LIVE on ShroomSatTV The Sovereign Shroomanian Sentinel SHROOM SAYS
Shortly after the announcement of King Paul I of PeZookia, Prime Minister Shroom the 777th, a long time friend and ally of the King, issued a statement that concurred with his comrade's latest world address.
"It is true, what my comrade has said, that although we are an archipelago of island-nations within a stone's throw away from one another, we have nonetheless suffered a grave breakdown in communications. That breakdown is, sadly, one that all of us have partaken in. That breakdown affects us all and, had not more rational voices been heard, it would've caused irreparable damage to all parts of the global community.
"Yet, in spite of all these shortcomings, the voice of reason has been heard. From time and time again, we have seen that underneath the political posturings and geopolitical gamesmanship we see around us - all of us share an intrinsic desire to safeguard our people.
"Remember the Shadow-Shroom incident, one of the very first conflicts in the modern era of the New World. Attempts were made at my very own life, and two nations were soon at war. One nation was large, the other was small. Yet instead of decimation, of ruthless aggression towards the undeserving, the path of compromise was chosen. That compromise turned into cooperation, and that cooperation flourished. By all means, the Shadow Empire and the Sovereignty of Shroomania should have been the most bitter of enemies - but by setting our differences aside, our nations have become the best of friends.
"Remember the Syndromian Strike. Once again, while the former FUNGAL AXIS and the OMSK Pact chose to pursue those who were guilty of inciting war, we nonetheless liberated a nation from a military junta and rebuilt it from the ruin brought about by their leaders' mad dreams. We cooperated and brought freedom to Syndromians and forged peace between their nation and the Kingdom of Zor.
"And we cannot forget the OMSK-MESS affair. The efforts of President Rufus of Shinra, and King Arik of Canissia, on behalf of the MESS were instrumental in easing the belligerence that had built up between the two power blocs. We also cannot forget the efforts of the Republic of Shinra in saving the lives of whose who were taken against their will as hostages in the Astorian Crisis, had it not been for the Shinras' decisive actions... irregardless of nationality, race, or creed, many families would have lost their loved ones.
"I believe that King Paul and I speak for all of the Fungal Union of Nations in calling for an International Conference on Terra Libertia. The recent crisis on that part of the world is but a symptom of a greater problem that troubles the world community, and by addressing that symptom, we can begin the first steps in recovering from this malaise that has afflicted all our nations. Once more, we must ask for the world's leaders to gather in Atlantis - the island the United Kingdom of Blackadder has generously donated for the purposes of international dialog and understanding.
"We must convene in council because, despite the fact that each of us have shown our desire for peace and prosperity, there are still imperfections... there are still people out there who we need to help.
"We have to work things out."
In other news... FLIGHT FRIGHT
Fungal aviators, young and old alike, have had their wings clipped.
The international spectacle surrounding Saddamistan, Terra Libertia, the OMSK Pact and the MESS have brought private aviation screeching to a halt in the small commercial runways and airfields of the Fungal Union of Nations.
Despite Canissia's assurances that FUN flights are still allowed in their airspace, the declaration of 500 mile exclusion zones, Shepnukistani Strategic Air Command flights over the Central and PeZookian Seas, rumors of downed strategic bombers, and military fighter planes filling the skies have caused private pilots and amateur aviators to become very nervous nowadays.
"It's like being grounded because of bad weather," said a pilot that referred to herself by the callsign 'Broomstick'. "In fact, that's exactly what it is. Except, instead of thunder and lightning and hail, well... you've got all of this instead."
While the Fungal Union of Nations have not called for a cancellation of civilian flights or anything to that effect, the state of emergency that has befallen many nations has done a lot to discourage civil aviation - to the point of affecting FUN tourism as well as air traffic.
"There's a storm coming," Broomstick explained.
"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 - PeZook Shroom, 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!
The Canissian Air Force is proposing an airborne laser cannon, small enough to be mounted on a C-130 cargo aircraft and capable of "melting a hole in a tank" with a 3-5 second exposure.
The technology for such a laser exists, but it is difficult and expensive to implement. The Defense budget is being expanded in a radical spending bill being pushed through the Parliament by the Defense Minister, Ral Tenn, with the backing of King Arik Coyotus-I.
The new spending bill will feature major increases in Naval spending, as well as spending for 'non-standard strategic defense concepts' which are not fully disclosed due to the Security and Secrecy Executive Order.
This is on top of the mandates for the Department of Education to expand Civics courses with classes in medical preparedness, WMD reaction, and marksmanship teams for sports. A budgetary dispute erupted between the Ministers of Education and Defense, saying that Defense is the primary beneficiary of these new mandates, and so part of the funding for them should come from Defense budgets.
King Arik Coyotus-I himself dealt with the argument by saying that these were programs that would benefit all citizens, due to the increased likelihood of WMD attack by rogue nations, and that such drills were useful and prudent in a nation that did not suffer the social burden of conscription. He did compromise by saying that 25% of the mandates would be underwritten by Defense money, however. The Education Ministry had been pushing for 50%.
Other strains on the budget include the shoring up of eroding northern shores, however some good news was had there when the Royal Canissian Border Guards offered to share some of the burdens since the project would also involve checking, moving, and enhancing safety nets and sensors that protect the beaches from megafauna attacks such as the Noctodiles. Local militias are offering to volunteer labor, as well, aiding the Environmental Ministry immensely.
Such moves are good news to the KIng, who was reluctant to part with 10 Anuket missile corvettes to pay for the environmental project. When asked if more Anukets would be cut to pay for other needed programs such as the Type-332 Minsweepers and the replenisment ships requested by th eNavy, the King made no promises.
"We'll quickly get to the point where we cut so many Anukets that we will lose the benefits of the economy-of-scale," he said, "However, given the obvious and undeniable need for the Minesweepers, it may be prudent to delay some of the Anukets."
The King refused to confirm if that would happen, however, or when.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
"Oh, goddammit. ISCA calendars? This is demeaning. Jesus, it's like being assigned to toilet-cleaning!", major Kulinsky was extremely angry at his latest assingment, although he didn't take it out on the FIA chief. Instead, he made a scene in his direct superiors office
"Calm down, right the fuck now.", said Matt Wronski, RIS commander, "Yes, you will go to Indophal with a shipment of BodyOil and ISCA calendars. After arriving, you will meet with kapitan Syergyei Mladkov of the Red Technocracy GRU"
Kulinsky's expression changed. He should've seen that coming, and now he felt like an idiot.
"The GRU has requested intelligence information on the region. They wouldn't tell us why, but we expect they will try to get some people into Saddamistan, and they need all information they can get about Libertopia and Saddamistan - in order to figure out how to infiltrate, most probably."
Kulinsky nodded. Now that he knew what his real mission was, he calmed down almost immediately.
"You will provide kapitan Mladkov with all the assistance you can, and then return to the Republic. Some of our people have been following the leads you've established, and we need a good analytic mind back on the MCP case."
Now this is interesting, Kulinsky thought
"We've cracked the MCP?"
"Yes. Yes we did."
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
Ministry of Infrastructure & Development Announces Subway Expansion Plans
In accordance with Strategic Directive 020, all subways are being expanded and reinforced to serve as public shelters in the event of WMD attack.
Funded by a pooling of money between the Ministries of Defense, Infrastructure & Development, and the Royal Canissian Border Guards, the subway tunnels will be equipped with wells that tap directly into clean water aquifers; air purifiers; generators; and emergency food supplies and gas masks.
Tunnels will be able to hermetically seal in sections, if necessary, with assigned Civil Defense Block Captains each given their own small command, control and communications suite. Communications between sealed sections will be possible through deeply buried land lines. Specialized medical labs for treating WMD type attacks will be available, as will WMD detection kits, rad pills, and atropine injectors.
There are still debate son whether or not small armories will be stocked; currently the King does not favor the idea and instead rely on the prescence of police officers that will be reporting to the shelters as part of their precincts.
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Lord Arik Coyotus's Command Bunker, Location [CLASSIFIED]
Arik looked at the printout and frowned. At first he was reluctant to give a rat's ass about Libertopia, but at the same time he knew that unless something was done, the situation would be sure to come up and bite them in the ass again at some point.
Some point when it would be the most inconvenient, he knew.
"Colonel Rassnar," he said, "Send a message. I am willing to participate in any summit on Libertopia. However, if I fear this will be counterproductive and spiral into a finger-pointing screechfest, I'll be leaving immediately."
"Yes, Excellency," the Colonel said, his own expression one of low expectations. "Shall I prepare the zeppelin, then, milord?"
"Yes," Arik said, "And..." he hesitated, then relaxed. "Let's get it all over with."
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
CANISSIAN CENTRAL SEAS FLEET: (Homeported out of Port Decisive, Shinra Republic) 2 Ticonderoga Cruisers (91st Cruiser Division)
RMS Columbia (Flagship); brevet-Commodore James Ross
RMS Celestra; Captain Ashley Winn
2 Arleigh-Burke Destroyers (11th Destroyer Division)
RMS Castille; Capt. Ian Drago
RMS Valencia; Capt. Ben Forster
RMS Grenada; Capt. Erich Horst
4 Halifax Frigates (1st Frigate Division)
RMS Apollo (Flagship); brevet-Commodore Steven Ramm
RMS Osiris; Capt. Yvette LaFleur
RMS Sleipnir; Capt. Richard "Ricky" Sevren
4 Pegasus Hydrofoils (2nd Squadron)
RMS Tauron; Corvette Captain Steve Anders
RMS Picon
RMS Caprica
RMS Gemonon
3 Victoria SSKs (HK Team 002)
RMS Diamondback
RMS Anaconda
RMS Copperhead
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Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
SECRET MESSAGE SENT TO KING PAUL OF PEZOOKIA AND MINISTER SHROOM OF SHROOMANIA:
King Arik Coyotus sends tidings of friendship in these troubling times.
Please do not let Canissia's sudden coldness put you off; I am doing what I think is best to ensure the survival of my people in the face of almost certain future belligerence from Saddamistan
I am willing to participate in the Libertopia discussion, but I suspect that, like yourselves, we of Canissia don't trust any of the warlord factions and hesitate to give them recognition as responsible leaders.
In the interests of stability and peace, however, I will attend and hope that at least some sort of equilibrium or agreement can be reached-- or, at least, some sort of agreed-upon series of preconditions that will allow all concerned to act in coordination (for good or ill).
The elephant in the room is Saddamistan, however, and if it goes unremarked during this summit I fear that we will have only delayed the inevitable.
Something about Libertarianism always bothered me. Then one day, I realized what it was:
Libertarian philosophy can be boiled down to the phrase, "Work Will Make You Free."
In Libertarianism, there is no Government, so the Bosses are free to exploit the Workers.
In Communism, there is no Government, so the Workers are free to exploit the Bosses.
So in Libertarianism, man exploits man, but in Communism, its the other way around! If all you want to do is have some harmless, mindless fun, go H3RE INST3ADZ0RZ!! Grrr! Fight my Brute, you pansy!
Presidential Office, Presidential Hall
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"Open your eyes, and look at this world. See how peace can be broken down so easily." The Vice President pointed out in her cold tone.
The President was reviewing the reports on the Strait Crisis - a pet name of his own for the whole Libertia-Saddamistan situation. The 3 main ports facing Saddamistan, Clearwater Bay, Midport, and Shingang, were around the 500 nautical mi. limit. Something the president wasn't too happy to see. Also, the old problem of being the weakest link in the "MESS Eastern Arc" was brought up again in the reports.
"There are a lot of things I know you don't like. And the people don't like. But sometimes, some things have to be done."
"Alright."
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Mangka Daily News
Various Defence Bills Passed
[Wanhua] After days of furious debate, the Legislative Hall has finally passed the Mandatory Service Bill. Starting from July, 2 years of military service will be mandate for men at the age of 18 to 30. Basic military education will also be required at senior high schools, vocational schools, and the first two years of college. A 2 month boot camp training program will also be part of the college military education. Female students will be receiving a modified course of military education which includes medical care.
Besides the Service Bill, the Legislative Hall also passed the budget for the "Good Mountain Project". An estimated total amount of 2.7 Billion ROBs will be used for a 5-year contruction, setting up a Joint Service underground base in a classified location in the Central Mountains. This base will also be the first to serve the upgraded Air Force aircraft, which the Ministry of Defence has yet to decide and purchase.
Although it has been mandated that buildings with basements were required to be designed as bomb shelters, this law wasn't strictly enforced. Starting from July there will be a nationwide survellience to examine and evaluate the current status of this situation.
Finally, starting from July, there will be monthly drills varying on different scenarios such as air raids, NBC attacks, meanwhile, the Mass Rapid Transit system in Wanhua will undergo structural reinforcements.
1st Plt. Comm. of the Warwolves Member of Justice League "People can't see Buddha so they say he doesn't have a body, since his body is formed of atoms, of course you can't see it. Saying he doesn't have a body is correct"- Li HongZhi
When Major Kulinsky arrived inIndhopal with his shipment of body oil and calenders, he was recieved with good humour by the men at ProTec. They showed the Major around their state of the art training facilities, and gave him a few of the first new "Pike" assault rifles and "Halberd" PDW's to try out. The Pike was a high end and very customizeable rifle of bullpup layout that had pretty much been designed by the troops who would use it. The Halberd was an compact weapon that used a hybrid pistol/rifle round and was mainly intended for police, bodyguard, and special forces use.
All of that was intended to get the major more interested in ProTec and Indhopal's products, while a tour of the best bars in town and a customized .45 were personnel gifts to the Major from the ProTec operaters who had been working in Libertopia.
The President of ProTec also sent a letter to the President of Shroomania thanking him for the shipment of body oil, which included a photo of the surprised ProTec men opening the chest with the shipment.
Briefing between General Sanguinius and Dr. Howard (Lead scientist in Gauss Weaponry Division)
"Sire, as you are well aware, we have been working on a large gauss weapon that will be capable of defending against ICBMs. The only problem is the large amount of power required to fire such a weapon. We are looking to fire a 10 pound shot at more that 20 km/sec. This would allow it to have the range to hit an ICBM at the apogee of its flight. Our calculations estimate that it would require about 785Mw of power."
"785Mw? Are you shitting me? I figured it would be at least 10 times that much."
"No, Sire. Our problem is still the efficiency of the energy transfer. So far we have been able to achieve a 3% efficiency. That means that about 3% of the energy put in comes out. If we put in 650J of power, then the muzzle energy will be 19.5J.”
“Yeah, got it. So is this why our guys have to wear the big backpack to power their guns?”
“Yes, Sire. We are working on using the new Lithium-Titanate battery that produces about 3 times as much energy as the Lithium-Ion batteries we are using now. This will greatly reduce the size of the batteries needed for our troops. As for the Hyper-Velocity Gun, the problem is still the efficiency. We think we might have cracked the problem though. This will help with all of our gauss weapons.”
“Well, spit it out, man.”
“Yes, Sire. By decreasing the gauge of the wire, we have found that it greatly increases the efficiency of the weapon. We have been using a 10 Gauge wire, which has given us the 3% efficiency. We moved to an 8 Gauge wire, and the initial tests have improved the efficiency to just over 4%. But we tried this on an assault rifle. We don’t know how it will react to larger wires. We don’t know if there is a certain gauge of wire you get to where there will not be a rise in efficiency. We do know that the 8 Gauge wire works well and we are working with the armament factories to produce the new barrels with the bigger wire so we can upgrade all of our current weapons.”
“When do you expect to be ready to test the Hyper-Velocity Gun?”
“Sire, we have been building a 1/10th scale model of the gun for about 3 months now. We should have it completed and ready for testing in about 1 month. We anticipate that we will be able to fire a 1 pound rod at about 10 km/s. We intend to use thicker wires and hope to reach about 5% efficiency. If we can achieve this, then it will only require about 23.6Mw of power. But even if we only get 4% out of it it will still only require 29.5Mw”
“Excellent. Just make sure the command bunker is far enough away that if something goes wrong, you guys won’t get hurt. I don’t need my leading scientists in gauss technology killed because their prototype blew up. Also make sure that there is a good transformer station between the gun and the power station. I don’t want to melt a power station and have to replace it.”
“Yes, Sire, the transformer station is all ready in place and the command bunker has been located on a hill about 2 kilometers away.”
“Excellent. Notify me when the first round is to be fired. I would like to see this.”
“As you wish, Sire.”
EDIT: I fucking hate math.
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"Don't fuck with The Mess. Unless you've been there, done that, and have the t-shirt, shut your cakehole." - Me
"By the Blood of Sanguinius" - Blood Angels Battlecry
"The enemies of the Emperor fear many things. They fear discovery, defeat, despair and death. Yet there is one thing they fear above all others. They fear the wrath of the Space Marines." - Anonymous
"This can't be good" - Sherriff Jack Carter
A source close to the High Lord says that he talked to the Corpse for and entire day and night before returing home exhausted.
The same source claimes that they spoke about "great underground vaults, international issues, how to save money in the air force and other 'religious issues'".
BAMF-troopers looking good as the High Lord enters the throne room
Rufus looked over the transcript of PeZook's speech, and smiled slightly to himself. Thank God I didn't have to come up with the inspiring diplomatic speech this time.
"Let PeZookia know we intend to attend this conference. We want a solution to the Libertia crisis as much as they do."
"Mister President, what about CJTF-4?" This from his CNO, who was worried that they were pushing the ships too hard for too long.
"Until we get some word from Saddamistan one way or another, they'll have to stay. However..." He thought about the seeming cozying up with Saddamistan he'd been hearing about from the UKB. I really wish Bean would let us in on the big secret. But maybe we can take a chance regardless.
"If Saddamistan agrees to send representitives to this conference, or better yet attends himself, I think we can take that as a sign and begin at least a partial drawdown of forces. Include that in our acceptance notice to PeZookia. Oh, and make sure the UKB somehow gets a copy of it."
"Yes sir," his Foreign Minister grinned. Rufus could see the relief on the faces of all gathered. Maybe, just maybe, there was a chance of pulling off a diplomatic solution after all.
"How can I wait unknowing?
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
"Pezookia proposes a peace conference?" says the Emperor, with a mild irritation. He hadn't forgotten getting ignored the last time he proposed one and the rest of the world were more interested in their own business and posturing than actually doing anything. Now Terra Libertia was in a bigger mess than a few months ago, especially after Saddamistan wrecked up the Sultan's land into a wreck.
"Should I even bother attending?" The Emperor asked rhetorically. The Emperor clearly half the mind of doing what needed to be done in Terra Libertia, the world be damned. "What does Patriarch Ramsley think?"
"His Holiness indicates his skeptism that anything can be achieved. He doesn't trust Alexander, with good reason especially getting hit by ProTec." says the advisor.
The Emperor thought for the moment. And told said, "I will not give an answer. Until everyone renounces the desire to destroy the Sultan, I don't see what can be achieved. The Sultan will probably rightfully not trust many of us, and until we give him some reassurance and help the Sultan against the rebels, these talks I regard as half-hearted at best."
STGOD: Byzantine Empire 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
BBC Reports In International news the new-updated Atlantis Accords have been submitted to all nations to sign, discussion is on-going in several Capitals
The Atlantis Accords, July 2nd 2010
1. Atlantis shall forever be international territory, no nation or group of nations may ever claim total sovereign rights over it.
2. Atlantis shall no permanent military or long-term residents on it. No citizens of Atlantis shall exist.
3. Defense of Atlantis is the responsibility of a rotating International naval and military force.
4. The land of Atlantis can not be bought or solid, it may only be leased or donated to company's or corporations, but not private citizens. All leases are either for fifty or one hundred years in length. Donated land is a 1,000 year grant.
A. The Atlantis Protection Board is a ten member governing body, each man is elected for for five years or until recalled by the elected leader or ruler of the country the panel member represents.
B. Due to Geographic concerns the Bear Republic, The Lonestar Republic, the UKB and the Red Technocracy all have one permanent seat on the panel. The other six seats are handed out on a rotating bases among all member nations who sign the Atlantis accords. The Chairmen of the board is selected by vote of the board every five years. The Chairman has only one additional powers, as he is the only one who can innate a vote to remove someone from a sitting board. And he or she is responsible for the running of meeting's and mediating between the various board members.
This panel controls all handing out of Atlantis land to various Corporations and Company's. It can also revoke a company or cooperation's grant of land but only with a unanimous(All ten member) vote. It is also responsible for managing of unused Atlantis land.
5. For Profit Business conducted on Atlantis itself is taxed at a rate set by the Atlantis Protection Board. Money raised above and beyond what is need to pay the board's costs and salaries is to be donated to International Aid organizations.
5A. For Profit business transacted through Atlantis between countries is to be discouraged.
5B. Any business or purchases directly related to non-profit or humanitarian groups are not taxed by the Atlantis Protection board.
6. Justice on Atlantis
Atlantis shall have no courts, no justice system. No laws, instead host country laws will be used. If a citizen of Pezookia travels to Atlantis and commits theft, he or she will be returned to Pezookia and tried according to their laws. If a situation arises were someone commits an act which is legal in their home country but illegal in the other persons country, that person will be deported and the cased turned over to the two countries in question. No person will ever be extradited anywhere but back to their home country from Atlantis.
7. Marriage
You can not get married in Atlantis, strait, gay, multiple wives, or multiple husbands or to any non-human partner(Sheep or Toaster). No marraige can be preformed on Atlantis
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Copy of the first seven of ten Atlantis accord rules.
"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
Indhopal had a full day of diplomatic activity planned. First the parliment voted for, and passed the new version of the Atlantis accords. Secondly a working group of diplomats, MP's and civillian contractors was put together to get Indhopal's proposals for the upcoming conference on Libertopia in order. In a press conference the government said they were eager to work with the internationall community to find a way to help LIbertopia realise its full potential.
"Well yes, with the Blackbeard tracking system, we could use our Kenetic missiles to build an intercept platform, only problem being accuracy. One needs a guarunteed hit. Well, it's not the worst Idea our research teams have come up with. One guy thinks he can detonate a small nuclear device in order to power a bunch of lasers..."
"On the otherhand we have seen a proposal from Canassia, and we're very sure that we can Retrofit our Command and control Airships for an ABM capacity. It's not like they can't jam radars, or produce enough microwave radiation to cook a flock of ducks."
"Now put on your goggles and ear protectors and let's watch the first test of our light Naval artillery prototype."
Magnets acclerated the projectile to transonic speeds, however the observers were showered in light sparks as friction burned out some capacitors and wiring.
"Got to keep the damn thing cool, it overloaded again!"
"At least this time no one was hurt, There was the guy with third degree burns the last time we tested one of these."
"Well it served him right for trying to get too close to a burning railgun." (No Q. we don't have exploding consols in the Bear Republic)
Bear Republic unveils new prefabricated Trade Center. A Small scale Airship port, with control tower, emergency reponse, on site commercial space, and th latest in BR airdefense. Prefabricated hangers also available. The Republic credits innovation in construction materials transfered over from Airship construction's light aluminum alloys, to other building materials.- new from Hughes Kaiser
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Riverhome, July 6th 2010
Private Meeting of "Special Council"
TS/REC--July 4th Meeting Transcript--TS/REC
In physical Attendance:
His Grace King Joseph Blackadder the VI
Prime Minster, Charles Spencer
Speaker of the Commons, George Martin
Lord Speaker, Lord Richard Wolsey
Director of the Office Media Affairs, Jesus Garcia
Director of Intelligence, Horace Granger
Attending via Secure Conference Line
Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jack Ryan
General of the Royal Army, William Popov
Lord Chancellor, Austin Finlay
Minster of the Department of State, Akashi Koji
Minster of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Lord Robert Patrick
Special Notes
Bishop Kenji Takashi opened the meeting with a benediction, he did not however attend the meeting to it the topics being discussed being of national security areas.
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[Blackadder VI] Ahh tradition, how long have have we been doing that now?
[Charles Spencer] 320 years give or take a decade your Grace, if you mean benedictions period, or just under 70 years since it was an Orthodox Priest giving the benediction instead of the Royal Church
[Blackadder VI] My grandfather always had a thing with picking up the latest trend. Still tradition and the good Bishop was so helpful in getting the contacts to his Excellency of Byzantium.
[Richard Wolsey] May we get this meeting rolling your Grace?
[Blackadder VI] By all means, Mr Finlay?
[Austin Finlay]Ahem, first issue for discussion is the Black budget for 2011, the Liberals are complaining again about the size of it, not to mention the number of projects under the listing this year.
[Horace Granger]To be honest it's become almost a reflexive action to list things under the Black, I can think of three programs off-hand we can de-list, Project Hummingbird, Grey Thunder and Iron Cauldron which is the biggest offender.
[Charles Spencer]Iron Cauldron? What the devil is that? Will? Is that one of your pet projects?
[William Popov]Not one of ours, first time I've heard about it
[Akashi Koji]One of ours Mr Spencer, it's the Weapons of Mass Destruction Preparations, the shelters, the stockpiles and everything we need for civilian countermeasures in a NBC attack.
[Blackadder VI]How did that end up on the black list Mr Koji?
[Akashi Koji]My staff advised me that to prevent reporting of just how defenseless we were in the event of a Chemical or Biological attack it would be better to black the project. Iron Cauldron has been on the drawing board since 2008 but no serious funding has been given to the project. Considering the time frame and the state of the world last month I decided on my own authority to Black the whole program rather can cause a panic by announcing we were unprepared for a NBC attack on our civilian population.
[George Martin]At the time I can agree with your reasoning, but bloody hell man! That boosted the black budget by over 4 billion dollars. 4 Billion is enough for Crown to buy his own ocean-going Aircraft carrier slash Strip club. We need to get that off the black list as soon as possible.
[Charles Spencer] Agreed, Director Granger how soon can the documents be drawn up?
[Horace Granger]If I drop everything by the 7th, however if you would like me to keep on doing such non-vital functions as that trip to Sheppnukstain on the 10th, then my staff and I can have it by the 14th earliest, 20th latest.
[Charles Spencer]Horace..?
[Blackadder VI] Come on now my Lords and loyal councilors, lowering our Director of National Security's Golf handicap at gold Sand Fairway's is vital to national security.
(Laughter)
[Horace Granger]In all seriousness, the issue is with getting the briefing togther on SH, and watching over few things my department is making at the moment is going to draw my attention, once that's wrapped up we can get the needed documents rather quickly. Until then my manpower is already assigned elsewhere.
[Jack Ryan]If we can move on, I have an issue of my own in the 2011 budget.
[Charles Spencer] And that is Admiral?
[Jack Ryan] The fact your talking away a good 15% of my surface combatants? I only have what 14 Submarines and 45 Halifax's after the downsize?
[Austin Finlay]Admiral, you know as well as I do how poor a return the submarines have been.
[Jack Ryan] You have submarines around because you never know when you might need them, they are an excellent surface denial tool and our primary method of keeping tabs on the SSBN's that the some of the nations are trying to put togther.
[George Martin]The Von-Bron exercises demonstrated how poor Submarine fleet preformed VS a surface fleet, there is simply not enough deep water or room to fight a submarine denial battle in our oceans. The only place with any room to move is the Central Sea and we have such influence and control over the area it's not even funny. Jack, their are enough Blackbirds in range of the Central Sea to sink all Merchant shipping in all of FUN twice over.
[Jack Ryan]There are 531 registered trading vessels belonged to FUN aligned nations, Mr Speaker and only 312 Blackbird missiles with the range to cover that sea.
[William Popov]Admiral, that's right this instant, by this time next year we will have between us, the Red Technocracy, have close to 700 missiles on launchers that can cover that area.
[Blackadder VI] Jack you've lost this fight, you lost it last year. Our Naval Goals have shifted. Speaking of which, Lord Patrick, how do you think the international community would respond to donating four of those Halifax's to Ramsley and four to Alexander
[Robert Patrick]Your Grace, your talking about 20,000 tons of warship not Gum, if we "bring enough for everyone" it won't calm them. 15 Ships from the fleet is just over 2 billion dollars worth of hard assets.
[Austin Finlay]Do we have a price set for them?
[Jack Ryan]75 Million stripped of missiles but with Radar intact and guns intact, 120 million ready to go with the keys in the ignition minus all the normal UKB Class 1 communication gear.
[Austin Finlay]Any potential buyers?
[Jack Ryan]Not as of yet, but we've yet to put in the local Classifieds, and I'm sure that someone will be willing to buy it and turn it into their very own Yacht
(Laughter)
[Charles Spencer]Moving on I'd like to turn to International Matters, Specifically how you grade our performance during the Saddamstain Strait incident. I'll go around the room, Letter grade for how we did, Lord Patrick?
[Robert Patrick]B-, our failure to get FUN in earlier hurt us
[Charles Spencer] Minster Koji?
[Akashi Koji]C- at best, I conquer with Lord Patrick and add that the incident has damaged relations with King Arik, it will take months if not another full year before we begin return to the position of goodwill we had built. Not to mention the fact of how ill-prepared we were for what followed
[Charles Spencer]Lord Finlay?
[Austin Finlay]A solid B, again the International Relations will come back and bite us in the ass some day, but financially it benefited us, The Shinra Republic lost some of that investment as people are looking at countries near Saddamstain and reconsidering. Plus the opening of trade in Saddamstain is a first, hell they don't trade for almost anything for any one. The fact we got our foot in the door to begin with is one in a long step of opening that country up.
[Charles Spencer] General Popov?
[William Popov]B-, Again the International Relations will come back and bite us in the ass some day, but we survived things well enough and it moved the Liberaltopia Restoration plan up by at least a year.
[Charles Spencer]Admiral?
[Jack Ryan]D, if the flag had gone up we would have lost the whole fleet
[Charles Spencer]Are your sure?
[Jack Ryan]Positive, reviewing the Land-Sat take the boys in MI7 reviewed all the pictures taken by Vulp-Sat's and spotted at least two dozen anti-ship batteries we failed to spot. Most of the ones we did see were old Soviet Era crap we thought we could easily handle. But mixed in with that were four, possibly five batteries of C-802's. Had the battle been called I know what whatever General Saddam had in charge over their have done. He would have launched every single PoS old Silkworm or Soviet block rust rocket at us, light off his jammers then hit us with those 802's. Between the jamming and us expecting what we wanted to see the first thing we would have know that Saddamstain has some modern missiles mixed in, would be after they were already in terminal attack runs.
[Charles Spencer]Director Garcia?
[Jesus Garcia] 8 Points... 12 Points in some polls, that's how big our reputation took, so no way, F, it's the worst PR hit we've taken in years now. And it's going to take months to put that back up. As far as our image goes that was a nasty shock. Heck I'm pretty sure kicking puppies would only be a 4 point drop at most
[Blackadder VI]We can always find out, in the name of Science
[Jesus Garcia] I'd prefer not to, you've given me enough work this summer as it is. Besides, I know you'd eat baby before you'd kick that puppy
[Charles Spencer]Quite, Director Granger?
[Horace Granger]B+, yes we were un-prepared but that was because we made a major mistake in reading the Mess reaction. The models of the Great Saddam were right on. Look were we are now? Our primary target in Liberaltopia has been reduced in effectiveness, if a civil war breaks out then we increase the damage done him. It's not a win-win for us because we did damage several relationships, but as far as our long-term plans in Terra Liberta we moved things forward by several years. Unification was a ten year plan, now it might be a six year plan.
[Charles Spencer]Mr Speaker?
[George Martin]D, failing to bring in our allies sooner, it's to fundmental a error to let pass with a grade. Were this a paper, I'd be handing it back now with large things written in red on the top.
[Charles Spencer]And you Lord Speaker?
[Richard Wolsey]A-, The Lords are still with you, yes we've taken hits and made mistakes but they will pass, we avoided war and advanced our agenda. I'd say that's a passing grade any day.
[Charles Spencer]Thank you, and lastly your Grace?
[Blackadder VI]Initially I'd have given this a B- at best, the damage to our international relations will hurt us the next time the balloon goes up, more than our Lord Speaker or Director Granger suspect. However if what the Admiral says is true, and I'm not questing it is Jack then I'd wish I could be getting a C- at best. More like a D on this one, had things gone down our civilians were unprepared, our Naval would have been annihilated, and we would have had to kick off SCORECARD before we reached minimum required elements.
As it stands I say we did everything right in the planning, fumbled a step in execution and nearly fucked up our end-game.
[Charles Spencer]And that sums up my feelings nicely your Grace, we can discuss this at a later date once we have all the facts ironed out, weight every pro and con togther, but for now I have a speech to give in an hour, and my Lord Speaker is supposed to be standing next to me. Why don't we end the meeting here?
(No objections were raised)
[Charles Spencer]Right, lets adjourn this meeting until the same time next week, Director Granger's will be on vacation next week. Thank you I'll end the record here gentlemen
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"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
Lord Patriarch Ramsley's handpicked emissary watched from his ancient land rover as the heavily laden cargo plane approached what passed for runways in Terra Libertia. Even the Diocese was not able to afford the luxury of paved runways.
"Get those fools off the road."
"Yessir."
The sound of AK-47s firing into the air dispersed most of the travellers on the road; but several stubborn travellers refused to get off it.
"What about them?" asked one of the emissary's aides.
"Screw them. They can see the damn plane."
Once the plane had come to a halt in a cloud of dust; the land rover screeched to a halt at the plane's ramp.
"You with the Eastern Red Cross Society?" asked the man who came down the slowly extending cargo ramp of the unmarked plane.
"That we are," replied Ramsley's emissary.
"Here you are. Fifteen tons of relief supplies from the Terra Nova Humanist Society. Just sign here, and they're all yours."
With the signature, sweating men began to push crates marked 9K111 FAGOT, 9K32 STRELA, and various other cryptic acronyms out of the Antonov.
"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
Silent the radial electric motors filled the chambers of the Seventy tonne Ground Effect vehicle, the hull mounted six TOW missiles, the main turret had a small 70mm naval gun, as well as a secondary drone turret with a point defense pod. (simular to a USN Phalynx system)
The prototype continued out into the North Fort Bay
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
The Emperor annotated in a most silky voice: "My dear Ramsley, where did you get these weapons I wonder? Did God suddenly materialise these weapons right in front of you? Surely you won't keep secrets from friends? Or did the notion of starting a school yard fight slip into your mind? Surely, you know what will happen if such a fight starts?" The letter was sent with the Emperor's seal to the Patriarch.
The Emperor promptly ordered the BIA to investigate the circumstances of the delivery, and to find out just how much support the Patriarch was getting, and how and where did he get the money to fund those ... toys...
STGOD: Byzantine Empire 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
meanwhile The Morgil Institute for Electromagnetics, Engineering and Military Sience welcomes even more guest professors & Engineers this time from the Imperium, joining with professors from other nations a well as other professionals. So far construction of the Super Collider continues at pace, and the institute continues to produce new developments.
So far:
Floating Radial Repulsion Motor: Sinular to the Radial engine on old aircraft, as well as simular to the floating motor patented by Tesla, but never actually built beyond a working model, this electrical motor works well in Airship, Hybrid cars, GEVs (or Ekranoplans as the Technocracy refers to them) due to the friction reduction as a result of using electromagnetic floating principals this Motor has a higher intial cost but lower maintenance costs then a traditional motor) It's also very quiet but that's due to being an electrical motor rather then an internal combustion engine. Note the floating motor does not cancel centerfugal force.
Plasma Torch: useing electromagnetics the Institute has found a way to control and focus super high temprature gas at short range. Currently too bulky and expensive to replace conventional torches. Nor do we presently have any jobs where such high tempratures would be needed. Still if you want to cut through concrete or a vault door....
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Government authorises 2 billion to the High Energy Institute and commits the engineering and scientific resources to the Super Collider Project in the Bear Republic
The GOvernment today committed 2 billion per year to the Super COllider Project under construction in the Bear Republic. It indicated that it was more than happy to aid the construction of the collider, especially in the construction of the superconducting magnets and the particle detectors.
STGOD: Byzantine Empire 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
Which now brings the actual budget of the Morgil institute to to more then some duchies.
To Be exact:
Morgil institute:
Bear Republic 15bil (this covers the Research and construction of the Super conductor, Military Testing, Morgil Advanced Electromagnetic Institute School facilities, Morgil Military Techical School, The Black Tower Military Base (also the primary Airport for the School), Maintenance on the Teeth High Speed undergroun Rail system, Morgil Launch site (built but unusable), teachers, technitions etc. The three power plants (2 Nuclear 1 Geothermal), Security for the above (we just can't have Saddam, Libertopians, or Shep's goons walking through here, unless of course they've paid tuition and are unarmed.), the workers that provide housing and food for the students, internships, military testing, civilian testing, etc.
2-5 billion a year from Shroomania
another billion a year from FUN
2 billion a year from Byzantium
and I forgot who else sent me money.
Well that's where it goes, since so far there are a couple of working patients curtesy of the Morgil Institute, and those states who have contributed to the institute also get acess to the patents.
note un officially the Morgil Institute is also home to the Bear Republic's black ops devision as well (which is on a seperate book, but the whole free cell phones for Libertopia plan was actually ran through there.) However "Moriarity, Sugar Crush, Roxy, Star, and Shiela are part of the institute's computer science department. Yes we've assembled our alpha nerds)
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The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
The Terra Nova Humanist Society, in light of the huge numbers of refugees swarming across Terra Liberta, has begun airlifting critically needed humanitarian aid to areas in the Diocese and Alexandria.
A young boy next to the food aid donated by the TNHS
Already, six flights have landed in the Diocese, with another five in Alexandria. According to John Watkins; head of the Terra Nova Red Cross, this is a humanitarian effort worthy of praise.
"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
International Conference on Terra Libertia to begin shortly
With representatives of several nations declaring their intent to participate, Atlantis is to hold another important international conference.
With doors wide open for representatives of all sovereign countries, the conference is to discuss a unified plan for the handling of Terra Libertia, improvement of humanitarian conditions and denying pirates and criminals their base of operations.
While not many nations have decided to attend so far, it is hoped that at least the speakers of all major alliances will be able to share their views on Libertia.
The Round Hall, where the conference is to be held
CLIT peace activist shot and killed at BlackBeard missile factory
A private citizen of the Red Technocracy, Ms. Ilena Korolenko, was shot and killed today by armed guards at the National Missile Production Facility in central PeZookia.
Ms. Korolenko has apparently attempted to scale the wall of the main production hall with several other CLIT peace activists, in order to install a slogan-bearing banner. They have succesfully scaled the outer perimeter fence, but were spotted during their transit of the main courtyard.
The guard, Sgt. Ivona Kovalska, mistook the peace activists for saboteurs and opened fire with her service rifle, killing Ms. Korolenko and injuring two other CLIT members.
The NMPF is one of the most heavily guarded compounds in all of PeZookia
PeZookia's Minister of the Interior, when asked for comment, had the following to say:
"Ms. Korolenko's death is regrettable, though all citizens must be aware that attempting to infiltrate a secure facility like the NMPF, at night, while carrying heavy backpacks and climbing equipment bears a very high risk of getting shot."
It is unclear at this time what consequences, if any, will befell Sgt. Kovalska for her actions, although her direct superiors are vouching for the soldier.
"She has a good head on her shoulders. She reacted accordingly, by shouting a warning and sounding the alarm - it's when the infiltrators refused to freeze, and started to run instead, that she opened fire.", said Cpt. Malashynski, chief of security at the NMPF.
The King received the news stoically, and commented that "Appropriate action will be taken, the wounded CLIT activists shall be treated in PeZookian hospitals, and Ms. Korolenko's body shall be returned to the Red Technocracy with all possible expediency."
Ms. Korolenko came to PeZookia some time ago in order to join anti-war protests of the Stop War Initiative...<news segment continues>...
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
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- PeZook
