Tolvan
28-04-2009, 23:44
OOC: Continued from here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=590152). Feel free to issue statements of support but active participation (i.e. deploying military forces is not allowed).
King Robert Square
Brayton, Tolvanic Home Islands
News of the unprovoked Nevradian attack on Task Force 43 in international waters had spread fast throughout the Commonwealth. Both Prime Minister Sir Tyler Hutchins and Lord Beckman, Chancellor of the House of Peers, as well as the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Winston Baines, had gone on TV to denounce the attacks as “vile acts of aggression” and “unquestionable prove of the moral bankruptcy of communist thought”. However, all three men stopped short of openly calling for a Declaration of War. That restraint did not extend to His Majesty King Samuel III, who in an interview with the TBC, called such a declaration in order “to demonstrate the consequences of aggression against the Commonwealth by Marxist degenerates”. Not that the public restraint of the Commonwealth’s political leaders seemed to have much effect. Throughout the Commonwealth, and its colonies, crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands were taking to the streets to protest the attacks and call for Nevradian blood. Nevradian flags, several textile mills had taken to churning them out in en masse, were being burned by the thousands, along with effigies of Anton Illych Petrov and Vasily Ivanovich Lavochkin. Both the Conservative and Crown Loyalist Parties mobilized their grassroots organizers to “encourage” the protests. Newspapers and broadcast news stations throughout the Commonwealth covered the protests extensively. Members of both the House of Commons and the House and Peers took to the floor to deliver hours of anti-Nevradian invective. Even the Leader of the Tolvanic Communist Party, Victor Morgan, publically denounced the attacks as “affronts to the basic ideals of the proletariat revolution and international law”. This was not enough to save Tolvanic communists, few as though they may be, from the wrath of populace as a whole as most members were driven underground after several dozen known Communist Party supporters were attacked and at least three were killed outright.
Despite its apparent restraint the Government was already preparing for war. The Royal Navy was rushing two more carrier battle groups to rendezvous with the survivors of TF 43 and another three battle groups were on alert for possible redeployment. The Royal Marines’ entire 5th Division was boarding amphibious assault ships at Tombassa Fleet Anchorage and would set sail for the Nevradian Theater within ten days. Both the Royal Army’s VI Corps and II Airmobile Corps were placed on alert and fact transport ships of the Royal Sealift Command were activated for possible deployment. The Royal Air Force was preparing sufficient airlift to drop the entire II Airmobile Corps in Nevrad. In addition, fighter wings throughout the Commonwealth were given alert orders and both the 32nd and 51st Bomber Wings were deployed to Royal Air Base Telic Island, which was within the B-1C’s striking range of Nevrad.
Already the opening phase of the military’s plans was unfolding. The 1337th Signal Battalion (Cyberwarfare) was busy attempting to hack any Nevradian computer they could find. Torrential waves of spam, liberally laced with spyware and viruses were unleashed on Nevradian e-mail accounts. Massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks were launched on Nevradian websites. Some junior members of the 1337th were even assigned to subject the Nevradian government’s known fax numbers to endless waves of black faxes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fax), purely out of spite. The 1337th was aided in its effort by hackers in the employ of the NDI (National Directorate of Intelligence) and thousands of Tolvanic civilian hackers. While such attacks were unlikely to have much effect on a closed society such as Nevrad’s, with any luck they would occupy their attentions while more dangerous methods of offence were readied.
King Robert Square
Brayton, Tolvanic Home Islands
News of the unprovoked Nevradian attack on Task Force 43 in international waters had spread fast throughout the Commonwealth. Both Prime Minister Sir Tyler Hutchins and Lord Beckman, Chancellor of the House of Peers, as well as the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Winston Baines, had gone on TV to denounce the attacks as “vile acts of aggression” and “unquestionable prove of the moral bankruptcy of communist thought”. However, all three men stopped short of openly calling for a Declaration of War. That restraint did not extend to His Majesty King Samuel III, who in an interview with the TBC, called such a declaration in order “to demonstrate the consequences of aggression against the Commonwealth by Marxist degenerates”. Not that the public restraint of the Commonwealth’s political leaders seemed to have much effect. Throughout the Commonwealth, and its colonies, crowds numbering in the hundreds of thousands were taking to the streets to protest the attacks and call for Nevradian blood. Nevradian flags, several textile mills had taken to churning them out in en masse, were being burned by the thousands, along with effigies of Anton Illych Petrov and Vasily Ivanovich Lavochkin. Both the Conservative and Crown Loyalist Parties mobilized their grassroots organizers to “encourage” the protests. Newspapers and broadcast news stations throughout the Commonwealth covered the protests extensively. Members of both the House of Commons and the House and Peers took to the floor to deliver hours of anti-Nevradian invective. Even the Leader of the Tolvanic Communist Party, Victor Morgan, publically denounced the attacks as “affronts to the basic ideals of the proletariat revolution and international law”. This was not enough to save Tolvanic communists, few as though they may be, from the wrath of populace as a whole as most members were driven underground after several dozen known Communist Party supporters were attacked and at least three were killed outright.
Despite its apparent restraint the Government was already preparing for war. The Royal Navy was rushing two more carrier battle groups to rendezvous with the survivors of TF 43 and another three battle groups were on alert for possible redeployment. The Royal Marines’ entire 5th Division was boarding amphibious assault ships at Tombassa Fleet Anchorage and would set sail for the Nevradian Theater within ten days. Both the Royal Army’s VI Corps and II Airmobile Corps were placed on alert and fact transport ships of the Royal Sealift Command were activated for possible deployment. The Royal Air Force was preparing sufficient airlift to drop the entire II Airmobile Corps in Nevrad. In addition, fighter wings throughout the Commonwealth were given alert orders and both the 32nd and 51st Bomber Wings were deployed to Royal Air Base Telic Island, which was within the B-1C’s striking range of Nevrad.
Already the opening phase of the military’s plans was unfolding. The 1337th Signal Battalion (Cyberwarfare) was busy attempting to hack any Nevradian computer they could find. Torrential waves of spam, liberally laced with spyware and viruses were unleashed on Nevradian e-mail accounts. Massive Denial of Service (DoS) attacks were launched on Nevradian websites. Some junior members of the 1337th were even assigned to subject the Nevradian government’s known fax numbers to endless waves of black faxes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fax), purely out of spite. The 1337th was aided in its effort by hackers in the employ of the NDI (National Directorate of Intelligence) and thousands of Tolvanic civilian hackers. While such attacks were unlikely to have much effect on a closed society such as Nevrad’s, with any luck they would occupy their attentions while more dangerous methods of offence were readied.