NationStates Jolt Archive

Yawning Seth was shaken awake from his sleep.
"Go away," he muttered half concious, "I'll issue a statment on it in the morning."
"Mr. President, I think that would be," His aid, Tarloy Lienstien paused to add power to his next word, "inadvisable."
His tone triggered something in the elected leader of Letharn, Seth eyes flashed open.
"what is it?" He asked slowly
"Sir, we have," again Tarloy paused, "situation."
Three minutes later Seth walked, fully dressed, into the operations room.
"Report," he barked at his staff general.
"sir," Gen Haventongue began, "a pair of cops, on routine patrol, stopped to invesitigate some strange sounds coming from the basement of a local library. They arrived to find the librian dead in a puddle of his own blood, on a table in front of him was the device. We suspect that it was placed there by foriegn agents as it is doubtful that anyone in our nation could have aquired the technology to--"
"Wait," The president interupted, "I just want to be clear on this. This device was a thermonuclear bomb, that could've leveled half the city?"
"Yes sir," The general answered.
The words hung in the air like a dying man's final breath.
"Alright," Seth said at last, "do we now if the ones who planted it are agents of another goverment or terrorists?"
"No sir," this time it was his security officer, Lana Killen who answered.
"Then lets find out, I want invitations sent out to every nation we think could've done this, or asissted in this, then double all patrols and put the nation on full alert. Moblize the military and have them ready to deploy at a moments notice. In 12hrs if we haven't heard anything we go to the press."
"Sir," his aid said, "any of thousands of nations, including ones who we might become friends with, could've been involved."
"I know, get a representative from each here."

We dont know what happen but nuclear capability by new nations are almost next to impractical

but dissdents in their nations could've placed the device, or aided and abetted those who did

We dont know what happen but nuclear capability by new nations are almost next to impractical
OOC: Well, yes but its not his nuke. And tag for readage.

TAGged! :D

ooc: just to be clear, the nuke is NOT mine. Some one else put it there. Sorry for any confusion. :P

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Pres. Seth took a long sip from his tea, and blinked away a yawn. It had been a long night, and now that the adrenaline was begining to fade, exhaustion was creeping up on him.
"Sir," the general began in his usual crisp military tones, "we have searched as much of the city as we can, and there is no sign of any other nucealur devices. Of course if they were housed in a private home--"
"General, I've told you three times, we are not going to ignore the constitusion and search houses without warrants, because we are afriad. At least," suddenly Seth's voice seemed ten years older, "at least not yet."
Seth turned to face his intelligence officer, " Please tell me you know where that.....thing came from."
"Sir," The officer began "I don't have any proof but I do have a theory."
"Well?" The president asked
"With all due respect sir, I'd like to wait for the science officer to finish his report sir, in case it contradicts me."
"Fine, then what can you tell me scientist"
"Absolutly nothing. This is beyond our current tech level. I have no idea where it came from either," the man shrugged, "it might just have poofed into the world from all I can tell."
"Yeah poof a true scientific term," The president turned to face the intelligence officer, "well?"
"Sir, I'd like you to entertain the idea that.....that the device wasn't ment for us." SHe paused, "sir I think some one might have just been transporting it through our country."
"Or maybe they were planting it," the President began
"sir?" The general asked.
"Think about it, if you want to nuke something in another nation but avoid all suspiscion, what better to do then arrange for a nuke to turn up in a nation that's always sworn by nonproliferation," Seth continued, "It wouldn't be hard, a well placed spy here, an informant there, and not only do you nuke your target you draw them into a war with another nation."
There were no open doors in the room, but they all felt the temperture sink.
"right then," The pres went on, "let's fight this dark plot the only way we can, with light. Move the press conference up an hour, redouble our efforts to reach other nations, and.....and dismantle the device then bury it."
"Mr. Pres," the general began, "that device could be the key to a stronger more---"
"General, you have your orders," The voice was as cold as ice and gripped the genral heart, "Do them."
"yes sir." chorused every person in the room.
"and pray that this doesn't get to the foreign press in the next hour"
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ooc: this is now wide open to anyone who wants to react, or do anything. And no one else will get nuked (unless they want to be).

The camera's flashed as Seth took the podium in front of the letharn seal.
"My fellow Letharnese, as of early this morning a thermonuclear device was discovered in our capital city. We have no idea how it got there or why it was there. Any information a citizen volunteers, may at this critical moment, save the lives of millions. Thank you, and may god help us." With that the president turned and walked off camera.
Just out of frame a reporter was heard to ask, "what now Mr. President?"
"Now, we prove we can endure any crisis, no matter how great." Seth responded

OOC: Just some advice: Type your RP entries in a word processor and spell-check. Your grammar is really bad.