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Pyekan Kuogu

Head of the Panaku Delta, Sea of Pyeki

The first golden rays of dawn were skipping over a purple sea's undulating peaks and a stiff breeze blew in to shore. As the sun drew itself gradually higher into a waking sky, a great shadow stretched its menacing spectre across the docks. Assembled on the ramparts at the forts of the Panaku Delta, the self-congratulatory brass of the Pyekan National Navy nodded approvingly as the national colours were run up and their new flagship accepted into service by Admiral Akihiko Hirata.

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The battleship Yahlen looked splendid. And well she might, since a total of 224 Pyekan labourers had perished to make her so, first carving out the giant slip several kilometres down the mighty Panaku, itself a project greater than any undertaken in the nation's history, and then assembling the better part of a hundred thousand tons of war machine. At that ratio, Admiral Hirata's uniform must have claimed a couple of lives itself. It was all plumage, epaulettes, ribbons, brass and polish, the fabric brilliant white. During the ceremony, Hirata brandished at all times his personal weapon, an ancestral chokutō-like straight sword of a design held locally to have originated in Pyeki rather than China or Korea and to have been exported from there to Japan.

After more than an hour and a half in which ancient tradition and modern pomp were blended, Yahlen became officially the flagship of the imperial fleet when she fired out to sea a volley from her primary battery, which consisted of a dozen triple-mounted 18.5"/54 rifles.

The Admiral then read a proclamation from the Divine Ruler of the Dawn Empire, Emperor Pan Yoshimura, on behalf of the Pangkai, or Parliament, in which it was stated that Pyeki, "Being the Richest State, with Powerful Army..." was prepared at last to fulfill its divinely ordaned destiny and begin its march to world conquest.

Painstakingly timed and prepared, Panpok's effective -all be it secret- declaration of war on all who opposed the Divine Emperor's mandate over earth coincided perfectly with the appearance on the horizon of the Imperial Fleet, hundreds of vessels assembling in the Sea of Pyeki for a final review before steaming into action across South East Asia, and the filling of the sky over the broad Panaku Delta by the whole Air Army of the Delta, one of the National Air Defence Force's strategic commands.

The region's hermit kingdom, a backwards autarky so far as anyone could tell -in which the state faked tales of defection to the outside so that it could present 'returned defectors' who would swear that they had come home after being unable to stand the poverty, violence, and disorder that lay beyond the Emperor's care- had, apparently, prepared itself for total war. Almost every able-bodied man, beyond those scant few engaged in reserved occupations, clutched a rifle or other piece of military equipment. Schools, such few as existed, were factories producing little boy soldiers and little girl rice farmers and bullet-makers, which itself entailed their practicing the production of simple war essentials when they might have otherwise been expected to be enjoying arts and crafts. Rationing was already in effect, martial law reigned across the land, public works raised only facilities of military value, and anything even remotely foreign -intrepid journalists included- was burned if it could not be impressed to serve the purposes of the National Defence Forces.

The Empire's last international statement, a promise to live in peace and co-operation with our neighbours, given many years ago, now seemed nothing more than a shallow subterfuge by a nation that existed only to conquer in the name of its worshipped Emperor.

OOC thread! Need temporary whipping-boy(s)! (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=589537)

Pyekan-Sylviastani Border

One of the Empire's various neighbours in Asia, Sylviastan was amongst the smallest and least militant in nature. But its outright refusal to accept the divinity of the Emperor stood as a grave affront to Pyeki. Nobody in Panpok could bear the audacity of this little country that defied the Emperor and yet declined even to properly arm itself in such a manner as to protect its heresy.

The Pyekan National Army, massing on the hilly frontier, could only wait for word. The ambassador to Sylviastan was due to return today, one way or another. Either he would be obsolete, replaced by Imperial Ministers and Consuls in an accepting part of Pan Yoshimura's dominion, or he would have been recalled -if not expelled- as ties were severed, in which case the PNDF would be marching to war.

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PNA troops stand, waiting, on the Sylviastani border

(Ralkovia has 2 rather large colony in vietnam and korea. We are also acquiring a third colony in japan. I've been meaning to get rid of the vietnam colony would you be interested in a war for it?)

OOC: Hm, sounds good. OOC Thread linked in Post #2, BTW ;) I'll go and write something there, now...

OOC-just an intro post

IC-Saint Rita, Colonial Capital of Tokem and the Empress Mayaia Islands
Governor Angelo Hoover reclined in his chair and turned to look out over the ocean from his office. The room was simply one of the many rooms in the Palace, the nerve center for the management and control of these colonies.

It was also the closest thing to a Telviran home in this backwater of a colony.

As Governor Hoover lamented his stationing to this backwater, Colonel Brent Haywood, in command of the small Colonial Defense Garrison, was ushered in. Hoover turned around. "What is it, Haywood?" Haywood gave the Telviran salute, then began talking. "We've gotten some disturbing images from our satellites over Pyeki. There's a lare buildup occuring." "Aimed at us, Colonel?" "No sir, they seem to--" Governor Hoover cut him off, "Then why does it matter, Colonel?! If those people want to buildup a military on the other side of the Pacific, then by all means they can! It is no skin off my bones if another one of those pissant countries gets wiped out! Fewer annoying rulers to deal with, if you ask me. Was that all?" Colonel Haywood nodded. "Yessir." "Good," responded Hoover. He turned back to the ocean. "Now get out."

ORBAT-Colonial Defense Garrison
Tokem
150 troops
10 Panther 1A3 tanks
5 PAH-6 Cheetah gunships
8 EC 220 Gadfly light helicopter transports
4 EC 660 Whirlwind heavy helicopter transports
7 F-22 Raptor fighters
2 Zumwalt-class destroyers

Empress Mayaia Islands
100 troops
5 F-22 Raptor fighters
3 EC 220 Gadfly light helicopter transports

Sylviaville

Estimates -sheer guess work, in truth- held that the PNDF's strength under its terrifying mobilisation was greater than the entire population of Sylviastan.

Was resistance pointless, or was the enemy banking on capitulation? Hopeful that the latter was true, the government ordered border defences manned and strengthened, and the Pyekan ambassador was sent packing with a stern talking to.

With a budget measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars and manpower in the hundreds of thousands, the Sylviastani military set to digging-in where possible, hoping by reinforcing a few strategic passes to turn the enemy off to the idea of an easy victory. Of course, if he did attack, the situation was hopeless... he counted his military budget in trillions of dollars and his manpower in hundreds of millions. The only hope was in his lack of committment to the newly aggressive idea.

Pyeki

The return of the ambassador was the only signal needed for the PNDF to begin its assault. The Sylviastani gamble would prove costly. Pyeki was already prepared for war, and, as it turned out, many defensible border positions would be more easily reached by their ready and available manpower than by the intended defenders, who were still attempting to mobilise.

Mountain troops marched across the border within mere hours of the ambassador's dismissal from Sylviaville, and with them came heavy gunfire and air attack, which the poor and peaceful Sylviastanis were quite unprepared to face. Those attempting to entrench their positions on the frontier were scattered by falling shells before they could even decide amongst their inexperienced selves exactly how to go about establishing a defensible posture.

At several points, individual units attempted to offer resistance with small arms fire and grenades, but facing a few unskillfully weilded Ishapore-Enfield rifles and Vickers machineguns left by the British, vast hordes of Pyekan regulars were undaunted. Squads of green Sylviastani infantry were faced with frontal assault by whole regiments of brutally trained Pyekan with gunnery and aviation support and an apparent preparedness to fix bayonets and charge machinegun nests, which totally unnerved the few defenders who initially stuck to their posts.

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Sylviastani border forces, isolated on archaic defences.

It was immediately evident that Sylviastan could not hold even its mountainous frontier, and panic spread with fleeing soldiers into the towns and countryside. As they went, bomber aircraft followed, and explosions began to shake Sylviaville.

Premier Tang gave a command to protect the capital until the last moment possible, withdrawing forces from across the nation, if they could be rallied at all. Light flak was all that could be offered to oppose the bombers, and the Premier gathered his family in the basement of his stately residence.

Tang penned an appeal for assylum and placed it in the hands of his beloved daughter, Louise. Confering upon her status as an official diplomat he sent her north, to the Beatusian colony. When she asked why he would not simply place a phonecall and save valuable time, Tang replied calmly, as was his way, "My dearest, a phone call is a lazy man's visit, and a miser's letter." and he sent her out, hoping at least that she would be safe.

Sylviastan

The PNDF's advance through Sylviastan saw the deployment of Pyeki's oldest military equipment. Much of it would have been scrapped years ago but that it was saved for this campaign, expected to be easy, in hopes that it would lull the world into a false sense of security. Most armaments were based on WWII equipment left by the Japanese, with whom Pyeki enthusiastically sided.

Firing across valleys, up and down mountain slopes, and across rice fields, the Pyekan soldiers found that, in any case, the powerful old bolt-action rifles with which many had been issued were more useful than smaller-calibre assault rifles in any case, and tiny tankettes and light tanks proved more practical on mountain trails and small pathways through the primitive nation. Against the poorly-armed Sylviastanis, even piston-engined fighters and bombers were an advantage.

YAP-11 Fireback attackers, used ordinarily as COIN aircraft, zipped through mountain passes and straffed retreating Sylviastanis with 13mm machineguns and 25mm automatic cannon, the odd little twin-boom push-prop aircraft also carrying unguided rockets and napalm tanks with which to erase any doubts that may persist about the likely outcome of the Pyekan Kuogu's invasion of its tiny neighbour.

On what few railway tracks existed in Sylviastan, PNA tankettes and armoured cars displayed an impressive ability to run at high speeds, some having specialised rail wheels that could be lowered to push the armoured vehicles at speeds of sixty miles per hour. By the time the defenders realised the necessity of destroying a rail network that wasn't even connected to the enemy's it was often too late, bridges being occupied and defended by light armoured vehicles and infantry towed in rail carts behind them.

South China Sea

The Imperial Fleet was a sight to behold as it carved its way east through waters claimed for the Emperor according to the Pyekanma Doctrine.

Espoused by leading members of the Pangkai (freely translated: the Pyekan nationalist democratic organisation, serving as the imperial parliament) such as Admiral Akihiko Hirata, PNDF Captain Jun Tazaki, General Eisei Amamoto, and Doctor Hisaya Ito, Pyekanma was the idea that the Pyekan Kuogu stood as the legitimate successor to the Empire of Japan, being the only culturally pure society remaining with any self respect and moral strength. According to Pyekanma dogma, all Asia must be brought to heel, and the world made to recognise the Emperor's divinity or else human life is pointless.

Outsiders had, presumably, dismissed the agenda as having only minority support in the Pangkai, or else had dismissed Pyeki's ability to do anything about it. Only now, when it is too late, do they see.

The Pyekan National Navy had some fifteen million personnel and a target of eighty million. Five hundred battleships with one hundred and fifty building or having materials gathered, and five hundred aircraft carriers of all sizes with three hundred in various stages of preparation or planning. There was a massive nineteen hundred cruisers of various sorts and sizes with five hundred to be added in coming months and years. There were a good three thousand submarines discounting midgets, though none were nuclear powered and only a minority were outfitted with guided missiles of any sort. Almost ten thousand destroyers, frigates, corvettes, armed patrol boats, cutters, gunboats and similar craft were also on the register along with two thousand set to come, and over quarter of a billion tons of merchantmen and dual-use vessels were under the direct control of the Navy for good measure.

No small part of the PNN was assembled in Admiral Hirata's Imperial Fleet, which was apparently in good order. The fleet maintained a steady twelve knots. It consisted of a few light escort carriers and a single fleet carrier; a large number of destroyers, frigates, and corvettes; a small number of D/E submarines on the surface; several cruisers of various sizes, being primarily gun-and-armour types augmented with offensive and defensive missile systems in place of some gun batteries; a range of tenders with fuel, munitions, and foodstuffs et cetera; and a small battleship squadron of four ships lead by the majestic Yahlen, aboard which sailed Admiral Hirata himself.

Over a hundred ships, gliding across the waves, majestic as a swan, were kicking furiously below the surface against the limitations of their dated technology and the PNDF's ridgid leadership framework.

Sylviaville

With PNA forces in the outskirts of the capital, the government had received no word from the Beatus in response to the dispatch of the Premier's daughter with a request for asylum. The Premiership Guard was putting up a frantic defence, but was little better prepared than the border forces had been.

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The Sylviastani Premiership Guard attempts to slow the PNA's advance through the capital.

Across the little nation, thousands of peasants were rounded-up by the PNA and put to work establishing large internment camps, and others were force-marched back across the border where they would be burdoned with materials necessary to the establishment in Sylviastan of new war industry.

Philippine Sea

Admiral Hirata's fleet had made its way east of the Philippines, and was continuing east-northeast. Speakers across the fleet sounded action stations as the carriers oriented their flight decks for launch.

YAP-46 strike jets began to screech from the catapults of Hirata's fleet carrier and swept towards the Telviran colony of the Empress Mayaia Islands, while YAP-16 Super Firebacks lept from the ski-ramps of several light carriers and began to converge on Tokem.

One of Telvira's F-22s was worth, in dollar terms, a flight of YAP-46 or a whole squadron of YAP-16, probably more, but if intelligence was correct about the small numbers of Telviran fighters on station it may not matter. The Firebacks were not armed for air-to-air engagement but carried guns, rockets, and bombs, and were under orders to attack all military infrastructure on offer in the small outpost, regardless of interception attempts against them. Meanwhile, though some YAP-46s carried IR-guided AAMs they were not capable of beyond visual range engagement of fighters like the F-22, but with AGMs they were to attack the airbase none the less and bear any casualties that may result.

The lone fleet carrier began to put up BAI-59 Sunbird fighters in small numbers, but only after the attackers were massed and making their approach. These relatively fast jets would probably struggle to track Raptors at more than a few miles out, but they were to try in any case. Eight of them would eventually be airborne, along with thirty-two YAP-46 and two-dozen YAP-16.

Several helicopters were also launched from the Pyekan fleet on ASuW patrol, and more were tasked with finding the Telviran destroyers alleged to be on station in Tokem. When found, they would be attacked with aircraft, submarines, and if necessary frigates, cruisers, and even battleships from the fleet.

Panpok gave no prior warning of its intention to attack Telvira in the Pacific, but as Hirata's fleet hurled itself at the Mayaias and Tokem, back in the Empire General Eisei Amamoto was massing an army on the Cambodian border.

Saint Rita
Col. Haywood rushed in. "Sir, we have aircraft heading in from the east!" Governor Hoover shot out of his chair. "WHAT!!" "Haywood was startled by the man's outburst. "Sir, there are several flights of aircraft heading towards Tokem and the Mayaias. We think they're Pyekan." "They wouldn't dare!" shouted Hoover. "Sir, it appears they already have."

On the airfields on Tokem and the Mayaias, there was an scent of panic in the air. No one knew what they were up against, or how many there were. But what the Telvirans had would have to be enough to at least hold them off until defenses could be set up. The F-22s roared down the runways at took off into the sky. Each was armed with a 20mm cannon, 6 AIM-120 AMRAAM, and 2 AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles. It wouldn't be a lot, but it would have to do.

Meanwhile, troops set up AA guns and the few SAMs they had, while the infantry began digging in. If they could stop the landings they knew were coming before they could get off the beaches, it would set the enemy back enough for help to arrive in time.

The two Zumwalt-class destroyers were excellent ship-killers. They were sent out to search for and attack the enemy carriers that launched the aircraft. If that proved ineffective, the Raptors could be armed for air-to-ground strikes.