NationStates Jolt Archive

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, criminals and dictators, humans and anthros, to the beautiful country of Kologk. The government has been fighting itself for years now, so they don't pay much attention to us here on the waterfront.

My name is Jerome Hassleton, and I'd like to make you a veryspecial offer. For a nominal fee, you can have complete control over a waterfront warehouse, hotel, or office building. Whether your a terrorist organization looking for a base, a criminal syndicate looking for somewhere to stash your ill gotten gains, or a legitimate government doing some research that would best remain outside of the public eye, this is the best place for you!

But wait, there's more. Due to the complete nonexistence of customs check, and no law enforcement besides what you make for yourself, the Kologkian Waterfront is home of a burgeoning black market. Anything and everything is for sale here, from the services of a 'professional masseuse' to nuclear weaponry. Just tell us what you're looking for, and we'll see what we can do.

The Griffincrest Corporation wishes to purchase 10 warehouses, one of which is large enough to house 5 Gnat fighters.

Well, Griffencrest, we just happen to have those warehouses avalaible. That will come to a total of 1 million US dollars for all ten. We have shipped the keys to the warehouses, and are awaiting payment.

We'll take a stash of 40 houses

Excellent news. The Gnats are enroute, as is the money. I hope you do not mind if we set up a sort of..well, smuggling ring in your waterfront. Maybe we could do business together here.

To the Griffincrest Corporation:

Not at all! We welcome any entrepreneurship in our neighborhood. I look forward to working with you.

To Kanami:

We would appreciate some additional information, so that we can ensure your complete satisfaction. Are these houses for dwelling? How many people per house? Etc.

We will likely use them mostly for storage, and on occasion make-shift housing units for troops. Enough to fit a platoon, and massive stock piles.

The Mercodian Commisariat requires 5 warehouses and 1 office building.

Secret Postscript:
We require warehouses which allow a sub-ground level to be constructed if one does not already exist

To Kanami

Well, we happen to have just what you're looking for. For the meager price of 45 million dollars, these houses will be supplied. Welcome to Kologk, enjoy your stay!

We will require 60 wearhouses, at water front. Used primarliy for ship building and testing.

To Mercosis:

Confirmed. This comes to a total price of one million dollars. Four of the warehouses come with extensive subterrenean facilities, and the last is in process of having a basement dug. We will allow you to finish this, or send us your specifications, and we will finish it for you.

What's the biggest office building you have? We need something upwards of 80,000 sq. ft. Completely empty, no furnishings.

Unsigned
Burnsian State Oil Co.

To Aqua Anu:

Confirmed, for the price of 5,500,000 US dollars. Welcome to Kologk. Enjoy your stay.

What's the biggest office building you have? We need something upwards of 80,000 sq. ft. Completely empty, no furnishings.

Unsigned
Burnsian State Oil Co.

To Burnsian State Oil Co.

The only office building we have of those specifications just happens to be currently unoccupied. For the low, low price of two million dollars, it can yours.

We'll give you another five million to brick over all the windows. Surely that can be arranged?

Unsigned
Burnsian State Oil Co.

To Burnsian State Oil Co.

That can certainly be arranged. Customer satisfaction is my middle name. Your office building will be ready in approximately two weeks.

To Burnsian State Oil Co.

That can certainly be arranged. Customer satisfaction is my middle name. Your office building will be ready in approximately two weeks.

Thank you. Our ship will be docking in the harbor in about two weeks; just add the fees to our total if you will.

Unsigned
Burnsian State Oil Co.

Thank you. Our ship will be docking in the harbor in about two weeks; just add the fees to our total if you will.

Unsigned
Burnsian State Oil Co.

There are currently no docking fees, besides a traditional tip paid to the dockworkers who help with unloading.

We wish to know whether there is an airstrip close to the waterfront capable of taking heavy transport aircraft.

To Mercosis:

Currently there are two airstips operating near the waterfront. Metholia Field is capable of landing most fighter and bomber planes. Theia Field is capable of landing almost all cargo and transport planes. Both of these fields are free to fly into and out of, with the exception of a nominal fee if the plane is to remain there overnight.

Commissariat personnel and equipment will arrive at Theia Field within the week. When the facilities are operational, transport aircraft will arrive once a week

That's acknowledged Mercosis. Welcome to Kologk. Enjoy your stay.

Encrypted Transmission
To: Waterfront
From: TPF Intel Agency
We would like to purchase 10 "Briefcase" nuclear bombs as well as two safe houses for our agents. As well as "protection" for these safe houses.

Encrypted Transmission
To: Waterfront
From: TPF Intel Agency
We would like to purchase 10 "Briefcase" nuclear bombs as well as two safe houses for our agents. As well as "protection" for these safe houses.

That's confirmed. Kologkian Security Co. will provide protection for the safe houses. The briefcases will be delivered in approximately three weeks. That comes to a total of fifty million dollars.

*Money Wired*
expect more purchases soon.
Do not sell out the location of the warehouses, we will offer you triple what they are trying to pay you for the location.

*Money Wired*
expect more purchases soon.
Do not sell out the location of the warehouses, we will offer you triple what they are trying to pay you for the location.

I don't know what you are talking about. All locations are strictly confedential. We havve our honor and our reputation after all. Nothing short of a small country can be used to retrieve confedential information from us, and, that being the case, I doubt you could outbid.

You doubt we could outbid? Check our resources

http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=The+peoplesfreedom

You doubt we could outbid? Check our resources

http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=The+peoplesfreedom

OOC: Take a loook at what I said. The only way someone is going to get the information is to offer me a small country. So yes, I doubt that you could outbid someone who's bandying small countries about as bargaining chips.

OCC: Oh, I see, lol sorry. I thought you meant the money of a small country. Forgive my small brain :(

OCC: Oh, I see, lol sorry. I thought you meant the money of a small country. Forgive my small brain :(

OOC: Not a problem, as long as we have that cleared up.

Maximum Encryption
<begin message>

Hello, glorious day!

We at a not mentioned Jaredcohenian organization require a suitable warehouse, one that could fit...how do we say this...three large tanks and an Apache helicopter.

We hope you can find one!

<end message>

I would like just one water-front warehouse. Must be as small as possible. We will bomb it with NEMI's (Neo-Erusean Military Industries) new experimentle XB-73 bomber to test compatibility with smart bombs.

To Jaredcohenia:

Certainly. We have just the warehouse for your extreme underwater basket weaving enthusiasts club. Price is $100,000.

To Neo-Erua

Confirmed. Price is 80,000 dollars. The warehouse is located some miles outside of town to reduce possibility of civilian casualties.

Maximum Encryption
<begin message>

The money will be wired shortly! Thank you for helping to find a base for the underwater basket weaving club!

<end message>

Good. You will get your money shortly. I suggest you take these last minutes to empty that place. Also keep the military to keep any hikers away, just in case the bomb goes 'dumb'.

To Jaredcohenian Extreme Underwater Basket Weaving Enthusiasts:

Welcome to Kologk, enjoy your stay.

To Neo-Erusa: All necessary citizens have been evacuated. They have been replaced, free of charge, by several political prisoners delivered to us by the Kologkian government (well, one of them anyways) so that you may also gauge your bombs' effect on flesh and blood.

Indeed, I just got a request for another warehouse, again preferrebly hidden. NEMI will test fire an experimental particle cannon onto it. The weapon is highly accurate, as tests within our own borders have shown. It might frighten the neighbors though.

Please, if you can, supply any more prisoners into the latter warehouse. Our scientists say that the Partcile Cannon's electrons will electrecute the bodies and instantly vaporise them, but this is in theory. It would be nice to know what would really happen. And of course, this is confidential, right?

Confirmed. Price and arrangements as before.

Mr. Hassleton, if you could make sure that the Neo-Erusean particle cannon is either rendered useless or does not come within 50 miles of our office building, we are prepared to offer one of many small countries that we have assimilated over the years.

I have the same authority as my counterpart from Burnsian Oil, in case you're wondering.

Unsigned
Burnsian Motors

Mr. Hassleton, if you could make sure that the Neo-Erusean particle cannon is either rendered useless or does not come within 50 miles of our office building, we are prepared to offer one of many small countries that we have assimilated over the years.

I have the same authority as my counterpart from Burnsian Oil, in case you're wondering.

Unsigned
Burnsian Motors

Confirmed. The warehouse in question is one hundred miles outside of city limits, and a total of one hundred seventy-two miles away from your warehouse. Since this was the arrangement with Neo-Erusea from the beginning, it is not necessary to give us the small nation in question.

Confirmed. The warehouse in question is one hundred miles outside of city limits, and a total of one hundred seventy-two miles away from your warehouse. Since this was the arrangement with Neo-Erusea from the beginning, it is not necessary to give us the small nation in question.

We were kidding. If you had disabled the cannon, then we would've given you Shoosheebaba (I think is how they spelled it). It's made of radioactive plate glass.

Unsigned
Burnsian Motors

Why do you worry. It wouldn't had come near your office. If it had, Neo-Erusea will have made up for you loss three-fold.

Why do you worry. It wouldn't had come near your office. If it had, Neo-Erusea will have made up for you loss three-fold.

We're not worried about the infrastructure, we're worried about the computers there and how a particle beam would affect them. We'd rather not take our chances; particle beams are currently outside our realm of endeavours.

I see. It basicly looks like a laser but has the effects of lightning, due to the high concentration of flowing electrons. It would shock you and couse power surges while creating unimaginable amounts of heat. I guess that it could affect nearby power.

The USSE wishes to purchase two warehouses that must have the following properties:
1. Have substantial above-ground storage capacity
2. Have substantial below-ground storage capacity
3. Be able to withstand a 30-sec EMP Direct Attack
4. Be secluded, or in a warehouse district that is not in use
5. Be connected to one another, as well as the shore, by a series of tunnels, and 2 Two-way monorails below ground.

We will be happy to pay any amount for these buildings, as long as it is reasonble.

Encrypted Transmition-
Hyst departement of Foreign relations exeternal memo-

Th nation of hyst, has recently been pooling it's resources into the developement of new sodium-based nuclear reactors. While we are nearing completion, one main test need to be preformed. In order to best understand how to prevent a core breach of our current reactors, we wish to manually overload and creat a core breach. This process, designed to create a meltdown, would be utalized to better prepare for the final implmantation of an improved working device.

While Hyst has plenty of minor islands with few inhabitants we could use, if the test was run with your permission on your soil, the domestic political reprocussion would be minimal.

To come to a mutually beneficial arangement. The nation of Hyst is prepared to offer 1.2T USD in "international aide" and the use of one of these reactors ([MT with actual RL potential] they can run on one fuel load for upwards of 1200-1300 years, effectively infinate energy) for what ever reason in exchange for the use of your land. The location chosen has no qualms, the hyst military is more than equiped to deal with any interfearence. If, for example, a test on the effects of radioactive sodium on a political disident's body as compared to traditional radaition poisoning could be conducted.

Do we have an accord?

OOC: You did say that this was going to be in a location with 'no qualms', correct? Which means my real estate will be under no threat?

To USSE

Your warehouses should be ready in approximately a month, due to the need to lay monorail tracks in the pre-existing tunnels, as well as install EMP defences. That comes to a total of 1.5 million USDs.

To Hyst

It just so happens that my business maintains a number of islands, precisely for situations such as these. In fact, one of them already contains the beginning of a nuclear facility, whose construction was aborted due to the civil war. Your offer of 1.2 Trillion is accepted, and you will find the political prisoners there upon arrival.

Encrypted Message from the Red Mafia

Gentlemen, we'll need 2 small airstrips, each a kilometre in length, controlled by our forces, near the waterfront and control of every block inbetween. We are prepared to offer $900 million for about 30 blocks of warehouses and the airstrips. Also a docking facility for a medium sized cargo ship.

We have wired $2 million as a show of good faith and are prepared to wire the rest. If you do this you can expect a 5% discount from us in the future.

[END]

To Red Mafia

Your request is approved, and the money recieved. Now sending a map with the location of airstrips and warehouses. Welcome to Kologk. Enjoy your stay.

29 hotels

To Benkonate

Your request for twenty-nine hotelshas been recieved. Unfortunately, we only have nineteen hotels availible at this time. The total for those nineteen comes to a total of 19,000,000 dollars. We have ten warehouses that can be converted into hotels within two weeks. The final total price will come to 24,000,000

To Red Mafia

Your request is approved, and the money recieved. Now sending a map with the location of airstrips and warehouses. Welcome to Kologk. Enjoy your stay.

Secure Reply

Would you mind us gating off the area and posting private security and putting up SAM sites would you?

[END]

Secure Reply

Would you mind us gating off the area and posting private security and putting up SAM sites would you?

[END]

Of course not. We merely request that you broadcast a warning, so that no prospective customers of ours get shot down.

Of course not. We merely request that you broadcast a warning, so that no prospective customers of ours get shot down.

Secure Reply

We'll radio aircraft that violate the airspace and send up some fighters to scare off anybody that snoops about. If you hear anything going boom inside the complex, don't send help unless there are a series of 5 red flares in the air.

[END]

+++An encrypted email would find itself in Mr. Hassleton's inbox, from the interim president of the ASIF. It requested two warehouses, one big enough to barrack a company of infantry and their vehicles, and one measuring at least one hundred fifty thousand square meters. A request to build a helipad in the back was also included.

To Independent Furres

It will take approximately three weeks to construct the requested helicopter pad. That comes to a total of 300,000 dollars. Welcome to Kologk, enjoy your stay.

Soon F-4 Phantoms painted in Corporate (black with white and red stripes) colours were flying over the Kologkian Waterfront. An-72 'Coaler' transports began descending at an alarming rate and leaving just as quickly with fuel trucks running back and forth.

The crates were torn open and SAM installations became obvious. An electric fence was put up with checkpoints at entrances with heavy MG turrets, dogs, and armed guards.

A black and white flag, with a hammer, a sickle and a skull began flying over the area. A nightclub opened across the street called the 'Hammered and Sickled' and soon began attracting some mean elements.

HIGHEST ENCRYPTION
To:Kologk Waterfronts
From: You know...
We need labs and safe houses, enough for 1,000 people. We also two warehouses. Highest Secruity, the works, Tanks, MG's, SAMS, Snipers, Rapid Recation Force.

The USSE confirms order, and wishes to add an airstrip capable of landing cargo-planes, and an access dock to the underground. 12 million dollars has been sent total for all the work (including original price)

To TPF:

Unfortunately, we do not at this time have the kind of security forces you are talking about. We can provide you with the requested equipment, but not the men to man it. Total comes to 3,000,000 USD

To Eriburn:

Money recieved. Completion projected for three weeks for the underground dock. The airstrip is already constructed.

Hey there, all prospective buyers, I'd like to announce a couple new features. Here they are!

Factories-

The government (well, two or three governments, actually, but don't you worry your heads about that) have just pulled out of a heavily industrialized town called Kiati. Most fighting was carried out by infantry men, the result being that most of the infrastructure is still intact.

And so we have a special offer. Currently there are one hundred seperate factories, all designed to produce munitions of any sort you can imagine. For the low low price of 750,000 USD, one of these factories can be yours!

'Why?' you ask, 'Do I need to buy a factory from you, when I can just build one in my own country?'

Well, it's simple. You can use these factories to produce the kind of munition that the people in your home country are a little squeamish about. Poison gas? Nuclear weaponry? Angry cyborg weasels? You name it. In addition, there a quite a number of skilled factory workers who are currently unemployed due to governments pulling out.

Particle Cannon-

We've recently come into posession of a particle cannon. Do you have a pesky business rival? Perhaps there's an armored column marching on your capital? Need to damage some infrastructure without leaving a trail? Then this is just the thing for you.

Here's a brief rundown by the party from whom we obtained this particle cannon.

It's powered by a large bank of nuclear batteries, and reflects off of a sattelite in the upper atmosphere. The beam is about six feet in diameter, and apart from the heat shimmer, is completely invisible. Upon contact with matter, it destroys the bonds that hold the atoms together, and effectively melts it. We haven't tried it on organic life yet, but we believe that it will evaporate all the water from the being and melt the flesh. Very effective against all types of infantry and tanks, and especially warships. The only real weak link is the sattelite, which can be shot down.

Price will be determined by the target to be destroyed, and the risk inherent. (We reserve the right to refuse any contract because of heavy anti satellite defenses)