iamthey Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) Ladies and gentlemen we come to you today a bit saddened by the extreme situation before us. Our nation’s intelligence service has finally been able to explain the attacks upon our offshore rigs in the java trench, and the large tankers full of deuterium moving back to the Imperium; and that is that a large band of pirate forces have begun to raid these resources. Traditionally there has been a natural deterrent to this as only registered deuterium supplied by a lisceneced provider would be required in most fusion reactor licensing contracts. However this has begun to change as several nations have altered their contracts to allow the use of any deuterium as these contracts did essentially block its artificial though more inefficient production. To quell these acts of piracy we have doing two things. The first is to in a legal sense declare supremacy over the whole of the Indian ocean what we will now refer to in the Imperium as “Imperial Waters”. While this sounds extreme it really isn’t. All this doctrine says is that Imperial law is enforceable there. No international traffic will be kept out, impeded, or have our laws imposed upon it. Only criminals such as the pirates raiding our ships. These individuals are too small to officially declare war on, but are too detrimental for us to ignore any longer. Moreover to get a more commanding presence over the waters a second port overseas is required. We will be moving into and claiming Madagascar as a viceroyalty. OOC: I just wanted to say all these claims are only protectorates, I fully intend to divide them up and give them away once the map starts getting crowded. This is also the last of theses sort of claims Intend to make. Edited February 24, 2009 by iamthey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Keshav IV Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 We are not happy with your "claim" over the Indian Ocean. They are not "Imperial Waters" and if you try enforcing your law within my water boundaries your ships shall be shot down. While piracy is bad, these moves are extreme and we shall have none of it. But we shall keep our ports on the look out if pirates decide to attack our waters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triyun Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) The United States of China flat out refuses to recognize claims over an entire Ocean. We suggest you take the United States of China's anti piracy policy. If a ship is in international waters and appears to be a pirate board it. If it resists, sink it. OOC: Your pushing it here Edited February 24, 2009 by Triyun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthey Posted February 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) Due to some misconceptions about this allow me to clairfy. The Imperium is in no way claiming an ocean, we are in our own courts considering the currently international waters to be those of the Imperium so that we may enforce our laws on them. Waters occupied by India or any other nation are their own, as well as their own right to enforce their own laws on the Indian ocean as well. All we are saying is we reserve the right to halt criminal activities and try the criminals under our own laws. The Imperium is essentially doing exactly what the USC said, reserving the right to impose our nation's power onto criminals in international waters. We apologize for the misunderstanding. OOC: Just spicing things up . Edited February 24, 2009 by iamthey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peron Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 The Imperial Republic supports our allies in the Imperium in everything they do, including this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julis Romulis Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 We are not happy with your "claim" over the Indian Ocean. They are not "Imperial Waters" and if you try enforcing your law within my water boundaries your ships shall be shot down. While piracy is bad, these moves are extreme and we shall have none of it. But we shall keep our ports on the look out if pirates decide to attack our waters. how do you shoot down a ship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raritan Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 how do you shoot down a ship OOC: If you wish to RP here, check one of the sign-up threads in the OOC forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Of Cheese Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 Oceania takes no problem with this since it seems to be merely a measure to protect their nation from illegal activity. As long as it doesnt' affect legal international trade, then this is reasonable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raritan Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 The United Republic supports its ally the Imperium in the actions it takes to protect itself and its citizens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthey Posted February 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2009 One hundred thousand soldiers have been withdrawn from Administrative Zone Two, (fifty thousand remain) and have been re-deployed to madagascar to secure our holdings and ensure the new Viceroyalty is successfully installed. Andrew Olney has been appointed viceroy of the region and has been sent to the new capital of New Sion (Antananarivo). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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