McKagan
15-04-2006, 22:58
[Kurora, McKagan]
The weather in Kurora was as usual.
Wet.
It always rained on the Northwest coast of McKagan. Most of the shadowy characters that roamed around the city were used to it. To someone looking in, however, it wasn't a very nice place to be. The McKagan government operates here as much as they do in the capitol city. This obviously means alot of people here know alot of things that alot of people would be mad about.
The McKagan Central Intelligence Division had long operated a complex building inside the city limits. It served as a backwater place for operations to go on out of the public eye. The darkness of the weather served as a perfect backdrop for the twenty-five storey building packed at the corner of a courtyard and a block of civilian banking establishments that served as a front for MCID finances.
David Wallace a MCID Operations Manager, sat at his 14th storey desk. His large office was empty except for him and his computer. Not physically empty - just of anything with any sort of actual process - and he was starting to doubt if he was really in that category. He was monitoring Torontia - a slow job for even the most dedicated MCID OM who spent endless nights reading Torontian spam from hacked email accounts.
He walked to the window and looked out. The narrow space between him and the bank next door was dotted with rain drops. The only person he had seen since his lunch break was a cute Asian girl a bank window a few floors down. Now she was gone. He was alone.
Sighing, turning, and looking at the muted television with SRN News playing he realized that nothing was happening. The conflict with The Kraven Corporated was still in another land and everything in Leafanistan had stopped.
Turning once more, he was met halfway by a sound. The sound was from his computer - a loud "ping." It signified that he had a new email.
His MCID email account had a blue layout. Organized into folders, subfolders, filters, and contact listings, he was proud of his self engineered account layout. The index showed a new email in the New Assignments folder. This could be the turn in his life that he'd been waiting for. He would have a side project to work on from his own command center... what was it?
The email was from the IMA's Weapons Development Center. It detailed an operation he was to undertake involving the sell of their new Anti-Capitol Police ammunition to foreign nations to turn a huge profit - and then undertake another mission in the near future. Wallace was supposed to carry out the sells and marketing. Not his ideal operation. He opened the attachment.
[6.8mm Caseless Anti-Capitol Police Round]
[Abstract]
During the opening days of the Leafanistani Civil War it became obvious that more was at work than the naked eye could see. It was soon discovered that the Kraven Capitol Police had established a base in the wartorn and lawless region. After an initial engagement by McKagan Special Forces it was determined that the current 6.8mm rounds weren't powerful enough to bring a CP down efficiently enough to accomplish any strategic mission against them. The only way to effectively use default rounds was to isolate individual Kraven personnel and hope their gun jams. This isn't a viable means of combat - and thus an alternative had to be found.
[Description]
The Anti-Capitol Police Round, or CACPR, is a 6.8mm Caseless Explosive/Armor Piercing Unit. In the lab it operates much like a bunker buster missile. With a hardened tip like any round it first penetrates the target and then detonates. In the confines of a battlesuit like the ones used by Capitol Police the small detonation is deadly - causing an area of injury much greater than a normal KE round.
[Weight]
Whereas many ammunition designers have decided to upgun the size and weight of their bullets more and more, the IMA Engineers decided in keeping a 6.8mm round. Decreased weight equals increased velocity - which is a critical part of how the first stage of an attack from the round works. The final weight is 85 grains, which is considerably less than some other rounds of the same calibre.
[Charge]
The round is reinforced by an internal tungsten barbette to give it extra penetration power. Wrapped around that barbette is a charge with a delayed electrical spark fuse the detonates slightly post-impact.
[Cost]
It has been determined by a Joint Chiefs Action Committee that production rights to this round will be sold for 5 billion USD each. While this price is initially far higher than one would expect - the difficulty in producing the round on top of its tactical value leave the JCAC to believe it is highly worth the price.
Wallace found the idea of determing who gets an asset that could very well change, or at least influence, the outcome of a global war VERY intriguing.
It was 8 p.m. already and he was scheduled to stay in his office all night again. He opened the McKagan Imperial Defense Department Resource Handbook online and started gathering a list of potential client nations. By 9:30 he'd established a list, and by 10 finished typing the generic email that would be fitted to each client.
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[Encrypted Message]
To: [List of Kraven Hostile Nations]
From: David Wallace, McKagan Central Intelligence Division
We have in our inventory a mission specific round based around providing a quick and effective way of defeating Kraven Capitol Police. Enclosed in the attachment are the specifications for the round. Please respond as the whether or not you are interested in procuring the production rights and/or data surrounding the weapon.
The weather in Kurora was as usual.
Wet.
It always rained on the Northwest coast of McKagan. Most of the shadowy characters that roamed around the city were used to it. To someone looking in, however, it wasn't a very nice place to be. The McKagan government operates here as much as they do in the capitol city. This obviously means alot of people here know alot of things that alot of people would be mad about.
The McKagan Central Intelligence Division had long operated a complex building inside the city limits. It served as a backwater place for operations to go on out of the public eye. The darkness of the weather served as a perfect backdrop for the twenty-five storey building packed at the corner of a courtyard and a block of civilian banking establishments that served as a front for MCID finances.
David Wallace a MCID Operations Manager, sat at his 14th storey desk. His large office was empty except for him and his computer. Not physically empty - just of anything with any sort of actual process - and he was starting to doubt if he was really in that category. He was monitoring Torontia - a slow job for even the most dedicated MCID OM who spent endless nights reading Torontian spam from hacked email accounts.
He walked to the window and looked out. The narrow space between him and the bank next door was dotted with rain drops. The only person he had seen since his lunch break was a cute Asian girl a bank window a few floors down. Now she was gone. He was alone.
Sighing, turning, and looking at the muted television with SRN News playing he realized that nothing was happening. The conflict with The Kraven Corporated was still in another land and everything in Leafanistan had stopped.
Turning once more, he was met halfway by a sound. The sound was from his computer - a loud "ping." It signified that he had a new email.
His MCID email account had a blue layout. Organized into folders, subfolders, filters, and contact listings, he was proud of his self engineered account layout. The index showed a new email in the New Assignments folder. This could be the turn in his life that he'd been waiting for. He would have a side project to work on from his own command center... what was it?
The email was from the IMA's Weapons Development Center. It detailed an operation he was to undertake involving the sell of their new Anti-Capitol Police ammunition to foreign nations to turn a huge profit - and then undertake another mission in the near future. Wallace was supposed to carry out the sells and marketing. Not his ideal operation. He opened the attachment.
[6.8mm Caseless Anti-Capitol Police Round]
[Abstract]
During the opening days of the Leafanistani Civil War it became obvious that more was at work than the naked eye could see. It was soon discovered that the Kraven Capitol Police had established a base in the wartorn and lawless region. After an initial engagement by McKagan Special Forces it was determined that the current 6.8mm rounds weren't powerful enough to bring a CP down efficiently enough to accomplish any strategic mission against them. The only way to effectively use default rounds was to isolate individual Kraven personnel and hope their gun jams. This isn't a viable means of combat - and thus an alternative had to be found.
[Description]
The Anti-Capitol Police Round, or CACPR, is a 6.8mm Caseless Explosive/Armor Piercing Unit. In the lab it operates much like a bunker buster missile. With a hardened tip like any round it first penetrates the target and then detonates. In the confines of a battlesuit like the ones used by Capitol Police the small detonation is deadly - causing an area of injury much greater than a normal KE round.
[Weight]
Whereas many ammunition designers have decided to upgun the size and weight of their bullets more and more, the IMA Engineers decided in keeping a 6.8mm round. Decreased weight equals increased velocity - which is a critical part of how the first stage of an attack from the round works. The final weight is 85 grains, which is considerably less than some other rounds of the same calibre.
[Charge]
The round is reinforced by an internal tungsten barbette to give it extra penetration power. Wrapped around that barbette is a charge with a delayed electrical spark fuse the detonates slightly post-impact.
[Cost]
It has been determined by a Joint Chiefs Action Committee that production rights to this round will be sold for 5 billion USD each. While this price is initially far higher than one would expect - the difficulty in producing the round on top of its tactical value leave the JCAC to believe it is highly worth the price.
Wallace found the idea of determing who gets an asset that could very well change, or at least influence, the outcome of a global war VERY intriguing.
It was 8 p.m. already and he was scheduled to stay in his office all night again. He opened the McKagan Imperial Defense Department Resource Handbook online and started gathering a list of potential client nations. By 9:30 he'd established a list, and by 10 finished typing the generic email that would be fitted to each client.
-
[Encrypted Message]
To: [List of Kraven Hostile Nations]
From: David Wallace, McKagan Central Intelligence Division
We have in our inventory a mission specific round based around providing a quick and effective way of defeating Kraven Capitol Police. Enclosed in the attachment are the specifications for the round. Please respond as the whether or not you are interested in procuring the production rights and/or data surrounding the weapon.