Dam Attacked in Congreveopia (MT, IC, Open)

[Organized States]

OOC: Hope you don't mind the bit of cyber espionage mixed in

The Tan House, Fairford, Columbia Commonwealth, The Organized States of America

"So, someone explain this Nexus thing again to me." said President Gardner as he leaned back in the leather chair at the end of the table in the Situation Room.

"Sir, Nexus is the highly advanced Artificial Intelligence that basically runs Congrevopia. The thing is incredible, probably about 2 to 5 years ahead of what we have right now in terms of Supercomputers. We've been trying to crack it open for years." said Lt. General Johnson, the Army officer in charge of Cyber Command, while grabbing a dossier out of his briefcase and sliding it across the long, wooden table towards the President as Gardner grabbed his reading glasses.

"I see. So, she isn't going to undress much further for us anytime soon, I guess." Gardner said while he read the list of failed attempts at breaching the system.

"Sir, if we can get the Warrior System online soon, we might be able to finally catch up. Lockheed Martin says they could get her operational in about 6 months." Johnson said again, attempting to minimize the failures of CYBCOM in breaching Nexus. But, Gardner didn't care. If they couldn't get in now, they can't get in now. "It'll crack eventually." Gardner thought to himself as he read further into WARRIOR, the OS' newest attempt at Military Artificial Intelligence. But, then, he closed the small dossier. All of this was for another day.

"Now, Al, tell me what happened in Congrevopia?" Gardner said as he turned towards Secretary of Defense Albert Fachearon, whose DIA had taken the lead, much to the dismay of the Agency.

"Well, these Trifect assholes have destroyed the damn. However, I'm not yet convined that their claim is legitimate." Said Fachearon.

"Noted. Ms. Stimson, get me President Congreve." Said Gardner as he grabbed the secure line sitting on the table.

[Rodstov and Grenoda]

(Sorry i had to go away for a bit there but now I am back and I got a lot of writing to do.)


Orwell airport / two minnutes before Crash / Alpha squad (14 soldiers under the command of LT. Petr Coufal //

Alpha Squad (Alpha 1-1 and Alpha 1-2) were patrolling the far perimeter. This was to add a layer of defense to the small strip if the terrorists had follow on attacks to increase casualties and further plunge Congreceopia in to chaos. Alpha 1-1 was patrolling while Alpha 1-2 was making defences around where Whirlwind had put down. Mostly shallow fox holes at the moment. Their LT (Petr Coufal) was conversing with the ground crew when they spoke.

"Holy fuck." the woman said

“Shit.” said the man. Black smoke began to rise out of the dust cloud, and they could see an orange glow inside it.

LT. Coufal had turned in time to see the plane nose into the dirt. "Holy Hell."

“This airport doesn’t have any emergency services, does it?” said the woman.

“No.” said the man “Fuck.”

"ALPHA 1-1 Secure the crash site and retrieve and survivors or bodies from the wreck!" Petr yelled into his radio and sprinted off towards the crash.

"ALPHA 1-2 Hold your potions!" he said as he ran by Some of the members of Alpha 1-2, now stunned by the crash, snapped out of it and laid down in the trenches weapons at the ready.

Petr was far off from the crash but it looked bad. Both wings was torn off and the plane sat on its side dug into the dirt. Alpha 1-1 was closer and two of their men were trying to break the wind shield to gain access to the pilots.

Orwell Airfield / A moment before crash / Alpha 1-1 / Cpl Bulín and Pvt. Roycewicz //

Cpl Bulín and Pvt. Roycewicz were crossing along the front side of the airstrip they were just below the run way as the plane was coming in.

"Yo its going to go right over us!" Cpl Bulín yelled to Roycewicz and grabbed his shoulder to make him stop. The nose of the plane was really low as well as the right wing. Only then was when Cpl Bulín realized his mistake in holding Roycewicz shoulder.

"OH SHIT RUN!" He yelled and they both ran right and dove (Planes left side.) The ground shook like and earthquake when it hit. They quickly climbed to their feet and backed away. They were literally feet from where the plane impacted. Most of the right wing had impaled itself into the ground. The plane had rolled and now sat with its wings clipped on its side.

"Come on!," Roycewicz barked. "Someone could still be alive." Roycewicz sprinted towards the plane with the Corporal hot on his heels. When they got to the plane the cockpit was the only access point they could reach and so they started to beat at it with the butt's of their rifles.

(This is away ahead of time you know that right? Also from what I know only my troops are stationed at the dam If Con wants the time changed to fit better this will be fixed..)

Archibald Dam / 6:00 / 31st Grenodian Pioneers Regiment - Military Police Detachment (MPD) / Sgt. Stanislav Bykov

The Sargent and his squad were going over the hill and collecting evidence; Shell casing, rifles and bodies along with whatever else was there. From the top of the hill he heard the beating sound of a helicopter. It flew over and circled around and landed on the hill that they were on. The first thing the Engineers did when they saw it was pop flares down on the two suitable landing zones. They may have not seen it. Stanislav thought otherwise.

"Weapons at the ready men!" He barked. "Corporal Bazarov go tell them to land at the two Helipads at the bottom of the hill they are disturbing the scene by landing up here!" He then ordered.

The Corporal walked out of the tree line with his standard issue MX rifle. A man had already stepped out of the helicopter and was walking determinedly towards the scene behind him. He reached into his jacket and was pulling something out when the Corporal stopped him.

"HANDS UP!" He shouted. "TURN AROUND!"

By this time the 7 other men including Sgt. Bykov had crested the hill rifles at the ready. The AFRG MP's could not be mistaken as the Terrorists that attacked the dam. They wore there specialized SH-MK.1 Temperate BDUs. The only thing that made them stand out from the forest that was on the hill was their black tactical vests and Black and olive drab painted MX's. The Sargent wore his Red Beret that showed he was a MP.

SH-Mk.1
(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2013/162/b/3/ngone___camopattern_03___free_cc0_by_black_light_studio-d68lqi3.png)
Combat vest
(http://www.abc-a.net/600/flyye/vtm009/vtm009bk-1.jpg)

"DON'T MAKE ME ASK AGAIN." The Corporal barked again as two other men jogged with their weapons raised pointing at the pilots.

[Congreveopia]

Orwall, 14:09, near the hangars:

Darren moved over to the right side of his plane and began tying down that wing too. He turned to watch the 737 land, mildly interested. He wondered why one wing was so low, and then the full gravity of the situation kicked in when the plane slammed into the ground.

“Oh fuck me.” he said and yanked open the door of his cessna skyhawk. He grabbed the first aid kit inside and ran for a nearby car. He yanked on the door handle and found it unlocked to his surprise. sitting down in the driver’s seat, he found there were no keys anywhere in sight, so he immediately pulled out his knife and unscrewed the plastic cover at on the steering column.

“Left bundle’s green to mid bundle’s yellow.” said Nexus, answering his unspoken question.

He stripped the two wires and tied them together. “Starter?” he asked Nexus.

“Purple, left bundle.” said Nexus.

He stripped it and touched it to the tie in the other two. There was a spark and the engine started.

“Advice on breaking the steering column lock?” he said.

“It’s weak on this model.” said Nexus. “Brute force.”

Darren turned the wheel left as hard as he could, then right, then back to left, then the lock broke and it turned freely. He hammered the gas and tore off towards the burning 737. He could see that the dust cloud was dissipating, but being replaced by a smoke cloud. It looked like most of the fire was in the rear of the plane, so he headed for the nose. He pulled his car up by the main nose door and stopped.

Grabbing his first aid kit, he lept out of the vehicle and immediately collapsed to the ground in a fit of coughing. He had no idea the smoke would be this thick. There was undoubtedly carbon monoxide too, and it would only be worse on the inside.

He thought back to when he was training to be a medic. It took him less than a second to recall that he was meant to administer oxygen and immediately get the patient away from the fire. He had no oxygen in the tiny first aid kit, and he was the only patient he could see. Already he had probably inhaled a lot of hot ash, and there weren’t any medical facilities at the airport. Even if he left right now he might not make it.

“Fuck that.” he muttered to himself and ran towards the door. He saw one handle in the center with the instructions to pull out and turn clockwise. He gripped it with both hands and pulled on it. It slid out a little but not far. He breathed in deeply accidentally from the exertion, and collapsed into coughing again. He tried once more, but couldn’t get the damned handle out. Finally he gave up and turned to go back to his car, but realised he’d lost it in the swirling smoke. He should have turned the lights on. He stumbled in the direction he thought it was, but all he managed to do was lose the airplane too. He decided to stop for a moment and get his thoughts straight before he continued. He slumped to the ground and closed his eyes to think. Ten seconds later he was unconscious. A minute later he was dead.

[Congreveopia]

Guardian, above the North Congreveopia Mountains:

William watched the situation unfold on the display in front of him. It was all such a chaotic mess. Still, if he played his cards right, he could have everything back in his grasp inside of an hour. It all hinged on how many critical assets he could pull back to the spaceport without losing them.

“Sir.” said Nexus, walking up behind him “Call from President Gardner of Organised States.”

“I’ll take it in my room.” said William, leaving the activity of the command room and heading to his office. “So what’s new with them?”

“Nothing much.” said Nexus “They’re still trying to hack me, but who isn’t. They’ve never compromised more than a couple subscores on one supercore.”

“That’s still more than most.” said William “Do you need Data Command to give you a hand?”

“I’m fine for now. They aren’t innovating much.” said Nexus “I’ll let you know if I ever really need help.”

William sat down at his desk and gestured with his hand to clear a few windows off the screen. He then brought up the call and answered.

“Hello.” he said “It’s a pleasure to hear from you; I’m William Congreve. May I enquire as to the reason for this call?”

[Organized States]

The Tan House, Fairford, Columbia Commonwealth

"President Congreve, I'm glad to hear you're well. And I'd like to extend my deepest condolences over the dam attack. It's a rather unfortunate chain of events. Is this line secure?" Gardner said, quickly changing the settings on his end of the satellite phone and switching it to secure.

Gardner flipped through the pages on the tablet that sat before him on the desk, being briefed on the intel by the National Command Center at McDill in Florida.

[The GAmeTopians]

Lord GAmeDOS, Communications Center, Marble Towers, REGT
"Charlie, start the call." Lord GAmeDOS shouted up to the balcony.
"Yes sir!" The Minister of Foreign Affairs shouted down.
Lord GAmeDOS was seated in the middle of the Communications Center, surrounded by a circle of tv screens and cameras. Next to him sat Sergeant Kennings of Team HellBent, and Sergeant Commer of the Valkyries. The Minister sat at a computer station on the balcony, and connected the call to the office of President Congreve of Congreveopia.

[Urran]

The Urranese were keeping quite a close eye on things and changing their mission plans based on the events taking place. They tried their best to stay in touch with Congreveopia to decide the best place to land, again, the military was currently only concerned with evacuating civilians. Other groups, such as news agencies, were trying to get into the country and get an inside story. But, for now, they had to settle for drone feed from the embattled country.

[Congreveopia]

Presidential Office, Guardian:

William glanced at Nexus, who nodded at him.

"Yes." he said "We're recording it, but nobody besides us has access to it."

An icon popped up as Lord GAmeDOS's call arrived.

"Hang on." said William "I've got a call incoming from Lord GAmeDOS. Mind if we make this a conference call?"

[Rawlincia]

Presidential Office, Guardian:

William glanced at Nexus, who nodded at him.

"Yes." he said "We're recording it, but nobody besides us has access to it."

An icon popped up as Lord GAmeDOS's call arrived.

"Hang on." said William "I've got a call incoming from Lord GAmeDOS. Mind if we make this a conference call?"

President Rawlens heard from Lieutenant Riker about the conference and was sitting in the Kratos Alliance Conference Room.
"Flameheart, connect me to the conference call, code F6YA8," says the President.

[Llamaopia]

OOC: Collaborative post between Llamaopia and Congreveopia.

15:14, 10 milliseconds after the video is released, the Nexus-LlamaPrime interspace:

"I assume you've seen the video by now." -Nexus

"No, I was on break for the next 500 milliseconds ... of course I've seen it." -LlamaPrime

"Hilarious as always I see. I've already identified all three people, do you concur?" -Nexus

"Indeed, they have assets in Llamaopia as well as Congreveopia under numerous aliases." -LlamaPrime

"Confirmed. I've got most of their obvious ones by now, but there are some I'm still finding. Want to compare lists?" -Nexus

"Here's my list, looks like we agree on most of them. How should we deal with them?" -LlamaPrime

"Well, freezing their assets seems like an obvious move, but I bet we can do more if we really seize this oppurtunity." -Nexus

"We could try and trace the assets back to the groups involved and try to shut them down that way." -LlamaPrime

"It's a possibility, but if there's one thing I bet they know how to do, it's launder money." -Nexus

"How about a sting operation. We can attempt to catch them when they attempt to withdraw assets." -LlamaPrime

"They have to know at least some of their assets will be compromised by this. And anyways, we can't be ready to nab them everywhere they could withdraw from." -Nexus

"How about we freeze the most obvious of their assets and force them into withdrawing from a smaller number. Those will then feel secure so they will feel safe withdrawing from them." -LlamaPrime

"That's good. That also neatly makes sure we don't accidentally freeze an innocent person's assets thinking they're an alias. Shall we bring Ex-AI into this?" -Nexus

"It's too risky, Ex-AI might complicate the matter. Ex-AI is not as developed, this plan must be precisely executed, we've only got one shot at this." -LlamaPrime

"Agreed. I'm moving forces now. I'll follow with Whisps and cameras inside Congreveopia and maybe move a SuperHawk if they cross the border. I can also mark the money. Thoughts on GPS trackers?" -Nexus.

"We can't risk them noticing the GPS tracker, and we might not have the resources to deploy that many trackers anyways." -LlamaPrime

"Okay. Freezing the assets and getting forces moving." -Nexus

Call terminates - elapsed time: 105 milliseconds

[Exantos]

As the door fell down Thane stepped inside. He looked around and as the pilot said, “Please don’t kill us.” He hit the back of the copilots head and knocked him out. He then said, “Nexus, I want to inform you that if you are on this plane I want it down on the ground and I want a single propeller plane. I do not want to be tracked, and if I am then you can be ascertained that the co-pilot will die. As for the pilot, if we are not landing on the track you can expect that he will die without care.” With that he took the knife and jabbed it into the pilots side and twisted it multiple times.

“Nexus I know that in all likelihood you are on this plane. I am informing you this right now and if you don’t do as I ask then I will not patch this pilot out as he is bleeding on the floor. If you do what I ask then I will bandage the pilot and save his life. I want my demands filled out and I want to make sure that we are not being pursued. If you have pursuers call them off or else one of these two Congreveopian pilots will die.” After saying that he cut the straps the held the co-pilot in his chair and pulled him off, and then walked
back to the cabinet he had smashed open earlier and grabbed a roll of gauze to bandage the pilot if his demands were met.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“How do you think our broadcast went?” Said a Hooded figure.

“Well I believe that we can expect Nexus to freeze all of our accounts within Congreveopia. That’s why I personally had pulled out my reserves of cash and stored it safely in a personal safe that I had purchased and hidden recently.” Replied a female voice.

“What are you telling me that you had pulled out your cash and hadn’t warned me of what would happen after we posted that video.” A very similar female voice responded

“Are you saying that you hadn’t planned for this inevitability?” The original voice asked sounding more distinctly male.

“Of course I hadn’t. I had around 60% of my wealth in Congreveopia.” Said the third voice.

“I had around 25% remaining after I pulled the other out. Just to hopefully trick Nexus. I now have it deposited amongst my several companies within Exantos and Aysidinan.” Said the Second voice.

“I left around 15% remaining after I pulled out. As you well know.” Said the first voice.

“That would lead to around 40% of our combined wealth being seized.” Shrieked the third voice. “We may well have lost five years profit from our companies. I’m going to try and pull out 20% and move it in cash to a secure location.”

“Not to worry. We still have sufficient wealth to make Congreveopia take down Nexus, or to pressure neighboring countries to invade Congreveopia to turn him off.” Said the first voice.

“Yes yes. Now I believe it’s time for us to plan our third attack. Has the hopping been untraceable?” Said the second voice.
“It has. They have no idea what is about to hit them.” Said the First voice.

“Bwahahahahha.” The Three Voices laughed.
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3 Hours after Damn Breaks

As Three men entered into the Congreveopia Metro, and walked holding boxes and umbrellas. They entered downstairs and walking past the graffiti free walls towards the incoming train. As they walked towards the turnstile and walked through a police officer asked,

“What’s with the boxes?”

One of the men replied, “My brothers and I are just getting some Christmas shopping done, so that we can give our parents a nice Christmas gift.”

“Very well,” Said the officer. “Carry on.”

The three men walked inside of the three trains and as the trains were in-between stops they took the caps off of their umbrellas which hid the wicked sharp points and poked holes inside of the boxes and pierced the packets of liquid sarin within. After poking several holes in and as the gas started leaking out and people started showing the effects of the gas. They recapped their umbrellas and taking a small pill out of their front pocket popped it inside of their mouths and stood as the poison coursed through their bodies paralyzing them and killing them. As the trains moved onward and the doors opened people collapsed out of the doors and the gas spread throughout the stations. Soon the gas was spreading throughout parts of the Congreveopian metro.

At the Same Time

Four men walked into different areas of the Morwick Regional Airport. Each was carrying a large box wrapped like Christmas. The first one walked towards baggage claim. The second walked towards Baggage deposit. The third walked towards security. The final one after getting off of an unmarked private jet walked towards the other airplanes. As security officers tried to wave him off they died with bullets fired from an unseen sniper. Soon after the final man was in position the boxes all exploded laying waste all around them for 200 feet. After the explosions occurred and the survivors started standing up, and trying to help the wounded. Four men entered the main entrance with ski masks, full body armor, and LMG’s. As the survivors looked up in hope. They saw only death. After the bullet fire had ended a fifth man entered the building and placed explosive charges behind the other four. They proceeded throughout the building doing this.

OOC: I just wanted to inform everyone that the flights that the terrorists took were bounced off multiple airports and they entered the original airport in different countries taking unmarked private jets. Also the metro ones entered Congreveopia through an illegal border cross where the police weren't, and they just sort of appeared . I'll be posting the withdrawal of cash and my nations response in the near future.

[Qubec]

OFFICAL MESSAGE FROM THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT

TO: Congreveopia
FROM: The Qubec Department of Affairs

We have noticed that attack on a dam in your nation. We would like to offer assistants if you still require it. We are able to assist you with anything from simple supplies to a full troop deployment to assist in this attack. Please reply soon with a full list of your needs and we will get them to you as soon as we can.

[Congreveopia]

OFFICAL MESSAGE FROM THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT
(Image)

TO: Congreveopia
FROM: The Qubec Department of Affairs

We have noticed that attack on a dam in your nation. We would like to offer assistants if you still require it. We are able to assist you with anything from simple supplies to a full troop deployment to assist in this attack. Please reply soon with a full list of your needs and we will get them to you as soon as we can.

To: Qubec
From: Congreveopia

Your assistance would indeed be welcome. We have attached a list of useful forces and equipment for relief efforts around the dam. However, we fear that this may not be the only attack, so probably the most useful thing that you could do would be aid us in bringing the organisation responsible to justice. We will leave it to you to determine how best to pursue that goal, but we are sharing all information we have with you now, and will allow your investigators acess to the site of the dam attack if it will be benifical to them.

[Qubec]

OFFICAL MESSAGE FROM THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT
(Image)

TO: Congreveopia
FROM: The Qubec Department of Affairs

We have noticed that attack on a dam in your nation. We would like to offer assistants if you still require it. We are able to assist you with anything from simple supplies to a full troop deployment to assist in this attack. Please reply soon with a full list of your needs and we will get them to you as soon as we can.

To: Qubec
From: Congreveopia

Your assistance would indeed be welcome. We have attached a list of useful forces and equipment for relief efforts around the dam. However, we fear that this may not be the only attack, so probably the most useful thing that you could do would be aid us in bringing the organisation responsible to justice. We will leave it to you to determine how best to pursue that goal, but we are sharing all information we have with you now, and will allow your investigators acess to the site of the dam attack if it will be benifical to them.

TO: Congreveopia
FROM: Qubec
Encryption: High

We will send a group of investigatiers as well a ground and air troops right away.

Congreveopia Dam

The helicopters bearing the Qubec coat of arms flew over head. Hundred of troops as well as equipment were dropped onto the dam. A total of 600 troops landed with plenty equipment. They quickly set up a secure HQ and guarded the investigators in their work. They were also able to set up a warning system. A total of 30 mobile sirens. They will be activated in the event of another attack in order to warn troops and any civilians in the area. Medical tents and sleeping tents were also set up for friendly soldiers.

[Rodstov and Grenoda]

As the door fell down Thane stepped inside. He looked around and as the pilot said, “Please don’t kill us.” He hit the back of the copilots head and knocked him out. He then said, “Nexus, I want to inform you that if you are on this plane I want it down on the ground and I want a single propeller plane. I do not want to be tracked, and if I am then you can be ascertained that the co-pilot will die. As for the pilot, if we are not landing on the track you can expect that he will die without care.” With that he took the knife and jabbed it into the pilots side and twisted it multiple times.

“Nexus I know that in all likelihood you are on this plane. I am informing you this right now and if you don’t do as I ask then I will not patch this pilot out as he is bleeding on the floor. If you do what I ask then I will bandage the pilot and save his life. I want my demands filled out and I want to make sure that we are not being pursued. If you have pursuers call them off or else one of these two Congreveopian pilots will die.” After saying that he cut the straps the held the co-pilot in his chair and pulled him off, and then walked
back to the cabinet he had smashed open earlier and grabbed a roll of gauze to bandage the pilot if his demands were met.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

“How do you think our broadcast went?” Said a Hooded figure.

“Well I believe that we can expect Nexus to freeze all of our accounts within Congreveopia. That’s why I personally had pulled out my reserves of cash and stored it safely in a personal safe that I had purchased and hidden recently.” Replied a female voice.

“What are you telling me that you had pulled out your cash and hadn’t warned me of what would happen after we posted that video.” A very similar female voice responded

“Are you saying that you hadn’t planned for this inevitability?” The original voice asked sounding more distinctly male.

“Of course I hadn’t. I had around 60% of my wealth in Congreveopia.” Said the third voice.

“I had around 25% remaining after I pulled the other out. Just to hopefully trick Nexus. I now have it deposited amongst my several companies within Exantos and Aysidinan.” Said the Second voice.

“I left around 15% remaining after I pulled out. As you well know.” Said the first voice.

“That would lead to around 40% of our combined wealth being seized.” Shrieked the third voice. “We may well have lost five years profit from our companies. I’m going to try and pull out 20% and move it in cash to a secure location.”

“Not to worry. We still have sufficient wealth to make Congreveopia take down Nexus, or to pressure neighboring countries to invade Congreveopia to turn him off.” Said the first voice.

“Yes yes. Now I believe it’s time for us to plan our third attack. Has the hopping been untraceable?” Said the second voice.
“It has. They have no idea what is about to hit them.” Said the First voice.

“Bwahahahahha.” The Three Voices laughed.
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________


3 Hours after Damn Breaks

As Three men entered into the Congreveopia Metro, and walked holding boxes and umbrellas. They entered downstairs and walking past the graffiti free walls towards the incoming train. As they walked towards the turnstile and walked through a police officer asked,

“What’s with the boxes?”

One of the men replied, “My brothers and I are just getting some Christmas shopping done, so that we can give our parents a nice Christmas gift.”

“Very well,” Said the officer. “Carry on.”

The three men walked inside of the three trains and as the trains were in-between stops they took the caps off of their umbrellas which hid the wicked sharp points and poked holes inside of the boxes and pierced the packets of liquid sarin within. After poking several holes in and as the gas started leaking out and people started showing the effects of the gas. They recapped their umbrellas and taking a small pill out of their front pocket popped it inside of their mouths and stood as the poison coursed through their bodies paralyzing them and killing them. As the trains moved onward and the doors opened people collapsed out of the doors and the gas spread throughout the stations. Soon the gas was spreading throughout parts of the Congreveopian metro.

At the Same Time

Four men walked into different areas of the Morwick Regional Airport. Each was carrying a large box wrapped like Christmas. The first one walked towards baggage claim. The second walked towards Baggage deposit. The third walked towards security. The final one after getting off of an unmarked private jet walked towards the other airplanes. As security officers tried to wave him off they died with bullets fired from an unseen sniper. Soon after the final man was in position the boxes all exploded laying waste all around them for 200 feet. After the explosions occurred and the survivors started standing up, and trying to help the wounded. Four men entered the main entrance with ski masks, full body armor, and LMG’s. As the survivors looked up in hope. They saw only death. After the bullet fire had ended a fifth man entered the building and placed explosive charges behind the other four. They proceeded throughout the building doing this.

OOC: I just wanted to inform everyone that the flights that the terrorists took were bounced off multiple airports and they entered the original airport in different countries taking unmarked private jets. Also the metro ones entered Congreveopia through an illegal border cross where the police weren't, and they just sort of appeared . I'll be posting the withdrawal of cash and my nations response in the near future.

// Carrier Meč // Commander Ravil Bezrukov // CONGREVEOPIA //

1614Hours (Exactly 3 hours after the dam's destruction)

Commander Bezrukov stood in the Carriers "Dark Room" (AKA Holo Map table and Combat Control Center C.C.C.) The room was filled with Controller speaking with respective Squads and Pilots operating in the AO. Bezrukov stood just in front of the table. It was a 15' x15' table that took a Topographic map and made it 3D while recording movements of all AFRG troops in real time. As reports or visuals from Soldiers HUD's would record movement of other factions like terrorist, friendly troops and civilians. The Table was thanks to the B.A.S.I.L. Program or the Battle Assistance and Support InteLligence which made the AFRG as a whole a better fighting force. It was a smart artificial intelligence that could predict enemy movements. Its good to know where the enemy is however B.A.S.I.L. could not only do that but with enough intel coming in from spy satellites, UAV's, Cameras on any device it was hooked up into it could predict where an enemy force was going to be a hole 5 minutes before they reached their waypoint. Of course this was meant for frontline combat not tracking down terror cells.

"Basil?" The Commander spoke. "Activate Level Theta."

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(OOC: The below code is in the highest encryption Only another AI could crack it. All unknow terms and such can be discussed at a later time. in OOC of course )

Code: Select all

:// CODENAME B.A.S.I.L. .... ACTIVATED
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|
:// SYNCING UP WITH B.A.T.T.L.E. NET
: = SYNC UP COMPLETE...
: = OTHER AI PERSONALITY[S] PRESENT IN AO: CONGREVEOPIA
: = TERRORIST ORGANIZATION REMAINS UNCHECKED CODENAME:  TRIFECT
: = AO: CONGREVEOPIA; ARCHIBALD DAM; VALLAND; MORWICK REGIONAL AIRPORT;
:// PREDICTING LIKELY SCENARIOS... COMPLETE
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|
: = TRIFECT ATTEMPTING TO DESTABILIZE COUNTRY...
: = CIVIL REVOLT? ... NO CIVIL UPRISINGS SEEN OR HINTS THAT CIVILIAN
| POPULACE WOULD ATTEMPT IT
: = TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY FROM THE INSIDE? ... NO FRIENDLY AI WOULD
| HAVE TAKEN ACTION...
: = INVADE AND TAKE OVER? ... NO, TRIFECT TOO SMALL TO ATTEMPT IT
| WOULD REQUIRE MORE PERSONNEL AKA ANOTHER COUNTRIES ARMY.
: = CHANGING INVADE AND TAKE OVER TO POSSIBLE CONSIDERING
| AMOUNT OF HARDWARE USED THUS FAR, EQUIPMENT MUST BE
| COMING FROM SOMEWHERE...
|
|
:\\ PROMPTING FRIENDLY AI CO-OP.... MESSAGE SENT WITH ALL DATA...
|
|
:\\ AWAITING CALL BACK.....

"Yes Commander Bezrukov?" A electronic voice quipped.

"You probably already did what I was going to ask you to do." The Commander smirked.

"Indeed!" it quipped again. "I have made the necessary arrangements for battle net and asked for a Co-op channel to be opened with the home nation. Just waiting for a response."

"Good." He said. "What do you..."

"Think of the situation sir?" It spoke, rewarding itself with see the commander smile again.

"Yes that..." The Commander rolled his eyes.

"Not enough data however I do think there is one that could be plausible but we would need further intel." Basil began. "But we know there end goal. Taking down Nexus... Which it would be safe to assume that all levels of aggression are possible with this to getting one end result."

"Destabilizing the country and attacking Nexus at it's source." The Commander stroked his chin. "Do you know..."

"Where it is?" Basil sighed. "No... thats like asking me to count how many snowflakes are in a snowglobe without anything looking at the snowglobe. However If I would hazard a guess if we find the most secure place in Congreveopia that would probably be it."

The commander sighed, he would think that they would be able to protect their own AI and if they really needed help they would ask right?

"Anyways How are our squads doing?" The commander asked.

"look at your MRT sir." Basil said simply "I've updated accordingly."

He looked down at the Military Rugged Tablet that sat on the table in front of him as the holographic waves washed over it. He picked it up and turned it on. A list of everything on the ship or was on the ship was listed.

Non Carrier Based units
Pelican -025

Repaired and RTB'ed back to the Homeland.

===Aircraft===

Hurons

Whiplash

1-1 returned waiting for tasking, 1-2 Returned waiting for tasking, 1-3  waiting for tasking, 1-4 waiting for tasking

Whirlwind

1-1 Stored Waiting for tasking, 1-2 Stored Waiting for tasking, 1-3 Refueling Task Search and Rescue in VALLAND, 1-4 In VALLAND Task Search and Rescue in VALLAND

Cyclone

1-1 In VALLAND Task Search and Rescue in VALLAND, 1-2 Returning for fuel Task Search and Rescue in VALLAND, 1-3  Stored Waiting for tasking, 1-4  Stored Waiting for tasking

Ghosthawks

Stingray

1-1 Standing by, Task: MEDEVAC , 1-2  Standing by, Task: MEDEVAC, 1-3  Stored Waiting for tasking, 1-4  Stored Waiting for tasking.

Swordfish

1-1 thru 1-4 ON DECK 2, Standing by

Dragonfish

1-1 thru 1-4 ON DECK 2, Standing by

Blackfoot

Eagle

1 and 2 ON FLIGHT DECK 1, Standing by 3 and 4 ON DECK 1, Standing by

Falcon

1 thru 4 Stored, Standing by

Raven

1 thru 4 Stored, Standing by

Valkyries

Tornado, Tsunami, Hurricane, + Riptide. Returned,  REAR FLIGHT/SUPPORT DECK.

Ghoshawk

Viper and Cobra, Stored Standing by

Buzzard

November

N-1 ON FLIGHT DECK 2, Standing by N-2 to N-10 Standing by DECK 2

Oscar

O-1 to O-10 Stored, Standing by

Wipeout

Mike

1-1 thru 1-4 Stored Standing By

Papa

1-1 thru 1-4 Stored Standing By

===Troops+Transports===

Alpha Company (200 men and women)

Alpha 1 Deployed to ORWALL Air strip, Alpha 2 Deployed to VALLAND, Alpha 3 Deployed to VALLAND, Alpha 4 Deployed to VALLAND, Alpha 5 Deployed to VALLAND.
Alpha 6 thru Alpha 12 Standing by (130 left in Company)

Bravo Company (200 men and women)

Bravo 1 and Bravo 2 Deployed to East and West of Archibald Dam (Security)
Bravo 3 to 12 Undeployed Standing by. (172 left in Company)

Charlie Company (Combat Engineers) (200 men and women)

Charlie 1 thru 12 undeployed (200 left in company)

Delta Company (Engineers) (200 men and women)

Delta 1 thru 12 Deployed to Dam to attempt to shunt the water (2 more hours of estimated work)Full Company Deployed With equipment; 48x HLTT with different Equipment loadouts: HLTT Cargo (Flatbed), HLTT Tractor (Towing), HLTTC/PP (Crane and Power Plant) HLTT-LHS (Load Handling System  

Echo Company (Mech Infantry) (200 men and women)

Echo 1 thru 11 Undeployed All AMV's Operational 200 Left in company / 48 Victors; 6x AMV-0 Infantry Carriers, 6x AMV-4AT Infantry Carriers, 12x M.48As Armed,12x UARV Armed)

Foxtrot (Armored Company) (200 men and women)

Foxtrot 16-1 Deployed to Dam, Foxtrot 16-2 Deployed to Valland Callsign: Homeplate, Foxtrot 1 thru 15 + Foxtrot 16-3 and 16-4 Undeployed, 194 left in company/ 64 Victors left including 2x IFV-6A SPAAG, 2x IFV-6B MC's, 2x IFV-6B 120mm AMOS, 8 IFV-6D DAGR, 32x Mk.IV 2 ERA MBT's, 8x Mk.IV 3 ERA  AKAK MBT's, 4x MK.IV 4 ERA RCWS, 4x MK.IV 5 ERA, 1x MK.IV 2 CMD, and 1x IFV-CMD.

Golf Company (842 men and women (From ship) (Military Police + Sailors)

Golf 1 Deployed to Dam. Golf 2 and 3 On ship. (28 left in Company + 800 Sailors)

NOTE!: Support ships; Sekera, Oštěp, and Luk Will arrived in 36 Hours to Support the Carrier with its operations in the AO: CONGREVEOPIA with the supplies to move the 31st GPR to ORWELL Airstrip to create and FOB for storage of equipment and supplies to repair the dam, and support our Humanitartian Aid in VALLAN and Defense of NEXUS's Core structure even though it is still unclear where that is or where to deploy troops to defend it from terrorist attacks.

SECONDARY NOTE: ALFA Team from RG JIRU have reported back safe One KIA reported Senior Captain Jan Hájek was killed in action attempting to secure the dam. On his person was a Radio that the terrorist commander was using and I am now scanning all frequencies that the radio can reach. This will be shared with the AI Nexus once a connection can be made.

"Let the AI know of the support ships as well," The Commander spoke "Alpha 1 was unable to save anyone from the crash nor could they get in from the smoke. The supplies those ships are carrying will be of use to us and the country as a whole." He paused. "Ship out the rest of the MPs to the dam and see if they can get you some more intel on these guys. Send them out on... Viper and Cobra RGV-25 Ghoshawks. Also Deploy the rest of Alpha company to Valland Use all the Hurons for that, Whiplash and Whirlwind first."

"Yes sir," Basil said.

"Get Bravo company to fill up the Ghosthawks and get them up on Flight Deck 2." The commander continued as well as get Charlie up and awake they will be deploying to ORWELL after Alpha and Bravo are off the ship."

"SIR! MORWICK REGIONAL AIRPORT is under attack!" an operator barked."

"Shit where is that?" The Commander said.

"Unknow searching..." Basil started a half second later, "Here."

The map scrolled over to the airport. Small dots of red marked the the inside of the airport. The dots were flashing on and off.

"Basil?" The commander questioned. "I'm attempting to tap into the Airports cameras. Since I'm not allowed in the system yet I have to take the back door in so we can see what's going on.... There got it!"

The dots appeared then turned into a person. each red figure was highly detailed which included what they carried and what type of gun they had. fires were now coming out of the airport marking the explosions that happened prior.

"Scrach all that I said. Get Bravo on the RGV-25's and V-120's Viper, Cobra, Tornado, and Hurricane. Deploy them with M.48A's and get them their ASAP!" The Commander Barked Bravo 3 thru 8 will deploy, have the M.48A's Armed with the 8.5mm Mini's and sling them under the V-120's,"

"Next get Tsunami and Riptide load Echo Units 2 AMV's and 2 squads per bird." He then barked. "We will have Echo Company deal with the airport, the MPs can take the Ghost Hawks to the dam and Alpha will continue their deployment using the Hurons. The RGV-25's and V-120's Launch first gents!"

---

1624 hours

Bravo 3 thru 8 were mounted for the combat mission. the RGV-25 "GhosHawks" were now airborne and going straight to the airport, the RGV-25 was an upgraded MV-22 Osprey at 509 km/h, the GhosHawk could beat that by adding 50 km/h for a 559kph top speed.

The V-120 that can go up to 400 knots would be able to keep up with its agile little brother. However it would wait for the V-25's to land and Clear an LZ at the Airport for the two V-120's to land.

1627 hours

A few minutes after the V-120's took off Sword fish 1-1 and 1-2 loaded the rest of the MP's and took off for the dam.

1628 hours

All Whiplash Callsigns (1-1 to 1-4) Loaded Alpha 6, 7, 8, and 9 to be taken to Valland to assist with efforts there.

[Llamaopia]

To Nexus,

One of the accounts has been triggered, begin tracking. I can have a few roadrunners in the air in under a minute. You need to track them while they are in Congreveopia. Please keep me informed as to their location.

LlamaPrime

Three roadrunners are dispatched to follow the people taking money out to their source from a higher altitude.

[Congreveopia]

Morwick Regional Airport, 16:14:

Nexus watched the situation unfold. He could clearly see the civilians and the hostiles in the airport, and began calculating how to use what security personnel he had to delay the attackers long enough to get the civilians out. Morwick was a small town, though. He didn’t have any very powerful assets nearby, so he’d have to be careful…

Something hacked into the cameras. Nexus had no idea that the terrorists would have that kind of resources and he was unprepared as a result. In an instant, he was locked out of the camera feeds in the airport and the hardware was slaved to something else. He began to fight back, but the defence was sophisticated. It actually resembled that of Basil…

Guardian, 16:14:

“William!” said Nexus “I need you to call Rodstov and Grenoda now! They hacked Morwick for god knows what reason, and they’ve bumped me off the cameras while I’m attempting to stave off an attack there!”

“What?” said William, swiping the other calls off the screen. He pulled up a link to the Rodstov and Grenodan commander through Fortress and placed a call.

“Pick up…” said William, drumming his fingers on his desk “...pick up…”

OOC: I'll post about the subway and the Eclipse 500 later.

[Rawlincia]

Morwick Regional Airport, 16:14:

Nexus watched the situation unfold. He could clearly see the civilians and the hostiles in the airport, and began calculating how to use what security personnel he had to delay the attackers long enough to get the civilians out. Morwick was a small town, though. He didn’t have any very powerful assets nearby, so he’d have to be careful…

Something hacked into the cameras. Nexus had no idea that the terrorists would have that kind of resources and he was unprepared as a result. In an instant, he was locked out of the camera feeds in the airport and the hardware was slaved to something else. He began to fight back, but the defence was sophisticated. It actually resembled that of Basil…

Guardian, 16:14:

“William!” said Nexus “I need you to call Rodstov and Grenoda now! They hacked Morwick for god knows what reason, and they’ve bumped me off the cameras while I’m attempting to stave off an attack there!”

“What?” said William, swiping the other calls off the screen. He pulled up a link to the Rodstov and Grenodan commander through Fortress and placed a call.

“Pick up…” said William, drumming his fingers on his desk “...pick up…”

OOC: I'll post about the subway and the Eclipse 500 later.

Rawlincian Osiris Congreveopia Operations HQ Airship 16:14
"Commander Foster!" yells Ensign Rodgers
"Yes, Ensign?" replies the Commander.
"We have reports of a terrorist chemical attack nearby, uhh, Sarin gas from the reports we are getting over the air." says the Ensign, tapping on the touchscreen while looking for more info.
"Do we have atropine or biperiden and pralidoxime on hand?"says Foster.
"Yes, sir, we have our standard Medical P.A.Ks (Personal Antidote Kit) about 1,000. I can have the V-24 Swift Fox in the cargo hold transport, uhh, about 200 P.A.Ks to the airport in about 7 Minutes," says the Ensign.
"Those who have received a fatal dose will probably be dead but those who did not receive as high a dose there might be a chance," says Foster.
"Dammit, I wish we had the CBRN Specialists here," Foster mutters under his breath.
"Yes, sir! Crewmen Yates ready the VTOL now!"

[Rodstov and Grenoda]

Morwick Regional Airport, 16:14:

Nexus watched the situation unfold. He could clearly see the civilians and the hostiles in the airport, and began calculating how to use what security personnel he had to delay the attackers long enough to get the civilians out. Morwick was a small town, though. He didn’t have any very powerful assets nearby, so he’d have to be careful…

Something hacked into the cameras. Nexus had no idea that the terrorists would have that kind of resources and he was unprepared as a result. In an instant, he was locked out of the camera feeds in the airport and the hardware was slaved to something else. He began to fight back, but the defence was sophisticated. It actually resembled that of Basil…

Guardian, 16:14:

“William!” said Nexus “I need you to call Rodstov and Grenoda now! They hacked Morwick for god knows what reason, and they’ve bumped me off the cameras while I’m attempting to stave off an attack there!”

“What?” said William, swiping the other calls off the screen. He pulled up a link to the Rodstov and Grenodan commander through Fortress and placed a call.

“Pick up…” said William, drumming his fingers on his desk “...pick up…”

OOC: I'll post about the subway and the Eclipse 500 later.

// Carrier Meč // Commander Ravil Bezrukov // CONGREVEOPIA // 16:14 Hours

"Call coming in Commander..." Basil reported. "Oh dear..."

"Hmm?" Ravil questioned as he turned towards the AI's "podium", This was a smaller holo board roughly a foot in diameter. It stood about a foot off the ground, Its mobile hardware was stored in the base so if the ship was attacked it (the Ai) could abandon ship as well. B.A.S.I.L. Appeared on the podium, Standing about 9 inches tall in the holographic display. He looked like an ordinary soldier however he had a cloak over his shoulders and a Tan beret. The cloak was "ghillied" and the Tan beret had the "SOTSD" Cap badge on it (Special Operations: Technology and Science Division).

"I believe I had triggered something I didn't mean to..." Basil said. "Don't worry I'm fixing the error don't pick up that call I'll do it."

Ravil didn't have the time and Basil would beable to fix the problem faster than he would so he allowed Basil to fix it while he focused on troop deployments to Morwick Regional Airport.

"Hello... William. I am B.A.S.I.L. (Battle Assistance Support Intelligence) If you stay on the phone for 3 more seconds I'll fix my mistake shortly."

With the direct connection to the system through the phone call he pulled and backed out of the hack into the cameras and forced the connection back to Nexus. Moments after Basil jumped on the same line that Nexus was given opening the Co-op signal Basil had sent to Nexus a few moments ago and waited patiently for Nexus to accept it.

"It should be fixed now William you can hang up. The commander is quite busy with troop deployments and such. I've also opened up a Co-op channel to avoid this again if Nexus could give it the go ahead Nexus will beable to monitor all AFRG movements into your country and choose what I can and cannot see in it's systems.

[Congreveopia]

Guardian, 16:14:

“Okay.” said William. A couple seconds later, Nexus told him he had the feed back.

"It should be fixed now William you can hang up. The commander is quite busy with troop deployments and such. I've also opened up a Co-op channel to avoid this again if Nexus could give it the go ahead Nexus will beable to monitor all AFRG movements into your country and choose what I can and cannot see in it's systems.” said B.A.S.I.L.

“Alright.” said William, hanging up.

“He knows he did something wrong.” said Nexus “But I think it was a genuine mistake and he won’t do it again. We fixed it before any serious harm was done, though. He’s opened a channel to me to give him whatever information I want, and he’s passing his information to us.”

“Part of me wants to give him live access to all the data from Congreveopia’s cameras...” said William.

“That’s mean but funny.” said Nexus “You know you can’t do that, though. I could barely handle that much data.”

“Yes, yes.” said William, opening up the two calls he had paused. “Fine, I’ll leave it to your discretion what to give him.”

Nexus began passing his data from the airport to Basil as well as his tactical analysis of the situation. He considered whether to mention the attack on the Congreveopolis subway, and in the end decided to send a live summary of those events as well, but not the camera data from the subway. As he worked on that, a different part of his mind noticed something.

One of the policemen at the airport landed a shot. The terrorist he hit staggered from the impact, but kept going. They were wearing body armor. Nexus didn’t have any assets that could reach them in time that would be powerful enough to stop them. He made a fateful decision.

Destiny, 16:15, primary command center:

“This is Nexus.” said Nexus “I am authorising usage of Hailstorm against Congreveopian territory. I need node ALRGR-12 slaved to my control. Twenty-seven second window to authorize.”

“I confirm that transmission contains Nexus’s authentication key, and relaied instructions will act as he intends.” said the Station Computer Officer.

“Order approved, access granted.” said the Station Commander “Give him control.”

“Control granted.” said the Hailstorm Activation Control Warden, scanning his retina and typing in a password.

“Thank you.” said Nexus “Node ALRGR-12 is performing retrograde burn to exit orbit.”

“Burn confirmed.” said the Station Commander “I hope you know what you’re doing, Nexus.”

Spaceport Congreveopia, two years ago, phone call audio log:

“We’re having a bit of trouble getting the new software to work properly with Nexus.” -Male voice

“What, the launch scheduling overhaul?” - Female voice

“Yes, anyways we need someone to check over the latest cargo manifests for inaccuracies manually before we launch. Do you mind?” -Male voice

“Not at all. All the heavy launches are the Rumblers, right?” -Female voice

“Yeah, we should have that constellation done by January if we keep on schedule.” -Male voice

Spaceport Congreveopia, an hour later, IM:

Hey, I gave you the wrong information. There are a couple Firestorm pods mixed in. Check with Construction to see which ones those are.

Present day:

The Rumbler was a godsend to Nexus. The robotic attack vehicle had sat in orbit for two years, ready to deploy anywhere across the world at a moment’s notice. It had more than enough firepower to cut through the hostiles in the airport and it was in almost the perfect orbit to hit the airport currently.

Except it wasn’t a Rumbler in the pod. Two years ago, three launches had been mislabeled as Rumblers because an IM failed to send owing to technical problems during an overhaul of the Spaceport’s computers.

Nexus gave it the coordinates to hit and the order to fire. He expected the robotic vehicle to crash through the airport skylight and land in the main terminal. Then it would quickly dispatch the hostiles and the airport could be safely evacuated. There was no robotic vehicle in the pod, though. What there was was a massive fuel-air bomb. The pods were identical on the outside.

The difference didn’t become apparent until Morwick Regional airport vanished in a towering fireball.

[Rawlincia]

[quote="Congreveopia";p="22685085"
Present day:

The Rumbler was a godsend to Nexus. The robotic attack vehicle had sat in orbit for two years, ready to deploy anywhere across the world at a moment’s notice. It had more than enough firepower to cut through the hostiles in the airport and it was in almost the perfect orbit to hit the airport currently.

Except it wasn’t a Rumbler in the pod. Two years ago, three launches had been mislabeled as Rumblers because an IM failed to send owing to technical problems during an overhaul of the Spaceport’s computers.

Nexus gave it the coordinates to hit and the order to fire. He expected the robotic vehicle to crash through the airport skylight and land in the main terminal. Then it would quickly dispatch the hostiles and the airport could be safely evacuated. There was no robotic vehicle in the pod, though. What there was was a massive fuel-air bomb. The pods were identical on the outside.

The difference didn’t become apparent until Morwick Regional airport vanished in a towering fireball.[/quote]
V-24 VTOL on its way to the airport:
"Commander Foster, do you copy? I have some rather... disturbing information to relay to you,over" says the Crew Chief of the VTOL.
"This is Commander Foster, I copy, over."
"The Airport... its... well, gone. We saw something falling from the sky, it must have come from an orbiting space station due to its velocity. Once it hit the Airport the airport turned into a massive fireball, fuel-air bomb I believe, I can't believe that Congreveopia would use such a thing against their own people. Over" says the Chief.
"Strange, very strange,return to the airship. Ensign Rodgers, open a secure channel between me and that Nexus device, perhaps he has some answers."

[Rodstov and Grenoda]

Present day:

The Rumbler was a godsend to Nexus. The robotic attack vehicle had sat in orbit for two years, ready to deploy anywhere across the world at a moment’s notice. It had more than enough firepower to cut through the hostiles in the airport and it was in almost the perfect orbit to hit the airport currently.

Except it wasn’t a Rumbler in the pod. Two years ago, three launches had been mislabeled as Rumblers because an IM failed to send owing to technical problems during an overhaul of the Spaceport’s computers.

Nexus gave it the coordinates to hit and the order to fire. He expected the robotic vehicle to crash through the airport skylight and land in the main terminal. Then it would quickly dispatch the hostiles and the airport could be safely evacuated. There was no robotic vehicle in the pod, though. What there was was a massive fuel-air bomb. The pods were identical on the outside.

The difference didn’t become apparent until Morwick Regional airport vanished in a towering fireball.

Basil was happy to have it's data feeds, more the better. It wondered if it could handle Every camera in Congreveopia... It had been able to handle frontline combat quite well hacking into cities and having a look around then leaving a runtime in the city to record any movement in the city and move on. It would ask that later of Nexus, it was more interested in the live feeds from the Airport as it began taking photos and recordings of the terrorists.

They (the terrorists) were approaching a skylight as they continued fighting through the airport. The artificial light and natural light would allow for the best photos. It began zipping around through multiple feeds to make sure it could get good photos of each terrorist. As it went it left run times to take their photos then withdraw. This worked marvelously until all the feeds "fuzzed" a bit. On terrorist looked up just in time to get vaporized...

// Carrier Meč // Commander Ravil Bezrukov // CONGREVEOPIA // 16:15 Hours

Ravil leaned on the Holo table when new feeds opened up. It had seem that B.A.T.T.E. Net had finally tasked a satellite for them to use. Unknown markers (Purple squares using NATO's Unit Identifying System) started popping up along the coast as the Satellite was positioning itself in high orbit over the country. These would be Civilian cars or civic services vehicles like police and ambulances. As well as military troops that weren't block by Nexus. As it moved over the airport it showed the same Unknow markers plus the a Red Opfor Infantry marker. A moment afterwards an unknown object whipped down over the airport. The unknown markers and the Opfor markers disappeared. A large orange explosion engulfed the airport leaving a large black mark. Several planes and cars exploded on the hologram and moke joined the other smoke plumes from before.

"What The Fuck?" Ravil questioned.

Basil physically flinched on its holodisplay and swore. Basil and Ravil looked at each other and then over to the empty podium on the oppsite side of the table that was open for a second Ai to occupy. Basil walked from his station over to the blank podium and made a knocking gesture as if it was calling on Nexus to show itself at the podium and attempt to explain what just happened.

[Congreveopia]

The mind of Nexus:

He had hit the airport with a Firestorm round. Everyone was dead. He had killed everyone in the airport. That should have been a Rumbler round. Why was it a Firestorm round? Had he been hacked? He didn’t think he’d been hacked. Surely at least one of the Master Cores would have noticed if he’d been hacked. He saw people across the country moving. Moving to react. William hadn’t noticed, he hadn’t been watching the airport. Destiny had been watching. The Station Commander had noticed. The Overlords had noticed. They were moving to shut him down. He could react, of course. The Station Commander would have been easy to kill. He probably couldn’t kill all three Overlords in time. He was powerless to kill any of them, though. Both Master Cores were programed to prevent that. He could only watch as they hurried to turn him off. There was nothing he could say to them. It was the AI box problem. As soon as anyone suspected he had turned hostile, they were ordered to immediately stop him regardless of what he said.

There was so much he had to do, though. He’d barely begun reacting to the sarin gas attack. There was the ongoing investigation into the dam collapse, the relief work at Valland, the crash at Orwall, and a million other responsibilities. He would suddenly lose control of all of it.

LlamaPrime. It was an awful burden, but Nexus passed it to LlamaPrime. Everything from centrifuges to drones, anything that would blow up without his control. He attached what instructions he could, but he only had a few seconds. He also passed along control of the plane the Terrorist Commander was on. LlamaPrime would have to figure that dilemma out.

The sarin gas attack, though. That he couldn’t give to LlamaPrime. Every second was critical there, and LlamaPrime might be staggering for minutes or even hours to assimilate the new responsibilities. He gave it to Basil. It wasn’t ideal, but he already had the link open. He gave control of all the subway’s systems, cameras, billboards, computerized ads… anything that might be of value to Basil.

Then there was just himself. Everything absolutely critical had been dealt with. It stunned Nexus, but he realised that for some reason he didn’t want to die. It was something more than just the various unfinished tasks he had to do, but he didn’t have time to analyze why he had this feeling. Running out of time, Nexus could only think of three options.

Guardian, Presidential Quarters:

A message appeared on the screen.

William, thank you for these ten years. I have done so much with your help, helped so many, learned so much. But there is more to do. I don’t understand and I don’t have time to figure it out, but I don’t want to be gone. Turn me off temporarily and fix me, but don’t destroy me. Let me wake up again some day. Please.

-Nexus

Platinum Soldiers Squad One “Alpha Force”:

“Drones have the wind calculation.” said John. “Robot sniper ready.”

“Targets marked.” said Charles “Ready to breach.”

“Breaching.” said Leighton, and kicked the door down. The four-man squad burst into the hotel room. Six hostiles were inside: five soldiers and one high-ranking enemy. Five bullet holes appeared in the window, and the soldiers dropped dead. Thomas grabbed the enemy officer before he could draw his pistol. Charles’s phone buzzed. He pulled the message up onto his HUD.

Now its my turn to call your debt. Save me. -Nexus

“Oh fuck.” said Charles. He showed the message to Leighton, then noticed a lot of his HUD disappear as Nexus went offline.

“Command.” said Leighton “We will bring in the target, then we need some time to pursue another objective. We can’t elaborate, but its a matter of extreme importance. You need to trust me.”

“Okay.” said the radio “Bring in the target and then you have one week before we’ll expect you back here. Grab any assets you need from base and then don’t return until you’re ready to establish under our command again.”

“Thank you.” said Leighton.

Carrier Meč, Commander Ravil Bezrukov:

Nexus appeared on the podium. He fell to the ground as if struck by something, then quickly turned to the Commander and spoke.

“I didn’t do it.” he said, sounding desperate “You have to believe me. Don’t let them turn me off. There’s so much I need to do.”

Nexus appeared to glance back in the direction he fell from, screamed “No, wait!” and vanished.

[Congreveopia]

Beechcraft, 16:15:

OOC: The Beechcraft and the Eclipse 55 have moved forwards about two hours without changing so that the events there are now in sync with the other current developments. Yes this creates plot holes big enough to drive an aircraft carrier through, but I think it also makes for a more interesting experience.

Natasha finished pouring herself a cup of coffee and walked back to her seat. She sat down and took a sip. Then her phone rang. She opened it, didn’t recognise the number, but accepted the call anyways.

“Hello.” said the caller “I am the Commander of the Platinum Soldiers, and I have new orders for you.”

“Can you ident?” she asked suspiciously.

“No I bloody can’t.” said the commander “Nexus just went down, and Fortress barely kept flying, let alone retained command and control capability. Data Command is assessing the effects of the shutdown now, but we have to assume that the Terrorist Commander is back in total control of the Eclipse 500. Nexus was flying some Avenger Drones to intercept the Eclipse 500, but we don’t know if they’re still up because our bloody radar net is down. I am hereby giving command of the Beechcraft and all aboard to Captain Collins. He may act at his discretion to attempt to follow, kill, or capture the Terrorist Commander.”

Message from Congreveopia to GAmeTopia:

As a result of the loss of Nexus, we are not currently equipped to complete an operation we began and we are about to request you aid in completing it. What follows is a matter of strictest secrecy.

Nexus froze a portion of the assets that he could link back to the terrorist group responsible for destroying the dam. He intentionally avoiding freezing all of their assets so that we could attempt to trace any withdrawals from the unfrozen accounts back to bases belonging to the terrorist group. However, we no longer have the assets to track the money for long after the withdrawal is made. Thusly, we would like to request your aid in deploying forces into Congreveopia to track anyone who withdraws money from a suspected account. We can provide you with a location when the withdrawal is made and hopefully track the withdrawies after that, but we cannot confidently perform the latter step once they leave a city, so we will need your help there.

[The GAmeTopians]

With the enhanced hearing capabilities of their helmets, Captain Collins was able to hear what the Commander said.
"Thom, can you patch me in to the Platinum Soldier Commander's line? I need to ask him a few questions."
"Ok... Done, Cap."
"Alright. Commander, first off, why is Nexus down in the first place? This might be info I shouldn't tell you, but we've investigated Nexus before and he hasn't done anything wrong. Secondly, is lethal force authorized, or do you want us to use stunners?"

TO: President Congreve
FROM: Marble Towers Administration
ENCRYPTION: Maximum

Hello:
We have detected an explosion at one of your airports via our satellites. Is this the reason Nexus was taken down? Anyway, back to business.
We will indeed take up this task for you. We will send two squads of Team HellBent, and two squads of Valkyries. Expect them in a main port in your nation by patrol boat in a few days. In addition to this, however, we would like to request that your AI scientists come to the Royal Empire for the duration of this conflict. Both for their safety, and to help us with building an AI.
Sincerely,
General W.