Allanea
19-02-2006, 10:19
After the Antanjylian War, the citizens of Allanea awoke to the harsh reality that the world around them was still hostile, and that sometimes, the harsh arm of the United States of Allanea would need to be rested hard on the throats of the enemies of liberty. For this reason, some of the right-wing legislators began to push mightily for a rebuilding of the military defenses of the nation – and, surprisingly, the Hamiltonians had joined forces with them, suddenu seeing the new military buildup as an opportunity to revive the public works projects they have long dreamed of.
Eventually, the Homeland Defense Act has been passed by Congress and Senate with extensive quadrupartisan support, for even some Libertarians backed the idea. And so, in the mainland United States – a six-pointed star of immense proportions resting quietly in the Greater Prussian Bay – immense defensive works were started to defends the nation from the same kind of invasion Allanea has once bestowed upon Progressive Hash, Communist Aissur, Daikatana, Zenti, Yurka, Antanjyl and Edolia.
As the blood vessels of the extensive defensive system, a system of Federal Highways was being constructed – wide, twenty-lane monster-roads ready to take the heaviest of trucks – as well as a 250-ton Bolton-class assault tank. Immense underground storages of E-98 Ethanol fuel were being made, buried under thirty meters of soil, impervious to even a five-ton anti-ship bomb, resting in hidden places along the highway. The highways, like veins and arteries, led to six key spots -each on the tip of a star's arm.
Those were the Forts – Fort-Czapp, Fort-Kazansky, Fort-Jefferson, Fort-Steel, Fort-Adams, Fort Henry. The forts were like icebergs – most of their concrete and steel form was elaborately concealed by hills and grass. A travelers could walk for a long time, smiling at the flowers, eyeing the beautiful butterflies and cute bunnies – not aware of the Kazansky-class ICBM's resting in their silos just underneath his feet, the underground hangars full of Air Force F-16's, the storage bunkers full of ammunition and supplies – just as the fishermen viewing the Forts from the sea would not see the submarine pens, the torpedo facilities, thte anti-ship mines guarding the harbors until it was too late.
Yet the open-ground facilities were still quite interesting. Each Fort snarled with 100 twin-barreled Zeus-class turrets, and had its own concrete padded airfields, to which planes big and small would be lifted from below-ground by immense elevators. Smaller, 14- and 16-inch turrets looked towards the sea, ready to repel attacks by enemy warships. Around the monstrous concrete battlement stood a chain of bunkers and anti-tank defenses to put Mannerheim to shame – and then, another such chain, and then a chain of concrete tank traps. Steel tank turrets were installed among the bunkers, ready to pelt the enemy with 140mm ammunition, and behind the lines, Gattling emplacements and MRLS launchers hid in the green hillsides.
In the meanwhile, a small corporation known as Forte Industries began to receive attention from Congress. It's two research facilities – one, known as SD-1, based on the Allanean mainland, the other, SD-2, in the Midlands – began, for the first time in Allanean history, working on a variety of exotic biological warfare solution, to be stored in Fort-Justice, in the Midlands. Fort-Justice, compared to the Six Forts of Allanea, was merely an underground storage facility, unobservable from sattelites.
The government poured millions and billions of Allanean dollars into defense, causing a re-birth of the defense industries and an exhlaration in the marketplace – and thus, the Hamiltonians and Democrats rejoiced. The Republicans chuckled hiddenly – they were pursuing their own goal – a rebirth of the militant spirit of Allanea, that seemed mortally crippled by the One-Day War and the War of the Wolf.
The Antanjylian War seemed to have given some hope in that direction – but, unless they could break the hold of the Hamiltonians and Democrats on the legislature, no major success could be achieved – and the Hamilonian rule could not be broken unless they succeeded. So all they could do to break out of the vicious circle – for now – was hold their fingers and pray.
Eventually, the Homeland Defense Act has been passed by Congress and Senate with extensive quadrupartisan support, for even some Libertarians backed the idea. And so, in the mainland United States – a six-pointed star of immense proportions resting quietly in the Greater Prussian Bay – immense defensive works were started to defends the nation from the same kind of invasion Allanea has once bestowed upon Progressive Hash, Communist Aissur, Daikatana, Zenti, Yurka, Antanjyl and Edolia.
As the blood vessels of the extensive defensive system, a system of Federal Highways was being constructed – wide, twenty-lane monster-roads ready to take the heaviest of trucks – as well as a 250-ton Bolton-class assault tank. Immense underground storages of E-98 Ethanol fuel were being made, buried under thirty meters of soil, impervious to even a five-ton anti-ship bomb, resting in hidden places along the highway. The highways, like veins and arteries, led to six key spots -each on the tip of a star's arm.
Those were the Forts – Fort-Czapp, Fort-Kazansky, Fort-Jefferson, Fort-Steel, Fort-Adams, Fort Henry. The forts were like icebergs – most of their concrete and steel form was elaborately concealed by hills and grass. A travelers could walk for a long time, smiling at the flowers, eyeing the beautiful butterflies and cute bunnies – not aware of the Kazansky-class ICBM's resting in their silos just underneath his feet, the underground hangars full of Air Force F-16's, the storage bunkers full of ammunition and supplies – just as the fishermen viewing the Forts from the sea would not see the submarine pens, the torpedo facilities, thte anti-ship mines guarding the harbors until it was too late.
Yet the open-ground facilities were still quite interesting. Each Fort snarled with 100 twin-barreled Zeus-class turrets, and had its own concrete padded airfields, to which planes big and small would be lifted from below-ground by immense elevators. Smaller, 14- and 16-inch turrets looked towards the sea, ready to repel attacks by enemy warships. Around the monstrous concrete battlement stood a chain of bunkers and anti-tank defenses to put Mannerheim to shame – and then, another such chain, and then a chain of concrete tank traps. Steel tank turrets were installed among the bunkers, ready to pelt the enemy with 140mm ammunition, and behind the lines, Gattling emplacements and MRLS launchers hid in the green hillsides.
In the meanwhile, a small corporation known as Forte Industries began to receive attention from Congress. It's two research facilities – one, known as SD-1, based on the Allanean mainland, the other, SD-2, in the Midlands – began, for the first time in Allanean history, working on a variety of exotic biological warfare solution, to be stored in Fort-Justice, in the Midlands. Fort-Justice, compared to the Six Forts of Allanea, was merely an underground storage facility, unobservable from sattelites.
The government poured millions and billions of Allanean dollars into defense, causing a re-birth of the defense industries and an exhlaration in the marketplace – and thus, the Hamiltonians and Democrats rejoiced. The Republicans chuckled hiddenly – they were pursuing their own goal – a rebirth of the militant spirit of Allanea, that seemed mortally crippled by the One-Day War and the War of the Wolf.
The Antanjylian War seemed to have given some hope in that direction – but, unless they could break the hold of the Hamiltonians and Democrats on the legislature, no major success could be achieved – and the Hamilonian rule could not be broken unless they succeeded. So all they could do to break out of the vicious circle – for now – was hold their fingers and pray.