NationStates Jolt Archive

Matthew Eden sipped the glass of water, his emotionless steel-blue eyes fixed on Governor John Frederick Williams. This was the man who had continued whoring Orpalm to the government of Dorthorpe, and he would pay for his actions. It entertained Eden to see this man scream as his skin was slowly skinned off him with a breadknife, a fitting punishment for him. Eden put the glass of water down on the table, and walked to the side of the Governor, who was tied to a dinner table. Oh, the idiots. The people of the Free Baptist Church, whom made up the majority of Orpalm, had fallen for his revolutionary ideas to start a Christian kingdom in Orpalm and stop the 'spreading of the infection' of false gods and foreign culture. He had trained his guerrillas in secret, training them like Federal Selenian Army trained him. He had got hold of enough Kalashnikovs and other weapons to conduct a coup d’état, which had just ended. Of course, Eden had no belief at all in any deity, and had only joined the Free Baptists so he could start this revolution and enjoy the mass killings he would then conduct. The bloodshed and the mutilations gave him a rush and made him grin with delight. It looked so right, all the dead bodies, all the helpless civilians piled up, the raped men and women, the tear-filled eyes of little children as their families were executed or worse.

"So, Mister Frederick, how do you feel now? In the living room, your wife is being raped, along with your daughters. How do you feel? Well?" he smirked at him, ordering the skinning to stop. He punched his nose hard, causing the liquid known as blood to stream out of him like a waterfall, the screams of his family in the other room causing him to vomit. He grinned, and started punching him as hard as he could continuously.

"Sir, I think he's-" said one of the skinners, the blood hitting the walls.

Matthew grinned. "Show him to his family, then execute them."

What an ungodly beginning to the 'Christian' Kingdom of Orpalm, thought Eden.

* * *

Sarstoke quietly sipped her tea as she turned the page of Secret Scripture, the dark romance novel she was just beginning on. Her husband, the First Gentleman, was asleep soundly, his half-empty glass of whiskey on his bedside table. Sarstoke preferred tea, but she understood her husband's fetish for whiskey; after all, he came from Magelene. She jumped whenever the door was practically pushed open by the ex-ranger Cain Gladstone, dropping her novel onto the floor and causing her husband, Benjamin, to wake up before going back to sleep in a matter of seconds. Sarstoke picked her novel back up, sipped her tea as Cain handed her some documents. My son's older than him , she thought as a smirk crept onto her face. That was always the first thing she thought when she saw the Defence Minister!

Her smirk was cut off quickly as she looked at the first paragraph of the documents, actually a Special National Security Report. The State of Orpalm has been subject to a coup d’état organised by a fundamental Christian group which has declared Orpalm an independent state, the Christian Kingdom of Orpalm, and has proceeded to execute Governor Williams, his family, and has declared that a mass purge will take place which will kill thousands of non-Christians residing in the state. The leader of these rebels, Matthew Eden, has declared that a state of war exists between Orpalm and Selenon. Her smile turned into a grimace in a matter of seconds.

"Matthew Eden?" she asked rhetorically. "Griffith should have killed him when he had the chance. Let me get dressed, and I will enter my office in a moment."

Cain left the room without a word, closing the door. She quickly put on her suit quickly, and finished off her tea. She let her husband lie there, for he would need the sleep, knowing him. She exited the room and walked briskly to her office, the President's Office, opened the door and was greeted by Prime Minister Johannes Lazarus, Chancellor Alfred Miller, Foreign Minister Abel Augustus and Defence Minister Cain Gladstone. She greeted them all before sitting down on her suit, a copy of the last Report on her desk and all four of the chief members of her Cabinet looking like they had just died as they sat down on the expensive leather seats in front of the desk, Cain and Johannes standing due to a lack of seats.

Sarstoke spoke first. "Friends, this is the greatest national security threat to the nation since last century. I am sure we all agree on what we must do, but differ on the how we should do it. Am I correct?"

He was. The rest of them gave their opinions on what should be done, and Sarstoke listened well, not interrupting them at all, before speaking again. "Friends, I am afraid that if we want to spare as many of our brave soldiers lifes' as possible, we will have to engage in non-conventional warfare to win this. If we storm in with our battalions, it will take many decades to entirely snuff out the guerrilla soldiers. That is why I propose we take a drastic action which must be kept at CRIMSON level secrecy. Understood?"

They all nodded before Sarstoke began speaking again. "Biological warfare. I am not interested in how it is done, but we must cause an outbreak of the anthrax in Orpalm."

The Chancellor actually fainted at that. Johannes started to speak. "Madam President, that's...that's...bioterrorism!"

"Biological warfare. Keep this secret at all times. I command you, Cain, to cause this outbreak in anyway you wish, as long as it pushes the guerrillas into surrender. Understood?"

Cain was emotionless. "Yes, Madam."

"Johannes, make a statement ASAP stating that we plan to surround the country before attacking. Understood? And make sure the Chancellor doesn’t run off and tell the press."

"Yes...Madam.." Johannes spoke.

"Good night, friends."

* * *

The lone Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber passed over the city of Octown, the capital of Orpalm. It carried a lone bomb, an anthrax bomb, which would either way hit Octown and infect the small city and, soon, the entire rebel country. Piloting it was Flying Officer Henry Dalton, who had been sworn to secrecy before this mission. He knew little except that he carried a lone bomb which he would drop over the capital and leave instantly. The rebels had little in the way of radar technology, so, chances were, he would go unspotted.

Dalton passed over the heart of the city, knowing to drop it now. But he was having doubts. For all he knew, this bomb was a nuclear weapon. It could kill hundreds, thousands, even millions of people. No, he could kill hundreds, thousands, millions...

But he had sworn to follow all commands from Command whenever he first took flight in the Air Force. He sighed and dropped the bomb. The bomb would explode as soon as it hit the ground, probably infecting a thousand people before the end of the day. Little did he know he had started an outbreak of anthrax in a small, rebel theocratic kingdom.

He started flying back to headquarters, unnoticed, the doubts getting to him. The only other people who knew of the dropping of that bomb was the President, Prime Minister, Chancellor, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister and his Squadron Leader...it was CRIMSON level secret, the highest level of secrecy in the Federal Republic...he couldn't live with himself knowing what he had done...

President Sarstoke downed the last of the tea just before she walked out into the Press Room, and quickly took her position on the lectern, the documents she was supposed to read out of which had been composed by her speech writer, Danielle White, and, after doing a quick trademark smile, she began reading out of the sheet of paper.

"I am sure we all know of the crisis in the State of Orpalm. The fundamentalist Free Baptist Church has seized control of that small state in a violent coup d'etat, killing Governor Williams, his family and many more. The fundamentalist Christians who have gripped Orpalm have begun a mass purge of all non-Protesents in the state, and have so far killed nearly a thousand innocent non-Protesents."

"Our military has surrounded them. Nobody and nothing can escape the country through land or water, and our military has been given strict orders to shot at anything which attempts to leave Orpalmer borders. Due to the recent outbreak of disease in the country, we feel that we cannot take any risk whatsoever in allowing any living thing to cross the border into our country or sail towards a foreign nation, so our armies will not be advancing into Orpalm in the immediate future."

She looked at the press and took a moment before speaking. "Any questions?"

((OOC: Yes, its a press conference. And you can ask a question as a member of your nation's press. Note that the anthrax attack is not in public knowledge and is very secret in-charactor.))

"Excuse me, Sally Thompson, NBSBC, whats your responce to the allegations from a amature pilot, flying in the area, that spotted a military aircraft drop some sort of device on their capitol city, seeing as your the only nation to have taken an interest in the country in question..."

"Miss Thompson, we believe that this aircraft was stolen by a rebel who had left our Air Force after being trained by our instructors, and we would suspect he would be dropping equipment of some sort into the city. We will get back to you when we have sufficent information, but we would assume that this rebel pilot stole this aircraft from somewhere in Orpalm."

Sarstoke smiled at her, before awaiting more questions from the international media.

"The Pilot says the Plane was a Large bomber type aircraft" Sally said "Do bombers regually go missing in your country?"

Sarstoke spoke again. "In recent years, the theft of bomber aircraft has become common, though recent regulations have indeed increased security, so this is the first theft this year."

Sarstoke kept emotionless this time. Don't give anything away.

Sally almost snorted with disbeleif, nether the less she pressed on, changeing Tac, but still keeping on the same topic
"So, how long has there been a disease in the country?" Sally asked "Hmm?"

"Miss, there is a history of disease in every country. This unidentified disease may be Mad Cow Disease, which had a mini-outbreak a few years ago in Orpalm and the surrounding area, CJD which was barely contained in the north, and anthrax, which had a history in the states surrounding Orpalm after a major outbreak in the latter part of last century. For now, we will merely call it 'the disease' until further information is made available."

"While we understand your blunt disbelief in the theft of our bomber aircraft, rebel groups have been the prime thieves in regards to these aircraft, usually sending in men with no connection to their organisation to be trained by the air force only to steal them during the night. Recent regulations have halted this, but it is not impossible that one of these rebels could have stolen the aircraft and dropped equipment to his breathen."

"Moving on" Sally said "What's your justification for blockadeing the country, shooting anything that leaves? Ever heard of refuges?"

So fucking informal, thought Sarstoke to herself.

"The outbreak of the disease. We have very little information on this disease, and it could be anything from Ebola to influenza! Until we discover what this disease is, we will not be accepting any refugees who could be infected. We are attempting to stop this disease spreading into wider Selenon, and keep it isolated in Orpalm. If we accepted refugees, they could accidentaly start spreading it into all of country and cause a major outbreak of disease which could cripple our country, Miss Thompson."

"Then let other countries, such as my own do so" Sally said "I've got here, a missip from my nations secutary of State: 'The NBS is willing to step into this situation and accept refugees, the NBS Medical system WILL find a soloution to this situation', SO Madam President, what should I tell The Secutary of State?"

How the fuck did she get that before we did? Does that goddamned country...oh, well thought Sarstoke before speaking.

"I permit your country to accept refugees in the country, but I wash my hands. If this disease reaches your country and causes a major outbreak, no blame can be placed on us. Our forces surrounding the coastline of the country will allow NBS humantairian forces to enter the country, though we will not guard them out of fear of this disease spreading into our country further."

"I wouldn't expect the locals to take to kindly to the NBS arrivals, though. They are quite...xenophobic."

"Thank you Madam President" Sally said, sitting down. She got her PDA out and quickly drafted a message back to the NBS Secutary of State, her friend.

Point Carrier Group

The PCG had rendeavoued with a humanitarian task force that had been put together as soon as news of the incident had been heard. They now headed towards their location.

The flagship of the Federal Selenian Navy, the SNS Alexander, was one of the four vessels patrolling the narrow strip of coastline Orpalm possessed. The Alexander was an Invincible class light aircraft carrier, though two more of her class would be entering the FSN in a month or two. The captain of the flagship was Captain Harold Caesar, who came from a wealthy background which was rather unusual for a naval officer. However, he had been choosen for merit rather than wealth to captain the Alexander, which wasn't unusual in the FSN.

Caesar was looking at the radar in the Operations Room whenever he saw the NBS arrivals. He quickly instructed the helmsman to start sailing towards her. Caesar quickly sent out a message to the fleet;

"NBS Carrier Group, NBS Carrier Group, this is Captain Harold Caesar of the SNS Alexander, requesting permission to sail towards your carrier group, over."

"Permission granted Alexander" Admiral Gene Hunter, aboard the RNS Point, replied as the carrier group picked up the other ship.

Aboard both the Navy ships and the Releif ships, the personnel were being vaccinated against dozerns of deasies, includeing Antharax, little did they know how importnant this would prove to be.

The SNS Alexander started sailing towards the carrier group at high speed, its comrades - the SNS Cleopatra, Katrina and Lambech, all Type 23 class frigates - remaining behind to shoot at any Orpalmer vessel. Caesar remained in the Operations Room, and gave orders for a flight of six Harrier Jump Jets to take off to patrol the skies above the Alexander. You could never be too careful in Caesar's world.

In the distance, a large civillan vessel could be seen taking off from the Orpalmer coastline, obviously trying to go unspotted by the frigates. However, they didn't, and the Cleopatra and Katrina opened fire on it, sinking it in a matter of minutes.

RNS Point

As the Salenon frigates opened fire the Admiral yelled "General Quarters!, all hands to battlestations!" The Fleet jumped to stations and manovoured into formation.
"Get me the Alexander!" The Admiral ordered, "SNS Alexander, what the HELL WAS THAT!?"

So bloody merciful, those idiots, thought Caesar to himself before replying.

"RNS Point, RNS Point, the Cleopatra and Katrina were merely following orders from the President herself. Over," he replied, sipping a glass of purified water.

He awaited the reply with much patience. And how informal. He sounds like Father in one of his anti-social liberal rants.

"You WILL NOT fire on any ships moving from Orpalmer, or you will be fired upon" The Admiral siad.

Caesar rolled his eyes at that one. Playing wannabe democratic superpower know, were we? All merciful and pitiful and all that. He sipped his glass of water again, and laughed slightly at the Admiral's response. He was father on one of his anti-social liberal rants!

"Admiral, be aware that we are following orders from President Sarstoke and unless you can convince her to order us not to fire at any Orpalmer vessels, your request will not be granted and any attack whatsoever on our ships will be viewed as an act of war against the Federal Republic of Selenon. Please do not let this small conflict be the prelude for a war between our two countries over this little incident, Admiral. Over."

He awaited the reply again.

"This is getting really suspicious" The Admiral commented to his XO.
"I agree" The XO replied "Why are they so insistant on killing those people?"
"I'll contact Central Command and recommend the send a agent into Salenon" The Admiral siad "Reopen to the other ships"
"Open"
"Small Conflict...is that what you call whats happened in that country?" The Admiral asked "I see a country in need of serious help, so let me put this another way, ships from my fleet will be escorting every ship to leave Orpalmer, any fire on teh Escortee will be a act of war against the Republic of The New British Shores"

Capital of Salenon

Thomas Baxter, a agent with MI6, had been on vacation, had been activated. His mission was to find out what was going on with Orpalmer. He made his way to the local Libary and looked up all data on Orpalmer

"Admiral, that is understood. The conflict in Orpalm - a small state - is viewed as quite large locally, but throughout our large country, it is considered quite small. The upcoming elections are dominating the news, sir. You may escort Orpalmer ships if you wish, but we will hold no responsibility if it causes something unfavourable in the New British Shores. Over," replied Caesar, sipping his water midway through the speaking.

Hmm.

* * *

The largest book on Orpalm in the library was, by far, The State of Orpalm, a large book released very recently. It charted the history of Orpalm, along with marking its politics, geography, fauna and the rest of it. However, since the coup d'etat had happened only a few days ago, the book had no mention of the coup. Most Dorthorpians recommended this book for a history on Orpalm, a state nobody really cared about.


...with a small strip of coastline only 56km long, the small state is mostly made up of small, farming communites and villages, though it should be noted that the majority of the populace are members of a fundamentalist Christian church...

...the state was the site of many aircraft robberies before the Griffith Reforms, in which the former President Simon Peter Griffith reformed the military completely and turned it into a modern force, which effectively put an end to the robberies thanks to increased security at air bases...

...the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease earlier this century effectively destroyed the state's meat production, grinding the local economy to a halt...there have also been several outbreaks of anthrax in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the state...many expect that another outbreak of any of the aforementioned diseases may occur soon...

Thomas turned his search to a map of the Capital, he looked for a government building that was likely to have weak security, but have a computer which he could use to hack the Government server.

RNS Point

"We're heading towards Orpalmer now" The Admiral said "RNS Point, Out"

The anthrax bombing was not actually recorded on any government server; along with other CRIMSON level secrecy information. It was known only to the President, Prime Minister, Chancellor, Foreign Minister, Defence Minister, a Squadron Leader and a pilot, though the last two had been killed secretly by the government, which was also CRIMSON level, and was said to be 'a road traffic accident', due to the government killing both of them by using one of their agents to ram them over with a Land Rover when they were leaving the air base for leave. Their families had been informed about the 'traffic accident'.

On the Selenian/Orpalmer Border, the Federal Selenian Army Air Corps had begun bombing of nearby settlements which had, so far, gone untackled. Substanial bombing was also taking place in the nearby forests, were a good amount of the guerrilas hid from the spreading of anthrax. The land forces weren't moving, though. They were still shooting everything which moved, of course, but they were holding their ground.

Thomas Was able to find out about the bombardments, and with this information the Point was able to Launch Ten F-35's. The F-35's approached the FSAAC aircraft, staying on the Orpalmer side, where, as supporters of the Humanitarian attempts they had a right t be.

As soon the as the NBS F-35s were spotted, the FSAAC B-1 Lancers were quickly given orders to retreat as soon as possible, which they all did. The Lancers all retreated quickly back to their air bases and landed in about an hour, though their pilots remained on stand by in the worst case scenairo, the NBS 'bastards' - as they were called by the pilots - attacked them.

Otherwise, the operations continued as normal.

The F-35's remained on patrol of the border, they sent this information back to Control, which hightened suspiciouns. Meanwhile, the first of the Bio-Hazard teams landed on Orpalmer soil. They quickly set up a camp where they could identify the disease, and then treat it.

The locals flocked to the NBS treatment camps. Thousands of them came to them, carrying the infected and the dead. The disease had already been confirmed as anthrax by the federal government earlier, but the locals had given it the name of 'the dead plague' in accordance to the death toll.

Many of the locals died before they could reach the camp, as the NBS humantairians would discover when they walked north by about a kilometre, or east or west. To their south was the rocky Selenian Sea.

* * *

The Harpooner had on the proper medical suit, a big massive anti-anthrax suit. He had been instructed to pick up the remains of the bomb to stop the foreigners from picking it up and holding it against the Federal Republic. Slowly, wearing the suit, the Harpooner picked the remnents of the bomb and threw it in the back of the sedan he had been driving. He had passed unnoticed into the city, and would pass out of it unnoticed as well.

He closed the boot, and went back into the car. He drove about ten miles north, where he quickly changed back into his normal clothing in an alley after exiting the car. He jumped back in it and drove out of Octown. He made his way back to the forces on the Vivean border, and drove straight through them, not infecting any of them hopefully. He went straight to the nearest military science laboratory, and carefully and safely gave it to the scientists, whom would destroy as soon as possible.

There goes the evidence.

The Workers, who had been part of the NBS Humanitarian taskforce, got their supplies airlifted in from the fleet. Antibiotics were quickly admisitered to all those infected.

OOC:I know this is gonna be a rather large fleet but it just means more airlift capabilities so dont freak at the numbers

IC:
Outside of Orpalm, 2 Nimitz Class Carriers loaded up mostly with CH-53K Super Stallions, 3 Re-Activated Iwo Jima Helicopter Landing Ships, as well as 43 Assorted smaller vessels to protect Orpalmer Shipping, plus 23 Ships loaded up with Anti-Biotics and food supplies, were moving towards Orpalm with orders to assist the Orpalm government in any possible, onboard the ships were several BioHazard Teams as well, going to assist the NBS Team so tht more people could be saved. Back in Philadelphia, a scientist team was trying to figure out a way to allow Penicillin to be spread by air, maximizing the chances of stopping this outbreak