Based on Special Bulletin, 1983. Other players are welcome to participate as foreign diplomats at the Parliament Complex, citizens in Revnami, and so on. I will largely be following the story of this movie, with twists for the New Hayesalian situation. In this movie, a terrorist group brings a homemade atomic bomb aboard a tugboat in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina in order to blackmail the U.S. Government into disabling its nuclear weapons, and the incident is caught live on television. The movie simulates a series of live news broadcasts on the fictional RBS Network. In the New Hayesalian capital, on Lake Neike by the Parliament. Their intentions are mysterious, but involve forcing the end of New Hayesalian interventions, releasing the names of intelligence officers, and releasing classified documents regarding the nuclear blasts in the Second Zellatian Civil War. It's hard to imagine how much damage such an attack could cause...
THE PARLIAMENT COMPLEX, REVNAMI, THE NEW HAYESALIAN CAPITAL PROVINCE
The head and the heart of the Greater Island Kingdom stretched across a swath of land, a citadel comprised of 36 freestanding white clad buildings. The stone and glass towers of the Parliament Complex were the home to the offices of Ministers, Senators, and Members of Parliament, as well as the peak bodies of dozens of Ministries and the Embassies of some of New Hayesalia's closest allies. The largest of the buildings was the House of Parliament itself, leaning over an immaculately kept parade ground.
On a daily basis, tens of thousands of New Hayesalians reported for work in this establishment. They were political staffers and press, security guards and cafe baristas, ministry staff and lobbyists, all unified by this comparably small part of the world. The long, winding courtyards and gardens of the Central Corridor withstood millions of footsteps from shined shoes and police boots, of tourists and guests travelling to various small attractions, and on the east side of the Parliament, the Parade Ground and East Gardens remained a popular picnic spot for tourists and residents alike. The blue waters of Lake Neike stretched across to the Revnami CBD, where the CityLife building dominated the skyline, the Lake's western and eastern shore at a distance of about a kilometre.
On the Lake itself, pleasure craft and rowing boats along with catamaran ferries criss-crossed the small waves, riding and falling on the light inclines. They easily filtered under the two bridges at the north and south of this part of the the Lake - technically connected to a sea-feeding river - and kept a busy pace to the light waters. People, cyclists, and cars went about their business in the Revnami cityscape, buildings stretching hundreds of metres into the sky hosting businesses and residential apartments overlooking the heart of the New Hayesalian Government.
The last building in the Parliament Complex was Building 35. It was the heartland of security for this whole area, including the Prime Minister's own office. Jointly run by the New Hayesalian National Police and the gendarme Royal Montmarian Guard - including elements such as the Parliament Complex Armed Response Team (PCART), Parliament Complex HAZMAT Team (PCHT), and the command offices for multiple other sections - it was responsible for the security of the Complex and all it contained. Simple jobs, like bicycle police patrols, simple foot patrols, security responses, and a wide variety of other jobs, were all based from the barracks and guard rooms contained here. It was also linked to the entire area security system. That included high fidelity cameras, live monitoring of controlled access points, lockdown commands, fire responses, and alarms.
It also fed back information from CBRN detectors positioned in rings around the Complex. The first set, mounted under the Neike River Go-between Bridge, had triggered a radiological response. Not a major one, but a noticeable spike. Immediately, a National Police constable set the CCTV cameras to view it's trigger. A fishing boat, marked 'IROQUOIS' was just before the bridge. Clearly, it was going to go underneath. As it did, the 16 metre long vessel crossed under the radiological sensors - a peak, noticeable but not dangerous, rocketed.
This was seen by a Police Senior Sergeant, followed by his quick enquiry, followed by a general alert.
With great speed, a National Police Goldfish RHIB set out with a maximum speed. From a covered 'hangar' the boat, callsign "Speedo 3," propelled to 50 knots, four armed police officers in the passenger seats and another in the cockpit. The Model 10 sub machine guns slapped on their armoured chests, held by slings, as the boat jumped the waters, quickly turning and coming alongside the Iroquois with sirens, blue and red lights activated. A police officer stepped forward as the boat slowed, speaking into the boat's large bullhorn.
"Motor vessel Iroquois, this is the New Hayesalian National Police Water Police. You are to to stop your engines and heave to and prepare to be boarded, I say again stop your engines and heave to and prepare to be boarded."
The cruiser slowed, it's captain on the fly deck turning and raising his hands. He was dressed in jeans and a fisher's shirt, and watched as the four police officers entered the vessel. They had raised their light weapons, with the lead police officer ordering the man down to the deck, a pistol pointed at him. As the man did, his foot triggered a trap. Camouflaged on the deck among the visual clutter of fishing gear, a command line operated Taser Shockwave - a claymore mine-type device that fired the supercharged barbs of a police taser - activated, spraying dozens upon dozens of electrified wires onto the unprotected legs and arms of the four police officers. All were effectively downed, and cried in pain as they dropped to the deck, muscles seizing. They dropped their weapons, which fell along them with their straps, though none fired. After the blast of compressed air, a hatch in the rear, followed by the rear door and the port side door, opened, with five armed figures rushing out. All wore civilian clothes and black balaclavas, but each was armed with 7.62mm Kalashnikov-type sub machine guns. One held a taser in his left hand, and the gun in his right.
The assailants dropped onto the police officers and used their own handcuffs to take them into their custody, stripping them of their weapons and throwing them into the cabin of the vessel. The master of the police vessel drew his pistol, but hesitated to fire, fearful of striking his comrades. Before he could, a burst of fire knocked him down, the red killswitch wire strung across his leg pulling the key from the engine and disabling the boat. Police commanders with CCTV saw it all, and seemingly knowing that the police would quickly dispatch a response, a canvas roll was unrolled, covering the port side and looking towards the Parliament Complex.
"Vessel armed with weapon of mass destruction - nuclear weapon on board." The internationally recognised nuclear symbol followed beneath.
The police officers were dragged to the ship's cabin, and connected to the solid metal pole that attached the table to the floor. There was no escape here. As quickly as it had begun, the people aboard the ship were in the cabin - with the officers - and set aboard fortifying. A light roll of barbed wire was set across the ledges of the boat, which would slow any boarding attempt, a laser alert system also switched on to alert the people aboard if such an attempt was made. Small CCTV cameras also came alive, recording the vessel from all directions, beaming to the lower deck. Across the large windows, which had long before been replaced with bullet resistant glass, adhesive metal strips were applied, blocking the vision in and providing some limited blast and gunfire protection to the people aboard. It was a vessel clearly designed to lure and trap these officers.
The skipper took control from the lower deck, and steered slowly but clearly to a position near to the Parliament Complex. Speedo 3 drifted in the harbour, the injured police man aboard calling for help on his radio. A small tin boat, piloted by a beer-bellied 40 year old and his gangly 18 year old son, also laden with fishing lines, pulled the officer off the boat and headed towards a police vessel coming around from downriver - taking him away from the deadly Iroquois.
With this having occurred, the police command centre was all settings go - quickly, officers in the underground command centre reviewed videos from the boat, CCTV, and officers. They saw the weapons. They read the sign. They saw the Kalashnikovs. This was something they trained for - a big one. A scary one. Perhaps for an abundance of caution, a Parliament Complex- wide radio message was sent. It would reach all the security, bodyguard, on-site medical and emergency personnel in the Complex.
"Break, Break, Break, this is Papa Hotel Quebec - ALERT, ALERT, ALERT, Code Purple, Code Purple, Code Purple. Code Orange November, Code Orange November, Code Orange November. Quicksand, Quicksand, Quicksand!"
This alert had four distinct meanings that were partially understood by all, and all by some. Code Purple was the general call, known to all radioed staff as a bomb threat. It was distinct to a Code Black, a direct attack and intention to attack the Parliament Complex - or it's bigger brother, Black Ultima, an armed terror attack against the Parliament. Code Orange was a follow up - to evacuate. The November modifier instructed those responsible to funnel evacuees north, through a business park filled with Government offices. Quicksand was the tricky one, and it would affect one person more than any other.
