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Jenshalem, Undershi Zone of Occupation

Undershi soldiers marched through the streets of Jenshalem, what had once been a minor independant city-state. Had been - now it was a conquered territory, an occupied state.
Crusader helicopter gun-ships flew overhead, their external speakers blasting the heavy metal that passed for martial music in the Empire.
Much of the city had been destroyed by the bombardment that had preceded its capture, smashed by bombs and shells, scorched by napalm.
Of the parts that still stood, the Undershi invaders had claimed most for their needs, to house the Occupation Police that would come after the conqering armies, and later the administrators who would come to govern.
The surviving people of that city, Jenshalem, were herded into barbed-wire enclosures, where they were held before recieving bar-code tatoos on their foreheads. Once they had been marked, they were placed in heavy chains and given picks and shovels with which they were to clear away the rubble of their conquered city.

Elsewhere

Meanwhile, outside of the city, grey uniformed True Undershi soldiers, two meters tall, carrying assault rifles that would have qualified as light machineguns in any other army, lined up the few military prisoners against a wall, then gunned them down. It never paid to resist.
Once the killing was done, the bodies were placed in white body-bags, where their blood soon soaked through, and were taken back into the city, where the bloody white body-bags were hung from lamp posts at the street corners, as a ghastly reminder of the penalty paid by any who resisted the Undershi.

Undershi Occupation Command, Jenshalem

General Paul Ficks, newly named commander of the Undershi occupation force, watched the new slaves labor in the hot sun from his window. These norms (Undershi slang for normal humans) had fought well, considering that they had had very little to call a military - no armour, no artillery, no air force, but they had had a few guns, a few mortars and a lot of desperate courage, and that had let them resist... for what good it did them.
All conquered cities looked alike, in his experience - they were grim places, full of rubble, with terrified depresed people staring at you with a looks of terrified hate in their eyes... just once, he would have liked to be greeted as the propaganda men said they were greeted - with flowers and cries of joy. Of course, that would never happen, not while The Empire was The Empire, and The Empire would continue to be The Empire for the foreseeable future... whatever that meant.
The locals would provide some labor, and then ten percent would be shipped back to Undershi itself, while the other ninety percent would be free to do as it pleased, within the laws of its new conquerors. The city would be rebuilt, with the grim grey concrete architecture of the Undershi replacing the mud bricks of the former inhabitants.
Colonists would come soon enough, True Undershis, two meters tall, inhuman in their gentically altered perfection. In a few decades, no one would remember that Jenshalem had ever been independant, and then the conquest would be complete.
Until then, he had a job to do - keep the locals pacified, keep the peace... and see to it that the soldiers who had just taken part in this conquest would be ready for the inevitable next one.

OOC: Very intruiging. Good RPing. Tell you what, when I rebuild my country I'll do an RP with you. 'Till then, good luck.

It had only been a week, but already the grim grey towers of an Undershi city were rising to form a new sky line - those first few towers would later house the Occupation Police, while the norm workers would continue sleeping in the outside, chained to posts driven into the ground.
The Janissaries were moving in at this point, norms trusted to carry weapons for their Undershi masters. They would carry out most of the occupation, freeing up True Undershis for glory in other wars - The Empire was hungry, and so it was always on the march.
Of course, there was a limit to what it could absorb in a decade - that was why it did not always fight. The Undershi were militarists who planned - when they launched the next series of conquests, they had always absorbed the former conquests well enough that they could be trusted to provide their own police forces and more, some honorable individuals rising to such stature as to have their children genetically altered to be True Undershis, others merely aspiring to such glory in the norm units, the Janissaries.
Needless to say, such strategies also led to the new factories being able to churn out war material before the new series of wars led to it being needed. The Undershis planned, and they were proud - and yet they spoke of necessary centuries before their dream of world conquest could be realized. The Undershis could wait.

OOC: Thanks for saying that, Aeson. I always like being complimented.

Undershi Occupied Jenshalem

It hurt to be a slave. The former citizens of the former city-state of Jenshalem labored hard, not wanting to feel the whips of the over-seers upon their backs.
That was another thing that seemed to have turned upside down - in Jenshalem, when it was still free, blacks had been a hated minority - now these "mere human" over-seers, they were blacks, who had been conquered a long time ago, and now served their masters as favored slaves.
Whips cracked, and philosophy died as exhaustion took its toll.

The fleet in Danteri was claiming more and more of High Command's attention, but they still paid entierly too much attention to Jenshalem and the other conquered territories... at least that was what the so-called governor of Jenshalem felt.
General Paul Ficks didn't like feeling as though he had someone looking over his shoulder all the time, but that was how it felt - High Command could be a bit paranoid about its officers when they were so far from Undershi City and regular examinations by Imperial Internal Security.
Already they had made their distrust clear by establishing an IIS office in Jenshalem itself - supposedly to root out subversion amoungst the captive norms, but that was obviously just a cover - they were there, those True Undershis in their black IIS uniforms, to check up on him - High Command knew that he was loyal, but Undershis were thorough - they left no chance that that might change, and made no concessions for his feelings.
Still, all those black uniformed IIS officers were having an effect on the slaves - they didn't dare move, lest they offend, when an IIS officer walked by.
That sort of fear could be counter-productive, of course, but it was also useful - it meant that there would be no suicidal revolts, no "give me liberty or give me death" madness, and that was fine by him - these newly conquered norms were valuable property of The Empire, after all.

Undershi Occupied Jenshalem

The enslaved locals were learning to hate the black over-seers. They were slaves before the Undershi, true, they all were, but those blacks from some other conquered state, were favored slaves - they were given whips and side-arms, and told to make the new slaves work, and they did, and in doing so, they found someone that they could take out their anger on.
They hated being slaves - everyone hates being a slave, but they would never be able to satiate their hate on their Undershi masters, and so they took it out on the newer slaves, who they were placed above.
It was an effective tactic - it made the newly conquered Jenshalemites direct hate that would otherwise be directed at the Undershis at people who were merely other slaves, as despised by the Undershis as they were, and so... and so there would be no mass slave revolt - they had heard that the slaves from the various conquered territories were made to hate and despise each other through such methods - these blacks, in their home land, the policing was done by slaves from another territory, these ones asian.
That was another thing - all norms were equal to the Undershis, as all were either slaves or foreign enemies, but they saw the point of encouraging raical hate, to leave their slaves disunited - therefore, the Janissaries sent to oversee a given territory would always be of a different race. It was a clever tactic... and one that seemed to work - in all the history of the Undershi Empire, there had not been one mass slave revolt.

--Over Occupied Jenshalem--
A plane flew over head.Yet this plane was special."Sir,Target in range,preparing run."As the pilot moved his plane into position,the RIO turned on "The op".As there MiG-31R blasted pass the city,it did not drop bombs,it took pictures.And since they had finished there run,they now had to get out of there,ASAP.The pilot pulled the throtle full and blasted to super sonic speed,with a deafening crash!By the time it was heard,the MiG was gone.

--State Intellegance Agency(SIA),Usea--
The photo's from the occupied City were E-mailed from the MiG to the main intel server,so there be no edvidence.As this happened,A officer with SIA looked at the devastated city,and sent a word up the Chain of command.

High command, Black mountain city, central NSAA:
"Sir, Intelligence reports that Undershi is abusing citizens in its newly conquered territories"
"hmm. not much the military can do at the moment. Request that the navy move into a slightly threatening position, and get the sattelite network onto watching them. The minute there is fighting in their territories, send in a unit to help out the locals."
"Right... The navy might cause some un-neccesarry hostility, mind."
"I dont really care, if these little scum want a fight, they can have it."
"vary well then."

Three NSAA waverider class patrol hydrofoils move to a position just outside the territorial waters (as they were bofore the conquest, if you want to expand them, the ships are inside them) of the newly conquered area, and hold position there.
Also, in an out-of-the way naval and aerospace base in NSAA, three small but sleek planes and a group of 32 men move out into standby positions. (ready for a launch on 5 minutes warning)

OOC: I'd rather not get into a war at the mo, please dont provoke me. :p

The MiG-31R flew over, and was quicly being followed by four Undershi Lightning interceptors - all four formed on it, and although they did lock their missiles on, they did not fire. It seemed that the Undershis would be willing to allow a violation of their air space to go unpunished...

Jenshalem Command

General Paul Ficks was extremely angry. He was angry at the idiotic foreign norms from Usea-Jason, for violating Undershi air space on his watch, at the not-much-better True Undershis at Imperial Internal Security who had now filed all too many reports, and lastly, at the paranoid sociopaths of High Command, who had just sent him direct orders: he was to establish air fields and SAM sites, and to await the arrival of two forces, one of eight hundred Lightning interceptors, four hundred Thunderer fighter-bombers and another two hundred Golden Eagle heavy bombers.
Additionally, on the grounds that he should have ordered the Lightnings that he scrambled to shoot down the MiG, he was being informed that he was being relieved of command - some Lord General Mark O'Brien, apparently fresh from the never-ending supression campaigns in the south, where guerillas still fought their useless battle.
It seemed that he was to be sent to that southern hell-hole - it was almost always a punishment detail, after all...

True Undershis in the black uniforms of the IIS moved through the construction site without bothering to acknowledge the slaves who labored for their state.
Those who saw them cowered even more than they normaly did, as these men were feared beyond mere reason - on the first day after their arrival from Undershi City, they had crucified three slaves for no greater crime than the theft of some bread. For that reason, and for the sinister reputation that they had already aquired, they were feared.
Right now, they made their way through the crowds of laborers, grining to each other as the norms cowered and hid their faces. Finaly they came to the sheet-metal hut where the engineers and architects stood arguing over plans for the new air field that was being planned.
As the black uniformed IIS soldiers came up to them, they stopped their arguing, and seemed to stand up straighter, though not out of pride in their True Undershi superiority - rather out of fear of what would happen if they were being unenthusiastic.
The IIS soldiers looked them over, then their leader spoke:
"Senior Architect Grumann? Which one of you is he?" one of the Undershis came forward, looking a little frightenend. The IIS man who had spoken nodded to his two companions, and they seized him. He seemed to consider struggling, but didn't - when the IIS took you, it never let you go - no one had ever escaped from them before.
The IIS captain explained the arrest then, to the shocked onlookers:
"Senior Architect Grumann, you are guilty of a sin that cannot be tolerated in a True Undershi who goes out into the colonies to rule - you have been kind to your workers, have allowed them to not suffer, and in doing so, have failed to meet your quotas. An example must be made." speaking then to his men, he nodded to them, saying:
"Crucify him."

Later

The cross was a metal I beam, sunk into concrete, with another metal bar across it. No hammer could force a nail through the synthetic underskin and super-strong bones of an Undershi, so they used a power drill from the work site to force a synthetic-diamond tipped bolt through each of his wrists, and another through each of his ankles.
Before the crucifiction, he had been stripped, and flogged by Janissaries and the IIS men, while the workers were allowed to stop working to watch. Children cried and their parents covered their faces as the screaming True Undershi was bolted to a metal cross.
As he screamed to the sky in agony, the IIS captain stood before the cross, and called out to him:
"Coward! Show these slaves how an Undershi dies!"
It took three days for him to die. True Undershis were built to survive just about anything - he survived for just too long.
After the first day, he couldn't scream anymore, as he was not given any water, and the heat parched his throat. Starting on the first day, stones were thrown at him - the slaves were given them, and told to use them if they wished.
Some meant to stop the screaming - it was horrible as any human being suffering is horrible. It didn't stop the screaming though - the rocks cut him and scratched him, but they could not kill him.
The slaves weren't sent back to work until he died, but they also weren't fed, although water was given to them.
He moaned like a wounded beast, and wept like some child as he died. When he finally died, on the third day, the IIS men took down the cross, and hacked him to bloody bits with a chain saw.
The IIS captain, holding the severed head high in one hand then told the slaves:
"If any of you do the slightest thing to annoy us, if any of you do anything that we don't like, or that does not please us, then they shall be made to watch as this is done to their children, and then have this done to them."

Such is the cruelty of the Undershi Empire.

"sir, the sattelite intelligence division reports the abuses are out of control in undershi."
"hmm... I saw the pictures they forwarded. This will have to be dealt with. Organise an Embargo, and encourage our allies to follow suit."
"It will be a pleasure, sir"

Official NSAA government communique:
We of No_State_At_All have found that the governing body of the nation known as "Undershi" have been participating in human rights abuses of the worst sort, and we have therefore outlawed all trade with said nation. The ownership of any product of said nation, and the respect of any of their laws, are hereby also outlawed. Any nation supplying armaments of any kind to them will fall under this same ban. We encourage all other nations with any kind of respect of our common humanity to implement a similar legislation immediatly. That is all.


The three patrol ships now begin to throw their weight around, and cease to respect the territorial boundaries, crossing them every so often just because they can, but leaving again shortly afterwards.

OOC: actually, nobody else looks like a good RPer or is in any kind of position for me to get into fighting with them so...

Lord General Mark O'Brien was a grim man, a gaunt, pale, grim man who defied his status as a True Undershi by managing to not be perfect physicaly. He was not the sort of man that one trifled with - he was known to have been sent back from the southlands for cruel treatment of norms, something that was rarely punished... he must have been a truly inventive fellow, to earn any concern from High Command over his actions...

Territorial Violations

The Crusader helicopter gun-ship on border patrol spotted the No_State_At_All patrol vessel almost as soon as it crossed the border into Undershi territorial waters.
The commander felt that sort of nervous feeling that one feels when one might be ordered into an attack that would begin a war, and licked his lips before comming the command in Jenshalem:
"We have a confirmed territorial violation by a No_State_At_All naval vessel - requesting orders." needless to say, he was suprised by the response, which came instantly:
"We're taking care of it. Withdraw from the area, do not engage, repeat, the Lord General himself orders you - do not engage." following that order, the Crusader withdrew... just as a flight of sixteen Thunderer fighter-bombers came flying in.

Seconds Later
The No_State_At_All patrol vessel recieved a radio message:
"This is Lord General Mark O'Brien of the Undershi Empire. You have violated our territorial waters with one of your armed naval vessels. As such, if you do not withdraw now, you will be fired upon. You have been warned."

Several Seconds After That
Ignoring whatever response the No_State_At_All vessel had made, the sixteen Thunderers fired their payloads: four launched "Electronic Warfare" loads - extremely dirty mini nukes, set to explode overhead, temporarily blinding the No_State_At_All vessels sensors, while the other twelve fired their loads - each launched six deadly ship-killer missiles, set to least-time-intercept courses, so that the heavy radiation load which would fry all sensors in the area wouldn't affect them too much - some were aimed in front, others behind, others to the left and to the right, so that whichever way the No_State_At_All vessel turned, it would be hit.
Needless to say, without sensors, its CIWS would be vastly less effective, but it would still get some - that was accepted - Undershis are patient, and willing to employ what others would consider excessive redundancy.
The missiles slammed into either the water or the ship, while the pilots, unable to verify due to the sensor interference, reversed course and flew back towards their base.

About one Minute After That

About one minute after that, a pre-recorded press release arrived at all international news organizations, saying that a No_State_At_All vessel had violated Undershi territorial waters, refused to leave and fired its CIWS at Undershi pilots, who then retaliated with unknown results. The press releases stressed the fact that the Undershi Empire wished for peace, but also stated that any other such "provocations" would be considered hostile acts, perhaps even Acts of War. The releases went even further - they demanded an appology from the No_State_At_All government for firing on an Undershi air craft.
The press release included "photo-shopped" (i.e. edited, but very cleverly) footage showing the No_State_At_All vessel firing its CIWS at an Undershi flyer.

At The Same Time

At about the same time, the No_State_At_All government recieved a communique from the Undershi Government, via a third party embassy - the Undershi government would not tolerate such provocations, and demanded an official appology.

On board the Waverider:
"Sir, we have multiple incoming bombers. they're firing. tracking over 70 incoming missiles"
"LRADS, open fire at the bombers"
"LRADS firing. missiles away."
"CRADS, fire at will, comms, report to navy command that we're under fire by enemy aircraft."
"Comms aye"
"CRADS firing, chaff clouds out and renewing, CIWS batteries selecting targets and firing"
"Helm, evasive action"
"helm aye"
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The ship's electrical systems all black out for a moment, then come back to normal as the EMPs of the nukes exploded above
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"sir, that was an EMP from some nukes above us..."
"systems status?"
"Magnetic field defence neutralised most of the blast, RADAR is blind for the next 30 seconds or so"
"damit, helm, emergency power to the engines, lets see if these missiles can get through chaff after keeping up with us.
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The Hydrofoil swung around towards international waters, and put on a sudden burst of speed, far beyond that which normal craft are capable of. Just before the turn, the ship's VLS pod at it's after end emptied itself of half its load. These turned out to be 9 Eagle missiles, which shot straight up to the same altitude as the bombers, and then swung to pursue them as they flew away from their target. Once within 300 meters of their targets, the missiles split into 3 separate darts, which spread out and then converge on the target. (ooc: those are an old joint research project, and are at the forefront of PMT tech. Oh, and they use magnetic guidance, so they dont fall for flares. oh, and how many missiles are going to close with the hydrofoil when its on the run? I wasnt sure what to post as damage for it.
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The NSAA government formulates the following reply which is sent openly, and copies distributed to all NSAA allies with transcripts of the situation, while the same are made easily available on the internet:
Our ship was fired on first, without giving it a chance to leave your waters. anyone else who may have been monitoring the situation will confirm this. We will cease to breach your territorial waters on the condition that you apologise, and keep your naval assets inside those said waters. If you do not do this, we will retaliate for your attack. oh, and if you deploy more nuclear weapons of any kind, we will retaliate by killing your entire population with our biological weapons. you will not have another chance for peace, we reccomend you take this one.

oh, and if you deploy more nuclear weapons of any kind, we will retaliate by killing your entire population with our biological weapons. you will not have another chance for peace, we reccomend you take this one.

The Waverider's counter-fire shot down one of the Thunderers, killing its crew of two instantly. The other craft, shielded by their stealth systems and protected by a powerful point-defense system, managed to survive - barely.

Occupation Command, Jenshalem

Lord General Marck O'Brien looked at the latest message from No_State_At_All. They threatened the annihilation of the Undershi state, did they? Well, if they thought that they would survive such a confrontation, then they were sorely mistaken - the Undershi military made use of many atomic weapons, and would not hesitate to deploy them without warning... lips curling at the temiety of these petty norms, he prepared a comm for the High Command...

Operation Swordfish

Some thousand-odd one mega-tonne city-killers came on-line, arming themselves as the Undershi military prepared itself for some glorious Ragnorak, some war to scorch the earth.
Meanwhile, international organizations recieved copies of the No_State_At_All communique, along with repeats of the staged footage (and some of the crashing Thunderer and so on), with the intent being to convince the public that the Undershis were the victims. They were also informed of the recent activation of the Undershi Strategic Warfare units. If war came with No_State_At_All, then it would be a short and bloody one, leading in the end to mutual annihilation.

OOC: 68 high quality, high powered missiles were fired directly at the No_State_At_All vessel.

OOC: Undershi, I've been looking for a kick-ass authoritarian "empire" like yours - can I join as a sort-of fronteir state you're taking over?

OOC: Sure you can! I'll go start another thread!

Lord General Mark O'Brien was pissed. High Command had ordered him to "avoid conflict" with No_State_At_All, as they already had another war going on. Shit.
He hated foreign norms, but he would obey - Undershis are obediant.

Communique to the Government of No_State_At_All

Gentlemen, on behalf of the Undershi Government and High Command, we would like to extend an appology for the fact that the events occured - we lost a fighten-bomber and its crew of two, and while you have not disclosed your losses, we assume that they are heavy.
As such, we offer our condolences, and request a formal recognition that peace between our two peoples might be the best option. We await your response with anticipation.

OOC: ah, right, soz, I wasnt sure if they were dumb-fire or not, couldnt tell from your post. also, ouch, bye-bye one waverider. ah well, plenty more where that one came from.

Onboard:
"Sir, those missiles are still closing"
"CIWS has opened fire"
(The ship rocks as a missile detonates on the chaff cloud)
"missile impact on chaff. more closing"
"CIWS firing again"
"CIWS has destroyed one incoming"
(the ship rocks again)
"missile impact on chaff. more coming in"
"CIWS firing"
"CIWS feed jammed, weapon crew, attempt repairs"
9the ship shakes yet again)
Chaff impact"
(The ship shakes again, this time much harder, as a missile strikes home against the larboard flank)
"missile impact on hull. larboard CIWS disabled, Larboard chaff launchers disabled. damage control, attempt repairs"
"belay that. all hands, this is the captain, abandon..."
(Another missile sweeps in through the hole in the CRADS defences and smashes the superstructure to shards)
At this point, the ship starts to sink, and as more missiles impact on the wreckage, breaks up. None of the NSAA sailors survive.
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International Release:
Earlier today an NSAA naval craft was sunk by fire coming from an Undershi airborne group after breaching their territorial waters. We do not yet know why the ship was in said waters, but we deplore the loss of life amongst our soldiers. 5 more of our ships will be sent to increase patrols in the area, and at the first hint of violence of any kind, a full invasion will be launched in retaliation. For now, however, we do not wish to see more lives lost. Therefore, peace will reign.
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encoded message from NSAA to Undershi:
Our vessel sank with all hands. Rest assured that we will not forgive, or forget this. For now, however, peace is the best option. Any expansionist moves, or any further attacks on our forces will however result in war. Our embargo still stands.

OOC: if that takeover is military, linky me, and we can have a war. not that its going to do either of us good, but i wouldnt mind dropping out of MT/PMT, so...

OOC: The Saint Rynald take over is definitely military in nature - search for "The Conquest of Saint Rynald" to find the details.

The Old Palace, Undershi City, Undershi

The assembled High Command read through the recent comm from No_State_At_All in silent contemplation. It looked as though they would soon have another war on their hands, and that wasn't a pleasant thought - normally, after such a conquest as Saint Rynald, they would wait a while before conquering another nation.
Still, the No_State_At_All government had threatened to use biological weapons against them - no doubt such weapons would devestate the norm population, but they would have little effect upon the True Undershis, those that really mattered.
Sighing, Lord General John Hall spoke:
"It seems as though we had better prepare for war. Soon, it seems, we will have another conquest to worry about... this No_State_At_All, where ever it is. Victory will be swift... or defeat, to be honest. This will be the first nation of norms larger than our selves that we will conquer, but, they are just norms. I move for a First Strike."
The measure was passed unanimously, and the High Command retreated to the radiation hardened bunkers under neath the capital to wait for the outcome of their choice to become obvious... and to plan what they might soon do...

Operation New Sun

Far from the capital, thousands of silos opened, thousands of missiles, ranging from twenty mega-tonne Super-Siege missiles that would be fired at sites where "bomb proof" bunkers were supposed to secure vital personel, to one mega-tonne "City Killers", such as would target minor No_State_At_All cities.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Golden Eagle heavy bombers prepared to take off, each loaded with a conventional bombs, such as would be used on minor tertiary targets - targets such as the nearby No_State_At_All naval assets.
These bombers were escorted by Thunderer fighter bombers, some with Air-to-Air load outs, others with minor atomic bombs.
The strategy that would be employed had been refered to as "Nuclear Carpet Bombing" by its proponents, merely as over-kill by those who had challenged it - True Undershis saw no purpose to waste, but also no inherent value in human life, and so their plans made almost no provisions to preserve human life.

What This Means:
If war occurs:

- Key military instilations and major cities will be targeted with multi mega-tonne ICBMs, secondary instilations and minor cities will be targeted with one mega-tonne ICBMs, sub-mega-tonne ICBMs will target minor bases, while the very small number of "Super Siege" ICBMs will targer hardened bunker sites and suspected hardened bunker sites with what is believed to be enough force to penetrate.
- All of these targets are based on satelite recon of your nation, as well as "publicly available" information. (News reports, etc.) (As well as some common-sense stuff - if it's giant and underground, it will be hit.)
- While the much faster ICBMs are falling on No_State_At_All, Golden Eagle bombers, about three thousand of them, will already be en-route. They will drop loads of atomic bombs and conventional weapons (primarily Fuel-Air Explosives) with the intention of annihilating any centers of No_State_At_All resistance that the ICBM bombardment failed to neutralize.
- Meanwhile, No_State_At_All naval assets will be targeted by Thunderer fighter-bombers, Golden Eagle heavy bombers in some cases, as well as a variety of cruise missiles. The No_State_At_All naval assets will be given low priority, and so it is almost certain that some will survive the initial attacks.
- Submarine lauched missiles will also take part in the bombardment of No_State_At_All - the short range ones will be used to annihilate coastal cities or to target No_State_At_All naval vessels, while long range missiles will primarily be used for attacks against the interior of No_State_At_All.
- Note: These attacks are designed to kill about 90% of your populace outright. Whether or not they work remains to be seen...

OOC:I don't think a nation of your size could afford to operate ''thousands of ICBMS''.I'm not to sure about your three thousand bombers either,my nation can only operate 1100 bombers.

(Forgot me?)

--Over Jenshalem Airspace--
The MiG was trailed,though it was still a Mach cappable jet.It's pursuers could probably go mach 2.5 at best,as the Powerful Mikoyan MiG-31 can beat them.Yet even if the plane is faster,the missles on the enemy jets still could go about mach 4 or so.Yet as the enemy left,a EMP pulse fell upon the MiG,And it droped.The Aircraft did not releace a chute,and the plane was still intact as it hit the ground.Later, Undershi ground forces came upon the dowed fighter.No marks of nationality,and as they approched the copit,they saw something odd.Where a pilot sould be,there was a box with wires and chips controling it.It was fried.The EMP pulse fried all circuts,and with no nationality marks,this could be anyones MiG.

--Message From Usea to Undershi--
We,of the Union of Usean Soviet States are appaled at your treatment of your people.We are not going to fight as of yet,we are going to change you hearts to the light of truth.And if you still oppresse your people,We will have to unleash the Sword of Oblivion on you.

--Later,Same Airspace--
Another intruder flew in, this time,it had freinds.The new intruders were five Grandir Class Battle Zepplins.They were Over major populations of the oppresed Jenshalem people.Instead of Shells,they droped Panthletts.These pathletts showed that they are not allone.As well,they had a LCD screed to show a special broadcast,Information about there oppressors,the Nations that are helping and a strong message to hang on.

OOC: Hey know. What missiles?

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The MiG-31R flew over, and was quicly being followed by four Undershi Lightning interceptors - all four formed on it, and although they did lock their missiles on, they did not fire. It seemed that the Undershis would be willing to allow a violation of their air space to go unpunished...

(ooc-Oh I didn't see that...Sorry.)

Western Gejigrad
Silvergrove
The Octagon
Sublevel Nine
The War Room

+++<"Are you seeing this, Citizen General?"> came the rhetorical query from a young otter, of the People's Army.
+++Gejigradian satellites had detected the launch of a...sizable amount of nuclear arms, traced back to a territory later identified as "Undershi." Their trajectory was calculated, and noted that it would fall upon NSAA territory--one of Gejigrad's allies. This could not be tolerated, nor would it.
+++<"I see it, Citizen Lieutenant,"> came the reply from a one Richard Fulke, a beefy kodiak bear. <"Put us on DEFCON 2, get the strategic force ready to fly. I want the People's President on the line, now."> The gruff order was given, dismissing the Citizen Lieutenant by merely turning away, bracing his hands against the railing that surrounded the massive world map. He glanced at NSAA's location, as yellow-outlined red started to march across the nation, denoting a nuclear attack. The Citizen Lieutenant's salute and crisp reply was hardly acknowledged.
+++When the red light on the phone next to him began to blink, he picked up the receiver. <"Matthew, we have a problem,"> he began somberly, staring hard at the red swath before him. <"NSAA is under attack by a one 'Undershi.' I need you to get the Foreign Ministry's arse in gear and publish a formal statement.">
+++In other governments, a request phrased like that would have cost the Citizen General his life. However, this was no ordinary government; in point of fact, it was almost entirely an overseer, rather than a governing body. As such, those in charge tended to get to know each other a little better. Thus, the response was equally informal, though just as charged. <"What are we talking about, here, Richard?">
+++<"Nuclear. Looks like they flushed a fourth of their arsenal in one salvo."> His face was set; grim.
+++<"My...god. Are you serious?"> was the stunned reply.
+++<"Completely.">
+++<"I assume you plan to follow through on standard procedure?">
+++A tight smile. <"Yes, Matthew. Don't worry. I won't invade until we've declared war.">


[ More latah. ]

OOC: Before I start a mutual-annihilation (sp) war, i'd like to point out that my bio-weapons make territory un-inhabitable forever, unless you are in a completely contained environment. they kill anything and everything. Oh, and you'd probably have too few nukes to target that many minor bases. and no way you'd touch much of my naval forces, them being distributed worldwide. but hey. Oh, and My capital goes down a long way underground, although you wont know that. It looks like it goes down about 500meters underground with normal civilian areas, and another 100 with important civic areas and the royal palace. If you do wipe me out, there'll be some pretty pissed-off guys down there with control of my entire sattelite network, and my most funky new tech at their disposal. victory here is impossible, but we could both lose.

(also,With a Temporary alliance,NSAA,I would like to know if you are interested in the usean L-747 Airbourn Laser,Used for this kind of thing?)

OOC: Well, with that in mind, I am a bit nervous, and perhaps wish I hadn't been so hasty... but then, it would hardly be "Undershi" for all those nukes to be fakes or something, or for them to all go flying into the moon... how about that was just an outline of the plan they were making, that they haven't put into motion yet?

OOC: works for me. as long as we dont wipe each other out, i'm good. may heppen anyway mind. oh, and uj, I have no budget atm, gotta wait till I can get my economy off "imploded", which should take another week or two. for now, its stick to what i have at the mo in MT :(

OOC: Whoo... that was close...

Undershi Occupied Jenshalem

Phase Two of the occupation was about to begin. The norms were no longer going to be kept chained to posts at night - now they were given rooms in grim, dull, grey apartment blocks.
To the Jenshalemites, these new accomadations were paradisial... although a few weeks ago, all but the poorest amoungst them would have considered such quarters bellow them.
Now they showered for the first time in weeks, washing away the grime of hard labor. Amoung the "luxuries" that they recieved was a simple thing - they were allowed eight hours "down time" a day, as opposed to the earlier four hours per day.
As such, they began to feel almost human again...
The day after the night where they first slept indoors, they were rounded up again, and one in ten of them were chosen by the black Janissaries. Those chosen were sent to other parts of the Empire, while the same number of citizens from other parts of the Empire were sent to Jenshalem.
That was done to promote an end to feelings of nationalism - Jenshalem as a nation was dead and buried. Of those sent in, 60% were asians and 40% were whites, like the Jenshalemites themselves. Most were from far away, and few spoke the language...

OOC: good planning.If only you werent such an evil nation i'd love to RP with you... :p

Me Li High Command was concerned with the New Foriegn Devils that had appeared recently in Danteri... More so since they seemed far too much like the Kraven Demons for Melii comfort. Some assets were deployed to keep an eye on the damned Fascists daemons. The Dominions were already too involved with outsiders to do little more than carefully watch them.

The other Not Enemy Gaijin's threatened Biologicals concerned them far more than the Undershi's tactical use of Nukes. Nukes were common and could be dealt with realitively easily. Chemicals and other WMD too were acceptable and recoverable. BioViruses and Pathogens were not so easy to contain... Even the crazy Kravenites had not yet used biologicals...


[beep....beep...]

[acessing....codes verified...Orders Confirmed]

[thrust in 120...3...2...1...mark]

Ssssss

Two Intel Sats are now dispatched over the new Undershi territories.

[ So...

Those nukes didn't launch?

Bah! Bah I say!

NSAA, get on the horn with CIN or something. I need a war to finish up my doctrine and whatnot. D: ]

(NSAA,I meant if you want to borrow a L-747 for the duration of the risk,if you do,dont try anything fishy...)

Frenzian Armed Forces Command Center FAFCC,Freedom City,Frenzia

General Howe sat in his office.He had spent much of the uneventful day in his office.He had just finished watching a show on a t.v. that was almost never used.He turned around and wheeled his chair over to the mini-fridge and opened it up,pulling himself out an drink.He opened the drink and took a large sip,wheeled back to his desk and opened up a newspaper.

''Knock Knock''

General Howe groaned.

''Come in''

The man opened the door and saluted before walking in and handing General Howe a tan colored folder.

''Satellites just picked this up,it appears we missed it before.''

General Howe opened the folder and looked over what had been given to him.Many pictures showing what appeared to be opened missiles silos.

''How did we get lucky enough to have our satellite get pictures.''General Howe wondered.

''Intel showed that two nations that helped us in the war against Raven were cutting all ties with a nation known as the Undershi.We positioned our satellites over the nation and caught photos of this.''

''So who is in the area and why.''

''Usea-Jason and NSAA.They are there because the Undershi have taken over this nation and enslaved the population.''

''Anything else I should know about?''

''A NSAA ship that entered Undershi waters was sank,went down with the whole crew.And Usea-Jason has been entering Undershi air space and has not been shot down yet.''

''You are dissmissed.''

The man that had entered the room saluted and left leaving General Howe to think about his next move.He decided to send letter.

To:No_State_At_All and Usea-Jason

From:General Howe

I have just been informed of the actions taking place.I have enclosed satellite pictures of many missile silos opening,I do not know who their target is.I have also been shown what the Undershi have been doing and I cannot stand for it.However any course of action taken,whether it be sanctions or war I would like to discuss with the nations that have seen combat with Frenzian troops what they think should be done.

OOC: 1, i dont really want a war at the mo, it would bankrupt me, and 2, i'm okay thanks, I dont need any more expensive military hardware to maintain.

IC:
TO:General Howe
FROM:The office of King John (OOC:The king of NSAA)
RE:Undershi

We consider that sanctions will do for now regarding this particular conquest. Any further invasions will however meet with a full invasion force. And if those nukes are targeted at us, and get launched, All of undershi will be depopulated by our bioweapons. We dont want to use them, but we will if forced.

(ooc-ok...)

To-General Howe
From-SSu Mikoyan,Soviet Usea(likewise,Leader of Usea)
Re-Undershi

We thank you for your concern.We know for a fact that if they do launch,They will face full destruction.As for The Civilians of Jenshalem,We intend on freeing them from the Undershi.We are going to bring the light of justice to where it is needed.On that part,you may do as you wish.

REPLY:
In the case of an operation to restore freedom, you will have our full support.

OOC: no time to pos more, soz

To: The Government of the Undershi

From:The Frenzian Defense Council

We understand that you have recently opened many ICBM silos and are preparing them for launch.We would advise against the use of these against any nation,especially Usea-Jason or NSAA.We advise you to quit enslaving these people or action may be taken.At the moment any trade between our nations is not allowed and no products made in your nation will be allowed to enter Frenzia.

--Official Report--
The Nation of Usea is now calling a Strangle hold on Undershi.Our ships are going to stop the flow of item and people to and from Undershi by water,As Usean Aitcraft are going to likewise stop any airborn assest from entering.

Message From The Undershi High Command to the Government of Usea-Jason

Gentlemen, we feel it would be wise for you to remember that "God is on the side of the big battalions" - that is to say, that while you may feel that an embargo of The Undershi Empire would serve a purpose, making clear your distaste, perhaps it would not be so wise?
While we likely would not survive a war, we could also ensure that you do not either - that is to say, ensure that your people are reduced to ash, scattered upon the wind. War would not be a good idea for either of us - therefore, let us not have one!
We await your reply with some anxiety, as your naval units are acting beyond what is normally laid out by international law...


OOC: This message is also being released to international news agencies...

OOC:Hmm, blockades. this could get chaotic...

IC:
The nation of No_State_At_All hereby gives the Undershi the period of 1 day to withdraw all occupying forces from Jenshalem, and repatriate any civilians of said country that may have been enslaved, or our forces will assist those of Usea-Jason in blockading your nation. Any act of agression against blockading forces of any nation will be taken as an act of war, and will result in the freeing of jenshalem by force.

[OOC EDIT] I dont give a flying **** for international law, and that fact will be well know internationally, just so you know [/EDIT]

From: The Undershi High Command
To: The No_State_At_All military
Re: Surrender Jenshalem?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gentlemen, we feel we must protest - you would deny us our territory? You would deny us? We have taken these poor savages, and are educating them - in sixty or seventy years, Jenshalem will become a real place worth something! In the name of God, we do not want a war, but you tempt us thoroughly!

P.S.: Read up on international law - a blockade is an Act of War. Call it something else, will you? Anyway, we only have one trading partner right now, so it will not be critical. However, if you try to stop our navy from entering or leaving, there will be war, and we will all die. We don't want that, and we sincerly hope you do not want that either.

OOC: as i said above, i care not for law. And in my book blockade is one step short of war. oh, and that means 1 RL day. you dont get a reply. :p

OOC: Saint Rynald - just because I let you in on what I was planning does not give you the right to post it - you are not the High Command.
However, since that's what I was going to do anyway... well, let's just say that was how it went, eh? (And never do it again, OK?!?)

OOC: smoothly does it, dude. had me fooled for a while, by the way.

The No_State_At_All naval vessels that arrived to enforce the blockade were greeted by low flying Thunderer fighter-bombers armed with atomic warheads. There were hundreds of them in the air, with support from some Lightning interceptors.
The entire point of the excercise was to put through a point - Undershi will not be intimidated, will not be pressuered or coerced. That point was made elsewhere as well - hundreds of ICBMs stand ready to ensure that if war comes, it will be short, and the destruction that comes with it will be, at the very least, mutual.

Lord General Mark O'Brien watched from his window as thousands of True Undershis marched past, moving in perfect unison, followed by Viper IFVs, Drake MBTs and other supporting vehicles.
It was impressive to look at, and the Crusader helicopter gun-ships overhead only added to the impressiveness of it all... still, no matter what they had ready to use in the defese of Jenshalem, it would not be enough. Biological weapons would make mere infantry utterly useless, would make a mockery of armoured divisions and a joke of the artillery that was the pride of Undershi.
All those fine young True Undershi men, all those would-be heroes - they would die before WMDs... WMDs wielded by norms who knew not the lash or the chain or the tatoo of slavery... it was sort of ironic, to be honest, that it had come to this - Undershi was given to rule the world... that was the truth, known by all who knew anything... but, now it seemed that all that possibility might be lost... and for what? A bit of desert home to some norm savages? It was so sad, to think that it would all soon come to nothing...

OOC: A) the time hasnt run out yet, and B) Are you firing? (very important question that one...)

--Televised message(I hope you have TV's)--
"I am Supreme Soviet Unifyed Jason Hart Mikoyan,The Leader of the Union of Usean Soviet States.In recent days,a great horror has befallen a nation not unlike our own.Yet there opprestion is going unheard.At this moment Usean Military forces are blocading the oppresor,and he has threaten to end our way of life.So I ask you,the People of Usea,And the World,Help your fellow workers in defeating this great foe.Help liberate all the nations that they have harmed!I am Asking for a declaration of War Aganst the Terrorist Goverment of Undershi!"

--Simutaniously--
Thean Navel vessles open fired on strategic ports,as Aircraft of all makes and Landing attack military and Political Targets.Allong With this,Usean Army Transports are en route to send a Invading force.

OOC: No, we are not firing.

Press Release

Gentlemen, rulers of all the peace-loving nations of this world - we have been cruely attacked by an enemy that recieved no provocation. We have suffered, have lost men, but we will endure to win this struggle. We request allies, to aid us against Communist agression.

At Attack Sites

The Undershi military had been prepared for war with No_State_At_All, and so they were ready when Usea-Jason attacked. The Undershis fought bravely and to the last, fighting like heroes... they were well equipped, well led, well organized... but, they were fighting a real enemy, and so they took casualties.
In the end, in exchange for an unknown but presumedly high number of enemy losses, the Undershis lost some 18,000 men and several naval vessels. They will be mourned.

Counter Attack

The Usea-Jason invasion fleet was targeted by an aerial armada of some 2,500 Golden Eagle heavy bombers, flying with escorts of 2,000 Lightning fighters. These air craft were accompanied by a radio message to the fleet - it could turn around and not invade, or it could face the consequences. As the aerial armada flew in, it prepared to engage interceptors if need be...

Weapons of Mass Destruction

So far, the Undershi have not used any of their massive arsenal of ICBMs - they appear to genuinely want peace with Usea-Jason.

Operation Reminder

As a "reminder" of Undershi power, Undershi weapons satelites in orbit have made kinetic strikes against Usea-Jasonite military instilations within the boundaries of their homeland. Hundreds of Usea-Jasonite soldiers were presumed dead after the attack.

Diplomatic Release

The Undershi High Command has made an offer that it will remove crucifiction from its list of punishments, improve the standards of living in the conquered territories and prepare to allow the norm populace in their homeland full equality with the True Undershis of the Empire... all if they win this upcoming war... with help from some foreign allies.

OOC: lots of stuffs to do... oh, and you might want to let that invasion have more detail, otherwise theres no way the rest of us can determine the situation.
oh, and firing your sattelites around me is a baaaaad idea :p
oh, and edit your post on the naval bombing. you cant ignore any interceptors trying to stop your attack before you reach range.

IC:
As the deadline had passed, No_State_At_All ships moved up to reinforce the Usea-Jason blockade. This fleet was a significant portion of NSAA's entire navy, and would take a massive forceto stop. Seeing incoming bombers, wave after wave of fighters were run off to intercept them. (ooc:waiting for an edit before i do any more than launch them...)
-----
As spy sattelites had locked down the locations of every single ICBM silo in undershi, many unmarked planes swept in under the Undershi RADAR and headed for the missile silos, loaded with special forces troops with a mission to save both the undershi and NSAA people from annhiliation.
(ooc: if you let those teams temporarilly disable your WMDs, we'll let you keep a country, and even your current government, but if you launch 'em then bye. and with three on one, you actually cant stop us surviving. I suggest you either take this "out" or sue for peace...)
------
In space near the Undershi sattelites:
Several unassuming NSAA comms sattelites suddenly light up like christmas trees, change shape rapidly, and lose missile barrages on the Undershi orbital weapons that fired. Each of the Undershi sattelites finds itself the target of 10 small but deadly missiles jinking towards them through space.
-----
OOC: bit of a misquote:
A general broadcast from the NSAA fleet put out over Undershi territory:
you cant win, and we cant lose. If you surrender now, and withdraw from all overseas territories, we will leave you in peace. fail to comply and we will root out every person who supports your regime and kill them all.

OOC: What the heck?!? Usea-Jason attacked us! Aren't you one of those nations that's all about peace, love etc.?!? We haven't even used nukes yet - and that shows friggen restraint, if you ask me!!!
Well, I guess this is Ragnorak... since no True Undershi would let you take away his weapons... but, we also won't launch... for now.

Message to The Government of No_State_At_All

Gentlemen - we are trying to be reasonable. We have not targeted enemy civilian centers, in spite of them targeting our political centers, we have not used WMDs... and now, you respond to that, and to our offers of liberalization, with this, with this attack?
What you have done would be an Act of War by anyones standards, and yet we do not use atomics against you... we do not kill you when we could. We beg you, in the name of rationality - let us be. We do not want a war. We do not want to fight you... but, if you insist, we will fight you.
We are resisting your commandos at the silos, those commandos who would disarm us before you come in and conquer us, but we do not want to fight them, do not want to fight the government that sent them.
We will keep our nukes - that is unnegotiable. However, we are prepared to make an offer that is unprecedented in Undershi history - all the slaves will be made free over the course of two years, and once those two years are over, the High Command will step down, and we will hold Free Elections. You have that - you will get what you want... but we will keep our honor - we will not surrender our weapons, we will not surrender our provinces... although, we go so far as to say that if in two years, when the elections are held, a majority of the populace of any province votes for independance, they will be allowed to leave.
We await your reply.

Note: This message was also given to the international media, so it will be known about, whatever No_State_At_All decides to do.

OOC: very nearly too slow... and again, more detail in your combat RPs... my commandoes hadnt even deployed yet, so how can you be fighting them? please edit to remove any sign of you knowing about the commandoes unless you RP a reason for knowing about them... And respond to the orbital engagement...
I'll refrain from replying until you edit that to not know about me actually engaging so as i know how to phrase it...

OOC: I assumed you were sending them in - therefore, as I wasn't going to try and shoot them down, I put up what I was going to do. Sorry for the miscommunication.

The Undershi satelites made no efforts to defend themselves - each was useless after its missile had been deployed. Only three satelites in all had been used, and those were lost easily.

OOC: Are you targeting all of the Undershi satelites in orbit? (Because that's the only way that you'd be sure to get them all, since the military ones are all camoflauged...)

OOC: umm... hate to say it, but by not deployed, i meant that they havent even landed yet, so firing cant have started. you're still at the "last chance" stage of things where you can give up the colonies or go out in a blaze of glory. sorry 'bout that. oh and please put more detail into combat posts, its important. All the rest of your RPing is good, but the lack of detail stops me (or other people) using proper tactics or showing why our losses are so much better/worse than yours.
nope, just the ones that fired. every time one fires, it'll get taken out.

The Undershis told the No_State_At_All government - they would never surrender their weapons, so any disarming of ICBMs would be out... but, they were prepared to make all the offers they had already outlined...
Also, any Commandos who might have been deployed are now being alowed to return home unharmed.

OOC: There, now all the bits have been cleared up... and as for my lack of detail, here's what would have happened:

As the flyers started deploying their commandos, the Undershi ground troops made no move save to "dig in" and broadcast a message that their landings were unlawful.
Then, once that was ignored (hypothetically), they would respond by having the Gauss rifle positions in the bunkers over the silo fire at the oncoming commandos, while squads of soldiers out in the wastes around the silos would move in with support from Viper IFVs, with the intention of forcing the commandos to withdraw. Unless the flyers provided air support, they would not be targeted, although if they did, they would be targeted by SAMs and RPGs.
The defenders would fight to keep the commandos away from the silo, fighting from the bunkers (four with overlapping fields of fire) that were positioned around the missile.
Meanwhile, Viper IFVs would roll up and begin using their Guass automatics (Gauss versions of machine guns) to "suppress" the commandos - who would be caught between a dug-in force of infantry and some light armour.

From now on, I'll try to be more explicit about my tactics...

OOC: still havent deployed them... waiting in vain hope of a fall-back from the conquered territories. elections in 2 years are simply not good enough. I dont care what weapons you may have, you get to keep them, just not any conquered territories... gimme a straight yes or no to that, and we can get on with it.

OOC: missed your last post when i wrote that. but I would like you to explain how you know the commandoes are coming. shouldnt be too hard, mind

The High Command responds with this:

We will give them up - after a two year transition period (during which you can have observers there to see that nothing too bad is going on...). After the two years, they will be allowed to freely vote whether they want to remain part of the empire or not, and will be allowed to leave if they don't.
Also, during those two years, massive reconstruction work will be done by the Undershi government - they are used to rebuilding stuff...

So: To put it simply: You get basically everything you want - you just have to wait two years to get it.

How would I know? A combination of radar, other scanning techniques, a "picket force" of helicopters flying around the border and tons of aerial patrols. (By that I mean lots - each consists of four Lightnings, and they are set to cover most of the Empire at least once every three hourse.)

OOC: theres hope yet...
IC:
"Your practices up until this moment have not been condusive to our trusting your actions in regard to conquered territory. Your proposal is not acceptable. If you repatriate all citizens that were deported at once and hold immediate voting to decide the possesion of both Saint rynald and Jenshalem, that will be an acceptable compromise."

How would I know? A combination of radar, other scanning techniques, a "picket force" of helicopters flying around the border and tons of aerial patrols. (By that I mean lots - each consists of four Lightnings, and they are set to cover most of the Empire at least once every three hourse.)
OOC: umm... everything but the RADAR we'd see with sattelites and vector the planes around, and RADAR doesnt cover ground level. If theres a war assuming that you dont see them coming and they secure your WMDs is the only way you'll come out of this with a nation left to RP mind...

From: The Undershi High Command
To: The Government of No_State_At_All
Re: New demands
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

You shame us with your constantly changing demands. None the less, we shall accede to some of these new demands - the citizens dispersed for diversity will be returned to their home territories.
However, on the matter of holding the referendums now, we must protest - we are not yet a conquered nation to which you can merely dictate terms, and that demand is unacceptable - we have not yet fully restored those territories, and as such, elections there now would only result in mass chaos.
As such, we must, pleading against a war and in doing so shaming ourselves, request that you remove that last demand - it is beyond what we can accept, no matter how badly we wish for there not to be a war.
However, even on that issue, we can negotiate - crucificion as a punishment and the institution of slavery will both be suspended as soon as an agreement is reached.
We are willing to go more than half way on this issue, even to resign and allow democratic elections, but we simply must beg you to allow us to prevent mass chaos and dely the major changes until we are ready for them. As a show of our dedication to peace, we make this one offer - during those two years, you would be allowed to have observers in Undershi itself to see that real progress is being made.
We await you reply with terror, knowing that you are a cruel and imperious people who seek any excuse for war.

Ummm... when I say "picket forces" of helicopters, I mean one every third of a mile, all along the border. Oh yeah, and I forgot to add in spy satelites... we have a bunch of those watching our homeland at any given time.

OOC: now this could work for your planes too, but those commando drop-planes have chameleon- stylee camo... your sats see nothing. oh, and you simply cant have that many choppers, it would take an obscene number of them. Ooh, and another thing, you dont know who's commandoes they are. you can assume, but we deny everything. anywho.

IC:
"We care little what you do to your own people. A two year period would allow for PR operations. We will give you a period of two weeks to stabilise the Saint rynald, and one week to prepare Jenshalem, and the votes must be cast at that point. Our demands will continue to change only as long as in that changing they can maintain the hope of peace. Your slurs upon our nation have ended our patientce. This is our final offer, accept or be destroyed."

[ The only way you would be able to see NSAA's [presumably stealth] planes would be to have a constant (who keeps these things up when you're not technically at war?) killzone kept up by E-3s or other AWACS aircraft around your entire border. Just think about how much that would cost for a moment. I have just over your defense budget--but I still don't keep up that kind of ironclad defense. It's neither realistic nor fair.

@NSAA: Instead of using commandos, I would have used cruise missiles fired from stealth bombers, but eh. Whatever works. :p

EDIT: Oh, and NSAA, my offer still stands for you to puppet a division or two, should it become neccessary, while I'm away. ]

OOC: Here's a couple of questions. First, are these commando planes invisible visually? I don't remember any technology like that being readily available. If I'm mistaken, please provide a link. If not, a visual imaging system from satellites could detect them.

Second, are they completely soundless? Again, I don't remember that being invented yet... again, if I am mistaken, link please.

Third, and not really relevant are you aware that chamoleons don't actually change color solely to match surroundings, but rather due to effects including mood, light, and temperature? Behold how neither of the following chameleons actually blend in with their surroundings.

One. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MrMeric.gif)

Two. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chamaeleo_chamaeleon_Frightened_thus_black.JPG)

OOC: Here's a couple of questions. First, are these commando planes invisible visually? I don't remember any technology like that being readily available. If I'm mistaken, please provide a link. If not, a visual imaging system from satellites could detect them.

Second, are they completely soundless? Again, I don't remember that being invented yet... again, if I am mistaken, link please.

Third, and not really relevant are you aware that chamoleons don't actually change color solely to match surroundings, but rather due to effects including mood, light, and temperature? Behold how neither of the following chameleons actually blend in with their surroundings.

One. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MrMeric.gif)

Two. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chamaeleo_chamaeleon_Frightened_thus_black.JPG)

[ I will correct you on your first point, though you are right about the second, I should think. However, that would mean a constant, neverending patrol of the borders--and given a pop of half a billion, that would presumably be a fairly good-sized border. At least the size of the US, give or take a few hundred kilometers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_camoflauge

^See above. I recall that a SWAT team employed this on a Stryker vehicle (or a similar vehicle), as well as their own persons. A recreation was played with the same technology, and by god if I almost missed the damned vehicle in the background. All you'd need to do is mount it on the upside of the aircraft, and bang, invisible. Being PMT, I doubt NSAA has a problem with this. ]

[ I will correct you on your first point, though you are right about the second, I should think. However, that would mean a constant, neverending patrol of the borders--and given a pop of half a billion, that would presumably be a fairly good-sized border. At least the size of the US, give or take a few hundred kilometers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_camoflauge

^See above. I recall that a SWAT team employed this on a Stryker vehicle (or a similar vehicle), as well as their own persons. A recreation was played with the same technology, and by god if I almost missed the damned vehicle in the background. All you'd need to do is mount it on the upside of the aircraft, and bang, invisible. Being PMT, I doubt NSAA has a problem with this. ]

OOC: Or simply have a patrol/outpost/whatever between the coast and his missile silos. Or a town. Or some guy taking a pee in the woods. The other question is, how does he deal with IR?

OOC: Or simply have a patrol/outpost/whatever between the coast and his missile silos. Or a town. Or some guy taking a pee in the woods. The other question is, how does he deal with IR?

[ Er, no, because if he's flying under the radar (and NSAA said he was), then that doesn't work. Only look-down radar from an AWACS aircraft can spot that sort of thing.

EDIT: Ah, I see what you mean. However, why would one fly directly into an outpost? As well, the patrol would have to be exceedingly lucky to have the aircraft pass near them, much less over them--and patrols are fairly noticeable, as well.

As for IR, the B-2 Spirit incorporates IR suppression, but saying what that was would obviously be a federal offense, perhaps even treason. As such, I neither know nor can I guess what would be employed--but I know it exists. ]

[ Er, no, because if he's flying under the radar (and NSAA said he was), then that doesn't work. Only look-down radar from an AWACS aircraft can spot that sort of thing.

As for IR, the B-2 Spirit incorporates IR suppression, but saying what that was would obviously be a federal offense, perhaps even treason. As such, I neither know nor can I guess what would be employed--but I know it exists. ]

OOC: Eh? Flying under the radar means people sitting in an outpost can't hear him?

[ Check the edit. ]

OOC: Yes, well, he would be somewhat limited by terrain if he's flying under the radar. Also, I believe that Undershi thought that the commandoes had already landed, so this whole argument is effectively void till he posts again.

Oh, all of you. Do try to leave Undershi alive. I've got an RP planned with him.

OOC: yes, people on the ground would hear/see them, but would they report them with the kind of volume of military aircraft he's got up? not saying they wouldnt, just I was leaving it to him to use old-fashioned methods to beat my PMT stealth. And certain materials can soak up most of an IR signature... He may see them from that or assorted other sattelite-based detection systems, its possible, I just want justification. Then the commandos get to play with the defenders for a while. All this still depends on wether he accepts that offer or not...

OOC: Basically, we've just got a super-paranoid government that spends a lot of money on border defense. I'm just assuming that something would have noticed them...

From: The Undershi High Command
To: The Government of No_State_At_All
Re: Deadline
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You assume that two years would be enough for "PR" operations? If we can convince them to remain part of the Empire in two years, then we deserve to keep them! You people are all the same - you say that you want peace and democracy, but all you really want is to have your troops march through the capital of some vanquished enemy, all you want is to be what we are - conquerors. You just refuse to admit it.
In effect, you are calling for our unconditional surrender of much of our territory - we cannot accept that! We only want peace, but you, the vile agressor, will not allow us to have what we want!
We hope that you enjoy being the first to use WMDs against us - think of what that will do to your reputation!
We have even ordered our men to surrender rather than risk an incident - is such an action a sign of agression, or of hostility? You are as bad as you say we are in the end - worse, because you are not seeking us out for conquest because we are weak and unadvanced, but rather because we are strong - you cannot abide our strength!
However, even if peace is impossible, we would like to make a desperate offer - we will swear not to use WMDs if you do so as well - no atomics, no biological weapons, no chemical warfare - only conventional weapons. Perhaps an agreement where each vows not to be the first to use them? We await your reply, wanting at the same time to let you know that we value human life at least to a degree, and so are not going to commit mass murder unless we are forced to.
We await your reply, wondering which of the three options presented you will choose - a peace where you get everything you want but have to wait for two years, a war where only conventional weapons are used, or a war where hundreds of millions if not billions die in the fires of a nuclear exchange. We wait with anxiety for your reply.

OOC: This offer is being communicated to the news media, as part of a media campaign to portray No_State_At_All as the oppressive agressor, seeking to enforce its views on a foreign nation.

OOC: Yes, well, he would be somewhat limited by terrain if he's flying under the radar. Also, I believe that Undershi thought that the commandoes had already landed, so this whole argument is effectively void till he posts again.

Oh, all of you. Do try to leave Undershi alive. I've got an RP planned with him.

[ Not neccessarily. The RAH-66D has a suite that allows it to hug the terrain at a preset height--it would only be a conceivably short hop to put this on fighters. Though, true, if you were travelling in the high subsonics, and a cliff suddenly loomed up in front of you--well. Then you obviously weren't paying attention to your radar. ]

OOC: Yeah, I did believe that the commandos had already landed...

All throughout The Empire, every single True Undershi was called up, every Janissary was mobilized. If there was going to be a war, then Undershi would not be caught napping.

What This Means:

- Something like 30% of my populace is now fully equipped and going through preperations for war in their "spare time". Needless to say, not all 30% is being sent to the border, since that would cripple the economy, but they are being prepared.

- Factories throughout the Empire are switching to produce war material as opposed to civilian goods - The Empire will fight as best it can.

- The navy and the other units overseas are being put on full alert, and massive aerial forces are being prepared - just not with atomics... it appears that the Undershi are hoping for a purely conventional war, if a war is to come.

[ Dude.

Five percent of a pop is considered overboard--even for military dictatorships or things like the Kraven Corporation. ._.

Thirty percent is just way out of bounds. ]

[ Dude.

Five percent of a pop is considered overboard--even for military dictatorships or things like the Kraven Corporation. ._.

Thirty percent is just way out of bounds. ]

OOC: Actually, I believe Chavez did something like this. (That's real life) He's not inducting them into his millitary. He's just supplying them with weapons, and giving them some basic training.

Actually, the Undershi operates along similar lines to the Swiss or Israeli systems - every adult male (in this case, every adult True Undershi male) is part of the army - sort of like the National Guard, really. They aren't as well trained as the "real" army, or as well equipped, but they are trained, and I've just armed them so that that portion of the militia that I will actually use will be prepared for deployment... while the rest will be prepared to give the No_State_At_All military hell if and when it gets to their part of The Empire.

[ Oh, militias. That I can understand.

But wow. I thought you were talking you had that much in trained military personnel. D: ]

OOC: okay then, war it is. and just so you know, i've never been the first to use WMDs, and wont be, but you fired off a set of nukes at the start, which triggered most of this. Oh, and your homeland wont get struck apart from by the commando teams until much later on. I.E. if you dont accept a peace offer after we take back the colonies. Anyway.
IC:
Official final communique until after the colonies have fallen:
"We will neve be the first side to deploy WMDs, but if you fire one more such device (and we mean ANY NBC threat, including napalm) we will annhiliate you. Other than that, this is, if you need it, a formal declaration of war. prepare yourselves well."

NSAA troops waiting for the situation to be resolved one way or the other Immediatly move out to invade Jenshalem. 12 Legions move in from naval assets offshore (ooc: what kind of defences will they hit? It'll make a difference to how they land), while 2 Airborne legions embark on their planes and head in to land behing the shoreline defences and surround them. The NSAA naval assets off the main Undershi shore maintain their blockade but take no other action.

OOC: btw, I use a similar militia system, but it includes all men, women, and children who are willing to fight, they wont move away from their homes for anything, and they wont be called up unless my main army has been pretty much totaled and there are enemy forces carrying out landings on my home territories.

The nation of Frenzia can see that countries are at each other throats,growling and snarling sending spit into each others faces.We have two options,we can go to war and leave many dead,nations left stained with blood,or we can negotiate something and save many lives.What the Undershi have offered shows that they do not want a war.I propose this;

1.The Undershi will release all enslaved people within one year.

2.The Undershi will disarm all NBC weapons.

3.A Human Rights Council made up of all of our countries will be set up.They will ensure that all slaves are released,and are treated properly.

(sorry for not posting in a while..)
--Landing point 1,Undershi--
The First part of Usea's attack was Underway,Naval and Aerial Bombardment started hitting Military Target near the landing Point.Like expected,Heavy resistance by the Targets slowed the larger bombers,yet the lighter F-35B and Yak-41R naval attackers made it hart for some True Undershi to fight off the attackers.At this piont,the Undershi Fighters and Attackers showed up,expecting a easy kill on the many carriers at that point.THe USean Airforce and Naval Force were waiting,Usean Su-37R,Su-47bis and F-15 S/MTD Fighters retaliated with MiG-21ACTIVE interceptors fighting off the bombers.The Usean Assalt force now started forward.Landing Craft and Tilt-Rotors made sucesfull landings,With major losess to the landing craft.The Usean Military started Fighting the True Undershi,Atempting to advoid Civilian Targets near by.

Total Usean Losses,Inital Invation-
Airborn
17 F-35B
32 Yak-41R
2 F-117
30 Su-37R
14 Su-47bis
50 F-15S/MTD
30 MiG-21ACTIVE
12 UV-23 Tilt rotors
3 Grandir-Class Battle Zepplins
Naval
12 Destroyers
7 Cruisers
3 Assalt Carriers
37 Amphibous Craft
(ooc-The Usean Military guessed that you would deploy Bombers With Fighter Excort Early on,I will get to the actual land assalt latter.
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--Northnern Usean Island,North Point--
North Piont,The Closest Island to Undershi,and logical Staging Area for invation.This island Did have part of Usea's Second Invation wave.This and many instalation on North Piont were Hit,with total losses to Usean Army,Air and Naval forces on the island,leaving it open to any attack.
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--Usea Dose not have Any nuklear Missles or Bombs in its Arsonal,Yet Usea Dose use Radiation based Weapons as a last resort.This is not anywere near that point.--

OOC: Frenzia, he's already said no to your point 2. but meh. oh, and i forgot the commandos.
IC:
The NSAA commando squads drop from their aircraft well away from the Undershi missile silos, and begin moving in overland to their targets. meanwhile, the planes make runs over civilian areas, dropping airburst propaganda bombs (uber-lots of leaflets with blatantly untrue slander about Undershi outrages mixed with truthful statements about their torturous practices)
OOC:and that is the big reason your positions will be off-guard. :p

OOC:Consider it like a last chance,if he won't he already has two nations inside his borders and it would become three.

(ooc-You don't trust me or my military power?)

OOC:If that coment was directed at me I do trust your military power and I'm pretty sure you alone could defeat the Undershi,however if your wondering why I keep trying to give him the chance for peace it is because that is what my government is like.But I have already said if he does not agree to my demands we will have no choice but to invade him.

OOC: hope we havent scared him off... good RPer, if playing a slightly misguided nation. and UJ, you're fine, if a bit more communist than my new reformed govenrment would like...

OOC:If that comet was directed at me I do trust your military power and I'm pretty sure you alone could defeat the Undershi,however if your wondering why I keep trying to give him the chance for peace it is because that is what my government is like.But I have already said if he does not agree to my demands we will have no choice but to invade him.

OOC: Oh great, now your firing comets at each other? :p

(ooc- My nation is actually Democratic Socalist,I have not gotten around to the issues yet and the name is just to impresse people.)

OOC: Wow, you forget to check before you go off to work, and...

Landing Zone Defense:

Air Defense:

As defense from the air, several dozen Crusader gun ships will be up there, along with tons (hundreds) of Thunderer fighter-bombers and some Lightnings. Golden Eagle heavy bombers will be dispatched as the fighting wears on.

In The Sea:

Total Undershi Navy assets in that area come to:

One aircraft carrier (which will launch Thunderers against the enemy fleet, but stay clear of the fighting), sixteen cruisers (which will set their missile launchers to continueous fire and stay back) and forty-odd destroyers (which will act as a defensive picket of the other ships).
Additionaly, several submarines are active in that area - they range from the massive super-subs (which mostly rely on missiles) to much smaller so-called "suicide tin-cans" - which are designed around the idea of getting in to fire a torpedo at a larger, more expensive, ship. You can expect multiple attacks by submarines of the second variety every hour, although they will by no means throw their lives away for nothing - they just value sinking an aircraft carrier much more than surviving...

On The Beaches:

Bunkers:

All along the Jenshalem coast, there is a network of hardened bunkers, designed for just such an event - the Undershi Corps of Engineers has been active, after all... as has been conscripted civilian labor.
These bunkers are the basis of a defense that will primarily be conducted by True Undershi second-line troops - they are well equipped, and have good SAM coverage, and will fight hard.
Each bunker is build around the same basic design - one heavy SAM launcher, one Ground-to-Ground launcher, and enough Gauss-autos and grenade launchers to see off an infantry or armoured assault. Ten True Undershis man each bunker, with some EMP-hardened electronics (which cannot be wirelessly accessed - no "LEET hackers for you...")
Other than that, several Mechanized Divisions (which each consist of 10,000 men), are prepared to move in to strike at whatever Landing Zone you choose - they have Viper IFVs and some heavier support, including MBTs and so on. More info on my main MBT later...

Defensive Strategy:

The primary strategy is, quite simply, to deny the enemy a Landing Zone - this plan, like most Undershi plans, makes no effort at "strategic withdrawl" - this will be a fight to the finish.
However, plans have been made for the event of a breach - heavy armoured divisions are waiting to move in to secure the area.


Anti-Infiltration Tactics:

Against the leafleting campaign, the main effort is being made to shoot down the flyers - Lightning fighters are being scrambled against them, and SAM sites are trying to target them.
On the ground, in any town targeted, the leaflets are being publicly posted with side commentary on how each atrocity was conducted - the Undershi do not mind if their people hate them, so long as they fear them more. Furthermore, it is being implied that the atrocities were (as the real ones mostly were) conducted by Janissary units - conveniently enough, those Janissary units that happen to be doing garrisson duty in that region... and it is being made clear that if the Undershis are upset, they might just let those Janissaries repeat the massacres, only against those locals this time...
As for the commandos, the local garrissons know that they are there, and so are ready - they are deploying heavy patrols, and the garrissons at the ICBM sites are being trippled and put on high alert.

As part of an all-around effort to regain the strategic initiative, and in light of likely No_State_At_All orbital actions, Undershi satelites in orbit are launching several efforts simultaneously - first of all, every No_State_At_All or Usea-Jasonite satelite that they can find is going to be getting targeted with some missiles, second of all, they are deploying any and all of their kinetic strikes - some three hundred in all, targeting No_State_At_All and Ursea-Jasonite military bases and troop concentrations.
Also, about six dozen conventional missiles (basically Cruise missiles) have been launched against the Usea-Jasonite fleet, supported by some two hundred Thunderer fighter-bombers with heavy conventional anti-shipping loads and a good fifty Lighnings, with orders to strafe and engage any enemy air support. (When I say strafe, that means that they will be firing their Gauss-autos from very high up - there will be no suicidal heroics here...)

OOC: bugger, significant shoreline defences. oh well.

IC:
The NSAA forces off Jenshalem, seeing the strength of the shoreline, sit offshore and allow the naval forces to bombard the defences heavily before advancing. The bombardment consists of large numbers (umm... not sure of the exact number, several hundred at least) cruise missiles targeted at the bunkers with special anti-fortification heads (They're basically big shaped charge rounds, but the second part is a frag round, designed so that the first half punches a small hole in the bunker and the second clears it out), and wave after wave of shells from the heavy guns on the naval force,ranging from the 20cm gausscannon of the frigates, through the 90cm main gausscannons of the heavy cruisers, to the 150cm gausscannon on the mighty Warspite class battleship that was at the center of the fleet.
Meanwhile, the Airborne units flashed overhead and began dropping in a little over 2 miles inland from the shoreline, led by the power-armour units which quickly got busy clearing any obvious pockets of resistance such as AA emplacements out by shooting RPGs into them from their position suspended in the air by parachutes. The drop-planes rapidly gained altitude in an attempt to get away, but many were shot down by SAM fire, despite the advanced countermeasures fitted on them.
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The commando teams move into positions near the sites, but do not attack as of yet. Any lone soldiers straying away from the base have a nasty penchant for dissapearing all of a sudden, though (ooc: not me, honest :D)
The planes that deployed the commandoes and leaflets are shot down to the last one. any inspections of the wreakage fail to find any pilots, however.
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Off Undershi shores, the NSAA navy has the following forces deployed:
1 Warspite class battleship
3 Ark royal class carriers
7 Ajax class escort carriers
4 Exeter class Heavy cruisers
8 Achilles class missile cruisers
8 Vainglorious class cruisers
20 Howe class Destroyers
15 Suprise class Missile destroyers
50 Jervis bay class srigates
and 25 assorted support frigates (Special weapon ships, not telling you what they are till they do it)
Below the waves over 30 Fearless class hunter-killer submarines move into place to prevent any submarine assaults on the fleet.

OOC: are your fleet units engaging? If they are, i'll post a reaction, but I didnt want to react to something that isnt happening...

Melii Observers

The High Command was at a loss. The Bottle Daemons were dead.
The Melii had only recently began setting up the Beta Zones Safe Havens when the News came to them. Kraven was dead. With the desapperance of Raven and Kraven Corps, the Melii lost their the decades long Projected Enemy of the True Peoples of The Isles. The Melii had successfully met and made one of the Enemy into a Neutral Not Enemy. Danteri was now safe from Kraven, but was now embroiled in yet another Proxy war; this time it was an appandage of The Solerii conflicts in the Homelands.

Ragnorak was being fought yet again by another set of Daemons.

The Spy Eyes noted with interest the "Democratic" invasion of the Fascists holdings and the impacts of the Hammers. The analysts were suprised to note the Kinetic Strike Tech of the Undershi...apparently the PMT Thor Hammer Concept was too simply effective to Not utilize. They watched to the immolation of the Platforms... this war would be enlightening.

The High Command concurred with the analysts, Me Li was too committed and overstretched in Danteri. We will not intervene directly. While the Melii could not participate directly they would ask to send observers to all sides.


To: All nations involved in Undershi
Fr: The Dominion of Me Li High Command
Re: Me Li Observers

Excellencies,

The Dominion of Me Li is most concerned with the escalation of this minor border conflict into a war of immense proportions. While we too find the Current Philosophe of the Undershi Empire distasteful in the extreme, we must note that your invasion of Undershi's Homeland with equal distaste. You who proport to defend democracy via force of arms are as equally mistaken as the Fascists.

Furthermore, the Dominion of Me Li must protest the threatened use of Biologicals in any conflict. We belive your Barabarian Sages have a pithy saying that seems applicable. "Two wrongs doth not a right make." We urge you to allow the Undershi to govern themselves. Containment of this particular Contagin is far more effective than to lower yourselves into the nightsoil. You too risk the pathogen of militarism.

Sirs, We beg of you to please Reconsider your actions.
Could it be that you are mistaken?

We of the Isles have but one final request. Is it acceptable and pleasing for your governments to host some Melii observers in your foolish war? This war seems to be an interesting developmet. We shall send them despite your objections, however, felt that asking would be by far the more polite and reasonable stream/path/way.

May you walk with your Gods.

Imperial Seal


His Holiness El XXXII
Dominion of Me Li
Isles of Mara

ooc: I alway find it strange when Democracies continously go to war.
After awhile ya got to wonder if they really are Democracies...

--Usean Main Island,Usea--
"Target Locked On,Begin Anti-Asteroid Fire."The Commander ordered.The Mighty Cannons of the desert roared to life,There target was not the intended Asteroid,Yet The Undershi Attack satelite.As the Seven Operational Cannons turned for there Targets,The invation was continuing.(ooc-This is a State Secret information,and even this much is too much for international knowledge.)

--Operation Bunker Shot,Undershi--
The Landing Forces Were meet with resistance like they never seen,as there opposition was fighting for there home,yet for the wrong reasons.They had to be set straight.Despite SAMS and Artillery,Many Useans manage to get to the landing point.The next challenge was getting further....

--Naval Forces--
Usean Destroyers And ASW Heli's hunted the Subs as Usean Aircraft from the carriers attacked the ships.Land Based Aircraft like The Highly Adgile Sukhoi/SUSMI Su-37R the stealthy Su-47bis showed that Usea was a force to be reacond with,and not some pushover.

(ooc-People and things from Usea-Jason are called "Usean")

--Usean Main Island,Usea--
"Target Locked On,Begin Anti-Asteroid Fire."The Commander ordered.The Mighty Cannons of the desert roared to life,There target was not the intended Asteroid,Yet The Undershi Attack satelite.As the Seven Operational Cannons turned for there Targets,The invation was continuing.(ooc-This is a State Secret information,and even this much is too much for international knowledge.)

--Operation Bunker Shot,Undershi--
The Landing Forces Were meet with resistance like they never seen,as there opposition was fighting for there home,yet for the wrong reasons.They had to be set straight.Despite SAMS and Artillery,Many Useans manage to get to the landing point.The next challenge was getting further....

--Naval Forces--
Usean Destroyers And ASW Heli's hunted the Subs as Usean Aircraft from the carriers attacked the ships.Land Based Aircraft like The Highly Adgile Sukhoi/SUSMI Su-37R the stealthy Su-47bis showed that Usea was a force to be reacond with,and not some pushover.

(ooc-People and things from Usea-Jason are called "Usean")

OOC: It also showed that they couldn't spell. :p

Frenzian National News

A blonde female anchor wearing a red female suit comes on screen.

''Hi I'm Ashley Jen and welcome to FNN,here is our top story of the day.''

The screen changes to a man in a gray business suit holding a mic.He is standing in front of a fancy building.

''I'm standing here in front of the Frenzian Armed Forces Command Center where the hour long meeting took place.It has been decided that the Frenzians will assist their allies in the attack on the Undershi.It is not known yet what or who is being sent overseas.


Task Force Alpha,1100 miles away from Arterus.

''Sir we have just received a message,we are to redirect and head towards and nation populated by people known as the Undershi who have enslaved the old population.We will be getting more info soon.

It did not take long for the whole fleet to begin turning towards the Undershi.They were not that far away it would only take them a little over a day to reach their destination.On the way they would be meeting up with another Battle group in the area giving them more escorts.

Task Force Alpha



3 Nimitz Class Carrier

6 Ticonderoga-class
cruisers

12 Arleigh Burke-class
destroyers

16 Los Angeles-class

14 Ohio Class SSGN 726

8 Wasp Class

6 Transport Class

4 Supply Class

Meeting up with

7th Battle Group

6 Ticonderoga-class
cruisers

5 Arleigh Burke-class
destroyers

2 Los Angeles-class

2 Ohio Class SSGN 726

2 Supply Class


OOC:If your wondering why I have so many ships it is because I recently abandoned a colony and all the ships were on their way home.

OOC: It also showed that they couldn't spell. :p

:p Are you getting involved or are you going to point out every spelling mistake we make.:p

:p Are you getting involved or are you going to point out every spelling mistake we make.:p

OOC: The second one. Consider me an impartial observer. I'll offer my position on god moding disputes.

Some of the Undershi reserves are being sent on patrol, in an attmept to hunt down the infiltrators. Undershi soldiers are used to long tours of duty hunting down guerillas in the southern provinces, so they are skilled trackers.
As for the aerial attacks, Lightning fighters are being launched against the enemy air craft, as well as Thunderer bombers, with the task of aiding the Lightnings... and shooting up the para-troopers.
The Undershi on the ground are far from helpless, and are sending tons of SAM fire into the air, as well as Gauss-auto fire, directed against your power-armoured soldiers.
The Undershi command has also dedicated a Division of Air Infantry (helicopter-based elite troops) to aid in the annihilation of the para-troopers. (They use a transport helicopter that is basically a Chinook with Gauss-autos instead of machineguns... and a few other high-tech design changes - I'll go over it later, if I get the chance.)
These Air Infantry will be supported by Crusaders and Paladins, which will provide air support against the No_State_At_All infiltrators.

Most of the bunkers were able to return fire, and the bunkers were sturdy enough, and their Point-Defense good enough, that few of the missiles caused actual losses.
Still, some 1,000 Undershi soldiers have perished, taking with them an unknown number of the enemy, as their missiles flew towards the fleet.
Golden Eagle heavy bombers are targeting the fleet with high-altitude bombings, all the while recieving good protection from Lightning fighters.

As For The Fleet:

The Undershi fleet seems content to wait for the enemy to make the first move, and is content to keep the fighting down to a continueous long-range missile duel.
That is, except for the submarines - Undershi "suicide subs" have been striking the enemy fleet almost hourly, firing high-powered torpedos and trying to kill laden troop ships.
Needless to say, most don't survive to try a second time, but they are cheap enough, and their crew of two small enough, that they will likely continue to be used.

Major William Schnider looked... surprised. He seemed unable to grasp just why it was that the Imperial Internal Security men had come for him, and he didn't resist... he seemed certain that it was all a mistake, right up until he found himself seated before a court, hearing the prosecuter announcing what the government would charge him with - mass murder of civilians, all 700 of them killed by him and his men.
At that point, he seemed to almost cry out, so shocked was he, but he did not - True Undershi super-men are stoic. Still, he stumbled over his words as he protested formally - he had just been doing what was normally done - shock the enemy, delay them... he spoke of all those deaths as though he had just burned a field or knocked down a house with a shell.
The court found him guilty, and the judge spoke as he handed down the sentance:
"High Command has outlawed crucificion, or else I would recomend that it be carried out upon this man. As is, I can only sentance him to death by a more humane means - he will die by Leathal Injection, one hour from now."
With that, the IIS men took him away, seeming to find no irony in assisting in the punishment of a man for commiting a crime that the IIS had committed every day for years. Still, with the ban on crucificion, the situation had improved - no longer did the doomed cry out for hours - now they merely died quick deaths, from Leathal Injection or a firing squad.

OOC: This guy is the one responsible for the mass crucificions. The Undershi are serious about that, at least. This trial, and the execution, are being recorded. Amoungst other uses, copies are being sent to the media and governments of all of the Agressors, with messages pleading that Undershi is just, etc., and calling for a peace treaty along the lines of what was first offered, before No_State_At_All ended negotiations and declared war - the Agressors would get all that they had demanded, but on Undershi terms -that is to say, with the two year transitional period. It is being made clear that this is an open offer that may be used at any time by the Agressors.

--Message to Undershi defence Commander--
This is Usean Grand Phoenix Nikohlai Popov.High Command has just notifyed me of a incident from your nation.In the light of this investigation,I beleave a Ceasefire be heald untill this Supposed matter be solved.If you agree,then send a message.

We will offer the Undershi what was offered before.

1.All slaves be released within two years.

2.All NBC weapons be destroyed.

3.A human rights council consisting of people from all the member nations involved be set up.

Until this is agreed to,all ships will continue on their path towards your waters.

The Undershi High Command would like to remind the Agressors that it will not surrender its atomic arsenal - following your unprovoked treachery, we feel that we need our nukes now more than ever. Still, we will not use them until you use WMDs - we want there to be survivors, after all.
As for peace - we are already working on the freeing of the slaves - those employed in areas not essential to the war effort will be released from slavery by the end of this year. As for further changes - your unprovoked Imperialistic agression has, at least temporarily, derailed them.
Peace will alway be possible, but on the terms we have given before: we keep our WMDs, we end slavery over a transition period, and, as for the colonies, we will prepare them for possible self-government following a transitional period.
We refuse any further restrictions on our power - we are not yet a conquered nation to be dictated terms. We are still free, and so we will not take orders from you.

OOC: Remember i said no more negotiations? I meant it... if you surrender the colonies, I'll back off, but not until then. sorry 'bout that.
Oh, and i forgot to RP the orbital bombardment, hmm..

IC:
The Undershi orbital bombardment would this time be met by defences prepared for it. As the "god rods" swept down, missile silos near the NSAA capital fired up against them, the accurate fire picking off 90% of the shells that fell near the mainland, protecting all the important bases from them. Some of the shells, however, fell onto lesser bases, and over 5000 NSAA soldiers were killed under the fire. Naval assets, however, had enough warning from the NSAA sattelite network to make good their escapes, and thus no ships were lost to this barrage.
The fleet's missile tubes, however, were filling the air with SAMs aimed at taking down as many of the incoming enemy aircraft as possible, while NSAA fighters ran off to engage the incoming bombers at closer range.
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The fleet off Jenshalem put up a concentrated anti-missile barrage, and nothing got through to hit the ships. The navy intensified their fire, dropping huge amounts of HE shells onto the defenders in an attempt to keep their heads down, as armoured landing craft from the NSAA 70th legion set out for the shore, their small dual 20mm RFGR (Rapid-Fire-Gauss-Rifle, its a gauss MG) turrets added to the fire heading for the beach defences.
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Meanwhile, the para power armour units were being slowly whittled down by the enemy forces, but continued to fire on, as the infantry dropped rapidly, opening their chutes at the last moment, and immediatly upon landing began to secure small clear areas, hunting down any defenders who may be near their touchdown points. (losses so far: 30 power armour units, 50 infantry, all of the 10 tanks which were dropped, significant numbers of transport planes)
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The fleet off the Undershi shore became annoyed at the constant undershi harrasment, and turned to hunt them down, while a group of 10 Temeraire class heavy hydrofoils moved in opposite the fleet to prevent their escaping, while the submarines moved out to engage the enemy subs, although their departure means that they cant maintain the counter-torpedo presence they had been keeping up until now.

The NSAA sattelites protect themselves with defensive counter-missiles, and return fire but much more so. 2 of them, however, are knocked out by the Undershi missiles.
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The commandoes occasionally run into patrols. at this point they open up with their silenced gaussweapons, ranging from the 2mm RFGRs of the infantry units to the 20mms of the power armour troops. If this isnt enough to break the patrols when materialising out of cover in complete silence, the power armour's grenade launchers are brought into play, filling the air with flying shards of metal as they empty frag rounds into the patrols. (Note, they still havent engaged the silos)

It appears that our allies are refusing to talk this over anymore.Our demands still have not been met therefore our ships will continue towards your lands.The aims of the Frenzian government are not to conquer but to set up a new government and free the slaves.

The Undershi Fleet of The North Pacific has returned, and is preparing to attack the No_State_At_All fleet off the coast of Jenshalem - at the same time as the "trapped" fleet launches a break-out attack.
The total of Undershi naval assets will consist of:

- 64 missile-heavy cruisers
- 16 artillery-heavy cruisers
- 100 destroyers of various designs (but not very widely varried capabilities)
- Three aircraft carriers - the Voltaire, the Locke and the Freimann, all of which have launched their aircraft - that's six hundred Thunderer fighter-bombers, plus some support from land based air fields (some four hundred other Thunderers, plus some hundred odd Lightnings and fifty Golden Eagle strato-bombers...)
- Three missiles submarines - which will hang back and salvo-fire their missiles as support.
- Many, many, small submarines - all of which are engaged with your submarines now... or at least, almost all... a few will continue to try and get through, but likely won't succede.

The Undershi Fleet of The North Pacific is already on its way back to Undershi, while the Fleet of The South Pacific has met up with the Fleet of the East Pacific and the Fleet of the West Pacific, forming a sizable naval task force (six carriers...). What this force will be used for remains to be seen, but it is a sizeable force.

Sergeant Karl Theison examined the oncoming No_State_At_All landing craft... and grinned. It was, after all, a good day to die...

The surviving bunkers kept up a hail of Ground-to-Ground missiles for the duration of the fighting, adding to the massive wall of fire with Gauss-autos, RPGs, lighter missiles and some artillery... it was like a scene from hell.
Some Crusader gun-ships from inland even showed up, scouring the sands before they took missile hits, fragmented and fell in flames... Thunderers came in too, those nimble fighter-bombers, proving their worth as ever - most carried traditional ground attack loads, but others carried new designs - so-called "fletchet-head" missiles, which would detonate in the air, launching thousands of little slivers of metal forward at high velocities - it had been calculated that it would be able to penetrate No_State_At_All power armour, but the designers hadn't been entierly sure... so, only one in one hundred of the missiles deployed in that first engagement was a fletchet-head.
As the fighting wore on, the No_State_At_All troops began to make it onto the beach in one piece, and so a signal was sent, at which point, flying high through the air, came Golden Eagle heavy bombers, laden with deadly stuff indeed - fuel-air bombs. They were well escorted of course, by Lightnings ready to defend the bombers.

OOC: How about that? Needless to say, the FAEs are being deployed on your LZs in order to turn your men into so much roast meat, but they'll also get a few of mine - acceptable losses. You would have overrun them anyway.

Once the napalm had hit, it seemed as though the entire lower beach was on fire... Sergeant Karl Theison, surprised to still be alive, huddled in his bunker, watched the hell-fire fade, and waited to see what next would come.

OOC: You'll notice i didnt say WMD in my "if you dont i wont" thing. I said any and all NBC threats. Napalm is a chemical weapon, and thus NBC, so i'll give you one post to edit that or byebye most of your army as i bio-bomb it to hell...
IC:
The NSAA landing craft were fairly well armoured, and thus most of them survived to make the beach. The troops inside began fanning out, although losses were quite bad, the in-built minor magnetic fields of the power armour finally got a chance to show themselves, and the power armour quickly dug in and began using their computer aided guidance systems to lob HE and frag grenades in through firing ports in the bunkers, while others used their rocket launchers and RFGRs to take down the helicopter gunships
Meanwhile, those fleet elements not now engaging the Undershi navy move their barrage a little further in-shore to avoid short rounds.

OOC: and i'll stop at that point to see if you withdraw the napalm strike...
Also, 200 bombers each on a carrier? surely you mean super-carrier there? but meh. Oh, and i'm not clear on whats going on at sea, is that the combined force of both of your fleets, or the new arrivals, or just whats off Jenshalem or something else entirely? (sorry, but i need to know what ships i can throw at it... not that its going to last long against either of the Warspites, but...)

(ooc-Just so you know,My fleet is in a different area than NSAA.And what dose Undershi's Generals think about a temporary Ceasefire with Usea?)

The Undershi High Command would like nothing more than a ceasefire, if not a permanent peace treaty. We have proven our desire to reform, which No_State_At_All has continued to ignore in its desire for Imperialistic expansion.
We welcome peace with any of the truly good allies of No_State_At_All.

Total Undershi Losses Are:

- 150 helicopters

- 300 aircraft of various types

- 500 AFVs

- 1,000 plus missile launch sites and artillery pieces

- 12,000 True Undershis - May They Rest In Peace.

- Lastly: 1,500 Janissaries.

Total Undershi Losses Are:

- 150 helicopters

- 300 aircraft of various types

- 500 AFVs

- 1,000 plus missile launch sites and artillery pieces

- 12,000 True Undershis - May They Rest In Peace.

- Lastly: 1,500 Janissaries.

OOC: I do find this an interesting placement. Given the ethnocentricity apparent in your True Undershi, I can understand placing the Janissaries last, but as for the True Undershi, are they considered less important than the equipment? Perfectly reasonable if they are, but I'm trying to get your measure before our fight.

OOC: aeson, surely a tank is worth more than an infantryman? even more than a power-armour trooper, in fact...

IC:
As the NSAA infantry began piling out of their boats, the power armour at the front kept up a steady rain of fire on the bunkers. The infantry push up the beach, firing at whatever they can see, despite horrific losses from enemy fire and those mines that are not spotted and shot. Despite all the losses, however, the survivors of the 5000 infantrymen who landed in this first wave reached the top of the beach, and looked to the bunkers to try to finally silence them.
Meanwhile, out to sea, the capital ships of the NSAA naval force turned and rushed at the Undershi naval force, all forward guns and all missile tubes flaming. At the front of the charge came a massive Warspite class battleship, Significantly larger than anything the Undershi force had in position to stop it, and it was steaming directly for the center of the Undershi force. Meanwhile the Hunter-Killer subs underwater were doing their best to suprise the Undershi submariners by sending decoy torpedoes (they sound exactly like one of the subs to sonar) to flank them in one direction, and then going around the other way on their near-silent magnetic drives.

OOC: aeson, surely a tank is worth more than an infantryman? even more than a power-armour trooper, in fact...

OOC: Sure, in monetary terms. If we're talking morals or propoganda, I'd rank the 'murder of the heroic Undershi troops' above the tanks in an announcement of my losses.

OOC: Sure, in monetary terms. If we're talking morals or propoganda, I'd rank the 'murder of the heroic Undershi troops' above the tanks in an announcement of my losses.
OOC: true... Depends whether morale is more important than fighting force, really, and i guess that he wont have any morale problems for a while yet. I, however, after a fiasco like throwing one of my 2nd rate naval landing specialist legions at an over-prepared line like that, have some definite morale issues coming up. :|

--Usean Landing Zone--
On Both sides,all formes,A ceasefire roared by Usean And Undershi Alike.Both Commanders Agreed to halt hostilities until a formal peace.All in all,for the three days of the Usean Invation,they maid all of Nine miles inland when the Ceasefire started.This left a Uneasy fealing on at least the Usean Side,as the Colsest Military bases were over then hundred Miles on the Usean Island of Erusia,as the Bases on the closer Island of North Point were Destroyed by Undershi attack.

9 FB-5 Sonics took off into the night sky.They split into three squadrons,Alpha,Bravo,and Charlie.Each one was to penetrate Undershi air space in three predetermined locations.Each bomber was loaded with a collection of different bombs and missiles.Every weapon on the aircraft was kept in the internal weapons bays to keep the aircraft stealthier.The aircraft would fly in under the radar anyway so it really would not matter.The aircraft would get within range in about two hours.

(as soon as I stop fighting,Everyone else dose?)

The nine bombers entered Undershi air space.They dove low,the crew could hear the waves over the hum of electronics.It was peaceful actually except for the fact the each bomber carried enough explosives to blow up many city blocks.It did not take long for each group of planes to reach their first launching point.


The aircraft came into range and opened their weapons bays,letting loose 10 AGM-88 HARMS each.It would be a little longer before the rest of the bombs were dropped.

OOC: waiting on a reply u-j... but I'm still going, and i guess I will be for a while. Doesnt look like taking the colonies will be easy, but i'll do it anyway.

The cease-fire is being obeyed to its letter - no incidents are being provoked or tolerated. Although there is peace, and no new Undershi forces are being moved in, the ones still there are remaining on high alert - although they have been told that the man to break the ceasefire will be burned alive. (So as to suffer horribly without breaking the ban on crucifiction.)
So far though, all is well. The Undershi High Command is prepared to talk.

The second wave of Undershi air craft came roaring in just as the first row of bunker-covered hills fell to the invaders. The entire hill was leveled with bomb after bomb after bomb and missile after missile after missile from above, a veritable hail of heavy fire from the air.
The incoming fire was meant to be enough to level the hill and turn it into a canyon seven times over - the Undershi believe in over-kill.
As soon as the smoke cleared, the surviving artillery and missile sites on the ground opened up, hurling death at the No_State_At_All units that had survived the initial aerial bombardment... after all, those units were sitting on a pre-set target coordinate...
Meanwhile, the remaining defenses were reinforced with four divisions of mechanized True Undershi might, which deployed with their missile launchers, and set to wait to see what effect the second bombardment had had.

OOC: I do find this an interesting placement. Given the ethnocentricity apparent in your True Undershi, I can understand placing the Janissaries last, but as for the True Undershi, are they considered less important than the equipment? Perfectly reasonable if they are, but I'm trying to get your measure before our fight.

The reason for the list was simple - I was stating the big, expensive, things that No_State_At_All would want to get all warm-and-fuzzy about destroying first, then listing the human (or Undershi) losses.
As for the effects upon morale of cassualties - True Undershis do care about their comrades. They just care less than a normal human would - they're sort of sociopathic like that... but, they are still effective group fighters, and that's what matters.
For the people back home, any level of cassualties lower than a level that would threaten the survival of the True Undershi race would be considered "acceptable" - these people aren't human, after all... still, enough cassualites do demoralize the troops on the site.

The nine incoming bombers were finally spotted, and Lightning fighters, ten of them, were dispatched to hunt them down.
The Lightnings were fast and deadly, and sought their prey with the dedication of a fanatic who would not be denied... they would get those bombers.
Moving to intercept at super-sonic speeds, the Lightnings came in for the kill.

The Lightnings closed on their targets, firing their Air-to-Air missiles at extreme range, then closing, systematically launching their missiles at the enemy bombers the entire time.

(Three would come in from the rear of the enemy formation, two from the left, two from the right and three from in front. After all, your bombers are right in the middle of my air space...)

OOC:I'm sorry for not making this clear,the 9 bombers split into three groups each group is far away from each other.So I need you to post how many air craft are going after each group.

(ooc-Umm Anti Radiation missles?The Usean LZ is a Radio hotspot...Could it be possible that one or so of these missles Accidentally hits the Usean LZ?)

Okay, so the bombers split up. Then they're sending four Lightnings after each bomber group, so that's 12 in all, not 10.

OOC: Undershi, do you want our war to take place in this thread or a different thread? Also, check your TGs.

Twelve grim men in the grey uniforms of the Undershi military sat around a table, listening to a thirteenth man speak. They did not like what they were hearing.
The man continued though, undaunted by the grim faces of these twelve men, these twelve oh-so-powerful men, members of the High Command one and all. He spoke, his words themselves seeming to take a terrifying life of their own:
"We have a problem. The No_State_At_All blockade is not even close to totally effective, and most of our vital goods are produced here in Undershi, but they have succeded in cutting off one critical supply. I'm not talking about oil," he continued, "we produce and refine enough of that. I'm not talking about metals or sodium or even uranium. I'm talking about something more subtle than iron. I'm talking about..." he paused for dramatic emphasis,
"Rubber." as he said that, one of the other men made a move to speak, finally asking:
"Rubber? But what about the rubber plantations in the southern territories?" the speaker shook his head, a faint pained smile upon his face:
"They're not enough. We need more than they can produce. Do you have any idea how many things you use rubber for? Electrical insulation, bike wheels, truck wheels... for a more military example, the firing mechanism of a Gauss rifle contains rubber, in the form of insulation for the wiring... without rubber, we'll be in trouble." the men in the room seemed almost afraid at that point, before he added:
"Fortunately, the rubber produced in the southern territories, along with the healthy recycling and re-use program we already have in place, mean that the situation won't get critical for weeks. We have the time to find a solution." the High Command brightened at this, and one of them asked:
"How about a little "police action" in some rubber-producing nation? We could always ensure that we have a supply in the Empire from here on out..." he trailed off, as the others looked at him. One of them finally spoke:
"Maybe. We have too few men to really make a big effort, but we could come up with something... I'll think about it, and have Military Inteligence think about it too. I'm sure that there's some undefended rubber supply out there... or better yet, a good source that would be willing to sell us some." they stood and prepared to leave, and as they did, the second member of the High Command to have spoke spoke again:
"I'll check with 23Eris about that second possibility first."

The No_State_At_All Landing Zone was marked by a tinny red blotch on the maps, but that little red blotch was the most humiliating offense to Undershi pride that they had ever endured.
Right now the last of the No_State_At_All para-troopers were being hunted down by the Undershi forces in that area, but they had succeded in a round-about way, even as they were hunted down and killed or captured - through their presence, they had distracted attention and key resources from the beaches, where they might have been put to better use.
Still, the situation could still be saved - already, a heavy bombardment of missiles and artillery was coming in on the landing zone, supported by high altitude air craft tossing Fuel-Air Explosives at the Landing Zone like a child might toss stones at a turtle through simple spiteful cruelty.
Meanwhile, in orbit, No_State_At_All communications and military satelites were being targeted with a new type of space-based weapon - a "seeker-killer" drone, which is remote controlled from the surface, and acts by flying into a cluster of enemy satelites... and opening up with long-ranged Gauss fire, fighting recoil in the vacuum, but deadly none the less.
Each drone was good for only a maximum of three uses, but they are good at what they do, and a total of seventy five are deployed, seventy over combat areas, the other five near the Undershi Space Station, (think of it as the International Space Station, except that the crew is made up of two meter tall super-human fascists and its got a CIWS) acting in its defense.

The High Command had never before held a full session where some of its members had come sprinting from their beds, some grimly ignoring the fact that they were wearing their bath robes to a super-secret meeting, others nursing either hang-overs or the after-effects of too little sleep.
One of the liberals had managed to be assigned as the first to speak, and he was livid:
"How could you?!? How could you camel-abusing, dog-bothering idiots have managed to pull this off?!?" as coherent and polite speeches went, it came in as about the third least of either, but it was still awarded as much attention as a more eloquent speaker might ordinarily have waranted. One of the aforementioned "camel-abusing, dog-bothering idiots" was the next to speak, and he was a bit more coherent:
"Well, you said that we needed rubber, so we went and invaded a small rubber-producing nation just near our port in Danteri." he might have meant to say more, but he didn't manage it - one of the liberals cut him off, asking:
"What gave you the right to do that without consuting us? Any war must be approved by a full session of the High Command, and I don't remember being present." the Conservative replied, a genuine grin on his face,
"Well, you see, we needed an excuse too, and that was that another nation was being all colonial there as well, and so... well, since it was a Police Action, we cannot help but feel that it didn't require the consent of a full session - merely the five members that the law says need to be present to approve minor details." this was met with shocked gasps from both liberals and conservatives - this was a case of lawyering if they had ever seen one, and it trampled what little democracy there was in the system quite profoundly.
Finally, one of the liberals managed to clear his throat, then spoke:
"I'll go to 23Eris on the next flight. When I get there, I'll try to talk to their government. I'm sure that we can convince them to be reasonable - if, and I mean if and only if, I can take with me a signed document saying that, as soon as the Imperialists are expelled, we will return this little nowhere land to self-government. After all, we can buy the rubber that we need from 23Eris - that was what I was going to do in the first place, before you showed up and tried to take the old route of conquering anything that has anything that the Empire could concievably need." swallowing nervously, he continued:
"So? What's it going to be?"

Needless to say, the decision to be "good" and help return the locals to self government passed after all that.

The Surviving forces of the 70th reached the top of the beach, only to be almost completely wiped out by the Undershi bombardment. The power armour troops were still dug in on the beach itself, however, grimly determined to cling to the position that had cost so many of their comrade's lives. And now, the heavy armour of the legion was landing. Amidst the swarm of tanks were many Ocelot AAA units, and these would be of great use in destroying any enemy air units that would be silly enough to come into their range. The tanks swept up the beach and ran the gauntlet of the enemy bombardment, trying to force the artillery to cover a larger area. As they swept forward, many of the tanks were flattened by the enemy fire, but the remainder pressed on, now heading for the artillery sites in a suicidal dash, all guns blazing out whenever any sign of resistance was detected.
The navy, meanwhile, unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles against the sites that had launched the barrage on the beach, and then re-opened firing with their cannon, shooting a short way ahead of the charging tanks, to try to keep a few of them alive.
Behind the lines, the last few surviving paras, tired of running, and badly demoralised by their comrade's annhiliation, turned from their running, and made one last glourious charge directly into the oncoming undershi force, emptying their magazines and then closing with bayonets to get a little revenge, up close and personal. The remaining power armour units, all 5 of them, led the charge, all weapons blazing, battle crys echoing from their speakers as they ran to their deaths.
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Meanwhile, in orbit, the NSAA combat sattelites noted the incoming fire, and threw their diposable arrays (those which made them look like comm-sats) into the path of the fire. Then they returned it with missiles launched at the offending units, whether or not they had used up all their ammunition they would be destroyed. The 2 sattelites near the space station, however, were playing a different game, and remained under their guises. One looking like a normal NSAA comm-sat, the other looking like a piece of junk in orbit.
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Back with the surface fleet, a swarm of aircraft was being run off from the NSAA carriers offshore.

[ Meh. I was going to RP out the actual discussion of war, but I'm going to go ahead and say the populace of Gejigrad gave the thumbs-up. Too tired at the moment to do anything else. ]

+++"Alter course one-three-eight degrees, all ahead full."
+++"Aye, Sir. Altering course one-thirty-eight, all ahead full."
+++As the ships of the Twelfth CBG of Gejigrad's People's Navy steamed toward the Undershi mainland, a squadron of twenty-four B-4 Ghost stealth bombers readied for takeoff elsewhere, along with a further two squadrons of twenty-four F/A-31 Raven stealth fighters for an escort. Within five to seven minutes, their payloads would be mounted, and they would be taking to the air, flying toward the chosen waypoint, one thousand kilometers away from the capital. They would launch twelve Tomahawk cruise missiles each, totalling two hundred eighty-eight inbound vampires; twenty-four were directed at the executive building(s), while the rest were to hit the main military nerve center of Undershi.
+++An encrypted message was also sent out to the NSAA High Command, notifying them of Gejigrad's upcoming entrance into the conflict. It outlined the strength of forces that would be deployed, along with a schedule and a list of locations for the landing.
+++Back in the Gejigradian homeland, the Seventy-Second and Thirty-Eighth Divisions being mobilized, and their transports and escorts prepared. There would be thirty-two Vanguard-class guided-missile destroyers, with a further twenty-eight Dragon-class guided-missile cruisers. Also coming along would be two Indestructible-class fleet carriers, eight Sphinx-class light carriers, twenty-two Vixen-class attack submarines, sixteen Supply-class T-AOEs, ten Henry J. Kaiser-class oilers, twelve Otter-class dock landing ships, as well as an additional nine Claymore-class dock landing ships. The air compliment would be composed of seven hundred thirty aircraft, two hundred twelve of which would be comprised of F/A-22 Ravens, as well as twenty-four EA-6B Prowlers and the same number of E-12 Pinpoints, two hundred ninety-two Lu-27 Condor interceptors and forty-six S-3B Vikings, with a handful of ASW helicopters with the LAMPS III system mounted on them.

--Over the NSAA LZ--
A Usean UR-4 Reconesance Aircraft overflew the battle.It's lack of identification was unnearving,yet that was to avoid blame,just like the KGB liked it.At a altitude Similar to the Undershi Bombers,Yet it's box wing made it visually look different from the other aircraft.

(Oh,Undershi,THe Usean Island of North Point,The one that was hit by your kinetic Attack,Has a Large supply of rubber...)

As the No_State_At_All troops came charging over the hills, they were greeted by a loud broadcast on all channels, and with loudspeakers:
"Surrender now! Your cause is hopeless! You do not need to die today! If you surrender, you will be treated accoarding to the Geneva conventions! Surrender and you will not be harmed! You will be treated with respect..." the broadcast went on and on and on, as the Undershi Air Infantry launched an attack from the flanks, having been moved in quickly with their helicopters, and dug-in heavy infantry "held the line" against the No_State_At_All push.
All efforts that could be made were being made to take prisoners, and when the paratroopers, mad with glory, charged the bunkers with their bayonets, they were met with an almost mocking response: they were tasered, put down by non-lethal means, so that they could be taken alive.
Of course, the efforts made to take the power armoured No_State_At_All soldiers prisoner were less extreme - mostly, those that did not surrender, were just smashed with concentrated Gauss and RPG fire.
In the end, 1,000 odd True Undershis and some 200 Janissaries perished, in exchange for the destruction or capture of the majority of the No_State_At_All force.

OOC: Usea-Jason, I'm sorry, but we're currently under a cease-fire agreement, and so I'm not going to provoke you... as for rubber, we're getting it elsewhere.

The Gejigrad naval forces were met by the Undershi Combined Pacific Fleet, that major force that had gathered earlier in the war.
This force consists of:

- Six carriers: The Plato, the Aristotle the Kant, the Rousseauthe Pope, and the pride of the East Pacific Fleet, the Confucius.

- 1,200 Thunderer class fighter-bombers (200 on each carrier).

- 24 cruisers (20 missile-heavy variants, four artillery-heavy variants).

- 75 destroyers.

- 95 misc. support ships.

- 5 Transports.

- Three missile submarines.

This represents the single largest unassigned task force of the Undershi navy, and it is prepared to engage the Gejigrad fleet, with the task of turning it aside or destroying it, either option acceptable, so long as it does not reach Undershi soil.
Before the fleet attacks, a message is being broadcast, asking the Gejigradans quite nicely to stay out of the war, turn back, and not get smashed to bloody bits.

Gejigrad Air Attack

The stealth bombers were spoted by the air patrols, although they got quite near to their way-point before they were seen. Once the Undershi were alert, six Lightning fighters were dispatched to hunt down each of the 24 stealth bombers, with another six for each of the escorts.
SAM fire was almost totally useless, but some was sent up anyway, largely because the men on the ground didn't exactly want to do nothing. The Lightnings roared in at super-sonic speed, but as they did, it became obvious that they were not going to intercept the Gejigrad bombers before they fired their missiles.
Just as the Lightnings came in to engage the bombers, they reached their way-point and fired. For the first time in the conflict, Undershi City itself would be hit by enemy fire from something other than an orbital weapons satelite...

The Old Winter Palace, which had been built in 1869, was the official seat of the Undershi High Command, and so was also the executive center of the Undershi Empire - the High Command ran the Empire, acting as Legislature, Executive branch and supreme military authority, all rolled into one.
The missiles smashed the old palace, sending huge pillars of rubble flying into the air. A statue of one of the old kings mounted on a war horse was flung hundreds of meters into the air, to land across the street, crushing a small outdoor cafe, and the centuries old palace was reduced to rubble.
There was only one problem - the High Command had, as per usual orders for times of war, moved to a bunker complex underneath the palace that was meant to survive anything short of a direct hit on that site with a ten kilo-tonne nuke. As such, they survived.
In fact, their communications with the outside world wasn't even interupted - they merely felt a slight tremor as the palace, a major cultural site, was obliterated... along with forty guards, three hundred minor clerks, and one hundred and twenty cleaners.
Needless to say, this attack was played up as a brutal Gejigrad attack on a non-military target, one that resulted in the deaths of 420 civilians, True Undershi and norm, and forty soldiers, along with, of course, the near total destruction of the only remaining palace of the old regime to have survived the revolution.

The Old Winter Palace was in the middle of down town Undershi City. As the bloody bodies were carried out, uncovered in spite of regulations so that their deaths would have a greater propaganda value, a little unintentional bit of propaganda was shown that had far greater impact.
A little girl was shown, as the ghastly bodies were taken past the cameras. She was a norm girl, eight years old, her hair in braids, and she had been on her way from school to see her mother, who worked as a clerk at the palace. She threw herself onto the bloody body of her mother as it was taken out of the palace, and she cried, cried as the grim-faced soldiers assigned to maintain order at the disaster site pulled her off the stretcher, her pink shirt stained with her mother's blood.

That Night

That night, the world was treated to that and to other images. The Undershi were trying to fight a media battle as well as a physical one, and so they tried their best to seem entierly the victims.
It was pointed out, grimly, that the attacks had failed to achieve any goal save the deaths of 420 civilians and 40 soldiers, and that the target had not only been a major cultural site, the only palace to survive the revolution, but also such a "vital war site" that tour groups had gone through it every morning until the attack.
The Gejigrad military was portrayed as a bunch of murderors throughout the whole effort, but it ended with an interesting message:
a junior member of the High Command had stood, tears in his eyes, behind a podium, and had spoken to the government of Gejigrad, saying:
"My wife was a clerk at the palace, the head of the division that was based up there. I feel... so guilty, for having been safe in the bunkers beneath the palace when the missiles hit, and I don't know how I will ever face my five children, but... I, along with every other member of the council, have agreed to make the government of Gejigrad an offer: they withdraw from this war, turn their fleet around, and we don't hit back. We don't want a war, we never wanted a war, and we have always been open to any Peace With Honor. I hereby repeat what we offer as terms for peace to those nations currently fighting us: we will withdraw from our colonies in two years, the High Command will disolve itself and hold democratic elections in two years and... slavery in Vital War Industries will be abolished as soon as the war is over. It has already been abolished in less vital areas, and we have held to other details of our offers, in spite of unprovoced agression on the part of the Imperialistic agressors who sought a cause for a war with us - we have abolished crucificion as a punishment. Please, all we want is peace - let there be peace." With that, the Undershi message to the world ended.

--Rive,Usea--
The new reports came in,"So,Undershi HAS changed...We will great them as much."Another report,Recently arived about the Gejigrad Air raid...."This....This is horrible!What monsterous Oversight in information!This Needless lose of life!This will not go unwarned!Send these two messages,Now!"With the hopes of Usea.

--Message to Undershi--
We of the Soviet Usean Union now see that you have changed,as with this enlighten thought.We have also heard of the attack by Gejigrad,And are deaplly saddend.With this message,We wish for peace.We want to stop the fighting.With this message,a peace treaty will follow soon.

--Message to Gejigrad--
We have recentlly learned of you gross miscalculated air raid on Undershi.We are appaled by the outcome.With the new found peace between Undershi and Usea,We sugest that you stop before your mis-inteligance hurts more inocent lifes.If you persice,then you will not only have Undershi to deal with,Yet Usea as well.

--Message to allies countries still fighting--
The Nation of Undershi has changed.With this change,a chance for peace.So we of Usea Ask that you stop fighting As soon as posible.

We thank you of Usea-Jason for your words. Peace between our people's would be an admirable goal. We look forward to dealing with you as friends, perhaps later even as allies. We have changed, and we only wish that the rest of the world would understand that as you seem to.

[ The Gejigradian fleet is going to take a few days to get to Undershi, so intercepting it is not possible at this time. ]

+++As the Lightnings closed on the Gejigradian aircraft, they would be met with one AIM-120C-5 AMRAAM Slammer missile each, leaving another six for later engagement. As it was not clear if any missiles from the Undershi were launched, it would be assumed by the author that they would be coming in with some sort of nose-mounted cannon. Being that the F/A-31 had the radar cross-section of a small bird, and the B-4 possessed an even smaller RCS, it was doubtful that anything actually hit the groups. Such was open to discussion, however. The SAMs that were launched would likely lose their targets--or not even find them in the first place.
+++Matthew Thompson, People's President of the People's Community of Gejigrad, was scheduled the next morning to make a reply to the international community regarding the situation in Undershi. In the crisp air, just as the sun was rising, the stage was being finished, while cameramen would be just about ready--some to the side of the area, some toward the back, on top of their vans. Reporters tested microphones, and Matthew tucked notecards into his jacket.
+++A small knot of People had gathered before the stage, with small groups adding themselves to the mass every now and then. This continued even after the speech began, which was thus:
+++"People of Gejigrad, you have decreed that the oppressive régime in the nation of Undershi be lifted off the shoulders of its, quite literally, slaves. Following this decision, I have declared war upon the Undershi, with the goal of removing the current leadership of the Undershi and intalling or overseeing the creation of a more democratic government in that nation. In accordance with that declaration, your military has attacked the military nerve center of the Undershi--and they claim it is a non-military target. I do not know what blinds or stupefies the Undershi propagandists, but their Winter Palace was, indeed, a military target--one need only take a look at the blueprints to understand such. Alternatively, one might take a glance at their form of government--a military council, based in the Winter Palace. Are we murderers to attack them at such a site? I think not, and the Geneva Convention will support me in that claim." A moment was taken as he shuffled the notecards. "The Undershi claim that they will withdraw from their neobarbaric practices in two years. Two years? I ask you, People of the Community, is that acceptable in the least? Two years of further enslavement of those they have outright conquered? And how are we to know that such an assurance will be carried through? Their word, and their word only. Normally, with a respectable nation, that would be enough. However, the Undershi's track record speaks for itself on the matter of their civility--they are a brutalistic, oppressive group of sociopaths whose only goal is the expansion of their borders and keeping those whom they deem 'unworthy' under their thumb. Their offers of peace are but flailings in the face of the consequences of their disregard for civil rights, and are, quite frankly, worth nothing more than a handful of dust. There will be no peace until the decision is carried through, despite unavoidable casualties, and a proper government set in place. Thank you."
+++Later that day, a reply was sent to the Usea-Jasonite government. It read thusly:
+++"Contrary to your understanding, the attack on the Winter Palace was, indeed, a calculated move to take out the ruling body and military leadership of the Undershi. Both our government and military knew and know what they are doing, and neither will turn from our resolve.
+++"Should you enter the conflict on the side of Undershi, then we will have no choice but to attack you, as well. Let it be known that the government of Gejigrad does not want to open another front with Usea-Jason, but will if forced."

Just A Few Things:

- The Winter Palace was designed as a palace by one of the last Undershi kings. It wasn't meant to be a military HQ building.
- Slavery in industries that are not critical to the War Effort has already been abolished. Slavery in critical industries is set to be abolished as soon as we win.
- The Winter Palace is about as militarily key a site as, say, the White House. Sure, the Commander-in-Chief is there, technically, but if there was a war, he'd be nice and safe in some bunker off somewhere. This target was a bad choice, basically, escpecially since it was a major cultural site, since it was the last remaining palace, since all the others were destroyed in the Revolution.
-

And, on the subject of Lightnings, they have an electronic warfare system at least as advanced as any of yours, plus significant missile armament. They wouldn't be using their Gauss cannons in that situation.
So:

What Happens in the Air (Undershi Perspective):

The Undershi Lightnings came into the missile envalope of the fighter escorts, dodging and weaving as the missiles came flying in at them, tossing out sensor ghosts, radar disruptions and deploying chaff canisters.
They fired their own missiles, not caring if they employed overkill - each Lightning emptied its missile racks in less than five seconds - within six seconds, each and every one of the Gejigrad flyers had a total of around 72 Air-to-Air missiles on their way, each seeking them with deadly precision, prepared to kill the communist aircraft. Needless to say, most missed, even with the cutting edge AI units built into the missiles, self-aware self-correcting missiles. Still, at least some got through...

In the end, 19 Lightnings died, for an unknown number of their enemies.

The NSAA naval force, tired of waiting, steamed full speed straight into the Undershi force, all forward guns and missile tubes attempting to sink as many ships as possible, while the massive Warspite class battleship lead the way, aiming directly at the center Undershi carrier and closing fast. In the air above them a huge swarm of NSAA aircraft formed a defensive cordon to prevent any air attacks on the fleet.
Meanwhile, one of the few survivors of the force that breached the beachhead searched an undershi corpse for ammunition, and found a small book... On giving it a quick perusal while hunkered down in cover, the man then ran down the beach, somehow avoiding all the Undershi fire incoming at the time, and got to a surviving landing craft. this soon put out to sea, and, although damaged, made it back to one of the craft left behind to maintain the barrage of the undershi positions. Soon the world was being given proof of the Undershi's beliefs that they should control everything, through any means possible, in the shape of the Undershi "bible" carried by every soldier in thier forces.

Meanwhile, whenever the captured paras get a chance, they suicidally charge their captors, expecting nothing but torture, they will not surrender, no matter their situation.

This is a Formal Peace Treaty Between the Counseled Government of Undershi and the Soviet Usean Republics.

1-All hostilities Between Undershi and Usean Military Forces/Complying Allied Forces are to cease.

2-The Region known as "Jenshalem" Will be jointly controlled by Undershi,Usea and a compliant number of Allied states.This is to continue until the End of Undershi Occupation of the region.

3-The Undershi Government may stand as is.

4-Any Undershi in Usea will be under restriction until further notice,or to be shipped back to a Undershi controlled region.

5-All known POW are to return to there rightful countries as soon as possible.

6-Any allied Nation that dose comply with this treaty will stop all military campaigns in Undershi.

By accepting this treaty,nations involved in this conflict will end all offensive military campaigns,and return back to there countries within five months.

Leader of the Union of Usean Soviet States,
Supreme Soviet Unifyed Jason Mikoyan

Commander of Usean Forces in Undershi,
Grand Phoenix Nikohlai Popov,Usean Air Forces
General Alexandir Hideyoshi,Usean Marine Forces
Admiral Alexia Badgiruel,Usean Naval Forces

[ -Of course it wasn't--why else would it be called a palace? :p However, the Undershi had been using it as such before the war started, so the PAF went off of that. Or that's how I understood it.
-Counter-propaganda time. If Undershi paints Gejigrad whatever colour they choose, the PCG'll do the same. :3
-You never said what was going on with the Lightnings. That's why specifics are so important--they nail down what's happening, when, and how. They leave no room for what I did--and if I were someone else, I wouldn't even be discussing this. It'd just be "Better luck next time."
-Define "significant missile armament." If it's more than eight, then you're probably either left with a big fighter, or you're mounting the missiles on the wings--which would lower their stealth considerably, either way.

I'll post ICly when the last has been cleared up. ]

The Lightning fighter carried a load of load of deadly little missiles, which are slightly smaller than the normal Air-to-Air missiles in use by most other nations, but just as deadly.
They're big fighters, sure, but not very big, and they carry ten, rather than eight - although they can also carry wing-mounted missiles, if the mission requires fire-power over stealth.

The No_State_At_All paratroopers mostly succeded in fighting to the death, in spite of the best efforts of the Undershi defensive forces to take them alive.
As soon as the fighting was over, Undershi medics went through the No_State_At_All cassualties, and tried to save and wounded.
Those who were taken alive are being shipped to a prison camp near Undershi City, where they are being treated accoarding to the Geneva Conventions. That's right - no torture, no interogations, three meals a day and no forced labor - although there are four Roll Calls a day, and anyone who attempts to escape and is caught will be flogged... still, by Undershi standards, it's a significant improvement over the old methods of "shoot them all then publicly display the bodies".

When No_State_At_All tried to make a diplomatic coup out of the contents of the book taken from a dead Undershi soldier, the Undershi High Command responded by announcing, quite clearly and publicly, that yes, that was their book, and that that book, their "bible" had about as much impact on their foreign policy as the literal bible had had on Imperial German policies in World War One, when the German soldiers had carried copies of it. They are admitting that it is a fascist book, but, they are also basically saying that No_State_At_All would be about as justified in attacking modern Germany over Mein Kampf as they would be in bothering Undershi about their book.

Major artillery and missile bombardments have targeted the NSAA Landing Zone, in addition to air strikes from high flying Golden Eagle heavy bombers. All in all, it looks like an effort to "thrown NSAA into the sea" may be about to commence...

The Undershi fleet responded to the NSAA naval offensive by goinging out to meet them too.
The relief fleet was catching the NSAA force from behind at just that time, and the 1,200 Undershi Thunderer fighter-bombers effectively contested air supperiotity.
Scores of Undershi destroyers, dozens of Undershi cruisers and several submarines are all moving in, all guns ablazing, straight for the NSAA fleet, in what appears to be a rare event indeed - a battle where both sides are convinced that the other side is trapped, and that they have them where they want them.

The Undershi High Command has always wanted peace. We hereby agree to abide by all of those rules that you have given, save that Jenshalem will be allowed to vote, under your supervision, whether it wishes to remain part of the empire or not, rather than just go automatically.
We will accept all of these terms as soon as NSAA and its allies have been either convinced to come to the negotiation table, or have been defeated. In other words, as soon as the war is over, we will move to agree with all of those conditions.

We accept your revision,and hop that the other nations stop.

[ That sounds all right. I'll assume these are regular air-to-air missiles rangewise, unless you say something. ]

+++Twenty-one F/A-31s were lost, along with four B-4s. The rest would take their leave of Undershi-controlled territory, flying NOE over the ocean to the airbase from whence they had come. Meanwhile, in orbit, five SkyHammer attack satellites aligned themselves over the chosen Gejigradian landing site, sending seven hundred kilograms of ten-centimeter bomblet munitions each onto an area a kilometer square on the beach.
+++The fleet's aircraft were brought onto the decks of the aircraft carriers, in preparation for launching. They would be in the extreme range of the Undershi fleet by the next morning. As this was happening, the attack submarines moved forward, sweeping ahead for mines and enemy subs.

--Tauberg,Usea--
In the Forested area on the Main Usean island,Alarms were going off."Sir,Multiple Sub orbit contacts confirmed on allie state of Undershi.There comming fast!"as the CO said,"Allright,there falling in a relative straight line,fo fire 'Excalibur' at the first,and we'll get most of them.get the STN guys on the attacks sats as well."With that order,the Sword of Annihalation started charging.

--1,190 km away,Gejigradian landing site--
The Orbital bomblets were about half way to there targets when all around,all forces could see the blue beam cutting the air.The Azure slash destroied five of the several bomblets as the large beam hit them.At this time,A Usean Refection Aircraft, a modified 777,bounced the beam back across the sky,taking out more bomblets.Even with two sweeps of the Sword,many bomblets landed.

--San Salvacian,Usea--
"Another ASAT,when will people learn...Fire the STN!"As a relic from the last war started moving.The cannon array fired huge Anti Asteriod rounds,that could easly take a ASAT out.As the loud blast ripped the skies of Usea.

The Gejigrad fleet found itself in for a bit of a surprise when the Undershi Orbital Defense satelites dropped thirty-odd kinetic Gauss bombs on them. Each was the non-atomic equivelent of a one kilo-tonne bomb, and each was targeted directly at one of the major concentrations of Gejigrad ships.
At around the same time, Undershi attack submarines began torpedo attacks against their Gejigrad counterparts, firing from extreme range largely to discourage the Gejigradans from coming in closer.
At the same time, missile cruisers all throughout the Undershi fleet sent their ultra-long-range cruise missiles flying with the intent of harrassing the Gejigradan fleet while it recovered from the shock of the orbital kinetic strikes.

On The Beaches

The Undershi forces at the designated Landing Zone were well entrenched in hardened concrete bunkers, each of which was protected by CIWS fire, SAMs and a long-range Ground-to-Ground missile launcher, not to mention numerous Gauss-autos and automatic grenade launchers, most of which were remotely controlled by computers.
Their CIWS fire prevented most of the tinny fraction of the bombardment that made it through the Usean defensive fire from reaching the surface, but some, inevitably, got through.
Most of the penetrations were not serious - they either missed and hit the sand or the sea, or hit indirectly, and destroyed automated sentry guns and anything else that was out in the open, but some shots were direct hits.
Three bunkers were lost with all hands to direct hits that penetrated their massive armoured walls, and another eight were damaged, but all in all, the bombardment had delt fairly light damage, mostly thanks to the Usean assistance they had recieved.

Later, after the fires had been put out, the High Command sent an official letter of thanks to the government and military of Usea-Jason, thanking them for their assistance, without which many more lives would have been lost.

OOC:um.... those sattelites were under heavy fire a while ago... how many have you got left? anywho

IC:
The aircraft above the NSAA fleet dropped back slightly, but would swarm forwards to destroy any attacking enemy aircraft before they could fire on the fleet. Meanwhile, the fleet, confident in its superior firepower, ignored the Undershi navy's return fire as their first missile barrage burst against the assorted anti-missile defences of the fleet and most of the shells were deflected to pass through the gaps in the fleet by the NSAA patent magnetic defensive field. However, a few shells hit home, mostly on the Warspite class HMS Black Mountain, doing minor external damage, but failing to penetrate her heavy armour.

The landing zone was not faring as well, as those forces remaining on the beach were finally wiped out, although a small but significant force had already run the bombardment, and now closed with the Undershi artillery, blasting away in an attempt to silence them (ooc: posted them running it a while back... you failed to react, so i can close. whoo... less casualties for the next landing force... thank god)

OOC: oh, and I dont agree to that peace deal... my demands are that Undeshi surrenders all claim to the colonies. until that is agreed, I fight on.

+++It was hard to miss a kinetic strike from orbit--the thermal halo alone would be enough, much less the radar returns. Anti-satellite missiles would be launched from the Gejigradian mainland at the offending orbitals, travelling in excess of Mach 5. As for the rounds already on their way, the fleet began to split off into groups to avoid the main attack sites. The oilers would suffer the worst casualties, being the slowest ships in the fleet, but the carriers--even the two fleet carriers, because of their trimaran design--cruisers, and destroyers all possessed the speed to maneuver out of the way. The shockwaves sunk no more than four oilers with severe damage to two others, and also heavily damaged eighteen destroyers, along with six cruisers. The carriers suffered light damage. As the People's Navy personnel were recovering, the automated Kashtan CIWS mounts opened up with anti-missile missiles at a range of ten thousand meters, independent thirty-millimeter cannons opening up at four thousand meters. How many actually got through the extended range of the defensive fire would depend on just how many missiles were fired.
+++Losses on the Gejigradian side of the submarine warfare would be less than expected, as there were apparently no helicopters equipped with ASW suites to aid the Undershi subs. Still, losses were inevitably taken.
+++Back at the Octagon's War Room, Citizen General Andrew Sylva glared at the report in front of him, outlining the result of the bombardment of the landing site. "I thought we told them to stay out of this!" he roared ferociously--and being a furre, that was quite a bit more scary than a human--slamming a fist onto the railing that lined the holographic projection screen below him. He mumbled something under his breath as he turned away, stalking to an office on the side of the room. The door slammed shut as he entered, momentarily interrupting the flow of activity in the room.
+++Sylva would then grab the encrypted phone off its base, pressing it to his ear while he waited to be connected. During the three or four minutes that that took, he'd have cooled somewhat, and his voice was mildly less irratible when Matthew Thompson heard it. At the moment, he was in another part of the Octagon, monitoring a particularly lively discussion on the country's generalistic forum board, on the classic science-vs.-religion debate.
+++"I can't believe this shit," Sylva growled, drumming his fingers on the edge of his desk as he leaned against it. Matthew would merely quirk an eyebrow, waiting for the inevitable explanation. It came sooner than he thought it might. "Usea-Jason just frigging stopped the orbital bombardment, for Chrissakes. What the hell do they think they're doing? They haven't got one decent reason to intervene!"
+++"This is the, ah...what, the communist guys from the Pacific?" came the mild question of the People's President. He didn't ask how it was possible that such a thing happened. After all, there were quite a few more strange things in the world--like why did they make those little party-sized soda bottles and sell them for more than the sixteen-ounce ones?
+++"Yeah," grunted Sylva. "We already warned them once--what the hell do they think they're doing?"
+++Thompson was silent for a moment. "I'll send a message personally to them. As soon as I'm done, I want you to order another bombardment, and see what happens. Use more satellites if you wish. As for the fleet we had en route to Undershi, pull them back. We need to eliminate those satellites of theirs before more lives are lost. The last thing we want is to have everyone crying over spilt blood before we've even made landfall."
+++"I'll make it happen," answered Sylva, a small click thereafter, signalling that he'd hung up.


[ Email to UJ is in the next IC post. ]

--Rive,Usean Cultural Capital--
The people of usea now learned of the end of the Undershi war,and the quick turn of events,as the State news helped to unravel the spun conditions.many useans still loved the SSu and the Socalist way.All execpt the CAUJ....

--San Salvacian,Usea--
The STN cannon array was Ready to launch,as the A-O round was loaded into Henge 4,5 and 6.The large cannons,unknown to most the world,now took a part.the cannons were aimed at the attack satellite over Undershi.This would take them all out,including the Undershi ASAT's.So they needed the full OK to fire.

--Tauberg,Usea--
"Direct hit!And sucesful defection!yet dont get to full of it,we still are needed."The Commander said,as the large generators started to recharge,"Radar,keep me posted on antthing closing in."

--Usean Onsite Command(UOC),Undershi--
The Usean forces that landed in the Invation were now orderd to help the Undershi.This confused some of them,yet when the events of the day were showen to them,they knew they made a difference,and now will help there new allies.

--Usean Fleet--
The Flagship of the Usean fourth navy,The Sinifaxi and its Submarine fleet,as well as the Second Usean Surface fleet with its Carrier attack force started to move twards the Gejigradian fleet,yet without orders,they just waited.

(ooc-NSAA,I am still allied to you,so I will avoid fighting you.)

In preperation for the Usean anti-satelite bombardment, every single Undershi combat satelite still in orbit fired its payload, deploying approximately ten kilo-tonnes worth of kinetic explosive force directly onto the NSAA Landing Zone, force sufficient to kill anything, even power armour or tanks.
Others fired their anti-satelite missiles, true, but most were directed at distant targets, and so only a few stood any chance at all of getting through... but those satelites would all be lost soon anyways, so they deployed now.

The Undershi fleet responded to the chaos caused by the orbital bombardment to send in their Thunderers for a quick raid against outlying Gejigrad units, firing dozens of times the number of anti-shipping missiles that their computers told them were needed, trusting to their ECM and the enemies disorientation to limit their casualties.
Meanwhile, the long-range submarine battle continued, noticable only for the chance loss of one Undershi combat submarine, the Brutus, with all hands due to a lucky hit. Other subs suffered light damage, but this loss awards First Blood to the Gejigrad.

--San Salvacian,Usea--
"Code Green!Code Green! Op Plane Orange,Fire!"The Commander Said,as the Targeting satelites locked on from a far.The Anti-Asteroid Shells riped a hole in the sky as the Magnetic Railcannons fired them into the heavens,like the hand of god.

--Space--
As the Undershi satelites left the area,750 km away,the Usean Tarsat system guided the Barrels of the cannons to there targets.As the AAS's meet there target,a large hole in communications with the satelites as they were not there.The true explanation is hidden by the Tarsat as a Usean State Secret.

(Basically,for those who didn't get it,all satelites over Undershi are gone.All of them for about 750kn per AAS incounter.)

OOC: (teh sats) umm...how? they can dodge, you know... and EMPs have no effect on my sattelites apart from knocking out their comms relays... which, by the way, is a really bad idea, as it puts them into holocaust mode, and then... um, bye, mr undershi... I dont want to do that, but its how they work. Knew putting that onto them would bite me someday...
And, um... if you shot my sattelites down, we sure as hell aint allied any more, i cant afford to replace those at the mo. My fleet will turn on yours at close range... *hides in corner and cries*

IC:
The Undershi bombardment of the landing zone was a mistake, as it had already been cleared out, and the last forces had either pulled back to the fleet or run in to close quarters with the Undershi artillery, which now would be taking casualties as it was overrun by tanks. (ooc: :D)

(ooc-That's why I have warned allies beforehand.And theis destroys sats.)

OOC: (teh sats) umm...how? they can dodge, you know... and EMPs have no effect on my sattelites apart from knocking out their comms relays... which, by the way, is a really bad idea, as it puts them into holocaust mode, and then... um, bye, mr undershi... I dont want to do that, but its how they work. Knew putting that onto them would bite me someday...
And, um... if you shot my sattelites down, we sure as hell aint allied any more, i cant afford to replace those at the mo. My fleet will turn on yours at close range... *hides in corner and cries*

IC:
The Undershi bombardment of the landing zone was a mistake, as it had already been cleared out, and the last forces had either pulled back to the fleet or run in to close quarters with the Undershi artillery, which now would be taking casualties as it was overrun by tanks. (ooc: :D)

OOC: Who said anything about EMPs?

Most of the shore defense artillery was made up of either bunker based ground-to-ground missiles or mobile units from the mechanized units that had moved in to assist the dug in defenders.
The mechanized units had tanks, which engaged the NSAA armour as it pushed in, all the while allowing the mobile artillery to keep a good envalope of engagement, which it used to conduct supporting fire of the Undershi armour.
The Undershi armour there consists of Drake MBTs, Viper IFVs and a few other lighter units.

OOC: When I said I was targeting the landing zone, I meant the Landing Zone troops. Sorry.

OOC: Who said anything about EMPs?
OOC: true... its just the only way i can see to knock out about 20 sattelites... and if you warned me about it UJ, i'd have warned you not to fire if you dont want an extra front... I'm sorry, but thats what happens if you break my stuff..
and Undershi, you have to specify what your stuff was doing, my tanks had already closed, and were moving around quickly, so shooting them with arty isnt easy... Yes, they'll be wiped out, but they'll take lots of arty with them, because you failed to react to them charging it...

(ooc-Well,sorry,If ti is just the material sats,I'll replace them.Yet you have to undershand that the STN system was made to shoop asteriodsout of there orbits,se it had to be strong.)

Anyway, most of the artillery was from the mechanized divisions that had moved in to help - they're being protected by Drakes and Vipers, so should be harder to kill than normal arty would.

OOC: I'm going to not be able to post so regularly - I've got a trip to make, and I won't be home for four weeks, so while I'll try to post when I can, with public PCs etc., I likely will have a bit of trouble doing so, so please excuse any lengthy response lags on my part.

(ooc-Well,sorry,If ti is just the material sats,I'll replace them.Yet you have to undershand that the STN system was made to shoop asteriodsout of there orbits,se it had to be strong.)
But how does it do it?

And thats cool Undershi, have fun on teh trip.

Thanks. Told you I'd be able to post at least occassionally!

(ooc-State secret...sorry.and there was minimum damage to NSAA sats due to the assumed rande that your sats fly.my fire was directed at normal Attack sat range,so they would be most effected.

(ooc-State secret...sorry.and there was minimum damage to NSAA sats due to the assumed rande that your sats fly.my fire was directed at normal Attack sat range,so they would be most effected.

OOC: Nah... doesn't cut it. Otherwise I'm gonna start using my 'ubertanks' which can travel 70000000000000000000000000000000000 billion quadrillion miles on an ounce of gas, take a meteorite the size of Mars without scratching the paint, and shoot a shell through the Great Wall of China, lengthwise. If you ask me how, I'll say 'state secret'

(Occ-Hey! It's only a secret Untill I get proof that it was witnessed,then i'll explane it.

[ Call a McFly if anyone uses it ICly.

If it's OOC, it's useless to our characters. ]

+++As the Gejigradian fleet began to move back toward their home, reorganizing even as they fended off attacks from the inbound vampires, they would note the Usea-Jasonite fleet beginning to near them. The message sent was curt, and quite clear:
+++Ships of Usea-Jason, be advised to stay clear of our attack envelope and intended course. Should you continue to close, we will fire upon you.
+++Meanwhile, an email would find itself in the leader of Usea-Jason's inbox. It read:

Subject: Usea-Jasonite Intervention
From: Matthew Thompson <mthompson@execcomp.gj>
To: [ leader name here ] <[ x ]>
Date: 07.02.06 2344


[ leader title here ],

+++In response to your defense of the nation of Undershi against the nation of the People's Community of Gejigrad, sir, I will advise you to step down from the position you have taken. Do not escalate a conflict which need not concern you.

Signed,
[signature]
People's President Matthew Thompson,
People's Community of Gejigrad

OOC: tell me OOC how it works, not IC... and can we freeze naval action until I decide if my sats a)survived and nothing happened, b)got EMPed, and just wiped out undershi (i hope not), or c)got broken, and my fleet opened up on the Usean fleet at close quarters...
IC:
TO: Whatever group is in command of Undershi at this point
FROM: the NSAA high command

The situation in Saint Rynald is degenerating, and both our casualties will escalate if the fighting continues. We will give you another chance for peace now. Surrender the territories of Jenshalem and Saint rynald for us to place back into the hands of home government, and save your and our men's lives. Otherwise, consider what happened to the Kraven corporation when it acted as you did...
[Message ends]

Meanwhile, back home in NSAA, naval units were loading men and munitions in preparation for moving them out to somewhere...

(ooc-The round works with like this.After being launched by a high speed rail cannon,it reached predetermined altitude.At that time a Compound explosive triggers a reaction with the Phrasal Shell and fragments the hardened outside and creates an out force that severally damages anything in it's path.This works on asteroids by the hardened Phrasal outer shell penetrates the asteroid and the force of the explosion kicks it off corse.In a Anti satellite role,the Compound is weakened to fragment more and destroy satellite funtion.A atmospheric version of the round is also in development for a Anti aircraft role.Phrasal is a fictional Heavy metalic substance,and the compound is a state secret formula,yet it is similar to C-4 in form.)

OOC: so its a flak round on space terms? and thank god for those detachable plates... one deflection coming right up. and i'm still pissed at you for shooting at them ICly, btw...

OOC: Wow, and I was worried about missing so much stuff... seems like I' not missing that much! Well, sorry about the long silence anyway - transatlantic flights suck.

OOC: true. and i think we're waiting on you...

OOC: I'll be out of contact for a few days soon - I'm heading for a tinny little town where, it would seem, there isn#t that much in the way of internet connections...

IC:

From: The High Command
To: The Government of NSAA
Re: Surrender

We will never surrender. We still offer, as we always have, peace on our terms, but peace on such terms as you have offered is not accetable. We must have the two years for transition, and if you have looked at the stuff coming out of Saint Rynald recently,you can see what we mean - if we leave right now, they will go right back to the Middle Ages - we are there to save them, for Gods sake, like the British in India, not like the Belgians in the Congo! We await your reply.

OOC: koolness. but afore you go, can we have some action on the naval engagement... I want to get your fleet out of the way so i can land again, and make it stick this time...

OOC: And I thought that I was about to deliver the death blow to your fleet...

The Undershi fleet has not definitively engaged, although it is keeping to missile range, relying on its heavy emphasis on missiles to give them an advantage as they skirmish with the NSAA fleet.
Meanwhile, cruise missiles from the mainland are being fired at the NSAA fleet in great numbers, supporting the naval bombardment, while carrier based Thunderers, supported by land-based Thunderers, Lightnings and Golden Eagles, are pummeling the NSAA fleet from the air, all the while attempting to secure aerial supperiority.

The Undershi people were not afraid. Their nation had always won before, and they, as a people with a tradition of victory, did not fear another war. The militias had been mobilized, that was true, but they were unafraid - such things were often done.
In fact, if anything, spirits were higher than they had been before the war had broken out - back then there had been no clear enemy, but now it was all a matter of victory, as no norm state could stand before the might of Undershi for long...
At the POW camp outside of Undershi City, the NSAA paratroopers who had been taken prisoner were being treated well, but civilians from the city were coming out to see them, and were laughing - these pitiful norms could not challenge the might of the Undershi, the chosen people! School children threw rocks, but the guards made them stop - appearences had to be maintained.

Conditions in The POW Camps:

The NSAA POWs are being treated with respect, are being fed three times a day (about 2,500 calories worth of food in all), and are being provided with shelter, medical care and such basic supplies as are necessary for comfortable, albeit basic, lives.

The NSAA paras, in accordance with doctrine, began planning their escape, noting any and all details that may help them in their escape.
Meanwhile, the NSAA fleet continued to charge at the Undershi force, manouvering them away from the Jenshalem shore, and half the reinforcement fleet swept in behind them, once more taking up the barrage of what little was left of the undershi beach forts, and sending their own cruise missiles inland. The Undershi aircraft ran into a strong force of NSAA fighters, and missiles from the fleet, while the assorted defensive armaments of the fleet kept most of the missile and shell barrages from causing too much damage. The front armour of the Warspite leading the charging fleet is beginning to show battle damage as missiles seep through the defences, and out on the right flank of the force, a pair of frigates have been disabled, but all in all the fleet is still strong. Meanwhile, ultra-long-range bombers fly into undershi airspace right at the top of the atmosphere, where most planes and even some missiles have trouble reaching. These aircraft provide almost no radar signature due to absorptive coatings, have near-0 mettalic content to fool other detection systems, and use a patent heat-reclaiming system to both heat the crew cabin and minimise IR signature. (this has the side effect of making flares work better than usual)

The Undershi fleet took relatively little damage, and actually continued to close, although it stayed a good distance out of artillery range. Tons of naval-based missiles were sent flying at the NSAA fleet, though - some damage is expected.
Meanwhile, on the shore, the Undershi Army Core of Engineers has been busy - they've built tons of new defenses, some using conscripted local labor, while the existing defenses, and these new ones, are reinforced with four divisions of elite IIS mechanized infantry.
Any landing forces will find themselves under fire from extreme missile range on in, all the while facing well supplied, well trained, well led and quite disciplined defenders who would rather die than fail The Undershi State.

[ Out until the 23rd. ]

The NSAA navy again is reinforced, the reinforcements coming in opposite the first NSAA force, and the Undershi forces are attacked from both sides, the NSAA ships targeting the flanking forces of the Undershi fleet from the sides with their missiles. Some of the lighter NSAA ships were lost, but none of real tactical value had been damaged significantly yet.

The Undershi fleet is fighting to force a break-through - the rest of the Undershi fleet has just arrived, and is coming to the aid of the local forces through a flank attack - in other words, it's NSAA, Undershi, NSAA and then Undershi forces again, with major efforts to secure a link-up underway.
So far, Undershi cassualties have been mostly light, with one exception - three destroyers and a single cruiser, plus one more important loss, which will get its own post...

The Imperial Undershi Navy was fighting with all the fury that its super-human crewmen could give. It was a truly spectacular engagement, with the "trapped" bait fleet struggling valiantly and the relief fleet forcing its way in with courage and glorious dedication...
Then, something which was not meant to be occured. The carrier Confuscious, the pride of the eastern fleet, was struck by a NSAA missile, one that somehow penetrated its CIWS fire, one that somehow found a weakness in the armour of that great ship that all could have sworn did not exist... one missile, which somehow penetrated into the armoured hangar where the heavy missile loads of the Thunderer fighter-bombers were kept... one which somehow triggered one of the one kilo-tonne war-heads, which tore the ship apart.
Hundreds of Undershi crew men died in that one terrible moment, as a new sun tore the Confuscious apart. Startled crew men on other ships saw this horror, and recoiled in shock, sending coded messages to the Undershi High Command, even as the relief of their trapped allies continued as best it could, even as two destroyers diverted from the fighting to try to save the few survivors.
The message sent to the High Command was simple - Ragnorak, but it meant something that was entierly complex - NSAA had initiated use of WMDs.
The High Command assembled almost instantly, and sent a diplomatic message to NSAA to ask about the atomic detonation, but with that done, they turned their attention to what needed to be done - the atomic destruction of the Confuscious seemed to them a clear sign that NSAA no longer intended to hold to its previous comitment to avoid the use of WMDs, so what was there to do? A call for allies was sent out, almost by default, but... what else?
They were still debating what to do militarily when the NSAA response came in...

OOC: The Confuscious was lost along with 98% of its crew, but damage to the rest of the fleet was light. The fighting goes on, although Undershi has called for allies... (by the way, sorry if I misspelled Confuscios...)

OOC: Wow - no one's posted in such a long time?

OOC: Seriously - where's NSAA? (I know I'm not the one to talk, but still...)

The black staff cars were waved through security with hardly a second glance, as soon as it was confirmed that they were legitimate IIS vehicles. If they had been checked, then there might have been trouble... but the simple Undershi Army soldiers on guard duty at the High Command's bunker knew better than to question the IIS.
Therefore, no one noticed the unusual alterations and additions that had been made to the staff cars - most notably, that the seats had been stripped out, and that each car now carried six black power armoured IIS storm troopers behind their tinted windows...
Within seconds of their entry into the High Command bunker, they were moving, firing elegantly controlled bursts from their Gauss rifles, shooting down any who resisted. The grey-clad True Undershis of the High Command's Gaurd fought well, but they had no armour of their own... and so they fell.
Within seconds, it was over - the IIS and the conservative faction that it backed had completed their coup, securing the liberal officers of the old High Command before a single warning could be sent.
A few hours later, there was a sight out above that had not been seen in months - crosses were errected, and those liberal generals who had allowed themselves to be taken alive shrieked upon them, as if part of a sign that the Bad Old Days were back in full.

It seems that Undershi is intent on regaining the strategic initive. Scores of mobile missile launchers and hundreds of mortars and light artillery pieces are being deployed to attack the NSAA landing zone, supported by thousands of air craft (1,000 Golden Eagles at high altitudes, 2,500 Thunderer fighter-bombers conducting low-altitude attacks, with 750 Lightnings for anti-fighter interception roles.)
The IIS mechanized infantry (one division) that had recently reinforced the line is also being prepared for a "charge", to counter-attack the landing. If they attack, they will be supported by one division of Air Infantry and two divisions of Second Line infantry.

While massive battles raged across two of the fronts, a secret meeting of the IIS-controlled High Command was called with one item on the agenda - the discussion of how to conduct an invasion of the No_State_At_All homeland. After all, they now had allies to assist them against their hated enemies... perhaps now would be a good time for their first real offensive operation, not just a counter-offensive...
They talked, and talked and talked, and eventually, as fighting raged across the fronts, came to a conclusion - the success level of these counter-offenses would determin whether or not they attacked the NSAA homeland.

Considering the Undershi POWs in NSAA hands and the NSAA POWs in Undershi hands, the Undershi government is willing to conduct POW exchanges... one for one via a neutral nation. They await the response of the NSAA government.

(OOC: Hey Undershi tell me if this the wrong thread, I've already made that mistake.)

Grey and black patches of cloud passed un-hindered through the Toopoxican airliner, the Naval Blue colour familiar to Toopoxia was spread over the plane as it passed quickly over the seas and onto coast, it was a sudden transition and it sent a sensation of joy down the spine of the Pilot, this would be the first time since the civil war that these soldiers had been used, and there had been many improvements since the last public appearance.
IndentThe Toopoxican Soldier, Blue and Grey camo, strong thick armour which gave the illusion of a dexterous strong opponent, the locust green eyeplates giving away nothing but a glance, in their arms the P201, standard amongst this new army, ready for anything, with the soul of the best warriors beating in thier minds, truly this was a what an army was made for.
Indent"This is Toopoxican Organisation flight P20104 inbound for Undershi territory, requesting a landing site." The pilot snapped himself back to reality for a second giving him enough time to request his landing, but soon he was back under, watching in his mind the perfect battle, behind his cargo plane were almost 20 others like him, and beside those were an armed guard of fighters...

Undershi City looked like some sort of industrial hell from the sky. All around the city, massive smoke stacks sent smog into the air, while eriee blue flames atop steel works made for a night as bright as a natural dawn... it gave the feel that one should expect to see winged demons flying between the smoke stacks, but they were suprisingly abscent - Lightning fighters on interception patrol took their place.
As the Toopoxianian transport planes landed in their designated landing zone, they found themselves facing a greeting party across the air strip - fifty IIS storm troopers at parade rest, twenty five to each side of a small group of officers, led by an IIS colonel who called out to the landing Toopoxianians:
"Greetings on behalf of Undershi and her People! My party will show your men to their barracks, while your senior officers are welcome to take a tour of the city! We can discuss the date of your forward-deployment later."

The "tour" that the Toopoxian officers had been promised gave them some insight into the Undershi people - they saw homeless people, refered to by their guide as "feral norms" living wretched lives under the shadow of the megalithic high-rise appartment buildings which housed the factory workers. Everywhere there was smog and dirt, as though nothing could be clean...
In the factories they visited, they watched workers, almost all norms, laboring and sweating, some with mechanical body parts that had been grafted on to replace lost limbs... or simply to improve their efficiency.
When they were told they were to see a school for True Undershi children, they expected something different from what they saw - eight year olds drilling with miniature Gauss rifles, then coming inside to learn fairly advanced mathematics. Their guide mentioned with pride that on a normal school day, these True Undershi children would spend sixteen hours working, with eight hours to sleep and relax.
It seemed like some sort of overly strict boarding school from some weird, dark, chapter of history, but the material they were learning was fully modern.
The tour ended with a trip to a weapons testing ground, where they watched a prototype anti-personel artillery shell being demonstrated.
All in all, the tour was food for thought...
As the day ended, the guide spoke to his tour group, asking:
"Well, what did you think of the tour? You were the first group of foreigners we've had visiting in recent history, so we want to fine-tune the tour - any suggestions?"

Jenshalem was being rebuilt, but as it was being rebuilt, it was being made Undershi, through and through. Although the war with NSAA is far from over (although if NSAA doesn't post soon I'm going to assume that they just stopped fighting), the Undershi government seems intent on consolidating their hold on Jenshalem, and on developing and industrialising the conquered territories.

Okay, NSAA hasn't posted in so long that I'm just saying that the war is over, OK?

Well,Since NSAA is not posting,do you agree with my peace treaty?

OOC: Title says it all... although I'm already assuming that everyone just got tired and went home... which let Undershi keep its colonies.