A Broken Nation, A Civil War. [IC Thread]

[Alyxandreta]

The cordoba conference had now come to the close for the day. It seemed that the vast majority there were willing to give further aid to Alyxandreta in any shape or form, if only they would accept the constitutional monarchy proposed by Draskovic. And with Bekha fighting abroad, it seemed perfect for a coup to install this new government.

It was official, the republic was dead. The new Empire & Commonwealth states of Alyxandreta was born, this would surely invoke anger from Bekha but he was in their plans all along, for this new nation to succeed, a man of might was instrumental and he would be given the post of Premier for a period of ten years as rebuilding work is completed.

The Empire was now officially ready to begin its new birth, Prince Ryan Alexander was soon to become Alexander XXIV whilst his ailing father, at the ripe old age of 93 would retain his title of High Emperor of Alyxandreta, his son would have the modest or at least not as grand title of King.

Word of this coup reached Bekha, angered and incensed he became vitriolic, his life's work in forging a strong republic finally undone by a man he had come to know as an ally.

Nevertheless he knew he could instill the beliefs he had in his old republic into the new order, and as Premier he could help fashion a stronger nation.

Work would soon begin on the new constitution of the Empire & Commonwealth of Alyxandreta.



ooc: anybody know how to make a NSwiki of their country and etc?

[Allied Governments]

<<This is Voldanoi 1, they're after me! I can't get them off!>> the pilot of the Su-25 popped flares, but it didin't manage to get enough distance from them to fool the missile, which hit his plane. The Frogfoot fireballed and crashed aganist the runway, adding to the havoc that was going on, now that pretty much all of the aircraft were in flames after being hit by artillery.

The artillery also hit the IT-3 tanks, although their hardening aganist top-down attacks allowed some to survive the near-misses, but one was hit directly and exploded. The T-64s didn't have the same luck, and were all but wiped out by the artillery. Another two were disabled by enemy fire from the tanks, with a third one exploding. The turret of the one that exploded crashed next to the platoon leader's tank.
"Dammit, this is a full offensive!" Natasha shouted, holding a radio on one of her hands and an AK-74u carbine in the other. <<to all surviving tanks, I want you to regroup on the jungle. You're too exposed there. The racketpanzers will cover the AA tanks, now get the hell away from that control tower!>>

<<This is lieutenant Vladimir Durov to all surviving tanks. Turn to face the enemy armor, get our infantry away from us>> He said, and the control tower collapsed <<Missile tanks, destroy enemy armor. If thinkgs get worse we'll support the evacuation>>
The AA tanks regrouped in the middle of the runway amongst the wreckages of the SAM vehicles and started firing their autocannons at the air aiming for the gunships. The same tanks fired four 9M311 missiles aganist the ground-attack planes as they flew overhead.

The racketpanzers that survived the initial volley from the helicopters grouped up in a loose column behind the group of IT-3s, and started firing their missiles at the enemy Paladins, while the IT-3s themselves turned on a dime to face the enemy armor, and fired APFSDS munitions directed at the enemy tanks. The infantry scattered around the airfield to avoid making a large target, the many jihadists led by a few Birkanian soldiers. They were also going after the armor, and fired four Spike ATGM mounts. Seeing the Hellfires from the racketpanzers were laser-guided and the Spikes were IR-seeking, the Paladins' jamming suites wouldn't help them much.

"God, I can't believe hell breaks loose so quickly!" Natasha said as she and Falabi kept running for a safe place to direct the operations from. "We already lost several tanks! They're gonna execute me back home if I ever make it out of here alive"
"Well, why don't you try and stay here after this?" Falabi asked, still carrying his RPK machinegun "Not like we are overstaffed"
They kept running for some distance, until they finally stumbled upon Wisp and Seraph.

A lonely Birkanian Zenit satellite overflew the region form orbit, taking some reconaissance pictures, that were sent to the Birkanian military GHQ.
<<Colonel Livitnenko has proven a waste of resources to say the least>> General Stetsko said, looking at the images of destruction coldly <<This goes beyond simple imprudence. This is high treason.>>
<<Well, let's not forget that the casualties inflicted upon the AG forces made them retreat. This will hopefully be the last we hear from them.>> An Air Force general said trough the videoconference, with his screen simply saying "sound only" <<I trust her, General Stetsko. If she can survive this attack then the alyxandretans won't be much of a problem. The loss of the tanks is lamentable, but think of what we are achieving!>>
<<My descision won't change, Redlov>> Stetsko replied <<As soon as the whole affair is cleared out she's getting out of my army. Either shot or discharged, depending on wheter she wns or loses>>

The Air Superiority Fighters, seeing their work was largely finished, fired their MRS's in the direction of the retreating enemy then started a long distance circling around the area, in case any more air support arrives.

Most of the rounds from the autocannons that hit caused minor damage to the Heavy Gunships, but some managed to tear into the engine of one of the Reapers, causing it to lose oil at an alarming rate, "Fuck this, I have to get back to base." He said over the radio, as a final maneuver he turned to face the retreating column and fired most of his AT rockets at them before escaping. The Ground Attack planes, however, weren't so lucky. They popped flares, which took out three of the missiles, but one missile still chased one before finally connecting. Causing the pilot to barely have any time to eject before it erupted in a fireball which fell into the jungle. The last surviving plane begins an attack run on the IT-3's, dropping JDAMs directly on them.

Two of the remaining Reapers fire volley rockets at the AA Guns, while the two other Reapers fire their Autocannons and small rocket volleys at the troops carrying Anti-Tank Launchers. The J-Band Radar for the Paladins caused only one of the missiles to harmlessly explode, the rest hit their targets, causing a mobility kill on one Paladin and utterly destroying the main gun on two others, the integrity of the hull, however, was unchanged. Except for one. The Electric Reactive Armor fails, causing a Paladin to explode in a fiery malestrom.

The Artillery, seeing the hell they unleashed, begin their bombardment on the retreating column, firing Anti-Tank shells at the target (can't find their name online.) Almost every APFSDS rounds harmlessly bounced off the Paladin armor, and the one that didn't recieved damage to its gun stabilizer (ERA reportedly has excellent Kinetic protection, and on top of that the Paladin has sloped Chobham armor, which also has excellent Kinetic Protection.) To return the gesture, the Paladins loaded their guns with HEAT and HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) rounds at the target (There are 28 viable Paladins left, all firing at the IT-3's.)

Seraph and Wisp dive under the cover of some burning wreckage, hoping that the two didn't see them. "Wisp, ready on my mark." Seraph said, getting ready a flashbang, he pulls the pin, waits two seconds, then throws it at the two officers, as it goes off Wisp begins to run over and knock them down for interrogation later (if they are more then 40 yards away, then Wisp just fires at their legs.)

[Alyxandreta]

ooc: anybody know how to make a NSwiki of their country and etc? & bump

[Birkaine]

OOC: How does a J-band radar make a missile explode anyways? Also, the 9K33 missiles fired by the Tunguskas are radio-guided. Flares don't work on them.

The HESH and shaped charge HEAT rounds hit and near missed the tanks, since in most cases they were destroyed by the ERA armor.
<<No efect on the targets>> The gunner of a tank said
<<Roger that, Kinetics have no effect. All tanks, switch to guided munitions and open fire on the targets again>> The tank commander said. The tanks ceased firing their APDS rounds and switched to top-down attack ATGMs, which climbed as soon as the 12 tanks fired them. The JDAM was intercepted by the Arena shells of a tank, but the bomb still hit the tank and destroyed it.
<<Effective attack, fire another volley>> The Racketpanzer leader said. The tanks fired another volley of ten missiles at the enemy tanks.

"Artillery platoons, give our tanks some breath. Get some distance and begin firing on enemy positions!" Natasha said over her radio "I repeat, begin artille--" It was at this moment both officers were stunned by the flashbangs.

<<Command, please confirm>> The commander of a BM-30 said as the whole artillery divisions started to move away from the battle <<Command? Do you read?>>
"We've been given orders, TOS-1s retreat to a safe position and await for additional orders. The heavy artillery units should begin bombardment of the enemy in a direct line of sight" The commander said. The BM-30s came to a halt and began their preparations to fire, as well as the 2A65 and 2P artillery pieces. The howitzers were the first to fire, sending a barrage of armor-piercing shells to the position of the enemy tanks, who now found themselves bombarded from the IT-3s to a side, the Racketpanzers from another side and the artillery from a third position.

[Allied Governments]

OOC: How does a J-band radar make a missile explode anyways? Also, the 9K33 missiles fired by the Tunguskas are radio-guided. Flares don't work on them.

The HESH and shaped charge HEAT rounds hit and near missed the tanks, since in most cases they were destroyed by the ERA armor.
<<No efect on the targets>> The gunner of a tank said
<<Roger that, Kinetics have no effect. All tanks, switch to guided munitions and open fire on the targets again>> The tank commander said. The tanks ceased firing their APDS rounds and switched to top-down attack ATGMs, which climbed as soon as the 12 tanks fired them. The JDAM was intercepted by the Arena shells of a tank, but the bomb still hit the tank and destroyed it.
<<Effective attack, fire another volley>> The Racketpanzer leader said. The tanks fired another volley of ten missiles at the enemy tanks.

"Artillery platoons, give our tanks some breath. Get some distance and begin firing on enemy positions!" Natasha said over her radio "I repeat, begin artille--" It was at this moment both officers were stunned by the flashbangs.

<<Command, please confirm>> The commander of a BM-30 said as the whole artillery divisions started to move away from the battle <<Command? Do you read?>>
"We've been given orders, TOS-1s retreat to a safe position and await for additional orders. The heavy artillery units should begin bombardment of the enemy in a direct line of sight" The commander said. The BM-30s came to a halt and began their preparations to fire, as well as the 2A65 and 2P artillery pieces. The howitzers were the first to fire, sending a barrage of armor-piercing shells to the position of the enemy tanks, who now found themselves bombarded from the IT-3s to a side, the Racketpanzers from another side and the artillery from a third position.

(OOC: How does Reaper AT Rockets cause no damage to the IT-3's, even from their elevated position? And how did the Artillery have no effect?)

[Birkaine]

OOC: Well, a bit hard to keep track of everything that's happening. If the rockets are anything like the 70mm rockets commonly used, it doesn't have much of an effect (at least on MBTs) other than destroying their exposed radar antennae and, say, destroying two and immobilizing a third. After all, they're meant to be used aganist fortified positions and light armor, not tanks. As for high-angle shots, that's where the IT-3s can take the most shots.

I would also like to ask how unguided artillery miles away is supposed to hit such small targets as moving tanks, at least my own artillery is operating within the line of sight. Anything other than a direct hit would not have much effect on a tank.

[Allied Governments]

OOC: Well, a bit hard to keep track of everything that's happening. If the rockets are anything like the 70mm rockets commonly used, it doesn't have much of an effect (at least on MBTs) other than destroying their exposed radar antennae and, say, destroying two and immobilizing a third. After all, they're meant to be used aganist fortified positions and light armor, not tanks. As for high-angle shots, that's where the IT-3s can take the most shots.

I would also like to ask how unguided artillery miles away is supposed to hit such small targets as moving tanks, at least my own artillery is operating within the line of sight. Anything other than a direct hit would not have much effect on a tank.

OOC: First off, the missiles were AGM-114 Hellfires (The Reaper has armament similar to an Apache), secondly, the artillery isn't meant to accurately hit the target, I just thought that it would hit at least something (As to the LOS thing, that is why it took the artillery so long to come into position to fire, I also thought Artillery can't fire at a certain distance from the target, aka, a minimum distance.)

[Birkaine]

OOC: The Buratino and the 2P have a very low minimum elevation. Of course, I'm not sitting my pieces in the middle of the melee, but as stated previously, on the other end of the runway. As for the helos, you said they were rockets, not ATGMS like the Hellfire. They are entirely different things.

And the Apache carries rockets, so it's even more easily to assume you fired 70mm rockets.

[Allied Governments]

OOC: The Buratino and the 2P have a very low minimum elevation. Of course, I'm not sitting my pieces in the middle of the melee, but as stated previously, on the other end of the runway. As for the helos, you said they were rockets, not ATGMS like the Hellfire. They are entirely different things.

And the Apache carries rockets, so it's even more easily to assume you fired 70mm rockets.

Ahh hell, I guess I'll live with the mistake.

"Take cover!" One of the tank commanders say as the devastating volley rips through eight of the tanks, destroying them. "This isn't working out quite as we expected." One of the tank commanders says, "Their armor is apparently unstoppable, it seems. NOTHING can get through it." (Hint) The tanks fire their guns, this time loaded with Depleted Uranium rounds at the IT-3's.

The Reapers open fire with their Hellfire missiles at the IT-3's, launching in large volleys at them. The Artillery try to fire at the Racketpanzers.

Wisp shoots Falabi directly in the chest, then runs up to Natasha and hits a deft blow at her face while she is dazed.

[Birkaine]

The Hellfire volley was the killing blow to the IT-3 column, seeing the artillery had already destroyed their onboard radars, which didn't allow the tanks to properly fire their countermeasures at the incoming missiles. Now, only six of the 24 MBTs remained fully operational.
<<This is it, we can't hold the line anymore! All units, retreat! Get the hell out!>> The leader of the platoon said before his own tank was destroyed. The artillery began firing in an attempt to cover the retreat of the remaining IT-3s and Racketpanzers, of which four had been recently destroyed by the artillery. The Buratinos fired volley after volley of FAE missiles towards the remaining enemmies as the wrecks of the IL-76s burned behind them.
<<No word from command.>> One of the tank commanders said <<We can't get any comms at all with anyone, the antennae have been shot up! Re-establish chain of command now, dammit!>>
One of the IT-3 commanders assumed command of the few forces that were remaining, and ordered the infantry to spread out as much as they could. All the tanks started to rush away from the airfield, along with a few T-64s that hadn't been involved in the combat and the armored bulldozers. Some of the jihadists disobeyed the orders and simply rushed at the enemy tanks with explosive charges, willing to blow themselves up aganist the tanks.
In the end, the advance of the praetorians became so overwhelming that the Buratinos had to back out, leaving their infantry without cover, and the 2P was destroyed by the Birkanians with a shot from a tank, to avoid it being used by the enemy aganist them. The BM-30s never got a chance to fire, and instead quickly began to pull back. The runway was unusable, the radome was now a burning wreck, most static air defense had been destroyed and pretty much the entire mechanized component of the Al-Salabi forces was either destroyed or unusable. The control tower was basically the only structure that survived, and before the fires were put out, the AG flag would be already on it.

Natasha fell back, and her AK-47u fell a distance away.

[Allied Governments]

Wisp beats Natasha senseless, then proceeds to carry her towards the now AG controlled Airfield, Seraph follows, but before he went he cut the head of Falabi off with his standard issue Praetorian Knife, taking it with him. They noticed the absolute devastation that was caused by the attack. Wisp removes any sidearms that Natasha was carrying with her.

Clarke runs up to the body of the Shadow Platoon Commander, gripping him in his arms, he begins to weep, "We lost so many men in this attack..." He said, Ural interjects, saying, "Sir, for every man we lost they lost 8... I think we won." Clarke says, "No, we can't replace these men, especially Shadow Platoon, they died giving us that surprise attack advantage." Ural looks on, staring at the Control Tower ahead, they begin putting out the fires to put on The Federation Military Flag (CMB.) Almost as an afterthought, the Artillery load their guns with Hellfire Incendiary Rounds and begin shelling the jungle that the rebels were running into. Ural begins talking, "Sir, we got them on the run! We could drive them out of the entire region." Clarke looks at Ural, then grabs him and says, "We already did our part, they can't get any more air support, their main HQ and leaders are dead, and they can no longer get foreign weapons, we can let the Alyxandretans fight this war now." Clarke pushes Ural, who salutes and begins ordering Praetorian Command to begin dismantling their camp. When Seraph and Wisp arrive, they give the head of Falabi to Clarke (who will later give it to the Alyxandretan commander when he arrives) and they begin to interrogate Natasha when she regains consciousness, "Who the hell are you!" Clarke says angrily.

The Reapers pick off whatever forces remained, either with their Cannon for infantry and light armor, if any IT-3's were within lock on distance they fired their Hellfires. If not they just fire their missiles at any armor that remained manned.

Although they were ordered to take survivors prisoner, the Praetorian troops on mop up duty instead killed any rebels that remained alive.

The Praetorians protect the position until Alyxandretan reinforcements arrive.

OOC: If at first you don't succeed... Although I am worried that you made the IT-3's out to be overpowered. The armor is strong, I know, but they can easily deflect HEAT and HESH rounds? Really? Also, I specifically gave the Paladin armor specs which would be superior to the IT-3, Electric Reactive Armor is supposed to be the successor to Explosive Reactive Armor, although I knew that posting the same reaction to the rounds as your armor would arouse suspicion.

[Birkaine]

OOC: Has electric reactive armor been even tested? Sure, it theoretically prevents KEPs from piercing the hull, but how does that work for shaped charges? I think we gotta see more real-life testing of that technology before we can decide if it is (and by what margin) superior to the double-layer ERA on the IT-3s
As for HEAT and HESH, that's exactly what ERA is meant to defeat, escpecially since none of the two is tandem. I personally don't see the problem, because my APFSDS rounds didn't work on your tanks either (makes sense, they have more or less the same grade of armor albeit operating on different principles). We basically killed each other's tanks with ATGMs.

The Racketpanzers, BM-30s, Tunguskas, Buratinos and IT-3s advanced for some distance, then were abandoned by their crews and had their engines turned off, to prevent them giving out an bright IR signature. The minelayer vehicle was the only one who remained operative until the bitter end, before deploying large minefield behind the tracks of the surviving vehicles with its VOLCANO systems, and finally being sabotaged its crew and left behind.

"Natasha Livitnenko" She answered, struggling to breathe, and with many bruises and cuts all over.

[Allied Governments]

OOC: Has electric reactive armor been even tested? Sure, it theoretically prevents KEPs from piercing the hull, but how does that work for shaped charges? I think we gotta see more real-life testing of that technology before we can decide if it is (and by what margin) superior to the double-layer ERA on the IT-3s
As for HEAT and HESH, that's exactly what ERA is meant to defeat, escpecially since none of the two is tandem. I personally don't see the problem, because my APFSDS rounds didn't work on your tanks either (makes sense, they have more or less the same grade of armor albeit operating on different principles). We basically killed each other's tanks with ATGMs.

The Racketpanzers, BM-30s, Tunguskas, Buratinos and IT-3s advanced for some distance, then were abandoned by their crews and had their engines turned off, to prevent them giving out an bright IR signature. The minelayer vehicle was the only one who remained operative until the bitter end, before deploying large minefield behind the tracks of the surviving vehicles with its VOLCANO systems, and finally being sabotaged its crew and left behind.

"Natasha Livitnenko" She answered, struggling to breathe, and with many bruises and cuts all over.

OOC: Ahh, I see now, ok. I guess I'll keep it at multi-layered Explosive Armor until we get some definitive results on Electric Reactive Armor. It looks very promising, though, that's why I put it originally on the Paladin.

"Don't give me that crap, WHO are you? Where did you come from?" Clarke says angrily.

Off in the distance, on the Control Tower, the soldiers finally set up the flag, the battle was essentially over for the Praetorian Guard.



What would you say the total dead are? I think it was roughly 70 Praetorians (30 for Shadow Platoon, 10 for the initial attack, and 30 in total for the tanks.) What would you say your dead were?

[Birkaine]

OOC: Well, the jihadists are too much to count (11 out of 13 T-64s, most IFVs), 11 3-man IT-3s (out of the total 16), 4 4-man Tunguskas, about 8 2-man Racketpanzers, no Buratinos or BM-30s, 2 2-man Frogfoots and probably 10-15 Birkanian infantry foot soldiers, plus likely 20 engineers... And Falabi.

"Colonel Natasha Livitnenko! I come from Sinapurum" She replied. However, she did not look anything like the locals. First of all she wasn't wearing a muslim attire, yet was aligned with fanatical islamic jihadists. Secondly, she had a russian accent.

[Allied Governments]

OOC: Well, the jihadists are too much to count (11 out of 13 T-64s, most IFVs), 11 3-man IT-3s (out of the total 16), 4 4-man Tunguskas, about 8 2-man Racketpanzers, no Buratinos or BM-30s, 2 2-man Frogfoots and probably 10-15 Birkanian infantry foot soldiers, plus likely 20 engineers... And Falabi.

"Colonel Natasha Livitnenko! I come from Sinapurum" She replied. However, she did not look anything like the locals. First of all she wasn't wearing a muslim attire, yet was aligned with fanatical islamic jihadists. Secondly, she had a russian accent.

"Like hell you are. Now listen, would you rather us let you rot in some political prison while your own country denies your existence, or would you tell where you came from and possibly grant you asylum" Clarke grabs her by the scruff of her coat and lifts her up (to stand, not lift her off her feet.)

[Birkaine]

"Well, my country is already going to deny my existence. Simple, if I tell you where I come from, they'l simply say I was disobeying orders" She said "I don't see your interest. I thought you were here to beat Al-Saladi, not do a god damn international investigation! You got what you wanted."

[Allied Governments]

"Well, my country is already going to deny my existence. Simple, if I tell you where I come from, they'l simply say I was disobeying orders" She said "I don't see your interest. I thought you were here to beat Al-Saladi, not do a god damn international investigation! You got what you wanted."

"That's very true, we finished what we need here. We know you want us to shoot you, to end your life in some blaze of glory for your homeland. I'll tell you this, we won't, we will let you live the rest of your days dishonored by this loss, we know what the Federation does to Praetorians who lose in a battle such as this, we can only expect your nation to do the same. We will grant you asylum if they do not take you, do you accept?"

[Birkaine]

"Believe me, I'd rather have General Stetsko lock me up in a prison for the rest of my life than rotting in an old house waiting to die in the land of the enemy" the words slipped out of her mouth. General Dimitri Stetsko was the commander in chief of the Birkanian Army.

[Allied Governments]

"Believe me, I'd rather have General Stetsko lock me up in a prison for the rest of my life than rotting in an old house waiting to die in the land of the enemy" the words slipped out of her mouth. General Dimitri Stetsko was the commander in chief of the Birkanian Army.

"Stetsko? As in General Dimitri Stetsko of the Birkanian Armed Forces?" Clarke said in a surprised tone, not that he was upset at the Birkainians (The Federation would've done the same thing under those circumstances) but that the Birkainians were able to inflict so much damage to the Praetorians.

[Birkaine]

"Well, there you go. Lieutenant Colonel Natasha Livitnenko of the 2nd Shock Army of the Birkanian Armed Forces. Anything else you would like to know?" She gave Clarke a fiery gaze

[Allied Governments]

"Well, there you go. Lieutenant Colonel Natasha Livitnenko of the 2nd Shock Army of the Birkanian Armed Forces. Anything else you would like to know?" She gave Clarke a fiery gaze

"I would like to know, if you would like to live or die. We would certainly understand either way. Ural, give me your pistol." Ural gives Clarke his pistol, then unloads it except for one bullet, "We will let you decide in there, if we don't hear a gunshot in 10 minutes, we will go in to let you out." Clarke points to a small windowless structure on the airfield with only one entrance. Two soldiers force Natasha in, then shut the door.

[Birkaine]

OOC: Did they gave her the gun fo her to commit suicide, right?

[Allied Governments]

OOC: Did they gave her the gun fo her to commit suicide, right?

Yes, since she either can choose to live a life of shame in other countries, or die by her own nations hand via firing squad (accused of high treason, after all.) This is the Praetorians way of letting her apparently die by the enemy hand, letting her retain what standing she had remaining.

[Birkaine]

As soon as Natasha entered the room she aimed the gun at the side of hear head. A single minute passed like that, until she put her gun down.
"I can't do this." She lamented.

Far up above, the Zenit satellite arrived to the zone once more after orbiting the globe, taking photos.
"Well, surprise. The attack completely overwhelmed them" General Stetsko said, this time sitting in a table in the middle of a conference room "She better does not survive this one. She'll find it MUCH worse than the firing squad"

"General Stetsko,there's no need for that" Another general said, obviously not Birkanian and with a german accent "I wouldn't have expected her to win this, especially since the air support was denied by the Navy..." He looked at a Birkanian admiral next to him.

"We were there to test out the new tanks and equipment, not to go into an all out war with the Federation. Sending our own naval craft to support Lt. Col. Livitnenko's would have been too much, General von Schöning" The admiral replied, a bit upset.

"Precisely... she was obviously fighting a lost battle, and judging by satellite she still managed to inflict a large ammount of casualties upon the enemy without any air support. In fact, if General Redlov is right, some of the forces are still operational" von Schöning replied "I think that deserves some kind of merit... After all, I'd hate to see her executed because of our little experiment" He said with a smirk "Consider it, General Stetsko. I don't think the Grand Duke would have much of a problem with granting her asylum. After all, she tested the Racketpanzers outstandingly..." He said with a smirk.

[Allied Governments]

As soon as Natasha entered the room she aimed the gun at the side of hear head. A single minute passed like that, until she put her gun down.
"I can't do this." She lamented.

Far up above, the Zenit satellite arrived to the zone once more after orbiting the globe, taking photos.
"Well, surprise. The attack completely overwhelmed them" General Stetsko said, this time sitting in a table in the middle of a conference room "She better does not survive this one. She'll find it MUCH worse than the firing squad"

"General Stetsko,there's no need for that" Another general said, obviously not Birkanian and with a german accent "I wouldn't have expected her to win this, especially since the air support was denied by the Navy..." He looked at a Birkanian admiral next to him.

"We were there to test out the new tanks and equipment, not to go into an all out war with the Federation. Sending our own naval craft to support Lt. Col. Livitnenko's would have been too much, General von Schöning" The admiral replied, a bit upset.

"Precisely... she was obviously fighting a lost battle, and judging by satellite she still managed to inflict a large ammount of casualties upon the enemy without any air support. In fact, if General Redlov is right, some of the forces are still operational" von Schöning replied "I think that deserves some kind of merit... After all, I'd hate to see her executed because of our little experiment" He said with a smirk "Consider it, General Stetsko. I don't think the Grand Duke would have much of a problem with granting her asylum. After all, she tested the Racketpanzers outstandingly..." He said with a smirk.

OOC: I would recommend not going to war either, we apparently are on equal terms of technology, but my industry is exponentially greater.

Ten minutes pass, and the soldiers go in to put her on the next ship to the Ulysses, where she will be exchanged with Birkaine for some spies.

"I want my men to also take the most intact vehicles from this airfield to the Ulysses for reverse-engineering." Clarke orders, they begin airlifting the IT-3 which was mobility killed, and the most intact racketpanzer back to the fleet, where they will be shipped back to the Citadel for reverse-engineering.

In the morning, the Praetorians clear out, leaving the airfield and island and thus, the only real HQ to the Alyxandretan forces. For all intents and purposes, the island has been reclaimed by Government Forces.

OOC: Thank you for this RP, it was my first War RP, actually. Perhaps our nations could become allies later on?