Odinburgh wrote:Flarbinia wrote:Regalia Sport Tower's automated defense grid activated, destroying the missiles and alerting Ingsoc Industries to the assault, the targeting computers trying to analyze the situation. The helicopter kept flying towards the roof of Tokyo Heights. "No gang in the city has that kind of firepower and those missiles are too fast to have been manufactured by Ingsoc Industries. If someone did fire those missiles, they weren't aiming for you." The pilot said as the helicopter reached the border of Ming Devils territory.
"Well it must either be the police or the Obsidian Republican Guard Forces that has that kind of firepower.", Arakawa replied. "Perhaps we should land soon. I feel more comfortable going by foot unless this place lies just outside the city. Just wonder what the heck is going around here. I thought the war ended after the collapse."
"I don't know what they taught you in Japan, but NATO was the only thing keeping the megacorporations from trying to kill each other over the smallest of grudges. When it collapsed, there was nothing to stop them from dividing NATO among themselves and disbanding the weak ineffectual governments that were running the show when NATO was still around. The Obsidian Republican Guard Forces, The Manhattan Hellhounds, The Cleveland Indians, and all the other militaries that emerged in the United States after the Collapse of NATO are corporate militias exclusively supplied by their employers and their subsidiaries. If you think things are bad in OGC, you obviously haven't been to Europe. No police department could afford that kind of firepower, even during the blank check days of the 2050s. Of course, dividing the United States into separate territories and simultaneously disbanding all three branches of government will piss people off, although the United States Military was the only group to openly resist the control of the megacorporations and those insurrections were nipped in the bud at the Battle of Pearl Harbor and the Second Battle of Gettysburg. Pro-democracy groups started sprouting like weeds around the country and a few of them had no plans of being peaceful about it, but none of them are willing to do something like this or give the order to push the button. Whoever fired those missiles wanted to send the message that nobody was safe and this won't be the last time they will attempt to prove that point, but anyone competent enough to sneak the missiles and the launcher needed to fire them past border security won't repeat that little stunt." The pilot said as the Apache helicopter entered East Village, the people in the streets celebrating the anticipated victory of Hanzo Hattori. He ignored the masses below as he made a beeline for the roof of Tokyo Heights.