NationStates Jolt Archive


Oldsopia launches Operation: Knowledge is Power

Oldsopia
25-03-2005, 01:50
From: OIS director, Fin D. Data
To: President, Auto "Mic" Power

Mic,

I am pleased to report the advances made by the public sector in electronics and miniaturization have allowed us to put together a team of agents for Operation: Knowledge is Power. The equipment package we have put together will give us the ability to infiltrate PMT nations with a low probability of discovery, or capture. We are currently putting together a short list of target nations for the first wave of the operation. Nations will be chosen on the basis of three criteria.

1. Available technology: We are looking for nations with technology that is sufficiently advanced to give us an edge in a military conflict despite our small standing army. Automated defense systems, unmanned assault craft and personal field generators are of particular interest.

2. Available Magic: Nations with advanced knowledge of "suppression fields" are of particular interest. These fields have been used to suppress all electrical, chemical, and mechanical reactions in the affected area and will provide a buffer zone around our territorial lands to keep aggressors out. If they do get in they will be reduced to fighting with sticks and stones.

3. Restricted trade: Nations with prohibition laws are of particular interest as this gives us an opportunity to fund the operation almost entirely from smuggling profits. This will cut down the amount of technology we will have to sell to the private sector to pay for development and manufacturing costs.

I have selected 100 operatives from our fighting forces and another 100 from our friends in the drug trades to spearhead this operation. Controllers will be selected from the Oldsopia Intelligence Service.

Thank you for the trust you have shown in selecting me to lead this operation. I will make the family proud.


Fin D. Data
Director
Oldsopia Intelligence Service
Oldsopia
25-03-2005, 21:12
OOC: I am new at NS and this is my first attempt at international incidents. I would appreceate some RP here or some suggestions on how I can build my states defenses. I have seen that it is accepted to have 6% of your population in the military, but I have not seen any ideas on how to build the technology of the nation. Do we just make stuff up, or is there a set of rules for it?
Red Tide2
25-03-2005, 21:20
OOC:It is accepted... but not normally done... the most you should have in peacetime is 2.5%.