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Tupeia wrote:A top-secret incoming call reaches the highest strata of the Newark government. The signal is officially from the Tupei government, which wants to discuss the uprising. The call should be played on a plasma TV.

Newark Aristocracy wrote:The call is answered with "Yes?"

Tupeia wrote:

Newark Aristocracy wrote:The call is answered with "Yes?"

The plasma TV began to flicker and a figure of the Great Apostate Daimos appeared on it. "Hello gentlemen, we heard about you a minor problem, so how can we help you? "

Newark Aristocracy wrote:
"We need some,uh... miltary support."
"The rebels have control of almost everything,and we're unsure we can hold out."

This statement from the Ministry of Foreign Relations is for the purposes of aiding the rebel cause within the Newark Aristocracy.

Saralonia wrote:

Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Relations

This statement from the Ministry of Foreign Relations is for the purposes of aiding the rebel cause within the Newark Aristocracy.

The Socialist Federation of Saralonia will support the rebellion, the first action by Saralonia will be that of issuing a condemnation of ethnic cleansing and the preparation of the People's Navy to deliver volunteers from the People's Militias and conscripts from the Free Red Army of Saralonia with the purpose to aid the revolt and to aid in the universal struggle for rights, the Free Airforce of Saralonia will also be prepared to enter the conflict as soon as possible, the SubMinistry of Propaganda will start creating propaganda posters to deliver to the people in Saralonia to have a reserve of volunteers to send to aid the rebels.
"United in Friendship and Labor"

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Official Statement of the Trenakan Foreign Office regarding the Civil War in Newark

The Foreign Office sends its full recognition of the rebellion, as well as a condemnation of the Newarkian government’s tolerance of the vile institution of slavery. The Trenakan Military is instructed to send volunteers and observers to the Newark Civil War, in order to report if either side is using illegal tactics such as the use of child soldiers or the intentional killing of medical personnel.

An Official Press Release from the American Pere Housh Department of State

It has come to the attention of the APH Government and the Chancellor's Office of a brewing Civil war in the Newark Aristocracy. We wish to provide the rebel side with 50 Billion NSD in cash,military equipment, and 2.5 million troops to combat this tyrant in power and his rich cronies. To the so called Leader and his sychophants, your time in power is coming to an end.

Allanea wrote:

The Allaneans, of course, were fully aware of the situation. They observed and they watched. Satellites passed overhead, surveilling the events in multiple spectra – radar scans, infra-red scans, radio surveillance. Serious difficulties, of course, arose.

To resolve them, it was decided to make use of covert action. Two dozen submarines departed their ports, and made towards the Newark Confederacy's territorial waters.

OOC: Tupeia – how are those millions of war slaves being moved? If by ships, how large are the ships and how many war slaves does each ship hold?

Newark Confederacy – how much information is available to my nation about the rebels? Could they be contacted by radio?

Allanea wrote:A message was sent immediately to the rebel leadership:

We wish to offer you assistance. Please contact us as soon as possible by whatever secure means you have. We wish to know the following:

1. How can you be securely contacted?
2. What parts of the country are controlled by the so-called government?
3. What elements of infrastructure do they have under their control and how do they fund their operations?

Allanea wrote:

There was, now, a plan made. Two more submarine squadrons departed the Allanean shores, heading towards the Newark Aristocracy's shores. Overhead, satellites passed, now scanning the areas controlled by the government. They had a specific thing to look for now – metal processing industries, and in particular those which had the output to process large quantities of sheet metal. Oil refineries and plastics factories were also sought out. All of those would be easy to spot by infra-red satellites, simply by the heat of their furnaces.

In the interim, an additional message was sent to the rebel forces, now by secure channel:

Are there any parts of your country where the enemy does not entirely control the air? Where could aircraft come in with resupply?

Newark Aristocracy wrote:Monarch City

Hey kid,what the hell are you doing here,its too unsafe for you!
"Ok."
The rebel soldier replies to the child:",Head back home."
"Ok"
The child walks away,the rebel soldier standing guard.
Then,a large explosion occurs (non nuclear),killing many,including the small child. A plane (Gelpnir) flies overhead,over a burning,twisted mess.
Then,another explosion,as the shock cannon fires again,killing many.
Now the city is practically ruins. Civilian and soldier alike,killed. The anti air systems can't see the source,as the Gelpnir's active camouflage has been turned on.

SUPERWEAPON DEPLOYED
Gelpnir. Casualties:Over 10,000,mainly civilians.
No damage done to SUPERWEAPON.

Allanea wrote:Speech of Grand Admiral Anastas Thompson, Commander of Expeditionary Fleet Newark

Men and women of the fleet!

The treasonous slavers who are now claiming the mantle of a 'government' of the Newark Confederacy', who have betrayed their own people, their values, their liberties, have now committed the final crime. They have resorted, in their cowardly desperation, to the use of a 'superweapon', a giant bomber named a 'Gleipnir', against their own people. As I speak, over one hundred thousand innocent civilians lie dead.

None of this should surprise you. There is no level to the moral depravity, to the cowardice, to the cruelty of the slaver. He who has rejected the idea that his fellow sapient human beings are creatures like himself, with rights and dignity, may reject, in turn, every form of morality. We have seen, over our generations of struggle against slaver-kind, every indignity, every torture, every obscenity inflicted by slavers on human beings.

Nor is there a limit to the cowardice of the slaver. He who bases his life on the fiction that human beings may be governed by fear and intimidation, will himself end up governed by fear. The slaver cannot sleep safely because he fears, constantly, the rebellion of his so-called 'property' against him. When this rebellion materializes, when millions upon millions of men of good will call for violence against the slaver - the slaver's only response is to dial up the cruelty, to commit more crimes, to murder and torture more and more as he feels the ground shake with the footsteps of the vengeful.

Nor is the resort to 'superweapons' a new one. Tyrants and evildoers across the world, when finding themselves at a strategic disadvantage, imagined that by introducing a new submarine, a fancy plane, a better rifle they would upset the tide of events, the great failures, moral and strategic, that brought them to the brink of annihilation. I have studied war for decades and have served for decades with the mighty Free Kingdom Navy. I cannot tell you of a single example of a wunderwaffe which has turned a tide of war. For a leader to resort to superweapons is usually the last steps before suck-starting a Luger pistol in his bunker.

The Gleipnir is enormous. It is heavily armed, and well-camouflaged, making it hard for the forces of Newark Confederacy to detect it in flight. Rumors have it that it is escorted by stealth fighters of unprecedented quality. There is however some things that the enemy has forgotten, but we have not.

They have forgotten that other countries have nuclear-powered bombers – smaller than Gleipnir, less advanced, but certainly capable of striking against them. Our bombers, on the mainland, are even now preparing for a counterattack.

They have forgotten that Gleipnir, mighty though it is, needs to land. One cannot hide a runway wide enough and long enough for an airplane of this scale. One cannot hide the factories needed to make the sheet metal and composites for its wings, to forge its mighty engines, to keep it armed and fueled and flying.

They have forgotten that by committing those atrocities they are making the people of the Newark Confederacy merely angrier. They have forgotten that they will have to pay what they have done.

And the time for payment begins now.

The main fleet was not in strike range yet, but it did not need to be. At dozens of points around the Confederacy's shores, water began to boil with steam and smoke, and dozens of missiles burst from the water. They turned inland, guided by preprogrammed flight data, broadcasting no signal that could lead to their detection, running low over the land towards their targets – fixed radar installations throughout the enemy territory. Those of them that would not be shot down on their way would swing towards their targets, detonating overhead to shower them in dual-purpose submunitions, shrapnel scything through bodies and vehicles alike, incendiaries burning at thousands of degrees Celsius setting even metal alight.

This would be the first blow.

OOC commentary: about 120 missiles are launched at long-range radar sites throughout slaver-controlled territory. It's up to you to decide, of course, how many are shot down and what damage they do.