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[Togeria]

It has been 41 years since the start of the last great conflict, a war that was waged between the great empires of Europe and their colonies the culmination of their ambition and fervor drowning millions in their hubris. In the aftermath following those years a revolution in thought would was among a great many colonies. The blood of their shed brethren serving as a rallying cry for a new generation, tens of thousands willing to become revolutionaries and martyrs for these growing movements.

Slow at first like all things but soon the sparks would grow into a raging fire and through pen or gun colonies of these last great empires would force their emancipation, and in the cavity that would form a flood of new figures and ideology would take stage. In a world where there are no empires, where there is no emperor, who rules the people? Some would say the people themselves and others that the right to rule is a trait or gift that must be honed and tempered, if needed reserved only for those who most prove themselves capable and competent.

These two questions formed on opposite sides of the axis tilts the world towards two different extremes. First in Asia the fires would be first cultivated in the lands long under the subservience of the Rising Sun would begin to rise up in revolt, these new movements unlike the any before would be led primarily by the peasantry the inexperience and lack of skill of these men being equally matched by their zealousness and tenacity. Several hands would point to sky in freedom their collective shadow eventually providing shade than shelter.

In Africa soon after the systems of imperialism that putted one tribe against the next would begin to slow than teeter eventually breaking down as movements of natives united overwhelmingly in their desire to upset than overthrow the imbalance would lead them to partake in increasing partisan action. Eventually too the continent itself would achieve its freedom, however the fruits of their freedom is a desert few of had the opportunity to taste and nourish on. The same men who had led them in cries for freedom became too quickly eager to affirm and legitimize their power through whatever means. Warlords and puppetmen now rule over the continent with small but determined pockets of resistance still determined to better their peoples.

Lastly in the Americas the continent that was first subjected to the Age of Colonization, much has changed in the several centuries since and several decades since the war. The continent less able to sort their own affairs than battle against the aspirations of another has been the most peaceful. The distance afforded from the Old World has proven very beneficial to fledgling states and their paths of nationhood, though these paths have often led to one another with war as a result.

In the decades since the war a series of small civil wars have erupted within the region, brought on both by the end of the 2nd Great War and expansion of the Globalized economy, these states are now center to this new era as their collective stability has attracted over migrants, along with new ideas, and beliefs. The last few decades have been quiet but eventful and now in late 20th century as states get closer, the ability to produce and defend easier, and war now deadlier the sight of smoke from the Americas grows thicker with each passing day.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Sic Semper Tyranis

November 22, 1963
Dallas, Texas

As the first vehicles of the blackened motorcade entered the square that held the Texas School Book Depository, the crowds that had gathered began to shout and scream racial insults and other indecencies. The second car in the Motorcade pushed forward and revealed the target of the insults to be President John F Kennedy and his wife. Governor John Connally of Texas had been asked to ride with the President but denied to do so saying that the President was "a traitor to the people of Texas and he will not be welcomed in the great state of Texas". The Texas people generally agreed with the Governors statement and had arrived in mass to protest the President's precence in the state. The President attempted to save face as the motorcade pushed through the crowded streets filled with protesters when, like firecrackers, three gunshots filled the air. The first hit the President in the back of the skull, killing him instantly as his brain matter splashed upon the road. The second bullet, also bound for the President, struck the President's wife in her left side. The bullet ripped its way through her lungs and ribs causing both to collapse. The third bullet hit the back of the vehicle as the driver pressed on the accelerator. The crowd, believing the police had fired on them, rushed out into the streets. The protestors would drag officers and agents from vehicles and violently beat them for the sins that they had commited to the South. Blood filled the streets as local militias, upon recieving news of the assassination, began attacks on Federal government offices. The Second American Civil War had began.

November 27th, 1963
Richmond, Virginia

The chaos of Texas had spread throughout the South in the week since the assassination of President John F Kennedy and the inauguration of President Lyndon B Johnson. The South had mobilized the national guards of each state to lock out intervention from the federal government. Federal military bases throughout the South would erupt into violence as Southern Federal Troops pledged their allegiance to the Southern Cause. Twelve governors, including John Connally, would rally in Richmond, Virginia to draft an official declaration of secession from the American Union as The Confederate States Of America. Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, would be elected President of the new Confederacy with Governor John Conally serving as the vice executive. President George Wallace called for a swift an immediate march on Washington that would lead to five years of bloodshed.

November 28th, 1963
Atlanta, Georgia

The streets of Atlanta fill with cheers as men masked in white hoods with emblazened crosses upon them marched through the cities streets. The men carried various military grade weapons as well as swords, machetes, or anything with the capacity to kill off human life. The cloaked men would begin rounding up negroes and other non white individuals into large military transport trucks through the use of force. The trucks would make their way outside of the city and into the dense southern woods. Upon arrival, the racially inferior individuals would be gagged and led to numerous trees in which held numerous ropes. The inferiors would have their heads wrapped around the ropes and would then be hoisted into the air by young white men. The sounds of snapping necks filled the surrounding air. The KKK and the Confederacy had ofiicially risen onecece again.

January 1st, 1980
The Confederate States Of America

The Second American Civil War ended in the year 1968 after five years of Northern and Southern bloodshed. The treaty officially recognized The Confederacy as an indeoendent state from the Union under the control of George Wallace. In the 12 years since the end of the war, the South had been radically changed by the KKK and Wallace's government. The KKK quickly grew in power under control of an ambitous white nationalist named David Duke to the point where nearly 60% of the Southern Legislator is made up of KKK members. These members pushed forward laws that called for the mass killing and enslavement of those considered racially inferior to the white man. Cross Burnings and lynchings had become typical as the KKK made its will known to the rest of the world.

[Parcia]

Federal Republic of Cuba

The Bay of Pigs was a failure. The men scattered, the freighter they launched from sunk by an old Soviet Tank destroyer, and 19 pilots and air men died on that day. And yet...even a failed invasion led the way for a second, greater revolution that soon occurred would be led by a man that late John Fitzgerald Kennedy would likely found to be a kindred Spirit.



Fredrico Carlo was a CIA trained former Cartel mercenary that had found him self in the unfortunate position of being the man who led a second rebellion that found the support of the civilian populace and large portions of the Military, all of which had already grown tired of the Mismanagement of the Castro Regime. Fidel was dragged out of his palace in the middle of the night, shot, and hung from the lamp post that stood over the entrance of the Palace it self.

Manuel, being some what more diplomatic then his elder brother, surrender himself over to the Republican government some months later and for aiding in the location of several strategic military assets, was allowed to retire to a quiet life in the mountains of Cuba.

While he may have led the rebellion, he did not stick around to run the nation for too long afterward. A string of some what cautious yet competent leaders fallowed that while they often pandered to the nations around them, they were able to nurture and grow the economy to be the envoy of many in Latin America.

The state curated news that routinely bashed socialism and boasted about the Economic growth of a capitalist, Republican Cuba certainly drew the ire of more left leaning states to the south.

In the mid 1970s, a arms deal would be signed between the burgeoning republic and the beleaguered United States that detailed a new complete rearmament of the Cuban Federal Armed Forces with American equipment to replace its ageing stock of Kalashnikov and T-55s. The AKM was replaced with the M16, the T55/62 with M46 and later M48 Patton tanks, and the Aging fleet of Migs and LAAGs with F-4 Phantoms and Skyhawks. The Older mishmash of Soviet and ww2 Era American equipment also saw large scale replacement with the recently developed PASGT equipment system the United States Army had begun to issue to its troops, with the armor and helmets system being sought after to replace the older Flak Jackets and M1 helmets of world war two vintage.

The largest purchases came in the form of a quartet of Adams Class Destroyers and 6 Oliver Hazard Perry class Frigates, augmenting the small fleet of Soviet patrol vessels that sailed the waters around the island. The American Naval base at Guantanamo had grown over time and soon enough a small city was formed around the Naval base, with a Special economic district were the Cuban peso and American Dollar could be used equally.

This also saw the base it self enlarged, with a set of Submarine pens and a full Regiment of US marines Stationed there to insure the security of the base as well as help train and maintain the Federal Armed Forces. As the 1970s drew to a close, the late term Elections saw the fame War hero win the office of the president by a landslide and see him introduce a set of bills and plans to help strengthen the Nation as a whole as well as the Caribbean against what he declared to be an ever growing threat of the Confederate States.

As the Sun rose on January the 1st, 1980, Fredrico Carlo prepared to Shepard the nation he help build through the next 10 years.

[Acerbez]

The Xolotl Tlatcani Covenant



Central America region

(I'm not going to retype the history of how, details are essentially on my fact book with slight IC variations to remain appropriate to this thread).

The rapid deterioration of political relations between central and northern America came swiftly following the "American" civil war. The XTC being intensely partial to the native indigenous tribes north and their constant struggles with the colonisers meant that most if not all communications between the XTC and coliniser parties was always historically tense at best. The term "American" itself always disdained as it meant nothing to the indigenous peoples and was now collectively a term used by the Caucasian Europeans to attach themselves as beneficiaries of the land that did not belong to them while they continued to genocide and enslave people of other races and build a nation that prospers from the back of these people.

Ironically, slavery is a practice of the Tlatcani but largely in a different sense than that it metamorphosisized into what could be called a caste like system- not an inelastic one in which one could not shed the chains of said mediocrity via plausible means. Ethnic pride too remains at the center and an enormous driver within the Tlatcani cultural customs that arguably is no better than their European counterparts and clearly a source of tension and animosity. All things that have been fostered from generation to generation and embedded into the Tlatcani society for hundreds of years while being tweaked and tempered throughout time to suit the progressive era. Disliked by many nations abroad for their stubbornness to shed tradition in favor of international conformity and etiquette. A religion which calls for ritualistic sacrifice and ceremonies to pagan gods, class slavery no matter how dulled and dimmed, and the plethora of cruel and unusual punishment that follows breaking the law within an extreme Conservative society. Wholeheartedly pious and zealous is the society to their religion, traditions, and belief that they're a people of their own God's to the point it appearing as if they are above standard international law as a gavel of any judgement.

As backward and barbaric as they sound on paper, in practice however, life and society is extremely different and well ordered. Education, environmental policy, public infrastructure, and collectively working are at the forefront of the Tlatcani national agenda. Alcohol is illegal until a senior age unless a distinct festivity calls for it, solely adhered and practiced from cultural contexts. Personal automobiles unless by government use are disregarded in favor of public transportations when travelling far distances while most cities are planned and constructed orderly/categorically partioned so that cycling is convenient for the average person. National service at the age of 16 to reinforce collective identity for both men and women, equal rights, equal suffrage, and innumeral laws and traditions that molded a utilitarian Socialist society...

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The Northern Border

Is closed.

All routes going to and from Tlatcani territories into the United States have been shut down and riddled with military checkpoints patrolled by armed soldiers, attack dogs, Chaneque tanks, mobile AA platforms, and TZT attack helicopters along various positions. This checkering outposts are decorated with barbed wire, search lights, and sirens postured in direct defiance of the "Americans".

Both nations have found themselves devoid of contact and minimal political communication following the south's victory over the North as these relations crumbled quickly impart of rhetoric and agendas of both parties. Additionally the persecution of natives and obvious position the KKK maintain within the party contribute to the mutual disgust the Tlatcani also hold for them. It would be false to assume the XTC government favored the North as they had barely better relations due to the fact that the XTC never swayed in its demand of the return of the western territories and instead merely hoped that both belligerents would obliterate one another and simply make the mopping up of "Americans" easier.

Instead, the Tlatcani have maintained a distinct relationship with other Socialist countries and used their material wealth to trade and economically sustain themselves that way to always remain a regional power. Any and all trespass from the north is met with the use of deadly force with no opportunity of discussion until the XTC military chain of command lifts this order.

[The Southern Liberation Army]

The Southern Liberation Army

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The Southern Liberation Army has its origins before the Second American Civil War, but only grew to prominence in its aftermath. One of many newly-minted insurgent groups in the last few decades, the SLA is primarily active in the new Confederate State, though with some contacts in neighboring regions.

The SLA view accumulation of wealth and material possessions is seen as an affront to the teachings of Christ, who lived selflessly and impoverished. To this end, they seek to overthrow the Confederate government with a new one, which will abolish these sins by redistributing the wealth amongst all the people of the land, and abolish the distinctions of class; the only distinction should be between the believer and the non-believer, the saved and the damned. The SLA stands in firm opposition to the racial policies of the New Confederacy, decrying them as distractions to push the enmity of the lower-class whites against their fellow comrades in arms against the bourgeois aristocracy.

The Southern Liberation Army has taken upon themselves the sin of murder in order to enact their vision, taking up arms in isolated strikes against the regime, and occasionally those of other nations, to make it reality. They are the shadow in the night, the last hope of the downtrodden, the fiendish boogeymen, the saviour's chosen, the postman, the miner, the friend, and the confidant. They have no face, no front, no home, and no alternative. They are coming.

[Parcia]

25 miles out to see, the Straits of Florida.

Cuba maintained a 25 mile territorial water buffer that was open to civilian travel and even limited fishing for civilian vessels, but no commercial fishing vessels or foreign military vessels were allowed entry unless cleared by with the Federal Government.

This, as well as being with in 100 miles of the south of Florida, meant that there was a near constant patrol of MPA aircraft and patrol ships that enforced the rule of law.

Standard practice was to have a pair of Older PV-2 Neptune Patrol craft, fitted with Magnetic anomaly detectors and sonar buoys that led a Newer P-3 Orion loaded to bear with Air dropped torpedoes and depth charges as well as a set of Domestic Anti-ship missiles for use against surface targets.

On the first day of the new year this patrol was working in a training operation with a Federal Navy Frigate, it self leading a pair of corvettes, checking fishing licences and boarding larger craft for contraband and the like. How ever this would be some what out of the normal for the boarder force that often just patrolled it's waters.

[The Bio-Regional Cooperative of States]

The Socialist Council Republic of Gran Colombia

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Revolution gripped the Old World, the Bolshevik Revolution in full swing as other Communist and Socialist movements and uprisings sprouted up across Europe. The War to End All Wars extinguished the lives of millions, and now was the time to call, to fight for change. Soon enough, as the fire was alight across Eurasia, embers would soon start flames of their own across the Atlantic. Colombia, a nation long subject to the forces of capitalism was soon awakened, guided by the Red Torch. The Forces of Imperialism, of the Market would soon tear the nation apart. The Western and Easternmost Territories would split from the Heartland, as soon the Corporatist Americans forced Panama away from Colombia too, only to exploit it's people and tear apart it's land for a Canal. With the rise of the American South, American Influence grew weaker and weaker. Soon, Bogota, Caracas, and Quito were to fall into the Colombian People's hands. The march of the Milicia Rojo would be swift, the hammer and sickle of the peasants and workers of Colombia being used to stamp out the traitorous Wealthy, those who have sold away the people and the lands of Colombia to the greedy bourgeoisie, oppressing the common man under their capitalist heel would now feel a taste of revolution, of revenge for the misdeeds of the people. The War between the Corporatist Venezuelan, Colombian, and Ecuadorian governments and the Milicia Roja de Gran Colombia would last for half a decade, peace finally being signed in 1925. As the Violence Subsided, radical reform came. A system not unlike the early Soviets of Bolshevik Russia would be put in place, Gran Colombia being recreated in the name of an international revolution. The humble worker would no longer seek the flawed "guidance" of their higher ups, but rather work for himself, as workers' councils would be set up across the newly formed nation. These would tie into politics, alongside a series of Soldiers' and Peasants' councils in order to control Defense and Agriculture. These Councils would elect individuals to represent the will of the people towards the National Council, kept in Bogota, in order to keep the government as a whole running smoothly. With Widespread Industrialization being set in place for the next several decades, the vast resources of Gran Columbia would be exploited to assist in fueling the Workers' State. The Vast Fuel Reserves would give the economy- and the government- a much needed boost, as soon Gran Colombia would rise farther and farther above their southern neighbors in domestic product. The Civilian, now having great sway, and say, in the government, would call for expanded civil rights, a level of freedom upon the top in the ranks for the new world would be put in place and left standing. The Militias of the Revolution would be reformed into a professional defense force, volunteer based as Soviet and Domestically-Produced Weaponry would keep the Red Army of Gran Colombia up to date and ready to compete with those surrounding the Caribbean Sea. A navy would have to be built as well, as throughout the 50s and 60s a program to not only construct dockyards along the ample coasts of Colombia but also produce ships able and ready to defend the revolutionary state, composed of 50 ships of various classes and capacities. Though manufacture would return to the dockyards, as there has been a common opinion across council members that a bolstering of defense forces would be required in order to combat the combined threat of Brazillian and Confederate arms. The Future is very bright for the Gran Colombians, a nation rich with resources and a six decade strong revolutionary fervor can only continue to propel itself further as the future comes closer and closer. Though, enemies are plenty throughout the new world, and many may want to see the end of Gran Colombia as a whole, as it has been extinguished before.

[Sapientia Et Bellum]

Ghosts Of The Rio Grande

The natural border between Texas and the old Aztec regions of Mexico, produced by the flow of the Rio Grande River, had always served as a zone of conflict between the east and west. The West, represented by the Union and now the Confederacy, saw the natives to the South as nothing more than backwards savages that ought to be either pacified or lynched. The east however, the natives themselves, saw the west as invaders wishing to occupy and destroy their spiritual homelands. The two parties are likely both correct in their assessments of each other yet neither side wishes to admit to such crimes thus setting the scene for a future conflict.

Since the fall of the Union, the state of Texas had become a totalitarian police state virtually ran by members of a break away party from the KKK that called themselves The Knights Of The Golden Circle. The KGC, first founded during the First American Civil War, believe that the cause of White nationalism should be spread throughout the rest of the American continents. The governor of Texas, Don Black, currently serves as the head of this organization and works closely with the federal government of the Confederacy to ensure his control of Texas does not faulter.

Within the past five years, the KGC has become very ambitous and open about its plans for domination on a larger scale. Massive KGC rallies are held daily along the Rio Grande which include cross burnings and lynchings of captured Hispanics and Natives. The purpose of these rallies is to serve as psychological warfare against the inferior races to the South. The KGC likewise has employed the use of The Texas National Guard to patrol the border on the hourly. Hundreds of miles of barbed wire, mines, IEDs, Sniper Nests, MG Nests, Artillery Positions, and walls make the border on of the most highly armed borders in the world. Citizens and military personnel alike are preparing for an all out war within the Mexican state, time will tell which side of the earth comes out on top.

[Parcia]

Bath Irons Works Facility, Havana, Federal Republic of Cuba.

Despite it's name, the former Havana Ship works facility was almost completely staffed by Local Cuban workers, using resources that were sourced from South America and Africa that were used by Cuban welders and laborers to build the ships in use by the Federal Navy and various commercial entities.

The Ship yard was large, massive even, among one of the largest in Latin America and the single largest employer in the Havana City District. in its bays sat two domestically build Destroyers, specially tailored Adams Class vessels that were well in to construction and were simply waiting out fittings for weapons and radar, a trio of Frigates that were mere days from being launched and a pair of thus still classified vessel that had been so far built in secrecy.

How ever, in a surprise press Conference, the Secretary General of the Federal Navy, Heraldo Cortex, announced the launching of a pair of "State of the Art Submarines to augment and compliment the aging fleet of Russian Submarines and give the People of a Cuba yet another safe guard against foreign tyranny."

While the Berths the Subs remained in were kept shrouded for the sake of secrecy, rumors would begin to spread around the Caribbean about the recent additions to the sole remaining non Socialist power.


Office of the President.

"So, she is missing?"

"Yes sir. The Radio tracker on her vessel put her on the edge of our waters, pursing its pre-planned course for roughly 3 days before veering off and going out in to international waters."

"And you think that is when she was snatched?." "Yes sir, likely a covert operation, Either by the CSA or Columbia." "Not the Aztecs?" The Agent shook his head. "We considered them as well, how ever given our currently warm relations with them we found it unlikely." Fredrico shied and took a drag off his lit cigarette. "Get in to reach of our contacts in South and Central America, tip them off that info about my daughter's location and health will garner a cash reward. Also, get word to the CIA/FBI and fuck it, tap the shoulder of the KGB if you feel the need to, I want my child found."


"Yes sir."

[Acerbez]

The Northern Border

The Tlatcani Covenant provinces of Tamalipas, Chihuahua, and Coahuila, whom each are respectively governed as any other state within the Covenant- jointly counciled by a Huey-governor who oversees municipal duties, Toyecnemiliztli (or Toyec) priest who retains judicial and religious oversights policing the state, and 2 Tlatcani military generals catering to various responsibilities whether it be recruitment, flower games in season, training and reserves etc.

Due to their proximity and daily duties of remaining sentry to the northern border, the culminatiom of lynchings and cross burnings had reached the brim of their patience and ired them. All states had sizeable Inde (or apache as the "Americans" called them) living among them and assimilated into Tlatcani society. Some even serving in the military as decorated officers. Not to mention the steady flow of petitions from Inde citizens whom had families still living north but had lost contact with due to the hostilities of both nations from the past years. Many letters to the offices of the Huey's possessed tonation that resembled begging, heart wrenching to say the least that they wished for something to be done, liberation and vindication for their people... And others stated they wanted nothing short of vengeance upon the Americans that murdered and displaced their kin.

It is true that the Tlatcani more likely than not took pleasure at striking down any Caucasian northerner playing to close to "the fence". Just 2 years ago, an incident involving a youth who managed to sneak passed the border and find himself in the cross hairs of XTC soldiers only to be shot down unremorsefully and left unattended had made international headlines. No condolences were given despite the local demands and outcry from the North, surely contributing to the animosity so deeply entrenched in the southern states. This is because mercy, apprehension, or restraint never pierced their hearts when they chased a native or non-white down, extracting terror from their victims for long hours before lynching them and displaying them... It has become ritualistic for the South to conduct themselves in such a manner. So much so that the Toyec priests waste no time spreading word that this affront is a mockery to Toyec religion in itself and a pointless means of trying to deny the Tlatcani and any others of their teotl and rob them of their noalli. People of blood are the Tlatcani, and of blood should they grant the sacreligious mongrels. Recent times have incited the most ancient and traditional calls for war and sacrifice to be exacted on the American South. A call which is widely accepted by most if not all Tlatcani.

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The petitions response.

So it would be that the joint missive would be signed and sent to Tenayuca, the capital to address the Tlatoani himself, Tezca Kormada, and the same to the High priest of Cholula, Guatemoc, in hopes he would push further to sway Kormada unto a military reaction onto southern American soil to exact retribution. A plea that ended up granting them an audience at the 1st councils summit, exactly 1 week after their petition. In the marble halls lined with jade, Tenayuca (Mexico City) remained a testament to architectural innovation, still at its center resting upon a beautiful and pristine lake at its innermost ring while its outer order was surrounded by the cities metropolitan outgrowth. Passionately policed and regulated to punish any infraction that compromised the integrity of its natural beauty, it stood tall as the paramount of cities within the Covenant.

Every body present knew what the meeting entailed as it was no secret. Broadcasted and televised on national TV for all to witness. Tlatcani radio strictly held by the government pulsed the airwaves into each and every home and the corners of every street regaling over the description of the texas border and the trivial yet demeaning mockeries the southern Americans participated in daily to humiliate, torture, and execute indegenous and non-whites.

Standing proudly on national television in formal yet traditional tlatcani garb at in front of a microphone that stood atop a polished desk, General Ahuitca of Chihuahua, spoke with passionate fervor. Looking to Tlahtoani Tezca Kormada but addressing both 1st and second seated councils in his native Nahua tongue. But somewhere else in the city of Azcalxo in the state of Zacatecas, a young boy in his capolli home was gaiting past the living room where his family sat. He was meant for his own room to play only to abruptly give his attention to the fiery rhetoric coming from the radio. Illusioned further by the undivided and unmoving stares of his family as they listened intently, he too, young Mehaz, wanted to know what was so captivating... He heard what everyone else heard, the responding address of the figure head, the Tlatoani, Tezca Kormada, after waiting diligently to respond to his people...

"What raises history and elevates it to the status of belief is the fact that the sacred blood shed in the most crucial situations for our people to assert our traits, and our destiny to augment its everlasting contribution to humanity, in the past it had always been the blood of the Tlatcani who loved Xolotl and the gods and would therefore never hesitated to carry out, their missions as designated by Xolotl, the Almighty, along with the honour they had in carrying the Call of the Message of Toyecnemiliztli to mankind as a whole, after spreading it within our own great nation.

This is how the faithful people of our nation view history, and this is how we have read our history and believed in its meanings, and have hence stressed that our history is not merely a series of events, as in the case in the annals of a many civilizations and their situations in life for other unbelieving peoples. The very laws that elevate the Tlatcani to assume its great mission for humanity, having attained the sublime status of communication with Xolotl and the gods, as an inherited mantle of loving, chosen believers, who are confident and obedient to the commands of the Gods; a heritage conscious of its great mission of faith both nationally and on the level of spirituality, which is extended from the essence of the tenets established throughout our eternal history and the wealth of values adorning our own distinction.

After an absence from the fields, arenas and objectives of Xolotl, when He Has Willed it to be extended, your role returns again to you, Tlatcani men and women of valour and sacrifice, the heroes of our prestigious armed forces under all your titles ...the role is to be regained, now if you would snatch the opportunity to re-assume it deservedly with your special traits which emanate from your great faith in all that brings satisfaction to the eztli and gratification to the Tlatocoya, our people, and our indigenous kin from roots hailing from Chipactli's back.

On the arenas of this role of yours and its eternal mission, you will be presented as scores of martyrs, which keep your picture bright and unblemished, as you have evinced no reluctance whatsoever in taking the stand of faith and dignity with which you respond to the call of history, blessed with the spirit and fragrance of Noalli.

Carrying these values and requirements of faith and generous sacrifice in order to strengthen our principles and the edifice of your glorious community on the basis of these principles. The struggle and holy war of our heroic armed forces and faithful people, on the basis of the same values already referred to, now if you have reaffirmed these meanings through your faith and stands, through the blood shed by those martyred or wounded amongst us, past and future- and through the suffering and resilience of our prisoners of war when they're sacrificed and purged of sin. So this becomes a day for us to recall all these meanings... as we celebrate and honour days of similar past.

This will ensure our continued adherence to the great values and tenents entrusted to our people on the basis of our history, rather than make our celebration of the day isolated occasion. It is indeed the basic situation. It is the path and mandated destiny with all that is linked to our glorious history and the extensions made to, or from, it. The doctrine of faith for our coming generations, our children and grandchildren in Tlatocoya, in the same way as it is the doctrine of the present and past. It is our source of pride and obligation. It will be a torch of light linked to that very same ancient history of the nation, the voice of a strong lesson in the nation, scented by the blood of sacrifice,in order that our posterity will remain on the right path, son after father, regardless of the size and value of the sacrifices made, until victory is achieved over the forces that wish to stemy our existence from the anals of history and the history of those very similar to us.

Your's will be an assured triumph at the outset, and in the end when the defeat of your enemies, will bring them contempt; for they afflict themselves, as well as others, wrong through misjudgment and sacrelidge when they deviated from all heavenly values on the basis of which people of blood and kin come together to achieve fraternity and ascension.

Should the aggressors choose a way other than this, then, expelling themselves after thanking Xolotl, we shall all be even happier than the others. Indeed, we shall thank the him if He guides the enemies to the right path, in the same way as we shall be grateful when He destroys them and brings shame to their arrogance.

Oh, Xolotl, pray guide them along the road of righteousness if You so decide. Otherwise, smite them with Your wrath and smash them with your destructive blow, for they are a group of cowardly infidels. Through their civilization, they shall teach the human race as a whole what other man has yet to know. We are the offsprings of the Macahuitl and the Quetzal plume; and, in the Name of Xolotl, we shall fear no one in defending our right, and shall continue our march on the path drawn by Xolotl.

Our right is a clear right, as clear as is their falsehood; and we shall not be intimidated by their falsehood. By him, the grace for whom we live..."

Tlahtoani Tezca Kormada.

The Tlatcani were immediately mobilizing for war whether the American South was prepared or not.

Through this mobilisation tenure, recon planes and solidification of fortifications along major border towns would increase. Military traffic and supply buildup being the main and only indication of an ensuing offensive. Increased efforts to hide this fact would be taken. Tlatcani airspace would be duly watched and patrolled for any signs of enemy recon to avoid anticipated offenses, artillery would be covered by tarp, tanks garrisoned empty lots concealed in the open in a similar fashion, and allocation of fighter jets and bombers to Airways in proximity to the 3 pronged operation that was about to unfold. The public had yet to know the given number of concentrated forces, but after the speech... It was clear as day.

Surprise was the goal... A lightning war if you would...

[Parcia]

Federal Air Force Command
Jose Marti International Airport

The Colonel greeted the two suited men with a stern face and a firm handshake. They were pale, northern Yankees with sunglasses on. Entering the large hanger, the two objects of their attention sitting behind them as they hashed out the deal over a fold out table and strong coffee. Well, strong for them, The Colonel found the coffee weak for his tastes and with held his disapproval of the Northerners when they diluted the coffee with creamer and sugar.

In the distance, out on the edges of the Airfield, a Federal Guard company were training with their American made MIM-23 Hawk Battery, their search radar spinning and scanning the air space around them in a show of Military Competency. The Federal Armed Forces, despite its attempts to distance it from the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, still kept certain attributes. One of these being the "Citizen Soldier" Ideal, essentially a combination of Civilian Guard Force and Nationalist Militia that served the primary Civil defense and prepositional Roles not dissimilar to other nations regulated Militias.

Being brought back in to the present, he found him self being asked a question. Answering in accented english, "Ah, si si, We will take 25 of each for operational evaluation, and if they prove capable for the price point you offered then we will likely move our current fleet of Phantoms in to 2nd and third line of service while we re-arm with these."

He looked back at the two birds that sat behind them. The one to the left was long, comprised of straight wings and right angles that were more at home on a old WW2 aircraft rather then a modern Ground attack plane. The other was different, more angular and Hawk like in appearance with twin rudders and a pair of engines. They were both large, as most American fighters of the day were, but they both have proven to be excellent craft after a limited test run of 5 each that was conducted some time ago in the mountains of the island.

"Indeed, and renew our contracts for the current system procurement plan, all the drills and test runs have started chipping in to our current stocks." the American man nods his head.


24,345 feet above sea level
Edge of Aztec Territorial Air space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ6QHfZwTSw

While the 1970s, a time of war, strife and conflict had past in to the bright future of the 1980s, some thing's never change.

The two RF-4E Phantoms swung low and skirted the edge of the Aztec Air Space. The Lead bird was armed, a pair of Side winder missiles and a pair of Sparrow missiles tucked on it's belly. The second bird, dis-armed, held the Photograph pod that was currently taking high altitude, high definition photographs of the Aztec coastal facilities. Docks, slipways, ships at port and shore defenses of all types as well as general geo-photography in order to keep Cuban Military plans and charts up to date.

Havana had no real plans to go to war with the Aztecs in the near future, actually enjoying warmer relations with them yet kept a whole laundry list of what if plans and scenarios were they were at war with any number of near by nations, more so with the Confederates and the Colombians then the Aztecs. None the less, the recon photos of Aztec coastal facilities was something long since over due.

Half an hour in to the flight, the radar designater on both planes began to blare.

"Red-1 to Red Lead, ground Based SAMs are painting us."
"Aye One, Lead has two Birds climbing high from that Air field at speed, turn to heading 233 and keep current speed, they can escort us out if they wish to."
"Roger, forming up."

The Two gull winged birds would close in ranks and make slow, lazy zig zags, just barely crossing the boarder and Generally just flying. The Active phased radar array in both birds would see and paint the to incoming Aztec fighters, though they would not detect IR laser painting nor the Radar seeker heads of the Sparrow missiles.

[Acerbez]

Tlatcani Air-Space, The Mexica Gulf

The 2 Cuban recon phantoms radars indeed indicated a squadron of 4 Tlatcani Citalian interceptor jets (Essentially S37 Viggens) climbing altitude and heading directly onto their positions. However, the pair of Cuban fighter radar would also indicate that a pair of strut curve air to surface radar frequencies were being deployed by a pair of corvettes setting out from the closest port just off of the Yucatan.

Having improved relations with the new Cuban government was one thing, however airspace and naval contact protocols had yet to be established between the 2 nations. Simply put, this response was being winged by the Tlatcani AF and Naval command. It goes without saying that the militancy of the Tlatcani armed forces meant that a policy of armed deterrence was "go to". As the corvettes raced at full speed to the edge of Tlatcani waters, parting the ocean waves at 34 knots, they scanned to target the pair of phantoms and get within the 6 mile range of their gecko missile armaments. The nearest port and airfields would be alerted into standby in case the intruding fighters failed to cooperate.

The sky roared with passing by of the superjets. As the squad of Tlatcani fighters approached, the phantoms would realize that 3 out of 4 signatures would erase themselves from radar and that only the foremost front signature remained and was painting them as well with its 7 hard points. What the Cubans wouldn't know was that the Tlatcani were experimenting the capabilities of a developed radar-comm system which was the reason the following fitters needed expose themselves with radar or search devices.

The Cuban comms would be contacted by the squad leader, speaking his native tongue with thick accent. The Cubans would have a somewhat difficult time understanding but the jizt was obvious nonetheless.

(I'm mobile posting so I dnt have time to write in nahua.)
"Intruding aircraft, you are on the virge of slipping across established Tlatcani territory where neither foreign or domestic flights have been chartered, nor military protocol established, and entering Tlatcani airspace without any approval.

If you do not immediately redirect your trajectory course north east away from outlined borders established in the treatise and recognition of the Taino (Indigenous word for Cuban in Nahua) federal government. Failing to do so will indicate either that you are in fact not a Taino national asset that has no justification to use aforementioned airspace or that you are in fact a Taino Asset and are choosing to trespass intentionally. Both scenarios you will be engaged and removed expeditiously. Over. "

The comm transmittion cackled off within the cockpits of the Cuban phantoms. Unaware to them, the retinue of 3 Citalian fighters following the squad leader were utilizing their experimental integrated and encrypted digital comm system that allowed the retinue fighters to turn off their search and guidance radar while the squad leader painted the phantoms on their behalf, effectively targeting for them with even more sky flash missiles.

The situation was tense to say the least, the Tlatcani military complex was already postured for war with the "Americans". This simple drill ran by the Cubans could tilt itself into a full blown crisis. The urgency and response on the Tlatcani part was largely due to the nearly completed construction of a "sound surveillance" system being deployed in both Eastern and Western coasts. A system to monitor low-frequency sound in the SOFAR channel using multiple listening sites equipped with hydrophones and a processing facility that could detect submarine positions by triangulation over hundreds of miles in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Mexica Gulf, consisting of bottom-mounted hydrophone arrays connected by underwater cables to facilities ashore.

The individual arrays were installed primarily on continental slopes and seamounts at locations optimized for undistorted long range acoustic propagation. The combination of location within the ocean and the sensitivity of arrays allows the system to detect acoustic power of less than a single watt at ranges of several hundred kilometres.

Unwarranted trespass would not be tolerated and playing about as if one wishes to trespass would be treated entirely the same.

[Parcia]

Over the Yucatan

The Two Phantoms kept their close in formation, with the armed bird putting self between the "Aztec Deltas" (Often shorted to "A-D") while the unarmed recon bird got it's last round of photos. The situation was indeed tense, but the Cuban pilots having been in similar situations over the years, mostly with Colombian and Confederate aircraft, kept their sense of Humor about them. The lead Phantom wiggled it's wings in a friendly gesture and dis-armed the Radar seaker heads as secondary act of friendship. The recon plane's WSO broke over open radio channels in accented Azteca.

"Good morning friends! Forgive our near intrusion, we are conducting geological and maritime mapping for the National Geological service and mean no malice. We understand the majority of your transmission and will be vectoring back across the sea momentarily!"

True to their word, the two phantoms would make a wide bank and turn back towards the Cuban mainland, not before the pilots would give a wave to their Aztec friends.

Meanwhile, down below...

The destroyer "St. Augustine" was like many of her sister ships, built on the American made Charles F. Adams class hull with several key differences. The first of which being the replacement of the smaller 5 inch Naval gun with a adapted version of the American 8/55 Mark 71 gun, giving them a cruiser weight punch for the trade off of a rather short range for 203mm guns. This Hull also differed it self in being 20 feet longer and 5 feet wider to fit the slightly more bulky domestically produced missile systems and radar.

As the confrontations above them would be watched through radar screens, the civilian trawlers and fishing boats that were doing their rounds in the international waters. SO far the day was quiet and it was really only periodic raids in to Cuban waters by Confederate slavers that necessitated such a strong escort.