NationStates Jolt Archive

“This (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=442796) is… a joke, right…” Romana stared at the Chancellor of Time-Present, Theorasdavoramilonithene. Romanadvoratrelundar, 413th President of the High Council of Time Lords, was used to the occasional insult from inferior nations, but this was the first time she’d been informed that they’d been… annexed.

“I’m afraid not Lady President… I wish it was, but no one has a sense of humour this absurd,” Theoras replied.

Romana twitched

She twitched again, “You realise what this means Theo?” she said, with a wide grin.

“That we should point and laugh at them?”

Romana shook her head slowly, and sauntered over to a chest of drawers made of a strange opalescent wood, opening one labelled foreign relations. The pile of sheaves of paper labelled ‘non-intervention documents’ tied in gold string looked particularly daunting. Romana set them on their end, and began examining the titles, “Invalid… invalid… invalid… invalid… invalid…”

This continued for some time, until finally, she dumped the entire pile onto the surface, creating a hefty thud.

“Let’s see,” Romana said, still grinning incorrigibly, “They’re not the Polity. And they’re not the Monans or any of that shower…”

Theo twitched, “The consortium of Temporal Powers?”

“As I was saying, that shower. So… it appears we have a free hand in chastising them…”

Theo’ eyes twinkled with realisation, “You’re kidding…”

“I am not,” Romana proclaimed.

“Oh my…” Theo said, “You mean we get to…”

Romana nodded, “Prepare the battle-TARDISes!”

Theo laughed, “At once War-Queen!”

Romana blinked in surprise and near-astonishment, “War-Queen?”

“Oh yes, that’s your title if you want to kick someone in the nuts… Really, it was used in the past anyway.”

“War-Queen it is then!”

-==-

There were only a few Type-80 Mark 4 Battle-TARDISes in the assault force, seven, in fact. They appeared as seven small grey objects, each about two meters across. Crews wandered back and forth, gathered in a courtyard, surrounded by their vessels. The War-Queen sauntered into the middle of the small crowd, around eighty-four men and women, not feeling the need to show off with a podium or any such thing.

“Today, brave soldiers, for the first time since the age of myth, we are at war. We are at war with some pretenders who go by the name of Ankhmet. They think to assault our dignity, and to claim that they own our sovereignty. This insolence shall not go unpunished. Their own actions have rendered the treaties that bind our hands null and void.

“We will therefore go forth and attack this usurper nation, and show them the true meaning of power. You are each privileged with being part of the first assault, which I myself shall lead. Go to your vessels my friends, and prepare to do your duties!”

The crowd ambled off, and as each vessel was filled, the crew passing into its hyper-dimensional interior, it changed shape, cycling through the fifty nine stellations of the regular icosahedron, the standard exterior shapes used by that model of TARDIS, until they found appropriate forms.

Then, with a dull noise, they disappeared, flying on wings faster than time itself, flying towards Ankhmet.

[tag; the IADF is looking at this closely]

[Tag, I take it your attacking Ankhmet]

Thousands of miles above, in space, Athiesism's PX-703 reconassaince satellite spotted large thermal images over Ankhmet. Confused, it sent a mesage to its controllers, who analyzed the signals.

It was some kind of military activity. Tanks, perhaps. The local Ankhment commander was, on his own initiative, deploying his armored reserve to counter the assault.

President Mark, sitting in his office, sorting through some ridiculous scandal about Harry Potter censorship, recieved the news. He knew that if this armored reserve wasn't spotted by the Gallifrey troops, they would be ambushed and destroyed. Acting resolutely, he had only a few words:

"Get me Romanadaashfsjkfh or whatever on the line. We gotta tell them."

OOC: Isn't that godmodding? I mean, placing the enemy's forces somewhere for them?

[OOC: I wouldn't call Ankhmet's reactions just yet. Hell, I don't know if he'll react at all. Or if he has tanks, etc. This is futuretechy, very futuretechy.]

OOC: Then I'm able to participate!
edit:... Using lower class FT tech... >.<

They would react somehow. It wouldn't take a direct order, just say that the local commander was particularly brash and agressive and sent in some troops without orders. It happens all the time in real life.

"So, others are taking up the sword against this Ankhmet who now claims to own us."

"I find the actions of these beings utterly predictable and inferior" Tyr turned from the viewscreen to observe Charlemagne; he smiled softly. "Of course, w ewill have to address the issue, sooner or later."

"Yes yes, of course. We have more pressing matters to attend to; I have decided that the remains of the Progenitor shall be entrusted once again to Kodiak Pride; and given place of reverence upon Zarathrustra."

"As it should be" Tyr sighed softly. "The Drago-Kasov, I assume, will not be too happy with this arrangement."

"The Dragans have no choice but to respect my wishes in the matter. There is also the delegate from Majorum to consider."

"I see; but what does this have to do with these Ankhmeti fools."

"All in good time Kodiak; we shall enter into the fray. All that matters, is perfect timing."

Is Ankhment future tech?

They would react somehow. It wouldn't take a direct order, just say that the local commander was particularly brash and agressive and sent in some troops without orders. It happens all the time in real life.

OOC: You're assuming several things: 1 - I've attacked already.
2 - They'll have time to respond before utter defeat. :p

OOC: If he started out MT, then he's MT + FT. If he started out FT, then he;s FT. Either way he's FT.

Is Ankhment future tech?

So it said in the thread linked to in post #1

OOC: Then I'm able to participate!
edit:... Using lower class FT tech... >.<

I promise not to kill any of your people...

...hell, I'm planning not to kill any of Ankhmet's people. :D

We apologize for our piece-of-crap satellites, they appear to have malfunctioned.

edit: We can still provide bombers, paratroopers and recon satellites if you ask for them

[Ignored. There's no way I'm fighting time lords. That's it. Given that all of the weapons systems that the time lords use are based on temporal technology, I'm going to doubly ignore this. Somehow. I shall redouble my efforts to ignore this.]

[Ironic that someone claiming to annex every nation smaller than them chooses to ignore a nation just because of technology involved. Tsk tsk.]

[Think what you want, but I won't participate.]

[Could at least give them the benefit of the doubt instead of judging them before they've even engaged. Even if they have some temporal technology, their weapons may be of an un-temporal nature. It's not like their going to be Chronosphereing people around, or erasing people from time....I hope]

[Ankhmet, stop and think a bit. This is exactly like what you pulled, only in reverse. Now, you are the one not liking it, and rather than roll with it you outright refuse to participate. And, for all you know, these people could have not an ounce of temporal tech and have the name for other reasons.

Refuse to participate or not. Either way, I'm just amused at how this turned out.

Now, if they try to erase you from history, then I think you are perfectly alright with ignoring them and will have plenty of backup.]

We should make destroying their nuclear capability a priority, if they have any. When they start loosing, they'll fire off everything they got.

You guys really have to put down what your militaries are made of if you're going to fight.

OOC: He's probably basing that assertion on a basic knowledge of Dr Who, upon which this is based. However it is simply not true. The weapons of the Time Lords (such as they are) are usually not 'temporal.' Erasing enemies from history is not something they do unless the other side does it first. While they could travel back in time and blow up a civilisation, they'd never want to do it, here's why;

1 - It's immoral. Have past generations committed crimes against them? No. Then why destroy them too?
2 - It's paradoxical. While they can navigate paradoxes safely, it doesn't mean that it's good operating procedure to create them. Un and re spinning the web of time to fight someone is not a trivial thing.
3 - It's overkill, as apparently Ankhmet doesn't require it to be used on them.

There are, in comparison, billions of ways the Time Lords have available to fight that are not 'temporal.' A sample of means; Shooting things, transmatting weapons around, long range force field application, movement of stellar masses, stellar engineering, etc etc etc etc.

Anyway, it was amusing to try. It's his choice of course, though it is amusing how fast he's prepared not to back up his actions against 'small nations.' Still. Lords of Gallifrey is and always was intended as ignore bait. I guess it works. *pats herself on the back*

[Okay then. All of that is moot, as this would quite blatantly be FT. Only the MT incarnation of Ankhmet uses the ND.]

[Think what you want, but I won't participate.]



OOC:OMG!!!! first you say we are stupid (or whatever) that we are ignoring your doctrin (sp?) then you ignore an attack on your nation.



what is that about!?

[Ignored. .]


As long as they use MT or slight PMT, they have a legitament reason for attacking you, so if they use pmt or mt, they could use anti-ignore.

As long as they use MT or slight PMT, they have a legitament reason for attacking you, so if they use pmt or mt, they could use anti-ignore.

Yea, but is this really a legitament reason for war? Unless Ankhmet actually invades a region that doesn't accept it's doctrine it really can't make any claims regarding to what that nation can do. So invading someone over something that they would need to invade you for in order to do anything seems a bit pointless.

Yea, but is this really a legitament reason for war? Unless Ankhmet actually invades a region that doesn't accept it's doctrine it really can't make any claims regarding to what that nation can do. So invading someone over something that they would need to invade you for in order to do anything seems a bit pointless.

OOC: As pointless as this may seem, it would be an actual reaction in real life, if say Britain had declared all of it's former colonies full provinces of the British Empire once more. It would cause certain upheaval, including America's dissentive replies.

OOC: As pointless as this may seem, it would be an actual reaction in real life, if say Britain had declared all of it's former colonies full provinces of the British Empire once more. It would cause certain upheaval, including America's dissentive replies.

Occ: The replies yes, but to I doubt all the countires would declare war unless invaded/blockaded/other things that actually warrent a declaration of war, since otherwise england is just blowing smoke. They could say it all they want but unless they back it up it does nothing.

OOC:OMG!!!! first you say we are stupid (or whatever) that we are ignoring your doctrin (sp?) then you ignore an attack on your nation.



what is that about!?

[I have very little patience with you. I have NEVER called you stupid. I ignored this attack because somebody who uses a race of super-advanced time travellers to attack someone who is using MT is just... Not quite right.]