NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC:

I just got back from the hospital earlier today, and the operation went well. I'm able to walk around and eat, as I never got any dizziness or any side effects except for a slight numbness in my tongue. I'm just laying in bed, trying to recover and drinking a lot of water. I'm doing well, regardless, as I'm able to check e-mails and stuff late at night. I think I will be getting better and stronger everyday. I'm glad the surgery is over, and most of my nervousness is gone. Its a huge relief that its over, without any hitches.

I think I'll be able to check up here over the next few days. I might be able to post short RP posts, just not my usual detailed ones.

Could someone kindly fill me with what has been going on today and yesterday? Please freeze any actions aganist or with Sharina until I'm able to respond accordingly. Much thanks. :)

OOC: Guten Abend,

Sharina (among a few other nations) have been exempted from the recently enacted Dictatorial Law 666, which banned foreign government holding of stock in TG6R corporations 50% or above. Norleans and Whittier-- passed similar laws, but did not have exemptions.

This was due to major, major, major business wars. So bad that an emergency session of the United Nations was inacted. Several Sharian businesses were affected, notably AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Lockheed Martin. AMD and Intel were bought out (by either USSNA or Whittier--, I cannot remember), while NVIDIA, Lockheed Martin, and Activision stock was purchased up to the Stocks Outstanding limit by Airbus Industries in The Great Sixth Reich (not bought out, but invested heavily in, in other words).

Another important news event is the launch of multiple space programs by various countries, including TG6R, Vineyard, and Warta Endor, who are considering a joint Space Shuttle program.

Other important news include the recent Mauiwowee speech about the future of WMD Incorporated, and Vineyard's celebrations that VirginIncursion is gone.

Thanks, TGSR.

Could everybody hold off their business wars aganist companies based in my territory until I'm given a chance to respond? Its kinda unfair, as I haven't been able to respond to any of those takeovers or such due to my surgery and recovery period.

Thanks, TGSR.

Could everybody hold off their business wars aganist companies based in my territory until I'm given a chance to respond? Its kinda unfair, as I haven't been able to respond to any of those takeovers or such due to my surgery and recovery period.

OOC: The business wars appeared to have stopped yesterday, anyway. Don't worry about, now. The only problem is that a couple Sharinian companies were bought out, which may or may not be fair since you were not on that the time. But that can be sorted out.

Just before approaching the Dais at the FOAM gathering in Brisbane, King Rox read the latest dispatches from Africa - Good, the last of the mining and military contingent in Virgin Incursions' former territory of South Africa had made it out and were headed to Brazil. It had been a profitable relationship while it lasted - over 4.2 million ounces of gold bullion had been added to Mauiwowee's reserves over the past few years, but with the increasing instability in VI's government the inevitable had occurred and it was time to leave South Africa for the vultures (or more likely Wirraway, Vineyard or The Great Sixth Reich). The Nigerian Army was trained and ready to try and defend themselves and they had a duly elected tribal counsel for the nation that could run things if left alone. However, they could not stand up to a superior force for very long and king Rox was hopeful that someone would take the bull by the horns and step in to take over as the Mauiwoweean pull out commenced over the next few weeks. Sigh - time to talk to the delegates, I'm sure they've got some questions about our statement, they've had a few hours to digest it and we got that message from Whittier - well, that's easily dealt with, just as promised.

King Rox took the stage and as the delegates settled down he looked over their faces and saw serious looks of consternation. Just better jump right in he thought to himself.

"Gentlemen, than you for coming. I know you have many questions regarding the information you were supplied when you arrived, in particular point number 5 and the "Narcosis Doctrine." Please rest assured, I will deal with those issues as I explain further the meaning and intent in all this. However, I would like first to make a quick correction to the materials and then I would like to deal with the issues in order. As to the corrections, item 5(E)(19) should be deleted - I'm not sure how the Seychelles got listed there, but that was a mistake. Mauiwowee makes no claim to the Seychelles, so just scratch that off. Secondly, items 5(E)(12) and 5(E)(21) should also be deleted. I have received a communication from my state department indicating that our esteemed colleague here, Whitter, had a pre-existing claim to Niu and Wake Island. As such, we have no hesitation in rescinding ours. Our intent was not to create hostility between our nations (looking directly at the Whittierian delegate to the conference) or appear to be intruding upon pre-existing claims. More on that later though when I deal with point 5 in detail. For the time being though, you should remove Niu and Wake Island from the list as Mauiwowee is not claiming them. Now, on to the agenda set by our announcement:

The first item has caused some concern here in Mauiwowee. Some fear we are giving up too much. However, we find the trade wars to be harmful to the economies of all nations in the world, even those not directly involved in them such as ourselves and felt that a release of the technology would ease tensions and put a halt to the economically destructive actions of the nations involved in the trade wars (looking at the Warta Endorian delegate). However, it should be noted that first, we are only allowing the release of aeronautical information, our naval and land based technology remains as always. Secondly, the information we are releasing as to our planes, engines, etc. is limited to older models and versions. You'll note our new Stryker aircraft are expressly exempted from this release of information as will be information regarding other new aircraft currently being tested by Mauiwowee. The Stryker and the new planes have significant updates and upgrades over the Bong Buster II and Head Rush aircraft. For example, the computer AI system in the Bong Buster aircraft is version 4.51 of the software. In the new Strykers we are using version 9.48.05 - a full 4 generations of advancement. The systems compare in capabilities and sophistication like DOS 6.22 compares to Windows Server 2003. Obviously, we want a non-agression treaty with those who wish to purchase the information and technology, but obviously, as members of FOAM, we already have such an agreement with your nations - In fact several of you have Head Rush aircraft already since they have for the past few years been the standard FOAM patrol craft in the area. Also, our Links 50/50 space shuttle system has been for sale as an item for several years now. All we've done is offer the specs. and production rights now.

As to item two on the agenda. I think that is pretty self-explanatory. The royal family, myself included, felt it was time to take our company public and bring in some outsiders. Sales have sagged a bit recently and some fresh, young blood in a car company is always good to have. With the money raised from the IPO we hope to be able to bring in a whole new design and engineering team to, among other things, finish the Kharras auto design and get it into production.

As for item three on the list, surely that is clear enough. It's time to promote tourism in the area and what better way to do that than to grand landing rights to international air carriers. Customs and intelligence contingents and air port security is being beefed up a bit to deal with the increase in the number of people making Mauiwowee and it's holdings a destination. It is also another way to increase trade and the free flow of ideas across borders and lessen the impact of the trade wars.

As for item Four, we just feel it is time for us to leave Nigeria. We took that nation under our wing in an effort to help former FOAM member, VirginIncursion deal with threats to her holdings in Africa and to "cover her back" in a manner of speaking. However, as you all know by now, the instability in her government was just too great to overcome and her nation has collapsed - we have no intention of attempting to expand in Africa and never did. We have trained a Nigerian army and put a democratic government in place. They are armed and able to fight and defend themselves and have a government that is poised to grow them into a great nation. However, if they are attacked by the likes of Vineyard, The Great Sixth Reich, Wirraway or another large nation, they won't last more than a year or two without significant assistance. We are hopeful someone will step in and offer to be that assistance and ensure they remain safe as we just do not feel we are able to do so.

Finally, the issue on that is no doubt of the greatest interest and concern to you, item #5 and the Narcosis Doctrine. First, let me ask you to think of "The Monroe Doctrine." For those of you haven't studied much old U.S. history, in about 1824 South America broke away from Spain and Portugal and the nations of Venezuala, Argentina, Chile', Brazil and others were formed. Spain sought the assistance of France and Britain to regain those territories and began initial preparations for war. Britain refused to help and informed the U.S. what was going on and president James Monroe made an announcement which has become known as "The Monroe Doctrine." In so many words, the U.S. told Spain to "back off" and that foreign intervention in to the affairs of North and South America would not be be tolerated and the governments of Argentina, etc. were recognized formally by the U.S. The Narcosis Doctrine is similar, we recognize the legitimate interests of Whittier, Warta Endor, Sharina, etc. in the Pacific and Southern Ocean and we want to make it clear that foreign intervention into the affairs of the Pacific, including the affairs of Warta Endor, Whittier, etc., is not going to be tolerated by Mauiwowee - Just as Argentina, etc. accepted the Monroe Doctrine and worked in their own way to assist in it's implementation and to maintain their soveriegnity, we are hopeful your nations will recognize the Narcosis Doctrine and work with us in this effort to ensure safety and stability for all of us in the Pacific.
Secondly, as to the islands we have claimed. If you'll check the CIA factbook information on those islands, you will see that a significant percentage of them are uninhabited, with some being uninhabitable. It is our intention to turn them into "way stations" in the ocean, weather, radar and communications links, some fully automated in that regard and use them to assist in the implementation of the Narcosis Doctrine. Some of the islands will be used as scientific research stations and/or nature preserves as we currently do with Clipperton Island. Only a few, such as Guam, are likely to see any significant military presence. Also, the communications relays will open for use by anyone who desires to use them and the weather data and scientific research data gathered will be available for the asking to anyone who desires it.
We are certainly not trying to "control" the Pacific in the way a ruler of a nation might do. Rather, we are attempting to control it in the way the Police might try to control a city and we'd like your assistance in that regard. We have threatened to bomb those peoples who resist, that is true. However, as you all know, the Cult of Barney has spread throughout the region and it is our belief that becoming a member of Mauiwowee and being guaranteed a stable, central government and all the economic and other benefits that can be brought to the indiginous peoples of these small islands will not be resisted unless such resistance is fueled by the fanaticism of the CoB. By engaging in bombing of those who resist, it is felt we will be further decapitating the purple headed moster that the CoB has become which, as you know, has threatened the Pacific and Asia in the past few years. If you'll recall, they even nuked a Mauiwoweean holding, killing thousands upon thousands and Warta Endor was significantly threatened by the fall out of the attack.
Third, surely none of you object to a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, there is no need for it, nukes work, we know it. There is no need to further harm our planets enviroment in an effort to prove we have powerful nukes.
As to the searching and seizing of ships, as stated in the materials, we do not intend at all to interfere with the normal flow of goods and commerce in the Pacific, nor the normal deployment and patrol of warships. However, we want to ensure that the stability of the area is not threatened by criminals and rouge states who engage in piracy, smuggling or acts of military agression in the area. We will be seeking to inspect vessels only when we have probable cause to believe they are engaged in forbidden activity - and we are more than willing to stand up to the scrutiny of the U.N. or FOAM should anyone claim their ship was searched illegally or that we destroyed or seized it illegally. Again the goal is to be a force for stability and security in the region - the coast guard of the Pacific if you will, not the dictator of Pacific rim policy.

Finally, and this is not in the materials you were supplied - it is time to re-constitute FOAM and return it to its original mission - that of protecting the Pacific only. In the past years, it over extended itself and attempted interventions in the Atlantic and Indian oceans and even in the Persian Gulf to some extent - "we got to big for our britches" as my mother would have said. To that end, I propose that we create a body, similar to the U.N. to govern the nations who belong to FOAM. We will happily host that body politic in Australia, but would also agree to it being headquarted anywhere else as well. We have an emergency, safety shelter for FOAM leaders in Sharina held Colorado for use in the event of a significant threat to FOAM, but primary headquarters should be in the Pacific. Just as membership in the U.N. does not obligate one member nation to go to war should another member nation be attacked, membership in FOAM would not require such a guarrantee of military assistance between FOAM members. On the other hand, just as the U.N. is used to work out and mediate differences between U.N. members and to sanction nations on occasion for engaging in unnaceptable behavior, FOAM should do the same for it's members.

Now, gentlemen, I'm open for your questions and concerns"

With that, King Rox took a step back and looked out at those assembled and waited to hear what they had to say. Meanwhile, in the wings, General Ripper waited to hear what would come of the matter with nervous anticipation. The king had delivered the speech with conviction and sincerety, just as 'Lude would have done, but could this new king command the respect and attention of these FOAM delegates the way 'Lude had been able to - he was about to find out.

OOC: Note - A transcript of King 'Lude's speech has been forwarded to all world leaders as a follow up to the prior announcement of the Narcosis Doctrine.

OOC: Guten Abend,

Sharina (among a few other nations) have been exempted from the recently enacted Dictatorial Law 666, which banned foreign government holding of stock in TG6R corporations 50% or above. Norleans and Whittier-- passed similar laws, but did not have exemptions.

This was due to major, major, major business wars. So bad that an emergency session of the United Nations was inacted. Several Sharian businesses were affected, notably AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Lockheed Martin. AMD and Intel were bought out (by either USSNA or Whittier--, I cannot remember), while NVIDIA, Lockheed Martin, and Activision stock was purchased up to the Stocks Outstanding limit by Airbus Industries in The Great Sixth Reich (not bought out, but invested heavily in, in other words).

Another important news event is the launch of multiple space programs by various countries, including TG6R, Vineyard, and Warta Endor, who are considering a joint Space Shuttle program.

Other important news include the recent Mauiwowee speech about the future of WMD Incorporated, and Vineyard's celebrations that VirginIncursion is gone.

Glad to hear it went ok Sharina - hope you're up and around feeling well and hearing for the first time soon. I don't think too much was done that would significantly affect you other than the trade wars - Mauiwowee's announcement is relatively new (only one RP day old and the FOAM conference is just now set to discuss it). Mauiwowee did not get involved in the trade wars.

TG6R - I may be wrong, but I believe AMD is a Texas corp and as such subject to Norlean's rule on 50% ownership.

Glad to hear it went ok Sharina - hope you're up and around feeling well and hearing for the first time soon. I don't think too much was done that would significantly affect you other than the trade wars - Mauiwowee's announcement is relatively new (only one RP day old and the FOAM conference is just now set to discuss it). Mauiwowee did not get involved in the trade wars.

TG6R - I may be wrong, but I believe AMD is a Texas corp and as such subject to Norlean's rule on 50% ownership.

OOC: Not this again! AMD is headquarted in Sunnyvale, California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD :)

Also, that is one heck of a long speech Mauiwowee. Good job writing it. ;)

OOC: Not this again! AMD is headquarted in Sunnyvale, California. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD :)

Also, that is one heck of a long speech Mauiwowee. Good job writing it. ;)

I said I might be mistaken - and I was - they just have some fab plants in Texas.

Thanks about the speech. It was a real pisser when I wrote it this morning and the computer ate it when I tried to post it.

OOC: Any concerns so far?

I'm going to sleep....

EDIT: I'm up.

Bump.

IC Update:

Our Spacecraft Landing Sites (SLS) are done. The Malé Space Center is around 75% done.

IC:

Offical Logo of the DBFR:

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Today, the Deutche Bundesbehörde für Raumfahr (DBFR) (Translated: "German Alliance Authority for Space Travel") was created to control the space program in The Great Sixth Reich. Ottokar Luft, Dictator of Aviation, was pronounced Director.
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OOC Note: VINEYARD!!! Tell me whether "Deutsche" is correct!

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Secret IC:

Their first task was astronaut recruitment. They addressed the following message to Vineyard:

Guten Tag,

Our first operational Space Shuttle (excluding the previous testing one) was completed today. We wish to test the shuttle with a crew of six. Knowing this, we ask if your nation wishes to contribute any astronauts to the mission.

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Ottokar Luft,
Diktator des Flugwesens,
Die republikanische Monokratie Des Großen Sechsten Reich.

OOC: Where is everybody today?

Message to the Great Sixth Reich:

Dear sirs:
We have watched as you developed your space program and after discussion within our space agency, we wanted to offer to you the availability of our landing fields in Brazil, Australia and S.E. China. We are currently flying a Links 50/50 mission at the rate of about 1 every 60 days or so and would be willing to cooperate with your space program in ways that will advance both programs as well as aid in the development of a possible international space station. We have 40 operational links orbiters and 25 links launchers and can rapidly respond to assist with problems in space as well.

Sincerely,
Dr. Helios DeRigor
Director, MASA (Mauiwowee Astronautical & Space Agency)

OOC: I don't know where everyone is, I'm about to eat dinner, but I'll be back later tonight. I was away from the house all afternoon though.

First press release photo:

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Computer animation of a launch of Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis at Malé Space Center.

Message to the Great Sixth Reich:

Dear sirs:
We have watched as you developed your space program and after discussion within our space agency, we wanted to offer to you the availability of our landing fields in Brazil, Australia and S.E. China. We are currently flying a Links 50/50 mission at the rate of about 1 every 60 days or so and would be willing to cooperate with your space program in ways that will advance both programs as well as aid in the development of a possible international space station. We have 40 operational links orbiters and 25 links launchers and can rapidly respond to assist with problems in space as well.

Sincerely,
Dr. Helios DeRigor
Director, MASA (Mauiwowee Astronautical & Space Agency)

OOC: I don't know where everyone is, I'm about to eat dinner, but I'll be back later tonight. I was away from the house all afternoon though.

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Dr. Helios DeRigo,

We accept your proposel. In particular, we need the landing fields in Southeast China and Australia as are primary low and high inclination TCAL sites. What facilities do you have available there specifically? Brazil will also be useful as an emergency landing field in case of bad weather conditions in the Indian Ocean, where most of our current landing sites are located.

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Ottokar Luft,
Diktator des Flugwesens,
Die republikanische Monokratie Des Großen Sechsten Reich.

The Quirinus Space Shuttle System

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Intial Launch Power: Twin Advanced Solid Rocket Boosters (ASRBs) and one Super Lightweight External Tank (SLWET) with a belt-shaped heater.
Power Post SRB and ET Jetisons: Three Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) engines. See more information here (http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/travelinginspace/future_propulsion.html). These VSIMR engines would be powered by hydrogen and a gaseous fission reactor. Post SRB and ET Jetison power also includes two High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) ion thrusters as part of the Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS), and also part of the Reaction Control System (RCS).
Reaction Control System (RCS): High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) ion thrusters are located on the uperside of the shuttle to power the RCS. For additional power, larger twin High Power Electric Propulsion (HiPEP) ion thrusters are stationed below the tail, as part of the OMS and RCS.
Avionic Display System: Multifunction Electronic Display System (MEDS).
Avionic Computer: Six QOC-001 computers (a Cell Processer-based supercomputer, using thirteen Cell Processers, each with ten Synergistic Processing Elements, for a speed of 5.2 GHZ per processer, equaling 67.6 GHZ total processing power per computer). All computer run using the HAL/S programming language. Five computers run synchronized, while the other two serve as backup.
Thermal Protection System: Adaptable, Robust, Metallic, Operable, Reusable (ARMOR) Thermal Protection System (TPS). "The outer surface is a foil-gage, Inconel 617 metallic honeycomb sandwich panel. This outer panel is structurally connected to an inner box beam by a thin Inconel 718 metal support bracket at each corner of the panel. The ARMOR TPS design provides three different sealing features so panel-to-panel placement on a vehicle inhibits hot gases during reentry from eking between panels." -ARMOR System (http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/armor_tps_020130-1.html)
Payload Bay: 60'x15', with four thermal radiators on the inner surfaces of the payload doors. Also contains the Remote Manipulator System (RMS), with an Orbital Boom Sensor System, both of which are controlled by the Advanced Space Vision System.
Orbiter Design:
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Crew Module Escape Capsule: The crew module is completely enclosed by two layers of Reinforced Carbon-Carbon, and will jetison away from the shuttle by command or computer sensor.

Note: Quirinus = Roman God of Defense and the State.

OOC: Updated to final version.

Dear Mr. Luft:

Our landing fields are located just outside Changsha in the Hunan province of China, Just outside Alice Springs in the Simpson Desert area of the outbacks of Australia and near Sao Raimundo Nonato in the Southern Mato Grasso region of Brazil. Each of them are built around an airforce base and include hanger space for 15 of our Links 50 and 25 Links orbiter craft in addition to the airwings that are stationed there. In other words, more than ample room to store one of your shuttles should the need arise.
In addition, each features a paved runway that is 17,000 feet long, with a 1,500-foot overrun on each end. The width is 500 feet with 75 foot asphalt shoulders on each side. The concrete runway is 22 inches thick in center, and 18 inches thick on the sides. The landing strip is not perfectly flat; it has a slope of 24 inches from the center line to the edge to facilitate drainage.
The Landing Facility includes a 600 foot by 520 foot parking apron, or ramp, on the southeastern end of the runway. On the northeast corner of the ramp is the Mate/Demate Device (MDD). The MDD is 175 feet long, 110 feet wide and 125 feet high. It can lift up to 260,000 pounds and should easily be able to load your shuttle on the back of a 767 or Airbus for a "piggy back" transportation back to your territory.
Finally, we have state of the art fire and emergency landings safety personnel and equipment in place. Standard and quarrantined crew quarters, a 30 bed hospital and trauma center and the state of the art electronic, monitoring and control systems you would expect to find in such a facility.
In short, we anticipate having no problems in handling your needs and will also gladly act as redundant or primary mission control monitoring and/or tracking stations if you so desire on any of your missions.
Sincerely,
Dr. Helios DeRigor
Director, MASA (Mauiwowee Astronautical & Space Agency)

Message to Norleans
From Warta Endor Ministery of Economy

As you currently own all scottish whiskey distilleries we would like to propose a deal. Our previous whiskey consumption per year was about 12 million liters (ooc. Not only Lao likes whiskey. It's also popular in the armed forces, when they're off duty ofcourse ;) ). If you could provide such an amount of whiskey, we would appreciate it. In return you can receive cash, stocks in Warta Endor based companies or manufactured goods. Please reply as soon as possible.

Jack Dunross, Minister of Economy


Dear Mr. Dunross:
Please see the below press release, I believe you will be pleased. I wish to emphasize to you that the take over of the whiskey industry was in response to some consumer issues dealing with strict quality control, we have not and will not impede the free flow of whiskey in this world. We will merely profit from it a little more than we have in the past.
Duke Long,
Norleans.

PRESS RELEASE: Norleans announced today that as the result of the nationalization of the whiskey industry in Norleans held territory and the fact that net profits from the sale and distribution of whiskey will now inure to Norleans proper and not the former manufacturers, there is no need for a "sin tax" and similar tarrifs on whiskey and those have officially been abolished. What this means for the average consumer is that, depending on the brand, age, etc. the retail price of whiskey should drop anywhere from $0.37 to $5.00/liter. In short, whiskey will be cheaper than ever, even the "good stuff" and Norleans' will still retain a revenue stream generated from the production and sale of whiskey.

Dear Mr. Luft:

Our landing fields are located just outside Changsha in the Hunan province of China, Just outside Alice Springs in the Simpson Desert area of the outbacks of Australia and near Sao Raimundo Nonato in the Southern Mato Grasso region of Brazil. Each of them are built around an airforce base and include hanger space for 15 of our Links 50 and 25 Links orbiter craft in addition to the airwings that are stationed there. In other words, more than ample room to store one of your shuttles should the need arise.
In addition, each features a paved runway that is 17,000 feet long, with a 1,500-foot overrun on each end. The width is 500 feet with 75 foot asphalt shoulders on each side. The concrete runway is 22 inches thick in center, and 18 inches thick on the sides. The landing strip is not perfectly flat; it has a slope of 24 inches from the center line to the edge to facilitate drainage.
The Landing Facility includes a 600 foot by 520 foot parking apron, or ramp, on the southeastern end of the runway. On the northeast corner of the ramp is the Mate/Demate Device (MDD). The MDD is 175 feet long, 110 feet wide and 125 feet high. It can lift up to 260,000 pounds and should easily be able to load your shuttle on the back of a 767 or Airbus for a "piggy back" transportation back to your territory.
Finally, we have state of the art fire and emergency landings safety personnel and equipment in place. Standard and quarrantined crew quarters, a 30 bed hospital and trauma center and the state of the art electronic, monitoring and control systems you would expect to find in such a facility.
In short, we anticipate having no problems in handling your needs and will also gladly act as redundant or primary mission control monitoring and/or tracking stations if you so desire on any of your missions.
Sincerely,
Dr. Helios DeRigor
Director, MASA (Mauiwowee Astronautical & Space Agency)

OOC: "Herr" Luft. :p

IC:

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Dr. Helios DeRigor,

We will also make our landing facilities accessable to Mauiwowee as well, to be fair. The following facilities are available for landing any hour of the day or night:

Malé Space Center (The Maldives)
HAMBURG FINKENWERDER AIRPORT/Hamburg Space Center (Germany)
KRZESINY AIRPORT (Poland)
SAHL SINJAR AIRPORT (Iraq)
EL TARI AIRPORT (East Timor)
MIDWAY ATOLL AIRPORT (Midway Islands)
KEFLAVIK NAS AIRPORT (Iceland)
Köln Bonn Airport (Germany)

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Ottokar Luft,
Diktator des Flugwesens,
Die republikanische Monokratie Des Großen Sechsten Reich.

-Secret Telegram to TG6R-
-URGENT MESSAGE-
The nation and Empire of Vineyard HIGLY OBJECTS to such an arrangement with mauiwowee due to the hostility and sheer agression they have shown in the past. We will not risk any of our military personnel to be allowed to fall within their grasp, in the event of an emergency landing. ALSO, the usage of OUR united space program landing sights is completely unacceptable.

Faliure to withdraw these agreements with Maui will result in a trade embargo.

-Lord Vineyard II

Dr. Helios DeRigor,

We will also make our landing facilities accessable to Mauiwowee as well, to be fair. The following facilities are available for landing any hour of the day or night:

Malé Space Center (The Maldives)
HAMBURG FINKENWERDER AIRPORT/Hamburg Space Center (Germany)
KRZESINY AIRPORT (Poland)
SAHL SINJAR AIRPORT (Iraq)
EL TARI AIRPORT (East Timor)
MIDWAY ATOLL AIRPORT (Midway Islands)
KEFLAVIK NAS AIRPORT (Iceland)
Köln Bonn Airport (Germany)

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Ottokar Luft,
Diktator des Flugwesens,
Die republikanische Monokratie Des Großen Sechsten Reich.

Her Luft:
Thank you for your offer of landing rights at your facilities. In order to show the new age of cooperation between our nations in the exploration of space and in an effort to signal to the world our peaceful intentions with our recent announcements and endeavors, as well as to provide an impetuous for all nations to cooperate in the exploration of space and the building of an international space station under the auspices of the U.N., we currently have one of our links orbiters in orbit doing some upgrades on one of our communication satellites and we would like to land the orbiter at the Hamburg Space Center facility admist a huge and splashy media event. We would like to suggest that you do the same with one of your shuttles in the near future at one of our facilities. We await your reply to see if this is a possibility.
Dr. DeRigor

-Secret Telegram to TG6R-
-URGENT MESSAGE-
The nation and Empire of Vineyard HIGLY OBJECTS to such an arrangement with mauiwowee due to the hostility and sheer agression they have shown in the past. We will not risk any of our military personnel to be allowed to fall within their grasp, in the event of an emergency landing. ALSO, the usage of OUR united space program landing sights is completely unacceptable.

Faliure to withdraw these agreements with Maui will result in a trade embargo.

-Lord Vineyard II
OOC: Vineyard. Get on Skype. You suck at making threats. :upyours:

-Secret Telegram to TG6R-
-URGENT MESSAGE-
The nation and Empire of Vineyard HIGLY OBJECTS to such an arrangement with mauiwowee due to the hostility and sheer agression they have shown in the past. We will not risk any of our military personnel to be allowed to fall within their grasp, in the event of an emergency landing. ALSO, the usage of OUR united space program landing sights is completely unacceptable.

Faliure to withdraw these agreements with Maui will result in a trade embargo.

-Lord Vineyard II


VINEYARD! "Military personnel"?! IT'S A FREAKIN' CIVILIAN SPACE SHUTTLE!

I may join Earth V again just to fight you!

OOC to Vineyard: GET ON SKYPE!

OOC to Mauiwowee: Can you give me any information on this Linkys 50/50?

OOC:

I'm feeling stronger today, as I stopped taking pain mediciation. I'm not drowsy anymore, and I'm able to focus my concentration on doing stuff much better now. I'll try to RP something for tonight. :)

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"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for Sharina InterEarth Information Network, or SIEIN. Today's top two news stories involve the Economic Wars and the ongoing Operation Steel Heart in Canada.

First, in response to the ongoing Trade Wars between various nations of the world, Sharina has enacted one of its emergency protocols. All foreign investment in Sharinan companies are to be nullified and declared void, and any foreign buy-outs of Sharinan based corporations are henceforth not recongized. Several companies affected by this include Boeing, Nintendo, Intel, Lockheed and Martin, and others.

What this means is that any foreign buy-outs or ownership of those corporations, or any company in Sharina for that matter, is nullified. These companies now belong fully to the Sharinan people, under Sharinan direction, and no longer shall answer to any orders, directives, or demands put forth from any foreign nations. For instance, should Whittier demand Intel in Sharina to do something, Intel will ignore Whittier, and follow Sharinan orders instead.



Now onwards to Operation Steel Heart. Sharinan forces have reached the center of Quebec, and are also in the process of securing Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and all the small islands off the shore of mainland Canada. It is expected that Quebec should fall to Sharinan forces within a month or two, as it is being pressed on from the west and south. A similiar scenario is playing out in Newfoundland and Labrador, as Sharinan forces from Greenland, Nunavut, and Ontario are landing along the lightly and poorly defended Canadian shores.

Experts predict that this will be the final phase of Sharinan expansion in North America, barring any abrupt or sudden developments as far as the geo-political situation in North America is concerned. There may be an effort in the Caribbean Sea, but no more significant expansion is currently being planned at this time.

We will bring you more as the story develops."

OOC Comment: It's great that you are doing better Sharina! :)

OOC to Sharina about that law: You do realize that banning ALL foreign investment is going to significantly decrease your companies' available capita? I could understand banning buyouts by foreign governments, or even investment by foreign governments, but banning ALL people and businesses from outside of Sharina from holding ANY stock is absolutely insane is my opinion.

(Yes, I am VERY ANNOYED that Airbus Industries invested 49% in some of those companies listed, and now loses all of it.)

What a bad day on Earth V for me...

OOC to Vineyard: GET ON SKYPE!

OOC to Mauiwowee: Can you give me any information on this Linkys 50/50?

OOC: TG6R Here's a link http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=387705 I also posted on Zifos about it.

OOC: TG6R Here's a link http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=387705 I also posted on Zifos about it.
Danke.

The International Space Treaty

NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the confusion over the numerous space programs operated by various countries,

DESIRING, supriorer landing plans for any space emergency or conditions that impair the normal normal landing plan,

WHILE NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the current freedom to abuse a landing or abuse access to classified material during a landing.

I. DECLARES ACCORDINGLY that all nations shall open their landing facilities for spacecraft of any nation to land if necessary due to deviations of conditions on the ground or space, as well as any crew emergencies,

II. AUTHORIZES any nation to reject such landings on their soil or water due to new cocerns of any sort, as long as their rejection is documented ahead of the need for any such landing,

III. FURTHER PROCLAIMS that any abuse of this resolution, as noted in Preambulatory Clause Three, is consistered a transgression, and will result in ejection from the United Nations, and authorization of any hostile force towards the preparator nation due to such an occasion.

IV. CALLS FOR the creation of the United Nations International Space Treaty Enforcement Force (UNISPTEF). This force uses the authorization granted by Operative Clause Three to bring against the offending nation severe military reprecussions.

V. CALLS FOR the Director position of the United Nations International Space Treaty Enforcement Force shall rotate among the signatories to this treaty on a 2 year schedule and in the order in which signatory nations signify their agreement hereto.

Submitted by:
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Nations Subject to Treaty:

The Great Sixth Reich (UNISPTEF Member)
Vineyard (UNISPTEF Member)
Great Romeo (UNISPTEF Member)
Mauiwowee (UNISPTEF Member)
Whittier-- (UNISPTEF Member)

The International Space Treaty

NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the confusion over the numerous space programs operated by various countries,

DESIRING, supriorer landing plans for any space emergency or conditions that impair the normal normal landing plan,

WHILE NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the current freedom to abuse a landing or abuse access to classified material during a landing.

I. DECLARES ACCORDINGLY that all nations shall open their landing facilities for spacecraft of any nation to land if necessary due to deviations of conditions on the ground or space, as well as any crew emergencies,

II. AUTHORIZES any nation to reject such landings on their soil or water due to new cocerns of any sort, as long as their rejection is documented ahead of the need for any such landing,

III. FURTHER PROCLAIMS that any abuse of this resolution, as noted in Preambulatory Clause Three, is consistered a transgression, and will result in ejection from the United Nations, and authorization of any hostile force towards the preparator nation due to such an occasion.

Submitted by:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9327/undelegate7bp.png (http://imageshack.us)

Nations Subject to Treaty:

The Great Sixth Reich
Great Romeo

Great Romeo, who will most definitely be stronger in space than any of you with our new Sputnik and Vostok programs, accepts this fair treaty.

VINEYARD! "Military personnel"?! IT'S A FREAKIN' CIVILIAN SPACE SHUTTLE!

I may join Earth V again just to fight you!
ooc: So you think.

The shuttle program is NOT a civilian operation. It is a military operation. This is no NASA, or the USA for that matter.

Its doubtful you can win even on the Internet.

OOC Comment: It's great that you are doing better Sharina! :)

OOC to Sharina about that law: You do realize that banning ALL foreign investment is going to significantly decrease your companies' available capita? I could understand banning buyouts by foreign governments, or even investment by foreign governments, but banning ALL people and businesses from outside of Sharina from holding ANY stock is absolutely insane is my opinion.

(Yes, I am VERY ANNOYED that Airbus Industries invested 49% in some of those companies listed, and now loses all of it.)

What a bad day on Earth V for me...

I'm willing to RP out a dialog, maybe letting foreigners invest in companies after neogiations. However, buy-outs are still gonna be banned, though. Maybe Luft Industries could raise some concerns then Sharina meets with your Luft guys to resolve this stuff? I'm up for that RP.

I'm willing to RP out a dialog, maybe letting foreigners invest in companies after neogiations. However, buy-outs are still gonna be banned, though. Maybe Luft Industries could raise some concerns then Sharina meets with your Luft guys to resolve this stuff? I'm up for that RP.

OOC: Luft Industries is a private contractor, not affiliated with Airbus. So it would be Airbus if you did the talks with anybody.

OOC:

I'm feeling stronger today, as I stopped taking pain mediciation. I'm not drowsy anymore, and I'm able to focus my concentration on doing stuff much better now. I'll try to RP something for tonight. :)

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"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for Sharina InterEarth Information Network, or SIEIN. Today's top two news stories involve the Economic Wars and the ongoing Operation Steel Heart in Canada.

First, in response to the ongoing Trade Wars between various nations of the world, Sharina has enacted one of its emergency protocols. All foreign investment in Sharinan companies are to be nullified and declared void, and any foreign buy-outs of Sharinan based corporations are henceforth not recongized. Several companies affected by this include Boeing, Nintendo, Intel, Lockheed and Martin, and others.

What this means is that any foreign buy-outs or ownership of those corporations, or any company in Sharina for that matter, is nullified. These companies now belong fully to the Sharinan people, under Sharinan direction, and no longer shall answer to any orders, directives, or demands put forth from any foreign nations. For instance, should Whittier demand Intel in Sharina to do something, Intel will ignore Whittier, and follow Sharinan orders instead.



Now onwards to Operation Steel Heart. Sharinan forces have reached the center of Quebec, and are also in the process of securing Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and all the small islands off the shore of mainland Canada. It is expected that Quebec should fall to Sharinan forces within a month or two, as it is being pressed on from the west and south. A similiar scenario is playing out in Newfoundland and Labrador, as Sharinan forces from Greenland, Nunavut, and Ontario are landing along the lightly and poorly defended Canadian shores.

Experts predict that this will be the final phase of Sharinan expansion in North America, barring any abrupt or sudden developments as far as the geo-political situation in North America is concerned. There may be an effort in the Caribbean Sea, but no more significant expansion is currently being planned at this time.

We will bring you more as the story develops."
Economic Minister Igor Ivanov was awaiting the ok for action from the Secretary General. Because there was no emergency and Sharina has been an ally in the past, nothing could be done with out the approval of the Politburo.

What action would be taken was not being discussed but the Whittier embassy in Sharina had orders to file suit against Sharina in a Sharina court to have the new law annulled on the grounds it was a seizure of property without due compensation. The lawsuit also accused the Sharina government of unfair trade practices.

Her Luft:
Thank you for your offer of landing rights at your facilities. In order to show the new age of cooperation between our nations in the exploration of space and in an effort to signal to the world our peaceful intentions with our recent announcements and endeavors, as well as to provide an impetuous for all nations to cooperate in the exploration of space and the building of an international space station under the auspices of the U.N., we currently have one of our links orbiters in orbit doing some upgrades on one of our communication satellites and we would like to land the orbiter at the Hamburg Space Center facility admist a huge and splashy media event. We would like to suggest that you do the same with one of your shuttles in the near future at one of our facilities. We await your reply to see if this is a possibility.
Dr. DeRigor

To: Mauiwowee (NOT MASA, because this is a diplomatic message)
From: TG6R

The Great Sixth Reich will agree to the condition of the Mauiwowee Linkys 50/50 Orbiter landing at Hamburg Space Center, as long as one condition is satisfied: Mauiwowee must sign the International Space Treaty. We require this due to the presence of Vineyard Military Presonnel in the vincinity of the landing area. In addition, we will need this treaty to be signed shortly even if Mauiwowee decides not to land the orbiter at Hamburg Space Center, because of our joint space program with Vineyard, whose nation only allows landings at facilities of countries that have signed the treaty.

-Adolph Görring.

The International Space Treaty

NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the confusion over the numerous space programs operated by various countries,

DESIRING, supriorer landing plans for any space emergency or conditions that impair the normal normal landing plan,

WHILE NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the current freedom to abuse a landing or abuse access to classified material during a landing.

I. DECLARES ACCORDINGLY that all nations shall open their landing facilities for spacecraft of any nation to land if necessary due to deviations of conditions on the ground or space, as well as any crew emergencies,

II. AUTHORIZES any nation to reject such landings on their soil or water due to new cocerns of any sort, as long as their rejection is documented ahead of the need for any such landing,

III. FURTHER PROCLAIMS that any abuse of this resolution, as noted in Preambulatory Clause Three, is consistered a transgression, and will result in ejection from the United Nations, and authorization of any hostile force towards the preparator nation due to such an occasion.

IV. FURTHER PROCLAIMS that a United Nations International Space Treaty Enforcement Force be created, lead by The Great Sixth Reich. This force uses the authorization granted by Operative Clause Three to bring against the offending nation severe military reprecussions.

Submitted by:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9327/undelegate7bp.png (http://imageshack.us)

Nations Subject to Treaty:

The Great Sixth Reich (UNISPTEF Leader)
Vineyard (UNISPTEF Member)
Great Romeo

Dear Sirs:

On behalf of Mauiwowee, we are agreeable to the foregoing treaty if one additional clause is added - that being:

V. Leadership of the United Nations International Space Treaty Enforcement Force shall rotate among the signatories to this treaty on a 2 year schedule and in the order in which signatory nations signify their agreement hereto.

In other words, every 2 years, a new chairperson for the committee is named. Now the chair is TG6R, in 2 years it will be Vineyard (the 2nd signatory) then Great Romeo (the 3rd signatory), then Mauiwowee (the 4th Signatory) then whoever is 5th or if there is no fifth, back to TG6R.

Respectfully,
Bridgee Bhardoe,
Mauiwowee Delegate to the U.N.

TG6R UN Delegate:

Change approved.

TG6R UN Delegate:

Change approved.

will Great Romeo and Vineyard approve?

The Union of People's Republics expresses interest in joining the treaty

"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for Sharina InterEarth Information Network, or SIEIN. Today's top two news stories involve the Economic Wars and the ongoing Operation Steel Heart in Canada.

First, in response to the ongoing Trade Wars between various nations of the world, Sharina has enacted one of its emergency protocols. All foreign investment in Sharinan companies are to be nullified and declared void, and any foreign buy-outs of Sharinan based corporations are henceforth not recongized. Several companies affected by this include Boeing, Nintendo, Intel, Lockheed and Martin, and others.

What this means is that any foreign buy-outs or ownership of those corporations, or any company in Sharina for that matter, is nullified. These companies now belong fully to the Sharinan people, under Sharinan direction, and no longer shall answer to any orders, directives, or demands put forth from any foreign nations. For instance, should Whittier demand Intel in Sharina to do something, Intel will ignore Whittier, and follow Sharinan orders instead.

Now onwards to Operation Steel Heart. Sharinan forces have reached the center of Quebec, and are also in the process of securing Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and all the small islands off the shore of mainland Canada. It is expected that Quebec should fall to Sharinan forces within a month or two, as it is being pressed on from the west and south. A similiar scenario is playing out in Newfoundland and Labrador, as Sharinan forces from Greenland, Nunavut, and Ontario are landing along the lightly and poorly defended Canadian shores.

Experts predict that this will be the final phase of Sharinan expansion in North America, barring any abrupt or sudden developments as far as the geo-political situation in North America is concerned. There may be an effort in the Caribbean Sea, but no more significant expansion is currently being planned at this time.

We will bring you more as the story develops."

Dear President Versitek:
Your recent announcement regarding nullification of foreign ownership of Sharinan corporations causes us concern. We purchased a 44% stake in the Lear Jet company, headquarered in Quebec, prior to your conquest of the area and we are disturbed over the idea that we will lose that investment and access to the company's products and our input into corporate governance as the result of your takeover of Quebec. Note that we do not own a controlling share, 52% of the stock is held be various trusts and descendents of William Lear, founder of the company, and is unavailable to anyone. We only have 3 seats out of 8 on the board of directors. We would ask that as a long time ally of Sharina that we be exempted from your order as TG6R has exempted you, Mauiwowee and others from his similar action.

Sincerely,
Duke Huey P. Long III
Mauiwowee

will Great Romeo and Vineyard approve?

OOC: They did. I talked to Vineyard on Skype, and Great Romeo in my head. ;)

The Union of People's Republics expresses interest in joining the treaty

Does that mean you're joining or just interested in joining? :confused:

Serbian State News Network (SSNN)-BELGRADE: Today, the first satellite of our superior space program was launched. It proves that we are technologically superior to those Western-devils who steal our food. The satellite is named "Sputnik", weights 83.6 kilograms, and is controlled by two radio transmitters at 20 and 40 MHz. It will orbit at a height of 250 kilometers above the earth. The satellite was launched at the Belgrade Space Center from a R-7 Semyorka rocket purchased from a private organization*. Our advanced instrumental system consists of a nitrogen pressurized sphere (to detech meteoroid impacts), a radio (to communicate), and a thermometer (to detech meteoroid impacts).

Images relased by the Serbian Space Service (SSS):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Sputnik1.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Sputnik_1.jpg

*OOC: "Private organization" = Russian Mafia. :)

*OOC: "Private organization" = Russian Mafia. :)

OOC: Who probably bought the rocket from us :D

IC:
NNN:
Dateline Iowa: In reports confirmed from several sources today, it seems that Norleans has invaded Iowa. Not wishing to repeat the problems that plauged Norleans last attempt to conquer Iowa, it is being reported that over 200,000 troops and their equipment, along with several air wings are invading "blitzkreig" style from South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin all at once. We'll bring you further updates as we receive them. We also have unconfirmed reports that the Norleans Carribean fleet is on the move and headed to the British Virgin Islands to restore order since the collapse of Virgin Incursion. Once this is confirmed, we will have a follow up report. In other news, an official communication to our ally, Sharina . . .

AP:
Following up on the success of its new Stryker, close support fighter, Mauiwowee and W.M.D., Inc. introduced today their new multi-purpose fighter, dubbed the Dingo. Whereas the Stryker is designed primarily for invasionary support and carrier use due to its exceptional g-force capabilities and manuverability, the Dingo is designed to fill the role of the traditional strike fighter and will be phased in as a replacement for the current Bong Buster II fighters used by Mauiwowee's airforce. Specs as released and photos are reproduced below.

Wingspan: 16.9 m
Length overall: 23.1 m
Height overall: 6.52 m
Weight empty/equipped: 24,500 kg/26,600 kg
Max T-O weight: 34,600 kg
Engines: 2 W.M.D., Inc. Turbofan TF3000 (18,000 lbs. thrust ea. or 18, 985 lbs. thrust afterburning).
thrust-vectoring in pitch: -25 Degrees to +25 Degrees at 30 Degrees/second
G-Force Capability: 9.5g
Max speed: Mach 2.4
Optimum speed @ height: Mach 1.8
Service ceiling: 18,000 m (59,050 ft)
Optimal "@ height:" 9,150 m (29,600 ft.)
Max Climb Rate: 19,000 feet/minute
Range with max fuel @ height: 2,850 miles)
Number of hardpoints: 14: 2 wingtip, 6-8 underwing, 6-4 conformal underfuselage
Crew: 1
Stealth Capable: Yes
Carrier Capable: Yes
Defensive Measures:
1. SAL9500AI Computer control flight & Weapon systems;
2. 20 mm Vulcan cannons (2) on forward "winglets" (individual or joint synchronized firing controls);
3. rear targeted EMP generator;
4. rear and forward laser anti-missile system;
5. anti-missile flairs for heat seeking missiles; and
6. Radar "decoy" system (as in the Stryker aircraft).
Cost: $62 Million

Concept Model
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5246/concept5sp.jpg

Take off
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/931/takeoff6ez.jpg

Take off 2
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4654/takeoff22tp.jpg

In Flight
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6140/inflight3topside6xd.jpg

In Flight 2
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4863/inflightundercarriage9bz.jpg

In Flight 3
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/55/inflight27lf.jpg

Detail View
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5983/details5ok.jpg

Does that mean you're joining or just interested in joining? :confused:
both

OOC:Who owns france?? I have just realized that I have a lot of military hardware there.

Look:
Locations of Army Regiments:
1st:France, Paris
2nd:France, Paris
3rd:Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
4th:Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
5th:Taiwan, Taipei
6th:Vietnam, Lao Cai

Locations of Airforce Wings/Corps:
1st:Vietnam, Hanoi
2nd:Taiwan, Ta'i-Nan
3rd:France, Paris
4th:France, Paris
5th:Vietnam, Kon Tum
6th:France, Paris
7th:Taiwan, Ta'i-Nan
8thVietnam
9th:Vietnam, Hanoi
10th:Taiwan

Locations of Jade Guard Regiments:
1st:Vietnam, Lao Cai
2nd:France, Paris
3rd:Taiwan,Taipei

All these ground forces are dug in around paris with an ring of fortification and redoubts, the air wings are based in the military airbases in the region and there is a wasp assault carrier in calais.

This stuff has all been there since the introduction of the military rules.

These guys have been there for over three years!!!! Drawing pay and buying supplies off the locals.

oh and to all thoise who are wondering what Ato-Sara is doing at the moment it is simmering in civil unrest and murmurs of revolution sdont expect it to do anything about these troops except send them a vast amount of money each year.

OOC:Who owns france?? I have just realized that I have a lot of military hardware there.

Look:
Locations of Army Regiments:
1st:France, Paris
2nd:France, Paris
3rd:Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
4th:Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
5th:Taiwan, Taipei
6th:Vietnam, Lao Cai

Locations of Airforce Wings/Corps:
1st:Vietnam, Hanoi
2nd:Taiwan, Ta'i-Nan
3rd:France, Paris
4th:France, Paris
5th:Vietnam, Kon Tum
6th:France, Paris
7th:Taiwan, Ta'i-Nan
8thVietnam
9th:Vietnam, Hanoi
10th:Taiwan

Locations of Jade Guard Regiments:
1st:Vietnam, Lao Cai
2nd:France, Paris
3rd:Taiwan,Taipei

All these ground forces are dug in around paris with an ring of fortification and redoubts, the air wings are based in the military airbases in the region and there is a wasp assault carrier in calais.

This stuff has all been there since the introduction of the military rules.

These guys have been there for over three years!!!! Drawing pay and buying supplies off the locals.

oh and to all thoise who are wondering what Ato-Sara is doing at the moment it is simmering in civil unrest and murmurs of revolution sdont expect it to do anything about these troops except send them a vast amount of money each year.
ooc: I just checked. France is up for grabs.

I must re-do my military. Its been awhile.

OOC: Should I or shouldn't I?...... nah

The International Space Treaty

NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the confusion over the numerous space programs operated by various countries,

DESIRING, supriorer landing plans for any space emergency or conditions that impair the normal normal landing plan,

WHILE NOTING WITH DEEP CONCERN, the current freedom to abuse a landing or abuse access to classified material during a landing.

I. DECLARES ACCORDINGLY that all nations shall open their landing facilities for spacecraft of any nation to land if necessary due to deviations of conditions on the ground or space, as well as any crew emergencies,

II. AUTHORIZES any nation to reject such landings on their soil or water due to new cocerns of any sort, as long as their rejection is documented ahead of the need for any such landing,

III. FURTHER PROCLAIMS that any abuse of this resolution, as noted in Preambulatory Clause Three, is consistered a transgression, and will result in ejection from the United Nations, and authorization of any hostile force towards the preparator nation due to such an occasion.

IV. CALLS FOR the creation of the United Nations International Space Treaty Enforcement Force (UNISPTEF). This force uses the authorization granted by Operative Clause Three to bring against the offending nation severe military reprecussions.

V. CALLS FOR the Director position of the United Nations International Space Treaty Enforcement Force shall rotate among the signatories to this treaty on a 2 year schedule and in the order in which signatory nations signify their agreement hereto.

Submitted by:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9327/undelegate7bp.png (http://imageshack.us)

Nations Subject to Treaty:

The Great Sixth Reich (UNISPTEF Member)
Vineyard (UNISPTEF Member)
Great Romeo (UNISPTEF Member)
Mauiwowee (UNISPTEF Member)
Whittier-- (UNISPTEF Member)

OOC: Is this right?

IC:

The Malé Space Center is finally completed! The Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis is now being boarded inside of an Airbus A380-G, and will travel to the Malé Space Center.

-Message to all Forign troops in France-
The Imperial Army of Croatia and satilite states is preparing to invade France. Surrender immediately, or evacuate whilst you still can. A total of 1 week (Earth V time) will be given for you to comply. Failure of either action will result in your destruction.

- Gen. Komesar
Commander of all Croatian Armies.

"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for SIEIN.

The Sharinan leadership has reconsidered its decision regarding foreign investment in Sharinan businesses. After it has been reported that several Sharinan allies, notably the Sixth Reich, Mauiwowee, Norleans, and Whittier have contacted Sharinan authorities about the law, the law has been brought back under revision.

According to our sources the law will be revised to allow for foreign investment by nations considered as Sharina as allies. Any neutral or hostile foreign nation are not permitted to invest or engage in economic activities within Sharina without Sharinan approval. Foreign buy-outs of Sharinan companies is still outlawed, even towards allies.

According to the list released, the following nations are thereby permitted to invest in Sharinan companies, and retain most of their former stocks, investment, employment, and so forth. Buy-outs are still not allowed, though.

1. Sixth Reich
2. Mauiwowee
3. Norleans
4. Whittier
5. Warta Endor
6. Ato-Sara

We shall bring you more as this economic war develops."

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OOC:

Thought I'd revise it a bit, I was kinda out of it when I posted the first post about this economic war because of my pain medications. Now that I've had more time to think about it and hearing your feedback, I'm able to revise my "laws" somewhat to better fit the situation. :)

"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for SIEIN.

The Sharinan leadership has reconsidered its decision regarding foreign investment in Sharinan businesses. After it has been reported that several Sharinan allies, notably the Sixth Reich, Mauiwowee, Norleans, and Whittier have contacted Sharinan authorities about the law, the law has been brought back under revision.

According to our sources the law will be revised to allow for foreign investment by nations considered as Sharina as allies. Any neutral or hostile foreign nation are not permitted to invest or engage in economic activities within Sharina without Sharinan approval. Foreign buy-outs of Sharinan companies is still outlawed, even towards allies.

According to the list released, the following nations are thereby permitted to invest in Sharinan companies, and retain most of their former stocks, investment, employment, and so forth. Buy-outs are still not allowed, though.

1. Sixth Reich
2. Mauiwowee
3. Norleans
4. Whittier
5. Warta Endor
6. Ato-Sara

We shall bring you more as this economic war develops."

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OOC:

Thought I'd revise it a bit, I was kinda out of it when I posted the first post about this economic war because of my pain medications. Now that I've had more time to think about it and hearing your feedback, I'm able to revise my "laws" somewhat to better fit the situation. :)

"We are happy." -Otto von Hienkel Rommel. :)

The goverment of Whittier calls on Sharina to go further and give us fair market compensation for the loss of our property in Intell.

The 1st armored division continues to push into Afghanistan. The division is consisted of 500 tanks.
They are followed by the 15th Infantry Division.

Meantime, Il 102's continue to bomb targets inside Afghanistan including terrorist camps.

The goverment of Whittier calls on Sharina to go further and give us fair market compensation for the loss of our property in Intell.

Sharina is prepared to provide an offer of $2 billion to Whittier in compensation for its loss in Intel property.

WNN:

Whittier officials said they were pleased with Sharina's change in economic policy but called on Sharina to go further and give compensation for the loss of economic property. They did not say if they would drop their suit saying they were consulting and it would depend on further steps by Sharina.
The fact that the Whittier government has filed in a Sharinan court against the Sharinan government is unusual in the international community which tends to take disputes to an international court.

In other news from the Phillipines Whittier Marines took their first steps on the island of Mindoro this morning........

Sharina is prepared to provide an offer of $2 billion to Whittier in compensation for its loss in Intel property.
We paid 12.5 billion dollars to obtain majority ownership of Intell. And you expect us to accept only $2 billion to give up the shares that gave us majority ownership?

-Telegram to Warta Endor-
As you may well know, the Joins Space program of Vineyard and TG6R are planning a joint launch into space soon, from an undisclsed location (for security reasons). We, the scientific community of Vineyard, the Military Space agency of Croatia, and Lord Vineyard II, wish to extend to you an invitation for one of your astronauts to join the mission. it would be an honor if you were to send one.

-SAH (Space Agency of Hrvatska)

General Jok Lin looked at the message from the Vineyarddian general and felt a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
There was only one way out of this situation and it would not be easy.


--Message to General Komesar--

I regretfully inform you that there is no way in which me and my men would be able to leave france in one week, we have no transport for one thing and even then it would take a miracle to be gone so fast. Prehaps if we could negotiate morethen we could work something out?

General Jok Lin FASA

OOC:
Vineyard I cant rp much so make this quick.

We paid 12.5 billion dollars to obtain majority ownership of Intell. And you expect us to accept only $2 billion to give up the shares that gave us majority ownership?

Very well. You shall recieve 13 billion dollars, comprised of the original 12.5 billion dollar reimbursement, along with a 500 million dollar interest fee.

The DBFR of The Great Sixth Reich, and the Croatian Air Force of Vineyard announce the maiden flight of the Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis will take place tomorrow morning at Malé Space Center in the Maldives.

Crew Profile:

Commander: CDR. (Name Classified). Croatian Male from Vineyard. Age 35.
Pilot: Oberstleutnant (USAF=Lt.Col.) Johann Lavrentios. Bavarian Male from TG6R. Age 33.
Mission Specialist and Logistics Manager: (Rank Classified) Fabian Cornelius Rolf Kaiser. Bavarian Male from TG6R. Age 27.
Flight Engineer: Janis Augusts. Estonain Male from TG6R. Age 29.
Mission Specialist and Lead Spacewalker: Maurycy Przemeski. Polish Male from TG6R. Age 29.
Mission Specialist and Spacewalker: Mariel Dotterweich. Bavarian Female from TG6R. Age 26.
Mission Specialist: 1st Lt. (Name Classified). Botswanian Male from Vineyard. Age 23
Mission Specialist: 2nd Lt. (Name Classified). Italian male from Vineyard. Age 31
Mission Specialist and Nuclear Power Control Officer: 3rd Lt. (Name Classified). Arabian Female from Vineyard. Age 29
Mission Specialist: 4th Lt. (Name Classified). Slovenian male from Vineyard. Age 22.

Launch Location: Malé Space Center
Orbit Type: Polar Orbit.
Mission Objectives: Test all equipment and deploy a satellite into polar orbit.
Intended Landing Location: Köln Bann Airport (Germany, TG6R).
Backup Landing Location: Diego Garcia NSF Airport (British Indian Ocean Territory, Warta Endor).

OOC:Who owns france?? I have just realized that I have a lot of military hardware there.

Look:
Locations of Army Regiments:
1st:France, Paris
2nd:France, Paris
3rd:Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
4th:Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
5th:Taiwan, Taipei
6th:Vietnam, Lao Cai

Locations of Airforce Wings/Corps:
1st:Vietnam, Hanoi
2nd:Taiwan, Ta'i-Nan
3rd:France, Paris
4th:France, Paris
5th:Vietnam, Kon Tum
6th:France, Paris
7th:Taiwan, Ta'i-Nan
8thVietnam
9th:Vietnam, Hanoi
10th:Taiwan

Locations of Jade Guard Regiments:
1st:Vietnam, Lao Cai
2nd:France, Paris
3rd:Taiwan,Taipei

All these ground forces are dug in around paris with an ring of fortification and redoubts, the air wings are based in the military airbases in the region and there is a wasp assault carrier in calais.

This stuff has all been there since the introduction of the military rules.

These guys have been there for over three years!!!! Drawing pay and buying supplies off the locals.

oh and to all thoise who are wondering what Ato-Sara is doing at the moment it is simmering in civil unrest and murmurs of revolution sdont expect it to do anything about these troops except send them a vast amount of money each year.


Um, I'm invading France. Maybe you and I could work together. I dont have the intention of attacking your troops.

Um, I'm invading France. Maybe you and I could work together. I dont have the intention of attacking your troops.
....and so is Vineyard. ;)

Since when? I was invading it first. And where did he land? I amd coming over the pyranees from spain and across the channel from england.

Anyway. Give me this information please so I can make my next post.

-Telegram to Warta Endor-
As you may well know, the Joins Space program of Vineyard and TG6R are planning a joint launch into space soon, from an undisclsed location (for security reasons). We, the scientific community of Vineyard, the Military Space agency of Croatia, and Lord Vineyard II, wish to extend to you an invitation for one of your astronauts to join the mission. it would be an honor if you were to send one.

-SAH (Space Agency of Hrvatska)

OOC: Not possible. There's simply not enough room. :)

If Warta Endor wants, Warta Endoran astronauts can fly on the next shuttle mission. Perhaps three crew from each country?

Since when? I was invading it first. And where did he land? I amd coming over the pyranees from spain and across the channel from england.

Anyway. Give me this information please so I can make my next post.

Since this morning:

-Message to all Forign troops in France-
The Imperial Army of Croatia and satilite states is preparing to invade France. Surrender immediately, or evacuate whilst you still can. A total of 1 week (Earth V time) will be given for you to comply. Failure of either action will result in your destruction.

- Gen. Komesar
Commander of all Croatian Armies.

Secret Message To Ato-Sara
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//Encryption Cycle Started
//Protocol: 3A-4C-DD-12S
//Encryption Upheld

To: Ato-Sara
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: The situation with Vineyard in France

Most honorable Ato-Sara, you have most likely noticed that we have invaded France. We mean no harm to your troops. What we are worried about is Vineyards pending invasion. HE would kill and murder your troops, native troops, and innocent civilians. We have fought the native French army and found them to be quite ill-equiped and ill-trained.

What I propose is that we work together against the Vineyard threat. We can provide a naval blockade to prevent Vineyard forces from invading from the sea, and airsupport to control the air. The only problem we have is ground forces. While we are making good time. Our forces will need time to rest. If you can provide us friendly airport on which to land troops, we can assure our best assistance.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

//Encryption Cycle Ended
//Protocol: 3A-4C-DD-12E
//Encryption Closed
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Open Message to Vineyard

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To: Vineyard
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: France

Vineyard, I will make myself clear and tell you to back out of attacking France. You don't want to do something you would regret later on. Back out or you will be meet with fierce Resistace. Fleets have been moved in position to protect both the northern and southern coasts of France with orders to destroy any Vineyard vessel without warning. This is your only warning.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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The DBFR of The Great Sixth Reich, and the Croatian Air Force of Vineyard announce the maiden flight of the Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis will take place tomorrow morning at Malé Space Center in the Madlives.

Crew Profile:

Commander: CDR. (Name Classified). Croatian Male from Vineyard. Age 35.
Pilot: Oberstleutnant (USAF=Lt.Col.) Johann Lavrentios.Fabian Cornelius Rolf Kaiser. Bavarian Male from TG6R. Age 33.
Mission Specialist and Logistics Manager: (Rank Classified) Fabian Cornelius Rolf Kaiser. Bavarian Male from TG6R. Age 27.
Flight Engineer: Janis Augusts. Estonain Male from TG6R. Age 29.
Mission Specialist and Lead Spacewalker: Maurycy Przemeski. Polish Male from TG6R. Age 29.
Mission Specialist and Spacewalker: Mariel Dotterweich. Bavarian Female from TG6R. Age 26.
Mission Specialist: 1st Lt. (Name Classified). Botswanian Male from Vineyard. Age 23
Mission Specialist: 2nd Lt. (Name Classified). Italian male from Vineyard. Age 31
Mission Specialist and Nuclear Power Control Officer: 3rd Lt. (Name Classified). Arabian Female from Vineyard. Age 29
Mission Specialist: 4th Lt. (Name Classified). Slovenian male from Vineyard. Age 22.

Launch Location: Malé Space Center
Orbit Type: Polar Orbit.
Mission Objectives: Test all equipment and deploy a satellite into polar orbit.
Intended Landing Location: Köln Bann Airport (Germany, TG6R).
Backup Landing Location: Diego Garcia NSF Airport (British Indian Ocean Territory, Warta Endor).

Message to TG6R & Vineyard:

We are launching, this evening, 2 our our Links orbiters to observe and record the launch from the vantage point of space and to be prepared in the event there is any problem on your shuttle's maiden flight. We will keep an open feed of all data being recorded from our orbiters to you so you will have not only your ground information, but information from live observers in space. Please note, we are signatories to the treaty and our presence is that of merely observers and to provide data on the launch from space in conjunction with your ground crew's monitoring of things.

Dr. DeRigor,
MASA Director.
Mauiwowee

OOC Notes:

Launch Time: 6:03 AM Local Time.
UTC Time: 01:03:00 Friday August 19, 2005
MJD Time: 53601.54375

Message to TG6R & Vineyard:

We are launching, this evening, 2 our our Links orbiters to observe and record the launch from the vantage point of space and to be prepared in the event there is any problem on your shuttle's maiden flight. We will keep an open feed of all data being recorded from our orbiters to you so you will have not only your ground information, but information from live observers in space. Please note, we are signatories to the treaty and our presence is that of merely observers and to provide data on the launch from space in conjunction with your ground crew's monitoring of things.

Dr. DeRigor,
MASA Director.
Mauiwowee

DBFR Response:

Our country would be fine with Mauiwowee monitoring the launch portion of the mission. It would increase the amount of viewpoints for our ground crew, which is good. However, assuming that the nation of Vineyard is fine with Mauiwowee monitoring the launch and enter into orbit sequences, we can definititly handle it past orbit stabilization with our ground crews at several locations across Europe and Asia, as well as our Archenvögel spaceplanes.

::: FADE IN :::

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen of Sydney, this is Teac Mem, your SidTV correspondent, Asus Norton has the evening off. In our top story tonight, our forces in Brazil report that the campaign in Venezuela, after bogging down for a bit in the Guiana Highlands, have captured Ciudad Guayana and Puerto Ayacucho. Caracas, as you know, has been under Mauiwoweean control thanks to the navy, for quite some time now. Governor Ghomez Ahdams stated today it was just a matter of time before all of Venezeula fell under Mauiwoweean control. Today, Mauiwoweean casualties in the Venezeulan war stand at 4,659 killed and 17,887 wounded. The Brazilian legistlature has also authorized the expenditure from oil revenues and excess taxes the sum of $900 Billion to fund the invasion and reshaping of Venezeula into a Mauiwoweean state.
http://img187.echo.cx/img187/9346/vecolor7dd.jpg

In other news, it would appear the final surrender of Mindanao in the Phillipines is imminent. In a coordinated raid, over 1,900 Cult of Barney fanatics were captured when they attempted to hole up in a series of caves and tunnels they had dug into a mountainside. 39 Mauiwoweean soldiers were killed in the brief fire fight that errupted before the CoB fanatics were forced to surrender. General Ripper has vowed the captured cultists will be tried by a military tribunal to be set up in Mindanao once the island is fullly under Mauiwoweean control.

We'll be back for a look at the weather after this message . . .

DBFR Response:

Our country would be fine with Mauiwowee monitoring the launch portion of the mission. It would increase the amount of viewpoints for our ground crew, which is good. However, assuming that the nation of Vineyard is fine with Mauiwowee monitoring the launch and enter into orbit sequences, we can definititly handle it past orbit stabilization with our ground crews at several locations across Europe and Asia, as well as our Archenvögel spaceplanes.

Dear sirs:
I should clarify that once a succesful launch and stable orbit has been achieved, we would feel our job was done and have our orbiters return to earth (Perhaps that would be the time to have one land in Frankfurt).
Sincerely,
MASA Director,
Dr. DeRigor

Comminque to the International Community:

The Sharina Technocracy shall be watching the infant space progams and endeavours of various nations of Mauiwowee, Sixth Reich, Vineyard, Warta Endor, and Whittier with interest from its vantage point in the Veristek Space Station. The Veristek Station is willing to extend a hand of assistance should any emergency situation arise.

Good day.

~President Mina Veristek

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President Mina Veristek smiled smugly as she sent the comminque.

"First a epic war aganist Vineyard. Then came the economic wars. Now they are trying to bring their squabbles to outer space. How amusing. Sharina has been engaged in space programs and research since the grandparents of those foreign aerospace engineers were learning how to walk and swim."

She laughed to herself, full of amusement at those nation's mad scramble. Her eyes drifted over to two pictures of the Veristek Space Station hanging on the wall several meters to her left.

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6242/basestar15ci.png

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4214/basestar28ok.png

OOC: You do know that TG6R has been in space for since the fall of 2004 IRL, which is several decades ago? :p

OOC: You do know that TG6R has been in space for since the fall of 2004 IRL, which is several decades ago? :p

Heh. I'm going for the "Old wise nation looking upon newbie space program nation" approach. Adds flavor to Earth V. :p

Comminque to the International Community:

The Sharina Technocracy shall be watching the infant space progams and endeavours of various nations of Mauiwowee, Sixth Reich, Vineyard, Warta Endor, and Whittier with interest from its vantage point in the Veristek Space Station. The Veristek Station is willing to extend a hand of assistance should any emergency situation arise.

Good day.

~President Mina Veristek

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President Mina Veristek smiled smugly as she sent the comminque.

"First a epic war aganist Vineyard. Then came the economic wars. Now they are trying to bring their squabbles to outer space. How amusing. Sharina has been engaged in space programs and research since the grandparents of those foreign aerospace engineers were learning how to walk and swim."

She laughed to herself, full of amusement at those nation's mad scramble. Her eyes drifted over to two pictures of the Veristek Space Station hanging on the wall several meters to her left.

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6242/basestar15ci.png

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4214/basestar28ok.png

OOC: I'd have to go check the RL dates, but I feel pretty confident that I've been flying my Links 50/50 since you began construction of the space station. So there take that! :p

STS-1 Status Post 1:

Launch Time moved up 9 hours due to severe weather conditions latter in the day. Launch time is now at 14:45 UTC.

The Orbiter has been unloaded off of the Airbus A380-800G, and transfered to Launch Platform B. At that time, the Super Lightweight External Tank (SLWET) and the two Advanced Solid Rocket Boosters (ASRBs) were fixed to the shuttle and each other.

The countdown began: "T-10:00".

At that time the Rotating Service Structure (RSS) was opened.

T-9:00: The Crew Access Arm was retracted.
T-7:30: The Auxilliary Power Unit (APU) was prestarted.

Secret Message To Ato-Sara
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//Encryption Cycle Started
//Protocol: 3A-4C-DD-12S
//Encryption Upheld

To: Ato-Sara
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: The situation with Vineyard in France

Most honorable Ato-Sara, you have most likely noticed that we have invaded France. We mean no harm to your troops. What we are worried about is Vineyards pending invasion. HE would kill and murder your troops, native troops, and innocent civilians. We have fought the native French army and found them to be quite ill-equiped and ill-trained.

What I propose is that we work together against the Vineyard threat. We can provide a naval blockade to prevent Vineyard forces from invading from the sea, and airsupport to control the air. The only problem we have is ground forces. While we are making good time. Our forces will need time to rest. If you can provide us friendly airport on which to land troops, we can assure our best assistance.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

//Encryption Cycle Ended
//Protocol: 3A-4C-DD-12E
//Encryption Closed
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To: King Vincent Kain USSNA
From: General Jok Lin FASA

Vineyard has issued us an ulitimatum to be gone from the country within a week or suffer destruction. This even with a working supply chain, orders from home and transports would be immpossible.
We in our fortresses of Paris and Calais would be able to fend off the Vineyardians for a short amount of time but if they brought their full brunt to bear we would be finished.

We accept your offer and Charles de Gaulle military and civilian airports would be able to accept troops being defended by our massive fortifications and the majority of my force. While at Calais you can dock ship were I have the assualt carrier Meng Huo and two battalions of Jade guard stationed.
If youcan get here quickly we will be able to whether the Vineyardian storm together.

OOC: I really cant RP much so USSNA you can take control of General Jok and his army. Here is a list of the FASA forces in france:

1 mechinized infantry regiment,

5,038- FASA Troopers
100-D-54 'Howler' S/STs
466- BMP-3 APCs
133-Type-88 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Artillery
166-Mi-24 'Hind' Attack Helicopters
100-Mi-26 'Halo' Super Lifters
3-'Land Train' Command and Supply Vehicles
34-PLZ-45 155 mm Self-Propelled Howitzers

1 armoured regiment,

400-T-90s MBTs
150-Type 89 120mm Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Guns
333-D-54 'Howler' S/STs
100-Type-88 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Artillery
76-Mi-26 'Halo' Super Lifters
4-D-20 'Land Train' Command and Supply Vehicles
66-PLZ-45 155 mm Self-Propelled Howitzers
100-Mi-24 'Hind' Attack Helicopters

1 bomber wing,

18-B-52 'Statofortres'
10-H-6 Bombers
6-H-6U Aerial Refuelling Tankers
2-KJ-2000 (A-50I) AWACS


1 fighter wing,

43-Su-37 'Flanker'
41-Mig-29 'Fulcrum'
15-S-37 'Berkut'
5-H-6U Aerial Refuelling Tankers
3-KJ-2000 (A-50I) AWACS

1 transport wing,

7-H-6U Aerial Refuelling Tankers
14-IL-76MD Transport Aircraft
13-An-225 'Cossack'


1 jade guard regiment.(Two battalions, the wasp, the harriers and the sea stallions in Calais and two battalions in paris)

5,132-Guardsmen
1-Wasp Class Amphibious Assault Ship
11-CH-53 'Sea Stallion'
666-M998 HMMWV
333-D-54 'Howler' S/ST
366-D-56 'Silverback' MBT
12-AV-8B 'Harrier II'
14-UH-60 'Blackhawk'
333-'Warrior' Tracked Armoured Vehicle
166-Mi-24 'Hind'
66-Mi-28 'Havoc'


An armoured regiment has four battalion, a mechinized infantry has three and a jade guard has four.

Armoured battalion:
100-T-90s MBTs
37-Type 89 120mm Self-Propelled Anti-Tank Guns
83-D-54 'Howler' S/STs
25-Type-88 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Artillery
19-Mi-26 'Halo' Super Lifters
1-D-20 'Land Train' Command and Supply Vehicles
16-PLZ-45 155 mm Self-Propelled Howitzers
25-Mi-24 'Hind' Attack Helicopters

Mechinized infantry battalion:
1,679- FASA Troopers
33-D-54 'Howler' S/STs
155- BMP-3 APCs
44-Type-88 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Artillery
55-Mi-24 'Hind' Attack Helicopters
33-Mi-26 'Halo' Super Lifters
1-'Land Train' Command and Supply Vehicles
11-PLZ-45 155 mm Self-Propelled Howitzers

Jade guard battalion:
1,283-Guardsmen
166-M998 HMMWV
83-D-54 'Howler' Scout/Skirmish Tank
91-D-56 'Silverback' MBT
3-UH-60 'Blackhawk'
83-'Warrior' Tracked Armoured Vehicle
41-Mi-24 'Hind'
16-Mi-28 'Havoc'

Message to: Vineyard/TG6R Space agency
From: WEIARD

We are currenlty training a team of nine autronaits, but they aren't ready for missions in space. They will be ready for the next mission, no doubt. And for the launch, the 4th Fleet stationed in Rabaul has taken to sea and will patrol the Central/South Pacific (ooc. together with Maui?) in case of an emergency landing.

Dr. Cosa

ooc. Maui, I will reply to your speach. I'm away till Sunday then I'm back!

::: FADE IN :::

Good evening surfers and sheilas, this is your SidTV Live at 5 correspondent, Asus Norton reporting. In our top story tonight, the Mauiwoweean space Agency, MASA, revealed plans today for the design of a new, permanent space station. Dubbed the HMS Brisbane, the station is to be constructed in a low earth orbit and then "towed" to a higher orbit upon completion of it's construction. MASA spokesmen are estimating construction time at about 10 years and at a total cost of $1.7 trillion dollars. The station is designed to be totally self-sufficient generating its own oxygen, electricity, water, etc. The unique feature of the station are the 6 Agri-domes. Each dome is used to grow plants to supply the station with oxygen, as well as crops for food and a small number of select animals for use as food stock. The domes are made of a specially hardened acrylic and leaded glass polymer to withstand micro-meteor strikes and excess solar radiation and damage and still permit the sunlight necessary for the growth of the plants into the domes. Once in it's final orbit, at 140+ miles up, the station will slowly rotate along the length of it's axis creating an artificial gravity of about 15-20% of earth's and creating a "day" of 22 hours in length inside the domes to facilitate optimum growth for the plants. "Our experiments with self-sustaining bio-domes have been exceptionally succesful and it's time to put the science to work in a practical manner." said a MASA spokesman in charge of the Agri-dome design. "It represents a new era in space exploration" said King Rox in a statement from the palace this afternoon. Once the station is complete, other nations will be invited to send their own science teams to the station for training, observation, experimentation, et.

Plans
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9800/hmsbrisbaneplans4ff.jpg

Conceptual drawings
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/6733/concept2cgi6ei.jpg
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/1601/conscpetcgi7gv.jpg
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/3838/mwdtanks9bw.jpg

Um, I'm invading France. Maybe you and I could work together. I dont have the intention of attacking your troops.
ooc: Fine by me. I just want a part as a kind of "buffer".My immediate aims are paris, and Ato-sara is Blocking that.

IC: "...and?"
"They havn't budged."
"Shit, how long till we are ready to invade?"
"Strike Force B is Ready...however, strike force A will take a month to prepare."
'B is pointless without A. Speed up the process. Bring in troops from Iraq, all 50,000 to buffer Strike team A."
"Yes sir."
"Oh, and, contact the government of this Ato Up-start. Tell them that we sincerely regret having to annhiliate their pathetic defences."
"Ummm... That's a bit premature, don't you think?"
"Naw... Lets just say this up-comming shuttle launch will solve quite a few problems."
"But the prototype hasn't been tested!!"
"Well, all the better to test it on a target, eh?"
"I suppose general."

ooc: This 'Prototype" has been previously announced to TGSR.

Comminque to the International Community:

The Sharina Technocracy shall be watching the infant space progams and endeavours of various nations of Mauiwowee, Sixth Reich, Vineyard, Warta Endor, and Whittier with interest from its vantage point in the Veristek Space Station. The Veristek Station is willing to extend a hand of assistance should any emergency situation arise.

Good day.

~President Mina Veristek

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President Mina Veristek smiled smugly as she sent the comminque.

"First a epic war aganist Vineyard. Then came the economic wars. Now they are trying to bring their squabbles to outer space. How amusing. Sharina has been engaged in space programs and research since the grandparents of those foreign aerospace engineers were learning how to walk and swim."

She laughed to herself, full of amusement at those nation's mad scramble. Her eyes drifted over to two pictures of the Veristek Space Station hanging on the wall several meters to her left.

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6242/basestar15ci.png

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4214/basestar28ok.png
PSH, Objection.


No previous mention of such a station in the Sharina-Fodian wars. Can't make a station appear out of nowhere. Also, i thought it was agreed that Sharina couldn't brink in such future tech into the game, like the funny looking space station.

And now to head off Sharina's up-comming retort,
The station I HAD was just counter- B.S to VI. It does not exist, as VI's underwater cities and space elevators do not exist. That was a B.S war basically. NO, I do not have ANY FORM of weapon up there, YET, like VI's Super cannons/space marines that would easily blast themselves out of orbit with a single shot to the planet, and other Uber-future tech she had.

Also my program isn't exactly infant.

I have been launching satilites and shuttles up there for a long time(Earlier postings about building and completing an active launch-pad, space center in iraq. This is just the first joint mission, and will be leaded by a seasoned Croatian Space Commander.

PSH, Objection.


No previous mention of such a station in the Sharina-Fodian wars. Can't make a station appear out of nowhere. Also, i thought it was agreed that Sharina couldn't brink in such future tech into the game, like the funny looking space station.

And now to head off Sharina's up-comming retort,
The station I HAD was just counter- B.S to VI. It does not exist, as VI's underwater cities and space elevators do not exist. That was a B.S war basically. NO, I do not have ANY FORM of weapon up there, YET, like VI's Super cannons/space marines that would easily blast themselves out of orbit with a single shot to the planet, and other Uber-future tech she had.

Also my program isn't exactly infant.

I have been launching satilites and shuttles up there for a long time(Earlier postings about building and completing an active launch-pad, space center in iraq. This is just the first joint mission, and will be leaded by a seasoned Croatian Space Commander.

OOC: Actually the Under water cities were approved, just not on the scale that VI wanted and she failed to follow through on RP'ing their actual construction: see http://zifos.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=69 However, Norleans did follow through and uses them in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coasts of Yemen and Scotland to pump oil rather than rely on surface oil derricks that must deal with storms, etc. see: http://zifos.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=232.

Also, Sharina did post about his space station being constructed back on Zifos http://zifos.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=243. The technology behind it and how it worked was not posted, nor much detail about his space program at all.

I'm not trying to start a fight or argument, only point out these two issues have been brought up before.

PSH, Objection.


No previous mention of such a station in the Sharina-Fodian wars. Can't make a station appear out of nowhere. Also, i thought it was agreed that Sharina couldn't brink in such future tech into the game, like the funny looking space station.

And now to head off Sharina's up-comming retort,
The station I HAD was just counter- B.S to VI. It does not exist, as VI's underwater cities and space elevators do not exist. That was a B.S war basically. NO, I do not have ANY FORM of weapon up there, YET, like VI's Super cannons/space marines that would easily blast themselves out of orbit with a single shot to the planet, and other Uber-future tech she had.

Also my program isn't exactly infant.

I have been launching satilites and shuttles up there for a long time(Earlier postings about building and completing an active launch-pad, space center in iraq. This is just the first joint mission, and will be leaded by a seasoned Croatian Space Commander.

Uh...

I did have a space station for nearly my whole time in Earth V, way before the aborted war with Fod. I had this station since October or so, can't remember exactly. It only happens that I finally found a good picture for the space station, thus I posted it up.

Duke Long looked at the reports, the cities of Dubuque, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Davenport had fallen within a day of the Blitzkreig attaks. Des Moines was now surrounded - the advantage of surprise was now gone, but Iowa was so demoralized they couldn't possibly hold up for long now. It was time to send Joseph Jackson to Minnesota.

Uh...

I did have a space station for nearly my whole time in Earth V, way before the aborted war with Fod. I had this station since October or so, can't remember exactly. It only happens that I finally found a good picture for the space station, thus I posted it up.

Yeah, but how cool is Maui's space station gonna be?
:cool:

Duke Long looked at the reports, the cities of Dubuque, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Davenport had fallen within a day of the Blitzkreig attaks. Des Moines was now surrounded - the advantage of surprise was now gone, but Iowa was so demoralized they couldn't possibly hold up for long now. It was time to send Joseph Jackson to Minnesota.

Official Sharinan Statement:

The Sharinan people wish to express their support of our honorable friend Norleans in their efforts to reunify the Mid-West under Norleans rule. With the unification of Canada by Sharina, and the Mid-West by Norleans, a golden age is assured for our two proud nations in North America.

If there is any assistance, the Sharinan people would be more than happy to provide aid.

Live well and prosper.
~President Mina Veristek

Official Sharinan Statement:

The Sharinan people wish to express their support of our honorable friend Norleans in their efforts to reunify the Mid-West under Norleans rule. With the unification of Canada by Sharina, and the Mid-West by Norleans, a golden age is assured for our two proud nations in North America.

If there is any assistance, the Sharinan people would be more than happy to provide aid.

Live well and prosper.
~President Mina Veristek

Duke Long read the message and smiled - yes indeed - with all of N.A. under his and Sharina's control, things would indeed be well for his people. He quickly sent a reply:

President Veristek:
Thank you for your message of support. If you could seal the Canadian/Minnesota border as tight as a drum, that would ensure our success in re-unification of the midwest.
Sincerley,
Huey

The Launch of the Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-1:

T+6:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/021222_T-6.png

T+7:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/021325_T-7.png

T+18:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/021505_T_18.png

T+24:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/021609_T_24.png

T+41:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/021714_T_41.png

"Atlantis, Hamburg. SRB Officer reports clear Solid Rocket Booster seperation.":
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/021832_T_127.png

"Atlantis, Hamburg. Neg on return."
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/022938_T_Neg_on_abort2.png

Uh...

I did have a space station for nearly my whole time in Earth V, way before the aborted war with Fod. I had this station since October or so, can't remember exactly. It only happens that I finally found a good picture for the space station, thus I posted it up.
Oh. My bad, my bad.

The pic threw me off.

STS-1 Status Post 1:

Launch Time moved up 9 hours due to severe weather conditions latter in the day. Launch time is now at 14:45 UTC.

The Orbiter has been unloaded off of the Airbus A380-800G, and transfered to Launch Platform B. At that time, the Super Lightweight External Tank (SLWET) and the two Advanced Solid Rocket Boosters (ASRBs) were fixed to the shuttle and each other.

The countdown began: "T-10:00".

At that time the Rotating Service Structure (RSS) was opened.

T-9:00: The Crew Access Arm was retracted.
T-7:30: The Auxilliary Power Unit (APU) was prestarted.

The pictures that go with that post:

Fully loaded Shuttle on launch pad:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/023547_Launch_Start.png

T-8:36 (RSS fully retracted):
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/024019_Launch-RSS_retracted.png

T-7:59: Crew Ascess Arm fully retracted:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/024238_Launch-Crew_Access_Arm_retracted.png

T-0:06: Beanie Cap fully retracted:
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/024508_Launch-Beanie_Cap_Retracted.png

T: LIFTOFF!!!
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-18_01/024702_Launch-LIFTOFF!!!!.png

Press Release:

The Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis has entered orbit safetly and is excepted to complete its mission. Ludo Hienkel praised the piloting skills of the Croatian commander and the German pilot, who flew the Space Shuttle as planned. The only unexpeced incident was an active of the right RCS engine shortly after ET seperation. This caused the shuttle to perform a barrel roll, which was completed safely. The shuttle's mission, STS-1, is to deploy a satellite and test the shuttle's various instruments to see to it that they are working properly.

Press Release:

The Quirinus Space Shuttle Atlantis has entered orbit safetly and is excepted to complete its mission. Ludo Hienkel praised the piloting skills of the Croatian commander and the German pilot, who flew the Space Shuttle as planned. The only unexpeced incident was an active of the right RCS engine shortly after ET seperation. This caused the shuttle to perform a barrel roll, which was completed safely. The shuttle's mission, STS-1, is to deploy a satellite and test the shuttle's various instruments to see to it that they are working properly.

:: Broadcast Message ::

To the crew of the new shuttle:

Congratulations on a succesful first lift off. As seen by our pilots in their Links Orbiters, that barrel roll was spectacular and we wondered if someone was showing off. We're glad to see you join us in space. If we can be of assistance to your program, please do not hesitate to contact us.

His Royal Highness,
King Roxicet "Rox" Soma Narcosis
Mauiwowee

OOC: Can I RP a landing of one my orbiters in Germany now?

OOC: Can I RP a landing of one my orbiters in Germany now?

Sure. Köln Bonn Airport is available. Skies are clear. ;)

EDIT: The landing window has passed due to bad weather. The next available landing window at Köln Bonn is Monday night local time.

EDIT2: Hamburg Space Center has a landing window open from now until noon on Saturday.

Bump.

Sure. Köln Bonn Airport is available. Skies are clear. ;)

EDIT: The landing window has passed due to bad weather. The next available landing window at Köln Bonn is Monday night local time.

EDIT2: Hamburg Space Center has a landing window open from now until noon on Saturday.

OOC: I'll try to RP a landing tommorow night sometime.

OOC: I'll try to RP a landing tommorow night sometime.
OOC: Which would be Saturday morning local time. Perfect. :)

OOC: Just curious - What do ya'll think about my space station idea and TG6R, where did you get the pictures for your space shuttle launch? - awesome job btw.

OOC: Just curious - What do ya'll think about my space station idea and TG6R, where did you get the pictures for your space shuttle launch? - awesome job btw.
OOC:

1. Space station idea looks good. But I am becoming increasingly concerned about space crashs happening, with the way the earth's orbits are becoming cluttered up with space stations and spacecraft. I suggest that we make an OOC list of what's in space, so that there are no surpises. As for my country, we have the Quirinus Shuttle, and estimate on building around thirteen of them for frequent use. In addition, I'll be building a space station in the near future.

2. I didn't "get the pictures", I took the pictures. :p I used a heavily modified version of "Orbiter" (http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html). "Heavily modified" by over 300 third-party mods (no joke, but I did use an automated installer), and an edited date and time sequence to make the launch happen when I posted on NS it would happen. ;)

OOC: USSNA here is a picture of the defensive works in the Paris area.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/lazyjim/Parisdefences.png
Red lines are proper defensive lines made from concrete and steel, blue lines are temperorary defensive barriers and yellow dots are prepared fire bases equipped with artillery.
There are no mines deployed but red lines are defended by tank traps,water clogged ditches, concrete walls, trenches and steel spikes.
Blue lines are emergency defenses to be deployed when the enemy attack so they are made up of cars, barrels, crates, burning barricades (when attacked) and buildings.
A firebase (yellow dot) has the same sort of defences as the lines it is closest to.
Orly and charlles de Gaulle aiprorts house the aircraft of the three wings
Rouen and Amiens guard the roads back to Calais where the Meng Huo assault carrier is docked.
This is a picture of the defences at Calais the colour coding is the same except the green line is the Meng Huo
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v671/lazyjim/Calaisdefences.png

OOC:

1. Space station idea looks good. But I am becoming increasingly concerned about space crashs happening, with the way the earth's orbits are becoming cluttered up with space stations and spacecraft. I suggest that we make an OOC list of what's in space, so that there are no surpises. As for my country, we have around three-hundred Archenvögel spaceplanes, operating in shifts (We have 100 in-orbit at any given time, launched from the Mass-Driver at Hamburg Space Center. The other 200 are almost always on the ground being checked for damage and letting the crew relax.) We now also have the Quirinus Shuttle, and estimate on building around thirteen of them for frequent use. In addition, I'll be building a space station in the near future.

((OOC: TGSR I have to call a tech wanl on this. Using massdrivers to get into space is diving into the realm of PMT and is outta MT. Also haveing 100 of them in orbit at once would cost a very large ammount of money. Space-go vessels arn't cheap you know.))

((OOC: What I have in space
-telecommunication satalites
-hidded communication satalites, they are designed with minimal RCS and use quantum encryption
-G.O.D.S. system satalites (pending number and viability)
-unRPed/planned space station in gyrosycronis orbit over Madrid. (Madrid Station)
-Spy sattalites that can read the writing of a newspaper from high earth orbit
-Small anti-satalite satalites (they carry 20 missiles at use radar and IR to find their target and fire. When the missile gets to within 50 meters of the target, it fires its warhead, which is a direct fragmentation warhead. It acts basically like a shotgun.)

I also am planning to release a Heavy lift vehicle capable of lifting around 150 tonnes into low earth orbit, and 100 tonnes into high earth orbit.))

check your TGs and how exactly do they hook up? I mean you can't just grab it out of the air, it would have to go through a very tedious docking procedure. While of which it would be extreamly vulnerable.

And besides, mass driver are still PMT. ;)

The 1st Armored Division has begun its shelling of Kabul as the 15 Infantry prepares to enter the city on foot.

Earlier, pamphlets were dropped from the air calling on the Afghan people to accept annexation and calling on Afghan militia's to give up peacefully or face total annihilation.

More armored units and infantry are moving into Afghanistan.

Meantime, 10,000 troops are being relocated from Iran to Grenada.

Ato-Sara has today announced that it has completed devlopment on the next stage in the highly sucessfull Gan Ning missile series. The Gan Ning Type II has been tested and met the required standerds and is now being introduced to replace the older Type I already in service.

check your TGs and how exactly do they hook up? I mean you can't just grab it out of the air, it would have to go through a very tedious docking procedure. While of which it would be extreamly vulnerable.

And besides, mass driver are still PMT. ;)

1. Yes, I got the telegram. Do you need a reply?
2. Yes, the docking procedure is long and complicated. It's usually a computerized launch of the packages so that it literally would hit the top of the spaceplane (the payload doors are ontop, so the spaceplane flies backside up during the procedure) to fly into the payload doors when it gets into orbit. However, it rarely works so accurately. Usually the spaceplane needs to use its RCS system to adjust its position due to the numerous course alterations that may happen with the rocket-powered packages. But the spaceplane is not really "vulnerable", because one spaceplane (usually the one that is waiting for the new spaceplane to replace its position so it may land) guards the new spaceplane until all the packages are collected.
3. Mass drivers have been around since the '70s. Or at least prototypes of them. Most notable is the Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) (http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200401/itl_amrdec_roadrunner.html). See here (http://www.massdriver.com/massdriver.html) for more information on the design I'm using, which is the Hybrid Rocket Sled (http://www.massdriver.com/rocket_sleds.htm) on a Distributed Oxidizer Launch Rail design (http://www.massdriver.com/distributed_oxidizer_launch_rail.htm). As I see it: Mass-Driver to launch packages into space = MT (within the 25 or 20 year limit), Mass-Driver to launch spacecraft = FT.

Link to Gan Ning Type II thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=438787)

Mauritania, Mauritius, Isle of Man have been declared Rouge states of a dangerous and obcene country of Jew Power Land2. Air strikes have been ordered.

Isle of Man: 200 Bombers, 300 X-31 and X-36a and, 20 KC-10 Extenders were sent. ETA 3 hours.
Mauritania: 400 bombers, 500 Euro fighters, 40 KC-10 Extenders. ETA 1 hour.
Mauritius: 200 Bombers, 300 Eurofighters, 20 KC-10 Extenders


The first wave will release all missles/bombs and go back to refuel. Future waves depend on amount of damage caused.

1. Yes, I got the telegram. Do you need a reply?
2. Yes, the docking procedure is long and complicated. It's usually a computerized launch of the packages so that it literally would hit the top of the spaceplane (the payload doors are ontop, so the spaceplane flies backside up during the procedure) to fly into the payload doors when it gets into orbit. However, it rarely works so accurately. Usually the spaceplane needs to use its RCS system to adjust its position due to the numerous course alterations that may happen with the rocket-powered packages. But the spaceplane is not really "vulnerable", because one spaceplane (usually the one that is waiting for the new spaceplane to replace its position so it may land) guards the new spaceplane until all the packages are collected.
3. Mass drivers have been around since the '70s. Or at least prototypes of them. Most notable is the Holloman High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) (http://www.rdecom.army.mil/rdemagazine/200401/itl_amrdec_roadrunner.html). See here (http://www.massdriver.com/massdriver.html) for more information on the design I'm using, which is the Hybrid Rocket Sled (http://www.massdriver.com/rocket_sleds.htm) on a Distributed Oxidizer Launch Rail design (http://www.massdriver.com/distributed_oxidizer_launch_rail.htm). As I see it: Mass-Driver to launch packages into space = MT (within the 25 or 20 year limit), Mass-Driver to launch spacecraft = FT.


Mass-Drivers are still in the testing phase. You dont see NASA usng them because they can't. If mass-drivers are allowed then so are rail-guns. And railguns are PMT. These would be fine if you put them up with a rocket, but a mass-driver is PMT. It doesn't matter if it is shootinf people or cargo. Also, you you catch this said cargo with the spaceship, the spaceship would fly widly out of control. Even if the cargo is traveling at 1 m/s it's inerta would push the spaceship out of orbit, or into a wild spin.

Encrypted Message to All Commanders of Strike Team A in Northwestern Italian Alps:

Strike Teams 1-8 to proceed into France by land. Resistance is to be expected, but Strike Team nine and ten are to use landing craft to outflank them on the southern coast. Reserves are coming from Iraq and will arrive shortly. Proceed with the attack immediately.

OOC:Vinny are you planning to attack paris in the next week or so? because if you are someone else will have to RP my troops.

-Secret Military Dispatch to Gen/Adm. Herchuck-
Get moving.
-Lord Vineyard II


-Secret IC-
The Ascension troops and fleet departed, leaving behind a small garrison and a few patrol boats to protect the island fortress. Their destination is unknown.

Finally I have to time to go back and read what I haven't been able to read the last 3 days.

Very well. You shall recieve 13 billion dollars, comprised of the original 12.5 billion dollar reimbursement, along with a 500 million dollar interest fee.
Accepted.

Comminque to the International Community:

The Sharina Technocracy shall be watching the infant space progams and endeavours of various nations of Mauiwowee, Sixth Reich, Vineyard, Warta Endor, and Whittier with interest from its vantage point in the Veristek Space Station. The Veristek Station is willing to extend a hand of assistance should any emergency situation arise.

Good day.

~President Mina Veristek

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President Mina Veristek smiled smugly as she sent the comminque.

"First a epic war aganist Vineyard. Then came the economic wars. Now they are trying to bring their squabbles to outer space. How amusing. Sharina has been engaged in space programs and research since the grandparents of those foreign aerospace engineers were learning how to walk and swim."

She laughed to herself, full of amusement at those nation's mad scramble. Her eyes drifted over to two pictures of the Veristek Space Station hanging on the wall several meters to her left.

http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/6242/basestar15ci.png

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/4214/basestar28ok.png

Forget about Pandora's Box? I just haven't been very active in space. ;)

::: FADE IN :::

Good evening surfers and sheilas, this is your SidTV Live at 5 correspondent, Asus Norton reporting. In our top story tonight, the Mauiwoweean space Agency, MASA, revealed plans today for the design of a new, permanent space station. Dubbed the HMS Brisbane, the station is to be constructed in a low earth orbit and then "towed" to a higher orbit upon completion of it's construction. MASA spokesmen are estimating construction time at about 10 years and at a total cost of $1.7 trillion dollars. The station is designed to be totally self-sufficient generating its own oxygen, electricity, water, etc. The unique feature of the station are the 6 Agri-domes. Each dome is used to grow plants to supply the station with oxygen, as well as crops for food and a small number of select animals for use as food stock. The domes are made of a specially hardened acrylic and leaded glass polymer to withstand micro-meteor strikes and excess solar radiation and damage and still permit the sunlight necessary for the growth of the plants into the domes. Once in it's final orbit, at 140+ miles up, the station will slowly rotate along the length of it's axis creating an artificial gravity of about 15-20% of earth's and creating a "day" of 22 hours in length inside the domes to facilitate optimum growth for the plants. "Our experiments with self-sustaining bio-domes have been exceptionally succesful and it's time to put the science to work in a practical manner." said a MASA spokesman in charge of the Agri-dome design. "It represents a new era in space exploration" said King Rox in a statement from the palace this afternoon. Once the station is complete, other nations will be invited to send their own science teams to the station for training, observation, experimentation, et.

Plans
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9800/hmsbrisbaneplans4ff.jpg

Conceptual drawings
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/6733/concept2cgi6ei.jpg
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/1601/conscpetcgi7gv.jpg
http://img343.imageshack.us/img343/3838/mwdtanks9bw.jpg

To the government of Mauiwowee.

We have noted you have begun building your first space station. The government of Whittier would like to offer assistance to help you reduce costs and make your station's systems more effecient.
We note you intend to use plants to produce the required oxygen. We have found, with our own station that it is more efficient to use an air recycling system. Though we still use plants but for their psychological effects, (they relax stressed out people).
Further we have learned that in space, artificial sunlamps are more effective that pure sunlight. Especially when the earth is between the station and the sun.
We have developed products to protect the air supply and provide artificial sunlight not only plants but to allow for sunbathing as well.
To help reduce your costs, we offer to give your nation the tech stats for the required equipment including as many air recyclers and sunlamp domes as your nation requires for its station.

Forget about Pandora's Box? I just haven't been very active in space. ;)

Heh. I'm going for the "Sharina believes it is the superior nation in space with the best technologies, research, and engineering programs for outer space" approach. ;)

Captain Stryker looked through his binocs, surveying the seen before him.
His company had landed on Mindoro just yesterday, after days of bombings by the F 35's.
So far they had not met any resistance on the island, unlike Luzon. But standard doctrine was to expect the worst. He had his men lay down a perimeter on the beach to secure for the landing of the rest of the brigade. They a few miles north of Mamburao.
Though there was no activity being reported in, there could still be resistance fighters waiting in the jungle to ambush them. They needed to go through the jungle to get to Mamburao once the rest of Brigade arrived.

He lowered his glasses and spat out the tobacco chew.
"This is much too easy" he thought "I don't like it."

Heh. I'm going for the "Sharina believes it is the superior nation in space with the best technologies, research, and engineering programs for outer space" approach. ;)
Why didn't just say so. Being first doesn't necessarily make one the best. I've had my stuff in space for a while and I have a couple of space planes. (not listed in my military cause they are not considered military equipment). But my space program has been in a kind of hybernation so I haven't developed anything new as yet. So, in theory, a more recent nation might be able to get more up to date stuff into space.

Aboard The NAS-Scarface Hunter-class Battleship

"Sir, sensors have picks up several Vineyard ships heading towards France."

"What intelligence do we have on them?"

"Well Sir, they appear to be landing craft."

"Do they have any escorts?"

"No Sir, we don't know why, but Vineyard chose not to send escorts."

"Hmmm it could be a trap. Anyway, I want you to send out some scouts and skrimish with them. See their battle strength. When they enguage, tell them to open fire and call for backup. What we'll then do is barrage them with missiles and aircraft. Contact me when the scouts first contact the Vineyard ships."

"Yes Sir, it will be done."
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Aboard the NAS-Kill-Bone Rapier-class Heavy Cruiser

The Kill-Bone and a few other Rapiers were sent out from the main fleet as a scouting force. Their instructions were to enguage the enemy and then fall back and call for support. After a short sail, the small battlegroup was within range of the landing craft suprised that there were no escort whatsoever.

"Captian, the vineyard ships are within range of our missiles and guns."

"Are you sure that these transports have no escorts?"

"Yes Captian, no other enemy ships are one the sensors."

"Very Well open fire and call for assistance."

With that order all of the rapiers opend fire with their main cannons and fired a few volleys of rockets. The roar and shockwave echoed throughout the the ships. After a couple of minuets aircraft soared overhead, the RS-7 Death Adders even had payload stapped to their wings, a rare sight as it compromised some of their stealth capabilities. Soon after, the rest of the battlegroup joined into the fray. Vineyard had made a grave mistake....

((OOC: The Scarface BattleGroup consists of the following:

1 Blue Dragon-Class Heavy Carriers
2 Hunter-Class Command Battleships
4 Frunze-Class Battleships
2 Arrow-Class Command Battlecruisers
6 Admiral-Class Battlecruisers
8 Rapier-Class Heavy Cruisers
10 Boar-Class Light Missile Cruisers
15 AA destroyers
20 ASW frigates
15 Denial-Class Concrete Submarines
2 Typhoon-II SSBNs))
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Meanwhile, on the Boarder of Italy and France...

USSNA Forces we hurried to set up a defence. They had set up at choke points that would force the Vineyardian forces into a bottleneck. This would allow the supior firepower of USSNA forces to quickly crush the attacking forces. Also made were makeshift firebases with detailed grids of those choakepoints. And as of this moment, the USSNA, French, and Ato-Saran airforces controled the skies over france.

((OOC: I will post the exact numbers later. Vineyard, if you could, post the numbers of each attack force AND put up you military in the military declarations thread. As you can't really attack unless you do.))

Mass-Drivers are still in the testing phase. You dont see NASA usng them because they can't. If mass-drivers are allowed then so are rail-guns. And railguns are PMT. These would be fine if you put them up with a rocket, but a mass-driver is PMT. It doesn't matter if it is shootinf people or cargo. Also, you you catch this said cargo with the spaceship, the spaceship would fly widly out of control. Even if the cargo is traveling at 1 m/s it's inerta would push the spaceship out of orbit, or into a wild spin.
Notice: I made a big mistake in my last few posts. Looking up the actual first post on it, I found out that it really flies in the upper-atmosphere of the earth, and is fully loaded at launch. What I was thinking of when I wrote the last three post was the very long mass-driver shaped rail launcher at my Hamburg Space Center, which uses convential rockets to launch emergency supply packages to a grapple system on the back of the aircraft that can be deployed. Sorry about the confusion.

Serbian State News Network (SSNN)-BELGRADE: Today, the first satellite of our superior space program was launched. It proves that we are technologically superior to those Western-devils who steal our food. The satellite is named "Sputnik", weights 83.6 kilograms, and is controlled by two radio transmitters at 20 and 40 MHz. It will orbit at a height of 250 kilometers above the earth. The satellite was launched at the Belgrade Space Center from a R-7 Semyorka rocket purchased from a private organization*. Our advanced instrumental system consists of a nitrogen pressurized sphere (to detech meteoroid impacts), a radio (to communicate), and a thermometer (to detech meteoroid impacts).

Images relased by the Serbian Space Service (SSS):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Sputnik1.png
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Sputnik_1.jpg

*OOC: "Private organization" = Russian Mafia. :)

OOC: Reactions, anybody?

Anyway, I'm posting an updated version of my military on the declaration thread.

ooc: I already have my military set in Zifos. Go check. You know i just intended to make a small part of france my own. But oh well. FYI 5,000 troops are on about 50 landing craft.

IC: ::SHIT! Break and flee for the shore!::
::Return Fire!::
Small cannons mounted on the landing craft opened up of the attacking fleet, ment to send them into evasive manewvers and perhaps buy them time. The attack was unexpected and un predicted, after all, USSNA didn't own france or have any treaty with it. They were simply at war with france.


-Encrypted Telegrams to all nations besides USSNA-
The nation of USSNA appears to have attacked a landing fleet without provoction. The fleet was heading for the southern cost of france, which the Government of Vineyard has made very clear they had plans for. USSNA currently has no alliances with France or friendly relations for that matter, and is at WAR with them. They have no claim/rights to the territory the fleet was bound for. The attack came unexpectedly, without warning, and without a declaration of war. So far 30 of the 50 landing craft have been sunk. We wish for this conflct to be resolved as quickly as possible. Please support us in this endevor.

-Lord Vineyard II

ooc: USSNA, you were in the process of invading france. I did not realize you owned southern france. or is this some sort of fluke by rushing troops to put me into a bottle neck? How do you plan to do that? Please, more details.

IC:
-Telegram to Whittier-
Noble Ally:
We have been attacked and we require aid. Our landing craft are under attack. We need assistance. Respond ASAP.
-lord Vineyard II

((OOC: Unprovoked? You told all forces in France to surrender/leave, or prepare to die. That sounds like a declaration of war to me. I even told you to back-off or else. Also, I am halping out Ato-Sara here. BTW I've been invading France long before you were. You are kinda like encroaching on me.))

Link (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9459738&postcount=817)

ooc: USSNA, you were in the process of invading france. I did not realize you owned southern france. or is this some sort of fluke by rushing troops to put me into a bottle neck? How do you plan to do that? Please, more details.

IC:
-Telegram to Whittier-
Noble Ally:
We have been attacked and we require aid. Our landing craft are under attack. We need assistance. Respond ASAP.
-lord Vineyard II

((OOC: My troops have been within souther france for a while now. The reason I was able to ruch troops there before hand was because you gave all nations a week to get out, surrender, or die. I used that week to do all I can to prepare for the attack.))

Whittier offers to host an emergency conference in Tehran between Vineyard, USSNA and Ato Sara to discuss and determine the future of France.
Brezhnekov's wife, Leah, will mediate the talks if the 3 parties accept.

Meantime, Brezhnekov calls on all parties to agree to a temporary ceasefire.
And for USSNA and Ato Sara to allow Vineyardian forces to disembark on the french coast for humanitarian reasons. During the talks, Vineyard should not attempt any push into France. Nor should USSNA nor Ato attempt any pushes of their own for any portion of France not currently occupied by any of their forces.

Open Message to Vineyard

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To: WHitter--
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Vineyard

We recently intercepted a message from Vineyard to you asking for help. Let it be known that our fight is not with you. Vineyard started this fight and we gave him a warning to back off. I also don't want this to become bigger than it already is. Please, stay out of this conflict.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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Whittier offers to host an emergency conference in Tehran between Vineyard, USSNA and Ato Sara to discuss and determine the future of France.
Brezhnekov's wife, Leah, will mediate the talks if the 3 parties accept.

Meantime, Brezhnekov calls on all parties to agree to a temporary ceasefire.
And for USSNA and Ato Sara to allow Vineyardian forces to disembark on the french coast for humanitarian reasons. During the talks, Vineyard should not attempt any push into France. Nor should USSNA nor Ato attempt any pushes of their own for any portion of France not currently occupied by any of their forces.

Open Message to Vineyard

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To: Whitter--
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: France

We accept your proposal and will cease fire upon all Vineyard vessels. We will however open fire if any Vneyard ship re-attemps to sail near France. Vineyard land forces are also requested to withdraw from French soil.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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Open Message to Vineyard

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To: WHitter--
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Vineyard

We recently intercepted a message from Vineyard to you asking for help. Let it be known that our fight is not with you. Vineyard started this fight and we gave him a warning to back off. I also don't want this to become bigger than it already is. Please, stay out of this conflict.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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Message:
To: USSNA and Vineyard
We have been watching the situation in France. We are aware that 3 foreign powers are contesting the ownership of France. We are also aware that unlike, citizens of the USSNA, Ato Sara, and Vineyard, the citizens of France are being killed, starved, and suffering otherwise due to the conflict between your two governments which are really outsiders in France.
Our forces are busy with Afghanistan, the Phillipines and an operation we are preparing to undertake in the western hemisphere. If we were to committ any forces to any side in France, our homeland would be in jeopardy.
However, Leah Brezhnekov, the Chairwoman of the Whittier Socialist Party, has seen the images of French suffering and prevailed upon her husband, the Secretary General, to host peace talks between the combatants. It is our hope that your governments will agree to such talks.

Open Message to Vineyard

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To: WHitter--
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Vineyard

We recently intercepted a message from Vineyard to you asking for help. Let it be known that our fight is not with you. Vineyard started this fight and we gave him a warning to back off. I also don't want this to become bigger than it already is. Please, stay out of this conflict.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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ooc: DELETED due to a good point Whittier made. WILL post Encrypted from now on.

And no, when I send a messgae to a natiion un-encrypted, i do not send copies to every other nation. Common sence.

How the heck did you intercept it? Iraq-Iran... do you have a fleet in Dune Sea (pun intended) out there?

Open Message to Vineyard

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To: Whitter--
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: France

We accept your proposal and will cease fire upon all Vineyard vessels. We will however open fire if any Vneyard ship re-attemps to sail near France. Vineyard land forces are also requested to withdraw from French soil.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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There will be no movements of any forces toward any direction until after the talks are over. Until the conflict is resolved, we don't (as yet) recognize your government as having a legitimate claim to France. As far as we can see, you are just as much an invader as Vineyard and Ato Sara.
Vineyard ship will be allowed to send ships to the French coast to supply Vineyard forces that are French soil. Or to refuel. Just as you may do the same for your own troops and ships. Supply and refueling movements are the only movements that will be allowed.

ooc: Yes, you did. But you cannot crack the code. Why? ITS ENCRYPTED. My gov't made a code and sent his gov't the decryption program so his gov't alone can read it. It was to His gov't. HIS gov't. Must I seriously list ENCRYPTED every time I send a telegram to another nation? If i wanted to allow people to read it it would be open.

ALSO, how the heck did you intercept it? Iraq-Iran... do you have a fleet in Dune Sea (pun intended) out there?
OOC: sorry but you should have posted that it was encrypted. Using the reasonable assumption rule, even I (and I did) would assume that it was unencrypted and that anyone would be able to read it.
but I'm going to let you and USSNA work this out. Since you probably didn't mean for it to be unen.


Edit: Good point. There is no way USSNA could intercept a hand carried message that was sent from Iraq to Iran.

Top-Secret quad-encrypted Comminque to USSNA
From: President Mina Veristek of Sharina

Greetings, friend.

I have been informed of the situation developing in France between your forces and Vineyard. I would like to declare Sharina's support of your proud people, as we both have had not-so-pleasant dealings with the nation of Vineyard in the past.

Sharina is prepared to ship raw resources to aid in your war in France, as we control a considerable portion of the world's resource deposits. In addition, any USSNA vessels, planes, or soldiers may seek refuge in Sharinan waters. USSNA forces also are permitted to dock and resupply at Sharinan bases in New England, such as Boston, Providence, New York City, Baltimore, Portland, and so forth.

You have a friend in Sharina.

Live well and prosper.
~President Mina Veristek

Whittier offers to host an emergency conference in Tehran between Vineyard, USSNA and Ato Sara to discuss and determine the future of France.
Brezhnekov's wife, Leah, will mediate the talks if the 3 parties accept.

Meantime, Brezhnekov calls on all parties to agree to a temporary ceasefire.
And for USSNA and Ato Sara to allow Vineyardian forces to disembark on the french coast for humanitarian reasons. During the talks, Vineyard should not attempt any push into France. Nor should USSNA nor Ato attempt any pushes of their own for any portion of France not currently occupied by any of their forces.
-ENCRYPTED ENCRYPTED ENCRYPTED ENCRYPTED ENCRYPTED SECRET letter/dispatch to Whittier. Escorted under Armed gaurd across the vineyard-whittier border to prevent another interception from USSNA.-
We will agree to such a conference. name the time and place. HOWEVER, USSNA ships are continuing to fire opon us, we will return fire.

Message to the World:

If our Balkan friend continues to be attacked by evil foreigners, we will intervene. You are warned.

-The Serbian Senate.

Message:
To: USSNA and Vineyard
We have been watching the situation in France. We are aware that 3 foreign powers are contesting the ownership of France. We are also aware that unlike, citizens of the USSNA, Ato Sara, and Vineyard, the citizens of France are being killed, starved, and suffering otherwise due to the conflict between your two governments which are really outsiders in France.
Our forces are busy with Afghanistan, the Phillipines and an operation we are preparing to undertake in the western hemisphere. If we were to committ any forces to any side in France, our homeland would be in jeopardy.
However, Leah Brezhnekov, the Chairwoman of the Whittier Socialist Party, has seen the images of French suffering and prevailed upon her husband, the Secretary General, to host peace talks between the combatants. It is our hope that your governments will agree to such talks.

MSG To Whitter--

I assure you that all French Citizens under USSNA control are being treated with the upmost repsect and are bing given food and water.
We will open up select "naval lanes" that vineyards ships may pass through, but they will be closely watched.

Encrypted Message
To: USSNA
From: Whittier

We have received reports that you continue to fire upon Vineyard forces. If this is the case, in the interests of peace and diplomacy we must demand that you halt fire immediately.

MSG To Whitter--

I assure you that all French Citizens under USSNA control are being treated with the upmost repsect and are bing given food and water.
We will open up select "naval lanes" that vineyards ships may pass through, but they will be closely watched.
This is acceptable, however USSNA ships will not be the ones to watch over these lanes.
They will watched by a neutral third party.
Further, these lanes will designated not only for Vineyard forces but for Ato Saran and USSNA forces will also be required to use said lanes as long as the talks are on going.

Top-Secret quad-encrypted Comminque to USSNA
From: President Mina Veristek of Sharina

Greetings, friend.

I have been informed of the situation developing in France between your forces and Vineyard. I would like to declare Sharina's support of your proud people, as we both have had not-so-pleasant dealings with the nation of Vineyard in the past.

Sharina is prepared to ship raw resources to aid in your war in France, as we control a considerable portion of the world's resource deposits. In addition, any USSNA vessels, planes, or soldiers may seek refuge in Sharinan waters. USSNA forces also are permitted to dock and resupply at Sharinan bases in New England, such as Boston, Providence, New York City, Baltimore, Portland, and so forth.

You have a friend in Sharina.

Live well and prosper.
~President Mina Veristek

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//Encryption Cycle Started
//Protocol: 3A-4C-DD-12S
//Encryption Upheld

To: President Mina Veristek, Sharina
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Support

I thank you for your support. It will not be forgotten. I would also like to open all our ports to traffic from your ocean-going vessel aswell. I also am interested in an alliance with you and a few other. I will talk to you more about it at a later date, as I am currently enguaged in the situation in France as of this moment.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

//Encryption Cycle Ended
//Protocol: 3A-4C-DD-12E
//Encryption Closed
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SECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRETSECRET IC:

Several new developments were happening. Among them were a building of a new railroad from Hienkel City to Munich to Zurich to Zagreb.

Along the highways, Mi-8 transport helicopters from Poland, Leopard 2 tanks, wine, and bread from Germany, a constant metal supply from Norway, and butter and dried/smoked fish from Denmark flowed to Croatia. Olive oil came from Croatia to Germany. Trade was at an all time high.

This is acceptable, however USSNA ships will not be the ones to watch over these lanes.
They will watched by a neutral third party. (Not Sharina since he has already declared sides. Nor Great Romeo either).
Further, these lanes will designated not only for Vineyard forces but for Ato Saran and USSNA forces will also be required to use said lanes as long as the talks are on going.

Msg to Whitter:

If this is what you wish, fine. But USSNA will still be keeping a close eye on any and all Vineyard ships in these lanes.

The emergency talks will begin tomorrow morning in Tehran.
Will the combatants please identify who will represent them and who is accompanying them? No armed guards or escorts will be allowed. The protection and well being of all negotiators and their staff is officially guaranteed by the government of Whittier.

OOC:

Nobody knows I'm actually supporting USSNA except USSNA himself IC'ly. My transmission was highly encrypted, so there is no way for Whittier or Vineyard to know about Sharina's friendly overtures to USSNA except USSNA himself.

Secret IC:

The Great Military of Serbia (AKA: Great Romeo) is being mobilized, to be ready for any possible response needed to the current world situtation.

OCC Note: Yes, I have updated my military declaration post to modern status.

OOC:

Nobody knows I'm actually supporting USSNA except USSNA himself IC'ly. My transmission was highly encrypted, so there is no way for Whittier or Vineyard to know about Sharina's friendly overtures to USSNA except USSNA himself.
OOC: That is correct. I missed the encrypted part. Post edited.

The emergency talks will begin tomorrow morning in Tehran.
Will the combatants please identify who will represent them and who is accompanying them? No armed guards or escorts will be allowed. The protection and well being of all negotiators and their staff is officially guaranteed by the government of Whittier.

Representing USSNA will be the North Atlantian Foreign Representaive: Sir Bruce Wallingford and his daughter Carri Wallingford.

(OOC: My 666th post! :eek: )

Representing USSNA will be the North Atlantian Foreign Representaive: Sir Bruce Wallingford and his daughter Carri Wallingford.

(OOC: My 666th post! :eek: )

OOC: Get yourself a holy cross, some garlic, and silver stuff. :p

OOC: This is a long Character driven conversational post, to make things easier for the readers, I'm going to designate speakers as follows:

R = King Rox
J = General Jack Ripper
B = Commodore Bostitch
K = General Konga
T = General Tasman

Also note this is a private conference in one of the most secure areas of Mauiwowee - no one can act on this info, it is for informational purposes only. (i.e. I needed to update this info.)

King Rox looked at the men assembled in his office. General Ripper, his Military chief of staff, head of the Army and the Royal Guardsmen and CEO of W.M.D., Inc., Commodore Bostitch, newly appointed head of the Navy (and the leader of the rebel forces that had stood up to the Black Queen when she murdered king Rox's father; king 'Lude II), General Konga, head of the Marines and General Tasman, head of the Airforce. It was time for the weekly detailed military briefing (OOC: King Rox gets a summary briefing at least once a day from General Ripper, but once a week he meets with the heads of all 4 branches of the military for an in depth and detailed briefing). In many ways, king Rox looked forward to the briefing today - since the announcement of the Narcosis Doctrine he had not yet received any major, official reply from FOAM members or other nations - though it was still too early to discount a possible negative reaction by anyone. The FOAM conference would resume this afternoon and he might hear something then, but right now the delegates were being briefed on the capabilities of Mauiwowee's new Stryker and Dingo fighter planes and Tri-Maran ships. Turning first to General Ripper, king Rox said:

R"Jack, could you please give me a quick overview of how we stand with the re-alignment and deployment of our ground forces?"

J"We're about done with that sire. There is still a little fluid motion in the Phillipines and Venezeula, but that's about it. As it stands now the troops are stationed as shown on this listing I had my aides and General Konga prepare." - General Ripper handed a document to the assembly which read as follows:*
As of today, our ground forces (Army, Marines and Royal Guardsmen) are deployed and stationed as follows:
1. Venezeulan Invasionary forces (actually in Venezeula) = 100,000 Army, 25,000 Marines, 1,500 Royal Guardsmen (totals are approximate due to the nature of active conflict)
2. Phillipino (Mindanao) Invasionary Force (actually involved in the invasion of Mindanao) = 75,000 Army, 15,000 Marines, 500 Royal Guardsmen (again, totals are approximate as this is an active conflict)
3. S.E. China = 375,000 Army, 55,000 Marines, 1,500 Royal Guardsmen (500 Hong Kong, 1,000 Greater Chinese Wall duty stations)
4. Australia Proper & the Islands (Inc. New Zealand & Tasmania) = 200,000 Army, 125,00 Marines, 125,000 Royal Guardsmen (Royal Guardsmen breakout: 100,000 Australia, 3,000 New Zealand, 5,000 French Polynesia, 5,000 Micronesia, 3,000 Hawaii, 3,500 Christmas Island, 7,500, various island stations)
5. Brazil Proper = 125,000 Army, 250,000 Marines, 5,500 Royal Guardsmen (Including Nigerian & South African recalls).
*NOTE: numbers are for active duty combat ready personnel and do not include logistics and supply which stand at basically the same level we have maintained for the past several years (Army: 7:1 Logistics to Combat; Marines: 6:1 Logistics to Combat; Royal Guardsmen: 6:1 Logistics to Combat). Additonally, these figures do not include the local militias, reservists and National Guard.

R How about equipment?

J Approximately 65% of the Army and 80% of the Marines have XM-30 rifles and grenades, the rest use the standard issue. Side arms, field equipment, etc. remain steady and supply lines are stable and secure" - looking at the Commodore for assurance and receiving it. As you know, the Royal Guardsmen use various weapons, depending on the mission. However, the primary weapon used is the .40 Caliber Smith & Wesson Machine pistol and the .40 ACP Machine gun. However, all Royal Guardsmen units are equipped to use any of our standard issue weapons (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=413435) or XM-30's.

R "Thanks Jack. General Tasman, what about your units?"

T "Rough estimate sire -" clearly embarrassed since his report was oral and not written like General Ripper's had been thanks to a secretary that had gotten sick at the worst possible time When it comes to fighters and bombers we're doing fine. We're also ok with supply planes, but the C-130's need to be updated, they're getting a little "old" shall we say. I've put in a reccomendation to General Ripper that we look at Norleans new Sonic-7's and TG6R's Airbus 380's as a possible new supply craft and midair refueling plane. I'm just waiting for his approval to order some for testing purposes." looking at General Ripper with more than just a hint of "There, take that!" in his eye.

R "I have the report on my desk and I'm giving it due consideration General, thank you." with a curt tone meant to cut off the obvious "competition" between his advisors.

T "Well, as I was saying, the deployments of Airforce fighters and bombers is like this, note, this does not include the Navy's carrier based aircraft or our support C-130's, cargo or troop planes, etc. I'm sorry sire, I don't have a breakout on those numbers, but my staff assures me that we have no significant issue there, it is just time to upgrade the service fleet. However, we have -looking at notes first of all in Brazil (and this includes the planes being used for the Venezeulaian forces) - 8,000 Bong Buster II jets, 150 Dingos, 200 Strykers, 500 Head Rushes, 50 B-2 Spirits, 1,000 FA-22 Raptors, and 1,000 Warthogs. In S.E. China we have another 4,000 Bong Buster II jets, 2,750 Dingos, 750 Head Rushes, 800 Strykers, 50 B-2 Spirits, 400 FA-22 Raptors, and 3,000 Warthogs. In Australia Proper and the Islands, we have 4,250 Bong Buster II jets, 5,500 Dingos, 1,500 Head Rushes, 4,500 Strykers 50 B-2 Spirits, 1,200 FA-22 Raptors, and 2,100 Warthogs."

R"General - I'd like a little more detailed break out of the planes if you could get that for me" - just a bit annoyed that General Tasman didn't have a written memo. He understood the numbers and had made notes, but Tasman should have followed Jack's lead and given a written memo on the numbers. - Speaking of General Ripper, at least mentally - "Jack, I forgot to ask, what about heavy equipment support for the ground forces?"

J "We're good sire. Look at the next page of my report. We have more of every class of Ferret than we can count in all locations, including at least 20,000 in Brazil and Venezeula, 14,000 in the Phillipines, 34,000 in S.E. China and 50,000 in Australia proper and the islands. We also have some 10,000 M1-Abram's in Brazil and Venezeula, 9,000 in S.E. China, 5,000 in the Phillipines and 20,000 in Australia and the islands. Our other infranty is doing well too with 10,000 Appaches and Blackhawks in S.E. China, 15,000 in Brazil/Venezeula and 20,000 in Australia and the islands. Also, while not significanly deployed due to a loss of funding, we have 4,000 Blue Thunder choppers in Australia, 500 in Brazil (primarily in Rio) and 1,040 in S.E. China. If anything is needed here it is some new tanks and choppers - frankly sire, I'd like to see the Blue Thunder class put into full service. We also have more artillery than we can assess, thought it is getting a bit dated. I didn't run the numbers fully, but with the exception of the Phillipines and the new islands we've claimed under the Narcosis Doctrine our perimiter beach defenses are fully equipped and armed and we're ready to invade with artillery support anywhere in the Pacific we need to go. Brazil is also fully supported this way."

R "noted; Jack, send me a report on the choppers and tank ideas W.M.D. has. "Stanley, where does the navy stand?" OOC: Commodore Stanley Bostitch is the likely successor to General Ripper

B "Sire, the Navy is in better shape than it ever has been. Your father, King 'Lude, would be proud." - (Beaming with pride and clearly a sincere statement, not a "suck up." comment. Commodore Bostitch cared more about his nation than anyone with the possible exception of king Rox and General Ripper.) I've submitted a memorandum like Jack's, but just to sum it up - handing out a several page document - The details are in the documents I'm handing out, however, as to our new Tri-Maran ships; we have 2 Black Queen Tri-Maran class carrier groups based on Christmas Island (OOC: A Mauiwoweean Carrier Group contains 1 Carrier, 4 Battleships (various classes), 6 Destroyers (various classes), 12 Frigates, 2 subs, 12 Hospital Ships and 4 Sub Hunter/Destroyers). We also have one in Hawaii and one in French Polynesia. Each Black Queen group has an equal number of standard light destroyers and newer tri-maran frigates as part of their escort. We also have 39 of our standard Bite Me and [i[Stealth[/i] Carriers and their support groups out there, I can't tell you exact locations, but, 5 are based on Christmas Island, 2 in Hawaii, 8 in Brazil, 4 in French Polynesia, 2 in Micronesia, 1 in the Marshall Islands, 5 in Australia proper, 2 in New Zealand, 2 to Shangai, 2 to Hong Kong, 2 are in the Phillipines, 3 on random Pacific patrols and 1 in the Halmahera Islands. As to our submarines, I can't begin to layout exact locations since they only report in once a month. Howevever, including those technically part of a carrier group, we have 50 in the Pacific, 10 in the Carribeean, 25 in the Atlantic and 20 on covert, every 6 months report operations status, that I cannot provide details on, they could be anywhere. Our aircraft are doing well also. Each of the tri-maran carriers has 30 Dingos and 30 Strykers on them. The other carriers carry 15 Dingos and 15 Strykers each, the rest are standards pending upgrades to the new generation. With the exception of those ships in carrier groups, the remainder of our ships are on random patrols, pursuant to the Narcosis Doctrine, in the Pacific."

R "Thanks Stanley[/b] - Looking at the report "General Konga, I didn't mean to short you, do you have anything else to add?"

K "No sire, actually I don't. Jack put the important stuff in his report."

[b]R[b] "OK, military intelligence, reports, satellite recon., Jack?"

J "Well sire, war has errupted in Europe. Ato Sara has dug in with their forces in Paris. Vineyard has begun an invasion and USSNA has come to their assistance and attacked a Vineyardian fleet - apparently with success - at least the bulk of their ships turned around and headed back home. Also, a Vineyardian fleet has left Ascension Island, it's too early to tell where they are headed now though. Sharina is wrapped up in North East Canadian areas. Whittier has secured Luzon and moved on to Mirodono in the Phillipines. Norleans is up to their same-o-same-o. Warta has completed the South American railroad. Wirray is being quiet. and the new space treaty with TG6R and his space exploration conglommerate, including Warta Endor, Great Romeo, Whittier and Vineyard seems to be holding thanks to the U.N.'s oversight."

R "Funny you should mention Vineyard and his moves. This was the last thing I wanted to discuss, but now seems like the time to bring it up. I've prepared the following message to relay to Vineyard, but I wanted your comments before I sent it. With that, King Rox handed out his own memo.

To: Lord Vineyard II
From: King Roxicet "Rox" Soma Narcosis, Mauiwowee
Re: Relations
Date: Today
Dear Lord Vineyard:
For too long our nations have failed to trust one another and engaged in a war of words. My father, king 'Lude and his wife, the Black Queen Harriet, went so far as to attack you. I cannot change the past, but I wish this had never happened. We have now entered, jointly into a treaty regarding the exploration of space and we have made available to you significant technology and research. It is time to tear down the wall that has been errected between our nations. As you know we are pulling out of Nigeria. We had hoped another nation would move in and assist Nigeria in fending for itself. They have, now, a trained and well equipped land based military and a decent airforce. However, they need political guidance. No one has stepped forward to take that challenge. My father entered into a treaty with you by which you agreed to keep warships out of the Pacific and Mauiwowee agreed to do the same in the Mediterranean. I would like now to cancel that treaty and grant your ships, all of them, free passage through the Pacific, subject only to the Narcosis Doctrine (which all ships from all nations will shortly be subject too). As long as your ships have no hostile intent in the Pacific and are not engaged in illegal activities, they shall be welcome here, as will be your citizens. We are lifting all trade embargoes against you as of the date of this message. As a gesture of good will and to prove our sincerety, we are asking that you assume control in Nigeria and offer to broker the exchange of power. We do not request any funds or other concessions from you for this transition, but only ask that you reciprocate regarding the Meditteranean and allow our ships passage there as we are now prepared to allow your ships passage in the Pacific. The world has changed, leaderships have changed, goals have changed, it is time we change as well. I look forward to your reply,
Sincerely,
His most royal highness,
King Roxicet "Rox" Soma Narcosis
Mauiwowee
J, T, K "Sire, are you crazy!" they said, almost in unison "Surely you don't believe Vineyard will go for this or in fact do anything but continue to cause us and our allies grief!"

R "It may be a long shot, but it is one I'm willing to take. Think about it, opening the Med. to our ships and avoiding the chance of significant warfare. Enough is enough, I'm not 'Lude or Harriet and it is time to change the direction of our planet. We've joined, via a treaty, Vineyard in space exploration and we are both U.N. members who should be able to work things out with reason there if issues arise; the senseless hostility must stop. We have come too close to planetwide nuclear destruction in the past. Maybe we can, with this gesture and offer of a new beginning assure our children that nuclear will never happen."

J "Sire, Vineyard is a mad dog, imperialist nation though-and-through"

R "Are they? Can you be sure about that now? Maybe a few years back, but now? I'm not convinced."

T "Sire, you're the king, your word goes, but I'd ask that you seriously reconsider this idea of peace with Vineyard. It just won't work."

R You may be right General, but if we don't try, we're no better off than before."

J, B Sire, I can tell you intend to send this, no matter our opinons. I'd like to stay and see if we get a quick reply from Vineyard.

R "sure, no problem Jack. And with that, king Rox hit "send." It was either war or peace, the ball was in Vineyard's court.

OOC: Ok, after 3+ hours of writing and editing this, I'm tired. I may do some more fleshing out of stuff and detailed math calculations, but for now, the message should get across.

Serbian State News Network (SSNN)-BELGRADE: Tonight, the second satellite of our superior space program was launched. It proves that we are technologically superior to those foreign-devils who steal our food. The satellite is named "Sputnik 3", and is a research satillite. Sputnik 2 blew up on launch yesterday, most likely due to dirty work by those foreign devils. But Sputnik 3 was launched successfully. It is a research satellite to explore the upper atmosphere and the near space, and weighes 1,327 kg. Our advanced scientific instrumentation system will provide data on pressure and composition of the upper atmosphere, concentration of charged particles, photons in cosmic rays, heavy nuclei in cosmic rays, magnetic and electrostatic fields, and meteoric particles. Again, it was launch on a modified R-7 Semyorka purchased from a private organization.

Drawing relased by the Serbian Space Service (SSS):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Sputnik3.png

-Ruling Council-
The telegram was illuminated in the center of the dark room. First the Words TELEGRAM flashed up, then the auctual telegram came into view.

"Hah! A telegram from Maui!"

"Lets see what King Rox has to say."

"Bah, burn it."

"Burn it!?"

"Objection."

"Whoever got you onto this council is by far an idiot."

"Then its a damn good thing you don't know who I am."

"Feel like sharing?"

"Not really."

"Fine then, shut up. We must read it. EHEM."


A clear, crisp voice began to read it aloud. When he was done, there were several minuted of silence.


"Times have changed..."

"Its a trick, a ploy!"

"Giving us Nigeria...."

"Not so much giving as sharing."


-More silence-


"Well, at least the illusion is still up."

"Won't be for long. The people are unnerved how Lord Vineyard II hasn't been seen for days. When Lord Vineyard the First took over the Old parliment in that coup, he made daily appreances, probably to prevent something like this from happening."

"How goes the search?"

"No family members in Europe, or the middle east. We have agents in Afirca looking, and are preping agents for searching our allies. Its probable that Lord Vineyard stashed away his relitives in Germany, under the protection of his old friend."

"Probably. But to the matter at hand, please."

"Maui is clearly making an attempt at peace. But with this war with USSNA, it would be wise to accept his peace. Also, the coal and metal flow will help us a lot. Trade with asia. Our dream come true."

'Wasn't it owning asia?"

"Same thing."

ooc: Too tired, will finish in morning..............

Ludo Hienkel was observed laughing about hearing reports of a satellite from the 50's going into orbit.

To the government of Mauiwowee.

We have noted you have begun building your first space station. The government of Whittier would like to offer assistance to help you reduce costs and make your station's systems more effecient.
We note you intend to use plants to produce the required oxygen. We have found, with our own station that it is more efficient to use an air recycling system. Though we still use plants but for their psychological effects, (they relax stressed out people).
Further we have learned that in space, artificial sunlamps are more effective that pure sunlight. Especially when the earth is between the station and the sun.
We have developed products to protect the air supply and provide artificial sunlight not only plants but to allow for sunbathing as well.
To help reduce your costs, we offer to give your nation the tech stats for the required equipment including as many air recyclers and sunlamp domes as your nation requires for its station.

Dear sirs: You have missed an important point - the mission is to make the station 100% self-sufficient. To that end, a primary goal of the agri-domes is the growing of food, not just the production of oxygen. We have CO2 scrubbers and sunlamps already which will be used on the station in addition to natural light and oxygen production occasioned by the plants. We will shortly be announcing the plants and "live stock" that will inhabit the domes. We are more than willing to discuss and share technology related to the sunlamps and oxygen generators you have offered us though and we thank you sincerely for that offer. There is always room for improvement and we may find such improvement in your offer. To that end, we invite you to send a team to MASA to observe the construction and implementation process for the H.M.S. Brisbane
Sincerely,
King Rox,
Mauiwowee

"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for SIEIN, Sharina's top quality source of all current events information.

Today's top story is Operation Steel Heart: Part Two.

At approximately 3:08 PM Sharina Standard Time, the province of Quebec has surrendered to the Sharina Technocracy as the last remaining rebels and disgruntled Canadians were cornered in several strongholds in northern Quebec. The majority of the Quebec people have welcomed Sharina as liberators and they have adopted a new phrase, known as 'Reunificator'. The populace throughout both Sharina held and indigieous held Canada have begun massive celebrations as the realization that Canada will be fully reunified after many decades of strife and chaos.

Towards this end, the tiny former Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland have offered truces to Sharina, and proposals to join reunified Canada. There will be a conference held tomorrow between high level Sharinan officials and the leaders of the last remaining Canadian provinces. It is expected that the issue of re-integration and Sharinan province-hood will be discussed tomorrow in the conference.

The stocks and investments of the Sharina TechnoExchange has soared today, reaching new records as Canada is prepared for full reunification. Many economic analysts have announced that the end of hostilities and aggressive militarism in North America will provide Sharina and possibly Norleans with a tremendous boost in the civilian sector and economies. The promise of stability and true peace in North America has millions of investors, capitalists, and businessmen scrambling for new economic opporunities.

President Mina Veristek has stated that once the North American Campaigns are officially over with the conclusion of Operation Steel Heart, Sharina plans on undertaking many multi-billion dollar and several multi-trillion dollar civil improvement and public work projects that will dramatically improve the productivity, living standards, economies, and infrastructure of Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean islands, South America, and Antarctica. These projects are estimated to generate in excess of 40 million new jobs, pushing Sharina's current unemployment of 2.9% down to somewhere between 0.5% to 1.0%.

All indications point to a new era of peace, prosperity, and stability in the Western Hemisphere for the first time in over half a century since the Collapse.

We will bring you additional news on tomorrow's conference and the official cessation of warfare in North America. We will be back after these messages."

(Cuts to commercials)

OOC:

I decided to make an official map thread. Its here at this link...

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9474036#post9474036

OOC:

I decided to make an official map thread. Its here at this link...

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=9474036#post9474036
they need updating.

Now declassified and for sale:

Delta V Rocket

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v245/vetobob/Deltarocket.jpg

$850 million

they need updating.
Definitely. ;) Plus, Great Romeo will be really angry if you call their state government of Costa Rica "disputed" territory.

I'm working on them. SO have some patience.

I'm working on them. SO have some patience.
Patience? No one even said anything about your maps yet. ;)

Definitely. ;) Plus, Great Romeo will be really angry if you call their state government of Costa Rica "disputed" territory.

I called it "Disputed Territory" because Costa Rica is state government of Great Romeo, but Sharina claims the land (might even invade it). It's something akin to this..



Great Romeo: I control Costa Rica through the government.

Sharina: I lay claim to Costa Rica, as it falls squarely within the Sharinan sphere of influence. In addition, we believe that the Costa Rican people would rather be part of Sharina than a part of some far off empire on another continent halfway around the world.



At any rate, if anyone is willing to update Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania maps, then I'd be more than happy to update my map thread. I do the maps for the Americas and Antarctica.

OOC: Just because you want it and I own it doesn't give you the right to call it "disputed"!

Non-secret IC:

Local members of the Great Romeoan controlled Costan Rican militia have began more frequent partols through the country. The AA defenses and naval units stationed in the Costan Rican canal have been put on a higher level of alertness. For the first time, makeshift AWACS Airbus A380s are conducting patrols over the skies of Costa Rica.

Secret IC:

Currently, three million soldiers of the Serbian Army are also stationed in the central canal zone. Six-hundred FA-22K tanks are also stationed there.

I called it "Disputed Territory" because Costa Rica is state government of Great Romeo, but Sharina claims the land (might even invade it). It's something akin to this..





At any rate, if anyone is willing to update Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania maps, then I'd be more than happy to update my map thread. I do the maps for the Americas and Antarctica.

I'm working on it, I'm going to update all the maps.

OOC: Just because you want it and I own it doesn't give you the right to call it "disputed"!

Non-secret IC:

Local members of the Great Romeoan controlled Costan Rican militia have began more frequent partols through the country. The AA defenses and naval units stationed in the Costan Rican canal have been put on a higher level of alertness. For the first time, makeshift AWACS Airbus A380s are conducting patrols over the skies of Costa Rica.

Secret IC:

Currently, three million soldiers of the Serbian Army are also stationed in the central canal zone. Six-hundred FA-22K tanks are also stationed there.

OOC:

To be honest, Costa Rica has always been disputed. First it was unclaimed but "under Great Romeo influence" meaning no actual claim or annexation. Then suddenly, it pops to Great Romeo, as it apparently was annexed without a RP like the other expansions of other Earth V players. That doesn't quite sit well, as Sharina was originally planning on invading Costa Rica before the "pop to Great Romeo". Thus, the conflict of interest and dispute.

Also, the increased military activity will make Sharina believe that Great Romeo is planning an major attack aganist Sharina IC'ly. Sharina is fully prepared to risk war with Great Romeo to acquire Costa Rica, the final piece for stability in the Americas. In doing so, it will be finally possible to connect North America and South America. Sharina and its American allies will be able to transport goods, material, and goods over-land instead of overseas.

This is quite paramount for the American Golden Age to take place.

OOC:

To be honest, Costa Rica has always been disputed. First it was unclaimed but "under Great Romeo influence" meaning no actual claim or annexation. Then suddenly, it pops to Great Romeo, as it apparently was annexed without a RP like the other expansions of other Earth V players. That doesn't quite sit well, as Sharina was originally planning on invading Costa Rica before the "pop to Great Romeo". Thus, the conflict of interest and dispute.

Also, the increased military activity will make Sharina believe that Great Romeo is planning an major attack aganist Sharina IC'ly. Sharina is fully prepared to risk war with Great Romeo to acquire Costa Rica, the final piece for stability in the Americas. In doing so, it will be finally possible to connect North America and South America. Sharina and its American allies will be able to transport goods, material, and goods over-land instead of overseas.

This is quite paramount for the American Golden Age to take place.

OOC: No, Great Romeo RPed it. I remember it. They made some deal about building a canal or something. I'll search for it if you need it.

OOC: No, Great Romeo RPed it. I remember it. They made some deal about building a canal or something. I'll search for it if you need it.

I'd like to see it, as I don't remember Great Romeo actually annexing Costa Rica.

At any rate, one way or other, Sharina will end up going to war over Costa Rica if necessary.

OOC:

Let me put it this way. Costa Rica is a protectorate of mine. I would show you the post, but the search function doesn't work well for me.

Here's the last past I can find on the subject: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7807511&postcount=1463

This post shows that the Costa Rican government is basicly allowing me military presence in Costa Rica.

I will soon make an offer to give them full sufferage in The Republic, as a state.

OOC:

Let me put it this way. Costa Rica is a protectorate of mine. I would show you the post, but the search function doesn't work well for me.

Here's the last past I can find on the subject: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7807511&postcount=1463

This post shows that the Costa Rican government is basicly allowing me military presence in Costa Rica.

I will soon make an offer to give them full sufferage in The Republic, as a state.

Here's the right post, you looked in the wrong thead:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7083270&postcount=333
and
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7083270&postcount=334

Secret IC:

Secret Agent X sat at his table. He couldn't help but notice the mass mobilization of GR forces in Costa Rica.
He would have to find out more for his report home.
He stared at the newspaper before him, reading it as he listened to a loud mouth soldier bragging about his unit's movements.


OOC: I am not getting involved in this conflict. Just keeping an eye on it if that's alright.

A top-secret message to the leader of Costa Rica:

Leader of Costa Rica,

It is time that you fully join The Republic. We have been protecting you militarily for years and years as our protectorate. It is time. Joining the Republic will allow your citizens to vote in our elections, and participate in our advanced space program. Don't worry about an attack by evil Sharina. We have you covered.

-The Serbian Senate.

-Armed Convoy escorted courier to Whittier-
We know not what your intentions are. But you called a meeting, yet no time and place has been set. Any further delay will be intolerable. It simply gives USSNA more time to prepare forces to face us. PLEASE, arrange the meeting ASAP or not at all.
-Lord Vineyard II

-Armed Convoy escorted courier to Whittier-
We know not what your intentions are. But you called a meeting, yet no time and place has been set. Any further delay will be intolerable. It simply gives USSNA more time to prepare forces to face us. PLEASE, arrange the meeting ASAP or not at all.
-Lord Vineyard II
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9473088&postcount=892

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9473088&postcount=892
ooc: Oh.

IC: Gen. Komesar and Sir. Heircholeslav (minister of diplomacy) will attend.

Open Comminque to the International Community:

Greetings.

I must declare something of considerable importance. It has became apparent that there has been massive Great Romeo military mobilizations and deployments in the tiny nation of Costa Rica. I believe that Great Romeo actually has hostile intentions towards Sharina, otherwise, there would be no need for such unprecendented military build-up in Costa Rica.

It is believed that there are in excess of two or three million Great Romeo troops in Costa Rica, along with hundreds of armored vehicles and assorted heavy equipment according to intelligence and satellite reconissiance. These actions clearly show that Great Romeo is planning something vile aganist the Sharina nation such as a potential invasion of Sharinan lands. Sharina has no choice but to mobilize its troops along the two borders between Sharina and Costa Rica.

Sharina will not tolerate massive military build-ups of nations that are either hostile or non-allies [of Sharina] directly adjacent to Sharina's territories. It clearly demostrates a clear and present danger to the Sharina Technocracy, and action must be taken to ensure safety and security. Great Romeo must stand down, and retract all claims on Costa Rica as Costa Rica falls squarely within the Sharinan sphere of influence. Any non-allied military build-up, large or small, in Costa Rica is considered as a prelude to war aganist Sharina. Why else would there be such a build-up, if not for war?

Make your choice, Great Romeo. Surrender Costa Rica to Sharina, demobilize your massive military build-up in Costa Rica, and withdraw from the Americas back to Europe, or face war with the powerful Sharina Technocracy. Make peace with Sharina and watch your people prosper in Europe and enjoy a bright future, or go to war with Sharina and watch your cities, people, and nation suffer and burn for your actions.

Good day.

~President Mina Veristek

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Top Secret Quad-Encrypted tranmission to Sharinan Allies of:
Mauiwowee, Whittier, Great Sixth Reich, USSNA, Warta Endor, Ato-Sara, Norleans, and Virgin Incursion
From: President Mina Veristek

Greetings.

I have recieved intelligence that Great Romeo is apparently allied to Vineyard, and a former member of the now defunct UFSR. I truly believe that Great Romeo intends to attack Sharinan holdings in Latin America and the Caribbean with the massive military build-up in Costa Rica. Great Romeo apparently believes that with its ally Vineyard causing trouble in Europe, Vineyard will distract Sharina's allies while Great Romeo catches Sharina by surprise by launching a sneak attack out of Costa Rica. However, it is Sharina's hope to deny any chance of this possible dastardly plan of Great Romeo from working. Costa Rica has been a thorn in Sharina's side for more than thirty years because of Great Romeo interference, but now the time is ripe to eliminate the thorn once and for all.

All I ask is that you support Sharina in its efforts to remove Great Romeo and the last vestiges of UFSR influence, dissolved alliance or not, as well as a potential base of operations for Vineyard in the Americas. Once this task is done, the Americas will be fully secure and stable for all of us, ensuring a bright and wonderful future, full of peace and prosperity. Sharina actively seeks prosperity, but there are those who would seek to undermine it. If Great Romeo truly desires peace, it will surrender Costa Rica and withdraw back to Europe. If Great Romeo refuses, then what message does that send us? A message that Great Romeo prefers to inflict war, grief, suffering and tragedy rather than foster unity, prosperity, and peace.

Please stand united with us, as we must stand strong aganist those who seek to undermine prosperity and progress. We must forge a shining future, and we must sweep aside those who are opposed to it. I truly appreciate your support and friendship over those many years through our daily struggles to re-unify a shattered world and re-forge it into a much stronger and stable Earth.

Live well and prosper.
~President Mina Veristek

~~Encrypted~~

To: President Mina Veristek
From: Emperor Kim Te Se

The Empire is ever ray to declare our support for Sharina against those that would cause world instability. However Ato-Saran ability to stand by our great allies in these troubled times has been hampered by certain 'domestic' problems.

Sincerely,
Emperor Kim Te Se

-Ruling Council-
The telegram was illuminated in the center of the dark room. First the Words TELEGRAM flashed up, then the auctual telegram came into view.

"Hah! A telegram from Maui!"

"Lets see what King Rox has to say."

"Bah, burn it."

"Burn it!?"

"Objection."

"Whoever got you onto this council is by far an idiot."

"Then its a damn good thing you don't know who I am."

"Feel like sharing?"

"Not really."

"Fine then, shut up. We must read it. EHEM."


A clear, crisp voice began to read it aloud. When he was done, there were several minuted of silence.


"Times have changed..."

"Its a trick, a ploy!"

"Giving us Nigeria...."

"Not so much giving as sharing."


-More silence-


"Well, at least the illusion is still up."

"Won't be for long. The people are unnerved how Lord Vineyard II hasn't been seen for days. When Lord Vineyard the First took over the Old parliment in that coup, he made daily appreances, probably to prevent something like this from happening."

"How goes the search?"

"No family members in Europe, or the middle east. We have agents in Afirca looking, and are preping agents for searching our allies. Its probable that Lord Vineyard stashed away his relitives in Germany, under the protection of his old friend."

"Probably. But to the matter at hand, please."

"Maui is clearly making an attempt at peace. But with this war with USSNA, it would be wise to accept his peace. Also, the coal and metal flow will help us a lot. Trade with asia. Our dream come true."

'Wasn't it owning asia?"

"Same thing."

ooc: Too tired, will finish in morning..............
ooc: Continuing....

-IC-
After hours of debate, the council concluded that it would be in their best intrests to accept the Mauiwoweeian proposal. The following telegram was sent to King Rox:


To his Highness King Rox:

We accept your proposal and look forward to the potential trade benifits this will bring. Our navy gaurentees the saftey any and all ships in the medeteranian. Also, our nation looks forward to aiding Nigeria in its selection and stabilization of government. Political advisiors and 10,000 body guards are being dispatched there now. However, please note that if any action is taken by yourself against any of our allies, we would be obliged to aid them in some shape or form. Other than that, we will not take direct military action against your nation for as long as this treaty stands.

On the side, we wish to create an economic partnership with your nation and also a forign exchange program to erode all differences between our two great nations.

We await your reply.

-Lord Vineyard II.

OOC: Major problems call for a major post.
OOC to Vineyard: ON SKYPE!!!

Public IC:

The Costa Rican government has agreed to become part of the Republic. Costa Rican citizen may now learn Serbian for free at selected centers in San José, to prepare them to understand and take part in the Republic's government, join the Serbian Space Program, and benefit from increased trade. In addition, SerbAir announced plans to expand Juan Santamaria International Airport in San José and Daniel Oduber Quiros Internaitonal Airport in Liberia.

Open Comminque to the International Community:

Greetings.

I must declare something of considerable importance. It has became apparent that there has been massive Great Romeo military mobilizations and deployments in the tiny nation of Costa Rica. I believe that Great Romeo actually has hostile intentions towards Sharina, otherwise, there would be no need for such unprecendented military build-up in Costa Rica.

It is believed that there are in excess of two or three million Great Romeo troops in Costa Rica, along with hundreds of armored vehicles and assorted heavy equipment according to intelligence and satellite reconissiance. These actions clearly show that Great Romeo is planning something vile aganist the Sharina nation such as a potential invasion of Sharinan lands. Sharina has no choice but to mobilize its troops along the two borders between Sharina and Costa Rica.

Sharina will not tolerate massive military build-ups of nations that are either hostile or non-allies [of Sharina] directly adjacent to Sharina's territories. It clearly demostrates a clear and present danger to the Sharina Technocracy, and action must be taken to ensure safety and security. Great Romeo must stand down, and retract all claims on Costa Rica as Costa Rica falls squarely within the Sharinan sphere of influence. Any non-allied military build-up, large or small, in Costa Rica is considered as a prelude to war aganist Sharina. Why else would there be such a build-up, if not for war?

Make your choice, Great Romeo. Surrender Costa Rica to Sharina, demobilize your massive military build-up in Costa Rica, and withdraw from the Americas back to Europe, or face war with the powerful Sharina Technocracy. Make peace with Sharina and watch your people prosper in Europe and enjoy a bright future, or go to war with Sharina and watch your cities, people, and nation suffer and burn for your actions.

Good day.

~President Mina Veristek


Open Message to the World (We don't use fancy words like "Comminque"):

"The Technocracy of Sharina" is misguided in their threats, which violate national soveriegnity and wishs of the Costan Rican people. Costa Rica will prosper as a state of the Republic, with their own government to elect democratically. Sharina is, therefore, acting imperalistic. We do not want war; the so-called "military buildup" was only the highened alert of forces in the area incase nearby imperialistic governments chose to disregard the will of the Costa Rican and invade and annex their homeland. We were intending to restore our previous state of alertness after Costa Rica became the third state of the Republic, but now we will not due to the imperialistic threats of Sharina.

The Costa Rican people will prosper as a third state of the Republic, with the significant attention only a small nation such as Great Romeo can provide. We will not abandon the Costa Rican people by relinquishing Costa Rica. If Sharina truely wants peace, their forces will back down.

Good day,
The Serbian Senate.

Mauritania, Mauritius, Isle of Man have been declared Rouge states of a dangerous and obcene country of Jew Power Land2. Air strikes have been ordered.

Isle of Man: 200 Bombers, 300 X-31 and X-36a and, 20 KC-10 Extenders were sent. ETA 3 hours.
Mauritania: 400 bombers, 500 Euro fighters, 40 KC-10 Extenders. ETA 1 hour.
Mauritius: 200 Bombers, 300 Eurofighters, 20 KC-10 Extenders


The first wave will release all missles/bombs and go back to refuel. Future waves depend on amount of damage caused.

Message to Vineyard:

"You frickin' Nazi SOB mo-fo you are attacking a third world country that has just started. If I was under your rule I would revolt!!! DEATH TO VINEYARD!!! Viva la revolution!!!!" - Rabbi Hinkelmen, Wiseman and New Leader of Jew Power Land.

Secret IC:

The Jewish Army is being mobilized.

On the Isle of Man:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/images/sa-15-img002.jpg
300 SA-15 GAUNTLETs are being mobilized.

On Mauritania:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/images/sa-15-img005.jpg
1,000 SA-15 GAUNTLETs are being mobilized.

On Mauritius:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/images/sa-n-9_dnsn8809547.jpg
On thirty rusty old Soviet oil tankers, SA-N-9 are ready for action.

Sun Jian Type I SSM development thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=439147)
Please view and add comments and suggestions.

To All Nations:

"The Nazi nation of Vineyard has declared war upon us innocent Jewish people. Please help by loaning us equipment. We are new to this world." - Rabbi Hinkelmen, Wiseman and New Leader of Jew Power Land.

Open Message to the World (We don't use fancy words like "Comminque"):

"The Technocracy of Sharina" is misguided in their threats, which violate national soveriegnity and wishs of the Costan Rican people. Costa Rica will prosper as a state of the Republic, with their own government to elect democratically. Sharina is, therefore, acting imperalistic. We do not want war; the so-called "military buildup" was only the highened alert of forces in the area incase nearby imperialistic governments chose to disregard the will of the Costa Rican and invade and annex their homeland. We were intending to restore our previous state of alertness after Costa Rica became the third state of the Republic, but now we will not due to the imperialistic threats of Sharina.

The Costa Rican people will prosper as a third state of the Republic, with the significant attention only a small nation such as Great Romeo can provide. We will not abandon the Costa Rican people by relinquishing Costa Rica. If Sharina truely wants peace, their forces will back down.

Good day,
The Serbian Senate.

An Open Response to the International Community
From: President Mina Veristek

Great Romeo, you have made your decision and now you must accept the consquences of your decision. Your military build-up in Costa Rica is an blatant and obvious threat to the Sharinan Technocracy. There is no need for 2 to 3 million soldiers and nearly a thousand tanks in such a tiny nation, unless you were preparing for a sneak attack aganist Sharina or its allies in the Americas.

You ask us to stand down our forces in the interest of peace? Unfortunately, it is not going to happen. Your actions have threatened Sharinan sovereignty, and I can clearly see through your transparent ruse. If Sharina does stand down, then your troops would have much an easier time attacking Sharina.

There cannot be true peace unless Costa Rica is a part of the Sharina Technocracy, due to several reasons. First, Great Romeo has been considered a hostile nation for several decades, since it joined the UFSR and supports nations opposed to Sharina. Even though the UFSR is no more, the hostility still remains. Second, having a hostile nation right in the middle of the Sharinan region, as Sharina spreads to the north, east, and south of Costa Rica, ensures that there cannot be peace and stability. Having a hostile nation own territory right in the middle of your sphere of influence certainly does not help the peace or stability process. Third, Costa Rica is rightfully Sharinan, as the remainder of Latin America is under Sharinan rule, and the people of Latin America have been clamoring for Costa Ricans to re-join their brothers and sisters in unity.

Therefore, with those reasons stated, as well as Great Romeo's refusal to stand down and cede Costa Rica to Sharina, we have no choice but to take action. Sharina thereby claims the Caribbean Sea from the Mexican shores to Cuba, then from Cuba to the Bahamas and Jamaica, then from Jamaica to Coloumbia. This is done to ensure stability and security of ALL Sharinan assets in the Caribbean, as well as provide a safe region for any Sharina-allied shipping to pass through. Any shipping of Great Romeo and allies of Great Romeo will be asked to turn back from the Sharinan claimed Carribean Sea. Otherwise, they will be fired upon. The same goes for any Great Romeo or Romeo-allied aircraft. That is your only warning.

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1125/carribeanclaim0mf.png

Continued refusal to cede Costa Rica and de-mobilize the massive military build-up in the nation will constitute a declaration of war aganist Sharina, and we shall respond accordingly.

Good day.
~President Mina Veristek

Message to all nations

Hello, my name is Alexander Herrmann, leader of the Black Merchants. I bet your asking yourself: "Who or What are the Black Merchants?" Well, I would be glad to tell you. The Black Merchants are a bunch of elite pilots that came together to work for large sums of money; a mercenary group.

We are here to offer our services to the world. Our pilots are the best in the world and our equipment is the best in the world. We will complete any task you give us... for a sum of money that is.

Include in this message is a certain encryption code. One for each nation. Don't even bother trying to find out another nations encryption code, as these quantum code are unbreakable. If you ever need us, just send out a message using this encryption code; we'll pick it up. We will do business with all but Nazis, extreamists, or anyone else we feel undeserving of our services.

Now I must leave you, I have important mtters to attend to.

(OOC: Hey guys, this is USSNA. These mercs are based in Bermuda but that is an IC secret. Also, as this is a puppet of mine, I will not allow them to be used against me. These guys have the best equipment money can buy and even have their own black projects. If you guys dont mind, may these guys uses your high-performance fighters. They will be able to use my fighters and RL aircraft.)

An Open Response to the International Community
From: President Mina Veristek

Great Romeo, you have made your decision and now you must accept the consquences of your decision. Your military build-up in Costa Rica is an blatant and obvious threat to the Sharinan Technocracy. There is no need for 2 to 3 million soldiers and nearly a thousand tanks in such a tiny nation, unless you were preparing for a sneak attack aganist Sharina or its allies in the Americas.

You ask us to stand down our forces in the interest of peace? Unfortunately, it is not going to happen. Your actions have threatened Sharinan sovereignty, and I can clearly see through your transparent ruse. If Sharina does stand down, then your troops would have much an easier time attacking Sharina.

There cannot be true peace unless Costa Rica is a part of the Sharina Technocracy, due to several reasons. First, Great Romeo has been considered a hostile nation for several decades, since it joined the UFSR and supports nations opposed to Sharina. Even though the UFSR is no more, the hostility still remains. Second, having a hostile nation right in the middle of the Sharinan region, as Sharina spreads to the north, east, and south of Costa Rica, ensures that there cannot be peace and stability. Having a hostile nation own territory right in the middle of your sphere of influence certainly does not help the peace or stability process. Third, Costa Rica is rightfully Sharinan, as the remainder of Latin America is under Sharinan rule, and the people of Latin America have been clamoring for Costa Ricans to re-join their brothers and sisters in unity.

Therefore, with those reasons stated, as well as Great Romeo's refusal to stand down and cede Costa Rica to Sharina, we have no choice but to take action. Sharina thereby claims the Caribbean Sea from the Mexican shores to Cuba, then from Cuba to the Bahamas and Jamaica, then from Jamaica to Coloumbia. This is done to ensure stability and security of ALL Sharinan assets in the Caribbean, as well as provide a safe region for any Sharina-allied shipping to pass through. Any shipping of Great Romeo and allies of Great Romeo will be asked to turn back from the Sharinan claimed Carribean Sea. Otherwise, they will be fired upon. The same goes for any Great Romeo or Romeo-allied aircraft. That is your only warning.

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1125/carribeanclaim0mf.png

Continued refusal to cede Costa Rica and de-mobilize the massive military build-up in the nation will constitute a declaration of war aganist Sharina, and we shall respond accordingly.

Good day.
~President Mina Veristek

OOC: Wait a second. You are claiming that my naval base is IN Sharinan Territory? Nice try, but that's MY territorial waters. Sharinian vessels are allowed through, as we have no hostilities towards Sharina, but that's still MY territorial waters.

IC:

Message to the World:

Unlike the imperialistic, egomaniacal nation of Sharina claims, we ARE NOT BUILDING UP ARE MILITARY IN COSTA RICA! We have always kept a small fraction of our military in Costa Rica. That number has NOT changed in decades. Our military is only visable now due to increased alertness and patrols by them. Patrols are used for DEFENSE, not offense.

We will not give in to the imperialistic, belligerent, and egomaniacal demands by Sharina. Nor do we recognize any artifical barriers whose only purpose is to provoke war. We want peace. Leave us alone Sharina. Costa Rica has allows had open borders, and will remain to have open borders to all.

-The Serbian Senate.

OOC: Wait a second. You are claiming that my naval base is IN Sharinan Territory?

OOC:

Sharina is claiming the yellow area, namely territorial waters and such. Costa Rica still has its 20 mile territorial waters off its shores (not shown in the map), so if your naval base is within that 20 mile territorial waters, then no, Sharina isn't claiming it. However, the 20 mile Costa Rica territorial waters is surrounded by "Sharinan Territorial Caribbean Waters" (the yellow shade) as shown in the map.

To clarify for those who are just reading these RP's, Sharina is grey colored, Costa Rica is blue, and Norleans is red (Texas and Florida).

The Great Sixth Reich would suggest conference at the UN building, but Sharina refuses to join. So... we offer to host a peace conference in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Great Sixth Reich would suggest conference at the UN building, but Sharina refuses to join. So... we offer to host a peace conference in Zurich, Switzerland.
We accept. We will be sending Major Anya Amasova of our External Affairs Division.

We will be sending Adolph Görreing of our Foreign Affairs Office.

Message to all nations

Hello, my name is Alexander Herrmann, leader of the Black Merchants. I bet your asking yourself: "Who or What are the Black Merchants?" Well, I would be glad to tell you. The Black Merchants are a bunch of elite pilots that came together to work for large sums of money; a mercenary group.

We are here to offer our services to the world. Our pilots are the best in the world and our equipment is the best in the world. We will complete any task you give us... for a sum of money that is.

Include in this message is a certain encryption code. One for each nation. Don't even bother trying to find out another nations encryption code, as these quantum code are unbreakable. If you ever need us, just send out a message using this encryption code; we'll pick it up. We will do business with all but Nazis, extreamists, or anyone else we feel undeserving of our services.

Now I must leave you, I have important mtters to attend to.

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted comminque to The Black Merchants
From: President Mina Veristek of the Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

I would very much like to inquire into what possible actions, manuevers, and services that the Black Merchants would be able to provide aganist Costa Rica. You may already know the situation through my international broadcasts.

Towards this end, Sharina is open to discussion and a flexible pricing plan. In addition, should the Black Merchants assist Sharina, then Sharina shall recongize the Black Merchants as a legimiate and viable organization. Thus, your organization could recieve support, both monetary and material, from the Sharina Technocracy. Perhaps this would assist your future operations.

Inform us as promptly as possible regarding a potential deal regarding Costa Rica. Thank you.

~President Mina Veristek

The Great Sixth Reich would suggest conference at the UN building, but Sharina refuses to join. So... we offer to host a peace conference in Zurich, Switzerland.

Communique to Great Sixth Reich
From: Sharina Technocracy

Greetings, friend.

The Sharina Technocracy shall honor the request of its ally, Great Sixth Reich. Even though Sharina does not have any desire in joining the UN, as it is nothing more than a morass-choked bureaucracy, we shall send a delegate to the conference in Zurich.

We will be sending a diplomat, Hezan La'cha, officer of the Sharina Diplomatic Corps.

~President Mina Veristek

Very well. The talks will begin tommorow. Delegates may not carry any weapons, and will be screened for weapons. Delegates will arrive at Flughafen Zurich (English: Zurich Airport) and transportation will be provided to the Park Hyatt Zurich, where the talks will be conducted.

Very well. The talks will begin tommorow. Delegates may not carry any weapons, and will be screened for weapons. Delegates will arrive at Flughafen Zurich (English: Zurich Airport) and transportation will be provided to the Park Hyatt Zurich, where the talks will be conducted.

Our delegate, Major Anya Amasova, is being sent to Zurich on a Republic of Serbia Tupolev Tu-114:
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Message to all nations

Hello, my name is Alexander Herrmann, leader of the Black Merchants. I bet your asking yourself: "Who or What are the Black Merchants?" Well, I would be glad to tell you. The Black Merchants are a bunch of elite pilots that came together to work for large sums of money; a mercenary group.

We are here to offer our services to the world. Our pilots are the best in the world and our equipment is the best in the world. We will complete any task you give us... for a sum of money that is.

Include in this message is a certain encryption code. One for each nation. Don't even bother trying to find out another nations encryption code, as these quantum code are unbreakable. If you ever need us, just send out a message using this encryption code; we'll pick it up. We will do business with all but Nazis, extreamists, or anyone else we feel undeserving of our services.

Now I must leave you, I have important mtters to attend to.

(OOC: Hey guys, this is USSNA. These mercs are based in Bermuda but that is an IC secret. Also, as this is a puppet of mine, I will not allow them to be used against me. These guys have the best equipment money can buy and even have their own black projects. If you guys dont mind, may these guys uses your high-performance fighters. They will be able to use my fighters and RL aircraft.)

[encryption code]

Good evening,

We are very interested in recieving your support should Sharina violate our national soviergnity and attack our nation. If you agree to protect Costa Rica from hostile attacks, we will offer a large amount of cash for each mission, along with the ability to refuel at any of our airfeilds in Costa Rica, Serbia, or Romania. In addition, we will allow The Black Merchants to purchase supplies, food, and drink from Serbia, Romania, and Costa Rica if you agree. We will also arrangement visits with important members of worldwide mafias, including the infamous Russian Mafia if needed, if you agree to render services to support us. Please reply with the possible services available.

-Agent X. Serbian Intelligence.

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted comminque to The Black Merchants
From: President Mina Veristek of the Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

I would very much like to inquire into what possible actions, manuevers, and services that the Black Merchants would be able to provide aganist Costa Rica. You may already know the situation through my international broadcasts.

Towards this end, Sharina is open to discussion and a flexible pricing plan. In addition, should the Black Merchants assist Sharina, then Sharina shall recongize the Black Merchants as a legimiate and viable organization. Thus, your organization could recieve support, both monetary and material, from the Sharina Technocracy. Perhaps this would assist your future operations.

Inform us as promptly as possible regarding a potential deal regarding Costa Rica. Thank you.

~President Mina Veristek


Top Secret, Quantum Encrypted Message to Sharina
From: Alexander Harrmann, Leader of the Black Merchants

Mr. Veristek, the Black Merchants can do pretty much anything you want us to; from air superiority to taking out bombers, to anti-radiation missions. But how much we will do depends on the ammount of cash you pay us. Any given mission usualy costs between $100 and $175 million USD plus the cost of the weapons used.

Do not worry about double crossing. Once we take on a mission, we are committed to that mission, not matter how much we are offered to back down. Also, if you expect us to be required often in this conflict, we can hammer out an "extended service plan." Under this plan you will assure us at least a certain ammout of missions and we will provide those missions at a reduced cost. If you back out of this plan prematurely though, you will be fined a penalty.

We thank you for your interest in the Black Merchants and look forward with doing business with you. May it also be noted that at no time will you be traced back from us. We opperate under total animosity.

~Alexander Harrmann
End Message

Top Secret, Quantum Encrypted Message to Great Romeo
From: Alexander Harrmann, Leader of the Black Merchants

We are interested in your offer. What your offer is based on what you expect us to do. Any given mission usually costs between $100 and $175 million USD. If you expect us to be required often in this conflict, though, we can hammer out an "extended service plan." Under this plan you will assure us at least a certain ammout of missions and we will provide those missions at a reduced cost. If you back out of this plan prematurely though, you will be fined a penalty.

We thank you for your interest in the Black Merchants and look forward with doing business with you. May it also be noted that at no time will you be traced back from us. We opperate under total animosity.

~Alexander Harrmann
End Message

Top Secret, Quantum Encrypted Message to The Black Merchants:

Good Evening,

The Republic has agreeded to purchase an "extended service plan". We are interested in the pricing options, as well as if we may purchase temporary defensive squadrons to be positioned at Dieciocho Airport in Costa Rica (launched when hostile aircraft are deteched), which is currently being upgraded to provide services to fighter aircraft. We are prepared to pay up to one trillion dollars a year if you can offer us solid air defense and air support in Costa Rica.

-Agent X. Serbian Intelligence.

Top Secret, Quantum Encrypted Message to Sharina
From: Alexander Harrmann, Leader of the Black Merchants

Mr. Veristek, the Black Merchants can do pretty much anything you want us to; from air superiority to taking out bombers, to anti-radiation missions. But how much we will do depends on the ammount of cash you pay us. Any given mission usualy costs between $100 and $175 million USD plus the cost of the weapons used.

Do not worry about double crossing. Once we take on a mission, we are committed to that mission, not matter how much we are offered to back down. Also, if you expect us to be required often in this conflict, we can hammer out an "extended service plan." Under this plan you will assure us at least a certain ammout of missions and we will provide those missions at a reduced cost. If you back out of this plan prematurely though, you will be fined a penalty.

We thank you for your interest in the Black Merchants and look forward with doing business with you. May it also be noted that at no time will you be traced back from us. We opperate under total animosity.

~Alexander Harrmann
End Message

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted message to Alexander Harrmann
From: The Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

The Sharina Technocracy is prepared to provide approximately anywhere between $10 billion to $100 billion a year for Black Merchant operations aganist Great Romeo, but only confined to Costa Rica and the Caribbean Sea. The money wired will be dependent on how many missions will be required in the year, and Sharina is also willing to go over $100 billion if there is a need for more missions or specialized critical missions.

If you accept, the type of missions Sharina seeks from the Black Merchant operations are special forces types of missions. For example, taking out Great Romeo airfields, supply depots, and the like in Costa Rica. Or subvert media stations in Costa Rica to broadcast pro-Sharinan messages and propganda. In addition, missions may also entail counter-episonage and counter spec-ops missions along the Nicaruga / Costa Rica and Panama / Costa Rica borders.

Please inform me whether this would be a profitable venture between our two people. I would like to know in a timely manner if possible. Thank you.

Live well.
~President Mina Veristek

::: FADE IN :::
Good evening Sidney people, this is Asus Norton, Your SidTV Live at 5 reporter.
In our top story tonight, General Jack Ripper announced today the capture of the city of Kabacan on Mindanao - the last hold out of the Cult of Barney. With the downfall of that city, all that remains to do on the island is a little "mopping up" as the General put it. However, the CoB's grip on the island and control of it's people has been shattered and the island is now fully under Mauiwowee's control. Teams of engineers and other specialists are enroute to begin the process of rebuilding the island after the horrific bombing campaign carried out by Mauiwowee during the war. Meanwhile, King Rox has sent a team of political scientists from Brisbane University, to assist in the process of creating a Mauiwoweean state government on Mindanao. We'll bring you more news as it becomes available, but to repeat - it appears the war in Mindanao is over and the island is now fully secured.
In other news, the campaign in Venezeua is . . .
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OOC: TG6R - could you up date the master list by splitting the phillipine islands up a little bit and showing me owning Mindanao and Whittier having Luzon? Thanks.

To his Highness King Rox:

We accept your proposal and look forward to the potential trade benifits this will bring. Our navy gaurentees the saftey any and all ships in the medeteranian. Also, our nation looks forward to aiding Nigeria in its selection and stabilization of government. Political advisiors and 10,000 body guards are being dispatched there now. However, please note that if any action is taken by yourself against any of our allies, we would be obliged to aid them in some shape or form. Other than that, we will not take direct military action against your nation for as long as this treaty stands.

On the side, we wish to create an economic partnership with your nation and also a forign exchange program to erode all differences between our two great nations.

We await your reply.

-Lord Vineyard II.

To Lord Vineyard II:

We look forward to the dissolution of years of hostility and mistrust between our nations. We certainly understand your position as it regards your allies as I'm sure you understand we take the same position in that regard. As to Nigeria, our military is completely withdrawn. We have left a team of 1,500 functionaries in place to serve as a "go between" with your nation and the newly elected government of Nigeria. They are merely there to aid your men in forging your relationship with Nigeria. Once you have fully integrated into Nigeria, we will recall all of them.

As to the foreign exchange program - we look forward to working with you on that and ironing out details. As to trade, with the exception of our uranium, which we will not sell to anyone, not even our most trusted allies, we stand ready to discuss the details of your needs and desires and begin the process. As you know we have significant iron, coal and gold reserves and we also have several large steel manufacturers as well - and that is just the short list of some of what we have to offer.

Thank you for your willingness to entertain the idea of a lasting peace between our nations.

Sincerely,
King Rox

Leah Brezhnekov sits at the round table. Her staff bustling around her, setting up microphones, translators taking their seats. Water bearers brining in vases of water and glasses made of pure diamonds.

In the corners of the room, technicians were testing the security cams.
The 1,200 man security details were getting their final instructions before the USSNA/Vineyard talks which were to begin in 3 hours.

They were just awaiting the representatives from USSNA and Vineyard. They would be escorted in by military guards.

Adolph Görreing hopped on the train to Zurich from the huge Telgel Station in downtown Berlin.

Just before approaching the Dais at the FOAM gathering in Brisbane, King Rox read the latest dispatches from Africa - Good, the last of the mining and military contingent in Virgin Incursions' former territory of South Africa had made it out and were headed to Brazil. It had been a profitable relationship while it lasted - over 4.2 million ounces of gold bullion had been added to Mauiwowee's reserves over the past few years, but with the increasing instability in VI's government the inevitable had occurred and it was time to leave South Africa for the vultures (or more likely Wirraway, Vineyard or The Great Sixth Reich). The Nigerian Army was trained and ready to try and defend themselves and they had a duly elected tribal counsel for the nation that could run things if left alone. However, they could not stand up to a superior force for very long and king Rox was hopeful that someone would take the bull by the horns and step in to take over as the Mauiwoweean pull out commenced over the next few weeks. Sigh - time to talk to the delegates, I'm sure they've got some questions about our statement, they've had a few hours to digest it and we got that message from Whittier - well, that's easily dealt with, just as promised.

King Rox took the stage and as the delegates settled down he looked over their faces and saw serious looks of consternation. Just better jump right in he thought to himself.

"Gentlemen, than you for coming. I know you have many questions regarding the information you were supplied when you arrived, in particular point number 5 and the "Narcosis Doctrine." Please rest assured, I will deal with those issues as I explain further the meaning and intent in all this. However, I would like first to make a quick correction to the materials and then I would like to deal with the issues in order. As to the corrections, item 5(E)(19) should be deleted - I'm not sure how the Seychelles got listed there, but that was a mistake. Mauiwowee makes no claim to the Seychelles, so just scratch that off. Secondly, items 5(E)(12) and 5(E)(21) should also be deleted. I have received a communication from my state department indicating that our esteemed colleague here, Whitter, had a pre-existing claim to Niu and Wake Island. As such, we have no hesitation in rescinding ours. Our intent was not to create hostility between our nations (looking directly at the Whittierian delegate to the conference) or appear to be intruding upon pre-existing claims. More on that later though when I deal with point 5 in detail. For the time being though, you should remove Niu and Wake Island from the list as Mauiwowee is not claiming them. Now, on to the agenda set by our announcement:

The first item has caused some concern here in Mauiwowee. Some fear we are giving up too much. However, we find the trade wars to be harmful to the economies of all nations in the world, even those not directly involved in them such as ourselves and felt that a release of the technology would ease tensions and put a halt to the economically destructive actions of the nations involved in the trade wars (looking at the Warta Endorian delegate). However, it should be noted that first, we are only allowing the release of aeronautical information, our naval and land based technology remains as always. Secondly, the information we are releasing as to our planes, engines, etc. is limited to older models and versions. You'll note our new Stryker aircraft are expressly exempted from this release of information as will be information regarding other new aircraft currently being tested by Mauiwowee. The Stryker and the new planes have significant updates and upgrades over the Bong Buster II and Head Rush aircraft. For example, the computer AI system in the Bong Buster aircraft is version 4.51 of the software. In the new Strykers we are using version 9.48.05 - a full 4 generations of advancement. The systems compare in capabilities and sophistication like DOS 6.22 compares to Windows Server 2003. Obviously, we want a non-agression treaty with those who wish to purchase the information and technology, but obviously, as members of FOAM, we already have such an agreement with your nations - In fact several of you have Head Rush aircraft already since they have for the past few years been the standard FOAM patrol craft in the area. Also, our Links 50/50 space shuttle system has been for sale as an item for several years now. All we've done is offer the specs. and production rights now.

As to item two on the agenda. I think that is pretty self-explanatory. The royal family, myself included, felt it was time to take our company public and bring in some outsiders. Sales have sagged a bit recently and some fresh, young blood in a car company is always good to have. With the money raised from the IPO we hope to be able to bring in a whole new design and engineering team to, among other things, finish the Kharras auto design and get it into production.

As for item three on the list, surely that is clear enough. It's time to promote tourism in the area and what better way to do that than to grand landing rights to international air carriers. Customs and intelligence contingents and air port security is being beefed up a bit to deal with the increase in the number of people making Mauiwowee and it's holdings a destination. It is also another way to increase trade and the free flow of ideas across borders and lessen the impact of the trade wars.

As for item Four, we just feel it is time for us to leave Nigeria. We took that nation under our wing in an effort to help former FOAM member, VirginIncursion deal with threats to her holdings in Africa and to "cover her back" in a manner of speaking. However, as you all know by now, the instability in her government was just too great to overcome and her nation has collapsed - we have no intention of attempting to expand in Africa and never did. We have trained a Nigerian army and put a democratic government in place. They are armed and able to fight and defend themselves and have a government that is poised to grow them into a great nation. However, if they are attacked by the likes of Vineyard, The Great Sixth Reich, Wirraway or another large nation, they won't last more than a year or two without significant assistance. We are hopeful someone will step in and offer to be that assistance and ensure they remain safe as we just do not feel we are able to do so.

Finally, the issue on that is no doubt of the greatest interest and concern to you, item #5 and the Narcosis Doctrine. First, let me ask you to think of "The Monroe Doctrine." For those of you haven't studied much old U.S. history, in about 1824 South America broke away from Spain and Portugal and the nations of Venezuala, Argentina, Chile', Brazil and others were formed. Spain sought the assistance of France and Britain to regain those territories and began initial preparations for war. Britain refused to help and informed the U.S. what was going on and president James Monroe made an announcement which has become known as "The Monroe Doctrine." In so many words, the U.S. told Spain to "back off" and that foreign intervention in to the affairs of North and South America would not be be tolerated and the governments of Argentina, etc. were recognized formally by the U.S. The Narcosis Doctrine is similar, we recognize the legitimate interests of Whittier, Warta Endor, Sharina, etc. in the Pacific and Southern Ocean and we want to make it clear that foreign intervention into the affairs of the Pacific, including the affairs of Warta Endor, Whittier, etc., is not going to be tolerated by Mauiwowee - Just as Argentina, etc. accepted the Monroe Doctrine and worked in their own way to assist in it's implementation and to maintain their soveriegnity, we are hopeful your nations will recognize the Narcosis Doctrine and work with us in this effort to ensure safety and stability for all of us in the Pacific.
Secondly, as to the islands we have claimed. If you'll check the CIA factbook information on those islands, you will see that a significant percentage of them are uninhabited, with some being uninhabitable. It is our intention to turn them into "way stations" in the ocean, weather, radar and communications links, some fully automated in that regard and use them to assist in the implementation of the Narcosis Doctrine. Some of the islands will be used as scientific research stations and/or nature preserves as we currently do with Clipperton Island. Only a few, such as Guam, are likely to see any significant military presence. Also, the communications relays will open for use by anyone who desires to use them and the weather data and scientific research data gathered will be available for the asking to anyone who desires it.
We are certainly not trying to "control" the Pacific in the way a ruler of a nation might do. Rather, we are attempting to control it in the way the Police might try to control a city and we'd like your assistance in that regard. We have threatened to bomb those peoples who resist, that is true. However, as you all know, the Cult of Barney has spread throughout the region and it is our belief that becoming a member of Mauiwowee and being guaranteed a stable, central government and all the economic and other benefits that can be brought to the indiginous peoples of these small islands will not be resisted unless such resistance is fueled by the fanaticism of the CoB. By engaging in bombing of those who resist, it is felt we will be further decapitating the purple headed moster that the CoB has become which, as you know, has threatened the Pacific and Asia in the past few years. If you'll recall, they even nuked a Mauiwoweean holding, killing thousands upon thousands and Warta Endor was significantly threatened by the fall out of the attack.
Third, surely none of you object to a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, there is no need for it, nukes work, we know it. There is no need to further harm our planets enviroment in an effort to prove we have powerful nukes.
As to the searching and seizing of ships, as stated in the materials, we do not intend at all to interfere with the normal flow of goods and commerce in the Pacific, nor the normal deployment and patrol of warships. However, we want to ensure that the stability of the area is not threatened by criminals and rouge states who engage in piracy, smuggling or acts of military agression in the area. We will be seeking to inspect vessels only when we have probable cause to believe they are engaged in forbidden activity - and we are more than willing to stand up to the scrutiny of the U.N. or FOAM should anyone claim their ship was searched illegally or that we destroyed or seized it illegally. Again the goal is to be a force for stability and security in the region - the coast guard of the Pacific if you will, not the dictator of Pacific rim policy.

Finally, and this is not in the materials you were supplied - it is time to re-constitute FOAM and return it to its original mission - that of protecting the Pacific only. In the past years, it over extended itself and attempted interventions in the Atlantic and Indian oceans and even in the Persian Gulf to some extent - "we got to big for our britches" as my mother would have said. To that end, I propose that we create a body, similar to the U.N. to govern the nations who belong to FOAM. We will happily host that body politic in Australia, but would also agree to it being headquarted anywhere else as well. We have an emergency, safety shelter for FOAM leaders in Sharina held Colorado for use in the event of a significant threat to FOAM, but primary headquarters should be in the Pacific. Just as membership in the U.N. does not obligate one member nation to go to war should another member nation be attacked, membership in FOAM would not require such a guarrantee of military assistance between FOAM members. On the other hand, just as the U.N. is used to work out and mediate differences between U.N. members and to sanction nations on occasion for engaging in unnaceptable behavior, FOAM should do the same for it's members.

Now, gentlemen, I'm open for your questions and concerns"

With that, King Rox took a step back and looked out at those assembled and waited to hear what they had to say. Meanwhile, in the wings, General Ripper waited to hear what would come of the matter with nervous anticipation. The king had delivered the speech with conviction and sincerety, just as 'Lude would have done, but could this new king command the respect and attention of these FOAM delegates the way 'Lude had been able to - he was about to find out.

Field Marshall Lao listened to the speech of the young King.Damnit! he thought Whatever he says, it will be a breach of a nations rights! And abandoning the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, he's mad! I don't know if he remembers but Brazil borders the Atlantic, and Australia, the home of Maui, borders the Indian Ocean! And mentioning the Monroe Doctrine...this young puppy doesn't know a thing about history if he wants to follow this example. America had used it to expand aggresively in North America and the Carribean. If he wants to do the same...

After the break it was his turn to make a speech.

Dear Friends and Allies!

First of all I want to salute our greast host, King Roxcette! *salute and applauds, together with the entire room*

But now to serious bussiness. We have no objection to any bussiness plan his majesty might have, as we will do our own. The companies we have recently acquired are mainly to guarantee our delivery of necessary goods. We feared that due to some actions taken by foreign nations we would become dependant on those nations. We have now an unlimited supply of cars and playstations! *Laughs*

He took a sip of water and his face hardened.

Now about the so called Narcosis doctrine...

Occupying or forcing independant islands, it doesn't matter how small they are, will be recognized by Warta Endor. We have some objections with the Island of Palau, which is, according to large and powerfull groups in Warta Endor, within our sphere of influence. I personally have no objection to an annexation, Mauiwowee after all is a great friend and ally.

Now to the searchment of shipping, Warta Endorean ships will be forced to let the search continue unopposed. I can imagine it will anger the crew of the ships, but they have no choice at all. Warta Endor will assist the search of vessels in the Pacific.

The point I strongly oppose is the shamefull retreat out of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. I would like to remind the King that the Maui holdings in South America (and Warta Endorean holdings) border the Atlantic, that Asutralia itself and Warta Endor's homeland, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia border the Indian Ocean. Why abandoning those waters and concentrate on the Pacific, where the only threat is the CoB?

As last point in my speach, I want to announce a few things. Within a short time, Warta Endorean forces will invade Palawan and move into Burma and Bangladesh (ooc. sounds familiar, I gave up waiting for Wirraway). Intelligence thinks after the fall of Luzon and Mindanao a large CoB force has moved to Palawan. We will exterminate that force, no matter the cost. To prevent the CoB getting a new bastion we will move into Burma and Bangladesh. Units of the Fifth army and the 5th and 16h Marines will be involved in this Operation, called Operation Final Act. The invasion of Palawan will involve the First Corps of the Fouth Army and the entire 5th Amphibious Taskforce. If you request it detailed updates will be sent to you.

He sat dwon and sighed. He had done his job. Now wait for the others...

Encrypted Message to Sharina

We will support you in case of war. The Third Fleet, which has taken to sea, will support you and your forces.

Adm. Cranach

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted message to Alexander Harrmann
From: The Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

The Sharina Technocracy is prepared to provide approximately anywhere between $10 billion to $100 billion a year for Black Merchant operations aganist Great Romeo, but only confined to Costa Rica and the Caribbean Sea. The money wired will be dependent on how many missions will be required in the year, and Sharina is also willing to go over $100 billion if there is a need for more missions or specialized critical missions.

If you accept, the type of missions Sharina seeks from the Black Merchant operations are special forces types of missions. For example, taking out Great Romeo airfields, supply depots, and the like in Costa Rica. Or subvert media stations in Costa Rica to broadcast pro-Sharinan messages and propganda. In addition, missions may also entail counter-episonage and counter spec-ops missions along the Nicaruga / Costa Rica and Panama / Costa Rica borders.

Please inform me whether this would be a profitable venture between our two people. I would like to know in a timely manner if possible. Thank you.

Live well.
~President Mina Veristek

Top Secret Quantum-Encrypted message to Sharina
From: Alexander Herrmann

We thought you might be interested to know that a party has come forward with a better offer for our services. The only problem with this deal is that we are concerned if they can keep their end of the bargin. If however you offer us around $200 billion for the year, it would greatly increase your chances of getting our services. All we can say is that you will not want us to work for the other party.

~Alexander Herrmann
End Message


Secret IC

Alexander was troubled. He was being offered a great deal more by Great Romeo, but he woundered if Great Romeo would hold up to their end of the deal. $1 Trillion USD is a lot of money, even for mercinaries. He had done the research and found of that the nation only allocated 20 trillion dollars a year to the defense budget. It also looked as f Great Romeo would lose Costa Rica as there were overwhelming support for Sharina. It all depended now on weather or not SHarina uped their offer. It was a good offer, $200 billion USD a year from a reliable source.

Whittier is interested in buying Costa Rica from Great Romeo. How much?

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To: President Mina Veristek, Sharina
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Support

Ally Sharina, let it be known that USSNA stand behind you in your attemps to control the Middle Americas. Unless you specifically want us too, we will not send troops over. What I can promise is economic help.

Another thing I wish to speak with you about is an alliance between USSNA, Sharina, and Mauiwowee. This alliance would be an economic and military alliance. If one member country is in need or conflict the others would be compeled to help them. It could be aid in the form of supplies,training, or evem military action. But you in no means have to declare war over a conflict involving a member nation. Another purpose of this alliance would be to share intelligence and information and to allow better trade between members.

Please tell me what you think of this alliance and if you feel it should be edited in any way. (Could Norleans be in it too? Even though it is Maui Puppet)

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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Top Secret Quantum-Encrypted message to Sharina
From: Alexander Herrmann

We thought you might be interested to know that a party has come forward with a better offer for our services. The only problem with this deal is that we are concerned if they can keep their end of the bargin. If however you offer us around $200 billion for the year, it would greatly increase your chances of getting our services. All we can say is that you will not want us to work for the other party.

~Alexander Herrmann
End Message


Secret IC

Alexander was troubled. He was being offered a great deal more by Great Romeo, but he woundered if Great Romeo would hold up to their end of the deal. $1 Trillion USD is a lot of money, even for mercinaries. He had done the research and found of that the nation only allocated 20 trillion dollars a year to the defense budget. It also looked as f Great Romeo would lose Costa Rica as there were overwhelming support for Sharina. It all depended now on weather or not SHarina uped their offer. It was a good offer, $200 billion USD a year from a reliable source.

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted Comminque to Black Merchants
From: President Mina Veristek of the Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

I appreciate your honesty and candid statements. Sharina is fully prepared to pay the $200 billion per year, as we seek a profitable relationship with the Black Merchants. I shall be honest with you in exchange for your honesty with me.

There is no question that should a war erupt between Great Romeo and Sharina, Costa Rica will be taken by Sharina as we are only interested in that one particular territory of Great Romeo. The nation of Great Romeo can keep the rest of its lands in Europe, as Sharina truly needs Costa Rica to connect North America to South America via railroad and highway. Great Romeo cannot hope to maintain control over Costa Rica, as it is nearly half a world away from Eastern Europe where Great Romeo is based in, and the logistics of such an effort to sustain Costa Rica aganist Sharina, which is next door to Costa Rica and far shorter supply lines, would be back-breaking.

I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible, so that we can start arranging things. May we look to a brighter future together.

Live well.
~President Mina Veristek

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To: President Mina Veristek, Sharina
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Support

Ally Sharina, let it be known that USSNA stand behind you in your attemps to control the Middle Americas. Unless you specifically want us too, we will not send troops over. What I can promise is economic help.

Another thing I wish to speak with you about is an alliance between USSNA, Sharina, and Mauiwowee. This alliance would be an economic and military alliance. If one member country is in need or conflict the others would be compeled to help them. It could be aid in the form of supplies,training, or evem military action. But you in no means have to declare war over a conflict involving a member nation. Another purpose of this alliance would be to share intelligence and information and to allow better trade between members.

Please tell me what you think of this alliance and if you feel it should be edited in any way. (Could Norleans be in it too? Even though it is Maui Puppet)

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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Top Secret Quad-Encrypted Transmission to USSNA
From: President Mina Veristek of the Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

I truly appreciate your offer of support in these troubling times. Currently, Sharina is attempting an blockade of Costa Rica, by claiming the Caribbean Sea as indicated by the yellow region in the enclosed map. The beauty of this is that it does not violate Costa Rican territorial waters, as it still maintains the standard 20 mile territorial waters, however, that is surrounded by "Sharina Territorial Waters". This should allow Sharina to block any Great Romeo shipping of additional troops, supplies, and logistics.

I would like the USSNA people to aid in such an blockade, by either detecting enemy vessels in the Atlantic Ocean, or take station along Sharinan ships in the Caribbean Sea. If we can destroy Great Romeo's logistics, then our victory is well assured.

Enclosed Map:

http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/1125/carribeanclaim0mf.png

As for your offer of an alliance, for economy, defense, intelligence-sharing, and unity, I fully support this idea. Perhaps we should call it something like the "Atlantic Alliance" or something akin to that, as Sharina, Mauiwowee, and your people all share vital interests in the Atlantic Ocean. I would be more than happy to host a conference to hammer out the finer points of our new alliance, as we must stand united aganist those who would undermine peace and stability.

I look forward to hearing fron you soon, and thank you once again for standing with the Sharina people in these times of crisis.

Live well and prosper.
~President Mina Veristek

Quantum Encrypted message to Great Romeo
From: Alexander Herrmann

We are sorry, while your offer is exceptional, we cannot accept it. We have gotten a better offer from someone else. We thank you for you interest in the Black Merchants though and wish to do business with you in the future.

~Alexander Herrmann, Lead of the Black Merchants

End Message

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Quantum Encrypted message to Sharina
From: Alexander Herrmann

The deal is done then. For $200 billion USD a year, we shall be under the command of the Sharinan Technocracy. We thank you for your generous offer.

We do require a secure airfield for which to opperate from as our own isn't within fast operating range from our own airports. We will provide our own technichans and crew and will not need your own.

~Alexander Herrmann, Leader of the Black Merchants

End Message

Quantum Encrypted message to Great Romeo
From: Alexander Herrmann

We are sorry, while your offer is exceptional, we cannot accept it. We have gotten a better offer from someone else. We thank you for you interest in the Black Merchants though and wish to do business with you in the future.

~Alexander Herrmann, Lead of the Black Merchants

End Message

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Quantum Encrypted message to Sharina
From: Alexander Herrmann

The deal is done then. For $200 billion USD a year, we shall be under the command of the Sharinan Technocracy. We thank you for your generous offer.

We do require a secure airfield for which to opperate from as our own isn't within fast operating range from our own airports. We will provide our own technichans and crew and will not need your own.

~Alexander Herrmann, Leader of the Black Merchants

End Message

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted Comminque to Black Merchants
From: President Mina Veristek of the Sharina Technocracy

Greetings.

I am honored that the Black Merchants has chosen to accept Sharina's offer. The first $200 billion shall be wired to an account of your choosing.

In regards for a secure operable airfield, there are several in Cuba, Nicaruga, and Panama. Please inform us which one would be most preferable. I am going forward with the invasion of Costa Rica, as I have intercepted an offer from Whittier to Great Romeo of a possible purchase of Costa Rica. Sharina cannot have Costa Rica taken away in such a low and underhanded manner.

I request that you undertake the first missions within the next few weeks if possible, mostly focused on taking out ammo and supply depots, as well as subverting media stations in Costa Rica into broadcasting pro-Sharinan messages and media.

I look forward to a bright and profitable future with your proud mercenary force.

Live well.
~President Mina Veristek

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To: President Mina Veristek, Sharina
From: Vincent Kain, King, USSNA
Subject: Support

In that case, we will send the White Tiger Battlegroup. (Same make-up as the Scarface battlegroup) It can help detect and enforce your "no sail zone." Also, our spy sattalies can watch over a vast ammount of water looking for unwelcome vessels.

As for the alliance, I personally like the sound of: Internation Alliance of Worldwide Powers or the IAWP. I have not informed Maui of this possible alliance, either you or I can be the one to suggest such an alliance, but it is up to you.

~Signed
Vincent Kain,
King, USSNA

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Whittier is interested in buying Costa Rica from Great Romeo. How much?

"This is Kasina Lusvan, reporting for SIEIN, Sharina's top quality source of information about current events.

We have a breaking news story. We now go live to a press conference by President Mina Veristek."

The view shifts to a large conference chamber, with a huge Sharina flag in the background. A tall woman tapped a microphone at a podium on the stage in the cavernous room.

"Greetings.

I am faced with a most cruical decision. My intelligence officers have informed me that the situation in Costa Rica will get much more messy with an intercepted message to Great Romeo. The message was from one of our allies in FOAM, Whittier. He has offered to purchase Costa Rica from Great Romeo. Faced with this, Sharina's hand is forced.

Sharina has declared that due to Great Romeo's refusal to comply with Sharinan demands regarding Costa Rica, as well as a possible political backstab with Whittier, a state of war now exists between Sharina and Great Romeo.

Sharinan troops have been ordered to cross into Costa Rica from Nicaruga and Panama. Sharinan naval vessels have been issued orders to blockade any non-allied shipping, both civilian and military, and should those vessels refuse to comply, then they will be fired upon and sunk. All non-allied aircraft around Costa Rica will be warned to turn back one time, and if they refuse, they will be shot down by Sharinan aircraft or missile suites. This includes civilian and military aircraft of any type. Cruise missile batteries in the Caribbean, Mexico, California, Ecaudor, and throughout Sharinan-held Latin America have been issued orders to fire their ordiance at all Great Romeo military concentrations and assets in Costa Rica. Various other measures are also being undertaken that I am not at a liberty to discuss.

Sharina has no interest of conquering or taking any Great Romeo lands in Europe. Sharina only desires Costa Rica, and this action by Whittier has only accelerated the inevitable. Any sale of Costa Rica to Whittier will not be recongized by Sharina, and Costa Rica will be considered Great Romeo territory regardless, until full and complete annexation by Sharina.

Unless Great Romeo refuses the offer from Whittier and cedes Costa Rica to Sharina, the war will continue.

Thank you and good day."

President Mina Veristek walked off-stage, as the camera shifted back to Kasina Lusvan.

"There you have it, the President's speech.

We will bring you more as the story develops. Now onto other news..."

ooc. Sharina, you have my support. Remember that!:p

OOC: USSNA, you are cheating. Your puppet refuses the best offer to further interests of your main nation, and your puppet operates militarily in the same war, on the same side, as your main nation. Both are rule violations.

((OOC: Look at it from my puppets point of view. You offer him 1 trillion dollars a year. You are about to enguage in a war that threatens to take away land form you. He doesn't know if you could hold up to your offer of the deal. He is also just a few hundred miles of the coast of Sharina. He doesn't want to make a enemy with that much power that close to his base of operations.

Also, these guys will fly a few planes, not send armies and armies over. I believe that such a small force should be exampt from the rule as the rule was made so no one person could have a huge military.))

OOC to USSNA: So, TBM automaticly trusts Sharina to pay, but doesn't trust me? Doesn't seem very fair. We have a much better deal. (BTW, hiring mercenaries doesn't go under the military budget in our country, since they are not part of our forces. They would go under Law & Order or Commerence.)

Secret IC last night:

The Senate was hearing a speach from Serbian Senator Milan Srecko:

"Mina Veristek has always acted like an arrogant jackass towards our nation from the first international statement we ever made. But today, she is acting even more arrogantly. This means only one thing: Sharina, as an imperalist aggressor, will selfish try to destroy the Costa Rican people's future by taking their land just to claim it theirs. We need to meet with our military advisers, and prepare to give them one heck of a fight."

After meeting with military advisers, the following was decided upon:

The local Costa Rican police and militia forces will join in to assist the military.
Landmine zones will set up.
Grounding of all aircraft near the border. AWACS aircraft are to operate within easy access reinforced hangers.
Any aircraft will be fired upon if spotted.
Entrances to all cities, towns, and villages will be mined, barricaded, and explosively rigged.
ALL naval vessels will be docked. Military vessels will camoflaged and sent into the rivers to fire on unspecting enemy vessels.
Division of the army will be stationed to repel any invasion. They will be camoflauged and fight guerrilla warfare style.
Nuclear weapons will be readied to launch at any invasion fleet.
The European forces will find and kill all Black Merchants by the end of the year.
All the civilians, knowing an attack in immediate, will construct the needed defenses by tomorrow morning (OOC: Right Now RL).
All military age and fit citizens, female and male, will be armed with spare AK-103s stationed in the weapon caches after the threat of an invasion by VirginIncursion, and fight to the death. This amounts to 1,659,748 people.

Map of Landmine Zones:

http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-21_03/220307_costa_rica_LandMines.JPG

Defense of Costa Rica Division, Sea Mines, Reserves (Green), and AA defense blocks (Purple):
http://filehost.to/files/2005-08-21_03/222307_Defense_Costa_Rica.png

-=[ ANN The Atlantian News Network ANN ]=-

Hello, Tod Cummings here with your news tonight.

The Sharina Technocracy declaired war on Great Romeo today, in responce to Whitter's interest in buying Costa Rica. Sharina warned any non-ally ships and planes to stay out of the "Sharina Territorial Waters."

Today it was also annunced that USSNA now controls 90% of Morocco. A senior atlantian general comment that only small pockets of resistance remain. It is expected that Morocco will be under total USSNA control within a month or so.

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Meanwhile, in a secret meeting of all of USSNA's top officials

King Vincent Kain sits down at a table full of military advisors.

Kain: "How is the war in France?"

General Carlos Mencia, ( :p ) leader of USSNA ground forces spoke up: "Whitter's delayal of the peace conference has allowed us to better prepare our defenses. Roadblock's have been reineforced and the fire points have be fitted with SAMs and heavier field peices."

Commodor Scott Waynefield commander of the USSNA Navy also added: We have also watched the lanes that Whitter set up with care. It does seem that only supplies have come through, but we are not %100 sure.

Kain: What about Morocco? Have we destoryed any of the resistance?

Mencia: "We sure have your lordship. Just last week, with the help of the airforce, we took out 12 rebel encampments in the mountains. We I'm afraid of s if the rebels try and blend in with the local populance. The moroccan's seem to like us, but they have their reservations. They aren't sure what the future holds."

Kain: "Thank you Mencia. Gentelmen, I wish to expend USSNA control to at least one more country."

The only woman there, Air Commander Maria Chanchez, asked the question all the commanders wanted to ask: "What country sire?"

Kain: "Egypt. I want the air force to start bombing the country and special forces to enter the country as soon as possible. See if any of the locals will convert to our cause and teach them how to fight. Soften up targets and take out national leaders. I want the country to fall with ease when I fully invade it. Is that clear?"

All: "Yes Sire."

OOC to USSNA: So, TBM automaticly trusts Sharina to pay, but doesn't trust me? Doesn't seem very fair. We have a much better deal. (BTW, hiring mercenaries doesn't go under the military budget in our country, since they are not part of our forces. They would go under Law & Order or Commerence.)

(OOC: Look at it this way. You get a job offer of $10 an hour. But all of a sudden another company offers you $100 bucks and hour. I don't know about you, but I would be suspicious.))

The European forces will invade and/or nuke Bermuda.

(OOC: You dont know who I'm working for. All transmissions have been encrypted. Also, as of this moment, noone knows where I operate from.)

ALL naval vessels will be docked. Military vessels will camoflaged and sent into the rivers to fire on unspecting enemy vessels.

(OOC: Um, most blue water vessles such as battleships, carriers, cruisers, and destoryers can't go inland using rivers, they are just too big.)

(OOC: You dont know who I'm working for. All transmissions have been encrypted. Also, as of this moment, noone knows where I operate from.)
Opps. I'll change it in a second.

(OOC: Um, most blue water vessles such as battleships, carriers, cruisers, and destoryers can't go inland using rivers, they are just too big.)
We don't have any of those in Costa Rica. We only have small craft.

Message to Sharina:

You are the aggressor. We only want peace. You are invading to satisfy your greed. We are keeping Costa Rica to help the people. You are cowardly teaming up with your allied nations because you know you cannot face us alone. We, on the other hand, will fight like real men. Back down now, or face destruction in your selfish attempt to claim more land.

Secret IC to Sharina:

How much not to invade Costa Rica? We're willing to open our treasury to ensure a bright future....

(OOC: Look at it this way. You get a job offer of $10 an hour. But all of a sudden another company offers you $100 bucks and hour. I don't know about you, but I would be suspicious.))
OOC: Great Romeo doesn't have an airforce (except for transport planes). Sharina does. It only makes sense that they would pay much more money. They are desperate to get them, but the Black Merchants turn them down. Now Great Romeo is pissed off, and hope to find and kill those terrorists by the end of the year unless they accept their deal.

Field Marshall Lao listened to the speech of the young King.Damnit! he thought Whatever he says, it will be a breach of a nations rights! And abandoning the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, he's mad! I don't know if he remembers but Brazil borders the Atlantic, and Australia, the home of Maui, borders the Indian Ocean! And mentioning the Monroe Doctrine...this young puppy doesn't know a thing about history if he wants to follow this example. America had used it to expand aggresively in North America and the Carribean. If he wants to do the same...

After the break it was his turn to make a speech.

Dear Friends and Allies!

First of all I want to salute our greast host, King Roxcette! *salute and applauds, together with the entire room*

But now to serious bussiness. We have no objection to any bussiness plan his majesty might have, as we will do our own. The companies we have recently acquired are mainly to guarantee our delivery of necessary goods. We feared that due to some actions taken by foreign nations we would become dependant on those nations. We have now an unlimited supply of cars and playstations! *Laughs*

He took a sip of water and his face hardened.

Now about the so called Narcosis doctrine...

Occupying or forcing independant islands, it doesn't matter how small they are, will be recognized by Warta Endor. We have some objections with the Island of Palau, which is, according to large and powerfull groups in Warta Endor, within our sphere of influence. I personally have no objection to an annexation, Mauiwowee after all is a great friend and ally.

Now to the searchment of shipping, Warta Endorean ships will be forced to let the search continue unopposed. I can imagine it will anger the crew of the ships, but they have no choice at all. Warta Endor will assist the search of vessels in the Pacific.

The point I strongly oppose is the shamefull retreat out of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. I would like to remind the King that the Maui holdings in South America (and Warta Endorean holdings) border the Atlantic, that Asutralia itself and Warta Endor's homeland, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia border the Indian Ocean. Why abandoning those waters and concentrate on the Pacific, where the only threat is the CoB?

As last point in my speach, I want to announce a few things. Within a short time, Warta Endorean forces will invade Palawan and move into Burma and Bangladesh (ooc. sounds familiar, I gave up waiting for Wirraway). Intelligence thinks after the fall of Luzon and Mindanao a large CoB force has moved to Palawan. We will exterminate that force, no matter the cost. To prevent the CoB getting a new bastion we will move into Burma and Bangladesh. Units of the Fifth army and the 5th and 16h Marines will be involved in this Operation, called Operation Final Act. The invasion of Palawan will involve the First Corps of the Fouth Army and the entire 5th Amphibious Taskforce. If you request it detailed updates will be sent to you.

He sat dwon and sighed. He had done his job. Now wait for the others...


King Rox stood up and spoke again:

"Thank you for your words of support Field Marshall Lao. Let me assure you first of all that if Warta Endor lays claim to Palau, we will be the first to abandon all claim to it. The islands claimed as part of the Narcosis doctrine were islands we understood and felt to be completely devoid of affiliation or claim be anyone. If you have a claim to Palau, then by all means, we will step aside and permit you to assert. Secondly, as to Palawan, if you need our assistance, please let us know and we'll gladly help. We would like to be kept up to date on the operations in any event and will gladly exchange military and other intelligence related to the conquest and division of the Phillipines between us, Whittier and you.

Finally, as to what you claim as a 'Shameful Retreat' to the Pacific - I fear you may be confusing the Narcosis Doctrine with the mission of FOAM and it is possible I didn't separate the 2 sufficiently in my speech. My statements regarding FOAM's return to its original mission was merely a suggestion and as to how FOAM might need to be reconstituted. I think the time when being a member of FOAM obligates us to go to war on behalf of each other no matter where or under what conditions is passed. The USFR is dead and the world is changing. The need of FOAM to control the world's oceans has lessened considerably and is all but dead due to the fact there is no more significant military alliance that threatens the peace of the oceans. We should maintain our strengths in the Pacific as Mauiwowee is doing with the Narcosis Doctrine - this is our home and where are cores were formed, despite our expansion into other land masses, and this is the area of the world that we should protect and care about the most as a group. Now, that said, I have not forgotten about Brazil, Venezeula, Agentina, Chile', etc. and their contact with and concern over what happens in the Atlantic. And we do have concerns over the Indian Ocean as well - I myslef was born on Christmas Island in the very heart of the Indian Ocean. FOAM should and will continue to monitor those areas and will continue through our nations to maintain a presence there. However, those areas should not be the major focus of our organization or it's resources. New alliances can be formed to deal with these areas - perhaps we will all be in such an alliance and perhaps others will be as well. I have been approached about a possible Atlantic alliance with Sharina and USSNA and I'm guessing Warta Endor may be approached about similar such alliances. That is how this should be approached. Through the Narcosis Doctrine and with the assistance of FOAM nations the Pacific is kept peaceful and secure for our interests. Our interests and concerns in other areas are maintained through strategic alliances with other nations and upon other terms.
Finally, if FOAM needs to be completely dissolved and new alliances set up, then so be it. I merely suggested a reconsideration of FOAM's mission in light of the changes in world politics in recent times and the announcement of the Narcosis Doctrine by which we contend all of the Pacific is within Mauiwowee's sphere of influence. Those here are welcome to stay. However, other meddlers should stay out."

In light of the Sharinan response to offer regarding Costa Rica, which we had hoped would lead to a peaceful solution to the dispute. Whittier is formally withdrawing its offer.

It is our hope our gesture of peace has not harmed relations with either Great Romeo or Sharina.

It is further our hope that it is not too late for a peaceful resolution.

We stand by Whittier in our decision that it is FOOLISH to invade a peaceful country just because a nation wants complete control over a HUGE geographic area.

"We agree with Whittier-- and Great Romeo that a peaceful solution would be best to this matter. Great Romeo doesn't want war, and still has their borders open to Sharinaian citizens to vacation or travel in Costa Rica. Why Sharina declares that war is neccessary, we cannot comphrehend in this matter." - Adolph Görreing.

Secret IC:

All the defenses planned were now in position. Now, all trees at the side of any highways, roads, streets, or dirth paths, near military forces, are being rigged to fall down at the touch of a button.

Whittier forces have overrun 60% of Afghanistan. They are expecting stiffer resistance as they go after the rest.

The troops headed to Grenada have stopped in Madagascar for refueling and extra supplies.

Operations in Mindoro are going well. Half the island is under occupation.




Secret IC:

Telegram:
To. USSNA
From: Whittier

We have noticed your government eyeing Egypt. We would know what your intentions are. Are you friend or foe?

Open Comminque to the International Community:

I shall make Sharina's intentions fully clear, so not to cause any confusion and hopefully to answer several questions.

First, the Sharina Technocracy has been seeking incorporation of Costa Rica into the Sharina Technocracy, as it is the only last remaining barrier to full integration of North America and South America. With Costa Rica fully annexed by Sharina, railroads and highways can finally connect North and South Americas. There will no longer be any need for naval shipping, vulnerable to piracy or rough seas [during hurricanes]. The ability to transfer millions of tons of goods every year smoothly and effortlessly over land will bring a much needed economic boost to the Americas. However, to ensure this, there must be a continuous Sharinan border extending from North America, through Middle America, and to South America [Colombia and Ecaudor] without any foreign interference, laws, or regulations.

Second, Great Romeo has claimed it has had no hostility towards the Sharina Technocracy. I must address this, as I believe it is not the truth. Great Romeo was a member of the UFSR alliance, which was aganist Sharina and its allies. The simple act of joining the UFSR automatically means "Hostile Nation" status with Sharina. Now that the UFSR alliance as a whole is gone, several former UFSR nations have remained belligrent and hostile towards Sharina. An example of this is the nation of Vineyard. There is no great love lost between Sharina and Vineyard, both during the UFSR era and post-UFSR era. It is extremely difficult for Sharina to become trusting of nations that adopted an anti-Sharina stance, or those who join anti-Sharina [or join alliances aganist the alliances Sharina has been involved in, namely FOAM and SHIT].

Third, Sharina has not actually fired a shot or a missile yet. We have merely declared war, and advanced several kilometers across the border in a few spots. Sharinan missiles have not hit Costa Rica yet. The Sharinan Navy and Airforce have not engaged any enemy forces yet. We are being extraordinarily lenient of a nation with "Hostile Status", as it is Sharinan customary policy to only give one warning. However, we have given Great Romeo two warnings, and now a third and final chance for resolution of the crisis. The declaration of war was meant to show that the Sharina Technocracy means business, and that we have a backbone and fully willing to enforce our beliefs. We will not be treated lightly or brushed aside, as enemies of Sharina have learned painfully, as in the case of Sir Peter The Sage, Yevon of Spira, Fodmodmadtol, and Castillanos. If Great Romeo truly did not have hostile intent, then it should have undertaken similiar actions as Whittier had done.

Finally, we would like to publically apologize to the nation of Whittier if any insult or bad feelings were generated in this incident. Rash actions lead to rash judgements, especially in the heat of battle or intensive diplomacy.

Good day,
~President Mina Veristek

Whittier forces have overrun 60% of Afghanistan. They are expecting stiffer resistance as they go after the rest.

The troops headed to Grenada have stopped in Madagascar for refueling and extra supplies.

Operations in Mindoro are going well. Half the island is under occupation.




Secret IC:

Telegram:
To. USSNA
From: Whittier


We have noticed your government eyeing Egypt. We would know what your intentions are. Are you friend or foe?

((OOC: You don't control egypt. Look at the main thread.))

The Serbian Senate laughed at Sharina's pathetic attempt to justify hostile action, and actually openly replied to each commment:

Open Comminque to the International Community:
I shall make Sharina's intentions fully clear, so not to cause any confusion and hopefully to answer several questions.

First, the Sharina Technocracy has been seeking incorporation of Costa Rica into the Sharina Technocracy, as it is the only last remaining barrier to full integration of North America and South America.
"Barrier"? We have open borders with Sharina.

With Costa Rica fully annexed by Sharina, railroads and highways can finally connect North and South Americas. There will no longer be any need for naval shipping, vulnerable to piracy or rough seas [during hurricanes]. The ability to transfer millions of tons of goods every year smoothly and effortlessly over land will bring a much needed economic boost to the Americas.
We would allow a railroad to travel to Costa Rica without restriction. But you never asked us, because it appears all you want is war.

However, to ensure this, there must be a continuous Sharinan border extending from North America, through Middle America, and to South America [Colombia and Ecaudor] without any foreign interference, laws, or regulations.
Sharina has no problem with Norleans having large amounts of territory in the middle of the United States. Sharinain news even reported that the economy is thriving in North America. There does not have to be "a continous Sharian border" to allow goods to travel freely. We, in fact, do not even have a customs agency in Costa Rica for goods traveled to Nicaragua or Panama.

Second, Great Romeo has claimed it has had no hostility towards the Sharina Technocracy. I must address this, as I believe it is not the truth.
You are wrong then.

Great Romeo was a member of the UFSR alliance, which was aganist Sharina and its allies. The simple act of joining the UFSR automatically means "Hostile Nation" status with Sharina.
That's a pathetic reason to mark our nation as a "Hostile Nation". We joined UFSR because Vineyard made us or threaten war if we did not.

Now that the UFSR alliance as a whole is gone, several former UFSR nations have remained belligrent and hostile towards Sharina. An example of this is the nation of Vineyard. There is no great love lost between Sharina and Vineyard, both during the UFSR era and post-UFSR era. It is extremely difficult for Sharina to become trusting of nations that adopted an anti-Sharina stance, or those who join anti-Sharina [or join alliances aganist the alliances Sharina has been involved in, namely FOAM and SHIT].
Oh come on. Vineyard made us join USFR. And we were squashed between two major USFR powers, so we would not be hear if we did not join them. Why this makes us anti-Sharinian is beyond us.

Third, Sharina has not actually fired a shot or a missile yet. We have merely declared war, and advanced several kilometers across the border in a few spots. Sharinan missiles have not hit Costa Rica yet. The Sharinan Navy and Airforce have not engaged any enemy forces yet.
That is because we DO NOT WANT WAR. We are peaceful. If not, we would of raided Nicaragua by now.

We are being extraordinarily lenient of a nation with "Hostile Status", as it is Sharinan customary policy to only give one warning. However, we have given Great Romeo two warnings, and now a third and final chance for resolution of the crisis.
Warning? Warning about what? You are merely threating to destroy us because you want more land. That's not a "warning". That is racketeering.

The declaration of war was meant to show that the Sharina Technocracy means business, and that we have a backbone and fully willing to enforce our beliefs.
Your false beliefs.

We will not be treated lightly or brushed aside, as enemies of Sharina have learned painfully, as in the case of Sir Peter The Sage, Yevon of Spira, Fodmodmadtol, and Castillanos. If Great Romeo truly did not have hostile intent, then it should have undertaken similiar actions as Whittier had done.
What did Whittier do? If it's about giving in to your selfish racketeering demands, then that shows that we will be the ones that "will be treated lightly or brushed aside". We will not put up with that.

Good Day,
The Serbian Senate.

Secret Meeting of the Brezhnekov Regime:

Our forces around the Phillipines and in Afghanistan are doing well. Said General Brigham.
Our forces have yet to reach Grenada. Sharina has declared war Great Romeo though and that may hurt our interests.

Foriegn Minister Ivanov: The war was started by Sharina but they are natives to the area. Great Romeo really doesn't have any interests in the America's. With the exception of Costa Rica that is.

Heady Honcho, the head of the Secret Service: We only own Grenada there. We've owned it since the founding of our nation. Maybe when Sharina is done with Great Romeo, they come after us next.

Brezhnekov: No, Sharina will not do that. We are allied with them.
Igor, with the collapse of the UFSR, what is the status of our alliance with Great Romeo? I am aware we are still allied with Vineyard through a seperate treaty. Do we have any such treaties in regards to Great Romeo?

Ivanov: With the collapse of the UFSR, Mr. Secretary, our alliance with Great Romeo faded into history as we have no outside treaties with them.

Brezhnekov: With the collapse of the Turkish government, I've been considering there is a threat to our Iranian territory from the west by the possibility a non near eastern nation might invade and overrun Turkey and other mideast states.

Secretary of Defense: Aye, USSNA has already declared their intentions to invade Egypt.

Brezhnekov: I've already telegrammed their government on the matter. How goes the peace talks being led by my lovely wife?

Igor: Everything is ready but the diplomats have yet to arrive. It would seem that both sides of the French war are stalling.

Sec. of Defense: Our recon sats have noted that both Vineyard and USSNA seem to be using this opportunity to fortify for war rather than prepare for peace.

Brezhnekov: As we now know we cannot be 100% certain that no arms or troops are being smuggled into France, I want to announce a new change in policy. From now there will be stricter and more invasive searches of ships headed to France. That applies to all nations, including our own.
Is there anything else?

Sec. Sir, we have reports of an upstart terrorist nation using Mauritius to prepare for an attack on our ally Vineyard.

Brezhnekov, not showing his irritation: The world is going to hell in a handbasket. Tell the government of the Mauritius that we will not allow them to use Mauritius to launch an illegal attack on an ally.


Message to the World:
Due to intell indicating the nations of Vineyard and USSNA are using the peace talks to stall for time and import more troops and weapons to France, we have no choice but to announce stricter and more random, more invasive inspections of all ships going to and from France. This includes both military and civilian ships. Whittier shipping will not be immune from the new rules.
Our ships will be inspected by Sharina if the Sharinan government is willing to assist.


Secret Message
To Sharina:
From Whittier:
According to our records, while we were allied with Great Romeo, with the collapse of the UFSR we no longer hold such an alliance. In the conflict between your two nations, we prefer not to take a public position. However, due to our alliance, via FOAM, we offer the discreet use of our Grenada territorial waters to deter "the Costa Rica issue from escalating".
We only ask that no operations on your part in our waters be tied back to us. We cannot allow troops on Grenada either, for the time being. But we can allow you to secretly use our Grenada waters for sub or special ops operations. We hope for assistance in acquiring Turkey in return.
End.

((OOC: You don't control egypt. Look at the main thread.))
OOC: I know that. You are entering the middle east and my government is being naturally suspicious. Though the main thread does need one minor fix. It still shows Vineyard owning Qatar when I own it.

Secret IC:

The European Forces couldn't do much. They knew that they would never make it to Costa Rica, on time or even alive, if they tried. So, several hundred soldiers were ordered inside the Intillgence Center under Beograd. They would be staring at satellite images all day, trying to spot any ships heading towards Costa Rica. Even though no force really could respond to the reports, it was still important to know what they were up against size wise.

OOC: I know that. You are entering the middle east and my government is being naturally suspicious. Though the main thread does need one minor fix. It still shows Vineyard owning Qatar when I own it.

(OOC: Oh okay then)

Secret Message to: Whitter
From: USSNA

Have no worry, we are only interested in Egypt and have no interest in the middle east. We understand your concern. May we also suggest that you start the peace conference. (You need to start it. Let it be given that our people showed up.)

End Message

Leah: Please accept my apoligies for the delay, General. We are still awaiting the Vineyard representatives's arrival.
My staff has instructions to do almost whatever you need to make your stay here as pleasant and comfortable as possible.

She checked her watched. The Vineyardians were late. Was this a delay tactic? What was Lord Vineyard up to? If any more troops or arms were detected on the way to France, the conference would be canceled on the orders of Alexander.


Her thoughts turned to this morning's meeting. Her husband was concerned about Turkey.

"Tell me General, how would the USSNA respond to our government taking Turkey under our wings? We would, of course, keep the Bosporus open to free movement of all ships of all nations except in cases of an attack on us. We could allow your ships freedom of travel through the Bosporus in return from something similar as regards the Suez."

Secret IC:

The trees were rigged. Now all the forces woud hide, waiting in ambush.

Our delegate, Major Anya Amasova, is being sent to Zurich on a Republic of Serbia Tupolev Tu-114:
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Any Amasova arrived at the Flughafen Zurich ontime, and traveled to the hotel where the talks would be taking place. In the conference room, she found two empty chairs, and one chair in the center, where Adolph Görreing was sitting.

"Barrier"? We have open borders with Sharina.

Open borders? This can only be true if the borders are open on both sides. When Great Romeo joined the UFSR, all borders were closed on both sides. Even though the UFSR is no more, Sharina's borders are closed to ex-UFSR members until they prove themselves worthy of trust and no anti-Sharinan intentions.

We would allow a railroad to travel to Costa Rica without restriction. But you never asked us, because it appears all you want is war.

Sharina has only engaged in war with the clear goal of reunifying as much of the Americas as possible. We have swept aside anarchies, rogue states, and hostile nations all in the name of unity and prosperity. Sharina does not engage in war for the pleasure of it, unlike certain nations in Europe and Africa.

Sharina has no problem with Norleans having large amounts of territory in the middle of the United States. Sharinain news even reported that the economy is thriving in North America. There does not have to be "a continous Sharian border" to allow goods to travel freely. We, in fact, do not even have a customs agency in Costa Rica for goods traveled to Nicaragua or Panama.

Both true and false.

It is true that the economy in North America is indeed thriving. However, it could become much more if South America was able to link to North America over land. It will not benefit just Sharina, as it will aid Norleans with its colony in Peru, Sharina's long-time allies Mauiwowee and Warta Endor will gain more access to North American Sharinan goods, and finally, the overland route between the Americas will provide as much boost to the economy as the Panama Canal does for naval shipping and economy.

That's a pathetic reason to mark our nation as a "Hostile Nation". We joined UFSR because Vineyard made us or threaten war if we did not.

That did not stop Whittier from withdrawing from the UFSR. In addition, the nation of Wirraway stood up to the UFSR despite Vineyard's threats. If two nations right on the UFSR's doorstep can do it, then your people could have very well done so.

Oh come on. Vineyard made us join USFR. And we were squashed between two major USFR powers, so we would not be hear if we did not join them. Why this makes us anti-Sharinian is beyond us.

Whittier was surrounded by Tenebricosis to the north in Russia and Vineyard in the Middle East. Yet, he had the guts and balls to withdraw from the UFSR and join the side of Good. According to old maps, your people were between Tenebricosis and Vineyard, yet Whittier faced a remarkably similiar situation with the exact same nations. Whittier withdrew, damn the consquences, yet your people did not. This is one major reason why Sharina actually considers Whittier as a friend, not as an ex-UFSR nation. Sharina respects bravery, courage, and the adage of "Actions speak louder than words".

That is because we DO NOT WANT WAR. We are peaceful. If not, we would of raided Nicaragua by now.

If this is the case, then you would have not instituted a massive military buildup of millions of soldiers, thousands of tanks, and other assorted equipment, something akin to the Soviets in World War II. Whenever such a situation arises in a land right across from Sharina in both directions, it does raise some serious concerns.

Warning? Warning about what? You are merely threating to destroy us because you want more land. That's not a "warning". That is racketeering.

Warning of a war that shall be destructive to both sides. Sharina has no interest in "destroying" Great Romeo. In fact, we have no interest in any Great Romeo lands in Europe, and we do not want to establish any colonies in Europe. Thus, the only thing that is involved would be Costa Rica, nothing else.

Once Sharina acquires Costa Rica, Sharinan expansion will finally be over, with the possible exception of the Caribbean Sea. This is because of two reasons. First, there is no more hostile enemies, anarchy territories, or rogue states in the Americas, as it would be finally unified through the FOAM and SHIT alliance members [Sharina, Mauiwowee, and Warta Endor. Norleans is an ex-SHIT member, yet remains on good terms with SHIT and FOAM members]. Second, Sharina have no interest in "more land" in non-America lands, as it would be too much trouble to administer and manage as we believe in a single territory, as opposed to trying to hold onto lands spread willy nilly across the world like several nations, especially Vineyard and Great Sixth Reich.

Finally, you are being hypocrites, as you have been guilty of imperialism, just like Sharina. You were content in Europe, then decided to "imperialize" into Costa Rica. Thus, both of our imperialism actions have come to a conflict in Costa Rica.

Your false beliefs.

According to your belief, not Sharina's.

What did Whittier do? If it's about giving in to your selfish racketeering demands, then that shows that we will be the ones that "will be treated lightly or brushed aside". We will not put up with that.

Nations who were afraid to withdraw from an oppressive alliance are treated less highly than those who actually had the balls to withdraw, like Whittier, or ones to actively stand up to it, like Wirraway. Whittier and Wirraway have shown themselves to be far stronger people than your people appear to be.

Good Day,
~President Mina Veristek

Secret Message
To Sharina:
From Whittier:
According to our records, while we were allied with Great Romeo, with the collapse of the UFSR we no longer hold such an alliance. In the conflict between your two nations, we prefer not to take a public position. However, due to our alliance, via FOAM, we offer the discreet use of our Grenada territorial waters to deter "the Costa Rica issue from escalating".
We only ask that no operations on your part in our waters be tied back to us. We cannot allow troops on Grenada either, for the time being. But we can allow you to secretly use our Grenada waters for sub or special ops operations. We hope for assistance in acquiring Turkey in return.
End.

Top Secret Quad-Encrypted Message to Whittier
From: President Mina Veristek of the Sharina Technocracy

Greetings, friend.

I thank you kindly for your offer, and truly appreciate the growing friendship between our two peoples. Sharina would be more than happy to lend assistance towards securing Turkey for your people. Perhaps an influx of raw materials, weapons, or supplies? Please inform us of what you need, and we shall try our best to contribute.

Once again, thank you and may our peoples live long and prosper.

~President Mina Veristek

Leah: Please accept my apoligies for the delay, General. We are still awaiting the Vineyard representatives's arrival.
My staff has instructions to do almost whatever you need to make your stay here as pleasant and comfortable as possible.

She checked her watched. The Vineyardians were late. Was this a delay tactic? What was Lord Vineyard up to? If any more troops or arms were detected on the way to France, the conference would be canceled on the orders of Alexander.


Her thoughts turned to this morning's meeting. Her husband was concerned about Turkey.

"Tell me General, how would the USSNA respond to our government taking Turkey under our wings? We would, of course, keep the Bosporus open to free movement of all ships of all nations except in cases of an attack on us. We could allow your ships freedom of travel through the Bosporus in return from something similar as regards the Suez."

Sir Bruce Wallingford laughed, "I am no general Miss Leah. I am a but a foreign representative. Do I really come off as a general? Anyway, while I am not sure of what exactly King Kain wants, but I would think that he would be more than happy to come about an agreement with Whitter. I also feel that he would belive Whitter control over turkey would be more than acceptable. (Secret IC) You know, I'll let you in on a little secret, I think the king might be wanting to control the entire southern mediterranean. What an idea. (Secret IC) Do you know when the Vineyardian representatives will arrive? My government wishes to get this over with as soon as possible."

Sir Bruce Wallingford laughed, "I am no general Miss Leah. I am a but a foreign representative. Do I really come off as a general? Anyway, while I am not sure of what exactly King Kain wants, but I would think that he would be more than happy to come about an agreement with Whitter. I also feel that he would belive Whitter control over turkey would be more than acceptable. (Secret IC) You know, I'll let you in on a little secret, I think the king might be wanting to control the entire southern mediterranean. What an idea. (Secret IC) Do you know when the Vineyardian representatives will arrive? My government wishes to get this over with as soon as possible."
Leah (she did not want the conference to fail. Vineyard was an ally. USSNA was a potential ally and trade partner. If a war between them spread to the middle east, it be very harmful to whittier's interests): Unfortunately, they should have been here already. My people are already contacting their government to make sure there has been no unfortunate accidents or other incidents regarding the Vineyard delegation. While we are sure you share concerns that Lord Vineyard might be using this as a stalling tactic, my husband has ordered stepped up, more frequent and more invasive searches of ships heading to France. We hope this is not much inconvenience for your government. We are only trying to prevent the belligerents from using these talks to reinforce their positions in France. As such actions would undermine the peace process.

The Serbian Senate replied LIVE on international TV to give their response:

Open borders? This can only be true if the borders are open on both sides. When Great Romeo joined the UFSR, all borders were closed on both sides. Even though the UFSR is no more, Sharina's borders are closed to ex-UFSR members until they prove themselves worthy of trust and no anti-Sharinan intentions.
Costa Rica was an independate state (with our secret military protection of the canal zone) during the years of our forced membership in the USFR. Therefore, there would be no reason to close the borders. Therefore, borders were always open.

Sharina has only engaged in war with the clear goal of reunifying as much of the Americas as possible. We have swept aside anarchies, rogue states, and hostile nations all in the name of unity and prosperity. Sharina does not engage in war for the pleasure of it, unlike certain nations in Europe and Africa.
You certainly are now. The Costa Rican people are happy as a state of the Republic.

Both true and false.

It is true that the economy in North America is indeed thriving. However, it could become much more if South America was able to link to North America over land. It will not benefit just Sharina, as it will aid Norleans with its colony in Peru, Sharina's long-time allies Mauiwowee and Warta Endor will gain more access to North American Sharinan goods, and finally, the overland route between the Americas will provide as much boost to the economy as the Panama Canal does for naval shipping and economy.
It is only your stuborness that prevents this from happening peacefully, without millions of deaths happening.

That did not stop Whittier from withdrawing from the UFSR. In addition, the nation of Wirraway stood up to the UFSR despite Vineyard's threats. If two nations right on the UFSR's doorstep can do it, then your people could have very well done so. Whittier was surrounded by Tenebricosis to the north in Russia and Vineyard in the Middle East. Yet, he had the guts and balls to withdraw from the UFSR and join the side of Good. According to old maps, your people were between Tenebricosis and Vineyard, yet Whittier faced a remarkably similiar situation with the exact same nations. Whittier withdrew, damn the consquences, yet your people did not. This is one major reason why Sharina actually considers Whittier as a friend, not as an ex-UFSR nation. Sharina respects bravery, courage, and the adage of "Actions speak louder than words".
Whittier was NOT surrounded by USFR like we were.

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We were surrounded on all sides by USFR members Vineyard, Tenebricosis, Yafor 2, and Zuhair Malik. Whittier had open access on some sides, hence their economy was not ruined, and they had an escape route. In our case, we had no escape route and no way to trade without being stopped by USFR bullies.

If this is the case, then you would have not instituted a massive military buildup of millions of soldiers, thousands of tanks, and other assorted equipment, something akin to the Soviets in World War II. Whenever such a situation arises in a land right across from Sharina in both directions, it does raise some serious concerns.
WE DID NOT INSTITUTE A MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP! We told you this at least five other times, but you refuse to listen. We only increased patrols due to the possibility of instability with the coming statehood. We also excepted to bring down the alert level the next day, but do to your racketeering, we did not.

Warning of a war that shall be destructive to both sides. Sharina has no interest in "destroying" Great Romeo. In fact, we have no interest in any Great Romeo lands in Europe, and we do not want to establish any colonies in Europe. Thus, the only thing that is involved would be Costa Rica, nothing else.
Your "warnings" are racketeering. You try to extort us with threat of violence, when we seek to live peacefully and trade and establish diplomatic relations with you

Finally, you are being hypocrites, as you have been guilty of imperialism, just like Sharina. You were content in Europe, then decided to "imperialize" into Costa Rica. Thus, both of our imperialism actions have come to a conflict in Costa Rica.
We did not "imperialize" into Costa Rica. We asked the leader of Costa Rica if he wanted to become part of the Republic to enjoy the full liberaties of being a state, and he accepted, with good reason. This was after years and years of providing protection for the Costa Rican people.

Nations who were afraid to withdraw from an oppressive alliance are treated less highly than those who actually had the balls to withdraw, like Whittier, or ones to actively stand up to it, like Wirraway. Whittier and Wirraway have shown themselves to be far stronger people than your people appear to be.
Nations who, without the slightest fear, withdraw from an oppressive alliance WHILE SURRONDED ON ALL SIDES BY THEIR TERRITORY are destroyed both economically and militarily, and have lack of brains. :upyours: (OOC Note: That sign was made by Milan Srecko, the same Serbian senator that ordered the military prepared in Costa Rica.)

Good Day,
The Serbian Senate.

Adolph Görreing stared at his watch. The conference was supposed to have started ten hours ago, but the Sharinaian delegate was nowhere to be found.

OOC: What happend to Vineyard?

OOC: What happend to Vineyard?
OOC: Haven't seen him online all day.

"We thank you for your increased concern," said Bruce, "This could be a stalling tactic, but it works both ways. While we are interested in peace with Vineyard, I cannot say that our own forces have not capitalized on this oppertunity. OUr forces have been digging in ever since the ceasefire was called. This is only to protect our interests and will not attempt to move on Vineyard unless attacked ourselves."

"Daddy," said the 13 year-old girl that was walking beside her father.

"Yes princess?" replyed Bruce.

"May I go to the hotel?" she asked.

"Yes dear, but only if Miss Leah here can provide us with a good driver to keep an eye on you." said Bruce.

"Of course Mr. Wallingford, I will have one of our best drive your daughter to the hotel." said Leah.

"Thanks you." said Bruce

Wrong. Costa Rica was an independate state (with our secret military protection of the canal zone) during the years of our forced membership in the USFR. Therefore, there would be no reason to close the borders. Therefore, borders were always open.

An independent state, but influenced by Great Romeoan policies, along with military protection. In the eyes of Sharina, Costa Rica has been merely a puppet state of Great Romeo, in all but name.

You certainly are now. The Costa Rican people are happy as a state of the Republic.

No. It has been Sharina's intention to take Costa Rica for over thirty years. We did not do so while the UFSR was in existence, and with the demise of the UFSR, it is once again an opporunity for Sharina to achieve one of its elusive goals.

The Costa Rican people cannot truly be happy living under the rule of a distant European power, while billions of people are living more luxuriously and prosperous in native American nations of Sharina and Norleans. I do not believe the Costa Rican people would just up and decide to join an European power instead of their native brothers and sisters. It is human nature to band with one's neighbors, or should this not come to pass, migrate to new lands.

Therefore, I call bullshit on your declaration of the Costa Rican people being happy with European rule by someone thousands of miles away, and hating Sharina, a neighbor with living standards, employment, technology, education, health care, and so forth superior to most of Europe, save Great Sixth Reich and USSNA. This does not make logical sense.

It is only your stuborness that prevents this from happening peacefully, without millions of deaths happening.

Whittier was NOT surrounded by USFR like we were. We were surrounded on all sides by USFR members Vineyard, Tenebricosis, Yafor 2, and Zuhair Malik. Whittier had open access on some sides, hence their economy was not ruined, and they had an escape route. In our case, we had no escape route and no way to trade without being stopped by USFR bullies.

Sarey and Martollea were essentially non-nations as their military, economy, and infrastructure were nearly non-existant. Tenebricosis could have easily smashed their way through Sarey and Martollea to reach Whittier over land. In addition, Vineyard could have closed off nearly 90% of Whittier's coastline by blockading the Iraq Sea. Then Whittier would have roughly the same amount of coastline as Great Romeo.

You have declared "Sharina is too afraid to fight Great Romeo alone, so it calls upon allies. However, we will fight like real men." You are being defiant right now in face of opposition potentially greater than the entire UFSR. Where was this defiance back then? You were afraid of a nation significantly a fraction of your size in power and population, namely Vineyard? You could have easily crushed Vineyard, and spared the men to man your northern borders aganist Tenebricosis. Afterwards, you would have had access to the Mediterrean Sea, bypassing Zuhair Malik (even though Zuhair Malik has never participated in any military action or appear to have any modernized military systems). Yafor2 was a tiny pacifist nation, of no consquence as their military was anemic. The only true threat would have been Vineyard and Tenebricosis, not Yafor2 or Zuhair Malik.

What's more, there have been ample opporunities for Great Romeo to break away from the UFSR. Several instances include the time Vineyard fought Wirraway, the battle between Vineyard and Ato-Sara + Warta Endor in the Middle East, and the tense standoff between Vineyard and Sharina over Jamaica.

WE DID NOT INSTITUTE A MASSIVE MILITARY BUILDUP! We told you this at least five other times, but you refuse to listen. We only increased patrols due to the possibility of instability with the coming statehood. We also excepted to bring down the alert level the next day, but do to your racketeering, we did not.

Having a Soviet Union sized military right in the middle of Sharinan sphere of influence, as well as holdings (Between North and South America) does not sit very well with the Sharinan people. They view such massive militaries as a prelude to an invasion, otherwise, there would be no need for such oversized militaries for a small nation. A small nation like Costa Rica would only need approximately 100,000 peace-keepers tops, not 3 million. Ditto for only needing 100 tanks, not 1,000.

Therefore, Sharina places your excuses of "peace-keeping" and "reduce alert level" into the same category as "We are simply conducting military excerises under false pretenses when it actually means we are preparing for an invasion" or "We are peace-keeping Territory-X when it actually means we are subjugating and oppressing the revolts".

Your "warnings" are racketeering. You try to extort us with threat of violence, when we seek to live peacefully and trade and establish diplomatic relations with you

Having an oversized military stationed in proportion for such a tiny nation is not exactly the way to conduct peaceful and diplomatic relations, as well as open up trade. It would be like stationing 1 million soldiers in the Vatican City or 5 million soldiers in Delaware as "peace-keepers".

I am sure that wouldn't fly with any logical minded leader or nation.

We did not "imperialize" into Costa Rica. We asked the leader of Costa Rica if he wanted to become part of the Republic to enjoy the full liberaties of being a state, and he accepted, with good reason. This was after years and years of providing protection for the Costa Rican people.

I can only laugh at this. There are plenty of reasons why this could have happened, and much more believable ones.

1. Corrupt leaders.
2. Rigged elections.
3. Propaganda to brainwash the Costa Rican people.
4. Manipulation of the Costa Rican government.

You may just as well have invaded Costa Rica with actual soldiers and weapons of war, as the result is the same.

Nations who, without the slightest fear, withdraw from an oppressive alliance WHILE SURRONDED ON ALL SIDES BY THEIR TERRITORY are destroyed both economically and militarily, and have lack of brains. :upyours:

Whittier still survives and is very active in international affairs. It is clearly rebuilding itself, as evidenced by its rapid re-industrialization and economic rebound. The Wirrawayan people have been either absorbed by Whittier and USSNA, or survives elsewhere. There have been some rumors of a newly formed Wirrayan government. What did not kill the Whittier and Wirrawayan people has only made them much stronger than before. Strength is forged through hardship and chaos, then is tested by both peace and war.

Good Day,
~President Mina Veristek

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OOC:

If not for Whittier's deletion and Wirraway's inactivity then your IC point would be less logical than they actually are.

Now declassified and for sale:

Delta V Rocket

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$850 million

Dear Sirs:
We are in need of 150 of them over the next 10 years for use in lifting materials, etc. for the building of our space station. $85 Billion has been wired as the downpayment on the first 100.
Sincerely,
King Rox
Mauiwowee

Adolph Görreing stared at his watch. The conference was supposed to have started ten hours ago, but the Sharinaian delegate was nowhere to be found.

The Sharinan delegate arrived and spoke respectfully to Adolph Gorreing.

"I apologize for the delay. It was unavoidable with the declaration of war, and intensive double checking of my transport to ensure no unfortunate accidents should befall the transport. To add to that, it was a precarious journey through Europe, with the troubles in France and all."

Dear Sirs:
We are in need of 150 of them over the next 10 years for use in lifting materials, etc. for the building of our space station. $85 Billion has been wired as the downpayment on the first 100.
Sincerely,
King Rox
Mauiwowee
YOur order is accept. Expect the first 15 by the end of the year.

::: Message to the world ::::

The threat of conflict in Costa Rica is disturbing to us. We see no need of such a war on the part of our esteemed ally, Sharina or on the part of the nation of Great Romeo. It's a pissant little country good only for the secondary canal route from the Pacific to the Carribean that Great Romeo built there. We hereby declare our neutrality in this conflict - our ports and airfields are open for all normal civilian trade and activity. Military ships will be permitted to take on food supplies and fuel as well (no matter the nation of origin). However, our airbases will be closed to all military flights with the exception of emergencies.
Duke Huey P. Long, III
Blackwood Farm
Norleans

Norleans put their new Swamper class fighter planes into service today at a Ceremony in Fort Smith, Arkansas, home of the 188th fighter squadron - the first squadron to get the new aircraft. Asked what his men thought of the new planes, Colonel Bobby Jo Calebson, C.O. for the squadron said "they're fantastic is about all I can say. They'll sure make a difference in how we operate."
released specs and a photo are reproduced below:

Wingspan: 17.2 m
Length overall: 24.1 m
Height overall: 6.75 m
Weight empty/equipped: 25,500 kg/29,600 kg
Max T-O weight: 35,400 kg
Engines: 2 Rolls Royce Turbofan jet engines (19,000 lbs. thrust ea. or 19, 975 lbs. thrust afterburning).
thrust-vectoring in pitch: -45 Degrees to +45 Degrees at 35 Degrees/second with full 360 Degree capabilities.
G-Force Capability: 8.75g
Max speed: Mach 2.4
Optimum speed @ height: Mach 1.7
Service ceiling: 19,500 m
Optimal "@ height:" 10,500 m
Max Climb Rate: 23,000 feet/minute
Range with max fuel @ height: 3,450 miles
Number of hardpoints: 14: 2 wingtip, 6 underwing, 6 conformal underfuselage (convert wingtips to extra fuel storage - add 1,000 miles approx. to range)
Internal Mutions bay: Yes (forego underfuselage hardpoints)
Crew: 1
Stealth Capable: Yes
Carrier Capable: Yes
Defensive Measures:
1. Computer control flight & Weapon systems;
2. 20 mm Vulcan cannons (2) forward nose, rear mounted in tail structure;
3. LIDAR pulse Doppler radar system & heads up display;
4. rear and forward laser anti-missile system;
5. anti-missile flairs for heat seeking missiles;
6. Computer aided "fly-by-wire" system; and
7. Radar decoy system.
Cost: $69 Million

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OOC: I got a new airplane design cad program - how'd I do with my first stab at it?