SHAODAN, CHEWÉILANG
OCTOBER 16, 2057
The large chamber echoed with the voice of the machine.
"Ms. Petoli, you must understand the circumstances we face at this time. The whole world seems to be at eachothers' throats, and neither the death of Wen or the unpredictable invasion of Ferdair are helping ease the tension. Our citizens are proving themselves to be...erratic, and we have the local outburst of the Red Hand to deal with as well."
POEs body swiveled to face Jylius.
"Even you, Jylius, seem to be on edge. You, the leader of a behemoth of military perfection and efficiency, are worried. That is a sure sig-" POE was cut off by Jylius's intervention.
"POE, I think even you could understand what the rest of us think. By us I mean the world. There is OBVIOUSLY something happening behind our back. Perhaps even yours! This secrecy...it's unprovoked. We would be fine with it if you weren't doing such suspicious things on our borders and with our enemies. I'm beggining to doubt the integrity of your rule."
"Our allies to the West, including you, are our closest. I apologize personally for this secrecy. I believe these broken bonds we share could be mended.
POE closely followed Jylius as she rose.
"I hope to hear your verdicts at the council."
Jylius walked down the hall and entered the elevator, her guards closely following as they met her at the bottom.
"Goodbye, machine." She whispered as she left the cursed building.
GUAN JE MILITARY MANAGEMENT CENTRE
SHAODAN, CHÉWEILANG
OCTOBER 24, 2057
Han Jie slammed his fists against the board table.
"Backstabbing bastards! They preach about their purity then soil it through the murder of thousands!" His face turned bright red as he fumed, looking to his closest generals.
The high-ceilinged room was accompanied by long red banners, brandishing the PDC logo and Chéweinese seal. At the bottom of the chamber sat a long table, with around fourty older men sweating at their seats and sorting through documents. One of these men, at seat number 22, was as artificial as he was real. POE looked about the men, his metal chassis glowing as his camera retinal sensors scanned documents as he sifted through them. Han struggled for words.
"We must take action! Show them who they're messing with! They can't bully our allies without damn consequences!"
A riot started between the officials, most agreeing. Only a few stayed silent, including POE and a younger general, who spoke once the ruckus died down.
"Gentlemen... as POE has said before, we must take this one step at a time. If we move quickly, we will miss a step and fall short of our end goal."
Nearly every eye in the room turned to him.
"Who is this man? Jie?" Yelled out an older official.
The young man cut off Jie before he could even open his mouth. "I am Yuji Takeyanda, Captain Major first class. I was sent here as requested by my higher-ups."
Some of the older men nodded to eachother, remembering this decision.
"Now, as I was saying, the other nations of the world are most likely going to hesitate before throwing themselves into danger, but only for a second. It's during that second that we need to hold them there peacefully, before delievering a blow behind their back, just have they have done to us, except more...subtle." The officials were desperately jotting down ideas and notes. "Addafas is on edge, especially. They have done a monsterous act that can be justified in some ways. But we must object to this and use the horrors of death as a leverage point to win the others over. Our 'atrocities' in the invasion of Jaiwon? Justified. Our communications with exterior forces? Justified. We must keep ourselves in a light of innocence, remaining vigilant to our enemies' moves, then strike when the moment is right. This starts now, gentlemen."
The officials clapped, stood, and promptly started talking and running to leave. Takeyanda's young voice had envigorated the old generals of the dragon nation.
THE JUN LIANG MEMORIAL FORUM CENTRE
GUAOANDISHI, CHÉWEILANG
OCTOBER 30, 2057/size]
[size=150]Finally, the room quieted down, as the opening speaker addressed everyone attending and listed off the schdedule. It began, as usual, with Chéweilang's speaker, Go Aji. She spoke. "Six days ago, an atrocity was commited by one of the largest nations in the world, against one of the smallest. An unprovoked attack by Addafas was carried out against our allies, West Stortland. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in an agregious event that will forever go down in our histories. And for what? Recently the military of Addafas have become more and more offensive, carrying out multiple invasions on old allies. Were these provoked and justified events, perhaps we could come to a civil understanding, but the fact that Addafas moves in silence cannot be prohibited! We Chéweinese understand that these are days of confusion, and even we have moved in secret, but today marks an era of peace! We must come toghether as one, as we always have."
Many different reactions erupted through the halls as naton representitives cheered and clapped whilst some exchanged whispers as angered glances. Many were moved by the wording of Aji, as they discussed the strange actions Addafas had done, while also ridiculing the secrecy of the Chéweinese.
As if by some divine force, Addafas was scheduled directly aftered Chéweilang.
