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This Week in the Great Kingdom Ben Gray (@beng89)
07/12/2019 | Edenguard, Eden, Great Kingdom
HMS Queen Amelia, the Phalanx-class CVHGN,
pictured this week, has been on rotation in
the Grey Sea for the past year, and has provided
command and support for dozens of FONOPs
undertaken by it's fleet elements
This week in defence... the Great Kingdom's Ministry of Defence responded to statements made by the Urranese Secretary of State, Noriyuki Miyagi, in regards to maritime law and freedom of navigation operations. The Royal Navy, which regularly executes FONOPs across the world, mostly consistently in the Grey Sea, has recently increased their rate of operation near Urranese waters. The Urranese, having noticed this trend, stated that FONOPs would be "welcomed," but urged that undertakers of FONOPs remain outside of Urranese territorial waters, prioritise safety, and accept Urranese military escorts. Miyagi was also keen to underline the fact that he believes that "ulterior motives" on the part of the Royal Navy "cannot be ruled out."
GK Minister of Defence Neville Fenwick responded this week by stating that the Royal Navy would be adamant and active in complying with Urran's "very reasonable" demands, underlining that the Royal Navy intends to continue it's long history of adherence to United Nations international law, and asserted that the FONOPs are mean't to ensure the sanctity of mutually shared ideals for maritime conduct. Fenwick stated that the Royal Navy does not intend to incur any slow down in it's rate of completion in regards to FONOPs at the moment, asserting that such operations are needed as a measure of global mutual assurance to full compliance with the law of the sea. To finish, he reaffirmed to the international community that there are no "ulterior motives" involved in the Great Kingdom's policy regarding FONOPs, stating that he felt minorly insulted at such an insinuation. He did not take questions, exiting the conference with haste.
Also this week, the Royal Air Force's 121st Squadron were recalled from RAF Ysitrika in an important step towards gradual GK presence reduction in the Federation of Sishai. Furthermore, the Royal Air Force's 204th squadron were also recalled from Rathras in what was described as a step towards de-militarisation of important Grey Sea trade channels. These moves combined, represent the full removal of all GK 5th generation fighter aircraft from the continent of Sishai, a total of 12 FM-32 Aquilas and 12 FA-23 Accentor II's departing the continent. The 121st Squadron is currently in RAF Greenwood in Eden, but slated to deploy to RAF Zaragosa, near Parcia, in a week. The 204th now resides in their home base up in RAF Astralon North, in Artalia.
This week in politics... Minister of International Trade Travis Buckley announced that the Grand Helsa Convention Complex in Edenguard would be hosting the first annual Atlantic Pact Economic Conference (APEC), slated to take place in February of 2020. The APEC initiative is described as an outlet for leaders from all member states and associate states of the Atlantic Pact to collectively discuss economic policies and deals, hopefully cultivating an enhanced environment of economic favourability, prioritisation, and enhanced interdependence amongst Atlantic Pact states. Hosting many of the world's largest economies and collectively counting for over 2 billion people and over 65 trillion dollars in gross domestic product, the Atlantic Pact is one of the most economically influential organisations in the world, and APEC staff hope to utilise this conference to cultivate unity and mutual continued prosperity within the group. Another stated purpose of the conference, with such economic influence in mind, is to provide an outlet for Atlantic Pact members to outline unified policies and regulations in regard to global economic crises, such as piracy around Sishai and predatory investment from abroad.
The AXIA Model 20, the first model to receive the Luna
5G-oriented software updates
This week in business and development... AXIA Automotive announced their 14th update to their software-based integration programme, dubbed Luna, which is used to enhance the adaptive connectivity of AXIA vehicles to their environment and to the internet at large. The update included significant upgrades to Luna's adaptive censors and directional tracking through programmable integration with now-growing 5G networks across major population centers in the country. AXIA CEO Rick Davis stressed that nation-wide 5G connectivity is just around the corner, and with such connectivity, the whole experience of driving or riding in an AXIA car would be both more enjoyable and exponentially safer. The update to Luna also includes an update to integrate popular social media platforms such as Flide and The Coffee Shop, and television streaming networks such as Futura, Infinitas Live, and ABC Unlimited, into AXIA models. Now, riders can set the car to self-driving mode and enjoy more of their favourite online pastimes.
Also this week, The Coffee Shop announced their acquisitions of iChat and Clockwork, two extremely popular global picture/video based social media outlets based in the GK. iChat, used for image sharing and SMS connectivity, and Clockwork, a short video sharing network mainly used as a comeic outlet, are both staples of the GK social media scene, and are virtually omnipresent amongst youth in the GK and in some cases, abroad. Although TCS CEO Sam Payne stressed that very little noticeable changes would come to the platforms or how they are run, a decent amount of iChat and Clockwork users expressed concern over The Coffee Shop's acquisition, taking issue with the platform's notoriously open policy towards advertisement, stating, largely, that the Shop would be "farming" the platforms for further advertisement revenue. Payne responded on his personal page on the Shop, stating that such would not be the case, and that corporate is "fully aware" of the discontent with their platform's advertisement policy, reaffirming that they are working on a consumer-satisfaction priority reform.
This week in sport... Allershire City capped off a historic undefeated championship run in the United Premier League, winning the trophy with an absolutely stunning 32W-8D-0L league run. The last and only other undefeated championship run in UPL history happened in 1968, when Astralon FC sweeped the league with a number of controversial victories. Analysts, having been predicting Allershire City to take a championship title this year, taking into account previous years of buildup, now almost unanimously agree that Allershire City's current roster under the Parcian General Manager Manuel Leon is the single greatest football team the UPL has ever produced. The team, led by the emphatic Great Kingdom national skipper and center midfielder, Trevor Fowler, is also now notated as the Great Kingdom's second most record-breaking team, collectively winning almost all of the UPL's seasonal awards. Collectively, they won both the All-Star Team and Most Entertaining Team awards by UPL analysts. Other award winnings include: Trevor Fowler - Field Player of the Year (all around best ratings and stats), Ethan Hartmann - Most Goals of the Year (36, second most in UPL history behind Lance Forester's 38 in 2004), Lenhua Mao - Goalkeeper of the Year (28 clean sheets, most in UPL history), Hernan Tavares - Rising Star of the Year (23 goals in debut season, third most in UPL history).
In esports, the last CSGO Major of the year, OGL's Infinity Series, hosted at the Grand Eden complex in Golden Bay, ended with a bang in the longest final match in CSGO professional history, as the home pitch's NxG Galaxy and Edenguard's Overt Sense battled into quadruple overtime in the third map, with NxG eventually taking the hard-fought win. This would also represent the most-viewed and talked about single match in CSGO professional history, with over 3.1 million people tuning in to the Flide Live broadcast, and trending on Flide for well over a week. After a dominant 2018 by NxG, Overt Sense, a team comprising fully of Artalian and Anowan players and staff, set out to rise to the competition, stating that 2019 would be their rise, and that 2020 would be their year. Strikingly, they more than backed up their talk, forcing seemingly untouchable NxG roster into the toughest game of their careers in a major final, taking the loss with nothing but positivity and determination for the next Major in 2020. Overt Sense's vocal and prideful team captain and flexible rifler, Jan Halversson (shocksy), stated that the match was only a confirmation of what the team had been saying all year, and that 2020 would without question be their year at the top, finally deposing of NxG, the overlords of the past two years. NxG's 18 year old wonderkid AWPer and player of the match, Fuhua Yang (unReaL), who pulled off perhaps the most insane and hyped AWP double ace in the history of CSGO during the match, stated that he thinks that 2020 is going to be a fun year and much more competitive than 2019. His latter comment was met with the expected outrage and banter on Flide.
Alexa d'Aurelio pictured for a photoshoot
in the buildup to the release of Silver Lining
This week in music and entertainment... Alexa d'Aurelio dropped her now wildly popular breakout album, "Silver Lining." Although it is grounded in mainstream electronic pop and progressive house, the album also features wild variations in genre, including rap and wave tracks. The album features Silkroad (Vincent Alton), Young Blues (Andre James), and Blake Miller on the rap tracks, who have already become household names for their works such as Alton's "Liquid Gold" and Miller's "Graysoul." d'Aurelio complements the rappers with steady and entrancing vocal choruses, providing lead-ins and complements to the more quickfire street style lyrics of the famed rappers. The album features a number of wave-style tracks produced by 99 DΔL (Dalton Lee) and DDC (Cameron Altergott), the names considered widely responsible for making wave music the breakout genre of 2019. Currently, 13 of the album's 18 tracks are featured in the GK's Top 50 Charts, with 3 in the Top 10 ("SadRich" prod 99 DΔL #1, "Unbothered" ft Young Blues #4, "Future Love" #6).
This week also saw the release of the second season of Farlands, a popular sci fi thriller, on Infinitas Live, as well as the sequel in the "Astral Death" film series, a sci fi horror film series taking place in 550 CE, the start of the decline of Roman Eden. These releases dominated the television entertainment talk of the week, but there were also more important announcements, such as the renewal of over four then-cancelled television series' under Futura's streaming platform, which expect to garner a futher half a dozen million subscribers optimistically.
Just yesterday, a massive influencer party hosted at the NxG Entertainment Group's lodging in the Infinitas Complex at the center of Edenguard, was reportedly "swatted," causing the Edenguard Metropolitan Police, one of the busiest and most well funded police forces in the world, to send a fully armed CTU to the building. The call falsely reported a firearm threat in the lodgings, and was reportedly called due to a couple of the influencers, being IRL streamers, live streaming the whole event (they were also able to stream the whole CTU incursion). The CTU, armed to the teeth, shut down the whole party, detaining several influencers including Shotty and Whatwhy. All those detained were eventually released, and no firearm was found on the property. The caller, all the way in Astralon, was arrested and is awaiting charges and trial now. Many people also criticised the Edenguard Metro Police for not immediately identifying the call as a prank, given that streams of the event were up and running at the time. Metro authorities responded by saying it was "uncharateristic" for them to miss something like this, and that they are actively taking "every" required step to fully modernise and identify life-endangering pranks such as what occurred.
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Comments: WhoTF · 12 minutes ago
Allershire City gonna be undefeated next year too, poggers
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MasonHammondMP ✓ · 45 minutes ago
Vote me for PM in the next GE, time to get this boomer outta office and stop playing games with people's lives... theres no reason we need to be running FONOPs 24/7, don't need a second Aestalus in Urran
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aestetix · 31 minutes ago
posting from my AXIA lol get rich or get out
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