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Flashboom

Breaking news
With the Flashboom space station and Building of ambassadors almost halfway complete Flashboom Has decided to update the list of who has already RSVP'd there Nations spot. The fallowing nations have agreed to send repes to both of the architectures when they is complete: Tanour, Latvia and Saaremaa, Zhousheng, Etreon, Wellsenfaile, Ruoku huru, Kistolia, The veritian empireNicersdah, And finally the newest member Varkia-sologaria. If you want to join please message me or like this post.

Zhousheng, Tanour, and Wellsenfaile

Varkia-sologaria

As Katherine Erik signs an agreement to join the Flashboom Space Station as well as the Building of Ambassadors, she has also sent messages to Agarntrop if they want to seek a common left-wing alliance, seeing how both nations supporting left-wing stances (OOC: I myself am I socialist). While doing so however, news has been reported that small scale ethnic gang wars have been popping up all over the empire. The largest gangs are the Varkian far-right ultranationalist gang, the Lone Sun and the Sologarian left-wing separatist militia, the Sologarian Socialist Republican Army. Katherine Erik is in her office, making orders to police officals.

"I want these criminals arrested immediately. We cannot have ethno conflict within our borders. I want those criminals to be apprehend immediately." Said Katherine Erik. "But ma'am, some of our officers have ties to these gangs." Said General Police Officer Thomas Larsen. "Then send officers who do not have ties to any gangs then." Said Katherine Erik. "Blue Harper, I am planning on making a pan-left-wing international alliance called the Socialist and Social Democratic Union. With Agarntrop being a key member of this plan. Tell them if they accept to come to our nation to discuss it." Said Katherine Erik. "Okay, what kind of alliance will this be?" Asked Blue Harper. "All encompassing. Every kind of alliance will be the S.S.D.U." Said Katherine Erik as Blue Harper went to make the phone call.

Nicersdah

Flashboom wrote:Breaking news
With the Flashboom space station and Building of ambassadors almost halfway complete Flashboom Has decided to update the list of who has already RSVP'd there Nations spot. The fallowing nations have agreed to send repes to both of the architectures when they is complete: Tanour, Latvia and Saaremaa, Zhousheng, Etreon, Wellsenfaile, Ruoku huru, Kistolia, The veritian empireNicersdah, And finally the newest member Varkia-sologaria. If you want to join this alliance please message me or like this post.

wait alliance? is there any requirement besides just sending an embassy?

The empire of veritia

Flashboom wrote:Breaking news
With the Flashboom space station and Building of ambassadors almost halfway complete Flashboom Has decided to update the list of who has already RSVP'd there Nations spot. The fallowing nations have agreed to send repes to both of the architectures when they is complete: Tanour, Latvia and Saaremaa, Zhousheng, Etreon, Wellsenfaile, Ruoku huru, Kistolia, The veritian empireNicersdah, And finally the newest member Varkia-sologaria. If you want to join this alliance please message me or like this post.

OOC: I'm sorry what? I don't remember me agreeing to whatever this is. Of course, you can contact me through telegrams or discord if you wish and we can talk about this, but I'm still pretty sure I didn't agree.



Agarntrop

Varkia-sologaria wrote:As Katherine Erik signs an agreement to join the Flashboom Space Station as well as the Building of Ambassadors, she has also sent messages to Agarntrop if they want to seek a common left-wing alliance, seeing how both nations supporting left-wing stances (OOC: I myself am I socialist). While doing so however, news has been reported that small scale ethnic gang wars have been popping up all over the empire. The largest gangs are the Varkian far-right ultranationalist gang, the Lone Sun and the Sologarian left-wing separatist militia, the Sologarian Socialist Republican Army. Katherine Erik is in her office, making orders to police officals.

"I want these criminals arrested immediately. We cannot have ethno conflict within our borders. I want those criminals to be apprehend immediately." Said Katherine Erik. "But ma'am, some of our officers have ties to these gangs." Said General Police Officer Thomas Larsen. "Then send officers who do not have ties to any gangs then." Said Katherine Erik. "Blue Harper, I am planning on making a pan-left-wing international alliance called the Socialist and Social Democratic Union. With Agarntrop being a key member of this plan. Tell them if they accept to come to our nation to discuss it." Said Katherine Erik. "Okay, what kind of alliance will this be?" Asked Blue Harper. "All encompassing. Every kind of alliance will be the S.S.D.U." Said Katherine Erik as Blue Harper went to make the phone call.

We aren't socialist.... plus your RPing is kinda non-canon until you get a map claim done. You can also work on iiwiki.

Varkia-sologaria

Agarntrop wrote:We aren't socialist.... plus your RPing is kinda non-canon until you get a map claim done. You can also work on iiwiki.

But you are a social democrat correct? Plus my nation is going to be added tomorrow.

Agarntrop

Varkia-sologaria wrote:But you are a social democrat correct? Plus my nation is going to be added tomorrow.

im presuming you got that from my nsg signature, which details my out of character, irl views, not the in character policies of my nation

and anyway in character my nation does not represent my out of character views, my nation is a capitalist country with a right-wing conservative president (one of the houses of legislature is controlled by centre-left 'socialists' (more aptly described as social democrats these days) and the other by the conservatives)

you can read about agarntrop on my iiwiki here - https://iiwiki.us/wiki/Agarntrop

Wellsenfaile and Jehovikra

Nownadia

Flashboom wrote:Breaking news
With the Flashboom space station and Building of ambassadors almost halfway complete Flashboom Has decided to update the list of who has already RSVP'd there Nations spot. The fallowing nations have agreed to send repes to both of the architectures when they is complete: Tanour, Latvia and Saaremaa, Zhousheng, Etreon, Wellsenfaile, Ruoku huru, Kistolia, The veritian empireNicersdah, And finally the newest member Varkia-sologaria. If you want to join this alliance please message me or like this post.

Nownadia requests to join

New Patersan has revealed that Nownadian government has agreed to request to join the Flashboom space station, quoting that "Nownadia must expand its international presence. Nownadia also requests to join the building of ambassadors.

Flashboom and Wellsenfaile

Agarntrop

:eye_roll:

Halsuntria, Tanour, and Jehovikra

Halsuntria

I'm sort of questioning the logic of 1. A space station being built out of nowhere and
2. Having only nations that have embassies in your nation join it without either having it only for a close-knit alliance or for all countries to join in, which for one country to build it would eliminate it making sense.

Agarntrop, Zhousheng, Kentalis, and Jehovikra



The Federal Republic of Zhousheng

Flashboom wrote:Breaking news
With the Flashboom space station and Building of ambassadors almost halfway complete Flashboom Has decided to update the list of who has already RSVP'd there Nations spot. The fallowing nations have agreed to send repes to both of the architectures when they is complete: Tanour, Latvia and Saaremaa, Zhousheng, Etreon, Wellsenfaile, Ruoku huru, Kistolia, The veritian empireNicersdah, And finally the newest member Varkia-sologaria. If you want to join this alliance please message me or like this post.

Nicersdah wrote:wait alliance? is there any requirement besides just sending an embassy?

The empire of veritia wrote:OOC: I'm sorry what? I don't remember me agreeing to whatever this is. Of course, you can contact me through telegrams or discord if you wish and we can talk about this, but I'm still pretty sure I didn't agree.

Haven't agreed to any alliance either. I only agreed to move my ambassador to that building. Please, do not break consent rules. I am not in your alliance.

Agarntrop, Torvon, Jehovikra, and The empire of veritia

Agarntrop

i agree with the above two posts

this situation is kinda stupid

Jehovikra

Jehovikra

this is funny to watch

Agarntrop



The Federal Republic of Zhousheng

Agarntrop wrote:i agree with the above two posts

this situation is kinda stupid

I can feel that. Only thing I agreed in the telegram was that my ambassador be moved to the tower as I was asked if I want to be there. I literally didn't agree to anything else. Flashboom and Zhousheng are in no sort of a alliance until I agree to that. I haven't so far consented to anything and I doubt I would in the near future.

Agarntrop and The empire of veritia



Flashboom

No alliance just an ambassador building also I announced the building of the space station publicly like a month ago while it was in its early stages also Flashboom's congress had a secret meeting 1 month prior to see if the agency should be public or Private, peaceful or Guns blazing

Kentalis

Flashboom wrote:No alliance just an ambassador building also I announced the building of the space station publicly like a month ago while it was in its early stages also Flashboom's congress had a secret meeting 1 month prior to see if the agency should be public or Private, peaceful or Guns blazing

Space stations take way more than 1 month to build, for example, the Soviet MIR station took Eleven Years. Please do research on a topic before you dive head-in.

Agarntrop and Zhousheng



Kentalis

Flashboom wrote:No alliance just an ambassador building also I announced the building of the space station publicly like a month ago while it was in its early stages also Flashboom's congress had a secret meeting 1 month prior to see if the agency should be public or Private, peaceful or Guns blazing

Flashboom wrote:Breaking news
With the Flashboom space station and Building of ambassadors almost halfway complete Flashboom Has decided to update the list of who has already RSVP'd there Nations spot. The fallowing nations have agreed to send repes to both of the architectures when they is complete: Tanour, Latvia and Saaremaa, Zhousheng, Etreon, Wellsenfaile, Ruoku huru, Kistolia, The veritian empireNicersdah, And finally the newest member Varkia-sologaria. If you want to join please message me or like this post.

This RP is from now on to be considered Non-Canon, as they are not on the map. Move along people.

Agarntrop, Zhousheng, Halsuntria, Nicersdah, and 1 otherThe empire of veritia

The Federal Republic of Foxomexra

There is no need to jump on someone's RP like this - contact RP Director or Councillers to speak to an individual if there is an issue. There is no reason to call the RP stupid or belittle someone, we have RP authorities for a reason.

Nightthorn and Wellsenfaile



Kistolia

Last Genocide Officer Dies
At 4:00 PM the last “Genocide Officer” (or GO), has died due to a Liver cancer. Genocide Officers were used in the Dutchy Empire from 1916-1955 to genocide Pecian groups. They used facilities called “Stabilization Camps” to poison, shoot, drown, and burn alive ethnic Pecians.

Airplanes Being Sent to Shaunteville
Kistolia has started to send airplanes into Shaunteville-la-patrici to prepare for an invasion. Kistolia has sent in notable planes such as FB-132s (or Night Hawks) and B-189s (Carpet Falcon).

Agarntrop and Zhousheng

The Federal Republic of Foxomexra

Foxomexran government issues formal protest against the AWA

In light of the recent passage of an AWA resolution to impose an embargo of arms and sanctions on essential resources like oil to Shaunteville, the federal government of Foxomexra has issued a formal complaint against the organization. Citing the resolution, in particular its claim to authorize AWA members to impose a blockade around Shaunteville to enforce these sanctions, as a blatant attempt to exert supranational control over Shaunteville, the Foxomexran government has stated that it does not recognize the AWA's authority in such a matter and will not make any attempts to stifle its companies from doing business with Shaunteville. Although the Foxomexran government recognizes the possibility of justifying such a blockade by nations at war with Shaunteville, it is the belief of Foxomexra that any nation not joining the war yet participating in such blockade is doing so in violation of Shaunteville's national sovereignty. In such a situation, the Foxomexran government has declared with vague terms that such action would be "unnacceptable" and threatened diplomatic action against any nation doing so.

The empire of veritia



New sebronia

Alright, so:
First of all, I remind everyone here to respect the consent rule. You are not allowed to include any nations in your RP unless they consent to it.

Secondly, RPing without being on the regional map is very complicated and highly advise against doing so. So please choose a spot on the map before RPing. There is also a Map Guide if needed:


Basics

You can view the LinkCurrent Political Map here.

This LinkGoogle Drive link contains many other maps used by the region, including a climate map, timezone map, as well as a map of several international organizations.

If you ever have a question or problem related to the map, feel free to communicate with the Cartographer (Currently Foxomexra).

The map is updated regularly - the exact time of day the update is posted varies.


Claiming Land

Before claiming land on the map make sure you look at the current political map for white areas - this means the area is currently unclaimed. I highly recommend you consider the Climate Map when looking for an area to claim, as this is what determines the general environment of your country. Land features within your claim such as mountains and rivers are up to you, but the climate itself is not so easily changed.

In order to get your claim added to the map you need to let the Cartographer know where you would like to claim. You can do this by sending your claim via telegram on NationStates, through DM's on Discord, or in the #map-submissions channel located in the LinkAnterian Discord Server. The best way to send a claim is with an image, either circling the area you want or drawing the borders you want your country to have. When sending an image across a telegram it will be necessary to upload the image elsewhere then send the cartographer a link. Potential image hosting sites include Google Drive or Google Photos, as well as websites like Imgur - Sending images on Discord does not require you to use any other websites. If you are having difficulties getting an image sent you can also describe the area you want to claim, however the cartographer may ask for more information about the claim if needed.

Once the request is sent, and unless there is any issue with your claim, you will see your country on the map on either the next Saturday or Wednesday as that is when the map is updated.


Losing a Claim

The political map of Anteria is constantly changing, with new users being adding constantly. Your country will be removed from the map if your country Ceases to Exist (Commonly referred to as a "CTE"). The way to avoid Ceasing to Exist is by logging into NationStates regularly, as a country only CTE's after 28 days of not doing so. If you will be unable to log into NationStates for an extended period of time, you may want to consider enabling Vacation Mode in the "Settings" tab of NationStates, which changes the CTE timer to 60 days. If your country does end up CTE'ing, you will be removed during the next map update after 4 days have passed - these 4 days are the time you have to refound your country (which you do by simply attempting to sign in again).

If you are banned from the region for the violation of rules, your country will also be removed from the map.

You may also be removed from the map for being Inactive, as outlined below.

A user will be considered Inactive for the purposes of this rule if they have not participated in either
A. The Anterian Roleplay (by posting RP on the RMB or engaging in worldbuilding on the Discord server)
B. The Anterian Community (by conversing on the RMB or Discord server)
for a period of 5 consecutive months (150 days). A user who will be removed from the map will be contacted 2 weeks (14 days) prior to their removal from the map if they fulfill the above criteria via NationStates Telegram. Simply keeping your country from Ceasing To Exist (CTEing) is not sufficient to constitute activity.

If you are issued an inactivity warning you may inform the Cartographer that you do not wish to be removed from the map, which will ensure your country remains. If you come to fall under the definition of inactivity again, the Cartographer may remove you from the map regardless of any request.


Expansions

In order to expand you must submit a request to the Cartographer as you would a normal map claim. Generally speaking however, expansion requests are not approved. When you make your claim do not expect to be able to expand later on as territory is not treated as a simple commodity. Any expansion should have a reasonable benefit to the roleplay and worldbuilding of your country, rather than simply being a means of being larger or more powerful. An example of a justifiable reason would be if your country is landlocked, and you are requesting to expand to a nearby coastline. In this example the expansion provides a solid benefit to your ability to roleplay with others, which previously being landlocked may have prevented you from doing.

Expansions (Through Warfare and Diplomacy)

Firstly, it is important to consult the Anterian Roleplay Guide before pursuing any war roleplay. Any expansion, regardless of whether it occurs through war or diplomacy, is still subject to approval from the Cartographer. If you intend for borders to change during a war you must both agree to a territorial exchange, and submit the change request to the Cartographer - preferably before the war begins, although not required.

Read dispatch

Spacestations can't be built in a couple of months. They take several years (ISS took 10 years, MIR took 11 years). Even with today's tech there would be no possible way for a spacestation to be built that fast.

And lastly, I'd like people to not declare posts non-canon without talking to me, especially if they are not part of the Directorate of Roleplay. (Exceptions are of course if the consent rule has been broken, though that would still be for the affected players to decide.)

Further questions can either be answered by the Roleplay Guide, or by asking me (or other members of the Directorate of Roleplay).


Welcome to Anteria, the second planet in the Tendor System, home to humanity and all their beautiful nations!

The Anterian roleplay is a modern tech world completely unrelated to Earth. That means that the roleplay takes place in the current year; 2021, and any real-life countries, as well as the Earth, Solar System, Milky Way, etc simply don't exist. But how does it work?


First things first

    - The No. 1 rule in roleplay and worldbuilding is consent. So before you go and declare war on other countries, you need to understand that in order to include other countries into your roleplay, worldbuilding and lore, you have to get their permission to do so! That's why Anterian roleplay isn't just only acting and reacting, but often creating and discussing scenarios and events together with other members. Of course, foreign policy that includes other nations like for example travel bans, condemnations, or embargoes, which don't necessarily have to directly harm or generally affect the nation, are an exception.

    - Since this is a realtime RP in 2021, please stay realistic, especially when worldbuilding and roleplaying military. If you don’t know what is realistic and what’s not, just ask the Director of Roleplay (DoRP), a Councilor, or someone with enough knowledge to advise you.

    - In order for roleplay-posts to be canon, they have to be posted on the Regional Message Board (RMB), even if you already posted it in Link#today-in-anteria on the regional Discord!


How does one start roleplaying?

That is fairly simple. Whenever a new nation joins the roleplay, everyone acts like they have always existed. That way people are free to create their lore as they wish. If you don't know what to post or want to contact other roleplayers on a simpler way than having to write telegrams, there are several channels on our regional LinkDiscord server dedicated to roleplay and worldbuilding, which is why I highly recommend joining it!

On the other side, whenever a nation leaves the roleplay, may it be due to inactivity and CTEing (Nations "cease to exist" after 28/60 days of inactivity on NationStates, depending on if they are on Vacation Mode or not), leaving Anteria, or the player changing their nation in the roleplay, everyone acts as if the nation never existed in the first place.

If you want to add some spice to your worldbuilding, you can also create a wikipedia-like article about your nation on a website called LinkIIWiki. Don’t know how it works or how to start? Just ask Registrars or people with knowledge for help and take a look in #wiki-requests on Discord. We already have lots of articles, including one about LinkAnteria itself! When looking at the iiwiki-page, you might notice that Anteria is treated as a planet in the "LinkTendor System", which means that planets like Mars don't exist and that our system looks different. Anteria is the name of the planet, similar to how our planet is called "Earth" or "Terra". Same goes with our irl countries. As England doesn't exist in our roleplay, the universal language is often referred to as "Common".

Now we get to the most complicated part of Anterian roleplay: War.
Anteria works so well because we have the rules stated here. And that also applies to roleplaying warfare. To prevent newer players from jumping into the RP and directly trying to start wars or similar, we have several rules in order to restrict warfare. One of those being that you as a new player are not allowed to start conflicts like wars (including insurgencies and civil wars) for the first 28 days of your stay in Anteria. That way, we can ensure that people get to know our RP and rules well enough instead of heading right into low-quality and/or badly prepared warfare roleplay.
Additional to that, in order to start wars, there should be some kind of buildup and casus belli (so a valid reason for war), instead of just declaring it out of the blue.

Those are just some examples, so please make sure to read the
Rules of War
!

When talking about war history, we do have worldbuilt our own equivalent to the two irl World Wars; The Great War. In order to participate, I recommend contacting Zhousheng (Discord LinkFjana#6634).


The Map

Of course, roleplaying and worldbuilding without having an idea of where nations are is almost impossible. That is why we maintain a map of Anteria. In order to get a spot on the map, you have to claim the area you want your nation to be. You can do that by either downloading it or taking a screenshot (The latest map is linked on Anteria's World Factbook Entry, as well as in the Link#map-submissions channel on Discord), marking your claim (make sure it is reasonably sized and consider other maps like climate, tropical storms, etc.), and sending the claim to the Director of Cartography, Foxomexra, either by sending a telegram or posting the claim in Link#map-submissions on Discord.

When you have claimed a spot, your nation will be added in the next map update, which is every Wednesday and Saturday

White spots on the map are unclaimed land. It is complicated on how much one can interact with it, as there neither a void, nor complete anarchy with no governing structure, but rather some kind of governments noone can roleplay with, since there is no player to roleplay with. That also makes expansion of territory into unclaimed land for roleplay purposes a complicated topic, but not an impossible one. If you have something like that in mind for a roleplay idea, just talk with the Director of Cartography or Roleplay.

Need more information? Just read the Map Guide


The essentials of your worldbuillding

What you definitely need are the population and GDP of your country. Those are one of the most defining factors of how your country is gonna look like. Since NationStates-stats are highly unrealistic, you will have to come up with your own. For that I recommend the following:

    1. Ask the cartographer Foxomexra about the size of your claim.
    2. Settle on a population density, taking climate and other stuff into account.
    3. Calculate your Population (Pop. Density × Size)
    4. Settle on a GDP per capita (if you plan on being as wealthy as European nations, anything in a range of 10,000-45,000 ACU range is recommended, 50,000 ACU and above is quite wealthy, and countries even wealthier than that are usually smaller in population, like Switzerland, Qatar, Norway, etc.)
    5. Calculate your GDP (GDP per capita × Population)

Please be reasonable with your nation's population density and most importantly GDP per capita. Trying to be a world-dominating economic power like the irl USA will not work!
For population density and GDP per capita, I suggest taking real-life countries as a reference. If you are wondering what “ACU” (or sign ₳) is, it’s an abbreviation for “Anterian Currency Unit”. Though it’s not a currency but only a unit of measurement for international trade. 1 ACU is 1 LinkUSD. Similar concept extends to the so called “Anterian Wealth Unit” (AWU, ₩), which is equal to one LinkInternational (Geary–Khamis) Dollar and is used as a unit of measurement for the LinkPurchasing power parity.


Helpful Guides

Here are some very useful specific guides regarding different aspects of roleplay by Zhousheng!


Any other questions? Send a telegram to the DoRP Neuewland, or write a message to LinkOlympian Inquisitor#5559 on Discord! Have fun and enjoy your stay!

Read dispatch

Thank you for your attention.

Hadian, Agarntrop, Nightthorn, Junterland, and 7 othersFoxomexra, Kentalis, Torvon, Halsuntria, Vultesia, Plagyorasia, and Wellsenfaile

Nicersdahian diplomatic ministry

The Sons of the Gods have passed a 15% approval rating after wave after wave of ads, shows, marches, etc boosting its popularity. Meanwhile, the NNC has a 24% approval rating, a record low, as the council falls to inaction, constant argument, and inability to act.

Hadian, Agarntrop, Wellsenfaile, and Nicersdah



The National Socialist Empire of Hadian

Official Statement of the Imperial Hadian Government

After careful review and study the glorious Hadian Empire has moved to reclassify The veritian empire as an Unorganized Territory. A position that shows that this so called Territory is a threat to all of Anteria and Nations alike. The move was done amongst the Imperial Hadian Advisory and the God-Emperor Jon himself. Noting that degeneracy is by far the foulest form to rule and governance. The glorious Hadian Empire judges this land as wasteland ruled by an inbred tyrant. Hail Hadian, Hail God-Emperor Jon!

Agarntrop, Fichmanistan, Kentalis, Halsuntria, and 1 otherApple landia

The empire of veritia

When the secretary of state of the Veritian Empire, Kresov Mihailovich, was asked by Veritian media what he thinks of Hadian reclassifying Veirtia as an unrecognised territory, he just responded with 'Oh no, what an absolute tragedy, how will we survive without this fascist warmongering state recognising us'. He then laughed for a couple of seconds before walking off.

Neuewland and Agarntrop



Vultesia

1258hrs Local Time, 27/02/21.
Mess Hall, Fort Jorge, Joint Service Air Base.
Heartlands region, the Principate of Vultesia.


"So there I was, doing what I do with the gifts God gave me" Exclaimed Rifleman Domnhal Krisztan, enthusiastically thrusting his pelvis at the table as he retold the weekend's past debauchery to the rapt attention and roars of approval of his platoon mates, "And all of a sudden, her head bangs against the headboard, and I look down and there she is laying their, out cold!" Half the mess hall erupted in a fresh riot of laughter which was quickly hushed away by the Rifleman, commanding the attention of his peers like a soprano on a stage.

"Oi! Don't leave us waiting Dom' tell us what happened!" came the call from Rifleman Fredritt, Krisztan's firm friend, and often, partner in crime. His response was met with a dozen other voices signalling their approval.

"Okay okay, calm yourself, lad" replied Kirsztan in his thick Outland accent, the man was the son of Orthodox parents from the distant sectarian island, Argalmon, and despite his incredibly devout upbringing of prayer and hymnal and incense it seemed that the only lesson that had rubbed of on the young man was that as long as one went to confession and put an icon up in his accommodation, no act of drunken reveling was off limits.

"So like I was saying before Tom here rudely interrupted" he threw Fredritt a sly wink "I was panicking, Christ, I didn't know if I'd killed the chick! So I jumped out of the bed and started to throw my clothes back on, and as I'm there, wrestling with my trousers, I look up and see her family portrait, and you'll never guess who was staring back at me on that canvas!?"

The entire mess hall descended into silence, the tension of the men was palpable at Domnhal viewed his awed audience with a wicked smile that Satan himself would have been proud of.

"The one the only, our very own Lieutenant Colonel Ionathon Rasma! The sweet heart I'd been fooling around with was the C.O's Dau..."

"ATTENTION!" Screamed Fredritt at the top of his lungs cutting his friend short and causing the majority of the cook house to jump to reflexively attention as they wheeled to the entrance of the mess hall.

"Thank you, Rifleman" said the commanding officer of the 4th Regiment of Parachute Rifles, LtCol.Rasma as he paced into the building flanked by the Adjutant and Regimental Sergeant Major "And...Rifleman Krisztan?" He sighed turning to the frozen soldier whose face was now devoid of all colour and mirth "What in the name of Those Who Have Gone Before Me are you doing standing on that table?"

"Err..Erm..Well Sir..." was all the usually silver tongued islander could utter to a ripple of sniggers and watering eyes.

"You know what, it doesn't matter, just fall in." replied the officer, as the younger visibly breathed a sigh of relief at the Colonel's obliviousness to the weekend's antics. "Sergeant Major, if you please...Thank you." The Colonel accepted a newspaper from his underling and held it aloft, for the assembled masses to see, the National Coronet. The headline simply read 'Invasion!'

"As you all know doubt know, forty eight hours ago, the Shauntellerine 'armed forces', for lack of a better term, launched an invasion of the Krenya and the semi-autonomous state of Lisvonya. Now, I don't give a hoot about Rudolf Kren's Neverland of a country, but Lisvonya, now that's a different sheep to shear all together."

"Who's Rudolf Kren?" Krisztan whispered to Fredritt.

"The king of Krenya, dull stone. It's in the name" his friend hissed back.

"Now!" The C.O continued " reports are telling us that Marines in Lisvonya are taking some serious licks there, and the armoured boys to the East with going to the Kentalians aren't going to be able to move in near double the time needed. That leaves plan C...Us."

Rasma paused, allowing his men to dawn on the only natural conclusion of his address.

"As of one hour ago, 4.Para has been confined to base, as have several other 6 Air Assault outfits. Make no mistake, gentlemen, the Wet Legs and Tread Heads are not going to finish this war before we get skyward. New Model Army command has assured me that 6th Air Assault is going to be the Principate's relief effort for our seaborne cousins, ancestors know we can't trust the Krenyans to bail them out.4th Parachute Rifles will be the tip of that spear. Sergeant Major, carry on."

With that, the Lieutenant Colonel turned on his heel, leaving the paratroopers dumbfounded in his wake.

"Right, boys!" Sergeant Major Ionnitt's parade ready cry snapped the men's attention to him.

"Next timing, 1500hrs, full kit check! You know the op's list. Quartermaster Veldt will be there to take your deficiencies; no blagging losses, if you need replacements, now is the time. 1500hrs! Dismissed ."

Hadian, Tiskaiya, Junterland, New sebronia, and 4 othersHalsuntria, The Krenya, Wellsenfaile, and The empire of veritia

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