NationStates Jolt Archive

PRESS RELEASE FROM SKULL COUNCIL:
AUTHORISED BY WARLORD KRANG:

At 15:00hrs GMT, three F-104G Starfighters, on one of their last sorties before retirement we're diverted to the desolate, desert regions due to radio reports from the local authorities concerning "large, wingless transports, hovering attack craft..." the report was cut short moments later.
Once over the target area, the starfighters surveyed the remote town of Fairkeep, burning....streets deserted. No sighs of life.
A large bulky craft took up from remnants of the Soccer stadium and sped off. The Starfighters gave chase, launching a volley of Sparrow missles but no hits were recorded and the target quickly dissapeared. The gun camera footage is now being examined by High Command.
The Mcsavaginan Imperial Gaurd has been dispatched to Fairkeep and intital reports sho that large numbers of civilians are missing, found niether alive or dead. Whilst a number of bodies ofstrangley uniformed troops have been discovered. Primarily near the City hall where bodies of McSav Policemen and City Militia have aso been discovered. Bodies marked with "unusual" entrance and exit wounds.
McSavagania has been atacked, her military now on high alert. We appeal to the international community for information, those who have reported similar incidents are of most interest.

The Nation of AssStoneria Will NOT stand for this unmitigated aggression against the unknown "Large Bulky Craft". There is NO Proof that this vessel was even involved in the attack. We DEMAND that Mcsavaginan Imperial Guard IMMEDIATELY cease and desist all attacks on the foreign ships!

ALL unknown and unidentified craft in McSavaganian space will be fired upon. We will defend our lands with our very lives.

OOC: Is this FT?

(ooc: No its modern tech I assume, any who do you mind if I jump in as the craft attacked?)

ALL unknown and unidentified craft in McSavaganian space will be fired upon. We will defend our lands with our very lives.
But they might well have been there investigating, and possibly preparing help with a counter strike. I say, Sit back, Smoke a Bowl, and chill until yo have some concrete evidence

Long Live AssStoneria
Death to Sasha

(ooc: time to try MT once more ;) )

From: The state department of the Federal Union
To: Whom it may concern

The United States Of the Federal Union, Is worried about such claims and paranoia, as we do have commercial craft routinely flying a route close to your nation. Any attack or any fire upon these craft will be considered an act of war. as such the senate as asked by President Odessa has authorized The deployment of a small carrier taskforce

The Tantranese Royal Air Force is currently investigating reports of craft, similar to those reported here, flying near the edge of the nation's air space. No Tantranese aircraft have been involved in combat with said craft, and no reports have been heard regarding attacks of any kind on Tantranese soil. We are willing to cooperate with McSavaganian authorities to identify these craft and provide aid to anyone affected by attacks.

Toren Mal'ev'evet, Undersecretary to the Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Tantranesi

The Tantranese Royal Air Force is currently investigating reports of craft, similar to those reported here, flying near the edge of the nation's air space. No Tantranese aircraft have been involved in combat with said craft, and no reports have been heard regarding attacks of any kind on Tantranese soil. We are willing to cooperate with McSavaganian authorities to identify these craft and provide aid to anyone affected by attacks.

Toren Mal'ev'evet, Undersecretary to the Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Tantranesi
I believe this proves my point. Why would they attack one nation and only fly over the other. The Mcsavaginan Imperial Guard MUST stop their aggressions in hopes for a more diplomatic solution

ooc: modern to near future. Fedral union, you can control the craft. Tantranesi, we can compare reports. Asstonia, we can continue bickering are you a nearby nation? IC: FORMAL SKULL COUNCIL STATEMENT. As of now, our airspace is closed. Our f-16, f-104 and f-8 fighters will intercept all incursions of our borders.

ooc: modern to near future. Fedral union, you can control the craft. Tantranesi, we can compare reports. Asstonia, we can continue bickering are you a nearby nation? IC: FORMAL SKULL COUNCIL STATEMENT. As of now, our airspace is closed. Our f-16, f-104 and f-8 fighters will intercept all incursions of our borders.
I am from the Pot Head Alliance, and we simply feel that this agression is one toke over the line man. One toke,,,

From: USoP Department of Transportation
To: All military and commercial transports in the area of McSavagania

Please be advised the McSavagania nation has closed their airspace to any and all vessels. Please adjust your flight plans accordingly. Proceed with extreme caution.

A travel advisory of Restricted is now in place for McSavagania. Until further notice.

From: Templarian Foreign Interests Department
To: Skull Council
The Empire's sympathies go out to you and your people, especially the friends and relatives of those in Fairkeep. In order to safeguard both our nations security, we offer to manouvere a small airplane carrier task force to the borders of your waters and fly recon sorties. They will report back to both our commands, and will follow combat orders only from your controllers. We hope you agree to this mutally beneficial agreement.
Regards,
Richard Hammersmith, undersecretary, TFID

The smoking crater glowed ominously in the viewscreen. Around it were a number of vehicles moving back and forth, some military, others civilian. At another screen, ZNN reports were scrolling across, showing the situation the McSavaganians were handling. Closing the airspace, eh? Well, not like that would have helped them in any case, Admiral Kregner remarked. The door to the command room hissed open, and the sound of clanking boots reverberated off the walls. Most of the other technicians and system operators took no heed of the entry. Kregner stood and saluted the newcomer.

"Engineer Hawthorne?" The robed man spoke, the vocoder in his throat adding an almost eerie metallic thrum to his voice.

"Yes. I believe you wish to be updated on the identity of that craft?" Kregner nodded in approval. "I have studied what little remained of the destroyed craft. Our satellites are far more keen of sight than most, and thankfully we have positively identified it." Kregner, while not suprised, was still not as surprised as he should have been. Looking at the viewscreen, he was looking at the wreck from the view of a standard Milhawk combat satellite. The view was scrubby, and would phase out at times. He honestly couldn't tell if it was a plane or a tank that had just been reduced to ashes.

"Well? What's your findings?"

"It's a Fedral Union Etherlight. Frankly, a common export by the Fedrals, it could have been flown by any number of international buyers." This caused Kregner to crease his brows. The Engineer could sense his frustration. "However, with the aid of a number of other Engineers, we have decided that the plane was indeed a Fedrali spy plane." Kregner's frustration melted into surprise.

"How?" The adept pulled a number of glossy pictures from the folds of his robe.

"You see this?" He said, pointing a gangly finger at a small crater at the center of the wreck, invisible to the Milhawk images. Kregner nodded. "This explosion could have only been caused by a pilot or co-pilot self-destructing the sensory banks, so as to leave no evidence. We can assume that the crew left unharmed, and are on their way back to the Union, as no bodies have yet been recovered."

"Can you tell what caused the initial crash? Was it actually those missiles they had fired?"

"I cannot. The wreckage would have to be more closely examined by my fellow engineers to ascertain the cause. However, given the isolationist turn the Savages have made, I doubt we will be granted that privilege. Should we inform them?" Kregner sat back down in his command chair, staring intently on the photographs. His decisions would have dire consequences, either way. Tell the Savages, and a war might break out, one that could spill over into Zakuvian territories. Don't, and something more lasting, and more bloody in the long run, albeit safer for the Empire's interests, would happen. Now Kregner understood the burden of leadership the Emperor was saddled with.
Kregner rubbed his eyes and breathed out, removing his cap to try and alleviate a growing headache forming.

"Do it." Engineer Hawthorne bowed slightly, and made his exit towards the communications hub. So, it starts, Kregner thought. "Operations, I want a full tactical display of all Imperial forces stationed near this mess."

“Well there goes that thing”

Said an admiral standing on the bridge of the leviathan, the leviathan was a massive modern day battle ship, it was larger than an aircraft carrier, its form was grey and sleek stealthy, waves battered its form as it sliced through the waters following closely with Atlantis class cruisers, , Rudolf class destroyers, defender class frigates and multiple Nexus class and Sea Archer class super carriers. The engines of the ship hummed throughout the ship and the bridge, officers and crew members manipulated multiple digital consoles.


The waters where rough, the sea seemed angry, sprays of salt water flew over the bow of the mighty battle ship, a trail of white foamy water moving behind it. Admiral James Henry Parker was in command, he was a seasoned officer, he had many years in the navy , this was the first time in over thirty years the fleet had been deployed, The Federal Union wanted to start exerting its new found military tech and its influence on the world stage he was chosen for this mission because he knew what to expect from foreign powers either land grabbers or other mis placed aggressive nations. His blue eyes peered out in to the horizon, the sun was going down the sky was orange and fiery, the wind swept up, he could see the Federal Flag whipping in the wind widely.

He noticed officers working at sonar, radar and Lidar stations all professionally doing their work, he smiled a bit the Leviathan was a brand new class of ship meant to deal with the monstrosities that inhabited the ocean from other nations, hundreds of missile launchers lined the upper decks of the ship, four dual twelve inch turrets in low cross section designed housing Imposed upon the rest of the hull, these where the short range weapons while not as big as guns on the other “dreadnoughts” they made up for it by being jet assisted shells and liquid ETC guns. The missiles where its main armament, hundreds of tubes containing every thing from anti shipping Pluto missiles to Sea to land Ares missiles. The former containing a nuclear ramjet second stage and an ultra high yield war head , Pluto missiles could also be equipped with five kiloton anti shipping shaped warheads.



Several hours would past before they reached the their exercise site, over the horizon radar GPS, and LIDAR all clear from any activity besides their ships, underneath the rough seas of the ocean multiple hammer head subs escorted the fleet, their forms shimmering in the murky depths of the sea, quiet stealth impeller drives running from the reactors inside the subs. Of course the hammer head wasn’t the only sub being utilized, the sea wolf and modernized Ohio Tridents also followed the medium sized fleet.

Parker just sighed as he nodded to an officer who nodded back to him walking past him and down the small stair way in to the depths of the ship. It was quite other than the hum of the reactor and the turbines and engines, and the roar of the sea, every thing else was just silent nothing was going on. This mission was to protect interest in the area, but they didn’t even have troop ships, of course behind where several task forces carrying several thousand troops, marines and equipment , as a... security measure. The air craft compliment of all the task forces combined was significant, the fleet it self was a significant sized, it was more of a show off against any aggressors than an invasion force but if necessary they would go in and peace keep with support from the air wings and ships off shore. The space above the small nation was watched by satellites, pictures and images and real time guidance information being fed as satellites passed every so often crossing their paths some times.


As for the cashed air ship, it was a UAV, its equipment and intelligence was remotely destroyed and thus it was a smoking crater by the time any one would have gotten to it, a lot of information and data about the nation it was looking at was fed to the Union Moments before it was shot down by hostile craft. There where indeed other civilian craft flying by the nation mainly air liners and air ships and cargo planes , radar and other sensors picked those up even as the fleet neared the nation several miles off of the federal cost.

Upon further review of images taken of the craft reported near Tantranese airspace, the TRAF has determined that the heretofore unidentified aircraft may have origins in the Federal Union. Attempts to contact the Federali embassy located near the Tantranese royal palace have failed. No immediate threat to the security of the kingdom or its peoples is currently apparent, however, all air defence forces will be placed at AlertCon 3 until further notice.

Furthermore, His Majesty's Government continues to urge the Federal Union to respond.

We continue to monitor the situation and will adjust security postures as needed.


Toren Mal'ev'evet, Undersecretary to the Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Tantranesi

Official press release From the Federal State Department.

The Craft that was shot down by McSavagania was a weather measurement balloon we where studying weather related phenomenon off the coast of the Union and we lost contact with it, again it is nothing more than a weather balloon and our response with a military presence is merely due to that nations threats against forign craft.

Official press release From the Federal State Department.

The Craft that was shot down by McSavagania was a weather measurement balloon we where studying weather related phenomenon off the coast of the Union and we lost contact with it, again it is nothing more than a weather balloon and our response with a military presence is merely due to that nations threats against forign craft.

Field Marshall Gereon Aemilius read the statement with a bemused look on his face. Taking a sip from a cup of tea, he laid the paper down on his desk carefully.
"Oh yes. After all, if we had a weather balloon shot down we'd send in an entire damn battlefleet too." Sitting in his private quarters onboard the VTN Vanguard, a Wejy-class Aircraft Carrier, he swirled the dregs of his tea around in the plain cream cup. He put the cup down and pressed a small red button his desk, speaking into a microphone connected to the bridge. "Lewis, do me a favor. Double the recon sorties, watch out for those TFU craft. And just to be sure, how soon could reinforcements arrive if we need them?"
"Air support could arrive in 45 minutes sir, naval support in an hour half."
"So, if they do decide to open fire, they need to give us 45 minutes warning?"
"It is only sporting sir."
"Of course. Back to your post, if you will."
"Yessir." He depressed the button and put his feet up on the desk, staring out out the window across the choppy sea.

McSavaganian coastline 1800hrs GMT.

McSavaganian Military Station "Dry Western".

"Sir, Long range sonar buoys are detecting a massive signature....signatures rather, holding position some distance south...orders?"

"Dispatch one of the Vulcans, arm it with a few harpoon missles and outfit a heavy jammer, the most powerful we have...we must discover them...discreetly.."

"Aye sir"

3 hours later: McSavaganian Vulcan callsign "Tenderhook"

"Picking up, massive interferance, jammer not cutting through.....I can see...looks like a fleet....think...white trails missles! MAYDAY MAYDAY! Surface fleet detected, position hostile, burning for the coast...we are getting out of here!

The Vulcan fired up her four massive engines and hit the deck, burning for home....her flight cameras had captured images that showed the configeration of the outling ships...if she could return to McSavaganian airspace....the identity of the intruders and their link, if any to the FairKeep incident could be discovered.

A force of 20 F-16's and 8 F-104's were scrambled to escort the Vulcan home and engage any hostile aircraft.

Official Announcement from the Joint Staff:
Reports have reached the Kingdom that a large fleet from The Federal Union has been performing highly aggressive maneuvers of the coast of McSavagania. In light of this recent development, the Tantranese Defence Forces have been upgraded to AlertCon 2. All TRAF aircraft in the western province of Athera are to begin flying round-the-clock defensive sorties in Tantranese airspace and have orders to fire upon any military aircraft not corresponding to IFF signals. Seven AA units from the Army have been positioned throughout the Kingdom, and the Tantranese Royal Navy has begun patrols of the Bay of Telyan and the Western Sea.

Gen. Toman Tha'teral, Chief of staff, TA, Chairman of the Joint Staff

The Tanranese Ministry for Defence strongly urges The Federal Union to cease and desist aggressions against the neighbours and allies of the Kingdom of Tantranesi. The minister and the Joint Staff have been authorized by His Majesty's Government to use any and all necessary force to protect the Kingdom and its allies. We hope there will be no need, as this situation may be resolved peacefully.

Iovan Teltheka, Minister for Defence
by the Authority of the Monarch,
HRH Ta'el Tha'estral, SRP, DF, KP, King of Tantranesi.

The Lingard Navy Carrier, LNS Indestructable, with it's carrier group. Sat observeing this developing story. They had stopped a close, yet respectful distance from the VT ships. A CAP was in the air and more planes were waiting for take-off.

Aboard ship, when not talking about this situation, everyone was talkinga bout the riots back home.

Presidential Aircraft 1
President's Office

Bartlet was on the phone with Fitz, Nancy, and Leo.

"What are the chances it was a balloon?" he asked.

"With that debris field? It'd be more like a weather blimp." Nancy said.

"Plus when a balloon gets shot down you say 'darn you shot my balloon' you don't sail an attack fleet at full speed at the problem". Fitz added.

Bartlet smirked, it was rare Fitz and Nancy played Laurel and Hardy. "What do you recommend."

"No action yet. We've notified our assets in the area to steer clear. Our satellites are watching. We leave it, we don't want to get into anything with any of the major players in this."

"Ok, that's pretty much what I was thinking". Bartlet agreed. "For now."

Statement from the USFU State department.

Our fleet is in current international, waters, we have not made any aggressive moves towards this nation, and seeing as this nation is miles in to international waters off of our coast our forces have access to many reenforcements, if any attempt is made to attack our fleets, our aircraft or any other Federal Assets it will be considered an act of war and we will mobilize what ever forces are necessary to quell your intervetion. As of now many squadrons of B1C Super lancer ,B52I, B4A Titan Bombers, as well as B2 stealth units are on stand by for launch, fleets equipped with nuclear tipped shells and nuclear ramjet Pluto missiles are on stand by to reenforce our units.

The message was harsh and brief, the union did not want random nations flexing their muscles out side of its waters .. The fleet commanded Admiral Parker came to a stop the troop ships and other task forces forming up over several tens of miles, the choppy waters continued to batter the massive battle ship, sprays of salt water flew over the stealthy bow as its grey form imposed on the murky waters along with the rest of the fleet, engines of Modified and updated F-14E Tomcats roared to life wafting hot streams of air flowing from their engines as they rushed off deck one by one the advanced aircraft flew off the edge of the carrier decks. White hot streams of fire flowing from their engines.

Hundreds of them and hundreds of F-19A Specter fighters filled the air, their forms silhouetted gently with the failing orange sunlight. The fleet and the fighters maintained BVR locks and BVR range on most of their targets, silver strike 2 missiles where armed and ready on all the aircraft.

The Leviathan mean while along with the rest of the sea born escorts and ships had already armed their CIWS emplacements, and chemical laser anti missile systems, hundreds of Pluto NRJCM , Ares missiles and Super harpoons where armed and ready for launch. The fleet began to steam in erratic maneuvers now each ship making its own path making sure they stayed out of foreign waters, aircraft did the same, the banked maneuvered and flew in several different directions and paths before moving back in to a single formation this seemed more like military exercises than an honest invasion to the trained eye.


Orbital satellites carrying MKKS (Multi Kinetic Kill Systems) Flew by not even positioning themselves for a strike. While the surveillance satellites did their work.

A pair of Rafales, on recon detail from the Vanguard, flew slowly towards the USFU fleet, changing course just outside of estimated SAM range. The pilot of the lead plane waggled his wings in greetings as they circled the fleet, onboard camera recording them.

Onboard the Vanguard, Aemilius' previous relatively relaxed attitude had disappeared. He stood on deck, staring out towards the possible 'enemy' that had just presented itself. He had called for reinforcements; stationed at a nearby colony, they would take around an hour to arrive. He hoped that the 'enemy' didn't try anything before then. Aircraft carriers weren't reknowned for their ability to flee. Neither, for that matter, were the Templars themselves.

"so we did get it" remarked Krang. "indeed, sir and what a piece of kit it is!". The downed craft had been taken to a secure location, but if Krang knew anything, it was that the owners would want it back. His eyes flicked back to the monitor, the vulcan was back under the SAM net, but the fighters headed out to sea, ready to meet the threat like true Savages....