NationStates Jolt Archive


A Curious Collection of Coincidences

Catalasia
02-08-2007, 17:08
Excerpted from communications logs, Saugeen Joint Military Base, Catalasia.


RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
RECIPIENT: CNS Red Rock, AOR-69
TIME: 0746

Roger that, Red Rock. You are cleared for entrance into Catalasian waters, over and out.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
RECIPIENT: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
TIME: 0750

Command to Calloway, did you just allow the tanker and fleet replenishment vessel Red Rock, designated AOR-69, into Catalasian waters? Over.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
RECIPIENT: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
TIME: 0751

Calloway to Command, that is correct, over.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
RECIPIENT: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
TIME: 0751

Repeat please. The designation was definitely AOR-69, and the vessel was definitely named Red Rock? Over.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
RECIPIENT: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
TIME: 0752

That is correct, Command. Is something wrong? Over.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
RECIPIENT: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
TIME: 0754

The vessel designated AOR-69 was decommissioned and scrapped forty years ago. And there is no Commonwealth ship named the Red Rock. Over.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: CNS Calloway FFCN-117
RECIPIENT: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
TIME: 0755

But that's impossible. It says right here on the files that-- [STATIC]

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
RECIPIENT: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
TIME: 0757

Command to Calloway, you were cut off. Do you read us? Over.

RADIO TRANSMISSION
SOURCE: SAUGEEN JMB COMMAND
RECIPIENT: CNS Calloway, FFCN-117
TIME: 0759

Command to Calloway?

AUTOMATED MESSAGE
SOURCE: CENTRAL TRANSMITTING COMPUTER
TIME: 0800

Radio contact with CNS Calloway lost.