NationStates Jolt Archive

----------------Ato-Saran National News--------------------

Camera switches from adverts to shot of studio.

"Good evening I am Gao Tai Fai and this is the nine o'clock news. In the headlines today;
Kim Te Se announces the formal acceptance and intergration of Cambodia and Laos into the Empire,
a strange blackout shuts down the Ho Chi Minh city military headquaters for hours and leaves Ato-Sara defenceless
and the Dalai Lama's visit to Ato-Sara ends with his flight from Danang back to Tibet"

A picture of Kim Te Se giving his address to the people of the former JeetKuneDo states of Laos and Cambodia from Vientienne, appears on the rear wall screen.

"Today our Emperor announced the final defeat of the CoB terrorists in the Ato-Saran Protectrates of Laos and Cambodia. He also revealed that these two former JeetKuneDo states would now be accepted into the Ato-Saran empire.
Later in his speech the Emperor also gave thanks to all the brave men and women who died fighting the Barney menace."

The wall screen changes to a picture of the Ato-Saran military embelm.

"Earlier today the entire Ato-Saran defence network was rendered useless by a blackout during a crucial calibration of the system. This left a great portion of the empire defenceless and vulnerable to attack. military spokesmen have refused to comment other than to say that the problem has been fixed and everything is under control.
Rumours and conspiracy theorys have exploded in number speculating everything from failure of the nuclear reactor at pleiku to an invasion by aliens from outer space. The problem was fortuneatly fixed by noon and security has been reinforced at sensitive areas."

Wall screen turns to a picture of a peaceful looking old man in orange robes boarding a jet plane.

"Finally the Dalai Lama ended his offacial tour of Ato-Sara today as he departed from Danang international in his private jet. Accomapinied by the prayers of thousands the Dalai Lama led a prayer for the people killed by the CoB terrorists in recent months from the steps of his boarding ramp."

Screen changes to a picture of a bannana superimposed on Taiwan.

"In other news bannana sales in Taiwan have risen a hundredfold after the recent release of....."

-------------------Ho Chi Minh Military Headquaters------------------------

"All went well?"

"Yes, though the black out was an unfortunate but altogether rather humerous side effect."

"Good soon our plans will come to completion and that weakling Kim Te Se will be removed from the throne that he is so unfit to have, and then.. and then you and me brother shall rule this empire ourselves."

"Yes soon, soon. But first this must be completed. Come brother our final task awaits."

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--------------------Air traffic control-Vientienne---------------------------
Air controller Yue Tin shifted uncomfortably in her seat as she tracked special flight VD43-L89 out of Danang international, also on her control screen were two FASAAF S-37 'Berkut' fighters escorting the Dalai Lama to Warta-Endoran airspace. Yue Tin sighed her life was so boring, reaching for the large mug of coffee she saw three small red blips at the southeastern corner of the readout, below each was a tab which said what it was and where it was heading. All three said SA-10 and were headed on a collision course for VD43-L89.
The giant king size mug hit the floor and broke in the time it took Air controller Tin shout to her superior.
Ji Ma ran leaping over several chairs to get to her stattion and when he did he froze, the fifty one year old air traffic controller simply couldnt belive it. Three SAM missiles where headed straight towards one of the most important men in the world. Recovering quickly he grabbed the phone and spoke in shot sharp Vietnamese to the FASAAF major on the other end.

-----------------In the air over Vientienne---------------------------------

Meanwhile Kai Nyugen also wondered what the hell was going on, seconds ago the three missiles had appeared on the radar scope in his cockpit, thinking quickly he radioed his wingman to drop behind the Dalai Lama's plane and brake chaff to try and confuse the incoming missiles.
One of the hurtling projectiles fell for this trick and veered wildly off course, the other two were meerly delayed and overshot their target before coming round again. Seeing that on this new path the missiles could do nothing but hit the slow moving gulfstream jet Lieutenant Kai Nyugen made the hardest desicion of his life. Inside the targeted Gulfstream the pilot was so terrified that he passed out and his copilot had to take over the aircraft's control's.
When the missiles where at one mile away Lieutenant Nyugen hit his after burners and brought his plane in between the jet and death.
This sacrificial target worked with one missile hiting him square in the nose cone. While the other missed the Gulfstream by a metre, its sonic shockwave wrinkling the aluminium skin, and came round to be consumed by the growing fireball of twisted metal and burning jet fuel that had becom Kai Nyugen's last act.
The Copilot now took the initative and guided the plane in for an emergancy landing at Vientienne, there the Dalai Lama was ushered intoa secure room by a local SWAT team.

------------------Missile site 45H near Dan Xeno---------------------------

Jack Xi looked at the horror before him. The whole crew of missile site 45H head bee brutally slaughtered, faces that depicted shock and contorted disgust. Daubed all over the launch tubes from which the missiles had been fired were pictures of purple dinosaurs. on the ground among the blood and gore a pair of dog tags shaped in the form of Barney's head were found bearing the name Dong Koi.
THe missile launch had quickly been traced to this location and a Jad guard platoon had swept in with assault gunship support, what the guardsmen had found had both horrified and angered them.
General Xi knew there could only be one possible culprit but it just didnt feel right to him. The general's phone buzzed and he took the call from his old friend Admiral Jia Long.
"Hello Jack, ive just heard is it really that bad." Jack Xi surveyed the scene again.
"Yup and a whole lot worse. All signs point to the Cult, but it just doesn't feel right. Its just too obvious, and besides why would they do this. I think somethings going on that we don't know about."

"Jack you know the Cult their motives are as erratic as the winds, but if you really feel that somethongs not right ill take it up with the Dao brothers in my meeting, speaking of which im just about to enter, I will speak to you later."

Jack retuned the phone to his pocket and turned to leave. Behind a young Jade guardsman was being violently sick.
The General pointed to a captain.

"You Get someone here to clean this up and get those bodies to a morgue."

The captain stared at the scene before him in dispair while the genral's car accelerated away.

----------------------Ato-Saran National News----------------------------

"I am Gao Tai Fai and you're watching the ten o'clock news."

The wall screen shows a picture of a fighter jet in mid explosion.

"Barely forty minutes ago three missiles were launched at the Dalai Lama's outbound flight from Danang to Tibet, these missiles that were reportedly launched from one of our own missile defence sites by CoB terrorists destroyed one of the escorting fighters but the Dalai Lama's plane was untouched. Army units subsequently stormed the site and the scene they arrived to has been described as a charnel house. there is a five mile wide cordon around the area but a military spokesman has said that no terrorists were found. The Dalai Lama himself is said to be fine and unhurt."

-------------------Ho Chi Minh Military Headquarters-----------------------

Admiral Jia Long walked into the conference room and sat down opposite the Dao brothers.

"Good evening Admiral, would you like a drink?" Admiral Long look at both brothers and sighed, he could never work out which was which so he just talked at both of them.

"No thank you, I understand you have some intelligence as to the attack?"

"Ah yes, it seems certain that it was carried out by a CoB terror cell we may have traced them back to a training camp near Ben Nambak."

"Ben Nambak? I thought we scoured that area last year."

"Well it appears the CoB have moved back in since than." The admiral frowned heavily, Jack was right there was definatly something going on here.

"Ok see what more you can find out and I will get the Guards to go look at Ben Nambak." With that the admiral rose and left the room.

"He suspects something."

"I know but soon that will not be a problem will it?" One of the brothers laughed.

"No it will not be a problem any longer. So we continue to the next stage?"

"Yes brother, we go on."

---------------------Deep Jungle near Ben Nambak-------------------------
Five Hind assault gunships screamed across the jungle canopy of northern Laos. each one was laden with twenty Jade Guardsmen armed with AK-74s and Dragunov SVUs. Admiral Jia Long looked through his night vision binoculars at the fast approaching target. Nothing seemed out of place, they had swept this area last year and found a small CoB outpost which was dutifully attacked and neutralised.
Now according to the Dao brother's intelligence it had been re-inhabited and used as a staging ground to launch an assasination atempt on the Dalai Lama.

The first gunship slowed dramatically in midair before rapidly desending ito the clearing with search light roving around the abandoned camp while the others followed it's path. Guardsmen leapt from their hovering platform and fanned out searching the derelict buildings and long grass surrounding the complex.

Inside the Admiral's helmet the radio crackled to life and the voice of Major Meng Huo could be barely heard over the static created by the helicopter's whirling blades.

"Sir, we have searched the area and found nothing! I seriously doubt that any one has been here since fire team Zulu swept the place five months ago!" The Admirals fears were confirmed by this, he had to get back to Ho Chi Minh city and fast.

"Good work Major, make one last sweep and take your men home! I've got back immediatly!" And with that Admiral Jia Long tapped his pilot on the shoulder and motioned for him to take the gunship up.

------------------------Hanoi-Imperial Palace------------------------------

Emperor Kim Te Se, ruler of Ato-Sara looked mornfully at the pile of paperwork at the other side of his desk.There was no way he would be finished before midnight, and then he still had to go and visit the Dalai Lama in Vientienne to apologize for all that had happened today.
Suddenly shouting and gunfire erupted outside in the corridor. The Emperor leapt to his feet and took the 9mm pistol from his draw. Before he could take a step away from the desk the door was flung open and violently slammed shut again when a Jade Guards Captain burst in and yelled at him to get down moments before a massive explosion ripped the door of it hinges and swept both men off their feet.

When Kim Te Se got up again the whole room was a mess and the back wall had totally disappeared. Three Guardsmen entered and declared the room clear while the Captain got up from the ground.
A Guards Colonel flanked by another two guardsmen entered next.

"Sir, it was a suicide bomber he was trying to get to this room but he was brought down before he could." Kim Te Se looked desolately at the scene around him.

"Was anyone hurt?"

"Apart from the bomber? Yes, two guards were killed and another seriously wounded. Sir, we need to get you to a secure area immediatly." The Emperor hung his head.

"Yes let us go." The Empereor and the Guardsmen rushed out of the room and down into the bowls of the palace as special forces teams swept the great building room by room.

---------------------War room beneath Imperial palace---------------------

An hour later Dao Bai looked up from his notes as the Emperor entered the brightly lit room.
Immediatly Kim Te Se pointed an almost accusational finger at him.

"You!" Dao Bai looked slightly offended "What have you got on what just happened?" The joint-chief of ASIA let a sly grin creep onto his face.

"Actually sir we have quite a lot. It appears that the bomber's accomplice was not quite as sucessful as he was and was apprehended by Guards when trying to flee the scene. We have managed to extract a single name from the subject and it is to say the least.. shocking. Here sir you better look for yourself." The Emperor took the offered foldor with a foreboding feeling in his stomach. Upon opening and reading the first paragraph he almost dropped the folder in shock.

"Are you sure, I mean really sure?" Dao Bai's face broke into a slight frown.

"Yes sir, if you look at the enclosed surveillance photographs from the past month and photograhs of all those believed to be involved." The Emperor did so and his expresion turned cold.

"Were is he?" Dao Bai studied his notes for a few seconds.

"At the moment... retuning to Ho Chi Minh from an operation. General Xi has been sent there already to apprehend him." Kim Te Se swallowed and retained his cold expression. Dao Bai got up and turned to leave.

"So be it, but I want to talk to him you hear?" Dao Bai turned around

"Yes sir, perfectly sir."


--------------------Ho Chi Minh Military HQ Heliport------------------------

Admiral Jia Long stepped of the Hind assault helicopter and onto the tarmac soaked by the monsoon rains.

"Admiral!" He turned to the direction of the voice and saw Jack Xi flanked by a trio of Jade Guardsmen. the Admiral smiled when he saw his old friend.

"Jack! What are you doing here?" The sight of Jack Xi's hard face made the Admiral's smile fade.

"Admiral Jia Long, I hereby put you under arrest for conspiracy to assasinate the Emperor of Ato-Sara Kim Te Se. You will surrender yourself to our custody be escorted to Hanoi for questioning." The Admiral's shocked expresion changed to wild confusion.

"What.. what happened Jack?" The overall commander of the Ato-saran Army and Airforce looked at his old friend from under darkened brows.

"It was a bomb Jia, a bomb." All the old Admiral could do was submit to custody and by taken aboard another Hind helicopter bound for Hanoi.

--------------------Ho Chi Minh Military HQ--------------------------------

"So that fool Jia Long has been blamed for the attack?"

"Yes brother and the evidence we have provided also implicates him in the misile launches."

"Good, so the trial is in two days, you will prosecute him my brother and that other fool Jack Xi will defend him. Imagine that a fool to defend a fool!"

---------------------Hanoi- Ato-Saran Supreme court----------------------

The trial had been short and brutal with Dao Ha conducting the prosecution with a vehmence and fanaticsm that astounded the judge. Piece after piece of damning evidence was rolled out infront of the jury, which was constructed of high ranking officials in aspects of the Ato-Saran government.
Even the massively determined Jack Xi was defeated by the steamroller that was the prosecution's case.
After a week of intense arguements the jury had convened and come to their conclusion. The Speaker for the jury was deputy minister for argriculture Han Po. Han Po rose to speak with a small notepad in his hand.

"We the jury find the defendant on the charges of high treason, conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to take power from the rightful ruler of this land..." A collective intake of breath resounded about the room as the deputy minister paused to turn a page in his note book. " Guilty." The reaction varied wildly acroos the courthouse. The Admiral's family and grandchildren cried, men and friends he had led into the fires of battle looked angry and muderous, Jack Xi gaze could have melted through the armour of a main battle tank as he glared at the triumphant looking Dao Ha.
Finally Supreme judge Tao Ji Fei brought the court to order and prepared to hand out a senttence.

"Admiral Jia Long in the light of your crime you will be stripped of you military rank and will serve life imprisonment at the Tai'nan high security military prison. You will be conducted there immediatlyafter this court session ends.
Case dimissed!" Jia Long stared expresionless at Dao Ha as two guardsmen escorted him out of the room and to a military car that would take him to Hanoi International Airport (HIA) where he faced a half an hour flight to Tai'nan.
Jack Xi watched all this and strode over to the Smug Dao brother.

"You will suffer for what you have done." The now Supreme commander of all Ato-Sara's armies then turned on his heel and walked away. A wide grin spread onto the joint head of ASIA's face and in under his breath he said.

"Oh no I won't, no I won't."

Outside Jack Xi got into his car and called his son Kane Xi at the ION Industries head office on the otherside of Hanoi.

"Hi Kane im coming over, somethings desperatly wrong."

"You really think Jia was set up?"

"Yes, and I know who did it."

Two blocks away Dao Bai took of his headphones inside the unmarked ASIA van. He had heard enough, beside him on the dashdoard an object looking like a black marker pen with a red button on the top was snatched up and in his cluthching greadsy hands he gleefully pressed it.

Back in the Generals car the conversation wa still going.

"So who set him up dad?"

"It was ASIA, more specfi.........." The next thing Kane heard was an almighty wumph and then the flat line tone of the phone on the other end going dead.

-----------------Ato-Saran National News---------------------------------

"Good afternoon I am Gao Tai Fai and you are watching a special update on the nation's growing chaos. So soon after head of the Navy and Jade Guard admiral Jia Long was found guilty of trying to asassinate our beloved emperor and sentenced to life in a high security facility at Tai'nan.
The other joint head of the military and CEO of ION Industries was victim of a brutal carbomb.
The nation is in chaos and nobody seems to know what is going on and who is resposible for the atrcoties that started with the missile attack on ythe Dalai Lama's plane last week. The Emperor appears to have lost control of the situation and some extremeists are calling for his abdication and installation of a new government.

In the southern Mekong region there have been massive riots by scoialist activists. While in the central regions, poloitical firebrand Cao Hae is stirring up nationalist sentiment with massive rallies.
Cult of Barney sightings are on the rise and fear is widespread in the regions closest to the Warta-Endoran border.

The new heads of the military have been announced as Admiral Tao Kai and General Yuan Te.

From a country now so dispearing we can only hope this chaos is soon resolved, I am Gao Tai Fai good day.

The situation wasn't pleasent at all. The situation in Ato-Sara was becoming dangerous and the India campaign was developing into a WWI like bloody stalemate. Superior technology and training couldn't beat the enormous hordes of fanatical Indians (RL one of the most nationalistic people :) ). Even enormous bombing campaigns on the Indian positions wouldn't help. Support was neccesary Lao decided. But how would he do it? There was also the Ato Sara situation...

Since the attack on his Holiness the Dalai Lama Lao didn't had a good feeling about the country."Something evil is brewing there,"he thought."And it isn't the CoB. Reports showed that activity is low. Especially after ruthless Search and Destroy mission by Special Forces they were driven out of the country. The most fled into Burma and further into India but those camps were also destroyed by now. This isn't normal. An entire Missile batery crew is slaughtered and three missiles fired on the Dalai Lama? That's to difficult for those purple freaks...This isn't normal for CoB."He put down the report from the Chief Military Attaché in Ato-Sara and stood up. He walked towards a minibar and took out a can of beer."Strange, I never liked the stuff. Anyway...I'll order intensified patrols along the Ato-Saran borders. I'll launch Regional Defence level to orange (one stage from war, and regional means its just on a regional scale). Now that we have a few SF from Burma and Bangladesh, I could use them in highly secret operations in the Laosian and Cambodian provinces of Ato-Sara. I'll better first put it in writing, before the situation might escalate into a war. God forbid that we go to war with an ally!"

ooc. Ato, this is just an introduction to maybe some small, highly secret infiltration into your western most provinces by SF. Maybe this'll continue in the idea you had and said in your TG.

------USSNA Nightly News-----

Good evening, and welcome to the USSNA Nightly New Report. I'm Ineeda Dick and this is your nightly news.

In a speech earlier today, King Vincent Kain announced that he offers his hand in support of Ato-Saran Emperor Kim Te Se, and that he will send any economic or military aid that is needed. The King also hinted to the fact that a private investigation of the current bombings and missile launches will take place soon.

Also announced in the same speech, King Vincent Kain pronounced that the annexation of all Roman Republic lands is complete; thanks in part to the peaceful turnover of the RR people.

----------------------Ko'Nan cemetary outside Hanoi-----------------------

As the Jade Guardsmen gave their general a final gun salute, sending off the wise old man to the next world, Kane Xi in this one clenched his fist in anger over his father's grave. Not that his body was inside nothing larger than a finger had been found in the burning wreckage of the car. Kane needed revenge, the investigators had found nothing, but he knew. He knew who the killers were, his father's last words had shown him who was responsible. Beside him Emperor Kim Te Se sat down.
"Kane i'm so sorry." The voice of the emperor beside him did nothing to soothe his pain and anger. The government had killed his father and he wanted nothing to do with them.
"I Know. I know who did it." The Emperor raised an eyebrow questioningly.
"Really, who?" Kane's clenched fists were shaking now.
"My father said it was ASIA just before he died." The emperors face betrayed a slightly shocked expression.
"That is news, are you sure? I will get my people to check it out." Kane just nodded and seethed with anger. He knew that the Emperor would not know and that he was just a puppet to ASIA and that he would never find anything
Still burning with fury he excused himself and made his way back to his car. On the way back to the ION Industries headquaters he maded his plans. He Kane Xi controlled ION Industries aforce to be reckoned with inside the empire. He could call upon several military commanders to aid him, all former ION employees from the revolutionary years. With their help he would wrest control of the country from the ASIA puppet masters and return the governance of the land back to the Emperor, parliment and the people.

----------------------Central park, Pleiku---------------------------------

Political firebrand Cao Hae stepped down from the podium to great applause. He had just given a powerful speech on how the government was being made a puppet by a military Junta ruling from behinfd the scenes with the Emperors guidance and that it was up to the valient men and women of the Nationalist Ato-Sara movement to free the country from its oppressors. The crowd was screaming for him, chanting his name and calling for the Emperor's abdication.

--------------------30 miles south of Ho Chi Minh city----------------------

In the darkened room the men around the table were all agreed. Ato-Sara had failed both as a nation and a capatalist experiment. It was up to them to salvage what remained make the the bountiful and socialist region of the Mekong strong.

---------CoB training camp 10 miles from the Warta-Endoran border---------

The grand love distributer of Ato-Sara Ban Bo as appointed by the great prophet of Barney himself pointed his purple dinosaur headed fun staff at the all seeing portal and watched the events of the nation as shown to him by the much much pretty lady of Aessenen. The signs from the great purple god were good and the time to move would be soon.


OOC: Just a small update but i hope you like