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SCHROMCORP SHAVES SHEP's SHEEP

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Shepistani Sheep getting shaved.

"Baaah! Baaah!" cry the sheep of Shepistan as they are led to the shaver.

While it is a widely known fact that Shepistan has the New World's largest population of goats, it is not widely known that Shepistan also has the largest population of sheep in the New World.

SHEEPISTAN

In a landmark trade deal between Shroomania and Shepistan, the Schrom Corporation has negotiated the purchase of innumerable metric tonnages of Shepistani sheep wool. In return, Schrom Corp will weave the wool into overpriced designer clothing - from branded burqas (always in high demand in Shepistan), to lingerie, to obscenely priced tuxedos and to more sensibly priced bulletproof vests - and sell them back to Shepistan, as well as to other countries all over the world. For outrageous fees.

Part of the profits will go to the Shepistani agricultural sector. However, Shepistani farmers have protested that the deal is unfair to their businesses since it only benefits the Shepistani government. Shepistani farmers have also protested Shepistan's mass purchase of 'made in Shroomania' aluminum baseball bats - bats that, like in last year's Japanistani purchase, ended up in the hands of law enforcement personnel.

The Schrom Corporation is also constructing several massive facilities in Shepistan. Equipped with conveyor belts and mechano-pumps, the factories will be able to harvest Shepistani goat milk with minimal human involvement.

This latest development comes after Shepistan saw a rise in crimes violating animal rights.

Despite Shepistan's alleged human rights violations, the nation has been lauded by organizations such as Shroompeace for its progressive legislature promoting animal rights.

"Obviously, many farmers cannot be trusted when they are alone with Shepistan's glorious livestock," the Shepistani Minister of Information said in a recent statement. "Too many incidents have happened where people put their hands, and other parts, in the wrong places. This is why we need these machines."

DOMINION DOUBLE DARE

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An udder.

MACMILLAN MOO-MOO MILK

The MacMillan Megacorporation, the Schrom Corporation's rival in more than just the defense sector, has announced its plans to one up its competitor.

While Shepistan is known for its goats (and Shep sheep), the Old Dominion has endless plains full of roaming herds of cattle and buffalo - resources the MacMillan Megacorporation hopes tap.

Despite the fact that recent border conflicts and the trouble over the Fuckland Islands has scared away many foreign investors, MacMillan has followed its rival in doing business in wartorn nations on the brink of mutual annihilation.

While the tender and succulent meat of Old Dominion cattle, particularly when made into world famous Loinstar steak, is known to all meat-eaters, cow's milk is often an overlooked source of vitamins and minerals.

The recent ad campaign with oversized pictures of Shroomanian body builders pouring milk over their bodies while being captioned with the words 'Got Milk' has renewed the global public's thirst for liquid nourishment squeezed out of the teats of bouvines - and MacMillan is quick to answer that demand.

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The 'Got Milk' ads have also caused an upsurge in canoe sales.

Boosting canoe sales aside, milk is rich in calcium and can also be used to create cheese and, more importantly, ice cream.

MacMillan aims to dominate the world market of ice cream, with its stated goals involving the proliferation of more than 31 flavors of ice cream.

The Schrom Corporation has countered this by creating ice cream made out of goat's milk.
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Indhopal Announces New Year's Defense Budget

The air force and navy were the big winner's in this year's defense budget, with the army only getting basic upgrades to its communications systems and other minor projects meant to keep it competitive with others.

The air force is set to receive another 50 super cruise capable Gripen's this year as production ramps up. Eventually all the Mirage F-1's are expected to be pulled from service as more capable aircraft come online. Some 25 Harrier Jump jets are also to be acquired for the ground attack role.

Indhopal also announced that they wished to buy some 26 B-1 bombers from Shroomania. The air force would also continue to buy AWACS planes from Shroomania. In a surprising development, the IRT has been contacted about acquiring long range naval patrol aircraft as well. The air force would like enough air frames foe two squadrons, 26 planes.

The fist big new item on the navy's budget is it announced it would take delivery of six of the new FTO Standard class destroyers. 2 new type 212 submarines are also to be built in Indhopal's yards, and it is rumored that billions are to be spent on a joint FTO submarine development and acquisition program.

Other defense Items include massively upgrading the size of Indhopal's munitions stockpiles. They proved to be inadequate in the face of recent conflicts. Civil defense projects are also expected to continue receive funding. The joint FTO space program is also receiving a high level of funding.
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Massive spending planned for bomber force and air defence units.

The government plans to, together with the CSR, to increase its bomber force (TU-160BM, TU-22BM, TU-142BM) by a hundred over a year, and increase production of air defence units. All 12 planned air defence divisions have finished training, and another 24 are on the way. The air force will receive all 96 F-22As this year, and another run of 96 will begin. The air force may receive another 96 Typhoon Tranche IV, with upgrades including conformal fuel tanks and a more powerful thrust vectoring engine that might allow supercruise. Existing Tranche III craft will receive the engine upgrades as well and maybe rebuilt to accept the conformal fuel tanks. These aircraft will be fitted out to fire the AIM-120E which is now produced for all aircraft.

Doubling of Fleet Auxiliary

Existing fleet auxiliary fleet will be doubled.
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BOMBERS' BRING-BACK BUYING

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A Lancer in a hangar awaiting completion.

With the Shroomanian Air Force's (SAF) rearmament encompassing a comprehensive upgrading of its fighters (F-15 ACTIVEs, F-16XLs, F-14Es), and with new F-22s and F-35s down the line, plans to enhance Shroomania's bomber force are now being considered once again.

The Mushroom Military has announced plans to more than double the SAF's bomber force within five years. The production line for the B-1 bomber is being restarted for this purpose, although the first ones to receive the new bombers will not be Shroomania, but Indhopal.

Indhopal has placed an order for 26 B-1B bombers and the Shroomanian companies building the B-1 (Schrom and MacMill) are now getting busy bringing back the Bone.

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Indhopal Asks Cascadia to Help Negotiate Peace Settlement

With forces from Indhopal and Coilerburg engaged in mopping up Omango's and Sabika's military, Indhopal's President asked Cascadia if it would help mediate a peace settlement between the countries.

"We need an impartial arbiter who doesn't have a personal stake in the outcome to help with the peace settlement. If Sabika and Omngo feel they didn't get a fair shake, we'll be fighting this war again in ten years."


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Raj Ahten wrote:Indhopal Asks Cascadia to Help Negotiate Peace Settlement

With forces from Indhopal and Coilerburg engaged in mopping up Omango's and Sabika's military, Indhopal's President asked Cascadia if it would help mediate a peace settlement between the countries.

"We need an impartial arbiter who doesn't have a personal stake in the outcome to help with the peace settlement. If Sabika and Omngo feel they didn't get a fair shake, we'll be fighting this war again in ten years."


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Soon enough, the reply came from Adams: Cascadia would provide arbitration for the peace talks to settle the situation in Northeastern Frequesue.
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SiegeTank wrote:Diplomatic Communique, Priority Three

To: Canissian Ministry of Trade
From: San Dorado General Directorate for Finance, Economics and Industry


Your honours,

San Dorado has recently learned that a project concerning the weaponization of directed energy emitters is being undertaken by the Royal People’s Republic of Canissia. This project has the undivided interest of several of our nation’s larger megacorporations, and it is on behalf of them that I am inquiring as to whether it would be possible for San Dorado to participate in this project.

With kind regards,

On behalf of the Board of Directors
Director Iago Morgan, DIFEI

[OOC: And we'll gladly store your chemical waste, too (hell we have a big-ass controlled volcano that we can use to dispose of it if need be) should we be able to buy ourselves in.]

Office of the Trade Minister
Canissian National Assembly




Trade Minister Rayzha Rumaclin liked the offer from San Dorado-- she liked it a lot. She'd already communicated the offer to the Defense Minister, who gave his tacit approval.

Rumaclin then went around Finance Minister Erma Felna, who, she knew, was already spending the money she expected from the waste disposal site, and instead hit up Tourism Minister Seela Kimthrel, of Aerelon, and Environmental Minister Myra Foxglove of Picon. They signed on eagerly.

The next morning, she hit up Foreign Minister Ren Lars on the way to the Assembly, and he stated his willingness to back the motion. By the time the Assembly was called to order, Rayzha Rumaclin had fully a third of the Ministers ready to back her. She wasn't overly worried about the rest, because she knew that many other representatives in the Assembly were weary of Tauron getting the lion's share of defense contracts.

The motion carried by majority, and went to the King for approval.




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San Doradan offer approved in National Assembly, goes to King.
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CHUNNEL CHUMS

The Channel Tunnel that connects Shroomania and Canissia through the Shroomish Channel is scheduled to be reopened in the summer of 2009.

The Chunnel served as a vital link for international travel between the two Old Continent nations, where Canissians and Shroomanians could visit each other's nations by merely driving into an underground and undersea tunnel.

But disaster struck in 2007 when an explosion caused a segment of the tunnel to collapse. For almost two years, the entire Chunnel has been closed for repairs, re-excavation, and reconstruction.

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The explosion that damaged the Chunnel.

The Chunnel collapse was an unprecedented tragedy to both Shroomania and Canissia, with hundreds of dead. However, there were survivors and through the efforts of both Canissian and Shroomanian rescue teams, many of them were brought back to daylight.

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One of the heroes of the Chunnel Catastrophe.

Shroomanian and Canissian authorities have sworn that there will be no repeat of the Chunnel Catastrophe, and that everything has been done to ensure that the Chunnel is safe.
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USSR Navy on the move

It would appear that ships of the USSR Navy have left port and have begun a voyage around the Old Continent. They will first visit Shroomania and then proceed around Canissia, it is unknown if they will be making a stop there. After that they will proceed along the Northern Shores of the Old Continent to the Crimson Star Republic.

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Shepistani Airfields

All across Shepistan, airfields reverberated to the sounds of thousands of engines warming up.

First into the skies were the KC-22s, most were heavy with fuel, while a few were carrying Special Destruction Munitions (SDMs). Then came the RB-56Hs, heavy with chaff and ECM gear for strike escort. Next up were the DFB-56Js, their bellies full of Japanistani FMRAAMs for protection of the strike elements.

Then came the PB-56Ks, each carrying a pair of Japanistani Igo-6 anti-ship missiles each (AS-6 KINGFISH clones).

Finally came the B-56G groups, split between conventional bombers with twelve 1,000 lb bombs; and long range missile carriers, each carrying a single Japanistani Igo-3 land attack missile (AS-3 KANGAROO).

Co-ordinating the massive aerial armada took time, but the Shepistani Air Force was the best trained of the Shepistani services, so it only took about forty minutes for the groups to organize into their combat boxes for their missions.

Results
675 x B-56Gs (4,050 x 1000 lb bombs and 337 AS-3 KANGAROOS)
180 x RB-56Hs (Chaff, and jammers)
180 x DFB-56Js (3,000~ FMRAAMs)
180 x PB-56Ks (360 x AS-6 KINGFISH)
300 x KC-22s

Are in the air in two distinct strike groups headed for the Fucklands AND San Fuego.
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Somewhere near the Fucklands

The orbiting E-2C Hawkeye 2000 attached to the Lord Fairfax Strike group picked up the jamming from the RB-56s at around 450 nautical miles, and relayed the information back to the Lord Fairfax, where Vice Admiral Sir Phillip Walkirk was sipping a latte.

"Damn, so the Hawkeye can't get a precise fix or raid count, due to all the jamming?" Walkirk muttered to his aide.

"Yessir."

"Wonder if those Shepistanis plan on having kids in the future."

"Order CAP Alpha to close with and engage the intruders. Get the remaining fighters airborne as fast as you can. And send a signal to CINCNAV; 'possibly soon to be under heavy aerial attack by Shepistani forces'.

Two hundred nautical miles away, the four F-18Fs of CAP Alpha acknowledged their orders and rocketed away towards the incoming possible raid at full afterburner, while the other four F-18Fs of CAP Beta hung behind, in case this was just deception jamming to fake an attack.

Back on his Flag Bridge, Walkirk considered his force. He had quite a powerful striking force at his command, 36 F-18Fs, 12 A-6Fs, 6 EA-6Bs, 10 S-3Bs, and 4 E-2Cs in aviation assets on the carrier alone; with dozens of SH-60s on the escorts for ASW duties.

As far as missiles went, he had 110 SM-2ERs on the John Smith that could reach out to 130 nautical miles, backed up by 224 more SM-2MRs with a range of only about 50 nautical miles on his destroyers.

Silently, Walkirk cursed the Liberals. They'd starved the navy of funds for so long that only the cruisers could be given the new (and expensive) SM-2ERs, while the Destroyers had to get by with the older, shorter range SM-2MRs. At least they hadn't cancelled the ESSM buys; for without it, a lot of his fleet would be defenseless; the Hampton County alone carried sixty-four of them, giving it a creditable self-defense capability that could be extended to other ships in the battle group via cooperative engagement.

There had been some talk in the navy of simply replacing all of the SM-2MRs outright on a four for one basis with ESSMs, which would have allowed a single Destroyer to carry 264 missiles that could reach out to about 30 nautical miles, making dealing with swarm attacks much easier. But once again, the damn dirty Libruls had killed that idea. Walkirk hoped that a lot of good old dominion sailor men wouldn't die today as a result of the damn liberals...
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CAP Alpha, Approaching Unknown Raid

Lieutenant "Hot Pants" Killinger watched with displeasure as his APG-73 tried to burn through the jamming. Some of the other Hornets on the Lord Fairfax had received the newer APG-79 AESAs, but once again, funding for buying the newer radars had been held back each year by the damn liberals. An APG-79 would be nice about now; it was a hell of a lot more agile in frequency and PRF than the -73; and had more processing power, making burning through jamming a lot easier. As it was, right now; his radar was briefly getting a lock and some rough raid counts, and then they disappeared off the screen as the signal strength of the legimitate targets was drowned out by the noise the enemy's jammers were throwing out.

"Home plate, this is Alpha, raid count indeterminate due to heavy jamming, but estimate count at three hundred plus, minimum."

DNS Lord Fairfax

"Jesus titty fucking christ," muttered Walkirk. "Get those damn Hornets in the air; and those A-6s too. I want every possible plane in the air to meet this raid."

One of the Navy's best-kept secrets was how it had managed to sneak in AIM-120 capability and targeting modes into the last round of upgrades for it's A-6F Super Intruder fleet; ostensibly as a "minor software upgrade". The politicians hadn't noticed, for the mention of air to air capability had been buried very, very deep in the budgeting documents.

"Thank God for Lord Carver," muttered Walkirk. Those A-6s would be a great asset in defeating this raid.
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University of San Dorado and La Palma – Central Aerospace Research Division

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Date-Time: 12 January 2009; 1200 SDST

Location: USDLP Campus, La Palma

Attending: Dr. Harald Jensen; Prof. Jacob Mortimer; Dr. Prof. Sheila Bell; Dr. Freeman Heller; Prof. Willow Lesley; Director Michael van Statten, President Sidney Hank [via telepresence]

THIS TRANSCRIPT IS CLASSIFIED

HANK: Gentlemen, gentlewoman, glad you could attend at such short notice. Let me first of all begin by congratulating you all with yesterday’s successful launch. This truly is a great step forward for our tiny nation.

[CHEERS]

HANK: And the reason I called for this meeting is because that launch made me think of something.

LESLEY: Uh oh.

[LAUGHTER]

HANK: Yes, yes, I know. Still, I think you should hear it. You all have a passing familiarity with the high-fliers the Sheppos and Jappos have been launching recently, I take it?

[MURMURS OF AGREEMENT]

HANK: Well, call me crazy, but I was thinking… You know, they launch those things from bombers. That just seems contrived to me. What if we launched our own from the top of one of our rockets? You know, straight up, up and away?

[SHOCKED SILENCE]

HANK: That bad, huh?

MORTIMER: Uh, well…

HANK: Don’t spare me, Mortimer, that’s not why you get paid the big bucks.

MORTIMER: Right, well sir, I don’t think you quite grasp the difference between launching a small satellite and launching, uh, a manned capsule…

HANK: Not a capsule, an aircraft. Or rather, an aerospacecraft.

MORTIMER: Right, but… Those things weigh quite a bit more than 350kg, you see…

HANK: How much more?

HELLER: Well, we’d have to know how much mass would we have to lift…

JENSEN: Hold on, that’s my department, uh… Let me think real quick… [SCRIBBLES ON NAPKIN] So a pilot, guidance system, we’d have to bring oxygen… [MUTTERS]… Uh, I’d estimate, at least 4,000kg. Give or take a thousand.

HANK: I’ve been told that by optimizing the engines and so forth we can squeeze some more power from the Simoleon-D… Could it lift that mass then?

[IN CHORUS:] No.

HANK: So we’d need a bigger rocket.

BELL: Not just that. The thing itself, that you’re planning to mount on top of it… It has to be extraordinarily durable. If you want anything vaguely plane-like it has to be able to withstand extreme stress.

HANK: Let’s leave that for later. How much bigger a rocket do we need?

HELLER: Something twenty times the Simoleon. Or thereabouts. Vastly larger, at any rate.

HANK: Damn. But could we do it? I mean, hypothetically?

JENSEN: Yes.

BELL: No.

LESLEY: Well… Maybe…

HANK: That’s what I want to hear. How come ‘maybe’?

LESLEY: The engineering challenges would be pretty steep. But FASTA is doing much more impressive work with their rockets. I mean, they intend to fly to the moon. If that’s possible, it surely should be possible to send a small plane into orbit… Question is, do we have the technological know-how to do it?

JENSEN: FASTA is doing some pretty interesting work with hypergolic fuels. Much more bang for your buck than with our solid propellants. If we used their formula…

HELLER: But that would require much more sturdy rockets. Sturdier and larger.

LESLEY: Which FASTA is also using. This technology exists, it’s just that we can’t currently manufacture it.

HANK: Alright, alright, no need to figure everything out right away. What I’d like you all to do is ponder our predicament and see if there is some way, any way, to make it work. No need for white papers or major studies… This is purely a conceptual endeavor right now. But mull it over, see if it could work. Maybe it won’t work today, but will a generation of rockets or two from now. If it does, I want us to see if we can work in that direction. Alright?

[MURMURS OF AGREEMENT]

HANK: That’s all for now. Again, you did a superb job out there yesterday… Let’s see if we can outdo ourselves, alright?


Result: The president has planted the first seeds for a Dyna-Soar like project in the minds of San Dorado’s most influential aerospace engineers, although it’s likely that the city-state won’t be building anything so ambitious for quite a long time yet.
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Intelligence Briefing, somewhere in the MESS

... assets in Tonkin have discovered evidence of a new missile project now underway and reaching initial flight-test phase. What information we have indicates that this appears to be a ramjet or combined-cycle missile of comparable dimensions to their short-range attack missile deployed on their strategic bomber force ...

... details remain scarce, but there is a high confidence that this missile may be a multirole weapon system with both air-to-surface and air-to-air engagement modes.
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USSR Fleet

Old Continent Cruise

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List of ships in fleet:

4---Ropucha class landing ships(SNS Claudius, SNS Nero, SNS Galba, SNS Vitellius)
1--Slava class cruiser(SNS Tiberius)
2---Kashin class destroyers(SNS Titus, SNS Marcus Aurelius)
4---Neustrashimy class frigate(SNS Lucius Verus, SNS Commodus, SNS Pertinax, SNS Septimius Severus)
1---Sierra class submarine (SNS IMPERATOR)

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Location: Temple Prime, Sarajevo, USSR

"Comrade president, the Fleet has departed."

"Excellent, how long until they are in position?"

"A week maybe two, depends on when we need them to arrive."

"Make sure everything is ready, there can be no mistakes on this one."

"Of course Comrade President."
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Strike Force Gamma, approaching the Fucklands from Northern Angle

Senior Lieutenant al-Khartoum stared at the controls before him in the nose of the B-56G he was bombardier on. While the PB-56s had a much more comprehensive suite including a very large surface search radar, and advanced datalinks to control and hand off targets for their missiles; the B-56Gs had only received the most cursory updates for stand-off munitions. As it was, fitting the Igo-3 land attack missiles required that the original bomb bay doors be removed and replaced with special cut away ones to enable the huge Igo-3s to sit semi-recessed under the B-56s.

Several long range ELINT/Recon flights over the past few weeks by the RB-56 force (with a few losses) had enabled the Shepistani planners to plot a pretty decent idea of where the Old Dominion forces were in both the Fucklands and San Fuego; and it was this information that al-Khartoum was entering into the Igo-3's targeting computer. After launch, the missile would be inertially guided, with occasional mid-course updates radioed in. Finally, he was done; and signalled to the rest of his crew that he was.

When enough B-56Gs carrying the huge missiles had signalled launch readiness, the Raid Commander gave the order for the first wave of missiles to be launched. As the 25,000 pound missile dropped away, the B-56G leapt into the sky, gaining several hundred feet, possibly a thousand or more, of altitude in seconds. Below them, the huge Igo-3s lit off their engines and accelerated to their Mach 2 cruising speed at 49,000 feet towards targets 300 nautical miles distant.

Some Igo-3s were carrying 5,600 pound unitary warheads, while others were carrying cluster warheads containing a thousand BLU-97/B CEBs (Combined Effects Bomblets). Most were aimed at known ADA sites and airfields, while most of the bomblet ones were aimed at known troop concentrations to thin out OD defenses on the Fucklands for the bomb-carrying B-56Gs.
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DNS Lord Fairfax

"Sir, we have breakout!" shouted the TAO as the Shepistani missiles at Mach 2 quickly moved out from under the umbrella of protective jamming provided by the RB-56s and B-56s.

"How many?"

"Count is one hundred and rising. Flight profile and speeds point towards them being Japanistani-exported Igo-3 KINGFISH missiles. The Prowlers aren't picking up any datalinks of the type used by the anti-ship versions. So they must be targeted at our forces ashore in the Fucklands. Estimated time to impact, around thirteen minutes."

Walkirk grunted. Bringing up the situation on his seat's tactical display, he saw that the F-18s and A-6s had finally finished launching and were finishing their forming up. "Send them after Raid Alfa."

"What about the troops on the Fucklands and Raid Beta?" asked his aide.

"The troops can be replaced in a few months. This battle group can't. The Fucklands are on their own. Hopefully the Army's finished setting up enough SAM sites to give Beta a hard time."
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CANISSIAN ROYAL FORCES COMMAND
PRIORITY MESSAGE




FLASHFLASHFLASH All commands are to be on maximum alert; scramble all possible CAPs. Air forces of the Shepistan Air Force are beginning an attack on Fuckland and San Fuego Islands. Unknown if conflict will be contained as regional or if attack is beginning of larger overall attack.

All Canissian forces are to be on maximum alert and prepared for war; CBRN protection mandatory for all exposed troops.

Units are authorized to fire if fired upon for personal defense, otherwise, hold fire until further notice.

Task Force Viers and Task Force Sharran is to see to it that Katangwan Militia is prepared for any eventuality, however, due to the still-emerging status of radio communications among KM troops, Katangwan Militia elements are to subordinate themselves to Canissian Army command to ensure communications.


End Message.
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CAP Alpha, Approaching Unknown Raid

Lt. Killinger whooped with glee as his radar finally broke through the jamming well enough to begin to acquire solid locks for fire control purposes. His whoop was abruptly broken off as his RWR gear began to light off, warning that he was being painted by multiple fire control radars, tentatively identified by the onboard ECM assistants as Shepistani ASG-30 radars.

Despite the huge disparity in size and relative radar cross sections between the F-18E/F and the DFB-56s, the Shepistani jamming, coupled with the sheer power of the ASG-30s the DFB-56s carried in their noses, had evened the odds somewhat to the point where both sides were now only gaining firm fire control solutions.

"Holy shit!" shouted one of his wingmen.

"Shut up!" replied Killinger. "Synch your targets!" he barked. As an afterthought, he added "Remember, don't target the leading edge, those are the DFB-56s!"

The Hornets' weapons computers quickly cross compared targets and assigned targets to each of the 32 AMRAAMs that the four ship flight carried. When the FIRE diagrams lit up on their HUDs, all four pilots squeezed the triggers on their sticks, ripple firing off all of their missiles in a huge salvo.

They remained in somewhat level flight towards the enemy raid for about fifteen more seconds, to let the AIM-120C-7s' on board computers receive guidance updates from their radars, then they broke abruptly for the safety of the carrier on full afterburner.

512st Strategic Interceptor Group - Lead Vanguard of Shepistani Raid on Lord Fairfax CVBG

The crews of the DFB-56s sweated nervously. The search and tracking radars that had been painting them had suddenly switched to fire control mode, meaning that missiles were on the way; and try as you might, the B-56 was no sprightly spring hare against AIM-120s. Like the OD pilots, they synched their targets, and then launched their Japanistani FMRAAMs against the now fleeing F-18Es, before beginning evasive manouvers against the incoming missiles.

Normally, with missiles chasing down aircraft running away from you at full afterburner at near maximum range (70 nautical miles) this meant a lot of missed interceptions. But the FMRAAMs rather than using conventional solid rocket motors, used liquid fuelled ramjets for much greater energeticness across the entire range spectrum, rather than being limited to coasting flight at the end of their journey.

About a minute later, the first missiles began impacting their targets on both sides.

A PB-56 took a missile on it's starboard wing, and began to descend downwards, flame licking from the damaged wing, until the crew managed to regain control of the aircraft. Before they could set course for home in their stricken aircraft, a second AIM-120 struck the Bomber-Fighter, the tungsten cubes of the warhead slashing into the PB-56s thin skin, slicing through hydraulic lines and the pressurized crew compartment. Nobody made it out of that one.

On the Old Dominion side, a AIM-120 bored through the ECM deception/track breaking jamming coming from the tail stinger of one of the Hornets and struck it on the starboard engine. As the plane shuddered and began to go into a flat spin, the pilot ejected successfully.

Overall, on both sides, the results of this first engagement were relatively inconclusive, with two hornets downed, another damaged severely and limping home on a single engine, and fourteen bombers of varying types (PB-56, RB-56) out of the fight.

DNS Lord Fairfax

Walkirk watched as the symbols representing Shepistani bombers and OD aircraft winked off the NTDS display. By god, those pilots are getting medals, he thought as he assessed the losses Alpha had taken. Hopefully the butchers bill for Charlie, which contained twenty F-18s, ten A-6s and two EA-6Bs, carrying a combined total of 230 AMRAAMS, would be less, due to the mutual jamming support by the Prowlers in the group...
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Domestic Budget Lean This Year in Indhopal

Many government programs, including health and education, were frozen at their current levels of spending this year or were facing cuts. Analysts attribute this to the unexpected war with Omango and Sabika. The boost in polls the President enjoyed after the success of Operation Omega Blue disappeared on the news of the new cuts.

President Raj Ahten is now facing opposition from within his own party. They complain that the President seems to always find money foreign projects in the CFR and even Veleria while cutting funding for higher education.

The Independence Party also has stepped up its attacks on the president for being ineffective in the face of new imperialism on Frequesue. They also accuse the president of "not minding the store" by allowing old malcontents such as Omango and Sabika a free hand to attack an ally.

All indications show that The President's Movement for Democratic Change will fracture and the Independence party will retake parliament in elections in a few months.
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Command Bunker under Royal Palace

“What are the odds?” Lonestar asked, looking at the feed from MILSTAR-2. Fortunately, none of the ships with SHF had been disabled yet, so the picture was reasonably clear and up to date.

“Not good.” Admiral of the Fleet Oscar Saldana said. “Sir, I cannot emphasize this enough. We are going to have a lot of dead citizens in the next couple of hours, and more than a few ships lost.”

“Sir,” Field Marshal Reinsch began. “Now may be a good time to crater their airfields…”

Lonestar picked up the most recent report from Civil Defense and tossed it onto the middle of the table. “What percentage of the public shelters are rated ‘acceptable’ for CBR defense?”

“30%. Sir, you know that your refurb program still has a long way to go…”

“30%?” Chiu said. “We could be looking at hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions civilian dead…”

“Sir…”

Reinsch was interrupted by some shouting from the feed. He looked up, and the sound of a CIWS firing in bursts continued.

“First missiles are getting through the defenses.” Saldana said in a hollow voice. As he spoke the icon represented the Lord Fairfax abruptly disappeared from the secnsor feed. Voice disappeared from feed. A ODN LTCMDR on the phone spoke up. “Sir, we got some video feed from the Occoquan…”

“Put it up!” Reinsch snarled.

On the second display a video feed appeared, moving up and down with the bobbing of the DDG. Less than a mile away the Lord Fairfax was in flames, with smoke billowing off of it. Lonestar noted with some minor satisfaction that the CIWS was still operational on the Lord Fairfax.

“Sir, we need to…” Reinsch said. Lonestar held up a hand and stared at the feed.



He thought about the numbers likely to be killed in any war.

He thought about the hospital he visited with the gas attack survivors in it.

He thought about Q laughing at him, in the Other Place.

He could still feel the heat of the explosion over Austin…

He thought of the bodies that were piling up in the ocean, even now, and it reminded him of the Indian Ocean, with what seemed like a lifetime ago.

He thought of “the rule”, that once we were dead in this case, we were dead forever.

He wondered how it came to this, although in truth he knew the route. He had planned it from the beginning.

He heard some yelling on the feed and the camera turning to another fire on the horizon. Someone said it was the York.

Lonestar sighed. I’m sorry Shep, but I’m not going to play this game.

He turned to the assembled staff.

“I’ve made my decision.”
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King Arik had been enjoying his meeting with Stas-- it was intended to be a brief meeting, re-acquainting in the new world, and Arik reassuring Stas that while there would be some public turbulence about the CSR's nuke program, which Arik would have to play along with to an extent for domestic political reasons, he personally saw no reason for alarm. Stas reaffirmed that he was on board with THEL, and that public differences about things such as Tian Xia and Byzantium, and Japanistan were also base don similar demands-- domestic politics.

Arik was getting ready to leave when the call came through.

"Majesty," said the Defense Minister on the encrypted phone, "It's looking bad for the Old Dominion. Shepistand has attacked with a wave of bombers, and the fleet is hard-pressed to hold its ground."

Arik sighed. Would it come to war? It might. He didn't want it to, but it might. He decided to play it safe.

"We're already on max alert for th emilitary," the King said, "How are our civilian shelters rated?"

"Only cities with major subway infrastructure have a public shelter system worthy of note," the Defense Minister said, "And of those, only the big public show-off shelter under the Global Trade Center is CBRN sealed."
"Shit," Arik said, thinking about the cities with subways. That easily puts about 50% of the population in the 'good luck out there!' category, he realized. But then, Shep stated in the first game he'd gladly use bunker-penetrators on civilian shelters anyway...

"I have a feeling things may go... poorly," Arik said. "Let's be prepared, just in case, and put out the call to all Militia and Civil-Defense block wardens to be ready for anything. Alert hospitals, fire stations,a nd police-- just in case."

"Yes, Majesty," the DM said, and the phone hung up.



Results: Civil services get ready fro the worst, King Arik cuts short visit to CSR and heads home.
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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!

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WITH 2008 over, and 2009 just beginning, the Vintendo Corporation announced its new plan to offer former ‘Classic’ titles on the Vii. Titles with the ‘Classic’ label include, Metvoid, The Legend of Elba, the immensely popular Hero Kart, other Hero series games, and even Battalion Wars. Numerous titles that do not contain the 'Classic' title include titles made by MacMillion Megacorporation and some other third parties. The Head of Vintendo had this to say, "We would like to add MacMillion titles to the library of things available to the consumer of the Vii, we just have not managed to get any agreement on pricing, Vintendo games are available for free with a subscription to the V-net, MacMillion didn't agree to this, and wanted us to charge people for the 'Classic' games."

In the same interview, the head announced a port of the very popular Legend of Elba: Twilight Countess to appear on the Degeneration, with a new, 'Gorey' mode available.
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Address to the Old Dominion

Good Day, Citizens and Residents of the Old Dominion.

Many Months ago, after I came to power I made plans to approach Shepistan for reconciliation and a permanent peace treaty between our two nations, perhaps finally bringing peace to the continent of Shepland. Alas, before I could make my proposal Shepistan, in a wanton act of aggression launched a missile attack on Old Dominion Citizens and Residents. After the dust settled I still held out hope that we could reconcile.

Then a member of the Shepistani Intelligence service assassinated the Old Dominion Foreign Minister.

Since then, Shepistan’s widespread pursuit of Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear arms have led me to conclude that the Shepistani Government seeks nothing less but the tools to wipe out the people of the Old Dominion.

Shepistan has violated the 1947 Ceasefire agreement, which henceforth and forever restricted Shepistani military personnel to the continent of Shepland.

Shepistan has continued to commit crimes against humanity on it’s own people.

I opt to pressure Shepistan to behave in a civilized manner through closing off the Chesapeake Bay to Shepistani shipping. Shepistan used Kanawha villages as labs for his BioWeapons program. It Is the belief of the MESS intelligence agencies that the sole reason why he bought so many drones recently was to facilitate the spread WMD.


We liberated the people of San Fuego from the Shepistani puppet government, with the intent to restore that country’s constitution. Today, Shepistan has launched an attack on OD assets in the South Sea. As we speak, the ODN and TXN are engaging long range Shepistani bombers. I will be blunt: We expect to lose vessels, but the arrival of the TXN strike group on the scene has ruined the Shepistani raid.


With this in mind, I am formally announcing that the Old Dominion no longer regards the ceasefire to be in effect. Effective immediately the Old Dominion is in a state of emergency, with a general call up of reservists. I am also hereby invoking article 3 of the MESS pact, and request that our friends take part in this great mission to rid the world of Shepistan.

To the other nations of the world: We do not ask for aid, we only ask that you do not align yourselves with the despicable regime in Annapolis, and to look at the correlation of forces against Shepistan.

To the Citizens of the Old Dominion Armed Forces: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which that you have trained for so long.. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the Shepistan war machine, the elimination of Shepistani tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Shepland, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. But do not worry! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory! I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.
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Along the OD/Shepistani Boarder

With the sudden intensification of artillery shelling by OD forces of Shepistani forces across the boarder, and the OD's declaration of war and invokation of Article 3, the Shepistani Special Attack Corps was put into action. All along the boarder, the A-series drones were launched, mainly being the A-47 piston engined drones and A-48 pulsejet drones; carrying a payload of about 500 lbs generally to various distances.

No attempt had been made during their design or construction to mitgate their radar signatures; and hundreds of them were shot down by OD air defenses, with only a few of them reaching their targets, where they had the effect of a 500 pound general purpose bomb; no chemicals, or biologicals, just plain old HE.

But that had been the plan in the first place. For the measly expenditure of a few dozen million, Shepistan had forced the Old Dominion to expend hundreds of SAMs and air to air missiles, worth about $300 million, conservatively, to down them.
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