Of Mind and Steel [Early FT/IC/OPEN]

[Swedish Allied States]

Nikita nodded, "Well I'm just asking what you plan on doing now. You can't really return to SAS now, can you? Or do you have some sort of diplomatic immunity set up?"

"Well then I suppose I have nowhere else to go then my friend. I never really gotten diplomatic immunity as that was a recommendation for this job but not mandatory. So yeah. Looks like I can't go back home and I doubt I could live anywhere as why would you harbor the man that helped the SAS Fuhrer escape? Any sane country would arrest me or kill me. Besides, the entire country, including the East US Coast, is right now a warzone. I want to live for the rest of my life, not die please." As he said that, he pulled out his Mokia Pixel smartphone and looked through his contacts to find one of his friends that lives in New York to see how bad it's going over there. "Hey Mark. Listen, i'm calling in to check on you. How's my family and your's doing?" "Listen man. I'm sorry to say this but your family's gone." WHAT?" "I'm really sorry man. They were killed in one of the Wasa bombings. Their home was reduced to rubble man. I'm so sorry." As soon as he heard that, he told Nikita that he needs to go back in the plane for a moment. From outside, you can hear screams and cries of sorrow and possibly angry words directed at Wasabiton.

[Trotsky Land]

Nikita looked left and right, feeling very awkward. He wasn't really sure what to do know. He expected more in this moment, but it went down pretty casually. He guessed he should've placed more faith in Anton, but still he couldn't quite quell that feeling the crying evoked in him. The fear of war in the Union, and the death that would come with it.

For Nikita might have shady motives, but he isn't a cold-hearted killer.

[Illuminati of Asia]

To Chinevion Fleet
From IoA battlegroup
Encryption High
We have several beachheads outside of Malmo secure if you want to land troops without resistance from fascist forces and provide a rallying area. We also have several marines landed as well as some of the EDF troops that now fall under our control. We would were waiting until more of our troops arrived to help but your help we won't need them much.

[Adevia-Ardvilla]

ABS News
"I'm Wolf Blazer."
"And I'm Wendy Gloff. Welcome to this special news broadcast."
"We start with some news just in. The Chinevionians are now reported to have intervened in the Third Swedish Civil War on the side of the EDF. This is a obviously suprising move by...." A man appears and whispers into the presenter's ears.
"Sorry for that. We have just recieved word that the Prime Minister is about to make a statement. We now go live to the press conference."
"Good afternoon, people of Adevia. Today, foreign powers are continuing to intervene in the Third Swedish Civil War despite our brave King's attempt to invite the world's major powers to the Council of Nations. Even worse, we have heard no word back from any of the nations whom the King invited to join the Council. From the end of the Krusipian Wars right up to the Ecliusian-Wasabition Cold War, the world was at peace. During that peace, the old UN helped us be like what Chinevion was before we... we conquered and killed their people..." The Prime Minister begins to cry and weep, saying "I apologise to the Chinevionian people for arranging for their homeland to be given to us in the Treaty of New London. I really do apologise, I swear."

[Chinevion]

Chinevion eye report
Good Evening lady's and gentlemen Im your host, Elaine Zhu. All of us here were surprised to hear that after, many years of aggression between our to country and Adevia, their leader has made a formal apology for all of the harm their country has caused. The president, has announced that he will be flying to Adevia to meet with their king, and discuss what can be done to repair our relations.

[Wasabiton]

Miami,Florida
The battle continued as wasabiton forces landed on the beaches of miami while AV-9 were taking out aa batteries allowing for airsupport to batter the swedish defences and within 2 days miami was taken and now the sweds were fighting on four fronts as 4 million men from all over the empire poured into the East US and a total of 1 million were pouring into florida from the wasabiton Homeland.
Washigton DC, Capital Of the Swedish Controlled US
The first bombs fell in the morning targeting the pentagon and nearby barracks and airbases avoiding civilian casualties as the force that broke through the border arrived at washington DC along with 10,000 paratroopers and 500 light tanks and 750 Stryker MBTs and hopefully end the war in the us.
Letter to the NUC:

To: The Conquestian Government
From: The Wasabiton Government
Encryption: Unbreakable
To whoever in the NUC government reads this, we would like to extend a formal alliance with you and have an offer: we will help you take and let you keep the Scandinavian Province If you help us take And let us keep the US province. please get back to us as soon as possible

[Adevia-Ardvilla]

Chinevion eye report
Good Evening lady's and gentlemen Im your host, Elaine Zhu. All of us here were surprised to hear that after, many years of aggression between our to country and Adevia, their leader has made a formal apology for all of the harm their country has caused. The president, has announced that he will be flying to Adevia to meet with their king, and discuss what can be done to repair our relations.

London
King Phillip was at Heathrow Airport. He was waiting for the arrival of the Chinevionian President. Phillip was only very young when the Treaty of New London was made. He remembered very well when his father Charles announced that Adevia had lost Chinevion. Phillip was with him as he returned from the balcony where he had made his speech. Phillip remembered his father looking devasasted in his eyes. He then bent down and said "Son, one day we will reclaim Chinevion and make it our own once more." Not long after the Chinevionian War ended, Charles passed away. He had never been the same again after the loss of Chinevion. When Phillip became King, he was exiled not once but twice due to Chinevionian annexation of Adevia and each time, the UN had stepped in and forced Chinevion to release Adevia. Phillip had come to dislike the Chinevionians. But he still saw that in their heart, the Chinevionians wanted peace. But the Prime Minister at the time never saw that. When he resigned three years prior to the Third Swedish Civil War, the new Prime Minister wanted peace with Chinevion. Suddenly, a woman said "Your Majesty, the Chinevionians are going to arrive soon." Phillip went out, followed by the Prime Minister. They all wanted peace.

[Trotsky Land]

Trotskygrad Local News

"Greetings, my fellow citizens." Trenul's face flicked onto the evening news, on every news channel broadcast in the Union, "I am sure the events of the past days have caused concern for many." He was tired. Extremely tired. You could tell by the long pauses he would take. "But I've decided to address many of the fears that have swept our nation, and discuss what it means to be a Trotskite." He looks right into the camera, and stood taller.

"The Union has a long history. A long, and sometimes confusing history. Fourteen years ago, as you all know, I led a battalion of men in victory against the Insurgents in Trotskygrad herself. After that, I declared myself the Chairman, and I have been your Chairman since then. And as I'm sure you all know, for better or worse I have not let a single election be held about me and my position. That changes today." He looked away from the camera's, and into the distance, "As you all know, recently the Trotskygrad HQ was bombed, and in the aftermath of that event the Assembly declared a formal war on the dissidents that plague us. That was wrong. I'll be frank. That was wrong, and that was illegal and that was rash. But I want to announce we will start elections regarding the entire Assembly, and my position as Chairman will, for the first time in 14 years, be open for voting on." He paused, "I will accept any result from this, I promise to my nation, and my people."

He paused a second time, "And to address another fear, I'm sure many of you have heard that war has started in the other places of the world. The President of Sweden declared Martial Law and attempted to take complete power over the SAS. Of course, the exact fate of President Harling is unsure, with the heavy fighting that has erupted within the region. We can only hope that he suffered a brutal fates at the hands of some stray bomb, and that his body will never be found, and that his body will be given no respect by Mother Nature, and that she will infest it with maggots and eat him from the outside out, like the evil within his heart ate him from the outside out. Regardless of his whereabouts, it is to be said that terrible things have happened already. We condemn the slaughter of civilians, accidental or not, by Wasabiton in New York, and we reaffirm even stronger that War is an evil. To avoid killing is what makes us Trotskites, remember this always. Wherever, and whenever, Authoritarianism arises, we will stand against it. We condemn the acts of President Harding, we condemn the acts of Wasabiton in New York City, and we condemn war. Thank you, and good night."

[Eclius]

Somewhere in SAS American territory 11:00 p.m.
A mysterious man passes through a dark valley under the beauteous, Swedish night sky, when suddenly, he found himself blocked in the valley by several gang members
"Hold on there, friend, nice suit"
"Thank you"
"Bet you have several bucks too?"
"Mind spare the brothers some money for coffee"
"Sir, I'm afraid I didn't carry the wallets"
"Oh really sonny?" The head of the gang pulls out a pistol, while others approaches the man closely, and closely
"With all due respect, sir, I have businesses to attend"
"Then this will be slow and painful"
"Well then, perire!"

Next Morning
"Sir, are those members of the famous gang nearby"
"They certainly are, but they way they've been murdered, it's unconventional, it seems almost as if the murderer had a spear that penetrated those gangster's skulls! But how could that be?"
"Sir, we have not found traces of blood aside from the victim's"
"Sir, no traces of fighting either, it was done very quickly. There's only a partial footprint of one other person aside the victims"
"One thing odd, sir, the tissues near the wound, they are burned very badly, for what weapon could have done such damage?"
"Direct-energy weapons?"
"No way, direct-energy weapons are experimental, besides, even if the murderer had one, he/she couldn't have murdered all of them without getting harmed"
"God help us now, for not even Jack the Ripper could have done things this quick and clean........who are we dealing with?"

Meanwhile, somewhere in SAS
"Sir, I see that you made it through"
"Scientists have discovered the correct frequency to send personnel through the portal, just like the old days, although, without much of a violent energy pulse. Ahh.....so this is how the parallel dimension looks like, not as advanced as patria though."
"Sir, for what is the mission?"
"The inner senate and Caesar himself became aware of the existence of this secret society you mentioned called Syndicate of Light, the existence of such organization is nothing but a hollowed mockery of the Great Eclisian Empire, thus such organization must be removed:
"Yes, sir"
"We have successfully hacked into their primitive computers using data worm, you'll now undercover inside the Syndicate. Your mission is to expose its existence to the world so that it can be removed. Also, if Swedes or Wasabitans or anyone comes in your way, get rid of them too, those primitive fleshes are not to be pitied"
"Yes, sir"

[Trotsky Land]

The truck rumbled on across the open fields, and Anton whistled as he drove. Anton was one of the greatest whistlers in all of the Union. A long time ago, when Anton was a general in the Armed Forces, he had been renowned as being able to beat anybody in a whistle fight. The years had taken some of his ability away, but he could still whistle better than most.

As Anton whistled, the Fuhrer sleeping in the passenger seat was snoring. The thing about Harlings snores that day is that they were offbeat. There were pauses between each one, and they rarely were spaced out evenly. His snoring was not at all predictable. It was uneven, and kept throwing off Anton as he whistled. Eventually, after continually getting messed up by the snoring, Anton sighed and drove in silence.

This truck was his baby. He’d had this for a long, long time. Not once, as long as he could remember, had this truck ever failed him. At this point it may have been a rustbucket, but it was HIS rustbucket.

He took a deep breath and savored the acry smell of gasoline that pervaded his truck. He still remembered when he first got this thing. It was shiny, silver colored and smoother than a newborn baby’s head. It was a pretty little thing back then, and so was he. Used to have nice face. Could’ve found a woman somewhere and settled down. Would’ve been an easy life. But that never would’ve worked for Anton.

He would’ve driven himself insane thinking about what he might’ve been. Thinking about what he could’ve been when he was that pretty face. Now his face is old and scarred, just like his truck. And his life is far from easy. And it’s only going to get harder.

He turned onto a dirt path in the forest, and started cruising down along it, moving up and down as he hit the rough bumps that littered the road. Harling was still knocked out beside him. When he said he could sleep anywhere, he must’ve really meant it. Anton thought to himself, as he came down hard after hitting a big bump.

Soon enough, he was rolling up to the entrance to the secret base they’d built out in the forest, far away from any Trotskite patrols or civilians. It was completely silent there, with not a single person around. The birds, although still chirping, were quieter here than anywhere else. The actual base itself was behind a trapdoor fastened in front of the mouth of a small cave. Anton got out of the car and quickly fixed his shirt, smoothing it down just the little bit he could.

He approached the trapdoor slowly, sauntering on over it no rush. Anton had to admit, in terms of weather it was a very nice day and he had started to relax in the warm sun. He knelt down and knocked twice, then thrice, before hitting it once, waiting a few seconds, and hitting it once more, and hitting it four times in quick succession. Then he rose up and backed away.

The trapdoor popped open, and a big hand pushed it up and then climbed out, “Ah Anton, you’re back.” The big man said.

Anton nodded, “And I bring guests! Would you mind getting him out of the car for me? He’s asleep right now, so I figure we’ll just bring him inside the cave and wait for him to wake up.”

The big man’s eyes opened up, “Is he...is he actually what you said he was going to be?”

Anton nodded, a serious expression coming over his face as he remembered the severity of what was happening, “He is indeed. He’s our ticket to victory, and so you better take good care of him.”

The big man nodded, and moved out Antons way as Anton climbed down into the base. At the bottom of the ladder, there was a large cave, with multiple hollowed out rooms for people and storage. A few people, two men and one women, were waiting for him at the bottom. They stared at him, cautious and nervous.

“So...” One of the men said, before pausing to breath, “Have you come back with him?”

Anton nodded, and moved past them, looking for somebody.

“Are you sure this is a good idea?” The other man said.

“The other nations will be looking for him!” The woman interjected.

“We should have never trusted Nikita!” The first man stated, shaking his head, “This is suicide.”

At that time, the big man came down the ladder, holding Harley by one hand, and stepped onto the floor, moving Harley so that he was being carried with both hands. The three people looked at him. Anton called for someone in the background.

A woman came running out some room, “What do you want know, Anton! Couldn’t you see I was busy!”

Anton laughed, “You were busy? That’d be a first!”

“OH!” The woman said, insulted, “Why you’d best watch your tongue or I’ll have to cut it out from your mouth!”

Anton just smiled, “Yes, there is no better person to guard him. No better person indeed.” He laughed again.

“What’s this now? Guard who? Answers Anton, stop being so vague.” Anton just kept laughing, as he motioned the big man over to him. The woman quickly caught sight of Harling, lying limp in his arms, and shushed up.

“Mind guarding him for me? He’s pretty important?” The woman shook her head, motioned to the big man to follow her, and started heading off, “Enjoy your stay, Harling.” Anton laughed out as Harling was carried away like a newborn child in the arms of a giant man, with a small woman flitting around in front of him, gesturing this way and that and talking about something nobody else really understood, but it’s not like she cared whether they were listening to it.

“The rest of you, stop gawking and get back to work! We got drills to run and patrols to interrupt!

[Chinevion]

As the presidents plane flew over the english channel on final approach, he spotted the outline of the city of Plymouth. "You know I fought here?" The president told his vice president. "No sir, I can't say i did." "It was awhile ago when I was in my early 20s, and as you know, The Adevians had just been pushed back after an attempted invasion, They had sent a small fleet thinking they could catch us of guard. We quickly defeated them, and launched an invasion, We all thought we would have an easy job, go in with superior forces, and tech, and take out the govt. Well, It was not, I was in an APC, in the first wave, we came in about half way up the beach when the shells started to come in. We got caught with our pants down and we lost a lot of good men, I myself took a sniper shot to the shoulder. It is so hard to think that after so many many years we might finally have peace." "Yes it is sir."

[Adevia-Ardvilla]

As the presidents plane flew over the english channel on final approach, he spotted the outline of the city of Plymouth. "You know I fought here?" The president told his vice president. "No sir, I can't say i did." "It was awhile ago when I was in my early 20s, and as you know, The Adevians had just been pushed back after an attempted invasion, They had sent a small fleet thinking they could catch us of guard. We quickly defeated them, and launched an invasion, We all thought we would have an easy job, go in with superior forces, and tech, and take out the govt. Well, It was not, I was in an APC, in the first wave, we came in about half way up the beach when the shells started to come in. We got caught with our pants down and we lost a lot of good men, I myself took a sniper shot to the shoulder. It is so hard to think that after so many many years we might finally have peace." "Yes it is sir."

London
Everyone was nervous as the plane flew towards the runway. They were worried for the Chinevionian President's safety. Finally the plane touched down at Heathrow Airport. The Chinevionian leader got out. A pipe band begun playing the Chinevionian national anthem. Then the people waiting for the President bowed before him. King Phillip said "President of Chinevion, you are welcome to Adevia-Ardvilla. Now, I give you Adevian citzenship. You may visit Adevia at any time you wish."

[Chinevion]

"Thank you, I am honored to have this honor bestowed, It Has been to long since our two great nations meet somewhere besides the battle field, I have come hear with Hope, Hope for a better future for both our nations, I have hope for a time when both our country's will be able to call each other allies" President Sun Li shakes hands with the adevian leader for a photo.

[Adevia-Ardvilla]

"Thank you, I am honored to have this honor bestowed, It Has been to long since our two great nations meet somewhere besides the battle field, I have come hear with Hope, Hope for a better future for both our nations, I have hope for a time when both our country's will be able to call each other allies" President Sun Li shakes hands with the adevian leader for a photo.

King Phillip replied "Thank you. Now, shall we go to the Royal Palace to have a banquet? All the Chinevionian foods have been laid out for you."

[Nations United for Conquest]

NUC Territory
Southern Norway

The intal landing on the southern shores of the Norway had gone relatively well for the RDIF that particapted. The SDF and EDF had been far to busy beating each other into the ground to notice the sudden invasion of NUC forces. Nor did they see the signs of impedning doom as the large fleet of warships sat positioned off their shores. It wasn't hard to imagine the panick that must have over taken the Swedish soldiers and civilians alike in the early minutes of the attack. Places that had once been peaceful and calm, far away from troubles happening in the capitol and all over Swedish section of SAS. There was no doubt troops in Norway belonging to both sides, but the concentrations where much lower than the hot zones surrounding the capitol and nearby large cities. It was easy to understand the instant panic and confusion at bright white lights that suddenly appeared in the sky. The large streaks of white clouds that would only be there for a few seconds. By the time the people would have noticed the burning white and smoke trials, the first missiles would be reaching their impact targets. Some where no doubt lost to remaining and active AMDSs around the coast, but for the most part they would have little time to react, inflecting heavy damage against themselves, and leaving the rest of the nation vunerable. People would have no doubt felt the earth shake quite a bit under the force of over 800 missiles striking the ground, often near 20 missiles towards large targets like military instalations, facotries, and oil plants. Those people unlucky enough to be caught up in the intal blast would likely have no idea what was happening. All they would hear was the scream of jet engines for a split second before everything would go to hell. It wouldn't be long after the end of the ground shaking first strike that people would hear the all too familar sounds of jet engines overhead. It was the follow up strike, this time aimed more at the infastructure than the military installantions. There was no doubt to be thousands of civilian deaths, but they would only be the beginning.

The nature of the first strike and follow up strikes, both airborne and ship based, had taken a huge blow to the defending positions along the beahc line. Off course the beaches that held defenses. The intal troops to step onto the sand of the beaches were met with little to no resistance. They were largely free to walk up the beaches, and to unload their vehciles and other supplies. It was only as they reached the defenders positions, that is if you could call deep wholes, and pills of rubble defenses, that they saw the true nature of what had happened. All around the visible defenses sat limbs and other varies parts of bodies. They were throw about in varios positions. Those few bodies that remained intact were the pour souls crushed under the rubble of the strike missions. In a few locations smaller trap doors had been found, most likely some sort of passage way between larger bunkers. Flame corps troopers and Willy pete grenades were called up. Slowly lifting the hatches, WP was tossed down into the pits, quickly filling the chambers with the white smoke. Any soldiers unfournate to hid in there were quickly bruned alive by the fragments in the WP. Towards the end of the defense systems, several soldiers had been found attempting to climb out of the hatches, most likely due to seeing their comrades dying. They were quickly rounded up by a patrolling squad of RDIF soldiers. They bore markings of both the SAS and EDF. Likely the troops closest to the shores had spotted the oncoming NUC armada, deciding to put down their arms to band together to make a, futile at best, attempt to hold back the omcoming invaders. The low count of troops, those that left anything intact and fighting futher inwards, indicated that much of the forces had payed no attention to the missile or air strikes hitting all around them. It was likely they assumed it was the work of the other side. The few soldiers that had been rounded up were largly shaking, due to the effects of strike deleviered to them. Most had blood covering their ears, due to the sound waves of ten's of thousands of pounds of explosives dentating above and around them. Other had scarps and cuts, a few unluckly still had burns from the WP. They had captured around 8 men, 3 SAS and 5 EDF. There had been two EDF officers, 2LTs if converted to NUC ranks, and one for the SAS. The other 5 men were of various ranks ranging from privates to gunnery sergents. The RDIF soldiers tried to order them towards one of the clearings in the rubble. 2 of the men, covered with blood, did not yield, likely due to hearing loss. The first recived a quick pistol round to the head, while the other's throat was simply slit by a nearby soldier. The remianing men, whether because they could hear, or because they feared a similar fate, stepped into the small pillbox. Two soldiers appeared from behind them now kneeling men, quickly turning a knob on their rifles. Flames quickly erupted from the end engufling the men in fire. They were dead within seconds, but the bodies were left to burn. The officers that had been captured were knocked out and carried back towards the field command

RDIF Field HQ
Kristiansand

The city of Kristiansand had been the first major city captured by the RDIF, although at least 20 others had been captured by both amphibious forces and paratroopers. The landings had created several overlapping rings of control where each regiment of the RDIF had landed an secured a beach head before moving farther inland. The city of Kristiansand was selected to be the temprary HQ for the RDIF due to having an airfield large enough to land transport aircraft, making the arrival of new troops much faster and safer. The city itself had been relatively easy to capture. The forces defending the beaches had crumbled under the fire power unleashed upon them by the first strike. The soldiers, both SAS and EDF, within the cities and further inland weren't much better. There was a lack of troops to begin with, mainly due to the heavier fighting in the Swedish region of the SAS. The forces that still remianed were largely understaffed and unorganized. They seemed to busy with the SAS and vice versa to notice what was happening just off the shores. The unprepared forces were quickly met with a wall of highly trained, well rested, and fully equiped soldiers, the best of the NUC, pushing right into their battles quickly overwhelling the defenders. Orders had been passed down through the line to cut through the Swedish, soldiers and civilians alike. They were told to take no prisoners and to push the Swedish back into the sshitty little holes they crawled out from. They followed the orders to the letter and the bodies of both SAS and EDF forces could be seen litering many of the buildings in the smaller towns across the shores. THey captured a few prisoners which were sent back to the Field Command to be dealt with. The RDIF had made good progress within the first couple hours of the invasion. Even as the land forces slowed during the night, airstrikes continued to rain down on the soldiers throughout the no fly zone, Olso, and beyond.

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Early the next day

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In the early hours of the morning RDIF forces across the front had begun to awake a prepare for further assualts into Sweden. The nexy major objective was to capture Olso from whatever forces still held it under their control. THe lines between EDF and SAS had been blured. Most reports still showed butal fighting between the groups, but the events of the beaches had repeated themselves with hard dug in troops wanting to band together for a common goal. Luckily for the RDIF most of the soldiers in Sweden were still at odds with each and not willing to step aside to defend their homeland. Not that it mattered to much anyways. The EDF had lost all of it's members due to the masscure in Chinevion, leaving any forces left in Sweden weakened consirably. It was likely that any foreign forces in the area had with drawn there troops as to not get them involved in the civil war that was beginning to assemble throughout the country.

Near the edges of Kristiensand was the main setup for the RDIF. Already field hospitals had begun to be setup for the few soldiers that had been injuried in the intal attacks. THe infounrtante part of the current wars was the lack of injuries, that is if you consider it a bad thing. The power of the weapons at play and the accuracy at that caused for most hits to end in kill shots rather than wounds. Those few soldiers that did show up were those that had been hurt by pieces of rubble while searching for the EDF and SAS survivors. The rest of the camp was in quite good shape for only being constructed within a few hours, a portion of which had been in the dark. The hopsital and it's few injuried were set off to the side in a larger building, one of the few still retaining a roof. Further down the street stood a smaller office supplies store, still littered with papers due to the shock waves of the first strike. It was a position that now severed as an armory for the troops. It held spare ammo, food, weapons, and other supplies the soldiers may have needed. Further inland sat a large hotel complex, although the exact name had been lost due to what appeared to be some sort of airdropped munitions had destroyed the outwards sign. The inside however appeared mostly intact, althoug hit still sat in ruins with windows broken and random lulgage lying around the various floors. THe building was absent from any survivors, most likely fleeing the city after the intal assualt. The hotel had been turned into a barracks for some of the soldiers, although most still slept in the tents set up along the beach.

Near the top floor fo the Hotel, now desginated as Loading base alpha, sat a large room. At one point it might have been a luxary sweet for some foriegn businessman. It was a large open room, a decent sized bed had left some imprints on the floor and the bathroom had been in quite a good shape, although the plumming was far from working. Water facilities were one of the various installation that were targeted during the event now offically known as the first strike. It was designed to further hinder both the Swedish people and the soldiers ability to fight off the RDIF that were fast moving throughout the no fly zone. Already one of the paratrooper groups had been met with. They were intally dropped just south east of Oslo and were ordered to expand out, but to await for relinking with the amphibous forces before mounting any assualt on the city. The water plants however weren't the only "civilian" type of installations targeted. Transformers, powerplants, and internet sevices and radio towers were all hit. They wanted to Swedish people soldiers and civilians alike to suffer. Years of trouble with the EDF and Swedens unstable government were all boiling over. The RDIF and eventaully regular soldiers were not their on some humanitarian mission and would show no mercy to any of the people of SAS. The Colonel in charge of the intal landing lands by the RDIF was quoted to as having yeld "We're not just going to kill the bastards; we're going to rip out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks!" while railing his fellow soldiers for the approaching attack. Now that same man, Colonel Henry Graf of the intal landing forces, stood looking out the window of the luxary sweet located in the Swedish hotel. It wasn't his room, but was rather was being used as the command center for the invasion forces. That is until Oslo could be captured, and new sight would be erected their, a perminate one, for a while at least. The balcony positioned at the back of the room gave an amaing view of the beaches below. He could see soldiers scrambling all over the beaches, some were linking up with their platoons for patrols, while others were simply moving boxes or walking. Off to the right a large collection of vehicles could be spotted. Around 20 Phalanx III MBTs had been assembling to link up with other forces to prepare for an assualt on Olso within the next few days. Looking out to the waters additional landing craft could be spotted swiftly drifting up to the beachhead. Most carried additional troops for the assualt on Olso and for other general purposes. Other craft contained supplies and additional supplies for the troops.

North-East NUC Territory
Just outside from Olso

The city itself was very close to the intal landings of the RDIF. One of two paratrooper groups had been purposely landed just out side of the city. The commanders in homeland and the OBCs didn't wish to waste time having getting caught up on the beaches near the city or having to worry about a few hundred soldiers cut off from supplies having to deal with two, even though weakened, enemy forces. That was if they could band together to try and put up some effort against the slowly approaching war machine that was NUC. The gears had been turing quite slowly at first. The 5,000 man intal landing force was only but a small fraction of the total forces that were approaching the nation, although it would be at least another day or so until the bulk of the invasion force began to arrive. By then it was hoped that Olso would be completely under NUC control and their sphere on influence, and no fly zone(s) would have greatly increased. The bulk of the force would easily elevate the NUC troops numbers up to over 30,000 regulars, along with another 12,000 or so RDIF that had just began landing in the beaches. Most had been directed towards the landing zones closer to Olso to avoid losing time as the troops would have to be carried from HQ in Kurstiansand to Olso's outskirts. Once the full force arrived a major offensive would be launched into Sweden, cutting North East across the middle territory of the nation. Of course some detachments would be sent north in Norway to full capture the country. The soldiers that had begun to unload in the south were mainly engineers and building supplies need to repair the cities airfield and begin to setup other installations for the aarriving troops.

As a force of around 2,000 soldiers were in briefing and prep phases for the upcoming invasion of the city. Many of the troops had particapted in the intal landing, while others were fresh off the boats. Regardless of where they came from all the soldiers that had been assembled in the large loading area just a few miles away were all itching for a fight against the damm Swedish. It didn't matter who it was in control of the city whether it was EDf or SAS, all they knew is there would be no Swedish left in the city once they had finished it. The stories of the intal landings were spreading around, and the morale of the soldiers was as high as it been in years. But the soldier were not alone. Joining them in the assualt would be 58 INFVs, custom fitted for urban combat they would experience in the upcoming assualt. But the RDIF wasn't just going to rely on that fact the beaches were so easy to capture. Another 15+ miles back from the city say a small hill rising above the flat ground around it. One the top of this hill sat 20 large artillery pieces that had been flown in by helicopter the night before and would be the opening act for the invasion of Olso and would play roles further down the line for the continued war. A debate had been started in command about whether or not Chemical weapons should be used on the city. They need to strike fear into EDF, SAS, and civilians alike, but now wasn't the time or the place. They didn't need the international community on their backs, although plans around this were already in place. Near 1200, the show began as the Artillery positions roared to life, flinging heavy artillery shells down range at city laying on the horizion. Each shell had the potenetal to destory a medium sized house and each artillery piece was firing at 20+ shells per minute for nearly 200 rounds a minute total of heavy munitions raining down on the city. The strikes were planned to continue for at least 3 hours, and then the assualt would begin

NUC Territory
Undisclosed location

The small city block was nothing more than rows of bombed out buildings upon bombed out buildings. There were some bodies of EDF and SAS soldier litering the streets near the wreckages of cars and a few buildings still burning. The streets were littered with holes and fallen telephone posts. It looked like something straight out of a war film, as it a really war zone. The fighting had long ended nearly 3 hours ago but there were still some combat continuing in a way. Out of all the burning and bombed out buildings sat a single house still retaining some of it's red pianting was home to a small collection of 5 men. Deep in the basement of this same house was were the men were enjoying a very interesting coversation. Two of the men sat tied, beaten and bruised, in two chairs. A thrid laid motionless on the ground in an ever growing pool of red liquid. The last two men sat behind a table, reading through several documents.Apparently finding what they were looking for the two men began to leave. As they walked up the steps one of the bound men called after them "You'll never bend us to your will" to which there was a quick reply of "It does not matter. We intend to break you" The two men left the building, waking futher down the street from the house. As they stepped into the cargo hold of a helicopter, a large explosion could be seen coming from the building the two men had left. As they arrived back in base camp, several men armed men took their place in the helicopter as it took off towards SAS/EDF territory, most notbaly on a direct path to Stockholm

OOC: Sorry the last paragraph is a bit rushed

[Swedish Allied States]

Miami,Florida
The battle continued as wasabiton forces landed on the beaches of miami while AV-9 were taking out aa batteries allowing for airsupport to batter the swedish defences and within 2 days miami was taken and now the sweds were fighting on four fronts as 4 million men from all over the empire poured into the East US and a total of 1 million were pouring into florida from the wasabiton Homeland.
Washigton DC, Capital Of the Swedish Controlled US
The first bombs fell in the morning targeting the pentagon and nearby barracks and airbases avoiding civilian casualties as the force that broke through the border arrived at washington DC along with 10,000 paratroopers and 500 light tanks and 750 Stryker MBTs and hopefully end the war in the us.

Washington D.C, SAS US
Evacuation Mode
July 3rd, 2100
6:58 PM

All civilians and non essential personnel, IE, anyone not in the police or military or a mechanic, is ordered to evacuate to the battered city of New York while the SAS here fights off the Wasa units and the pockets of EDF soldiers stationed on the SAS US mainland. Air raid sirens can be heard as well as the SAS pulling out one of its last flying carrier fleets to protect D.C from the Wasa menace. D.C Metro Officer: "All right people! Let's move it! Command here wants you out of here away from the Wasa onslaught. If you stay behind, they will tear you apart if they find you! Now move it people! Chief Bradley, what do we do now?" D.C Metro Police Chief Bradley: "Well that's simple men. We fight to protect and serve the people, and that's our job. Now get in the suit and move out." The police officers there were given a couple of spare Juggernaut suits, maintained and upgraded as the decades went on. Today, it looks sort of like an old relic lost and recovered from time, but that adds to the suit's legacy for Sweden's small military force. The D.C Police were ordered these objectives:

Get to any essential buildings and set up air defenses. They need Javelins to support the AA defenses so we can hopefully we can maintain the skies for a while.

Repair any SAS military vehicle that is in a repair state. Command doesn't want them wasting resources so we need to make use of everything we have.

Find that artillery shipment. The SAS had sent the US troops a mass supply of artillery units and armored vehicles, mostly from the Cold War era but right now, these guys will take anything they can to keep them fighting.

Most importantly, STAY ALIVE AT ALL COSTS. We can't risk sending out more troops as we need them for our defenses of the main buildings. The police and anyone willing to fight are essential for the SAS's dying cause and we need anyone to hopefully carry on the legacy and patriotism of the Swedish Allied States. Good luck out there and please come back safe.

SAS Trooper: "Wasa paratroopers! Dropping out the sky! Drop those bastards while we still can!" *gunfire ensues* SAS AA Gunner: "I see a couple of planes dropping them in. Firing off missiles and turret fire. Keep your heads down from the rubble and debris." SAS Field Captain: "Shit! Command! Where's our supplies here? We're running low on them!" Strategic Command Headquarters: "This is Strategic Command Headquarters. We sent out the D.C Police to look for your shipment. In the meantime, we have some of them coming to assist you in the AA defense. Hold your defensive line and prepare yourselves. We can only guess they'll be coming in a large swarm so be careful and stay safe. Command out." "Roger that. All right men. If we're dying here against our old allies, then let's give them a hell of a show they won't forget! Oohrah!"

Defense of Stockholm
EDF Forces
July 4th, 2100
5:23 AM


EDF Field Commander: "All right men! We're pushing through rather nicely! Now all we have to do is capture the Financial District, the Downtown Area, and finally the airport, and we finally have control of Stockholm! For The Pride Of EDF!" "EDF! EDF! EDF!" The EDF has made some good progress so far. They have taken the outside Suburb District and moving more further into the city but as they do, they will encounter some more... experimental and devastating types of weaponry not been finished since this war just broke out around 4 days ago. The names and types of these weapons are still highly classified and they won't know what it is or what it does until they fight it so, possibly some chunk of losses for the EDF as a whole so be careful out there.

Somewhere In An Unknown Location...
Fuhrer Harling

He finally woke up after the car ride and nap he took as soon as he went to bed. He wondered to himself, "Is this where I am now? Is this where i'm supposed to be? If so, I won't say this is weird and I haven't been in this situation or room before. Speaking of that, where's my puppet, Ho Chi Sock? I need him so I can sort of feel safe and calm down."

Back At The Airport...
SAS Pilot

He finally stepped out of the plane after what appeared to be 3 minutes of relentless sobbing and hysteria, he went back out to speak to Nikita about his living situation. "Now that that bullshit was finished and put in the past, I am sorry for what you had to hear. Now, if you're still here, I will need to discuss about where I am gonna live, whether it's here or anywhere else I can blend in."

[Eclius]

The Altar, Rome, Eclius
"So Wasabitons are invading Washington, Swedish soil......"
"Yes, Caesar, my data indicates that Wasabitans have unleashed majority of their forces in aim to occupy Washington"
"Is that so, now we cannot let them have all the fun, can we?"

Rome 11:30 p.m.
"In response to the recent emergence of fascism in SAS, it is the will of the senate and people of Eclius to intervene and emancipate those under the oppressive regime....."
North Seas, 12:00 a.m.
From the abyss ascends one of the ultimate symbols of the Roman scientific advancement and military might. The Octavian Fleet, as the fleet rose from ocean below, thousands and thousands of nano-thermite missiles have been launched to Swedish territory, southern SAS, beauteous as such, devoured by the wrath of Roman Empire. As many gasped, cried, and fleeing from terror, countless drones emerged from the flames. The goal of the offensive is easy and simple, to take down Swedish infrastructural buildings in Northern SAS territory, and along with it, the AA defense systems and all major military bases in Northern SAS. While on the skies, Eclisian aerial fleets have emerged from the darkness, bringing hundreds of cutting edge Eclisian jet fighters with them.

"Si......sir! The Romans have caught us unexpected!"
"Activate the anti-naval defense systems"
"negative, sir, Romans have destroyed with something we have never seen before"
"What?"
"In the beginning, there were dragonflies all over the place, and then, they just burst!"
"Bloody hell"
"Gather all men, I need to have a word with them"
Few minutes after
"Romans have caught us unexpected from the seas, our brothers and sisters in Northern defense bases.....are gone. We are at the time in which survival is no longer certain, few hours from now, perhaps, they will come from the lands"
"Sir, we fight them till the end!"
"Yeah!"
"Down with the Romans and their bloody droids!"
Meanwhile, a soldier in the corner of the meeting room smirked, then stared at the Swedish general in a scornfully way, few minutes after, he exited the room, then murmured to himself, "Swedes, they certainly don't know what's coming next, oh well, sometimes it's good to be naive and not knowing what's coming next"

Meanwhile in Iceland, another energy burst occurred with lower magnitude than the previous once, however, unlike the previous times, a portal opened, and along with it, several hover trucks from the Empire of Particles (cross dimensional Eclius is often referred to as Empire of Particles due to the scientific advancement). Suddenly, the trucks descended to the ground, and formed a cabinet. Inside the cabinet, an A.I. said quietly, "Ladies and gentlemen, our mission is quite easy......monitor the action of those mindless primitives, and neutralize whoever comes near the Dirge"
"Yes general"
"Also, I have received a report regarding Syndicate's presence in Iceland, we must proceed with caution"

[Chinevion]

"We appreciate that gesture, but it is unnecessary, We will enjoy the banquet, but then we must get down to business

[Adevia-Ardvilla]

"We appreciate that gesture, but it is unnecessary, We will enjoy the banquet, but then we must get down to business

King Phillip replied "Sure." Then they got into a horse-drawn coach that would lead them to the Royal Palace. Along the way, Phillip pointed out places of interest in London such as Hyde Park, St James's Palace and 10 Downing Street. Finally the coach reached the Royal Palace.

[Illuminati of Asia]

In the Baltic sea the reinforcements had arrived. They did not want to take Sweden how ever they would want to secure EDF headquarters in Stockholm harbor as they had troops there as well some advanced research technology. They would wait another few hours to see if the Chinevions would help them but if not they would go with attack anyways.

Lotus Space station
The station and its network of satellites had been monitoring the other force's battles and they seemed to be going well so far. They were waiting for approval from command to take the Swedish communication and gps satellites .

[Wasabiton]

Washington DC
everything was going exactly as planned though one of the first two planes has been shot down kiling 100 troops while another 100 were killed parachuting into the city we were still pushing the swedes back who were now fighting with tech from the Wasabitan-Eclio cold war in 2018 they were no match for the advanced wasabiton tanks and tech and within a week of harsh fighting with 2,000 of our men dead we finally took DC and with that and the Force in florida securing the south We captured the East US and began bombing runs on SAS MIlitary targets in their homeland while for SAS Natives we began a Massive deportation to mexico who were more than happy to accept them.

[Chinevion]

"Sir, we have craked the secret to the weapon, we are designing early prototypes as we speak, and we are almost ready to begin producing the material." "Good job, expect a massive bonus for you and your team."

[Trotsky Land]

Nikita entered the Levgrad Rebel Hideout, after being escorted over by Anton. Nikita had...very important business to discuss with his guest. And he didn't want to wait, as the power struggle between Trenul and the Assembly was growing even stronger, with many who wanted to remove Trenul from power winning seats in the Assembly, although Trenul himself won the election for Chairman quite handily, in part due to Nikita's influence.

"Good morning, Harling." Nikita said, approaching the Fuhrer, "If you have a moment, there are some things I'd like to discuss with you..."

[Chinevion]

"Okay, Lets talk, as you know our country's have been at each others throats for far to long, we wont be able to emmedly become allies, but, we can start by removing trade sanctions."

[Adevia-Ardvilla]

"Okay, Lets talk, as you know our country's have been at each others throats for far to long, we wont be able to emmedly become allies, but, we can start by removing trade sanctions."

"Sure. That will be the first step to peace." said King Phillip.