Mysticeti Hostage Crisis

[Libertiere]

The Mysticeti Hostage Crisis

After a terror attack in a popular shipping and tourist lane, you, as the leaders of the world must decide how to solve the crisis.
Rules:

1. Standard RP stuff
2. No just killing everybody yourself you can't help the terrorists

June 17th, 7:09 am, just outside Libertierean waters

The skiffs, small and unremarkable set out from their hiding spots and sped towards the ships in the area in groups of three or four. If you looked closely you could see people packed in, holding automatic weapons. The skiffs all pulled up to their targets, and grappled up the sides.

Onboard the Mysticeti Cruiseliner
“Everyone! Put your hands on your head or we'll blow your head of!” The leader of the group shouted. The passengers obeyed, and sat down, trembling. The terrorists shoved the group forward, into the dining hall. The other terrorists went around the ship, forcing everyone to the same spot.

This group of terrorists, attacked and gained control of several vessels along this popular trade route.

E-Broadcast
“Attention, leaders of the world” The leader shouted. “If you do not pay us a ransom of 500 million USD, We will kill these people one, by, one.” The man grimaced.” You will drop it onto the deck of this ship, in a waterproof box. That is all”

[The Kingdom of the Romans]

We would like to help you as much as we can, and we have the money. The problem is, in the last few years we have cut military funding, most people don't like the ages of our military members, I don't want to cause an outburst of hatred towards our president, so what we will do is send drones to scout out the area in which they have brought them, send dolphin team 7, and hopefully keep them all alive, even the terrorist, deserve a trial. We are a free country, like the United States, we have a constitution, that also says, everyone has a right to a lawyer.

[Ammerinia]

ZOCOM HQ, Classified Location, Ammerinia
June 17th, 5:44 AM (Ammerinia time)

The command room of the bunker was quiet. Aside from threats to the Empire by Julfric Germcloak, nothing had really been happening. Suddenly, the IAF logo appeared on the massive screen. A voice echoed from the back of the room "ATTENTION: TEAMS 7 AND 3, PLEASE REPORT TO THE BRIEFING ROOM IMMEDIATELY"

Sure enough, several personnel showed up. They were all clad in light or medium combat armor, looking like they just got back from a warzone. The man at the back of the room sat down. "Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we have a situation on our hands..." He said.

The agents' faces perked up. They haven't had an assignment for over a year. This would be their chance to shine. The man at the back of the room pulled out a small remote from his pocket, and pointed it at the massive screen. The feed instantly switched to a tactical view of the Mysticeti Cruiseliner with a news feed in the corner. The man at the back of the room continued to speak. "Several minutes ago, an as of right now unidentified group of heavily armed terrorists stormed a civilian cruiseliner and took multiple hostages."

A young woman from the back raised her eyebrow. "What are their demands, commander?"

"500 million in NSD." the commander replied. "Emperor Calculus herself has ordered that we try and stop the terrorists while the authorities create a diversion."

All of the agents nodded. A door then opened up on the other side of the room. A woman in a camouflaged overcoat carrying an electronic tablet walked over to where the commander was sitting. "I'm sergeant major Jessica Dijer. I will be explaining the plan of attack with the commander." She paused and switched the screen over to a tactical map of the cruiseliner. "Here is the main plan..."

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Near Libertiere, Open Seas
June 17th, 7:26 AM (Libertiere time)

The cruiseliner was quietly sitting on the waters. A few of what looked like police boats were surrounding the ship, as well as some unidentified drones. Suddenly, a submersible rose up from the water. It was a heavily armed and armored craft. Suddenly, a catwalk folded out of the craft, and an airtight door on the outside opened up. Sergeant Dijer stepped out with a megaphone in hand. She raised it and shouted "ATTENTION HOSTAGETAKERS - WE ARE OPENING A DIRECT LINE OF COMMUNICATION VIA THE CRUISELINER'S INBUILT VIDEOPHONE ."

[The Selkie]

To: The government of the Democratic Republic of Libertiere.

Return Adress: The Elder Council, Council Chambers of the Elder Council, Elder Castle, Free Lands of the Selkie.

Saturday, September 12th, 2015.

Dear Sir or Ma'am,
the Elder Council, after long and tedious debate about this, also factoring in, that there appears to be a small group of our people aboard the cruise liner, decided to give you this advice: If you value your people's lives and their safety, blow the living daylights out of this cruise liner.
No civilized nation should bow to demands of terrorists, no civilized nation should let them live. On top of that, no civilized nation should start negotiations with them. As a cherry on top, when you pay the ransom, it will paint large target onto the back of every one of your tourists, visitors to foreign lands, because every terrorist will assume, that you will pay the ransom (and once you have started, there is no way for you to stop).
If you wish, we can send a frigate to do it, if your armed forces do not dare.

I await your reply.
Signed,
Raidri Saighdiúir of the Tribe of Monaghan
Elder to his Tribe, in the name of the Elder Council of the Selkie.

OOC: I hope you don't mind me putting people of my nation onto your cruise liner. If you do, please say so, I will then modify the post.

[Soviet Farm]

The Nomadic Peoples of Soviet Farm are ready to provide any help as seen fit. Just tell us what we need to do, and we'll do it.

[Libertiere]

Capital Building, Libertiere City
The Directors sat in their joint meeting room, debating what to do.
"We need to bomb them" stated one,
"We negotiate with them, pay their ransom"
"No, that is unreasona-" said the last, as he was interrupted by relieving an email from the Selkie.
He pressed a button, and the email showed up on the screen.
"I propose this, we send marines on board, and evacuate everyone we can, then we attempt to disable the terrorists before the kill too many people. We cannot save them all, that would be impossible." "But," he sighed "We must try to save many."

LNS Divestroke, Special Operations Submersible Craft
The small, sleek craft sped towards the hulking cruise liner , edging up close to the hull. After consulting blueprints, the military advisers decided to come in from underneath, by attaching the small sub to the hull of the ship and cutting themselves in. They would advance to the dining hall, and try to take out the guards as silently as possible, and then hopefully kill the terrorists in the shortest time possible.

[The Lowlands and Saxony]

Royal house of the Stratocratic Duchy of the Lowlands and Saxony, Utrecht
Chief-Adviser for Foreign Affairs, Brigadier-General Ian van Zuylen, stormed into the office. This did not receive a warm welcome.

"Damn you van Zuylen! Knock and request for permission before you enter!"

"I'm terribly sorry Highness, but this is rather urgent. A hostage situation has developed at sea: pirates have captured multiple vessels and demand a ransom"

The Archduke sat quiet for a bit, frowning and rubbing his forehead in frustration.

"....Get Schweinbach here and fill him in"

Ian acknowledged and bowed before he went to fetch the Chief-Adviser for Armed Affairs, General Friedrich Schweinbach. A few minutes later both Ian and Friedrich entered the office.

"Are you aware of the situation Schweinbach?"

"Yes sir. I am fully briefed"

"Good. I need a solution to solve this. I want those vessels freed from their captors as soon as possible. This situation has a major impact on our trade."

"I fully agree. I propose we send a task force consisting of a few frigates, a support vessel and a detachment of the "Dukes"* to raid and secure the vessels"

* Dukes of Hazard and Containment, the nickname for the 7th special forces brigade of the Saxonian army

"Very well. Focus on the vessels with the highest economical value so start with container ships and let the cruiser be handled by those who do care about about human lives"

"Yes sir, right on it"

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A week later 5 frigates and a support vessel packing 3 helicopters and 3 platoons of special forces operators start sailing for the Libertierian seas

[The Selkie]

SDFS Rhiannon, near Libertierean waters.
Captain Celina Reathaí of the Tribe of Westmeath wasn't a happy woman.
The brown-blonde haired woman with the brown eyes, her hair in a braid dangling from her neck, stood on the bridge of the SDF-Navy's flagship. SDFS Rhiannon was a wonderful ship, lead ship of her class. She would have to go into refit anytime now.
Still, that wasn't why she wasn't a happy woman.
Pirates had taken hostages, a family of Selkie among them, as it seemed. A few ships in total, among them a cruise liner. The Elder Council advised the local government to destroy the ships, kill them all.
That was, why their little training cruise became a ready-for-combat-mission. They were on combat stations, their AShMs ready in case they were contacted to destroy these ships. They already had them on their radars.
It wasn't the nicest thing, but they were still in international waters and off of any warship in the area. Which was another reason, why she wasn't a happy woman.
"Contact the naval forces in the area.", she ordered her radio officer. "Tell them, that we are offering our assistance and awaiting orders from the Libertierean Navy or whoever is in charge."

[Syadei]

Syadec Naval Ship "Alduin",
Close to the Mysticeti.

The bridge of the ship "Alduin", of the Syadec Navy, had just received a broadcast from terrorists who had reportedly taken hostages on a ship known as the Mysticeti, a cruise liner. Communications teams and high ranked members of the navy, that were present in the bridge at the time, relayed the message back to the headquarters in Syadei, where the HR's gave them permission to act upon the situation in any way that they see fit, so six members of the Syadec Marines were called to the briefing room, in order to resolve this hostage situation.

Communications teams on the bridge of the ship took the task of contacting the owners of the Mysticeti cruise liner, where they would hope to gain as much information with regards to the layout of the ship as possible. Meanwhile, the marines were being briefed and high-tech underwater transportation vehicles, underwater jet-skis, were being prepared for each one of the marines, and they would use these in order to get over there undetected, surface, and then rappel up onto the deck, as stealthily as possible.

The marines were swiftly finished up in the briefing room, and the communications team in the bridge sent a message out to all local military ships in the area, in the hope that the messages would be picked up, "This is Syadec Ship 'Alduin', we are sending a squad of specially trained marines on board to try and eliminate hostages, tracking information has been provided, you can distinguish them from terrorists, DO NOT fire upon the ship, or them." the message had been relayed, and the team were sent to kit themselves out.

The marines each had a combat helmet, with four disposable re-breathers, and the ability to see in the dark, with NV technology. Their body armor consisted of a black, light, armor, so that they could easily maneuver, as well as potentially take damage. Their weapons load out consisted of an array of tactical grenades, a silenced HK MP5, with a tactical light, and the M9 pistol, which was favored by the majority of the squad.

The Mysticeti,
With Squad Sovren.

The team set off on their underwater jets, with their disposable re-breathers, and soon enough arrived at the huge cruise-liner. They surfaced, and used disposable rappel lines in order to hoist themselves up to the main deck. "Hold up here." ordered Paarth, who was the squad leader. With the order, the squad remained in cover, noticing two guards patrolling in the vicinity, before the long walkway. "Shots lined up?" he questioned. Three other members nodded, with two weapons marking each of the guards.

The sound of silenced bullets whistling from the barrels of the four weapons were very brief, and just as brief was the sound of the guards crying out as they are hit straight in the head by a few bullets each, before they dropped to the floor. "Move, hide the bodies, and cover behind these partitions." the orders were followed exactly, so that investigations of the bodies may be followed out later, and behind the partitions, the squad hid. Paarth moved onto a secure military communications line, where majority of other forces in the area would pick up the message, "This is Syadec Marine squadron 'Sovren', we are aboard the Mysticeti, two guards suppressed, no hostages found. If we can get anyone on the opposite ends of the ship, we can pincer these bastards in the restaurant." calls Paarth, down the comms line.

[Victores]

Victoresian Military Command, NOVA VICTORIA
~~Government Seal~~ EncryptionMax
From: Anti-Terrorist Headquarter
To: Libertiere’s government

We have hears about the situation on the ship Mysticeti. No doubt you’ve heard about the Soviet Hostage Crisis some years ago perpetrated by Communist Paramilitaries against the election of the first ever Maoist party into power. We have experience dealing with these situations, we also have 3 citizens on your ship. We request your permission to prepare a blitz raid and they to eliminate all terrorists via an aerial attack and midget sub infiltration. Also, this assault you’re planning isn’t going to work, the terrorists could just bazooka you ships out of the water.