The Hole To Hide In

Tsʻypŋułiq

Sodor and Seljaryssk wrote:

RP: Dzealings with the North

The Dzehvtisi'i filing their interest in rail, Sodor would sign assent for Seelandtlijnien to construct the proposed high speed rail, considering their experience at running the tens of thousands of Sodorhvtisi'i kilometres of high speed infrastructure. Costs, given the long experience of the company on the similar Sodorhvtisi'i terrain, would be estimated at RyM 43,125,000 per km ($69,000,000), with Sodorhvtisi'i grants available in return for a guaranteed stake in the railroads equivalent to or exceeding, but not subceeding, 41 per cent, and provided funding to recoup losses at a similar amount yearly. Expected completion would be by 2035, with SLL also expressing interest in supporting urban transit in Dzeia.

Good dealings

With the deal fully set and work starting in the expansion, the Dze would thank their Sodorii partners for accepting the joint venture. Using the infrastructure already in place, with the nation having an extensive railway network, the efforts would be directed mostly to upgrade and expand said network, in order to make passenger travel across the nation faster and more efficient. In the topic of urban transport, however, the Dze would decline for the moment, as most of their cities were rather small, or in the case of the capital and bustling port city, walkable; the latter of which had a tram system, complimented with small urban bus lines. All of this would mean that, unless the cities expanded massively or the nation uplifts the ban on most forms of personal transport and highways, the need for expanding the urban public transport is not a particularly important issue, for the time being.

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Ḿywalq ŋexaṭaxa
A cause we can't ignore

As news of the invasion of Brennus by the hand of Otyken reached the steppes, calls for intervention were a common sound in the meeting halls where the Tsotʻaan was, for the brennian nation and people have long been a trusted friend, once ally, of the confederation. A coded message would, however, quickly reach the hands of Tsotʻaan Łʻysxalx̣ from the Brennian government itself, asking for the Dze to desist from direct aid, the reasons for which the Dze would find unsatisfactory, yet they would oblige, as the Tsotʻaan would recognize the fact that the nation was in no position to wage war, having just started to recover from partaking in two conflicts at once, the Invasion of Cxurun and the 2011 Recession, thus they would honour fully this request.

Despite this, the nation would partake in what it had learnt to do best: Diplomacy. The nation of Otyken would be quickly condemned by the Confederation, urged to desist from its abrasive actions and the Scientific Cooperation Initiative between the two states temporarily discontinued, with all Otykenese nationals involved given 24 hours to get a boat back to their nation, while other citizens of the nation have the choice to leave or remain under light government surveillance, in fear of potential spies using the Dze's good relation with Brennus to gain intel.
Along with this, the government has not, nor will, make a statement in regards to what the individual citizen of the nation might desire to do about this situation, saying "although our obligations to the requests of the government are ours to honour, whatever you may interpret as your personal tsʻal to the brennian people, it is yours to honour". After that statement by the Tsotʻaan to his people, a small number of retired soldiers, enthusiasts and, naturally, members of the Brennian Diaspora in Ŋołtʻokeq have made the choice to pack their bags, take the first boat to Corsera and cross the border into Brennus to join the cause in a more direct way, as fully commited war volunteers.

RP: Reading Fan Mail & Other Things

The Distanic Confederacy wrote:

Huh?
The Technate was not directly addressed in this, so they did not acknowledge nor care about the ramblings of some nation on the other side of the continent.

Dze Tribes wrote:

Trying Times
**Message from Continental Board Secretary**

This conflict has been decades in the making, with battle planning and manufacturing of equipment beginning in the 1990s. We cannot step down from this task. Forces far greater than imaginable are at play. What we seek to do will alter the course of fate for humanity. The unorthodox Archaeological casus belli was no joke or throwaway line. The state of Brennus is in our way, and we do what we must for the future of science. They complied with the request, sent a helicopter carrier, and placed the people aboard to suspend their operations.

Baltocarpathia wrote:

A Hypocrite nation
A deal not made in secret as picked up naturally by the surveillance state that the Technate operated, it was almost comical to them on how they condemned Otyken yet wanted to support terrorists in their border to usurp the rightful rule that Honolulu was enveloped in. Liberal brain rot, or simply doublethink. Nevertheless, the @Naacal islands were put on high alert now, and the interception is ready.

RP: The Battle Within
Related to the war against Brennus & Other

The state of Otyken declared an indefinite state of martial law from the war against Brennus; the Ballistic missile strikes expedited this; it was already partially active in the Central Regions but is now fully extended. The draft was also resumed. Civil unrest became commonplace as the media continued to churn out propaganda to get the nation on board further for this conflict; factories, training facilities, and railways would operate double time to move products and get fresh recruits ready for a sustained conflict.
Reports from the first exchange had reached the nation, and a carrier and other ships were lost. Otyken estimated ~2,500 dead on the first day of the war, but the vessels weren't out of harm's way yet, and subsequent battles and the landings carried the tally to something over ~7,000. This was just the opening act, but it was something for the history books, the largest amphibious landing in the modern age of conflict and modern vessels engaged in high-intensity exchanges.

**Battle posts soon; this is housekeeping**

Kemonomica wrote:

Paradise Lost
Sauvaki Special Military Operation
The prospect of these Militias damaging the expensive automated manufacturing equipment in Sulasin, like during the Honolulu-Otyken war, was unbearable, especially with an ongoing war, and manufacturing needed to be maintained to crush Brennus. This was exacerbated by reports of killings by the ECARGH. The JCD activated the border force with orders to suppress all adversaries and take the region if they needed anything to maintain border integrity.

Tanks, APCs, SPA, Armored trucks, MLRS, CAS aircraft/helicopters, drones, and fighter jets were surging across the border with more supplies en route by high-speed rail. Settlements near the border were mowed down as they began to push further inland; rocket attacks against civilian and military targets and tanks collapsing buildings with HE shells. The aircraft dropped bombs to sever railways, craterize highways (And set up blockades), and burn gas stations, plotting to trap them in Sauvaki for a secretly conducted massacre. The remnants of the old detention camps from the initial war were being refurbished and put at the ready for mass prisoner transfer; the camps operated by Reiteki Yakuin a Paramilitary group within the Senzo Isan to dodge accountability. (An entire Infantry Division was dedicated to this task including smaller supporting formations from different branches.)

The JCAF would conduct routine drone strikes on new suspected militia groups. Even the slightest hint of militia activity would warrant strikes and the army moving in to round the people up and ship them off to the detention camps. These drone strikes would not be only in Sauvaki but across the country, with specialized ships moving nearby to act as command hubs and reloading/refueling centers. There was an exodus of Otyken nationals moving back to their homeland, which the Absukians probably liked as there was a very real cultural threat of the Otykenese just overpopulating them and after 20 years of Technate rule, that was certainly beginning to set it. The logistical and humanitarian effort of moving so many immigrants could not be understated, they already had a state of emergency ongoing, but here they had a state of emergency^2 as the army even had to assist in moving people so they didn't die in the deserts or end up on a highway headed for the portal quarantine zone.

Evacuation & Relocation
Areas experiencing high levels of unrest or terrorism would be met with special detachments of weaponized Black Helicopters to move civilians; they were loaded with Army Rangers and other special operations detachments. The group was not friendly to the Absukians, with a very clear directive to shoot to kill any hazards to ex-fill Otykenese nationals. In less high-risk areas, people would receive government notifications and plane and train tickets to return home with reason to suspect the situation will spiral out of control rapidly. The Otyken government was somewhat cold at intervening in other regions; the Honolulu government had plenty of JCA assets to crush mere rebellions if they wished.

The Detention Camps - Burnt Offering
The camps had some prefabricated components delivered by large high-mobility transporters and assembled; the razor wire was replaced, generators were added, and electric arc furnaces were added for mass cremation, including a highly automated process with robot arms and cranes. Reiteki Yakuin would kill these animals by the truckload for rebelling after all they'd done together to progress. The actions were done without telling the Technate, or maybe they just turned a blind eye to what was happening. The largest detention camps near railroads were connected by engineers and tasked not to be bombed for logistical reasons. To assist the Army the Sōkei Keisatsu would conduct mass arrests to do the act of getting people here; they were lied to about the rhetoric of protection from terrorists, and they would be given work, which the camps did have plenty of labour to do most of it included processing chemicals or making bullets or simply making the camp bigger and better. Turning the vulnerable underbelly of the state of Otyken into a barren wasteland only patrolled by drones seemed to tantalizing to pass up. To further dodge accountability for their sins, jammers were established and communication lines were gone, and any electronics were confiscated.
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Central Calamity - The Superportal II
Fewer and fewer people have made it out of the quarantine zone as the scope of the portal storms expanded; smaller pockets of wildlife have appeared here, but seldom did they amount to the terraforming-type growths that happened around the central portal. The reason for this was unknown. Preparing for something grander or an expansion, maybe. Extensive shelling around the perimeter had made the spread difficult even for such resilient extraterrestrial life. To many, this was still a war against a realm, and soldiers and military assets were tasked with its mounting destruction.

There were plenty of videos leaking of the actual portal itself and some of the storms it caused, and the strange and dangerous fauna it left in its wake; the JCA activated Militia units to combat the wildlife, basically giving them a vest, gas mask, a gun and plenty of mags to clear out the wildlife, they often committed mass atrocities taking advantage of the crisis. The Technate operating within the zone had become a regime unlike anything outside of its confines otherworldly in its draconian policy keeping people in secure zones where they are given the bare minimum and military personnel where all over the place with movement heavily restricted civil rights became nonexistent in the wake of such a calamity, mere luxuries. The people were tasked with maintaining air filtration systems, keeping the border and/or burning fauna out, and repairing stuff from the intense portal storms that regularly collapsed infrastructure. It was a grim fate, and should it spread to the wider country, there would be no escaping the evil face of Totalitarianism; the death toll was likely surging into high millions, with many cities laying abandoned and collapsing from the suppression of gravity from the storms. To keep the populace from going livid, they asserted that the solution lay in the Alien Archeological equipment, a great machine that they had previously possessed but was recently stolen. They were to recover it with the valiant effort of their troops, or the possibility that that alien egg was alive and maybe had some secret knowledge of portals.

After a year of recovery N°2 was no longer comatose and could walk and talk on her own She underwent an intense training regimen under heavy monitoring, the neuroprosthesis seemed to work, and she became stronger than before from the experience of entering the portal through Astral Projection which had made her comatose/catatonic further tempered her resolve. The government had fully developed an array to put her in for closing the super-portal if it *was* possible this was the best they could possibly ever come up with current and potentially future technologies. Various clandestine branches of MAJIK-12 researchers had also taken the research notes from the event which created this and were developing ways to open more gates, thinking if they had smaller ones to experiment on they could better refine the equipment they had for closing the huge one this drew the ire of many JCD think tanks. The government also developed an all-new CBRN equipment set that was very lightweight, futuristic, stylish, and practical to equip units that may have to enter zones with xeno-particulate. A mission was being drafted to deliver the generators, machinery, N2, and all to the Superportal ground zero to close it, but they needed more time. The fauna was extensively studied for methods to kill it and possible medicines or other benefits from the tragedy.

RP: The Roaring times.

"As the custodian of Proto Dacia's legacy, I, King Urs Alexandru, stand at the helm of our nation's journey towards progress and unity. With a steadfast dedication to the well-being of our people, I extend a hand of cooperation to the esteemed government of Sodorhvtisi'i. In recognizing the potential for shared growth and prosperity through collaboration, we embark on a path of diplomacy and partnership. Together, we shall forge bonds of friendship, foster trade, and embrace cultural exchange, paving the way for a brighter future for both our nations and the world at large."

Midribbonia wrote:

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|RP¬ The games...again|

With the fairly successful outcome of the previous games Distan would send yet another batch of competitors to partake in this tourney.
As a recurring theme, anything requiring grace such as dancing and figure skating were ignored as finding a graceful Khazdiat is the same as trying to find a pin in a mountain.