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OOC: The first IC post is up to Beth Gellert. To get invited please TG me, do not post until I have sent you an invitation.

Don't bother if you are a new nation, a huge nation, a non-Modern nation, a spongebob-worshipping nation, or a convicted sex offender. :mp5:

...so any constructive criticism would be appreciated as we progress :)
Indeed, constructive criticism is welcome. You may post without an invite if you are posting constructive criticism. But, only if it is a good bit...maybe 4-5 sentences minimum. If you have questions TG me.

Thank you, Come again.

The Kingdom of the Geletians

It was only for a generation that the now five and a half billion residents of more than ten million kilometres of highlands and valleys had existed as a unified entity under the High King Adiatorix and his parliament. Only for a generation had the Geletians allowed Christian institutions to stand on their soil without the absolute certainty of firey destruction, and only for a generation had the people and the land's resources been slaved to the free market.

And they didn't care for it. The Kingdom was strained by long-standing conflicts between villages and tribes whose populations resented taking orders from a central authority, especially when they had voted for others than the victorious parliament. Those communities that were strong and did not support Adiatorix would traditionally have launched wars to cast off his authority and restore their own chieftain, but now they were not supposed to, and most did not really understand why they should not.

More importantly, the working classes were on the verge of revolt. The out-sourcing of work to weaker foreign economies and the redundancies this caused at home were not things that able workers were prepared to accept.

The closing of the Kingdom's copper mines was most painful. Workers had stormed the closed mines and begun to operate them again, in defiance of cort orders and the protestations of upper-managers and shareholders. Clashes between police and workers were becoming more frequent and violent, and communists from the Igovian Soviet Commonwealth in northeastern Europe were thought to be spreading political ideas dangerous to the central authority.

The High King and his Ministers and Generals desperately needed a distraction, a common cause for the people, and an occupation-creation scheme to take the rioters off the streets.

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Sel Appa was a substantial nation state, but less than half the size of the Kingdom. Soft-left in its economics, in the direction that the troublesome masses of Geletia were increasingly leaning, and having a bad time of it with a weak and shrinking economy. It was exactly the sort of place to which work was being outsourced, and as such the sort of place that the masses were quietly resenting. The fact that it was one of the few places on earth with more coppermines than Geletia made it especially significant, since the rioting miners were losing work to none other than the Sel Appans, who worked for wages several times lower than the typical Geletian.

Of course, from the point of view of the Geletian powers-that-be, the fact of Sel Appa's government control over its economy appeared as a threat should more mines be nationalised.

The capitalists and the government were worried by the Sel Appan regime, the masses were resentful of the Sel Appan miner, Sel Appa had great mineral wealth, and Sel Appa was perhaps too poor to defend itself.

If there was one way to unify the Geletian masses, it would be by war against a foreign people who could be reasonably presented as responsible for their troubles, and if there was one way to make sure that the Sel Appan government didn't nationalise areas of heavy Geletian investment it was to remove the Sel Appan government... employment in the arms sector would take a few troublemakers off the streets, too. Though of course a lot of that production was also out-sourced to the under-developed world!

The people as yet knew nothing, but the Kingdom of the Geletians was preparing for war.



(OOC: Okay, not much for you to respond to there, but don't worry, this serves as my background/preparation post, I'll make it public and take action in the next one.

Anyone else who's reading and wants to get involved, obviously Sel Appa doesn't want things to get derailed by people piling in, but if anyone wants to comment, supply the Geletian war effort, condemn us, or whatever else, feel free to telegram me, and there's a possibility of spin-off threads that don't have to get in the way of this one, you know? Obviously I've been here a looong time -years!- but I've managed to do it with few serious war RPs, so any constructive criticism would be appreciated as we progress :) )

Geletian news agencies across the Kingdom were suddenly addressing industrial action that previously was largely covered up. It was now in the state's interests to highlight economic hardships, especially in the copper mines and other areas hit by out-sourcing since the market reforms of the High King Adiatorix's National Parliament.

While this went on, military production continued to increase. Munitions plants actually started to take on new workers from the growing ranks of the unemployed, and the government dipped into its budget surplus and its currency reserves to buy war materials at an enhanced rate. The point of no return was passed: the state would need a return on its investment or -in light of the increasingly dire situation of labour unrest- face economic collapse thanks to this investment.

Press leaks about government concerns over possible Sel Appan nationalisations and that nation's worsening poverty became nation-wide news and the left-slant of the Sel Appan economy was widely criticised. Major media outlets allowed people to believe that the Sel Appans were stealing Geletian work with unfair practices by sinking their own people into poverty, and tried to indicate that the Geletian labour movement was left-aligned and intent on sinking the Kingdom into the same poverty as shown in newsreel of Sel Appan slums.

Weeks later

Another series of riots, starting around the Sygun Copper Mines district and spreading to several near-by towns, had made the headlines but failed to remove previous concerns from the media's eye. If anything, they had worsened tensions in the public arena.

Now, Adiatorix chose his moment to levy some harsh accusations against Sel Appa.

Portmeirion, the Geletian capital, began to warn the Kingdom of the Sel Appan Parliament's intention to nationalise Geletian concerns in the Republic, which would -apparently- only make the Kingdom's economic situation worse. People were actually more prepared to believe this, and further allegations, because Portmeirion had made the pretense at trying to prevent earlier press leaks about Sel Appa... if the government hadn''t wanted us to know, then it must be true!

The Republican government was corrupt and thieving, said the High King. Geletian investment was going into the pockets of fat cats, leaving Geletians out of work and Sel Appans in stinking poverty. Intervention was required to save the situation before it got worse.

"It may seem severe" said Adiatorix in a televised address, "but history would judge us harshly if we allowed Sel Appa to become a poverty-stricken breeding ground for corruption and terror while our own mighty economy sunk to ruin and the communists siezed power, dividing this great young kingdom we have built."

Prime Minister Driskel Thomas -one of those few Geletian converts to Christianity, who, in the odd Geletian fashion, had taken a surname but not bothered with a new Christian name- announced actions to be taken.

Portmeirion would send representatives to establish investigations into Sel Appa's economic management, and would make known a number of stern requirements binding the Republic to co-operation with such investigations and to reform where it was required. Of course, these investigations and requirements would remain vague and, from the Sel Appan point of view, unreasonably invasive, not to mention quite impossible to satisfy. Furthermore, task forces were being assembled for deployment to protect Geletian national and private interests in the Parliamentary Republic of Sel Appa against criminalisation or siezure by the poverty-stricken and communist-influenced masses of the nation, and against illegal or unfair nationalisation by the increasingly desperate government there.

Geletian ports, like Porthmadog and Alaric, began over coming days to see increased activity, largely from the military, as transport vessels, amphibious ships, and others came in to dock.

Nothing yet had clearly happened, but the Sel Appans were finally alerted to the spiked interest of the Geletian government, and its aggressive and domineering position was clear...

OOC: I hope you were using your information as propoganda. Not all of it is true, but about half is. Our wages aren't that low.

IC:

NEMNENAIT, Sel Appa--Chancellor Kristina Leno was sitting in her office peering over files about Beth Gellert. The 22-year-old never expected a war when she ran for chancellor. There was only one thing a young girl could do in this position:

Drring! Drring! Drring! Click!

"Daddy?" she asked.

"Kristina? What do you need? Is something wrong?" her father asked.

"Um, well, it'd be better if you came in person."

"Ok, I'll be there in an hour or so."

Click!

One hour later...

The former leader of Sel Appa walked into the chancellor's office. When he saw the worried look on his daughter's faace, he knew something was amiss. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Well, a nation called Beth Gellert is thinking about invading us because we are ruining their economy. I don't know how we are doing that and I don't know what to do." she replied.

"Hmm...I knew you shouldn't have ran, you were too young and had little experience. Dinh would have won 50% or more if you hadn't ran. He was an expert politician. Anyway, what exactly is your problem?"

"I don't know what to do...how to react."

"Well to start, you might try to contact the Beth Gellert leader and try to arrange a deal. This would be expected of you, but it's the safest thing you can do. On the other hand, you could take the threat seriously and be unpredictable by preparing for war. I wouldn't recommend making war; you don't have enough experience."

"What if I put Colonel Franklin(Defense Minister) in charge of the situation?"

"That might lead to war. He is a peaceful man, but he is also a colonel and would like to start a fight."

"What do I tell our citizens?"

"If you don't say anything, it's a coverup. If you are honest, you're a weak leader. I can't really help you much, you wanted to run. You should have listened to me. I knew you weren't ready."

"Well...um..."

"I'll leave you to think on your own" Vladmir Ilyidge Leno said as he left the room. The chancellor began to think deeply, but didn't know what to do. She decided to summon some ministers for help.


"I called you two here because of Beth Gellert. I'm not sure how to take this so I thought your expertise may help." the chancellor asked.

Charles Garther, Minister of Foreign Affairs, replied: "I think I should meet with their leader and see if we can negotiate some sort of an agreement. First, though, you should try to contact them and try to arrange it. If they seem hostile...Colonel?"

"Yes, well I have designed a plan that will enable us to defend ourselves properly. After analyzing what data we have on their military, it seems we'll have to enlist some allies and as usual hire the Elmoese Navy*." Colonel Jefferson Franklin, Minister of Defense, said.

"Who do you have in mind?" asked the chancellor.

"De Jewish Mafia** has a good army and could help bolster us. We have great relations with them. Also, if we need them, there is Comunisticturkeys***." the colonel replied.

"Ok, I'll try to make that call now. Mr. Garther, I'd like you to stay here if I need help."

"Certainly."


OOC: You know our leader is 22 and inexperienced. Take this how you want. The result of the phone call is up to you.

Notes:
*Saint Elmo Isle is a small island just north of Sel Appa whose legendary navy is often hired to defend Sel Appa. The island is actually an autonomous part of Sel Appa.
**De Jewish Mafia is a 100% Jewish coporate police state neighboring Sel Appa. Relations have always been very strong with them.
***Comunisticturkeys is another ally of Sel Appa with strong relations. It's pretty much equal to Sel Appa.

(OOC: Well, yes, we're deliberately setting up a lot of allegations that are hard to disprove in the eyes of our public, even if they may not actually be true, they're just close enough (and close enough to the bone) that people will be scared. As to the wages, well, perhaps you have greater equality in Sel Appa, but with an imploded economy the wages must be puny compared to Geletian ones, hence the out-sourcing of Geletian business to Sel Appa where our capitalists don't have to pay out so much in wages.
Just a note, Beth Gellert doesnt' technically exist just yet, and will only be declared once the Kingdom of the Geletians falls to a revolution and joins with the much smaller Igovian Soviet Commonwealth. But it doesn't really matter, since everyone will know what you mean :))


The Sel Appans attempts to talk peace with the Geletians went more or less unreported, a few agencies talking scornfully of the nation's corrupt elite and their efforts to worm out of facing international justice for its crimes in mismanagement and to continue to profit from the poor workers there.

This sort of nonsense sounded good to the Geletian masses who were only just turning on to socialism and liked to hear firey talk about shooting-down oppressers of the working man but as yet understood relatively little about the facts of their own situation and how their own capitalists kept them unemployed and were now trying desperately to keep the Sel Appans poor. If they'd understood this, probably better than ninety percent of the population would actually have felt solidarity with the Sel Appan miners and other citizens.

The outright refusal of High King Adiatorix and his leading ministers to consider any of the Sel Appan extensions, even if they had offered to lie down and surrender their nation without a shot, can have left little doubt that the Geletians were preparing for war because war was their object, not a means to some other end. As the famous classical historian, Strabo, wrote of their kin, "The whole race is madly fond of war, high-spirited and quick to battle... and on whatever pretext you stir them up, you will have them ready to face danger even if they have nothing on their side but their own strength and courage".

Porthmadog Naval Base

The Geletians never ranked as one of the world's very best naval powers, but their wealth and great numbers and general militarism left them with a large if highly disorganised fleet under the command of an inexperienced but enthusiastic and ambitious admiralty.

The navy had over five thousand hulls accounted for by major combatants and well beyond twenty million tons with almost a million crewmen. That was to say nothing for the fleet auxiliary, the inshore gunboats and patrol launches, and the merchant marine and other civilian vessels that could be commandeered in time of war.

Unfortunately, the fleet was made up of elements used to skirmishing with one another in the past, and now augmented by largely unproven designs with newly raised crews as the Geletians switched from tribal warfare on their own coasts to an international view in only the course of the current generation.

A noble named Prasutagus was assigned command of the first flotilla dispatched towards Sel Appa. This was a quite ceremonial affair in the Kingdom, since it was such a rare event and since the government wanted to be sure that the fleet was well in the public eye should anything happen to it.

It consisted of a Nibiru class light carrier/assault ship serving as Prasutagus' command ship twenty aircraft including Sea King Mk7 ASaC early warning platforms, Lynx ASW helicopters, and FA2 Sea Harrier air defence fighters (considered a defensive set-up); two massive Hyena class Landing Pad-Dock amphibious transport ships, a Restoration class submarine tender and two Hound class D/E submarines struggling along on the surface and making a half-hearted attempt to conceal themselves between larger ships, two Brompton class support tankers, a big Palaemon class heavy support ship, two Gauntlet class fleet defence frigates, a Bodkin class general-warfare frigate, a Rapier class minsweeper/patrol craft, and a gigantic Ysbyty class hospital ship.

This was a small fleet by most standards, but was not intended as an invasion fleet. It was advertised as the vanguard of a force moving towards Sel Appa so as to be able to react defensively to threats against Geletian interests in Sel Appa, and perhaps to carry out evacuations and such work if required. It was presently on orders to approach Sel Appa and to set up patrols against hostile state activity and criminal actions such as must surely, the media said, be flourishing in so poor and corrupt a territory as the one in question.

The three frigates carried each sixty improvised marines while the flagship had four hundred and fifty, and one Hyena a hundred and twenty, the other two hundred and forty. Almost a thousand soldiers, then, who would potentially be used to secure major Geletian investments before hostilities were officially declared. Eight Sea Harriers and seventeen assorted helicopters provided further capability.

It remained to be seen how the Sel Appans would react to the gradual approach (at just 12 knots) of a Geletian military force, all be it a fairly small one that came without a declaration of war. During the fleet's transit, Portmeirion issued a demand that sites of Geletian investment in Sel Appa be kept free of military and other security personnel though at the same time some Geletian businessmen in the country were trying to hire armed private security (or just thugs willing to carry a gun and put on a basic company uniform for a pay rise) and in some cases stockpiling industrial explosives that normally would be used down the mines in which they had stakes.



(OOC: If I'm taking too long about starting hostilities (or if I'm doing anything else disagreeable) do tell me and I'll have someone do something stupid :) I'm not sure how much time you're thinking of spending on this, but I myself am in no great rush.)

OOC: I say we just play it by ear and see how it goes. If we want to end it, we'll find a way. Also, I have no complaints so far. I am soooooooooo sorry for not posting in a loooooooooong time. Anyways...


IC: Elmoese ships pulled away from their docks all over Sel Appa and St Elmo Isle. They began to make their way to strategic areas that needed sea defense. Sel Appa readied its own naval fleet made up mainly of 24 aircraft carriers and their support ships. They also took up strategic positioning. Onboard the Elmoese ship, Prime Star, Fleet Admiral Benjameno Novbono sat in a meeting room with the other admirals. "We should not take the first strike, just wait and watch. If they decide to send us a present...return the favor. Always maintain your set battleplans. If we go down, it'll be a land battle and those aren't pretty...Captain!" Novbono said.

"Yes, sir?" the captain asked.

"Send a message to HQ that we want Beth Gellert to follow the general conventions of war.

Once a ship is sunk, the crew must be able to get into lifeboats without trouble and lifeboats may not be fired at. You know it all right?"

"I do sir and will do as you request promptly," and he departed.

The admiral thought for a minute. "I wish there was more we could do. The rest is up to Beth Gellert."


Near Anila City

Sel Appan troops were working hard to fix up old trenches used in past wars. They would hole up until the enemy came and shoot with everything they had. They were supposed to divert away from the capital so it could be fully defended. No one knew if it would work, but they sure could make a good try. Artillery was being set up and munitions were stored nearby. Elsewhere troops set up camps and built up storage facilities. No one knew how long they would be able to last, so they prepared for as long as possible a siege.


Around Nemnenait

Typical war defenses were put up and all civilians were briefed on and reviewed procedures. Gun shops all over ran out of weapons and bullets within hours because of all the citizens who wanted to protect their family and nation. If Beth Gellert destroyed the army, they would have millions of civilians to fight as well. All of whom had completed their mandatory service and were fully trained in use of a weapon.

Elite soldiers who could climb a 25-meter pole in a few seconds and run non-stop for kilometers began going over their training and preparing for war. Each one was carefully trained with dozens of weapons and each could make a weapon out of anything. All could survive in the middle of nowhere for weeks. This training would prepare them for the operations ahead. "You will all be used to take out Beth Gellert's ability to fight. Whatever you are assigned you complete. If you can't complete your task, do not return." If their task was not completed or they were captured, they would commit suicide by cyanide, gun, and explosive.

(Ahh, here it is! I thought I'd lost the thread since I couldn't find it in the first five pages of search for either of us! You edited the old post, makes sense, now! Right, this is just to bring it up so I'll find it next time, and I'll come back and make a new post before long. I'm afraid I've sort of lost my chain of thought since last time! I'm sure I was plotting something [frown])

You should subscribe to it like I do. Just make sure you click no email notification so you dont get 50 emails a day. Then you just go to profile on the top of the screen and it will show which subscribed threads have been posted in since last time you were on the board.

(Does that work with edited posts? Hm! Oh, and I've started writing a reply now, don't worry :) )

(OOC: Are there any parts of Sel Appa, looking at the map, that are especially blessed with natural resources, or that are likely to be areas of major investment by Geletian firms after cheap Sel Appan labour and materials? Also, the surrounding territories, are any of them friendly or hostile to Sel Appa, or do we just have to consider them off-limits for the sake of this RP?)


The Geletian advance flotilla was slightly surprised by the severity of Sel Appa's response to its approach, most of the hands having believed that they were merely en route to provide security to Geletian business assets. Talk of the rules of war had many officers worried since they were certainly not configured to fight a war. The force had just three frigates defending it, and a couple of dozen aircraft.

Most of the men however were quite keen for a fight, merely because they were Geletians. That they were prepared to believe in the oppression delivered by the Sel Appan leadership as the cause for the nation's relative poverty and in the idea that Sel Appans were stealing Geletian work only focused their natural aggression.

Lord Prastagus, aboard his flagship, knew full well that he may become a sacrificial lamb to the cause, and was pleased by the apparent fear put into the Sel Appans. He kept-up the impression before his men of a mission to secure Geletian interests, and steered the fleet directly towards the Sel Appan west coast, maintaining the steady 12knot cruise.

With the coast rising in the distance, a pale plasma between liquid sea and gaseous canopy, Prastagus ordered his single Rapier Class mine-countermeasures and patrol ship out into the vanguard and far ahead of the main flotilla. The ship's 17mm automatic cannon was clearly visible near the prow and streaming Geletian banners flew from military masts and every apendage the large fibreglass and composite hull had to offer. Before it dashed ahead, the ship had been placed under the direct command of a minor noble sent from Prastagus' flagship, much to the annoyance of the Rapier's former captain.

The Kingdom of the Geletians

(Again, Beth Gellert doesn't exist, yet, your enemy is the Kingdom of the Geletians.)

Contrary to the official minor-security-operation line, the Kingdom was gearing up for war. Military leave was being reduced for the nation's twenty million regular and eight million reserve personnel. Having nearly one hundred thousand military aircraft, more than that number of tanks, five thousand warships, countless armoured vehicles and artillery pieces was not sufficient to satisfy the High King Adiatorix who was sure that his vast domain and the massed ranks of his near six billion subjects could do better with an economy dozens of times greater than that of his chosen foe.

With the patriotism and unifying concern over Sel Appan theft running through the populace, Adiatorix deputised friends and family to over-see forcefull anti-striking measures with renewed public support. This was as yet insufficient to re-open all the mines and factories, but, one suspected, it would only take the outbreak of hostilities to change this...

OOC: Shizl Gzngahr is basically our Siberia. It is a desert, however, and some nomads live there. Fizroe Island is basically a political safehouse and where the Grand Archduke lives. It also has a huge naval base. The land where the natives live(31) is technically autonomous. Anvorbuod thinks it is independent and might be happy to help you with intelligence. I can't really think of much else to do, so I'll write them offering to help.

IC: ANVORBUOD--President Richard James was in a meeting with some advisors. "I think we should offer these Geletians help. Maybe if Sel Appa loses, they will finally recognize us as one of the conditions for losing. We can form a second front or advanced front. Also, we know how the Sel Appan military works."

Roger Shment, secretary of the military, replied: "I agree and weren't we going to start more trouble in Sel Appa? We could go after infrastructure and coordinate with the Geletians."

"Indeed," said the president, "Schedule a meeting with the Geletian head command here or whatever they have. I shall like to meet their leader and discuss an alliance of sorts."

OOC: You can write the meeting. Anvorbuod has fought a war with us(it actually got pretty big), but they lost in the end mainly due to their allies dumping them. I think there was a second war we had with them: I'll have to look it up. I'll post them here if I can find them. Anvorbuod is very capitalist and stops just shy of laissez-faire.

EDIT: Anvorbuod War (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=376785) There was only one war apparently. I accidentally split the war into two wars in my mind. Feel free to read all 22 pages. I have to add it to my wiki and finish my wiki also.

EDIT2: I found some other stuff. There actually was a second war, but I don't think I finished it: oh well.
One of my first posts ever: Anvorbuod bombs capital (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=376549). This is one of two great examples of what Anvorbuod does. The other is a power plant bombing (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=438248). Here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=435786) is another attempt they made for independence.

EDIT3: So there have been 2 Anvorbuodan wars and I think it is time for a third when this is over...or maybe this will become the third.

Admiral Lord Prasutagus was not long in dealing with the communications from Anvorbuod and related contact to Geletia before he was authorised to negotiate. Flown in aboard a Lynx helicopter because it was fastest, he almost hit the peaks of several waves, apparently still worried about interception by the Sel Appans.

Prasutagus was not atypical amongst Geletians, just bordering on the modest side in terms of his physical stature. The chances were that he was still amongst the tallest men in a busy room where he was amongst non-Geletians. His hair was long and he wore a thick moustache, but the former was conditioned and well kept and the latter did not hang down past his jaw as was often the case with the common man in his home nation. He was middle aged and starting to grey, but still appeared quite vital, though not half so strong as his titanic men.

Those guards and assisstants who came with him certainly were imposing, averaging around two metres in height and having hair either loose past their shoulders or spiked right up to make the wearers appear typically close to seven feet tall. Some of them, like their commander, wore heavy capes fastened with huge and elaborate broaches of gold and other precious minerals, and had loose trousers patterned with cheques of strong blue and red amongst other colours. Some were bare chested under their capes. A few wore large double-edged swords sheathed on their hips while others carried the bare blades of curved wootz (Damascus Steel) with all of its enchanting swirls, and the appearance of both the weapons and the bearers exhibited little to disguise their ability to cut most men in pieces.

Prasutagus was very still for long periods of time, and quite silent. He would then make booming statements of fact or Geletian policy, and stride purposefully about without adherence to any obvious etiquette.

"The Kingdom of the Geletians" he said, "has long believed that the treatment by the corrupt Sel Appan authorities of your rightly independent nation Anvorbuod is a prime indication of Nemnenait's unfit administration. The High King Adiatorix anticipates Sel Appa's domination complex demonstrated in its treatment of Anvorbuod will soon be manifest in the take-over of Geletian business interests across both lands in support of their state-socialist control fetish.

"We should like to make it here in your state that my advance expedition" he said with a sweeping arm gesture back out to sea where his small fleet rested, "finds landfall and here that my men secure private business concerns against the threat of the Sel Appan state."

Of course, since Sel Appa claimed Anvorbuod as its own, he assumed that landing here -while it may be better received locally- would still be received as an afront to Sel Appan sovereignty. He expected to goad the central government into dispatching forces into the rogue province in response, and this would give the Geletians justification beyond any doubt to involve themselves on a much wider scale. His little fleet was just an expedition to secure private interests in a troubled area, but a Sel Appan government crack-down on an Anvorbuod that would be armed to defend itself would enable the Kingdom to send a grand fleet to the rescue of both Anvorbuod and of Prasutagus' expedition.

"If you will see fit to allow it, my soldiers shall come ashore in full official recognition of your legitimate authority, President [James], and secure the free-market interests of our investors back in Geletia: we receive security and confidence, you receive the visible recognition of a powerful nation state. I shall contact my ships immediately on your approval..."

TO: Admiral Lord Prasutagus
FROM: President Richard James, Anvorbuod
I should like to meet with you in person. If you can provide a small ship, I can provide a safe harbor for us to meet in. But do not bring anymore than one ship. We have some plans to attack Sel Appa and provoke them to invade us. If they do not fight us, then obviously they don't have the ability to hold on to us. If they do invade, then it is an act of war.

General Thao Dac Prison(a bit east of where Shizl Gzngahr borders Sel Appa)--
MRRRRRRMP! MRRRRRRRRMP! MRRRRRRRRRMP! Sirens throughout the prison were wailing. "Attention! Level 8 Prisoner has escape! All guards to Level 8 immediately. Lock down all levels! Repeat: Lock down all levels!" Ex-dictator John Alexander had somehow disappeared without a trace. His cell was found locked and the walls fully intact. A guard walked by every ten minutes to assure he remained there. The cell was solid reinforced concrete and plated with polished steel on the inside. A small hole in the top allowed the prisoner to be put in and another smaller for food to be dropped in.

It seemed fully impossible, even if there was an inside job because the key to open the main hatch was in the warden's possesion at all times. Unless the warden was bought off by someone...

"Anvorbuod!" ex-Earl Juvanya dar Krisip and ex-Chancellor Ngu Phuok Dinh said in unison. Dinh continued: "Only Anvorbuod would consider such a daring plan and to think the warden could have even been bribed. That prison was supposed to be inescapable. He was 75 meters underground! How could he have escaped?"

Chancellor Kristina Leno replied: "If the warden was bribed, anything is possible. But, why wouldn't every prisoner be set free?"

Dinh thought to himself: Why did we elect such a young leader? and then said: "Well that's exactly why Anvorbuod did it. They only needed to set free a high-security target to annoy us."

A knock was heard on the door. An aide was there: "Um sirs...ahem!...and madam, there is something I think you might want to see." The aide turned on a television and there was John Alexander, in Anvorbuod City, ripping Sel Appa and its prison. "This is it! We have to invade them!" the ex-chancellor exclaimed.

"But we are already facing a war against another, larger nation." Chancellor Leno replied.

"We are, but there doesn't seem to be much activity. I know I have no say in what Sel Appa does anymore, but I would prepare to invade Anvorbuod."


Sel Appan troops began piling up on the border of Anvorbuod once again, waiting for the order to march in.

OOC: I'll have some diagrams on the prison soon.

EDIT: You can post, nothing to wait for.

Prasutagus seemed a little annoyed by the Anvoruodian President's independent plan, or by the fact that he had an independent plan. He was prepared to meet James wherever the President pleased, and hopeful of continuing to move aboard his fast, countermeasure-heavy Lynx helicopter if possible. First, though, the Admiral sent a message indicating his grave doubts as to the wisdom of acting to provoke Sel Appa in a fashion that is likely to be received by involved populations and by the world community as indicative of wrong-doing on the part of Anvorbuod.

"...attacking Sel Appa leaves them with every right to counter-attack, while my suggestion of your allowance in Anvorbuod of limited Geletian forces is still likely to provoke aggression from Sel Appa but can be presented as something in which you as President were justified, and the Sel Appan reaction quite likely to paint them as over-bearing dominators of Anvorbuod, indicating that it actually made sense for you to invite us in."

Prasutagus was worried- if Anvorbuod attacked and the Sel Appans over-ran them too quickly he stood to lose good staging ground, and helping the aggressor would not go-over so well with the Geletian public nor, likely, with foreign governments.

Back in Geletia, preparation for war continued with the surprising initiation of new tank production, Parliament -or the King, it wasn't clear which- having ordered into production something akin to the T-55 medium tank, apparently because it could be produced in massive quantity and deployed liberally by a government that was less interested in casualties than in victory and able to hide behind the Geletian warrior's infamous irreverence towards mortality. The fleet had the capability to transport tens of thousands of such machines, and the army had men enough to crew them. Lord Prasutagus had apparently sent word that action may be needed sooner rather than later...

OOC: I'm trying to think what to post, don't worry. If I don't post by Wednesday or so, please TG me(I probably forgot I didn't post).