OOC: My entrance as an ally of Lamoni has been planned for a few days now. Pardon my tardiness in showing up.
Present day.Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Chalcedon, MonaviaThe Ministry had received messages from the Lamonian government which detailed requests for assistance against the menaces that had been rearing themselves up in the past week. Already, there were some outrageous claims of imperialist occupation taking place, but now that an ally had expressed a desire for support in an effort to put an end to said occupation and the aggression connected to it, some action had to be taken. It was not long before a brief message was addressed to the Lamonian government with a response that would hopefully provide them with some semblance of solidarity. Because the most recent Lamonian declaration referenced objections to the inclusion of slavery in this morass of problems, the message was addressed to the Under-Minister for the Abolition of Slavery, Alberte Bieito.
Mr. Under-Minister:
The Monavian government has received a statement from the Lamonian foreign ministry regarding certain objectionably policies practiced by foreign warmongers. Because their conduct represents a universal national security threat, and because they appear to be intent of enslaving the peoples of foreign states in furtherance of their aims, it has been decided that some action should be taken against these dangers to international order and peace.
I have made a statement of recommendation to my government, to wit, I have requested that a police action be carried out against the aggressors. A secret meeting of Parliament will be taking place this evening in order to vote on the proposal for this action; however, it is very likely to pass. Once that is accomplished, the Crown will handle all operational matters from there.
Sincerely,
The Right Honorable Frank Carter
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Carter’s predictions were correct. Parliament did indeed pass the proposal for a police action, meaning that the Crown could make a brief use of force without official notice. Because no formal war was declared, there would be no warning whatsoever for the Monavian Empire’s newfound enemies. The Monavians had the element of surprise and they planned to make the best possible use of it.
Low earth orbit
Open spaceIt had been almost two years since the last time that
Aegis, the great laser platform, had been used to destroy anything. Now that a police action had been declared, it had been called back into service. Its batteries and capacitors were charged enough to keep it powered for a great many shots, but for now, its first order of business was to be aimed at targets prior to firing.
Before anything physical was attacked, the enemy had to be blinded first. Computer viruses had been uploaded onto networks by hackers and then discreetly sent to computers in both enemy countries, the Greater Evil Imperial Japanese Dystopia, hereafter referred to as GEIJD, and to the country referred to as “Korean phoenix.” The viruses were of the usual commercial type, designed to damage civilian networks like other viruses, but the worst part was that the virus deployed against GEIJD was not activated until it went to Korea first, and the virus sent to Korea was sent there through computers in GEIJD. Other measures were taken to provide the appearances of traitors existing in both countries in order to force them to turn away from their offensive operations on the front and clean up problems on the inside, only to find that no problems existed.
While these viruses propagated through the targeted networks, another set of viruses were sent to both countries, but were aimed at their satellite controls, military command networks, and so forth. The viruses were inserted into the networks quietly without actually being used to shut them down, increasing the amount of time they could stay hidden before being discovered and dealt with. After a short while, a signal was given, activating the viruses, which began automatically shutting down everything and scrambling what could not be shut down.
Meanwhile, as all of this went down, an electronic message was sent to the Japanese Emperor’s private E-mail account.
To: [address censored for security reasons]
From: licensingboard441@immortalityservices.com
Subject: ExpirationAugust 12, 2011:
I have the onerous business of informing Your Imperial Majesty Tokugawa-Qianglong Uchiha no Yuan Zong Huangdi no Muteki no sama no Tenno Heika no Kami Banzai-sama no Wagakimi-sama no Yamato-tenshii-sama, most noble Emperor of Japan, that your license to remain immortal has recently expired as of August 10, subject to renewal as per our arrangement.
I will arrange the renewal of said license for another thousand years, provided that you pay the requisite $25.00 licensing fee by tomorrow (credit card only). Please do so soon; I don’t want to see you grow old.
Sincerely,
Kim Deng
As if the pointless messages and viruses were not enough to bother everyone, the satellites, now likely to be blinded (though the Monavians could not be too sure), were being shot down. Because
Aegis was firing its thin laser in space, where there was no air to obstruct the passage of its beam, the laser was turned down to its lowest setting. The Monavians were going to shoot down as many satellites as they could before anyone else found out what was going on.
Aegis could not do all of this alone. More weapons needed to be used, so 150 anti-satellite missiles had been launched from silos located in distant parts of the country that the Japanese and Koreans knew nothing about. Of course, this was nowhere near the end of the Monavian attack.
Sixty rockets, each loaded with warheads containing conically shaped steel cages holding loads of 2,000 tungsten spheres apiece, roared into the skies above and began to orbit the earth at an altitude of fifty miles. Slowly they made a flat beeline towards the targets, staying parallel to the curvature of the earth so that their paths could not be plotted. Because of their trajectories and the fact that they would not be detected until they had been up in the air for quite a while, the warheads could not be traced back to Monavia via radar or similar technologies. Shortly after launch, the warheads opened up, releasing the cages which heated up as they re-entered the atmosphere. The cages were nearly melted from the heat when they were allowed to break apart, sending clusters of 2,000 white-hot metal spheres hurtling towards targets all over Korea and GEIJD.
Whole fleets of ships were attacked; the spheres were spread out so that they hit everything at least once. Out of the total of 120,000 spheres launched, some were also aimed at cities and ammunition dumps, bomb factories, and anything that could be set on fire. This artificial meteor shower was not the last thing unleashed upon these enemies of world peace, however, for more was yet to come.
High above these countries there now sat an array of satellites carrying tungsten slugs weighing one metric ton apiece. Each of the slugs, which were about the size of an oxygen tank used in a hospital, had a rocket motor at the end so that it could be aimed at the ground. One by one, a total of thirty of these were launched at known bases and bunkers, though several were saved for destroying battleships, aircraft carriers, and yes, the “immortal” emperor’s headquarters facilities.
The Monavians were still not yet finished. They now unleashed a new weapon—radiological devices. Though Monavia, like many countries, had kept nuclear warheads aboard satellites so that they could be quickly and quietly dropped on somebody without having to launch a missile that could get shot down, they had also fitted neutron bombs, that is to say bombs that sent out nothing but radiation when they detonated, onto the satellites. The radiation quickly dissipated, and the bombs were small enough to wipe out individual bases without killing civilians only a few miles away. A neutron bomb was deployed against the palace of the Emperor of GEIJD and the Korean leader’s palace, and more bombs were dropped on army bases and naval bases that had not been hit by anything else yet.
All of these computer attacks, missile launches, bomb drops, and so forth had taken place in less than one hour. By the time it was over, the Monavian military leaders were celebrating their fast victory with champagne and preparing to finish off whatever was left after a lunch break.
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:42 am
. That deserves a celebration. 
