NationStates Jolt Archive

Operation 'We'll Be Back for Dinner'


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Bahrain. Not really a bad place to be when you're in the Middle East. Relatively liberal laws, legal alcohol, living was cheap and the people were friendly. It was just too bad that those militant Islamists that had fled Dhahran and the surrounding area had fled there, overthrown the Arsunt government, installed the Sharia laws and started executing people almost at random, starting with all senior government officials and police officers. Arsunt had been one of the few states in the world without a military, only a police force, and now it was paying that price. Of course, to the Cottish Army which had been responsible for chasing the terrorists out of Dhahran, that could not be allowed to happen, and they had the perfect cover story.

The reason for why the Cots had attacked the Aazadi terrorists in the first place was because they were responsible for the attacks on the Cottish embassy in Tokyo, Japan which cost some fifty Cottish lives. Naturally, this couldn't be allowed to go unpunished, and therefore a Cottish Army had set out from Jordan, through the friendly Ottoman Khaif-controlled Arabia and onto the Eastern Province of what was once Saudi-Arabia along with the Armies of Hirgizstan and Hawdawg, both October Alliance allies and hell-bent on eradicating terrorism. They had conducted a short and effective campaign which culminated with the massacre in Dhahran where some sixty-one thousand terrorists and suspected terrorists were summarily executed after the Aazadi leadership abandoned the area. In Cottish history books and in news, it was called the Battle of Dhahran and hailed as a glorious victory in the face of a fanatical enemy which left no weapon unused against the "valiant Cottish soldiers." Anyway, it was a good cover story for taking over some land, which the Cots had done which covered the Dhahrani Occupation Zone, protected by four Mechanized Infantry Divisions, four Motorized Infantry Divisions, two Armored Divisions and two Air Assault Divisions on the ground, and with massive airpower ready for deployment.

Standing on the Cottish side of the King Fahd Causeway, the General commanding the upcoming operation looked at the island of Bahrain, somewhere out there in the distance, covered by the heat-fog of the Arabian spring. It was 19:30 hours local time, and Operation 'We'll Be Back for Dinner' would be initiated within six hours, at 01:30 hours local. Already, the Cottish forces had been built up and were ready to go. A total of two divisions had been tasked for this operation, the 45. Mekaniserte Infanteridivisjon and the 8. Luftbårne Infanteridivisjon, a total of thirty-one thousand three hundred and thirteen soldiers from the Regular Army. In addition came the sixteen eight-man Special Operations Teams from Marinens Jegerkommando which were to infiltrate the important areas in order to achieve total surprise. He considered the plan as he returned to the waiting M38A1 CTLAV and drove back to his command post inside Dhahran city.

At 01:00 hours, a Scorpion class submarine operating in the depths just off Dhahran completed the deployment of the last of the three special forces teams it had carried, deploying eighteen operators to targets on Bahrain's eastern shores. On the east side, more teams were being deployed, some via RHIBs, some via Special Forces Delivery Vehicles, essentially small submarines designed to transport a special forces team under water quietly to their targets, and some via high-level airborne insertion. Their targets: the power plants, the bridgehead to the King Fahd Causeway, the three airports and the heliport, and known Aazadi command posts.

By 01:30, the teams were in position and starting the operation, taking down the powerplant easily through the use of stealth, cover of darkness and suppressed weapons, overwhealming the guards easily and putting the power plant out of service until the invasion had been completed.

At the same time, the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the 45. Mekaniserte Infanteridivisjon started rolling down the King Fahd Causeway towards Bahrain. The first area to neutralize, the island of Umm an Na'san, was unpopulated, save for an Aazadi defense post which was subjected to a Special Forces team supported by a M-64/A Slegge gunship circling over Bahrain, its 30mm and 25mm twin-barreled cannons and the single 120mm smoothbore cannon providing quick and efficient fire support, and taking out the enemy forces, allowing safe passage for the Cottish forces which were already now being hailed as liberators from a Dhahran-based propaganda radio station operated by the Cottish intelligence services. It would mask its propaganda through pro-Cottish yet neutral news broadcasts, an item which would only make up about five to ten percent of the total broadcast time, the rest being used for music and other typial radio stuff. Other radio stations which were operated by the intelligence services were also broadcasting, but being far more generous with the propaganda.

At the same time, F-20/A Enforcer multirole fighters started dropping their ordinance, which was a pair of Mk.80 leaflet dispensers filled with ninety thousand leaflets each, all of them informing the population of Bahrain that the Cottish forces were in the process of liberating them from the terrorists, and that they should seek refuge in bomb shelters or basements for their own safety. The leaflets also promised that the Cottish would restore the democracy and oust the terrorists.

As the leaflets flapped down towards the island below, the Cottish tanks and other armored vehicles were making their way towards Bahrain itself, spearheaded by the M22A2 Deployer mine clearance vehicles and the M24A1 Grizzly II breaching vehicles that took out any IEDs and roadblocks the Aazadi had left in the causeway leading towards Bahrain.

By 05:00 hours, the 8. Luftbårne's helicopters and VTOL craft started appearing in the skies, heading for Bahrain. In the meanwhile, the Cottish armored collumn pressed on towards Bahrain, where the bridgehead was being defended by two special forces teams and a M-64/A Slegge.

At 05:45 hours, the bridgehead had been reinforced by a company of mechanized infantry, its one hundred and ninety-one soldiers releaving the sixteen special forces operatives in being in charge of the bridgehead, holding it against any potential counter-attack. With fourteen M60A1 Spectre infantry fighting vehicles defending the bridgehead - each armed with a M250A2 30mm chaingun, Firefly anti-tank missiles and two machine guns - backing up the dismounted soldiers, the Cottish were well protected against a counter-attack from the terrorists. The company guarded the area while more and more troops swarmed into Bahrain.

Each of the three airports in Bahrain was getting a visit too, with each airport being assaulted from the air by a full Infantry Assault Battalion numbering eight hundred and eighty light infantrymen. They were being shuttled in via the ARSB-made V-50/A Coba VTOL transport craft, moving in on the airport quickly, deploying its troops and then departing the area again, heading out to fetch more troops. With the ability to transport in seven hundred and ninety-two troops in one go, the Cobas delivered troops to the area quickly, letting the heavier H-21/A Super Stallion II transport helicopters ferry in the vehicles of the battalions, which was primarily M38A1 CTLAVs equipped with heavy weaponry in the form of a 12.7mm or 15.5mm heavy machine gun or a 40mm grenade machine gun mounted on remote firing stations on the top of the vehicle, letting the gunner sit in relative safety inside the armored CTLAV and fire his weapon instead of exposing himself. By 07:00 hours, the airports had been secured with the runways being intact, allowing for the Cots to start transporting in supplies from the air instead of using the more risky King Fahd Causeway, which had survived the opening stages of the invasion intact.

Circling the island was small Leopard class patrol boats belonging to the Royal Cottish Navy, all of them tasked with making sure no boats or aircraft went in or out of Bahrain. To ensure that, the sixty meter long and nine and a half meter wide Leopards had a M254A1 30mm chaingun mounted in the foredeck, two L112A1 heavy machine guns with one thousand, seven hundred and fifty 12.7x99mm rounds available per gun, two L116A1 light machine guns with two thousand 7.62x51mm rounds available per gun, four RGM.5/B AMESM surface to surface missiles, and twenty-one RIM.2/B Rolling Airframe Missile Block IIs for anti-aircraft and point-defense purposes. In addition, the Leopards could carry up to ten naval mines, although none were equipped with these during this campaign.

One of these, P1052, was patrolling just a few hundred meters off shore on a north-south-bound course off the town of Jaww when it suddenly came under fire from land at around 07:53 hours. Already being at battle stations, the thirty millimeter chaingun rotated towards shore as the ANDOSS Mk.VII tried to locate the origin of the fire, which appeared to be mortar fire. After a few seconds of hectic searching, they found exactly what they were looking for a few hundred meters inland, in plain sight of the patrol boat. Apparently they had felt it necessary to see where the mortar fire landed so they could make the proper adjustments, but with the Leopard manouering drastically now to avoid the fire, they had yet to score a hit, and the opening up of the machine guns on the side facing the land were distracting them.

In the CIC of the patrol boat, the gun operator got a good lock on the mortar crew with the chaingun and started opening fire, sending a burst of fifteen 30x173mm incendiary explosive rounds towards the group at a speed of 1,074 meters per second. With the maximum range of the M254A1 being 2.85 kilometers and the actual range between the group and the group being six hundred and fourty-five meters, the fifteen shells connected with their targets within point six seconds, detonating and setting fire to the mortar and its ammunition and killing the crew of five instantly. With the explosion, the crew cheered as the order came to cease fire. They now had a confirmed presence of terrorists in the vicinity of Jaww, and special forces would be tasked in finding out more within the hour.

Otherwhere in Bahrain, the Cottish troops were pouring into the area and were systematically clearing the area, block by block, district by district, town by town. They started with clearing the northern areas, and sweeping southwards in a systematic sweeping operation, leaving behind troops to ensure that the terrorists didn't return afterwards to resume their cowardly actions. The population for the most part believed the propaganda the Cots were spewing out, and the Cots were behaving themselves, treating the population well after they had made sure they weren't terrorists. Medics were giving those among the population who wished it medical treatment, water and food were distributed to the population, and sweets were given to the children. In short, the Cots were conducting a "hearts and minds" style operation, and they were succeeding.

OOC - Arsunt was my puppet, but as I never logged in under it, I kind of forgot about this! Would it be possible to RP some kind of role in this thread?

[OOC: If you wanna RP some terrorists (al-Qaida-style) or Arsunt remnants, go right ahead. I think I've given you enough to work on, haven't I?]

The Corporation had fallen. The Rocket, Space, and Nuclear Technology Corporation (RSNT Corporation, also known as Arsunt) had collapsed when certain factions had objected to the extremeky amoral approach that the Corporation began to implement. Little is known of the events that happened behind closed doors, yet rumours still persist. Talk of human experimentation, and weapons designed to destroy a whole planet are the most widely known, yet whether this is true will probably never be discovered.

What is known, is that shortly after a meeting of the Corporation's Directors, a bomb exploded, and instantly killed the leadership of the organisation. Also known, is that in the weeks after, a faction of former Arsunt workers, believed to be the ones behind the bomb, took over the running of several key Arsunt facilities. Lacking the power, they let the rest of the island return to clan warfare, while they bided their time to fight again.

Now is that time. Having gained the support of several local warlords, who pledges their alliegance to this new group, Bahrain was ready to be retaken. However, foreign invaders had not been expected, and now the situation and had taken a turn for the worse.

Operating from the only airbase under their control, three Hawks took off complete with underwing reconnaissance pods. Their job was to assess the situation and find out as much information as possible. Any foreign forces were not to be engaged, but should they be encountered, the Hawks had had a full missile defence package installed.

Dune buggies patrolling the facilities increased their patrols, and armoured vehicles were being prepared in the hangars. Should it come to war, desert power would be needed.

Meanwhile, deep underground, a rocket was being prepared to lift a payload into space. For too long had these people hidden from the world, and now it was time to discover it. A new name was to be placed on the map, and that name was Whittlesfield.

"Kontakt!" [Contact!] The person manning the RADAR screen shouted out when the three unknown aircraft appeared on his display. They were assumed to be hostile, and that set a whole chain of events into motion.

Cottish land forces were well equipped with air defense capabilities, with each division having a dedicated air defense battalion equipped with the medium-range MIM.38/A Sverd surface to air missile. In addition, most units had organic short-range air defense systems, most often in the form of hand-held FIM.35/A Wizard MANPADs systems or the vehicle-mounted MIM.42/A Valkyrie short-range surface to air missile that was mounted onto all M38A3 CTLAV/ADs and M60A2 Spectre air defense units currently in the area of operations. A total of 48 M60A2s and 108 M38A3s were either in or on their way to Bahrain, and the sixteen M59A2 Equalizer self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery units were already in position, guns pointing to the skies.

All of these air defense units were informed within a minute of the apperance of potentially threatening aircraft via the encrypted datalink system all Cottish forces were inter-connected through, and to the ships in the water off Bahrain and the fighter aircraft in the air. A BARCAP of four F-20/A Enforcer multirole fighters armed with AIM.15/B IRIS-T and AIM.14/B BVRAAM air to air missiles and AGM.19/B Brimstone anti-tank missiles were already in the air over Bahrain, and some A-28/C Hammer close air support aircraft were in the air, though armed only with laser-guided bombs and AGM.5/A AMESM air to surface missiles. It was the Enforcers that were first tasked with identifying and taking down the aircraft.

Swooping down from their high altitude, the Enforcers flew subsonic while being guided in from land-based RADAR in Dhahrain. They quickly aquired their targets and locked the missiles on to them, but they held fire until they could get a positive ID. Eventually, they were identified as Hawks that didn't belong to the Realm. That meant that they were considered hostile, and the appropriate steps were taken. Each Hawk was engaged by the Enforcers, which fired two IRIS-Ts against each Hawk. Should they be unsuccessful, a highly unlikely possibility given the accuracy and advanced IIR guidance of the IRIS-Ts, the Enforcers would disengage and let the ground-based SAMs and AAA take care of them.

On the ground, the ground forces were pressing on, with the virtually indestructable M51A2 Sabertooth main battle tanks in the lead and the infantry vehicles following suit, moving towards their objectives. Each city block was methodically sweeped by the dismounted infantry, which used their urban combat training, the equipment and their weaponry against any potential threat with utmost accuracy. In the air, helicopter gunships were moving across the island, engaging potential targets with the CRV7 rockets and the 30mm twin-barreled cannons. In particular, they were engaging persons who carried weaponry or who behaved suspiciously.

Special Forces teams were also closing on the airbases, breaching the outer perimeters with guns blazing, using their advanced infantry tactics, hand grenades and the sniper teams to the fullest extent. More than one terrorist met his maker thanks to the 8.6x70mm and 12.7x99mm sniper rounds that were fired. The Special Forces teams also employed the air support to the max, calling in the Hammers on more than one occation, guiding in a 250-kilogram laser-guided bomb or a lethal spray of 30mm depleted uranium munitions against enemy vehicles or massed infantry. The men also used the 83mm L111A1 SMAW anti-tank weapons against the enemy vehicles, taking them out from a distance with a 83mm rocket designed to open a wide hole in tanks and bunkers. They also called in artillery, either from the self-propelled howitzers that had made their way to the island, but also from the frigates and destroyers that patrolled the shores of the island. It was amazing how much damage a 155mm projectile could do.

The first objective of the ground forces were to secure Manana and install a Cottish-friendly puppet government which would give the Cottish invasion a valid reason. It was expected that the people would be friendly towards the Cots, who had been ordered to only engage those locals that were carrying guns or attacking them.

Flying in formation, the three Hawks saw the incoming missiles, and immediately dived towards the ground. As they approached the ground at transonic speeds, smoke began to appear behind them. In their former lives as display aircraft, they had had smoke cannisters fitted to emit coloured smoke, but this was a different kind of smoke, infra-red smoke, designed to confuse the missiles. They then pitched up, towards the sun, and then looping over, hiding their exhaust, using an old tactic to shake-off IR missiles. This wouldn't put the missiles off totally, but it would help. Still flying in close formation, and approaching their base, they engaged the missiles with a recently developed Directional Infra-red Counter Measure system, which blinded the missiles' sensor apertures. One Hawk was damaged by a prematurely exploding missiles, but still managed to limp back to base.
Meanwhile, the engagement had shocked Whittlesfield's leaders, who had not expected Cottish forces to fire upon non-hostile aircraft. A message was transmitted on all available frequencies.

The Free Lands of Whittlesfield request an immediate ceasefire, and request that a Whittlian delegation are to be allowed to meet Cottish representatives, so that a more peaceful solutions to our current problems can be found.

Back at the airbase, the pilot of the stricken Hawk was being treated for minor injuries, and a squadron of a Barracuda UCAVs were being prepared for launch. Having only limited resources, Whittlesfield had developed little in the way of strike aircraft, and had concentrated solely on air defence planes. The Barracudas were the latest in unmanned fighter plane technology, capable of pulling far more Gs than any conventional plane

However, the main aim of the Whittlian forces was to hold the Cottish forces off until peace could be reached. Captain James May was to be a member of the Liaison team which would be sent to the Cottish High Command, and was to convince the Cottish forces to leave Bahrain. He could feel the butterflies in the stomach as he sat in the Briefing Room, as he knew that the future of Whittlesfield would sit squarely on his shoulders, and if he failed, then everything could fail. A former RSNT employee, May had been head of the PR department, before being drafted into the Armed Forces by the new organisation. Unarmed, but fully prepared, he awaited the response from Cotland...

"...LIMA 3-2, vi rykker frem til posisjon KÅRDE. Jeg gjentar, LIMA 3-2 rykker frem til posisjon KÅRDE, over." [...LIMA 3-2, we're advancing to position KÅRDE. I repeat, LIMA 3-2 advancing to position KÅRDE. Over.]

"LIMA 3-2, dette er 9. Mottatt. Vær obs på at FOXTROT 1-1 er på din venstre flanke, jeg gjentar FOXTROT 1-1 er på din venstre flanke. Sørg for at du ikke engasjerer noen vennlige. Over." [LIMA 3-2, this is 9. Copy. Be advised, FOXTROT 1-1 is on your left flank, I repeat, FOXTROT 1-1 is on your left flank. Make sure you don't engage friendlies. Over.]

"9, LIMA 3-2. Mottatt." [9, LIMA 3-2. Copy.]

With that, LIMA 3-2, or the commanding officer of the 2. Battalion, 4503. Mechanized Infantry Brigade as the unit he commanded was known as to normal people signed off, having been warned that FOXTROT 6-1, a tank battalion from the division's armored brigade was on the unit's left flank, using its forty-eight M51A2 Sabertooth main battle tanks and twenty-three M60 Spectre infantry fighting vehicles to root out resistance in the block to the commander's north, at the village of Jidd Hafs. As LIMA 3-2 fell silent, the communications sergeant in the command post took the silence to grab a fresh bottle of water, having emptied the last one a short while ago. In temperatures around forty-five degrees centigrade, the Cottish soldiers had one standing order: rehydrate whenever you get a chance.

The divisional command post had been established on Umm an Na'sân island shortly after dawn and was now reaching operational status, with all the information being relayed from the individual battalion and brigade command posts to the divisional command post, something which ensured that the many smaller manouver units operated as a single living organism, fighting the enemy where it was possible.

Sitting back down in the cramped quarters of the M36A3 Nidaros C4I vehicle, the communications sergeant drank about a third of the half-litre bottle before putting the headset back on and getting back into the action at hand. It was a rather interesting job, getting to know the progress of the battle at hand and experiencing it without actually getting directly shot at like the people in the other end were. It was about to get a whole lot more interesting.

The message transmitted in the clear was immediately recieved by the Nidaros' twenty-four meter antenna mast, which had been erected since the command post was established two hours ago, and piped down to whoever of the six operators in the crew compartment that was listening - in this case, the communications sergeant, who immediately started fiddling with switches, buttons and the touch-screen displays in his work-space, trying to figure out where in the world that transmission came from. The messages were automatically recorded on a digital recorder, so it was easy work replaying the transmission and writing it down on paper. Less than a minute later, the sergeant turned and motioned for the officer in charge to get over there. As he did, the sergeant handed the officer a notepad with the message.

"Kaptein, det ser ut som fienden vil snakke." [Captain, it appears that the enemy wants to talk.]

"Åpenbart. Takk sersjant. Tilbake til jobb." [Obviously. Thanks sergeant. Now get back to work.] The Captain replied with a smile before exiting the Nidaros and making his way over to the large desert-colored tent with camoflage netting over that housed the actual command post and the people who made the decisions. Taking off the helmet as he entered, the cool atmosphere of twenty-five degrees centigrade was a welcome relief from the heat for the Captain. Standing there for a few seconds, just cooling off, he looked around for the person to give the message to. There he was.

Generalmajor Reidar Marken, commanding officer of the 45. Mechanized Infantry Division was standing at the map table, looking at the situation as it progressed. They were in the field, so they didn't have the normal high-tech equipment that was back in the 45.'s home base in Jordan, but a pair of wooden planks serving as the table, with a large map of Bahrain island and old-fashioned plastic markers indicating where the various battalions were positioned was more than enough for the general, who had been in the military for long enough to have seen the progress the Army had made, moving from the approximate positions to the pin-point accuracy of the units thanks to the introduction of the encrypted datalink system that connected all manouver units with each other, enabling the Cottish to share information about just about everything at the blink of an eye. Now, he was directing the self-propelled artillery to be redeployed to be able to provide more effective suppressive fire towards Jaww, where substantial terrorist activity was being reported by the Navy. They would be in position within fifteen minutes, the M52 howitzers moving quickly towards their positions in the newly captured village of Sâr in the northwest. With a range of more than 40 kilometers, the 155mm howitzers would have no problems striking Jaww, a mere 25 kilometers away.

"Herr generalmajor, vi mottok nettopp dette." [Major General, we just recieved this.] The Captain said, presenting the notepad with the message to his commanding officer, who took the pad and started reading it. After about ten seconds, the General smirked as he read the part about a peaceful resolution.

"Hvor kom denne beskjeden fra?" [Where did this message originate?]

"Vi holder fortsatt på å triangulere, men vi forventer å ha en omtrentlig posisjon snart herr generalmajor." [We're still triangulating, but we expect an approximate position to be discovered shortly sir.]

"Utmerket. Send tilbake at de kan komme til..." [Excellent. Send a reply, that they can come to...] - The General looked at the map and the current positions of the Cottish forces - "Krysset nordvest for Ar Rifâ' al Gharbi om én time. Be dem om ikke å være væpnet, ellers blir de drept av våre styrker så snart de viser seg. Informer dem om at det blir våpenhvile om tre kvarter, men at vi vil svare dersom de bryter den. Det er alt." [The crossroads northwest of Ar Rifâ' al Gharbi in one hour. Tell them to come unarmed, or they'll be killed by our forces the moment they show their faces. Also, inform them that there'll be a ceasefire in forty-five minutes, but that we will return fire if they violate it. That'll be all.]

The Cottish advance had reached as far south as the crossroads near Ar Rifâ' al Gharbi, where elements of the 8. Air Assault Division had dug in and held fast, controlling the road for an upcoming push later that day. So far, the Cots had control over approximately 5 % of the island, all of it in the northwestern section but pushing heavily towards Manana, which wasn't bad for a few hours hard work. The island had been sealed off completely, with the Navy covering the seaside and the Air Force covering the rest, engaging any unauthorized movement towards the island. A surface-to-air cover was also being esablished over Bahrain, consisting of the two Sverd SAM batteries that were organic to the division and just now being rushed over the causeway, having been given priority after the incident with the Hawks.

The MIM.38/A Sverd was RADAR-guided with a two-way datalink, enabling the operators on the ground or those in the E-3/A Bataleur AEW&CC aircraft that was coming on station now. With the arrival of the Sverds, the Cottish air defense network was complete, and the enemy could now be engaged with both IIR- and with RADAR-guided missiles, not to mention the devestating anti-aircraft artillery fire the Cots had over their positions.

Back at the command post, the message was sent to the Whittlians, instructing them to come unarmed to the designated rendezvous-point in one hour - not earlier, not later - where they would be met by Cottish soldiers, who would search them for weapons and/or explosives before they were to escort them to the command post for discussion. The message also informed them that the Cots would cease fire forty-five minutes after the message was sent, but that if the Whittlians didn't show or if they violated it, they would resume the campaign.

Meanwhile, a few B-40/A Grevling tactical bombers were given a special mission: make the enemy airports useless before the cease-fire came into effect. Four 500-kilogram smart bombs per runway, dropped from well above the enemy air defense cover did the trick, making a couple of very deep, very round holes in the middle of the runways, too far away to harm anyone (unless they were in the middle of the runway), yet close enough to render the runways useless until they could be repaired, something which would take at least a few hours.

Almost an hour later, the infantrymen of 4. Company, 3. Airmobile Infantry Battalion, 801. Air Assault Brigade, 8. Air Assault Division were waiting at the crossroads at Ar Rifâ' al Gharbi, dispersed around the crossroads in their defensive positions, supported by a pair of CTLAVs with heavy L112A1 12.7mm heavy machine guns or MGM.21/A Firefly anti-tank missile launchers mounted on the roof of the light armored vehicles....

Although the runway had been cratered, there was still a few experimental Whittlian VTOL craft usable. The delegation led by Captain May climbed on-board the X-Wing (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Sikorsky_X-wing%2C_diagonal_view.jpg), which was painted all white and clearly marked as a diplomatic vehicle. All the men were unarmed, and as it took off, all radio frequencies were jammed, and replaced with messages informing Cottish forces not to fire upon the vehicle.

As it approached the RV point, they could clearly see the Cottish forces waiting for them, and as they descended towards the ground, they could only hope the Cottish forces had peaceful intentions...

[IC: Just thought I'd give you the option to shoot my plane down if you so wish. Anyway, I'd just like to say that I'd like to continue RPing in E2 after this thread, so I guess we have a few options. We come to peaceful conclusion here, and I stay on Bahrain, or I'm relocated to another island, as Whittlians aren't local to Bahrain. Or we carry on fighting, and your forces withdraw because of the high death toll or something along the lines. Or I get defeated, and hopefully get some land in E2 to RP as a different side. Your call I guess]

[OOC: You did get deleted, so the land's automatically fallen to me. However, you're in luck. There's some free land that's reserved for new players, so you could get some of that, since you are technically a "new" player. You should be more active than you've been though. Anyway, I do want Bahrain, so I intend to fight for it if you make me.]