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Region: Azure Watester Federation

LodgedFromMessages
The Eternal Empire of New Imperial Britannia

A Nuclear Discovery
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Somewhere In Canada.

After a day of trekking, the British Special Detachment had arrived in the last known location of the nuclear trains. It was just up ahead now; a nondescript green train travelling along a railway, probably built during the 19th or early 20th centuries. This much was evident from the rusted rails and somewhat rotten wood; renovations had been planned and some of them carried out, but this particular stretch of railway was neither commercially nor strategically important.

The troops quickly discovered that they were not alone, however. As the train made its way to the small, poorly maintained train station and the troops prepared to force the train to stop, a soldier spotted some figures emerging from the other side of the railway. Shouting something that the troops couldn’t understand.

Another soldier, who had studied in Berlin for a few years prior to joining the Army, noticed the distinct blue flag patches on the opposing soldiers’ arms. A few words could be made out as well, they speaking in French and German.

“The Ruby Ranchers? What are they doing here?”

A few more shouts in German, and a few shouts back in English later, the British commander decided to do something about the situation. He pushed on the emergency stop lever in the station, signalling to the driver that he too should stop the train. As it came to a grinding halt, a Ruban soldier decided he, too, should take some action, and fired off a shot at the British soldiers in the station.

Confused and not knowing where the attack came from now that the train was obstructing the British soldiers’ view, a few shots were fired back, mostly into the sky. The train was in the way now, and nobody wanted to prematurely detonate the nuclear weapons.

The solders pried open the train door with a crowbar found in the station, and the driver was quickly knocked out and dragged into the station. The Ruby Ranch soldiers broke their way into the train as well, and a short but intense skirmish took place. Neither side could understand the other, and the only sound in the chamber was the sound of gunshots.

Amidst the chaos, a British soldier, the same one who had the crowbar, pried open the door leading to the storage compartments in the back. But rather than the nuclear controls and missiles both sides were expecting, what this train contained was...

Magazines, drawings, and books. Russian text was written on the cover, and judging by the artwork, these novels were clearly meant for perverted adults interested in the love life of the Russian Czar. Valuable to some, but certainly useless to the British forces here to secure a nuclear train.

The British troops retreated after this discovery was announced—in English, of course. The Ruban troops were left with a train full of “art” but without nuclear weapons. They called in an airlift—there was no point concealing the location now that the train turned out to be useless.

Vaktaria, The Ruby Ranch Republic, Salcanceacy, Kynor, and 4 othersBest rwanda, The waffle empire, Zentralreich, and The Castelian Federation

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