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G. Bone (gbone)
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| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 04:59 pm: | 
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well for starters, stanley kobbel is recognized for being "level headed" in times of crisis- so what you documented in Part 9 via on the radio was one of his military advisors. [he has been dismissed] Stanley Kobbel will probably air a public apology to Yamania with the speech ending that it was the only course of action available to the Falklands and that they had hopes of it being of a better aide to the war. As a compensation, [as spoken privately] Kobbel is willing to sign off two Rommels as Yamanian property and the control code for the satilite.
For the Draconian, Kobbel will probably say the same thing only altered to the point that:
>a) the declaration of war was aired a couple of days ago and that any foreign diplomat was forewarned of dangers that war might bring upon them
>b) Sides have been drawn on this war and that a presence of such official could be recognized as an indicator of one's loyalties
>c) He welcomes any dealings with a Draconian envoy face to face about the matter of the war, and possible means of averting any more casulties by aggressively promoting the issue of peace- or ceasement of all aggressive activity by the "Lizards" by any means possible |
GBW (gbw)
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| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 10:23 am: |
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G.Bone: Only aircraft like Harriers, Ospreys and such, as well as helicopters, should be using Coleman Airfield at this point. The runway itself is rapidly being constructed but it isn't quite finished yet. I'd think only the very first aircraft from the PKH would be some hours away from reaching Tssagyr as of the end of Part Nine.
Btw, how will Stanley Kobbel react to the Dracorusian envoy's protest on launching the missiles on Tssagyr where an ambassador from Dracorus is? Also, will he give that public apology to Yamania about the missile dust as Coleman will likely ask him to do? If he does, Coleman will probably arrange for the apology to be broadcasted to radios across Yamania. |
G. Bone (gbone)
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| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 08:51 am: |
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well- what i was figuring was that the canadians lend some planes that have both falkland markings and canadian markings to show their solidarity. the only problem is that since canada is divided up to three [was it four?] different countries, the canadian authorities sort of switched the color of their logo so that it won't be traced. as for neu france, they're willing to use their space tech to "Interfere" with the force shield and other things to make it more easy for the falkland/yamanian task force to romp around Tasmania.
and yeah- i agree with the markings that it was falklands, etc. i should note that the planes as borrowed from the quecheans[sp?] and the PKH are now arriving at the Coleman Airfield as well as some fighter jets to Port Stanley. [unless you think this is too soon]
oh and i like your installment. i should take writing lessons from you |
GBW (gbw)
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| | Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2003 - 10:18 pm: |
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Peter and Scott: Thanks
G.Bone: Wasn't the agreement over the Aesops over their defending the Falklands themselves, not overseas action? I wouldn't think Brasil would want Aesop troops to be seen fighting the Tssagyrssariyn just in case it's taken as proof that Brasil is actively helping Yamania and the Falklands and, well, getting their capital blasted.
I'm assuming the other equipment from Neu France and the PKH are going to have Falklander markings, even if it isn't Falklanders operating them? If they aren't officially entering the war on their side, the Yamanians will probably insist that all 'lended' equipment be given Yamanian or Falklander markings so that Tssagyr won't trace involvement of their home countries. |
Scott Teel (boss_hoss)
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| | Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 01:28 pm: |
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Interesting thought... I was starting to think "What if someone used a sapper mine (simple load of HE and HEAT explosives buried in the pathway) to blow the Behemoths from beneath?" Then that one Monty cooked off... Amazing, the commander only thought for a moment of using the Montys like this, not their ammo.
Can anyone still alive there think of this, or are you waiting for the tension to mount enough to drive us all mad? 
Keep up the great work!
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G. Bone (gbone)
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| | Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 11:46 am: |
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nitpick: the Red Fist Invasion occured in 1983 and not 1962
To GBW:
Is it all right if I bring in the Aesop troops that Kobbel "borrowed" into the war as well as other things from countries? My plans were to involve other nations (such as Neu France, the stranded Canadians from Kingdom of Hawaii) in the war- but sort of as the US was in WW2 [aka lending a whole lot of supplies]. I do have the permission from the owners of the Mayan Codominion and the Quechean (sp?) Republic on using their countries and I was wondering if I had your permission as well.
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Peter David Hall (peter_hall)
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| | Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 07:24 am: |
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Outstanding.
Things are really moving to a head here and it seem like my prejudices about Vossop are being proved correct. I always thought there was something suspisious about all the Tasmanian envoyies being killed, I can accept it happening as a matter of policy in some of the more paranoid or backward nations (see Communist Polandand and the rebels from the KoP) and that some were killed by fightened mobs and panicing soldiers. but far too many of ME's nations are high tech first world countries where an intelligent alien lifeform would be recognised as such, the actuallity of such a thing may be different from the images we have from movies and TV but I doubt we'd kill them off just because they don't have pointy ears. I'm dying to know just what Jiao showed Pssath.
I think Pssath might find himself being a reluctant Von Staufanberg and having to overthrow Vossop before making peace with the warmbloods. That he was in charge of the attacks on Antartica and Stanley may cause some friction but then again Kobbel's just used biological weapons on Tasmania and the only thing I can say about that is what was the dumb f**k thinking! |
GBW (gbw)
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| | Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 12:36 am: |
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Part Nine
Pssath sat at a terminal and eyed the levels of energy reserve output in the Halls across Tssagyr. Those Halls abandoned in the coastal regions were blank, their reserve power transferred to the Halls of the interior regions along with their populations of Tssagyrssariyn, crucial equipment, personal belongings and all the items that told of the history of the Tssagyrssariyn, spreading all the way back to the first construction of the Halls in the aftermath of the unequalled carnage of the Great Struggle. And now these Halls, which have housed so many Ssariyn in peace for thousands of revolutions around the Mother Star, are being devastated by warm-blood forces, he thought sadly. Vossop continued to hold confidence that once the energy source in Yamania had been reached and adjusted, the resulting energy field would effectively knock out their warm-blood enemies' capability of being a threat to Tssagyr. With the warm-bloods on the soil of Tssagyr, however, many of the revered Tssagyrssariyn of the other Halls were beginning to have doubts.
And another warm-blood city is devastated by an energy burst. The first strike against the Yamania capital Pssath had seen reason in, disorganizing their coming foe by decapitating their leadership. But this second strike against these Falkland warm-bloods... the revered Vossop seemingly did that solely out of spite. Even that aside, the strike against the Yamania capital hadn't gone as planned, their new leader Coleman seeming to be quite capable himself. Am I beginning to doubt him myself?, Pssath wondered as he paused in his monitoring duty. I've personally carried out the strikes against the two warm-blood cities and I have seen the transmissions from our soldiers in Yamania and here on Tssagyr. The Great Struggle was countless revolutions ago. Ssariyn should not have to act as such. But the warm-bloods had left them little choice. They had sent envoys out to nearly every region of the planet and nearly all of them had been ill-received by the locals.
Sighing, Pssath began to turn back to his terminal when an icon flashed at center of the display. Giving his affirmative, Pssath watched as the text message sprang into being and quickly read through it. Surprised, Pssath looked at the time display and stood. It will be a while before the revered Vossop will need the next report on the ongoing battles in Yamania and Tssagyr. He logged off of the terminal and walked out into one of the main corridors of the Hall, letting himself get pulled along in the flow of Tssagyrssariyn going about their daily business of duties in the Hall and the newer duties pertaining to the war. As always, seeing those in the powered armor of the military force was an abrupt reality check for Pssath who could almost imagine it to be a day before the cursed flash of light brought them to this new universe. A few minutes later, he reached appropriate door and stood waiting for a few seconds before he was recognized and the doors slid open.
Walking in, Pssath looked around curiously at the odd arrangement of the room. In addition to the customary Ssariyn furniture, he saw strange images hung upon the walls surrounded by frames made of woods obviously native to the warm-blood universes, as well as statues made of various materials carved into the three main races of Dracorus. Staring at a particularly detailed one, Pssath started slightly as a voice echoing inside his head said, "Do you like that piece? It's a jade representation of one who I believe was a relative of mine from many, many centuries ago." Turning away from the statue, Pssath saw the Dracorus envoy, Jiao, peering out at him through the door to the innermost room of the Dracorus embassy which was, of course, the only embassy in Tssagyr. "It is quite striking, actually. This is your ancestor you said?" "In human terminology, it would be closer to my uncle. Do come in Pssath, I do not wish to keep you from your urgent business longer than necessary."
Looking back at the statue briefly in amazement, Pssath walked through the door and, at a nod from Jiao, sat in one of the nearby seats. Jiao, his body coiled and taking up a full half of the room, regarded Pssath silently as he took his seat. "So, how is the war progressing?" Pssath eyed the Dracorusian envoy a moment, then replied, "It is apparent to anyone. Our forces have nearly driven through the residential area in Yamania and there is very little between there and the energy source itself. Here, however, the warm-bloods have taken control of the waters surrounding Tssagyr and have seized the coastal Halls. Their forces raid into the interior of the island, bombing our Halls, killing our non-military people and reducing our fleet one by one. Strangely, though, the raids have been lightening up as of late." There was a small rumble of amusement in Jiao's throat as he said, "It appears that each of you is winning upon the other's native territory."
Pssath let out a low, menacing hiss and replied, "I do not find the deaths of so many Tssagyrssariyn amusing." "Really? As it appears to me, Pssath, the humans are only dealing back to the Tssagyrssariyn what they, or at least the revered Vossop, has been dealing out to them. I assure you with great certainty, Pssath, that the Yamanians and Falklanders do not find the deaths of so many humans amusing." Pssath opened his mouth, then closed it as he struggled for a reply. "That is different, Jiao. The strike against the Yamania capital was an age-old military tactic to plunge the enemy into confusion by eliminating their leadership." "And tell me, what of the strike against the Falklander capital of Port Stanley?" "Retaliation for their assistance to Yamania in attacking Tssagyr," Pssath replied, but it was obvious he didn't sound sure himself. Jiao shook his head slightly and said, "One retaliation against the other, each side trying to top the other's level of destruction. I have seen in my universe, and have heard of in the portions of other universes sent to this world, how such situations end. With both sides in ruins and one side with a hollow victory." "They left us with little choice! They never would have come to an arrangement regarding the energy source considering what it does to their technology and what their kind did to our envoys."
"Ah, yes. Your envoys. The revered Vossop cites them frequently whenever I bring up the possibility of a meeting between your people and the Yamanians." Jiao shifted and eyed Pssath with what appeared to be a look of contempt. "I have long considered that situation and have even had our envoys to other human nations investigate the matter. Tell me, Pssath, just how did you go about investigating the circumstances of these incidents?" Cautiously, Pssath replied, "I was not involved in the hypergate sending of the envoys to regions around this world. At the time, I was main engineer for my Hall. I ascended to my current position of main engineer for all of Tssagyr after the energy source was discovered." "So you were never involved in the sending of the envoys or the investigation afterward?" "Of course not. What does it matter now?" Nodding to a nearby terminal, Jiao replied, "Perhaps you could check for yourself. The results are... illuminating." Pssath looked at the terminal, then back at Jiao, replying, "What do you mean?" As Jiao's silence stretched, Pssath stood from his seat with a near silent hiss of annoyance and walked over to the terminal.
Not long after Pssath sat and began working with the terminal, he turned his head and looked at Jiao in astonishment. "I have access to the entire system from here! How did you get clearance?" He could feel amusement radiating from Jiao as he replied, "Though you Ssariyn have far more advanced computer technology than we Dragons or the Humans, certain things remain the same. Certain Tssagyrssariyn fond of things that can't be found on Tssagyr, Humans who can be quite adept at such intrusive techniques... Why don't you check the hypergate data?" Pssath, a bit startled at the admission, nevertheless turned back to the terminal. The deeper he delved into the archives, the tighter he felt a knot in his chest clench, making it hard to breath. "This... this can't be so." He looked at Jiao, almost pleadingly, as he gestured towards the display. "Can it?"
Jiao watched Pssath, his world suddenly turned inside-out, for a while. Before he could begin his response, however, strange lights began to flash and a near incomprehensible dialect of the Ssariyn language began repeating over speakers throughout the Hall. Looking around in confusion, Jiao asked, "What's going on? What is that saying?" Pssath, equally confused, replied, "I can barely understand it. Something about an attack and shelters." He quickly turned to the terminal and soon found the cause. "It's a program from among our oldest archives. A self-defense mechanism from the aftermath of the Great Struggle when the interstellar colony ships were still being built and tensions were still high between the various factions. It activates automatically in the event of a surprise attack from orbit."
*****
Owain Rafael stood near the entrance of the expeditionary force's main base, which some were informally starting to call 'Coleman Airfield' in honor of the Yamanian wartime leader, binoculars raised to his eyes as he watched the skies towards the interior of Tssagyr. Folded in his pocket was the telegram from Port Stanley. Or at least what is left of it. He had seen the damage to the Government District in Antarctica, but comparing that large, burned crater with his capital was hard to picture. The closest he could come was the 'Red Fist' Invasion of 1962, but even that wouldn't come close to the sheer devastation he saw in the Yamanian capital. All our defenses and military build up to prevent such a thing from happening again, for nothing, Rafael thought grimly as his hands tightened on the binoculars. Soon, at Governor Stanley Kobbel's order, the Falkland Islands were going to avenge themselves against the Tssagyris.
A few seconds before his satellite tracking specialist shouted to let them know the Qwerty STL missiles were away, Rafael could tell something was wrong. In the distance, thin beams of light flashed into the air and the sky seemed to shimmer from horizon to horizon. Before his aides and the other Allied soldiers could even begin to exclaim in startlement, the Qwertys flashed down from the sky and impacted the shimmering in midair, miles above the surface of Tssagyr. Rafael lowered the binoculars and squinted against the explosion of the four missiles and the flash from the shimmering sky at the impact points. Some sort of force field. We should have kept that possibility in mind. Before long, without knowing the exact details of why the Qwertys had gone wrong, a lone Keaton 12 missile, the 'Last Resort', flashed down a few minutes later and impacted against the Tssagyri force field with equal ineffectiveness. Already the deadly dust clouds were drifting off towards the east, out towards sea.
Amid the chatter of the officers and non-coms around him, sounding both of surprise and disapointment, Rafael turned on his heel and walked over to the nearest radio. "Order all air und land forces to continue die offensive towards die interior." It appears we'll have to do this the hard way after all.
*****
William Coleman set the receiver to the radio down gently, otherwise he would have smashed it against the cradle. "That Kobbel keeps going on about this 'Red Fist' thing they had in the 60s and how the attempted missile strikes against Tssagyr were justified." He leaned back in his chair and ran his hands over his face. "Certainly I know how he feels about their strike against Port Stanley, how could any Yamanian not? But biological weapons? He said STL bombings and I hardly had any time to ask what that meant before they struck. We assumed he meant nuclear weapons or those kinetic things the scientists speculated about. Even if the damned things had hit, what made them think that those lizards would even be effected by human diseases?"
Patrick Stutchbury, recently returned to the Yamanian capital from the fleet that was still blockading Tssagyr, sat stiffly in the chair across Coleman's desk, expression tight. "I suppose they wanted to strike back with whatever they had at hand and didn't think things through properly. Even so, the... dust from those Falklander missiles swept over three of our ships patrolling the waters east of Tssagyr. They've been quarantined and the entirety of their crews are expected to be a total loss. With your authorization, we'll sink them from afar to make sure the biological contaminants won't spread any further." At Coleman's weary nod, Stutchbury continued, "Fortunately, the dust clouds dissipated long before they could hit New Zeeland. Speaking of which, the New Zeelander Prime Minister Edward Paraone informed me that they're sending some sort of special forces to assist our forces in Tssagyr. Not much, but I guess he doesn't want the Tssagyris to catch on to any assistance that might cause them to blast their cities."
"A sensible precaution on his part," Coleman replied. "They may very well make good allies once we can sit down and formally discuss such things. This thing with the Falklander missiles and our ships though... it's already causing some minor public outrage here in Antarctica and likely won't go over any better with our forces on the mainland and in Tssagyr. Hopefully, we'll be able to smooth things over. Kobbel's attempts to justify the strikes and that line from the telegram, what was it..." Coleman picked up the sheet of paper and grunted as he found the phrase. "Tasmanian demons from Hell, that was it. The sentiment about putting the security of his nation in our hands was very good, but the damned media have been hanging on that one phrase ever since word of the dust hitting our vessels came in, trying to paint him as a madman. Maybe if we can get Kobbel to give some sort of public apology than we'll be able to patch things up between us and the Falklands." Coleman trailed off as he saw the bemused expression on Stutchbury's face. "What?" "I'm sorry, sir, but you were a military man before all this, right?" "Yes, why?" "It's just... you sound an awful lot like a politician now. No offense intended, just an observation."
After a small stretch of silence in which Coleman couldn't figure out how to take that, he shook his head and continued. "That envoy from Dracorus left this morning for Port Stanley to protest personally to Kobbel for launching a weapon of mass destruction on an area where there was a Dracorusian ambassador. Before he left, though, he told me that diplomatic efforts within Tssagyr are beginning to bear fruit. I asked him what he meant, but he was remarkably tight lipped about it. Apparently, Vossop himself still refuses to negotiate with us so what those Dragons are up to is anyone's guess." He shook his head with a wry smile. "I sometimes wonder just how all those knights in the stories were able to win against them."
Stutchbury smiled, then glanced at a nearby notice board with a map of Yamania pinned to it, colored pins marking the various military forces in and around Thompson and the Dome. "How are things going on the mainland? If I'm not mistaken, some of those pins have moved a bit." Coleman nodded grimly and said, "They have. The latest word from Ludvigsen says that things aren't good at all."
*****
John Ludvigsen threw himself behind a chunk of rubble, the piece of a nearby building on the very outskirts of Thompson that had been blown up by a Tssagyri behemoth, Pettersen right behind him. Hot shrapnel from the self-propelled artillery piece hit by the energy pulse hissed past and pattered onto the street. He hazarded a peek over the edge of the rubble to see the behemoth bearing down straight on his position, a Monty backing up before it and firing it's main guns into it's armor with no effect. "Aim for the treads, damn it!", Ludvigsen yelled out as Pettersen rose quickly and fired an anti-tank rocket at the behemoth, the round hissing past the Monty and impacting the street near the treads. Pettersen bent back down to reload with a curse as Ludvigsen opened up on the supporting Tssagyri infantry with his rifle. Over the ragged edges of the buildings along either side of the street, he could see the behemoths advancing towards the edge of Thompson with impunity, towering over the surrounding landscape like capitol ships at sea.
"Sir, the crawlers are waiting just out of range of the outskirts of the village! We aren't going to be able to hold them much longer!" Ludvigsen looked at Pettersen and nodded his agreement as the behemoth cut loose with another energy pulse. He turned his head just in time to see it impact the Monty before Pettersen knocked him flat, shrapnel from the Montgomery '58 hissing overhead. As soon as the shrapnel stopped raining down, he was back in his crouch to see the Monty stopped dead, it's main guns pointing at awkward angles and it's charred front armor peeled open like an orange. There goes one of our three 'tread busters', Ludvigsen thought as he swore. As if the destruction of the Monty was a signal, the Allied soldiers began to pull back out of the village in a ragged retreat towards waiting snowcrawlers and, eventually, the defenses around the Dome. Ludvigsen got to his feet and sprinted towards another Monty, climbing onto it for a quick ride and briefly noticing that it had Ol' Tony written on the side before he looked back towards Thompson.
The Tssagyri behemoth's treads were already starting to grind up over the wreckage of the wrecked Montgomery '58 and crushing it beneath it's weight. Beyond, Ludvigsen could see an almost surreal landscape. Most of Thompson was in flames, the pillars of smoke filling most of his view, and every structure within view had taken at least one energy pulse or artillery shell. It's like something from World War 2. And I'll have to explain this to all those refugees at the Dome, he thought sadly. Another thing he never would have imagined would happen in Yamania.
A flash of light caused him to squint and look back at the Tssagyri behemoth. He physically felt the shockwave from a huge explosion less than a second after a thunderous boom temporarily deafened him. To his astonishment, the behemoth that had been driving over the wrecked Monty was stopped dead, smoke billowing out of it. The surrounding buildings were crumpled in on themselves and the Tssagyri infantry was splashed away from the explosion. "What... ?", he asked dazedly, not sure what happened and unable to even hear himself. Then the realization hit him and he stared in amazement. Someone in that Monty must have survived all that long enough to trigger that self-destruct. A heroic gesture and a way to knock one of them out once and for all, but there were too many behemoths to make sacrificing his last two Montys feasible.
He looked away from the wrecked Tssagyri behemoth and grabbed his radio. "Relay the following to Antarctica: Withdrawing from Thompson. Pulling back to the Dome. Awaiting further reinforcements." He paused. "That's it." |
G. Bone (gbone)
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| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 09:03 pm: |
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argggg...double post
(Message edited by g.bone on September 22, 2003) |
G. Bone (gbone)
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Yes, Yamanian Theater of War= going to the Thompson front and anywhere else that combat is being held. The HMS Wellington will serve as airbase for those specific planes for the sake of not being attacked because it will be surrounded by the Falklander navy forces. The carrier itself will be anchored about 5 leagues off of Navy Point.
Those planes that are designated for Tasmania that cannot land on makeshift tarmacs will be based in Neu France, and heavily camaflogued in order for Neu France not to get invovled with the war. |
GBW (gbw)
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| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 06:30 pm: |
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A couple more points:
1) What do you mean by "Aircraft designated for the Yamanian Theater of War"? These aircraft are going to be sent to the fighting at Thompson while the others are sent to Tssagyr?
2) It will probably be a while before the engineers with Rafael's command can properly level and pave a proper airfield at the captured Hall. Until then, only aircraft like the Ospries, Harriers and the helicopters will be able to use it. Will aircraft that need an actual airfield base themselves at an airfield in Yamania until it's constructed? Or is the RMS Wellington heading to Tssagyr? |
G. Bone (gbone)
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| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 04:21 pm: |
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To be more specific on the plane designations, here is the list of the planes that the Falklands got from the PKH:
3 V-22 Ospries for inflatration, lifting, etc.
5 AV-8B Harriers [based in the DeGaulle Airfields]
2 F-16's
On board the RMS Wellington [the aircraft carrier based in the Falkland Islands] & the Royal Falkland Military Complex are:
8 AV-8C Harriers
6 F-3 Flying Tornadoes*
3 AH-64 Apaches*
1 CH-47B Chinhook.*
The rest of the armament is supported by the Monty's, Rommels, Gull Hawks, and Droppers....
(*) Aircraft designated for the Yamanian Theater of War
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Peter David Hall (peter_hall)
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| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 03:43 pm: |
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"Won't these modern fighters and bombers need runways with which to operate? How is Rafael going to secure a temporary base in Tssagyr when there's only wilderness besides the Halls?"
This would depend on what sort of fighters they are. Quite a few OTL military aircraft are designed for "rough field" operations from semi-prepared strips. If the Falklanders have gotten hold of V/STOL fighters then there's even less of a problem. |
G. Bone (gbone)
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| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 02:48 pm: |
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ahem...
from the declaration of war...
"Four missles will hit Tasmania, and if they don't work, Kobbel will authorize the_ Keaton 12_ missle, which there is only 2 of them."
on the other points you raised...
1) The Falklands have negotiated the "lease" of some fighter planes/special forces exchange for the use of information and sole representation of the Dominion in diplomatic relations in the Pacific.
2) from your installment:
"This structure is adequate for our needs and this clearing vill make a good base for die helicopters to move further inland. This shall be our base of operations from now on."
--> basically Falkland High Command just gave him the order to establish to enlarge that clearing for fighter jets to land in as well as make the structure a permanent base for Falkland/Yamanian military forces to land on/in.
So the route of the PKH planes is going to be:
Honolulu to Neupari to the Coleman Military Camp(*)
the route of the Falkland military forces are going to be:
Port Stanley to unnamed Yamanian base to Coleman Military Camp(*)
(*)- the temp. base that Rafael just est. |
GBW (gbw)
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G.Bone: A few questions: 1) He'll fire only one of the Keatons, or both?
2) The PKH is sending their own fighters and bombers along with the Falkland ones?
3) Won't these modern fighters and bombers need runways with which to operate? How is Rafael going to secure a temporary base in Tssagyr when there's only wilderness besides the Halls? The only possible base nearby would be the Antarctica itself and it probably won't be able to carry that many extra aircraft in addition to it's own.
4) This is more of a comment. The Aztec portion of Australia was later named Hueca Tlahtocayotl. |
G. Bone (gbone)
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actually it is, but the name "the last resort" stuck because it can do so much damage and it was used by the SCF [the organization that the Falkland Islands belong to] as the last resort if the enemy that they were fighting didn't get the idea of "Surrender and give up your arms." |
Duncan Head (duncan)
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| | Posted on Monday, September 22, 2003 - 02:59 am: |
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'>The _Keaton 12_ is strictly for wiping out population sites in a 60 mile radios, and is often referred to as the "Last Resort" '
Odd, I was sure it would be nicknamed "Buster". |
Peter David Hall (peter_hall)
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| | Posted on Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 04:58 pm: |
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Australia is devided more or less down the middle. Darwinia in the western half is similar to OTL's Commonwealth of Australia. The eastern half is an Aztec colony called Australia (because nobody knows what the Aztecs would call Australia). |
G. Bone (gbone)
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I believe it is an aztec colony and something called "Darwina" or something like that. |
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| | Posted on Friday, September 19, 2003 - 08:19 am: |
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The NZ PM (try and find a maori name, maybe with some Englishness in it like John *maori names*) wouldn't believe it without evidence which I am sure will be provided. Special forces would likely be deployed- SAS style 'we can deny we know of their very existance if they screw up' (again I do not know what the special forces are called, where's a English-Maori dictionary when you need one :p)
and on the official side major diplomatic efforts launched to ask Tasmania if this was true (or would that be unwise...the Tasmanians could say 'oh no they are on to us, lets kill them'- you know how they would react and NZ will have likely figured them out a bit in the past month)
Whats the status of mainland Australia? All I can find in the mosaic earth thread is something about a aztec colony. I wouldn't imagine they'd sit by with this alien power to the south also. |
G. Bone (gbone)
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Post Number: 153
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 07:18 pm: |
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seriously GBW this thread takes as long as Mosaic Earth does! [which may be a good/bad thing]
On the Qwerty STL Missle Issue:
> The STL missles are going to be targeted at ALL areas that a lot of people at a set given area.
>Although it does not do much structural damage to the buildings of that site it does KILL everyone in a 30 mile radius. Those unfortunates that aren't killed when the payload hits, get hit with a dust cloud that is contaminated with a mixture of ebola/AIDS/bublonic plague.
>That the satillite itself has about 18 of them. Four missles will hit Tasmania, and if they don't work, Kobbel will authorize the_ Keaton 12_ missle, which there is only 2 of them.
>The _Keaton 12_ is strictly for wiping out population sites in a 60 mile radios, and is often referred to as the "Last Resort"*
--> Please consult your nearest Falkland Military unit for protection from this payload
On the new reinforcements:
All military units that are not of the Milita Unites are going to be sent to effectively wipe out any trace of Tasmania from the Earth. Kobbel*2 is that pissed. The big hole that now is Falkland's defense is now being covered by military forces from the Quechan [sp?] Republic and The Plate.
Notes:
*Now you know why no American troops have been seen in SCF territory. Qwerty missles were used in their Brazil to effectively end the possiblilty of it becoming an American puppet. Needless to say, Columbia is the only mainland S. American country with Americans in it.
*2 Kobbel was a private in the Falklander Home Guard when the Red Fist invaded the Dominion. Kobbel has since vowed never to have this repeated, and if so, whomever invades the Dominion will have Hell to pay. |
GBW (gbw)
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Post Number: 268
Registered: 08-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 05:23 pm: |
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josquius: They knew the Falklands were helping Yamania for quite a while, they just weren't sure to what extent. Once it became apparent that Falklander forces were actively fighting alongside the Yamanians, Pssath happened to give the report at the wrong time and, well... the rest is history.
Btw, how will New Zeeland answer the Yamanian envoy that is going to warn them about the field's effect on South Island?
G.Bone: So Stanley Kebbol is going to launch the two Qwerty missiles [interesting name, btw ] at central Tssagyr? Are they nuclear?
Also, is he sending all of the Falklands' forces to help Yamania? Just the land forces, or are they also sending naval forces? |
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