NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: This rp is open only the in terms of news reporters from nations to reporting the to events as they happen, but in all other matters this rp is closed to anyone that I didn’t invited to partake in these actions.

IC:

Intro: Stability in Imperium of the Dune was relative term. There were always groups plotting against the Sultan and his government, but since the infamous crackdowns after the 5th of November Incident. These groups were laying low and reorganizing for their chance to strike again and the chance came to them when the Sultan Government was showing sights of weakness. A great number of hardliners and their supporters within the arm forces and from the people were dishearten by the turn of events, just the groups aka the factions contact these dishearten groups of hardliners and etc and told them the only way to restore correct these wrong doings by the Imperial Government was to overthrew the current government and Sultan and replace it with a more hard-line government and the simple minded people bought into this idea and just set off in motion was the makings of massive fitna was on the way, but this wasn’t going to be a violent fitna…it was going to be a peaceful…unlike anything the KLM has dealt with before. A peaceful change in government was such an alien concept for the Imperium…


Khailfah News Network
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“In today’s, top stories the Imperial Government current ruling coalition has taken a major blow with a great number of its Ministers and Viziers crossing the floor and forming their own political bloc known as Hizbu-Rāshidūn , it is composes of Ministers and Viziers from all the current parties. In their official statements, they said that they sick of lack of action within the current Unionist-Reformist led coalition government on its stance with Oceania and other matters, they believe it is time for a new party to led the Imperium and correct the past wrongs and problems that still trouble the Imperium to this day. The party has manger to capture a sizeable number in Parliament and sizeable number of seats within the House of Viziers.

Cuts to pre break up and post break up

Pre Break up

House of Viziers (Upper house): 600 seats
360 seats for the Unionist-Reformist Party
240 seats for the Hezbollah Party

Parliament (Lower house): 800 seats
400 seats for the Unionist-Reformist Party
300 seats for the Hezbollah Party
100 seats for the Al Muslimeen Social Democratic Labour Party

Post break up

House of Viziers (Upper house): 600 seats
300 seats for the Unionist-Reformist Party
200 seats for the Hezbollah Party
100 Hizbu-Rāshidūn

Parliament (Lower house): 800 seats
200 seats for the Unionist-Reformist Party
200 seats for the Hezbollah Party
50 seats for the Al Muslimeen Social Democratic Labour Party
350 Hizbu-Rāshidūn

After a high profile meeting between the leader of Hizbu-Rāshidūn, Hilmi al Malik bin Houssam, Minster from Jerusalem, Bilad al Sham, Prime Minister Uthman bin Bashir, Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasa Sokollu, High Chancellor Hashmir al Horatius Bin Assad and Sultan Suleiman Al Bashir II; Minister Houssam has announce a reasonable power sharing government with Unionist-Reformist, in other words a new coalition government is formed, within hours of the fall of the last one.

But the damage has been already done, number of Cabinet ministers have resign in sign of support for new movement, the following cabinet officials have resign Minister of Internal Affairs, Grand Vizier of Dominions and Defense Minister. The office of the Sultan has stated in press release that the Sultan has already appoint a new ministers to the vacant posts. Another sign of major damage to the Sultan Imperial Government is the vote of no confidence in the local provincial governments for several key major Unionist-Reformist provinces (Bilad al Sham, Mesopotamia, Near East, Egyptian trans Sudan, and North Africa) as to Imperial law, the elections for new provincial governments will take place within 30 days. Odds are the new Hizbu-Rāshidūn will gain control of these provinces and further weaken the Unionist-Reformist hold over the Imperium. Also we getting unconfirmed reports that the Sultan is planning to stack a number of provincial’s governors in order to remove the ineffective ones, a clean house so to speak.

And now on to business news

Then the Television went off, as the Sultan presses the off button on his remote, he put his hands to his head and rub his head. He was sitting his in leather seat in his office, thinking how his efforts to prevent from happening failed. All that he worked for since he first become the Sultan was going down the drain, his grand government was dieing before him, news was coming that regional governments of India and Southeast Asia governments were about to hold a vote of no confidence, and debates on going for Turkey, Kurdistan, Arabia, West Africa, Abyssinia, East Africa and all six Imperial Dominions. The chain reaction was in effect, the Unionist-Reformist was dieing a painful slow death, the party of his grand father and his father had rebuild from the ground up was collapsing from infighting and defections to other factions. All his efforts crackdown and crush the faction system had failed and they were all-reborn and were up to their old games. All those bloody efforts didn’t work…they just give him a false sense of hope and now they are beginning to call this change in events a peaceful fitna…the a bloody fitna indeed. Its not the Hizbu-Rāshidūn that he had to worry about since he knew they were true to their believes, he had to worry about those troublemakers factions who might try to get over the regional governments and then try to take over the Imperium with their corrupt ideas..He knew had to take certain measures to insure they will be kept in check and taken out when the time was right…oh what to do for the good of the Imperium. That is the question that’s plagues me..

Then his train of thought was interrupt by his secretary speaking thou the intercom

“Sultan, Flag Rank General Dr.Qasim Varinius Ioannis, the head of Medical Corp. is here to see. Shall I send him in?” asked his Secretary

“Anne, send in the crazy SOB…” remarked the Sultan

“Very well..” replied Anne

Then derange Doctor enter the Sultan office, he looked like he been though hell and the tired Doctor took a seat in one of the Sultan leather chairs.

Sultan asked “ Let me guess….in-laws?”

“Indeed…my wife parents came from Athens to visit us…they came at 8 p.m….and we didn’t go to sleep in till 3:00 a.m….they and my wife talked on and on…for hours on end..it was fuckin insane..it reached the point where I was sleeping with my eyes open…and I have go back again to my house, where they are expecting me….oh my what’s worse doing paperwork or dealing with in-laws?” asked the Doctor

“Hmm..if your two out of three your wives in-laws speak Moorish Arabic…then I’ll rather do paperwork over in-laws…but I feel your pain…but I can’t express any signs of that since I have currently in a state of trying to figure out what the fuck am I going to do with recent events..” said the Sultan

“Ah yes….the great fuck up as I call it…meh I saw it coming…it was bound to happen…its cycle for our Imperium…a cycle we tend or like to forget too often…but that doesn’t mean we can’t keep the troublemakers in check no?” said the Doctor

“Indeed, I am already going to take some measures to prevent the regional governments from falling totally into their hands…” replied the Sultan

“ Good…we did this to ourselves..” said the Doctor

“ How so?” asked the Sultan

“ This goes all the way back to the early days of the first Khailfah, to rapidly expand or slowly but surely expand the Khialfah, in order to assimilate the new regions of the Khailfah just to insure they are loyal productive regions and we have also rooted out any dissents or troublemakers…but unfortunately..we decide to rapidly expand the Khailfah for the sake of spreading the message without thinking about the problems that would arise from rapid expansions…but we failed to see that problems in till they will too late.. and apparently we still haven’t learn our lessons from our past..we expanded the Khailfah even more then ever before…well GREAT…we now have most of Europe, half of Africa, and a good part of Asia..oh yea some other landmasses…but at what cost…well the cost is all the useless land we have taken such as portions of Siberia and etc. We can’t get rid of this dead weight…and we have to defend it…no wonder how Oceanians were able to take New Albion from us……all because of our massive size…we overlooked the bloody defenses island in till now…and they still call for more expansion…such utter morons…we must stop expanding for now and stabilize all the regions we currently have to insure that another fuckin New Ablion doesn’t happen again..” said the Doctor

“I agree with you 100 percent on the matter.. but we can do so much before we expand again…those morons are very short sighted at times and there is little I could do to tell them otherwise…the Imperiums needs to expand very so often peaceful or non peaceful..” said the Sultan

“Agreed, but we now must slow down for our own good or we will face the bloody music sooner or later.” Said the Doctor

“Yes, so want something to wake you from your hell beaten state?” asked the Sultan

“Hell yes…get me a coupe of shots of Turkish coffee and a wasibi soda.” Said the Doctor

“Will do.” Said the Sultan and he press his Intercom button and order the Coffee and Soda for the good doctor

The Sultan check his watch and remarked “ In a half of hour, the joint meeting of heads of the arm forces and cabinet will start oh that will be fun…no?”

Then the Turkish coffee and soda was bought in and the good doctor quickly drank down his shots of Turkish coffee and down his wasibi soda quickly, since all of three drinks were very strong and had a powerful effect on someone who wasn’t use to it.

“Damn that was bloody good…and as for meeting oh joy…so much to discuss ….its going last over four hours no?” asked the Doctor

“Indeed..we have to discuss new policies, review a listen of candidates to replace quite a few governors with some hardliners in order to keep a number of regions factions in check…and discuss a few items with Intel agencies …so yes..a four hour meeting..” said the Sultan

“Oh joy…I don’t know what is worse…staying with my In-laws or partaking in this mind numbing meeting…oh joy.” Remarked the Doctor

“Indeed..” replied the Sultan

OOC: sorry to be off topic, but we wish to open diplomatic relations. The country is Sunni I assume?

OOC: sorry to be off topic, but we wish to open diplomatic relations. The country is Sunni I assume?

OOC: yes its Sunni/Shia mixed...we can doing a meeting in other thread,but not this one

Shortly after that, the Sultan and Doctor got up and head off to the conference room, to start the meeting on time.. They walked thou the hallways of the Palaces as they headed to the conference, as they walked though the hallways.

The good doctor remarked “ Here we are walking thou this bloody palace and everyone when we pass them by. Gives us their respects by bowing their heads…does it ever get old?”

The Sultan replied “ After the first day of being the Sultan…it got really old..but I just don’t brother with it anymore..oh goody…we reached the room..” pointed out the Sultan, since the conference room doors were always guarded by two Imperial Black guardsmen

The Sultan just nodded to the guards and they open the doors for the doctor and him. As they enter, all the cabinet ministers and heads of the arm forces rose up from their seats. The Sultan and doctor took their seats and just everyone else took their seats. The Sultan took a deep breath and said

“Gentlemen for this meeting we much to discuss about the current situation of Imperium and to discuss other matters of state….so much to discuss with so little time…just let us use our time wisely and cover as much material as we possible can within this allocate time in our busy day. Now on to the first matter of business…in light of recent changes within our Imperial Government and regional governments…we must take some actions to insure that none of the troublemakers take over and stir up unrest..our first move is to subject our governors yet again to a board of review…to see which ones that need to replace with governors that handle these troublemakers without any problem..just Minister of Governor affairs, you will head this board of review and report back to me once the review is done and over with the findings of the find.” Said Sultan Suleiman Al Bashir II (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/9cf28c18.jpg),

“Yes, my Sultan rest assure in no time you will be the list of the governors that need to be stacked and replaced with more able governors.” Said Minster of Governor Affairs Tahkiyudeen Wahid Neemuddin (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/22a0984d.jpg)

“Good, now to another matter of business…we must crack down on these bloody troublemakers before we face a major fitna…just it is the duty of Intel Agencies and Ministry of Internal Affairs…to root out these troublemakers before they can do anything that cause harm to the state, is that understood?” asked the Sultan

“Yes, my Sultan…we understand perfectly…as we speak the AMI, High Guard and SIA are already making list of troublemakers to taken care of and we will gladly work with our counterparts Ministry of Internal Affairs to crackdown on these troublemakers…”said Head of Al Muslimeen Intelligence- Seyyed Zia'eddin Tabatabaee (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/200422_134215_2_006.jpg)

“But of course, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its Internal Troops will perform its duty to the state and take care of troublemakers with the help of our friends in Intel agencies, I believe we won’t have any trouble getting the job done without attaching much attention to ourselves.” Said Minister of Internal Affairs Farhri Koruturk (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/8b4e95d0.jpg)

“Good, next matter of business how to deal with our new partners in the Imperial Government.. I open to ideas…” said the Sultan

“They are good people and true to their believes, we should treat them as equals in policy making besides we need to keep the hardliners in line…just lets give their leader Hilmi a good position with our cabinet or within the Imperial Government in order keep him happy and align to us..” said Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasa Sokollu (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/7bcc8e31.jpg)

“I concur, lets make him a deputy Prime Minister, besides in the Constitution, it allows the Prime Minister to appoint as many deputies as he sees fit to aid in him in his duties to the State, just I believe it would be in our best interest to appoint him to the post of second deputy Prime Minster, just giving him a key post within the Imperial Government and insuring his loyalty to us..” said Prime Minister Uthman Bin Bashir (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/Season_3_Baltar.jpg)

“Good, Make it so…. now to move yet another key issue, a matter we love and hate with our hearts content.. Foreign policy..oh joy..now I wish to hear what are we doing in matter of handling our cold war with the bloody Neo-British aka Oceania and their lackeys?” asked the Sultan

“Well my Sultan have expanded the air force bomber fleet with a set of new high speed long range heavy bombers and new fighter escort …we are ready for massive strike against Oceania and their lackeys should the need come for it.” Said Defense Minister Hassan Mustafa al Mwinyi (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/a716def2.jpg)

The heads of arm forces nodded in agreement, including the good doctor

“Whenever we speak of foreign policy…we speak of death nowadays…. ever since New Albion…that is all we speak about…death and revenge…yet there is nothing new about this talk its just new faces for us to fight against…” remarked the Grand Vizier

“Indeed, our state has been fighting since first day of our very existent for the right to exist and defend our way of life from them…that was 1428 years ago and still to this day we fight for our rights..its funny to nothing as really changed for us expect how we kill each other and how fast we can kill each other, we still fight over the same issues that we faced 1428 years ago…nothing ever changes for us..” said the Sultan

“Gentlemen that is the nature of our beloved state. Now we must take major look at our policy towards our friends and foes, gentlemen…for too long our cold war with Oceania has been cold for too long…. we want peace at one time and the next moment we are willing to cut their necks within a moment notice… we can’t maintain this double edge sword for long…our Imperium is not design to maintain this constant war stance for prolong periods of time..within six months time we must make that decision to make a lasting peace with Oceania or declare Jihad against them… if we maintain this double edge stance pass six months deadline, we will see the profound effects of this stain on our Imperium economy and society overall.. so just in six months if there is no lasting peace with Oceania…we must commit ourselves to war against them or face the penalty for our inaction on the matter.” Said Foreign Minister Karl Landsteiner (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/f0123a6a.jpg)

There was dead silent in the room and the Sultan broke the silent by saying

“ We will conduct a all out push for a lasting peace all we need is something to happen to allow us to push for that…if that failed,we’re have no choice but to declare a state of Jihad… just we must be ready to go to war or to have peace…just I here by order the Imperial General Staff of the Imperium and her Dominions to draw up plans for a offensive war Oceania.” Ordered the Sultan

The heads of the arm forces nodded in agreement and the Defense Minister said” By your command, my Sultan, we will the plans draw up and ready for you to review by the need of the week, rest assured.”

“Personal I rather not see the situation come to that..but we must ready for anything if worse comes to worse..” said the Sultan

“And the hawks of wars and the dove of peace fly in ever closer circle against each other over the capital of the Imperium, both ready to kill each within a moment notice…and we all know the outcome of such confrontation…do we not?” remarked High Chancellor Hashmir al Horatius Bin Assad (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/b1b0478d.jpg)

“Yes, we do know…which beings me to another matter, we must discuss with the High Commissars and Viceroys of our dominions…there are certain matters of state…that I must have their input on the matters of policy with Oceania and having our existing protectorates join the Imperium as Dominions…. I ask you Grand Vizier of Dominions arrange this meeting in Istanbul, as soon as possible. It very important that I meet with them” Said the Sultan

“Yes, Sultan I shall arrange meeting within two days, no lately then that, rest assure, it been some time since the last meeting of all the dominion leaders, had occur in one room.. too long in my opinion.” Said Grand Vizier of Dominions Jaffa Yaqub Bin Almohad (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/5ff6be42.jpg)

“Duly noted, I have my own reasoning why I haven’t called for such a meeting for sometime..but that’s another matter for another day..now I believe we covered everything for the most part, just this meeting of the cabinet is dismiss.” Said the Sultan and just the meeting was over.

Two days later

Everyone was glue to his or her television screens, waiting for the newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister Hilmi al Malik bin Houssam to address Parliament and Imperium as whole (via KLM CSPAN) to discuss his party agenda and stances. This was going to happen at 1:00 o’clock local time in the afternoon, which was only ten minutes away. With everyone attention to the televisions, the AMI, High Guard, SIA and Internal Troops decide it was the best to begun the crackdown on the troublemakers, while no one was paying attention to what was going on around them. The scale of this crackdown was massive; it was going to occur all over all the Imperium and her Dominions. All the units were in place and waiting for the signal…which was the new Deputy PM giving his speech, only within a matter of a few moments the crackdown will begin…

KLM-CSPAN live

Camera zoom in as Deputy Prime Minister Hilmi took the floor of Parliament, and begun his speech to Parliament

Right at the moment, all hell broke loose all the units got the go ahead to begin the crackdown. The methods of the organizations involve greater different, the AMI use drive bys to gun down unsuspecting troublemakers that were on their hit list and one could always tell it was the AMI by their trademark unmarked Black sedans with all the windows black out. As for the SIA style, they dove unmarked black vans and kidnapped whoever was on their hit list of troublemakers and what happen to these troublemakers..they were never heard from again…rumors had it after a few rounds of mental torture, the SIA agent shot them in the head, when they were not valuable anymore. As for High Guard aka GRU they liked to work with their AMI Black Hawk special operation force counterparts with the support of the Internal Troops to carry out their goals of raiding troublemaker safe houses, and once in a while they had the help of the infamous assassins to insure that none of the troublemakers makes it out alive…

Adana, Turkey, Khailfah al Muslimeen

The High Guard got an insider tip that a group of troublemakers were going to hold a meeting in the industrial section of Adana, in an old warehouse at 1:30 p.m. It was a high profile meeting between some key members within the troublemaker’s organizations; it was an opportunity that High Guard wouldn’t pass up. They quickly send a team of AMI Black Hawks (10 special ops soldiers) with the support of internal troops (Two SWAT teams, 20 men each) and a number of their own agents (four agents) for the raid. Their mission was simple to kill and capture whoever was on the hit list.

All the teams were in place and were out of sight. They waited for the troublemakers to pull in with their cars and go into the warehouse in order for them to conduct their raid, by 1 o’clock, the troublemakers begun to show up and go into the warehouse.

The two Internal Troops SWAT snipers kept a count of how many troublemakers were entering the building at 1:28 p.m. local time, the flow of troublemakers had stopped about 30 were now in the warehouse. Then when the clock hit 1:30 p.m, the High Guard made their move, they storm the warehouse and threw flash bang grenades and tear gas to confuse and disable the troublemakers. Then they storm the building with their assault rifles firing at will and taking down as many armed troublemakers they could, as for the ones that made it outside, they were gun down by the snipers who were awaiting for them, within a few minutes most of the troublemakers were killed.. They also captured about four key troublemaker members…

AMI Black Hawk Colonel Amcazade Hüseyin Pasha Köprülü was busy checking his palm pilot database to see I.D. who he had and then he smiled and turn to his GRU colleague and remarked “ Well…we finally caught up to the red guard faction, assassins…you know the ones that nearly kill the Sultan and manger to kill the Viceroy of Eurasia at the Kremlin, Moscow, Eurasia Dominion and the same ones who threw the Sultan bullet filled body out of three story and ending up land on some bags of fertilizer…well we finally caught up to them…I believe the Sultan would be most interest in handling this personally…wouldn’t you agree?”

The GRU agent remarked” But of course, what about the other two?”

The Colonel replied “Well, according to the hit list…they are to be beheaded, on sight…so do take the honor of beheading them. Besides I want to see the deputy PM closing remarks on my palmpilot.”

The GRU agent smiled and said” With pleasure.” Then he pull out his sword and quickly behead both of them on spot right in front of the two Red Guard members. As for the faith of the two Red Guard members they quickly transport via plane (an half hour fight) to Istanbul where the Sultan was already waiting for them in an abandon warehouse in Istanbul dockyards.

The Two men were drag into the warehouse by the Imperial Black Guardsmen, the Sultan smiled bitterly for so long he was waiting for this moment so long. The Sultan pull out his sword and said in Russian “ Revenge is a dish best serve by the cold blade of my sword…. you will pay for your crimes against the Imperium, here and now…not in some court…but here..”

Then the Sultan with all his strength behead both Red Guard faction (one at a time) members without delay and said to his guards
” Make sure their heads are put on pikes and on display for all to see, with the others who dare to try to kill me….I want walk pass that area and look into their lifeless eyes and know that I have gotten my revenge and to serve as reminder to those who plot against me…that I will come after them one way or another and have them join these two on display to the public..”

With that the Sultan walked out of the warehouse with his guards, and shortly after the two Red Guard heads were put on pikes and put on public display with traitors to the Imperium. Just the silence purge has begun and whoever who dared crossed the Imperium will paid for it with their lives…

The day after the Sultan and his two guards decide to visit an old friend, who was simply known as the tailor in some sections of the Imperial Government and Intel agencies.The Sultan pull up in his Black BMW sedan and parked it on the street right next to the tailor shop, which was just outside the embassy district of Istanbul. No one could figure out why the tailor had his shop there and not in the market district of Istanbul..Only the tailor knew why, he picked this spot for his own reason..

The Sultan and his two guards walked into the shop, they found the tailor was busy finishing up a suit for a client.

The Sultan remarked to his guards ” Well well, I believe we caught Faruq al Mafee bin Hāni at a bad time…wouldn’t you say gentlemen?”

Faruq look up and said” What makes you say it’s a bad time…I don’t see anyone getting shot or beaten for his or her information. Just you caught me at a good time…then to a bad time…just what beings you here old friend?”

“Just here to pick up some suits and to see how my old teacher is doing…” said the Sultan

“Why isn’t that nice.” Remarked Faruq and bought out the suits for the Sultan to see and pay for..

“So how goes the purge and dealing with the new government..” asked Faruq wrote out the bill for his tailoring services by hand

“Ah,Faruq…you always cut to the point don’t you?….well the purges are going well…we capture and taken care of a number of key troublemaker leaders…and as for the new government things are going smoothly for now..” said the Sultan

“Always one to leave out the details eh?” asked Faruq

The Sultan smiled “ I learn from the best…besides I believe you already know the details…knowing your unique ability to get information no matter what…just I believe it best to not brother and give the details..”

Faruq smiled “ Ah…you finally are catching up…yet your still one or two step behind me like always and your bill is 150 dinars..cash only…no bloody checks or credit cards..please.”

The Sultan paid the bill and pick up the Suits, he remark, “ I would assume, that you have dealings with the people from the embassy district no?”

“My student. I have dealings with all kinds of people…some have a clue and some don’t have a clue…that’s the nature of my business..my dear student…..I spent so much time in my self impose exile all those years looking for the answer that I didn’t want to hear, but had to hear at same time….its pity really…but to answer your question in short…yes I had some dealings with the people from the embassies..but nothing of value to discuss about..” said Faruq

“That’s good to know…at times we have to face the answers..that we rather not want to hear..as for the people from the embassies….quiet a odd bunch…some never brother do anything outside of their bloody embassy and I have no idea of their existent in till some incident happens and requires them to come out of the woodwork and actually deal with us for once…and there are those…who just plain…annoying..come to you very so often for favors to granted to their nations…yet you must maintain your emotions and be polite to them.. and there are those few ambassadors were they have actually won your respect and friendship… like the ones from ANL, Malkyer, GE and a few others…but those are few in between the others..well I best be going…I must attend to some matters of state with the Imperial Senate heads in a half hour or so.” Said the Sultan

“Indeed…and also one last thing my old student…please tell your wives to not to use Moorish Arabic on me, while doing their business dealings with me…its drives me bloody insane to understand the bloody slang…if they keep it up…I may, try speaking to them in Berber…sooner or later..” remarked Faruq

“I believe they do it on purpose..whenever you drive a hard bargain for some of your products…and the fact, they know that we have a great distill for that slang doesn’t help too…but I will relayed the message to them soon my old friend. Now I must take my leave.” Said the Sultan, the Sultan and his guards left the shop

“Yes to drive me mad…will get them a better deal…I do wonder where they get that idea from…bah.” Remarked Faruq to himself, as he went back to work

Shortly later, the Imperial Senate building

The Sultan and his guards their way thought out the black marble hallways, these hallways only seen four groups of people walk thought them, the Imperial Senators and the Sultan cabinet, heads of Intel agencies and the JAG judges. No one else was ever permitted in the hallways of the building, the Senatorial Guard made sure of that, they were stoic then their Imperial Black Guard counterparts. When the Sultan and his guards reach the doors of the Imperial Senate meeting room, the Senatorial Guard open the doors and allow the Sultan to enter the room, but his guards had to wait outside.

All 25 members of the Imperial Senate (22 senators plus the President, Premier and Chairmen) were already settled and ready to meet with the Sultan over a very important matter of policy for the Imperium.

“Sultan Bashir, the Imperial Senate thanks you for coming here for an annual review of policy for the Imperium, there some matters of your propose policy change that must review and discuss here and now…in order of clearing up any misunderstandings that we may have on the subject.” Said President Ismail al-Azhari (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/SidneyPoitier.jpg), the overall head of the Imperial Senate

The Sultan took his seat and replied “ Yes, it is best that clear up any misunderstandings now and to avoid any future problems in the long one.”

“Let us review the major policy change first…. the policy change with Oceania which is to make lasting peace or fight a war them in six months time…. the only problem we have with this plan is the word lasting peace.. There is no such thing as permanent peace…peace is relative to the given situation is it not?.” Ask Premier Khan Noonien Singh ( http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/V000628008C.jpg ), the second in command of the Imperial Senate

“Yes in hindsight use of term of lasting wasn’t clear thought on my part..yes…my prime goal is just make a reasonable peace with Oceania for now and end this fruitless cold war one way or another, if the peace efforts failed then let loose the dogs of war and settled this matter once and for all…personal I rather see a peace agreement then war.” Said the Sultan

“Is it not the nature of our state to always have a rival of some kind…why end this current rivalry with Oceania via peace or war?” asked Senator Hama Amadou (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/a760c777.jpg),

“Well…the current situation of this cold war is proving to staining the Imperium socially and economically…unlike any other cold war we faced before…just we can’t maintain this level of prolong cold war for another six months…we must make the move for détente and settled the matter by war…I believe its in best the interest of Imperium to take this cold war to stage its not as cold as it is at the moment.” Said the Sultan

“But of course, that perfectly reasonable for our given situation. Yet we must not ever forget that our state needs a rival at all times, that rival could be the Oceanians or etc…but must not forget our beloved state needs rivals to keep itself mental and physical ready at all times without these rivals…we grow too full of ourselves and numb…just unable to hand a given situation…. just we must lose a rival…yet at the same time we must relax tensions for our own good.” Said Chairmen of Imperial Senate- Mahommed Khosrev (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/mummypre4.jpg), third in command of the Imperial Senate

“We want peace at moment, yet at the same time…we want rivaly, and at the same time we want war…these of the three prime factors of making policy for our Imperium..just we must equally account of these factors for this change in policy we plan to do…we already had just finish a war with RSA..just we accounted for one of the factors..yet we have yet justify clearly enough the other two factors..intill then..we must debate this matter furtherer..” said Senator Hiren Tiberius Claudius (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v504/Ottoman01/6736e5c7.jpg)

Just the Imperial Senate and the Sultan continue to debate the matter for another two hours, and debate other matters of overall policy for another two hours. After it was all said and done, the tired Sultan remarked to his guards

“The nature of Imperial Senate to is challenge my rational and to justify it…just they are one of the most important parts of this Khailfah system of government, they insure nothing half assed happens in terms of policy…well in theory…these meetings are worth it…despite the fact they are often time consuming…”

The Sultan father and two uncles were known as the brothers Bashir, they are firebrand members of the Banu Bashir and the heads of the family clan. They were one of the few high ranking Viziers within the Imperial Government, whenever they spoke in the House of Vizier, everyone listen to them…but they paid a price for reaching their current standing within the Imperial Government, they made many friends and foes alike…their stances against the hardliners and the factions, made them heroes to the Sultan cause and foes form the hardliners and the factions. These three men Vizier Suleiman Al Bashir I (Sultan father), Vizier Ibrahim bin Bashir (Sultan uncle), Vizier Bayezid bin Bashir (Sultan uncle) were the cornerstones of Banu Bashir and the Sultan movement for reform within the Imperium.

Today was like any other day for the Brothers Bashir, they were invited to speak at Istanbul State University and discuss the effects of power shift in Government at Istanbul State University main assembly hall. A pity that they would never make it that assembly hall…as they were walking though the courtyards of the university, out of nowhere someone starting shooting his handgun in the air. Quickly two of the four bodyguards for the Brothers Bashir rush to take out the threat. Right at the moment, some men who were standing in the group of students who were just watching the guards take down the mad man.They step out of the group and pull out their handguns and started firing at the pointblank range at the Brothers Bashir, their bodyguards tried their best to defend the brothers, but they were not prepare what happen next.. They were right next to the student parking lot, and whoever planned this attack, knew how to use the terrain against the brothers Bashir. As soon as the attacks begun, two white vans pull up and men wearing black ski mask arm with AK-108s assault rifles and they mow down anyone that was near the Brothers Bashir, just instantly killing the three brothers and their guards. This all happened within a period of four minutes, by the time help had arrived the gunmen had already left the scene and the brothers Bashir were pronounce dead on the scene..they were killed in cold blood by one of the factions as a form of payback for the Sultan on going crackdowns and to serve a vendetta against Banu Bashir…just Banu Bashir was rob of their clan heads,and the Imperium was robbed of their statesmen…

All the major media outlets broadcasts the attack to the world, but there was no official statement from Banu Bashir, which was in a state of shock for the time being.

But the Sultan silence replied to the attacks was an increase to the crackdowns on the factions, and he orders his commander to show no mercy to the factions. Also now Banu Bashir had a standing vendetta against to whomever carried out this attack against the family clan…it was only matter of time before the Bashirs would get their payback…

To be continue: Stay tune for the funeral..

Antioch, Sub province of Antioch, Turkey, Khailfah al Muslimeen

The bodies of the brothers Bashir, were quickly send to their ancestral home of Antioch for burial, all the members of Banu Bashir and close family friends were there for the funerals, which was conducted according to Sharia law. First the bodies were washed, and clean with scented water, the bodies were wrapped in sheets of clean, white cloth (which is called kafari). Then the deceased brothers were transported to the site of funeral prayers (salat-l-janazah) , the prayers were held outdoors in the courtyard of the family estate. The funerals prayer was led by Vizier Ibrahim ibn al-Walid bin Umayyad an old family friend and highly respect Vizier within the House of Viziers, the Vizier (who is the Imam for this case) stands in front of the deceased, facing away from the worshippers. Then after the prayers, the deceased brothers were taken to cemetery, while all the member of community attend the prayer. But for this part of the funeral, only the men of the community were allowed accompany the bodies to the gravesite. When they reached the graves, they laid the decreased( in each of their gaves) without a coffin on their right sides facing Mecca. Just the funeral was over and the Banu Bashir and the clan entered a 3-day morning period, the Mourning is observed in Islam by increased devotion, receiving visitors and condolences. Just the Banu Bashir is currently spending this period of morning in their family state, receiving visitors and conducting some matters of family business to be tired up.

The Sultan did not find himself in a position that he wasn’t ready for nor did he look forward to…he was now the overall head of the Banu Bashir, since he was the oldest son of the his father children and one of the most high ranking family member within the clan, just he was the one to take command. The first thing he did has the head of the family clan is to give a short speech to his siblings and cousins before the funeral started

“My beloved siblings and cousins…we will not stink to their level and conduct a personal vendetta…we must hold the higher ground at all cost.. Rest assured my clan…we will get justice…my agencies will have those who have rob us in a matter of time…do not worry my kinsmen…we will get justice…” then the Sultan started to break down and cried

But now the Sultan found himself back in the family estate, sitting with his three wives, his brothers, PM Uthman bin Bashir and his wives and Vizier Abdul Aziz Bin Bashir his wives, then his three sisters and their husbands, then their mother Mary al Aziz bin Bashir. Towards the other side his aunt and late uncle Ibrahim bin Bashir wife Helen al Bashir, and her children three daughters and two sons, they all the same age as Sultan and his siblings. Then there was Fatima al Saad, Bayezid wife and her two sons and one daughter; they were also were about the same age as the Sultan and his siblings. Plus a number of cousins were there too in the large meeting room in the front of the estate house, they were receiving visitors and etc. The Sultan ask that the children to allow to play outside away from the sorrow in the house and to stay out of trouble and just the other relatives agreed and send the children out to the courtyard to play. Today was going to be a long day for the Sultan and his family.

At the same time
Beirut, Levant, Bilad al Sham, Khailfah al Muslimeen

A team of Imperial Black Guardsmen and AMI Blacks Hawks were pose to attack a old building in the old business districts of Beirut, where they have gain some information that led them to the attackers hideout, the Guard and Hawks had standing orders to do whatever they wished to the attackers, but they were order to find out who was the main plotter and being him to justice.

AMI Black Hawk Colonel Amcazade Hüseyin Pasha Köprülü and his men were standing by to storm the old building, they were just waiting for the go ahead order. The Colonel remarked to Guard counterpart

“Well…its appears we finally caught up to our foes..seems to easy to me..”

Flag Rank Commander Siddig of the Imperial Black Guard nickname “El Sid” smiled and replied” What do you expect…this is our first move and so far we are only going after the hitman…not the mastermind of this operation.”

“Indeed…its always get more fun as it progress..”said the Colonel, then they heard a voice in their radio sets, it was the colonel second in command Lietutenant Colonel Alexander Beliavsky , “ Sir, all the birds are in the nest…the hawks are awaiting premission to stike as we speak.”

“Permission granted…take out those birds…but leave the leaders of the flock for us to deal with it understood?” said the Colonel

“ Yes, sir…the raid is in progress!” said Alexander, then the Flag Rank Commander and the Colonel watch from the floor of the building that was right front of the target location. They listen closer to their headsets, they heard their men yell out for suppression fire and one of the officers yell out

“Oh hell…these are soilders for hire…no wonder they are bloody well armed…” then they heard more suppression fire and soilders from sides throw flash bangs and shooting at eachother with assault rifles..

“What the fuck…we need more cover fire damn it..my team is getting here!” yell out Major Konstanitin Alexandrovich Stukov over his headset

“ I am going in…hold on.” Said Captain Marius Tucă over his headset, and everyone heard his assault rifle fire at the soldiers for hire

The Colonel call in to his second in command “ Beliavsky, status report!”

“Sir, we taken out most of them….their leader and a few others are hold up in one section of the building…taken a few wounded…but none of us have killed yet.” Said his second in command over the headset

“Good, remember your orders, Lt.Colonel.” said the Colonel

“Yes, sir!” said Beliavsky, then they heard more suppression fire and flash bangs being fired, this firefight lasted for four mintues.

Then Beliavsky reported in “ Sir, we have captured the leader and two of his lieutenants…they are alive and we are now waiting for you and el Sid to come. Also sir all is secure!”

“Very well…we are on the way!” said the Colonel and he nodded to the Flag Rank Commander

Within a matter of minutes they entered the building, they found many broken bodies of dead soldiers for hire. They nodded to the Black Hawks and Imperial Black Guardsmen as they carry their injured comrades for treatment. The two commanding officers walked into the room, where their men were holding the soldiers for hire leader and his lieutenants. At the same time, one of the AMI Black Hawks was busy trying to hack into the leader laptop and to access valid information.

The Colonel pulls out his side arm and shot one of the soldiers for hire leaders lieutenant right between the eyes and he turned to the Leader and said

“Tell me who hired you, and you’ll live.” Said the Colonel

The leader smiled and said” Your not getting nothing of out me about my clients.”

The Colonel smiled and said” So it will be…I only asked once and now its time to make you talk..” Then the Colonel nodded to his officers and one of them bought him a sword and the Colonel quickly behead the leader last lieutenant and cut off the left hand of the leader right after

The leader scream in pain

“Will you now let me what I want to know?” asked the Colonel

“To hell with you!” said the leader

The Colonel smiled and said” You bought this upon yourself in the first for accepting this hit on the Sultan, father and two uncles..” and he use his sidearm and blew out the leader knee caps.

The leader fell down in pain and screamed “ I’ll TALK!”

Then the officer who was hacking into the lab top came in and said” Sir, I have hack into the system and gotten all the information we need..”

The Colonel looked at the leader and said” If you cracked a minute earlier…you would have been able to walk out of here minus a hand… but too late.” And the Colonel shot him repeatedly in the head and just killed him.

Then the Colonel and Flag Rank Commander looked at the data and the lab top and found the information they were looking for and it give them the name for the next phase of the mission

“ Send this information to AMI, looks like we’re heading to…bloody Athens to get these fuckers…we might need the need of some AMI agents..”said Flag Rank Command El Sid

“Indeed..oh goody…we’re heading to EU Dominon..fun fun..” said the Colonel

Two days later

With the morning period over, The Sultan and his family return to Istanbul, to go on with their lives..but thing weren’t going to be the same anymore for the Sultan and company…when the Sultan returned to Istanbul, he saw the signs of fitna already spreading within his government and the signs of that factions will soon undo all the major reforms of his reign and the reforms of the late Sultan Mustafa bin Asad. The Sultan with all his will spend most of the time since his return from Antioch was trying rallying old allies and trying to stop the regression of his reforms and prevent the factions from stirring up a fitna in a number of regions and which would to led to civil war if not deal with right away.

The Sultan old friend Dr.Qasim Varinius Ioannis decide to pay his old friend a visit to see how he was coping with the death of his father and uncles and on other matters. He found the Sultan in his office reviewing reports and auguring on his cell phone with his contacts on matter of cracking down the factions and keepings other in line. The Doctor could tell that Sultan was overstressed with all these events happening at once, the sultan looked like a mess..he appear to not rested for sometime. He finally notice his friend was in the room, he hang up his cell phone and looked the Doctor

“Qasim..what’s beings you here…as you can see, I am quiet busy and can’t really talk at the moment?”said the Sultan

“I am here to see….and as I can see…you look like hell…when was the last time you slept? Asked the Doctor

The Sultan took a look at the clock and replied” My…I didn’t notice how many time has passed….the last time I slept was 20 hours ago..”

“20 BLOODY Hours…my goodness man….look at yourself man…you look like hell…damn it..the signs of stress are so apparently on you man…take hold of yourself before its too late…and don’t bullshit to me damn it..normally you are able to maintain yourself and manger your stress and pain…but now its breaking thou and I fear my dear friend that your body can’t maintain this level of pain and stress any longer. “ Said the Doctor

“Damn it, man…listen…I have to maintain the stability of this Imperium and keep my insanely in check at the same time….I have to repress the pain from my scars from those two assassination attempts and from the wars….I have to repress the bloody traumatic stress of my first assignment to the front….I have to live up the expectations of my family and the Imperium and deal with the pain of the lost of my father and uncles…I have to continue to PUSH myself to the limit in order to keep my reforms alive and keep the Imperium from falling into civil war then so it be it WILL be..” said the Sultan

“Your only human…your losing your mental ability to control your pain aren’t you..I can tell ..half of your mind is trying to maintain control and suppress the pain from your scars that you never able to fully recovered from and the other half is has lost total control and is crying out for help….damn it man…allow your Grand Vizier, High Chancellor and Prime Minister to take some of your workload off of you….you can’t handle it any more stress then as is…in fact you need to reduce your stress level now!”said the Doctor

“Oh how I wish…I can do what you asked me…but I can’t old friend..I have a duty to fulfill to the state before I can do any of what you ask me..I must suppress this fitna before I can rest…”said the Sultan and then his cell phone ring and pick up and he listen for a moment

“Yes…WHAT…..HOW DARE THEY….I am on my way….” Said the Sultan on his cell phone

“What happen?” asked the Doctor

“Those bloody sobs hardliners and their faction friends have decide they are going to vote against two key acts of reform for the Imperium…they have enough votes to do so…if this is allowed to happen…then all our efforts would have gone down the drain…I must go to the House of Viziers and prevent this happening…no more will I fall back on this matter!” said the Sultan and he quickly got up and grab his coat

“Damn it, man your in no state of health to go to that meeting…oh bloody hell..why brother to argue with you on the bloody topic when you already made up your mind…just allow me to come with you…I have a bad feeling that my services will be needed.” Said Dr.Qasim Varinius Ioannis

“Very well..” said the Sultan and then he and the doctor walked out of the office,but only to be stopped by a Imperial Black guardsmen who was being news to the Sultan

“My Sultan, we have located the main planner to the attacks on your father and uncles…the black hawks are about to assault his safe house within the next ten mintues.” Said the Guardsmen

“Good…at least I will have some peace of mind to know that one who planned the attacks on my father and uncles will be dead..inform me when he is killed..” said the Sultan

“Yes my Sultan, we shall.” Said the Guardsmen
Then the Sultan and doctor jump into the Sultan BMW sedan and drove to the House of Vizier, when they entered the meeting chamber of the House of Vizier, they found the Grand Vizier trying to restore order within the chamber as Viziers was exchanging personal insults and fist fights were breaking out between the two oppressing sides. It had reached the point where a number of Viziers were about to walk out, if they did walked out it was a major sign of fitna for everyone. Yet the Sultan and the doctor came in right at the moment and the Sultan summoned all his remaining strength to yell out and give this legendary speech to House of Viziers

“SILENT AND BE SEATED!” yells out the Sultan with all his will and the just all the Viziers were silent and quickly seated and not willing to get the wrath of the Sultan on them

The Sultan nodded to the Grand Vizier and took the floor of the House of the Viziers and his address to the Viziers

“WE WILL NOT TAKE ONE STEP BACK AND ALLOW OURSELVES TO BECOME WEAK AND ALLOW THE OUTSIDERS TO DESTOYERS OR OURSEVLES TO RUIN ALL THAT WE HAVE WORKED FOR!” the Sultan made the statement with all his strength in order to grab the attention of all the Viziers and then he return to his normal voice

“Oh Viziers we must pass this these acts as a sign that the Imperial Government is still strong and the fitna will NOT spread….I will not allow this fitna to bring our Impeirum to its knees….I will see to that this fitna is completely crushed one way or another.” Then the Sultan pull out of his sword and said the following” I will personal deal with the fitna , ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, if the Imperial Government is not willing to act in the best interest of the state…I will act in the best interest of the state and prevent 100s of years worth of reforms to go down the drain over night…We must act now or forever regret our decision this day for a long long time….we must act now and stop this fitna HERE and NOW...oh Viziers vote for the stake of saving our beloved Khailfah or we will face a future of where the outsiders will finally gain the upper hand in on us and enact a New Albion all over the Imperium and we will be powerless to …to stop it….I implore on you, Viziers to see the rational for the need of enacting these reforms for Imperium…just I ask for a vote on this reforms to these administrative laws...”said the Sultan, then he stop…he was out of breath and couldn’t speak anymore

The Grand Vizier called for the vote for the two acts, the Viziers voted and both acts passed with the support of 75% of the Viziers. The Sultan smiled faintly and said in a low voice to the Doctor “ I did it…I did my duty old friend…I prevent the Fitna from spreading…now I can rest.”

The Sultan and Doctor walk out of the building heading back to their car, then right on the top of the steps of the building, the Sultan suffered massive heart attack and before the doctor or the guards could get a hold of him, he fell down the marble steps of the House of Viziers and was motionless. Everyone ran to help him, and the doctor tried his best to stabilize him…in till the Ambulance comes in. The Ambulance came within a manner of minutes and rushes him off to the Istanbul City Hospital; along side him during this ride was the doctor who was busy trying to save his friend life on the short ride to hospital, the Sultan heart flat line twos time on the drive to Hospital and only bought back from the brink of death with use of the defibrillator. When he finally reached the hospital, he was quickly taken to the E.R., where surgeons worked against the clock to save the Sultan life for eight long hours they worked on the Sultan heart and manger to stabilize it.

The officially press release was that the Sultan has suffered a heart attack and has been taken to hospital and is in stable condition at the moment.


Meanwhile in Athens, Greece, EU Dominion, KLM

It was the aftermath of an AMI Black Hawk Raid, which was many dead bodies of bodyguards and whoever stood in their way. Plus a number of local police agencies blocking off the area in order to prevent the press from finding out what happen there. Two officers stood over the body of bullet-ridden body and discussing some matters

“Well we did a fine job here…we took out the mastermind behind the attacks on the Sultan father and uncles…the last member of Union and Progressive faction. A pity the Sultan is unable to hear the news at the moment..” said Colonel Amcazade Hüseyin Pasha Köprülü

“A pity indeed..oh well..he’ll find out sooner or later I’ll make sure of that…lets clean this mess up and get out of here.” Said Flag Rank Commander Siddig

“Indeed.” Said the Colonel and the two officers walk off and allow the cleaning crew to do their job.

Two days later at Istanbul City Hospital

The Grand Vizier, Prime Ministers, and High Chancellor made their way though the hallways of the Hospital on their way to see the Sultan, they ran into Doctor Ioannis, who was walking in their direction. PM Uthman asked

“Doctor, how is my brother doing?” He asked

The Doctor replied “ Well factoring that he just had a massive heart attack which damage roughly 45 percent of his heart and he barely came out alive…. he is doing well…relatively…he is up and about at the moment…his wives are visiting him right now..”

“Bloody hell…at least he is still alive at least..” remarked the High Chancellor

“Knowing my brother and his will…he’ll make a speedy recovery Insha’Allah.” Said PM Uthman

“Indeed, well Doctor…its good to see you, I wish it was on better terms…” said the Grand Vizier

“Apparently so..I must be going…Salaam.” Said the Doctor and he continue walking down the hallways

The Grand Vizier, High Chancellor, Prime Minister continue to walk though the hallways of the Hospital, in till they finally reached the Sultan room. They could tell it was the Sultan room by the two Imperial Black Guardsmen standing watch. The three nodded to the two guards who allow them to enter the room.

The three found the Sultan laying bed and talking to his three wives, who were sitting in seats next to his bed, he took notice of the three entering the room and said

“About time you got here..” He smiled

“Yes…those bloody doctors and others wouldn’t let us get 10 feet near to you….intill now..”said the High Chancellor

“That’s doctors for you….well I’ll release from this hel…I mean this wonderful place within the next few days..since my condition has been improving..” said the Sultan

“Insha’Allah.” Said Sophia, the Sultan first wife

Everyone nodded in agreement, and then Sultan said, “ Let us discuss some matters of business…gentlemen. After much discussion with my family and doctors…I believe it’s in the best interest that I cut down my workload for now in till I fully recovered from this heart attack…your three will be taking some of my duties for now..but not all of them…I will still have a finally said on most matters and will be kept up to date on all matters of state.”

“Its understandable, my Sultan…it will be arranged accordingly.” Said the Grand Vizier

“As my doctors say I must relaxed and not stain myself with work for now…” said the Sultan

“Yes, the key word is RELAX…dear and not overworking yourself…”said Sophia

“Don’t worry, brother…we’re take care of the day to day affairs of the Imperium…we promise to keep things in order while your recovering..” said PM Uthman

“ That’s good to know and also standing orders will remain effect as always…nothing as chance in that area so far no?” asked the Sultan

“Not that I am aware of my Sultan.” Said the High Chancellor

“I see…no change in the situation with Oceania?” asked the Sultan

“No my Sultan, the situation remains the same as it was before your heart attack..” said the Grand Vizier

“ As expected…at least the crackdowns are doing well…we taken out a great number of troublemakers and the mastermind behind the attacks on my father and uncles…but what else is new?” ask the Sultan

“Nothing out of the norm, dear brother.” Said PM Uthman

“Nothing ever change…well gentlemen, I must get some rest…We’re meet again tomorrow at the same time…as always, its good to see you all once again..hopefully it will be on better terms..” said the Sultan

The Grand Vizier, the High Chancellor and Prime Minister nodded in agreement and left the room.

The Sultan looked out the window for the moment and looked at his wives and said “ I am sorry…Sophia…Roxelane…Haziqah…I am sorry for the pain I put you all thought…these long seven years…I am sorry for all the hell I must have put you though during this reign…I can’t correct the pass…but I can insure that the pain won’t be as bad as it use to be..”

There was silent and Roxelane broken the silent

“Its alright…. we all understand the nature of your job..just try to relax now..for your own good.”She while holding back the tears

Then Hazipah remarked, “Yes…you must relax from this job…it nearly took your life….its time for you to take better care of yourself..”

Sophia nodded in agreement

The Sultan replied “ Agreed..” and the Sultan looked the window and all he could think about was the fact he never said sorry for all the things he had done, he still regretted so many things from his past and unable to say sorry to certain things, ate at his existent like no other..

After a few days in the hospital, the Sultan was greeted by an unexpected guest entering his room. Alexei I of Malkyer strolled into the room, whistling casually and with a sardonic grin on his face held out his hand. Resting in the palm was a rough brown sphere covered in tough fibers.

"Though you might appreciate a get-well coconut. I know you do love them so," he said. After a moment of exchanging pleasantries with the Sultan's family and other guests, Alexei looked to his friend laying in the hospital bed. The Sultan was wan, clearly exhausted from both his ordeal, and the sheer amount of stress and work he subjected himself to. Leaning to put himself on the Sultan's level, the Emperor cleared his throat.

"Sulemain, this is not the first time an Emperor of Malkyer has visited you ill in the hospital. I would very much like it to be the last. If the Commonwealth can be of any service to the Khailfah, do not hesitate to let me know." Standing, he cleared his throat again. "I'm sorry I could not make it sooner...you have my deepest condolences about your father and uncles."

The Sultan faintly smiled and said “It’s alright my friend…we all have busy lives we live day to day..I understand, believe me….I thank you for the offer of help..its not need at the moment..” Sultan pause for moment and continue “ Thank you for the coconuts, I am please to inform I am able to consume to coconuts without that nasty reaction to it…thanks a new medicine that has recently came into the market recently..now my family and I can eat coconuts all we want without fear of…an nasty reactions.. so how goes things within the commonwealth?”

Imperial General Staff Headquarters, Istanbul, Turkey, Khailfah al Muslimeen( at the same time as the Malkyer Emperor meeting with the Sultan)

The Grand Vizier was set in a leather seat and around all the members of the Imperial General Staff were sitting with him at the rather large conference, these officers were from many branches of the Khailfah arm forces, some of them were Imperial Officers and some were Dominion officers. Most of the officers held the rank of Major General (for army, paratroop or marine), Fleet Captain (navy) or Air Commodore (air force) and higher. These officers were the main war planners for any war that the Imperium had ever fought; these officers were the best of the best in terms of planning wars and most of them had battlefield experience, which factored into their war planning, which made sure that realism was always in effect for the war plans and to insure idealism was kept to a minimum.

The Grand Vizier begun the meeting of the General Staff by saying following

“ Esteemed members of the Imperial General Staff, the Sultan and I have review the war plans in case of war with Oceania and we both agreed they are sound and most realistic in case of war with the Neo British…but the odds are we will have some kind of peace agreement that will reduce the threat of war by the end of the six month period…if no peace agreement is in place…then we will declare a state of Jihad against them…but it must notice that our Imperium peace cycle is coming to end…and our war cycle is about to begun yet again…its been some time since last war cycle or what was known as the blood wars to most of us…which begun during last years of Sultan Mustafa bin Asad and end during the third year of Sultan Bashir reign with the failure of Sino Jihad..…yet we did fight a series of small wars during our peace cycle..its now time for a series of major Jihads to show the world that Khailfah alive and well…and is able to strike and project its power…our Imperium has been gearing up recently for this cycle of war during the peace cycle and now we are ready for the next series of major wars…now gentlemen..who will be our next target to take out…who happens to be major may possibly be a threat to our interest around the world…besides Oceania.” Said the Grand Vizier

The head of Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal of the Al Muslimeen Army Ghazi Ali Hassan Pasha, one of the most respected generals within the Imperium..he was a Ghazi, a warrior of faith, he had fought many fought war against the many foes of the Imperium with honor . Whenever he spoke, the rooms always went silence as everyone give all their attention to him. He was already in his early 70s, yet he looked and acted like he was in his early 50s. He was from Amman, Bilad al Sham and he had fair skin, which was fairly tanned, to his services to the Imperium and he had light brown eyes. He said the following

“A possible threat to our interest is the nation of Warmasters, to our interest in New Borneria and holdings…they are aggressive nation, that not kept in check in that landmass will pose a dangerous threat to our assets, since they do have a habit of taking what is not there’s one way or another…which reminds us of our New British friends….as the Romans once did, we must take out any threats to our holdings in this new region to insure our claim will last long and never be threaten by the other powers in region by showing our will to take them out within a moment notice.”

“Indeed, the nation of Warmasters…is a nation of warriors and who have a reputation of enacting total war against their foes and showing little mercy to them.. a perfect match for our arm forces in terms of skill and will if I must say…a pity we are not going after Oceania with things the way in the foreseeable future..I would have enjoyed commanding a Imperial Black Banner army group and storming into their capitol city and razing it….” Said General Rusçuklu Cezayirli Hasan Serif Pasha

“General Serif, you have the most active imagine out of all us…which is always enlightening to hear your though on such matters…. all of us do share your though on leading a army unit into Oceania. But a last, that’s going to happen for a while at least…now we must focus our strength on removing a foreseeable threat to our in interest in New Borneria…. now we must begun gathering information and study our new foes more closely for the next few months before we actually start any operations against them..” said Field Marshal of the Al Muslimeen Army Abdul al Mejid bin Ismail Pasha , the head of arm forces Intelligence

“Indeed…we must not underestimate will and passion of these warriors of Warmasters or do we wish to repeat another Sino Jihad?” said General Alexander Khristophofovich Benkendorf, there was silence in room, no one wanted to repeated the dreaded stalemate of the Sino Jihad ever again and the General continue speaking “ Now we must break the Warmasters in such a way that they will never pose a threat to our assets in that region and to our Imperium as a whole…we must not limit our thinking and tactics to just this sole region…who knows the war may spread..just we must ready for anything that Warmasters may throw at us..”

“It must be noted that that Warmasters does have a rather sizeable fleet and that fleet must be dealt with in the first stage of any conflict against them..if we want to win war against them in New Borneria, we must win battle of the sea first in order to insure that Warmasters won’t have easy time supplying their forces in the region.” Said Fleet Admiral Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock

“One of their major weakness is their air force apparently after reviewing some reports on their combat records..its not up to par to ours in terms of combat training and in terms of aircraft….that is our major advantage …if we can win control of the skies..it must noted this information I have on their air force is not detail enough for me to make a sound judgment…I will research this matter more closely before I am my judgment on the matter…if this is true then we might have a higher chance of getting control of the air space for that region. Also it must be noted, that their air force is sizeable and might be about the size as our own…but if their training is not up to par to ours…then we may have higher kill ratio against them.” Said Air Marshal Zahid Abd-Al-Malik Saifullah

The Grand Vizier was in deep though as he considered everything that General Staff officers had said before making his opinion known, for moment he picks his words wisely and then he begun to speak

“Gentlemen you are here by given three weeks time to draw up war plans and confirm your arm forces intelligence on Warmaster and plan accordingly to that intelligance…when your report is ready and reviewed by the Sultan and myself…then you will get your final answer for a go ahead or not…that is all gentlemen..this meeting of the Imperial General Staff is here by dismiss…you have much work to do now….so get to it!” and the Meeting was over..

Four days later…

The Sultan was finally released from the hospital and was allow return home to the Palace. He arrive home in a black limo, he got of the limo with little. For Sultan, he rather not appear weak to anyone, just he had to do everything on his own to show no signs of weakness, but signs shown anyways. The Sultan had to use a cane to help him support himself…his old scars in his legs were causing great pain since the heart attack, just forcing him to use his old cane to help get by. He was wearing his black suit, black gloves and something out of the norm for him…a red fez, normally if he did wear a fez it was black or green, but not red…yet it was just minor change in a list of changes about the Sultan.

The Sultan walked up to his guards who were manning the gates to the Palace, they nodded in silence to each other and the guards opened the gates and allowed the Sultan in. The moment he set foot in the palace grounds, the Grand Vizier who was waiting him in order to discuss some key matters of states before the Sultan sees his family greeted him.

The Grand Vizier begun to speak

“My Sultan, its good to see you back..there some matters of state, I must discuss with you of the upmost important..”

The Sultan nodded and said “ Very well…lets take walk in the rose garden and discuss these matters..just we’re be out of sight of anyone…”

The Grand Vizier nodded and follow the Sultan to the rose garden and then the Grand Vizier begun to speak

“My Sultan, we have gain some unsettling information from one of our protectorate, that this protectorate leadership is plotting to join the fitna…. it’s the protectorate of Romulan Imperium..my Sultan.” Said the Grand Vizier

The Sultan look at his white rose bushes and remarks “ So our protectorate in Haven…decides to try to bite the hand that feeds them…rule one of ruling a Imperium…ALWAYS keep the protectorates in line and never allow them to get one step out of the line or get away with stepping out of line…so how deep is this plot…is that bloody Byzantine like Empress known as Zoe…apart of it?”

“That is not confirmed nor is confirmed at the moment my Sultan…there is a chance she is apart of the this plot or not a part of this plot..we are still looking into the matter.” Replied the Grand Vizier

“Very well, once you find whoever is behind this plot…break them and put their heads on display…this plot must be broken at all cost and if the Empress Zoe is apart of the plot…have her send to Istanbul..so that she’ll be personal dealt with …if she is not part of the plot, still being her to Istanbul..in order to cut her off from her power base and to insure her undying loyalty to Khailfah and to insure that she doesn’t get idea of turning against us…besides it work for Shoguns for some time..to keep their nobles in line..but I can’t personal deal with her for now..since I still am recovering from my heart attack, I ask that you manger this situation and handle the Empress is that understood?” said the Sultan has he inspected his red rose bushes


“Understand my Sultan…it shall it be done. Rest assured that this plot will kill off within the next 24 hours and Empress will be in Istanbul shortly without incident ” Answered the Grand Vizier

“Good…update me on the situation as progess..now I am off to fulfill my duties as a husband and father to my family and then get some rest afterwards…if any..fun fun..” smiled the Sultan and he said good by to Grand Vizier and went inside the Palace. As for Grand Vizier, he went back to his office and quickly went to work.

It was dawn in some arid region of the Sahara…the sun was raising and the full moon was still in the sky for now..the Sultan found himself on top of dune of sand…looking out to the vast expanse of sands for miles upon miles on out. For a moment, the Sultan thought he was alone in arid land yet he heard a voice of little girl reciting a poem of some kind, as the girl recited the poems, her voice started out as joyful then change tone to darker tone all at once as she keep on reciting the poem

"Ash ashs..The once great cities of the Imperium , where we enjoy the fruits of our labor...now are in ash ash, the mighty cites are now in ruins and under siege...we now are forced to eat anything that moves...all because of our great Emperor has led us into Typhoon wars...now the Imperium is dead and all hail the Emperor of the Imperium.."

The Sultan turn to see who said the poem, but there was no one there..then the Sultan heard another voice of little boy

“Hmm…a poem about the war that led to the years of Chaos and the years of Chaos itself no?” asked the Boy

“Most likely…” answer the Sultan without looking at the boy, he was fixed on the sight of the full moon in the dawn sky

The boy looked up and recited a poem of his own

“Is it not rare to see a blue moon during dawn while the sun is rising, such a sight to see the mood shaded blue, such a wonderful sight. Once it’s gone it leaves one to cry out BLUE MOON, oh Blue Moon, oh I shall miss you, oh BLUE MOON. But it’s a pity that we see this sights very so often and we are blind to see it, but we still call for it..”

The Sultan nodded his head and remarked “Indeed

The next thing the Sultan knew it, his secretary trying to get him to wake up and it worked, the Sultan realized that he had dose off at his desk.

“So how long was I out?” the Sultan asked his secretary Anne

“I said about 20 minutes…or so…I was trying to reach you via intercom for the last few mintues..but you were out cold. So it seems..“ said Anne

“What I said…I must have been tired…” Then the Sultan looked at his watch and said “oh bloody hell please don’t yet me..that Empress is going to be here within the next five minutes for that formally meeting of state…”

“Apparently so my Sultan…. can’t have you running late to such a important meeting can’t we?” Asked Anne

“No we can’t…it will be unbecoming of me..if I did so…blast it all…now I have to deal with HER…agh…to the throne room…oh joy….even thought the Grand Vizier is handling most of the paper work and meetings with her…I still have to do this bloody formal meeting with her oh bloody hell...”said the Sultan, with that got up and head off to throne room.

The throne room archaic relic from Osmanli Khailfah era…the Sultan rarely used the room at all, he had a great distain for the idea of keeping this bloody relic of the old day, he wondered why he even brother allow the meeting to occur in the throne room…most likely it was because he wasn’t thinking at the time. He had greater distain for the meeting itself, since he didn’t think highly of nobility within the Imperium protectorates and had a half a mind to get rid of nobility within the protectorates. When he finally reach the Great hall aka the throne room..he nodded to his guards and he took his seat on the throne..it felt so alien to him to seat on this throne…the throne of past Sultans from Osmanli era.. Then he look up and said to the Guards “ Well we wouldn’t want to keep Empress Zoe of Romulan Imperium waiting for any longer…being her in.” remarked the Sultan

The guards nodded and one of them step out of the room and return with the Empress Zoe, she was about 29 years old, and recently has assume the throne of her nation after the death of her father, it was her father that made their nation join KLM as protectorate in order to insure that their nation won’t be conquered by other Imperial powers of the region. But since his daughter came to power, relations between the Protectorate and Imperium have been touch and go for the most part. The Ministry of Protectorate Affairs refer to her as the bloody forsaken Byzantine like Empress, because of her constant plotting and playing on people weakness..yet she was still for her nation remaining as a protectorate.

The Empress was of Greco-Latin and part German background, she was fairly attractive with light brown hair, light brown eyes, and fair skin; which she used often for her own gains and to get people to do her bidding. She was dressed in a blue dress suit, she bow her head respectful to the Sultan and begun to speak in fluent Arabic

“My Padishah Emperor Bashir its good to see you in such good health after that dreadful heart attack..I take it that you’re doing well now?” she asked

The Sultan thought to himself “Padishah Emperor..such a archaic term..for this post of his..just one of the many titles that refer to his post as head of the Imperium.”

The Sultan face was stoic, when he answer her inquiry

“Yes I am doing, quite well..thank for you asking…my recovery is doing quiet well …so how goes your nation?” asked the Sultan

The Empress grin and said “ Doing well for the most part…besides the fact half of my cabinet has been arrested because they were part of a traitorous plot and number of other officials have been arrested also…by my local police agencies and the AMI for reasons unknown…and now I have been summoned here for a series of meetings with your Grand Vizier…which have quiet demanding at times, which your Grand Vizier questioned my loyalty to the Imperium and the fact that I been told that I will be taking up residence in the Imperial Capital for most of the year and only to be allowed to return to my nation for a mere six week is most unnerving to say the least..other then that…all is well.”

The Sultan face didn’t changed one bit..it remained stoic for the whole time and he begun to speak

“All necessary precautions my dear Empress…besides its good to know that you weren’t part of that traitorous plot..while the Imperium is in the mists of fitna , I would hate to see what would happen to you..if you were part of the plot…besides your nation will do fine…your government is stable enough to recover from the lost of some ministers..besides you’re a mere figurehead within your nation, your Prime Minister handles most of the day to day affairs of your nation and just you won’t be missed…besides enjoy your stay in Istanbul..you won’t be leaving anytime soon..my dear.” Said the Sultan in cold calm voice

The Empress grin disappeared from her face and bitterly remarked

“You don’t trust me at all, don’t you?”

The Sultan face still remained stoic and he answered

“Trust is earn and not given…you have to earn my trust…I do not hate you nor do I like you….but I am student of history and just I must act accordingly my dear..don’t take it personal….just give it time…you’ll like it here and things may warm up to you in due time …but for now…deal with it..just this formal meeting between us is over..good day to you, my dear…its was nice to meet you face to face…” With that the Sultan got up and left the room, leaving the Empress dumbfounded. After the Sultan left, the guards walk her outside of the palace and drove to her new residences to think what to do now…

The Sultan remarked to one of his guards, has he walked back to his guard

“We man make ourselves the master of something and out of our own pride, we forget that it can be taken away from us without any warning, yet do we humble ourselves?” or do we find something else to take control of and make ourselves the masters of that something?”

The Guard replied

“That is the nature of mankind…the answer is relative to the person..”

“Indeed.” Replied the Sultan and he disappeared into his office.

An interesting posting was found on the entertainment section (the writers subsection) of Istanbul Times, the person who wrote the posting under pen name in order to insure no one will ever find out who he or she was…. this posting left most of Istanbul guessing who wrote this musing about the fate of Veterans..

“Bitterness”

“Is something wrong, she said
Well of course there is
Youre still alive, she said
Oh, and do I deserve to be
Is that the question
And if so...if so...who answers...who answers...”

Alive, Pearl Jam

“Long live the fighters who is last standing on the battlefield, here he proof himself on that day at the cost of losing all his comrades, all hail this fighter, pity no one will brother to look at him, they only brother to look at the feat of making it out and not how this is dealing with the guilty of being the only one to make it out. This is the Imperium of the dune, a society where we praise those who fight for the state and we turn a blind eye to their mental anguish after getting back, such a cruel fate for these fighters who have to deal with it alone. They are force to go to useless endless meetings to deal with their pain, but no one understands nor cares about their pain, they just told to deal with and move on with their lives, but how can one move on with pain occupying their minds? Do they not understanding? No, they don’t brother to walk in our shoes, we give our lives to the state any day, but what has society given us in return?”

Bitterly Silence Thinker

Khailfah News Network

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“In today’s news, Parliament has pass two key acts of government, the first act is to set up a board of review to evaluate request for Dominion status within Imperium for the Protectorates of the Emirate of al Oceanistan and the Romulan Imperium . The board of review will compose of 8 ministers and 8 viziers and will conduct a study on both protectorates in order to determine if they are ready for Dominion status within the Imperium.

The second act of government was widely supported and back by Hizbu-Rāshidūn bloc of Parliament, the act title the Multi Sector integrated regional development projects to improve the following areas (1) irrigation, (2) hydraulic energy production, (3) agriculture, (4) urban and rural infrastructure, and (5) forestry. The Projects calls for the construction of 30 new damns and 28 new hydroelectric plants, the project area will cover the following provinces of the Imperium, Turkey, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, Bilad al Sham, the following provinces within the region of Near East, Turkistan, Persia, Afghanistan and the region of Egyptian trans Sudan. It is estimate the projects the total will be over 400 billion dinars, half of the funding will come from state grants and loans from the State Banking Corporation and the State Grants and Loan Corporations. Deputy Prime Minister Hilmi al Malik bin Houssam has said the following on the passage of this act, “ This new development projects will surpass all pass development projects for these regions and Insha’Allah these projects will greatly improve the lives of people that live in these effected regions. More plans are on the way to create similar projects for the other regions of the Imperium.”
In other news, the Dominion of Nova Atlantis release its annually census reports..



Then TV was turn off

The Sultan and Grand Vizier were both watching the news broadcast in the Sultan office. The Sultan was at his desk and the Grand Vizier was sitting across from him.

“Bah…I can’t stand watching the news all the time…so was there anything of interest within the Dominion of Nova Atlantis latest census reports?”

“Let me check” remarked the Grand Vizier and he pull out his PDA and looked at the stats while taking a sip of his tea.

“Hmm…interesting according to the census reports..there was shape increase in immigration form the Americas…most likely a indirect result from our little war with RALM and their puppet state RSA…” said the Grand Vizier

“ Ah yes how true…give me the breakdown.” Said the Sultan as he took his sip of his tea

“ Well..here its goes…roughly 25.8 million people over a three year period have immigrated to this dominion, they came from USA mostly from the Western USA and the New England region, a good number from Mexico and Cuba that’s it for North America, which makes up about half of the wave of immigrants from the Americas, the other half comes from the following areas in South America, the top two regions are Brazil and Argentine and closely following is Chile, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela in that order. “ Said the Grand Vizier

“I see…how many of them are Muslim or Christian and how many are “white”, black or Mestizo or anything else.” Asked the Sultan

“Well roughly 30 percent were converts or already Muslims, 4 percent were Jewish and 66 percent are Christian, as for ethic breakdowns…its goes as the following roughly 45 percent are “white”, 35 percent are black, 15 percent were Mestizo , 5 percent are Asian Americans. And all of them have settled in Nova Atlantis of all places…” remarked the Grand Vizier

“Yes…Nova Atlantis…a land settled by the British, Russians, Germans, Dutch, Germans and French. Now has to deal with a influx of people who are totally different to them in terms of language and mannerism.. it will be interesting to watch how events play out…as long these new comers uphold the oath of loyality to the Khailfah…I have no issue with them living within our large Imperium…as long they don’t rebel against us or plot against us…besides who’s know these people might produce some great generals or scholars of fiqh or businessmen and etc..” said the Sultan

“Indeed, its just another minor footnote in our Khailfah, rich multiethnic background…just a footnote..nothing more nothing less.” Said the Grand Vizier

Khailfah News Network Online edition

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In today’s news, after weeks of debate, House of Viziers have passed a revise Multi Sector integrated regional development projects act, in the revised version the number of new dams has been cut down from 30 dams to 6 dams and also the House of Viziers have picked only two regions of the Imperium to have these dams they are the following for the Near East region Afghanistan and the region of Egyptian trans Sudan and the scale of these dams shall be downgrade to more smaller reasonable size in the words of the Viziers. The reason for these changes within the act goes as the following in a press release from the Office of the Grand Vizier

“ It is the believe of the House of Viziers, that the number of dams being presented in the act as too excess and counterproductive for the said regions that this act will effect, after listening to concerns bought up by green coalition groups leader Minna Nicoletta and listening to the reasoning of leading members of Parliament. We have to come to the conclusion it would in the best interest of the Imperium to downsize the number of dams that proposed are to be build. It works in the best interest of both parties, for these necessary changes to the act to happen.”

Shortly after this press release, the act was pass by the Imperial Senate and sign into effect by Sultan Suleiman al Bashir II.

After the revise act was sign into effect, Minna Nicoletta had the following to say

“We are glad the House of Viziers have chosen to reject that grandiose, short sighted, and ultimately destructive plan.”

In other news, a number of members of the infamous blue group have been found on the streets of Athens stabbed and shoot repeatly…Police are unsure who could have done this…..


OOC: this was ment to posted a week ago..but I got delay and forgot about it..so meh here it is..