Central Dienstad.
"Lieutenant General Kalashnik, sir." the military adjutant said before continuing. "The Ordenites have shared sensitive intelligence regarding what is being described as the build up towards an attack on Krasnovan soil. The perpetrators of this build up involve the neighboring satrapy to the south west. The Imbrimium Armed Forces deploying to the satrapy for quote on quote joint military exercises to prelude a further deployment to the front lines in the region of Gholgoth. The Triumvirate have already stated their intentions to deter and isolate our allies from Krasnova through the seas as communicated by the Arcaenian Ministry of Defense. The Ordenites have sent a proposal on what action we should take in this coming war. The Krasnovan Defense Forces are to be mobilized across all branches and ready themselves and the population for an immediate invasion of the island. We will soon come together with those representing the Supreme High Command of the Wehrmacht to better coordinate our defenses." The room was silent as everyone digested what was said. Igor Kalashnik rubbed his temple and removed his prescription glasses.
"What are our options? What of this proposal from the Wehrmacht?"
"The Wehrmacht has proposed that the Aerospace and Navy arms of the Krasnovan Defense Forces be put on high alert and to prepare its forces for imminent combat operations. The Ground Forces and the Strategic Missile Forces are to do the same. A time frame of one week is what the Wehrmacht is estimating war will break out on the island." The adjutant responded.
"War may be upon us sooner than that even, knowing the Ordenites I wouldn't be surprised if they've already made up their minds on striking first before the Triumvirate is able to." General Ivanov of the Ground Forces said as he puffed on a cigarette. "Leave it to them to drag us into war again."
Somewhere in the Sea of Ordena, Central Dienstad.
The Ordena Sea Fleet and Colonial Sea Fleet under new orders from the OKM, now scrambled several squadrons of armed vessels to ensure that every Macabean flagged vessel began their departure of Ordenite territory. However this was not but only the beginning of what was to come as other elements of the two fleets were dispatched elsewhere near by. Several carrier strike groups would begin to make there way further south-west of what the determined boundary of the Ordena Sea and it's Ordenite influence was. The CSGs would be seeking to park themselves in the sea in-between Devonia and Macabees its self which from there would begin naval supremacy operations against the Krierarmada, threatening it's home ports and it's naval supremacy near Gente Del Agua. What was now being called Task Force Serpent consisted of just over 300 vessels with 130 of them being submarines. The task force along with the carrier strike groups was mostly beefed up by several surface action groups which would give the Task Force a bigger bite when it came to blows. There mission which was tasked by their respective Navy Group Command was to prepare for naval supremacy operations and to deny any and all Krierarmada assets in the far west from coming in as active combatants. To the direct south came Task Force Scorpion which at a combined strength of 500 naval vessels including submarines were directed to what was the almost center of the shared strait that both the Ordenite and Macabean nations trade and military movements originated from. The mission was the same and the Task force would be on high alert with confrontation with the Krierarmada imminent at any given time as the Ordenite Reich began to draw lines in the sand.
Additional movements from within the Ordena Sea and the strait from the fleets would mostly be tasking squadrons to shadow certain known Ordenite trade routes. The Colonial Fleet would follow in the actions of it's fellow comrades as Task Force Wiking was assembled and directed just east of Task Force Scorpion near the mouth of the strait that led into the Sea of Crowns. The task force consisting of another 500 naval vessels and submersibles would assert themselves in the area with the extent of it's operational range being less than 400 nautical miles from the tip of Monzarc. When push came to shove the task force would begin to directly challenge Krierarmada supremacy here and deny the Macabean Navy its navigational abilities. Task Force Dragon was created and assembled by the Colonial Fleet primarily consisting of carrier strike groups for the eventuality of contesting not only the seas but also the airspace as well. The task force alone consisted of several naval aviation wings that would participate in challenging Macabean air supremacy at least at sea and would be supported from land by Air Fleet IV which operated over 200,000 aircraft including 75,000 bombers ranging from maritime to strategic and even nuclear.
Somewhere in the Sea of Crowns, Central Dienstad.
The Merchant Marine was also put on notice by the Kriegsmarine as it's convoys were encouraged to take precautions when going through Central Dienstad and its waters. After the 2nd Krasnovan War and the flaws in the Merchant Marine unveiled by it's mauling by the Stevidian Royal Navy, most of it's vessels were gradually given defensive weaponry to thwart attacks and seizures of it's personnel and cargo. It had been confirmed that a Krierarmada formation was already operating in the area of one of the more taken sea routes to Krasnova and was likely to be pulled into a coming confrontation. Naval Group Command East as it did with the Crown Fleet began relaying orders to both the Red Sea and Zvezda fleets to deploy detachments to secure important avenues and to check the Macabeans themselves. Task Force Bear and Task Force Hawk were soon enough assembled and deployed by the Red Sea Fleet with Bear making its way out of what was considered sovereign Krasnovan waters and near by Kríerflot Gregoria while Hawk departed from a naval base near the coastal city of Sterlya before hooking right and heading south where Task Force Hawk would begin operations only 300 nautical miles away from the Satrapy. Combined these two task forces equaled over 800 ships with the latter comprising of mostly carrier strike groups and submersibles, several surface action groups however were present. Bear however had been assembled with war in mind and would immediately challenge the nearby Krierflot when hostilities commenced. The port of Fedorograd was the lifeline of Macabean and Triumvirate movement to the island and certainly if the port was destroyed or seized it would put a major strain on them as a whole and leave already deployed forces cut off.
It had been kept quiet that the Wanderjar Sea Fleet had left it's usual area of operations which was near the Strait of Musselberg and instead with orders from Naval Group Command East to re-group with the two fleets in Krasnova in order to not be too numerically challenged. Instead it was circulated through open channels that the Wanderjar Sea Fleet was committing to maneuvers south of Sumer and that it may also commit to freedom of navigation missions in the Lamonian Sea. However the fleet would look to link up with elements of the Zvezda Sea Fleet to the east of the island which was deploying to the Greali Strait to check Mokan and Morridane Naval movements in the area and also to control the strait that fed into the Bay of Tuktar which was where elements of the Morridane Navy having been operating in the area since the 2nd War could be found. The Mokans and Morridanes had not been forgotten in the Wehrmacht's planning. It knew that some sort of internal conflict had broken out in Morrdh its self and it's Military had been fractured leaving Morridane Tuktar a appeasing target for the Ordenites.