OOC Thread
The ANS Tineareach, an Arlicháira Class Guided Missile Destroyer, picture taken 1 month before the incident.
North Atlantic Ocean
The ANS Tineareach was an Arlicháira Class Guided Missile Destroyer of the National Ardokian Navy. Commissioned in the early 90s, and refitted just a few years ago, the Tineareach was a fine ship and had been docked in a Cuban naval base for several months now. It's Captain Donal Cullen, was a veteran of 30 years, and a loyal member of the Progressive Totalitarian Labour Party of Ardoki. Almost a week prior, he had been given orders to navigate to this exact point in the Atlantic Ocean, and to shoot down an enemy airliner which would be going on a route taking directly over the ANS Tineareach. He did not know why he was ordered to do it, however it was his duty to obey his orders for the good of Ardoki and its people.
The aircraft, Flight WL-9093 of the Lebanese airliner, Wings of Lebanon, had entered the Tineareach's radar range not long ago, and had just entered the effective range of the ships surface-to-air-missiles. The Lebanese Airbus A380, the second last existing one of Wings of Lebanon (another was shot down by IS earlier, leaving only this and another one), had a total of 647 passengers in total (104 Lebanese nationals, 413 Mexicans, 32 French, 21Israelis, and 77 Iraqi nationals).
Captain Cullen took a sip from his cup of tea, and spoke up, "Comrades! What we are about to do is for the greater good of humanity. We are committing an act of sacrifice, for the Ardokian state and people so they may carry on the banner of human progress and advancement. Long live Progressive Totalitarianism! For the good of humanity!" The crew in the bridge applauded, and shouted his last line out loud.
"Lock on, and destroy the target." he said, and only a short while later, two FTM-776 surface-to-air missiles flew off the ANS Tineareach and sped toward Flight WL-9093.
A little while later, on the Flight WL-9093...
"Would you and your family like some refreshments sir?" said a flight attendant to a large Lebanese family, of grandparents, parents, and almost a dozen young children. They had just gotten back from their first ever family holiday in Mexico, and were eager to get back to Lebanon.
"Yes please..." said the father of the children. However before he could finish his sentence, his plane was hit by the two missiles, and it blew apart in a massive explosion.
The father blacked out, but just before his body smashed into the water thousands of feet below, he regained conciousness he saw his entire family falling threw the sky, with wreckage shredding them like paper.
Back on the ANS Tineareach...
"The target has been destroyed Captain." said an officer.
"It had to be done comrades. Not doing it would have been a far greater crime." he said as he paused for a bit. "Set course for the home port in Ardoki, we head their immediately and as fast as we can, as orders instruct." he added before leaving the bridge.
This ship immediately set course for Ardoki, and upon arrival they will be decorated as heroes of the Totalitarian Republic and the Progressive Totalitarian Labour Party.
