[Closed RP] NCON; Delta Episode

[Nedea]

FOR NATIONS IN THE NEW COALITION OF NATIONS

Enkon Delta, Phanon System

Orbiting a G-type star, Enkon Delta is a temperate world in the Phanon System. The world has one small moon, Selia, and another satellite, The Phanon Research & Diplomacy Station. This station was launched by the Phanon Corporation to study Enkon Delta over 70 years ago. Rumors of Doec [Pronounced DOH ECK] Relics attracted them the most. later it was discovered Doec relics are scattered over the planet ready for the picking. Half a decade after they discovered the planet, Phanon sent out a beacon to attract and notify other people in the cosmos for the purpose of settling Delta.

Grided Version

RULES

• Starting out each nation gets 3 hexes
• For RP, use common sense, refer to your stats if you really want to and be creative.
• No nation is native to Enkon Delta, However the initial Player nations have been here for 70 years already. After that, you're a nomad.
• In this RP you are free to RP as a MT, PMT, or very light FT tech. For space, no one will have large space fleets right away or have a need for them either.
• To get your feet off the ground(planet) You have to RP some space development. FTL Drives will not exist until later on. Otherwise the rest of the Phanon system is available by conventional means.
• No god modding.
• Have fun.

Settled Nations

• 46566
• Athretvari
• Moarfall
• Nedea
• St_Saratoga
• Crevane
• Ivstinian

[46566]

Midgari development
Midgar, 46566- Over the last 70 years of colonization the Grand Duchy of 46566 has had a stable wave of immigration of mostly Midgari people to what eventually become its territory. At the beginning the Grand Duchy started out as a confederation based around the early colonial cities that each ship set up. The colonial city of Midgar was able to exert control over the separate cities due to its central location within the midgari territory. This help focus the development on internal improvement ranging from roads to power grids. While still in the process of development of infrastructure the bulk of the work has been completed and the time for external communication is needed in the hopes of solidifying its hold over the territory and help strengthen its economy. With that in mind the Grand Duchy will be launching it's first of many satellites for the Grand Duchies use. The satellites will range from telecommunication satellites to satellites tracking the weather.

[Moarfall]

A warm breeze rolled over the bay. It brought with it the smell of the salty ocean and the cargo ships that cut through it, racing off to new lands and old allies. The Federation had chosen it's new home well, hoping to take advantage of easy trade and compete with the powerhouse economies of the super powers of old. The giants were beginning to stir, waking from a 70 year hibernation that left them all starved. Colonizing was never an easy task, and it was even harder now with little to none of the technology from the glory days of Prime, Enkon, and even Yukon. The massive fleets that dominated the vast endlessness of space were stripped to the bone and farther, to support the immense population of humans settling Delta.


Today was a new day for the world. The G-Type star Delta orbited broke the horizon, splashing warm pink and orange sunlight into the sky, on the harbor, and onto the Capitol building. A man named T'Alu Crann looked up from his desk and admired the view. Being the Council Leader had it's benefits, including a spectacular view of the city and the bay. And it's responsibilities he thought to himself as an indicator light pulsed a gentle blue on a control panel to his right. He answered the call and the holographic view of the city projected onto the walls around him faded, replaced instead with a small meeting hall. In it sat representatives from the High, Conglomerate, and Military Councils. Another figure sat among them, Claren Maark, the Director of the Vulonkein Special Service.

T'Alu stood and greeted them. "Some of you might be wondering why I called this meeting. Some of you may already know, or at least have your guesses." He looked to each one of them while he spoke, "For the better part of 70 years we've worked long and hard to try and bring Moarfall back to her former glory. While we may have been successful on Delta, we have neglected a certain aspect of our heritage that was the crown jewel of the Federation. We were near unrivaled in our military prowess, and damn near unstoppable when our fleets took to the stars. I believe that we need to return to those days, and soon."

He pressed a series of commands into his control panel and a projection of Enkon Delta hovered over the table. "As we know, the only satellite in orbit of the planet belongs to Phanon." He gestured to the hologram and a small blue dot began to orbit the planet. "Our forefathers, too eager to settle a new world and claim swathes of undeveloped land for Moarfall, left no satellites of any real value for us to use. Recently though, we discovered a new, unidentified satellite in orbit of Delta." A red dot appeared, and it to began to circle the planet like a shark before a kill. "Midgari recently announced it was the first satellite of many they plan to use. To me, this is a clear indicator that others' focus also lie above us. I suggest we begin to establish our own presence as quickly as possible. I've invited Director Maark here today to share with you some information that should be of great service to our new goal. Director, the floor is yours."

[Nedea]

Venture Citadel, Syndicate Plaza, DarkHaven

The room was dark, it was always dark. The windows that over looked the city were black as pitch. Destiny always wondered why they had windows in the Board Room if they were going to blackened anyway. Sometimes she wished she could see out them, Venture Citadel was the tallest building in DarkHaven and pierced the Smog that enveloped the city. Her only other chance to see above the Smog was when she was on the roof, in a plane or other VTOL craft. Her mind started to wander a bit about the view...

*DING*

The elevator doors opened and in walked the 8 members of the Board, the most powerful people in Nedea. The CEOs of the Major 8, the 8 largest and most powerful corporation in Nedea. Ranging from Pharmaceuticals to Mining & Manufacturing. Notable names such as Emory Payne from Harmony, Iridium Kredit from the Kredit Union and so on. Looking dapper as usual, the men and women of the Board were here to discuss the future of Nedea and it's place in the world and Destiny knew they were looking to her for those answers.

Destiny's father, Providence Arbitrage was the Chairman before her and had only recently died of a heart attack. It was only days later when the Board voted her in, with her degrees from the Nedean School of Business, her apprenticeship as a corporate liaison and the fact she was the daughter of the former Chairman. It was a heavy role to play, she like the Chairmans before her had to play the worlds hardest balancing act; keeping the Major 8 from destroying each other and Nedea and ensuring the profitability of all businesses and people in Nedea. She looked to her left and saw the original Co-Opetition Agreement drafted by Alexander Nedarean, the first Chairman.

"Miss Destiny, the Board is ready to hear your plan for the future of Nedea." Said Emukel Brema, CEO of Skyline Broadcasting Company.

Destiny took here place at the table, took a deep breath and conveyed her message to the Board.

[46566]

Connection problems
Midgar- With the first few satellites in orbit the Grand Duchy was able to view large areas of population and a sizable infrastructure to support a decent sized economy. With multiple areas of development the Grand Duchy has sent ambassadors abroad in the hopes of re-starting communication with the settled nations. By contracting them in person and so quickly the Grand Duke hopes to establish good terms with the nations of Delta.
With the major focus of each nation on colonization and building up its own power base. Foreign trade wasn't a priority for each nation and placed on the back burner as most of the industrial goods and raw materials were consumed within the state. As the Grand Duchy stabilized more goods were being produced then what was needed nationally. The hopes are by opening foreign markets the economy of the Duchy of Midgar could continue to expand.

[St Saratoga]

Saratoga Intro Background

Saratoga landed on Delta, the travels from Yukon to Delta were plagued with radical thoughts, disease, malnutrition, supply shortages, and disrepair. The sudden evacuation of Yukon caused massive chaos among Saratogan. Family were separated and countless millions were left behind in completely isolation and anarchy to fend for themselves. Most become refugees to other nations with the rest attempting to create something new only to be shot or bombed by ruthless foreign militaries.

The flashes of bombs falling were the last thing the fleeing Saratoga's hoped they have to experience on their new, epic journey but quickly figured out that this journey was going one that you'd be luck to survive. Ships were poor supplied and poorly fueled. The fleet of transport ships started vast but started to dwindle with ships breaking apart mid-flight. Some ships ran out of fuel but were being towed by other ships that were in better shape. All in all, by the time that the Saratogan ships discovered the planet Delta, over 75% of the fleet was lost in the travels.

Throughout the journey, there was a battle for leadership. The Chamberlain Family is unaccounted for. The ship captains banded together to claim leadership and create some sort of order which was meet with little opposition. The ship captains formed a council called the Order of the Captains and elected Captain Edwin Hodge to become Grand Admiral of the fleet and leader of the Saratogan. When the ships landed, Grand Admiral Edwin Hodge was put in charge of the re-building efforts.

70 years later,

Poverty is rampant. Thousands are in the streets starving and homeless. Coroner's and their assistants drive up and down streets every morning before sun rise in the slums of Rogerbei putting bodies of those who didn't survive the night into a semi-truck to be registered and buried. The Saratogan economy is in shambles and is still in the downward spiraling free fall. The unemployment rate is approaching 45% and continues to raise.

The economic crisis in Saratoga has caused the rise of three powerful influences in Saratoga. The Saratogan Catholic Church's membership has exploded as thousand vow their lives to the church to spread the word of God and to be able to provide for their families. The Saratogan Catholic Church is headquartered in Holy See Basilica in Rogerbei and is lead by Pope Stephen the First. The church has Mass every Sunday where 75% of the Saratogan population attend their local holy building to praise god and heal their sins. During Mass the Bishop, who leads the Church/Cathedral/Basilica, will asks for donations and also the members of the church will have the opportunity to purchase Indulgences. With the influence & popularity of the Church the Saratogan government was forced to make the Saratogan Catholic Church the state religion of Saratoga.

The second rising influence is the Saratoga Military. Soon after the re-founding of physical Saratoga the Military was charged with law enforcement, seventy years later the military is still for-filling that role. The Saratogan military is one the best paid, top job creating career opportunities in Saratoga. The military is one of the best funded government organization in Saratoga. The size of the Saratogan military is broke down into active and reservist sections. The active military has around 43 million personnel (3% of the Saratogan population, OOC: Dependent to change based on any RP rulings on military size).

The third and final major influence in Saratoga is the super rich. These individuals are the 1% of the Saratogan society and are made up of the CEOs, government officials, military generals, religious leaders and those just managed to smuggle their inheritance onto the ships with them when they abandoned Enkon or those who have managed to exploit the current fiscal crisis for their own personal gain.

Together these three forces are always battling to get the upper hand in Saratoga, or will work together at times to stop any sort of lower class insurrection.

Grand Admiral Hodge has ordered the Saratogan government to start looking outward, beyond her's shores but with a speculative eye too not allow foreign governments with destructive intentions to infiltrate Saratogan society. Representatives have been sent to each of the established nations & organizations to setup up lines of communications but they have been given strict orders to accept no offers by any other nations without running it by the Grand Admiral first.

These are dark days for Saratoga. Hopefully soon there will be oppertunity for change.

--OOC--

For RP purposes, ask me if your role play will have direct impacts on the Saratogan economy. I'm currently working with Nedea to get you all more accurate numbers to show how bad the Saratogan economy is going but you can assume the following:

• Massive Federal Debt
• Negative national job growth/creation
• Extremely high unemployment
• Falling nation GPD
• Huge federal deficit

[Athretvari]

Goba Tsun sat uneasily as Admiral An Chent critisized yet another of his senior appointments. It was her twenty-third objection today, and he marvelled at how the frail, old woman had continued on and on for hours without tiring. Goba’s hip and knee ached violently. He needed Miso to save him from this torture.

“... as minister of general administration of Onz Resmila? The 11th Restricted Military Area? May I remind you that Onz Resmila protects our border with the Aneit? ’...with all the honors, rights, duties, and responsibilities thereof.’ Ha! He’s a disgrace before he even takes office!”

“Admiral Chent, please. We’ve been through these appointments already. Thrice already, actually. They’ve my firm approval. I shall not negate them. I understand your concerns with the Aneit. That is why we have gone through these upsetting reorganizations, and ... have approved an increase in your governate’s defense and police expenditures.”

Chent understood the underlying threat to either cut her funding or her job or both, but she had achieved her rank and power as Governor of Sagan by being a stubborn old woman. “And the people of Sagan thank Ai-Core for its support, but General Gheil Kassidi’s appointment to Onz Resmila is unacceptable. I have no choice but to raise this in the next synod ...”

Goba signalled to Ninh Jaw. He looked to the old woman who continued to go on and threaten, near threaten, a coup until he could take no more. He raised a hand, “It’s been four and a half hours, admiral. I don’t usually have meetings this long when I call them, let alone when they are requested of me. May we call it the day? You have a long journey tomorrow back to Sagan.”

The old woman looked surprised, “But I hadn’t planned on returning until we resolv...”

Goba called Miso then walked the admiral to the door of his office, “I need you there immediately to insure the proper implementation of our plans. Remember An, one day Athretvari shall stretch from sea to shining sea. But before then, we must tame this continent, and its savages.”

“Of course, Strategos. I live to serve Athretvari.”

“A good life lived then.” He kissed her cheek as was custom of any male saying farewell to an older female.

As the admiral left Goba’s office she noticed a shadow sweep across the floor behind her. She turned abruptly thinking she’d find an assassin racing toward Goba, but instead the figure rushed toward her. She flicked her Shiga-wire field generator on and with a gut-wrenching lurch suddenly felt her tiny body lifted up and flung against the wall. Her attacker also sported a Shiga field and obviously knew how to fight using one.

She shouted for Goba to get back and away from the assassin, but he only stood there watching the exchange. Suddenly, it dawned upon her that her time had finally come. But she was a former Shiga fighter in her youth, one of the best Athretvari had ever produced. And she wasn’t going down without a fight.

Ninh Jaw turned and twisted through the air, the wires running up and down his Shiga suit flexed and bent around, augmenting his every move, giving him great speed and strength.

But the old woman was skilled beyond his imagination. She hiked the power to her Shiga field and leapped toward him. She crashed into his field and pushed him back off his feet. He rolled away quickly as a vibra-sword slowly cut through through his field and into the floor only a hairs-width from his face. “A sword! I didn’t know she had a sword!” He thought.

As if reading his mind she said, “That’s not all sonny!” And quickly wrapped her legs around him and flipped him up, over and on his back again with force of gorilla.

Ninh gasped for breath as Chent jumped up and swung around. Her sword found its way through his Shiga-field again. This time its glowing edge scraped against his ear, burning and slicing its way easily through the cartilage. He winced and tried to pushed her away and off him but couldn’t. She threw her small frame against his again and again. Her Shiga suit and field augmenting her tiny body into a wrecking ball.

Her field crashed against his before he could move, allowing her to control his field’s motion and thus his entire body. She lifted him over her head and banged him against the wall. She played him like a toy until he saw an opening.

Shiga fields were anti-newtonian. The stronger you pushed against it, the stronger it resisted. The only way through was by means of the “slow kills”, a set of special moves that allowed a fighter to penetrate an opponent’s field by moving slowly and gently into and through the field. Of course, such “slow and gentle” moves weren’t easy in a fight, especially against another skilled field-fighter.

He pulled a small vibra-blade out and moved it slowly through her field behind her back. Once through he flicked the blade on and twisted into her back. It cut through her spine without resistance, dropping her to the floor. Her Shiga-field flickered off as she lay dying.

Ninh looked at the old woman half expecting her to rise up and start fighting again. He felt a pang of guilt at killing her. She could have taught him a thing or two, he thought.

He turned to Goba. Miso Luvly, the Strategos’ nurse was coo-ing by his side.

Goba huffed, “You need practice, Ninh."

[Nedea]

The Clouded Spectacle [SYCON Headquarters]

Komi Niskalo was making her way to the briefing room. She was so excited to finally get her first mission after almost a year of training and was determined to impress her designated Inciter. Once she arrived at the briefing room she took a deep breath and entered.

The room was as she expected, a long table with 4 chairs and a screen at the head of it. Inside she saw 2 of her fellow newbies, a man she hadn't yet met and the Inciter. "Agent Niskalo, reporting for duty!" She announced, standing straight, hoping to make a good first impression.

"Be seated Niskalo, we are just about to get started." Said the unknown man and she sat.

The Inciter walked to the front of the room and introduced herself. "I am Inciter Hart and I will be the director of your team. Before we go over the mission details, let's take a moment to go over everyone's file." She turned to the screen and it flicked on. Then it started to scroll through several files before stopping. "Agent Fike, former combat specialist with Harmony. 75 confirmed kills including your own father who was a Midgari Spy. Not bad."

Fike looked up "Just glad to be back in action. The simulations started to get a bit boring and I want some real challenges!" Brent Fike was brash and thought he could do anything. It upset him that after all his years in Harmony he had to start at the bottom of the food chain once again in SYCON.

"Yes, I'm sure. Next is Agent Lace, our youngest agent. Joined the Network right out of Engineering School." The Inciter revealed.

Straight Lace was quiet and just nodded her head. She didn't like talking much or at all really. She enjoyed keeping to herself and working on her side projects.

Hart eyed Lace for a moment and then continued. "Then we have Agent Niskalo, also former Harmony. Spent her time as a nurse in the paramilitary but was discharged early for administering an experimental medicine to an ally that resulted in their death."

Komi Niskalo looked down. In that moment all the excitement she had was traded for melancholy. She knew the chances were slim when administering that medicine and yet against all her better judgment as a nurse she tried anyway, and failed. She pushed these thoughts from her mind and returned her attention to the Inciter.

"Now that you are all familiar with each other let me say, welcome agents, and congratulations on passing the final exam and making it this far." Inciter Hart Resumed. "Most newbies never get to see their first mission, either they drop out, fail or die. You all managed to avoid these three pitfalls and it is those same pitfalls you must avoid while in the field. Now, I'm sure you're wondering who this is" She gestured to the unknown man. "This is Operative Prollford, our Moarfallian Corespondent. He will be joining you on your first mission to evaluate your ability in the field."

Prollford stood up and walked to the front of the room next to Hart. "I'm just gonna cut the pleasantries out and get right to it. We are looking for this man." The screen changed and the image of a man appeared. He looked suave and yet greasy, like a peddler trying to sell watches in an alleyway."HIs name is Conner Tiste an information broker who has found himself with goods he shouldn't have. We need to find and capture him before he sells this info to our competitors. He was last spotted at the Nublar Watering Hole, a bar in northern Moarfall. We need to find out where he's gone before it's too late. You'll find dossiers in your quarters. I suggest you look them over if you want to be useful. We leave tomorrow morning."

"Good luck Agents, oh and see if you can bring back a bottle of Amber Wine from that bar. I haven't had it in years." The Inciter coaxed, hoping to get some spirits in this dry country.

Komi stood up and left the briefing room. That feeling of excitement had returned but it was accompanied with nervousness. She was actually going on a real mission! With real consequences...

She entered her room and sat on her bed. Next to her she eyed the Dossier the Operative was talking about. Printed on the cover she read: Operation Candid Riddler.

[Crevane]

Cres City, Early morning.

The sun was just starting to shine on the steel giant of Cres City, the golden gleam reflecting off the city rivaling the sun itself. Cres city, now that's a story to tell. One of the biggest cities on Delta, yet only 4 years old. It all starts back when the Crev ship the CRS Preservation colony ship was approaching the Phannon System. Captain Portal recalls; "The pace, the instruments, it was all working the way it have, not a problem besides a reactor leak or an angry matinee. Cryo was fine, the ark was stable. Most issues were nominal. That was until we got close to the planet. The ship was off course! Now we were heading straight for a mountain at speeds that would have destroyed the ship and the people on board, so I, being the great man that I am, steered us into the closest body of water I could find. The ships breaks went on and we descended into the water at such a speed the snorer in cryopod #623,510 woke up. The only reason we live and breath is by my great abilities. And that's that."

The captain story shapes up. The ship was off course and landed in the ocean. But navigator Winne's interview told a different story; "NO NO NO, my coordinations were locked in and autopilot was on! The ship was off course because of that asshole Portal's drunken idiocy. He has this sick tradition he has been doing for the past thirty years of travel where he awakes a girl of his picking from a cryopod and finds a way to have his way with them. He used to be able to use charm and good looks on those blind girls. But as the years piled on the women started to see more clearly. The only way he got women from then on was by bribing the Doctors to give him some" at this point the navigator leans in, "ecstasy" he waits for a second to let me process the allegation; "The only way he gets that stuff is by getting the doctors exta alcohol cards from his friend the provisions administer. But the provisions administer only hands out favors to those who drink with him, and the minister is a heavy drinker. When the sirens went off alerting the crew of the impeding crash I rushed into the cockpit to see the captain off his rocker trying to balance on the steering. That's the real story"

The captain never commented on this story.

Well all in all the CRS preservation was a massive ship, able to house up to 4 million people, meanwhile the ship already held 2,000 crew and 3 million cryopod, aswell as a collection of crops and animals from the home world. When the CRS landed, the heavy solid fuel thrusters and landing gear on the bottom of the ship sunk 120 meters down onto the relatively shallow ocean floor while the lighter life support and cityscape section of the ship landed 30 meters above sea level. This created the first City on. Delta for Crevane, and the CRS Preservation became the City of Cres. Currently 3.03 people live in the city. Most of the food comes from agricultural settlements and fisherman getting fish from the Gulf of Pound. The ship was been gutted and reffited to create more living quarters.The top part of the city houses around 700,000 people while 2.3 million live above the sea level the poorer 800,000 live below in the Cres Sub-City

[Crevane]

The Great Teller Lake, A large body of water in the heart of the New Nation, and the surrounding land create the Teller region. The large, uninhabited region in the heart of the nation, is a land of ready to be cultivated. Leader of the Crevanean People, Valen Hurok, has set upon a new motion of turning the Teller Region into and irrigated farmland. He hopes to provide food for Crevane and sell food to the world market. Valen has ordered that 200,000 people relocate moved from the Cres Sub-City to the Teller region. By the end of the month half of Crevane's colony-ship reserve supplies will have been taken to create housing and infrastructure in the region, but more will be needed. These new farmers are also asking for automated machines to do most of the work, but where will Crevane get all these supplies?

Those supplies could be from your nations yo

[Ivstinian]

About 70 years ago Ivstinian Bio-ring stations landed on Enkon Delta and were scraped to build the first large cities: Roma Nova, Londinium, Carthago Nova, Trapezus, and Syracusæ. These cities boomed due to extremely efficient and diverse industries and years later many other cities and suburbias spread across the land.

The government for centuries even before arriving to the new planet had been ruled by autocrats called the Regis and a senate of varying degrees of power. Slowly on Enkon Delta the autocratic rulers whittled away at the powers of the senate until they become little more than honorary titles given as favors by the Regis to important figures of Ivstinian. Originally a Regis could adopt their desired successor if they were not of the Regis' direct family and declare them their son/daughter so there tended to not be dynasties of more than 2 generations.

Eventually the laws changed when Regis Rex Decianus declared that only those of Decianus blood could be named heir and Regis. This had worked well for the Decianus family for some time but as of now the Regis is but a boy of 12, Lucas Decianus, who stared his reign at 2 years old with his Uncle Marc the 20 year old Strategos of Trapizon province and twin Sister Sofia being his only other living relatives. Under such a weak Regis several large rebellions have arisen declaring that the reign of autocratic lords weakens Ivstinian and was officially over but these groups soon splintered into several factions declaring their various ideologies to be "what is best for the Ivstinii people."

The current factions are as follows; loyalists to young Regis (who still controls western parts of Ivstinian and is aided by various advisors, corporate CEOs, regional Strategos from various areas, and the loyal remainder of the Ivstinian military about half of the original force had sided with the noble republic faction), Corporatists (lead by a group of CEOs of the top companies of Ivstinian have taken the northern lands of Ivstinian by using mercenaries and/or trained many of their employees into soldiers with great promises of reward when they win) , the noble republic faction (lead by the Regis' uncle the Strategos from several regions have joined together and with the aid of the defectors of the military have occupied eastern parts of Ivstinian declaring that they should vote for a Grand Strategos of defined limited powers every 10 years to lead Ivstinian with a Senate made of the Strategos' from every region to aid in lawmaking and judicial duties) , the Democratic Republic faction (common Ivstinii who wish to truly rule themselves have flocked to and occupied southern Ivstinian and are lead and trained by military veterans and foreign advisors) {the war has currently reached a sort of stalemate with each faction roughly controlling 1/4th of Ivstinian at great costs of life and damage to the realm. Now the factions of Ivstinian are asking for assistance from the other nations of Enkon to make the difference for their side in this struggle}

[46566]

Midget formally backs Ivstinian faction
Midgar- The Grand Duke Lamont Cranston has officially stated that the Grand Duchy of 46566 will officially recognize the Monarchy faction as the sole legitimate government of Ivstinian. With that declared ghe government will work with the faction to retake control of the territory controlled by other factions. At this time the Midgari government will supply the faction with both money and military supplies. Moves are being made to try and form a official agreement at a later date. At this time the army of the Grand Duchy is not involved in any aspect of the war. The Grand Duchy has offered to potentially help train and recruit additional forces for the Monarchy faction and even offered to contact Harmony.

[St Saratoga]

OOC: for personal reason I am just going to fast forward my rp a bit to when things get heated.

"Millions are on the streets! They are ignoring to police orders to stay in the designated protesting areas and have spilled onto the highways, streets, parks, everywhere they can go they are there! The city is swamped with them." Lt. Erickson stated. "It's basically anarchy."

"Is there anything we can do to quell the crowds?" Grand Admiral Hodge stated as he watched the protest live on his satellite tv.

"I'm afraid not Grand Admiral, unless you want to resort to more lethal techniques." The Lt. said as he pulled out a vanilla folder with plans on how to quell rioters via tear gas, rudder bullets & arrestes then all the way leading to actual bullets.

The Grand Admiral looks over the plans, looks back at the screen, "We gave them their chances, use any means necessary."

-- Outside the Grand Admirals residences --

The protestors stood shoulder to shoulder. Chanting about freedom and peace. Very few where actually rioting and those that were are being dealt with by MPs by the means of beating the anger out of them and arresting them. Around the streets that were secured by MPs, out of sight of the protestors, MPs were loading up assault rifles, shotguns, etc. knowing what is about to happen.

Once ready, the MPs started to march at towards the protestors, supported by APCs. The moment the two sides made eye contact with each other blood spilled.


MPs and Rioters fighting

Within minutes and to the surprise of the military, MPs, and the Saratogan Government the protestors were quick able to produce weapons and makeshift bombs. These fights lasted for about 3 days within Rogerbei with the MPs pretty quick to quell the minor rebellion. What the Government soon found out is that they finally broke the back of the lowers classes.

Casualty toll:

Protestors: 313 Dead, 489 wounded, 2,690 arrested
Saratogan Government: 56 dead, 115 wounded, 21 missing

-- 2 weeks after the Rogerbei Massacre --



Bitter fighting has broken out around Saratoga but the worst of the fighting has been in the major cities were large parts of poorer population are settled. The Government of Saratoga has started enforcing strict curfew a system of secret police has been deployed to catch crimes against the government, mainly targeting poorer suburbs of cities.

[Nedea]

You're watching SBC News..

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"Hello! I'm Charley Allen and tonight we have some special news for you. The Board of Nedea has made an announcement regarding the state of the region. Let's take a look at that now."

The screen changes over to the Board Room with Destiny Arbitrage at the front.

"The Board has decided to make a formal agreement with the nation of Crevane regarding its infrastructure problem. A Liaison with specific details is being dispatched to Crevane now. Regarding the Boards opinion concerning the upheaval in Ivstinian, the Board has decided to not get involved in the conflict and will happily negotiate with whoever survives the bloodshed. As for the Saratogan Crisis.. We understand Saratoga has been a long time ally and friend of Nedea. Unfortunately, this crisis has gone on long enough. Nedea and Moarfall should not have to shoulder the Kredit Union alone. The Board has dispatched agents to Saratoga to asses the problem more closely before we decide what to do."

The screen changes back to Charley.

"Well, as usual the Board is being enigmatic with their stances. Looks like we can look forward to trade agreements with Crevane, refugees from Ivstinian and some kind of Nedean intervention in Saratoga. Whatever happens, you'll find out first here at SBC News! Goodnight!"

A two hour special of "The Joy of Counting Money" with Rob Boss comes on.

[St Saratoga]

Saratogan Times - International
”Keeping Saratoga informed of all of the affairs domestic & international.”
Saratogan Air Force intercepts Nedean Agents

Cost: K$ 1.50

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Rogerbei, Saratoga — On the orders of the Board of Nedea, Harmony has send Agents to Saratoga to access the current civil unrest in Saratoga. Destiny Arbitrage, a member of the Board of Nedea, stated "As for the Saratogan Crisis.. We understand Saratoga has been a long time ally and friend of Nedea. Unfortunately, this crisis has gone on long enough. Nedea and Moarfall should not have to shoulder the Kredit Union alone. The Board has dispatched agents to Saratoga to asses the problem more closely before we decide what to do."

A spokesman for the Department for International Affairs released a statement about the situation, "On the orders of Grand Admiral Hodge, the Nedean agents were incepted and asked to leave Saratogan airspace, if they refused then the plane would be forced to land and the agents arrested." The Grand Admiral also noted that, "This is an internal affair which should be solved soon."

Grand Admiral Hodge has asked the Department of International Affairs to step up communications with all nations that show a vested interest in the Saratogan civil unrest so that negotiations can begin to avoid this sort of situations.

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Embassy Street, Rogerbei, Saratoga -- Agents of the Saratogan Democratic Army (SDA) has managed to infiltrate the outer defense of Rogerbei and are seeking Asylum in the Athretvari & Nedean embassies. According to a communication between a high ranking source within the SDA told Rogerbei News that the Representative are from the SDA to start negotiates with the Nedean & Athretvari Administration. The source wouldn't specify what the negotiations are about.

Saratogan Democratic Army forces have launched massive operations in the Chambersberg & Nuremburg. These 2 cities are the closest to being occupied by SDA and could serve as a launching point for future assaults around Saratoga.

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Clair Underwood
Senior Political Correspondent
Rogerbei Times

[St Saratoga]

OOC: This is supposed to be more of an informative rather than plot moving post, I am going to specify what each faction of my rebellion is to help promote and open the option for foreign intervention if you so choose to do so.

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Saratogan Times - International
”Keeping Saratoga informed of all of the affairs domestic & international.”
United Rebel Groups Elect Leader To Win War

Cost: K$ 1.50

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Nuremburg, Saratoga - After the recent capture of Nuremberg the leaders of the 2 major rebel factions which are fighting against the Grand Admiral have united in hopes of speeding up the course of the war. They have elected James Chamberlain to lead the new united army of rebels. The group consists of these 3 factions:

Saratogan Democratic Army - This Army is a pro-democracy forces of Saratogan. They seek to have the ability to be able to have a say who their representatives are in government. This group has the biggest support of the 3 factions with every day Saratogans. This group also the most organized and well equipped of the 3 factions after seizing a few military bases and major cities. This is also growing every day with new members of the army.

Imperial Saratogan Army - Members of this army believe that democracy is inefficient and are fans of the current system but are displease the individuals in power. The army wants to see new people take over the reigns of government in order to lead Saratoga to the glory that it rightful deserves. The factions is very pro-military, jingoistic, and nationalistic. The factions has a lot of former & current military member that have broken off from the Saratogan armies still under the leadership of the Grand Admiral

Combined, the Saratogan military's offensive has been halted, approaching the point of a full blowing rout. If routed the freedom fighters could quickly end the war if the pressure is kept on the routed army.

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Clair Underwood
Senior Political Correspondent
Rogerbei Times

[Moarfall]

T'Alu Crann and VSS Director Claren Maark clinked their champagne glasses together as they leaned against a railing. They gazed over the railing and out onto the Bay of Silva, and admired the warships departing and heading Northwards. They were traveling to the Ithar Cape, North of Moarfall and it's official territory. The Navy was transporting troops as well as aid groups, workers, and several families who would begin settling the area officially for Moarfall.

Two days prior Crann and Maark had adjourned a meeting where they planned with the rest of the Moarfallian Government what their best course of action would be when settling new land. Seeing as many residents of Northern Moarfall live outside of it's official territory on the Ithar Cape they agreed settling and beginning construction would ease the process. The plan would be to establish ports, airports, railroads, and highways for easier transportation of supplies and residents. Moarfallians who lived outside of it's official claim have already helped establish a presence on the Cape allows for almost the entire peninsula to be settled quickly.The two men made small talk as they sipped champagne atop the capitol building. T'Alu emptied his glass and reached for another bottle.

"So," he asked as he pulled the bottle from the bucket of ice between the men, "has Vulonkein made any progress looking into old MSC files?""Thanks." Was all Maark said as Crann filled his glass and he took a sip. He stared at it as he swirled it gently, seemingly admiring the bubbles. "It's been slow, the guys who encrypted those files did a bang-up job. But we're making headway. We've begun experimenting with different rockets, jets, and other propulsion to fix the old orbital vehicles we have. They can't quite break from orbit and we need to make sure we can, and we can't carry the payload into orbit with them as-is."

He downed the glass and filled it again, continuing. "We've been able to re-arm the old fighters and fix some armor issues the the old MSC couldn't quite get right. Fuel efficiency has gone up 20% or so but those damn engines can't get us up there yet."

T'Alu nodded and turned to look towards the city. The sun was fading behind the skyline and made the city glow orange, seeming almost aflame. Maark watched the shadows grow over the bay when T'Alu asked a question that almost made his blood run as cold as his drink."Remember the project I had the D&I School working on?"

"How could I forget? You moved my favorite project out of house."

"Can you blame me? Your team was working on it for almost a decade, I wanted some fresh eyes. Besides, you remember our deal. By the way, you're going to be getting a handful of new recruits who are looking forward to a new project that's going to be headed up by you."

Maark finally turned to face the Council Leader, mouth agape. "So you did it, you found the old blueprints."

T'Alu cracked a grin and emptied the bottle into their glasses. "I did one better. Two actually. I got you the blueprints, transponder wavelengths, and a new job."

Maark looked puzzled but before he could ask, T'Alu answered. "You are going to be using the new data we just found to rebuild the MSC, as Joint-Director of course, and afterwards you're going to go looking for a ship that needs to see it's new home."

Maark beamed as he toasted. "70 years we've been out of contact with the Mk-VII, what are our chances?"

"With you in charge, I expect we'll see it before we build another."

The sun had finished setting, bringing with it the light for just a few moments. Soon the city glowed on it's own, neon and alive. Overhead, a mote of light slowly circled the planet.