Britannon Civil War (Invite Only MT)

[Britanno]

The Royalists

King Harry boarded his helicopter. It was an elite longbow helicopter and was guided towards the coast by a fleet of 10 other helicopters. As he touched down at a coastal airbase, he could see the Johnathian ships. He was quickly escorted towards a small ship that would take him to the fleet.

Suddenly, an explosion was heard. The helicopter that the Kinghad been in only 3 minutes ago had exploded. A bomb had been planted. The King began to hurt after that.

NTF-Britannon
Just as they recieved the message that the king was supposed to come they saw an explosion on the coast.
The helicopter had again been sent to request information.
Helicopter
This is J-FRC-NTFB-1 calling Britannon Coastal Airbase.We have seen an explosion.What happened?

The King's helicopter exploded, but he is fine. Could we ask how you were planning for the King to reach your fleet? In another helicopter or by a small boat?

[The Jonathanian States]

NTF-Britannon
Just as they recieved the message that the king was supposed to come they saw an explosion on the coast.
The helicopter had again been sent to request information.
Helicopter
This is J-FRC-NTFB-1 calling Britannon Coastal Airbase.We have seen an explosion.What happened?

The King's helicopter exploded, but he is fine. Could we ask how you were planning for the King to reach your fleet? In another helicopter or by a small boat?

Helicopter
I am ready to land and pick up his majesty.

[Britanno]

The King's helicopter exploded, but he is fine. Could we ask how you were planning for the King to reach your fleet? In another helicopter or by a small boat?

Helicopter
I am ready to land and pick up his majesty.

The king awaits for you to land.

[Rohamistan]

Rohamistanian forces will withdraw from Britanno tomorrow. Too many men have died.

[Britanno]

Brooklands, Southern London

Brooklands is the capital city of Britanno. It's skyscrapers visible from miles away. The city held the government, what would normally be the royal palace and Britanno's most important businesses. It was also the most populated city in Britanno.

Despite the war, business had not halted in any way. People went around their daily business, oblivious as to what was about to happen. Parliament was gathering as usual and there was a fierce debate going on whether taxes should rise or not.

Suddenly, dozens of explosions were heard right throughout Brooklands and an area of 5 miles around the capital. The explosions had been caused by time bombs, placed around busy parts of the city. The second largest building in the city had been one of the buildings with a bomb exploded. A total of 13 bombs had gone off, killing an estimated 22,000 people and injuring over 100,000.

An audio message was later sent to the Prime Minister's office. It informed him that the Royalists were behind the attacks and that bombs had also been placed in all major cities. It also told him that if his government did not surrender then the bombs would go off, killing at least 250,000 people.

It is unknown if there are bombs in the major cities or if it was just a lie to scare the government into surrender.

[Stomalia]

After hearing these acts of terrorism, Stomalian government reacts.

Arrest Warrant:

Official Declaration from President Cody Parker:

The arrest and capture of King Harry is the top priority. If captured, Harry will be tortured for the rest of his life, and detained for the rest of his life. If King Harry turns himself in to Stomalia, he will not be tortured, but put in prison for life. He will receive a very light sentence if he turns himself in.


Emrol Island:

Stomalian troops have raised the Stomalian flag in Emrol Island, officially taking back Belfast to Britanno.

[Rohamistan]

After hearing these acts of terrorism, Stomalian government reacts.

Arrest Warrant:

Official Declaration from President Cody Parker:

The arrest and capture of King Harry is the top priority. If captured, Harry will be tortured for the rest of his life, and detained for the rest of his life. If King Harry turns himself in to Stomalia, he will not be tortured, but put in prison for life. He will receive a very light sentence if he turns himself in.


Emrol Island:

Stomalian troops have raised the Stomalian flag in Emrol Island, officially taking back Belfast to Britanno.

We demand, that the Royalists hand over King Harry to the International War COurt, where his case will be processed.

[The Jonathanian States]

Helicopter
I am ready to land and pick up his majesty.

The king awaits for you to land.

Multiple Euro-copters are sent as protection,then the first helicopter lands,takes in the King,and then group leaves back to the fleet,where Harry is brought to the Flagship.
[He would be able to take two persons with him,if he wants].

[Rhodevus]

The 4 Rhodeve battle cruisers and planes begin a small scale blockade of Emrol, blocking off trade routes and military supply lines to the island.

[Britanno]

To: All Nations Involved
From: Britannon Supreme Court

The capture of King Harry is now an obvious priority if Loyalist forces along with their allies. However, if the King is captured then he must be handed over to the Britannon courts where he will be put on trial for many charges including terrorism, treason, abusing power and many others. The death penalty has never been used in Britanno but treason is considered the worst crime in Britanno. He will most likely be imprisoned for life in a highly secured prison. Any attempt from other nations to keep him their own prisoner or to cause harm to the King will be responded with harsh consequences. We understand that you may wish to charge him with your own laws and courts but this is not permitted.

[The Jonathanian States]

The transports are reloaded in Jonathania,and are preparing for a second journey to Britannon,this time,guarded by two carriers,3 frigates and 7 destroyers.

[Rhodevus]

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From Rhodeve 2nd in command, Captain Bob
To: Any Britannon loyalist it may concern
Encryption: High

We are preparing an attack on Emrol Island and request assistance in the attack. We will invade the island and take it with minimal infrastructure damage. We request soldiers and planes to take the island.

[Stomalia]

Boobadoop: EDITED what was just here

[The Jonathanian States]

The Stomalian Navy Service has withdrew all ships from Emrol Island is has approached Jonathanian States navy.

IC:

All of our ships in Britanno are in range of the Jonathanian navy fleet, and have fired their shells at the fleet!

OOC:

Jonathanian States, your navy is being attacked by our air force and navy fleet:

40 fighter jets, 5 bombers, 30 helicopters, 10 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruisers, 40 frigates, 2 corvettes, 5 light carriers.

OOC:
A)
You are aware of the fact that you neither have evidence of me supporting the royalists nor any other casus belli,do you?
B)You are aware my military is much larger than yours,and that my navy alone has a funding over 3 times as large as all your military.
C)Please,before you use your airforce to attack,read this:
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1. Range: It is so, so common to see people move up aircraft to attack, fire missiles, and then strafe the enemy ships or attack them with bombs or torpedoes in the same post. This is totally unrealistic; they would be swatted out of the sky. A modern AEGIS system is capable of detecting normal-sized fighter planes at up to 300 or 400 kilometres if they are in the radar horizon. It is capable of firing so many missiles so quickly at these targets, and also at targets that it can't see but are being shown to it by look-down AWACs craft, that to charge aircraft in at the range required to strafe or launch torpedoes -- we're talking between 20 and 2 kilometres here -- is absolute suicide. It is also a godmod because realistically speaking they would not get within that range.

So let's look at this diagram I've created for this purpose.

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Note that to bring an aircraft within 2-20 kilometres of the enemy task fleet would require you to remove the following: Enemy AWACs for detection, enemy fighters for patrol, and then to fly below radar horizon so you can come in at say, 30 or 40 kilometres (the rough radar horizon for a ship trying to detect an aircraft flying at say, 100 or 50 metres or lower). This can not be done in one post. You can not skip 500 kilometres worth of layered defences in one post, because that is a godmod -- it's like saying you drive your tanks through the enemy lines straight to their capital, ignoring anything inbetween.

Another thing about range: you should check the combat radius of your aircraft and the range of the missiles they're using. If the enemy is 3,000 kilometres away, you cannot fire a Harpoon missile from an F-18; it would plunge harmlessly into the water. So you should know the ranges of your equipment. That is the single most important thing to know and use to your advantage in naval warfare, because unlike aerial and ground warfare, you cannot close the distance quickly. To cross 1,000 kilometres at 30 knots, takes 17 hours.

And, I'm sorry, but you will almost never get within strafing or torpedo range. Past defences such as long-range missiles, you also have to deal with short range missiles, fighters, guns, CIWS, so on and so forth. You cannot go in and come out; you might be able to attack, but there would certainly be no escape for your force. That's why proper naval combat is conducted with long range missiles, so your delivery strike elements like planes or ships ahead of the main force are not at threat. But that leads us on to our second point.

And,how do you know:
A) that I am in range.
B)Where exactly I am.
Whereas this helps for B:

2. Reconaissance: To be able to attack an enemy you must first know where they are. Simple, huh? No. Not according to most NSers. What I commonly see is an assumption that they know where the enemy is. "The fighters set off to attack the Questarian fleet." Well, sorry, but unless you RP it, there's no way you'd know where my fleet is. You have to look for it. What can you use as reconnaissance to look for an enemy task force? I am going to list them in order of what I view as their effectiveness. You should use them all in conjunction with one another though.

1. AWACs
2. Any other aircraft
3. Radar satellites
4. Submarines
5. Any other satellites

I will explain them briefly.

1.AWACS: AWACS can fly out to long distances and their radars have long range. I have seen a description of an E-2C Hawkeye radar listed as 600km operable range. For targets which are stealth/low RCS, it is certainly lower, but as you can see, it's still a long distance. Now I will detail the two types of radar usage that an AWACS can use to detect things;

(a) Area Search (Active Radar) On an active radar, an AWACS is actively looking for targets with its radar. On the other hand, it is broadcasting, which will light it up on a radar sensor suite to be easily seen.
(b) Listening (Passive Radar) On a passive radar, an AWACS is not using its radar. It is simply listening for other radar sounds; i.e. things using their passive radar.

If you took two AWACS, broadly speaking, one on passive and one on active, the active one would pick up the passive one because it is looking for it, and the passive one would pick up the active one because it is broadcasting its radar. So you need a balance. Plus AWACS can turn their radars on and off very quickly, which will give them a bit of both aspects.

2. Any other aircraft: Other aircraft have RADARs too. A modern fighter with an AESA RADAR can perform the function of an AWACS, just less well. The advantage of this is that it can work in an "armed reconaissance role;" give it a lot of drop-tanks and some missiles and it can defend itself or an AWACS, whereas a lone AWACS has no way of defending itself.

3. Radar satellites: Commonly known as RORSATs; Radar Ocean Reconaissance Satellite, these are satellites in low earth orbit that use a radar to scan the ocean from space. Unfortunately, their resolution is very low, to the point where, like OTH radars, they may not be able to distinguish a cruiser from a tanker. Radar satellite technology is improving, but I don't rate its resolution or its reliability. It is certainly not what most RPers use it as, i.e. "Oh I found you with my satellites." Radar sats are definetly better than optical sats for doing this, but they're still not perfect, because there's no real way to distinguish what it is that you're looking at (contacts come up as pixels on a radar screen; on a high-resolution radar, an aircraft carrier could be 1000 pixels and a destroyer 100, but on a low-resolution radar, they both might be even 1 pixel) or even what nation's flag its flying under. They're also pretty much defenceless and can be shot down with ASATs within the opening days of a war.

4. Submarines: Submarines can stay underwater undetected and follow an enemy task group by the sound of their propellers, breaking off occasionally to send encoded message as to the makeup and whereabouts of who they're tailing. However, actually finding a task group is difficult in a large body of ocean, but relatively easy in a small one. It makes sense that the larger the body of water you're fighting in (i.e. the Atlantic vs the North Sea), the more difficult it is to find enemy ships; needles in haystacks, so to speak.

5. Other satellites: Almost entirely useless. No way to determine what nationality a ship is (suppose a situation where two nations use the same military equipment; how do you tell if its from Navalprimeristan or Warfareguideland?) Not to mention that scanning the Earth's water surfaces for ships on a satellite that is in orbit, i.e. that makes overpasses, is not reliable at all. You may take a picture of a fleet that you think is an enemy fleet. Well, it could be a friendly or neutral fleet and it could be 100 or 500 kilometres away by the time you act on it. So it's not reliable.

Care to rethink your attack?

[Stomalia]

Yep, I'll rethink but I have a friend called New Roman Empire and if I get him involved, the party's over.

[The Jonathanian States]

OOC:

Yep, I'll rethink but I have a friend called New Roman Empire and if I get him involved, the party's over.

I have two friends called Straall and Coopanonva,so I dont think we need to involve an unnecessary amount of great powers here,now do we.......
And you know what,even if NRE joins you in the war - as agressor without any casus belli - that still doesnt explain the other points I gave,except for B.

[Britanno]

OOC: I wasn't planning on turning this into an OOC thread guys! Can we please get back to the RP! As for bringing in your allies, I'm making this an invite only thread. Anyone who has posted already is invited but others have to be invited by me.

[Britanno]

Newcastle, Eastern London

Newcastle is the 5th largest city in Britanno. Just like in Brooklands explosions were heard across the city, leaving 1000 people dead and 5000 people injured. The people knew what was happening, King Harry was taking his revenge. The authorities have began to evacuate people out of all major cities, time will tell if this pays off.

[Britanno]

The Loyalists, Manchester-Edinburgh border

The men marched forward. An army of 100,000 men, 20 tanks and 10 armoured cars, as well as air support if needed. They were getting ready for the invasion of Edinburgh. If the state fell then all would be lost for the Royalists. They wouldn't stand a chance at defending Dublin from the government. It would have been costly, with hundreds of thousands losing their lives on both sides, but it would be worth it.

All of a sudden, Royalist forces came into sight. A battle started but it didn't last long. The Royalists surrendered quickly, after losing many men. This began to happen lots of the time. With most of the Royalist forces dead from the charge at Britannon defences earlier in the war, there were few troops left to stop Edinburgh being retaken by the government.

Edinburgh Coast

The fleet had been ordered to attack coastal military bases and military ports along the coast in order to quicken the invasion of Edinburgh and to stop any Royalist forces escaping. It was made up of 20 destroyers, 10 frigates and 1 battleship (the flagship). The flagship was called BNS Chester.

Suddenly, on the bridge of BNS Chester, another fleet could be detected on the radar.

"Sir," a senior crew member said to the captain, "we're picking up multiple ships on the north Edinburgh coast. They could be being used to evacuate some troops."

"Do we know who they belong to?" The captain asked.

"Negative sir, but they are not Royalist ships."

"Telegram them immediately, I want to know who they are and why the hell they're in our waters."

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This is Captain Downie of the Britannon fleet. We are detecting your fleet and demand to know who you are and what your intentions are. We are approaching your position immediately.

(OOC: These ships are the ones from the Jonathanian States)

[Rhodevus]

Rhodeve ships begin to bombard Emrol island to weaken its defenses for the upcoming invasion of the island

[The Jonathanian States]

The transports are reloaded in Jonathania,and are preparing for a second journey to Britannon,this time,guarded by two carriers,3 frigates and 7 destroyers.

The fleet was steady in its route,and was supposed to reach Britannon soon.

The Loyalists, Manchester-Edinburgh border

The men marched forward. An army of 100,000 men, 20 tanks and 10 armoured cars, as well as air support if needed. They were getting ready for the invasion of Edinburgh. If the state fell then all would be lost for the Royalists. They wouldn't stand a chance at defending Dublin from the government. It would have been costly, with hundreds of thousands losing their lives on both sides, but it would be worth it.

All of a sudden, Royalist forces came into sight. A battle started but it didn't last long. The Royalists surrendered quickly, after losing many men. This began to happen lots of the time. With most of the Royalist forces dead from the charge at Britannon defences earlier in the war, there were few troops left to stop Edinburgh being retaken by the government.

Edinburgh Coast

The fleet had been ordered to attack coastal military bases and military ports along the coast in order to quicken the invasion of Edinburgh and to stop any Royalist forces escaping. It was made up of 20 destroyers, 10 frigates and 1 battleship (the flagship). The flagship was called BNS Chester.

Suddenly, on the bridge of BNS Chester, another fleet could be detected on the radar.

"Sir," a senior crew member said to the captain, "we're picking up multiple ships on the north Edinburgh coast. They could be being used to evacuate some troops."

"Do we know who they belong to?" The captain asked.

"Negative sir, but they are not Royalist ships."

"Telegram them immediately, I want to know who they are and why the hell they're in our waters."

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This is Captain Downie of the Britannon fleet. We are detecting your fleet and demand to know who you are and what your intentions are. We are approaching your position immediately.

(OOC: These ships are the ones from the Jonathanian States)

This is High Admiral Frankson of the Royal Jonathanian Navy.
We have been ordered to observe the conflict and prevent any anarchist or anti-monarchist,meaning full removal of the monarchy,from rising.
We do not hold any intentions against those who follow their constitution and laws,as long as the monarchy,at least as a formal and representative office,is retained.

[Rhodevus]

The Rhodeve troops begin to slowly at secretly make there way out of the water and onto the island, undetected. They split up into previously assigned groups and begin to make their way to specific objectives at 6, 50 hundred hours, they begin to place bombs and other explosives around the shore and quietly kill guards that have found out about them.

When the rhodeve soldiers return to the ships (which are still firing on the island), they set off the bomb, making the beach and nearby enemy buildings go up in smoke. The rhodeve soldiers return to the beach and are able to make it far inland, before an enemy is sighted and shot. The Rhodeve soldiers have taken half of Emrol island and need assistance in taking the other half. (there is only a small number of Rhodeve troops, so any loyalist that would like to join in the invasion can).

The 4 Rhodeve cruisers are sailing to the other side of the island to begin a bombardment of it and fully take Emrol island.

[Britanno]

The Loyalists

5 Transport ships with a total of 10,000 troops have been sent to assist the Rhodevus invasion of Emrol. The troops have been ordered to support the Rhodeve soldiers and to help capture as many Royalists as possible. It is thought that one of King Harry's closest allies, Natasha Billah, is on the island. The Britannon government wants her captured alive.

[Britanno]

The Loyalists

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To: High Admiral Frankson
From: Captain Downie

I hope you are aware that you are in Britannon waters which gives us the right to defend Britanno from any foreign nations. You have no right to dictate Britannon politics, especially with something as delicate as the monarchy. There has been no actions that suggest hat the monarchy will be removed, all that is confirmed is that King Harry will not be the official monarch. We order you to leave Britannon waters within the next 2 hours or we will take hostile action. Our fleet is heading in the direction of your position and will arrive within 40 minutes.

[The Jonathanian States]

The Loyalists

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To: High Admiral Frankson
From: Captain Downie

I hope you are aware that you are in Britannon waters which gives us the right to defend Britanno from any foreign nations. You have no right to dictate Britannon politics, especially with something as delicate as the monarchy. There has been no actions that suggest hat the monarchy will be removed, all that is confirmed is that King Harry will not be the official monarch. We order you to leave Britannon waters within the next 2 hours or we will take hostile action. Our fleet is heading in the direction of your position and will arrive within 40 minutes.

TO: Captain Downie
FROM: High Admiral Frankson
Yes.
Again,yes,we know,and we also don't.
We know,which is why we didn't take any action.
At your request w are heading for international waters.Though we still will stay in the region to observe and prevent any harms to jonathanian citizens in your realm.
You may head to said direction,of which the coordinates would be [Insert coordinates of current position of the fleet,I have no idea of exact coordinates],though we wont be there once you arrive.

The jonathanian taskforce moved out,heading for international waters,and once it arrives,they wait there.
Meanwhile the fleet is reported of the taskforce moving out and changes her route towards the new position.It has been reported to coming ever closer.