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A Series of Unfortunate Events (MT Open)

Xharn
02-01-2007, 07:20
Regional Location: Irathria
National Location: The Totaliatarian Military Union of Xharn
Internal Location: The City Xharnia
Time: 3:45 A.M.




The mighty metropolis of Xharnia was eerily quiet during this time of night. This was common practice every since the Union had taken power and initiated martial law upon all civilian personal within the entire country. The nation had been under the brutal subjugation of its only military for roughly twenty five years. The government was officially a one party state under the draconian Grand National Unity party. This Party however was a puppet party of the military leaders that ran the country. The only true authority of the party was the head position of the Patron. The Patron was the official head of the nation and the military. He was the dictator and all around overlord of the country.


The current Patron Joseph Stormberg was a radical nationalist that wanted to make the country a world class superpower. His policies became harsh and more violent in order to achieve his objectives. He brutally started crackdowns on political and ideological rivals. It was rumored that entire families had been either removed or wiped out under his totalitarian reign. Stormberg even started up several mass work/extermination camps for the disposal of dissident elements. These camps could hold and work hundreds of thousands of criminals, dissidents and traitors of the Union. They would be sent to such places with little more than a show or in most cases no trials at all and given at least thirty to life sentences for even the most minuscule of crimes.


The fatality rate in these camps was high due to the hard work and the harsh weather conditions of working in the northern mountains. The bodies were gathered up by the soldiers and sent back to corporate factories to have the corpses recycled as meat substitute. The Totalitarian Military Union of Xharn was a nation with no freedom both personally or politically. This was a situation that was bound to lead to dissidence and in some cases open revolt and even acts of terrorism.


This was exactly the situation that was going down during these late hours of 3:45 A.M. A local military processing center was currently closed for the night and there was not a person to be seen. The Military Police had already patrolled the area and found nothing strange or suspicious in the local scene and moved on to continue to patrol the rest of the district.

The military processing center was a nice little building next to a grocery store and a shoe manufacture building. The next second a massive explosion erupted out of the building leveling it in a blast of destructive energy. The blast greatly damaged the other convenience buildings but destroyed the military building.


The Military Police in the area began to come back to the area and saw the military building as an exploded pile of rubble on the ground. The Military Police officers looked around at the damage and received a massive radio hail from their transmitters. The word was that such attacks had erupted all over Xharnia. The blasts had targeted mostly military and party run buildings.

The next day the people of Xharnia had heard and seen the damage brought by this dissident faction. The people are cringed and wondered how the government would punish them for this horrendous insult. The more patriotic citizens were outraged and started praising their Patron Joseph Stromberg and singing the national anthem.

The other more moderate people all knew how vengeful the military was especially when dealing with dissident factions. They feared for their families and their own lives but they would not dare look like they were supporting this act. It was publicly condemned in every newspaper and news channel…

Inside his Grand National Palace, His most Exalted Excellency, Patron Joseph Stormberg sat in his chair fuming over the incident. He decided to unleash his wraith upon the radical and dissident factions of the country in form of the greatest national purge he had ever committed against his own people…..
[NS:]Delesa
02-01-2007, 09:57
Tag for intrest, real tired, I'll be back.
Xharn
03-01-2007, 09:20
His Exalted Excellency, Joseph Stromberg was holding in his hands a list of names and information gathered upon various people inside the Union that had been marked for “re-education” These people were considered highly likely to potential threats to the current regime. Some of these people were even accused of being in league or taking part in the mass terror attacks that had struck the capital of Xharnia.


The Patron sat down at a large round table with his comrades in arms. The Central Military Command, the Command consisted of all the leaders of the armed services branches from the standard Military Police to the Elite Death Korps Legions. These men were the united rulers of the Totalitarian Military Union of Xharn. They acted as Stormberg’s hands when dealing with the country.


His Excellency began to give the list out for the approval of these senior officers. The names were many and long. They had to decide who was going to be killed, who was going to be arrested and who was going to be pardoned for their suspected sins against the Union.

The six military men read the names silently to themselves and put marks down next to each name. The various marks represented the sentence given to each person and in some more extreme cases their families. It did not look good for the majority of people the Patron was not in a forgiving mood and neither was the Central Military Command. They spared a few people here or there for various reasons because of personal friendship or in some cases bribery to avoid being targeted. The majority of the people did not have such connections and would be brutally hunted or rounded up.


The Patron smiled to his comrades and said, “I will give the announcements tonight about the great purge that will cleanse our nation of the unpatriotic and traitorous elements.”

The others stood up and saluted their leader and said, “Hail Stormberg!" The Patron stood up gave a return salute and did an about face away from his comrades towards the door. It would be an interesting announcement for the rest of the nation…..