NationStates Jolt Archive


No Steps Back (ATTN Doom)

Spizania
24-08-2006, 21:21
New Blakesville, (Colony of Orinait)
The city was bussling in the early morning sun as the two million inhabitants of the city went to work, or took there children to school, the tops of the tall glass and steel buildings glinting in the yellow sun under the bright blue sky, a wonderful counterpoint to the dark royal blue of the ocean and the light turqious e of the lake to the north.

This city was the capital of the colony of Orinait, a territory occuping the eastern end of a continent that contained only one other power, a colony of the CAD power of Doomingsland, probably one of the most feared nations in the world, on par in the minds of the people with the long dead Kraven Corporation.

The entire colony had only one really valuable major resource, one of the largest and most productive thorium mines in the world, providing nearly ten percent of the confederacies civilian nuclear fuel, the facility was already equipped with refining and enriching equipment, allowing any nation with a breeder reactor to very quickly make use of the material, this made this already valuable resource even more so.

The terrain of the colonies interior was for the most part open grassy plain, with huge fields filled with corn and wheat, further east there were a pair of massive rivers running north and south from a central massif, then more grasslands and finally a chain of low mountains, on par with the Appalachians, where the thorium mines was located and then the sea, on the coast of which the capital was located.

The border had been peaceful with a number of years, although both Doomingland and the Confederacy maintained large border fortifications, however a rumour, backed up by intelligence reports indicated that the Doomingslandi might be preparing to attack, thus Army Special Forces Team Delta-Two was being the most difficult mission ever attempted by confederate special forces, infiltrate the doomingslandi colony and discover the truth.

Border Zone No Mans land
It was a moonless night and heavily overcast, leaving it almost pitch black as the patrol crept through the chest high grass of no mans land towards the doomie border defences, the bright lights of the border camps lighting the sky behind them. The had almost reached the edge of the demarked neutral zone when all hell broke loose.

A Hail of tracer fire sprayed from the flanks as the imperial patrol sprung its ambrush on the supprised women of the Army Special forces regiment, two troopers went down immediately, both dead before they hit the ground from multiple 6.7mm round impacts, the first couple of rounds had been stopped by there high grade body armour, but the spray had simply sliced through it in under half a second, they had simply had no time to react to the threat.
The other six women of the patrol forgoed the pepperpoting maneuvre and simply dropped onto one knee on the deck and rolling forward and to the side.
The sniper in the patrol brought her DRS-83 Designated Marks(wo)men rifle up as she rolled and fired off a single 7.8mm round, taking one of the sources of tracer fire in the face and killing him instantly. The other soldiers in the patrol all brought up there weapons, whether rifles or specialised weapons like grenade launchers and the new P90X submachine gun, aiming at the other sources of fire that they could see illuminated by the tracers, another eight imperial troops fell in the next two or three seconds, killed by multiple grenade explosions or a combination of 10.5mm and 6.7mm ammunition. Then special forces began to fall, the markswoman was hit as she swung around to kill her fifth victim of the evening, even if they were suprised and outnumbered, they were professionals and they knew there job well. She took a round in the shoulder and fell to the ground, dropping her weapon and clutching at here injured shoulder with hand while the other one remained limp at her side.
Another two women fell in the next five seconds, at the cost of a much larger number of doomie soldiers, these were the best the confederates had and they were good but the enemies superior numbers were taking there toll. Then the patrol leader grimaced as her rifle magazine clicked empty, rather than waste valuable time digging another out of her bandolier she simply dropped the rifle and drew her Fabrique National Five seveN service pistol, aiming at the closest non special forces silluete and putting eight rounds into his skull in 4 seconds, he dropped to the floor, his helmet overwhelmed by the shear number of inbound bullets.
Then she took a bullet in the back of her helmet, the armour held but the concussion knocked her out, the last thing she saw before darkness claimed her were two of her team members dropped by a hail of gunfire.

The doomingslandi patrol leader was not pleased, an outnumbered and outgunned enemy patrol has killed three times there own number of imperial troops in what was supposed to have been an ambushed, men will be nailed to the cross for this faisco, one of his surviving non-coms informed him that three of the enemy infiltrators had survived and had been injured to varying degrees, irritated he signalled for one of the border spotlight to be turned on and ordered three of his surviving troops to bodily carry the surviving women over into the pool of bright white light, which was in an area of grass that had been cut within the last two days and was barely and inch tall.
The commander gave the order and the three womens helmets were taken off, each one revealing a main of beutifully kept hair that fell down almost to there waists on three of them, they were pushed down onto there knees and made to face the confederate posistions where there faces would be plainly visible. Unbeknownst to the Doominglandi officer, another special forces troop er was in one of the forward observation posts and training a 12.7mm Sniper rifle on his face as he moved behind each of the soldiers in turn and coldly executed each one with a round from a chrome plated revolver, when he reached the last one, the squad leader the sergeant released her safety catch and fired at the same instant the officer did, his head was blown apart by the HEIAP round even as the SF trooper collapsed to the deck, lifeless
Doomingsland
24-08-2006, 22:14
Varalonium, Capital of Orinatum Doomanum

It did not take long for news of the engagemet to reach the Procurator. Ten minutes and thirty-seven seconds for the news to reach him and for the news to sink in, exactly. Procurator Gaius Camillius was not pleased by this turn of events. His Spizanian neighbors had just turned hostile, it seemed.

He had been eating dinner with his family when the news reached him, and he had reportedly thrown his glass of wine against the wall upon hearing what had happened and stormed out of the room, his twenty-six year old son (a tribune with the DCXXVI Legion stationed at the capital) trailing behind him. The shit had officialy hit the fan.

As Procurator Camillius stormed down the hallway towards the elevator that lead down to the command bunker beneath his palacial villa, his son sped up along side of him.

"My son, it seems you will see your first war at my command," Camillius said without even turning,

"Yes father, it does seem that way...." responded Tribune Marcus Camillius, "How are we to respond?" he querried his father.

"We're going in immediately, Marcus. I'm ordering all our batteries along the border to smash the Spazies. We are going to settle this once and for all."

Marcus stopped dead when they arrived at the elevator and saluted his father when he turned.

"Good luck, father," he said as the doors shut, his father nodding in reply.

Marcus then called his driver. He had to get back to HQ, it was time to kill some shit.

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Twenty minutes after the last of the Spizanian SFs had been executed, the first of the batteries along the border sounded off, firing across no-man's land at Spizanian encampments and fortifications. There were literally several thousand individual 152mm tubes firing into enemy territory, light weight towed howitzers that could be dragged into nearby bunkers if needed.

The gun crews worked relentlessly through the darkness, slamming 152mm thermobaric, HE-FRAG, and HEDP shells (depending on their target) into the breach and getting rounds downrange as quickly as possible. The more quickly they dispatched the enemy fortifications, the more likely they would survive the night.

For now they had been ordered to keep the stuff coming down, and so they were doing that. Every enemy fortification that the Doomies could see had at least a half a battery ( a battery being eight guns) dropping down rounds on it. These, of course, were not the only weapons capable of firing across the border, but the Spizanians would find that out soon enough.

Meanwhile, the concealed bunkers along the border began to open up with heavy 15.7x131mm machineguns, hosing down enemy camps in view. The Imperial Guard gunners would be able to selectively target enemy light vehicles and infantry thanks to the high-powered electronic thermal scopes mounted to their weapons.

The Guardsmen manning the bunkers also broke open the ATGM lockers in case the Spazies decided an all out rush across the border would work well in this case. Of course, there was always the issue of all of those mines that litered no-man's land, but who ever payed attention to those?

As the opening shots of this war were fired, the rest of the Guardsmen tensely waited within their bunkers, clutching their 7.8mm rifles and staring downrange across no-man's land. This was no doubt about to get very ugly.

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OOC:I'll start with air and naval stuff later when i have time.
Doomingsland
25-08-2006, 15:34
Varalonium, Capital of Orinatum Doomanum

It did not take long for news of the engagemet to reach the Procurator. Ten minutes and thirty-seven seconds for the news to reach him and for the news to sink in, exactly. Procurator Gaius Camillius was not pleased by this turn of events. His Spizanian neighbors had just turned hostile, it seemed.

He had been eating dinner with his family when the news reached him, and he had reportedly thrown his glass of wine against the wall upon hearing what had happened and stormed out of the room, his twenty-six year old son (a tribune with the DCXXVI Legion stationed at the capital) trailing behind him. The shit had officialy hit the fan.

As Procurator Camillius stormed down the hallway towards the elevator that lead down to the command bunker beneath his palatial villa, his son sped up along side of him.

"My son, it seems you will see your first war at my command," Camillius said without even turning,

"Yes father, it does seem that way...." responded Tribune Marcus Camillius, "How are we to respond?" he querried his father.

"We're going in immediately, Marcus. I'm ordering all our batteries along the border to smash the Spazies. We are going to settle this once and for all."

Marcus stopped dead when they arrived at the elevator and saluted his father when he turned.

"Good luck, father," he said as the doors shut, his father nodding in reply.

Marcus then called his driver. He had to get back to HQ, it was time to kill some shit.

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Twenty minutes after the last of the Spizanian SFs had been executed, the first of the batteries along the border sounded off, firing across no-man's land at Spizanian encampments and fortifications. There were literally several thousand individual 152mm tubes firing into enemy territory, light weight towed howitzers that could be dragged into nearby bunkers if needed. However, more howitzers were kept in reserve in the knowledge that the ones opening up would soon be on the receiving end of Spizanian counter-battery fire.

The gun crews worked relentlessly through the darkness, slamming 152mm thermobaric, HE-FRAG, and HEDP shells (depending on their target) into the breach and getting rounds downrange as quickly as possible. The more quickly they dispatched the enemy fortifications, the more likely they would survive the night.

Also targeted were any Spizanian land-based RADAR systems that were switched on, allowing for ELINT systems to pick up on their locations. This would also hopefully temporarily blind their air defense network on the ground, allowing for the SAMs that were to come a few seconds later a chance to do their job unmolested.

In addition to those shells, the local Imperial Guard commander was trying something a bit sneakier. Mixed in with the shells fired were specialized RADAR-receiving rounds that would deploy parachutes in midair, allowing for them to pick up on the locations of enemy counter-battery RADARs with their own passive receivers. Once those positions had been discovered, they quickly received a barrage of their own from towed 300mm multiple rocket launchers carrying munitions dispensers to totally destroy the RADAR sets.

For now they had been ordered to keep the stuff coming down, and so they were doing that. These, of course, were not the only weapons capable of firing across the border, but the Spizanians would find that out soon enough.

Meanwhile, the concealed bunkers along the border began to open up with heavy 15.7x131mm machineguns, hosing down enemy camps in view. The Imperial Guard gunners would be able to selectively target enemy light vehicles and infantry thanks to the high-powered electronic thermal scopes mounted to their weapons.

The Guardsmen manning the bunkers also broke open the ATGM lockers in case the Spazies decided an all out rush across the border would work well in this case. Of course, there was always the issue of all of those mines that littered no-man's land, but who ever payed attention to those?

As the opening shots of this war were fired, the rest of the Guardsmen tensely waited within their bunkers, clutching their 7.8mm rifles and staring downrange across no-man's land. This was no doubt about to get very ugly.

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Imperial Hasta-II surface-to-surface missile batteries began to light up, launching into the night sky towards the distant Spizanian air bases. They were equipped with both penetrating warheads and munitions dispensers. The missiles equipped with munitions dispensers were targeted at the runways to prevent whatever enemy aircraft were on the ground from taking off, while the penetrating missiles targeted enemy munitions and fuel bunkers, hangars, traffic control towers, barracks, and other key structures.

Also targeted were the surrounding open fields, which were hit with cluster munitions. The fields were recognized as potential back-ups for destroyed airstrips, and so they too were hit with cluster munitions designed to crater them. Mixed in with all of the munitions dispensers were mines to make repairing the fields a truly hellish task.

Nearby enemy fighters also found themselves in hot water. Imperial AWACS aircraft, sitting back from the border roughly one hundred miles, where able to get the locations of the enemy formations and transfer them to local SAM batteries. The first missiles fired were Apostle missiles 20km from the border, firing from VLS cells in the ground. These were directed towards the formations by the AWACS. Once they were within twenty miles, the missiles went terminal with their own RADAR, IR, LADAR/LIDAR, and electro-optical sensors. The missiles initially came in at their targets at speeds nearing mach four, giving very little time to respond. If they missed on their first pass, their thrust vectoring would kick in, giving them the opportunity for multiple passes on their targets. There were six missiles targeted per enemy fighter total.

Enemy AWACS aircraft also found themselves under the threat of surface-to-air missiles. Angelus theatre SAMs, deeper behind Imperial lines, were also launched, targeting the enemy’s AWACS aircraft, relying on both assistance from their own AWACS aircraft, and their own internal passive RADAR receivers (and that of all nearby friendly aircraft) to guide them towards the enemy aircraft, using their own RADAR and IR for the terminal stage. The missiles approached at speeds nearing mach five, giving very little time to maneuver defensively, and with six missiles per AWACS, there was very little chance of them escaping.

Finally, the Imperial Malleus strategic bomber wing stationed in the colony was launched along with six squadrons of Aquila air superiority fighters as escorts. They were laden with some seriously nasty ordnance and would soon be all over the Spizanian defenses along the border…