60,000 feet over the Southern Sea - RB-1D #21311-31
It was impossible to miss TF-23. The multiple ships in formation stood out clearly on the ASG-35, the primary fire control and bomb/navigation radar on the RB-1D.
Word had come down nearly a day ago from the top to the 305th Strategic Reconnaisance Group to prepare for a special mission; and they'd saluted, and like good airmen, went on to execute it.
The final mission orders had only just been transmitted hours ago to the bomber in the air. When they had; it had caused confusion; as this was the first time they'd ever done it in a wartime setting.
"Targets laid in. Firing in five," came the voice of the Offensive Systems Operator in back over the intercom, causing the Plane Captain to unconsciously gulp as he pulled down the heavy anti-flash duck blinds over the cockpit windows.
"Four."
In the RB-1D's bomb bays, the rotary launchers' hydraulics flexed in anticipation.
"Three"
Electrical impulses raced from the Bomb/Nav computer to the missiles hung on the rotary launchers.
"Two"
Safety interlocks were removed.
"One"
The bomb bay doors snapped open.
"Fire."
A low rumbling spread throughout the RB-1D as the rotary launchers spun and flung their payloads into the cold thin air at 60,000 feet. In all, it only took ten seconds to complete the launch sequence before the bomb bay doors snapped shut.
As the RB-1D swung away in a hard banking turn to port, the rocket motors of the SRAM-Bs began to ignite, pushing the missiles to their terminal attack speed of Mach 3.2 towards their targets a hundred miles away.
The theft of UAR government property could not be countenanced, and the UAR's response, all 1,100 kilotons of it, was on the way.
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"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
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UKB's Chemical Weapons
In a internal memo leaked today by agents unknown, it was revealed that the UKB while refusing to create or develop either Biological or Nuclear weapons has been hard at work at building a suit of chemical weapons to defend the home-land.
Along with working on a variant of the M26 Rocket for the MLRS capable of holding chemical agents as well variants of existing artillery shells to do the same, the UKB has been producing in a moderate amounts the chemical 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate for use. The goal of the project was to make any possible invasion of UKB soil a increasingly hard proposition. Along with the military defenses of the country the memo noted that by producing enough 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate to force an invading army to be in MOPP gear for weeks at a time or risk the effects.
The effects of 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate take time to appear but once they so they become increasing worse until roughly 72 hours after exposer at which point the affect person begins to return to normal. The effects between are quite bad including blurred vision, increased aggression, delusions, and full blow audio motor hallucinations, Loss of Balance and violent mood swings.
The paper notes one case study when an Marine Sargent volunteering to be dosed with 10mg of BZ...
After six hours of various minor physical signs the effects set in, the patient began loudly singing and marching in place for over thirty minutes. The patient appear to calm for the next hour only occasionally laughing at nothing. Attempting to sleep proved impossible from hours eight to fourteen the patient would lay down then get up five minutes later looking confused. Fifteen hours in the patient began hopping up in down in place and "mooing". Seventeen hours in the patient assumed the fetal position and then began loudly arguing with himself in a variety of different voices. Twenty hours in the patient seems to calm down again except he raised his left arm above his head and denied that he was doing so, for the next two hours except for the fact his hand was raised and denning that he was doing any such thing the patient was normal and preformed well on several cognitive function tests. However twenty two hours in the patient suddenly screamed and began trying to run away from the test giver, being unable to leave the room he again assumed the fetal position and began crying for the next forty minutes.
The paper also notes that the effects began wore off around the sixty hour mark but that the last ten hours were marketed by the Marine living out his daily life in vivid hallucinations, he woke up, walked in place, went shopping, got a haircut and began working all while standing or kneeling in the corner of the test room.
The memo goes on to outline the basic plan, that by use of the MLRS system, and the Home defense initiative, that should an invasion come, BZ would be used throughout possible lines of advance and mixed in with conventional attacks on the invasion force. Civilians would proceed designated bunkers which would be stocked with a limited number of anti-BZ treatments in case the civilians had to leave the bunker or the bunker was breached. These would be stored in an easy to destroy container to prevent hostile forces from raiding civilian bunkers for the antidote.
The memo notes that it might be better to leave the BZ antidoe only in better defended Urban Defense bunkers instead of issuing them to all civilian defense bunkers considering the number of bunkers and the non-lethal nature of BZ.
The paper attached goes on to note that the use of BZ would not only degrade the fighting ability of any attacker, but also increase the chances that civilians would be left alone since removing them from the bunkers into a BZ environment would produce possibly hundreds of thousands of potentially highly violent psychopaths. A further problem to any attacker not willing to shoot civilians in-mass to prevent further causalities because of this.
The Defense ministry was not available to comment at this time
(OOC:The description I wrote up is one I found on a site of the effects of BZ on American soliders when tested in 1955)
In a internal memo leaked today by agents unknown, it was revealed that the UKB while refusing to create or develop either Biological or Nuclear weapons has been hard at work at building a suit of chemical weapons to defend the home-land.
Along with working on a variant of the M26 Rocket for the MLRS capable of holding chemical agents as well variants of existing artillery shells to do the same, the UKB has been producing in a moderate amounts the chemical 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate for use. The goal of the project was to make any possible invasion of UKB soil a increasingly hard proposition. Along with the military defenses of the country the memo noted that by producing enough 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate to force an invading army to be in MOPP gear for weeks at a time or risk the effects.
The effects of 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate take time to appear but once they so they become increasing worse until roughly 72 hours after exposer at which point the affect person begins to return to normal. The effects between are quite bad including blurred vision, increased aggression, delusions, and full blow audio motor hallucinations, Loss of Balance and violent mood swings.
The paper notes one case study when an Marine Sargent volunteering to be dosed with 10mg of BZ...
After six hours of various minor physical signs the effects set in, the patient began loudly singing and marching in place for over thirty minutes. The patient appear to calm for the next hour only occasionally laughing at nothing. Attempting to sleep proved impossible from hours eight to fourteen the patient would lay down then get up five minutes later looking confused. Fifteen hours in the patient began hopping up in down in place and "mooing". Seventeen hours in the patient assumed the fetal position and then began loudly arguing with himself in a variety of different voices. Twenty hours in the patient seems to calm down again except he raised his left arm above his head and denied that he was doing so, for the next two hours except for the fact his hand was raised and denning that he was doing any such thing the patient was normal and preformed well on several cognitive function tests. However twenty two hours in the patient suddenly screamed and began trying to run away from the test giver, being unable to leave the room he again assumed the fetal position and began crying for the next forty minutes.
The paper also notes that the effects began wore off around the sixty hour mark but that the last ten hours were marketed by the Marine living out his daily life in vivid hallucinations, he woke up, walked in place, went shopping, got a haircut and began working all while standing or kneeling in the corner of the test room.
The memo goes on to outline the basic plan, that by use of the MLRS system, and the Home defense initiative, that should an invasion come, BZ would be used throughout possible lines of advance and mixed in with conventional attacks on the invasion force. Civilians would proceed designated bunkers which would be stocked with a limited number of anti-BZ treatments in case the civilians had to leave the bunker or the bunker was breached. These would be stored in an easy to destroy container to prevent hostile forces from raiding civilian bunkers for the antidote.
The memo notes that it might be better to leave the BZ antidoe only in better defended Urban Defense bunkers instead of issuing them to all civilian defense bunkers considering the number of bunkers and the non-lethal nature of BZ.
The paper attached goes on to note that the use of BZ would not only degrade the fighting ability of any attacker, but also increase the chances that civilians would be left alone since removing them from the bunkers into a BZ environment would produce possibly hundreds of thousands of potentially highly violent psychopaths. A further problem to any attacker not willing to shoot civilians in-mass to prevent further causalities because of this.
The Defense ministry was not available to comment at this time
(OOC:The description I wrote up is one I found on a site of the effects of BZ on American soliders when tested in 1955)
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
Aboard SRS Fortuna
"INCOMING MISSILES!"
A flash message was hurridly sent off: "Incoming ASMs from hostile aircraft"
The Fortuna fired off her SM-2s, two per missile. As the ranges closed, ESSMs started launching. The closest missile was still 18nm out when it was destroyed.
But the Shepnukistani missiles had a surprise in store: salvage fuses. Although no missile impacted, each of the 11 initiated. It was a spectacular sight, and the last one some of the watchstanders would ever see.
The Fortuna managed best of all. She was after all designed with such a thing in mind. While several systems were dead, her phased array radar was still functional. Although most of her SM-2 complement was gone, she still had some ESSMs left, though given the nuclear option was obviously being used, that may not matter much.
The three Gorgon frigates were in worse shape. Blind and with a significant amount of electrical systems shot to hell. The FCS-Ls, merchant ships all, were for all intents and purposes dead in the water.
As corpsmen rushed to get the flash-blinded watchstanders off the bridge and replaced by a fresh rotation, the captain of the Fortuna sent an emergency message to SRN HQ and CJTF-4, the nearest MESS naval battlegroup:
"Task Force 23 attacked with nuclear weapons 0125 local by probable UAR bomber. All ships heavily damaged, merchant ships DIW. Request immediate aid from coalition forces."
The shockwave from this event would extend for a far greater distance than the blasts themselves. This would, indeed, by Nova Terra's "shot heard 'round the world".
"INCOMING MISSILES!"
A flash message was hurridly sent off: "Incoming ASMs from hostile aircraft"
The Fortuna fired off her SM-2s, two per missile. As the ranges closed, ESSMs started launching. The closest missile was still 18nm out when it was destroyed.
But the Shepnukistani missiles had a surprise in store: salvage fuses. Although no missile impacted, each of the 11 initiated. It was a spectacular sight, and the last one some of the watchstanders would ever see.
The Fortuna managed best of all. She was after all designed with such a thing in mind. While several systems were dead, her phased array radar was still functional. Although most of her SM-2 complement was gone, she still had some ESSMs left, though given the nuclear option was obviously being used, that may not matter much.
The three Gorgon frigates were in worse shape. Blind and with a significant amount of electrical systems shot to hell. The FCS-Ls, merchant ships all, were for all intents and purposes dead in the water.
As corpsmen rushed to get the flash-blinded watchstanders off the bridge and replaced by a fresh rotation, the captain of the Fortuna sent an emergency message to SRN HQ and CJTF-4, the nearest MESS naval battlegroup:
"Task Force 23 attacked with nuclear weapons 0125 local by probable UAR bomber. All ships heavily damaged, merchant ships DIW. Request immediate aid from coalition forces."
The shockwave from this event would extend for a far greater distance than the blasts themselves. This would, indeed, by Nova Terra's "shot heard 'round the world".
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
UKB Crisis Room
The alarms were going off, Flash detected, Possible Nuclear weapon detonated at Grid 2134-30042A. No know nuclear weapon test range in the area, the HISCO satellites in the area had picked it up with the onboard light detector meant to pick up the flash of an air-burst of initiating device.
Then the call came in, it was right on the last know track for a Mess task force. That caught a lot of people up short.
And it gave him no choice, his Majesties orders had been clear for this sort of situation.
Bill... flush 20% of all Goal-Keepers and pop the doors on any Arbiters we have nearby. We don't have to bring the Referee's or the god forbid any Umpire's yet. After you do that, phone the Government and inform them what we've done on my authority and began assigning and uploading Alpha-IIS targeting for all birds. Do not go active, I say again do not go active.
Orbital:HISCO 6G
Start:POSIT:1
OPEN DOOR 1/9/5/15
HALO CLOUD FORMATION
On the side of the satellite four access doors swung open, all functioned perfectly and time was not an issue so the blast bolts were not needed. In prefect formation on the compass points four five meter tall objects emerged from the satellite, tiny altitude jets on side gently pushed it over twenty meters away from the satellite then held it there, in almost perfect formation as the satellite came back around the populated section of planet called Nova Terra.
All around the planet 26 other HISCO birds copied it. Acknowledgments followed in over the various command links and each satellite received updated it's default plan in accordance with Alpha-IIS.
Around the world in the few nations who monitored such things heads were being scratched as why the radar return on the 75 ton HISCO satellites had suddenly got about 40% bigger for no explained reason.
Far below the events continued
The alarms were going off, Flash detected, Possible Nuclear weapon detonated at Grid 2134-30042A. No know nuclear weapon test range in the area, the HISCO satellites in the area had picked it up with the onboard light detector meant to pick up the flash of an air-burst of initiating device.
Then the call came in, it was right on the last know track for a Mess task force. That caught a lot of people up short.
And it gave him no choice, his Majesties orders had been clear for this sort of situation.
Bill... flush 20% of all Goal-Keepers and pop the doors on any Arbiters we have nearby. We don't have to bring the Referee's or the god forbid any Umpire's yet. After you do that, phone the Government and inform them what we've done on my authority and began assigning and uploading Alpha-IIS targeting for all birds. Do not go active, I say again do not go active.
Orbital:HISCO 6G
Start:POSIT:1
OPEN DOOR 1/9/5/15
HALO CLOUD FORMATION
On the side of the satellite four access doors swung open, all functioned perfectly and time was not an issue so the blast bolts were not needed. In prefect formation on the compass points four five meter tall objects emerged from the satellite, tiny altitude jets on side gently pushed it over twenty meters away from the satellite then held it there, in almost perfect formation as the satellite came back around the populated section of planet called Nova Terra.
All around the planet 26 other HISCO birds copied it. Acknowledgments followed in over the various command links and each satellite received updated it's default plan in accordance with Alpha-IIS.
Around the world in the few nations who monitored such things heads were being scratched as why the radar return on the 75 ton HISCO satellites had suddenly got about 40% bigger for no explained reason.
Far below the events continued
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
ProTec's headquarters was already working overtime after the recent terrorist attacks. Then they lost an Antanov over the Southern Sea. Their people in Alexander's headquarters also said the Iron General was going apeshit and heading for the hills. The comm nets were also really active. The analysts said it looked like a war, possibly nuclear. Contingency plans existed in case of such a thing.
First all of ProTec's men stopped any but defensive operations, and all aircraft were grounded at friendly or neutral airstrips. Indhopal also went into full nuclear war mode, the military had already been mobilized after the terorist attacks, but civil defence resorces still needed to be mobilized. A no fly zone was announced around the country, and all civillian flights were cancelled. The new civil defense and military bunkers may be tesed soon enough.
ProTec's personnel operating in in foreign lands all got crisis messages on their cell phones or computers. It told them to prepare for the worst. Some clients had also paid for a premium service, in which ProTec's contractors would wisk them and their families to safety at the first sign of nuclear war.
Despite all that, the investigation into the terrorist attacks continued. In case of nuclear war, ProTec's investigators and Indhopals police still had to find criminals.
First all of ProTec's men stopped any but defensive operations, and all aircraft were grounded at friendly or neutral airstrips. Indhopal also went into full nuclear war mode, the military had already been mobilized after the terorist attacks, but civil defence resorces still needed to be mobilized. A no fly zone was announced around the country, and all civillian flights were cancelled. The new civil defense and military bunkers may be tesed soon enough.
ProTec's personnel operating in in foreign lands all got crisis messages on their cell phones or computers. It told them to prepare for the worst. Some clients had also paid for a premium service, in which ProTec's contractors would wisk them and their families to safety at the first sign of nuclear war.
Despite all that, the investigation into the terrorist attacks continued. In case of nuclear war, ProTec's investigators and Indhopals police still had to find criminals.
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Imperial Chronicles
The communique from the signal intelligence units now in the Diocese was loud and clear. A nuclear attack was exacted on TF-23, a MESS unit. The Emperor looked at the report with pale look and icy sweat on his forehead. With slow but steady words, he called his Chief of Staff up, "General, we are now at DEFCON 1. Make ready the necessary preparations. All navy vessels to general quarters. Get ships out to receive and escort the new carrier from UKB. All ships must be prepared to fire upon when requested. Uncock the fire capsules. Initiate Operation Camouflage. All men with knives must be armed."
Turning around. The Emperor instructed the adviser, "Get King Arik up and get him to his plane immediately. Also, prepare to evacuate the populace into the pre-existing shelters immediately. There is no time. Get them to what we constructed of the whatever underground bunkers we have now, immediately. We must go to our own underground bunker now."
The communique from the signal intelligence units now in the Diocese was loud and clear. A nuclear attack was exacted on TF-23, a MESS unit. The Emperor looked at the report with pale look and icy sweat on his forehead. With slow but steady words, he called his Chief of Staff up, "General, we are now at DEFCON 1. Make ready the necessary preparations. All navy vessels to general quarters. Get ships out to receive and escort the new carrier from UKB. All ships must be prepared to fire upon when requested. Uncock the fire capsules. Initiate Operation Camouflage. All men with knives must be armed."
Turning around. The Emperor instructed the adviser, "Get King Arik up and get him to his plane immediately. Also, prepare to evacuate the populace into the pre-existing shelters immediately. There is no time. Get them to what we constructed of the whatever underground bunkers we have now, immediately. We must go to our own underground bunker now."
Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
Presidential Retreat, Fredericks burg
"Ha! That Bender." Lonestar said, watching Fututrama. Well..."
"What? WHATTT???" The Agent in his room screamed into his earpiece." Lonestar heard feet running down the hall.
Goddamnit, can't i have ONE day off? Two agents burst in.
"El Presidente, we need to get to SITE M immediately. The Shinran TF-23 has just been attacked with nuclear weapons."
"Oh GODDAMNIT!" Already the Marine MH-60 was spinning up and Lonestar was running towards the helo as fast as his broken body would carry it. As he strapped in...
"The Cabinet? McFibblestein?"
"Already being taken to the fallback sites sir!"
"I want EAS to override all commercial channels with an air raid alert. Everyone needs to get out of the cities or to the nearest shelter!"
"Yes sir."
"All Special Artillery Batteries are to be activated, as are all naval forces. Martial Law is declared on the basis of this being a civil emergency."
"Yes Sir! The orders have already gone out.
The MH-60 lifted and turned North.
----TS/SI/DIVINE/MAGIC MISSILE----
To: All LSR Strategic Forces
From:DIRNSC
Subject: TF-23 ATTACKED BY NUCLEAR ANTI-SHIP WEAPONS. MOST LIKELY SHEPNUKISTANI. SIOP-32-S AND SIOP-25-SH TO BE LOADED AND PREPPED FOR IMMEDIATE USE. ALL FORCES GO TO WAR DISPERSAL.
ALL FORCES ARE TO CONSIDER ANY ATTACK ON MESS SATELLITES AS FIRST STAGE OF A GENERAL NUCLEAR WAR. IN THE EVENT OF LOSS OF COMSATS INITIATE IMMEDIATE ATTACK ON TARGETS. MAY GOD GRANT TRUE FLIGHT TO YOUR BOMBERS AND MISSILES.
----TS/SI/DIVINE/MAGIC MISSILE----
"Ha! That Bender." Lonestar said, watching Fututrama. Well..."
"What? WHATTT???" The Agent in his room screamed into his earpiece." Lonestar heard feet running down the hall.
Goddamnit, can't i have ONE day off? Two agents burst in.
"El Presidente, we need to get to SITE M immediately. The Shinran TF-23 has just been attacked with nuclear weapons."
"Oh GODDAMNIT!" Already the Marine MH-60 was spinning up and Lonestar was running towards the helo as fast as his broken body would carry it. As he strapped in...
"The Cabinet? McFibblestein?"
"Already being taken to the fallback sites sir!"
"I want EAS to override all commercial channels with an air raid alert. Everyone needs to get out of the cities or to the nearest shelter!"
"Yes sir."
"All Special Artillery Batteries are to be activated, as are all naval forces. Martial Law is declared on the basis of this being a civil emergency."
"Yes Sir! The orders have already gone out.
The MH-60 lifted and turned North.
----TS/SI/DIVINE/MAGIC MISSILE----
To: All LSR Strategic Forces
From:DIRNSC
Subject: TF-23 ATTACKED BY NUCLEAR ANTI-SHIP WEAPONS. MOST LIKELY SHEPNUKISTANI. SIOP-32-S AND SIOP-25-SH TO BE LOADED AND PREPPED FOR IMMEDIATE USE. ALL FORCES GO TO WAR DISPERSAL.
ALL FORCES ARE TO CONSIDER ANY ATTACK ON MESS SATELLITES AS FIRST STAGE OF A GENERAL NUCLEAR WAR. IN THE EVENT OF LOSS OF COMSATS INITIATE IMMEDIATE ATTACK ON TARGETS. MAY GOD GRANT TRUE FLIGHT TO YOUR BOMBERS AND MISSILES.
----TS/SI/DIVINE/MAGIC MISSILE----
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
PINNACLE NUDET $LAT $LONG $TIME
WAR EMERGENCY DISPERSION
Commodore Krieiev looked at his secure orders, ashen-faced. Someone had let loose a nuke - probably those maniacs in the UAR, of whom his nation had just signed a non-aggression pact with. And now it might escalate fast; his orders were to proceed to open seas and spread out his two combined SAGs. He had fortunately just re-provisioned with the stores in Alexandria ... would there be a Republic by the time his ships returned?
Hue, the Incorporated Republic of Tonkin
Air-raid sirens were going off - the tone indicated that this was no drill. Helicopters were taking off from important government ministries to hardened facilities, air- and missile-defense batteries moving to high alert. The IRT had non-aggression pacts with two of the greatest nuclear powers, MESS and UAR. But the FUN did not like IRT, and if came to war, well ... no sense in letting the few remaining unaligned nations become instant superpowers in the aftermath ...
Space Launch Complex (Hardened) One
The launch windows were small, the extemporized packages hurriedly being mated to the launchers untested. But it might soon be time - the IRT might be at war. And if it were at war, it could not allow enemy satellite systems to remain active. Therefore - the emergency ASAT rockets. Conventional Falcon rockets, mated to a payload of gelatin, set to burst on a timer to hit enemy satellites.
One released, the gelatin would coat satellite solar panels, rendering them useless. For ... other uses, ball bearing loads were hastily being assembled as well, but the IRT hoped not to start filling orbits with debris if they could help it.
WAR EMERGENCY DISPERSION
Commodore Krieiev looked at his secure orders, ashen-faced. Someone had let loose a nuke - probably those maniacs in the UAR, of whom his nation had just signed a non-aggression pact with. And now it might escalate fast; his orders were to proceed to open seas and spread out his two combined SAGs. He had fortunately just re-provisioned with the stores in Alexandria ... would there be a Republic by the time his ships returned?
Hue, the Incorporated Republic of Tonkin
Air-raid sirens were going off - the tone indicated that this was no drill. Helicopters were taking off from important government ministries to hardened facilities, air- and missile-defense batteries moving to high alert. The IRT had non-aggression pacts with two of the greatest nuclear powers, MESS and UAR. But the FUN did not like IRT, and if came to war, well ... no sense in letting the few remaining unaligned nations become instant superpowers in the aftermath ...
Space Launch Complex (Hardened) One
The launch windows were small, the extemporized packages hurriedly being mated to the launchers untested. But it might soon be time - the IRT might be at war. And if it were at war, it could not allow enemy satellite systems to remain active. Therefore - the emergency ASAT rockets. Conventional Falcon rockets, mated to a payload of gelatin, set to burst on a timer to hit enemy satellites.
One released, the gelatin would coat satellite solar panels, rendering them useless. For ... other uses, ball bearing loads were hastily being assembled as well, but the IRT hoped not to start filling orbits with debris if they could help it.
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TEXAS NEWS SERVICE
"The EAS has broken all commercial signals, with the exception og news services who are required to run the EAS ticker on the screen. I'm standing outside Dyess Air Force Base," *Gestures to big sign that says DYESS AIR FORCE BASE* "well,-where planes have been taking off every minute for the past 20, I'm told that this is a very unusual and unsafe procedure. The base gates are crowded with recalled personnel."
"Patricia this is John in the News Room, apparently the carrier wings at Corpus Christi NAS and Fort Worth are also taking off, and we're getting a feed from BBC in Tian Xia and Enderistan indicating Bombers are departing the major bases there. Has anyone mentioned anything as to why this is happening?"
"No John, the base personnel are refusing to answer questions."
"The EAS has broken all commercial signals, with the exception og news services who are required to run the EAS ticker on the screen. I'm standing outside Dyess Air Force Base," *Gestures to big sign that says DYESS AIR FORCE BASE* "well,-where planes have been taking off every minute for the past 20, I'm told that this is a very unusual and unsafe procedure. The base gates are crowded with recalled personnel."
"Patricia this is John in the News Room, apparently the carrier wings at Corpus Christi NAS and Fort Worth are also taking off, and we're getting a feed from BBC in Tian Xia and Enderistan indicating Bombers are departing the major bases there. Has anyone mentioned anything as to why this is happening?"
"No John, the base personnel are refusing to answer questions."
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
TOP SECRET - EYES ONLY
TO: MESS Administrative Council; General Secretary of the Red Technocracy; King Blackadder of the UKB; King Paul of PeZookia; Prime Minister Shroom of Shroomania; President of the Board of Directors of the IRT
FROM: President Rufus Shinra
At approximately 0125 this morning, Shinra Republic Navy Task Force 23 was attacked by probable UAR bomber forces with nuclear weapons. No ships were lost, but heavy damage was inflicted. At this time we are NOT repeat NOT responding with a full nuclear counter-attack, however that option remains on the table. We strongly advise AGAINST repeat AGAINST any public announcement of this attack at this time.
We urge all recipients to respond by most secure means of communication response to this aggression. Emergency MESS Administrative Council Teleconference is called; above world leaders invited to patch in and participate.
A strong response is needed to the use of nuclear weapons by the Unified Atomic Republic against MESS naval assets. However I urge that we not act too quickly, or alone. The UAR is capable of causing massive damage to any one of us, and only together can we hope to respond.
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TO: JTF-1; JTF-2; JTF-3
FROM: CJTF-4
Effective immediately: JTF-3 to make all possible speed to location of SRN TF-23 to provide CAP and assistance to evacuate area with all possible speed. JTF-2 to transit to waters between Terra Libertia and Adrianpolis, via southern passage below TL. JTF-1 to resume position west of TL.
All forces should be on full alert. General Quarters or equivalent alert status recommended, with full Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) protective measures taken.
Any UAR aircraft or naval vessels attempting to approach CJTF-4 units, TF-23, or Adrianpolis will be ordered to divert course. If they do not comply, shootdown warnings will be given. Should they continue to not comply, use of force is authorized. Any UAR aircraft or naval vessels which fire on any MESS or other aircraft or vessels will be repeat will be engaged with appropriate force.
TO: MESS Administrative Council; General Secretary of the Red Technocracy; King Blackadder of the UKB; King Paul of PeZookia; Prime Minister Shroom of Shroomania; President of the Board of Directors of the IRT
FROM: President Rufus Shinra
At approximately 0125 this morning, Shinra Republic Navy Task Force 23 was attacked by probable UAR bomber forces with nuclear weapons. No ships were lost, but heavy damage was inflicted. At this time we are NOT repeat NOT responding with a full nuclear counter-attack, however that option remains on the table. We strongly advise AGAINST repeat AGAINST any public announcement of this attack at this time.
We urge all recipients to respond by most secure means of communication response to this aggression. Emergency MESS Administrative Council Teleconference is called; above world leaders invited to patch in and participate.
A strong response is needed to the use of nuclear weapons by the Unified Atomic Republic against MESS naval assets. However I urge that we not act too quickly, or alone. The UAR is capable of causing massive damage to any one of us, and only together can we hope to respond.
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TO: JTF-1; JTF-2; JTF-3
FROM: CJTF-4
Effective immediately: JTF-3 to make all possible speed to location of SRN TF-23 to provide CAP and assistance to evacuate area with all possible speed. JTF-2 to transit to waters between Terra Libertia and Adrianpolis, via southern passage below TL. JTF-1 to resume position west of TL.
All forces should be on full alert. General Quarters or equivalent alert status recommended, with full Nuclear, Biological, Chemical (NBC) protective measures taken.
Any UAR aircraft or naval vessels attempting to approach CJTF-4 units, TF-23, or Adrianpolis will be ordered to divert course. If they do not comply, shootdown warnings will be given. Should they continue to not comply, use of force is authorized. Any UAR aircraft or naval vessels which fire on any MESS or other aircraft or vessels will be repeat will be engaged with appropriate force.
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This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
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Constantinople Broadcasting Corporation
Citizens of Byzantium. Make your way to your respective shelters immediately. Do so calmly and orderly. All members of the Thematic armies should report immediately to their respective units. Trucks are now rolling out to fetch all men to their units. Move quickly.
Citizens of Byzantium. Make your way to your respective shelters immediately. Do so calmly and orderly. All members of the Thematic armies should report immediately to their respective units. Trucks are now rolling out to fetch all men to their units. Move quickly.
Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
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Master_Baerne
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EDIT: In light of available information, this post comes after Shroom's.
"Something's happening."
"Yes, sir."
"Something big."
"Yes, sir."
"Something nuclear."
"Yes, sir."
"Shep's responsible, isn't he?"
"Most likely, sir."
"Well, then, get our people into the shelters!"
"Yes, sir."
"Something's happening."
"Yes, sir."
"Something big."
"Yes, sir."
"Something nuclear."
"Yes, sir."
"Shep's responsible, isn't he?"
"Most likely, sir."
"Well, then, get our people into the shelters!"
"Yes, sir."
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Conversion Table:
2000 Mockingbirds = 2 Kilomockingbirds
Basic Unit of Laryngitis = 1 Hoarsepower
453.6 Graham Crackers = 1 Pound Cake
1 Kilogram of Falling Figs - 1 Fig Newton
Time Between Slipping on a Banana Peel and Smacking the Pavement = 1 Bananosecond
Half of a Large Intestine = 1 Semicolon
2000 Mockingbirds = 2 Kilomockingbirds
Basic Unit of Laryngitis = 1 Hoarsepower
453.6 Graham Crackers = 1 Pound Cake
1 Kilogram of Falling Figs - 1 Fig Newton
Time Between Slipping on a Banana Peel and Smacking the Pavement = 1 Bananosecond
Half of a Large Intestine = 1 Semicolon
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The Sovereign Shroomanian Sentinel
SEISMIC SHOCK
Shroomanian Scientific Society seismographs show strange sums.
The Shroomanian Scientific Society, in conjunction with Royal Zorian scientists, have detected strange seismic activity in the Southern Sea.
The SSS has stated that the readings are not consistent with an underwater earthquake like that which caused the recent tsunami. Speculations include a meteor impact or a r-
*click*
Farbanti, Shroomania
"What?!"
"Yes," Director John Baylor nodded. His face was grainy through the telescreen. Where he was right now, no one knew. "A nuke. Southern Sea. Near Adrianpolis."
"Who?"
"Perhaps the UAR. The position is consistent with MESS deployments and who else would want to -"
"When?"
"Just now."
"Shit!"
"Sir, I suggest you get into a bunker, stat."
"Fuck that, I'm going aboard the Shroom Force One. Better than being in what amounts to a tomb."
Shroom got out of his armored limousine and walked up the stairway and into Shroom Force One - a BAM A380 modified to carry the Prime Minister of Shroomania.
He seated his ass on his Prime Ministerial chair.
"Prime Minister," Motto Skorzeny, a former Shroomstaffel man, approached the PM. "A message from President Rufus, from the MESS sir."
"Hmm..." Shroom sped read it and nodded his head. "Goddamn."
"Sir?"
"Goddamn. Goddamn Shep. Goddamn that UAR, that goddamn Unholy Alliance. Goddamn them all! Goddamn! Goddamn! Goddamn-goddamn-goddamn-goddamn..."
"Sir!"
"What, goddamn it?!"
"The Joint Chiefs are on."
"Oh."
"What will you tell them, sir?"
"Tell them to alert the Mushroom Military. High alert. Get the SAF out of the airfields and into the air, defensive formations and all that. Get our ships off the ports. No offensive action, nothing - pure defensive.
"Don't let the public know. They've already gotten use to all our near-apocalyptic crises, so this probably won't be unusual...
"Goddamn! Get me a line with the FUN. I need to talk to them, all of them. I don't care what time zones or nappy times there are, wake them for all I care. We have to get them online. We need to know what to do with the FUN Force and the FART, if we're doing anything at all.
"Patch me up into the MESS meeting.
"Tell the FUN leaders not to announce this thing to the public. NO PUBLIC! Motto, do you have anything on the FUCED? If we can, we get the FUCED to do a surprise drill and get people underground.
"But we do not tell them the truth. Not yet, anyway."
The Sovereign Shroomanian Sentinel
SEISMIC SHOCK
Shroomanian Scientific Society seismographs show strange sums.
The Shroomanian Scientific Society, in conjunction with Royal Zorian scientists, have detected strange seismic activity in the Southern Sea.
The SSS has stated that the readings are not consistent with an underwater earthquake like that which caused the recent tsunami. Speculations include a meteor impact or a r-
*click*
Farbanti, Shroomania
"What?!"
"Yes," Director John Baylor nodded. His face was grainy through the telescreen. Where he was right now, no one knew. "A nuke. Southern Sea. Near Adrianpolis."
"Who?"
"Perhaps the UAR. The position is consistent with MESS deployments and who else would want to -"
"When?"
"Just now."
"Shit!"
"Sir, I suggest you get into a bunker, stat."
"Fuck that, I'm going aboard the Shroom Force One. Better than being in what amounts to a tomb."
Shroom got out of his armored limousine and walked up the stairway and into Shroom Force One - a BAM A380 modified to carry the Prime Minister of Shroomania.
He seated his ass on his Prime Ministerial chair.
"Prime Minister," Motto Skorzeny, a former Shroomstaffel man, approached the PM. "A message from President Rufus, from the MESS sir."
"Hmm..." Shroom sped read it and nodded his head. "Goddamn."
"Sir?"
"Goddamn. Goddamn Shep. Goddamn that UAR, that goddamn Unholy Alliance. Goddamn them all! Goddamn! Goddamn! Goddamn-goddamn-goddamn-goddamn..."
"Sir!"
"What, goddamn it?!"
"The Joint Chiefs are on."
"Oh."
"What will you tell them, sir?"
"Tell them to alert the Mushroom Military. High alert. Get the SAF out of the airfields and into the air, defensive formations and all that. Get our ships off the ports. No offensive action, nothing - pure defensive.
"Don't let the public know. They've already gotten use to all our near-apocalyptic crises, so this probably won't be unusual...
"Goddamn! Get me a line with the FUN. I need to talk to them, all of them. I don't care what time zones or nappy times there are, wake them for all I care. We have to get them online. We need to know what to do with the FUN Force and the FART, if we're doing anything at all.
"Patch me up into the MESS meeting.
"Tell the FUN leaders not to announce this thing to the public. NO PUBLIC! Motto, do you have anything on the FUCED? If we can, we get the FUCED to do a surprise drill and get people underground.
"But we do not tell them the truth. Not yet, anyway."
"DO YOU WORSHIP HOMOSEXUALS?" - Curtis Saxton (source)shroom is a lovely boy and i wont hear a bad word against him - LUSY-CHAN!
Shit! Man, I didn't think of that! It took Shroom to properly interpret the screams of dying people
- PeZookShroom, I read out the stuff you write about us. You are an endless supply of morale down here. :p - an OWS street medic
Pink Sugar Heart Attack!
Over Yosemite Strait
LCDR Starling of the "Stonebreakers" brought his Super Bug up to the KC-45. He had one WT-10 "dial-a-yield' under one wing, and a gas tank under the other. Idly he glanced out the cockpit to this left.
"What the Hell is that?"
"That" Was a black aircraft that looked like concorde that had had it's way with a space shuttle.
"Oh, that's right." His Bombardier said. "You never worked at Midland, did you? That's BLACK COLT. So far as I know it's the only one the country has. I imagine it's also the reason why none of us have the Shepnukistani capital on our target list." The one rickety, experimental rocket plane was the one sure thing that was going to carry a warm happy surprise to Landover.
Someone came over the channels.
"LSR Aircraft you are dangerously close to Yosemite airspace. Turn around and..." Starling slammed his fist on transmit and said "UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE ADDED TO THE LIST YOU WILL STOP YOUR BITCHING RIGHT NOW."
LCDR Starling of the "Stonebreakers" brought his Super Bug up to the KC-45. He had one WT-10 "dial-a-yield' under one wing, and a gas tank under the other. Idly he glanced out the cockpit to this left.
"What the Hell is that?"
"That" Was a black aircraft that looked like concorde that had had it's way with a space shuttle.
"Oh, that's right." His Bombardier said. "You never worked at Midland, did you? That's BLACK COLT. So far as I know it's the only one the country has. I imagine it's also the reason why none of us have the Shepnukistani capital on our target list." The one rickety, experimental rocket plane was the one sure thing that was going to carry a warm happy surprise to Landover.
Someone came over the channels.
"LSR Aircraft you are dangerously close to Yosemite airspace. Turn around and..." Starling slammed his fist on transmit and said "UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE ADDED TO THE LIST YOU WILL STOP YOUR BITCHING RIGHT NOW."
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
On their own authority, ProTec commanders in Libertopia activated their plans in case of invasion. All poersonnell were to leave major population centers and head for the hills. The people operating in the Sultanate were especially told to haul ass. Flights resumed over Libertopia to get people into the mountains. Alexander had finnally gotten around to telling ProTec and the Tonkinite advisers it might be prudent to evacuate their men from the cities in Alexandria.
December 31st 2007
To all UKB Forces
This notice is to be considered an official war warning. One hour ago a Shepnukstain B-1 opened fire on a MESS Convoy carrying Shepnukstain weaponry out of Liberaltopia. The convoy escorts managed to down the missiles but they still initiate. Because of this, it is the firm belief of his Majesties Defense Ministry that the long awaited Nuclear War between the UAR and Mess is on us.
Per the previous agreements no plane is to leave the 22 mile waterway area, however full defensive measure are allowed within that zone.
No unit may engage Shepnukstain or MESS forces without being first fired on by that side. At this time the country is on DEFCON TWO, and evacuation "test" will be ordered by the Interior Minster within the hour.
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Main Shroomian Uplink Building, Shroom-Sat CO
Brigadier General Price ignored the Shroomian yelling at him and his men as they physically disconnected the uplinks to the Shroom-Sat system, the signal for a satellite reboot had been set to all Shroom-sat satellites. It cut the signal for the next hour to the world and gave them the time they needed.
You can't just march in here and shut us down! We're the fucking media you tin pot fucking god, I don't care who your with this is Shroomian soil! Your men have....
He made a mistake there, he tried to physically grab one of the Gurkha's in the Shroom-Sat Uplink building walking by with cables over his solider. Before he could blink the Gurkha had grabbed him by the front of his shirt and slammed him against the nearest wall. The knife that all Gurkhas carried was at his throat half a second later, the elite commando looked to Price for a signal.
Sighing the General walked over. "Look..." he said, reading the man's name-tag "Steve? You'll understand why we have to do this later today, the important thing is to control the information flow for the next few hours, no need to get a riot or a panic on our hands when people need to follow the governments directions" He gestured to the solider holding the knife to his throat.
"You'll be off the air for the next two hours at most, then back on, yes the BBC is still broadcasting but like Shroom-Sat Television they have a protocol for this, which is why we are forcing you off the air for the next two hours until your goverment can get in here and explain why you might not be coming online for the next hour. Yes this might get us kicked out of the country, we were here after all to train with your Mushroom Marines and train them in turn, but a order is an order and maintain the public calm is more important right now than anything else"
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The jamming started twenty minutes after the the attack on the Convoy. Very large dishes designed for just this purpose went live for the first time, all Civilian Television signals in Tian Xian, and the Lonestar republic went to hash from the backscatter of the multi-megawatt strength jammers. Military communications were un-affected but all civilian radio and television programs broke out in a hidious series of shreks and pops.
Those with Satellite dishes or internet connect were unaffected, people crashed several websites trying to catch the news.
Between this and the shut-down of Shroom-Sat, the only major news network still running was the BBC. And it stayed that way for the next two hours.
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Dozens of messages were going out to every country for a hundred different reasons. An apology to the Lonestar-Republic Media for choosing to now test it's shore based jammers. Messages to the BBC for a news for the next hour clamp-down. A private message to the Shinra Republic and Canassia, and a hand-written note faxed to the UKB Embassy ship in Saddamstain.
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Within two hours of the nuke going off, the blackout would end, and the message must be clear and to the point to prevent panic.
To all UKB Forces
This notice is to be considered an official war warning. One hour ago a Shepnukstain B-1 opened fire on a MESS Convoy carrying Shepnukstain weaponry out of Liberaltopia. The convoy escorts managed to down the missiles but they still initiate. Because of this, it is the firm belief of his Majesties Defense Ministry that the long awaited Nuclear War between the UAR and Mess is on us.
Per the previous agreements no plane is to leave the 22 mile waterway area, however full defensive measure are allowed within that zone.
No unit may engage Shepnukstain or MESS forces without being first fired on by that side. At this time the country is on DEFCON TWO, and evacuation "test" will be ordered by the Interior Minster within the hour.
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Main Shroomian Uplink Building, Shroom-Sat CO
Brigadier General Price ignored the Shroomian yelling at him and his men as they physically disconnected the uplinks to the Shroom-Sat system, the signal for a satellite reboot had been set to all Shroom-sat satellites. It cut the signal for the next hour to the world and gave them the time they needed.
You can't just march in here and shut us down! We're the fucking media you tin pot fucking god, I don't care who your with this is Shroomian soil! Your men have....
He made a mistake there, he tried to physically grab one of the Gurkha's in the Shroom-Sat Uplink building walking by with cables over his solider. Before he could blink the Gurkha had grabbed him by the front of his shirt and slammed him against the nearest wall. The knife that all Gurkhas carried was at his throat half a second later, the elite commando looked to Price for a signal.
Sighing the General walked over. "Look..." he said, reading the man's name-tag "Steve? You'll understand why we have to do this later today, the important thing is to control the information flow for the next few hours, no need to get a riot or a panic on our hands when people need to follow the governments directions" He gestured to the solider holding the knife to his throat.
"You'll be off the air for the next two hours at most, then back on, yes the BBC is still broadcasting but like Shroom-Sat Television they have a protocol for this, which is why we are forcing you off the air for the next two hours until your goverment can get in here and explain why you might not be coming online for the next hour. Yes this might get us kicked out of the country, we were here after all to train with your Mushroom Marines and train them in turn, but a order is an order and maintain the public calm is more important right now than anything else"
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The jamming started twenty minutes after the the attack on the Convoy. Very large dishes designed for just this purpose went live for the first time, all Civilian Television signals in Tian Xian, and the Lonestar republic went to hash from the backscatter of the multi-megawatt strength jammers. Military communications were un-affected but all civilian radio and television programs broke out in a hidious series of shreks and pops.
Those with Satellite dishes or internet connect were unaffected, people crashed several websites trying to catch the news.
Between this and the shut-down of Shroom-Sat, the only major news network still running was the BBC. And it stayed that way for the next two hours.
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Dozens of messages were going out to every country for a hundred different reasons. An apology to the Lonestar-Republic Media for choosing to now test it's shore based jammers. Messages to the BBC for a news for the next hour clamp-down. A private message to the Shinra Republic and Canassia, and a hand-written note faxed to the UKB Embassy ship in Saddamstain.
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Within two hours of the nuke going off, the blackout would end, and the message must be clear and to the point to prevent panic.
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe
Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
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Nukistani E-4B NEACP, over Shepnukistan
"Sir, post-attack reconnaisance from the RB-1." said the Nukistani Air Force Aide as he handed some paper that had just spat out from one of the printers on the "doomsday plane".
Putting on his glasses, Sheppard looked at it.
"Well, so, we didn't score any confirmed kills; but that force is dead in the water pretty much. Tell the crew to divert to Saddamistan; they done good."
Another aide came up to the President.
"Sir, we have all kinds of messages from everyone, from MESS to FUN, to FART, to FUCK, to god knows who else, it's getting crazy down there."
"Give me them, and let me know if anything changes."
"Sir, post-attack reconnaisance from the RB-1." said the Nukistani Air Force Aide as he handed some paper that had just spat out from one of the printers on the "doomsday plane".
Putting on his glasses, Sheppard looked at it.
"Well, so, we didn't score any confirmed kills; but that force is dead in the water pretty much. Tell the crew to divert to Saddamistan; they done good."
Another aide came up to the President.
"Sir, we have all kinds of messages from everyone, from MESS to FUN, to FART, to FUCK, to god knows who else, it's getting crazy down there."
"Give me them, and let me know if anything changes."
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
President Shinra was in the underground bunker, newly readied. God knows we've had enough crises as it is...but this could be the worst yet...
He hadn't gotten as far as he wanted with the shelter building, but he had some built. He had some shelters built from the PeZookian design, and he could keep some 60,000 of his people safe in the 2000 available shelters. He had worked on subway tunnel conversions, but they weren't far enough along yet that he could be sure they would be enough. Nonetheless, they were planned to evacuate to there if things got worse.
They had already started evacuating the 60,000 to the completed shelters, a mix of various people from various critical professions, enough to hopefully be able to rebuild and repopulate, if it came down to that.
In the meantime, the military had gone on DEFCON-2, the highest state of alert short of actual war. All ships were being surged, some ready to fight, others to form what SAM barrier they could between the Republic and Saddamistan. The Air Force was flying on continual patrols, and the military was disperesed, ADA units on full alert. NBC protection measures instituted. All the possible precautions they could take had been taken.
Now it was time to decide what they were going to do. He activated the teleconference, and looked over who was there...
He hadn't gotten as far as he wanted with the shelter building, but he had some built. He had some shelters built from the PeZookian design, and he could keep some 60,000 of his people safe in the 2000 available shelters. He had worked on subway tunnel conversions, but they weren't far enough along yet that he could be sure they would be enough. Nonetheless, they were planned to evacuate to there if things got worse.
They had already started evacuating the 60,000 to the completed shelters, a mix of various people from various critical professions, enough to hopefully be able to rebuild and repopulate, if it came down to that.
In the meantime, the military had gone on DEFCON-2, the highest state of alert short of actual war. All ships were being surged, some ready to fight, others to form what SAM barrier they could between the Republic and Saddamistan. The Air Force was flying on continual patrols, and the military was disperesed, ADA units on full alert. NBC protection measures instituted. All the possible precautions they could take had been taken.
Now it was time to decide what they were going to do. He activated the teleconference, and looked over who was there...
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
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Imperial Chronicles
The coastal defences were lighted up immediately. S-300 battalions stationed on the coast were activated and the controllers were in the bunkers awaiting instructions and looking at the radar screens.
Over the last few months, buried guns and a system of bunkers were constructed along the coast with feverish speed as the government sped up defence spending and ordered men of the Imperial Tagmata and the Thematic troops to drill and guard the coast. Radars lit up and monitored anything that went on the Neverhood coast. When the order to go to DEFCON 1 came, the men stationed on the coast immediately went to full alert and all the ECM and ECCM systems were lit immediately. Broadband jammers jammed just about anything and filled the space with so much electronic noise that any ship will be confused.
Many SM-2/3/4 missile rounds were buried deep in the ground in anticipation of attack. The radar guiding the missiles was also buried in a secret location. Then came the special missile rounds to be fired from some of the launch tubes. It was not known what those tubes fired. Rumour had that the tubes fired wide area electromagnetic pulse weapons, or maybe even some of the Greek fire weapons. Not much was known, but the General in charge of the coast line defence knew his duty and he intended to do it well. He also knew that every system here was hardened against nuclear attack and whatever happened, his men will fight to the death anything that approached the coast.
The coastal defences were lighted up immediately. S-300 battalions stationed on the coast were activated and the controllers were in the bunkers awaiting instructions and looking at the radar screens.
Over the last few months, buried guns and a system of bunkers were constructed along the coast with feverish speed as the government sped up defence spending and ordered men of the Imperial Tagmata and the Thematic troops to drill and guard the coast. Radars lit up and monitored anything that went on the Neverhood coast. When the order to go to DEFCON 1 came, the men stationed on the coast immediately went to full alert and all the ECM and ECCM systems were lit immediately. Broadband jammers jammed just about anything and filled the space with so much electronic noise that any ship will be confused.
Many SM-2/3/4 missile rounds were buried deep in the ground in anticipation of attack. The radar guiding the missiles was also buried in a secret location. Then came the special missile rounds to be fired from some of the launch tubes. It was not known what those tubes fired. Rumour had that the tubes fired wide area electromagnetic pulse weapons, or maybe even some of the Greek fire weapons. Not much was known, but the General in charge of the coast line defence knew his duty and he intended to do it well. He also knew that every system here was hardened against nuclear attack and whatever happened, his men will fight to the death anything that approached the coast.
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Your spirit, diseased as it is, refuses to allow you to give up, no matter what threats you face... and whatever wreckage you leave behind you.
Kreia
Western Texas Hill Country
"Secretary Chiu has arrived at Site B El Presidente." The Pilot said. The LSRAF Colonel had the small "emergency messaging system" computer, a giant laptop, broken out. The MH-60 was continuing North. The Colonel spoke from across the passenger bay.
"Both VC-25s are up El Presidente, both are broadcasting the Air Force One call sign. The UKB has started to jam all civilian bands except BBC, but EAS switch over to back up bands and is still getting through in major cities."
"Alright fine. Lonestar leaned back. Well, I guess this is The Big One.
"Secretary Chiu has arrived at Site B El Presidente." The Pilot said. The LSRAF Colonel had the small "emergency messaging system" computer, a giant laptop, broken out. The MH-60 was continuing North. The Colonel spoke from across the passenger bay.
"Both VC-25s are up El Presidente, both are broadcasting the Air Force One call sign. The UKB has started to jam all civilian bands except BBC, but EAS switch over to back up bands and is still getting through in major cities."
"Alright fine. Lonestar leaned back. Well, I guess this is The Big One.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
Over-the-Horizon Radar Complex, IRT
The system had just been declared operation a short time ago and was working up to full capacity when this conflict came about. And just in time - while neither the UAR nor the MESS were likely to attack, there were serious questions about FUN - specifically, the only nation that had a real strategic airforce. The Reds.
It was not believed that the FUN's nuclear-capable heavy bombers had deployed to the Bear Republic, that would buy precious time for early raid warning, to get birds off the ground.
As for retaliation? None of the F-111s were operational, none of their missiles ready. That was projected to take at least another year, and now they were out of time.
The system had just been declared operation a short time ago and was working up to full capacity when this conflict came about. And just in time - while neither the UAR nor the MESS were likely to attack, there were serious questions about FUN - specifically, the only nation that had a real strategic airforce. The Reds.
It was not believed that the FUN's nuclear-capable heavy bombers had deployed to the Bear Republic, that would buy precious time for early raid warning, to get birds off the ground.
As for retaliation? None of the F-111s were operational, none of their missiles ready. That was projected to take at least another year, and now they were out of time.
EMERGENCY ACTION SYSTEM ALERT
BEEP BEEP BEEP. All LSR citizens are instructed to head towards your nearest fallout shelter. If you are unsure as to what that may be, head towards your nearest Tornado Shelter. In the Cities of Austin and Dallas this will be in the nearest sub station, unless an otherwise designated tornado shelter is closer. If you are unsure of either location, head towards your nearest inner-city high school.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
BEEP BEEP BEEP. All LSR citizens are instructed to head towards your nearest fallout shelter. If you are unsure as to what that may be, head towards your nearest Tornado Shelter. In the Cities of Austin and Dallas this will be in the nearest sub station, unless an otherwise designated tornado shelter is closer. If you are unsure of either location, head towards your nearest inner-city high school.
BEEP BEEP BEEP
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
WOMS:Wartime Office of Media Suppression
"Their trying to get around the jamming sir"
Well then just start blanking the channels, if they frequency hop-follow them.
"EBS? The civilian emergency broadcast system?"
Leave it, we are not engaging them on behalf of OMSK after all, leave the EBS alone.
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The "Mesa"
I approve of your order General, if we flush the rest of them how long till they start degrading?
"Two Years your Grace, which is why we only deployed the Goal-Keeper's and only some of the units"
Good, what about Hammer?
"Using a Hammer satellite destroys it, meaning we'd have to replace them, but we don't need to flush them, they are instant use per the old requirements"
And the SCORECARD General? How long from Make it so, to impact"
"Two minutes to launch and fully deploy, between fifty eight seconds to one minute forty seconds of flight time... call it four minutes tops"
Where do we stand on units?
"27 Goal-Keepers, 12 Referee's, Six Umpire's at this time"
Good enough, stand your people by, your department goes to Def-con 1.5, everyone else to 2. Your not allowed to go active until ten minutes before executing.
"Their trying to get around the jamming sir"
Well then just start blanking the channels, if they frequency hop-follow them.
"EBS? The civilian emergency broadcast system?"
Leave it, we are not engaging them on behalf of OMSK after all, leave the EBS alone.
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The "Mesa"
I approve of your order General, if we flush the rest of them how long till they start degrading?
"Two Years your Grace, which is why we only deployed the Goal-Keeper's and only some of the units"
Good, what about Hammer?
"Using a Hammer satellite destroys it, meaning we'd have to replace them, but we don't need to flush them, they are instant use per the old requirements"
And the SCORECARD General? How long from Make it so, to impact"
"Two minutes to launch and fully deploy, between fifty eight seconds to one minute forty seconds of flight time... call it four minutes tops"
Where do we stand on units?
"27 Goal-Keepers, 12 Referee's, Six Umpire's at this time"
Good enough, stand your people by, your department goes to Def-con 1.5, everyone else to 2. Your not allowed to go active until ten minutes before executing.
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