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A major tsunami :eek: has hit our coastline. Casualties are unknown, three major cities have been partially flooded. Emergency first responders are overwhelmed.

Comorostan will send aid and assistance. Please accept our condolences for your losses

We accept your aid Thanks :)

Fatatatutti can send food aid and air-mobile field hospitals.

Principality of Belkaland
Grand Duke Razgriz H. Demon

The Principality of Belkaland mourns your loss and pledges $500,000,000 in aid. To assist in your hour of need, 2 Nimitz-class carriers of the Belkalandian Navy loaded with foodstuffs & medicine has set sail for the affected areas.

Praying with you,
Razgriz H. Demon

The Federation of the Serbian Soviet Union has set aside $2,700,000 dinars in aiding the Vivianopians. The FSSU expresses it's condolences to the Vivianopians and its sorrow.

Thank you for your aid and support.

Vivianopian News-Riots have broken out in major cities, sparked by the government's inadequate response to the tsunami. Senator Leta Farieo said, "The government is doing its best, but the people want more."

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Official Statement of the Commonwealth of New Brittonia

The Commonwealth of New Brittonia sympathizes with the situation in Vivianopia. It is truly sad for such a humanitarian catastrophe to happen to a nation. Even worse are the antigovernment demonstrations that have been occurring.

We wish to have a diplomatic meeting between representatives of our two nations so we can work out an aid package that if both acceptable to us and also meets your needs.

Thank you.

May God save the Queen.

Signed,

Foreign Minister of the Commonwealth of New Brittonia
Nabila Katchab (http://www.sappho.dk/Nr.%204%20september%202006/Billeder/060728_anti_israel_demo_christiansborg_asmaa-abdul-hamid_taler.jpg)

Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of New Brittonia
Jacob Crouch (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/Luke_Ravenstahl.jpg)

His Excellency, Brigadier General (Retired), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of New Brittonia
Victor Cecil (http://schema-root.org/region/americas/north_america/usa/government/branches/executive/departments/defense/personnel/generals/ray_odierno/ray_odierno.jpg)

To: Vivianopia and all Interested Parties
From: The Pataari Counsel of Trade Masters
We will give you aid, but in between our two nations stands a great distance that in itself is a difficulty to hurdle over. As this telegram is being sent Pataari Cargo ships are being sent now to alleviate the victim of this tsunami's problems. We have loaded the ships with a multitude of foodstuffs and first aid supplies. We think that what we gave cannot fill all the victim's needs, but we are glad just to help your nation. We offer to send some aid in the future if needed, and we are glad to see a new nation on the world stage.

Official Message
FROM: The Battlahwk Department Of State

The Battlehawk express's it's extream condolences, and offers the services of the men and women of the RBS Intrepid, Carrier group to aid in the rescue efforts.

End essage

[OOC: Not trying to insult you, but I just want to put this (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=584292) out there.]

Message From Central Command Of The Wolf Hold

Our command is saddend to hear of your nations plight and so to assist you, we are dispatching the 4th Airlift group consisting of:
1 IL-76MD- Mobile Hospital
4 C-5 Galaxys- Carrying surplus Emergency & Medical Aid
2 C-130Hs -Delivery of Aid to remote places

Also as soon as the blockade is lifted from our nation, we will send the WHS St Mary, a fully equppied hospital ship.

~ 48 Hours Earlier ~

The weather satellite watched the sea, expressionlessly. It noted the patterns forming, the clouds moving across the ocean; it kept watch in case of hurricanes and cyclones developing in the tropical oceans, those that could potentially head south and drench Saevitia's islands with tons of cold rain and battering winds.

It noticed when something changed. When a geological fault line stretching for thousands of miles across the ocean shifted, tectonic plates unlocking and sliding together again, the very materials that made up the earth adjusting themselves. It was only a twitch on a geological scale. But from the epicenter a hundred-foot wave rose, forming a circular ripple large enough to devastate millions of coastal areas.

The tectonic shift was extrapolated later by geologists. But what was unmistakable was that a wall of water was approaching Saevitia -- among dozens of other countries, undoubtedly -- and precautions had to be taken, fast.


~ 42 Hours Earlier ~

The Saevitian Archipelago was made of massive engineering products. Deep channels had been dug in the coast of Saint Clair Island to allow smaller boats access to the interior of the port city of Grandon. Every so often the Caledonia River had to be diverted where it cascaded over the cliff edge near Frederickstown, to repair the damage caused by erosion to the edifices industrious man had constructed. But perhaps most important were the massive floodgates blocking off the parts of the deepwater channels that allowed access to the sea, and the sandbars and breakers constructed to further protect them from errant waves. When hurricane season came around the gates were always closed unless a ship needed to pass through.

Now, across several dozen channels, the gates were closing.....

Immense constructions of unyielding metal and hard polymers, the floodgates slowly creaked shut on massive hydraulics, operating at the behest of the two gatehouses on either island opposite the channel. Built at the narrowest point, the floodgates here were nonetheless almost fifteen hundred feet long. With a resounding noise they locked shut, and then lowered themselves into the deep grooves cut into the ocean floor, where they were locked.

The gates were fifty feet high.

The tsunami was higher.

Inside their bunker-like gatehouses, reputedly capable of withstanding a nuclear attack, the gatekeepers began to seal the windows.


~ 24 Hours Earlier ~

The sky was blue. Implausibly blue. Almost as though there wasn't the storm of a century assaulting the immense, yet ultimately vulnerable expanse of the Saevitian Archipelago.

And yet, though they were only a handful of islands bulwarked against the oncoming might of a million tons of water, man's ingenuity had ensured their security. Against the floodgates the waves broke themselves, often submerging the gates themselves and the islands around them, yet only reaching the actual populated areas of the archipelago as small surges of only a few feet. Elsewhere, where islands formed a physical barrier, huge pools of briny water accumulated, pouring over rocks back into the sea and tearing trees from their roots. Where the shallows and breakers separated islands from one another, the waves were strongest; but even there they only fell upon barren lands inhabited by only a few, and those on the inward side. Boats were capsized and swept about like debris, but ultimately washed ashore, some so high up from the normal sea level that it seemed they had been deposited there by angels. A few died, yes; a few always do, but they were the ones who could not or would not leave, the ones who knew nothing of the projections and were out naïvely fishing at the time. The damage was minimized by engineering and topography alike.

The gatekeepers knew nothing of this. All they knew was the muted roar of a wave passing overhead, the crash as it poured over the island, the diminuendo of distant waterfalls created by the end of the wave washing out over the island, and then the incomprehensible crash of another wave breaking over their heads.


Official CSSA Communication

To whom it may concern:

If you so desire, we may deploy the Saevitian Corps of Nautical Engineers to Vivianopian waters to construct a system of floodgates and breakers to prevent such a disaster from recurring.

The Saevitian Archipelago was affected by the tsunami as well (whose cause we are still attempting to determine), but economic damage was minimized due to our extensive protection against natural disasters, implemented due to the frequency of tropical cyclones in the region Saevitia now occupies. The SCNE built a network of gates to protect the major shipping channels, and breakers sufficiently far out from any inhabited island as to minimize the effects of a storm surge or tidal wave. As a result, casualties from the most serious cyclones and storms have been minimal, although maintenance of the gate system can be costly.

Gerard Karajan
Sir Gerard Karajan
Crown Secretary for Foreign Affairs
9th Earl of Saint Thomas Island, etc., etc.

The Federation of Jalanat shall send in recue teams to the coastal area that has been hit by the tsunami, the scene is horrible, our men are working hours to find any survivors. but the tsunami killed many. shamefully due to the islands off the coast the tsunami reflected and hit the coast several times, this is mainly what caused so many casualties. we'll send in more bodybags so that the corpses won't smell so bad and bring over infections.

To All Governments: Thank you for your aid. This tsunami has been a great tragedy. We offer our condolences to Saint Clair Island, who was also affected by the tsunami.

our government will also send a rescue team to that island, i suspect that that island in particular has had a lot of victims, this tragedy shall never be forgotten

OOC: was this by any chance inspired by the christmas day tsunami?

OoC: Viv, check your TGs.