, judging by the sudden crypto activity."
"Is the low-band scan picking up anything?"
"Haven't had time to check...uh, more of the same. Looks like there's a whole bunch of aircraft over Varyl...Hockey Canada, sloppy bastards."
"Well, we ought to squawk an update home, and wake up your fellows. The fishermen aren't going to be too happy, for certain. We're going to be ordered to divert.
"It looks like times just got interesting again, Lieutenant."

The Grand Marshal Maxus Kyzhem was a powerful man. At 51 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to be the Grand Marshal of the Varylian military. Yet it was never enough. Kyzhem always wanted more power. He strived to be the ultimate leader, the best of the best, even if it meant shoving others aside. One night, we find Kyzhem in his private office at a coastal military complex...

[a knock on the door]
"Come in."
[a corporal enters]
"Sio y lef tuv serviz, Grand Marshal."
"You can dispense with the flattery, Corporal, it will not give you a promotion."
"The military code states 'Grei tuv Grandiy Marshalée wiln repektos', sir."
"Ah, yes. It does. I have something for you to do, Corporal; that is why I called you here. I need you to deliver a message to all our allies. Tell them to do nothing as of right now. We aren't going to make a full-scale assault on Jaghur. They're too good at strategy and very powerful. Especially that Joe Greyson. I hate the man."
"May I inquire why?"
"Yes. He is so good at what he does, but he only works harder and helps others. He does not bask in glory. That should be enough for you. Now go."
[Kyzhem bends over his desk and starts writing something]
"Sir, what are you writing?"
"That's none of your business soldier. Now go!"

What the corporal didn't know was something was going to happen, a while from now, that would bring everything into chaos. Maxus Kyzhem was writing to a secret group. His first words were:

For too long have I watched people in torment and misery; for too long have I watched them suffer.

OOC: Sio y lef tuv serviz=I am in your service; Grei tuv Grandiy Marshalée wiln repektos=Treat your Grand Marshal with respect; And Jaghur, how come your military leader goes on missions?

OOC: I know it sounds weird, but he's only 30 years old.

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The coastlines of Jaghur were bustling with activity. The navy had been deployed; the air force were sending planes on patrols. Never before had the military been so busy. Military strategists and high-ranking officials met every day and argued over strategies To settle the disputes, Joe Greyson called all to the largest military complex, which consisted of a barracks, a harbor, and an airbase.

Joe Greyson stood waiting in the conference room. He was never good at patience. Finally, the door opened and in stepped high-ranking officials and their advisors.

"Good afternoon, gentlemen", said Greyson, in what he hoped was a lively tone. "Let's get down to business. Please sit."

Every person in the room seated themselves, including Greyson.

"What do you propose we do, gentlemen?"

"I say", said Commander Greg Larowe, of the navy, "that we launch a direct attack on Varyl by sea and wipe them out."

"Madness!" exclaimed Marshal William Reno, of the air force. "We should bomb their navy and army and destroy their air force with our fighters and bombers."

"I'm almost inclined to agree", said Greyson.

"Now, before we go to either extremes", interjected General Reed McDougal, "hear me out. I believe I have a strategy that will work. But before I say it, we should wait to use it because I don't think it would work right now. Well, here it is: We take all of the navy to Varyl and begin the attack there. We'll also have part of the air force and the navy jets bomb the coasts and take out as many enemy planes as possible. In secret, we should have the rest of the air force, which include all of the transport planes we have, fly to Varyl. These would be carrying the army, its equipment, and its vehicles. We can then land the army near Varyl's coast and take out Varyl's entire military."

"That's the best I've heard so far", said Greyson.

After a few details were settled, it was unanimous. They would use that plan.

"So they're doing it... Xeraph soldiers are moving into Jaghur while Jaghur soldiers move into Varyl. It's like a trade."

As Dictator Ondrea Di Lorenzi, a 17 year old who had complete control over Hockey Canada, looked down at the formations that were reported when the 2 sides seemed to switch sites. She looked at the pictures that Hockey Canadian soldiers had of them preparing for the incoming battle inland away from the beach while Varyl soldiers and navy took the beach.

In Hockey Canada, the counted 75,000 soldiers that had been remaining was only increasing due to the hype about enlisting. Numerous training had been hard due to Hockey Canada's arctic conditions and Varyl's warmer climate. The sky turned gray over both Hockey Canada and Varyl as machine-gun fire from those hitting targets deafened the air.

Varyl's cities and towns had been overrun by Hockey Canadians that had rendezvous with the few remaining Xeraph and Varyl armies. All this was happening because Hockey Canada didn't want to lose their communist way of life or become part of an empire by Jaghur.

"Think we can do it Mr. Idurshev?" Di Lorenzi asked.

"No doubt they'll do us proud. No man ever won a war by dying to serve his country. He made the sorry bastard on the other side die for his." General Mikhail Idurshev replied.

Hockey Canadian radioists and communicators had been trying for hours to contact Xeraph planes to get them to turn around before the Jaghur military would come. However, only 17 planes replied. Getting them out of the air and having them come back down would ensure Jaghur's defeat, but Hockey Canada had a very good chance at doing that already with more numbers, supplies, and morale.

The Fast-Attack boat was as quiet as possible. They had the Jaghurian navy in plain sight, even if they were 2 miles away. Something was amiss. Xeraph's navy off the coast of Varyl effectively blockaded all vessals wanting to enter Varylian waters. Nothing would get through or past the Royal Xeraphian Navy.
And the air patrols were effectively securing the airspace over Varyl. There had been a few minor skirmishes with Jaghurian fighters, but no losses on either side had been reported.
But.....something didn't look right. The Jaghurian navy was splitting into 3 distinct portions, all heading west, away from Varyl. One was headed, northwest, another, southwest, and the other due west. Then they saw why.........

The Novacom Air Armada had taken off less than an hour ago from Talon Isle, Elite Virage the New Hijir Combat Mechas Paridigram Transports and Discord Bombers all arrayed in formation. The Island chain's leading from Talon Isle back to Novacom were a frenzy of activity small ships had been getting too close were immdeiatly sank and strangely all sonar and other forms of detection were in-effectiove to all but Novacom, The Air Armada was unaffected as it flew over Novacom's large fleet almost frantically speeding towards the conflict as it approaches, Admiral Kukonias gives the order, "Holt here Ve Vait Vor Are Allies destwoy anyzing zat getz cloze and deplo ze Zcutllerz I vant zem all blinded Ve may give our alliez a frequenzy band later but vor ze moment everyone muzt ve blinde,"

Messages were immediatley transmitted to the leaders and military leaders of Novacom's Allies requesting their presence at Novacom to co-ordinate strategy and goals, Transport would be provided as well as a healthy escort.

The Fleet arrayed itself in front of the Jaghur Coastline while Novacom Engineers began setting up yet more forward bases on outlying islands, whatever was coming up in the future Novacom would be very well supplied and for the moment at least they and their allies would have an edge.

Meanwhile back on the Novacom home Isles in the Ornate capitol city of Novaseia in the Governmental district a near frenzy of activity was going on, as usual for the time of year, it being Destiny Day a Novacom National holiday with Soldiers parading down the street the airforce flying in the air and the people out on the street shouting their fierce pride in being a Novaseian. However this was not the main cause of the activity something else was happening in the Novacom Chamber of Ministers where all Novasein Ministers were meeting with the Suprainister, "Suprainister this is not acceptable you would have us wage war with a previously nuetral allieance at the same time when an Admiral has gone rogue with an entire Task force large enough to run at least a war and an insurgency campaign what would you say about that? is it wise to strech our military like this?" This was coming from Defence Minster Sergei Tchokoi. The Suprainister takes everyone in at a glance and speaks out "my friends elected managers of the people's affairs would you have our allies fall one by one? would you have them fall and then allow them encroach on Novacom itself? yes you will say to yourself by the time if that eventually came true we would have completed our research into controlling the anomaly that kept us safe but also isolated from the outside world since the dawn of time, but we would be condemming ourselves for they would wait forever to assault us. No I say. No I say to abandonning our allies and no do I say tp isolating ourselves for all eternity. I say yes to fighting them now where they are and not here. We have the soldiers and the equipment we also have the advantage they may have a manpower advantage but we can more than match them ship for ship fighter for fighter, their designs use 3 times as many people as ours require. I tell you know Novacom is strong and we can fight this war here and now, and if you don't beleive me then you do not beleive in me or in the people I represent the Novacom people the people you all supposedly represent. You will also all of you behave and do your duty as we all should. and now I inform you now I have invited our Allies leaders and military leaders here to Novacom so we may co-ordinate strategy our facilities are state of the art and they will be safer here for they will not dare to attack where they are blind, the Anomaly blinds them to our lands as it would if we had not spent so much time and capitol into developing equipment proof against it's effects." On this meeting would go untill a general Consesnsus was met early in the morning next day, several issues were addressed and certain projects given the go-ahaead particularly into project Eclipse...

Joe Greyson was again preparing to fly. This time, however, it wasn't just patrolling. It was time for the first attack to start. Greyson went up on the carrier deck and climbed into the cockpit of his FJ-19 Shark. He would be leading a group of Sharks to do some damage to the Xeraphian navy. They wouldn't even know what hit them. The attack would be at night, and the Sharks were undoubtedly one of the best supersonic air superiority fighters They had the capability to go to Mach 3, manueverability, stealth, very good radar, very good weapons in the internal weapon bays, and computer systems that could be told by the pilot to do something. The pilot only had to fly the plane and shoot. It did have its disadvantages, however. If the computer system failed, instruments could stop dead and the pilot would maybe have to eject. Also, it was of average size but still required an enormous amount of fuel. For those reasons, it hadn't come on the market, but engineers and scientists were working on these problems. Right now, however, pilots would have to deal with these problems. Right now, they had a job to do.

Here they come, thought the flight-deck petty officer.

"Sir! Inbound enemy fighters.........Sharks! Theyr'e fast and accurate!"

The carrier was a beehive of activity. A few of the officers already knew that they were going to take a hit. Those Sharks were coming too fast. The question was, how did those Sharks get past the Xeraphian monitoring and jamming systems. Not that it mattered at the moment..............

" Ensign, have all the Rattlesnakes scrambled to meet these Sharks. Radio the other carriers also. They need to be ready. Let's meet the enemy in the sky!"

"Aye, aye, Admiral. Radio message in prog.............."

That was the last thing the CommOp knew. He and the entire CommCenter had taken a direct hit from an incoming missile. Sirens were screeching......

Out in the distance, roughly a few clicks away from the ensuing battle. Hockey Canadian F-14 Raptors were screaming across the sky like a massive flock of birds.

"Sorry we're late Ensign... it appears someone left the radio on and the water running on one of our ships. Oh too many mops!" Commander Treblinsk said through the radio to the Xeraph Ensign.

"We'll be sure to back you up in this one" Commander Treblinsk cracked on the radio for a second time.

As the grey F-14s raced into the battle breaking from formation to attack the Jaghur air force, they thought they'd be sure to win in numbers. A few miles back was the Naval Fleet. The fleet had every single member of the army on their boats, swirving a few milometres south of the battle so they could land on Jaghur soil safely before turning to aid Xeraph.

This was the anticipated battle to start this war.

"Good shot, Lightning 19-1!", said John Reilly, callsign Lightning 19-3. "You just took out the Xeraphian CommCenter."

"Thanks, Reilly", said Greyson, taking in the sight of the burning carrier control tower. "That should shake them up a bit. Get someone to launch a cruise missile and take that ship out. Once that's done, we'll move to a few other ships and then pull out."

"Got it, sir", said Greg Droy, his voice suddenly coming over the radio. "That carrier is going to have a meeting with some fish."

And he launched the cruise missile...

"I told them to do nothing!"
"I know, Grand Marshal, but they're being attacked by Sharks."
"Sharks!! This is not good. Get word to Hockey Canada and Xeraph. Tell them to not land troops in Jaghur. That is a horrible idea. The Xeraphian and Hockey Canadian troops would be destroyed. But also tell them that they can shoot down any Jaghurian military jet."
"I will do it immediately, Grand Marshal."
[the corporal exits; the Grand Marshal puts his hands on his face like someone who is tired or confused]
"This is going to complicate things."

:Aboard the Fable class submersible Amphibious assault ship 'Fey Winds':
The ship surfaced silently, exposing only inches of flight deck, stray waves lapped quietly over the low deck macking the barely surfaced ship to appear little more than a dark sandbar, even in daylight. The job took two men less than thirty minutes, loading the 15 Silent Crow reconasaince (sp) drones into the over sized skeet launcher and sending them winging towards the Jaghur fleet, silent and practically invisible, utilizing the latest stealth technology to blend in with the brilliant blue of the sky and reflecting any radar waves in unpredictable directions that left its RCS slightly higher than than of a small insect. As the drones reached the Jaghur fleet all manner of passive detection systems came online and identified location type and number of the enemy ships. In real-time the information was transmitted to yet another Northern Nation States Naval ship, the fearsome Hydra class heavy arsenal ship Predator.

:Aboard the Hydra class heavy arsenal ship 'Predator':
Targeting information recieved, setting lots one through twenty two to active, localizing targets to carriers, hierarching by size and feeding coordinates to the missiles.
on the expansive deck of the massive missile launch platform, twenty two squares popped open.
Missiles armed, firing! Missiles Away!
twenty two jets of flame erupted from the square holes, ejecting Shrike SCRAMJET cruise missiles attached to heavy rocket boosters which accelerated the missiles to ignition speed for the SCRAMJETs which further accelerated the weapons to mach 8 and sent them on their way towards the carriers of the Jaghurian fleet. they were designed to defeat any anti missile defence system with many self defensive system to ensure a hit.
First each missile carried its own tactical jammers to prevent radar locks, secondly they were very fast, faster than any conventional missile making them extremely hard to hit. and finally, each missile had rows of solid fuel rockets attached to it a pseudo random points designed to begin firing once the missiles were within missile defense range these boosters radnomized the path of the missiles making hitting them even harder.
the twenty two missiles were divided evenly amoung the Jaghurian carriers.

The broken and bleeding CommOp keyed the mic. " All units," he gasped, " all units, we are under attack! Repeat, Xeraphian carrier under attack! Missiles outbound from Jaghurian coastal zones. Target coordinates and retaliate! Repeat! Retaliate...!" These were the final words of the CommOp as the second and third missiles hit the carrier. Most of the fighter jets got off the carrier before it started to list to starboard. And now the Rattlesnakes were bearing down on the Jaghurian missile batteries. If anything was left of the batteries, the BlackHawk HCGS would finish them off.

The invasion had begun. There was no turning back now. Xeraph had been attacked. The attacker would pay....dearly.

OOC: Almost none of my allies have posted, except Novacom and Faradoon, and Faradoon only posted once. Psychotika posted but he didn't RP. I'm kind of out of luck. Oh, Northern Nation States, Mach 8 is a little too fast so I'm giving you a warning about that.

IC:

"Sir, I've got something on the radar", said an ensign in the control tower on the aircraft carrier JS Versatility.

"Let me look", said the captain.

As he looked closer, his face turned to an ashen grey and his eyes had an incredulous look to them. He now knew why they had been assigned scout duty. It was also a good thing all the jets they had were airborne.

"Missiles!", he shouted, and the whole crew in the tower heard him. "Evacuate the ship! Radio to the other carriers and tell them to break up and make sure every missile defense they have on board is utilised! Tell them to shoot flares and chaffs! Tell them to get contact to the navy command center so the backup carriers can be used! Radio to our pilots to get back here and try to divert the missiles!"

"Yes, sir!", said all the men in the room.

Sirens began to blare, and life rafts were being lowered into the water. The captain could see the planes who had returned circling the ship. They had only to wait before the missiles were there...

OOC: Oh, Northern Nation States, Mach 8 is a little too fast so I'm giving you a warning about that.

Its a scram jet. A gen1 SCRAM jet is capable of mach eight and mine are forty five years better
(geen one being the current 2004/05 technology test bed designated X-43, and my TechLevel is 2050 or so)
theoretically a SCRAM jet equipped air liner could reach mach 10 in the upper atmosphere so mach eigh for a medium sized cruise missile is pretty realistic for 2050.
(unless my info is wrong, damn the internet and its false information. but i do know for a fact that the X-43 was clocked at mach 8 in test flight last year)

OOC : No worries I'm here :p

The Missiles were also on Novacom radar since the Novacom fleet was now intersperesed among the Jaghurian, Admiral Kukonias walks over to Ensign Trises at Radar, "Ezign veport!" The Ensign quivers slightly and starts his report, " Admiral Enemy Mizzilez ave been vired at ze ja-urian vleet," The Admiral looks over the radar screen and barks out an order "Activate ze jammerz ve zowed in ze zea ant teploy ze Elite Virage and have zem zhoot down zem ze vleet vill vire at ze mizzlez az vell." at this and a few orders the fleet began to put a hailfire of weapons fire and Elite Virage fighter's were in the air increadibly manoeverable and armed but weak on the armour side they were of a tried and tested design but slowly being replaced by the Hijir Combat Mechas. The Sea all around was shimmering ominously and the radar on the novacom fleet flickered for a moment before adapting, how the other fleet's were adapting were uncertain.

Its a scram jet. A gen1 SCRAM jet is capable of mach eight and mine are forty five years better
(geen one being the current 2004/05 technology test bed designated X-43, and my TechLevel is 2050 or so)
theoretically a SCRAM jet equipped air liner could reach mach 10 in the upper atmosphere so mach eigh for a medium sized cruise missile is pretty realistic for 2050.
(unless my info is wrong, damn the internet and its false information. but i do know for a fact that the X-43 was clocked at mach 8 in test flight last year)

OOC: Well, this is modern tech. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. Just bring it a little more down to Earth.

OOC: this is starting to get a little one sided now.

OOC: I agree. It's only you and me against them. I'm going to try and get the other participants to RP.

I propose a temporary ceasefire to get things in order.

OOC : perhaps our alliance should attend that Meeting I proposed ICly. it would make an interesting side RP as well :D

OOC : perhaps our alliance should attend that Meeting I proposed ICly. it would make an interesting side RP as well :D

OOC: Yeah, it would. Especially because I think I have a good strategy. Read post #21.

To Northern Nation States, near future tech is close enough to modern tech, just don't get out of hand or start godmodding
A mach 8 cruise missile is pretty reasonable, they could theoretically build them now. anyway the only real advantage of mach 8 over say mach 7 is that it hits the target sooner, the speed difference isn't all that much, relatively speeking

A mach 8 cruise missile is pretty reasonable, they could theoretically build them now. anyway the only real advantage of mach 8 over say mach 7 is that it hits the target sooner, the speed difference isn't all that much, relatively speeking

Whatever... think of it as a really, really big firecracker.

The Emperor was pissed....REALLY pissed. Not only was this the first carrier that Xeraph had ever lost, it was one of the new ones. " What's the report on the Rattlesnake strikes on the Jaghurian missile sites?"
" Alaric, we got 6 of them, missed the others. A second wave of Cobras are bearing down on the remaining 13 batteries. There is very little resistance from the Jag Air Force. Theyv'e shot down two of ours, and damaged a half-dozen more, but we're keeping their jets pinned down.....evidently Varyl doesn't want this war to escalate, so we're holding back."
"WHAT? Horseshit! I want those bastards to pay, and pay heavily. If Varly doesn't have the nerve to fight, then we'll do it for them. I want all those missile batteries destroyed! I want all those Jag aircraft destroyed! I want the battleships to open up and obliterate those Jag shore installations! And I want 150,000 troopers air-dropped into Jaghur! NOW!"

Commander Greyson and his group of Sharks were just about back to the Jaghur navy when a voice came over his headset.

"Commander Greyson, sir", said the voice, "I am Lieutenant Andrew Berol. Our navy has been attacked by cruise missiles. I am a pilot on the only carrier that was sunk, but some others are damaged. They are believed to come from either Northern Nation States or Xeraph."

"This is just GREAT!!!", shouted Greyson in a furious tone. "Lieutenant, radio to all the carriers. Tell them that if there are planes ready for takeoff, get them in the air and have them meet us at point 2A6, 3B4. Tell the Novacom air force to attack Northern Nation States' navy. We're going back to Xeraph, and this time, they're is going to be a lot more damage."

OOC: Sorry, I have to set up forces to counter attack another nation I was friend's with who is threatening to invade ( it is for In-Character purposes ), Pyschotika's leader has died, and I am in EII and World War One is about to break out, and it is going to be messier then hell. I am sorry that I only posted a TAG and didn't post an RP, I guess this is my opening.

IC:

News had struck Pyschotika quite late after a war broke out with there ally Jaghur. Nothing sempt to go well with there ally, and Pyschotika knew they had to intervene. The newly sworn Empress would prepare a speech and then deploy troops.

OOC: This I will get to tonight.

OOC: Sorry, I have to set up forces to counter attack another nation I was friend's with who is threatening to invade ( it is for In-Character purposes ), Pyschotika's leader has died, and I am in EII and World War One is about to break out, and it is going to be messier then hell. I am sorry that I only posted a TAG and didn't post an RP, I guess this is my opening.

IC:

News had struck Pyschotika quite late after a war broke out with there ally Jaghur. Nothing sempt to go well with there ally, and Pyschotika knew they had to intervene. The newly sworn Empress would prepare a speech and then deploy troops.

OOC: This I will get to tonight.

OOC: Thank God, I need some help :D

::Aboard the Barrier class fleet defense ship(2nd refit) 'Iron Curtain'::
Sir, radar reports inbound aircraft, recomend elevated fleet alert status.

Elevate fleet alert status to Red (inbound)

The radarman pushed a few buttons and sent a message to the surface battle group advising of inbound enemy aircraft over the interfleet coordination network that allowed al of the ships to recieve instant threat notifications and to coordinate it defense flawlessly.

::Aboard the Nanticoke class heavy Carrier 'Dreamer'::
throughout the ship, pilots dropped whatever they were doing and ran to towards there planes, card games and bathrooms were abandoned in seconds and in minutes fighter jets were screaming off of the carriers flight deck, fully armed and ready for a fight.

Fighters;
12 SF-41 air superiority fighters(tailess design for stealth and maneuverablity, features rear firing missiles x2 for dog fights and advanced avionics and electronics for superior coordination of formations)
40 Vf-12 VTOl naval support fighters (mix between JSF and AV-8 harrier)

the fleet can launch four fighters a minute and has 40 more VTOL fighter aboard various shipsthat can launch faster but are less capable in air to air combat.

A Huge Swarm was taking off from the Novacom fleet and Talon Isle, so many indeed that the sky was blotted out by the Swarm of Hijir Combat Mechas Elite Virage Fighters and Discord Bombers in their hundreds if not thousands were in the air all advancing men acingly on the Northern Nation States fleet while Elements of the Novacom surface fleet moved forward mainly Long Range Bombardment Ships Codenamed Harbringers and the AA Guardian Ships.

"Comenze Operazion Zky Hammair" Admiral Kukonois murmered in the frenzied activity of the command center, as the orders were relayed to the airfleets you could see them beginning to move out slowly but then picking up speed.

Before the airfleet could narrive Parasite Submarines were underwater and were activated to activate computer scrambling equipment and deployed scuttlers which would float to the hulls of the enemy fleet and attach themselves and begin to drill through and start to scramble any electronic equipment, all of this just barely in time for the Air Fleet to arrive.

In less than 5 minutes they were over the northern Nation States Fleet the Elite Virage (an aging design designed mainly for Air Superiority though heavily modular to allow for quick maintence and allows a variety of mission it has thin armour and relies on it's speed to stay out of trouble) swooping down attacking fighters and bombers still on carriers with some prototype Vanguard Virage (a successor to the Elite Virage still in the prototype stage designed to Rival the Hijir and it also solves the Elite Virage's thin armor) piloted by Elite Enforcer Pilots (Novacom's Elite guard/soldiers are called The Enforcers) joining in the fun. Hijir Combat Mechas (Humanoid Combat Mechas only just barely out of the prototype stage the design has quite a few flaws still to be ironed out the Fighter mode hasn't been perfected yet and the walking gyro's don't handle rough terrain too well it's armed with some missiles but carries another new piece of technology only just barely out of prototype as well, a cannon that channels explosive energy so an explosion would happen and the blast would be directed at a target sort of like a Tank Cannon except without ammo, the Hijir is a joint project between air, land and naval forces and it can function as aircraft and tank) were using their new weapons Channeled Explosion Cannons and were blasting the heat and fury of explosions down at every single ship and Discord Bombers (long Bombers with a lot of armour it can carry a huge amount of bombs and like all other Novacom aircraft it doesn't use stealth but relies on Radar and other forms of detection jamming employed by Novacom ) were dropping regular bombs and the Eris Type bombs which injected computer viruses into electronic equipment. While this was going on the Harbingers had started up barraging the fleet and the Guradins were ready to shoot down any aircraft that dared to attempt to get into what the sky filled with Novacom Aircraft.

"Deploy ze rezervez around our vleet ant our Baze, ant then I neet do zpeek wit ze zuprainiter" as Admiral Kukonois looked out over the balcony at an army forming up for invasion, he looks up to the skies and grins "I zhall be zuprized iv anytin zurvivez, zey made a miztake to vire mizzilez at uz and Jayur,"

After weeks of radio silence the first of countless transport ships cross the Jaghurian boarder, their distant arctic homeland far behind them, smiling the High General looks back at them, once permission is given by Jaghur 1.5million well armed,well trained troops and 2 armoured divisions will be deployed ready to either defend Jaghurian soil or aid the invasion, in additon several of the boats contain parts for a prefabricated airfield, which, once set up will allow for the main body of his nations powerfull airforce to fly over, along with any necessary reinforcements.
Cursing his nations lack of any real navy, he watches the majority of it break off to provide support in the main battle, 3 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers and 6 specialist anti air cruisers sail into the distance.
Supressing a cackle he opens the radio channels.

"Sir, all Hockey Canadian infantry have pushed forward for our first major offensive on Jaghur. We have called in support from Xeraph and Varyl and are awaiting response. We have B-55s bombing Jaghur where our military will head to help clear out any resistance in our way. All our troops have top-quality training and we're confident we can take the capital within a month with assistance."

"Very good Major Kozlov, failure will not be an option. The Hockey Canadian flag will be flying over Jaghur parliament in no time"


OOC: Yeah boys, a girl can know a thing or two about warfare.

After weeks of radio silence the first of countless transport ships cross the Jaghurian boarder, their distant arctic homeland far behind them, smiling the High General looks back at them, once permission is given by Jaghur 1.5million well armed,well trained troops and 2 armoured divisions will be deployed ready to either defend Jaghurian soil or aid the invasion, in additon several of the boats contain parts for a prefabricated airfield, which, once set up will allow for the main body of his nations powerfull airforce to fly over, along with any necessary reinforcements.
Cursing his nations lack of any real navy, he watches the majority of it break off to provide support in the main battle, 3 battleships, 2 aircraft carriers and 6 specialist anti air cruisers sail into the distance.
Supressing a cackle he opens the radio channels.

Excuse me... 1.5 mill is a bit extreme... 360,000 would be a max. Xeraph told me the reasonable amount. i'd be at 392,000 military ppl right now.

Excuse me... 1.5 mill is a bit extreme... 360,000 would be a max. Xeraph told me the reasonable amount. i'd be at 392,000 military ppl right now.

OOC: Actually, it really isn't. 1.5 million isn't even pushing it. When the Germans made their final offensive in World War 1, approximately 2 million US troops were sent to the Western front, most likely with a draft. There were approximately 10 million casualties. 1.5 million active servicemen and women would be extreme, but with a draft it wouldn't be too bad. Also, it's practically impossible to take a capital city within a month without assisstance. And things can't suddenly appear (the B-55s) and start wreaking havoc. I suppose you're not killing innocent civilians? And, are you landing troops? Because (I believe I posted this somewhere) I'm bordered by water, mountains, and two other nations. And finally, I don't have a parliament. No offense, of course, you wouldn't have known that because I've never posted anything about my government.

::Aboard the Nanticoke Carrier Dreamer::
Holy shit thats a lot of bad guys' commented Admiral Franklin Wells as the massive enemy counterattack came on screen
Raise alert status to full black.

as the alert went out nearby C-204's began fueling and preflighting incase they had to rescue any unshipped fighters. on the decks of the ships in the battle group, aircraft were lifting off like angry hornets, Hornet class pocket carriers were accelerating to launch speeds and began to fling fighters into the air and the pair of Hydra class ships unloaded their massive missile loadsinto the oncoming enemy attack and the pair of Mojave laser ships began calibrating their massively powerful chemical laser batteries to destroy aircraft and missiles. the 10 barrier class ships brought their powerful SPY-2B radar arrays online and began sweeping the oncoming forces hoping to overload som unhardened electronics with over a million Gigawatts of radio frequency energy, as the aircraft got closer even the most intensive hardening would stop the massive radar arrays from frying electronics and unless the cockpits were lined with lead enemy pilots would be getting uncomfortably hot.

Underwater things changed in a very different manner, things grew quiter instead of louder as acoustic deadeners were brought online at key points throughout the submarines, subs stopped moving entirely waiting for the targets to come to them. the smaller, quieter swift class submarines darted forward and layed a practical wall of magnetic mines and passive torpedoesto greet the oncoming naval threat.

as the air threat grew closer, the barrier class ships activated their smoke generators filling the air with thic black smoke. radar beacons began transmitting giing the apearence of more ships hovering in the smoke presenting false targetsfor the incoming aircraft and sonar decoys were deployed to confuse any submarines that stumbled through the NNS defensive sub line.

aircraft now in the air;
100 SF-41's
60 VF-12
40 PC-12 ucavs (less nimble than the SF-41s but more heavily armed and can take more damage, can also engage through the smoke screen because they use strictly non visual media to guide, fly and target.

OOC: An NNS naval battle group wouldn't be caught dead within 5 minutes flight time of an enemy fleet, a more likely flight time is twenty to thirty minutes. Also, Your channeled explosion cannons break more laws of physics than most ppl realize exist, I will Ignore them unless you can provide mathmatical proof that they can work, and unless your subs were deployed several hours before the airstrike began then the speed they'd have to achieve to even get within detection range of my fleet before the airstrike began would border on ridiculous. I'd also like to know how your scramble mines do anything to my computers which are at the minimum 20 feet above the waterline and why you think a bomb that somehow injects computer viruses is more effective than one that explodes, the sky is already full of MY aircraft planning on shooting down any of YOUR aircraft that even dare to come within a 200 miles of my them (thats about the outside of my missile range), and no matter how much jamming you produce, an SPY-2B radar produces more radar power (Again, its physics, a ship with a nuclear reactr has more available power fo its radar than an airplane with at most a turbine generator) and a plane can't fly with out engines (thats what heat seeking missiles generally hit, my long range missiles are radar guided (from Barrier and air based radars) with a heat seeking terminal phase, radar ignores flares and heat seeking ignors jamming and destroys even heavily armored aircraft by ripping away the part that makes them fly)

so lets stack this up; Novacom VS, NNS
NNS has early warning and advanced techniques for applying proven technology
Novacom has admitedly faulty halfway experimental aircraft and weapons that would never work
NNS has a massive submarine fleet (just as the navy is the pride of NNS's military, so is its submarine force the pride of its navy)
Novacom has something called 'scramblers' which apparently work by trying to drill through several inches of armor designed to both hold massive thousand ton ships together and to keep them fom being destroyed by explosions, and after that they don't even explode, they 'scramble' around and try to 'scramble' computers which are usually the second most protected part of the ship.
finally NNS has purpose designed air superiority fighters with thrust vectoring and advanced airframes specifically designed for maximum maneuverability
Novacom has fighters that double as tanks with admitedly poor maneuverablity and armament

as a result of your attack I will judiciosly lose both of my Mojave ships and a Barrier ship. unless you convince me that some of your aircraft and submarines could realistically survived long enough to do any damage whatsoever and that the sole threat to my fleet wasn't just your Harbingers

IC again:
the three shadow class subs surfaced silently, well away from the melee taking place nearer the NNS fleet. they launched a total of three hundred missiles at the harbingers and their escorts before silently dipping beneath th waves and heading towards the rondeveu with their resuply ship

"Grand Marshal, they are not listening."
"This is not good. We need more time. We need to plan our strategy, not just attack. I'm sure Jaghur is going to do the same. I don't like taking unnecessary risks. Radio to our allies. Tell them that they can defend their militaries but not use them to attack Jaghur or its allies. Tell them to send high-ranking officials to a meeting where we will plan our strategy."
"Immediately, sir."

OOC: Jag, thought you and your allies were going to have a meeting

OOC: We were. I'll have to work it all out.

OOC: lol sorry, I am being invaded in Post America, setting up a world war in Earth Two....if I saw all of this about to heppen, I would have not signed up. But, I got my self in this mess and I can't just abandon Jaghur. So, sincerely, there will be a IC post by tommorow afternoon.

OOC: lol sorry, I am being invaded in Post America, setting up a world war in Earth Two....if I saw all of this about to heppen, I would have not signed up. But, I got my self in this mess and I can't just abandon Jaghur. So, sincerely, there will be a IC post by tommorow afternoon.

OOC: thanks. :D

OOC: Actually, it really isn't. 1.5 million isn't even pushing it. When the Germans made their final offensive in World War 1, approximately 2 million US troops were sent to the Western front, most likely with a draft. There were approximately 10 million casualties. 1.5 million active servicemen and women would be extreme, but with a draft it wouldn't be too bad. Also, it's practically impossible to take a capital city within a month without assisstance. And things can't suddenly appear (the B-55s) and start wreaking havoc. I suppose you're not killing innocent civilians? And, are you landing troops? Because (I believe I posted this somewhere) I'm bordered by water, mountains, and two other nations. And finally, I don't have a parliament. No offense, of course, you wouldn't have known that because I've never posted anything about my government.

OOC>the rule of thumb on NS has been 1/10 of 1% of your pop can be in the military. Xeraph's pop is 2.7 billion, therefore it's military pop would be 2.7 million.

"Grand Marshal, they are not listening."
"This is not good. We need more time. We need to plan our strategy, not just attack. I'm sure Jaghur is going to do the same. I don't like taking unnecessary risks. Radio to our allies. Tell them that they can defend their militaries but not use them to attack Jaghur or its allies. Tell them to send high-ranking officials to a meeting where we will plan our strategy."
"Immediately, sir."

OOC: Jag, thought you and your allies were going to have a meeting

OOC> sorry...I've been on the road...

IC> The Emperor has decided that there will be no more holding back. Xeraphian, Auralinian, Phoenixian, and Grey Legionierres have all be affected by the Jaghurian Alliance. Xeraphian troops, now numbering 400,000 and supported by 100,000 AI units, are en route to Jaghur and it's allies. It will take 12 NS days (RL 12 hours) for the troops to be either air-dropped or transbeamed into Jaghur, to be immediately followed by 6 divisions of armor, MASH Units, FireBase engineers, and 12 squadrons of BlackHawks and Apache Gunships. The nations of the Varylian Alliance who wish to have a strategey meeting have just 12 days to do so. If they wish, Xeraph will beam all involved to a central location for the meeting.

Updates to follow.

Major General LeClerc, Vice-Commander, Xeraphian Forces

OOC>the rule of thumb on NS has been 1/10 of 1% of your pop can be in the military. Xeraph's pop is 2.7 billion, therefore it's military pop would be 2.7 million.

OOC: Oh, okay. But still, with a draft, it would be much bigger. I'll go back to World War 1. Take a look at Russia in World War 1. They had a huge army. They suffered at least 2 million casualties, and yet they still had that army. Also, don't forget total war => where a country devotes everything it possibly can towards the war effort.

[QUOTE=Northern Nation States
...
aircraft now in the air;
100 SF-41's
60 VF-12
40 PC-12 ucavs (less nimble than the SF-41s but more heavily armed and can take more damage, can also engage through the smoke screen because they use strictly non visual media to guide, fly and target.

OOC: An NNS naval battle group wouldn't be caught dead within 5 minutes flight time of an enemy fleet, a more likely flight time is twenty to thirty minutes. Also, Your channeled explosion cannons break more laws of physics than most ppl realize exist, I will Ignore them unless you can provide mathmatical proof that they can work, and unless your subs were deployed several hours before the airstrike began then the speed they'd have to achieve to even get within detection range of my fleet before the airstrike began would border on ridiculous. I'd also like to know how your scramble mines do anything to my computers which are at the minimum 20 feet above the waterline and why you think a bomb that somehow injects computer viruses is more effective than one that explodes, the sky is already full of MY aircraft planning on shooting down any of YOUR aircraft that even dare to come within a 200 miles of my them (thats about the outside of my missile range), and no matter how much jamming you produce, an SPY-2B radar produces more radar power (Again, its physics, a ship with a nuclear reactr has more available power fo its radar than an airplane with at most a turbine generator) and a plane can't fly with out engines (thats what heat seeking missiles generally hit, my long range missiles are radar guided (from Barrier and air based radars) with a heat seeking terminal phase, radar ignores flares and heat seeking ignors jamming and destroys even heavily armored aircraft by ripping away the part that makes them fly)

so lets stack this up; Novacom VS, NNS
NNS has early warning and advanced techniques for applying proven technology
Novacom has admitedly faulty halfway experimental aircraft and weapons that would never work
NNS has a massive submarine fleet (just as the navy is the pride of NNS's military, so is its submarine force the pride of its navy)
Novacom has something called 'scramblers' which apparently work by trying to drill through several inches of armor designed to both hold massive thousand ton ships together and to keep them fom being destroyed by explosions, and after that they don't even explode, they 'scramble' around and try to 'scramble' computers which are usually the second most protected part of the ship.
finally NNS has purpose designed air superiority fighters with thrust vectoring and advanced airframes specifically designed for maximum maneuverability
Novacom has fighters that double as tanks with admitedly poor maneuverablity and armament

as a result of your attack I will judiciosly lose both of my Mojave ships and a Barrier ship. unless you convince me that some of your aircraft and submarines could realistically survived long enough to do any damage whatsoever and that the sole threat to my fleet wasn't just your Harbingers
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OOC: don't be a stat wanker
http://http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=367824&highlight=stat+wanking

OOC: Oh, okay. But still, with a draft, it would be much bigger. I'll go back to World War 1. Take a look at Russia in World War 1. They had a huge army. They suffered at least 2 million casualties, and yet they still had that army. Also, don't forget total war => where a country devotes everything it possibly can towards the war effort.

OOC> huge, yes, but an army? just because you hand 2 million peasents a rifle and a pocketful of ammo doesn't mean you have an army. The main reason I'm quoting the 1/10th of 1% is that if all nations will adhere to this number, then we'll all be on the same page. It will all be relative to your actual pop., and therefore more accurate.

OOC: don't be a stat wanker
http://http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=367824&highlight=stat+wanking

Hmm... what you call 'stat wanking' appear to me as little more than me telling you what I have, I only do it until all the stuff I'm using in a given RP has been revealed so that I don't later have to explain why something I have is able to do whatever it does and so ppl don't do things to stuff that is ridiculous or unreasonable. I have yet to scream at anyone for doing anything that is not strictly feasible, heck some of my stuff isn't strictly feasible but I expect a modern tech RP to stay modern tech not devolve into james bond esque devises (I.E. 'scramblers'), weapons that defy multiple laws of physics (I.E. explosion channelling weapons) and weapons that are so ridiculous that they don't even bear mentioning (bombs that inject viruses into computers after being dropped from an air plane)

BTW you were rather quick to jump on me for using SCRAM jet cruise missiles which are scant years from actually deployment to frontline naval vessels and yet you have yet to chastise your ally for using technology that is not even yet under consideration (mechs, tanks that are also fighters, all that jazz)!

P.S. your link has an extra http:// in it, that makes it kinda hard to use

your link didn't work so I'm not sure what definition you're using for stat wanking but if avoiding defeat at the hands of an attacking force whose only real weapons are what appears to me to be equivalent to late soviet strategic bombers, fighters that are admitedly far from perfect that only have a small number of missiles and some ships firing unspecified projectiles ( I assume it fires projectiles but you can't be sure when Nova thinks that an explosion channeling cannon is an effective piece of MT ordinance) and whose submarines carry outlandish gadgets whose sole purpose is to scramble my electronics, but I have yet to recieve any detail on how they manage THAT nigh impossible feet (the device described couldn't scramble the electronics of a laptop computer sittingin a dinghy much less the hardened electronics systems of a moder warship) whereas my fleet is defended by tried tested and true technology roughly equivalet to an AEGIS-II integrated fleet defense network (you know, that thing americas Nuclear Carriers float around with) and a submarine force that is equally proven and grounded in reality. is stat wanking then perhaps well crap... lost my train of thought, damn ADD, oh well, that's not stat wanking

BTW you were rather quick to jump on me for using SCRAM jet cruise missiles which are scant years from actually deployment to frontline naval vessels and yet you have yet to chastise your ally for using technology that is not even yet under consideration!

OOC> huge, yes, but an army? just because you hand 2 million peasents a rifle and a pocketful of ammo doesn't mean you have an army. The main reason I'm quoting the 1/10th of 1% is that if all nations will adhere to this number, then we'll all be on the same page. It will all be relative to your actual pop., and therefore more accurate.

OOC to NNS: Yeah, I didn't know about the SCRAMjets, and I apologize. Don't rely on your stats. Don't explain why you're able to do something unless it is absolutely necessary, just mention it and do it. For example, I attacked Xeraph with fighters but I had to explain the aircraft had stealth. Build some stats into the RP to make it more interesting, but don't rely on it and start screaming at somebody else because they did something that isn't entirely feasible. Just look at your post, #52, and you'll see what I mean. Sorry the link didn't work.

OOC to Xeraph: Well, then look at the United States in WWI. We had approximately 2 million troops, and even though we were somewhat poorly trained, it wasn't handing peasants rifles. The Russians held out for a while, actually. How about we cut at 500,000 and leave it at that, OK? Except for you, of course, becuase if this wasn't an RP, you'd crush us all :D .

OOC to NNS: Yeah, I didn't know about the SCRAMjets, and I apologize. Don't rely on your stats. Don't explain why you're able to do something unless it is absolutely necessary, just mention it and do it. For example, I attacked Xeraph with fighters but I had to explain the aircraft had stealth. Build some stats into the RP to make it more interesting, but don't rely on it and start screaming at somebody else because they did something that isn't entirely feasible. Just look at your post, #52, and you'll see what I mean. Sorry the link didn't work.

OOC to Xeraph: Well, then look at the United States in WWI. We had approximately 2 million troops, and even though we were somewhat poorly trained, it wasn't handing peasants rifles. The Russians held out for a while, actually. How about we cut at 500,000 and leave it at that, OK? Except for you, of course, becuase if this wasn't an RP, you'd crush us all :D .

It's OK with me.......

I admit the armies quite big, but I've tried to balance it out, none of my forces are particualrly high tech, also i dont really have a navy, the ships I've sent are all that are going to come except a few spare barely-armed transport ships.
By the way i dont mind about Novacoms explosion cannons, so long as he accepts that in real life they could fire a couple hundred metres max(and that would require a huge boat), and also that they couldnt be as effective as a similar sized shell exploding closer to the target.

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"Commander Greyson, all planes available from the carriers are in the air", said Greg Droy over the radio. "And as far as I know, Novacom is preparing to attack Northern Nation States' navy."

"Good", said Greyson. "Tell everyone we're moving out to the Xeraphian navy. They won't know what hit them."

The sky was filled with Sharks heading for the Xeraphian navy. It would not be long until the first true battle started...

Vice-Admiral Hogan was awakened by a knock on the door. " Sir, we have Jaghurian aircraft on the screen."
Friggin' great, Hogan thought. These new nations always seem to want to prove their courage and worth by picking on someone who can destroy them in a day or two. Well, we're all in the mood to comply with their wishes...
" Ensign, inform the Admiral, Gen. Strickland, and the Emperor. Our standing orders are to defend if fired upon, and then pursue what's left. I want a clear decision as to how far I can go to instigate hostilities. Oh, and by the way, this Novacomm has to be dealt with, too. I know NNS is slated to tackle them, but find out if they would like a little extra help."
" Aye, aye sir......I'm on it."

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Thirteen minutes later, 21 aircraft carriers scrambled their fighters, putting almost 1700 fighter jets in the air: FA/18 Hornets, EX12 Rattlesnakes, EX 14 Cobras, EX22 Cottonmouths, and B1-B Python Bombers. Additionally, 610 EX 16 King Cobra fighter bombers were on their way from allied airbases around the world.

" Word is, lieutenant, that these Sharks are quite the thing."
" A plane is only as good as the pilot, captain. Remember the Iraqi air force from the 90's? They had pretty good equipment, but they couldn't fly them worth a shit. Americans utterly destroyed them."
" And you think that this is a similar situation, lieutenant?"
" Dunno, sir. But we're gonna find out real quick......."

OOC to NNS: Yeah, I didn't know about the SCRAMjets, and I apologize. Don't rely on your stats. Don't explain why you're able to do something unless it is absolutely necessary, just mention it and do it. For example, I attacked Xeraph with fighters but I had to explain the aircraft had stealth. Build some stats into the RP to make it more interesting, but don't rely on it and start screaming at somebody else because they did something that isn't entirely feasible. Just look at your post, #52, and you'll see what I mean. Sorry the link didn't work.


OOC; wow, that was a fast reply, I edited that post maybe three minutes after it was posted when I got the link to work, I will try to work on working stats in more smoothly.

and about screaming at somebody else because they did something that isn't entirely feasible. Just look at your post, #52
I guess I did get a little out of hand there but honestly Novacoms weapons were for the most part pretty ridiculous even for NS

OOC: Hey Xeraph, the Sharks have stealth, don't forget that. Although if there was a large mass of fighters I suppose it might show.

IC: "Commander Greyson", said Andrew Berol, "we are approaching the Xeraphian navy. Estimated time is 30 minutes."

"Excellent", said Greyson, pondering what to do next. "I'm going to take half the guys with me. Have Droy take you and the rest straight on. Tell Droy that his half should fire anti-ship missiles at the Xeraphian fleet. Then engage attack pattern Alpha."

"Ah, that is what you are going to do with the other fighters", said Berol, with a tone of one who is hiding a secret.

But it wasn't a secret. In fact, every Jaghurian fighter pilot knew attack pattern Alpha. Half go in and engage the enemy, the others go around and then attack from behind.

"Attack pattern Alpha", said Greyson, with a smile on his face, "go."

Capt. Bannon spotted the Jags on radar long before he eyeballed them. Shit, he thought, here we go. " OK gentlemen, JAGSHARKS on the screen, about 6 miles NNE of our coordinates. Looks like a lot of 'em, too. Maybe a hundred, give or take. Arm all missiles; we have permission to use them. Watch out for friendlies...Northern Nation States has a significant presence here in these skies on a routine basis. Be on the lookout for the stray Novacomm fighter. Theyr'e supposed to be tied up by NNS somewhere way west of here, but ya never know. If you see any, feel free to shoot them down. Any questions?"

The Cobras raced eastward, anticipating Shark for dinner. Bannon felt good, but there was a nagging little tingle at the back of his neck. Something didn't feel quite right..............then he saw what the tingle was all about.


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They dove out of the sun, all 300 of them, the Jaghurian fighters known as Sharks. The ruse had worked. The Royal Xeraphian Squadrons of Cobras were racing to engage the Sharks identified on radar, to the east. They were completely taken by surprise by the Sharks diving out of the sun from the northwest. There were more of the Xeraphians than Jaghurians, but the element of surprise was decisive and complete. Xeraph's losses were high, and getting higher. Of the 477 RXAF fighters en route to engage the Sharks, 129 had already been either destroyed or crippled, as opposed to a significantly smaller number of Sharks lost. The dogfight continues all afternoon, with about even losses on both sides, but the Xeraphians were far from base, and needed to break off the attack.
" All Cobras, break off attack, head back for refueling and re-arming. Repeat, break off attack and head for home. We'll take this up again tomorrow."

OOC: I'll post up some specs and short descriptions later I'm tweaking the weapons most people seem to have problems with anyway.

IC: The Massive Novacom Air Armada was thrown off balance by the use of lasers, Lasers were relatively new to Novacom because of the Anaomaly that once enshrouded Novacom Lasers were impossible previously. Paradoxically the Formations of Elite Virage took the brunt of it, a quarter of the Elite Virage in the sky were knocked out before Discords could drop their Unity Cluster Bombs down on them, (unity Cluster bombs are different from real world ones, they split into 8 pieces explode and spliut out into another 8 pieces and again once more causing a lot of damage over a wide area.) the Remaining Elite Virage were then assaulted by Missiles, though they wern't going down without a fight Elite Virage were fast and manoeuverable advanced fighters that shared a trait with the MiG-29 in being able to out-fly and moneover missiles (they do have weak armor however but I'll save that for when I post up some specs). The Elite Virage surged forward leading the Missiles back towards their parent craft firing huge vollies of cannon and missile fire at all NNS aircraft and vessles and just before ramming the NNS aircraft they dipped under them and veered sharply up directly behind them returning back to the formations of Discord raining destruction down on the NNS fleet with yet more Unity Cluster Bombs.

Scuttlers by now were in position as usual paired, the Alphas were splicing into any wiring they could to hijack the vessels computers while the deltas were superheating to throw off heat seekers and provide targetting points. Jamming Signals relayed and Augmented down a chain all the way from the Glirin Command ships through every ship in the fleet and through the craft of the air Armada scarmbled any NNS equipment. At this moment the Harbringers opened fire barraging anything and everything that moved with Stalker Missiles while the Guardian AA ships arrayed themselves to shoot down any enemy missiles and aircraft.

The Hijir's were starting to prove their worth as well using their Punisher cannons to maximum effect in AP mode, firing a concentrated explosion contiaing a scaled down unity Cluster bomb, the explosive energy would first melt armor plating allowing the Unity to enter the interior and cuase mayhem. after their recent upgrade they too could dodge and weave but not nearly so adeptly as the Elite Virage. at the same time the Vanguard Virage were being extremly reckless practically hurling themselves at enemy aircrft exploiting their prototypes lack of weaknesses to the full. They unlike the Elite Virage had good armor and were able to withstand a good deal of fire. eventually the Novacom Air Armada accelerated back into formation and turned round and started to head back to their bases, though not without emptying their aresenals at the NNS Fleet.

OOC: I'll post up some specs and short descriptions later I'm tweaking the weapons most people seem to have problems with anyway.

IC: The Massive Novacom Air Armada was thrown off balance by the use of lasers, Lasers were relatively new to Novacom because of the Anaomaly that once enshrouded Novacom Lasers were impossible previously. Paradoxically the Formations of Elite Virage took the brunt of it, a quarter of the Elite Virage in the sky were knocked out before Discords could drop their Unity Cluster Bombs down on them, (unity Cluster bombs are different from real world ones, they split into 8 pieces explode and spliut out into another 8 pieces and again once more causing a lot of damage over a wide area.) the Remaining Elite Virage were then assaulted by Missiles, though they wern't going down without a fight Elite Virage were fast and manoeuverable advanced fighters that shared a trait with the MiG-29 in being able to out-fly and moneover missiles (they do have weak armor however but I'll save that for when I post up some specs). The Elite Virage surged forward leading the Missiles back towards their parent craft firing huge vollies of cannon and missile fire at all NNS aircraft and vessles and just before ramming the NNS aircraft they dipped under them and veered sharply up directly behind them returning back to the formations of Discord raining destruction down on the NNS fleet with yet more Unity Cluster Bombs.

Scuttlers by now were in position as usual paired, the Alphas were splicing into any wiring they could to hijack the vessels computers while the deltas were superheating to throw off heat seekers and provide targetting points. Jamming Signals relayed and Augmented down a chain all the way from the Glirin Command ships through every ship in the fleet and through the craft of the air Armada scarmbled any NNS equipment. At this moment the Harbringers opened fire barraging anything and everything that moved with Stalker Missiles while the Guardian AA ships arrayed themselves to shoot down any enemy missiles and aircraft.

The Hijir's were starting to prove their worth as well using their Punisher cannons to maximum effect in AP mode, firing a concentrated explosion contiaing a scaled down unity Cluster bomb, the explosive energy would first melt armor plating allowing the Unity to enter the interior and cuase mayhem. after their recent upgrade they too could dodge and weave but not nearly so adeptly as the Elite Virage. at the same time the Vanguard Virage were being extremly reckless practically hurling themselves at enemy aircrft exploiting their prototypes lack of weaknesses to the full. They unlike the Elite Virage had good armor and were able to withstand a good deal of fire. eventually the Novacom Air Armada accelerated back into formation and turned round and started to head back to their bases, though not without emptying their aresenals at the NNS Fleet.

better, just few problems this time and only two that I don't think i can overlook...

Scramblers, to work they'd have to get past my subscreen (as previously mentioned) which i guess would be possible if it was only the scramblers and no subs. second they'd have to drill through a hull designed to stop explosions and to minimize damage and generally not be breached by anything, then through several levels of actual ship, much of which is air that has to be traversed vertically.
third they'd have to actually find a computer worth hacking
fourth they'd have to actually hack the computer which, unless your're using some sort of AI or remote control isn't possible.
Fifth they'd have to do all of this without being detected (the computers and what not that they would have to reach to have an effect are the most frequented parts of a modern naval ship) and fast enough to have an effect on the battle (the best hacker could spend hours cracking into a home computer thats not even encrypted, a millitary computer is HEAVILY encrypted.)

Punisher cannons to maximum effect in AP mode, firing a concentrated explosion contiaing a scaled down unity Cluster bomb, the explosive energy would first melt armor plating allowing the Unity to enter the interior and cuase mayhem.
an explosion containing a bomb? are you on crack? but seriously, you're explosive channelling cannons break more laws of physics than newton and einstein wrote collectively and the fact that they melt armor and not bombs is a little iffy (okay a lot iffy)
as for minor things, nothing big just a little help for tactics and what not;
clust bombs, while highly effective in ground battles, are not so much against ships, there's too much empty space and too many submunitions miss (you can't exactly precision guide a sub munition)

also I'm intrigued by this 'anomaly' you speak of that made it so lasers were impossible? if I knew a little bit more about your nations background then I might beable to understand more about how your weapons would affect my equipment... just a thought

from this version of the attack, same losses as before plus two more barriers and carrier and Arsenal ship operations will be limited until repaired.

more detailed IC post later

OOC: To Novacom, keep your weapons realistic. This is modern tech. No lasers in combat.

To Mondoth, this is a closed RP

Capt. Bannon spotted the Jags on radar long before he eyeballed them. Shit, he thought, here we go. " OK gentlemen, JAGSHARKS on the screen, about 6 miles NNE of our coordinates. Looks like a lot of 'em, too. Maybe a hundred, give or take. Arm all missiles; we have permission to use them. Watch out for friendlies...Northern Nation States has a significant presence here in these skies on a routine basis. Be on the lookout for the stray Novacomm fighter. Theyr'e supposed to be tied up by NNS somewhere way west of here, but ya never know. If you see any, feel free to shoot them down. Any questions?"

The Cobras raced eastward, anticipating Shark for dinner. Bannon felt good, but there was a nagging little tingle at the back of his neck. Something didn't feel quite right..............then he saw what the tingle was all about.


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They dove out of the sun, all 300 of them, the Jaghurian fighters known as Sharks. The ruse had worked. The Royal Xeraphian Squadrons of Cobras were racing to engage the Sharks identified on radar, to the east. They were completely taken by surprise by the Sharks diving out of the sun from the northwest. There were more of the Xeraphians than Jaghurians, but the element of surprise was decisive and complete. Xeraph's losses were high, and getting higher. Of the 477 RXAF fighters en route to engage the Sharks, 129 had already been either destroyed or crippled, as opposed to a significantly smaller number of Sharks lost. The dogfight continues all afternoon, with about even losses on both sides, but the Xeraphians were far from base, and needed to break off the attack.
" All Cobras, break off attack, head back for refueling and re-arming. Repeat, break off attack and head for home. We'll take this up again tomorrow."

"Sir, the enemy is breaking off", said Lieutenant Berol.

"Good, our new offensive have given us a boost", said Greyson. "Radio to the others. If Droy's guys haven't fired their anti-ship missiles yet, we'll go closer to the Xeraphian fleet and try to destroy more of their ships. If they have fired their anti-ship missiles, then Xeraph's in for a surprise."

As Berol made contact with Droy, Greyson circled, gazing at the wreckage the Xeraphian and Jaghurian planes made in the water. He wondered if some of those pilots survived, and if those that didn't had ones who loved them. But this is war, he told himself. And in war, I will do my duty.

"Commander, Droy says that missiles were launched", said Berol, interrupting Greysons' thoughts.

"Let's pull out of here, then", said Greyson. "I guarantee that at least a quarter of the Xeraphian navy will be destroyed..."

OOC: Jaghur I'm talking about NNS's lasers throwing my forces off balance. I have a feeling Mondoth is another of NNS's Nations and he logged in as that by accident.

The Subs fire Scuttlers in specially designed long range torpedos, Novacom's Submarine force is extremly underdeveloped so it usually stays out of combat, The Scuttlers splice into wires and Computers after all have to have wires leading to what they're controlling otherwise the Computer isn't that much use, they use AI and Remote Control and unless otherwise instructed they Superheat till they self destruct when the signal is cut off. They help with targeting in this case since with them networking and transmitting a signal of their locations bombing will be fairly accurate and the Epicenter of a Unity Branch out Explosion can be very potent.

Think of a Tank cannon with the Tank Cannon the explosion goes behind the Shell in theis case the shell goes behind the explosion.

Unity Cluster Bombs cover a large area and of course Hijir getting the miniature versions inside a ships hull will certainly do a lot of damage. Don't forget to say how many fighters survive, the Elite Virage are fighters too and they were in the original version of the attack except this time round I'm usiong their capabilities more fully.

The Anomaly is similar to the Bermuda triangle except a lot more potent it limited Novacom's Technological growth until Scientists managed to work on ways to have sheilding for electronics that didn't take up a huge amount of space.

I should also Mention the Discords are also equipped with Smaller versions of the Stalker Missiles which are pretty powerful all purpose missiles.

I'm writing up a history and specs for my nation at present, though because of the Anomaly Novacom got very adavanced Jamming technology from studying it, Stealth technology is totally overlooked and Jamming is the Novacom equivalent along the lines of thought of "what's the point in having one aircraft invisible when you can blind your enemy and make them all invisible."


I'll wait for a few more IC posts before posting something else up.

OOC: yea, mondoth is my alter ego on NS

And yes, I understand what you're describing when you talk about your explosion concentrating cannons, what I'm saying is that by multiple laws of established modern physics it would never work, at most it would be like firing a blank from a gun, a lot of sound and flash, but unless you've got your finger in the barrel it doesn't hurt.

also, with the scramblers, I get what you're saying there as well but in a modern naval vessel, the wires don't run through the hull, they run through bulkheads that are at the CIC (combat information Center, the heart of a naval vessel) level and higher, there maybe some wires to the sonar systems but nothing really meaty like weapons and engines controls. the engine controls are mostly mechanical until well into the hull where they are controlled by the computers from up in the bridge. nad like I said, even the best hacker could spend well over ten hours cracking into a military computer system, and thats only if they have the encryption codes the computer uses to keep it from being remotely interfered with (and if you have those I want to know how you got them)

Jaghur, what's your coast look like, how are your defenses arrayed, do you have a map, how many port cities do you you have, pretty much I want to know everything about your shoreline that can be discerned from sattelite images, maps, the internet and recon drones (all of which I have acess to as a nation)

Novacom, I launched 300 missiles at your bombardment ships, hows that going for ya?

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OOC: I thought as much.

I deleted some chunks of that before I posted it up it seems that, I deleted where I put the losses has gone missing, I lose just under a quarter of that airfleet so something around a thousand aircraft, and I loose 3 Harbingers and 2 are damaged, 3 Guardians were also destroyed, 157 missiles hit the rest were shot down by Guardians since as well as being in an AA role they also function in an Anti Missile role.

OOC: yea, mondoth is my alter ego on NS

And yes, I understand what you're describing when you talk about your explosion concentrating cannons, what I'm saying is that by multiple laws of established modern physics it would never work, at most it would be like firing a blank from a gun, a lot of sound and flash, but unless you've got your finger in the barrel it doesn't hurt.

also, with the scramblers, I get what you're saying there as well but in a modern naval vessel, the wires don't run through the hull, they run through bulkheads that are at the CIC (combat information Center, the heart of a naval vessel) level and higher, there maybe some wires to the sonar systems but nothing really meaty like weapons and engines controls. the engine controls are mostly mechanical until well into the hull where they are controlled by the computers from up in the bridge. nad like I said, even the best hacker could spend well over ten hours cracking into a military computer system, and thats only if they have the encryption codes the computer uses to keep it from being remotely interfered with (and if you have those I want to know how you got them)

Jaghur, what's your coast look like, how are your defenses arrayed, do you have a map, how many port cities do you you have, pretty much I want to know everything about your shoreline that can be discerned from sattelite images, maps, the internet and recon drones (all of which I have acess to as a nation)

Novacom, I launched 300 missiles at your bombardment ships, hows that going for ya?

OOC: I wish I could tell you, but I don't really know myself. I don't have a map. As for # of port cities, a lot but I don't know the exact #. They are evenly spaced out, and even without a war going on, they are defended. However, with military presence, the cities are so well defended it's practically impossible for anything to get through.

OOC: Xeraph, know anybody interested in buying aircraft? If you find some people, tell them the title of the thread is 'Is anyone interested in buying aircraft?' and that it's in International Incidents.

OOC: I wish I could tell you, but I don't really know myself. I don't have a map. As for # of port cities, a lot but I don't know the exact #. They are evenly spaced out, and even without a war going on, they are defended. However, with military presence, the cities are so well defended it's practically impossible for anything to get through.

all right.

::Aboard the Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing::
This is Utah Lima Charlie Ohio Freedom Ringing requesting mergency port access to Jaghur coast, we have taken damage from a heavy storm and need repairs, repeat this is super tanker Freedom Ringing flying Free And United states flag needing emergency port access to Jaghur for repairswe have extensive damage to superstructure and cannot go much farther. please respond.
:message repeats:

::message to Commander of NNS Jaghur task force::
Encrypt:**********
Decrypt:************
To NNS Flt jaghur
from NNSFLTCOM

Reinforcements have arrived, the Jaghur Task force now encompasses second bombardment flt.

Good luck Task Force Jaghur
-NNSFLTCOM
--Admiral Darrel Jaeger (CINCFLT)
:Msg ends:

The carriers had deployed Silent Crow surveleince drones on a continuos basis for days, now that they were in optimal range the Arsenal ships began to prepare.
Across the fleet coordination network computers were swapping data, picking targets and preparing the massive missile firing organ that was an NNS bombardment fleet. Coordinates were fed from the drones to the missiles.

:Aboard the NNS Author class Fleet supply Vessel O'Flaherty:
Missiles armed, and targetted. launch on your command Admiral.

'Commence Firing'

commands were entered and on the decks of the 5 hydra class arsenal ships and 4 Dracken class arsenalships 6,400 missiles were armed.

200 missiles per ship per thirty seconds, 800 for each hydra, 600 for each dracken and then a 2 minute reload time for next barrage (only two barrages, the other missiles will be saved for later) first barrage targetted on Jaghur's fleet, second barrage on Novacom's fleet.
Have fun

ON the Bridge of the Glirin Command ship Kitan Admiral Kukonois muses over the new re-inforcements, " Viv zees Veinvorcementz argh vleet izt more zan doobel itz koorent zize. array ze noo gardians in devence vormation, and vrevare vor vase 2 ov operation Zky Hammairm," at these last words sirens start to blare off indeed a cacophony of sirens starts going off all over the fleet as hatches start to open aircraft start to screech off Hijir's start to blast off and another air armada forms up, at the same time the decks of half of the Novacom fleet now look scallopped.

"eenesiate" is all that is said by Admiral Kukonois. at these words a huge volley of Piledriver Missiles are launched the new air armada forms up and all of them go Hurtling towards the NNS fleet again ready for mayhem. This time however 3 more air Armadas join the fray. The sky is virtually blotted out by huge formations. Radar made completly useless with all the new ships in the naval fleet the Jamming signal is strong enought o even send feedback pulses through Radar arrays.

Discord Bombers opened fire, firing volley after volley of Stalker missiles at the NNS fleetwhile at the same time the Piledriver Missiles started to impact, as they impacted driving themselves far into the hulls of the enemy ships until they were completly embedded the sections they are made up of start to explode causing a chain reaction of explosions back to the surface and then another Piledriver launched in a second volley would land in the same hole and make the hole deeper and causing more severe damage.

Elite and Vanguard Virage swooped through the air destroying fighters on thier hardstands and any others that had dared to take off, the Hijir divided into two groups one group fired their Punisher cannons down the holes caused by the Piledriver missiles and the Stalker missiles making damage even worse, the other half of the Hijir split iotself again one half of them attacked anything that moved and wasn't friendly the other half moved in to strafe the ships defences.

Discords continued to unload Stalker after Stalker, each Discord could carry 10,000 stalkers and they were comkpletly loaded out with stalkers. the Bombardment did not stop the Guardians now the numbers upped to 25 from the recent reinforcements pummeled every single ship, what ships they couldn't get too were pummeled by now less than 20 Piledriver Missiles each.

On the bombardment continued until extreme heat signatures were detected, so in Elite and Vanguard Virage were ordered as well as 2,000 Discords. Extreme amounts of munitions were fired at the missile bays, any aircraft left wouldn't be able to take off to stop them, the Hijir had used their Punisher cannons to make the flight decks of the enemy carriers look like Connect 4 boards.

Back on the Kitan, "Admeeral veraps ve kood vizdraw ze virst and zecond hair armaes vile ve are ahead." General Ottovon suggested to Admiral Kukonois, the Admiral himself turns and takes the general in at a glance. "verhaps virst I vant all ze Piledriverz Launched zey vill be replaced within an hour ve have more reinforcemntz and zuppli ghips komming in." the General nods at this and the sirens start up once more firing off the remaining Missiles in a 5,000 missile barrage, as the Sirens start to quiten down and the ships hulls go back to normal an eerie sense of calm settles over as they await for the air armadas to return.

The Discords continue to rain down missile destruction, they hadn't been loaded out with Unity Cluster bombs this time just Stalker missiles which they rained down in huge volleys at every single ship eventually the swarm turns and accelerates back to the fleet to rearm repair rest and restart again.

"admeeral zey had mizzilez ready to deploy ve muzt akt," the General is rather frenzied over this the Navy is supporting his ground troops which have just landed in Jaghur to push back the enemy from their ally. The Admiral looks a shade paler than before he stalks over to the large tabletop showing the fleets deployments "Enzign ordair ze Guardianz to move to ze front ze hzarbringerz in ze zecond line and za zaviors in ze zird line I vant constant barragez at ze NNS vleet, Guardians vill ztand by to repel Naval and air attack and deploy ze minez abive vater as vell as below. ant invorm Jaghur ov inpending mizzle attack. NOW NOW NOW MOAVE EET!" he is by now shouting at the ensign who terrified does a sharp salute and runs to a comm console relaying orders in a frenzy as the fleet moves and the reserve air fleet leaps into the sky ready to fiercely defend the fleet.

"Admiral Blake, a message from Novacom", said a master ensign in the control tower of the battleship JS Honor.

"What is it, master ensign?", asked Admiral Blake, bending over a radar screen.

"Well, it appears, sir", replied the master ensign, "that a Northern Nation States has launched missiles towards Novacom's and our fleet."

"#@*!", said the Admiral. "Radio to all other ships. Have them be on high alert. Make sure the anti-missile guns are ready. Radio to the ground defenses. See if they can help with this missile problem. Do it quickly!"

"Immediately, sir!"

ON the Bridge of the Glirin Command ship Kitan Admiral Kukonois muses over the new re-inforcements, " Viv zees Veinvorcementz argh vleet izt more zan doobel itz koorent zize. array ze noo gardians in devence vormation, and vrevare vor vase 2 ov operation Zky Hammairm," at these last words sirens start to blare off indeed a cacophony of sirens starts going off all over the fleet as hatches start to open aircraft start to screech off Hijir's start to blast off and another air armada forms up, at the same time the decks of half of the Novacom fleet now look scallopped.

"eenesiate" is all that is said by Admiral Kukonois. at these words a huge volley of Piledriver Missiles are launched the new air armada forms up and all of them go Hurtling towards the NNS fleet again ready for mayhem. This time however 3 more air Armadas join the fray. The sky is virtually blotted out by huge formations. Radar made completly useless with all the new ships in the naval fleet the Jamming signal is strong enought o even send feedback pulses through Radar arrays.

Discord Bombers opened fire, firing volley after volley of Stalker missiles at the NNS fleetwhile at the same time the Piledriver Missiles started to impact, as they impacted driving themselves far into the hulls of the enemy ships until they were completly embedded the sections they are made up of start to explode causing a chain reaction of explosions back to the surface and then another Piledriver launched in a second volley would land in the same hole and make the hole deeper and causing more severe damage.

Elite and Vanguard Virage swooped through the air destroying fighters on thier hardstands and any others that had dared to take off, the Hijir divided into two groups one group fired their Punisher cannons down the holes caused by the Piledriver missiles and the Stalker missiles making damage even worse, the other half of the Hijir split iotself again one half of them attacked anything that moved and wasn't friendly the other half moved in to strafe the ships defences.

Discords continued to unload Stalker after Stalker, each Discord could carry 10,000 stalkers and they were comkpletly loaded out with stalkers. the Bombardment did not stop the Guardians now the numbers upped to 25 from the recent reinforcements pummeled every single ship, what ships they couldn't get too were pummeled by now less than 20 Piledriver Missiles each.

On the bombardment continued until extreme heat signatures were detected, so in Elite and Vanguard Virage were ordered as well as 2,000 Discords. Extreme amounts of munitions were fired at the missile bays, any aircraft left wouldn't be able to take off to stop them, the Hijir had used their Punisher cannons to make the flight decks of the enemy carriers look like Connect 4 boards.

Back on the Kitan, "Admeeral veraps ve kood vizdraw ze virst and zecond hair armaes vile ve are ahead." General Ottovon suggested to Admiral Kukonois, the Admiral himself turns and takes the general in at a glance. "verhaps virst I vant all ze Piledriverz Launched zey vill be replaced within an hour ve have more reinforcemntz and zuppli ghips komming in." the General nods at this and the sirens start up once more firing off the remaining Missiles in a 5,000 missile barrage, as the Sirens start to quiten down and the ships hulls go back to normal an eerie sense of calm settles over as they await for the air armadas to return.

The Discords continue to rain down missile destruction, they hadn't been loaded out with Unity Cluster bombs this time just Stalker missiles which they rained down in huge volleys at every single ship eventually the swarm turns and accelerates back to the fleet to rearm repair rest and restart again.

"admeeral zey had mizzilez ready to deploy ve muzt akt," the General is rather frenzied over this the Navy is supporting his ground troops which have just landed in Jaghur to push back the enemy from their ally. The Admiral looks a shade paler than before he stalks over to the large tabletop showing the fleets deployments "Enzign ordair ze Guardianz to move to ze front ze hzarbringerz in ze zecond line and za zaviors in ze zird line I vant constant barragez at ze NNS vleet, Guardians vill ztand by to repel Naval and air attack and deploy ze minez abive vater as vell as below. ant invorm Jaghur ov inpending mizzle attack. NOW NOW NOW MOAVE EET!" he is by now shouting at the ensign who terrified does a sharp salute and runs to a comm console relaying orders in a frenzy as the fleet moves and the reserve air fleet leaps into the sky ready to fiercely defend the fleet.

the only way you could possibly have that many fighters is if you had no navy, marines, coast guard, or army and had instead made your entire military into a giant airforce, otherwise your last air armada was probably more than half of your airforce. heres an easy way to find your total number of fighters

go to http://twr.1colony.com/ver8/calc8.0.html , input all your numbers and get the number of people in your military, take that number and divide it by 4, thats about how many people you have in your airforce (feel free to alter if your airforce is more or less of your military), take that number and multiply it by .01 (about 1 percent of your airforce flies fighter aircraft, the rest fly heavy bombers, cargo aircraft, or arecommand staff, maintainance staff, air traffic controlers, air force special forces, air force/force liasons (coordinate with other branches) fly VIP transports (presidential aircraft and similiar aircraft) and other such no fighter flying jobs that are neverthe less necesary to an Airfroce

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::Aboard the Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing::
This is Utah Lima Charlie Ohio Freedom Ringing requesting mergency port access to Jaghur coast, we have taken damage from a heavy storm and need repairs, repeat this is super tanker Freedom Ringing flying Free And United states flag needing emergency port access to Jaghur for repairswe have extensive damage to superstructure and cannot go much farther. please respond.
:message repeats:

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"Lieutenant, a message is coming through", said a private in a radio control center in a coastal city.

"Let's hear it, then", said the lieutenant.

"This is the Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing...requesting...dock...damage...storm.......repairs.........."

"We cannot understand you", said the lieutenant through the intercom, "Please restate."

"This is the Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing. We are requesting permission to dock. We have recieved heavy damage from a storm. We have to make repairs."

"Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing", said the lieutenant, "identify yourselves, where you come from, and your intent. Not giving away any of these puts you at great risk. We have defenses at every port. You will be kept under guard if you tell us the things you request of us. If you do not, keep away from our coasts. You will be destroyed if you come closer with permission. I will wait for your reply."

::Aboard the Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing::

This Is Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom Ringing, Home port Hotja, Free And United States, we have taken extensive damage and require emergency port access for repairs, we cannot travel much further than the Jaghur coast, repeat, We are from the Nation Of Free And United States, we have taken extensive damage and cannot continue along our designated trading route, we require emergency port access to Jaghur.
:Message repeats:

OOC: My forces are mainly air and with the Hijir doubling as both aerial and ground that means that the 6 men/women that would have crewed my Arbiter tanks are now put in 6 Hijir. The designs of everything in my military are modular so technicians simply have to get inside and swap modules. They are designed to be maintence light and easily repaired, and a reapir group handles at least 2 squadrons each and said technicians are usually non commisioned civilians.

The Air force is critically important to Novacom it was the best way to fight a war in Novacom because the terrain makes it difficult for tank combat it can happen but Tanks usefullness were extremly limited. Elite Pilots are part of The Enforcers and not classed as a part of the "Normal "military and Novacom Naval ships use less than half the crew of their equivalents from other nations. Novacom doesn't even know what a Liason is between forces they've always been on good terms, Novacom doesn't have an excessive amount of Air Transports their Parridigrams can carry a lot of force and can even function as airbrone aircraft carriers, and VIP transport mission are handled by Enforcer Pilots which like I said are seperate from military and are quite large in numbers.

Dividing the number I got by 4 certainly gives me a lot to play around with hehI have all the figures right here and they do square up and that's without even cutting into the quarters for Navy aremy and reserves. I've taken out that timsed by 0.1 step because I already know the proportions of the rest of the staff.

::Aboard the Free And United States Ultra Large Crude Oil Carrier Freedom Ringing::

This Is Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom Ringing, Home port Hotja, Free And United States, we have taken extensive damage and require emergency port access for repairs, we cannot travel much further than the Jaghur coast, repeat, We are from the Nation Of Free And United States, we have taken extensive damage and cannot continue along our designated trading route, we require emergency port access to Jaghur.
:Message repeats:

"Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom Ringing, you have access to our port", said the lieutenant, "but you have to answer me this. Are you attempting to smuggle in agents from Northern Nation States or Xeraph?"

"............................................"

"Again, are you trying to bring in agents from Northern Nation States or Xeraph?"

"Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom Ringing, you have access to our port", said the lieutenant, "but you have to answer me this. Are you attempting to smuggle in agents from Northern Nation States or Xeraph?"

"............................................"

"Again, are you trying to bring in agents from Northern Nation States or Xeraph?"

This is the Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom ringing, negetive, we do not have agents of Northern Nation states or Xeraph aboard, hell, Y'all can come over and take a look if you want.

OOC: to Nova
What about a navy? infantry? coastguard and other military branches. even cosidering that your tanks and fighters are the same and use the same troops, modular designs are more labor intensive, at most that doubles your fighter force, but you still don't have more than two and a half (three on the outside but they'll be in poor repair most likely) air armadas

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"Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom Ringing, you have clearance to dock at the port of the city of Everon in Dock 2B", said the lieutenant over the intercom. "I will be there. Ask for Lieutenant Blake. Once I leave, you can begin your repairs. You will be kept under guard. You may make your repairs and ask assistance if needed. Once you have rebuilt your ship, you must leave immediately. Any unusual business by you or any crew member will place you under suspicion. Do not, I repeat, do not try anything foolish. Dock at the port of the city of Everon in Dock 2B."

OOC: we do have Navy Infantry and coastguard the Navy and coastgaurd are quite large as well considering we're an island nation, the division that handles repair for Novacom does a very good job and one thing about Novacom Pilots they're all expected to know their craft inside out and be able to perform basic maintence on it if needed. I'd argue the point of Modular being hard to repair you just swap modules and then repair the one module much easier than repairing that one thing when it's scattered everywhere. Most non-Combat personel while work for the Military are sub-contracted by a government run division, Paperwork is kept to a minimum and indeed is very easy to fill out and Liasons arn't needed because if a soldier wants to become a commander he must show understanding of all 3 forces. I have the figures all down on paper the numbers square without even cutting into the other quarters.

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"Ultra Large Crude Carrier Freedom Ringing, you have clearance to dock at the port of the city of Everon in Dock 2B", said the lieutenant over the intercom. "I will be there. Ask for Lieutenant Blake. Once I leave, you can begin your repairs. You will be kept under guard. You may make your repairs and ask assistance if needed. Once you have rebuilt your ship, you must leave immediately. Any unusual business by you or any crew member will place you under suspicion. Do not, I repeat, do not try anything foolish. Dock at the port of the city of Everon in Dock 2B."

Roger that, we don't need assistance, the necesary repairs are relatively minor, although impossible while on the open water. as for suspiscious activity, I would like a clarification on that please.

OOC: we do have Navy Infantry and coastguard the Navy and coastgaurd are quite large as well considering we're an island nation, the division that handles repair for Novacom does a very good job and one thing about Novacom Pilots they're all expected to know their craft inside out and be able to perform basic maintence on it if needed. I'd argue the point of Modular being hard to repair you just swap modules and then repair the one module much easier than repairing that one thing when it's scattered everywhere. Most non-Combat personel while work for the Military are sub-contracted by a government run division, Paperwork is kept to a minimum and indeed is very easy to fill out and Liasons arn't needed because if a soldier wants to become a commander he must show understanding of all 3 forces. I have the figures all down on paper the numbers square without even cutting into the other quarters.

how many fighters/tanks do you have? and about how many are in a single air armada?

Roger that, we don't need assistance, the necesary repairs are relatively minor, although impossible while on the open water. as for suspiscious activity, I would like a clarification on that please.

"Suspicious activity would include fraternizing with suspicious characters", said the lieutenant. "I don't know much else beyond that; the rest is pretty much confidential. We're at war, and we can't disclose much of anything."

OOC: standard numbers for a Novacom Air Armada are about 3,000 craft though the average at present are propably closer to 2,700, Elite Virage are the most numerous Vanguard Virage are the least numerous Hijir are increasing in number and Discords are modestly numerous. there are propably 25,000 aircraft but there are only 7 Air Armada's each of about 3,000 so at anyone time at the moment you'll meet at least 9,000 aircraft in the air Novacom if it deploys Air Armadas in force will deploy them in groups of three's and retain 1 in reserve. The remaining 7,000 aircraft are 3,000 transports 1,000 specialist craft and a reserve Air Armada rotated from combat duty to allow the pilots to have some R&R. Enforcer Aircraft assigned number at 10,000.

No tanks have been deployed at all instead Novacom commanders will be experimenting with the Hijir in it's ground capacity, Arbiter tanks can be dispatched but unless Jaghur describes the terrain their use will be limited, Novacom's war's in Novacom were through air and siege since anyone with any sense would fortify themselves in the Sargasso mountians while occupying Tamugoi City and holding the Choikril pass and they could hold an army of several trillion with a small division. Then you have the rest of Novacom heavily forested with plenty of Rocky Plateues Canyons and huge mountains and most of the population centers were built in these inaccesible places such as The Plateu city of Koroje the City in the mountain known as Toreigh and the Canyon Capitol Novaseia which is also located near the Sargasso Mountains nearest the seas and even then the terrain detered naval assaults and the pinacle mountains to either side and the canyon in which the city is located made tanks use extremly limited. That's why the Hijir is such an attractive concept to the Novacom Commanders Maximum Flexability.

OOC: sorry, haven't posted in a long time. busy :D

IC: Corporal Artolli Durkei, the personal attendant of the Grand Marshal Maxus Kyzhem (OOC: see page 2), was sleeping. Sleeping to his heart's content. A sleep so deep and noiseless you could hear a pin drop. The only thing that could wake him-

"BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"

The morning wakeup bell rang, and Durkei slowly got up. He had been partying with some friends at the enlisted men's club, and had a hell of a hangover. I feel terrible, he thought. He got dressed and decided to skip breakfast. He went through the door in his private cabin into Kyzhem's large office. Durkei was stunned at what he saw.

All the drawers and cabinets were open and empty; papers and office supplies were strewn across the floor. Durkei rushed out of the office into the center of the complex.

It was deserted. Nobody was there. Not one soldier stood there for morning inspection. Durkei checked the mess hall, the rec room, everywhere. And still no one. The other officers, thought Durkei. They're bound to be here, somewhere. The most logical place would be the officers' quarters.

There was no one inside. As Durkei exited and puzzled over what was happening, he thought he heard something around the corner of the building. He slowly looked around and saw a man in an officer's uniform crawling on the ground, with a knife in his back. Durkei rushed over as the man stopped crawling. He pulled out he knife and recognized it as a standard issue to the Varylian soldiers. He pushed the man over, and almost screamed. It was 2nd Marshal Kopaj Ven Larione. He was the 3rd highest in command of the entire Varylian military. Only Kyzhem and the 1st Marshal were his superiors. He had cuts all over him, and he was bleeding badly. He was dead. Durkei looked around the corner and almost screamed again.

All the officers were dead, lying there in a mess. They had similar wounds to Ven Larione. Durkei turned away and left, sickened by the sight. He grabbed some food and some utensils from the kitchens, money from the payment building, some tools to fix a car, some clothes, his hygienic items, and his personal items. He went to the garage and put all the items in one of the few jeeps left, filled up the tank, and drove away from the complex.

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Stop bumping, Xeraph, and start posting. What are you waiting for? :confused:

Stop bumping, Xeraph, and start posting. What are you waiting for? :confused:

I'm waiting for everyone to stop yammering about what type of missile does what, and arguing about what can and cant be used, etc....I just want to fight this war....let's get everyone back on track

Alaric was in a foul mood. " Those sonsabitches are gonna pay for this. I've just been playing around with them...up until now. John, how many CBG's we have off Jaghur?"
Strickland strode across the War Room, glanced at the map, and said, " Three, Alaric. About 65 ships."
" OK, I want 6 more sent there, and I want Auralinia, Grey Legions, and the Grey Phoenix to air-drop their troops into Jaghur at 2315 hours. And let Lt. Col. Payson know that we're gonna need his MBT's."
" How many troopers do you want them to send?"
"All of 'em. And another 250,000 from Xeraph itself."
"Alaric...are you sure? 400,000 Armored Troopers? And how many tanks are you talking about?"
" I'm not talking about tanks, John. I'm talking about tank DIVISIONS! I want 650 MBT's on that beach 2 hours before the troops get there. And that means that the battleships and destroyers are gonna pound the hell out of the coastline, and then proceed inland at the rate of 5 miles per hour until we hit the first villages and towns. I want them destroyed before we land the troops!"
" Alaric.....we're invading?"
" Yes, John, we're invading. Alert our allies. If they want to coordinate their troops with us, fine. If not, then tell them to stay the hell out of the way. We're not stopping until every last Jaghurian citizen who lifts a hand against us is DEAD!"

IC: Commander Greyson opened the door to a meeting room. Inside, army generals, naval commanders, and air force marshals were squabbling over the conflict at hand.

"Gentlemen", Greyson said, startling all the men there, "I am interested as to what you are arguing over."

"Word is that Xeraph is extremely angry over the repeated attacks on their naval fleet", said General John Ithilius. "They have contacted Balen. They say that if we continue these attacks, they will be forced to invade us."

"What did Balen say?" asked Greyson.

"He didn't say much of anything, from what I'm told", said Marshal Peter Henick. "He told Xeraph he needed to consult with the Senate and the Ministries."

"Well, then", said Greyson, "prepare for an invasion. Xeraph will take any chance they have. Contact Balen. Tell him to evacuate all citizens to the underground bunkers. Mobilize all troops. Allow none but our own ships into the ports, and only in the utmost need. Now, get started."


OOC: Xeraph, my Sharks launched anti-ship missiles at your naval fleet (see #75). You might want to incorporate that in somehow, like not invading me until the last straw, which would be the missiles hitting your naval fleet. And whenever I say Balen, I mean the Prime Jaghuran Joseph Balen. Prime Jaghuran is the same thing as a Prime Minister or President.

IC: Commander Greyson opened the door to a meeting room. Inside, army generals, naval commanders, and air force marshals were squabbling over the conflict at hand.

"Gentlemen", Greyson said, startling all the men there, "I am interested as to what you are arguing over."

"Word is that Xeraph is extremely angry over the repeated attacks on their naval fleet", said General John Ithilius. "They have contacted Balen. They say that if we continue these attacks, they will be forced to invade us."

"What did Balen say?" asked Greyson.

"He didn't say much of anything, from what I'm told", said Marshal Peter Henick. "He told Xeraph he needed to consult with the Senate and the Ministries."

"Well, then", said Greyson, "prepare for an invasion. Xeraph will take any chance they have. Contact Balen. Tell him to evacuate all citizens to the underground bunkers. Mobilize all troops. Allow none but our own ships into the ports, and only in the utmost need. Now, get started."


OOC: Xeraph, my Sharks launched anti-ship missiles at your naval fleet (see #75). You might want to incorporate that in somehow, like not invading me until the last straw, which would be the missiles hitting your naval fleet. And whenever I say Balen, I mean the Prime Jaghuran Joseph Balen. Prime Jaghuran is the same thing as a Prime Minister or President.

OOC> OK, I'll figure it in. I'll post losses somewhere in the 20's.

The battleships of the Royal Xeraphian Navy had never used up so much ordnance. The coastline of Jaghur was a wasteland...nothing moved. The Xeraphian troops of Grey Legions were the first ashore, and moved inland at a surprising pace. They were followed by the Auralinians, then the Phoenixians. !50,000 armored troopers were spread out along a 15-mile line,their sole objective to get to the Jaghurian capitol as quickly as possible.
The troops from Xeraph itself would land later to mop up any resistance.

" General, notify Varyl and NNS that we have landed, and require assistance. Make sure there is no "friendly-fire" killing off our boys. Tell them that we are heading towards the capitol, and will take up positions along the south east and north east sectors of the city. I'll need them to cover the other sectors around the south west and north west."
" Ok, Alaric, and where do the MBT's disembark?"
" I want a pincer movement from the north and south to cordon off the Jags from reinforcing the capitol. They'll watch our rear."
" So, we're gonna finish 'em off, eh?"
" Yes, yes we are......."

A Large Novacom Air Transport fleet escorted by 2 Air Armadas recently dispatched from Novacom just for this mission and 2 Enforcer Air armadas as well as one Elite Enforcer Air Armada (Elite Enforcers are the best of the best of the best) Approached the Jaghurian Local Command center some 100 Miles inland. "Yayur Meeleetery kommande Novaecom Arme Groupas von do and tre argh ready to azzizt yayur vekesting permizzion to land, ve alzo ave a givt vrom ze Zuprainister."

Meanwhile 3 more Air Armadas after significant repair and resupply launched another crippling attack against the NNS fleet Piledriver missiles were lanuched and every ship in the Novacom fleet opened fire with the intent of obliterating everything NNS any transports or aircraft would have been obliterated in an assault that made the sea's boil and the skies bleed. Piledriver after Piledriver were launched enough for 20 missiles per enemy ship while the Novacom Air Armadas swooped in Discords firings trillions of Stalker Missiles, Hijir following the same while firing their punisher cannons frantically Elite Virage attacking anything that dared move while Vanguard Virage would attack everything, the Harbringers in the fleet launched round after round and missile after missile with the amount of munitions launched there would have been enough to cover the hulls of every NNS ship 2 times over and all of it super accurate from still functional scuttlers.

Meanwhile on the Kitan a meeting was going on, Admiral Kukonois stood to respectful yet casual attention as did all the other staff on the bridge arrayed round the large screen, (for the benefit of everyone I'll drop the accent for the Suprainisters part and indeed all of the meeting, BTW the Suprainister is Novacom's Leader) "My Commanders, Admiral Kukonois and General Ottovon, it is on you that we rest the fate of our allies and as such I have deployed to you a new fleet group 5 new army groups 13 more Air Armadas 2 Enforcer Army Groups 5 Enforcer Air Armadas 1 Elite Enforcer Army Group and Air Armada. with this awesome amount of military might you shall throw back Xeraph and it's allies from Jaghur you will then find a way for Xeraph to convinently exit the conflict, we would wish to remain on freindly terms on them and get their help with the Alanian Situation. you will Obliterate Northern Nation States Offensive Capability in the area and then you will crush Hockey Canada and offer them favorable surrender Terms Varyl is Jaghur's Concern ours is the safety of our allies and beinging more frineds into the fold, Destiny demands unity unity of the willing and the true. Do not worry about Defence of the Home Islands I myself am seeing to that myself and the Scientists and a team of Archaeologists have recently visited one of the recently Risen Islands and it contained what we beleive to be an acient laborotory the Inscriptions were in Touch Caligraphs and worn but in essence that place was the Control station for the anomoly, if we can master it's technology we can protect ourselves, and now Admiral what is your battle plan though pause in five minutes time as yu know the Anomolies eddies still linger around Novacom alterring everything there and changing all the rules slightly but enough to make one communicati0ons satalite impossible and the next cluster takes time to focus as you know, Now report." the Admiral quivers at a sharp salute. "My leader you are the one who will lead us onwards in destinies service but wouldn't it be best if we sent for the Jaghurian commanders so we may co-ordinate our strategies here and now?" he looks slightly nervous while pulling at his stiff colar. The Surpainister merely inclines his head ina grand knowing gesture, "be quick admiral time is on the move and it is a most precious thing."

A Paridigram Transport and a Squadron of Ensign Hijir Prototypes scream through the air pushing their supposed safe speeds close to dangerous levels as they break the sound barrier streaking towards the Jaghur Military command to bring the commanders to a meeting of grave importance.

Meanwhile back at the Novacom fleet the 5 Glirins are changing strangely and a Huge Missile is being prepped and slowly starts to Rise up, a Mechanical voice with a faint personality, "All Crew members this is Teiresias you vill clear the launch area during the launch of the Monolith Missile I repeat clear the area during the lanuch of the Monlith Missiles" this message repeats a few times as the Missile lances up into the air as a slow but steady barrage starts each Monolith more than enough to sink even the most heavily armoured of ships in one blow and there were enough Monoliyhs to wipe out half the NNS fleet the constant barrage of Piledrivers would take care of the other half.

The Novacom Air Armadas cxontinued to hail down death and destruction with the intent of sinking every single ship in the NNS fleet so Novacom's attention could be turned towards defending Jaghur and with NNS on the attackers flank they had to go and fast.

" This is Terry McSherry, XNN News. We ahve just received word that the Auralinian army has landed on Jaghur. They have set up FireBases about 6 miles inland, and several MASH Units are in operation. Jaghurian resistence thus far has been light. According to Lord Putah, spokesman for the Emperor, the combined armies of the Grey Legions and the Grey Phoenix are about to disembark. This would bring the total troop numbers to approx 150,000. I'm told that the Xeraphian army itself, totalling 250,000 men, will be air-dropped to the north of the capitol of Jaghur in approx 3 hours. The ground troops, aided by the Armored Divisions, have conquered an astonishingly large part of Jaghur; about 35% of the nation is currently under Xeraphian control. Aside from the devastating losses out to sea, where 21 naval vessels and 244 aircraft were lost, ground losses have been very light, less than 50 KIA, 136 WIA, and about a dozen MIA. Presently, Xeraphian Python and Vampire bombers are pounding the cities on the outskirts of the Jag capitol. Their orders are to avoid damaging the capitol, as it is rumored that the leadership of Jaghur, and their families, are holed up there. Emperor Alaric Tan'it has extended the Jaghurians an opportunity to honorably surrender. No word from the Jags. This is Terry McSherry, XNN News, from the front lines in Jaghur."

" John, attack Novacom. They must not get in the way of what I'm doing in Jaghur. Go all out. Naval, Air, and Ground are to blitz that nation to a standstill. Got it?"
" Yes, Alaric. I'll have the 4th, 6th, 77th, 89th, and 147th CBGs anchor off their coast, and we'll TransBeam 300,000 armored troopers straight into their major cities."
"Hold off on the troops, John. Send in the AI-Spiders. They're a lot more durable, and we've about 100,000 of them we're not using. Have the Black Katanas, about 60,000 of them, back the AI's up. I want them in there in record time."
"Gotcha, Alaric....will do."

" Alaric, we've got something on the screen. Looks like Novacom is preparing to launch missiles. Shall we take them out?"
"Yes, Colonel, lets do so. Send 45 of our FragHead ICBM's into Novacom. Take out the missile sites, and target their ammo centers. Drop 3 or 4 into their capitol. I want them to know that they can't mess with Xeraph and get away with it."
" Missile off and away, Alaric. ETA: 7 minutes.........."

"Captain Morris, I've got something on the radar", said Private Kyle Nortren, in a radar operating center just outside one of the weapon stockpiles.

"Missiles", said Morris, smoking a cigar. "Take 'em out."

At that very instant, a missiles hit the weapons stockpile. Nortren was killed instantly. Morris, bruised and scratched, but alive, crawled slowly over to the radio.

"Anyone there, anyone there?" he asked.

Static.

"I repeat, is anyone there?" he asked again.

This time, there was a reply.

"This is Major Alex Smith, Serial 23501, over."

"This is Captain Ian Morris, Serial 48871, requesting permission to speak to highest officer, emergency."

"Permission granted. Putting Commander Greyson on the line."

"Commander Greyson, this is Captain Ian Morris, Serial 48871, Xeraph has hit our aboveground weapon stockpiles."

"Captain Morris, thank you for informing me. Xeraph has invaded. As of right now they have troops in Jaghur. We're doing our best to hold them off. Most of our forces are protecting the capital. Missiles were fired towards the capital, but we took them out. And luckily we have underground weapon stockpiles. Get yourself and any survivors out of the area. Is that understood?"

"Yes, sir. Signing out."

" This is Terry McSherry, XNN News. We ahve just received word that the Auralinian army has landed on Jaghur. They have set up FireBases about 6 miles inland, and several MASH Units are in operation. Jaghurian resistence thus far has been light. According to Lord Putah, spokesman for the Emperor, the combined armies of the Grey Legions and the Grey Phoenix are about to disembark. This would bring the total troop numbers to approx 150,000. I'm told that the Xeraphian army itself, totalling 250,000 men, will be air-dropped to the north of the capitol of Jaghur in approx 3 hours. The ground troops, aided by the Armored Divisions, have conquered an astonishingly large part of Jaghur; about 35% of the nation is currently under Xeraphian control. Aside from the devastating losses out to sea, where 21 naval vessels and 244 aircraft were lost, ground losses have been very light, less than 50 KIA, 136 WIA, and about a dozen MIA. Presently, Xeraphian Python and Vampire bombers are pounding the cities on the outskirts of the Jag capitol. Their orders are to avoid damaging the capitol, as it is rumored that the leadership of Jaghur, and their families, are holed up there. Emperor Alaric Tan'it has extended the Jaghurians an opportunity to honorably surrender. No word from the Jags. This is Terry McSherry, XNN News, from the front lines in Jaghur."

OOC: It would be impossible for you to take 35% in what, less than a day?. Although my population is small compared to yours, my land area is quite large. Unless you're being biased, like the news usually is.

IC: "Daddy, Daddy, I wanna watch my movie!!!!", screamed a little boy.

"Not yet, son, I want to watch the news. Aha, here it is. I'll let you watch your movie when this part is done", said the father of the little boy.

"I am Scott Malone, Channel 9, with BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FRONT. Xeraphian forces have invaded and are moving along the coast, and so we advise everyone to take shelter along the coast. Commander Greyson tells us that small parts of the army are using guerilla tactics to hinder the Xeraphian progress. The rest of the army is in a large perimeter around the capital. It is expected that will be where the main fighting will be. Close-support aircraft are circling in swarms, while fighters are lifting off to take out the bombing threat. Bombers are being prepared to take off in case of needed assistance. The navy is also prepared for an attack. Now I'm going to turn it over to Jennifer Glowske, for an update on Xeraph giving us an opportunity to surrender. Jennifer?"

"Thank you, Scott. Xeraph sent an official declaration of surrender to Prime Jaghuran Joseph Balen for him to sign. I am told he sent it back to the Emperor of Xeraph, Alaric Tan'it, without a signature and did not say anything. I assume that means 'No'. Back to you, Scott."

"That's Jennifer Glowske and I'm Scott Malone, for Channel 9 news."

"Okay, son, you can watch your movie now."

OOC: Uhmmm... Jaghur? Novacom? have either of you noticed that I launched 6,400 missiles at each of your navies? that kind of firepower just doen't disapear in mid flight...

:Aboard theFreedom Ringing:
once the ship was docked the crew went about reapairng the damage that had been done at the Free Abd United States shipyard at Belsk specifically for this mission. in the Tankers massive hold, the soldiers waited. at eleven PM local time they got the signal, the hatches opened and dim red light shone through onto the dark camoflauged faces eagerly awaiting freedom from the cramoed confines of the converted oil tanks. they went ten at a time to briefly stretch their legs and return to the tank to allow other soldiers to have their turn. but two of the soldiers stayed up, they were dressed in the uniform of the tankers crew and carried tool boxes. After leaving the tank they made their way to the ships radar mast. as soon as they had climbed to the top the lights cut out. in the darkness they opened the toolboxes and quickly assembled their SG-12 SR 7mm caseless sniper rifles. They threaded sound supressorsonto the barrels and loaded subsonic ammunition. They looked for any visible armed guards or soldiers using the thermal attachment for the scopes. Once they identified all the targets in sight they radioed to the troops in the hold to begin the attack and cooly sighted on the first pair of targets.

OOC: It would be impossible for you to take 35% in what, less than a day?. Although my population is small compared to yours, my land area is quite large. Unless you're being biased, like the news usually is.

IC: "Daddy, Daddy, I wanna watch my movie!!!!", screamed a little boy.

"Not yet, son, I want to watch the news. Aha, here it is. I'll let you watch your movie when this part is done", said the father of the little boy.

"I am Scott Malone, Channel 9, with BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FRONT. Xeraphian forces have invaded and are moving along the coast, and so we advise everyone to take shelter along the coast. Commander Greyson tells us that small parts of the army are using guerilla tactics to hinder the Xeraphian progress. The rest of the army is in a large perimeter around the capital. It is expected that will be where the main fighting will be. Close-support aircraft are circling in swarms, while fighters are lifting off to take out the bombing threat. Bombers are being prepared to take off in case of needed assistance. The navy is also prepared for an attack. Now I'm going to turn it over to Jennifer Glowske, for an update on Xeraph giving us an opportunity to surrender. Jennifer?"

"Thank you, Scott. Xeraph sent an official declaration of surrender to Prime Jaghuran Joseph Balen for him to sign. I am told he sent it back to the Emperor of Xeraph, Alaric Tan'it, without a signature and did not say anything. I assume that means 'No'. Back to you, Scott."

"That's Jennifer Glowske and I'm Scott Malone, for Channel 9 news."

"Okay, son, you can watch your movie now."

OOC> don't forget, an NS day is a RL week. Sometimes I get them mixed up. The invasion has actually been underway for some time. You can post what has been happening on your end during the same time period.

" Alaric, it looks like the Jaghurians aren't going to give up so easily. They returned the surrender packet unsigned. And theyr'e reinforcing their capitol."
" Yes....it seems theyr'e not understanding that they can't win. But they can do us damage. OK, John, here's what we do. We've already sent 100,000 AI-Spiders into Jag. Send the rest of 'em. And send in the BotMbt's."
"ALL of the AI's? My God......there won't be a Jag left alive. You know that they can't differentiate between armed and unarmed people. They'll kill all Jag citizens! 700,000 AI-Spiders against unarmed people.......world opinion will be against us, Alaric. And the BotMBT's...theyr'e no better. They'll destroy everything in their path, indiscriminately."
" Screw world opinion, John. The world isn't helping us put down the Varylian invasion. Ans as far as the AI's and Bots killing and destroying everything, the Jags had their chance. I'm not screwing around with them anymore. They either surrender, or we eradicate them. The leaders will be the last to go...they can watch their country being torn down with their own eyes."
" How many of the BotMBT's, Alaric?"
" All of 'em, all 2500. I want this over with. I want Jaghur to be made an example of."

" Alaric, it looks like the Jaghurians aren't going to give up so easily. They returned the surrender packet unsigned. And theyr'e reinforcing their capitol."
" Yes....it seems theyr'e not understanding that they can't win. But they can do us damage. OK, John, here's what we do. We've already sent 100,000 AI-Spiders into Jag. Send the rest of 'em. And send in the BotMbt's."
"ALL of the AI's? My God......there won't be a Jag left alive. You know that they can't differentiate between armed and unarmed people. They'll kill all Jag citizens! 700,000 AI-Spiders against unarmed people.......world opinion will be against us, Alaric. And the BotMBT's...theyr'e no better. They'll destroy everything in their path, indiscriminately."
" Screw world opinion, John. The world isn't helping us put down the Varylian invasion. Ans as far as the AI's and Bots killing and destroying everything, the Jags had their chance. I'm not screwing around with them anymore. They either surrender, or we eradicate them. The leaders will be the last to go...they can watch their country being torn down with their own eyes."
" How many of the BotMBT's, Alaric?"
" All of 'em, all 2500. I want this over with. I want Jaghur to be made an example of."

OOC: What are these BotMBTs and AI-Spiders you speak of?

OOC: Uhmmm... Jaghur? Novacom? have either of you noticed that I launched 6,400 missiles at each of your navies? that kind of firepower just doen't disapear in mid flight...

:Aboard theFreedom Ringing:
once the ship was docked the crew went about reapairng the damage that had been done at the Free Abd United States shipyard at Belsk specifically for this mission. in the Tankers massive hold, the soldiers waited. at eleven PM local time they got the signal, the hatches opened and dim red light shone through onto the dark camoflauged faces eagerly awaiting freedom from the cramoed confines of the converted oil tanks. they went ten at a time to briefly stretch their legs and return to the tank to allow other soldiers to have their turn. but two of the soldiers stayed up, they were dressed in the uniform of the tankers crew and carried tool boxes. After leaving the tank they made their way to the ships radar mast. as soon as they had climbed to the top the lights cut out. in the darkness they opened the toolboxes and quickly assembled their SG-12 SR 7mm caseless sniper rifles. They threaded sound supressorsonto the barrels and loaded subsonic ammunition. They looked for any visible armed guards or soldiers using the thermal attachment for the scopes. Once they identified all the targets in sight they radioed to the troops in the hold to begin the attack and cooly sighted on the first pair of targets.

OOC: 6,400?!!! Oh, come on. That's impossible.

IC: A guard was walking along in the dock where the oil carrier was, and as he did, he noticed two men with toolboxes. He had been notified about the carrier and about its repairs, but the toolboxes were too small for any real repairs. Unsure of what to do, he radioed to the lieutenant who had talked with the oil carrier and told him that troops should be sent down to the dock and the missile batteries pointed at the ship. The lieutenant agreed, and troops were sent down to the dock, to await any attack.

OOC: 6,400?!!! Oh, come on. That's impossible.

IC: A guard was walking along in the dock where the oil carrier was, and as he did, he noticed two men with toolboxes. He had been notified about the carrier and about its repairs, but the toolboxes were too small for any real repairs. Unsure of what to do, he radioed to the lieutenant who had talked with the oil carrier and told him that troops should be sent down to the dock and the missile batteries pointed at the ship. The lieutenant agreed, and troops were sent down to the dock, to await any attack.

OOC: impossible? A bombardment fleet has 8 arsenal ships (4 Hydras with 800 missiles each and 4 Drakens with 600 missiles each) plus the one hydra that was already in theater, it's not like there's only one ship launching that many missiles.

also, if anything a tool box that could fit a long rifle in it would be TOO big, bigger than a stereotypical red handyman tool kit anyway. about the right size for a standard military/naval tool box.

OOC: for the missiles to be big enough to do damage they'd be big enough to be targetted more easily and each ship wouldn't be able to carry 800 of em, and I think we were waiting for your reaction to the counter attack.

Xeraph you do know that all the missiles I launched at NNS and all of my missiles and attacks were aimed at NNS that no missiles actually came from the Novacom home Islands they're so far away from here that missiles launched from there would be shot down with ease and that would be if they could get through the eddies of the Anomoly which may be disspiated for the moment still has effects and there arn't any maps of Novacom outside Novacom so you can't really know where my capitol is only guess.

I wouldn't mind a description of these AI Spiders and what the Black Katanas are? are they infantry and if so how are they getting there and since this is modern tech teleporting things around isn't an option and if you tried to teleport something through the Anomoly and it's spectrum alterring effects most of them would arrive as mutants because of the patterns being scrambeld.

OOC: impossible? A bombardment fleet has 8 arsenal ships (4 Hydras with 800 missiles each and 4 Drakens with 600 missiles each) plus the one hydra that was already in theater, it's not like there's only one ship launching that many missiles.

also, if anything a tool box that could fit a long rifle in it would be TOO big, bigger than a stereotypical red handyman tool kit anyway. about the right size for a standard military/naval tool box.

OOC: it wouldn't be big enough to have tools to make repairs on a large oil carrier unless you're fixing a squeaky bolt.

OOC: What are these BotMBTs and AI-Spiders you speak of?


Artificial Intelligence (AI) MEK-Arachnoids, nick-named Spiders. Drones, basically, programmed to be the advance corps. Same with the MBT bots.
The Black Katanas are an elite force of stealth troopers.

OOC: it wouldn't be big enough to have tools to make repairs on a large oil carrier unless you're fixing a squeaky bolt.

it would be big enough to fix;
a navigational radar array
a sattelite communitations dish
a radio transponder
a faulty valve on either the Cargo oil Tank or the Fuel oil Tank
search/illumination lights
emergency deck lights
loose deck plates
loose bulkheads

pretty much it would be big enough to fix anything except a major engine problem. You're making the common mistake that because an Ouil Carrier is so large that everything that makes it up is equaly large, in fact such a ship has countless sytems and pieces of equipment that while vital to its operation (Fuel Valves, navigational radar, Sattelite communications dish, various lights that are required by international convention, radio transponders) that are rather small and can be fixed easily in a port or similiar situation. also, while some large vital systems are damaged, it is possible that whatever damaged them also damaged smaller systems (Convenience lights, bulk heads, deck plates, railing) that it would be nice to have repaired.

OOC: for the missiles to be big enough to do damage they'd be big enough to be targetted more easily and each ship wouldn't be able to carry 800 of em, and I think we were waiting for your reaction to the counter attack.


They're a bit larger than an american Tomahawk Cruise missile, with enough explosive to kill a tin can (destroyer, small cruiser) and seriously damage anything upto a battle ship or an aircraft carrier. and yes, They're rather large ships, they can easily carry 800 missiles a piece even with three or four reloads.

for the record I launched the missiles first

OOC: The news station I'm RPing as is an international kind of news station, like CNN, and is not based in Varyl.

IC: "This is Rex Moreau, for BNS, with breaking news. As of 5:14 PM, about a third of the Varylian military and a secret revolutionary group staged a coup and took over the capital of Varyl, Dislacht. Their leader was the former Grand Marshal of the Varylian military, Maxus Kyzhem. As of now he is the dictator of Varyl until a provisional government is set up. The former dictator, Vacar Partikalas, escaped the capital and was transported to a nearby city. The remaining two-thirds of the Varylian military remain loyal to Partikalas, and are at this very moment attempting to retake the capital. There were small firefights within and around the capital building. Of the total 50 guards, 31 were killed, 17 were injured, and 2 escaped. Most civilians stayed clear, but several who owned firearms tried to help the guards. Of the 13 civilians, 3 were killed, 6 were injured, and 4 were taken into the capital building and are assumed to be dead or imprisoned. This is Rex Moreau, for BNS, signing off."

OOC: I'm probably going to do a revolution/political turmoil thread after the war is over.

OOC: The news station I'm RPing as is an international kind of news station, like CNN, and is not based in Varyl.

IC: "This is Rex Moreau, for BNS, with breaking news. As of 5:14 PM, about a third of the Varylian military and a secret revolutionary group staged a coup and took over the capital of Varyl, Dislacht. Their leader was the former Grand Marshal of the Varylian military, Maxus Kyzhem. As of now he is the dictator of Varyl until a provisional government is set up. The former dictator, Vacar Partikalas, escaped the capital and was transported to a nearby city. The remaining two-thirds of the Varylian military remain loyal to Partikalas, and are at this very moment attempting to retake the capital. There were small firefights within and around the capital building. Of the total 50 guards, 31 were killed, 17 were injured, and 2 escaped. Most civilians stayed clear, but several who owned firearms tried to help the guards. Of the 13 civilians, 3 were killed, 6 were injured, and 4 were taken into the capital building and are assumed to be dead or imprisoned. This is Rex Moreau, for BNS, signing off."

OOC: I'm probably going to do a revolution/political turmoil thread after the war is over.

OOC: You out of the war?

IC: Jaghurian soldiers had set up machine guns on the dock by the oil carrier. Others were standing or kneeling. Snipers were stationed on top of the buildings close to the dock. The military called these kind of soldiers the Tactical and Observational Personnel, but they referred to themselves as the "TOP." Which would be an appropriate title, since they were the best of the best, the elite, the special operatives. All were ready to fire on the two men apparently working on the radar mast. A burly sergeant with a battle rifle stepped forward.

"Hey, you guys up d'ere", he said with a rough voice. "You boys got clearance to dock 'ere? And what's in d'em toolboxes you got d'ere?"

The two snipers turned around, their weapons all assembled, and attempted to kill the sergeant. But he was quicker and shot them before they could get a shot off. They fell from the radar mast onto the deck. The sergeant quickly ran back to the rest of the men.

"D'ere's bound to be more enemies in d'ere", he said to the men. "When they jump out, fill 'em full of lead."

OOC: I have enough lighting on the dock to see the two men and sort of see what they are doing

They're a bit larger than an american Tomahawk Cruise missile, with enough explosive to kill a tin can (destroyer, small cruiser) and seriously damage anything upto a battle ship or an aircraft carrier. and yes, They're rather large ships, they can easily carry 800 missiles a piece even with three or four reloads.

for the record I launched the missiles first

OOC: if you had that many missiles that were that size on one ship, you wouldn't have much room for anything else, such as crew living quarters, eating quarters, possibly recreational areas (if you include those for personnel), and maybe engines, depending on the size of the engines. I might agree to 800 missiles launched in total, but not 6400.

OOC: if you had that many missiles that were that size on one ship, you wouldn't have much room for anything else, such as crew living quarters, eating quarters, possibly recreational areas (if you include those for personnel), and maybe engines, depending on the size of the engines. I might agree to 800 missiles launched in total, but not 6400.

you don't get it do you? Look up arsenal ship on google, The idea isn't to have crap loads of extra stuff like crew quarters, recreational areas and all that non military stuff, its a very utilitarian design, just an engine a crap load of missiles , some radio equipment and maybe thirty or forty guys to make sure it gets from point a to point b in one piece and launches all its missiles at point c, nothing fancy, mostly its controlled and monitored by others ships in the fleet (it has no bridge, no radar, no long range communications, nothing normally associated with a naval vessel except craploads of missiles)

Also, My snipers do have clearence to be where they are, namely the radar mast of my oil Tanker, they didn't leave the ship until it was dark (as i said, after 11 PM, in most parts of the world thats deep dark nighttime, If you'd read the post completely you would have read that they climbed the radar mast and once they were at the top the lights (on the ship) were turned off. And if you're docks have lights that could illuminate up to the radar mast enough to make a pair of trained snipers visible in a prepared position then you should sell them to football stadiums, one of those lights could light up the whole stadium AND parking lot

you don't get it do you? Look up arsenal ship on google, The idea isn't to have crap loads of extra stuff like crew quarters, recreational areas and all that non military stuff, its a very utilitarian design, just an engine a crap load of missiles , some radio equipment and maybe thirty or forty guys to make sure it gets from point a to point b in one piece and launches all its missiles at point c, nothing fancy, mostly its controlled and monitored by others ships in the fleet (it has no bridge, no radar, no long range communications, nothing normally associated with a naval vessel except craploads of missiles)

Also, My snipers do have clearence to be where they are, namely the radar mast of my oil Tanker, they didn't leave the ship until it was dark (as i said, after 11 PM, in most parts of the world thats deep dark nighttime, If you'd read the post completely you would have read that they climbed the radar mast and once they were at the top the lights (on the ship) were turned off. And if you're docks have lights that could illuminate up to the radar mast enough to make a pair of trained snipers visible in a prepared position then you should sell them to football stadiums, one of those lights could light up the whole stadium AND parking lot

OOC: First of all, I didn't say I knew what the two snipers were doing. I just said they looked suspicious. It wouldn't have looked like they were working on the radar mast. And second, I did look up arsenal ship (it's a US idea). Here is a quote from the website I found and the link to it: Because of its total lack of defensive systems, the arsenal ship is a tremendously vulnerable weapons platform. This makes it an extremely lucrative target for potential adversaries. Despite its double hull, the arsenal ship will be extremely vulnerable to mines, attacks by special operations forces, torpedoes (including those launched from the diesel submarines common to the areas where the arsenal ship will be stationed), and a variety of other threats. The arsenal ship would have to be escorted at all times to ensure its survivability. In addition, the arsenal ship need not be destroyed to be rendered worthless as a weapons platform. The VLS that makes up the arsenal ship's primary weapons system is extremely susceptible to damage; for example, the hydrostatic shock from the detonation of a nearby mine that fails to sink an arsenal ship would still be likely to make the VLS unusable.

Given the high cost of the arsenal ship and its missile load, the benefits of the arsenal ship must be seriously called into question. The cost of each of the 500 Tomahawk missiles that the arsenal ship will stock is roughly $800,000 (for a total magazine cost of approximately $400 Million). The maximum payload for each of these missiles is 1000 lbs. The ability to put a mere 500 1000-lbs. missile payloads on target, no matter how precisely guided those missiles are, is insufficient to accomplish its deep interdiction mission. Also, the arsenal ship lacks capability to target mobile targets, like mobile SCUD missile launchers or the tank columns that the arsenal ship's proponents consistently mention. There does not currently exist any intelligence loop or sensor / targeting system that could continually redirect the arsenal ship's missiles to strike such mobile targets. It is simply salesmanship to claim that the arsenal ship would be capable of halting Iraqi or North Korean tank columns in their tracks in the event of an invasion.

The arsenal ship is also severely limited in its ability to force entry into a combat zone because of its vulnerabilities, lack of defenses, and limited speed. The arsenal ship will not be a very usable weapons platform for combat in those areas where it is not pre-positioned and it will be highly exposed to defensive measures at the start of hostilities if it is pre-positioned.Arsenal Ship (http://www.cdi.org/issues/naval/arsenal.html)

The website is an evaluation of the arsenal ship by the Center for Defense Information, and they believe that the arsenal ship is too costly and too flawed to ever make it into the United States military. I think you should read it.

Yea? So what, the US government thinks gays are bad and abortion is okay, that doesn't mean that I do. The united states Military and the Northern Nation States military operate on entirely different sets of procedures and standards, the U.S. military also contracts to the lowest bidder. in the real world the ability to launch massive guided missile barrages is not likely to to be necesary or even useful very often. In Nation States, where war is an hourly occurence and populations of developed countries is in the billions, the ability to launch 6,400 missiles in the space of a few minutes is quite handy, well worth the extra expense, and protection is only an issue with Americas design, the Hydra and Dracken class ships have the ability to launch Surface to air missiles and can data link in realtime with naval units that DO have defensive radar allowing the fleet as a whole greater safety whereas the American AEGIS ships have little or no cross range ability (The ability to defend targets other than itself) the NNS Barrier class ships are designed to protect an entire fleetfrom attack leaving Guided missile ships to do their true jobs instead of farting around shooting down missiles. because of these differences, while the Arsenal ship is not practical for the American navy, or most real world navies. it is well suited to use in Nation STates navies and particularly well suited (with modifications) to Northern Nation States Navy.

RE: Snipers

no, it wouldn't have looked like they were working on the radar mast, it would look like blackness, because thats what happens when the lights go out after dark, it gets dark. and how exactly do your forces in the space of a scant number of minutes set up MG nests and send in a crack military team, and how does your seargent guy climb the Radar mast without getting shot at? The snipers can assemble their guns blindfolded un under a minute and it would take at the very very least that long for a man just to get form the dock to the base of the radar mast. ANd how suspiscious could they look before they got to the top and the lights went out? is there some secret signal that people that are going to work on an Oil tankers radar mast give that people that are just up there to start an invasion don't? they're wearing a work uniform and wielding the toolboxes for the job (of working on the radar) you'd have to be able to see inside the closed metal tool box to see that there was a gun inside.

Yea? So what, the US government thinks gays are bad and abortion is okay, that doesn't mean that I do. The united states Military and the Northern Nation States military operate on entirely different sets of procedures and standards, the U.S. military also contracts to the lowest bidder. in the real world the ability to launch massive guided missile barrages is not likely to to be necesary or even useful very often. In Nation States, where war is an hourly occurence and populations of developed countries is in the billions, the ability to launch 6,400 missiles in the space of a few minutes is quite handy, well worth the extra expense, and protection is only an issue with Americas design, the Hydra and Dracken class ships have the ability to launch Surface to air missiles and can data link in realtime with naval units that DO have defensive radar allowing the fleet as a whole greater safety whereas the American AEGIS ships have little or no cross range ability (The ability to defend targets other than itself) the NNS Barrier class ships are designed to protect an entire fleetfrom attack leaving Guided missile ships to do their true jobs instead of farting around shooting down missiles. because of these differences, while the Arsenal ship is not practical for the American navy, or most real world navies. it is well suited to use in Nation STates navies and particularly well suited (with modifications) to Northern Nation States Navy.

RE: Snipers

no, it wouldn't have looked like they were working on the radar mast, it would look like blackness, because thats what happens when the lights go out after dark, it gets dark. and how exactly do your forces in the space of a scant number of minutes set up MG nests and send in a crack military team, and how does your seargent guy climb the Radar mast without getting shot at? The snipers can assemble their guns blindfolded un under a minute and it would take at the very very least that long for a man just to get form the dock to the base of the radar mast. ANd how suspiscious could they look before they got to the top and the lights went out? is there some secret signal that people that are going to work on an Oil tankers radar mast give that people that are just up there to start an invasion don't? they're wearing a work uniform and wielding the toolboxes for the job (of working on the radar) you'd have to be able to see inside the closed metal tool box to see that there was a gun inside.

OOC: Well, if you're arsenal ships overcome the flaws of real arsenal ships, then my men can set up machine guns in several minutes. Another thing, I already said the lights were bright enough to kind of see what somewhat was doing. Read my lips: I did not say that I knew they were snipers and were assembling their weapons. I said that they didn't look like they were fixing the mast. I agree they were up there, that they had the uniforms and toolboxes, but they didn't seem to be fixing the mast. The sergeant was on the dock looking up. Tell you what, if you give up on the arsenal ship, I'll give up on the snipers.

I never said I overcame the flaws of the Arsenal ship proposal, I just said that because of fundamental differences between the american Navy and the Northern nation states navy the flaws (Namely high price and lack of use in the given role) that america had are not enough of a problem that I won't use them. The united stats planned on using the arsenal ship as a deep interdiction and shore bombardment vessel. a role that design is admittedly ill suited too. I modifed the design a little (bigger, interchangeable missile loads) and it is now a superb general fire support vessel that can be used in a variety of roles
Naval bombardment
Missile defense
force projection
long range artillery support
stand off engagement
and others

I can't and don't claim to have made it cheaper, I just created a doctrine that made it worth the price.
and besides this (as you have mentioned previously) Is NS, it doesn't effing matter how expensive or ill suited an arsenal ship is, its a valid possible design and If I want eight of them, I will buy and use eight arsenal ships. hell your ally uses airplanes that transform into takns and weapons tht are physically impossible, try chastising him once in a while instead of ragging on my legitimate (If not necesarilly practical) equipment

If your seargent is standing on the dock calling up to snipers before he fires at them, how exactly does he hit them? A battle rifle is optimized for standard combat ranges (50 to a hundred yards) while technically it can be effective over longer rangges, it is not accurate enough to easily hit something that is over two hundred yards away, especially not in a snap shot

I never said I overcame the flaws of the Arsenal ship proposal, I just said that because of fundamental differences between the american Navy and the Northern nation states navy the flaws (Namely high price and lack of use in the given role) that america had are not enough of a problem that I won't use them. The united stats planned on using the arsenal ship as a deep interdiction and shore bombardment vessel. a role that design is admittedly ill suited too. I modifed the design a little (bigger, interchangeable missile loads) and it is now a superb general fire support vessel that can be used in a variety of roles
Naval bombardment
Missile defense
force projection
long range artillery support
stand off engagement
and others

I can't and don't claim to have made it cheaper, I just created a doctrine that made it worth the price.
and besides this (as you have mentioned previously) Is NS, it doesn't effing matter how expensive or ill suited an arsenal ship is, its a valid possible design and If I want eight of them, I will buy and use eight arsenal ships. hell your ally uses airplanes that transform into takns and weapons tht are physically impossible, try chastising him once in a while instead of ragging on my legitimate (If not necesarilly practical) equipment

If your seargent is standing on the dock calling up to snipers before he fires at them, how exactly does he hit them? A battle rifle is optimized for standard combat ranges (50 to a hundred yards) while technically it can be effective over longer rangges, it is not accurate enough to easily hit something that is over two hundred yards away, especially not in a snap shot

OOC: I don't think you read my last line. I'll forget about the snipers and delete the two posts, and you don't use the arsenal ships. Then we can have a firefight after you have your troops come out.

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. The Arsenal ship is a fundamental part of my navy, like america and its aircraft carriers. I don't see why you are so opposed to them.

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. The Arsenal ship is a fundamental part of my navy, like america and its aircraft carriers. I don't see why you are so opposed to them.

OOC: I just think they would be totally pointless and useless.

You're free to think so, but this is NS and your not me so I can have whatever pointless and useless crap I want, so, getting on with this RP I launched 6,400 missiles at youand have a pair of snipers in your port ontop of a ship ready to unleash an invasion force

You're free to think so, but this is NS and your not me so I can have whatever pointless and useless crap I want, so, getting on with this RP I launched 6,400 missiles at youand have a pair of snipers in your port ontop of a ship ready to unleash an invasion force

OOC>now children, if we're going to fight, let's get on with it. How about you two bomb the hell out of each other, I'll join in at some point, and we can get this thread over and done with.

OOC>now children, if we're going to fight, let's get on with it. How about you two bomb the hell out of each other, I'll join in at some point, and we can get this thread over and done with.

OOC: My suggestion that I ignore the two snipers and he ignores my navy, so he can invade and my navy can still be in one piece. In fact, I'm all for ending the war right now. All our little news stations can talk for a bit about the last battle, and then finito. Then we can have peace (if you want, we can do a seperate thread for peace talks) and then Xeraph, you and I can become allies because the war was destructive and blah, blah blah, blah blah.... So, what do you say?

OOC: My suggestion that I ignore the two snipers and he ignores my navy, so he can invade and my navy can still be in one piece. In fact, I'm all for ending the war right now. All our little news stations can talk for a bit about the last battle, and then finito. Then we can have peace (if you want, we can do a seperate thread for peace talks) and then Xeraph, you and I can become allies because the war was destructive and blah, blah blah, blah blah.... So, what do you say?

OOC> if we're going to become allies, then we should stop the fighting now, and as a kind of unusual step, invite all of the combatants to form an alliance.
You can post a new thread proclaiming the alliance, via a news report, and then we can be on our merry way.

OOC: I'm up for an alliance I was planning on hosting a diplomatic confernce thread anyway. Plus I would rather have Xeraph as an ally than an enemy, perhaps as a twist your balck katanas could arrive in Novacom only to be told that the war is over.

The Map will be up in a few hours anyway just finishing it up.

As Col. Jenkins surveyed the destruction wrought by the naval bombardment, he wondered how anybody survived. Most buildings in the Novacom capitol were rubble.......a city of ruins. A full division of the Black Katanas had para-jumped into the city, only to find a bunch of ragged survivors waving a white flag.
"Please........don't shoot! Our leaders have signalled your government for a cease-fire. Have mercy on us..."
" Hold your fire, men. We don't shoot innocent civilians." He noted that there were more than a few Novacom military in the crowd. " You," he pointed at a soldier," where are your superiors?"
" Most of them are dead, sir. I'm Sgt. Hagstrom, 5th Novacommian Army, and in the name of our government, we ask that you cease hostilities. We've lost enough people in this war."
" As have we, seargent. Very well, I am posting three platoons here as a temporary occupying force. The rest will be TransBeamed out of here within the hour. Theyr'e needed in Jaghur. In 24 hours, all Xeraphian forces will be out of here. We wish you the best of luck." Jenkins saluted the seargent, who returned the salute. " Thank you, sir. Perhaps one day our nations can become friends."
"Perhaps, seargent. That's up to the Emperor, not me. Take care."

OOC: excellent post, Could I hold the peace conference just wondering it'll go with a diplomatic conference I had in mind nicely.

IC: A frenzy of activty was taking place in Novaseia the Novacom capitol. In between the Canyon walls of the city (the Capitol is located in quite a long and in some cases narrow and wide canyon) Architects and structural engineers were working frantically on rebuilding everything for the Festival of Light in 2 months time. It would be a tight squeeze but they'd manage it. The Governemntal District had somehow survived relatively unscathed and it was their the rebuilding efforts were being co-ordinated. One good thing had just come on-line to cheer up the Soldiers Teiresias a Tactial AI that was co-ordinating everything and allowing releif efforts to begin. the now Colnel Hagstrom approaches the leader of the Xeraph Garrison. He Salutes Sharply " We need your assistance our entire Military is tied up in restoring law and order to the city as well as aiding in the rebuilding efforts in time for the Festival of Light a most important event for us, unknown forces have tampered with The Great Mechanisms, it is they that allowed our city to be revealed if not for them you would not have known where the city was for The Great Mechanism is repsonsible for moving a pair of doors over this canyon. Now however The Great Mechanism is overheating and if it explodes it could kill millions." He Salutes Sharply again looking very forlorn.

Col. Jenkins immediately spoke into his communicator. " Attention, OSS-1, this is Col. Jenkins of the Xeraphian Occupation Force in Novacom. Lock onto the coordinates for the device known as the "Great Mechanism" and TransBeam it out into the ocean, say about 12 miles out, in the deep water. You should'nt have any problem locating it as it's heat signature is prevalent. Explosion is imminent, repeat, explosion is imminent....."

In less than 10 seconds, the mechanism began to shimmer, as if becoming transparent. An awesome sight it was, this huge machine flashing flames and smoke, glowing ever hotter, being lifted and horizontally moved due east, towards the open ocean. Time was of the essence, as it was more critical than Hagstrom knew. This thing was going to melt-down in just minutes, killing millions. As it floated out over the water, small explosions could be heard, as the various components of the mechanism failed. Approximately 2 minutes later, the machine suddenly plunged into deep water, sinking at a quick pace. As the water closed over the mechanism, a deep, shuddering roar was heard, and a water-spout 200 feet high erupted from the spot where the machine had been dropped. Several large pieces of it shot into the air, only to fall back into the sea. The waters bubbled for a few minutes, steam rising, and then all was silent.

" There you go, Colonel. Disaster averted.....complements of the Emperor."

This is the Novacom News Network with a special report, A cease fire has recently been agreed with Xeraph but we expect a permanent peace concordant to be signed at a peace confernce shortly.

Altough the Capitol may have suffered heavy damage rebuilding efforts are underway and even the Suprainister himself is out on the streets helping those who lost homes to the bombardment. The Xeraph Forces in Novacom have been greated warmly and the mysterious explosion earlier has been explained as a submarine detonating for unknown reasons, This is Cosvela Yonro signing off.

OOC: so who is gonna host this peace conference then I'd appreciate an answer. It's been a great thread except for everyone agruing all the time :p

This is the Novacom News Network with a special report, A cease fire has recently been agreed with Xeraph but we expect a permanent peace concordant to be signed at a peace confernce shortly.

Altough the Capitol may have suffered heavy damage rebuilding efforts are underway and even the Suprainister himself is out on the streets helping those who lost homes to the bombardment. The Xeraph Forces in Novacom have been greated warmly and the mysterious explosion earlier has been explained as a submarine detonating for unknown reasons, This is Cosvela Yonro signing off.

OOC: so who is gonna host this peace conference then I'd appreciate an answer. It's been a great thread except for everyone agruing all the time :p

OOC: I'm holding the peace conference, but first the war needs to end.

OOC: I'm holding the peace conference, but first the war needs to end.

OOC> so, do you want a final bloodbath, or do you want to just hold the peace conference. I'm not going to have much time over the next couple of days, so a peace conference would seem to be the way to go.

" This is Terry McSherry, reporting to you LIVE from the nation of Novacom. A cease-fire has commenced in this war-ravaged country. The Novacommians are appreciative of the Xeraphian aid, and the capitol is in it's first stages of re-building.
We have sketchy reports of Alaric Tan'it, Xeraphian Emperor, making overtures of peace to the Jaghurian government. As anyone in Xeraph can tell you, this is an unusual move on the Emperor's part. Only once before has Alaric talked peace with a nation that was all but beaten, that nation being Spider Death, who declared war on the then-kingdom of Xeraph.
Jaghur perhaps realizes that it cannot defeat Xeraph, and that the widespread death and destruction that would result from a continued belligerant stance would not be in Jaghur's best interests. Whatever the reason for the apparent cessation of fighting in and around Jaghur, it is certainly a welcome one.
The Empire has been fighting three wars concurrently: the Varyl/Jaghur dispute, the AWOL Battleship in the MedSea, and the terrorist attacks in Xeraph and it's allies. With the resolution of this conflict, Xeraph will again be at peace, able to rebuild that which was destroyed.
I will keep you updated as events unfold. This is Terry McSherry, XNN News, in Novacom."

OOC> so, do you want a final bloodbath, or do you want to just hold the peace conference. I'm not going to have much time over the next couple of days, so a peace conference would seem to be the way to go.

OOC: Peace Conference?...Bloodbath?...Peace Conference?...Bloodbath? :confused:

Peace Conference :D

I'll post giving a link to the peace conference thread when I get around to it. How much time do you think you have? Because we could hold the peace conference at a later time, I don't mind. And also, Varyl's posting a revolution thread, so that's another one you might be interested in.

OOC: Peace Conference?...Bloodbath?...Peace Conference?...Bloodbath? :confused:

Peace Conference :D

I'll post giving a link to the peace conference thread when I get around to it. How much time do you think you have? Because we could hold the peace conference at a later time, I don't mind. And also, Varyl's posting a revolution thread, so that's another one you might be interested in.

Sometime Monday or Tuesday would be good....or later if you like.

I'll post it tomorrow

OOC: oh and just for the record though the majority of Novacom's cities are underground with only a cosmetic part up-top, most of the most frantic work in Novaseia was clearing away rubble and rebuilding the surface.

A tall gaunt man in the Uniform of the Enforcers approached the command center for the Xeraph force bearing a parcel with an expression of mixed fury and disbeleif. he Enters in doing a quick Salute to the commander and hands him the parcel. Inside it can be found a unifrom in a similar cut of the Enforcers except with what could at best be described as a Mutated Novacom cross mixed with something else hauntigly familiar. Then without preamble he got out a small monitor showing a small video clip showing a small battalion get slaughtered in an underground gallery somewhere by Enforcers. The Battalion was all wearing that uniform. " as you can see the people wearing these uniforms seem to be behind all the sabotage excersises. The soldiers eliminated here are part of a task force that went rogue under a certain Admiral Carruluso. He is not a native Novaseian he is the only non Novacom to have ever dwelt on Novacom. He was found in a small trading ship with a flag on that we now know to be of Merchant Guild Origin. One of their trading ships gone astray and into the anomoly no doubt. The man was a brilliant military commander however though we also found this on them I doubt you can read it since it's Touch Novan Caligraphs but it in essence outlines orders for this battalion. They apparently are to comandeer a Transport and begin preparation for an "Operation Hydra" in this nation Novacom their was once an Anceint Creature known as the Hydra that would search out worst enemies and make them fight through trickery and once both weaknened it would use some sort of neural gas to make them slaves. I know it sounds presumputious but it seems most logical that this Operation Hydra is an attempt by this Admiral Carruluso to destabalise Xerpah and Merchant guilds and rule them both why he's doing it we don't understand we can only assume it has something to do with the documents we found on the vessel that we found him in as a baby. we cannot read what they say if one of your experts could come up to the Governemntal District we could take him down to the acrhives. Like most important things in the city they are located in the subteranean areas of the city. I however am charged with giving you a tour of Novacom as the Suprainister is interested in a Poilitcial and Military Alliance with Xeraph.

Occupation Commander Rawlings eyed the gaunt man with a a distain that was hard to hide. So, he thought, these primitives want to be friends with Xeraph, eh?
" Thank you for the info. I'll pass this on to the proper authorities, and get back to you. As far as Xeraph allying itself to Novacomm, I am authorised to establish diplomatic proceedings, nothing more. Once the Emperor looks over the info, he may, or may not, want to go to the next step, that of establishing an embassy in Novacomm. If all goes well, he may then allow you to have one in Xeraph. You are dismissed."
As he watched the Novaseian depart, he wondered if he had been a little too brusque. He remembered the "old days" when a defeated enemy was by and large a dead enemy. There was no negotiating......Alaric hated that word. There was only a complete and final answer for those who had dared to raise arms against the Empire.
I hope Alaric knows what he's doing, Rawlings thought......

Peace Conference has been posted. Sorry about the short first post; I couldn't think of anything

Peace Conference (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=412251)

Peace has been violated by Hockey Canada. We demand more bloodshed. YAH!!!!!!!!!!