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Silver Sky International News

The Silver Sky
29-07-2006, 21:11
OOC: To be my official news thread for II
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Silver Sky International Newspaper"Second Largest Military Purchase of All Time"

-Comberth Harbor, The Silver Sky Today the Silver Skyian Republican Military, or more specifically the Silver Sky Republican Navy has announced that it has recently purchased 50,000 Khan Class Heavy Ship to Ship missiles (STS41-KH) (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Khan_Class_Missile) from Megacity Aerospace Systems in ZMI.

"These missiles will help increase the stand-off range of the Skyian Republican Navy to adequately deal with the long range missile threat faced by all large navies." Said Admiral Sutherland during the press conference earlier in the day.

Near use, in Comberth Naval Base several previous retired 'Agamemnon'-Class Arsenal Ship are being recommissioned and reffited with a vertical launch system capable of handling the gigantic Khan-Class Missiles, while further down the ship yard Relentless-class SSBNs are being outfitted with the nessecary equipment to launch these missiles.

This purchase is the second most expensive in Skyian history, coming in at $14,365,000,000,000 USD over 15 years for the 50,000 missiles.
The Silver Sky
01-08-2006, 01:12
Central City Times, International Edition

Massive Deployment of Military to Support Sovereign League Police Action


Silver City, The Silver Sky - Public Relations fromthe capital and military have announced today a large deployment of troops to assist in the liberation of the fallen nation 'International Lesbians' by Sovereign League nations.

Nations invovled in the liberation so far are confirmed by the military to be Whyatica, Velkya, and Space Union, all Sovereign League Nations, also the smaller state of Aralonia, while not in the Sovereign league has also sent forces as they are allied to basically all the nations in the attempted liberation.

The military will not say more then that the operation is going smoothly and they are preparing for a landing on the main island it's self, as of now they have a small island as a forward base. Rumors also state the probable involvement of Praetonia to support the effort.

More details as they are revealed.
The Silver Sky
22-11-2006, 06:57
Central City Times, International Edition

Declaration of War, Massive Arms Purchases

Silver City, The Silver Sky - Today, after a large amount of public and governmental debate, with urging from the country of Izistan and Southeast Asia, and a unanimous vote from the Republican Senate, President Kara Maddox has declared a 'State of War' to exist between Kraven and her allies and anyone who threatens Southeast Asia's sovereignty. The 1st and 2nd Expeditionary Armadas and the 1st through 3rd Field Armies have been mobilized for this operation and have already deployed.

Related to this the government released a memo showing the purchase of several state of the art and huge weapons from ZMI based companies, these include one 'Delta'-Class Land Cruiser, four 'Imperator' Super Heavy Battle Tanks, ten 'Starbolt' Heavy Lift Units (Tactical Missiles), a single 'Starhurler'-Class Naval Space Launch Vessel, and a contract for ten 'Starbolts' over 5 years. Also included is a contract for 9,456 JX-32 Multirole Air Combat Drones to be used as artillery spotters for Skyian warships.

The total price for the contract is $675 billion USD as a lump sum and $4 billion USD for five years. Also, talk has been rumored about a similar deal between ZMI and The Empire of the Golden Throne (The Macabees) and that ZMI it's self might join the war.