Vladistov, Stoklomolvi
1122 hours, General Stoklomolvi Time
259.62 Kelvin, Moderate snowfall
8 January 2015
1122 hours, General Stoklomolvi Time
259.62 Kelvin, Moderate snowfall
8 January 2015
Nakamura Koichi [中村こういち] was an eighteen year old immigrant from Kagetora who arrived in Vladistov only seven weeks prior on a cool, snowy day to work in a steel mill located in the outskirts of the city. Everyday, he walked from his apartment a block away to the mill, where he earned the same wages as everyone else; as expected in a socialist state, of course, though this veneer of equality hid the very real discrimination he faced at the workplace by not the company bosses but by the employees. Since the entire country had been extremely wary of Kagetora ever since the Third Stoklo-Kagetorian War, almost nobody treated a Kagetorian like an equal. Koichi did, of course, expect this after he left Kagetora in search of greener pastures after being rejected from seven workplaces, but he did not enjoy being left in the corner of the communal dining hall during his lunch. Unfortunately for Koichi, he was the only Kagetorian who worked at the mill, for he was the only one without a record of anti-Stoklomolvi political activity. He did have enough money to buy whatever luxuries he wanted, and his life here was satisfactory in comparison to his life in Kagetora. Koichi had marked off on a government roster that he wanted "unprocessed food materials," and thus every morning the government delivered vegetables and raw meat to his postbox each morning. Life was, for the moment, good.
Still, nothing could stay the same forever. His near-perfect world shattered one grey February morning when, while on the way to work with his bento in his pack, a drunken Stelimov man stumbled out from his apartment. As the man walked towards him, Koichi prepared to report him to the police as alcohol was illegal; as he began running, Koichi was chased by the now angry man with a metal pole. Arms swinging left and right, the man lunged at Koichi, and one sharp smack to the top of his head knocked Koichi out cold. He pissed on Koichi and shambled away, and Koichi bled onto the pavement while cars simply passed by the Kagetorian adolescent. It was only when a police officer arrived at the scene did he get taken to the Vladistov hospital.
He was discharged two weeks later. In the postbox he found two weeks' pay and rations for the day, but when he entered his house he found everything ransacked. His television, his computer, and his dining table were all split in half with some kind of bladed weapon, and in the bathroom he found that same formerly drunken man lying on the ground with an axe in his hand. Enraged, Koichi ran to his room, pulled out his Nagant M1895, and ran back to the bathroom. He aimed the pistol at the man, and fired a bullet through his left temple. Koichi dragged the corpse out to the front yard and threw him onto his rubbish can, and trudged back into his house, furious at the man and at the government for doing nothing. A week after this incident it would be discovered that the man had broken in mere minutes before Koichi had returned.
A day later, a search warrant was filed of Koichi's house. It was suspected that the man had been in search of something, for in the same day that man had broken into two other houses and had simply turned them inside out. Koichi, naturally, did not know, but nobody bothered to tell him. His anger grew daily, and by the day after the search he plotted to gather every Kagetorian in Vladistov and rise against the Stoklomolvi in search of equal rights for every person. While he did not know that the government was neither actively persecuting him nor his people, his message carried. Soon after, some hundred thousand Kagetorians prepared to march on the capital in the largest political demonstration since 1984.
Vladistov, Stoklomolvi
0249 hours, General Stoklomolvi Time
268.44 Kelvin, Light snowfall
26 February 2015
0249 hours, General Stoklomolvi Time
268.44 Kelvin, Light snowfall
26 February 2015
Red Square, one of the most pleasant places to be on a cloudy February morning. At this hour, it was completely empty; everyone was at home in bed, sleeping soundly before a day of relaxation on Saturday. Koichi, along with precisely 142,924 other Kagetorians [he counted them an hour before], marched into the square, and within seconds of them suddenly appearing en masse the square's floodlights shone onto the crowd of people. Flags of Kagetora were raised on the statues in the square, while flags of Stoklomolvi were prepared to be burnt as a sign of protest against the supposed discrimination cast by the government. A rifle shot rang out.
Within minutes, scores of armoured cars streamed into the square, and military policemen pulled out their heavy weaponry and rifles. Throughout the entire spectacle the scene was completely silent. The first word was spoken by the Stoklomolvi military police commissar.
"By the orders of the government, you will be given three minutes to begin dispersing immediately. Such violence and challenge to the governmental authority will not be tolerated, and we will not relent. We warn you all."
With his statement finished, a single "Kagetorian" rose and walked out of the crowd. The commissar thanked him: "Your involvement was vital to our discovery of this little insurrection. Thank you, Li Peng [李鹏]."
Shocked at the betrayal, the crowd began to yell and scream. And Koichi, whose plan had been set into motion prematurely by one hour and three minutes, was burying his head in his hands. Three flags were ignited at once, and these flaming flags were thrust into the air as slogans and signs were displayed proudly. Most of them were peaceful statements, such as "Give equality to everyone, not just some!" and "It is time that we were treated like loyal citizens too!" Their actions, however, contradicted their words; after seven minutes of non-stop yelling, another gunshot was fired into the air. This unleashed hell. Kagetorians began scattering in the direction of the Kremlin, and seven of the armoured cars were fire-bombed by the now angry mob. Policemen fired their automatic weaponry into the crowd, mowing down hundreds of mostly defenceless civilians. The armed revolutionaries, however, spared nothing, and returned fire, killing dozens of police officers. As the commissar did not want to cause too many unnecessary civilian casualties, he would rely on shock and awe later, and retreated to the streets behind the Red Square as three armoured cars blocked off the bridge into the Kremlin. The People's Liberation Army Vladistov Garrison would arrive in three hours, having been immediately mobilised for the conflict. In the Kremlin itself, artillery was set up and prepared to fire by the Kremlin guards should the situation grow too dicey.
Koichi led the rebellion, and marched forward with a flag in his two hands as his loyal supporters were shot down behind him. Two of the armoured cars were fire-bombed, while the remaining one attempted to drive away before an explosive detonated beneath its tyres and obliterated it from the inside out. Three of the policemen survived the attack. Koichi jumped into the air and thrust his flag pole into one of the officers' skulls, while the two others were shot to death by other revolutionaries. After around ten minutes of disorganised milling about, Koichi finally rallied the crowd together, and began to barricade the Red Square. Buses and civilian cars were overturned and lit on fire, while concrete benches and statues were taken down and set up around the perimetre.
As the rumbling of tanks could be heard in the distance, Koichi placed his revolver on the ground. Chaos had been brought, directly the opposite of his intention.
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Rioting by ethnic Kagetorians in Vladistov throws city into disarray
People's Liberation Army mobilised to deal with threat
A riot took place today in Vladistov, Stoklomolvi, after a protest describing apparent ethnic unrest by Kagetorians erupted into violence. Several dozen policemen and around three hundred civilians have been killed, with many more wounded. The current situation may prove difficult to defuse.
An informant placed in the group recalled that the leader of the rebellion was a man named Nakamura Koichi, a factory worker living in the northern sectors of Vladistov.
Further reports will be released as the situation develops.
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