Executive Minister

Favor is granted by the Principality.

It is indeed an affront, but one that cannot be addressed by the AU charter as it stands without a substantial rewrite. The Athenians had claimed that territory prior as a protectorate, annexing it now is merely a formality. The Principality recommends no action be taken at this time - there are far better reasons to commit oneself to war, and this is not one of them. Maintain the hard stance against further expansion as we always have - that is why there is no "Scramble for Africa" today, unlike cases in North or South America. ---- [color=#0000FF][b][size=5]BS/N-9 Cormorant[/size][/b][/color] [img]http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww106/mofailla/Aeon%20Mil/2023176220104391629S600x600Q85.jpg?t=1349741925[/img] [b]Mission:[/b] The BS/N-9 is a highly modified derivative of the B-12 Recluse and F-12 Tarantula stealth bomber family. Designed for extremely long loiter periods with heavy payloads over large bodies of water, the Cormorant is a highly advanced offshoot of the aforementioned family - so much so as to require the immediate refit and overhaul of the existing Air Militant Command (AMC)'s bomber fleet. The Cormorant enjoys a multi-mission profile - it is well equipped to engage enemy naval assets with both a strong anti-submarine warfare capability, as well as the ability to operate as a platform for usage of strategic (Class-D) and tactical weapons against enemy shipping. A secondary role of the BS/N-9 is armed reconnaissance and ELINT missions as well as battlefield surveillance and control. [b]Design:[/b] The Cormorant maintains most of its munitions within a large internal ordinance bay, along with provisions to mount additional weapons on specially designed external pylons which are sheathed so as to reduce radar cross-section. In total, a BS/N-9 can bring to bear a grand total of 70,000 lbs of mixed ordinance. The aircraft can field both the 533mm Hautecleres and 650mm Naegling conventional torpedos, as well as a myriad of air launched cruise missiles such as the 'Serenader' (a legacy naval derivation of the [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raduga_Kh-55"]SL-R Mod 07[/url]), '[url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=105172&#entry2805004"]Punisher[/url]' Tactical Assault Missile, 'Damnation' Intermediate Assault Missile, and 'Providence' Strategic Assault Missile. The addition of the purpose built 'Trident' Air Launched Multi-purpose Ballistic Missile (ALM-BM) family gives the Cormorant added flexibility, especially when fielded in hunter killer packs that utilize the present norm in Aeon air launched ballistics - the NMI '[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-22"]Eviscerator[/url]' Air Launched Anti-ship Ballistic Missile (ALAsh-BM). [b]Sensors and Equipment:[/b] The Cormorant has several utility features in addition to its stand-off ordinance platform configuration. It boasts the capability to field a number of depth charges, sea mines, and gravity bombs in addition to de-mining tools such as the standard anti-torpedo ROV fielded by the NMI. Up to six of these unmanned vehicles may be dropped in a single sortie, where after retrieval is handled by rotor-based aircraft. The Cormorant fields a dedicated magnetic anomaly detector in a shielded tail boom, and can also drop and monitor sonobuoys. A dedicated multi-mission, LPI surface search AESA radar fit to the AU STARS architecture make the BS/N-9 the first aircraft of MILitary Aviation Complex (MILAC) to conform to the standard. This affords the aircraft the ability to integrate itself (either directing, target designating or engaging supplied targets) with STARS and non-STARS sensors and shooters. A EO/IRST system based on the highly sensitive IIDU sensor developed for the AMC complements this radar, in addition to high resolution, low light television sensors. A dedicated fuselage mounted command and control module allows the Cormorant to act as a networked hub in a pinch, should no other capable aircraft be in the vicinity. Combined with an integrated SIGINT and ELINT package, the Cormorant is flexible in its ability to control and shape the battlefield. The BS/N-9 is fully compatible with the [url="http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=108972&st=220#entry2961917"]SCALS[/url] (SEAD-MA Cargo Air Launched System), allowing it to be used as both a decentralized sensor network and defense against enemy aircraft. This provides a harder to jam ability to search, track and detect enemy targets, as well as providing a large number of false signatures for enemies to attack, complementing the Cormorant's inherent stealth. [b]Specifications:[/b] Crew: 5 (Pilot, Copilot, Electronic Warfare Officer, Weapons Officer 1, Weapons Officer 2) Length: 48 m Wingspan: 56 m Height: 9 m Maximum Speed: Mach 0.9 Combat Radius: 7000 km [color=#0000FF][b][size=5]'Trident' Air Launched Multi-purpose Ballistic Missile (ALM-BM)[/size][/b][/color] [img]http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww106/mofailla/Aeon%20Mil/Mystery-missile-by-Boeing.jpg?t=1349742751[/img] Mission: The 'Trident' is a multi-purpose air launched ballistic missile capable of flying at different flight profiles depending on its payload. While it has been envisioned by the Militant Naval Command (MNC) several scenarios in which an enemy naval task force is engaged by high speed, low flying AN-1 'Krieg' Fast Close Air Support Crafts with either hypersonics or the NMI Eviscerator, the Trident was designed for a secondary approach. Designed specifically for the Cormorant and other allied aircraft with similar dimensions, the Trident is capable of delivering a single heavy conventional warhead, or several maneuverable, independently targeted re-entry vehicles. With an almost 90 degree top down attack profile, this attack pattern was deemed more than sufficient when dealing with massed enemy shipping - especially when paired together with the lower flying, fast flying AN-1 strikes. The Trident main warhead, and to a lesser extent, the MIRVs, are designed with the evasion of enemy anti-ballistic missile defense capability in mind. The warheads are all constructed out of a singular piece of heat ablative material on the outermost layers, with additional layering underneath to protect against both the heat of re-entry as well as the heat emitted by laser-based ballistic missile defenses. This forces the warheads to have a sub-par conventional warhead payload, but is deemed an acceptable loss - especially when Class-D (full-scale nuclear) weapons are permitted. A secondary flight pattern is engaged when the Trident is directed towards enemy submarine forces - the Trident is able to fly at a horizontal flight path, similar to that of air launched cruise missiles. The warhead in this case is removed in favor of 6 'Curtana' Light Weight Torpedos stored in the shaft of the missile. This configuration is only achievable at airfields or properly equipped carrier facilities at sea, and is such only suitable for dedicated Maritime patrol or ASW mission aircraft. [b]Specifications:[/b] Weight: 5,000 kg Length: 12 m Diameter: 1 m [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheen-I"]Warhead[/url]: Conventional: 1,000 kg single warhead OR 3 - 5 200 - 300 kg Maneuverable Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) || Nuclear: 1 MT single warhead, 3 - 5 MIRV (rated in hundreds of kT) ASW: 6 '[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_54_LHT"]Curtana[/url]' 300 mm Light Weight Torpedo Engine: Two-stage Solid Fuel Rocket Operational Range: 1,850 km Flight Ceiling: >480 km Speed: > Mach 11 Guidance: Inertial Guidance + Active Radar Homing / Semi-Active Radar Homing / EO/IR

"The African Union Protectorate Authority (AUPA), in conjunction with its military arm, the African Union Security Forces (AUSF), has long operated with some militant factions present within its protectorates, against other more unsavory factions. We are glad to see such a faction has managed to garner such support so as to realize its own self-determination. The African Unity Pact, and later African Union was originally established to stem the growing tide of foreign influence upon the African continent. We stand for both mutual development and protection of all AU member states, as well as unaffiliated peoples and city-states currently under the protection of the AUSF, a status your own people enjoyed only until recently prior to Confederation's formation. We welcome any and all attempts by protectorate regions to self-govern, and will fight to protect that right to do so. So long as the Confederacy strives towards these goals, becoming a responsible member of the African community, so long as the AU prospers, so shall you." OOC: Talked it over with the rest and things seem cool. For now.

What stops people from making those colonies now? Protectorates are not OOC enforced... they are ICly enforced by the owner's willingness to defend them. Then again, no protectorates means people cannot use them to project their SDIs, so there's always that.

TBMs idea is excellent

The Principality will vote aye. ---- The Principality is looking to develop a long range, long loiter maritime patrol craft capable of acting as both a strategic deterrant aganst enemy shipping, as well as a platform for long, to extremely long range engagements in support of forward elements of the Principality.

This is preposterous! I demand a link to the original ruling and poll!

Redacted seems fine.

[quote name='Triyun' timestamp='1349047366' post='3036089'] -Now go get me a god damn beer." [/quote] Minister Teguse would pass with the Princess at the most inopportune moment to hear that last insult be hurled at the King of Terre Regius. Stunned, she could not help but unleash the stankiest of the stank face as she passed, holding the Princess tighter still as they passed other delegates towards the dining hall.

Princess Sidamo and Minister Teguse would slip into the Ball without fanfare. Dressed in a simple white gown and veil, the Princess seemed to float amongst the crowd with the older, more grounded Minister who was dressed in her trademark powersuit and gloves. This was the first time that both women were seen in public together - the Princess being the beloved figurehead of the cult of personality that ruled the Principality, the Minister, an avowed hawkish councilor on both the African Union and African Union Security Force panels. The pair exuded a familial, almost mother-daughter relationship as they walked. Rhianne gently held Corrine's stiff forearm as the pair made their way to a nondescript corner together.

In a rare public appearance for the reclusive Aeon leader, word would be given to the Terre Regean court that Princess Rhianne Lucretia Sidamo, along with AU Liaison Corrine Teguse would attend the momentous occasion.

Any time a black man takes out a poll in the vicinity of a woman, its rape. A white woman and it's a lynching.

4 slots people! Message/send tech ingame!!!

[quote name='Gloval' timestamp='1347553050' post='3029743'] OOC: Permission granted by Vedran to post IC: An ambassador from Terre Regius has arrived via aircraft; Count Eustorgio Siciliano. "To the esteemed nations of the African Unity Pact, I come as a representative of His Majesty, King Andrea Gloval the First. It is my hope that we may secure both our own nation's future as well as friendship with the AUP." [/quote] Count Siciliano would be greeted warmly by the Principality's councilor, Minister Corrine Teguse. "Count Siciliano, on behalf of the Principality of Aeon, I extend my warmest greetings to Africa's newest neighbour," she would reply cordially from her seat at the AU gathering. "I was concerned that the presence of the African Union Security Forces' 'Firebase Falcon' was making the local populations in your region too complacent for self rule," she added. Minister Teguse acted as if walking on eggshells - yes, the initial reports from both Falcon and AUSF protectorate forces on the ground suggested that the majority of Terre Regius' government and functioning body was comprised of local Arabic and Italo influences, keeping in line with the AU and AUSF's emphasis on indigenous self-rule. However, the state seemed to hold its European influences in a rather high regard. In and of itself not a problem given the country's proximity to the Mediterranean, but troublesome due to the Athenian presence nearby. Teguse would decide to see what the Count had to say for himself and his nation, and then judge accordingly. "I will get to the crux of the issue at hand, my esteemed ambassador," she continued. "The African Unity Pact, and later African Union was originally established to stem the growing tide of foreign influence upon the African continent. As you see around you, these advances have been halted thanks in no small part to our efforts. We stand for both mutual development and protection of all AU member states, as well as unaffiliated peoples and city-states currently under the protection of the AUSF, a status your own people enjoyed only until recently prior to Terre Regius' formation." Teguse clasped her gloved hands lightly infront of her, continuing, "we welcome any and all attempts by protectorate regions to self-govern, and will fight to protect that right to do so." Taking a breath, she paused, waiting for the right moment to speak. "Before we formally recognize your nation, we must ask - does Terre Regius share these noble sentiments?"

Its never wise to strut, Triyun.

Just for a little bit of clarification down the line. We don't have saved stats, so why the hell was Mara not allowed to buy up more IG nukes to increase her nuclear stockpile ic? No saved stats goes both ways, either when your down and out or rebuilding-unless this is a byproduct of that silly preplan rule.

Jesus Christ. Just drop nukes and reroll lol.

[quote name='Markus Wilding' timestamp='1347671978' post='3030328'] If by "speak" you mean "use that rifle the way it was intended to be used" then yes I'll be speaking at the RNC. [/quote] Somebody, quick! Call the secret service!

You've got to tell me you guys were joking about that thing flying

Several STARS compliant defense systems are currently in the works. Nascent Military Industries (NMI) also has several offensive systems scheduled for release some time next year. Rest assured that the stationary/mobile nature of the STARS architecture would easily allow for current and future systems to be deployed at sea.

Would the PRA require assistance in Algeria? AUSF forces present in the South African region seem sufficient barring additional violence.

Wow. Well, whaddaya know.

This is all well and good court, but im still waiting on two rolls

[quote name='Sarah Tintagyl' timestamp='1345924263' post='3025234'] A few minutes later, Anita approached Colonel Venter and bowed her head as she offered her hand. "Colonel, I was told that you wanted to speak with me. I have to ask, my cousin in Harare, Reiner, he has a friend named Venter. I'm curious if you two are related at all because it would seem you're both well on different sides of the spectrum here. Anyways, please, lead the way. Hopefully I can help with whatever you need." [/quote] Venter approached the woman unarmed with AUSF credentials in hand to ward off suspicions from any lingering security details. Making a point of dusting off his gloved hand before taking Anita's, he spoke quietly with his characteristic gravelly voice. "That is indeed true, Madame van Graan" he said gently, paving the way for the undoubtedly heavy news he would have to deliver. With a small smile he continued, "I mean no offense, but I surely hope I am not related with that friend, or else I suspect the AU Protectorate Authority would want to speak with me too." Venter would lead Anita to a waiting armored vehicle with AUSF markings stenciled in heavy black ink across the white exterior. Turning to look from the vehicle, Venter spoke, "Apologies, but I am afraid that you will need to cancel any other plans you may have for the night. While I can assure you that you will be under the full protection of the AUPA and the AUSF it commands, I cannot give a certain length of the duration of your visit." Placing a hand to his headpiece, the Colonel nodded as he watched a pair of Hunters drive past. The merger of the VIP vehicle with the rest of the convoy would be given priority for today, as reactionary and extremist elements were reported to still be active even after the AUSF crack down. Opening the door of the mine resistant vehicle, Venter motioned Anita to head inside. Entering the vehicle immediately after her, he would speak as he closed the doors shut behind them. "Madame , you will have to excuse the rather spartan vehicle we have prov-" "-uh you know uh my wife was always enc'uraging me," came the familiarly obnoxious Afrikaans accent Venter had grown to tire of over the months. The Colonel would pause, standing in the aisle of the armored bus as he stared at the bumbling man in a brown sweater vest and tie. Chattering incessantly to a pair of armed guards sitting nearest to the driver's cupola, the obviously civilian official was oblivious to the fact that the VIP had already arrived. "-she would always be saying, 'oh, that fine, that's fine', you know because being in corporate I was a bit nervous- oh! Miss van Graan! I did not see you there! Hello! How are you? Please, sit!" the official said, rattling off words like rounds from a machine gun. Venter would merely smirk, walking past to sit with the guards. The African men seemed welcome to be rid of the nuisance, and began to speak in low tones. The truck would move with a lurch, merging into heavy traffic with the other AUSF vehicles. The streets of Windhoek were dusty, and through grimy bullet proof windows, streams of people and vehicles flowed past in a blur. "Ah, look at that little guy! 'Hello!'" the man pointed out a rather traditional donkey-drawn carriage that aimlessly crossed paths with on coming traffic. Settling down next to Anita, the man would finally set his sights firmly on her. "That's nice, eh?" he said, waving a frantic hand at the window behind the pair, "Nice background with the people there? Yes? No? Okay. We are 'edding to AUPA 'ead Office, department of Internal Affairs. My name is Wikus van de Merwe, and uh what we uh do ere is in this department is we. Try to [i]engage[/i] with the indigenous governments on behalf of eh AUPA and on behalf of the AUSF," Wikus ended the obviously rehearsed lines with a goofy grin as he waited for Anita to absorb her surroundings.

[quote name='Sarah Tintagyl' timestamp='1345912078' post='3025198'] "Ladies and gentlemen," said Anita as she took to the podium in Windhoek broadcasting to Greater Zimbabwe, Africa, and the world. "In the past few weeks-, [/quote] Colonel Koobus Venter watched the Afrikaaner woman silently. An intimidating man that prided himself on being one of the few commanding AUSF officers that walked into battle without wearing "those damned plodding tin cans", rubbed his clean shaven head with a gauntleted hand as he sighed into his head piece. [b]"Are you reading this, Sir?"[/b] [i]*I want that fokken guy, Reiner has got to go. Get me 'is cousin immediately. Go get the fokker.*[/i] Smirking at the heavy Afrikaaner accent of the bumbling AU bureaucrat back at the base, Venter nodded at no one in particular. AUSF peace keeping personnel were scattered in full kit and gear throughout the gathering in Windhoek, standing silently as citizens of the city watched Anita's speech. Ostensibly, they were here to guard the rally, as several other similar events were throughout the region. In actuality, they were merely watching the latest offering the TAF had brought up to soften their stance. The arrival of much needed reinforcements from the North and North East was a welcome sight to Venter. Even now, as fighting died down and people began tending the wounded, the AU wanted answers. The AUSF was charged with finding them, and dragging them kicking and screaming into the spot light. [b]"Let the speech finish, then escort the woman and her entourage into the one of our convoys. Ser van de Merwe wants to have a word with her,"[/b] Venter gave the word to his men. Being a white African was problem enough for Venter, and having an old fossil like Reiner dredging up the past was a gift Koobus did not appreciate. Over the sounds of white painted AUSF helicopters zipping across the clear skies, the bustle of the crowd and com chatter in his ear, Koobus stood and listened to the van Graaf woman. After the lengthy speech was finished, Koobus figured that he liked the woman - a welcome change from the norm of Afrikaaner political figures - she was not a stuffy old dinosaur, and he thought she reminded him a lot of that van Matteus woman from days gone by. He really hoped that her security detail would not resist the AUSF pick up that was now waiting for her.