Тихоокеанские Амбиции [Earth II, ATTN Spizania] [Archive]

Cotland

05-01-2007, 15:35

In the newly established embassy in Voronej, which until very recently had been sovereign Cottish territory, the analysts of the secret intelligence detachment to the embassy had recorded every millisecond of the speech and were in the process of analyzing it, looking for anything that could be used to find out about the Russian motives. It was pretty much out in the open though. The Russians had gone to war over Baker Island in the past, and now they were prepared to do it all again, only against a new enemy. The last time, they had attacked October Alliance forces, something which had resulted in a counter-attack and eventually the fall of the Russian Federation. This time, the Russians had a little more sense and attacked Spizania, a nation with very few, if any, alliances with nation states of the world. It was pretty much clear what was going to happen, but the analysts still had to write a two-page report on it which would be read perhaps one or two times in Oslo, then classified and placed in cold storage in the National Archives somewhere in a environmentally controlled, high-security mountain hall deep underneath a mountain in Norway somewhere for the next eighty years.

Back in Oslo, the report arrived after a few hours and was read carefully by members of the military intelligence agency FO/E. The report gave the credability of the source the classification 1-Red, meaning that it was extremely credible, and that the events described to occur were 99% certain to take place. This was sufficient for FO/E to recommend that the Realm pay attention to the dealings in the Pacific Ocean, and this recommendation was followed by High Command. A few satellites were redirected to watch Baker Island and the vicinity, and a set of orders went out to another command.

Nine hours after the speech, at the submarine station of Iret in Magadan, a newly constructed submarine base which supported most of the submarines of the 7th and 8th Fleets and their support vessels, a single Scorpion class nuclear-powered attack submarine belonging to the 9th Tactical Submarine Group slipped out of port under the cover of darkness. Four kilometers from shore, the submarine which was named S-273 submerged and started making for the holding position off the Aelutians where it would wait for the Russian task force to pass, and then stalk at a safe distance of thirty nautical miles, far enough away to not be heard on their passive SONAR or to pose an immediate threat, but still close enough to follow the Russians and pay attention to their actions.

The 126.9 meters long, 7,700 ton heavy black titanium-hulled vessel was a relatively new addition to the Cottish Navy, and had all the advantages of modern technology. It's double hull had a foam-like substance beneath the two hulls, acting to stop any sounds inside from getting out, thus compromising the vessel's stealth. It also had a rubber-like coating on top of the outer hull which absorbed sounds, making it more difficult for the SONAR to penetrate. From a distance of thirty nautical miles, even active SONAR would have difficulties in detecting the submarine. Its two CNE-8/A Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactors could power the submarine up to an amazing fourty-two knot sprint speed under water, but at the cost of the submarine being heard all over the place. The maximum silent speed was twenty-five knots, which was more than sufficient when shadowing an amphibious force, which was the likely unit to be employed when on a mission to take over an island. However, now that it was in a waiting pattern, the submarine moved no faster than four knots, which was the minimum speed for being able to maintain the depth, which was five hundred meters. Thanks to the titanium hull and various other construction details, the Scorpion class was able to dive to a maximum operational depth of six hundred and eighty meters, and a crush depth of seven hundred. At five hundred meters, the S-273 used her passive SONAR array mounted in the bow along with the towed SONAR array one kilometer behind the boat, both being part of her CSS-2/A SONAR Suite, to listen for any sounds that might be the Russian task force. She was located underneath a temperature layer with the towed array just over the layer, being even more silent and stealthy.

In case the Scorpion was attacked, she could defend herself with the thirty-four Mk.68 Sjøorm heavy-weight torpedoes, sixteen UGM.5/C AMESM multi-purpose missiles, and the sixteen UGM.6 Imsdal missiles she carried. Of those sixteen, eight were of the A-version which had a 544-kg penetrating warhead; four were of the B-version which had a substantial thermite payload; two were of the E-version which contained an EMP warhead; and the last two were of the F-version, which the Captain needed special authorization to employ due to the 350-kiloton W-19/A thermonuclear warhead that was employed on the UGM.6/F Imsdal. In addition to being able to fight back, the Scorpion had a number of counter-measures that would be used against any incoming torpedo. With four reloadable and two external decoy compartments and four Mk.70/A LEMOSS underwater submarine simulator, basically a Mk.68 modified with a sound emitter to emit the sounds of a Scorpion class submarine magnified by a factor of ten instead of the 300-kilogram PXBN-103 warhead of the normal Mk.68, which could be used to distract the enemy and allow the submarine to slip away undetected. Four Sjøorms, two AMESMs and two LEMOSS' were armed into the Scorpion's eight 533mm torpedo tubes as she waited for the Russians to pass by. If they engaged her, she'd use the decoys to avoid any incoming weapon, fire off a LEMOSS and then get the hell out of the area. It was unlikely that they'd even detect her though, and even more unlikely that she'd open fire. Her orders were to observe and report back. That was all.

[OOC: Just watching Pushka. Hope you don't mind.]

Pushka

05-01-2007, 15:53

1st Pacific Naval Front Orbat

Parts of 2nd, 4th, 7th, 9th, 14th, 15th, 19th and 21st Flotillas:

Indestructable class Aircraft Carrier: 2
Illium class Destroyer: 12
Kristík class Battleship: 21
Grospek class Heavy Guided Battle Cruiser: 29
Paramount class Air Defense Vessel: 31
Pepperbox class Logistical Suppor Vessel: 38
Lu-25 Black Mariah STOVL Multi-Role Aircraft: 250
Morskaya Pehota (Marines): 4100
AVT-12 Assault Transport Craft: 80

Parts of 3rd and 6th Podvodnaya Divizia:

Cartagena class SSN: 12
Tenerife class SSH: 15
Valencia class SSK: 11

Document to be passed on to all Front officers and Intelligence coordinators for familiarization.

Classification Status: Совершенно Секретно/

Signed,

Министерство Обороны,

Minister of Defense,
Afanasie Krilov

Terronian

05-01-2007, 16:11

The Opulent Private Military Corporation is willing to do buisness with both sides of this conflict.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=511940&highlight=opulent

Pushka

05-01-2007, 16:12

Admiral Slepoi took command of operation issuing orders from his cabinet on "Iegor IX" Indestructible Class Aircraft carrier. The last thing the Admiral was concerned with was the stealth of the operation, the President said it himself he wanted the whole world to see the operation unfold in order to show the efficiency of the Russian military to scare the potential enemies and gain respect of potential allies. Things being so the fleet was ordered to move at the maximum speed in a submarines forward, surface ships behind formation. So far things were going well, the weather was nice, the Spizanians haven't yet made any move, it was the calm before the coming of the storm.

Pushka

05-01-2007, 16:19

The Opulent Private Military Corporation is willing to do buisness with both sides of this conflict.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=511940&highlight=opulent

Official Message to the Opulent Private Military Corporation

If you aid the nation of Spizania in this conflict you will be sanctioned by the Russian Federation government and suffer other consequences depending on the severity of your involvement.

Signed,

President of Russian Federation,
Igor Stepanov

Spizania

05-01-2007, 21:13

Long gone were the days when Baker Island had just been a sandy oasis in a vast blue sea, the massive industrial establishment associated with the new island project had come, and expanded it to a massive steel concrete and aerogel disc several kilometres across, then the project had wound up, its objectives achieved, with the engineers gone, the second phase began, somewhat different from what had been initially intended, the military had taken over the island, removing most of the factories and replacing them with what amounted to the second most formidable fortress of the Confederacy.
Missile batteries and gun posistions dotted the entire island, with a divisions worth of marine infantry, with nothing but the lightest vehicles, packed onto the island and dedicated to its defence, the base even had a wing of Lu-25 Black Mariah VTOL aircraft, based out of a small concrete covered steel strip on the northern edge of the island, about ninety degrees from where the squadron of eight destroyers and one light cruiser that was attached to the base was moored.
The Base had a significant number of helocopters for ASuW and ASW, Torpedo Launchers dotted the perimetre and ASROC systems were mounted all over the base, along with the most powerful active SONAR array of any Confederate Military Installation, 32 individual transducers, making it highly resistant to counter attack, there were another sixteen in storage, with fast removable mountings allowing for them to be changed out in only a couple of hours.
And Finally, 6 Cartegena class SSNs and 16 Toledo Class SSKs nursed off of the island, returning to a more permeanant home base only every few months, with the crews and supplies being brought in, and taken out by numerous convoys of merchant ships, each with its own escort force.
The base had enough supplies to support itself, its surface and submarine forces, and its garrison for up to three months, and had enough ammunition to last for weeks of continious heavy fighting.
This was in short, a massively formidable installation, and one that the Pushkans would be unable to take without a bloody action that would last several weeks as they fought to clear every last part of the massive underground and underwater labyrinth at the core of the installation.

Pushka

06-01-2007, 06:42

OOC: Aight, I see you continued my efforts of expanding the island. Few things I need to know, how big is the island and how many missile batteries and gun positions are on the island? If they're on the island I would be able to spot them via satelite.

Spizania

06-01-2007, 17:36

OOC: About a hundred missile launchers, four tubes each, capable of firing Surface to Air Missiles, AShMs, ASATs and various other funky stuff.
About forty gun posistions, varying calibres from 35mm to 203mm ETC

Pushka

06-01-2007, 18:53

1200 miles North of the Baker Island

Admiral Slepoi was looking at a tablet PC he carelessly dropped on top of his desk. The dirt resistant LCD screen was showing him the Baker Island and all of the enemy units placed on it that the Russian intelligence could detect.

Hmm...missile launchers, anti-aircraft guns...something needs to be done about this before we get into their range. Good thing the president has given me the attack go ahead, the bloody Spizanians decided to not respond to our ultimatum and didn't make any moves of leaving the island. That means I am authorized to blast the shit out of it....our modified Kh-55 Cruise missiles should do the trick. Yes, yes they should do the trick. I'll use the 20 T-0 Tsaplias we have to carry out the mission. The plane's existence is still a big secret, they are positioned away from the main fleet, the enemy doesn't know anything about them and its highly doubtful that they're even able to detect them, each plane can launch 12 CMs from up in the air, they're perfect. Yes, yes...perfect.

Alexander picked up his phone and began issuing the order.

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In the air 10 miles East of the 1st Pacific Naval Front

The order was issued and the wing of T-0 Tsaplia flying boats has took up to the heavens. Each one carried 12 Kh-55 Granat cruise missiles rather heavily modified with the VRPB uplinking system, a vector thrust maneuverability package and a much more powerful RD-V39 rocket engine that allowed them to travel at a cruising speed of Mach 1.4. Each missile had already selected its target, a Spizanian military installation or missile launcher.

"Voron 1 to the 0 Wing, confirm ammunition status."

The commander watched as the statistics table of other planes in his wing represented on an LCD screen to his right filled up with "Вооружено" (Armed, rus.) icon under the Kh-55 Granat sub-column.

"Wing armed and ready, launch on my order...launch."

The missile bays of all 20 planes opened synchronically and the 240 cruise missiles fell out, started their engines and took off towards their targets.

OOC: T-0 Tsaplia specs (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=462036)

Pantheaa

07-01-2007, 01:58

Message to the Russian Federation

Greetings to our Russian neighbors. Normally we would be sueing for peace, but when Spizania invaded Yemen years ago, they enacted a rampage that claimed the lifes of many civilians. When Spizanian navel artillery and aircraft bombed buildings without no mercy. Although the Panthean government has reformed ourselves and made peace with their former enemies…..Spizania has yet to sign a peace treaty or pay compensation for their crimes. Now that our military as rebuilt itself and modernized their weaponry we are ready for war. This attack on civilians can not go unpunished and because of this we are willing to aid the Russian Federation in their current crusade.

With your government’s permission of course we would like to send the 3rd flight wing and 5th flight wing..of the Royal Airforce. As well as a Psych operations in order to win the hearts and minds of the Baker Island people through pro Russian Fed propaganda

Once the country is under control we will send in the 2nd Airborne Infantry in to help with Secuirty

We have no navy..so all Aircraft will have to be flowed from Pantheaa to Baker Island.

Panthean ORBATS

3rd flight wing

10 F22 Raptors
20 flight Personal
47 Technicians
4 Fuel tankers with 3 personal in each one

4th Flight wing

45 T1 Typhoons
22 Flight personal
50 Technicians
4 Fuel tankes with 3 personal in each one

PAF psych ops

12 C130 hercules
3000 Propaganda pamphlets
100000 Meals ready to eat (for refugees) stamped with a made from Pantheaa sticker which will be dropped to displaced refugees

(In Reserve)
2nd Airborne Infanrty Regiment

2,000 Soldiers
Armed with Scar 11 Assault Rifles, Grenades, MRE, Chem gear, Pro mask,
100 Land Rovers

Pushka

07-01-2007, 02:11

Voronej, Evenkia Okrug

"Tovarish President the Pantheans want to aid us in the securing of the Baker Island."

Igor was in his office when his secretary told him the news.

"They want to help do they? Well...we don't really need much help at the Baker, but this might turn out to be a good show. Okay, tell them they can use a couple of airstrips near Providenya in Chukotka to house their wing. If they make any hints at wanting a part of the island politely tell them to go to hell. Thats is all I have to say about that. Carry on."

"Of course tovarish President."

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Message to Pantheaa

We can sympathize with your wish for revenge, because of that we are prepared to allow you to use two airstrips 10 kilometers outside of the port of Providenya in Chukotka Oblast. The area of the air strips should be sufficient for housing and refueling your flight wings so they can continue on route to the Baker.

President of Russian Federation,
Igor Stepanov

OOC: Baker Island is tiny, nobody lives on it, only military personnel.

Hirgizstan

07-01-2007, 21:51

NEWS REPORT FROM WWW.HNC.COH

HNC.COH HOME> WORLD

Sunday 5th January, 2007

FEARS RISE OVER MISSING PACIFIC FREIGHTER

PAPUA NEW GUINEA- Just two days ago the HS Aloha, a sea freighter belonging to the White Star Line Shipping Co. broke off contact somewhere between Howland Island and Baker Island. The Aloha was shipping military supplies to the base on Howland Island before heading to Hawaii to continue trading. Rough seas have so far been put down as the cause of the dissappearance.

The ship itself was relatively new, with a large crew of 65. They mostly come from the Eastern shipping town of Massawa in Eritrea. WSL Shipping spokesperson Mitch Arundi said in a press conference yesterday that they "were doing everything they could to locate their ship, and have been in constant contact with the Coast Guard on Howland Island." The big fear is that the ship, with its heavy cargo capsized in some of the most violent storms reported in that area of the world.

The incident is further worsened by rumours that the Russian Federation is about to attack Baker Island, near where the Aloha is said to be missing. If any attacks should continue the Coast Guard have said they will not be able to continue their searches in any guarantee of safety. Family and freinds of the missing seamen have expressed their feelings on local and national news channels and can only be more distraught if conflict was to break out.

Six freighters were lost at sea last year alone, four of them running aground on rocks and the other two sinking in the Atlantic after particularly heavy storms. Shipping losses per year account for around NCN160 Million.

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SECRET IC

The Aloha had been a good ship, sturdy, reliable and surprisingly comfortable inside. It probably would have been good to be a crew member during the summer months, sailing around the tropical islands in the Pacific. It had been fairly cold and more than a bit bumpy at this time of year though. Marcus Blaine was almost sad as the Aloha sunk below the waves, prow up almost defiantly, as it sank backwards into the grey sea. His assignment was nearly coming to an end.

The Aloha had been carrying BGM-109F Fasthawk Cruise Missiles and Navy Tactical Missile System (NTACMS) warheads, the mainstay of Mk.41 VLS Tubes throughout the COH Navy and allied Navies throughout the world.
Nobody but a few members of the crew knew this. They were senior and easy enough to convince with some talk about patriotic duty and some money. It was a good job Marcus was a Hirgizstanian, because as he first accosted them they were going to shoot him as a stowaway, but he managed to explain himself. They in turn had convinced the rest of the crew, saying they were to abandon the boat at a certain point, something to do with insurance fraud. The crew would be paid well, in fact they had already been paid well by the White Star Line, who had been paid very well by the White Cougar PMC (Private Military Corporation). Whether they had been paid by the Government or not would never be known, but it didn't matter much at the moment, at least Marcus Blaine saw it that way.

The Aloha had, under his 'command' put into a secluded area on Howland Island, met by a few shady Spizanian characters. They were wary of Marcus, a Hirgizstanian, they didn't much trust them after the incident in the Gulf, but Marcus assured them he was private, strictly business. The cargo of the ship had been unloaded quickly, during the night. Anyone watching would see a ship, its name obscured and no flags, simply unloading some vital supplies. That was it, that was the plan.

As soon as Marcus saw the last of the blue colored hull of the ship dissappear the little military boat he'd been loaned by the Spizanians was speeding its way toward the rest of the Aloha crew and their lifeboats, he would blend in with them and dissappear when the time was right.

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NEWS REPORT FROM WWW.HNC.COH

HNC.COH HOME> WORLD

Sunday 7th January, 2007

MISSING SEAMEN FOUND ON LIFERAFT'S OFF HOWLAND ISLAND

HOWLAND ISLAND- Fears about the fate of the crew of the missing freighter, the Aloha, were allayed yesterday when a Coast Guard frigate spotted the brightly coloured life-rafts off the coast of Howland Island early this morning, just after dawn. Early reports from the rescued crew suggest their boat ran aground in a heavy storm somewhere near Baker Island, and the ship was abandoned for fear of it capsizing. The Fuhrer himself flew out to Massawa today on hearing the news, to speak to the relieved families who have been waiting anxiously for five days now.

Guard Luitenant Mitchell Adams was the first man to spot the orange and white colored life boats off the bow of the Frigate Atlantis. He had to re-focus on the strange coloured shapes several times before realizing what they were. Within minutes the alarm was sounded and the news was being broadcast around the country and the world.

The families in Massawa, some of whom had camped out inside the White Star Line Shipping Companies' offices in Massawa, wept and cried for joy when they heard the news.

The crew of the Aloha had been adrift for four days, but had ample supplies. They were dishevelled and cold but happy, standing on the sides of the Coast Guard frigate as it took them to the port on Howland Island. Within a few hours they had been checked out at the military hospital on the island, and were flying to the Navy Base at Papua New Guinea, from where they'd fly on to Massawa, to be re-united with their families.

Pushka

08-01-2007, 16:29

OOC: TOA just has to put its nose in everything doesn't it Hirgy? Oh well, is Spiz going to reply to my missile attack any time soon. Also these events described by Hirgy I assume have transpired before I launched the missiles which makes the whole RP a mess since you're basically giving Spiz weapons that at the time I already attacked him he did not have. So what you did is warp the timeline of the conflict which kind of defeats the purpose of the RP since next thing you can do is say that you laid a bunch of mine fields at the exact spot there I parked my navy a couple of weeks before I moved my forces in just based on a hinch. Common Hirgy, don't ruin this.

Hirgizstan

08-01-2007, 17:01

OOC: Actually I thought you might liken this to Afghanistan! And no, the missiles were supposed to arrive after you launched your first attack. If I warped the timeline I didn't mean to, I'm not quite sure what dates your working off. I'm not actually getting involved either, this will likely be the only thing I'll do. Remember its a Mercenary doing it, its nothing to do with the COH Government.

Pushka

08-01-2007, 17:09

OOC: Alright than, lets just move on.

Spizania

08-01-2007, 19:43

Baker Island Command Control Centre
"Vampires Vampires Vampires, bearing 210, range 300km, time to mark, about ten minutes"
"Do you have numbers?"
"Yes Sir, i read 240 Birds"
"TWO HUNDRED FORTY? JESUS"
"I know captain, we cant stop em all" said the radar operator in a rather solemn voice, as he reached for the SAM designator panel to try, the captain cut him off, "I think this a code red situation, sound battlestations missile-1 and go to NBC detonation alert," as the SAM operator reached for the alert panel, the Captain turned to the safe on the wall, entered his twelve digit authorisation code, called over the second in command, let him enter his code and open the safe.
Inside was a folder containing launch codes for the bases arsenal of nuclear warheads, the captain reached in and removed a file containing the launch codes for the twelve RBX-12 Nuclear SAMs that were kept in the arsenal, selecting one at random, he replaced the others and closed the safe.
He turned from safe and moved back to the fire control panel, breaking the seal of the file as he went, he opened it and read aloud.
"Select Missile Vulture-12-Niner-Alpha, launch authorisation, tango-tango-three-charlie-alpha-one-echo-two"
The Sam boss had tapped the commands into his control panel, the authorisation codes matched and a yellow LED appeared on one of the SAM status boards, showing a missile was being loaded, eventually it turned green as the launcher moved to launch posistion, training its four tube assembly towards the target missile wave, still over five hundred kilometres away.
"Missile primed, launch on your command sir" said the sam boss as he removed the launch key from around his neck and stuck it into the control board, this was required for all nuclear missile releases.
"Authorisation Confirmed" said the captain as he removed his own key and inserted it into a board six feet from the SAM boss, "Turn on my mark, Three, Two, One, TURN", the two men turned there keys simultaneously, and the missile lit its primary booster and shot from the launcher, acccelerating past the speed of sound and switching to its massive solid fuel ramjet as it ascended and accelerated to approximately Mach 3.
It closed the distance rapidly, as it approached the lead missiles the commander waited, waited until it reached optimum detonation posistion, and then turned the key a half turn back to the right, the missile recieved the command, checked its safe zone, that had been calculated by an earlier satcom pass, and determined that no neutral or friendly shipping was within 80 miles of its location, and then triggered the warhead.
The sky turned a flushed white from the flash, as the 475kT Thermonuclear device airbursted at the leading edge of the horde of missiles, eviscerating the entire enemy barrage within seconds, the enemy attack had been defeated, but they were sure that the enemy would not take this defeat well.

Cotland

08-01-2007, 20:53

S-273 was located seventeen nautical miles to the southwest of the Russian task force's main body, sticking its intelligence gathering antennas up from the water to listen in to whatever was being said. The antennas were no thicker than three centimetres, and protruded only about half a meter above the calm, warm Pacific Ocean, being impossible to spot with the Mark-I Eyeball and damn hard to detect on RADAR or LADAR. So far, she got only the sounds of static and telemetry suggestions of what seemed to be a battle occuring in the skies between missiles. From what the people that manned the equipment could tell, the S-273 were safely out of the way of any stray missile or debris.

Still, the news that the first shots of the Russo-Spizanian war had been fired made the submariners even more on edge, and the weapons in the eight torpedo tubes and sixteen VLS cells were constantly checked to be working at optimal preformance. However, the S-273 would only observe the proceedings and perhaps close the distance a little and get some images of the Russian battlegroup for identification of the indivdual ships if possible. With the optical mast that had replaced the venerable periscope in the Cottish submarine fleet, the submarine could be several nautical miles away and still get good images of the surface targets instead of the few nautical miles of the periscope. The risk of detection was minimized, but still present though, and the captain would have to confer with his officers before making his decision.

Pushka

08-01-2007, 22:40

OOC: Wait Spiz, you destroyed 239 of the 240 missiles fired at you? Excuse me but I am going to call that bullshit. My Kh-54s are not regular they are fitted with a VRPB uplinked guidance system as I have mentioned, that system works to avoid collision with enemy missile defenses by changing the missile trajectory as the VRPB model is updated. The system is something similar but at the same time a bit more advanced than what is used on Topol class ballistic missiles. But even without it you shooting down all of my missiles but one is a god mod. In addition how big is Baker now? 400 Praetorians? That would take some space to position.

[NS]Kreynoria

08-01-2007, 23:14

OOC: I must also agree here. No modern anti-missile missile has a hit rate above 25-30%, attaining a 90% hit rate won't be happening any time soon. A 99.95% hit rate like what you just did is out of the bounds of both the technology of modern tech and of good roleplay.

Pushka

09-01-2007, 00:14

Iegor IX

"Comrade Admiral we have detected an unidentified submarine. 'Admiral Jukovsky'
aircraft carrier's TB-163 towed array has picked up some very faint noises. They weren't sure so they contacted the intelligence. They sent in a reconnaissance UAV. The submarine was very close to the surface, we have confirmation of its location by both infrared and ground penetrating radar sensors. What should we do?"

The Admiral took a second to digest the information presented to him by his secretary. Alexandr covered his mouth with his right hand placing pressing his thumb against his mustage deep in thought.

"Hmm, alright Oleg, this is what we're going to do. Raise the level of encryption on all radio messages to the highest. Have a UAV drop a buoy near it and ping it. That should scare them off, if they don't do anything when we will ignore them for the time being, if they try to do something stupid I want them sunk. Alright, go relay my orders, carry on."

"Yes comrade Admiral."

Oleg let the room.

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A DULA-7-PP Voron UAV has taken off from the deck of 'Iegor IX' with a special buoy attached to its underbelly. Flying 30 meters away from the unidentified submarine it has released its load. The buoy fell into water with a loud splash but stayed afloat. A device worked into its submerged portion let out a ping. Whoever was on that sub they now knew that they were noticed.

[NS]Kreynoria

09-01-2007, 04:45

Spizania was a nation that Kreynoria didn't like very much. Spizania had once been an ally of Tyrandis, a country that fought a brief war with Pacifinesia. In the face of superior enemy forces, the old Spizania had capitulated, but the newer Spizania was prepared to fight against the Russian Federation. Kreynorian propoganda compared Sizania to a ravenous vulture; when the Huahinian government had collapsed, they had swarmed into its former territories and gobbled them up for themselves; when Pantheaa was already facing war against overwhelming October Alliance forces, Spizania was quick to pounce on Yemen. And when the Aazad movement rose in former Elephanti territory, the Spizanians had been there as well, using the turmoil to add to their territory.

Now, after secret negotiations with Russia, Kreynoria was also mobilizing to strike down the vulture nation. Thus, a secret order for mobilization was given by the Kreynorian High Command, authorized by Emperor Manuel III. The preparations were conducted with the utmost secrecy; the order was given at the highest possible level of encryption, and dummy units were being set up to replace the 'missing' units; that is, the units that were boarding transports bound for Spizanian territory. Operation Vulture Hunt was beginning...

Pushka

11-01-2007, 17:44

Spizania did not comply and all out war was declared. The rest of the Navy has mobilized and started moving towards the Bearing Strait, a portion of it would detach from the main force and aid the 1st Pacific Naval Front the rest would go for Yemen. The bear was wide awake and hungry Spizania was to be destroyed and there was to be no compromise.

[NS]Kreynoria

11-01-2007, 23:34

With the initiation of Operation Vulture Hunt, the first units began to move towards their various objectives.

The Maldives were the target of the 24th Infantry Division. Four of the massive PX-607 Pelican heavy ekranoplan transports would carry the initial wave, followed by Nurio-A-class assault ships and Nurio-T-class troop transports. The attack would proceed under the cover of the large guns of three PX-602 Tartaros ekranoplan battleships and a flotilla of cruisers and destroyers. The task force would have heavy air support from carrier-based aircraft returning from the invasion of Maharashtra.

Yemen and Oman would be subjected to invasion by the 4th, 5th, and 6th Marine Divisions, the 3rd and 7th Armored Divisions. Six Tartaros battlecraft and a large fleet of cruisers, destroyers, and submarines would provide a covering bombardment against shore defenses, while aircraft from Operation Carousel would cover the invasion from the air.

Finally, all nine divisions of Defense Sector Antarctica were mobilized and prepared to attack or defend; the plan called for five divisions to move into Spizanian Antarctica, with the remaining four held in reserve. Defense Sector Antarctica's entire Air Command was also prepared for combat as well. Finally, the large network of 150mm, 250mm, and 1000mm ETC guns incorporated into the National Defense Network were turning against Spizanian positions and preparing for a bombardment, as soon as all forces were ready...

Cotland

12-01-2007, 00:34

The prospects of a Kreynorian advance towards the Arabian peninsula as indicated by the intelligence analysts who had gone over the Kreynorian attack against the Maldives and the deployment of Kreynorian amphibious forces didn't go well down with the Cottish High Command. Since the early days of the emergance of the nation of Kreynoria, Cotland had viewed the Pacific nation with weary eyes and distrust. That distrust only increased with the continuous hostile statements the Kreynorians made against the Realm and its policy. It was entirely possible that the Realm had helped increase the gap between the two fundamentally different nations, but that line of thought was far from the concious minds of most Cottish citizens, who were very distrustful towards the Kreynorians. Enter the Cottish High Command, which was paranoid even against friendly nation states, and don't even get the author started about their paranoia against hostile-minded nation states. Therefore, when the Kreynorians started their attacks on Yemen and Oman, an action which had the potential of jeapordizing the Cottish and other shipping through the Suez Canal and could give the Kreynorians a base of operations for an attack against Suez itself, the High Command ordered the readiness for the entire Cottish military presence in Forsvarskommando Midt-Østen to go to BERSTAT-3, the second highest level of military readiness in peacetime.

Within thirty minutes after the condition was ordered, proverbial clouds of aircraft were in the skies, having scrambled to protect the Cottish territory. They flew BARCAPs, intending to stop anyone trying to enter Cottish airspace without prior permission with force if necessary. They were assisted by long-range Surface-to-Air Missile batteries located throughout the Cottish coastlines and borders, with the SAM coverage in the area around the Suez Canal being particularly dense. Extreme-range Replicator SAM sites armed with the massive and extreme-range MIM.32/A Replicator surface to air missile which had a range of upwards of eight hundred kilometers; long-range Salt SAM sites armed with the somewhat smaller MIM.31/A and MIM.31/B Salt surface-to-air missile, which had a range of some five hundred kilometers for the -A version and some two hundred and fourty kilometers for the slightly smaller -B version; medium-range SAM sites armed with the new MIM.38/A Sverd surface-to-air-missile, which had a range of one hundred and sixty-five kilometers at speeds of Mach 5.5 and manouverable thanks to thrust-vectoring technology similar to the one found on the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile that was found in at least some of the VLS cells in virtually all VLS-equipped surface warship which had been ordered out from their ports; and finally the point air defense which came in form of 35mm anti-aircraft artillery and short-range surface to air missiles which had short ranges, but which were still very effective last-ditch defense against incoming missiles and low-flying aircraft that would somehow have managed to evade the massive forces the Cots were mobilizing south of the Suez. All missiles save for the point defense ones were guided by E-3/A Bataleur AEWCC aircraft, E-19/B Dagger AWACS aircraft, or the many very powerful ground radars, all of them being equipped with the top secret Anti-Stealth System, although the ground-based radars were more effective in detecting stealthy targets than the airborne assets.

The Cottish military were firm believers in layered defense, and this principle followed in the defense plans. If an aircraft was detected, the first line of defense would be the F-25/A and F-25/B Typhoon advanced air superiority fighters that flew CAPs over the Red Sea. If they failed in their mission, the SAM sites would take over and engage the targets until they were destroyed, starting with the Replicator or, if within range, the less costly but still oh so deadly Salt missiles. If they failed, the Sverd missiles would go next, and in the unlikely event that neither the Replicator, Salt or Sverd missiles succeeded, the short-range 35mm Close Air Defense Gun Systems (CADGS), which were equipped with an improved, land-based version of the 35mm Millenium Gun armed with AHEAD shells, or the short-range MIM.35/C Wizard missiles would take care of it. If they failed as well, then the enemy could get through. Still, it would take either a LOT of missiles, a lot of luck, or both to succeed in that.

In addition to the air defenses, which came from the Royal Cottish Air Force's ranks, there was the little thing called the Royal Cottish Navy's 3. Flåte. The 3. Flåte consisted of three Carrier Battle Groups, four Amphibious Task Forces, two Tactical Submarine Groups and four Coastal Patrol Groups, with hundreds of Cottish warships, submarines and transports. A total of twelve of the brand new Loke class diesel submarines were operating in the Red Sea, and being extremely quiet when operating on the AIP power plant, they could be very silent, very stealthy, and not at least, very deadly opponents. Supporting them were twelve of the larger Scorpion class nuclear-powered hunter/killer submarines and twelve Havoc class guided missile carrying nuclear powered submarines. Of these, all the Havocs and nine of the Scorpions were operating in the Arabian Sea, out in deeper waters, ready to stalk the Kreynorian fleet that was attacking Spizania. A total of seven aircraft carriers, four battleships, fourteen battlecruisers, fourteen guided missile cruisers, hundreds of destroyers and frigates, tens of smaller coastal patrol boats, and a number of amphibious transports were also in the area of operations, along with hundreds of Royal Cottish Navy fighter and bomber aircraft. The Realm had no intention of allowing the Kreynorians to block the Gulf of Aden and thus threatening the Cottish Middle Eastern holdings, namely Egypt and Israel, and more importantly, the Suez Canal. Therefore, one Expeditionary Battle Group, made up by taking a standard Carrier Battle Group, in this case the 8. Carrier Battle Group, and adding the warships that were tasked with defending the amphibious elements of the 10. Amphibious Task Force. Since all amphibs remained in port with the Royal Marines being used to bolster shore defenses, those warships remained inactive and were of better use in a expeditionary group. Therefore, Expeditionary Battle Group TAMBARSKJELVE consisted of the Ormen Lange class battleship HMS Einar Tambarskjelve (B26) which served as the flagship, the two Odin-I class fleet aircraft carriers HMS Loke (R32) and HMS Mjølner (R18), supported by four Mexia class battlecruisers, four Heimdal class guided missile cruisers, twenty of the venerable Indefatigable class destroyers, twelve Smertebringer class frigates, ten Nådeløs class air defense frigates, four submarines of the Scorpion class serving as fleet pickets and underwater defense, and four Forsyner class fleet underway resupply vessels. All in all, the sixty-one vessel battle group had a total of 144 F-20/B Enforcer advanced multirole fighter jets, fourty-eight F-25/B Typhoon advanced fleet air superiority fighter jets, twenty-four of the brand new B-29/A Vestavind bombers, and a number of other support aircraft and helicopters. All in all, the battle group was well protected against all threats, whether they be aerial, surfaced or subsurfaces, due to the extensive SONAR and RADAR coverage, reconnaissance aircraft, BARCAP and the satellites that were tracking the Kreynorian fleet that was moving towards the Arabian peninsula.

E.B.G. TAMBARSKJELVE was moving into position near the Gulf of Aden with a simple mission: Prevent Kreynorian forces from moving into positions to block the Gulf of Aden and thus threaten the Suez Canal indirectly; and to ensure the safely of Cottish and allied shipping. They would be well in place by the time the Kreynorian fleet from its massive Pacific holdings had made it to the Arabian peninsula, having only to sail at full steam through the friendly Hirgizstani waters for a relatively few hours before being in position.

With hopes of being able to make the Kreynorians reconsider, if they were in fact going to attack Spizanian Yemen and Oman, the Foreign Ministry issued the following statement which was intended for the Kreynorian leadership, but which was open for the world to see. At least no one could be able to claim the Cots hadn't sued for peace and diplomacy.

Official Statement to the World

The Realm sees at the Kreynorian advances against the nation of Spizania with great concern, and fearing a Kreynorian offensive against the Arabian holdings of said nation, the Realm has deployed a task force to ensure the safety of Cottish, allied and friendly shipping through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Should a Kreynorian offensive be undertaken against the Arabian holdings of Spizania, the elements of the Royal Cottish Navy which has been moved to positions in international and Hirgizstani waters at the entrance of the Gulf of Aden will not allow the naval forces of Kreynoria entrace, as they will then be in a position to threaten the safety of the Cottish territories of Egypt and Israel, and the vital trade link known as the Suez Canal which so many of the world's nations use regularly.

The Realm urges the nation of Kreynoria to reconsider any potential offensive on the Spizanian Arabian holdings, and emphasise the threat to the national security of the Realm that such an offensive would be. We wish no conflict between our two nations, but the Realm will take the necessary actions to defend its national security.

The die is cast, and we await the Kreynorian response to this communique. Should the nation of Kreynoria decide to launch such an offensive as described above, the Realm will take no responsibility for the results of said decision. The responsibility will fall onto the leaders of Kreynoria.

[signed]
Foreign Ministry
The Realm of Cotland

Spizania

12-01-2007, 00:52

OOC: Modded the post about the missile launch, dont complain, you forced this onto me, will post as regards to the other attacks in the morrow, tired now, must sleep

Cotland

12-01-2007, 01:03

[OOC: Nukes? Are you crazy? BTW if any fallout from a potential counter-strike hits Cottish territory, we consider that an act of war...]

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 01:11

The satellites couldn't miss the massive Russian fleet as it set to sea and certainly there were questions within the ministries of Defense and Intelligence. The Minister of Foreign Affairs was wary of just what was going on, especially since they were heading out, into the Pacific Ocean. Space radars showed that Russian satellites had moved over the Pacific Ocean as well and it was evident that something was going on in the Pacific Ocean and that it was not an exercise. Signals intelligence was spotty, at best, and communications intercepted were still being analyzed though none of them, thus far, revealed much. Hundreds of millions of communications had been intercepted through simple SIGINT monitoring, which was nothing out of the ordinary. Stations sometimes received in excess of 200 million per day but, out of those 200 million, sometimes no more than 10 yielded anything of value or importance. The Ministry of Intelligence was working frantically and furiously to find out just what was going on and the Russian encryption was definitely hindering efforts though nothing was uncrackable. The higher the encryption, the more time it would take and with supercomputers, they hoped that they could eventually crack the Russian cypher. Time would tell.

What made matters worse was the location. The Pacific Ocean was a bastion of threat to the Empire and its allies. There was a strong belief that the Japanese would be attacking and that there was some sort of secret alliance between the Russians and the Japanese. If this was the first move in a series of moves that would bring the Pacific Ocean to war, the Ministry of Intelligence had to find out and had to be sure. There was a 50-50 chance and they had to be fully sure, otherwise they would be acting on incorrect intelligence and could risk nuclear annihilation. As an immediate result of the Russian fleet, all Layartebian military stations, bases, and units operating in the Pacific Ocean had their threat levels elevated. Layartebian bases on Papua New Guinea and Fiji as well as in India were put on high alert just as well. Satellites would work overtime trying to find out what was moving in the Pacific Ocean and what wasn't moving. Advanced warning was crucial.

When Igor Stepanov announced, on world television that the intended target was Baker Island, the Ministry of Intelligence breathed a sigh of relief, for now. Spizania and the Empire had no relations with each other whatsoever and the loss of Baker Island to the Russians concerned the Empire only because it put them that much closer to the Empire. Nobody in the Layartebian government cared too much that Spizania would lose the island, that wasn't the concern. However, there was something that the Empire knew would be a grave concern. The Commonwealth of Hirgizstan, an October Alliance ally, was very close to the island, close enough to pelt it with stones. That was something of concern. However, with the announcement, it was evident that the REDCON levels wouldn't have to be upgraded, just yet. They sat stagnant, at 4.

"So they extort our Cottish allies out of their land in Siberia. Now they threaten the Spizanians with war if they don't give them the island in the Pacific. New name, same lies." The Emperor remarked in a closed Cabinet session. "What are we going to make of this?" The meeting came just an hour after the announcement from Stepanov. "What are we going to do?"

"Well sir," the Minister of Defense began. "I suggest that we maintain our current alert levels and readiness. We do not upgrade the REDCON level just yet. If they begin to move against the COH we upgrade to 3 and put our forces to sea to back up and reinforce the COH at Howland Island. If we need to we'll have to reinforce them completely."

"I agree." The Emperor concluded.

As the Russian fleet moved closer to the island they definitely made it obvious that they weren't in the mood to keep quiet. With their submarines and ships moving at maximum forward speed, patrolling submarines miles and miles and miles away could hear them echo through the water. The submarines and ships listened and recorded, categorizing everything that they heard, making identifications so that they could classify them at a later time. They didn't have to be too close to the submarines or surface ships to hear them roaring through the water and they kept as far away as they needed, maintaining their silent speeds. Submarines moved under 10 knots, well within their silent speeds, stayed deep, and kept recording. ESM sensors on surface ships picked up signals from the ships and the intelligence gathering operation was more than sufficient. It was a great opportunity for them to observe what was going on and when they realized just where they were going, they set up barriers to listen before the fleet ever got there. They wouldn't be in the direct path of the Russian fleet but they would remain deep, very deep, and when the ships got close enough, they would go to full quietness. Unless a ship passed within a few thousand yards, under 5,000 yards, of them, they wouldn't be heard and unless they went to active pinging and got within a few thousand yards just as well, they wouldn't ever be heard or see. The submarines of the Empire were more then adept at listening. Even more adept was the Sehnsucht, a secret spy vessel registered under a global NPO called "Weather Watchers." It was in the AO, taking readings on the effects of global warming on the upper Pacific atmosphere. The readings would be published, the information they gathered on the Russian fleet would not be published, except within the Ministry of Intelligence and the Ministry of Defense.

"How fast as they moving?" The Minister of Defense asked into the phone as he sat in his office. He remembered the cabinet conversation the previous day and laughed when he heard the answer. "Flank speed? Hell they could run over a stereo and not hear it. Even if they were pinging away, they wouldn't hear a thing. The Spizanians could sneak up on them and they would never know that they were there. I wonder who writes their tactics." He laughed and the days went by, passing to the next. Baker Island was a floating fortress in the Pacific Ocean. The Spizanian government had entrenched the island with enough defenses to repell divisions of trained Marines. If it came down to a fight, the daily advances were going to be measured in inches and feet, not miles.

When the cruise missiles were launched from aircraft that had never before been seen, alarms went off in the MOD. Satellites overhead watched and showed the Emperor and the Cabinet the missiles as they streaked across the ocean at low altitude and high speed. The Sehnsucht picked them up and did two operations, first monitoring the firing platform and the other, monitoring the course. The ship had a powerful uplink capacity and it uplinked right up to a destroyer, which was transmitting what information it received from its powerful synthetic aperture radar, the AN/SPY-4. The information was being piped over to the MOD and, it just so happened, down to the Sehnsucht as well, though passively, so that its interception of the signal wouldn't be noticed, by even the MOI and MOD. Intelligence gathering was an art form for the Sehnsucht and its crew. It was even an art form for the Abaddon class, another secret spy vessel, floating much further away. The Sehnsucht was an ELINT/SIGINT ship. The Abaddon did that but focused on anti-satellite capabilities and tracking capabilities. The ship could track nuclear warheads in space in the event of an exchange. They were registered under SETI, whose goal was to search the skies for extraterrestrial life.

"Holy shit!" That was all the Cabinet could say as the screen went white. They knew exactly what happened, they watched the missile launch. All of this was real-time to them and all of this was something that none of them imagined. "Holy shit!" The Minister of Defense was on the phone immediately and he had only one thing to say to his others.

"IMMEDIATE! IMMEDIATE! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION OF NUCLEAR EXPLOSION! ORIGIN BAKER ISLAND! IMMEDIATE! IMMEDIATE! HIGH ALERT ALL FORCES. SET REDCON 3!" The Emperor concurred and the Empire went into immediate battle mode. "Do they know just how much EMP they set off back to themselves?" He commented to the cabinet as the satellites came back on line with static. "Lucky for us it was low altitude." The Sehnsucht crew watched in horror as the fire ball lit up the sky. The missiles were definitely in trouble now and the orders proceeded throughout the ILM over the next twenty minutes. REDCON 3 would be set immediately.

The nuclear explosion over the Pacific still had to be assessed when the Kreynorians began their advance and it seemed almost incomprehensible what was going on in the world. Spizania was no friend to the Kreynorians but the Kreynorians were no friend to some of the Empire's allies. That was a threat and a problem but the Empire wasn't here to play teacher or over watcher. Diplomatic channels were open to the Kreynorians but they mentioned nothing of the moving advance, which had been uncalculated yet. They didn't know where they were going except that they might be heading to the Arabian peninsula. Cottish movements confirmed this and now it was evident that this was escalating faster and faster and soon would be well beyond control. It was high time that the Empire did something but it wasn't time to get involved. They had no business getting involved, that was for sure. Instead they would maintain readiness and watch, just watch, and listen too.

Pushka

12-01-2007, 04:09

Voronej, Evenkia

Igor: "They did what?"

Igor said in a calm voice in between taking another sip from his cup of tea. Admiral Slepoi was on the other end of the phone.

Slepoi: "Yes tovarish president, they exploded a nuclear charge to attempt to destroy the cruise missiles we sent after them."

Igor: "Alright, what are you planning to do?"

Slepoi: "The fleet is at a stop and silent, has been for some time now, it seems that many eyes and ears are watching us, we are keeping track of as many as we can. I have ordered all the communications to go through the satelite even the short range and the encryption level was raised to maximum. If they try to hijack our transmissions we will know. In addition the Intelligence has told me that they are making attempts to capture and decrypt all communications enemy or otherwise around the fleet. They have had some success but the results are yet to be seen, the decryption process will take some time. The submarine detachment is laying in silent mode ready to attack if it is needed. The T-0s are being reequipped with a new payload, we should be sending another barrage towards the island in several hours."

Igor: "Good, good, alright, do what you must."

Slepoi: "Yes tovarish President."

Igor hung up.

The Spizanians are obviously quiet mad, heh...they are making this too easy

Igor pressed a button on his phone connecting him to his secretary.

Igor: "Tatiana please connect me the Cottish embassy, I would like to talk to him. "

Tatiana: "A second tovarish President."

A second later Igor was holding his phone to his ear speaking in English to the Cottish embassy.

Igor: "Hello this is Igor Stepanov, President of Russian Federation, I would like to have a meeting with an entrusted representative of your nation. This meeting will concern the explosion of a nuclear warhead by the nation of Spizania in the Southern Pacific. This is very urgent."

He kept his voice calm as always finally putting his cup on his office table.

Pushka

12-01-2007, 04:13

OOC: God dammit TOA once again has to mess with that which is non of its business, really guys you're taking this game way to seriously to the extent of absurd in fact.

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 04:19

Pushka

12-01-2007, 04:23

Official Statement from the Russian Federation

"In the light of the recent fact of an explosion of a nuclear device in the South Pacific by the armed forces of Spizania it became quiet obvious that the ruling party of the said nation of Spizania has gone quiet mad. Spizanians should be seen by every nation of the world as the threat to human kind, the Russian Federation as a tool to remove that cancer from the face of our world. We invite all nations interested in participating in our campaign to send representatives to Voronej so we can coordinate our actions and combat this evil more efficiently. The ecological effects of the said explosion will have to be assessed in due time, right now nations of the world need to bond together in a coalition to stop this type of attack from happening ever again. We would also like to add that Russian Federation will not retaliate with an adequate nuclear response in this incident, however should our fleet be slain by such a cowardly attack we will have no choice but to put up an adequate retaliation against all Spizanian holdings all over the globe. Spizania has brought the world to the edge of nuclear war, this action must not go unpunished."

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Russian Federation

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 04:30

Official Statement from the Empire

The events in the Pacific Ocean are no longer ignorable. What we have witnessed in the ocean today was a defensive nuclear response, a response that could, potentially cause a localized war to become a global catastrophe. Despite being the victims of an offensive assault by the Russian Federation, the Spizanians have gone to extreme lengths to escalate this crisis. The Empire will be studying the effects of this explosion on the Western Republic and shall be seeking restitution from the Spizanian government if it should be determined that any territory within the Republic is affected negatively by this event.

The Emperor

Pushka

12-01-2007, 04:31

OOC: Just a few notes. We didn't hack into the satellites (godmodding) we're just gathering transmissions to and from the satellite but we're not actually taking them hence they're undisturbed. So there's no way to know that they're being intercepted. Also once your ships went dead and silent so did my vessels so even their presence wouldn't be noted unless you had active pings and we within a few thousand yards and I haven't dared go that close (too close for peacetime).

Also Spizania that EMP burst from the weapon would have seriously spat back at you and all vessels in the area. All systems would have been temporarily disrupted throughout all of our positions out there (hence the satellite glitch). Anything too close to the detonation point would be out cold so if you had submarines in there they are effectively messed up. EMP protection would mean maybe they aren't on the bottom of the sea by now but they're definitely offline and if they lost propulsion, they are sinking.

Nuclear SAMs are, sadly, a pain in the butt because of the EMP burst they create. We were going to use them against ballistic missiles during the Cold War but the EMP would have wiped us out too.

By the way, the higher up the burst, the more damaging its effects. A high altitude nuke burst, which was expected by the USSR during a nuclear exchange would effectively render most of the Midwest from the Rockies to the Mississippi completely out of operation except places hardened for EMP.

OOC: The information transmission is done by sending a highly powered laser beam directly to and from my satellites, thus in order to intercept those communications you would have to get a receiver in between the beam and the satelite thus I would know if you have intercepted my communications. No submarine is perfectly silent especially if I know that I should be looking for something which is true since I can see your sechnucts with my satellites and I classify them as Layatrebian Naval vessels, thus I am looking for something. There is also more then just pinging and sonar then it comes to detecting a submarine, it can all be done from air with water penetrating radar and infrared sensors.

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 05:57

OOC: The information transmission is done by sending a highly powered laser beam directly to and from my satellites, thus in order to intercept those communications you would have to get a receiver in between the beam and the satelite thus I would know if you have intercepted my communications. No submarine is perfectly silent especially if I know that I should be looking for something which is true since I can see your sechnucts with my satellites and I classify them as Layatrebian Naval vessels, thus I am looking for something. There is also more then just pinging and sonar then it comes to detecting a submarine, it can all be done from air with water penetrating radar and infrared sensors.

OOC: Ahh laser communication that's different, very different. Very hard to intercept or jam that stuff but you can do clouds of dust and stuff in its path to block the signal, nice tidbit to stopping it but that's definitely not being done here. By the way, nuclear subs are very quiet but not as quiet as electric or AIP subs (U-212/214). However, you've got to be real close to hear them when they are in silent mode or stopped. The Sehnsucht is out there though ;). Penetrating radar and IR sensors don't work for deep, deep depths though.

Pushka

12-01-2007, 06:07

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 06:17

OOC: Well you haven't really specified the depths at which your subs (you got subs right?) are at, also from what I learned by reading the Hostile Waters if the depth difference and temperature difference is significant it will be very hard for you to pick my subs on your SONAR, but this works both ways. If the laser beam is interrupted then I switch to the traditional unguided data transfer or reroute to another satelite that isn't covered by the cloud, I would assume that the artificial cloud wouldn't last long though correct?

OOC: I said deep, very deep. Temperature below the thermal layer declines rapidly and makes it harder to detect. However, running out at flank speed, regardless of what depth you're at, the whole ocean can hear. At flank speed you wouldn't even know there was an incoming torpedo, sadly. Yeah a laser beam is tough to detect but if detected, a particle cloud of dust or something can be created and hamper transmission but it would take an aircraft or something up there to do it and it lasts as long as the particles exist. Windy conditions will definitely not help the cloud. You'd have to find the beam though, laser beam communications carry a LOT of data to the satellite (more than radio transmissions) are jam-proof but they still require a line-of-sight to the satellite (can't avoid that period). You can still jam satellites but the communications going to and from are much harder to jam. It can still be intercepted if someone finds it and without much knowledge to the receiving satellite. You don't have to block it to intercept it but you do have to basically find it. Microwave communications, which are what most satellites use (laser is reserved usually for military because it's so expensive) are simple to intercept. To get microwave communications you just have to be in the area and you can get everything, including that which misses the satellite and heads out into space. Microwave communications, when intercepted, give no indication that they have been and, in essence, you can just intercept them and nobody knows it. That is what the NSA does though I don't doubt they have a way to intercept laser communications. They're always 10 years or more AHEAD of current technology.

Pantheaa

12-01-2007, 06:27

“This is a frago!” (military slang for fragment order). Our priorities have changed, all aircraft are schedule to turn around and head for Yemen to assist the Kreynorians!” Said Alexander Freyof, when news of Kreynoria’s declaration of war reached Kursk. The idea of war with a nation that ravaged Pantheans during the fatal TOA war sent a wargasm throughout the entire military community. A sense of jingoism and patriotism filled the hearts and minds of every politician on the right and left wing. Panthean wasn’t going to take a piece of the Spizanian empire, the kingdom always told the international community that they were only interested in expanding in Russia and Europe. Though they were at war with the Spizania, the Kingdom will keep true to their word that they were not an imperialist power. That no nation should suddenly fear Panthean aggression. This was a war to protect Panthean interest aboard, not to expand its border.

The order was received by all generals within the operation and passed onto the fighter planes already in route to Baker Island. The Russian Federation can handle things at Baker Island..Pantheaa would get their revenge in a familiar area; Yemen. Likewise the Airforce generals wren't going to send their troops into a nuclear winter

It would take the Fighter group just a day or two to reach their targets..traveling at mach speed.

The presence of the TOA to each theatre didn’t surprise anyone in the Royal Airforce. The international police force was snooping their business into a war that wasn’t about TOA. The Panthean kingdom wasn’t going to provoke TOA. Intell’s objective was to treat the TOA with honor but at the same time pass secretive information and aid to the Kreynorians. It would work like clockwork and because of the continuing threat of terrorism as well as the paranoid of TOA from the previous Communist Regime. The Pantheans were more probably the most skilled espionage unit in that region of the world. And like any colony empire…the Pantheans still had many spies in Yemen loyal to the new Kingdom just as they were loyal to the former communist regime. It was nationality that pushed a man to fight, not an idea.

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“CIRUS” (Central Intell-Russia; Panthean Intell agency)

Begin Secret Message

To- Kreynorian 4th, 5th, 6th Marine Division

We have information that may serve useful to you. As you probably already know Yemen was once a former Panthean territory. Panthean intell has many things that could prove useful for your invasion. Photos, Terrain information, maps to old military installations. We can even locate a hideout for your Special ops…curtsey of one of our spies on the ground.

Pushka

12-01-2007, 06:38

OOC: I said deep, very deep. Temperature below the thermal layer declines rapidly and makes it harder to detect. However, running out at flank speed, regardless of what depth you're at, the whole ocean can hear. At flank speed you wouldn't even know there was an incoming torpedo, sadly. Yeah a laser beam is tough to detect but if detected, a particle cloud of dust or something can be created and hamper transmission but it would take an aircraft or something up there to do it and it lasts as long as the particles exist. Windy conditions will definitely not help the cloud. You'd have to find the beam though, laser beam communications carry a LOT of data to the satellite (more than radio transmissions) are jam-proof but they still require a line-of-sight to the satellite (can't avoid that period). You can still jam satellites but the communications going to and from are much harder to jam. It can still be intercepted if someone finds it and without much knowledge to the receiving satellite. You don't have to block it to intercept it but you do have to basically find it. Microwave communications, which are what most satellites use (laser is reserved usually for military because it's so expensive) are simple to intercept. To get microwave communications you just have to be in the area and you can get everything, including that which misses the satellite and heads out into space. Microwave communications, when intercepted, give no indication that they have been and, in essence, you can just intercept them and nobody knows it. That is what the NSA does though I don't doubt they have a way to intercept laser communications. They're always 10 years or more AHEAD of current technology.

OOC: I don't quite understand this. A laser beam sends the information directly to the receiver via a guided, preset path, this means that the data is not dispersed over a wide area which would allow it to be gathered by almost any receiver but instead is concentrated. How can you intercept a laser beam without putting your own receiver in between the source of the beam and its intended target (satellite in our case)?

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 06:47

Pushka

12-01-2007, 06:48

Secret Message to the nations of Pantheaa and Kreynoria

In order to coordinate our attack against the Spizanians it would be best if you send representatives to Voronej.

Pushka

12-01-2007, 06:58

OOC: I'm not too sure of the specifics but laser communication is low-probability of intercept. It's possible to do it but you'd have to work for GCHQ or the NSA and be a technician of high level to know the real, meaty details of it. You know they can even spy on fiber-optics cables too? It's really easy actually but you have to gain access to the wire and then you can bend the little wires inside and the light reflects or refracts (one of them) and you can get the information from it. It's pretty awesome but you have to tap the wire. However, for ground and hard-wire communications, fiber-optics is the way to go. For military satellites you really want to do laser communication like you are doing. Commercial satellites won't really have that though, which lends to some interesting things. I'm reading this book called Chatter and there's a lot of stuff in it about Echelon and satellite communications and interceptions.

OOC: Hmm, interesting, yes the fiberoptics are understandable, the laser though...actually might be even easier if you think about it, if you can find the actual beam you would probably be able to receive the information sent over it while reflecting the beam itself towards its original target without anyone detecting you. That would require a plane or a satelite of your own however and then the people who's information you are trying to intercept will probably get suspicious that one of your units are so close to their beam. Not that I doubt the potential of NSA but some things might be just impossible even 10 years from now.

Layarteb

12-01-2007, 06:58

Encrypted Communique to Kreynorian Government

The Empire realizes the gravity of the situation in the Pacific and the positions of both the Empire and Kreynoria; however, we wish to make it known to the Kreynorian government that the Empire seeks no quarrel with Kreynoria nor any parties involved in this conflict, regardless of their side. We must stress; however, that should any of the parties directly attack the Empire or a staunch ally of such, we will be required under honor and duty to protect said victims. We hope that you understand.

The Emperor

Hirgizstan

12-01-2007, 13:47

OOC: Thanks Spiz, you damm fool. I try to help you a bit and what to you do? YOU EXPLODE A NUKE RIGHT NEXT TO MY BLOODY TERRITORY. WAY TO GO! Pushka, Pantheaa, Krey...best of luck, go get em.

IC:

The Fuhrer sat ashen faced in the now, seemingly darker, office. A single sheet of paper sat on the leather writing pad in front of him. He contemplated it, it wasn't heavy but it weighed heavier than most things. An atrocity...a cruel, selfish, moronic, stupid act.

An aide stood across from the Fuhrer. The Fuhrer spoke softly, "What happend on the island?" The aide spoke up, "Electricity went, all communications went black after the blast, the Coast Guard lost power and systems in nearly all their ships, some are still at sea. The Navy sent SEAL's, Engineers and C/SAR down from Port Moresby, arrived a few hours after the blast. Thankfully there were no fatalities, but the cost in equipment is massive, and whether or not the radiation in the atmosphere will effect the island and the ecosystem, well its too early to tell, but it can't be good."

The Fuhrer sighed again. The one thing he could take away from this was that no one had been killed, that it had in fact been an EMP and not a tactical nuclear explosion. The Fuhrer had been at home, asleep, when the missile had been detected. The SAAMDS unit in Cape Verde had called him, he simply said 'Green Light' over the phone, which meant they could shoot down whatever threat they wanted. But it was too late, as the Modules and satellites were plotting the missiles course it exploded in the atmosphere.

What were the Spizanians thinking? First of all they had been a nuisance in the UAE, and now they had nearly brought the world to nuclear war. Something was rotten.

INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The Commonwealth of Hirgizstan, along with other nations of the world, condemns and deplores the use of nuclear weapons in the Pacific. We have been affected by this more than anyone else due to the proximity of Howland Island to Baker Island.

Several Coast Guard ships were currently anchored at sea around Howland, with no power or electricity and the island itself is without power. A Military-co-ordinated relief effort is under way on the Island and we ask that all nations with a military prescence in the area be mindful of this. We seek no quarrel with any side in this conflict, we only wish to tend to the troubles that this nuclear explosion has caused.

At this time the COH is demanding an immediate apology from Spizania and a payment of no less than $1.5 Trillion to cover damages done by the blast. This payment is non-negotiable.

COH

Cotland

12-01-2007, 14:09

The situation just got messier and messier. Now, the Spizanians had detonated a nuclear weapon very close to their island, something S-273 was starting to get affected by, albeit mildly. The submarine had been travelling at a deep depth when the EMP sweaped through the area, and with the expensive EMP shielding around the critical areas of the submarine, only non-essensial equipment was affected. It was still enough for the submarine to have to surface, something which it did the safest way possible: Emergency blowout! All the ballast tanks were emptied of the seawater that filled them, making the submarine start an uncontrolled ascent towards the surface which could only be stopped once the sub reached the actual surface.

Two minutes later, the 7,700 ton piece of military equipment did, its round bow breaking the surface first at a steep angle, followed by the rest of the ship. She was almost completely out of the water before coming crashing down again, creating a massive SONAR signature before coming to a rest. A quick check of the damages sustained later, it was determined that the reactors were still safe and that the twin shafts and propellers were intact. Setting up a surface bridge watch which consisted of two lookouts, two SAM teams setting up with the two Wizard MANPADs the submarine carried, and a few officers, all standing in the conning tower as the Cottish naval ensign flapped graciously in the wing. The course was set for Howland Island, the nearest friendly station. An encrypted satellite message was sent to Howland Island to let the Hirgizstanis know that the Cots were on their way and in need of repairs.

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The intentions of the Pantheans to arrive in the Arabian Area of Operations wasn't taken very mildly either. They would have to fly a long way and secure permits to land in multiple areas controlled by foreign powers to be able to refuel the aircraft, which would use extreme amounts of jet fuel when travelling at mach speed, creating for very bad fuel economy and even worse preformance. Then again, no one had ever claimed the Pantheans were particularly smart in matters of military issues. Likely refueling areas were the United Eastasian Republics, the Japanese Empire, and the Indian holdings of Saint Lazare, but whether the Pantheans would be given permission to land was a completely different issue. If necessary, as the likely area they were going to fly over was India, the Royal Cottish Air Force could send a strike force consisting of air superiority fighters, supported by AWACS and refueling aircraft to take out the Panthean fighter detachment that was being sent to Oman, shooting them down over the Arabian Sea. Using the long-range AIM.11/B Dødsengel missile, the Cots could shoot down the Panthean detachment at a range of four hundred kilometers. With a hit percentage of 98 % for the AIM.11/B, the Cots had a good chance. However, such an operation would have to have the approval of the Cottish political leadership, and as of now, that permission didn't exist. The politicians had one or two days to decide yet though. For now, E.B.G. TAMBARSKJELVE remained in position, blocking the area for anyone apart from friendly shipping to pass, and stopping any Kreynorian force that tried to pass.

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In the Cottish embassy in Voronej, the request came for an emergency high-level summit with "an entrusted representiative" of the Realm concerning the situation with Spizania. That meant that the Ambassador herself would go to meet with the Russian president. Half an hour after the request came through, a motorcade of two black Mercedes S 600 2007-model with diplomatic numberplates and tinted windows rolled out from within the confines of the Cottish embassy, heading for the Presidential Palace.

Soon thereafter, the Ambassador made her way into the palace, followed by a few aides, of which two reported back to FO/E like any good intelligence officer under the cover of being a diplomat, complete with diplomatic immunity, did. The Ambassador looked well for her fifty years of age, with only a few hints of grey in the blonde hair and with a slender body that looked like it belonged to a thirty-year old. She had also been a member of the Diplomatic Corps for a long time, knowing the ins and outs of diplomacy. Though she was new to the posting as His Majesty's Representative to the Russian Federation, as the position was officially known as, she was prepared for the first meeting with the President since the official ceremony where her diplomatic credentials were confirmed by the Russian President, giving her the Russian permit to act as the official Cottish representative in Russia.

"Mister President, it is good to see you again," The Ambassador started as she greeted the President, "Although I wish the circumstances could be more favorable. I understand you had an urgent matter to discuss?"

Cotland

12-01-2007, 14:15

Official Statement

On the behalf of the Realm of Cotland, I strongly condemn the actions preformed by the nation of Spizania in the employment of nuclear weapons in a conflict which called for no such weapons to be used. The Realm will take punitive actions against Spizania, and is hereby indefinately banning all Spizania-registered ships entry into Cottish territorial waters and through the Suez Canal, and confiscating any Spizanian assets that may be located within the borders of the Realm. We wish for no escalation of the conflict, and will therefore not take any further actions at this time.

[signed]
Thomas Rothsky
Prime Minister
The Realm of Cotland
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Pushka

12-01-2007, 16:38

OOC: Cot me and you are 1500 kms away from Baker so I doubt the EMP would be able to do much in any case. Also I already pinged your sub when it was 17 nautical miles away from my fleet and came close to the surface to pull its antenna out, my ground penetrating radar planes saw it and when to make sure you know that I know there you are I had a buoy with a pinging mechanism dropped 30 meters away from your sub and I pinged you. I'll come up with an IC response a bit later today, got to get to class.

Spizania

12-01-2007, 21:58

OOC: Hold up everyone, EMP is a mainly LOS type thing, and with such a low altitude burst, the horizon pretty much excludes everyone, including me, from massive damage from EMPs, the only things that would be damaged would be Sattelites, and only those nearly directly over the burst site at the time of detonation, wel get screwed up Radar returns from the ionisation cloud, and itl screw with long range Short Wave Comms, but it wouldnt cause the massive damage you are talking about

Pushka

12-01-2007, 23:11

Voronej, Evenkia

Igor: "Yes indeed the matter at hand is rather urgent. The nation of Spizania as you know has deemed it necessary to use nuclear weapons in conventional warfare. We are currently taking steps to root them out, however your nation has taken up a position that might hinder our efforts at combating this evil. I am talking of course about your statement against the Kreynorian advance. I can fully understand your unreadiness to trust the Kreynorians however defeating the enemy in their Arabic territories is quintessential to bringing peace and stability back to the world and the Kreynorian forces are needed to ensure that the conflict is short and the casualties are brought to the minimum. Is there any way that a compromise can be found regarding your position in this situation? I am sure you would like to increase your own Arabic holdings and if you allow us and our allies passage through Suez canal that is completely possible."

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The fleet of T-0s was rearmed and has already gained altitude. The tactic was the same as the last one and once again 240 modified Kh-55 cruise missiles took off into the air towards their targets on the Baker Island.

Hirgizstan

12-01-2007, 23:35

OOC: Look at a map Spiz, Howland is in spitting distance of Baker. You did the damage, now face the consequences.

Spizania

12-01-2007, 23:42

No endorse

12-01-2007, 23:59

OOC:
Its fifty miles away from Baker, and if you note my post, i checked that the satcom had reported no friendlies or neutrals within eighty miles of the detonation location, and since this is an ultra low altitude burst, Howland has millions of tonnes of water between it and the blast site.
The weapon was airbursted at about ~200 metres, for you to recieve a significant EMP, youd have to be within 51km of Ground Zero, otherwise its under the horizon

Spiz is right, and for once I actually recommend wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
It is important to note that many nuclear detonations have taken place using bombs dropped by aircraft. The aircraft that delivered the atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not fall out of the sky due to damage to their electrical or electronic systems. This is simply because electrons (ejected from the air by gamma rays) are stopped quickly in normal (dense) air for bursts below 10 km, so they don't get a chance to be significantly deflected by the Earth's magnetic field (the deflection causes the powerful EMP seen in high altitude bursts) EMP is line of sight. If you can see the burst, you might get hit by the electrons, and you might not. If you can't see the electrons, you won't be hurt.

The more you know!

Pyschotika

13-01-2007, 00:02

OOC See a post from me soon.

Layarteb

13-01-2007, 00:30

OOC: Hmm, interesting, yes the fiberoptics are understandable, the laser though...actually might be even easier if you think about it, if you can find the actual beam you would probably be able to receive the information sent over it while reflecting the beam itself towards its original target without anyone detecting you. That would require a plane or a satelite of your own however and then the people who's information you are trying to intercept will probably get suspicious that one of your units are so close to their beam. Not that I doubt the potential of NSA but some things might be just impossible even 10 years from now.

OOC: I missed this. When it comes to laser communication to a satellite that's still very new and unperfected yet but highly feasible. As far as jamming it you are quite right that's in the future but they have their theories and they're definitely working on it. The NSA and CIA are focusing too heavily on satellites and SIGINT rather than HUMINT and they are spending billions on satellites, including the super-secret, "stealth" photoreconnaissance bird "Misty" which is $9.5 billion though its "stealth" is questionable considering its predecessor, when launched in 1990 was found by amateur astronomers. They're developing it that's for sure but it'll be some time now before they have it but for us in NS, we're more advanced.

Spizania: Yes at 200m you have a 51km horizon which is about 31 miles.

Also, Pushka, what does the title stand for?

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"Where do we stand now that the situation has changed?" The Emperor posed the question at the next Cabinet meeting not so much out of his lack of knowledge on the subject but because he wanted their opinions. Despite being the authoritarian ruler of the Empire he didn't ignore the opinions and theories of his Cabinet. Had he, the Empire would have fallen apart in the early 1980s, just as it was beginning. He had his opinion formed and this was his style, find out the facts, formulate an opinion, then he would poll the Cabinet, get their opinions, put them all on the table and they would decide the best course of action. Then, he would put his on the table and they would evaluate the opinions again. Most of the time, the course of action was a meld of the various opinions and theories. He already had his and he waited.

"Well sir. There is no doubt that Howland Island is suffering from the EMP wave of the nuclear blast and they will feel radiation, possibly. The Sehnsucht in the water is determining weather patterns right now. I recommend that we go to REDCON 2 if they use another weapon. Our condemnation did not include an ultimateum of war but we should announce after a second use that if there is a third, the Empire will declare war upon the Spizanian government because of negative effects to our ally, Hirgizstan. Secondly, we will see it as a direct attack against the COH."

"Is that too bold Minister?" The Minister of Foreign Affairs asked, speaking directly to the Minister of Defense.

"Perhaps but we cannot have a nuclear exchange. Right now the Russians are targetting the Spizanians but a retaliatory strike could start a chain reaction. We cannot have nuclear warheads landing in our backyards. The Empire cannot be put into a position where it must initiate launch proceedures. We cannot have that under any circumstance!"

"You are correct." Callsigns had already been changed to deeply classified ones and codes had changed once REDCON 3 had been declared. Each time the condition was declared, the military moved to a compartmentalized state of readiness. When REDCON 2 went into effect, these callsigns and codes would be changed again. In the event of REDCON 1, everything was changed, yet again.

Satellites overhead in the Pacific Ocean, recovering from the effects of the EMP burst were spared. Because of the low altitude of the blast, the EMP waves only temporarily distorted and disabled the satellites, nothing permanent. They were out of commission for a few minutes but resistance was good and they were capable of refracting. Now they were once again looking down on Howland Island and Baker Island, as well as the static Russian fleet. Layartebian submarines operating at deep depths and well over 15 nautical miles from the fleet had either stopped dead or were moving in positions to not gain any distance on the ships. The vessels were deep, some below the thermal, some at the thermal, and they were running well under silent speed, if they were moving. Surface ships did not stop, their presence wasn't a mystery after all.

Weather Watchers had released a public and international statement about the nuclear blast as well and called it, "A terrible breech against the sanctity of our planet and an accelerant for Global Warming." They condemned the Spizanian government as well and vowed to seek restitution if their observer vessel in the Pacific was harmed. Data was still being collected but it would be modified to include the effects of the nuclear blast, which had been calculated at 475 kilotons.

Cotland

13-01-2007, 01:05

"I can understand your desire to retaliate against the Spizanians mister President, but please do understand the Cottish point of view on this issue." The Ambassador said. "The Realm has already condemned the incident in the strongest terms possible, short of all-out war, which is something we feel we should be vary of initiating. The conflict your nation and Spizania is currently involved in is as far as we've understood over Baker Island. We understand that completely. However, we do not understand the need for Kreynoria, a powerful nation in the Pacific Ocean, to increase its territorial holdings in a completely different region of the world. That, combined with the state of tensions that has existed between the Realm and Kreynoria since the early days of the latter brings with it the need for caution. Kreynoria has launched massive verbal attacks against the Realm in the past, attacks which has been interpented as preludes to a hostile foreign policy when the Realm is concerned. This latest advance against Arabia is considered by my nation as the prelude to an all-out attack upon the Middle Eastern Province, a subject which is an important part of the Realm both in terms of economy and military, but also population-wise. We have close to a fifth of a billion Cottish citizens residing in the Middle Eastern Province, and we have the Suez Canal. The Kreynorian advance and a potential successful campaign in Arabia for Kreynoria places them smack dab in the perfect position to threaten the Suez and the Middle Eastern Province. In Yemen, they control the Gulf of Aden, which is the entryway to the Red Sea, which is linked to the Mediterranian Ocean through the Suez Canal. From Yemen, they can also launch missile attacks against the area, and it serves as the perfect staging area for an attack upon the Middle Eastern Province. Surely you can understand why we are apprehensive in allowing a nation with which we have so much bad blood to take over a position which can be used to attack the Realm."

The Ambassador took a short pause to breathe and to allow the information she had divulged to sink in with the Russian President before continuing.

"The Realm respects the views of the Russian Federation, and we respect your alliance with Kreynoria, but we will not allow our national security to be compromised. If Kreynoria attempts to enter the Gulf of Aden, they will be stopped by the Cottish naval force High Command has ordered into position. We have already informed the Kreynorian government of our decision, but we have yet to recieve a reply. Therefore, I am hoping that you mister President would be so kind as to convey the message to the Kreynorian leadership, and add to it our request that this will not turn into a shooting war which neither side would stand to benefit from. I am certain that you have their ears mister President, and that they consider what you asks of them seriously."

Another short breathing pause for the Ambassador before she continued.

"The comprimise you are requesting is quite simple sir. The Kreynorians back down and abandon any plans to establish themselves in the Arabian peninsula. In return, we stand down. Please do take note that the Realm is not defending what Spizania did against your fleet, nor will it actively defend Spizania. The reasons for us taking these steps are for our own national security. No more, no less. Until Kreynoria has stood down and abandoned all plans to aquire Arabian land, the Realm will not even consider allowing Kreynorian ships through the Suez. I don't believe that the Realm has reconsidered the ban on Russian ships through the Suez Canal, a ban which was established when our two nations were in that brief shooting match in the Pacific all those years back. We haven't gotten that far yet in the negotiations between our two nations. Anyway, until the incident has ended, the Realm will not allow any Kreynorian or Russian or any other ships belonging to allies of Kreynoria through the Suez Canal. Of course, when this incident is over and Kreynoria has stood down, we will gladly reconsider that little ban."

Spizania

13-01-2007, 17:07

Ooc: Everyone Just Hold Up
That Emp Would Have Done No Damage To Anyone, Since Everyone Was Under The Horizon And Didnt Have A Direct Line Of Sight To The Radiation Source

Hirgizstan

13-01-2007, 18:44

OOC: You know I had Coast Guard ships closer to your island, they would have been effected. And the blast would have knocked out electricity etc on the island anyway. Not to mention the effects on the ecosystem, Howland is a big fishing base worth millions of dollars a year. Its also a big refuelling area in the Pacific for myself and other allies. There would be damage, maybe so bad as it first seemed, but I stand by my demand for an apology and the monetary compensation.

Spizania

13-01-2007, 19:25

uh, note again saying there were no friendlies or neutrals within 80 miles at the time of detonation, its a 475kT nuke, not a Tzar bomba

Layarteb

13-01-2007, 20:30

Ooc: Everyone Just Hold Up
That Emp Would Have Done No Damage To Anyone, Since Everyone Was Under The Horizon And Didnt Have A Direct Line Of Sight To The Radiation Source

OOC: My satellites did but they only had minor glitches.

Layarteb

13-01-2007, 20:49

As the situation spiraled out of control throughout the world, there was a reasonable need for a reinforcement in two places, two places that were vitally important to the Empire as much as they were to the rest of the world, those being the Suez Canal and the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, which joined the Gulf of Aden to the Red Sea in the south. Cottish control over the Suez Canal guaranteed that the Empire would maintain access throughout the canal but if the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb was closed, it would mean a problem. The Strait was small, only about 20 miles across, enough for a few warships to block. Hirgizstan controlled most of the area to the west of the Red Sea and that was even better but still, something had to be done. That was why the MOD dispatched two groups of warships and submarines to defend the Red Sea, the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, and the Suez Canal. The task force was smaller then a battle group but was, by all means, a fighting force unto itself.

Skulking beneath the waves, four submarines would set up shop in the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden. They included two Virginia SSNs and two Hunter SSNs. The two Hunters would remain in the Red Sea and the Virginias would remain outside of the Red Sea in the Med and the Gulf of Aden. On the surface, there would be two cruisers, three destroyers, two frigates, a pair of anti-submarine destroyers, and two air defense frigates. The Unforgiven CGN cruisers would remain in the Med and the Gulf of Aden with the Indefatigable DDGN destroyers situating themselves in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Med. The Heretic FFGN frigates would remain in the Med and the Gulf of Aden. The Verrazano DDKN ASW destroyers would remain in the Med and the Gulf of Aden and the two Dnalkrad FFGN air defense frigates would remain in the Red Sea. The decision to deploy a carrier was forgone but they would dispatch an Earthquake BBGN to the Med and a Mexia Flight IV BCN to the Gulf of Aden, though they wouldn't arrive for at least a day, both of them being stationed in the North Atlantic.

At the same time the ships were making their way towards the troubled region, the Minister of Foreign Affairs was on the phone with the Layartebian ambassador to Kreynoria. A diplomatic channel had to be open. The ambassador, instructed to cable the Kreynorian government concerning the movements sent this to them:

Encrypted Communique

The Empire is concerned with the developments in both the Pacific Ocean and the Middle East. Movements of Kreynorian elements to the Middle East in support of the Russian advance on Baker Island has left us concerned. Given the history of the Kreynorian government and that of our ally, the Realm of Cotland, the Empire wishes that such historical problems do not surface during this conflict and that it remains localized only to available participants.

Layartebian Ambassador to Kreynoria

Hirgizstan

13-01-2007, 21:04

OOC: Well then thats a God-Mod, your fault, not mine. I already mentioned there would be CG Ships away from the Island looking for the Aloha crew, some would only be making their way back. Standard Operationg Procedure for the CG out there is to half at 3/4 of the ships gone at any one time on patrols around those islands ensuring the safety of COH and Allied shipping. Just get on with the RP Spiz.

Soviet Trasa

13-01-2007, 21:36

The Trenskian King had this to say about the war to the south in a public speech.

"It is not of any concern to the Trensk people, this minor conflict will not distrupt the Trensk holdings in either former Russia or Former Estonia, however, if Trensk interests where to be threatened then the TAF (Trensk Armed Forces) would respond with maximum firepower and restore order in their holdings.

Trensk may be 'Neutral', but if provoked they would be drawn into the conflict."

The King has also comfirmed that Trenskian border Guards are to receive fresh reinforcements and fortifications are being constructed as we speak in Trensk-Russia Territories, Estonian Fortifications are being strengthened and rumour has it that the 3rd Trenskian Armoured Division is being routed to the area to assist in securing the border.

Tensions in Trensk are so thick that you would need a machette inorder to even nick it...

Pushka

13-01-2007, 21:41

Voronej, Evenkia Okrug

Igor's face did not move a muscle locking itself as always in a half-detached expression. Like always he spoke slowly and quietly showing no emotion what so ever.

"I am very sorry to hear this but your ultimatum is unacceptable. I can understand that you would feel threatened but I can't understand why you would feel threatened to such a degree as to involve yourself in a military conflict that does not concern you in the slightest. Words are just words, being in politics yourself you should know that, only actions have any weight. We do not intend to stop the advance of our Kreynorian allies but at the same time we will advise them to not force their way through the Suez canal, we intend to respect your rule over what is yours but have no intention of respecting it over what does not belong to you. You also must know that Spizanian holdings in Yemen and Oman can be reached without having to pass through the Suez, we will respect your ban but at the same time we will attack our enemies' mainland. We the Russian Federation infact are prepared to lead that attack, the sufficient forces have already been dispatched and have already made their way through the Bearing Strait now moving towards Yemen and Oman in the international waters. It is truly a pity that this issue couldn't be resolved here and now, I can only hope that atleast the nation of Cotland will not see it profitable to directly interfere with our invasion of Spizania and bring the relations between our two nations to an open hostility after moves have been made on both sides to improve them. I am sure you have other business to attend to, this meeting can be considered over unless you are willing to compromise, please send my best regards to Mister Rothsky and his Royal Highness."

Igor got up from his chair and extended a handshake to the Cottish ambassador.

Hmm, the meeting was unsuccessful to a degree, I have learned the details of the Cottish position. It all now depends on how far they are willing to go. They have a very clear choice, not interfere and deal with the highly unprobable risk of a Kreynorian attack in the future or interfere, have the war they are supposedly fearing and break any and all relations with my country as well as have the Russian Federation on the side of Kreynorians in the war the Cots started if the Cots interfere directly with our own conquest.

Spizania

13-01-2007, 23:03

Layarteb

13-01-2007, 23:05

At over Mach 3, the weapons could have been intercepted hundreds of miles from Baker, your facts dont add up

OOC: We can settle this easily. I'll do a little math. Spizania, where at the specifications on the missile (i.e. range and stuff)?

Pushka

13-01-2007, 23:11

OOC: Spiz, I don't know if you care anymore but I launched another 240 missiles at the Baker.

Spizania

13-01-2007, 23:11

OOC:
Its based upon the enlargened and uppowered Shockhound-I Avenger Derivative i have in service with my military as its main AShM, it can cover approximately 550km at about Mach 3.5

Layarteb

13-01-2007, 23:26

OOC: Okay now based on the information here are the following givens:

Given 1: Howland Island is 70 km due northwest from Baker Island
Given 2: Pushka's missiles are moving at 1,712.34 kph (Mach 1.4)
Given 3: Spizania fired when the missiles were 300 km away
Given 4: Spizania's missiles moved at 3,669.30 kph (Mach 3)

Alright now based on the data, the missiles were 230 km from Howland Island when Spizania fired.

Total time it takes for Pushka's missiles to go 300 km
1,712.34 kph = 28.54 kpm

300 km / 28.54 = 10.51 minutes

Total time it takes for Spizania's missiles to go 300 km
3,669.30 kph = 61.16 kpm

300 km / 61.16 = 4.91 minutes

Closure velocity of 5,381.64 kph = 89.69 kpm

So 300 km / 89.69 = 3.34 minutes

The point of intercept from Baker Island was at 3.34 minutes

So at 3.34 minutes Pushka's missiles were 95.33 km away from the launch point and Spizania's were 204.27 km away from the launch point

So that means the missiles were 204.27 km away from Baker Island or 134.27 km away from Howland Island

At 200m the horizon is 53 km so Howland Island could not have sustained EMP damage; however, any ships within 53 km of the detonation point would have sustained EMP damage.

Now Spizania states that nothing was within 128.75 km of the detonation point, which was only 134.27 km from Howland Island. It is HIGHLY likely that there were ships within the 128.75 km zone so that statement is undeniably false but whether they were within 53 km of the detonation point that is unknown. 53 km from the detonation point is 81.27 km, at minimum, from Howland Island and 151.27 km minimum from Baker Island.

Hirgizstan

13-01-2007, 23:39

OOC: Ok, so damage to my ships would have been sustained, and communications between Howland and the Mainland would have been effected, because most of it is by sattellites and any in orbit overhead would have gotten affected. Thats all ok with me. I suggest Spiz just gets on with the RP.

Layarteb

13-01-2007, 23:40

When the second salvo of missiles was launched by the Russian fleet it was quite evident that they weren't going to give up so easily. The Cabinet watched as the missiles, tracked by overhead satellites, already being relieved by other satellites moving around the Earth, streaked towards the island. They were down low, very low, and moving at Mach 1.4, a high rate of speed, enough that their interception wasn't going to be an easy thing. The real question loomed on whether or not the Spizanians would use another nuclear tipped SAM to defend against the strike. It would set off alarms throughout the world and especially in the Empire, which would immediately upgrade to REDCON 2. They hoped that the Spizanians wouldn't but what choice did they have. The Russian fleet was too far away to be reached by anything short of ultra-long range cruise missiles with ranges in excess of 1,500 km. The Russian seaplanes, which were being photographed by the satellites and studied, were the main force attacking the island and if they could be downed, the Spizanians had a chance. They could be downed, perhaps easily but that would put the Layartebians at war with the Russians, something it didn't need, especially since it had no relations with the Spizanian government nor did it forsee any. Through all of this, the Emperor had one remark and one thought, where the Eastasian Premier, Premier Zhao, stood on all of this.

Spizania

14-01-2007, 16:59

OOC: Post up soon, still tired despite 12 hours of sleep

Hawdawg

14-01-2007, 18:36

Prime Minister Gordon Wells sat in his office stunned by the latest reports from the Pacific. It was true, the Spizanians had played there Ace Card, an EMP strike. Sadly it appeared the weapon had only done damage to the environment and not offered a huge crushing blow the joint Pushkan, Kreynorian Naval Forces as they had hoped. Still the use of nuclear weapons in an offensive capacity angered Wells beyond words. Something had to be done.

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Message to all parties involved

In light of the escalation in this conflict the Republic has chosen to place the Spizanian Portion of the UAE into "Protectorate" status. We have moved our fleet from Iran to block naval approaches to this possession. The Republic will allow Spizanian Forces and citizens to leave the UAE but no forces will be allowed into the region. We will not stand by and allow for the fragile peace we have worked so hard at establishing be destroyed by a conflict spreading into this region.

We have also taken steps to deploy a Carrier Group to the Red Sea region. We are joining our allies in maintaining an open waterway for domestic shipping. Our government is keenly interested in maintaining functioning and viable trade routes and will defend the "free trade" routes established long ago by our fore-fathers. These items are non-negotiable and have been enacted this day by edict signed by my hand.

Signed,

Gordon Wells
Prime Minister
Holy Republic of Hawdawg

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OOC: Its like this guys, duke it out elsewhere but stay out of the UAE. I didn't fight for it, calm it down, reestablish production for it to be disrupted again. A conflict next door would certainly destroy what I have worked at.

Spizania

14-01-2007, 19:29

OOC: Um, Haw, how are you going to stop me reinforcing the possesion, since it has a land border with what is now considered to be my mainland?

EDIT:

IC:

Communique delivered to all major media outlets
It seems that the war that we have dreaded for so long has come, the greatest powers in the world have turned against us, Russians and Kreynorians are attacking our foreign possesions, our livelyhoods, they attack us from Arabia to Antarctica, many of those we once considered friends of the nation have turned upon us, seeking to usurp the control of the Arab State, seeking to take from us what we earned with the blood of sons of the Confederacy, they attack us to take what is ours, what we have paid to gain, our lands, our homes, our peoples.
We will resist, we will resist with every fibre of our beings, that is why, effectively immediately, all inactive Territorial Units are hearby activated, all leaves are cancelled, all men and women effected by these orders must report to there designated muster station within forty eight hours or face military discipline.

Defence of the Maldives, Operation Purple Pirate

The defences of the Maldives were the weakest anywhere in the Confederacy, the deployed ground troops on the island consisted of one Mechanised Infantry Division, it had been placed there when the group of islands had been taken, and three independant brigades of Territorials, newly raised and trained, like all Confederate Soldiers, they were well armed but they were green, but they were locals, they would fight for there homes, to the death if need be.
Air Cover was provided by 32 Wing, Confederate Air Force, consisting of three squadrons of Lu-45 Hawks, one of SuFB-6 Strike Phoenixes and one squadron of Albatross Stealth Bombers, while naval cover was the responsibility of the smallest home fleet in existance, based around the Carrier Indestructable and her escorts, some twenty vessels of frigate size or larger, it was a small force, but it still packed quite a punch.
Additional SAM defences had been set up by the Confederate Strategic Defence Initiative, capable of engaging threats ranging from Ballistic Missiles to Cruise Missiles and bombers, they were arranged only around the major cities, but since the islands had become highly urbanised, that meant it was a rather large proportion of the archipelegos total land surface area.

The Kreynorian force had been picked up a few hours ago by the SATCOM system, and it had been determined that they were headed for the Maldives, and that could mean only one thing, rather than do what the enemy most likely expected them to do, which was hold out and wait for them to attack, the Contingent Commander had decided to go onto the Offensive, all Twelve Albatrosses were rolling down the runway, there bays full of the new RBA-129 Shockhound Anti-EP missiles.
The Stealth bombers closed in a low aspect formation, approaching to within 450km of the enemy formation, which was advancing at a rather high speed for surface units, probably because it was composed almost entirely of Ekranoplanes, they open there bays and each spilled 16 missiles into the air, there ramjet engines lit and they started towards the enemy fleet, accelerating to Mach 3.5, they were based on the Shockhound Missile, with modified manuevring systems and targetting packages to allow them to engage Ekranoplanes, they were just one more weapon in the Confederate Arsenal, and with a DU armour peircing cap and a 200kg ONC warhead, they would shred the enemy units easily, the missiles were targetting equally between the troop transports and the Ekranoplane "Battleships", with 192 missiles in the air, they would have to take some serious losses.

Defence of Antarctica, Operation Green Hat
The Kreynorians must be smoking something to think that they could overrun Spizanian Antarctica with only five divisions, thought the Commander of the Southern Army as the Kreynorian Artillery shook the ground and ice outside his forward command post, which was dug into an old Platinum mine that stretched deep into the side of a mountain, it would be practically invulnerable to any conventional weapon the Kreynorian scum could throw at it.
The Tactical situation was however confusing, the Kreynorians had revealed the posistions of there superheavy howitzers, and then not attempted to target his own superheavy artillery, instead concentrating on attacking the forward areas, which as any proponant of the fluid defence in depth concept would know, was almost completely empty of troops, with only a couple of light brigades meant to soften up the enemy advance.
Ofcourse the fire control radars based around several of the heavy artillery batteries had located the posistions of the enemy 1000mm ETC guns, and had passed that on to the superheavy artillery, the 81.2cm/62 Railway guns in there dissapearing railway tunnel posistions, they loaded massive shells and zeroed in on the enemy guns, before firing and withdrawing back into the tunnel before return fire could touch them. Once any enemy counterfire had ceased, they were wheeled out and fired again, with the fifty or so guns in range of Kreynoria all doing this in a staggered manner, they would not be able to supress the gun posistions by holding down artillery fire on all of them without exposing themselves to counterattack from light guns.
The divisions on the border had there own organic fire support, and soon 155mm and 105mm SPHs joined the action, engaging in counterfire duties against enemy artillery in the 150mm and 250mm Categories, raining hundreds of shells on the enemy posistions every minute, while the 203mm Organic Tube Artillery Detachments concentrated on supressing enemy jumping off points with hails of submunitions deployment rockets and Smoke weapons, it would be hell trying to muster and coordinate a big attack from those posistions.
Every plane in the Antarctic Air Force was prepared for immediate takeoff, every avialable interceptor was scrambled and the Strike birds were loaded for ground support.

OOC: Too tired for the Yemenese Theatre and the Baker thing, and i dont know how to respond to the Yemenese thing

Hawdawg

14-01-2007, 21:03

OOC: I never said I would try and limit your movements on land. I was not aware that you had any other land possessions in the pennisula.

-Hawdawg

Pushka

14-01-2007, 21:11

OOC: I never said I would try and limit your movements on land. I was not aware that you had any other land possessions in the pennisula.

-Hawdawg

OOC: He owns part of Yemen and Oman.

Pantheaa

16-01-2007, 17:33

OOC- Yeah flying to Baker island is a dumb military island..but hey I need to get in this somehow. I want to RP!

Memo to Cottish Embassy

We find your latest TOA inspired action is exacerbating this war…why are you pushing this world into world war?

Why does it seem that you are preparing a massive military buildup to protect a rouge nation of Spizania from bombardment and invasion in the Arabian region?

A Kreynoria control Yemen is no threat to your holdings. That is a pathetic excuse levied by a paranoid intelligence branch within the Cottish realm. You know very well that Kreynoria is unable to attack Cottish interest due to TOA obligations of “all for one and one for all” The attack the attacker clause that gives that said alliance a monopoly over the entire world! How then can Kreynoria ever think of attacking a nation who is backed by numerous other nations. It would be suicide for the Kreynorians.

Maybe a compromise is an order. Any land that is taken by Panthean will be returned to Spizania once his nation is disarmed of nuclear threats..this is something that our government is offering not out allies. We are simply just peace keepers not invaders. If that agreement can not be reached then we will stick to our allies plans..no neogations

You have the Grand Duke’s word, from our royal family to your royal family that no Cottish interest will be harmed and no attacks against civilians will be carried out. Do not mistake us for the former communist regime that we were, we are more wise now and more interesting in talking peace then war. So please withdraw from the Arabian lands and let us lead Yemen into a peaceful nation..a nation that will not endanger his people’s actions with nuclear fallout and careless leadership.

Our fighters have withdraw from the Arabian lands. But we will send a delegation to Kreynoria asking permission for our infantry regiments to be shipped with the Kreynorian reservist. We will also give the Kreynorian military all photos and intell we have collected when yemen was a colony of Pantheaa

once again whatever our allies intentions are, we do not share them. We only mean to help Yemen into a free and democratic future. We are acting in our own nation as way to spread good will between Pantheaa and the rest of the world. We are backing Kreynoria; a lesser of two evils over Spizania

Cotland

16-01-2007, 17:47

The Panthean message was one which the Cottish government had anticipated, and a reply was sent in reply immediately after the original message was recieved.

The foreign policy of the Realm of Cotland is answerable by His Majesty's Government only to His Majesty himself and to the people through the Storting, and not to foreign governments like your own. We kindly ask that you mind your own business, and that you refrain from attempting to meddle with the foreign affairs of the Realm in the future.

[signed]
Foreign Ministry
The Realm of Cotland

In the Gulf of Aden, Cottish warships were plentiful, but they stayed out of the way of merchant vessels as far as possible, hindering the traffic as little as possible. The Cots had deployed their ships in three groups, with one, the group centered around the battleship HMS Einar Tambarskjelve, being inside the Gulf itself, with the remaining two, each being centered around an aircraft carrier being used just outside the Gulf where they could conduct normal flight operations. They had been informed that the Russians were going to be participating in the Kreynorian invasion of Spizania as well, and that wasn't taken very well with High Command. The Realm didn't want a war with Russia, but they couldn't allow for Kreynoria to take such positions in which they could threaten Suez either! A compromise had to be reached...

Pantheaa

16-01-2007, 18:08

Message to the Cottish Embassy

Then much like the Russian Federation we should also partake in the invasion of Yemen through our spies and our military reservist.

Pushka

16-01-2007, 18:10

Evenkia Okrug, Voronej

Igor was seating in his chair with a glass of cognac and looking as the snow slowly fell on the street. It was dark outside but the city was alive, breathing with action, Igor remembered his University days, all the good times he had with his friends...but he quickly shook that off. He was a different man now, he had decision to make.

Only several months has passed and it seems we are once again on the brink of war with Cotland. They don't want to compromise, I will not accept their ultimatums its all once again a big mess. In the end we will see just how much the stupidity and paranoia of the Cots will impact their decisions. Their reasoning makes no sense, they are afraid that Kreynoria will attack them later so they want to fight a war right now then Kreynoria's allies include us? That is absurd, but I have no say at this point in how the situation develops, we will not back down that is one thing that is certain, if the Cots want to compromise I'll be glad to but they have some nerve to give me demands like Russian Federation is some third world country with no armed forces or potential.

Even in his thoughts his voice showed no emotion, he wasn't angry, he learned that in life you can never afford it.

Pantheaa

16-01-2007, 18:40

Pantheaa

16-01-2007, 18:40

Cotland

17-01-2007, 01:47

Unbeknownst to anyone apart from the properly informed persons, things were happening that could help end the increase in tensions that were growing in the Gulf of Aden. After a late emergency cabinet meeting in Oslo, the highly encrypted military communications channels were glowing, with information and orders being relayed from High Command to Area Commands and onwards. Quietly, civilian ships were being commandeered and the Cottish amphibious vessels which had up 'til now been moored quietly in the Red Sea military ports were being made ready for sea and sent on their way. The reason? That was still unknown to the thousands of Royal Marines that were being herded from their newly prepared defensive positions along the Egyptian coastline and back aboard their ships for immediate prepositioning. The Russian and Kreynorian task forces were still far from Arabia, steaming towards what they hoped to be their new territory. Perhaps it would, but not now. The early phases of Operation Sandman were underway. Time until the Cots would make it official: 21 hours and 14 minutes...

Operation Sandman

STRENGT HEMMELIG

MISSION SUMMARY
Eliminate potential threat to Suez Canal and civilian merchant shipping through Gulf of Aden through military occupation of Spizanian Yemen.

MISSION OBJECTIVES
a.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area ALFA (southern Hadramaut)
b.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area BRAVO (southern Al Mahrah)
c.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area CHARLIE (northern Hadramaut)
d.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area DELTA (northern Al Mahrah)
e.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area EKKO (eastern Al Jawf)
f.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area FOXTROT (western Al Jawf)
g.) Defeat Spizanian fighting capabilities in Objective Area GOLF ('Adan islands)
h.) Occupy Objective Areas ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE, DELTA, EKKO, FOXTROT and GOLF
i.) Ensure safety of civilian merchant shipping through Gulf of Aden
j.) Block Kreynorian/Russian task force from entering Gulf of Aden and Yemen

AVAILABLE FORCES

Sea
8. Carrier Battle Group
9. Amphibious Task Force
10. Amphibious Task Force
11. Amphibious Task Force
12. Amphibious Task Force
6. Tactical Submarine Group
Land
3. Air Assault Division
4. Air Assault Division
5. Armored Division
9. Marine Division
10. Marine Division
11. Marine Division
12. Marine Division
6. Mechanized Infantry Division
8. Mechanized Infantry Division
9. Motorised Infantry Division
3. Air Assault Division
4. Air Assault Division
3. Special Operations Regiment, HJK
Air
3. Air Control Wing
4. Bomber Wing
6. Bomber Wing
14. Fighter Wing
16. Fighter Wing
18. Fighter Wing
19. Fighter Wing
21. Fighter Wing
14. Logistics Wing
15. Logistics Wing
8. Special Operations Wing

[OOC: Information in this post is considered Secret IC. The High Command and Area Commands are free of spies, and all communications and orders are being relayed over highly encrypted (2048-bit) satellite transmissions. The contents of the [ quote ] info is considered Strengt Hemmelig (Top Secret) by the Royal Cottish Military, and is only posted here to serve as an ORBAT and to state where I'm gonna strike first. You may see the increase in troop movements, but as of yet you should ICly have no idea what's really happening, apart from those informed few...]

Cotland

17-01-2007, 02:19

Royal Cottish Embassy, 2 hours before Operation Sandman commences

In the main building of the Royal Cottish Embassy in Voronej, Russia, the Ambassador had barely arrived back from her previous meeting when an upset aide entered her office in the second floor with a few documents in his hands. He could barely say anything, so he just placed them directly in front of the Ambassador and exited again, leaving the Ambassador to read the new instructions from the Foreign Ministry.

Fourty minutes later, she was getting out from the same black 2007-model Mercedes S 600 that had just rushed through the secured compound that housed the office of the Russian President, and moved up the stairs and into the reception area quickly where she was taken to see the Russian President.

"Mister President, I thank you for seeing me so quickly. I appologize for the intrusion, but I believe that you will want to hear what I have to say." She said kindly before taking the seat the President offered.

"My Government has followed the Spizanian situation closely and has reached the conclusion that the increase of tensions that a Russian armed expedition to Arabia would result in must be avoided. We therefore kindly request you stand down your force that's heading for Arabia immediately, in return for a handsome reward. One which, I might add, Russia is very interested in recieving."

Pushka

17-01-2007, 02:33

"It is no trouble, please sit down."

He waited for her to sit down and then continued.

"What would be your offer, I am all ears."

Cotland

17-01-2007, 02:36

'"The Realm wishes the immediate end to any Russian plans to establish themselves militarily in the Arabian Peninsula or in the Middle East in general. We would also like for the Russian Federation to cease its military partnership with the nation of Kreynoria. In return, the Realm is willing to transfer ownership of the New Siberian Islands to the Russian Federation."' The Ambassador said bluntly. The Russian response was time-critical for the Cots, so she didn't have time for long-winded diplomatic talk. She hid the time-pressure well though, not letting the Russian President get a wiff of the Cottish wish for speed.

Pushka

17-01-2007, 03:01

"Hmm, your offer is rather unexpected. Although I can see the benefits of it for our side. In light of war with Spizania however it will be foolish of us to end our alliance with Kreynoria, however we could refuse to aide them in the middle eastern theater. If that is acceptable to your side than we have a deal."

Cotland

17-01-2007, 03:12

Layarteb

17-01-2007, 03:38

In the Med, Red Sea, and Gulf of Aden, Layartebian naval forces moved along quietly and comfortably. An Independence LCS had joined the Gulf of Aden with its 24 SOF forces. SOF forces were deployed on the Virginia SSN as well, another 24 of them, and they joined Marines scattered around the vessels, most of them in the Med on the Earthquake BBGN. That seemed far away from the conflict but things were changing. The Earthquake would be moving into position in the Gulf of Aden and the Mexia would be moving to the Med. Then there was a second group, another 13 vessels, moving into the Indian Ocean, near Somalia. There, it would sit, and patiently wait. The Layartebian MOD had made plans for this advanced deployment and it was in response to data collected from the Abbandon and Sehnsucht class spy vessels in the Arabian Sea, south of Pakistan, between the Arabian peninsula and India. Those two vessels, guarded by their advanced attack submarines and Layartebian aircraft based in Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands, as well as aircraft forward deployed to eastern Africa and Iran, were separated by at least 100 nautical miles and both of them were collecting information from satellites, tracking positions, and gathering intelligence through ELINT and SIGINT means.

Task Force Diamond

Mediterranean Sea [Detachment Alpha]

Heretic FFGN: 1
Indefatigable DDGN: 1
Mexia Flight IV BCN: 1
Unforgiven CGN: 1
Verrazano Flight II DDKN: 1
Virginia SSN: 1

Red Sea [Detachment Bravo]

Dnalkrad Flight II FFGN: 2
Hunter SSN: 2
Indefatigable DDGN: 1
Unforgiven CGN: 1

Gulf of Aden [Detachment Charlie]

Earthquake BBGN: 1
Heretic FFGN: 1
Indefatigable DDGN: 1
Independence LCS: 1
Verrazano Flight II DDKN: 1
Virginia SSN: 1

Indian Ocean [Detachment Delta]

Dnalkrad FFGN: 1
Heretic FFGN: 2
Hunter SSN: 1
Indefatigable DDGN: 2
Mexia Flight III BCGN: 1
Odin Flight II CVAEN: 1
Supply AOE: 1
Venom SSGN: 1
Verrazano Flight II DDKN: 1
Unforgiven CGN: 1
Ynoga CVLN: 1

Arabian Sea [Detachment Echo]†

Abaddon IXN: 1
Hunter SSN: 2
Scythe Flight II SSN: 2
Sehnsucht IXN: 1

† please note that this deployment is not a "naval" deployment since both the Abaddon and the Sehnsucht are registered under legitimate NPOs in the world and they operate in the worlds' oceans for SETI [Abaddon] and Weather Watchers [Sehnsucht] and there are, at any time, 6 of each deployed around the world so it isn't uncommong that they're out in the Indian Ocean/Arabian Sea. The submarines with them remain in the utmost of silent operations parameters.

As the tensions rose and the conflict seemed to be stepping up a notch, Detachment Delta was ordered from its positions in the Indian Sea, near Sri Lanka, to move west, to the coast of Somalia, where the Hirgizstani government would make sure that they were protected. They were there, just in case. Officially, the Empire was neutral in this conflict and though some of its allies were making bold moves and quick advances, the Empire was not.

Open Communique to the World

The Empire is very wary of the situations in the Pacific Ocean and the Arabian Peninsula. We wish that all parties involved take a step back and breathe before they act. The Empire is officially neutral in this set of conflicts but it will, if necessary and provoked, defend its interests and its people with fervor and resolve but not mercy.

Pushka

17-01-2007, 04:41

The Cots had a contingency ready, having anticipated such a response.

"In that case, we would require written assurances from the Russian Federation that you would refrain from assisting Kreynoria in any other Areas of Operations than the Pacific Ocean, which is the area of influence for Kreynoria."

"Well I am ready to give you written assurances about the middle east however there are other Spizanian possessions that we intend to conquest for during which operations the Kreynorians might be interested in providing us with assistance. But yes, for your area of concern in Middle East it is completely acceptable."

Cotland

17-01-2007, 04:46

Pushka

17-01-2007, 04:53

"Philippines being in the Pacific I believe we do not have a problem. Alright, I will have all the required documents compiled and let you know once they're done. Good to know that we were able to resolve this affair through diplomacy."

Cotland

17-01-2007, 04:55

"Indeed. I will inform my govenment of the results of the meeting. I believe it is safe to say that the New Siberian Islands will be in Russian hands again within the end of the year." She said, smiling.

Hawdawg

17-01-2007, 05:47

Prime Minister Gordon Wells sat at his marble desk studying the latest intelligence reports from the Middle East and the Pacific. As he scrolled through the data it was clear the danger level in the Arabian Peninsula was ratcheting up. One thing was clear, if the Republic didn’t react soon, the UAE would soon fall into hands that were unfriendly to Hawdawg. After much deliberation and discussion with the Joint Chief’s of Staff a plan was drafted to effectively takeover the Spizanian portion of the UAE. After the eradication of the Insurgents, several heavy ground units as well as a heavy carrier group had been moved into the region to act as a security force as well as a physical deterrent for further violence. Now these forces would be put to use, to make a push into the UAE to relieve the Spizanians of its territory.

A dummy press release hit the airwaves twenty-four hours before the action would commence announcing the “war games” training exercise that would be held along the eastern border region with Spizania to test the development of new tactics developed for the UAE environment and to test the coordination of the Carrier Group AIRCAP with the land forces. Soon these units would race into the flanks of Spizanian UAE.

OPERATION SAND FLEA

Army Assets

(8) Armored Divisions (to include the following):

(1) Division HHC 148
(1) Air Defense 1573
(1) Intel 296
(3) Combat Engineer 1146
(1) Recon 228
(5) Heavy Cavalry 4535
(1) Light Cavalry 590
(4) Mech Inf 3676
(2) Heavy Artillery 1360
(1) Light Artillery 518
(2) Rotary Air 5672
(3) Logistics 2952

Total Personnel 22694

(5) Mechanized Infantry Divisions (to include the following):

(1) Division HHC 148
(1) Air Defense 1573
(1) Intel 296
(3) Combat Engineer 1146
(1) Recon 228
(8) Mech Inf 7352
(4) Heavy Cavalry 3628
(2) Heavy Artillery 1360
(1) Light Artillery 518
(2) Rotary Air 5672
(3) Logistics 2952

Total Personnel 24893

(5) Light Mechanized Infantry Divisions (to include the following):

(1) Division HHC 148
(1) Air Defense 1573
(1) Intel 296
(3) Combat Engineer 1146
(1) Recon 228
(8) Light Infantry 7232
(4) Light Cavalry 2360
(4) Light Artillery 2072
(2) Rotary Air 5672
(3) Logistics 2952

Total Personnel 23679

Theater Air Defense Groups (2)
Role: Collection of extremely long-range SAM units for providing heavy cover for theater (Army Group) level. Includes ABM, ARM, and standard SAM units for full threat coverage, as well as point defense units to protect the heavy SAMs from close-in and low level threats.

Each Air Defense Group has the following units:
1 Brigade HHB (Headquarters & Headquarters Battery)
2 Heavy SAM Battalion
1 Missile Defense SAM Battalion
1 Antiradiation SAM Battalion
2 Point Defense SAM Battalion
Total Personnel: 4124 (3124 Combat, 1000 Logistical Support)

Major Equipment:
(96) Grendel TEL
(48) Skymer TEL
(24) Freyr TEL
(72) Avengerv FAADV
(582) MMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol/LT Trucks
(415) Trucks
(1920) Grendel SAM
(960) Skymer SAM
(480) Freyr SAARM
(1440) Stinger SAM

Corps Air Defense Brigades (2)
Role: Medium/Long range air defense unit for corps level forces.

Each Corps Air Defense Brigade includes the following men and equipment:
1 Brigade HHB (Headquarters & Headquarters Battery)
2 Medium SAM Battalion
2 Point Defense SAM Battalion
Total Personnel: 2210 (Combat 1510, 700 Logistical Support)

Major Equipment:
(72) Towed HUMRAAM
(72) Avenger FAADV
(404) MMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol/LT Trucks
(104) Trucks
(1440) Stinger RMP
(3072) HUMRAAM

SSM Brigades (2)
Role: Long range strategic artillery unit for deep strikes against enemy command and supply units, as well as troop concentrations.

Includes Vehicles and Equipment for the following:
1 Brigade HHC (Headquarters & Headquarters Company)
3 SSM Battalion
Total Personnel: 1206 (900 Combat, 306 Logistical Support)

Major Equipment:
(54) M51 SSM TEL
(54) M52 Missile Transloader
(54) M1012 Missile Transporter
(17) M577A3
(48) MMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol/LT Trucks
(124) Trucks
(52) BGM-203 Imsdal (1200 lb. DU blast fragmentation)**Top Secret**
(28) BGM-203 Imsdal (240 BLU-123 IISM submunitions)**Top Secret**
(28) BGM-203 Imsdal (920 M74 APAM submunitions)**Top Secret**
(12) BGM-203E Imsdal (EMP)**Top Secret**

Air Force Assets

Air Dominance Wings (2)

Each Fighter Wing consists of the following units:
Operations Group
Support Group
Logistics Group
(4) Fighter Squadrons

Each Fighter Wing consists of the following planes:

(96) F-63K Tengriy Specs

Munitions used:
VEE-RAID Extreme AAM
AIM-9X
IRIS-T
AIM-120D
AGM-65F/G
AGM-119B
AGM-88E AARGM
AGM-137 TSSAM
AGM-154A JSOW
AGM-154B JSOW
AGM-154C JSOW
Mk.82
Mk.84
BLU-109
BLU-108B
Mk.20 Rockeye
WCMD-87 CEM
WCMD-89 Gator
WCMD-97 SFW
GBU-27 Paveway III

Naval Assets

Heavy Attack Group Belot (Abu Dahbi, UAE)
(1) Ocean Class Carrier
[168 Total Aircraft: (60) F-25B, (48) F-41C, (24) SH-60L SeaHawk, (6) E-2D AWACS Hawkeye-2000, (6) RA-5E Vigilante, (18) CH-46 Sea Knight]
(10) Sianach Class DDGN
(12) Bullfinch Class Frigate FFH
(4) Orca Flight IIB SSGN's
(5) Hirata Flight IIIA SSG's
(1) King Henry V Class BBGN
(1) Kingdom Class BBAN
(2) Regent Class CAGN
(2) Berlin Class Land Attack Cruisers
(2) Vulkan Class Arsenal Ships

2nd MEF

Marine Combat Division

Includes Vehicles and Equipment for the Following:
(1) Divisional HQ
(4) Marine Regiment (12 battalions)
(1) Tank Battalion
(1) Light Armored Assault/Recon Battalion
(1) Assault Amphibian Battalion
(1) Recon Battalion
(1) Combat Engineer Battalion
(1) Artillery Regiment (4 battalions)
(2) LAV-AD Platoon
Total Personnel: 19,507 Combat + 1145 Navy

Major Equipment:
(58) M2032 Sabertooth MBT
(233) AAV7A1
(68) LAV-IV
(16) LAV-AT
(8) LAV-M
(40) LAV-AD
(12) LAV-CC
(14) LAV-L
(8) LAV-AC
(8) LAV-ARV
(72) M198 155mm TH
(9) M88A2 ARV
(4) Wolverine AVLB
(80) FAV
(1476) Assorted MMPWV LV-08 Armored Patrol-Light Trucks
(508) Assorted Truck

Marine Combat Division Armory:
(15,000) G36A5 Assault Rifle
(6000) Neostead Combat Shotgun
(1500) M-29 OICW
(500) MSG-90 DMR
(72) M40A1 Sniper Rifle
(18) M82A1 Heavy Sniper Rifle
(6) IWS-2000 Anti-Material Rifle
(1200) M249A3 SAW/LMG
(600) MG-3 GPMG
(150) M2HB HMG
(150) Mk.19 AGL
(200) Javelin Infantry ATGM launcher
(300) Stinger Launcher
(500) SRAW
(96) 82mm Mortar
(192) 60mm Mortar
(6,000) Cougar Pistol
(5000) MP-7 PDW

Marine Support Group

Includes Vehicles and Equipment for the Following:
(1) Headquarters & Service Battalion
(1) Maintenance & Support Battalion
(1) Supply Battalion
(1) Engineer Support Battalion
(1) Landing Support Battalion
(1) Motor Transport Battalion
(1) Medical Battalion
(1) Dental Battalion
(3) Combat Service Support Group
(1) Combat Service Support Detachment
Total Personnel: 11,048 (all logistical support)+ 1529 navy

Includes numerous support vehicles, as well as supplies, spare parts, prefabricated structures, and maintenance equipment.

Support Group Armory:
(9500) G36A5
(200) Stinger CLU
(4000) Cougar Pistol
(2000) MP-7 PDW

MEF Command Element

Includes Vehicles and Equipment for the Following:
(1) MEF Command Element
(1) Headquarters Battalion
(1) Communications Battalion
(1) Surveillance, Intelligence, and Reconnaissance Group
Total Personnel: 3864 (all logistical support) + 106 navy

Includes numerous support vehicles, as well as supplies, spare parts, prefabricated structures, and maintenance equipment.

Command Group Armory:
(2600) G36A5
(80) Stinger CLU
(1400) Cougar Pistol
(1000) MP-7 PDW

Marine Air Wing

(1) Aircraft Group, Fixed Wing (3022 personnel + 245 navy)
(3) Fighter/Attack Squadron
(3) Fighter/Attack (All Weather) Squadron
(1) Refueling Squadron
(1) Training Squadron (Fighter/Attack)
(1) Aviation Logistics Squadron
(1) Fleet Readiness Squadron

(1) Aircraft Group, VTOL (3378 personnel + 57 navy)
(4) Attack Squadron
(1) Attack Training Squadron
(3) Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron
(1) Refueling Squadron
(1) Aviation Logistics Squadron

(1) Aircraft Group, Transport Helicopter (2857 personnel + 129 navy)
(4) Heavy Helicopter Squadron
(4) Medium Helicopter Squadron
(1) Training Helicopter Squadron (Heavy)
(1) Aviation Logistics Squadron

(1) Aircraft Group, Combat Helicopter (3422 personnel + 112 navy)
(4) Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron
(2) Medium Helicopter Squadron
(1) Training Helicopter Squadron (Light/Attack)
(1) Training Helicopter Squadron (Medium)
(1) Aviation Logistics Squadron

(1) Wing Support Group (2674 personnel + 163 navy)
(2) Wing Support Squadron (Fixed Wing)
(2) Wing Support Squadron (Rotary Wing)

(1) Air Control Group (1418 personnel + 34 navy)
(1) UAV Squadron
(1) Wing Communication Squadron
(1) Air Support Squadron
(1) Tactical Air Command Squadron
(1) Air Control Squadron
(1) LAAD Battalion

TOTAL PERSONNEL: 19,054 (1,384 Combat, 17,670 Logistical Support) + 789 navy

Major Equipment:
(74) F/A-41C (Layarteb Design)
(94) F/A-41D VSTOL (SB Design)
(28) F/A-63KD (SB Design)
(15) EA-5F Vigilante (Layarteb Design)
(24) KC-130J
(96) SAH-27A (SB Design)
(50) CH-53
(92) CH-46
(51) UH-1N
(32) RQ-2 Pioneer SRUAV
(60) Avenger

Marine Air Wing Armory:
(12,000) G36A5
(150) Stinger CLU
(6000) Cougar Pistol
(4000) MP-7 PDW

Amphibious Assault Group Fleet:

This Fleet is designed as an Assault Force and utilizes the attached ships to enable the entire MEF to engage in an Invasion. In addition to this capability the entire Tank Division can be landed in one wave and full combat operations can be sustained for 45+ days for the MEF without resupply with the additional cargo and fuel ships attached to this Group.

Includes equipment for outfitting the following:
(8) Amphibious Squadrons
(4) Assault Craft Units
Several Additional vessels
Total Personnel: 24,000 (4,000 Combat, 20,000 Logistical Support)
Landing Capacity: (1) MEF

Major Units:
(2) LCC-19 Blue Ridge Joint Command Ships
(2) George Washington Class Carriers
[72 Total Aircraft (24) F-25B, (30) F-41C, (2) EA-5F Vigilante, (2) RA-5E Vigilante, (2) E-2D AWACS Hawkeye-2000, (8) SH-60L Sea Hawk, (4) CH-46 Sea Knight]
(4) Formidable Class VSTOL Carriers
[24 Total Aircraft (12) F/A-41D VSTOL, (4) SH-60L Sea Hawk, (8) CH-47 Sea Knight]
(1) Kingdom Class BBAN
(3) King Henry V Class BBGN
(5) Mexia Class Battle Cruisers
(10) Bullfinch Class FFH
(2) Berlin Class Land Attack Cruisers
(3) Sianach Class DDGN
(2) Centaur-X Guided Missile Destroyers
(2) Vulkan Class Arsenal Ships
(8) Orca Flight IIB SSGN's
(8) Raptor Class LHD
(8) Anaconda Class LPD
(4) Samurai Class LHA
(10) LPD-17 San Antonio Class
(4) LSD-49 Harper’s Ferry
(10) LSD-41 Whidbey Island
(84) LCAC
(16) HLCAC
(12) LCU-2100
(7) Kolchak Class Preposition Supply Ships
(5) AOE-6 Fast Combat Support Ships
(5) T-AKE 1 Lewis & Clarke Ships
(5) T-AO 187 Kaiser Class Oiler Ships
(1) T-AH19 Mercy Class Hospital Ship

Spizania

17-01-2007, 12:32

OPeration White Sausage, Defence of the UAE
As soon as the Hawdawgian announcement of War Games on the border had been released, the entire Arabian Defence Forces went to full alert, the strength in the UAE had, before the Pushkan attack on Baker, numbered at some nine divisions, two of which were armoured, now that the entire territorial armed forces had been called up, this strength had been expanded to some fifteen divisions, with the additional six coming from the city of New Dubbayy or the fortress city of Ras Tanura, operation White Sausage was also put into effect.
Numerous Armoured Engineering Vehicles that had previously been used to clear the rubble of Old Dubayy began laying thousands of landmines in the dead space that had been left by the cities destruction, between the border fence and the Arabian River eight kilometres away, huge numbers of landmines were being laid in a band some five kilometres thick from one end of the border to the other.
Cordubo 155mm SPHs and 203mm MRLS were emplaced in posistions that would give them prime fields of fire over the approaches, 155mm ETC Anti Tank Guns were being set up in embrasures on the far bank of the river, giving them clear fields of fire across the flat ground, now largely desert, between them and the border fence in the distance. Armoured Vehicles were dug in with there weapons protruding from dugouts, looking more like a peice of impressionist art on a massive scale than the killing machines they were.
Interceptor Readiness was increased to maximum and the AWACs patrol was doubled, assisted by the Territorial Air Force Flyers that had mustered to the airbases in the region, with the Confederacy seemingly being attacked on all fronts, the command authority couldnt risk loosing any more ground than was absolutely neccesary, and like any other commander, the thought of huge numbers of troops exercising on his border made him nervous.

The entire Persian Gulf Fleet was put to see, numbering some 130 vessels, it was a formidable fighting force, and would be backed up by the hundreds of Anti-Shipping missiles even now being prepared at Ras Tunara, the fortress in the East, this would be a bloody war indeed, the Confederacy had spent sixty thousand lives in taking its slice of the UAE, and it was not about to surrender it to the bastards that had killed them,

Baker Island

"Vampires Vampires"
The base was roiled in smoke as the missile launchers sent up dozens of SAMs, that knocked dozens of inbound missiles from the sky, but in the end there were too many to down, and close to a hundred and fifty missiles stuck the base, there warheads exploding and sending waves of shrapnel and flame across the base, knocking out gun posisitons and missile launchers, bending back there armoured shields like a giant opening a tin of baked beans. But the base was decentralised, and although it had now lost almost a fifth of its combat capabilities, it was far from out of the fight. Damage control parties immediately began to cut through the debris that blocked the launch tunnel for the wing of Lu-25s based at Baker, and within two hours it was clear enough to launch fighters again.

Submarine Task Force 3 - Operation Golden Hammer

The four Ohio-II Class Guided Missile Submarines crept through the depths, some five hundred kilometres from the Puskhan Armada, they had been returning to Peurto Princessa from the fleet yards in Oman to begin there first patrol after refit when they had been diverted to deal with the Puskhan force in the Indian Ocean using a combination of the ULF Antenna in Antarctica and a brief satcom bursted message timed for when they had been ordered to briefly put there ESM antennas above the waves.
"Coming up to Launch Point Alpha, commence operation Golden Hammer on my mark" the captain of the lead boat spoke through the Gertrude, signalling the other three submarines, he removed the phone from his ears and spoke to the missilier at the control board. "Confirm Targetting Package"
"Targetting Package Confirmed" the young sailor said as he hit several switches on his control board.
"Begin firing sequence, NOW" he spoke into the gertrude and at the same time hit the master firing button on his central console.
"Confirmed Firing Sequence Begun, Tubes flooded and Doors Open, FIRING"
The hatches on each submarines 160 strong VLS assembly all opened, and the firing sequence began, each sub firing 4 every second for forty seconds, they did not stop until every missile was expended.
After the firing stopped the doors were closed and the subs came up to flank speed heading back to Arabia to pick up more ordanance, this war had only just begun.
640 Shockhound-ER Anti Shipping Missiles were hightailing it towards the Puskhan Armada from behind.

Defence of Yemen, Operation Black Cheese
The Yemenese border had never been particularily porous, mainly due to the over stringent border controls employed by the Cottish nuts that ruled on the other side, with the complete lack of advanced Biometric Passports in the confederacy, it was rare for anyone to travel back and forth. But even that meagre flow had stopped when the war had started, with the call up of all Confederate Territorial Units, the border security force had jumped from five divisions to nine, and the Fighter and EW Patrol screen had massively increased in intensity, even though they were only at the second highest state of readiness, the troops were vigilant, after all, they were professionals, and this is what they did.
The Socotra Defence Force Naval Squadron was all at sea, its four Diesel Submarines, Six Destroyers and Two Light Cruisers on patrol around the island, laying mines and checking for enemy submarines, or any submarines for that matter, these were uncertain times. Teh Ground defence force was out digging into various posistions, some five independant brigades, all air mobile with one from the pararmoured, they were the best, but they were supplemented by three more light infantry Territorial Brigades, Green but well trained and armed, they would make a good account of themselves.
The Air Defence Wing consisted of some forty eight aircraft, three squadrons of Lu-45s and one squadron of SuFB-6 Strike Phoenixes, based out of two airfields on the larges islands in the group.
They were all ready now, there pilots waiting just a couple of hundred metres from there fighters, sitting in the disperal shelters with there canopies already open, already fueled and armed for air superiority and naval strike missions.
The SAM defence umbrella around the state capital was online, its crews pulling 2hr combat rotations. Defence Readiness was as high as it could get in relative peacetime.

OOC: There we go, if i missed anything, dont not point it out. Yes, the operation named are randomly chosen by a computer in the basement of Defence HQ

Pantheaa

17-01-2007, 14:15

"As long as those areas are in the Pacific Ocean, we have no problems with such an agreement. However, if we're talking about the Indian Ocean, where the Realm has a profitable province, or the Atlantic Ocean, where the majority of the Realm is situated, we have a problem."

OOC- Wow Pushka rules! He wages war with the intention of gaining land and he gets it.. Nice! I should start declaring war against nations

Spizania

17-01-2007, 16:52

OOC: I should point out that the Confederate Government will stop at nothing to prevent its citizens suffering the same treatment as was inflicted on the people in the UAE and Saudi by the beligerent powers, and i mean nothing

Cotland

17-01-2007, 18:31

"Alle enheter er i posisjon. Jeg gjentar, alle enheter er i posisjon. Avventer siste ordre." [All units are in position. I repeat, all units are in position. Awaiting final orders.] General Max Sandberg said over the encrypted radio from the command center deep below the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the city which housed the Cottish Middle Eastern Command HQ.

"Siste ordre er herved gitt. Iverksett operasjon Sandman." [Final order has been given. Execute operation Sandman.] The man from Oslo said formally, knowing that they were about to initiate a massive operation, the largest in the Middle Eastern theatre of operations yet.

General Sandberg turned to the Colonel sitting next to him and nodded, letting the Colonel relay the final orders to the operational units. They had just passed the point of no return.

With the final set of orders being issued to the forces, the radio chatter went dead with the units preparing for action, checking their equipment and weapons and preparing to initiate the operations against the Spizanians. Every unit had a specific time when they were permitted to begin to open fire, ensuring that the element of surprise wouldn't be lost and that a hail of fire would hit the Spizanian holdings in Yemen simultaniously. The operation was set to begin at 01.30 hours when the forces on watch were expected to be at the lowest state of mental readiness. The element of surprise was expected to be achieved, albeit not as much as the Cottish planners would have hoped for. The Kreynorian statement that they would invade Arabia was given the blame for that one.

Those first units to open fire would be the soldiers of the 86. Tactical Missile Group, which was equipped with the secret MGM.6 Imsdal (http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Nation-States/LDC/Weaponry/bgm203.htm) SCRAMjet cruise missile. The 86. Tactical Missile Group was located in the Dhahran Occupation Zone, being safely far from the front. Not that it wold have any effect on the preformance of the Imsdal missiles though. With a range of 1,600 kilometers, the Imsdal could deliver its massive payload towards its enemy at speeds upwards of Mach 7, enabling it to strike deep within enemy territory without having to worry too much about the dense SAM carpet the Spizanians had established in Yemen.

At exactly fourteen minutes and fourty seconds before the official starting point of Operation Sandman, the M101A5 Transport, Erector and Launcher vehicles started pouring out Imsdal missiles. With each M101A5 having a total of four Imsdal missiles ready to fire and with the unit containing some sixteen M101A5s, sixty-four Imsdal missiles were fired in a hail of fire and smoke erupting from the backs of the launchers, sending missile after missile from the 86. Tactical Missile Group's location before they started reloading the launchers with more Imsdals to be fired against Spizanian positions.

The exact same thing happened in the Indian Ocean, with the twelve Havoc class SSGNs from the 6. Tactical Submarine Group in various locations starting to disgorge a total of one hundred and sixty-eight Imsdals per ship, calling for a total of two thousand, sixteen Imsdal missiles being fired from the twelve SSGNs.

The missiles from the 86. Tactical Missile Group and the twelve Havoc class SSGNs were joined in flight by more Imsdals from various Cottish warships in the Red Sea and by AGM.7/A Voodoo precision strike missiles fired from the B-43/C Incubus heavy strategic bombers of the 6. Bomber Wing at the maximum effective range of one thousand kilometers. This would ensure that the nine meter long, nine ton heavy strike missile would reach its targets and be able to detonate its 1,088-kg penetrating DU-penetrator-capped blast-fragmentation warhead against the Spizanian targets, mostly command centers and RADAR/LADAR sites. The Voodoo cruised at a speed of Mach 3 at an altitude of 18,288 meters above the ground before reaching its target destination, 160 kilometers out. At this point in time, the missile dove steeply to 1.68 meters, increasing in speed to the terminal velocity of Mach 8 with stage seperation and impulse boosts along the way to reach the top velocity. It would be able to take out any target in its way, provided the SAM coverage didn't get it first. Still, with a relatively small target moving at Mach 3, it would be difficult to take down.

Of the Imsdal missiles being fired, there were three main variants being used. The first one was the -A version, which was equipped with a 544-kg Advanced Unitary Penetrator warhead filled with high explosive. These missiles depended on being able to penetrate into the target before detonating, thus causing maximum damage. This was able thanks to the massive amount of kinetic energy the missile generated when it hit its target at Mach 7, and had proven time and time again in previous theatres of war to be an outstanding weapon which no surface to air missile had been able to intercept yet. The -A version was mainly trained at RADAR sites and other military installations.

Next came the -B version, which instead of the 544-kg warhead carried two hundred and fourty BLU-123/C IISM (http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Nation-States/LDC/Weaponry/blu123.htm) submunitions, filled with Thermite Plasma. These missiles were especially devestating to targets, the chemical reaction of the plasma igniting causing it to burn at 5,000 degrees centigrade regardless of whether there was air present or not. With a blast radius of 6,561,680 square meters, the BGM.6/B Imsdal was more than capable of devestating its target, which in this case was airbases, radar stations, SAM sites and troop concentrations.

The third unit being primarily used in the opening strike was the -E version, which contained simply a W-14/A 100 kiloton EMP warhead, set to detonate high above the ground to avoid causing injuries to people, but rendering electronic equipment useless. These would be detonated over the Spizanian SAM-concentrated areas, RADAR/LADAR sites and over the landing areas, hopefully rendering the Spizanian equipment useless. The Cots had no intention of harming the civilian populace of Spizania. At least not at this time. Therefore, no civilian installations were deliberately targetted.

A total of two thousand, four hundred and fifty-eight BGM.6 Imsdal missiles were fired against the Spizanians in the opening strike, with the vast majority being of the -A and -B versions. In addition, the one hundred and twenty-eight B-43/C Incubus' from the 6. Bomber Wing started firing off their load of weapons, with each Incubus having eight of the heavy strike missiles mounted in the three ventral internal weapons bays on rotary launchers. The $500 million piece of equipments turned immediately from their launch sites over the Arabian Sea and headed for the secret airbase in the Lakshadweep Islands for rearming and refueling. They would come back to reprise their attack the following morning.

Meanwhile, in the Gulf of Aden, as the EMP missiles the Cots had fired had detonated over Spizanian Yemen, near the Cottish ships which were EMP-protected and thus managed to withstand the blast, which was located far from it anyway, and as more missiles started appearing on RADAR screens, the cannons of the various Cottish warships turned to face Spizanian defense locations indicated by satellite reconnaissance and stealth UAVs, the locations having been targetted into the ship computers long ago and constantly updated. Therefore, it was expected that the intense volley the Cots were about to start would have some serious effect.

It was the mighty Ormen Lange class battleship HMS Einar Tambarskjelve[i] that fired first, the muzzle flashes from its twelve 635 millimeter M203A1 main battery lighting up the dark night in an orange hail as it sent the twelve 2,100-kilogram 635mm wide projectiles towards the enemy positions, its twelve M200A1 155mm ETC cannons that made up the secondary gun armament also firing, sending smaller but equally deadly projectiles into enemy targets. She also started firing off RIM-3/B SM-3ER long-range and RIM.4/B SM-4MR medium-range surface to air missiles towards the Spizanian aircraft in the skies, joining a barrage that was mostly maintained by the air defense frigates and destroyers, sending a multitude of missiles against the Spizanian aircraft in the skies. CIWS was also online and ready, and the RIM.2/C RAM Block III point defense missiles stood ready to start taking out incoming ordinance.

The [i]Tambarskjelve was joined by the four Mexia class battlecruisers, which started firing off 203mm and 155mm projectiles from the nine M201A2 and twelve M200A1 ETC cannons on each ship, respectively, towards the enemy positions at a quick pace, assisted by the destroyers and frigates which also had M200A1 155mm ETC cannons mounted on the forecastle. A number of 8url=http://www.theforsakenoutlaw.com/Nation-States/LDC/Weaponry/bgm205.htm]BGM.5/B AMESM[/url] missiles were also fired against land targets further in on land which were out of range of the Cottish guns.

The land defenses weren't the only ones being targetted. The Spizanian Navy in Yemen was also going to be attacked, and with a barrage of BGM.5 AMESM missiles and some BGM.6/A Imsdal cruise missiles from the Cottish warships against the surface vessels, destruction was believed to be imminent. Spizanian submarines in the Gulf of Aden were aggressively being targetted by the active SONAR of the destroyers located inside the gulf and engaged with either RUM.9/D VL-ASROCs equipped with the deadly Mark 50 ASW torpedo which were fired from the Mark.51 VLS cells of the destroyers or from the H-23/A Merlin ASW helicopters, which used both their pulse SONAR and the dipping SONAR to locate the submarines and then engage with either a Mark 50 or by using a good old-fashioned depth charge, just for the heck of it. This was as much a psychological operation as it was a real fighting operation.

Finally, there was the air aspect. For this purpose, the Cots were going to use the F-25 Typhoon advanced air superiority fighters that had replaced the ARSB-designed F-63K Tengriy as the front-line fighter in the Cottish arsenal as the main tools in taking out the Spizanian aircraft that survived the massive assault which targetted all known Spizanian airbases and all aircraft within range that were in the air when Operation Sandman commenced. Each of the aircraft carriers had a detachment of twenty-four F-25/B Typhoons aboard, both of which were to escort the brand new B-29/A Vestavind tactical bombers and F-20/B Enforcer multi-role fighters on bombing runs over Yemen. Being armed with AIM.11/B Dødsengel long-range air to air missiles with an effective range of some three hundred and fifty kilometers and AIM.14/B BVRAAMs with an effective range of some one hundred and seventy kilometers, they could deal out a lot of pain against the Spizanian aircraft. The Realm knew that the Spizanians used the Kriegzimmer-designed Lu-45 Hawk fighter, an aircraft which the Realm had operated in the past as well. After having done extensive tests, the Cots knew how to detect and, more importantly, how to defeat the stealthy aircraft, and using the RADAR images from the Heimdal class guided missile cruisers in the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, obtained via the encrypted datalink all Cottish units used, in collaboration with the powerful RADAR mounted in the COH-designed E-3/A Bataleur AEWCC aircraft that currently flew in relative safety over Ethiopia and the Arabian Sea, supplemented by the E-19/C Dagger AWACS aircraft that operated from the aircraft carriers, the Cots could use the Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar from multiple sides to make a three-dimentional image of the skies ahead, thus defeating the stealth features of the Hawk, making it easier to destroy. Thanks to the datalink, it also meant that the Cots could use the RADAR lock in the AWACS to lock on their missiles without having to use their own RADAR systems, thus not emitting an electronical signature and thus being totally invisible for Spizanian ELINT operations and, more importantly, for the Spizanian aircraft.

This was a technique the Cots had recently adopted, but in tests it had been a highly effective method of taking out an enemy's air force before he even knew it was there. Now, the Cots were going to test it for full, using it on the fighter aircraft from the carriers in the Arabian Sea and on the fighters of 14., 16. and 21. Fighter Wing, all of them based in nearby COH Ethiopia, and all of them in the air, locking their weapons on to the Spizanian aircraft in the air and sending off a volley of Dødsengels and BVRAAMs. They would clear out the Spizanian aircraft so F-20/A Enforcers loaded with BVRAAMs and AARGM anti-radiation missiles could start taking out whatever SAM sites had survived the initial strike, which was expected to continue for another fourty-eight hours.

Meanwhile, in the Red Sea, a vast naval force carrying the four Marine Divisions, escorted by no less than three Ormen Langes, twelve Mexia class battlecruisers, twelve guided missile cruisers, fourty destroyers, fifty frigates and a number of other warships were heading for Yemen, followed twenty hours later by a large force of Merchantmen ladened with soldiers and equipment, all under the watchful eyes of the Royal Cottish Navy and Royal Cottish Air Force.

Operation Sandman had commenced.

List of missiles fired at Spizanian bases, RADAR/LADAR sites, SAM sites and naval vessels
BGM.5/B AMESM: 870
BGM.6/A Imsdal: 1,668
BGM.6/B Imsdal: 832
BGM.6/E Imsdal: 18
AGM.7/A Voodoo: 1,024

Hirgizstan

17-01-2007, 23:08

OOC: Spiz, you'd better not be insinuating by saying you'd be ready to do 'anything' that you would launch nukes against people. I''ll shoot any ICBM you fire out of the sky/space no matter where its going. And I'm guessing I wouldn't be the only one willing to do that. You really should be trying to 'win freinds and influence people', not piss off as many people as you can as quickly as you can.

IC:

Addis Abbaba, State of Abyssinia [Ethiopia], COH

The Mezzolo Towers dominated the skyline of the city in the baking afternoon sun. Businessmen and women wearing suits bussled to and fro on the busy streets, getting a quick lunch before going back to the office. It was the usual weekly grind on an otherwise nonchalant Wednesday.

The Mezzolo Towers were an International business icon, relatively new, built via funds from the Mezzolo Food Conglomerate, a major Hirgizstanian foodstuffs company. The towers provided office space for hundreds of business big and small, and Addis Abbaba provided an urbane mecca for business in that area of Africa and for the Suez Canal region as a whole.
With Roman, Cottish, Hawdawgian, Brinkian and Eurasian business all represented at the towers in one business or another, it seemed most of the area was present, and indeed flourishing in a larger sense.

But if that business was a white sheet of paper, there was a moudly stain toward the bottom, insignificant for a while but now malignant and spreading. Of course it had a name, Spizania. They had moved into Yemen, in fact they had bombed it and then moved in, taking over from the Pantheaans, who at least had growth potential. But once the 'confederacy' took over mould began to grow.

A lazy people, a lazy country...a liberal one full of vice and depravity, not only a major drug threat but also a military one. They sat on high morals while injecting filth and leaving their populace to rot and starve and die in cesspools of vagrance and despair. It was a wonder the country had not simply imploded on itself, as Brydog had done on the other side of Africa.

The trouble now was that war was brewing just across the Red Sea from Abyssinia. People on top of the Mezzolo Towers couldn't see the sea or Yemen, both were just beyond the horizon, but that didn't mean they weren't there.

The official position of the Commonwealth in the whole debacle that had begun in the Pacific, was neutral, and neutral it was to stay. So it was under cover of darkness without paperwork or 'official' orders that a Jerusalem Gun slipped from its sidings in the military train station on the outskirts of Addis Abbaba, headed north-east.

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EXORDIUM (The Beginning)

(OOC: The following RP has nothing to do with this conflict, its just because this happens to be in the area that I decided to RP it for a bit of interest. Its partly based on stuff in a book I'm reading. This will be a one off most probably. Hope y'all like.)

The HAI Jetstar III was like an executive bullet, if there ever was such a thing. Inside it was plush, white leather and mahogany, on the outside it was simply pure white with no markings whatsoever, not even a serial number. The fuselage was thin and tubby, like most executive jets. The difference was the Jetstar had four jet engines instead of two, with extra fuel pods in the wings. The Jetstar was the exclusive model of executive jets.

The little plane had been on quite a journey, going from Olympia in Seattle to Honolulu to refuel, before taking off again and heading on a round trip down south into the lower Pacific to avoid the myriad of foreign air force and naval planes that swarmed around Baker Island. The Jetstar would just appear as a civil plane on any radar and to look at it was to forget it, just another executive jet.

The journey to Howland, because of the new route was thus taking longer than expected, but the ride was smooth and the seats were comfortable. Jackson Martin and Husayn Rahaman sat opposite each other, swivelled around in the big leather chairs. Martin was an older man, lanky and bald, wearing a loose fitting sports jacket, jeans and sweater, with a pair of loafers. He looked like any normal businessman on a flight. Rahaman was young, jet black hair and a small moustache that looked like he had only begun growing it a few days ago. He wore a stiff suit, more for making an impression than anything else. Martin had met Rahaman only a few weeks before now, his new assisstant, straight out of the research department at the Lusaka Institute of Science, one of the worlds most prestigious science universities, with a world beating research department in rare science.

Martin and Rahaman had been attending a new research brief in Olympia when the EMP strike had knocked out power on Howland, meaning they had to return to make sure things were still okay. There were only a few things on the tiny, yet valuable island. Since it had come under COH control it had been expanded to just over twice its original proportions, and it housed a military airfield, Coast Guard base, fishing station, a prison few people knew about where people 'disappeared', and of course, Exordium. Martin had always found the name of the place, and of the project, fitting. It was Latin for 'The Beginning', because that’s basically what his work was all about, the beginning of all things.

"So, sir, you know this is my first time going to see the place. I mean what are you...we going to do?"

"Husayn, its Jackson...three weeks of this 'sir' crap, come on."

"I'm sorry sir...I mean...Jackson."

"Its alright, you'll get used to it. Strange for a first name I know, but hey blame my parents. Anyway, to answer your question we're heading back to check on the project, to see if the power cut out affected anything. I don't expect it did, power was back in a few minutes with generators, but its protocol. Although protocol and Exordium...they don't mix, at least not in my opinion."

"Ok...so we're checking. Seems like the right thing to do. I guess we'll be staying out here for a while then?"

"Probably, a week or two at the least. I have work to get on with that I was scheduled to do before your predecessor left. Great guy, I told him if he signed on for a few years he'd go places, now look where he is, Head of Rare Metal Exploitation at HirgiCorp, his own car with driver, use of an executive jet, seven figure salary...that’s the life. Could be you in a few years."

Husayn smiled, thinking about that but dismissing it out of hand, it would be a good while yet before any of that was possible.

"But still, I mean I'm barely out of the research department at the Institute, I only finished my Phd a few years ago, are you sure I'm cut out for this? I mean nobody has even explained what Exordium is for or anything like that. I mean I could have quit for lack of info, but I'm deeply intrigued, curious even."

Jackson smiled, "Exactly...exactly. That’s why your here. Your curious, your work at the Institute was all original, unprecedented. You weren't afraid to push the boundaries, you pushed what you yourself knew and what those more qualified than you knew. We were watching."

"Thats another thing, who is 'we'. I mean the Army signs my paychecks, but who am I really working for here?"

"Me...and a special department of the Army, we used to be called 'The Project', but we go simply by 'Exordium' now, I think you'll agree it sounds better."

"Yeah...but what on earth do we do on a tiny island in the Pacific that could possibly be of any consequence?"

"Think of the name, Exordium...the beginning. We're trying to find the beginning."

"Yes, but the beginning of what?"

"Everything...man...nature...everything. Who created us, why, when, what? All the questions that people like Darwin and books like the Bible have tried to answer. Your research at the Institute laid the way for a scientific acceptance of Intelligent Design, that’s one of the reasons you sparked our curiosity. Exordium isn't just a project."

"So then what is it?"

"Its a machine. It looks like a giant oil drum, you'll see it. It tries to uncover the mystery that is quantum energy. Not nuclear energy, not all that stuff that’s been proven already. We go the other way. Absolute Freezing Point, not zero degrees but absolute freezing or absolute zero. Atoms are frozen, stopped dead at this temperature, but there's still energy. How, why? That’s what we're here for."

"But what for, what’s the purpose?"

"To provide answers, to create and to possibly destroy. This stuff is so unprecedented I doubt we'll ever get a breakthrough, but if we do it could mean more energy than cold fusion and a better life for all. It would also be the ultimate weapon, unprecedented in its destruction. You'll see first hand its potential in the research we've done."

Husayn took a deep breath, that was a lot of info to digest. He sat back into his chair and started biting his nails, a bad habit, especially for a scientist. He was lost in thought when the pilot announced over the intercom they would be landing in thirty minutes.

Pushka

18-01-2007, 00:08

Submarine Task Force 3 - Operation Golden Hammer

The four Ohio-II Class Guided Missile Submarines crept through the depths, some five hundred kilometres from the Puskhan Armada, they had been returning to Peurto Princessa from the fleet yards in Oman to begin there first patrol after refit when they had been diverted to deal with the Puskhan force in the Indian Ocean using a combination of the ULF Antenna in Antarctica and a brief satcom bursted message timed for when they had been ordered to briefly put there ESM antennas above the waves.
"Coming up to Launch Point Alpha, commence operation Golden Hammer on my mark" the captain of the lead boat spoke through the Gertrude, signalling the other three submarines, he removed the phone from his ears and spoke to the missilier at the control board. "Confirm Targetting Package"
"Targetting Package Confirmed" the young sailor said as he hit several switches on his control board.
"Begin firing sequence, NOW" he spoke into the gertrude and at the same time hit the master firing button on his central console.
"Confirmed Firing Sequence Begun, Tubes flooded and Doors Open, FIRING"
The hatches on each submarines 160 strong VLS assembly all opened, and the firing sequence began, each sub firing 4 every second for forty seconds, they did not stop until every missile was expended.
After the firing stopped the doors were closed and the subs came up to flank speed heading back to Arabia to pick up more ordanance, this war had only just begun.
640 Shockhound-ER Anti Shipping Missiles were hightailing it towards the Puskhan Armada from behind.

OOC: Eh what armada do you mean? I don't have any ships in the Indian ocean that I know of, the force I was sending to Yemen never made it to Indian ocean (still somewhere near the Bering Strait) and now that I have an agreement with Cot they won't be going towards the Indian ocean. So what are you firing at exactly? Also what part of Philippines do you own? I'll post ICly once these have been answered.

Spizania

18-01-2007, 00:10

OOC: Cot, did you just detonate nukes over my territory?
Oh, sorry Puskha, i have somehow got it into my head that Baker is in the Indian Ocean, substitute Pacific for Indian

Hirgizstan

18-01-2007, 00:30

OOC: It looks like he detonated EMP's. A taste of your own medecine there Spiz. Stop calling them nukes aswell, they are EMP's.

Hawdawg

18-01-2007, 00:55

OOC: IC'ly my government hasn't openly stated anything except we are going to conduct a field exercise in the UAE. Let's keep this in perspective. Your Military Staff could guess we are about to invade but, that is all they would be able to do. I haven't lined up like a football team facing the border nor have I shot anything at you yet. So don't imply your being attacked on all fronts, we haven't pulled the trigger yet. I would also like to know the orgins of the 130 vessel fleet you put to sea? Where is there port of call?

Now for the meat of my position. I am going to hold up on my portion of this because I have to travel tomorrow and I do not know if the hotel I am staying at until Monday has internet capabilities. If they do not, I will be offline until then. Spizania lets keep things at a standstill until I can verify a connection tomorrow or not. If you don't see a post from me tomorrow, I will begin the assault on Monday when I return. This sucks, but my job requires my presence be in Fort Worth. Since I am not staying at a La Quinta all bets are off on the internet connection.

-Hawdawg

Spizania

18-01-2007, 00:55

OOC:
Hirgy, he has detonated a "100kT EMP weapon" apparently, how do you measure EMPs in terms of kilotonnes, and in the supplied writeup the warhead it says is on the -E derivative is a plain nuke

Layarteb

18-01-2007, 01:00

"That's the end of it for them." The Cabinet commented, watching the satellite over Baker Island replay the events that had happened earlier. The island was definitely pummeled by the missiles and recovery there was going to be slow. "What do you make of it?" The Emperor asked, the Minister of Intelligence watching the screens still.

"Well sir it is a crippling strike. It seems that they shot a few down but nothing else. Only thing I can say is that strike definitely did them damage. Real damage."

Some time later, in the deeps of the Pacific Ocean, one of the roaming and lingering Hunter SSN submarines listened to a spike in their passive SONAR. "CONN, SONAR. Report sound spike." The SONAR operator said as he listened to the echoing sounds. The captain showed up in the SONAR room only an instant later. "Sir. We've got a sound spike. Loud one about 20,000 yards bearing 225. Sounds like missiles firing. We've got no contact out that far except some faint echo we couldn't really make out to well."

"Interesting. Continue to monitor. We've got surface ships so we'll know what it was soon enough."

"Aye sir."

On the surface, the Sehnsucht class SIGINT ship monitored the missiles, ripping through the surface, and heading towards the Russian fleet. Destroyers and frigates recorded the same sets of data and they all transferred the information back to command, where it filtered back to the Minister of Defense and the Cabinet. The Russians were engaged, finally, they thought, and they were more than pleased with the vast number of missiles in the air. A satellite wouldn't be able to track them but there would be another one overhead in twenty minutes to survey the damage they caused. For now, the sky was dark for both the MOD and MOI.

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Time passed and in the middle of the night, just an hour an a half after midnight, the Cottish launched their attack on Yemen. The Empire knew this was coming though they weren't aware of the exact time and date. They had not asked for the information and chose, instead, to monitor it through signals and electronic intelligence. The strike would hit hard. There was no doubt that the Cottish were using the Imsdal, a missile system designed by the Empire and the Cottish and kept classified by the Empire while remaining exported throughout The October Alliance. It was at the forefront of missile technology. It replaced the slower, subsonic but hard hitting Tomahawk cruise missiles and their successors with a powerful, hypersonic missile that packed enough punch to destroy a target without a warhead. It could destroy the heaviest and hardest bunkers underground or above ground and the Imsdal was also capable of penetrating air defenses of anywhere. It was a beast and it was the primary missile for the Empire as it was for the Cottish.

As the invasion of Yemen began, the warships in the waters stayed quiet. They monitored the situation but did not act. They would act later on, perhaps. The Empire had declared neutrality in the conflict and they expected to stay that way, unless they were attacked. If they were, the guns of their ships and their missiles would do worse than what the Cottish could do.

Hirgizstan

18-01-2007, 01:03

OOC: I somehow doubt Cot launched a nuke against you. If it said 'EMP' it was an EMP.

Velkya

18-01-2007, 01:10

(OOC: You don't measure an electromagnetic pulse weapon's yield in explosive force, because that would imply that the weapon itself is explosive in nature. That would be like measuring electricity in kilograms. In fact, any large scale EMP weapon that isn't nuclear or based in a large building is impossible in an MT context.)

Layarteb

18-01-2007, 01:21

OOC: Yeah it's a low-yield, fission warhead that is optimized for high-altitude detonation and reduced radioactive fallout. It would produce far less radiation then a typical nuclear device. It's also dial-a-yield, which has up to 100 kilotons maximum. Typically it's much less when applied though. When I used it, I had it set around 5 kilotons, which produced very, very, very little amounts of fallout. I have to rework the specifications on my site to include this type of information so that is rather misleading (for which I apologize).

Pushka

18-01-2007, 02:33

OOC: Eh...Spiz a little problem here, according to Mac's write up the Shockhound has a maximum range of 450 km and your subs according to you are 500 km away from my fleet. Eh, so yeah, either way, I'll be nice this once and just go with it.

IC:

"Iegor IX's" MRT-1 radar system has detected the incoming missiles almost immediately transferring the information to all of the ships comprising the fleet along with probable trajectory paths and other such information. The fleet had atleast a solid six and a half minutes to do something before the missiles hit. Very quickly the vessels started changing their positions. Meanwhile the 31 Paramount class air defense ships have locked on and fired a whole barrage of P.746x missiles at the incoming projectiles. In order to add to the defensive effort the secret "Chornye Lebed" electronic warfare vessels attempted to jam the guidance of the enemy missiles. In the end after the P.746xs exploded somewhere in the distance, after the ships changed their positions and after the R/C-R division did all they could to disrupt enemy guidance everyone aboard the ships of the 1st Pacific Naval Front held their breath. Finally the missiles struck.

Iegor IX

The constant shaking has ended and the calm has finally returned. As the missiles struck Admiral Slepoi did not try to hide under the table or in any way show that he was bothered by the event, he was raised in a family of Russian naval officers, he was better then that. All he did was take slow sips from his cup of tea making he sure that the constant tremors wouldn't throw it off the table. Once the firing has seized he picked up his intercom and said in a calm, serious voice.

Slepoi: "Sneaky bastards...I want the attackers found and sunk and I don't care how you do it. What is the damage assessment."

The officer on the other end was a little shaken, he took long enough time to come up with an answer that the Admiral had to raise his voice and ask again.

Slepoi: "What the hell is the status of my fleet! Have you lost your tongue boy! I'll bring you down to potato cleaning duty if you don't hurry."

Officer: "Oh...comrade Admiral, I apologize greatly. Yes...the damage assessment...7 Kristik class battleships sunk, two more highly damaged, 3 Illium class destroyers sunk, 9 more highly damaged, 12 Gospek class heavy battle cruisers sunk, 1 highly damaged, 8 lightly damaged, 4 Paramount class air defense vessels highly damaged, 1 Pepperbox class support vessel sunk others all lightly damaged, both air craft carriers moderately damaged, both are able to move. Rescue teams have been dispatched to save the crew members from sunk and badly damaged ships, the R/C-R detachment has reported to me and told us that they know there the attackers. What would the orders be comrade Admiral?"

Slepoi:"We have some DR-13s modified with depth charges correct?"

Officer: "Yes comrade Admiral."

Slepoi: "Fire a barrage at the enemy."

Officer: "Yes comrade Admiral."

Slepoi: "How are our Tsaplias doing?"

Officer: "Tsaplias were undamaged due to the fact that they were still in the air then the missiles struck. They are coming for landing near the remaining Pepperboxes to resupply with ammunition."

Slepoi: "Once they do I want them up in the air and unleashing hell on Spizanians. Tell the men that the rest of the fleet is coming, we should have a bundle of reinforcements soon enough. Tell the R/R-C to increase their intelligence perimeter by 2000 kilometers, I don't care what resources they have to pull, if an enemy submarine comes into that area I want it tracked and I want it to have a depth charge up its ass. Slepoi out."

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DR-13N was a new addition to the Russian Naval arsenal, based on the DR-13 "Chert" intercontinental cruise missile they were a very effective way of delivering PNVM guided depth charges to incredible ranges. The depth charge was placed in a heat/shock resistant capsule in the nose of the starter stage of the DR-13 which is than fired. The DR-13N has a maximum range of 2000 km and maximum speed of Mach 4.1. It flies on a quasibalistic altitude until it is within the drop point radius. The computer calculates there the target is and minding the force of inertia ejects the PNVM capsule into the water from 50 m above the sea level. The PNVM once in water is ejected from its protective capsule, tracks the target via VRPB satellite link as well as active pinging and propels itself at 70 knots towards the said target. The explosive force of one PNVM was tested to be enough to destroy a ballistic missile sub of almost any type. Twelve DR-13Ns were launched from aboard the remaining Grospek class Heavy Guided Battle Cruisers set to destroy the fleet's attackers.

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The logistical teams were working without putting their hands down trying to reequip the Tsaplias with a new butch of Kh-55s and their efforts made the whole process last no more then half an hour. Once again the planes were in the air and once again they launched 240 missiles at the Baker Island.

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Meanwhile an Armada that made the 1st Pacific Naval Front look like a child's toy was turning around preparing to head back to its port. The mobilized Naval Fleet of the Russian Federation that was planning to attack Spizania in Yemen was now heading back since an agreement was signed with Cotland. However 3 heavy recovery ships, guarded by 2 Indestructible class aircraft carriers, 5 Pepperboxes surrounded by a whole small fleet of 1120 Tsaplia flying boats detached from the main force and set in the direction of the 1st Pacific Front, ready to deliver the Spizanians a sweet and bitter pay back.

Layarteb

18-01-2007, 05:20

The satellite came overhead and whistles echoed in the Emperor's office. "Well. Looks like they're in deep trouble. They've got tons of ships sinking and it looks like they're turning back. They're really beat up. Seven of their battleships are sunk and two of them look like they aren't going to make it too far. They're listing heavily. I don't see three of their destroyers and its evident that the other nine are in bad shape too, almost if not as bad as the two battleships. Most of their battle cruisers are gone. One looks like it's going to sink, the other eight could make it back to port but not at flank speed, that's for sure. Air defense frigates are definitely out of operation, who knows if they'll make it back. Support vessels are down one but rest are in good shape. They caught a break there and the aircraft carriers look like they'll make it back too. They'll be in dry dock for some time though."

"Thank you."

"Understood sir." The analyst put down the memo and his audio feed was cut off. Speaking from the Ministry of Intelligence, he was seeing what they were seeing only he saw it four minutes earlier and did the assessment himself.

"Alright. Well this group is out of action. Completely. Their submarines are still there, undoubtedly finding the enemy submarines. We've got coordinates on their last known but that was twenty-four minutes ago. They're long gone by now. Our submarines, are they tracking anything?"

"No. They've moved clear enough out of the area to not be targets for the Russians."

"Understood. Good move. What about their other fleets?"

"Well. Satellites show that the main fleet is still coming down. They've transitted the Bearing Straits and they're coming down at about 18 knots. Perhaps faster now that they are out of the straits. They're sending some recovery and escort ships to aide the wounded fleet, which definitely won't be making it back without help and we can bet they'll lose a few along the way. It's likely, very likely." The Minister of Defense said, with the Minister of Intelligence nodding behind him. "It is highly likely that the Spizanians will not survive the next blow. If their four submarines escape they're good but they probably have none of their weapons left and we don't know if they have more out there. They'd be stupid not to have more out there. Who knows. We'll find out eventually. Sir. You know. If you wanted to hit the Russians, now would be the time."

"No. No. Now is not the time. That plan is not on the table right now."

"Sir."

"But don't put it in the file cabinets just yet." They chuckled. "What is our force in the Pacific looking like right now?"

"We're looking at a pair of carrier battle groups, an amphibious attack group, a carrier escort group, a full Venom missile squadron, two of them loaded with SLBMs. We have another Venom missile squadron heading out to the north now. We have one in the Indian Ocean and another one in the Arctic Ocean. We're poised for a crippling strike if we had to sir."

"Good. Good. Keep them on alert status and maintain Readiness Condition 3. I don't want to escalate anything. What about our bomber forces and our troop forces?"

"Surging everywhere sir. We've been at full REDCON 3 status for some time now. If we upgrade to REDCON 2 we'll be looking at a six hour turn around."

"And if we should have to go to 1?"

"We could launch our missiles in five minutes sir. All of them could be aloft in twelve. Then it's thirty minutes from then."

"Alright. Are we prepared for this?" The Emperor was addressing the whole Cabinet. Silence flew through the air. "Good. I don't want anyone feeling good about this. Maintain our current status and plan."

Pushka

18-01-2007, 06:06

Layarteb

18-01-2007, 07:15

OOC: Eh few things Lay, first the 1st Pacific Naval Front is not going anywhere, second its the main fleet that was supposed to go to Yemen that is now turning back (because of the agreement with Cot), third I got a shitload more Tsaplias coming the way of the 1st Pacific Naval Front, 4th I launched another 240 missiles towards the Baker, fifth I launched 12 DR-13Ns towards his submarines. That covers about all of it, oh yeah, so you're going to start a war with me now? Meh, I guess all that stuff about me getting friendlier with the Cots is having no effect, oh well, Im ready for ya if you want it so bad although I don't see a reason for it right now. Either way, learned enough from this engagement already to rewrite my naval strategy doctrine, submarines, air carriers and Tsaplias will now be the focus of my fleets.

OOC: Okay thought the main armada was coming down from the Bearing Straits and the Pacific Fleet was the one that just got mauled, which the damaged ships would be heading back to port or at least somewhere safe, thought the Yemen fleet was a third fleet. Hope you get his subs. As far as the war thing, until I've fired a shot at you I'm not starting anything. You should reread what was written and look a little deeper rather than just reading the superficial.

Layarteb

19-01-2007, 06:34

From a lonely airbase in Aroostook County, Maine came an echo of life. Loring Air Force Base was cold, too cold for most people. With a temperature of 20°F and a heavy snow warning in effect, most operations were being suspended. Normal combat air patrols by F-32A Foxhounds of the 1509th Fighter Squadron continued with flights of two aircraft alternating. There were sixteen aircraft per squadron and, at Loring, there were 4 F-32 squadrons. In addition, there were 4 F-39C Super Eagle squadrons, a total of 64 aircraft. One of them happened to be on the end of the runway now, a plane from the 1504th Fighter Squadron. Its callsign was Solar 1 and the F-39 was carrying a single missile in its internal, ventral bay. It carried no other ordinance and the two pilots sat in the comfortable cockpit with flight suits that more resembled space suits and that was done on purpose. The F-39 had an operational service ceiling of 79,150 feet but it could zoom climb to 102,330 feet. With a maximum speed of 2,640 miles per hour, or Mach 3.995 at 36,000 feet. Clean, the F-39 could get almost that high but it was loaded heavy with fuel, 38,000 pounds of fuel.

As they sat on the edge of the runway, the engines at idle, their F-39 emitted a high pitched whine. The two engines of the powerful beast could put out a total of 96,250 pounds and they weighed in at 90,000 pounds. With a thrust-to-weight ratio over 1:1, they could climb at an astonishing angle and speed and that was on purpose. The cockpit of the F-39 wasn't very spacious in their suits but it was good enough. Heated, it provided them with a comfortable working environment and they were already breathing the air mixture that was created for the cockpit. It was lined with touch screens, MFDs, gauges, and switches. With the throttle/stick setup of an F-16, the pilot had his left hand on the throttle and his right on the stick. He looked at the radio channel and saw that he was on the right channel and the last checks were done. "I'm good. You?"

"Good to go." The pilot was a captain in the ILAF and his RIO, or rather his backseater, was a captain as well. Both of them were qualified pilots for the F-39 and they were a team. The mission they were about to undertake was a risky one but it was less risky than combat, that was for sure. "Shall we ask?"

"This is Solar 1. Requesting takeoff clearance."

"Solar 1. Loring tower. Wait 1. Getting weather report."

"Understood. Holding short." They waited there on the runway, chatting between themselves in the cockpit.

"Solar 1. Loring tower. You'd better hurry up. We're looking at 10 to 16 inches of snow. Winds will be gusting to 30. Pretty bad. It's all set to start in about two hours."

"Roger that. Requesting takeoff."

"Solar 1. Cleared for takeoff. Depart heading 0-1-5."

"Roger that Loring." The pilot pushed up the throttle and the whine turned into a rumble. The ground shook underneath the aircraft as it began down the runway, moving only 10 miles per hour, picking up speed rapidly. Their speed meter was at 110 mph when the afterburners kicked in and threw the aircraft forward. The rumble turned into a roar and it was like an earthquake under the 90,000 pound jet. "Yee haw!" The pilot shouted as he eased back on the stick and put the aircraft into a 10° climb. Moving at 220 mph, they retracted the gear and the pilot turned for the head of 015. The runway departure heading was 335, which meant it was a slight right turn. They zoomed straight up to 20,000 feet and relaxed the throttles to a mere 80%. When they leveled off, they were heading straight north, towards the North Pole. They were moving at 450 mph. "Alright. Steerpoint 2. We're about 80 miles away from that steerpoint. Then we're onto 3."

"Got it."

"Are we tracking the satellite yet?"

"Not yet. Give it about six minutes. We'll have it acquired then."

"Okay. Let's keep it up then. Master arm is off. Radar shows no contacts."

"That is a roger." They flew towards the steerpoint at 7.5 miles per minute, giving them a flight time of 10 minutes and 40 seconds. From there, they would go onto a short waypoint, which was another 20 miles where they would accelerate rapidly. "How's the fuel flow?"

"Good. Good. We'll land with about 20,000 pounds. We're going to burn a lot in this mission, possibly. We'll see."

"Understood." The pilot maintained the course and had the autopilot on, keeping them level at 20,000 feet and 450 mph. When they reached the steerpoint, he locked in their altitude, to avoid any deviations but unlocked the speed. He pushed the throttles straight forward, punching on the afterburners. "Here we go!"

"Yep!" The pilot let out another yell as the fighter bolted forward, passing Mach 1 at 707 mph, which was quite quickly. By the time they reached the end of the steerpoint, they were moving at 1,620 mph, Mach 2.29. "Alright. Hold on." The pilot unlocked the altitude and pulled back, hard, on the stick. The aircraft lost some of its momentum but not enough to slow it down. The pilot eased off on the stick when their angle of attack was 75°, almost straight up, into the air. The fighter streaked through the sky, soaring upwards at 1,900 mph or 2,786.67 feet per second. They only had to climb to 92,500 feet, which was 72,500 feet in total. That was a time of 26 seconds! "How is the lock?"

"We're good. The missile is locked."

"Master arm on."

"Missile tracking. Hit is good. We've got 82% right now. We'll go up to 85% when we release."

"Understood." The pilot watched on the HUD. In the upper left corner of the HUD was their G indicator and it read "1.45." Underneath and to the left was the airspeed indicator and it read "1,900." Going down further, in line with the G indicator but underneath the airspeed indicator was the word "ARM," which meant that the master arm was on and they could fire. Underneath it was the Mach indicator, which said "2.843." Down further and more to the left was the Maximum G Indicator and it read "8.52," which was what they sustained in the pull up to the climb. The aircraft snapped with the thrust vectoring controls of the engine. Underneath that was the selected weapon which stated "1 ASM135A." In the center of the HUD was the flight ladder and the flight path marker, which was a circle with lines out of each side and the top. It was level over the 75° marker and above that was a plus sign that didn't connect all of the lines but rather connected to a small circle. That was the gun cross indicator and showed where the bullets would go when fired straight ahead. On the right of the HUD was the altitude indicator, which stated "88,000" and climbing, faster. To the left of the altitude indicator was a series of lines that made a box without a right side to it. That was the launch zone indicator. There were two lines at the top and one at the bottom and a large space in the middle with a Greater-Than-Sign inside the middle area. The top line indicated the maximum range and the second indicated the maximum effective range. The third line indicated the minimum range and the bottom line was zero range. There was a large space between the second and third lines, which was where the Greater-Than-Sign was. In the middle of the HUD, in line with the Maximum G Indicator was the heading scale and there was a caret on "015," which was their heading. Directly underneath that was the roll indicator, which told them what roll angle they were at, which was, for now, a 0° roll. To the right of that was three lines, the most important. The top line read "F285.2," the middle line read "09:00," and the bottom line read "002>04." In succession, the top line indicated range to target, the second line was time to target, and the bottom line was how far they were from their next steerpoint. That was all the information on the HUD and that was only the necessary information for the pilot.

For the RIO in the back, he was looking at his top right touchscreen, which indicated the weapons. He had the only weapon they carried selected, an ASM-135 ASAT missile. It showed the basic stats of the missile, range, speed, ceiling, lock-percentage, and location. It had a 350 mile range, a maximum speed of 15,000 mph, a ceiling of 650 miles, a current lock percentage of 82.48, and a location of "ventral bay." On the touch screen next to it was the uplink screen, which showed the target, way out ahead, a communications satellite at an altitude of 480 miles and a range of 285.2 miles away. The pilot would fire the missile himself but as the F-39 zoomed upwards and towards the launch altitude, they stayed quiet.

"Alright. Ready to launch. Coming up to altitude." The pilot said. The aircraft passed up to 92,500 feet and the pilot depressed the thumb trigger on the stick. Immediately, the ventral bay opened up and the missile was ejected out, forcefully. Its powerful rocket engine ignited immediately and the missile zoomed straight ahead. "Alright. We've got a clear launch. How is tracking?"

"Good. Good. We've got it tracking."

"Alright. I'm rolling." The pilot slowly rolled the aircraft to an inverted position and reduced the throttle back to 80%. The powerful roar once again became a whine though much quieter as their G-suits inflated. They pulled over at +5.2 Gs and began a shallow dive back to the Earth. The blackness of space was all around them and the darkness below was just a gray mass of clouds. The copilot watched as the missile tracked the satellite, the first stage dropping off to reveal the terminal stage, which was the kill vehicle. It locked onto the satellite through its imaging infrared seeker but it was also running a datalink back to the aircraft, which was running a link back to a ground control station. The missile was also linked to the station and it soared towards the satellite at a powerful speed of 15,000 mph. It slammed into the satellite in seconds as the copilot watched through the camera feed from the missile. It went to static just before it hit and a camera eyeing the position they fired at showed them that they had a success. The fireball illuminated the black sky. "That's a kill!"

"Yes it is! Yes it is!" They landed twenty minutes later and they had a successful ASAT mission against a non-operational communications satellite. Its orbit would be used by a future Layartebian communications satellite and the destruction of it was publicized but without much detail. The press briefs stated that a non-operational satellite had been destroyed but gave no specifics of how or what. It was meant as a warning. The blizzard hit shortly thereafter, burying the airbase under tons of ice and snow.

Spizania

19-01-2007, 18:30

OOC: Before i respond cot, what is the total strength of that taskforce off of Socotra

Cotland

20-01-2007, 13:28

Expeditionary Battle Group TAMBARSKJELVE

Detachment GRØNN
Area of Operations: E Gulf of Aden
Ormen Lange class BBGN: 1 (flagship)
Mexia-I class BCN: 2
Heimdal class CGN: 1
Indefatigable class DDGN: 6
Nådeløs class FFGN: 4
Smertebringer class FFN: 4
Forsyner class AOEN: 2
Scorpion class SSN: 1

Detachment RØD
Area of Operations: NW Arabian Sea
Odin-I class CVN: 1 (flagship)
Mexia-II class BCN: 1
Heimdal class CGN: 1
Indefatigable class DDGN: 7
Nådeløs class FFGN: 3
Smertebringer class FFN: 4
Forsyner class AOEN: 1
Scorpion class SSN: 1

Detachment BLÅ
Area of Operations: NW Arabian Sea
Odin-I class CVN: 1 (flagship)
Mexia-II class BCN: 1
Heimdal class CGN: 1
Indefatigable class DDGN: 7
Nådeløs class FFGN: 3
Smertebringer class FFN: 4
Forsyner class AOEN: 1
Scorpion class SSN: 2

Layarteb

21-01-2007, 21:54

OOC: Just trying to kick start this back up.

Barents Sea - 09:22 hrs [GMT]
800 miles SSE of the North Pole

One hundred miles north of Novaya Zemlya, eight hundred miles from the North Pole, a Layartebian submarine squadron moved through the chillingly cold waters, well above the Arctic Circle. The submarine was a Venom class SSBN, equipped with thirty SLBMs, each with twelve warheads, each independently targetable with 550 kilotons of explosive force. It used much of the same technology as the BGM-218 Luna and was appropriately named the UGM-219 Venom, because that was the vessel that carried it and it was designed specifically for the new vessel. The Venom SSBN and its Hunter SSN escort were both deep, very deep and both of them were moving slowly, too slow for them to be heard on any SONAR sweep, active or passive. They were part of just one of the many Venom Missile Squadrons in the ILN and this was just one of six groups within the VMS. The other five groups were scattered all around the Arctic Ocean and some had these powerful SLBMs while others had SLCMs, mostly Imsdals, up to 234 of them. Some carried the powerful Voodoo missile as well. However, what they all had in common was that none of them was moving in a way or had put itself in a position for detection. Their ultra-quiet and ultra-cool pebble bed nuclear reactors and pumpjet propulsors worked together to make them as quiet as if they were standing still, even if they were moving at 18 knots. Unfortunately, though they could move at 18 knots and still be "tactically silent" the sound of rushing water could give them away. Hunter, Scythe Flight II, Seawolf Flight III, and Virginia SSNs all guarded them, one SSN to an SSBN/SSGN. The twelve submarines, in their six groups, represented one of the largest submarine forces, in terms of destructive power, the world had ever seen. The twelve of them could, effectively, initiate the end of the world with their missiles. It was a tremendous power that all of them had and that none of them took lightly.

That was why, sailing just 100 miles north of Novaya Zemlya, the SSBN group that skulked beneath the oceans at a depth of 1,500 feet, communicated constantly over highly encrypted networks. They used a burst transmitter that was highly sophisticated. Instead of a continuous signal, it sent the signal in bursts, making it almost impossible to track. Since it communicated through a laser burst it was nearly impossible to intercept. The submarine was, in fact, floating its communications buoy, which enabled it to talk to satellites high above while remaining deep. They could remain at their crush depth and still communicate with the satellites above. It was a feature that made the Layartebian submarine force, as classified and unknown as it was, that much more capable. The world understood nothing about the Layartebian submarine force except that it used Virginia SSNs as its attack submarines and Ohios or improved Ohios for its SSBN force. A Layartebian submarine, other than these two, had never surfaced and none of them had ever been seen thus far.

When the buoy reached the surface it was small, too small to see from too far away. A passive SONAR sweep confirmed that no vessels were operating in the waters and when the buoy came close to the surface it initiated an ESM detection sweep. Nothing was within 20 miles, at minimum. That was perfect and the burst transmission was sent as another was received. The buoy, on the surface for no more than a minute, was immediately retracted and it began its descent back towards the submarine. The winch made no noise and it was too small to experience any pressure sounds as it descended through the waves, its signal having already flew down the wire and into the submarine, where radio operators were initiating decryption. Communications to submarines, as well as the rest of the military, were sent using 2048-bit encryption. It would take someone a few centuries to crack it, which guaranteed its integrity and safety. The buoy, painted black to match the ocean connected with the submarine a minute or two later and the Hunter and its Venom were on the move again. A short range transmitter, which didn't have enough power to go very far, sent the signal from the Venom to the Hunter, which was just at the edge of its receiving capabilities. Both submarines decoded the message.

Encrypted Communique

To all submarines operating in sector alpha,

Command has initiated Operation Westerfield.

The communique was short and sweet but it contained data as well. Operation Westerfield was in effect and that meant the submarines would move to different positions for different purposes. There was plenty of time so none of them dared move faster than 5 knots and none came anywhere near the surface, few travelling as shallow as 1,500 feet. Most of them were between 2,000 and 2,200 feet, too deep for them to be detected by anything short of a close aboard active SONAR ping but they listened on their passive SONARs, just to make sure nothing else was out there.

Pushka

22-01-2007, 04:11

OOC: Spiz, please reply to my attack on the Baker and your subs.

RomeW

22-01-2007, 08:42

OOC: I figured I can't ignore this war anymore. Getting too close for comfort.

IC: As frustrating as the war in Koryakia was for Valerius IV, he realized that the proceedings in Yemen were becoming too severe for him not to take notice. Having possessions in the western portion of the country, he worried that the escalation of war in the area would hurt Roman interests in the region and figured the least he could do was ensure that his part of Yemen remained safe. However, the thought crept to his mind about invading to get the other half...

For now, he decided that he would get a hold of Hirgizstani and Cottish officials to figure out their own war plan and make sure that Roman Yemen would be as unaffected as it could be. He also wanted to float the idea of possibly invading Spizanian Yemen because of his own ambitions, provided he would not compromise the situation in Koryakia.

We have sat by watching this war with caution, and have seen that it has escalated to the point where we cannot sit by without taking notice. At this stage, we are declaring neutrality but should Romanian sovereignty be abridged in any way shape or form we will take action accordingly.

Emperor Valerius IV Maderia

We would like to take this opportunity that at no stage do we entertain the notion of interfering with your battle plans or your sovereignty, but we are worried that the war may be affecting our own interests in the region. Therefore, we hope to establish a dialogue where an itinerary can be set up so the dealings, needs and interests of Roman Yemen can be as unaffected as possible. We also wish to offer our assistance in whatever way we can.

Emperor Valerius IV Maderia.

Hirgizstan

22-01-2007, 16:51

OOC: I am getting an error message that reads 'The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters.' when I try to post, very strange. Anyone else getting this? It could be just because I have a quote, I've never encountered it before.

SECRET IC

ENCRYPTED COMMUNIQUE TO ROME

The Commonwealth wishes to stay neutral in this conflict. If long range artillery assisstance is required it shall be provided, but the distance the artillery has to travel over Roman territory is prohibitive.
Once again the Commonwealth re-iterates its neutral status in this matter.

MESSAGE ENDS

Spizania

22-01-2007, 19:46

OOC: Since your agitating for it, il post your parts up now, but i dont like doing this, being as it splits up the RP and makes an already difficult to follow RP even harder to follow.

Baker Island
The North East Facing Surface To Air RADAR warning and fire control systems were mostly inoperable, and almost all of the missiles got through this time, slamming into the already crippled north eastern flank of the island, chewing deeper towards its core, but because of the fact that the direction from which the hordes of enemy missiles was coming from was constant, the fact was that the missiles were impacting already destroyed posistions for the most part, additional casualties were light, but the huge plooms of smoke coming from abandoned structures would make anyone not on the ground think that massive damage had been sustained, infact all that had happened was that the additional damage had broken open a heavy diesel oil tank, which accounted for the vast amount of smoke. But still, the island was starting to suffer serious mechanical stresses across its entire north eastern flank, it could not hold up to it forever.

Operation Golden Hammer
The only thing the subs heard of the depth charges that had been sent to get them was a series of faint explosions that occured miles to the subs aft as they raced along act maximum speed, the Puskhans had clearly fired the weapons at the launch point, without realising how fast the subs could move and the distance they would be able to travel before the missiles reached the launch point, the only accurate location they had for the task forces whereabouts.
Meanwhile the operation was just getting started, every available fast submarine in the pacific fleet was headed for the Baker area, over nineteen from Fleet Command Antarctic alone, it would be the largest Wolf Pack assembled in the long history of the Confederate Navy.

Pushka

22-01-2007, 22:02

OOC: Ah Spiz, problem with your last post. The missiles are guided, I wouldn't have them targeting your already demolished area, please fix that. And for your subs active pinging would detect them, and there is no sub that can outrun a depth charge moving at 70 knots. Plus if your subs were moving at maximum speed they would be very easy to detect. Fix that too please. So far I haven't been god moding infact I was very generous in the casualties your missiles (that were fired outside of their maximum range) impacted on my fleet, how about you give me something too, or my generosity will end.

IC:

Slepoi was looking over reconnaissance report that was laying in a dark grey folder on his desk.

Sonar stations and hydrophone grids have detected over a dozen Spizanian submarines moving towards the Baker. Last time the enemy caught me by surprise, this will never happen again. Sosnov's Tsaplia division has arrived, I'll dispatch about 20 of them to drop PNVMs around our perimeter. The charges will remain dormant until something comes into their pinging range then they will activate and propel towards the target. I have 39 attack subs under my command, I have already issued an order to separate them into 3 wolf packs and establish a 1200 kilometer perimeter around the fleet. They are staying quite and will do so until the enemy comes. If they think they can pull another attack like the last one they are mistaken. Even if they are going at silent speed the minute they open their launch bays there will be a torpedo up their ass.

RomeW

23-01-2007, 00:30

OOC: I am getting an error message that reads 'The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters.' when I try to post, very strange. Anyone else getting this? It could be just because I have a quote, I've never encountered it before.

OOC: Yeah, it's because your post consists of just a quote, even if "the quote" is your own writing. It's probably an anti-spam thing.

Do we have a free trade agreement? I can't recall at this moment.

Spizania

23-01-2007, 01:12

OOC: Your ships cant see where the subs are, pings wont work from 500km away, and depth charges arent guided, they just drop to a certain depth and explode.
And the missiles radar system will just see a huge near homogeneous return from the island, high accuracy targetting is impossible in this situation.
And puskha, those were Shockhound-ER missiles, which are shockhounds lengthened to contain more fuel for greater range.

Pushka

23-01-2007, 02:38

Hawdawg

23-01-2007, 04:49

OOC: Okay I have returned trip unfortunately the hotel I stayed at last week did not provide internet accesss. I will begin the action in the UAE tomorrow. First I would like to know exactly where the fleet you put to sea Spiz is coming from? Second, remember what I said earlier your Military leaders can be suspicious of our training exercise but as far as your forces know its just another useless stomp around in the desert by a neighboring potential enemy. We haven't declared anything thing. When I get the info on your fleet I will work up my post.

-Hawdawg

Cotland

23-01-2007, 14:58

OOC: Don't give me that bullshit. You launched your missiles, they registered on my radar thus I know there your subs were. Second my depth charges are much like those developed by RL Russia. They have active sonar and a motor, after being dropped they ping their target, lock on and propel themselves at it at very, very high speeds (100 knots I think for the one Russia uses). My missiles are guided through VRPB which is a system that combines and analyzes all of the information gathered up by my military. If I can see the target from the satelite, I can lock on to it. Once again don't give me that bullshit, edit your post.
[OOC: Sounds more like a supercavitating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation) torpedo than a depth charge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charge) to me. Possibly an ASW mortar. The safest option would be to use a normal ASW torpedo like the Mark 50 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_50_torpedo) or Sting Ray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_Ray_torpedo) or something though. Just my $0.02.]

Hirgizstan

23-01-2007, 16:23

OOC: Hey Pushka, now there are two of us that still use depth charges. I thought it was only me!

Pushka

23-01-2007, 18:36

[OOC: Sounds more like a supercavitating (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation) torpedo than a depth charge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charge) to me. Possibly an ASW mortar. The safest option would be to use a normal ASW torpedo like the Mark 50 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_50_torpedo) or Sting Ray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_Ray_torpedo) or something though. Just my $0.02.]

OOC: Nah, actually it is a depth charge, atleast thats what the article I read about it called it. But my point is Spiz can't just say that my missiles for examples are unguided if I already said that they are guided, those are my missiles, he has no control over their specs. Same for the depth charges, if I say that they move at 70 knots and can lock on to a target he can't just say they don't do that. If he wants to challenge my technology then he should do so OOCly before he posts bullshit like in his last post.

Spizania

23-01-2007, 19:19

Spizania

23-01-2007, 19:24

OOC:
OOC: Okay I have returned trip unfortunately the hotel I stayed at last week did not provide internet accesss. I will begin the action in the UAE tomorrow. First I would like to know exactly where the fleet you put to sea Spiz is coming from? Second, remember what I said earlier your Military leaders can be suspicious of our training exercise but as far as your forces know its just another useless stomp around in the desert by a neighboring potential enemy. We haven't declared anything thing. When I get the info on your fleet I will work up my post.

-Hawdawg

The fleet has put to sea from the base at Ras Tanura, which is one of the great fortresses of the nation, there are still ships from the Pacific Fleet docked there, waiting to join Golden Hammer when there time comes.
The Military is paranoid, they are surrounded by massively militarised nations with enough firepower to humble a nation several times Spizanias size, and they have just been ordered to maximum readiness following Kreys attempt at empire building, (has Krey dissapeared?), its there job to be suspicious, and the sudden announcement of exercises involving enormous numbers of weapons and soldiers from all branches of your military puts there paranoia instinct into overdrive.

Pushka

23-01-2007, 19:27

OOC:
Puskha, thats a torpedo, not a depth charge, depth charges arent even powered, and only have a depth fuse.
And ofcourse you know where the missiles are launched from, but that shows you where my subs were when they fired, not where they are when the weapons reach them, my subs are moving, and since your sonar cant hope to track them, you cant really engage accurately at these ranges. Your best hope would be to deploy ASW aircraft of somekind, perhaps those flying boats of yours.
And if your missiles are engaging some other part of the island, i need to know more about there flight profile before i can respond.

OOC: The article did call them depth charges, just because they are depth charges does not mean that they have to be like every other depth charge. These ones are different as I have explained, and they do have active and passive SONAR and with your subs moving at top speed they would be very easy to detect from very long ranges. As for my missiles, they target your missile batteries and other installations all over the island thus they fly with an intention of hitting them.

Hirgizstan

23-01-2007, 20:20

OOC: Spiz, what Pushka has described as a 'depth charge' is what they have become in modern times, they are still depth charges. I have them, very similar to Pushka's ones only they are moved by bursts of propellant.

Layarteb

25-01-2007, 04:28

OOC: I am not going to be able to post to this thread until this weekend. The school has blocked me from viewing the forums in NS. Sorry for the delay.

-Hawdawg

OOC: Thieving bastards!

Hawdawg

25-01-2007, 04:32

OOC: I am not going to be able to post to this thread until this weekend. The school has blocked me from viewing the forums in NS. Sorry for the delay.

-Hawdawg

Pushka

25-01-2007, 22:34

OOC: Spiz you gonna edit your post any time soon? I am kind of anxious to finish this RP as fast as possible I got more important things for my nation to be doing.

[NS]Kreynoria

30-01-2007, 14:15

No I have not disappeared, I'm just in D13 mode.

Spizania

17-02-2007, 19:06

Air Defence Command Centre
"Vampire Vampires Vampires, Multiple Inbound Contacts, Inbound Fast, 2 Kilo-Papa-Sierra Plus, High Alt, matches nothing in the database, sounding battlestations-missile-one, all batteries responding, authorisation code black emergeancy, all weapons armed"
"Authorising November-Whiskey-Romeo, Code Charlie-Charlie-Bravo-Niner-Two"
"Confirming November-Whiskey-Romeo, Code Charlie-Charlie-Bravo-Niner-Two"
"Weapons Release Authorised, Weapons Loading, battery firing solutions loaded, Code Black-Zulu alert, Code Black-Zulu Alert, this is not a drill, repeat, this is not a drill"
"Firing in three..... two..... one......"
As the battery commander sat back in his chair and watched the screens showing missiles launching from across the state, he wondered if fate would be kind to him, he had no other choice if he was to preserve the confederacy, but history always hated those who used nuclear weapons, but he comforted himself with the thought that he had done his duty.... and that really had been no other choice but to take this action

Acrosss Spizanian Yemen and Socotra
Hundreds of Nuclear Tipped Surface to Air Missiles roared from retractable launchers, the second they were clear, they began to retract into thier armoured covers, that should shield them from EMPs and most weapnos, these things were designed to survive nuclear war, these cruise missiles would have a hard time knocking out the entire Air Defence Network.
The missiles reached out on trails of flame, as they approached the targets, they went to active guidance, and the many RADAR/LADAR/LIDAR systems that guided them also retracted, hardening them against both EMP and hard strike damage from the inbound missiles.
The warheads detonated in a fast firing sequence, shredding half of the Immsdaal missiles and nearly three quarters of the far slower and easier to hit Voodoos. They detonated at the same altitude as thier targets, and this ensured there would be minimal fallout. They also detonated over either Confederate Land or its Territorial waters, securing the legality of the test.
The remaining missiles could not be stopped, they tore into the targets, knocking out fully half of the CAFs air bases in the region, mostly due to damaged runways, which crews rushed to repair, but several were complete losses due to impacts on critical base buildings, including one that was annihalated when one of the weapons set off the primary munitions dump, detonating cannon ammunition, bomnbs and missiles in a titanic fireball.

The missiles targetted at the Radar and SAM sites had little effect, when retracted the emplacements would have required a small nuclear weapon to effectively damage them. The Concrete and Armour steel that made up thier "cocoons" proving effective against the warheads of the Immsdaals and Voodoos, however several dozen batteries and about eight radar sites were completely annihalated by the hail of warheads, adding another set to the fires burning across the territory on this night.
The Command centres themselves escaped major damage, for they were buried inside mountains and were designed to survive direct hits from nuclear weapons, one was taken off line by a lucky hit to its primary communications conduit, but most survived fully operational.

The Skies of Spizanian Yemen and Socotra
The wings of Hawks approached the enemy fighters preparing to return fire as the swarm of enemy missiles approached, and then the wing commanders heard the November-Whiskey-Romeo code come over the radio, and new that the world had gone completely mad. Then the officer commanding, Wing Commander Reginald Collins, who was a household name in Spizania, after winning the DSO for conscipious gallantry some years ago, during his first tour of duty, realised that the time had come for thier own release event, as the enemy missiles closed, he and all the other Wing Commanders armed thier two AIM-1323X Nuclear Aerial Combat missiles, they programmed the stealthy weapons with target burst locations and set the onboard INS, they deployed the top secret weapons and led the wing onto an opposite course, and lit the reheat, hoping to escape the oncoming horde of missiles, dropping countermeasures as they went.
They had to take this volley, then the eighteen AIM-1323X Missiles would reach the enemy formations, and that would be the end of that threat, whoever survived the blast, would be flying blind, then his formations could swing around and dispatch them....
The Cots had obviously expected the massive radar capabilities of the aerial armada to be useless against thier stealthy fighters, but that was not the case, they did not have good locks, but they had a lock, and that removed the element of surprise.
And there was another thing that would suprise the Cots, the formations of fighters evennow lifting from the surviving airbases, were not all Hawks, there were three other fighter designs appearing on thier radars, SuFB-7 Strike Phoenixes, SuF-8 Wraiths, and more importantly, Soviet Bloc Manufactured F-63s, and even more importantly, they were flying with Soviet Bloc Air Force Transponder codes, captured in a combination of secret diplomatic iniatives and clever ELINT work on the part of Confederate Space Command.
As the missiles closed on the back of the retreating fighter formations, they began to pull automated high gee maneuvres, while releasing chaff, flares, and AMM-1 Dart Point Defence Missiles, unfortunately forty six fighters were lost, with only nineteen of the pilots being recovered alive. But the AIM-1323s would soon reach the lead enemy formations, and they would each detonate with the force of twenty kilotonnes of TNT.
The EMP effects of the eleven Nuclear-Immsdaals that had reached thier targets wiped out large parts of the rural Yemenese Power Grid, but the EMP shielded SAM launchers and retracted RADAR systems prooved nearly invulnerable to the attack. But the Cots had just crossed a line, and they would pay for what they had done.

State of Socotra Socotra

The enemy gunfire had struck down many of the fixed defensive guns, and nearly all of the SAM systems, even a system designed to defend aganist nuclear attacks could not survive sustained fire from 635mm Guns, but luckily the Confederates still possesed a way to strike back.
One artillery company had been relocating at the time the attack had begun, and thus survived the worst of the gunfire, loosing only two 155mm artillery peices and one 203mm MRLS truck. The remaining Cordubo Rapid Firing SPHs all stopped suddenly, elevated thier guns to near maximum elevation and fired one round appeice.
That round was a rocket assisted-AFAP, and over fifty of them were now headed for the Cottish Armada off Socotra that was firing on them. Every combat warship in the attacking fleet was being targetted by one of the ERGM-AFAP projectiles, each yielding 2kT, except for the flagship, which was being hit by two, one at the stern and one at the bow. All the targetting data was provided by Real-time Sat-REcon and Targetting systems, all the gunners had to do was pull the trigger. After firing they abandoned the vehicles and jumped into nearby irrigation ditches, although the flashes should be hidden by the horizon, you can never be too careful with your eyesight, and they huddled while a series of white flashes lit up the sky in the direction of the enemy armada.

Meanwhile, every radio and television transmitter in Yemen, Oman and Socotra switched to known TOA communication frequencies and began channel blasting "Dirrty" by Christina Aguillera, over and over again, on every comm channel, the phase locked broadcast would overwhelm the fighter and vehicle comms of the enemy vehicles, allowing only downward movement of information by radio, hindering the ability of the enemy to react to the fluid Combat Enviroment.
And in the final action for the moment, Battlestations-Nuclear-Missile-1 was sounded across the entirity of the nation, every nuclear weapon available was brought to maximum readiness, and alert bombers were launched from SAC air bases in Antarctica and Puerto Princessa.
This war had gone to the next level, and it was now up to the enemy whether it would end in Armageddon or in another display of sucessful Brinkmanship.

OOC: Sorry that its just a response to Cotland, my post dissapeared half way through so i had to start again, and now my fingers are sore.

Spizania

17-02-2007, 19:21

OOC: Lay, up until the time of detonation, you wont be able to tell them apart from standard Surface to Air Missiles

Layarteb

17-02-2007, 19:22

"Sir. We've got a massive launch detection." The General of the Air Force said as the missiles lifted off. "They've got hundreds in the air right now. We're talking about a lot of power up there. It could be a direct, nuclear exchange against Cottish forces."

The Emperor looked around the room. "Upgrade our forces to Readiness Condition 1. We'll wait to see what the Cottish response will be. We don't want to add any more nuclear yield to an already large exchange. The entire area is going to be irradiated for the next hundred years or more, if it's nuclear. Our forces are to go immediately to condition one. Prepare the sequences. Let's get through to the Cottish on secure channels and we'll see what's going on here. I want to go live to the world in fifteen minutes."

"Yes sir." The Cabinet sprang into action as the Empire's forces went right up to Readiness Condition One. Bombers were put in the air, mobile launchers for ICBMs and IRBMs were activated and moved to their firing positions. Naval forces surged and ballistic missile submarines already at sea were moved into positions to engage the Spizanian forces. The Cottish was sure to respond and they had enough to turn the Spizanian government into cinders. If the Layartebian forces launched, it would caused global catastrophe.

Encrypted Communique
Recipient: Cottish Government
Sender: Empire of Layarteb

We have detect the massive launch and subsequent explosions of nuclear ordinance over the Middle East. We are moving our forces to Readiness Condition One. For now we are holding nuclear release. Please advise.

The Empire

Encrypted Communique
Recipient: Russian Federation
Sender: Empire of Layarteb

Given our turbulent history and our common differences, this is not a plea for better relations. This message, as it may reach you, concerns the actions of the Spizanian government. A nuclear exchange has been witnessed and originated from the Spizanian military. It is imperative that this common enemy be completely and utterly decimated and his ability to wage nuclear war, and war in general, be removed from existence. We do not favor escalating this into a nuclear war but we must be aware of the "nuclear" intentions of the Russian Federation, to prevent this small conflict from becoming global.

The Empire

Layarteb

17-02-2007, 19:32

OOC: Lay, up until the time of detonation, you wont be able to tell them apart from standard Surface to Air Missiles

OOC: Ja this is basically coming after they've detonated since that's a guarantee.

Hirgizstan

17-02-2007, 23:34

OOC: Congrats Spizania, I believe I speak for everyone on E2 when I say...your ass is grass.

IC:

The Fuhrer slammed the report onto the desk so hard he thought it would break. Veins on his hands and face popped out and his cheeks went flush. The military and civilian staff in the room took a visible step backward. It was rare for them to see their Fuhrer so worked up.

He calmed down after a few minutes, re-reading the report and drinking a few glasses of ice water. He turned to the Space Command officer in his smart light-blue dress uniform, "This is accurate and confirmed?" The officer only nodded gravely, before adding, "The Layartebians are talking on our secure channels, the Emperor is not happy and they have moved to RC-1. I suggest that we move to DEFCON-2 and deploy the Dragons and Theatre Defense units."

The Fuhrer nodded. "Put all military forces on immediate alert, be prepared to move to DEFCON one, and ensure we have ERW's (Enhanced Radiation Weapons) loaded and ready for a snap-count." The Space Command Officer nodded, bowed and hurriedly left the room.

The other staff looked nervously to their leader for direction. "Get the Cots and Romans on the secure channels and...dare I say it...get the Russians on aswell. Set up a press conference immediately. I want the whole damn world to know what those bastard Spizanians have done."

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ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Cottish Government
FROM: Commonwealth of Hirgizstan

Have detected large nuclear missile launches and explosions against your forces attacking Spizania. We have absoloutely no indication of their intentions. Our SAAMDS arrays are being shifted slightly to protect all Cottish territory. We have moved to DEFCON Two and are readying ERW's for a possibly snap-count. Please advise.

COMMONWEALTH OF HIRGIZSTAN

END OF COMMUNICATION

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Russian Federation
FROM: Commonwealth of Hirgizstan

We as nations do not have a history of co-operation, but neither have we ever strove to destroy or hurt the world we live in. Both our nations, I would say, have at least one common interest in trying to protect the world from the actions of nations like Spizania.
We did not agree with your attack on their island, but since they have shown their true colors. We ask now that you help us, and other nations, destroy this enemy that threatens not only our existence, but the existence of every other nation on earth.

COMMONWEALTH OF HIRGIZSTAN

COMMUNICATION ENDS

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Roman Empire
FROM: Commonwealth of Hirgizstan

We have detected massive nuclear launches and detonations in the air above Yemen. Given your nations territory has probably been effected we would like to offer our immediate assisstance. We have NEST (Nuclear Emergency Security Teams) and NRCT (Nuclear Response and Clean-up Teams) ready to be deployed if they need be.
Please advise on your situation.

COMMONWEALTH OF HIRGIZSTAN

COMMUNICATION ENDS

Cotland

18-02-2007, 16:53

Gulf of Aden
In the CIC of the battleship commanding Expeditionary Task Force TAMBARSKJELVE, the command staff were busy co-ordinating the effort when the attack occured. The four hundred and sixty meter long battleship, the pride of the Cottish fleet became a lump of molten metal in an instant, the nuclear reactors helping in on the explosive yeald of the two Spizanian nuclear warheads detonated against the ship. The same happened to the other ships attacked. It was as if E.T.F. TAMBASKJELVE ceased to exist.

In the air, the operators inside the AWACS aircraft saw the situation unfold on their displays, and it wasn't good. Firstly, they picked up ARSB transponder codes, something which was completely unexpected and unrealistic. When the Cots tried contacting the alledgedly ARSB aircraft over highly encrypted and secret October Alliance frequencies, they recieved no word, leading them to surmise that this was an enemy ruse after a while. However, by that time, the Cottish squadrons in the air seemed to cease to exist. At just about that exact time, the sensors in the AWACS started going crazy.

"Strålingsalarm!" [Radiation alarm!] The pilots shouted out before calling the home base, an aircraft carrier operating in the Arabian Sea. The situation was deteriorating quickly.

Middle East Defense Command
Jerusalem, Israel

The command center of the Middle East Defense Command (MEDC) had just gone to battle stations when the satellites picked up the nuclear detonations, the situation dawning on the people in the command centre. This was very, very bad.

"Gamma Bravo!" The operator barked into the phone as he picked it up, listening intensely to the report from the Arabian Sea.

"Det er mottatt!" [Copy that!] He said before slamming the phone back. "Vi har bekreftelse fra det Arabiske hav. Alle våre jagerskvadroner har blitt utslettet av kjernefysiske våpen. Admiral Eriksen ber om tillatelse til å besvare ild." [We have confirmation from the Arabian Sea. All our fighter squadrons have been destroyed by nuclear weapons. Admiral Eriksen requests permission to return fire.]

The General in command just nodded before doing what he had dreaded for the entirety of his career. He picked up the red phone that gave him a direct connection to Oslo.

Oslo, Norway
In Oslo, the news of the nuclear attack sent shockwaves through the Cottish High Command, which immediately ordered all Cottish forces to be mobilized. That meant that in the middle of the night, the air raid sirens started howling throughout the country, urging the people to listen to the radio where the National Emergency Broadcast System was coming online, broadcasting the news to the people. So far, details were schetcy, but there were strong indications that Cottish forces had been attacked by weapons of mass destruction. As a result, High Command had ordered the country's defense forces to go to highest alert and for all forces to be mobilized. That meant that throughout the country, reservists were donning their uniforms and equipment and heading for their rendezvous-points, air defenses and the ballistic missile defense systems were placed on highest alert, all aircraft in the air were ordered on the ground, and the Government were forcefully brought from their beds by their security personnel, dragged into the vehicles that waited and brought to the emergency command areas, buried on average six hundred meters below the ground, deep within the granite stone of the Norwegian mountains. It was impossible for any weapons of war to penetrate that deep, ensuring that the leadership survived.

In the bunker, the government convened after fifteen minutes, including the King who was in another bunker with his family, fifty kilometers away, connected to the meeting thanks to the buried fiberoptic communications network. The details were uncertain, but one thing was clear: the Realm had been attacked with Weapons of Mass Destruction, and that thousands of Cottish lives had been lost in the initial attack. The conflict had been non-nuclear up until the point where the Spizanians decided to use nukes, and it was clear that the Realm had to respond. The decision was made shortly thereafter to go to BERSTAT-0 across the board, a readiness condition never before ascended to, and to make a limited nuclear response. It wasn't worth completely destroying the world, but the Realm needed to make their dismay known.

ICBM Complex 521
The ICBM complex deep within the Norwegian mountains recieved the launch order shortly thereafter, with the launch codes and target packages being downloaded via encrypted datalink. The two officers, both well trained and highly loyal to the Realm and the command authority, cold-sweated as they entered the target package to the warheads and the launch codes into the computer. At the count of three, both men turned their keys simultaniously, beginning the process.

The first stage consisted of the computer uplinking with the command authority in a highly secret camp well outside Oslo, where the launch orders, codes and target package was authenticated. Five seconds later, the reply came that the Prime Minister, Defense Minister and, more importantly, the King had authorized the launch and that everything was correct. This started the next stage, which was the actual launch preperations. The umbilicals that had fed the data to the missiles were severed, the missiles were raised slightly, and the two meter thick reinforced concrete and steel silo doors slided open to reveal the ominous black nose of the LGM.37/A Hades intercontinental ballistic missile.

The 205. Strategic Missile Squadron of the 2. Strategic Missile Wing, 1. Strategic Missile Group had been ordered to release its seven of its fifteen LGM.37/A Hades missiles towards the Spizanian holdings in Yemen, primarily at the locations where the weapons fired against the Cots had been fired from, but not only there. It was certain to be sufficient to destroy the targets and send the message to the Spizanians that they better stop shooting now, or they'd face complete and utter destruction.

The third stage of the launch sequence was the actual launch. All Cottish ICBMs were designed for cold-launch, meaning that they were shot into the air by pressurized air, not igniting its solid-fueled booster until it was clear of the silo. It was a system that had been tested to perfection, and it worked again when it was needed. The three stages propelled the missile to a speed of 24,300 kilometers per hour, sending it into a ballistic trajectory where the ten MIRVs of each missile seperated from the missile along with a number of decoys and jammers, giving the Spizanian air defense network a great number of potential incoming targets to try to filter out as the seventy MIRVs started re-entering the planet's atmosphere, moving in at a very steep angle and at extremely high speeds. It would require a direct impact to kill the MIRV, but it would be next to impossible to manage to intercept the warheads.

As the weapons were heading towards Spizania, the Cots finally broke their silence.

Encrypted Communiqué
Recipient: Empire of Layarteb, Commonwealth of Hirgizstan
Sender: Realm of Cotland

Massive casualties in the Gulf of Aden confirmed. Enemy achieved total surprise. Have gone to BERSTAT-0 and initiated a limited nuclear response towards the military targets that launched the nuclear weapons towards our forces. We shall not let this act of hostility go unpunished. Should Spizania respond further with WMDs, we see no other option than the complete and utter destruction of the Spizanian nation. In such an event, we will appreciate assistance in the destruction of Spizania. AABMS batteries at highest alert, ready to intercept possible Spizanian incoming.

The Realm

Encrypted Communiqué
Recipient: Russian Federation
Sender: Realm of Cotland

As you may know, Spizania has inititated a unwarranted nuclear attack against the forces of the Realm. This act of hostility cannot go unpunished, and the Realm had therefore initiated a limited nuclear response against Spizania. This attack is not, repeat not directed against the Russian Federation. Our relations has as of lately improved substantially, and we would appreciate any assistance the Russian Federation may offer against our common Spizanian foe. We await your reply.

The Realm

Official Communiqué
Recipient: The World
Sender: Realm of Cotland

The Realm has been subjected to an unwarranted nuclear attack from Spizanian forces, an attack that is completely unjustified. The Realm was engaged in conflict with Spizania, a conflict that was conventional in nature until Spizania fired the first nuclear weapons against our forces. This attack cannot go by without retaliation, and we have therefore initiated a limited nuclear response towards Spizania. This response is not repeat not directed against civilian population centers at this time, only towards the military targets responsible for the unwarranted nuclear attack upon the Realm.

We demand that Spizania surrenders and extradite those responsible for the nuclear attack. We further demand restoration for the damages sustained in this conflict. The penalty for failure to comply with this demand will be severe. However, the Realm pledges not to release any further nuclear weapons unless we are further attacked with such weapons. This means that the outcome of this situation rests solely on Spizania's shoulders.

To the Spizanian leadership, we have only this to say: The outcome of this conflict rests on you. Should you launch further nuclear weapons against the Realm, we will begin engaging strategic targets. On the other hand, should you wish peace, the Realm is willing to talk instead of shooting. Choose wisely, for the world is watching.

The Realm

Hawdawg

18-02-2007, 17:03

Stockhlom, Sweden
Bunker Complex 629-Blue

Prime Minister Wells sat stunned by the revelation that another government had done the unthinkable, they had gone nuclear. It was clear from the Intel spread out on the large conference table before him the Spizanians had launched some sort of tactical nuclear weapons on Cottish Forces and the bulk of these weapons had orginated from Yemen. Prime Minister Wells rose from his chair and addressed the Joint Cheifs of Staff in his presence.

"Men it is with great sorrow that I concur with you that the Nation of Spizania has launched Nuclear Weapons at our ally Cotland. First I would ask that we contact the Cottish DoD via our secure channel and ask if they need any immediate assistance in the nuclear fallout area. We have a few unattached NBC units in our Bases in Iran that could be air dropped into Cottish territory to assist if need be. Second, I wish to formally request we consider Protocol 3. All be it in, limited terms."

Marine Commandant Gregory Tilly rose to address the Prime Minister.

"Sir, with all due respect Protocol 3 was crafted with defense in mind sir, not offensive operations. We kept our nuclear arsenal as a detterent not an offensive weapon system. If we unleash a rain of ICBM's on Spizanian territory, Yemen will become uninhabitable for years."

"I realize this Commandant. What I am suggesting is an altering of policy. I suggest we shift our secondary ABM system to protect Cottish Territories in the Middle East. This would offer some protection from further attack. We already have our ABM system covering the home territories and remember our ABM system is online with the EOL, Hirgizstian, and North Germanian systems so we in effect have quadruple redundancy at home. The real threat in this action is the exposure of territories in the Middle East. Africa has its own set of defenses but not Israel, Lebanon, Saudi, etc. We can retask our satellites to effectively reduce the ability of further nuclear launches.

I plan to move our forces into Spizanian territory today. When the sun sets in the desert we will begin operations. I have set 9pm as the GO time for SAND FLEA. The commanders on the ground have been informed that Spizanian Forces are quite ready to use nuclear weapons in this conflict so the NBC units attached to each Division will be ready to deal with this. All along our border the Spizanian Military has dug in tanks and established several defensive positions to thwart our advance. We have taken steps to render these defenses useless. Gentlemen prepare your staff, for we are about to embark on a journey in which we will erase a nation from existence."

Prime Minister Wells dismissed his Staff and quietly sat studying the maps of Spizanian UAE, soon Hawdawg would become entangled in the web of war. A war that was getting uglier everyday.

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Encrypted Communication

To: Cotland, Layarteb, Hirgizistan, Pushka

We plan to launch a full-scale invasion of Spizanian UAE tonight at 9pm. We will begin with a aerial assault of all AA and defensive positions along the border. We have also repositioned our ABM system to accomidate coverage of the Arabian Pennisula. We do not plan to use nuclear weapons at this time, but reserve the right to adjust this policy. We would like to state for the record the gloves are now off in this conflict.

Signed,

Gordon Wells Prime Minister Holy Republic of Hawdawg

Layarteb

18-02-2007, 20:08

The MIM-196 AABMS was a highly effective anti-missile system but it was primarily made for interecepting ballistic missiles, not surface-to-air missiles, which had a much more limited range and did not follow any ballistic trajectory, which would leave them vulnerable to interception by kinetic energy warheads. Surface-to-air missiles were much more dangerous and much less powerful. An AABMS site was a large and costly site but it was mobile and amongst the most advanced missile defense site. Each site cost $347.53 million and it came equipped with 90 missiles, at the ready, and 180 stowed. It would be able to launch three, full salvos, ten minutes apart, and each of those salvos had a guaranteed hit rate of 93.88%. That would put eighty-four and a half hits out of ninety launches. It was quite an impressive system but, as such, it could be easily overwhelmed and its range of action was limited. It was a point defense system, not meant to area protection and, as such, it was deployed around strategic targets such as ICBM bases, airfields, capitals, and command centers, amongst other things. Each site was comprised of fifty-eight vehicles, eighteen towed vehicles, and two hundred and thirty-four personnel with four of those being officers. C-5M Galaxy's and C-29A Titans would transport up to twelve individual sites to Cottish territories in Israel and Egypt, where a Spizani strategic attack would occur, if anywhere. Aircraft would fly in staggered groups across the well-defended North Atlantic, through the Med, and into Egypt and Israel, where the supplies and sites would be offloaded. Cottish command requested defense around the canal and around the major cities: Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo, and Amman, as well as other places. They would be kept secret, the aircraft flying in and landing at night, offloading inside of hangars, and moving during the night only. Camouflaged, they would be hard to spot from the air and from satellites. It was a sound plan and the twelve sites could be easily moved into position without any advanced knowledge of such.

In Layartebian bases in Iran, Turkey, Libya, Greece, Ethiopia, and Eritrea were put on high alert. Air defense sites protecting the airbases were already active and prepared. Now that REDCON 1 had been established, all forces were preparing for a full counter-attack. The launch sites had been spotted and targetted through satellites but, unfortunately, the Cottish had beat the Layartebians to that and a retaliatory strike was underway, a nuclear strike. This conflict would only further escalate, the government knew. It was no stranger to the effects of nuclear weapons. Grenada was devestated by a 5 kiloton bomb. Hundreds of kilotons were hitting Yemen and the region. Radiation spread would effect civilians living 200 miles away. It seemed, almost surreal, that none of the parties paid any attention to the after effects of nuclear weapons. They only looked towards their short-term goals, which was the defeat of an attack. They ignored wind shift patterns, which could blow dangerous quantities of radiation either way.

The Cottish fleet had been sunk and devestated. Their aircraft were gone. Their attack was thwarted. Despite being hardened against EMP, the Voodoo and Imsdal missiles couldn't withstand the blast of a nuclear explosion, no weapon system could. That was why the Layartebian fleet was on heightened alert. Ships within the area were preparing for their own launches and their own operations when the initial strike took off. The strike was small, surgical, and conventional. A flight of B-9C Sphinx bombers based in Libya and the Nicobar Islands were to be the strike tool and they would fire from well within protected territory. Each bomber was loaded with twenty-four Imsdal cruise missiles and there were sixteen bombers. The missile strike would consist of three hundred and eighty-four missiles and they were all pre-programmed to accept a new flight profile. With their 1,000 mile range, the Ismdal missiles would be more than enough to thoroghly destroy their targets from afar. Of the missiles, three hundred were the "A" versions, equipped with 1,200 pound penetrator warheads. The remaining eighty-four were equipped with fragmentation warheads, each warhead containing 58,825 10mm Depleted Uranium spheres, these being the "C" versions.

Optimized to fly at night, the B-9s, stealthier than the B-2 Spirit, would take off in the dead of night, as planes were landing in Egypt and Israel. They would fly east and launch their missiles towards forty-two radar sites and thirty-three command sites, across Yemen and Oman. Because of the new flight-profile, the bombers would have to fly very high to launch their missiles and, as such, they would climb to 65,000 feet to launch their weapons. Flying subsonic, maximizing their stealth, they would be able to slip into their launch corridors while, the whole time, flying strictly over friendly airspace or guarded airspace. Loaded with fuel, their weapons just internal, the bombers would be sleek and have minimal amounts of drag, allowing them a supersonic escape.

Just after one in the morning, the bombers launched their missiles from positions over the Indian Ocean, Ethiopia, and Sudan. They turned hard, right around, hundreds of hundreds of miles from Spizani territories, and lit their afterburners. When they were out of an interception corridor, they turned off the afterburners, slowed down, and slipped back into their total stealth mode. It was because of this that they would fly in deceiving patterns off their targets, flying the proper ways completely under stealth conditions. The three hundred and eighty-four missiles tore upwards, into the sky, levelling off at 120,000 feet. They would cruise to their targets at Mach 4, using up very little power and staying as stealthy as any supersonic missile could. When they went terminal, they would dive on their targets, achieving descent angles of 85° to 90°, which was specially programmed. Diving at Mach 7, they would be almost impossible to intercept and, because they were not like ballistic missiles, they were much more difficult to intercept. If a nuclear launch was used to defeat them, the explosion would be over the targets, rendering them useless through EMP and blast waves. It was a surgical strike, to try to dissuade the Spizanian government from further launching nuclear missiles but whether or not it would work was a gamble.

Cotland

18-02-2007, 20:39

[OOC: Spiz, just one little detail I forgot to point out in my post, and I'm too lazy to edit. All Cottish nuclear weapons are so-called "clean" weapons, meaning that they give a radiation of only approximately 2 % of their yeald. So, in the case of the 500 KT MIRV, it will only provide radiation equivalent of a 10 KT weapon. Just so you factor that into your post whenever you reply.]

Pushka

18-02-2007, 21:53

OOC: Once again Spiz I ask you to edit your post on the previous page to include realistic damage from my missiles to your Baker Island positions.

Pushka

18-02-2007, 21:59

Aden, Yemen

21 Flotilas and 10 Podnaya Divizias have made their way to the new Federation territory in Yemen and docked at the port of Aden. The numerous large transport ships the Flotilas were in the process of unloading 68080 troops of the 7th Gvardia and 200460 troops of the 15th Army. The machinery and equipment as well as logistical troops were being unloaded as well, Russian Federation came to Yemen to stay, whenever they would make moves against Spizanian possessions in Yemen was yet to be seen.

Pushka

18-02-2007, 22:06

Encrypted Communiqué
Recipient: Russian Federation
Sender: Realm of Cotland

As you may know, Spizania has inititated a unwarranted nuclear attack against the forces of the Realm. This act of hostility cannot go unpunished, and the Realm had therefore initiated a limited nuclear response against Spizania. This attack is not, repeat not directed against the Russian Federation. Our relations has as of lately improved substantially, and we would appreciate any assistance the Russian Federation may offer against our common Spizanian foe. We await your reply.

The Realm

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Realm of Cotland
FROM: Russian Federation

We agree that Spizania is a threat to humanity as we have been stating for some time now. The ease with which they employ nuclear weapons in conventional warfare is very alarming. Position of our government is that it is our responsibility to remove this threat from the face of the earth. Once our troops in Yemen are ready we will be able to strike against the Spizanian positions with both precision aerial and ground attacks. At the same time both of our Arctic Fleets are getting ready to attack Spizanian holdings in Antarctica, we would appreciate your help in that campaign.

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Russian Federation
FROM: Commonwealth of Hirgizstan

We as nations do not have a history of co-operation, but neither have we ever strove to destroy or hurt the world we live in. Both our nations, I would say, have at least one common interest in trying to protect the world from the actions of nations like Spizania.
We did not agree with your attack on their island, but since they have shown their true colors. We ask now that you help us, and other nations, destroy this enemy that threatens not only our existence, but the existence of every other nation on earth.

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Commonwealth of Hirgizstan
FROM: Russian Federation

Yes we do agree that the Spizanians are too much of a threat to humanity to be tolerated any longer. Very soon we will be ready to launch attacks on Spizanian holdings in Yemen from our newly acquired territories in the region. We have consent from Cotland and now we have it from you, as soon as our forces are ready we will attack Spizanian positions in Yemen, at the same time our Arctic fleet is gearing up to attack his lands in Antarctica, a campaign for which we would appreciate your assistance.

Encrypted Communication

To: Cotland, Layarteb, Hirgizistan, Pushka

We plan to launch a full-scale invasion of Spizanian UAE tonight at 9pm. We will begin with a aerial assault of all AA and defensive positions along the border. We have also repositioned our ABM system to accomidate coverage of the Arabian Pennisula. We do not plan to use nuclear weapons at this time, but reserve the right to adjust this policy. We would like to state for the record the gloves are now off in this conflict.

Signed,

Gordon Wells Prime Minister Holy Republic of Hawdawg

Message to: Holy Republic of Hawdawg

We are prepared to move a total of 20000 troops as well as several hundred pieces of machinery into position to assist you as well as a total of 600 Lu-25 jet fighters that can be put into air in a matter of hours, we are also prepared to start a strategical bombing campaign. Our assistance will grow substantially with time.

Hirgizstan

18-02-2007, 23:48

ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATION
TO: Russian Federation
FROM: Commonwealth of Hirgizstan

As you probably know an Antarctic attack would be tricky, but doable nonetheless. What we worry about is how the Spizanians might respond in an area with little or no population, they might be forced into using nuclear weapons yet again in an area that simply does not need that sort of pollution.
Once we have figured out an entire attack plan in concert with our other allies, we will be able to more surely inform you which forces will be able to assisst you in Antarctica.

COMMONWEALTH OF HIRGIZSTAN

COMMUNICATION ENDS

Cotland

19-02-2007, 13:54

Encrypted Communiqué
Recipient: Russian Federation
Sender: Realm of Cotland

We agree that the current Spizanian leadership and its offensive potential must be eradicated from the face of the Earth. Furthermore, the Realm will back a Russian offensive against Spizania on the ground in Yemen, but we humbly request that no further weapons of mass destruction are employed unless it is completely necessary. The Yemeni region is already contaminated for a few decades into the future, and we would hate for it to be further contaminated.

With regards to an offensive in Antarctica, we recommend that this be avoided unless absolutely necessary. We have to assume that the Spizanian foe will employ nuclear weapons in this region of the world as well, weapons which almost surely will cause unrepairable damage to the delicate eco-system in the Antarctican continent. This is something which must be avoided at all costs.

As per the current situation, the Realm cannot provide any substantial forces to assist in a Antarctican campaign, save for a few submarines and long-range cruise missiles. Our focus must be on the defense of our own territory, as we still have no idea how the Spizanian leadership will respond to our retaliatory strike. We hope you understand our seniments.
.

Pushka

20-02-2007, 03:35

Encrypted Communication
To: Realm of Cotland
From: Russian Federation

We agree, WMDs are only to be used then necessary, we do not at all share Spizanian sentiment in relation to the quick-paced use of our nuclear arsenal. We appreciate your support of our troops on the ground in Yemen. However a campaign against Antarctica will have to be carried out at some point since a large portion of Spizanian population and surely many of Spizanian nuclear missile silos are located in that region. The danger is too great, we can not allow use of any more nuclear devices by the Spizanians, I hope that notion is common ground for both our nations.

Spizania

21-02-2007, 13:56

Confederate Air Force Space Command Central Control Centre, Antarctica

"Launch Warning, seven missiles, location, known ICBM base in Cotland,"
"Trigger Bravo-Papa Constellations, and get me the Chief of SMC"
"Brilliant Pebble Systems responded, they have acquired the targets, targets deploying MIRVs, Bravo-Papa strike underway...... strike complete"
"How many did we hit?"
"Unknown sir, the debris is clouding the radar, we should know any time now.... i have it, nineteen weapons destroyed, that leaves..... fifty-one bearing on targets"
"Where are they bearing for?"
"Computers just finished the computations, it looks like air defence bases in Yemen, must be thier idea of a proportional response,"
"Proportional Response? Whats the casualty projection?"
"Just coming through now.... assuming the missiles all reach and explode over the targets at optimum airburst altitudes........ fifty million civillian dead"
"Fifty Million?"
"Yes Sir"
"Get me a line to Peurto Princessa, prepare to detonate Orange-Charlie"
Such an order had never been given, Orange-Charlie was what the Confederate Military had spent the majority of its sat launching abilities producing, while everyone built up overpowered SDI networks, they had built up a small netowrk and the means to render all sattelites useless. For Orange Charlie was a complex of large sattelites designed to do one thing and one thing alone.... to cause a massive orbital cascade which would render all space at or below GEO useless for months, ofcourse GEO would be free of the slowly descending debris cloud in a few weeks, but any launchers rising throguh the lower altitudes would be completely destroyed in minutes, preventing them from reaching the safe areas until the cloud had entirely burned up in the atmosphere.
Within twenty minutes, all low earth orbit altitude sattelites would be destroyed, and within about twelve hours, that destruction would have spread to GEO, nothing could stop it. Nothing.
It would also prevent the use of true highflying ICBMs, but not the lower flying Quasi-ballistic missiles that made up the Confederacies tiny ballistic missile arm.

Yemen
The SAM batteries being targetted knew that they could not hope to survive the explosions, so they opened up and emptied entire volleys of HIBOLAAS missiles into the sky, together they destroyed another seven warheads, but the last forty-four weapons obliterated the batteries and the surrounding countryside, destroying everything four several miles in every direction.... and snuffing out the lives of forty milion Confederate Citizens... As Emergeancy Services rushed to try and save as many people as they can. Readiness was kept at the highest level, bombers were fueled by tankers on rotation, msisiles were kept warm and ready to fire. This war had just gone to the next level. The TOA had revealed themselves to be butchers, willing to do anything to destroy the last resistance to thier dominance.

CAF-SC Control Centre
"Detonating Orange-charlie in five.... four....... three...... two....... one..... Detonation in progress...... Detonation Complete, debris cloud is not visible from ground, they will never be able to see it coming"
The dozens of sattelites in preselected orbits detonated, filling the sky with fast moving ball bearings that would obliterate all the sattelites they contacted and turn the remains of them into more debris.... The Orbital Cascade had begun.

Cotland

21-02-2007, 18:03

Somewhere in southern Norway

”Fienden er tilintetgjort. Estimerer at cirka sytti prosent av våre stridsvåpen kom gjennom fiendens forsvarsverker. Estimerer fiendtlige tap til mellom cirka tretti til femti millioner døde.” [Enemy destroyed. Estimating approximately seventy percent of our weapons penetrated enemy defenses. Estimating enemy casualties to between approximately thirty to fifty million dead.] The neutral voice of the Air Force General in charge of the High Command said, speaking over the encrypted fiberoptic communications network that linked the cabinet and King with the High Command and thus the outside world. Then, the Spizanians hit back. The General’s voice disappeared for a short while before returning, still speaking in a cool voice.

“Fienden har slått tilbake. Informasjonen er fremdeles lite tilgjengelig, men det ser ut som om de har angrepet våre og alle andres satellitter i eller under geo-synkront omløp, eller i alle fall forsøkt seg på dette. Vi holder fortsatt på å analysere dette.” [The enemy has retaliated. Intel is still sketchy, but it appears that they’ve attacked our and everyone elses satellites in or below geosynchronous orbit, or at least tried to. We're still analysing the problem.]

”Kan vi slå tilbake på noen som helst vis?” [Can we retaliate in any way?] Prime Minister Rothsky asked, several of the other ministers nodding as they listened carefully for the answer the highest-ranking officer, save for the King of course, in the Realm gave.

”Ikke med våre silo-baserte kjernefysiske våpen eller andre ballistiske våpen. Det er ikke å anbefale da det vil få verdens befolkning mot oss. Med konvensjonelle våpen, ja. Dersom jeg skulle anbefale et motangrep ville jeg anbefalt et massivt konvensjonelt angrep på alle gjenværende Spizaniske kommandosentre og forsvarssentre. Vi har ifølge mine kollegaer her i Overkommandoen en del ubåter innenfor rekkevidde av alle fiendens kommandosentre, spesielt det i Puerto Princessa som vi tror at fiendens motangrep oppsto.” [Not with our silo-based nuclear weapons or other ballistic weapons. It isn't recommended as it would bring the world's population against us. With conventional weapons, yes. If I were to recommend a counterattack, I would recommend a massive conventional attack on all remaining Spizanian command centres and defensive positions. According to my colleagues here in the High Command, we have a number of submarines within striking range of all enemy command centres, especially that in Puerto Princessa where we estimate that the enemy counterattack originated.]

“Da beordrer jeg deg til å gjøre nettopp det. Men som sagt, bare konvensjonelle våpen. Jeg vil ikke benytte meg av flere kjernefysiske våpen dersom jeg kan unngå det. I mellomtiden vil jeg at Regjeringen skal sende et kommuniké til Spizania der vi krever deres umiddelbare kapitulasjon, ellers vil vi begynne å angripe sivile mål, der hovedstaden deres er først på listen.” [Then that’s what I’m ordering you to do. But as I've said before, conventional weapons only. I don’t want to have to use more nuclear weapons if I can avoid it. In the meanwhile, I want the Cabinet to send Spizania a communiqué where we’re demanding their immediate surrender, otherwise we’ll start targeting civilian targets with their capital on top of the list.] The King said, pitching in for the first time in a while.

”Javel Herre Konge.” [Yes my King.] Both the General and the Prime Minister said before getting to their tasks.

North Pacific Ocean
1,400 kilometres from Puerto Princessa

Underneath the sea, the Havoc class guided missile-carrying submarine S-737 received the new orders less than twenty minutes later. The message was received from the thin communications antenna the submarine raised to the surface in irregular intervals to receive new orders and piped down into the cramped communications room directly behind the Combat Information Center (CIC or conn). Standard practice was to go to a heightened state of readiness whenever a message was received, but the ship was already at BERSTAT-0, the highest alert possible which indicated that the Realm was involved in a nuclear exchange, so there wasn’t any higher alert to go to. Nevertheless, the two senior-most officers when ignoring the Commanding Officer and the Executive Officer proceeded to the communications room to fetch the message before heading for the safe where the authentication passwords lay. Each official message the ship received had a six-letter password on top of it which was to match the password in the sealed envelope the officers fetched. If it didn’t, then the message was a fake and to be disregarded. If however the passwords matched, then the message was authentic and its orders to be followed.

The S-737 carried in its twenty-four massive launch tubes a grand total of one hundred and sixty-eight UGM.6 Imsdal long-range SCRAMjet-equipped cruise missiles with seven missiles in each tube, of which four of the missiles were of the type UGM.6/F, which carried a W-19 350-kiloton tactical nuclear warhead. The rest of the missiles were of the type UGM.6/A, which carried a 544-kilogram advanced unitary penetrator warhead, basically a powerful shaped high-explosive warhead; UGM.6/B, which carried 240 BLU-123 IISM thermite plasma submunitions; and UGM.6/C, which carried 58,825 depleted uranium spheres which were ten millimetres in diameter each. One hundred of the /A version, forty of the /B version and twenty-four of the /C version, in addition to the four /F versions. This was the standard loadout for the Havoc Flight I class submarine, and a powerful one at that. It enabled the Cots to hit targets up to 1,600 kilometres away with great efficiency.

The password check was conducted in front of the Commanding Officer and the Executive Officer in the slightly raised command area in the conn, and it was determined that the message was authentic. It instructed the submarine to immediately ascent to the launch depth of twenty meters and fire its one hundred UGM.6/As and twenty-four UGM.6/Cs towards the Spizanian military installations in Puerto Princessa before submerging again and resuming its patrol. The orders were relayed, and before long, the 175 meter long, 13.5 meter wide and 22,000 ton heavy submarine rose to twenty meters from its relatively safe depth of five hundred and fifty meters and started the launch procedure after making sure the surrounding waters and airspace was clear.

At exactly thirty-nine minutes after the Spizanian attack on the world’s satellites, the Cots retaliated (again) with a salvo of one thousand UGM.6/A Imsdals and two hundred and forty UGM.6/C Imsdals fired from ten of the sixteen Havoc class SSGNs from Submarine Strike Group 14, assigned to the Cottish 5th Fleet. They streaked to the skies in clouds of smoke generated from the boosters, which were dropped off fifty-six kilometres into the flight, allowing for the SCRAMjet to kick in and propel the missiles further towards the skies. The gray-painted missiles reached their cruising altitude of forty-five thousand meters, which was just shy of their maximum cruising altitude of forty-five thousand, seven hundred meters, streaking towards the enemy targets at Mach 4, being as stealthy as they could be. It would be difficult for enemy air defenses to take out the targets this high up, and if they tried their nuke tactic again, it would not only agitate the UER which surrounded the Spizanian enclave at Puerto Princessa, but also make them detonate the nukes over their own territory, causing only suffering for themselves. When the missiles would reach their targets, the missiles would enter a very steep dive in angles of between eighty-five and ninety degrees at speeds of Mach 7. It would be very difficult for the Spizanians to avoid the bombardment that was to follow.

Official Communiqué
Recipient: Spizanian Commonwealth
Sender: Realm of Cotland

The Realm demands the immediate surrender of the Spizanian war machine and the deconstruction of the Spizanian weapons of mass destruction. Additionally, we demand compensation for the lives lost at the hands of the cowardly Spizanian attack with unconventional weapons in a completely conventional war. The Spizanian willingness to resort to WMDs is disturbing, and the Realm cannot allow for such an event which occurred in the Gulf of Aden to repeat itself again. If Spizania adheres to this message and surrenders, we guarantee that no further harm will come to the Spizanian nation from the hands of the Realm or its allies. There will be no military occupation of Spizania by the Realm.

Failure to comply with this message however will force the Realm to shift its attention from military targets to other strategic targets, beginning with the Spizanian capital. We will destroy your cities, one at the time, until you surrender.

We do however make it very certain that the Realm will not employ further weapons of mass destruction unless we are attacked with such again.

You have one hour to comply with the terms of this communiqué before we start levelling your cities.

- The Realm

Pushka

21-02-2007, 18:44

OOC: Spiz, if you keep ignoring my demands of you taking due damage at the Baker I WILL bring Lay and Mari into this, they're mods and you're godmodding, stop godmodding before the mods get you.

Hirgizstan

21-02-2007, 19:32

OOC: Talking of GMing...can you explain this satellite cascading...Orange-Charlie crap...you barely explained it. I'm not willing to concede a single satellite until I know more, because it sounds dodgy above half to me, and if it is launched by satellites itself, well I can easily destroy those with SAAMDS. So explain please and respond to Pushka, sharpish if you please.

Spizania

21-02-2007, 21:08

OOC: Basically the sats are a giant bomb, packed with HpNC (HeptaNitroCubane) and ball bearings, the bombs explode and spray ultrahigh speed ball bearings across the orbital path on which the sattelite was travelling before detonation.
Sattelites plow into this cloud and are torn to shreds, the debris from that sattelite is added to the cloud of debris, and so on, until the entire orbital corridor has been cleared of operational sats, as they have been destroyed and subsumed into the cloud. The cloud ofcourse looses momentum thanks to the fact that the colllisions arent perfectly elastic, the cloud therefore slowly descends from tis starting point, until it reaches the atmosphere and burns up. This process takes anything from a few days for LEO to a few months for alttitudes up to GEO.

IC:

The impacts tore into Baker island and rended stell plates from the hull tossing them across the skyline of the facility and dumping them mostly into the sea, but occasional peices landed on the island itself, crushing fuel lines and power conduits, and causing numerous secondary fires and explosions, the structure of the island self was groaning as structural members, weakened by fire, snapped and groaned. The island could not take much more of this before it started to break apart.

OOC: And where the hell is Krey anyway?

Hirgizstan

21-02-2007, 22:26

OOC: I guess that armored shielding on my SAAMDS Modules and Satellites will finally come in handy after all. (And before you say anything, the armored shields were conceived ages ago to deal with the debris of anti-sattellite missiles destroyed before they hit the satellite. The debris would have surrounded the satellite and caused major damage even if it didn't directly hit, thus the satellite can essentially 'close' itself in armor when it detects floating debris in its GESO flight path.)

IC:

For a few minutes TV reports and some TV channels across the Commonwealth, and the world at large, went dead, the screen fading to black and white fuzziness before the stations kicked back in off other relays. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of satellites above the earth in Geo-Synchronous Orbit had been destroyed by a cascade explosion weapon in space.

Satellites hit fell to earth all over the place, causing huge fires in the upper atmosphere as they burned up, finally dropping into the atmosphere as molten pieces of metal and falling all over the place. In the Commonwealth alone over 24 people had already been killed by falling debris and at least 26 satellites had been downed.

The public outcry, already driven to near breaking point by the Spizanians use of nuclear weapons, simply boiled over. People beseiged local Government and national Government buildings demanding justice. The international situation itself was threatening to boil over aswell, as every single state on earth had been affected by the use of the cascade weapon. The cost would be in the billions, perhaps trillions when loss of property and other factors were considered.

For days Congress had debated what to do, while the Fuhrer sat and watched the situation unfold. He had the power to overule Congress, and people were urging him to do so, but as soon as the cascade attack was reported, Congress sat in emergency session, authorising the Fuhrer to conclude a 'Declaration of War' against the Confederate States of Spizania.

Within the hour the 9th Fleet, at anchor in Eritrea, had moved out of port. It had thousands of missiles loaded and ready to be fired. A final ultimatum was given to the Spizanians within a few hours of the Fleet leaving port.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION
TO: Spizania
FROM: COH

You have one single day (24 hours) to stand all combat forces down and to begin dismantling your NBC/WMD's. If you do not comply fully and without argument of any kid, the Commonwealth will kill every single Spizanian in Yemen. Any attempts at pre-emptive or retaliatory strikes against the COH will result in more destruction than you as a country could ever imagine. We wiped Abu-Dhabi off the face of the earth in a matter of hours, remember that when considering this ultimatum. There will be no negotiation.

COMMUNICATION ENDS

COH

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COH LOSSES:
Civilians: 24 (and counting)
Satellites: 26 EMP Satellites, 45 Military Sattelites, 7 SAAMDS Sattelites, 24 Civilian Satellites, Massive Damage to COH Orbital Space Research Station
Cost: Over $400 Billion (and counting)

Spizania

21-02-2007, 22:39

ooc: Alhough im not too sure your armoured sattelites can withstand ball bearings at the speeds involved, i assume your orbital recon and radar capability for tracking stuff on the ground or in the air is pretty much gone?

Pushka

21-02-2007, 22:48

OOC: Alright finally, that is all I asked.

IC:

Official Communication

From: Russian Federation
To: Spizania

I am sure you know of the effects our missile attacks have had on the Island of Baker and its inhabitants. This is our final ultimatum on that issue, you are to surrender the island without battle, and remove your military personnel from the said location. Failure to comply within next 24 hours will mean complete destruction of the island and untimely death of all your citizens on it. The choice is up to you.

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Voronej, Kremlin

"Господин Президент Спизанцы атаковали наши спутники."
[Mr. President Spizanians attacked our satellites.]

Stepanov's aid said as he entered the room.

"Я слышал, они всех атаковали. А наша система защиты?"
[I've heard, they attacked everyone. What about our defense network?]

"Не сработала, они не использовали ракеты."
[Didn't work, they didn't use missiles.]

"Хмм, скажи войскам штоб переходили на второстепеную систему, по идее они уже дожны были это сделать. Скажи секретарше штоб свезала меня с главнокомандующим нашими войсками в Йемене."
[Hmm, tell the armies to switch to the secondary system, they should have done that by now. Tell my secretary to connect me with the Commander of our forces in Yemen]

The aid left the room, Stepanov fell back in his chair putting his fist against his chin.

"Ну штож господа, будем как говорится головы сечь."
[So gentlemen, we are going to, as they say, hack off some heads.]

He said to the empty room.

Pushka

21-02-2007, 22:58

General-Mayor Kryabov commander of the 1st Yenemise front got off the phone with the president and sent his aid away to get some coffee, it was going to be one heck of a long night. The satellites were down and it would take several months to replace them, the army has switched to high altitude aircraft for all of its reconnaissance and encrypted communications relay. Those aircraft had a squadron of fighters protecting each one of them and Spizanians would have hell of a hard time shooting them out of the sky. Kryabov decided to concentrate at the matter at hand and that matter was the complete and total annihilation of Spizanian armed forces. The war time Field-Marshall Kryabov had over 250000 troops under his command, enough artillery, bombs and MLRSs to wipe the whole middle east off of the face of the earth. As he was surveying the map and the recon on enemy positions presidents last words kept making circles in his head.

"Если не здадутса сразу, высекать огнём, всех и каждого. Всех....и каждого."
[If they don't surrender immediately, burn everyone out with fire, everyone and every single person. Everyone....and every single person.]

Hirgizstan

21-02-2007, 23:25

OOC: Armor able to withstand ball bearings-your joking right? Anyway, not all my satellites were in GESO, therefore no you have not taken out my capabilities from space. It will, surely, take time to bring the other sattellites into orbit, but that shouldn't be a problem. My losses, in my earlier post, will be updated naturally, you have taken out hundreds of my satellites, but since the attack just happend nobody really knows that yet. And naturally, as Pushka has done, high-altitude planes will fill in for satellites until the ones un-hurt can enter GESO.

IC:

Unlike a few days ago, the Fuhrer was decisive in his actions once the Declaration of War had been passed on Congress. He now stood behind the Watch Commander's chair overlooking the Main Operations room at the CSCC (Central Space Corps Command) complex, below the surface of one of the Cape Verde islands.

The Space Corps in general were still reeling and pooling data from the attack earlier in the day. But right now they were focused on one task-revenge. Thanks to its design most SAAMDS satellites had survived. Now every Hemispheric Module Command had activated their assigned arrays. Hundreds of SAAMDS sattelites equipped with ultra-powerful lasers, usually designed to destroy ICBM's in flight, were locked onto every single Spizanian sattelite in space. The lasers would simply burn them up, causing them to explode.

All it took was a nod from the Fuhrer, and high up above, in the endless vacuum above earth, lasers shot out from hundreds of sattelites, criss-crossing and re-bounding and heating up Spizanian satellites until they simply exploded. Now they would be blind, just as they had tried to blind the world.

Layarteb

22-02-2007, 01:38

OOC: I so wanted to stay out of this damn conflict but thanks to the nuclear exchanges and the damn satellite thing now I have to get involved. By the way what happened with my Imsdal strike?

"What the..." The flash was followed by static. The satellite had gone down and two others in the area were done for as well. Ships in the area would soon report trails of fire coming down from space, hundreds of them. "They've hit the satellites. All of them. In the entire area!" The Emperor said, hanging up the phone with the Admiral of the Navy, "They've taken down civilian and military satellites alike. They've, essentially cut off all of their satellite communications, period. All they have is radio now. On the plus side we can certainly intercept radio communications. Vector some satellites into the area so we can re-establish our presence but make sure that whatever they used isn't lingering. Who the hell knows what it was?"

"Sir. Could be a fragmentation device? More like the Seraph but bigger." The General of the Air Force remarked to the Emperor over the video conference. "It's plausible."

"Certainly. Well the Spizanis took a regional war and turned it global. They used nuclear weapons. They attack all satellites, civilian and military, within the area. The Cottish have retaliated with nuclear weapons and Baker Island is falling apart. Where do we stand?"

"Well we are going to demand reparations from the Spizanis for all the lost satellites belonging to the Empire."

"How many is that?"

"Initial estimates put three military communications and imaging satellites, fourteen civilian communications satellites, a pair of weather satellites, two GPS satellites, and a space transmitter. We're looking at around $600 billion sir."

"Jesus Christ! That much for a few satellites?"

"We've got to relaunch them sir."

"Understood. What about casualties?"

"None thus far to our forces." The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs entered the conversation, "Yet sir."

"What is the status of our strike?"

"We're waiting on the assessment now sir. We have a second strike ready that will put that one to shame."

"How many bombers?"

"Well sir we'll have 68 B-7Bs, 300 B-9Cs, and 48 B-44As armed with twenty-four missiles each, that's 9,984 missiles and we'll launch 72 B-10s with 4 missiles each for a total of 10,272 missiles sir. All of them launched from over 800 miles away, where they can't touch us."

"Targets?"

"Command and control, leadership, air defense, air fields, army bases, radar sites, communications sites, and power plants."

"Nuclear power plants?"

"Yes. Reactors will not be targetted sir."

"Alright. I'm glad I don't want any more ecological catastrophe if we can help it. What about the foreign nations?"

"Sir," the Minister of Foreign Affairs began, "So far the Cottish, Hirgizstanis, and Russian Federation have all demanded surrender within 24 hours."

"Alright issue an ultimateum ourselves and we'll hold on the strike for now. If they don't comply, launch the bombers."

To Spizani Government

The Empire has been, until now, neutral to this conflict. The persistant use of nuclear weapons and now the destruction of civilian, military, and neutral satellites alike, in the region has galvanized our stance against you in this conflict. You turned a regional war into a global disaster. We strongly implore you to surrender immediately, within 24 hours, lest we officially declare war upon you. We will demand, initially $600,000,000,000 in reparations to repair the damages taken to our satellites. This cost covers replacements and relaunches, which will take months. We await your response...

The Emperor

Ottoman Khaif

22-02-2007, 01:44

With the attack on the world satellites network by the Spizanian Commonwealth, dealt a great deal of damage to the Eurasian satellite network. Just the Eurasian Government wasn’t going to allow them to get away with this crime against the nations of the world.

With that all the major Eurasian heavy bomber wings were put on stand by, for deployment. They had one order, which was to firebomb everything in Spizanian Oman, burn everything to the ground. Also the Eurasian 1st Arabian Front Army was put on stand by to storm Oman within a moment notice.

To: Spizanian Commonwealth
From: Eurasian Government

You have 24 hours to surrender, and we demand that your nation pay for the damages you cause to our satellites network (800 billion dollars). If you do not surrender within the 24 hour period, a state of total war will be declared between our nations.

Layarteb

22-02-2007, 02:11

Composition of the Missile Strike

AGM-203A Imsdal (1,200 lb. AUP): 3,500
AGM-203B Imsdal (240 BLU-123 IISM thermate-TH3 submunitions): 2,000
AGM-203C Imsdal (1,200 lb. Blast Fragmentation (58,825 10mm Depleted Uranium spheres)): 2,500
AGM-203D Imsdal (920 M74 APAM submunitions): 2,000
AGM-203G Imsdal (1,200 lb. thermobaric): 200
AGM-203H Imsdal (1,200 lb. BROACH): 72

Targets of the Missile Strike

AGM-203A Imsdal (1,200 lb. AUP): Strategic targets
AGM-203B Imsdal (240 BLU-123 IISM thermate-TH3 submunitions): Airfields, army bases
AGM-203C Imsdal (1,200 lb. Blast Fragmentation (58,825 10mm Depleted Uranium spheres)): Airfields, army bases, communications sites, radar sites
AGM-203D Imsdal (920 M74 APAM submunitions): Airfields, army bases
AGM-203G Imsdal (1,200 lb. thermobaric): Strategic targets
AGM-203H Imsdal (1,200 lb. BROACH): Leadership targets

If I have to launch them of course...

Pyschotika

22-02-2007, 03:32

"Operation Pheasantry"

Military-Sub Station Alpha-Five, Somewhere in the Indonesian Jungles

The pen-pushing intern, temporarily put to watch Japan's Orbital Satellites in 'Sector Charlie', had been drumming his fingers when he all of the sudden was put into reality of a dozen flashy objects. He had just transferred over from the Public Arm of the Japanese Space Program, Kaisha Kusabana, and never had been instructed exactly what which way one may freak out at the sudden arousal of so many bleeps and widgets makeing their winding noises. He started to punch the keys into his command prompt, looking for a response. Nothing, nothing would come back. He pinged the tower, searching for a signal. Not a damned thing. The only word he could muster through his shakey voice was a dreaded....Shit!

Hotel 'Fast-Deployment' Fleet, mid-way Yemen//Sumatra Island, Indonesia

The transmission being recieved from the home country had suddenly ceased, the communication nodes going into a black out. Something very wrong had just happened, or Japan had just witnessed it's first Major Glitch since the Satsuma Incident. The alarm bells began to ring loudly, red lights flashing on and off and it was like this for nearly thirteen minutes. If anyone was planning to whipe out the fleet, they had just missed their best shot in a life time. Stability had been put back into order, and it was clear what had happened after a few sharp minds piece it together.

Now, though, how to reach the home country.

Undisclosed Military Operations Center, somewhere on the Japanese Mainland

As disarray had lasted temporarily to the west of the Indian Quarter, the Government and the Military as well as the Japance Space Program and their Military-affiliates had converged into one location. Obviously now very pissed off that a few pretty Yens, and their vacations, had just been wasted...they were sure to see whoever just had done this wouldn't be enjoying the out come at the very least. It was very obvious that Japan had not been the only nation, which ruled out their suspicions of the West or even China when they noticed that they were recieving similar problems abroad their public networks and perhaps the security grids. The decision was made to keep silent with the public, for now, and to work vigorously to establish communications. However, the obvious debris from whatever may have happened...even a tiny bolt of debris...could prove dangerous for any satellite that could realistically arrive with-in the hour.

So, they would have to risk an archaic technology it seemed. Encrypt a few messages, to radio them. The Japanese Military had been prepared for such a black out in Space tele-communications, however were not ever really expecting it so abrubtly. Not even involved in any wars, and obviously not being invaded, the Empire wondered what it could have been. Perhaps a meteor, but they would have known it was comming. Then, it dawned on the round table of brains.

"What of the Spizanian War?"

OOC

Just an fyi.

So if anyone is confused if I do jump to my navy sort of being a bit up to date and Japanese SOF very angrily killing off Spizanian soldiers, I am relying on heavily encrypted radio transmissions which I'm sure many other nations will be useing to reach the areas affected. As well, I'm pretty sure I will be useing different methods slightly undisclosed for now.

So yea, Spizania I won't call you an idiot but...

Congratulations, you won the prize for most fucked nation! lol

Soviet Bloc

22-02-2007, 03:48

Viktor R. Dokhturov, the Armed Republic’s leader, had been occupying every capable television screen across the Armed Republic for several minutes in a special broadcast, obviously unavailable to those with satellite televisions. His voice carried across every civilian, and most military, radio frequencies uttering a simple, solemn message to the people of the Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc. One hundred and seventeen, acknowledged, civilian and military personnel had perished in this attack [there were, of course, more personnel that would not be disclosed due to secrecy]. Three quarters of them had advanced warning of their apparent demise. There was nothing the Armed Republic could have done to save their lives. Regardless, the mourning which touched every corner of the Armed Republic would not hold long. The Kagan’s final words summed the entirety of his message: “A state of war now exists between the Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc and the Spizanian Commonwealth.”

The Armed Republic would not stand idly by and let some distant nation force their hand on the Armed Republic. Every satellite in the Armed Republic’s arsenal had been, suffice to say, destroyed. No amount of armor and shielding could defend against ball bearings, shreds of titanium, and whatever leftovers there were traveling at thousands upon thousands of miles per hour, from several directions nonetheless. Even that mass striking the satellite would, in effect, destroy it by proxy [disabling interal computer components, and more probably, knocking it out of orbit]. Any Armed Republic satellites that happened to survive were moving fast out of orbit and completely nonfunctional, their means of communication, fuel, and movement shredded and torn away. Something had to take their place and in normal protocol, the Armed Republic always kept four multipurpose surveillance, communications, and positioning satellites at the ready to restore partial coverage. However, the lethal mix of shrapnel encircling the Earth would render that idea incapable of being done to any success. Aircraft would have to suffice. Telecommunications to the distant Navy vessels underway in every major water body in the world, which were, temporarily, cut off from most outside communications except short range radio, were now restored via high-flying EC-380Ds, continuously refueled and operating in shifts, they provided a global communications range to the Armed Republic. Their electronic intelligence, early warning, signals intelligence, and other electronic warfare equipment now operated solely to receive, and then retransmit, data to every Armed Republic military receiver abroad. Any other traffic they picked up was forwarded to their signals intelligence crew where it was decrypted and its information stored and used. A flash message streamed from EC-380D to EC-380D and from fleet vessel to fleet vessel. The Armed Republic was now at war, and contained in the encrypted data packet were precise directions and orders to undertake. The Seventeenth Expeditionary Fleet [17EXF On Station South Pacific], the Eleventh Expeditionary Fleet [11EXF On Station South Atlantic], and the Sixth Expeditionary Fleet [6EXFG On Station Indian Ocean – Marine Support Group Augmented] were the primary recipients of the most detailed orders. Their intra-fleet radio communications would cease, replaced instead by invisible flashes of light. Laser data streams dashed from vessel to vessel, relaying important commands and transmissions, setting up the upcoming operations intended against Spizania in retribution for their strike on the world’s satellites and subsequent killing of Armed Republic civilian and military personnel.

Officer-in-Command of Task Force Indian Ocean, as the ad-hoc fleet had become termed even though they were still separated by thousands of nautical miles, Ajir Taktarov had taken his position within the Sixth Expeditionary Fleet’s flagship, the RNS Nakhimov, a medium carrier, and began directing the task force’s operations via secure laser data link for intra-fleet communications and encrypted radio data link from fleet-to-aircraft-to-fleet. However, he also had some more pressing matters to attend to, and although he was certain the Armed Republic’s allies, and probably the Russians too, knew the Sixth Expeditionary Fleet was in the Indian Ocean, he felt obliged to inform of their presence and intent to assist in whatever way possible. Hopefully, the Sixth’s presence would be desired, after-all, his fleet possessed an attached Marine Support Group [Third Marine Support Group (3MSG)] which in itself contained a single Torrent-class arsenal ship. The vessel, armed with some thirteen hundred missiles and rockets, would be ready and able to unleash the entirety of its warload if the need arose. The arsenal ship could be a quarter replenished at sea and would wield about three hundred additional weapons, assuming the escort DDGs and FFGs expended no ammunition.

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RADIO DATA LINK TO ALLIED FORCES IN YEMEN AND ABROAD

“Sirs, I regret to communicate to you through such devices, I would have preferred, myself, to contact you via video by satellite. However, things tend to unfold differently than we had anticipated. Regardless, it is my intent to inform you that as of this morning, the Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc is at war with the Spizanian Commonwealth. Under order from our Kagan, three expeditionary fleets have been dispatched to assist in any way possible. We hold, at our disposal, an arsenal ship in-region amongst several missile capable destroyers and frigates. SSGNs can also be called upon if necessary. The entirety of our fleet-native air support is also available. Finally, if required the Air Force has dozens of high-endurance aircraft currently operating to provide us with global communications, they are open to you. We do not know how this recent action in the orbital plane affected anyone else, but everything of our's is destroyed. Also, if you feel this message is important to the Russians, please forward it, as we do not have the capability to do so at this time.

I hope that we may see a quick and decisive end to his conflict before, as has already happened and which I do not hope to happen again, the entire world is involved."

Regards,
Fleet Admiral Ajir D. Taktarov
Officer-in-Command of Task Force Indian Ocean [3MSG; 6EXFG; 11EXF; 17 EXF]
Navy of the Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc

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The Armed Republic's operations may, or may not, be expanded to whatever other front begins to develop. In response, ported Expeditionary Fleets have taken to the seas to replace the current on station fleets in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Arctic regions, which have begun their exodus south. Advanced alert detachments in Hawdawgian Pacific territory were also alerted for potential deployment if the need arose. The Armed Republic would not open dialogue with the Spizanians, instead letting the five current ultimatums speak for the Armed Republic...

Marimaia

22-02-2007, 13:39

"What?!"

"Ahem...it would appear that a large number of our satellites have been taken out by whatever it was that just happened. Unfortunately this includes the live feed from Zhao City."

The aide deftly leant to the side as an ornament flew past his head. "Comrade Premier, I'm sure that Comrade Xian will understand."

Premier Zhao glowered at him. "That is not the point, damn it! Yes, I was looking forward to seeing Ruiyu's concert, but the issue here is the damage caused! What are we looking at?"

"Um...at least a few billion. These were not cheap satellites."

Zhao almost smiled. "Really? That much?" He paused for a moment. "Can I talk to Manila?"

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After various encrypted transmissions and secure telephone conversations, Premier Zhao authorised the Foreign Ministry to send out a communique to the Spizanians.

RE: Satellites

Despite the best attempts of the United Eastasian Republic to stay out of your affairs, you have shown us great disrespect in your actions, which have resulted in the destruction of a number of very expensive Eastasian assets. However, since we have noticed that several nations are threatening to reduce your state to rubble, we realise that making a similar threat would be like shouting in a crowd.

It is a grave concern of ours that Palawan Island will become a target. Palawan is dangerously close to Eastasian territory, and with satellites being damaged it is possible that bombardments aimed at you will stray enough to hit us. As you can understand, this is hardly a satisfactory situation. We therefore suggest that you allow the United Eastasian Republic to occupy Palawan. The island would no longer be a target, thus preventing a great deal of damage. Once the crisis is over, we shall hand it back to you.

Showing intelligence in this matter and temporarily allowing us to occupy Palawan would be viewed by Beijing as satisfactory reparations. We would appreciate a response within 24 hours, as it is very likely that you will have your hands full after that.

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Spizania

22-02-2007, 14:49

Marimaia

22-02-2007, 16:26

OOC: Ah, so your capital is slap-bang between my territories of Vietnam, Malaysia/Singapore and the Philippines, while Pyschotika has some very easy access to it too. I would have thought that having a friendly-ish force on the streets causing no damage would be better than the world bombing your capital to kingdom come, but there we go.

Just as long as masses of foreign troops don't turn up in the backyard of Pys and myself looking to take your capital, do what you want. Otherwise that capital may not be standing any longer.

Cotland

22-02-2007, 16:36

OOC:
Post soon..... um..... first of all, its Confederate States of Spizania, not the Spizanian Commonwealth. Secondly, this is all pushing me towards my last option, which is thermonuclear release on a massive scale. Which would make life rather unpleasent for people on Earth II, what with cobalt salted weapons.
In addition... you do realise that Peurto Princessa is my capital, and i cant really surrender it.
Um, with your permission id like to turn this into a civil war. between the primarily military hardliners who want to fight to the last breath, and the primarily civilian government who wants to surrender to save as many people as possible.

[OOC: Then you clearly haven't read the posts thurroughly enough. You can do what we're demanding: surrender your armed forces and WMDs, pay for the stuff you destroyed, appologize, and I think that should do the trick. No need for you to be "forced" into initiating a holocaust. Furthermore, attempting to destroy E2 because you don't have the time/will/skills/balls (your pick) to fight this war conventionally is a big no-no. As far as I know, we're already targetting all your military positions that are available to our weapons. Good luck getting out the weapons.

In closing, let me just remind you that it was you who got the snowball rolling when you decided to make this global (by nuking me). Too bad you didn't anticipate the quite logical consequences. Just get on with the RP (and all the conventional weapons being fired against you [and especially your capital]) please.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. You've nuked us. I don't really think the Cottish government cares about what the absolutely correct way of spelling your nation's official name is. Just be glad they're not officially calling your nation what they call it in the situation room...]

Spizania

22-02-2007, 17:18

OOC: You are the one that escalated this to nuclear weapons. You struck first with nuclear force, i initiated a response that was far weaker than would have been justified by your actions. And then you turn around and kill forty million civilians and even more stupid, you deny that you launched the first strike.
And ive yet to be engaged by an enemy force i actually have a chance of beating conventionally. And i now cant delpoy my own scramjet powered conventional missile, because you will accuse me of simply ripping off the Immsdaal, as i never did a proper writeup, i havent done them for most of my weapons systems, as i never got around to it, what with my enormous workload at school nad other RP commitments.

Pushka

22-02-2007, 18:31

OOC: Remember the whole thing with you launching a nuke in the Pacific? Yeah, sure, Cotland started it. (Smell the sarcasm) So I am about to go ahead and assume that you say no to our ultimatum. Is that correct?

Hirgizstan

22-02-2007, 19:53

OOC: Tick tock Spiz...tick tock. You can avoid your destruction as Cot says. And no matter what you delude yourself into believing, you started this WMD-fest. You reap what you sow.

Spizania

22-02-2007, 20:20

Cotland

22-02-2007, 20:59

OOC: You expect me not to respond when Cotland uses eighteen thermonuclear warheads offensively against me? Prior to that time i only used the one weapon i exploded in international waters in a defensive role.

[OOC: Eighteen very low-yeald, very clean EMP warheads which aren't really to be considered as nuclear weapons per se, as they cause no direct destruction to life or buildings, only frying everything that uses electricity. The EMP weapon isn't classified as nuclear weapons, at least not in the way you're thinking of. It was YOU who started with the deployment of actual nuclear weapons against my forces that were engaging you with conventional weapons (yes, EMP is to be considered conventional) and who brought this upon yourself, so I'd keep my mouth very well shut and start posting instead if I were you. But then again, I'm not. Just keep in mind that there's still a chance of getting out of this dogpile relatively unharmed, but that window is closing quickly...]

Layarteb

23-02-2007, 00:34

Pyschotika

23-02-2007, 01:32

[OOC: Eighteen very low-yeald, very clean EMP warheads which aren't really to be considered as nuclear weapons per se, as they cause no direct destruction to life or buildings, only frying everything that uses electricity. The EMP weapon isn't classified as nuclear weapons, at least not in the way you're thinking of. It was YOU who started with the deployment of actual nuclear weapons against my forces that were engaging you with conventional weapons (yes, EMP is to be considered conventional) and who brought this upon yourself, so I'd keep my mouth very well shut and start posting instead if I were you. But then again, I'm not. Just keep in mind that there's still a chance of getting out of this dogpile relatively unharmed, but that window is closing quickly...]

OOC:*Cough*

If I were Spizania, I'd detonate my nuclear cache that's still on Antarctica before all is lost...

Pushka

23-02-2007, 02:08

OOC: How about we all just seize bitching and go on with the RP? Or atleast if you bitch make sure that under your OOC post there is an IC.

Spizania

23-02-2007, 15:31

[OOC: Eighteen very low-yeald, very clean EMP warheads which aren't really to be considered as nuclear weapons per se, as they cause no direct destruction to life or buildings, only frying everything that uses electricity. The EMP weapon isn't classified as nuclear weapons, at least not in the way you're thinking of. It was YOU who started with the deployment of actual nuclear weapons against my forces that were engaging you with conventional weapons (yes, EMP is to be considered conventional) and who brought this upon yourself, so I'd keep my mouth very well shut and start posting instead if I were you. But then again, I'm not. Just keep in mind that there's still a chance of getting out of this dogpile relatively unharmed, but that window is closing quickly...]

Firstly, one hundred kilotonnes is not low yield by any stretch of the imagination.
Secondly, they are nuclear weapons, none nuclear EMPs that would be even mildly effective would not have fitted on your missiles. They rely on nuclear reactions to produce the energy for the EMP, so they are nuclear devices, as the reaction is not particularily controlled.
And anyway, made a post that is important this in the main thread.

Pushka

23-02-2007, 19:50

The satisfactory response never came and as such Field-Marshal Kryabov had to unleash the full might of the Russian army upon the enemy. Consultation with the other officers gave birth to the plan of attack, "Операция Месть" (Operation Revenge) was now under way. The General split his forces into three groups around 90000 men each, all included the 15th army supported by divisions from the 7th Gvardia. The Northern Spizanian front began moving towards Zamakh with an intent to take the city, establish e foothold and when move on to Minwakh. The East Spizanian front was going to push forwards thrusting into the Spizanian Yemenese territory taking out Shibam, Say'un and Tarim. The Souther Spizanian Front was to take out the numerous cities on route to Ash Shihr and when unite with the Eastern Front group at Raydah. All the meanwhile a total of 12 Flotillas would launch a naval assault of the Al Mukalla port. The 11th and 17th air attack divisions would act as support for the 6th Bomber division that would unleash hellish strikes on all the cities that the army was planning to take. The 4th, 7th, 9th, and 13th VDV (Paratrooper) divisions were on standby ready to be launched behind the enemy formations after the initial confrontation begun with the main Spizanian force. The plan was sent into motion as more and more troops were being shipped to Russian controlled Yemen with an intention of establishing a 400000 reserve force composed of 9th and 27th armies that were going to aid the ongoing ground campaign.

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50 km east of Ataq

The Russian forces were moving steadily deciding to take a smoke break Leutenant Rusov got our of his tank cabin and looked around the formation. What he saw was an impresive sight, the 200 tanks of the 4th Armored Infantry division were moving in a formation with BTR-T tank support vehicles that were intended for multiple roles including tank killing as well as removing secondary targets allowing the Nakil tank crew to keep going forward without loosing any momentum of their attack. About a kilometer behind Rusov knew were the lighter armored parts of the 4th division, riding on their trucks, SOV-6s, LV-08s and BRDMS they were the main occupational force of the army, after the tanks and BTR-T did their job of clearing the field the infantry would secure it and take care of whatever resistance was left over. Behind the infantry were parts of the 2nd A/R division, with their mighty firepower and unrivaled precision they would shoot ahead of the tanks to greatly soften up enemy positions as well as take out their command posts. All the meanwhile the 5th PVV Batallion was closely watching the skies ready to shoot down any enemy that would attempt an attack from above. The formation was very well protected and it was only one of many in the Southern Spizanian Front. Suddenly Rusov heard a readiness alert on his radio he got back into his tank, the war has begun.

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Russian territorial waters of Bering Strait

The morning was a cold one as always but it seemed as if the cold metal of the endless caravan of warships made it even colder. The 2nd Naval Pacific Front was steadily moving towards Puerto Princessa, the enemy capitol was to be destroyed and the 5000 ships of the Russian Naval Fleet were ready and happy to carry out that order.

Layarteb

24-02-2007, 00:28

The Emperor and the Cabinet were sitting in his office, assessing the latest tallies from the War on Drugs when the peace agreement came over the airwaves. "Alright well, what does it say?" The Emperor asked, enthusiastically. "I hope this prevents the global catastrophe that looms on."

"Well sir," the Minister of Foreign Affairs began, "First and foremost, the Confederate States of Spizania agree to, over the next two decades, repay for the satellites that they destroyed. Except those of the Realm."

"Interesting. They definitely won't like that but it solves a major issue that could very well keep many of the 'on the fence' nations who have only just been affected from staying out. Good. Go on."

"They will divest themselves of all biological weapons."

"Excellent!"

"They will surrender some thirty percent of their nuclear weapons to us and the Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc. They will do this by yield."

"I'm sorry? Why us? What role do we have in this." His expression changed to curiosity. "Alright, go on."

"They will not replace any surrendered weapons for a minimum of five years."

"Interesting."

"They will surrender eighty percent of their chemical weapons to us and the Armed Republic."

"Again. Why us?"

"They will return to pre-war levels and stand down all reservist forces and a neutral nation will oversee this."

"Romans. They will be best at this. They are properly neutral. Perhaps maybe the Saint Lazarians."

"They will never again create an orbital cascade system."

"Well they could develop other weapons but it's a step. Go further."

"They will not be occupied by belligerent powers. Baker Island will be surrendered to a neutral country."

"Well the Russians won't agree with that one at all."

"They will dismantle all boomers and never again possess SLBMs."

"Okay."

"The belligerent powers will undertake never to assail any other combatant in the future."

"Interesting. Vague. Very vague. We'll attack them if they attack us that's for sure."

"The Confederate states of Spizania will undertake never to assail another sovereign nation, without the provocation of an act or declaration of war without the express consent of the Empire of Cotland."

"So they'll never again wage war unless the Realm tells them what to do? Interesting. How is the world reaction?"

"Well sir. That's just it, they aren't coming in that much yet except the Russians certainly aren't giving up on Baker Island and the Cottish have added amendments."

"Alright what have they said?"

"They will not accept the condition not to repay for their satellites. The Confederate States of Spizania shall relinquish its entire nuclear arms stockpile for decommissioning in the presence of observers from a neutral nation-state, and it shall not replace its nuclear arms stockpile with new nuclear arms for a duration of thirty years. The Confederate States of Spizania shall pledge not to employ weapons of mass destruction - hereunder nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons - unless as a last resort. The Confederate States of Spizania will undertake never to assail another sovereign nation, without the provocation of an act or official declaration of war. The Confederate States of Spizania will engage in diplomatic negotiations with the Allied Powers concerning the extradition of those Spizanians responsible for the nuclear release. The rest they agree with sir."

"Alright harsh. Very harsh. I'm sure that they won't accept the modified terms. Alright what's the reaction?"

"The Commonwealth is in agreement with the Cottish. And our stance sir?"

"I do not want to prolong this war for revenge. I think we should at least accept the term that all satellites destroyed by the cascade system be paid for, regardless of nation. However, I have no interest in policing the world and its nuclear weapons. We could care less if they destroy thirty or one hundred percent. We have given them no reason to use it on us and I do not think they will. Our limited strike was conventional in nature and a decapitation strike. If they want to use nuclear weapons on us they'll have more to worry about then a treaty. As far as the last resort, it's all nonsense. An initial attack could be defined as a last resort. A declaration of war or not, international law doesn't exist between all nations so that has little meaning to us as we've ascribed to no international laws. As far as extradition, we'll stay out of this, we have no interest in war crimes in this instance. Alright, cable that we are pleased with the offer and we hope that it begins a process to end this war. Express that there should not be an shut case and that negotations should ensure that all parties are not overly wronged. Express our concern to line one and why we were chosen."

"Yes sir."

Communique to All Worldly Nations

The Empire is pleased that a peace offer has been put on the table by the Spizanians. However, we do wish to state our concern over it being a 'shut door,' take it or leave it offer. Negotiation is the cornerstone of post-war discussions and it will ensure that neither party is overly wronged, so much so that a second war of vengeance erupts. We must strongly urge that negotations begin for the benefit of all mankind. Secondly, we wish to express an urge that all satellites destroyed through this cascade system be paid for, regardless of their flag. We are also curious as to why the Empire has been chosen to received chemical and nuclear weapons from the Spizanian military. We eagerly await the reply of the Spizanian government.

The Emperor

Layarteb

24-02-2007, 02:39

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Pushka

24-02-2007, 07:54

OOC: Whats the map for? Also sorry for a crappy troop mobilization post, my head hurt the whole fucking day and I ran out of Analgin (Russian headache removal pill, no one does it like the motherland) so meh...Spiz if you want you can reply to that one or you can wait for me to post a more expansive one that should be whenever I wake up tomorrow or wait *looks at watch* whenever I wake up later today, your choice, I've told you everything you really need to know such as directions of attacks, numbers of troops and the type of formations they travel in, so you should be set to go, just please don't god mod. I'll open tomorrow with tactical missile strikes against your SAMs and important military installations (unless they have already been taken out).

Layarteb

24-02-2007, 19:01

OOC: The map is for general purposes. It's pretty detailed so it's nice to have. Not sure if this has been mentioned but all of the fallout is going to go to the east. The winds blow west to east so Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, they're all in the fallout pattern. Much like Saint Lucia was for Grenada.

"Sir, the Russians, they're continuing on to Baker Island with a larger force." The aide came in to say, as the Cabinet was mulling over their latest response and figures.

"Alright. Keep a close eye on it for now. It doesn't concern us at Baker Island. Yemen does. It is close to our allies, many of our allies, and our forward bases in Hirgizstan and Eurasia. What is the prognosis on our satellites?"

"We can replace the GPS satellites in one week. The remainder of the satellites are going to have to be built. We're looking at months upon months sir. Nothing yet."

"Alright. We'll put up the money from the citizen fund for now and use the repayment from Spizania to replenish it. We need to be able to provide for our citizens in times of war."

"Yes sir." The aide left and within hours, billions of dollars came out of a secret account and savings that the Empire had called the "Citizens Fund." It was a large sum of money that was used to provide instant, on-hand money in the event of a major disaster, such as an earthquake or hurricane but this certainly classified.

Hawdawg

24-02-2007, 19:27

Gordon Wells sat in the Situation Room in Blue Sector of the DoD. Blue Sector handled all incidents in the Middle East. Satellite information had been down for quite sometime and it was obivious the Spizanians had launched some sort of weapon to blind the inbound forces. Generals and planners, ever the cinic, had contigencies for such actions. Ever since Marconi had invented wireless, the tried and true system of communication had taken a backseat to the flasher more expensive orbital-based systems. Once again it was time to dust off the code books and hammer out details via radio links.

Upon confirmation of the destruction of the military communication satellites, protocol XING was enacted and mutliple AWACS aircraft deployed as forward observers in strategic locations to act as foward operation centers for inbound threats and possible combat operations. Both combined Fleets on station in the Persian Gulf launched there own AWACS aircraft along with land-based units out of Pakistan to redeploy the radar/tracking umbrella Spizania had destroyed. In roughly three hours a rough schematic of the operations where available for the regional commanders on the ground. An important cog of the operation allowed the commanders flexibility to use the realtime data they had available for targetting, etc. should the DoD become unable to see/assist with the decision-making process in the field. The Rear Admiral in charge of the Fleets became the operational command for the region and all communication via battlefield radio links would flow through his ships COM Center. In Iran ground crews erected an emergency Wireless Tower to amplify the broadcasts being made between the Stockholm and The Gulf Region.

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Conversation via secure radio link between Rear Admiral Gates and PM Wells

"Gates, this is PM Wells. We have a situation here, apparently the Spizanians have admitted to destroying the satellite network of the world. We have enacted protocol XING and shifted the RT decision-making authority to your command. Please be advised a peace accord has been submitted via the Spizanians, but it is unclear if it will be accepted. Your orders are simple engage any military hardware that strays from UAE airspace. We will take a wait and see attitude on this, if they comply great if they don't we go. We are staying out of Yemen, last reports showed high levels of radioactive fallout."

"Yes sir, AIRCAPS are still in place. We also have our THAAD and ABM systems up and running in our portion of the UAE. We also have a back up system located at our base in Busher, Iran. We have all the defensive positions along our border targetted for IMSDAL attack via the fleet and the Armored Divisions are posed to go in after our initial cascade of missile strikes. Any planes that might get off the ground will most certainly be engaged immediately by our Fighter cap."

"One other thing Gates, I have scrambled our Heavy Bomber Fleet and have them in the air. If this peace process does evaporate, we plan to launch a full-scale aerial bombardment of the UAE before our ground forces go in."

"I understand sir. I will await your overall decision."

"Agreed Gates, we will be in touch."

Pushka

24-02-2007, 23:13

OOC: Eh...Lay where did you get me continuing on to Baker with a larger force? The 5000 ship fleet thats should have already crossed the Bering Strait by now is going for Puerto Princessa, Spiz's capitol that is not on the Baker Island.

Layarteb

24-02-2007, 23:37

OOC: Thus far it's only based on satellite intelligence and the fact that we figure you wouldn't be happy with Baker going to someone neutral. It's only an assumption there's no idea you're going where you are.

Pushka

24-02-2007, 23:45

OOC: Aight, that works. Just making sure I didn't mess up in my writing.

N Germania

27-02-2007, 22:20

Führerbunker
Berlin, Germany
9:13 am...

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Der Führer was beyond furious. His ally, the Realm of Cotland, had been attacked with nuclear weapons by some cowards in the Middle East -- a country by the name of Spizania. In the Führerbunker were the Reichskanzler's top generals, including Admiral Heinz von Greim.

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[Translated from German]

Reichskanzler Kübler: "Herr Admiral, I want you to send the following to international waters off the coast of Oman and station them there:

8 FkS-119 Missile Ships
The Bremen Class Light Battleship
The Salzburg Class Light Battleship
The Dresden Class Light Battleship
The Danzig Class Medium Battleship
The Würzburg Class Medium Battleship
The Berlin Class Heavy Battleship

The following transport ships:

8 Elefant Class Heavy Transport Ships
4 Radau Class Transport Ships

The following aircraft carriers:

The Berlin Class Aircraft Carrier
The Hamburg Class Heavy Aircraft Carrier

The following submarines:

U-314 Attack Submarine
U-326 Attack Submarine
U-357 Attack Submarine
U-383 Attack Submarine
U-375 Attack Submarine
U-412 Nuclear Submarine

Reichskanzler Kübler: "I want five of the eight FkS-119 Missile Ships armed 3/4 with AICBMM munitions. If Spizania decides to launch another nuclear attack, we'll be able to take them out tens of thousands of feet in the air before they hit their intended target.

"I want five of the eight Elefant Class Heavy Transport Ships full with Reichswehr Troops. I want one of the Elefant Classes full with Waffen-OS Troops. That makes 180.000 combat soldiers total. One I want filled with 30 Panzer-X MPAV's, 30 Panzer-XI LBT's, 25 Panzer-XII HBT's, 45 Faust IFV's, 30 Predator AAAV's, 45 Panzer-IX MBT's, and the rest support personnel. On the last Elefant I want 60 PzA-12 155mm Mobile Artillery Guns, 40 MFk-XI MLRS's, 20 Späh Mobile SAM Vehicles, 40 PzA-17 180mm Mobile Artillery Guns, and the rest support personnel. That's 200 vehicles for one and 160 for the other.

"I want two of the four Radau Class Transport Ships full with Schwarzenjäger Troops. I want the other two full with support personnel for our armor, artillery, and combat soldiers.

"I want the Berlin Class Aircraft Carrier holding 60 SÜ-19 Air Superiority Fighters and 30 HS-2 Stealth Fighters. I want the Hamburg Class Aircraft Carrier holding 40 BF-2000 Fighter/Bombers, 40 ZS-11 Stealth Bombers, and 40 HS-2 Stealth Fighters.

"I want this fleet launched from Reichstor-16 in Portugal. These low-life Spizanians have made a terrible mistake, but you are not to attack unless attacked first, Admiral. Stay in international waters and do not approach Oman in attack formation is that understood?"

Admiral Heinz von Greim: "Jawohl, Herr Reichskanzler. I will not attack and I will approach at a slow pace with my ships in single-file line."

Reichskanzler Kübler: "Good. Now have it done."

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* Each Elefant Class Heavy Transport Ship holds 30.000 soldiers or 200 vehicles.

** Each Radau Class Transport Ship holds 15.000 soldiers or 100 vehicles.

*** Each Berlin Class Aircraft Carrier holds 90 aircraft.

**** Each Hamburg Class Heavy Aircraft Carrier holds 120 aircraft.

Cotland

28-02-2007, 00:56

The Cots were starting to recover slightly now, with the alternate communications methods being implemented in force by now. It was at this time, when High Command were preparing for a counter-attack towards the heart of Yemen that the Spizanian decision to adhere to the proposal for peace the Cabinet had presented after some serious pressure from the King. Immediately, recall orders were issued to all ships, aircraft, submarines and ground forces preparing for war, ordering them to stand down to BERSTAT-2 and not fire unless fired upon.

FLASH Priority Communiqué
Recipient: Empire of Layarteb, Commonwealth of Hirgizstan, Holy Republic of Hawdawg, Armed Republic of Soviet Bloc, Eurasia, Russian Federation
Sender: Realm of Cotland

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

Cease-fire with Confederate States of Spizania in effect as of this time index. Diplomatic sollution to conflict reached. Full Spizanian compliance. All Cottish forces standing down offensive operations, will return to pre-war levels within 24 hours through phased stand-down. Request all allied forces do the same.

The Realm is extremely grateful for the support and assistance it has recieved, and shall endeavour to repay its debt of graditude.

The Realm

Throughout the Realm, the cities were mostly deserted, occupied only by the heavily armed reservist soldiers on every corner and by those few stubborn people who refused to go to the shelters when the alarms first started chiming a few hours ago. In about an hour when the Cots had confirmation that the Spizanians adhered to the conflict and when they knew for certain that the war was indeed over, the military authorities would feel safe enough to sound the all-clear signal throughout the Realm, giving the civilians in the shelters the go-ahead to return to their homes and normal routines. Meanwhile, their spirits were raised by the National Emergency Broadcast System that informed the populace that a diplomatic sollution had been reached and that the conflict appeared to have ended after the brief nuclear exchange. But while the Cots scrambled to reposition satellites to cover Yemen and to make sure that no foul play was in motion, the population remained in the shelters under the protection of the Home Guard and of the Air Force's Anti-Ballistic Missile network.

Two hours later, and the Cots had the confirmation they seeked. With a releaved smile, the General in charge of High Command issued the order to stand down the nuclear procedures implemented throughout the Realm and to have all forces report back to their pre-war positions.

The casualties the Realm had suffered were relatively small compared to the damages the Realm had inflicted upon Spizania, but they were still staggering. One battleship, two battlecruisers, one cruiser, six destroyers, ten frigates and two resupply vessels in the Gulf of Aden; and more than a hundred and fifty combat aircraft, totalling in at ten thousand lives lost in the opening strike. Add to that a total of sixty-nine persons throughout the Realm's territories who were hit by falling debris so far, and you had the Cottish casualties in lives lost. In addition, massive values in terms of shipping, aircraft and satellites had been lost. It had been one of the more costly wars in this decade for the Cots, and one that would make the history books for sure.

Among the first things to return to normal were the news broadcasts in the television where the casualty reports were being listed along with what little information which had been revealed by the military. They did have enough information to ask the question: What the heck had happened in the Gulf of Oman, and more importantly, who had fired first? It was a question that would be debated for a long time in Cottish (and probably foreign) media.

Six hours after the cease-fire came into effect, the Cottish finally felt safe enough to let the cabinet and King emerge from the well-protected and well-concealed bunkers from where they had ruled the country through this conflict, and let them return to their homes for a good night's sleep. They would reconvene the next morning at the Prime Minister's Office to have a thurrough run-through of the entire conflict to find out what had really happened. Similar investigations would be undertaken by the military to check how their routines and plans had worked. The King on the other hand was going to have to inform the Storting about the actions preformed by the Armed Forces and of the Cabinet, but all that was for tommorrow. Now the people were going to rest, knowing full well that they were protected by the Royal Cottish Military, which would maintain BERSTAT-2 until 6 hours into the cease-fire, at which time they would lower to BERSTAT-3, then to -4 after another twelve hours, and to the normal -5 after a total of 24 hours.

The Cottish-Spizanian war, the world's first war with a nuclear exchange, had been ended with diplomatic means.

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