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The first step in carving an independent nation once more out of what had once been Pará was, of course, its military.
Defensive measures were first and foremost. The ability to detect incoming adversaries, by land or by air, was an indispensable tool in any modern military force's arsenal, after all, and to that end, Murai went to great lengths to ensure Pará would never be taken by surprise on any front. Two relocatable OTH-B radar systems were constructed, one in the savannah of Roraima and the other on the coat of Rio Grande do Sul; these two stations would each cover a 64 degree wedge encompassing up to 4800 kilometres. The one in Roraima maintained an active overwatch that spanned the entirety of Central America and much of North America, as well as slices of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and eastern South America; the Rio Grande do Sul station devoured up the rest of South America and a significant portion of the Atlantic. In conjunction with this, Artillery Hunting Radar (ARTHUR) units were being produced, mounted to wheeled and tracked trucks interspersed in regular patrols across the borders of the nation. These units were capable of detecting incoming fire from howitzers at 35 km, mortars at 55 km, and rockets even further, up to 60 km, and could also determine the nature of the artillery, the point of origin, and the trajectory and estimated point of impact, with a circular error probable of just 0.1%. The OTH-B radars could screen the mobile ARTHUR units from ground-based detection, and could also use DFRM tactics to obscure the position of the ARTHUR units (amongst, of course, other units) from enemy radars.
On top of this, all compatible aircraft being produced in Pará were being fitted with top of the line AESA systems-- namely, a variant of the AN/APG-81, with advanced air-to-ground/air-to-air modes, high resolution mapping, multiple ground moving target tracking, combat identification, EW, and ultra high bandwidth communications, with an effective operating range of almost 250 km in intercepting a 1 m target. Additionally, AWACS aircraft were being produced with the intent of making regular patrols alongside AESA-equipped aircraft; the AWACS capabilities enabled these aircraft to detect and track units with low radar cross-sections, and also lent Paráense air forces the capacity of ESM collection platforms, capable of remaining electronically silent whilst detecting and analysing radar transmissions beyond the radar's own detection means.
Meanwhile, space was yet another dimension to consider in pursuit of these aims. Satellites equipped with both synthetic aperture radar and electro-optical capabilities were employed in low and medium orbit-- these were destined to be the first in a constellation of satellites that would fulfil various functions, including the deployment of anti-satellite kinetic interceptors; deuterium fluoride lasers were also being explored as a potential anti-satellite weapon. General Alice Calais, the officer placed in charge of the satellite constellation project, also took into account current and future potential threats to the satellites, and took measures to defend against these. All units in this constellation were to be integrated into a single radar, early warning, and missile detection network, using a multi-sensor system that included infrared, microwave, and laser designators in order to monitor and detect both intermittent surveillance pulses and short and regular fixed interval tracking pulses. Passive countermeasures to be employed included lightweight decoys, high power signals (rendering jamming that much more difficult), use of shorter wavelengths and directional antennas, and 'hiding' (ie satellite miniaturisation where possible and orbit manoeuvres). In order to make these functions more potent, two micro-satellites would be accompanying each 'primary' satellite, each one carrying all the above functions in fractioned functions.
Chairwoman Murai also knew that an integrated armed force was an effective one, and she ordered adjustments to be made in pursuit of this. Boomerang Warrior-X was a particularly prominent technology in pursuit of this vision; this tool could provide the soldier equipped with it the knowledge and battlefield awareness of entire radar and airborne AWACS systems, contained in a single twelve ounce package integrated into the soldier's tactical vest, localising enemy fire and providing precise coordinates for the location of enemy forces. Boomerang units were also mounted on helicopters and on land vehicles, to provide a more thorough integration for all branches of the military.
The intended crafts to be produced for the air force included the F-35 in the capacity of a multirole stealth fighter, the F-22 equipped with Block 3.2A and 3.2B upgrades for air superiority, F-15K strike fighters, B-2 stealth bombers, E-8 Growler EW aircrafts, and EC-130H Compass Call units, along with various support, ground attack, and fuel crafts. On the ground, newly established and restored Paráense factories were producing K2 Black Panther and Type 10 main battle tanks, along with 9A52-4 Tornado and HIMARS MLRS units, PzH-2000 self-propelled artillery, and 9K720 Iskander missile systems.
To the east, in the shipyards of Espirito Santo, a plan was being outlined for the construction of a Paráense naval force. Designs determined to be ideal in the pursuit of this plan included the Sejong the Great-class guided missile destroyer, Zumwalt-class destroyer, Virginia-class attack submarine, Ohio-class cruise missile submarine, and Gerald Ford-class super carrier. Once the designs were finalised and funds were appropriately allocated, work would begin on laying down the foundation for these ships.
Murai had also resurrected CYBERCOM, the old Paráense cyber warfare command network, with an upgraded sheen.
Paráense information networks were, to that end, to consist of several layers of security. For one, various networks, such as command and control structures, would be largely isolated, so that any attack on a particular network made in an effort to access the system as a whole could quickly be isolated and then mitigated; many of these networks were also isolated from the outside internet to further make attempts to externally access them difficult. These networks fed back to a number of central information systems depending on their level of classification through heavily secured data pathways: they required at even the barest level of security elastic encryption keys that are frequently changed. Further measures included, of course, cryptosecurity, emissions security (EMSEC), in order to eliminate to as great a degree as possible compromising emanations; traffic-flow security, to conceal the presence and properties of valid messages on a network and including the protection resulting from features, inherent to some of the equipment used in the aforementioned cryptosecurity, that conceal the presence of valid messages on a communications circuit, achieved by causing the circuit to appear busy at all times; and transmission security (TRANSEC), the component of communications security that results from the application of measures designed to protect transmissions from interception and exploitation by means other than cryptanalysis such as frequency hopping and spread spectrum. With regards to physical security, the optical fibre wiring implemented in sensitive military facilities had since been expanded throughout the vast majority of the Paráense military and civil network; as before, the fibres were coated with UV-cured urethane acrylate composite materiels in order to make the delicate strands much more durable, and again, a second external coating was to protect the primary coating against mechanical damage and act as a barrier to lateral forces, whilst an internal coating was applied, designed to act as a shock absorber to minimize attenuation caused by microbending. And again, the fibres were secured in a metallic armour layer to provide even more protection to the fibres. Wireless communications would be prohibited at all levels of vital classification in order to further guarantee the security of the various networks; the only wireless functions would connect the highest levels of classified networks to their respective 'primary systems'.
Pará's ability to employ electronic counter-counter measures had also received attention in the interests of improving the military's ability to combat attempts to combat its counter electronic warfare suites. For example, polarisation could be used to filter out unwanted signals, such as those often used in jamming: this was based on the principle that if a jammer and receiver do not have the same polarization, the jamming signal will incur a loss that reduces its effectiveness. Furthermore, aside from power loss to the jammer, radar receivers could also benefit from using two or more antennas of differing polarization and comparing the signals received on each. This effect was capable of effectively eliminate all jamming of the wrong polarization, depending on the degree of jamming. Radiation homing was another primary focus of Pará's ECCM efforts; many of the air force's crafts would be armed with AIM-120 AMRAAM beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles, fire-and-forget missiles with active guidance. These missiles would be equipped with a primary 'home-on-jam' mode, which would enable them to home in directly on sources of radar jamming if the jamming was too powerful to allow them to find and track the target normally. The military would also put to use ARMs (anti-radiation missiles), with the interest of forcing a potential adversary to think twice about deploying ECM measures; though such measures would obscure a target from normal missiles, they would become veritable beacons to the military's anti-radiation missiles.
And meanwhile, the so-called First Reformation was launched in earnest.
Fernanda Murai knew ideology was one of the most effective means of control at the disposal of any leader-- hell, Isabel Vieira had used it herself when she had spear-headed the pan-South American nationalist movement. To this end, she and her committee adopted 'Reformationist Socialism', an ideology consisting of equal parts social, economic, and political changes. Economically, although it ostensibly espoused a system of 'redistribution by committee' of wealth and means of production to citizens disenfranchised by the war, it primarily was intended to consolidate means of production under Murai and the Committee's authority. Similarly, industry and business was absorbed into the monolith of the government, and the assets of upper class figures such as businesspeople and entrepreneurs who had supported either faction of the civil war were frozen, seized, and devoured by the voracious machine of the Reformation.
In order to accommodate for what the public would perceive as shortcomings in delivering redistributed wealth to the masses, reactionary elements were blamed, and the pursuit and extermination of these 'reactionaries' constituted the social component of Reformationist Socialism. Murai declared that in order to guarantee the purity of the Paráense state and to combat corruption and moral decay, regular intervals of upheaval and reconstitution would be necessary. In the context of the First Reformation, this consisted primarily of purging politicians, officers, and supporters of the previous regime and of both the Federalist and Loyalist factions, which was carried out by the newly formed Reforma Direcção; tasked with culling these undesirable elements, which had no place in a Reformationist society, they carried out executions of former high-ranking officials, as well as kidnappings and torture; less prominent officials were dispatched to reeducation facilities located in Roraima in order to be expunged of their corrupt ways of thinking, although mostly they were required to engage in hard labour-- essentially, work camps-- and their sentences were frequently prolonged indefinitely. The common people-- those who'd had nothing to do with the government prior to the war, whose will to resist had been ground down by the brutality of the conflict-- were promised they would not suffer, so long as they did their duty to the Committee by helping to put the civil war to rest through expediting the process of the purge.
Indeed, 'duty to the Committee' was more or less the summary of Reformationist Socialism's political wing. All citizens were obligated to register as members of the Reformationist Socialist Party, and issued a card that identified them as such; their information, down to genetic data, was then logged in an immense directory containing information on everybody who consented (and who hadn't consented) to the registry. And Murai herself, the head of the Committee, was presented not so much as an individual or a leader, but as symbolic of the entire nation-- a force to which all citizens were beholden.
In her office deep within the broken remnants of Amazonia, a city that was slowly but surely reconstituting itself, dredging itself back up from the depths of war, Murai smiled at the thought. Domestically, the process was continuing quite smoothly-- the people with the power to rally resistance were dwindling in their numbers every day, and the masses... well, their will was broken, and all Murai'd had to do was permit the civil war to continue long enough to accomplish that for her. For the time being, it was time to consider international ties.
